M$ should be able to force you to sing extra contract like Eula's on top of the ones at time you payed for XP for things like updates at are part of first contract / terms of sale. Yeah, but do you really think anyone would buy the recording?
- RG> No. But they'd stea^W I mean infringe on the copyright by downloading it.
I know I watched a few of last season's episodes of 24 on Fox's 24 page on MySpace. They don't seem to be there anymore (because they want you to buy the DVD.) And the part about ads true, there was one commercial (about 30 seconds long) during spaces where they would have had a full commercial break during the broadcast.
Right now the wireless linux developers -- aided by an entire team of
evidently unskilled lawyers -- are at step 5, and we don't know what
will happen next.
Why should a car company not be allowed to force you to
only use certain tires (theirs) on their cars? Well, the car analogy is easily shot down. My car does not belong to the Chrysler Corporation, it belongs to me. But on the other hand, my car included a radio when I bought it. I decided I wanted a better radio with more features, so I went out and bought one. Similarly, my computer runs Windows and included a browser when I bought it. I decided I wanted a better browser with more features, so I went out and downloaded one. I haven't touched IE in at least 2 years. That's hardly being "forced" to use it.
Indeed. There are two entire continents that are "The Americas." However, as continents generally don't have a government policy on immigration, it's fairly obvious we're discussing a country here. Now, the country I live in is called the United States of America. Calling citizens of my country "USians" might make sense if there wasn't another group of states that are also united directly to our south. Maybe "USains" is appropriate when talking about continental policy, except there is no continental policy for anything in North America, and if there was, the word would be North American.
The page you linked to says that a few organizations (notably the state of Illinois) switched from Linux to Windows. The idea is that people will read the page and think, "Hmm... if it's good enough for Illinois, it's good enough for me." The person who made the page isn't a fanboy, he is an employee. Microsoft pays him to advertize Microsoft's products on Microsoft's website. Perfectly acceptable buisness practices.
Compare that to Slashdot. On the front page right now is a story about how the RIAA changed its servers so they run Linux. Recent stories about Linux (recent is defined as "on the front page of the Linux section right now") includes a story about how "Red Hat Linux Gets Top Govt. Security Rating," where the discussion goes on to be pretty much everyone saying "ZOMG TAKE THAT M$." Another one is "Ubuntu Linux Validates As Genuine Windows," about how someone tricked the WGA check so it would validate on WINE. The discussion was pretty much "ZOMG TAKE THAT M$." Another story, "Microsoft Bends To Norwegian Pressure," is about how Microsoft and the public school system in Norway renegotiated their contract, and Microsoft came out behind. (For the record, this story is in the Linux section not because this story itself has anything to do with Linux, but because Linux stands the most to gain from anything bad happening to Microsoft, including rain in Redmond, Washington.) The discussion was pretty much "ZOMG TAKE THAT M$." The next one, "Venezula Producing Its Own Linux PCs," deals with, well, Venezula making PCs with Linux preinstalled. The discussion was pretty much "ZOMG TAKE THAT M$," although there was a fair amount of discussion about US/Venezula relations. The next story, "Shuttleworth Says No Patent Deals With Microsoft," is about Mark Shuttleworth, the man in charge of deciding whether or not Ubuntu will make a deal licencing patents from Microsoft, has officially decided not to, ending months of speculation over whether he would say no or hell no. The discussion? ZOMG TAKE THAT M$! The next story is "Intuit Finally Offers Some Support For Linux," which is about Intuit making a version of its bookkeeping software that will run on a Linux server. Again, the discussion centered around ZOMG TAKE THAT M$! The next one is "Linspire Signs Patent Pact With MS" and is about how Linspire took the same kind of patent deal Shuttleworth turned down a couple of stories earlier on the page. The discussion there is mostly "ZOMG LINSPIRE IS SUX AND SO IS M$!" The next two stories are actually not Microsoft related in any way. ("Torvalds vs Schwartz GPL Wars" and "Closed Source On Linux and BSD?")
