I've wondered this myself... If I want go install MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98/ME, NT4, or 2000 now or in the future (on an old PC or in a VM), I can do that right now... Sure, I'm unsupported but at least I can do what I need/want to do with that old OS. Will I be able to do that with XP years from now???
If not, then Microsoft is saying that I can no longer use an application I bought!
* Windows 3.10 was introduced on 3/18/92.
* Windows 95 was introduced on 8/24/95, with people at the stores at midnight.
* Windows 3.1x outsold Windows 95 in 1995 and 1996, despite many OEMs offering Windows 95 only. Windows 95 finally outsold Windows 3.1x in 1997.
* Microsoft stopped selling Windows 3.1x and 95 on 12/31/01.
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So, if XP was offered with as much longevity as 3.1x was, would it outsell Vista???
While I'm all for this guy winning (and hopefully turning this into a class-action against Autodesk, eBay, etc.), I do wonder if this means that software manufacturers will no longer physically offer their software (i.e. CD, DVD, etc.) but will require you to download it. Everyone has been saying something to the effect of... "A CD is like a book--you can sell it, burn it, give it away, as long as 1 person has that item..." So if a physical CD is no longer offered, then that will be the next battle because then a software vendor will be able to truly say you licensed it by downloading it...
State and Federal courts are quite clear on the fact that the manufacturer is in no way obligate to support a item if the user manipulates said item so as it is not covered under the agreed to contract or warranty.
Not entirely true. Auto manufacturers were known for doing this up until the '70s. Replace the factory radio or even the speakers with something else and your entire car's warranty (including the engine, transmission, even the paint job) was voided. Enough people got burned and got Congress to pass the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975, specifically forbiding this practice both in the automotive industry and all other industries. This allowed a car warranty to be voided only if the aftermarket part caused the problem (with the burden of proof lying on the car manufacturer). Even then, the warranty is only partially voided. If the replacement radio shorts out the electrical system, the manufacturer is still obligated to fix a transmission problem.
Unfortunately, Stevie J. feels he owns every little iPhone that has gone out the door and is making no effort to keep Apple under the radar. This is too bad because, while the courts may side with their flawed reasoning, all it takes is for enough pissed-off customers to lobby Congress to side with them... (Yes, it does happen--the "Do Not Call" registry being an excellent example). And someone will sue Apple under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act...
Unfortunately, Microsoft's security problems are masked, not fixed. Seriously, software firewalls should not need to exist. All software firewalls do is cripple other code running on the OS (drivers, services, programs, etc). Fix the underlying code and don't default to running services that home users will never need and, presto, no need for a firewall...
Someone at M$: "XP with IE is full of 'critical' security holes."
Someone's manager: "Let's write a firewall and we can get away with calling those security holes 'important' and not fix them."
Understandable, but if such a "foreign proxy ISP" was in a foreign country, especially one that's "Internet friendly" (i.e. Japan, the UK, or another one of the EU countries), then that would get foreign governments involved...
You're absolutely right that the US Gov't is totally controlled by lobbyists for corporations, until a foreign government gets involved. (Then things get done...)
...to create an ISP that specifically goes on record indicating that they won't keep logs, can't be schills for the MAFIAA, and do no content filtering whatsoever??? Wouldn't sending a subpoena to such an ISP to get the user info of an IP address be a moot point since that ISP could legally and honestly say "we don't have that info"???
Another idea... What if that ISP just acted as a proxy that you could use with your existing DSL or cable provider? What if that "proxy ISP" was foreign? Essentially, your IP traffic gets redirected and all the MAFIAA knows is a IP address at a "proxy ISP" (that doesn't keep logs...)
The US denies entry to Canadians based on criminal history because they reciprocate what Canada does for US citizens. Canada decided that those who had DUIs shouldn't enter, so the US reciprocated.
Look at the text of the I-94W form (the form used by citizens who can visit the US without visas from countries like the UK, France, Japan, etc.), specifically checkbox B...
B. Have you ever been arrested or convicted for an offense or crime involving moral turpitude or a violation related to a controlled substance; or have been arrested or convicted for two or more offenses for which the aggregate sentence to confinement was five years or more; or have been a controlled substance trafficker; or are you seeking entry to engage in criminal or immoral activities?
As long as you haven't arrested for a drug offense, looks like you can be arrested once...
(Now, if the US actually says one thing and enforces another, that I can't answer...)
True... But in the mean time, you have been charged, your name has been smeared in the media, you're sitting in a jail cell, you may have lost your job, and will have to spend thousands hiring a lawyer, a DNA testing lab, etc. You now need to prove your innocence.
