if the terms of service say they can cancel it at anytime it's not reasonable to rely on it. dont' you think? or do you advocate a tyranny of the masses where people can happily ignore the terms on which anything is provided and enforce their uninformed assumptions later?
yes it does change the basic rights and it's silly to think otherwise. when you pay someone for a service you obligate them to continue the service for any periods you've paid for. it doesn't matter if the cost is $0.01 or $100.00.
if you don't pay for a service then the provider has no obligation to continue providing it. the neighbor in the next apartment helps you take your trash out for free? you don't get to but him about being busy one night, or for moving away.
so, sure you have a right for free hosting but your right is not anyone else's obligation. having a right to it only means that the government can't step in and prohibit free hosting, not that the folks providing it have to keep doing so or give you any notice if it changes or is going to change.
everyone needs to remember this: your rights do not equal obligations for others. you have a right to anything for free, as long as you find it legitimately.
they did this when trying to phase out the old analog phones, they slowly degrade signal hoping people won't know it's intentional and upgrade their phones, and lock into new contracts to fix it. if everyone knew they were degrading service on purpose they'd be open to a huge lawsuit.
they are essentially breaching their contracts with everyone who uses 2G and hoping nobody notices and calls them on it.
so you'd make impossible to learn the application by playing with it? by taking time to explore all of those menus and read each option?
it's much easier to browse through them and play than to guess which 3 letters some command you've never seen might start with.
as far as clicking the icon for the menus, a simple "hey we've changed a few things. from now on you'll want to click the big orb at the top to find the menus" dialog when you first run office is simply a must have when you make changes like that. (i have no idea if they did this, i've never been the first user of an office '07 install)
delete? no. it's a question of industrial espionage in a neat little package. if you're professional documents are on someone else's server, indexed and ready for looking through. some people can't even afford that possibility, so an office suite on your own computer is the only option.
dude, haven't you been reading? they get the infrastructure needed for FREE when they install the equipment that handles the bandwidth for voice. there are no separate machines that process text. when you pay for voice service you're ALREADY paying them for the infrastructure that handles text.
to pay extra for text messages is to pay TWICE for the same functionality.
the only possible argument for what the telcos do is that it discourages text usage from out pacing the portion of bandwidth that the current equipment dedicates for these control messages.
but to give the lawyers to ability to disqualify someone because they are *not* ignorant?
of course the real problem is that there are enough ignorant people to choose from. i don't think you should get a highschool diploma if you dont have the constitution up to the 10th amendment memorized and a working knowledge of the legal system.
what does technology or times have to do with it? it's a timeless document that did away with monarchy. under the constitution every man is his own king and his rights and powers only stop where they would interfere with another mans sovereignty over his own life and situation. i see absolutely no case where the times or technology would interfere with that.
in the late 9.x versions Suse had the best game in my opinion. their repositories were much larger than mandrakes, ubuntu wasn't around (or hadn't matured yet), it was an easier install than fedora, and it just ran really well. the package management in mandrake wasn't laid out as well either. but with the 10.x versions they've lost some ground. they've changed the backend to the package management and broke it in one version, it was advised to switch to Smart, which i could not stand, and i've had some major issues with installation on my machine with 10.3. so far i've kept it but only after running a cat5 to my router and putting a rug over it as getting my wireless card to work has been hopeless (well, 'keeping' it running would be more accurate), partly due to the first kernel update failing to update the sources as well so i was unable to compile new drivers for it.
so i agree that a while ago suse had the best 'friendly' linux distro out of all the ones i tried, but the only reason i keep them now is their repositories are just vast. of course this also means it takes longer for the package manager to fire up as it has to get info from more repositories.
all of these changes do seem to coincide with their deal with microsoft too. anyways i dont pay real close attention, so grain of salt and all that.
(running opensuse 10.3 for i386 on an amd64 athlon)
you're missing the opportunity some companies have seen to cash in on creating machines for electronic voting, and the opportunity seen by some politicians to collude with said manufacturers to swing an election in their favor.
i can't say with certainty that any particular election that has been carried out was rigged in such a way, but I'd be stupid to believe that nobody on either side saw the potential and supported the movement for that reason.
we had a very good and effective way of casting an anonymous ballot, but greed for money and power have attempted to change the system into something more profitable for various parties.
i've spent so much time marvelling over battery technology lately due to all the remote control flying things i gave out at christmas, i thought this was about nickel metal hydride research.
