Note that the cartridges you get included with the printer are rarely full. Basicly they give you enough ink to stop "doesn't print anything" calls to CS because the user didn't purchase and install cartridges along with the printer.
You can tell there is a problem with printer pricing when the cable (not included) is a significant percentage of the printer price.
Most laptops (I'd bet 80%+, think business) are dual use travel/desk machines. Those desks tend to have printers on them. Also it's been my experience that printers are replaced less often than PCs. I've gone through several PC upgrade cycles since I bought my Epson Colour printer (the orginal) in 1993. Still using the printer. This means legacy demand will mean the continued inclusion on printer ports for a long time. Contrast to say external modems. I fire up my old 150Baud everyone once and a while to scare the kids and watch the lights but I sure ain't using it for work.
According to the article MS issued a press release, that was inspected by their legal department 11 times, and posted it on their site. Doesn't seem like there'd be many people the promise wouldn't apply to and the evidence has already been entered into court.
Sound like legal at MS together with management decided to willfully misrepresent the situtation. I'm Shocked! Shocked I say that the honest corperate citizen that MS is would make this mistake:)
If I'm paying for a full, every channel offered, satellite feed and then choose to see that feed with a box of electronics of my own design it shouldn't be illegal. After all I have paid for the content of the feed I just don't want to use the provided reciever to send it to my TV.
I have a plastic bodied car, built in 1984 it even paced indy that year. The Pontiac Fiero. It's the best winter car I've ever owned, mid-engine RWD and it won't rust out.
How many sysadmins know that the door to their server closet can be opened by an employee with a regular key?
Mine can't. Not only is the lock not mastered; the master key for the building has different keyways than the server room therefor you can't even stick the master in the lock.
Flight itself is pretty cheap, I'd like to see airport fees and taxes come down. Heck half the price of a ticket from Calgary to Edmonton is user fees.
The diference being Hollywood wants to stop you from recording the signal after it leaves your reciever but before it gets to your TV.. I can't see this flying myself because of the installed base but the guys with money seem to think they can make it work.
It would be the third possibility I'd be concerned with. Imagine felony copyright violation charges[1] being coupled with those insane three strikes laws. It's not much of a stretch to imagine some (many) poor soul(s) spending the rest of his life in prision for swapping mp3s!
[1] I don't know where felony charges kick in under the DMCA but for sake of argument let's say $5000. At full suggested retail price of $20 you only have to download 250 songs, each off a different album, to break the $5000 barrier.
Now imagine you live in Canada and contemplate how irritating/amusing (depending on my mood) the FBI warning splash screen is. I've even seen a VCD rip that included the warning:).
Might be a while, Dell has probably signed a multiyear OEM contract and they have the power to sidestep retroactive changes to their OEM licence agreement.
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Note that the cartridges you get included with the printer are rarely full. Basicly they give you enough ink to stop "doesn't print anything" calls to CS because the user didn't purchase and install cartridges along with the printer.
You can tell there is a problem with printer pricing when the cable (not included) is a significant percentage of the printer price.
Most laptops (I'd bet 80%+, think business) are dual use travel/desk machines. Those desks tend to have printers on them. Also it's been my experience that printers are replaced less often than PCs. I've gone through several PC upgrade cycles since I bought my Epson Colour printer (the orginal) in 1993. Still using the printer. This means legacy demand will mean the continued inclusion on printer ports for a long time. Contrast to say external modems. I fire up my old 150Baud everyone once and a while to scare the kids and watch the lights but I sure ain't using it for work.
According to the article MS issued a press release, that was inspected by their legal department 11 times, and posted it on their site. Doesn't seem like there'd be many people the promise wouldn't apply to and the evidence has already been entered into court.
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Sound like legal at MS together with management decided to willfully misrepresent the situtation. I'm Shocked! Shocked I say that the honest corperate citizen that MS is would make this mistake
Probably because Timeline wouldn't sell out. The patents may be worth a lot more than MS was offering.
If I'm paying for a full, every channel offered, satellite feed and then choose to see that feed with a box of electronics of my own design it shouldn't be illegal. After all I have paid for the content of the feed I just don't want to use the provided reciever to send it to my TV.
I have a plastic bodied car, built in 1984 it even paced indy that year. The Pontiac Fiero. It's the best winter car I've ever owned, mid-engine RWD and it won't rust out.
"these arn't the droids you're looking for.." should be an acceptable answer.
You understand that those were the droids they were looking for?
How many sysadmins know that the door to their server closet can be opened by an employee with a regular key?
Mine can't. Not only is the lock not mastered; the master key for the building has different keyways than the server room therefor you can't even stick the master in the lock.
Flight itself is pretty cheap, I'd like to see airport fees and taxes come down. Heck half the price of a ticket from Calgary to Edmonton is user fees.
The diference being Hollywood wants to stop you from recording the signal after it leaves your reciever but before it gets to your TV.. I can't see this flying myself because of the installed base but the guys with money seem to think they can make it work.
I have the same lament re TIVO and Canada. However my RCA TV has a really good PIP program guide and it can even control my VCR.
Besides which he lives in Linz/Austria and could probably not care less about the strange laws of some wacky country across the ocean.
Slashboxes convinced me to sign up, like everyone one else I didn't see much point to logging in until then.
And I can't figure out wether the funny mods are laughing with him or at him.
It would be the third possibility I'd be concerned with. Imagine felony copyright violation charges[1] being coupled with those insane three strikes laws. It's not much of a stretch to imagine some (many) poor soul(s) spending the rest of his life in prision for swapping mp3s!
[1] I don't know where felony charges kick in under the DMCA but for sake of argument let's say $5000. At full suggested retail price of $20 you only have to download 250 songs, each off a different album, to break the $5000 barrier.
They are soft, the children of the 60s and 70s activists that had some guts, or maybe it was the LCD...
Did you mean LSD?
That's OK newer computers don't have serial parity problems 'cause they don't have serial ports. I'm not sure if this is an improvement or not.
You've notived he doesn't apply a strict IP to his code. The term IP is so broad and encompassing that it is practically meaningless.
Now imagine you live in Canada and contemplate how irritating/amusing (depending on my mood) the FBI warning splash screen is. I've even seen a VCD rip that included the warning :).
My wife would. I've got a W40k table permently setup in the finished portion of my basement; and there's still lots of floor space left.
Total cost of ball method $8X6 Plus some wood $100
Total PC/IM cost: at least an order of maginutde greater.
Your not giving you money to MS, your giving it to Dell.
Might be a while, Dell has probably signed a multiyear OEM contract and they have the power to sidestep retroactive changes to their OEM licence agreement.
And the disk only held 360K
Yah, It'd be like a roach motel: Once you dial in you can never hang up.