I don't have any hard numbers to back this up, but I highly doubt most of slashdot has contributed to the Linux kernel, or to any distribution. These aren't the Ubuntu fourms, sure, but Slashdot (and especially its Linux section) are probably a fairly high concentration of Linux users. This is what people talk about when they say that most Linux users are rabid fanboys.
Before I'm inevitably accused of being a M$ shill, I'd like to paraphrase someone. "Fix your own server's log before you start complaining about the log in mine."
I know that in Sony press releases, they generally talk about shipping to retailers rather than people buying the unit.
Yeah, Sony does that, but nobody else (not even Microsoft) stoops that low.
They "broke the law?" No, they did no such thing. They allegedly "infringed on a copyright." They are two separate things for a reason. copyright infringement != theft. That's why people aren't locked up for it. They're sued.
Copyright infringement is illegal. It's a civil offense, which is why the RIAA investigates it and you can be sued for it. If it was a criminal offense, the police would investigate and the possibility of jail time would exist. Both civil offenses and criminal offenses are against the law.
Well, she's 79 but she's still dating and socially active, so give it a try.
In twitter's defense (ZOMG EVERYONE MOD ME DOWN NOW) this wasn't really a your mom joke. Teaching kids to share IS something that mothers tend to do, unlike having sex with twitter. I doubt that this so-called your mom joke would piss Mr. T off.
in the UK, (not sure where you are) we have services such as typetalk which allow deaf/hard of hearing people to make calls to standard telephones via a third party operator. I had assumed this sort of service was avaliable elsewhere. Is it?
My understanding that type talk is a free service here.
In the US, if you deal with deaf people on a regular basis, it's possible to own a TTY machine. My college, for example, has a relatively huge deaf population and every office has a TYY number and a normal number. If you don't deal with deaf people regularly, you can call directory assistance for TDD service, which works the same way as the typetalk thing you just described. This is a free service from every telephone company I've ever heard of.
The signs of this are already coming from Microsoft where you need to signs your exe files for "authenticity", Requiring signed exe files? As in, Microsoft has to approve of every executable file in existance? There's not enough programmers in the world to check every line of code (including custom buisness applications that are used by only one company for a very specific purpose) and make sure it meets "Microsoft Standards." Seriously I think you're confusing this with signed drivers, which are being used to create a different problem than the one you're posting about.
and "comspulsory" game rating requirement of Vista, ESRB ratings aren't required for games in Vista. Vista will play unrated games. It's possible to make a game that isn't run from the Games Browser. It's also possible to make a game with no rating. Sure, you'll get a warning that the game is unrated, and may be asked for a password before you can play it. You can turn off the password check if you're the adult who owns the computer, or you can leave it on so you can play unrated games but your kids can't. Then the games will run for you but not someone without the password. That's hardly compulsory.
Did you forgot that both R2-D2 and C3PO were property of Luke's parents? Not quite.
As we all know, at the beginning of Episode I, R2D2 was a droid that worked on Amidala's transport. At that point, R2 was probably the property of the government of Naboo. As she was Senator in Epsiodes II and III, it is possible (although unlikely) that she would be assigned the same droid for her Senate transport. When she died, her belongings seem to have mostly gone to Captain Antilles. This would seem to include R2D2, although he was still tecchnically property of the government of Naboo. He was lent to Leia for the mission to Tatooine in the beginning of Episode IV, and the Jawas recovered him after that. Luke's uncle bought R2 from the Jawas, and Luke took R2 after his uncle's death. So at no point did R2D2 belong to either of Luke's parents.