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the defective line of code was broken before the warranty expired.
if the terms of service say they can cancel it at anytime it's not reasonable to rely on it. dont' you think? or do you advocate a tyranny of the masses where people can happily ignore the terms on which anything is provided and enforce their uninformed assumptions later?
yes it does change the basic rights and it's silly to think otherwise. when you pay someone for a service you obligate them to continue the service for any periods you've paid for. it doesn't matter if the cost is $0.01 or $100.00.
if you don't pay for a service then the provider has no obligation to continue providing it. the neighbor in the next apartment helps you take your trash out for free? you don't get to but him about being busy one night, or for moving away.
so, sure you have a right for free hosting but your right is not anyone else's obligation. having a right to it only means that the government can't step in and prohibit free hosting, not that the folks providing it have to keep doing so or give you any notice if it changes or is going to change.
everyone needs to remember this: your rights do not equal obligations for others. you have a right to anything for free, as long as you find it legitimately.
why should i have to sign onto another 2 year contract just to continue getting service while i finish out my current 2 year contract?
AT&T has an obligation to continue providing FULL 2G service until the very last 2G service contract expires
AT&T need to get sued hard for this.
they did this when trying to phase out the old analog phones, they slowly degrade signal hoping people won't know it's intentional and upgrade their phones, and lock into new contracts to fix it. if everyone knew they were degrading service on purpose they'd be open to a huge lawsuit.
they are essentially breaching their contracts with everyone who uses 2G and hoping nobody notices and calls them on it.
why do people have kids when they aren't absolutely certain that they will NEVER EVER have hard financial times in the future?
why do people speak when they can't listen first?
it's an operating system, not a fucking haiku.
so you'd make impossible to learn the application by playing with it? by taking time to explore all of those menus and read each option?
it's much easier to browse through them and play than to guess which 3 letters some command you've never seen might start with.
as far as clicking the icon for the menus, a simple "hey we've changed a few things. from now on you'll want to click the big orb at the top to find the menus" dialog when you first run office is simply a must have when you make changes like that. (i have no idea if they did this, i've never been the first user of an office '07 install)
why not list all of the things you can do to your *file* under a menu called 'file'?
delete? no. it's a question of industrial espionage in a neat little package. if you're professional documents are on someone else's server, indexed and ready for looking through. some people can't even afford that possibility, so an office suite on your own computer is the only option.
dude, haven't you been reading? they get the infrastructure needed for FREE when they install the equipment that handles the bandwidth for voice. there are no separate machines that process text. when you pay for voice service you're ALREADY paying them for the infrastructure that handles text.
to pay extra for text messages is to pay TWICE for the same functionality.
the only possible argument for what the telcos do is that it discourages text usage from out pacing the portion of bandwidth that the current equipment dedicates for these control messages.
are you saying microsoft cuts corners?
damn, why did i post that anonymously?
all i know is that bob's not my damn uncle.
but to give the lawyers to ability to disqualify someone because they are *not* ignorant?
of course the real problem is that there are enough ignorant people to choose from. i don't think you should get a highschool diploma if you dont have the constitution up to the 10th amendment memorized and a working knowledge of the legal system.
what does technology or times have to do with it? it's a timeless document that did away with monarchy. under the constitution every man is his own king and his rights and powers only stop where they would interfere with another mans sovereignty over his own life and situation. i see absolutely no case where the times or technology would interfere with that.
track preview, available on pretty much any online, legal source of music? the radio? sorry but you don't have him cornered.
the devices should be compared as they will be used in the real world, different OS and all.
dont tease me like that
in the late 9.x versions Suse had the best game in my opinion. their repositories were much larger than mandrakes, ubuntu wasn't around (or hadn't matured yet), it was an easier install than fedora, and it just ran really well. the package management in mandrake wasn't laid out as well either. but with the 10.x versions they've lost some ground. they've changed the backend to the package management and broke it in one version, it was advised to switch to Smart, which i could not stand, and i've had some major issues with installation on my machine with 10.3. so far i've kept it but only after running a cat5 to my router and putting a rug over it as getting my wireless card to work has been hopeless (well, 'keeping' it running would be more accurate), partly due to the first kernel update failing to update the sources as well so i was unable to compile new drivers for it.
so i agree that a while ago suse had the best 'friendly' linux distro out of all the ones i tried, but the only reason i keep them now is their repositories are just vast. of course this also means it takes longer for the package manager to fire up as it has to get info from more repositories.
all of these changes do seem to coincide with their deal with microsoft too. anyways i dont pay real close attention, so grain of salt and all that.
(running opensuse 10.3 for i386 on an amd64 athlon)
besides, nasa can always make their own craters.
you're missing the opportunity some companies have seen to cash in on creating machines for electronic voting, and the opportunity seen by some politicians to collude with said manufacturers to swing an election in their favor.
i can't say with certainty that any particular election that has been carried out was rigged in such a way, but I'd be stupid to believe that nobody on either side saw the potential and supported the movement for that reason.
we had a very good and effective way of casting an anonymous ballot, but greed for money and power have attempted to change the system into something more profitable for various parties.
or is it hydrate? oh well.
i've spent so much time marvelling over battery technology lately due to all the remote control flying things i gave out at christmas, i thought this was about nickel metal hydride research.
why does no one talk about the phosphorus in fluorescent lights? i was under the impression that phosphorus was quite a nasty chemical.