1) Those pesky pirates don't buy their games either so that point is moot.
2) For the same reason I did in buying the ugprade version. It provides the same benefits as the full retail - transferability to a new system and the price is far cheaper then full retail.
3)I suspect the new pricing will be the same as the Upgrade pricing as that's what most people went instead of full retail unless they wanted Ultimate, which includes everything that Pro/Enterprise offered
it would be even better if the full retail version offered the ability to install any of the subsets that make up that retail license. In other words, I'd love a home premium disk allowing me to install Starter without the kernel limitations but as stripped as possible. That would allow me to install my choice of media player, browser and various other apps instead of what MS has "in their infinite wisdom" decided is required by everyone who installs Windows to have.
that any threats such as this discharged marine made will be forwarded to the appropriate authorities. That's right, the Government doesn't have to spy or even pay for the information as Facebook gives the heads up to the government anytime this happens. Simply put, if you want to rant in private, then god damn well do it in private and not on the fucking internets.
want to bet that the new MS Surface tablet is going to meet the specs? Not only that but it runs Windows, Outlook and connects to the exchange server while being compatible with all of the existing MS infrastructure the dept has.
Samsung's Lawyers are not playing to the judge but to the Jury. That is their audiecne and if they can convince them that Apple's Design Patents shouldn't have been issued to begin with, they solve the problem not only for themselves but for every other company that Apple has sued using those design patents. Simply put, Samsung's lawyers aim to kill Apple's entire legal strategy in all of the U.S. Courts being pursued by Apple.
By invalidating these patents entirely, they kill Apple's biggest legal threat against Samsung with the added benefit of doing the same for most of the other defendents in the States. Hell it may even benefit them in Germany, France other EU countries and such if the patents are invalidated in the States. Thus those lawyers will have definately earned their money for the case.
LLVM was created by freeBSD due to the continual dropping of support for older hardware by the GCC team. Another issue they had was the optimizations of the software increased the difficulty of debugging things as the optimizations varied every time they compiled the software. Thus LLVM was created with the goal of binary stability that could be easily debugged and that supported the many older peices of kit that freeBSD runs on instead of being forced to use GCC 1.2/1.5/2.1/2.2/2.3 and such.
Yes and the answer is damn simple realy. Block access to any/all cloud storage providers, external smtp servers, email accounts and such at the network edge. If you're going to provide any access to outside services like that, it needs to be on systems that are completely locked down, isolated to their own network and with removable media completely disabled.
Why any company would allow access to these kinds of services w/o a contract is beyond me since it makes it so damn easy for someone to simply copy any important docs and give them to someone who shouldn't have them. Basic Security 101 covers this. If you don't own the system, then it's not authorized and various rules/regs/laws will nail your ass to the wall for violating them.
I looked at several keyboards using Cherry switches and after price comparisons, I could buy a full blown Cherry Keyboard similar to the IBM Model M for the same cost as the damn Rosewill crap on Newegg. You have to go to CDW.com for them but better build quality and such is the advantage and that's where my next keyboard is coming from.
The only tablet I'm buying is an Acer Iconia as it runs all of my current software and no, I'm not buying it as a media consumption device but to do the same kind of work that an Ultraportable laptop would do.
In my case, it's why I've never upgraded beyond the 1.84.1644 version. Does exactly what I need w/o all the crap being added to all the other clients. So Sorry but I don't need my bt client also working as a media player, irc client, skype client or anything more then a bt client and it's that reason I don't use Opera.
which is exactly what I do with critical accounts. Was the really nice thing about configuring my online access with my credit union. Standard Qestions but off the wall answers and I actually have a copy of the form with them on it. Spelling wasn't an issue since that's their problem but it did work when their online systems puked and forced pw resets on all of us.
Most folks grabbing debian are getting just the installer file (live-cd) and burning that to disk. If in the States, just go to your local library, college or university and grab the remainder of the disk images and put them onto a flash drive. The installer includes the ability to mount ISO images, so you have little to no problem unless the system is so old that it doesn't have USB ports. In that case, its too old to run the latest debian.