C-3PO, on the other hand, is the stuff that episodes of Jerry Springer are made of. Anakin bought the parts to build 3PO before Episode I, and so clearly owned him. However, when Anakin and Amidala were married, they probably jointly owned everything they used to own individually. (A prenuptual agreement could have changed this, but we were never given any evidence that there was one.) Amidala was in posession of C-3PO when she died in Episode III. At this point, Anakin and Amidala were presumably estranged, so she could possibly have claimed ownership of the droid so she could give it to Antilles, except for her untimely death. There is no evidence Antilles ever tried to return 3PO to Anakin. Whether this qualifies as 3PO being "stolen from Anakin" is a question that the courts could rule either way. 3PO was sent on the mission to Tatooine exactly as R2D2 was, was "recovered" by the Jawas at about the same time, and was purchased by Luke's uncle at almost the same time. By the time Luke took posession of R2D2, Anakin may or may not have been able to claim ownership.
So what you said was true, from a certain point of view.
Obligatory: IANALBIPPWACOT (But I Played Phoenix Wright A Couple Of Times)
Toyota is Japanese company. How long do you think it would take Americans to get their knickers in a knot if the Japanese government decided to try to enforce Japanese labour laws, and ignore American laws, in a Toyota plant in Kentucky?
No matter your nationality, you have to obey local laws. If you have to obey your local laws on foreign soil (Toyota pays taxes on their American operations to the Japanese government because they're a Japanese company) you have to do that too, but you always have to follow the law where you're operating. (They follow American labor laws at plants in Kentucky and pay taxes to the US for their US operations.)
(Hint: Toyota USA is an American company owned by the parent company in Japan.) Toyota USA is the part of the Japanese company Toyota that operates in the USA. It isn't a seperate company in any meaningful sense. They have to follow US laws for their US operations (including following American labor laws and paying American taxes at plants in Kentucky), but they're still part of a Japanese company.
Just a wild guess, but perhaps interest in the fair lass who's window is across the way from your own + a disdain for Windows? Windows bad, windows good. Film at 11.
Take any number of attempts by the USA to tell Canadian companies that they can't have business dealings with Cuba, just because they happen to be owned by American companies. If they "happen to be owned by American companies" how are they Canadian companies?
[Iraq is] haveing the equiverlant of a 9/11 every month. That, to my mind is relevant in almost any discussion until it ends). 100 US troops died in Iraq last month. You're off by more than 3,000. Nice try.
Yes, yes. This is Flamebait. See, I agree with you here. Actually, I'd call it a troll, but since they're so close anyway, I'll take Flamebait. So when the guy admits to Flamebaiting, HOW THE HELL IS HE MODDED +5 INSIGHTFUL???
Yeah, lets see a newspaper pull that off. "But your honor one of our sources reported that Celebrity T was doing R bad thing at the time therefore we didn't slander them."
In the US, there must be both untrue and printed with "actual malice." So yes, this works.
I believe numbers 4 through 50 in your list are occupied by: non-broken support for XHTML, CSS 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, DOM, and the other relevant W3C standards.
Numbers 37 and 38 are ??? and Profit!, respectively.
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- RG> No. But they'd stea^W I mean infringe on the copyright by downloading it.
I know I watched a few of last season's episodes of 24 on Fox's 24 page on MySpace. They don't seem to be there anymore (because they want you to buy the DVD.) And the part about ads true, there was one commercial (about 30 seconds long) during spaces where they would have had a full commercial break during the broadcast.
Punctuation.
Right now the wireless linux developers -- aided by an entire team of evidently unskilled lawyers -- are at step 5, and we don't know what will happen next.
But step 7 is profit.only use certain tires (theirs) on their cars?
Well, the car analogy is easily shot down. My car does not belong to the Chrysler Corporation, it belongs to me. But on the other hand, my car included a radio when I bought it. I decided I wanted a better radio with more features, so I went out and bought one. Similarly, my computer runs Windows and included a browser when I bought it. I decided I wanted a better browser with more features, so I went out and downloaded one. I haven't touched IE in at least 2 years. That's hardly being "forced" to use it.
Aren't they in black AND white?
