Microsoft told lie after lie after lie about their intentions. There was absolutely no reason to believe that setting your update threshold to "Critical Only" would save you from an unsolicited Windows 10 installation.
The only rational course of action for those who didn't want Windows 10 was to turn off Windows Update entirely. Deny this all you want, but be prepared for justified accusations of victim-blaming.
This is common language for most states; the title "engineer" is reserved, and representing yourself as one without being registered in the state you "practice" engineering is a violation.
No, it isn't. What's reserved is the title of Professional Engineer (PE), which he didn't claim to hold.
... that any representatives of the Trump campaign organization cooperated with, colluded with, or otherwise worked with any Rus--
Oh, wait, sorry, wrong account. Ahem.
There is no evidence whatsoever that Firefox, Chrome, or any other browser is even remotely competitive with the superior battery life and rendering performance available from Microsoft(r) Edge(tm). I just installed the Windows(r) 10 Creators Update(tm) last night, in fact, and was delighted with all aspects of the newly-enhanced customer experience. My laptop's battery life is the envy of everyone from the Energizer Bunny to Elon Musk. Luddites and dead-enders still running Linux or Windows 7 don't know what they're missing! I was skeptical, don't get me wrong, but I decided to embrace change instead of fighting it. Give it a try, tovarisch, I'm sure you'll agree!
I've heard dumber ideas. When you need supplies, you'll get them from the store you're already in. Ditto with coffee.
These stores are stuck with floor space, retail employees, and other forms of overhead that competitors like Amazon don't have to worry about. It may be time to consider wacky ideas like creating a 20,000-square-foot Starbucks.
The problem comes in when Cleanflicks sells the resulting copy of the movie under its original title. It's not The Big Lebowski anymore if they edit out all of the F-words. It's something else. Something Cleanflicks didn't have the right to distribute for commercial purposes, or to attribute to the original copyright owner in any way. It's a derivative work, in other words. They're taking 99.9% of someone else's work, bowdlerizing it to create a new product, and selling it under the original title. That's more or less a literal abuse of the "right" to make and sell "copies."
You can argue that this right shouldn't exist, and maybe it shouldn't... but it's a Constitutional mandate in the US, so you've got a long fight ahead of you.
What does "freedom to tinker" have to do with the Cleanflicks case? If we're going to have a copyright system at all, in any form whatsoever, then prohibiting the creation of unauthorized derivative works for commercial gain has got to be the #1 item on its agenda.
I support freedom to tinker with things you own, but you don't own the copyright to the movies you watch. Don't like the content? Fine, make your own.
Their job is to fool people into thinking that something that isn't happening is actually happening... such as me ever setting foot in a theater again as long as there's something good on Netflix or Amazon Prime that I haven't seen yet.
In fact, they lost the grip when they first shipped MS-DOS that was a decade behind other operating systems with its single tasking and lack of memory protection and small memory limits
It's probably time to get over MS-DOS. The unfortunate fact is, if a Unix-influenced OS was ever going to take over the desktop, then a Unix-influenced OS would already have taken over the desktop.
Do not use their OS, if you find it unacceptable. It is unacceptable to me, so I don't use it. Problem solved.
Translation: "I'm either self-employed, retired, or independently wealthy, so I don't have to use Microsoft products. Bwahahaha."
This is pretty standard on most European cars (and in fact true of all modern vehicles with traction control). The braking system is biased towards the rear brakes, which keeps the car from nose diving during hard braking. Also, in slippery conditions prior ABS/ESP kicking in, it allows the front wheels, which steer, to stay turning longer before locking up (and triggering ABS/traction control).
All of these conditions are a sign that it's time to ease up on the loud pedal. You should not be activating traction control, ABS, etc. routinely on public roads.
ROFL. Modern first-person shooters before Wolf3D? I don't think so.
You are standing in an open field west of a small house. Visible through the window of the house is a troll, bathed in the sickly green light of a VT100 terminal. The troll looks up from his keyboard and glares at you.
There is a mailbox here.
>OPEN MAILBOX Opening the mailbox reveals a rocket launcher.
Suddenly the front door of the house flies open with a bang. The troll stomps out of the house indignantly.
>GET ROCKET LAUNCHER Taken.
The troll roars! Brandishing his spiked club, the heavily-armored beast charges.
>FIRE ROCKET LAUNCHER What do you want to fire the rocket launcher at?
>TROLL Who do you want to troll?
>FIRE ROCKET LAUNCHER AT TROLL You miss.
The troll swings and connects for 3 damage. You have 97 health points and 14 rockets.
Actually this sounds like a good idea. In the UK, defamation laws are much stricter, and much easier to use as offensive weapons. Make it hurt very badly to send out false accusations and threats, and these "rights organizations" will suddenly find better things to do with their time.
Yes, that's correct, and it's why Uber has to fight dirty, to put it a bit more diplomatically than the GP poster did.
The taxi monopolies are immoral in themselves, and they have no place in a democratic society. We vote with our phones every time we call Uber instead of a taxi.
When the law does not respect the people, the people will not respect the law.
No, the issue is whether the patent's teachings might be of any use whatsoever to anyone who seeks to implement similar functionality.
If they aren't -- and they definitely aren't in this case -- then the claims are obvious, and no patent should be granted on them.
The incentives are completely misaligned at the USPTO. Their policy is to rubber-stamp everything and let a bunch of subliterate hayseeds in East Texas sort it out. This policy has no downside for the patent office at all... just for society as a whole.
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But it's the people that define the law
Pull the other one. It has a bell attached!
May they ever toil in deep poverty and inescapable slavery.
Pro tip: a man who shits on a gold toilet is probably not going to rescue you from deep poverty and inescapable slavery.
Long love the Nomenklatura!
