I think You should read it again. The license states that the OS, and office productivity components can be used for actual office work, not just development. Same with the development tools and SDK. About the only bits in MSDN that can't be used for normal work are the Server pieces, like Exchange, and SQL servers.
no you can't, unless they changed thier policy since the last time I used iTunes, you can only download the songs you buy once. Once downloaded if you lose your copy you are pretty much screwed.
My box has a firewire port on the back. I plugged it into my laptop once and it was detected as a video for windows device. After digging around for some drivers i was actually able to watch the video coming off the box directly on the laptop. In doing some research for this it looks like all set top boxes made after a specific date are required to have this built in by the FCC.
It would have been even better though if it acted as a tv tuner card that you could use to change channels on the box from the computer.
You're right, they never thought of any of this, or tested it at all before issuing this requirement. It's a good thing you were here to let them know.
It is so improbable that the information was even on systems that are connected to the public internet. Last time I checked, there was something called the IntelLink networks
But that analogy does not follow. The Pirate Bay does not actually do anything criminal, merely facilities connections without making any judgement.
If it's not criminal, then how come they are being arrested for it? You can argue that the law is wrong, but in this case they ARE breaking a law (or at least being charged with breaking a specific law).
Send the kid to jail? Ya, he's a smart kid, but smart =/= worldly. It's unlikely, even with a train set at home and a solid electrics knowledge, that he'd know certain minutia, such as "Trains have adjustable suspension so they can lean into their turns". Lean the train the wrong way in it's turn, and it can tip over. If you don't know that, then you're just working on a cool toy that will make the trains go where they're not supposed to, no harm done.
OK, I'll give you that the 1st time, but how do you explain the fact that he did it 4 times? How can you say he didn't know what would happen after the 1st time? By the 4th time he knew damn well he was causing dammage and hurting people.
Consider the Document Object Model (DOM). Each node in a DOM tree holds a reference to its parent and all its children. So if a client object holds a reference to any object anywhere in the tree, none of it is available for collection. That's a memory leak.
That's not a memory leak. It's only a memory leak when the program loses its reference to the memory and it can not be recovered at all in the program. In your example since every node has a reference to it's parent and children the memory can still be recovered. All you do is walk to the root node from that node, then recursivly free the children. It would only truly be a memory leak if you tossed out the reference to your first node, there are no other references to anything in the tree, and yet the nodes in the DOM stay in memory with no way to free them.
You don't NEED a lot of money to buy the perfect plot of land with all the resources you listed... ohh wait, you do. Not everyone on the planet can afford to live in places with access to environmentally friendly energy.
Pixel and vertex shaders are actual computer code living and executed on the video cards' ram. If that gets corrupted you WILL notice it, as it will most likely crash the application.
She was smart enough to try and use the defence that someone "spoofed" her IP for 3 years. If she knows what that is, she's smart enough to know how kazaa works.
Firstly, If she was standing on the street corner for 3 years handing out thousands of CDs for free the first question that would come to my mind is why didn't they stop her after a couple days? Why wait until thousands have been distributed?
Probably because they didn't feel they had enough evidence against her and they wanted to strenghten thier case. Moral or not, it is legal. If you get one speeding ticket a day for 3 years they still expect you to pay them all. You don't get a free pass on the first year of tickets if they only come after you the 2nd for not paying, even though they "allowed" you to keep driving.
Operating Kazaa involves installing it, and walking away for a year without touching it. If I put a CD on my website so I can download it at work, and forget about it and sits there for a year, I still only did at most one minor inadvertant crime, even if thousands of copies were made. I shouldn't be held to the same punishment that someone with a cd replicator making thousands of copies would be.
No, distributing songs on Kaza requires you to either place a song in your shared folder, or download one and leave it in the shared folder. It also requires you to start Kaza whenever you want to begin sharing.
Not just shoplifting... shoplifting CDs, making thousands of copies of them, and handing them out to everyone who wanted one. She was charged with distributing, not just downloading.
And once they crush the other guy, their preload strategies pretty much block any sane business developer from even considering competing. The result, a stale market.
How can they use thier windows monopoly in the case of this story? The story says they are halping the mono team develop silverlight in linux. How exactly can they bundle this linux software with windows?
As for there not being any other competitor, well there is Sun Microsystems Java FX coming down the line. LoB
So there will be 2 other huge companies compeeting against microsoft, Adobe, and Sun. That sounds like perfectly reasonable competition to me. 3 Massive companies each pushing thier own product.
Adding a Microsoft product to this removes choice over time and history shows that over and over again.
.NET has been around for years, Java is still flourishing. Windows has been around for even more years, and Linux useage is on the rise. Internet explorer is well established, and despite that, firefox useage is growing and growing. I would even go so far as to say that IE is causing Firefox to get better, because of.. competition.
Yes, Microsoft played dirty in the past. Recent trends are showing that they are starting to change thier ways. You need to be willing to accept the fact that things change.
Microsoft is FAR from having a monopoly in this product area. Flash is really the only product that does what it does. It therefore has a defacto monopoly. Microsoft is the "little guy" coming onto the stage with Silverlight. I highly doubt Flash will go anywhere, it's insanely popular on the internet today. Just because it's microsoft doesn't mean it's inherantly evil. Silverlight could really push Flash to improve htier product, which is what competition is really about. I think the fact that Microsoft is working WITH the mono people on this project is a step into the light.