Indeed. There are two entire continents that are "The Americas." However, as continents generally don't have a government policy on immigration, it's fairly obvious we're discussing a country here. Now, the country I live in is called the United States of America. Calling citizens of my country "USians" might make sense if there wasn't another group of states that are also united directly to our south. Maybe "USains" is appropriate when talking about continental policy, except there is no continental policy for anything in North America, and if there was, the word would be North American.
The page you linked to says that a few organizations (notably the state of Illinois) switched from Linux to Windows. The idea is that people will read the page and think, "Hmm... if it's good enough for Illinois, it's good enough for me." The person who made the page isn't a fanboy, he is an employee. Microsoft pays him to advertize Microsoft's products on Microsoft's website. Perfectly acceptable buisness practices.
Compare that to Slashdot. On the front page right now is a story about how the RIAA changed its servers so they run Linux. Recent stories about Linux (recent is defined as "on the front page of the Linux section right now") includes a story about how "Red Hat Linux Gets Top Govt. Security Rating," where the discussion goes on to be pretty much everyone saying "ZOMG TAKE THAT M$." Another one is "Ubuntu Linux Validates As Genuine Windows," about how someone tricked the WGA check so it would validate on WINE. The discussion was pretty much "ZOMG TAKE THAT M$." Another story, "Microsoft Bends To Norwegian Pressure," is about how Microsoft and the public school system in Norway renegotiated their contract, and Microsoft came out behind. (For the record, this story is in the Linux section not because this story itself has anything to do with Linux, but because Linux stands the most to gain from anything bad happening to Microsoft, including rain in Redmond, Washington.) The discussion was pretty much "ZOMG TAKE THAT M$." The next one, "Venezula Producing Its Own Linux PCs," deals with, well, Venezula making PCs with Linux preinstalled. The discussion was pretty much "ZOMG TAKE THAT M$," although there was a fair amount of discussion about US/Venezula relations. The next story, "Shuttleworth Says No Patent Deals With Microsoft," is about Mark Shuttleworth, the man in charge of deciding whether or not Ubuntu will make a deal licencing patents from Microsoft, has officially decided not to, ending months of speculation over whether he would say no or hell no. The discussion? ZOMG TAKE THAT M$! The next story is "Intuit Finally Offers Some Support For Linux," which is about Intuit making a version of its bookkeeping software that will run on a Linux server. Again, the discussion centered around ZOMG TAKE THAT M$! The next one is "Linspire Signs Patent Pact With MS" and is about how Linspire took the same kind of patent deal Shuttleworth turned down a couple of stories earlier on the page. The discussion there is mostly "ZOMG LINSPIRE IS SUX AND SO IS M$!" The next two stories are actually not Microsoft related in any way. ("Torvalds vs Schwartz GPL Wars" and "Closed Source On Linux and BSD?")
I don't have any hard numbers to back this up, but I highly doubt most of slashdot has contributed to the Linux kernel, or to any distribution. These aren't the Ubuntu fourms, sure, but Slashdot (and especially its Linux section) are probably a fairly high concentration of Linux users. This is what people talk about when they say that most Linux users are rabid fanboys.
Before I'm inevitably accused of being a M$ shill, I'd like to paraphrase someone. "Fix your own server's log before you start complaining about the log in mine."
Yeah, Sony does that, but nobody else (not even Microsoft) stoops that low.
Actually, some of the older video games getting redone (X-Wing? TIE Fighter? Dark Forces?) wouldn't be a bad idea.
Copyright infringement is illegal. It's a civil offense, which is why the RIAA investigates it and you can be sued for it. If it was a criminal offense, the police would investigate and the possibility of jail time would exist. Both civil offenses and criminal offenses are against the law.
Does he have any patents?
Actually, in this case Dell only proceeds to Step 2 (???) after Step 1 leads them to Step 3 (Profit!)
Well, she's 79 but she's still dating and socially active, so give it a try.