My first prebuilt system was an Acer running Win95b from Walmart. Yes it didn't have the LEET hardware that was being offered in Computer Shopper but it sure as hell worked for what it was bought for. Over the years, I've owned several pieces of Acer kit and have been pretty satisfied with the quality so more then likely I'd buy again.
hell. What about those home routers that require net access just to log-in with the damn default? I've got a Netgear unit that frankly worries me because of this exact feature and I have to wonder just how much of my traffic is being sent past their effen servers for monitoring by whatever TLA agency you care to name
Due to Torvalds active refusal to establish stable API's, he's managed to prevent the active adoption of Linux on the desktop. Many folks think the issue is the GPL when that has nothing to do with it.
They'd be better off using BSD as the base due to the stable API's provided. Another reason is the BSD license. It has no problems with binary only blobs, thus device makers are more likely to cooperate in releasing drivers instead of actively refusing due to fears of the GPL requiring source code release. Sorry kids but from a business standpoint, BSD wins in the two area's that companies look at
actually you can. It's called accounting, word processing, printing, hell you can even run a spreadsheet. Of course keep in mind that the documentation that came with the TRS-80 m4 included all of the internal circuit designs. This wasn't the PCB design but the electronic circuit themselve including the chip functions. We used one for busienss purposes for over a decade (got in 1982) before we finally moved to a Tandy 1000 (IBM AT compatible).
nah. Make it that the loser dies along with their lawyer. Should help reduce frivolous lawsuits drastically while reducing the damn population in congress.
I'm sorry but this is America where they don't want you thinking for yourself because you wont consume, consume, consume and spend, spend, spend. Slaves are so much better and cheaper then real workers.
Of course, where I live "EULA's" are invalid and can not be enforced under California law. Sorry UbiSoft, you've just made a tactical error that will get your asses sued in California and no, since an EULA is not recognized by California and Symantec has? their HQ in Silicon Valley - Don't know about McAffee, they're protected from DMCA issues.
considering that the American Schools don't teach kids how to reason or even think for themselves, I'd say the Chinese will be the only ones to really benefit. Keep in mind that for the last 40 years, American Schools have been pushing consumerism instead as Corprate America doesn't want thinkers. They Want "Consumers" and they'll continue pushing that as long until it's way to late and China has simply gobbled up America by buying the damn corporations and politicians.
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yea Red Shirts. Thanks for taking one for the Team
to hell with the latinum, I want "Q" to loan me his powers for an hour
1) Those pesky pirates don't buy their games either so that point is moot.
2) For the same reason I did in buying the ugprade version. It provides the same benefits as the full retail - transferability to a new system and the price is far cheaper then full retail.
3)I suspect the new pricing will be the same as the Upgrade pricing as that's what most people went instead of full retail unless they wanted Ultimate, which includes everything that Pro/Enterprise offered
it would be even better if the full retail version offered the ability to install any of the subsets that make up that retail license. In other words, I'd love a home premium disk allowing me to install Starter without the kernel limitations but as stripped as possible. That would allow me to install my choice of media player, browser and various other apps instead of what MS has "in their infinite wisdom" decided is required by everyone who installs Windows to have.
that any threats such as this discharged marine made will be forwarded to the appropriate authorities. That's right, the Government doesn't have to spy or even pay for the information as Facebook gives the heads up to the government anytime this happens. Simply put, if you want to rant in private, then god damn well do it in private and not on the fucking internets.
want to bet that the new MS Surface tablet is going to meet the specs? Not only that but it runs Windows, Outlook and connects to the exchange server while being compatible with all of the existing MS infrastructure the dept has.
Samsung's Lawyers are not playing to the judge but to the Jury. That is their audiecne and if they can convince them that Apple's Design Patents shouldn't have been issued to begin with, they solve the problem not only for themselves but for every other company that Apple has sued using those design patents. Simply put, Samsung's lawyers aim to kill Apple's entire legal strategy in all of the U.S. Courts being pursued by Apple.