How can adding another product to this area remove choice? right now there is only Flash in this area, the choice is either Flash or nothing.
I see... So because there is already a well established product out there, there is no need for another compeeting product? Personally I've never looked at silverlight beyond thier demo site, I wasn't all that impressed. But I can't stand working with flash. If silverlight uses.NET I'm all for it, I'd rather have a consistant development environment than work in both VS and the Flash IDE.
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I think You should read it again. The license states that the OS, and office productivity components can be used for actual office work, not just development. Same with the development tools and SDK. About the only bits in MSDN that can't be used for normal work are the Server pieces, like Exchange, and SQL servers.
no you can't, unless they changed thier policy since the last time I used iTunes, you can only download the songs you buy once. Once downloaded if you lose your copy you are pretty much screwed.
If yahoo wants to be on the windows desktop by default, this could be the way to do it.
My box has a firewire port on the back. I plugged it into my laptop once and it was detected as a video for windows device. After digging around for some drivers i was actually able to watch the video coming off the box directly on the laptop. In doing some research for this it looks like all set top boxes made after a specific date are required to have this built in by the FCC.
It would have been even better though if it acted as a tv tuner card that you could use to change channels on the box from the computer.
You're right, they never thought of any of this, or tested it at all before issuing this requirement. It's a good thing you were here to let them know.
The secure network is known as the SIPRNET
no, but there are skilled non-active phreakers who are still alive.
Do you have a source for this? It seems very unlikely to me.
If it's not criminal, then how come they are being arrested for it? You can argue that the law is wrong, but in this case they ARE breaking a law (or at least being charged with breaking a specific law).
I'm sure the mob did 1 or 2 things that were legal too. That doesn't excuse all the other illegal things.
It sounds to me like ShopRite is the one doing the streaming, not microsoft.
OK, I'll give you that the 1st time, but how do you explain the fact that he did it 4 times? How can you say he didn't know what would happen after the 1st time? By the 4th time he knew damn well he was causing dammage and hurting people.
That's not a memory leak. It's only a memory leak when the program loses its reference to the memory and it can not be recovered at all in the program. In your example since every node has a reference to it's parent and children the memory can still be recovered. All you do is walk to the root node from that node, then recursivly free the children. It would only truly be a memory leak if you tossed out the reference to your first node, there are no other references to anything in the tree, and yet the nodes in the DOM stay in memory with no way to free them.
You don't NEED a lot of money to buy the perfect plot of land with all the resources you listed... ohh wait, you do. Not everyone on the planet can afford to live in places with access to environmentally friendly energy.
Except these people are harming thier children, not themselves.
How did the scientists get around the fact that they don't know who won until after the person takes office?
Pixel and vertex shaders are actual computer code living and executed on the video cards' ram. If that gets corrupted you WILL notice it, as it will most likely crash the application.
She was smart enough to try and use the defence that someone "spoofed" her IP for 3 years. If she knows what that is, she's smart enough to know how kazaa works.
No, distributing songs on Kaza requires you to either place a song in your shared folder, or download one and leave it in the shared folder. It also requires you to start Kaza whenever you want to begin sharing.
Not just shoplifting... shoplifting CDs, making thousands of copies of them, and handing them out to everyone who wanted one.
She was charged with distributing, not just downloading.
I thought it sounded more along the lines of setting thread or process level meta data that the scheduler uses to assist it in providing priority.
Assuming that he doesn't know about cpu affinity seems a little unlikely considering his job.
OR maby you don't understand what he is asking for.
How can they use thier windows monopoly in the case of this story? The story says they are halping the mono team develop silverlight in linux. How exactly can they bundle this linux software with windows?
So there will be 2 other huge companies compeeting against microsoft, Adobe, and Sun. That sounds like perfectly reasonable competition to me. 3 Massive companies each pushing thier own product.
Windows has been around for even more years, and Linux useage is on the rise.
Internet explorer is well established, and despite that, firefox useage is growing and growing. I would even go so far as to say that IE is causing Firefox to get better, because of.. competition.
Yes, Microsoft played dirty in the past. Recent trends are showing that they are starting to change thier ways. You need to be willing to accept the fact that things change.
Microsoft is FAR from having a monopoly in this product area. Flash is really the only product that does what it does. It therefore has a defacto monopoly. Microsoft is the "little guy" coming onto the stage with Silverlight. I highly doubt Flash will go anywhere, it's insanely popular on the internet today. Just because it's microsoft doesn't mean it's inherantly evil. Silverlight could really push Flash to improve htier product, which is what competition is really about. I think the fact that Microsoft is working WITH the mono people on this project is a step into the light.
How can adding another product to this area remove choice? right now there is only Flash in this area, the choice is either Flash or nothing.
I see... So because there is already a well established product out there, there is no need for another compeeting product? Personally I've never looked at silverlight beyond thier demo site, I wasn't all that impressed. But I can't stand working with flash. If silverlight uses .NET I'm all for it, I'd rather have a consistant development environment than work in both VS and the Flash IDE.