In twitter's defense (ZOMG EVERYONE MOD ME DOWN NOW) this wasn't really a your mom joke. Teaching kids to share IS something that mothers tend to do, unlike having sex with twitter. I doubt that this so-called your mom joke would piss Mr. T off.
My understanding that type talk is a free service here.
In the US, if you deal with deaf people on a regular basis, it's possible to own a TTY machine. My college, for example, has a relatively huge deaf population and every office has a TYY number and a normal number. If you don't deal with deaf people regularly, you can call directory assistance for TDD service, which works the same way as the typetalk thing you just described. This is a free service from every telephone company I've ever heard of.
and "comspulsory" game rating requirement of Vista, ESRB ratings aren't required for games in Vista. Vista will play unrated games. It's possible to make a game that isn't run from the Games Browser. It's also possible to make a game with no rating. Sure, you'll get a warning that the game is unrated, and may be asked for a password before you can play it. You can turn off the password check if you're the adult who owns the computer, or you can leave it on so you can play unrated games but your kids can't. Then the games will run for you but not someone without the password. That's hardly compulsory.
As we all know, at the beginning of Episode I, R2D2 was a droid that worked on Amidala's transport. At that point, R2 was probably the property of the government of Naboo. As she was Senator in Epsiodes II and III, it is possible (although unlikely) that she would be assigned the same droid for her Senate transport. When she died, her belongings seem to have mostly gone to Captain Antilles. This would seem to include R2D2, although he was still tecchnically property of the government of Naboo. He was lent to Leia for the mission to Tatooine in the beginning of Episode IV, and the Jawas recovered him after that. Luke's uncle bought R2 from the Jawas, and Luke took R2 after his uncle's death. So at no point did R2D2 belong to either of Luke's parents.
C-3PO, on the other hand, is the stuff that episodes of Jerry Springer are made of. Anakin bought the parts to build 3PO before Episode I, and so clearly owned him. However, when Anakin and Amidala were married, they probably jointly owned everything they used to own individually. (A prenuptual agreement could have changed this, but we were never given any evidence that there was one.) Amidala was in posession of C-3PO when she died in Episode III. At this point, Anakin and Amidala were presumably estranged, so she could possibly have claimed ownership of the droid so she could give it to Antilles, except for her untimely death. There is no evidence Antilles ever tried to return 3PO to Anakin. Whether this qualifies as 3PO being "stolen from Anakin" is a question that the courts could rule either way. 3PO was sent on the mission to Tatooine exactly as R2D2 was, was "recovered" by the Jawas at about the same time, and was purchased by Luke's uncle at almost the same time. By the time Luke took posession of R2D2, Anakin may or may not have been able to claim ownership.
So what you said was true, from a certain point of view.
Obligatory: IANALBIPPWACOT (But I Played Phoenix Wright A Couple Of Times)
No matter your nationality, you have to obey local laws. If you have to obey your local laws on foreign soil (Toyota pays taxes on their American operations to the Japanese government because they're a Japanese company) you have to do that too, but you always have to follow the law where you're operating. (They follow American labor laws at plants in Kentucky and pay taxes to the US for their US operations.) (Hint: Toyota USA is an American company owned by the parent company in Japan.) Toyota USA is the part of the Japanese company Toyota that operates in the USA. It isn't a seperate company in any meaningful sense. They have to follow US laws for their US operations (including following American labor laws and paying American taxes at plants in Kentucky), but they're still part of a Japanese company.
Yes, yes. This is Flamebait. See, I agree with you here. Actually, I'd call it a troll, but since they're so close anyway, I'll take Flamebait. So when the guy admits to Flamebaiting, HOW THE HELL IS HE MODDED +5 INSIGHTFUL???
In the US, there must be both untrue and printed with "actual malice." So yes, this works.
You work for the RIAA? No wonder you're posting AC.
Numbers 37 and 38 are ??? and Profit!, respectively.