Sure, you can sue everyone under the sun, but good luck getting your false entry removed from the "DNA database". (Think of the US citizens who are suing the US Gov't over false entries in the "no fly list").
To add, some countries (i.e. Canada) now will not let you in if you've ever been arrested!
...if one of these DNA databases gets hacked??? What if a criminal's DNA entry gets transposed with that of someone else??? I mean it's not like government agencies are known for securing their networks very well...
How many people & how much equipment are stuck in a 50' x 50' room? By comparison, the standard North American semi trailer (trailer only, not the cab) is 53 ft. 2500 ft^2 sounds large at first until you really think about it...
..."beyond petroleum". But then again, this is the same BP that just lost HUGE in the court of public opinion when everyone in Chicago started complaining about the fact that they wanted to dump more pollutants into Lake Michigan. Hell, even Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam called attention to it at Lollapalooza.
Frankly, I'm not impressed with BP. This big bad oil company is doing nothing more than chasing the $$$. You'd better believe that if oil prices dropped, they wouldn't hesitate to cancel these programs... Being environmentally conscious is money-making--for the time-being...
Many of the streetlights installed in Chicago go back to the '50s & '60s. While the technology has changed (i.e. the efficiency of lights), the city has only started replacing these lights--often spaced 12.5 feet apart on opposing sides--on a 3-lane street! The logic has been that the city spends $x/streetlight on electricity, so instead of decreasing the wattage (for the same number of lumens), they have used the same amount of watts for more lumens! (More light has to be safer...)
There are some streets in the city that might see one car/hour, yet are lit brighter than a suburban car dealership lot!
That's the best you can do? To quote you, "EOL'd in 2010". Still a viable product that 20-25% of the computers accessing the web are running. In fact, there are more W2K PCs connecting to the Internet than OSX.
Did anyone notice how M$ says that a version will be available for W2K "Soon**"? The "**" means v1.1 only--and I smell a bait & switch coming... "We'll tell you it's coming sometime next year--but wouldn't you rather have Vista?"
PressPass Propaganda Machine: Will Windows Vista SP1 improve application compatibility?
DeVaan: [...] One of our top priorities for Windows Vista SP1 is to avoid causing regressions in application compatibility, as we know that's very important to our customers using Windows Vista today. Also, Windows Vista SP1 will provide some fixes for application compatibility, but by and large we are sticking with the promise we made of first delivering superior security to end users, and we won't make any changes in Windows Vista SP1 that compromise that for the sake of better compatibility.
Translation: We won't fix it because 1) we don't know how to fix it, 2) it costs us nothing to force application vendors to fix it. So, if it ran on Vista-RTM, it will run on Vista-SP1--but don't expect any compatibility improvements... If you have a 3rd party app that won't run on Vista (especially if it's from a vendor that no longer exists), then tough titty.
God, I miss the days when Micro$oft made app compatibility in Windows a priority... Think back to the amount of testing done for Windows 3.1, 95, 98. Think of Microsoft's attempts at an "application compatibility layer" in 2000 and XP.
I know about the con's, but what are the pro's of Vista?
I love it when Europeans say, "no our phones are unlocked." Bullshit! There's a huge gray-market industry in Europe to unlock phones. My gf bought a cool Meteor Nokia phone in Ireland to get it unlocked to use on T-Mobile in the US. Bad idea... After the guy who sells phone accessories in the cart in the middle of the mall screwed up the unlock code 3x, the phone was dead. She then had to mail it to the UK to some guy who reflashes them. Vodafone-IRL phones are just as locked...
It's not true that vendor-branded phones sold in Europe are unlocked. Throw in a Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile, AT&T, BT, Meteor, etc. SIM into a locked phone from a different vendor and see how far you get...
Except with an iPhone, you are physically buying something. With software, especially software that's bought & delivered over the Internet, there's no physicality, so the law is gray.
Think of it this way... If I buy a book, I have the right to do whatever I want with that book--put Post-It notes in it, write in it, draw a moustache on the guy on the cover, tear pages out of it, burn it--as long as it does not violate the author's copyrights over that book (i.e. make a PDF of it and post it on da Intar-web). I can turn around and sell it as well. College textbook authors would love to prevent me from doing so, but they can't. Pretty simple...