But I must say, your Russian is excellent.
Couldn't disagree more. We wouldn't have Spotify, Apple Music, Google Music, and a host of other halfway-decent services if Napster hadn't come first.
When the law does not respect the people, the people will not respect the law.
Microsoft told lie after lie after lie about their intentions. There was absolutely no reason to believe that setting your update threshold to "Critical Only" would save you from an unsolicited Windows 10 installation.
The only rational course of action for those who didn't want Windows 10 was to turn off Windows Update entirely. Deny this all you want, but be prepared for justified accusations of victim-blaming.
This is common language for most states; the title "engineer" is reserved, and representing yourself as one without being registered in the state you "practice" engineering is a violation.
No, it isn't. What's reserved is the title of Professional Engineer (PE), which he didn't claim to hold.
Remember when HP mattered?
Yeah, but that was before someone "competent like Carly Fiorina" got her hands on it.
Put down the bong, and pick up a book.
It also means that there's still wiggle room for those who are certain that it doesn't exist
I found this post on /r/space pretty convincing. It's hard to argue with so many independent observations.
... that any representatives of the Trump campaign organization cooperated with, colluded with, or otherwise worked with any Rus--
Oh, wait, sorry, wrong account. Ahem.
There is no evidence whatsoever that Firefox, Chrome, or any other browser is even remotely competitive with the superior battery life and rendering performance available from Microsoft(r) Edge(tm). I just installed the Windows(r) 10 Creators Update(tm) last night, in fact, and was delighted with all aspects of the newly-enhanced customer experience. My laptop's battery life is the envy of everyone from the Energizer Bunny to Elon Musk. Luddites and dead-enders still running Linux or Windows 7 don't know what they're missing! I was skeptical, don't get me wrong, but I decided to embrace change instead of fighting it. Give it a try, tovarisch, I'm sure you'll agree!
Yo mamma took them all and put them into one nerd.
I've heard dumber ideas. When you need supplies, you'll get them from the store you're already in. Ditto with coffee.
These stores are stuck with floor space, retail employees, and other forms of overhead that competitors like Amazon don't have to worry about. It may be time to consider wacky ideas like creating a 20,000-square-foot Starbucks.
The problem comes in when Cleanflicks sells the resulting copy of the movie under its original title. It's not The Big Lebowski anymore if they edit out all of the F-words. It's something else. Something Cleanflicks didn't have the right to distribute for commercial purposes, or to attribute to the original copyright owner in any way. It's a derivative work, in other words. They're taking 99.9% of someone else's work, bowdlerizing it to create a new product, and selling it under the original title. That's more or less a literal abuse of the "right" to make and sell "copies."
You can argue that this right shouldn't exist, and maybe it shouldn't... but it's a Constitutional mandate in the US, so you've got a long fight ahead of you.
What does "freedom to tinker" have to do with the Cleanflicks case? If we're going to have a copyright system at all, in any form whatsoever, then prohibiting the creation of unauthorized derivative works for commercial gain has got to be the #1 item on its agenda.
I support freedom to tinker with things you own, but you don't own the copyright to the movies you watch. Don't like the content? Fine, make your own.
No, they're directors.
Their job is to fool people into thinking that something that isn't happening is actually happening... such as me ever setting foot in a theater again as long as there's something good on Netflix or Amazon Prime that I haven't seen yet.
Yeah, I'm a real popular guy, down at the mortgage company. I kinda need to stay that way.
In fact, they lost the grip when they first shipped MS-DOS that was a decade behind other operating systems with its single tasking and lack of memory protection and small memory limits
It's probably time to get over MS-DOS. The unfortunate fact is, if a Unix-influenced OS was ever going to take over the desktop, then a Unix-influenced OS would already have taken over the desktop.
Do not use their OS, if you find it unacceptable. It is unacceptable to me, so I don't use it. Problem solved.
Translation: "I'm either self-employed, retired, or independently wealthy, so I don't have to use Microsoft products. Bwahahaha."
This is pretty standard on most European cars (and in fact true of all modern vehicles with traction control). The braking system is biased towards the rear brakes, which keeps the car from nose diving during hard braking. Also, in slippery conditions prior ABS/ESP kicking in, it allows the front wheels, which steer, to stay turning longer before locking up (and triggering ABS/traction control).
All of these conditions are a sign that it's time to ease up on the loud pedal. You should not be activating traction control, ABS, etc. routinely on public roads.
Interesting, how'd you manage to wear out the rear brakes before the front?
I was hoping for a "Troll" mod, but the thread was already pretty much dead by the time I saw it. :(
ROFL. Modern first-person shooters before Wolf3D? I don't think so.
And Bell was a monopoly to begin with because...?
Actually this sounds like a good idea. In the UK, defamation laws are much stricter, and much easier to use as offensive weapons. Make it hurt very badly to send out false accusations and threats, and these "rights organizations" will suddenly find better things to do with their time.
Yes, that's correct, and it's why Uber has to fight dirty, to put it a bit more diplomatically than the GP poster did.
The taxi monopolies are immoral in themselves, and they have no place in a democratic society. We vote with our phones every time we call Uber instead of a taxi.
When the law does not respect the people, the people will not respect the law.
No, the issue is whether the patent's teachings might be of any use whatsoever to anyone who seeks to implement similar functionality.
If they aren't -- and they definitely aren't in this case -- then the claims are obvious, and no patent should be granted on them.
The incentives are completely misaligned at the USPTO. Their policy is to rubber-stamp everything and let a bunch of subliterate hayseeds in East Texas sort it out. This policy has no downside for the patent office at all... just for society as a whole.
Probably not, due to corona losses and such. But the point stands. Energy is not power is not current.
You can get any voltage at any amount of current from a cell phone battery. The only question is for how long.