So, I don't understand why Stevie J., Apple and its minions of lawyers, like to believe otherwise with the iPhone. The only way that I could see Apple owning some post-sale control over the iPhone is if this were actually a lease, like a car lease. But I haven't heard the term "lease" thrown around--I've heard "financing", "buying", etc. Sure, if I modify it, Apple could rightfully refuse to provide me with support, updates, and so on--but I don't see how they could not allow me to modify something I bought, given my book analogy.
So, while IANAL, "buying an iPhone for use on AT&T" sounds quite a bit like "buying a textbook for use in a class". As long as I own that item, I can do as I please to it.
As other posters have pointed out, your rates go up and so on. The problem is that if the insurance company does recover their losses (and trust me, they have armies of lawyers to ensure they do), you don't see a dime of that money. So, in addition to the fact that it's "unfair" that you've got a higher insurance rate because Dell made a defective product, the insurance company is now getting money from both parties--you and Dell.
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You honestly think your BIOS is slow? Ever watch a 4.77MHz IBM XT with 640KB RAM go thru its memory test and POST?
16 KB OK.....(5 sec).....32 KB OK.....(5 sec).....48 KB OK.....(5 sec).....64 KB OK.....(5 sec).....
I seem to remember it taking 1 minute to go thru the memory test.
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To do what, be even more pointless???
I've wondered this myself... If I want go install MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98/ME, NT4, or 2000 now or in the future (on an old PC or in a VM), I can do that right now... Sure, I'm unsupported but at least I can do what I need/want to do with that old OS. Will I be able to do that with XP years from now???
If not, then Microsoft is saying that I can no longer use an application I bought!
* Windows 3.10 was introduced on 3/18/92.
* Windows 95 was introduced on 8/24/95, with people at the stores at midnight.
* Windows 3.1x outsold Windows 95 in 1995 and 1996, despite many OEMs offering Windows 95 only. Windows 95 finally outsold Windows 3.1x in 1997.
* Microsoft stopped selling Windows 3.1x and 95 on 12/31/01.
___________________________________
So, if XP was offered with as much longevity as 3.1x was, would it outsell Vista???
While I'm all for this guy winning (and hopefully turning this into a class-action against Autodesk, eBay, etc.), I do wonder if this means that software manufacturers will no longer physically offer their software (i.e. CD, DVD, etc.) but will require you to download it. Everyone has been saying something to the effect of... "A CD is like a book--you can sell it, burn it, give it away, as long as 1 person has that item..." So if a physical CD is no longer offered, then that will be the next battle because then a software vendor will be able to truly say you licensed it by downloading it...
Unfortunately, Stevie J. feels he owns every little iPhone that has gone out the door and is making no effort to keep Apple under the radar. This is too bad because, while the courts may side with their flawed reasoning, all it takes is for enough pissed-off customers to lobby Congress to side with them... (Yes, it does happen--the "Do Not Call" registry being an excellent example). And someone will sue Apple under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act...
Unfortunately, Microsoft's security problems are masked, not fixed. Seriously, software firewalls should not need to exist. All software firewalls do is cripple other code running on the OS (drivers, services, programs, etc). Fix the underlying code and don't default to running services that home users will never need and, presto, no need for a firewall...
Someone at M$: "XP with IE is full of 'critical' security holes."
Someone's manager: "Let's write a firewall and we can get away with calling those security holes 'important' and not fix them."
Understandable, but if such a "foreign proxy ISP" was in a foreign country, especially one that's "Internet friendly" (i.e. Japan, the UK, or another one of the EU countries), then that would get foreign governments involved...
You're absolutely right that the US Gov't is totally controlled by lobbyists for corporations, until a foreign government gets involved. (Then things get done...)
...to create an ISP that specifically goes on record indicating that they won't keep logs, can't be schills for the MAFIAA, and do no content filtering whatsoever??? Wouldn't sending a subpoena to such an ISP to get the user info of an IP address be a moot point since that ISP could legally and honestly say "we don't have that info"???
Another idea... What if that ISP just acted as a proxy that you could use with your existing DSL or cable provider? What if that "proxy ISP" was foreign? Essentially, your IP traffic gets redirected and all the MAFIAA knows is a IP address at a "proxy ISP" (that doesn't keep logs...)
Look at the text of the I-94W form (the form used by citizens who can visit the US without visas from countries like the UK, France, Japan, etc.), specifically checkbox B... As long as you haven't arrested for a drug offense, looks like you can be arrested once...
(Now, if the US actually says one thing and enforces another, that I can't answer...)
True... But in the mean time, you have been charged, your name has been smeared in the media, you're sitting in a jail cell, you may have lost your job, and will have to spend thousands hiring a lawyer, a DNA testing lab, etc. You now need to prove your innocence.
Sure, you can sue everyone under the sun, but good luck getting your false entry removed from the "DNA database". (Think of the US citizens who are suing the US Gov't over false entries in the "no fly list").
To add, some countries (i.e. Canada) now will not let you in if you've ever been arrested !
...if one of these DNA databases gets hacked??? What if a criminal's DNA entry gets transposed with that of someone else??? I mean it's not like government agencies are known for securing their networks very well...
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How many people & how much equipment are stuck in a 50' x 50' room? By comparison, the standard North American semi trailer (trailer only, not the cab) is 53 ft. 2500 ft^2 sounds large at first until you really think about it...
..."beyond petroleum". But then again, this is the same BP that just lost HUGE in the court of public opinion when everyone in Chicago started complaining about the fact that they wanted to dump more pollutants into Lake Michigan. Hell, even Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam called attention to it at Lollapalooza.
Frankly, I'm not impressed with BP. This big bad oil company is doing nothing more than chasing the $$$. You'd better believe that if oil prices dropped, they wouldn't hesitate to cancel these programs... Being environmentally conscious is money-making--for the time-being...
Many of the streetlights installed in Chicago go back to the '50s & '60s. While the technology has changed (i.e. the efficiency of lights), the city has only started replacing these lights--often spaced 12.5 feet apart on opposing sides--on a 3-lane street! The logic has been that the city spends $x/streetlight on electricity, so instead of decreasing the wattage (for the same number of lumens), they have used the same amount of watts for more lumens! (More light has to be safer...)
There are some streets in the city that might see one car/hour, yet are lit brighter than a suburban car dealership lot!
That's the best you can do? To quote you, "EOL'd in 2010". Still a viable product that 20-25% of the computers accessing the web are running. In fact, there are more W2K PCs connecting to the Internet than OSX.
Right back at ya with the cluestick, buddy...
Did anyone notice how M$ says that a version will be available for W2K "Soon**"? The "**" means v1.1 only--and I smell a bait & switch coming... "We'll tell you it's coming sometime next year--but wouldn't you rather have Vista?"
God, I miss the days when Micro$oft made app compatibility in Windows a priority... Think back to the amount of testing done for Windows 3.1, 95, 98. Think of Microsoft's attempts at an "application compatibility layer" in 2000 and XP.
I know about the con's, but what are the pro's of Vista?
I love it when Europeans say, "no our phones are unlocked." Bullshit! There's a huge gray-market industry in Europe to unlock phones. My gf bought a cool Meteor Nokia phone in Ireland to get it unlocked to use on T-Mobile in the US. Bad idea... After the guy who sells phone accessories in the cart in the middle of the mall screwed up the unlock code 3x, the phone was dead. She then had to mail it to the UK to some guy who reflashes them. Vodafone-IRL phones are just as locked...
It's not true that vendor-branded phones sold in Europe are unlocked. Throw in a Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile, AT&T, BT, Meteor, etc. SIM into a locked phone from a different vendor and see how far you get...
Except with an iPhone, you are physically buying something. With software, especially software that's bought & delivered over the Internet, there's no physicality, so the law is gray.
Think of it this way... If I buy a book, I have the right to do whatever I want with that book--put Post-It notes in it, write in it, draw a moustache on the guy on the cover, tear pages out of it, burn it--as long as it does not violate the author's copyrights over that book (i.e. make a PDF of it and post it on da Intar-web). I can turn around and sell it as well. College textbook authors would love to prevent me from doing so, but they can't. Pretty simple...
So, I don't understand why Stevie J., Apple and its minions of lawyers, like to believe otherwise with the iPhone. The only way that I could see Apple owning some post-sale control over the iPhone is if this were actually a lease, like a car lease. But I haven't heard the term "lease" thrown around--I've heard "financing", "buying", etc. Sure, if I modify it, Apple could rightfully refuse to provide me with support, updates, and so on--but I don't see how they could not allow me to modify something I bought, given my book analogy.
So, while IANAL, "buying an iPhone for use on AT&T" sounds quite a bit like "buying a textbook for use in a class". As long as I own that item, I can do as I please to it.
As other posters have pointed out, your rates go up and so on. The problem is that if the insurance company does recover their losses (and trust me, they have armies of lawyers to ensure they do), you don't see a dime of that money. So, in addition to the fact that it's "unfair" that you've got a higher insurance rate because Dell made a defective product, the insurance company is now getting money from both parties--you and Dell.
Real fair, huh???