By invalidating these patents entirely, they kill Apple's biggest legal threat against Samsung with the added benefit of doing the same for most of the other defendents in the States. Hell it may even benefit them in Germany, France other EU countries and such if the patents are invalidated in the States. Thus those lawyers will have definately earned their money for the case.
LLVM was created by freeBSD due to the continual dropping of support for older hardware by the GCC team. Another issue they had was the optimizations of the software increased the difficulty of debugging things as the optimizations varied every time they compiled the software. Thus LLVM was created with the goal of binary stability that could be easily debugged and that supported the many older peices of kit that freeBSD runs on instead of being forced to use GCC 1.2/1.5/2.1/2.2/2.3 and such.
Yes and the answer is damn simple realy. Block access to any/all cloud storage providers, external smtp servers, email accounts and such at the network edge. If you're going to provide any access to outside services like that, it needs to be on systems that are completely locked down, isolated to their own network and with removable media completely disabled.
Why any company would allow access to these kinds of services w/o a contract is beyond me since it makes it so damn easy for someone to simply copy any important docs and give them to someone who shouldn't have them. Basic Security 101 covers this. If you don't own the system, then it's not authorized and various rules/regs/laws will nail your ass to the wall for violating them.
I looked at several keyboards using Cherry switches and after price comparisons, I could buy a full blown Cherry Keyboard similar to the IBM Model M for the same cost as the damn Rosewill crap on Newegg. You have to go to CDW.com for them but better build quality and such is the advantage and that's where my next keyboard is coming from.
The only tablet I'm buying is an Acer Iconia as it runs all of my current software and no, I'm not buying it as a media consumption device but to do the same kind of work that an Ultraportable laptop would do.
In my case, it's why I've never upgraded beyond the 1.84.1644 version. Does exactly what I need w/o all the crap being added to all the other clients. So Sorry but I don't need my bt client also working as a media player, irc client, skype client or anything more then a bt client and it's that reason I don't use Opera.
which is exactly what I do with critical accounts. Was the really nice thing about configuring my online access with my credit union. Standard Qestions but off the wall answers and I actually have a copy of the form with them on it. Spelling wasn't an issue since that's their problem but it did work when their online systems puked and forced pw resets on all of us.
Most folks grabbing debian are getting just the installer file (live-cd) and burning that to disk. If in the States, just go to your local library, college or university and grab the remainder of the disk images and put them onto a flash drive. The installer includes the ability to mount ISO images, so you have little to no problem unless the system is so old that it doesn't have USB ports. In that case, its too old to run the latest debian.
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My first prebuilt system was an Acer running Win95b from Walmart. Yes it didn't have the LEET hardware that was being offered in Computer Shopper but it sure as hell worked for what it was bought for. Over the years, I've owned several pieces of Acer kit and have been pretty satisfied with the quality so more then likely I'd buy again.
Gate's bought the DOS operating system and sold IBM a License. He didn't sell them the damn code.
Because of this, I have to wonder why everyone is suprised that MS Wants you to License Windows instead of buying it.
hell. What about those home routers that require net access just to log-in with the damn default? I've got a Netgear unit that frankly worries me because of this exact feature and I have to wonder just how much of my traffic is being sent past their effen servers for monitoring by whatever TLA agency you care to name
Due to Torvalds active refusal to establish stable API's, he's managed to prevent the active adoption of Linux on the desktop. Many folks think the issue is the GPL when that has nothing to do with it.
They'd be better off using BSD as the base due to the stable API's provided. Another reason is the BSD license. It has no problems with binary only blobs, thus device makers are more likely to cooperate in releasing drivers instead of actively refusing due to fears of the GPL requiring source code release. Sorry kids but from a business standpoint, BSD wins in the two area's that companies look at
The Acer Iconia has already done this so I think we can get this patent killed before it's even issued.
actually you can. It's called accounting, word processing, printing, hell you can even run a spreadsheet. Of course keep in mind that the documentation that came with the TRS-80 m4 included all of the internal circuit designs. This wasn't the PCB design but the electronic circuit themselve including the chip functions. We used one for busienss purposes for over a decade (got in 1982) before we finally moved to a Tandy 1000 (IBM AT compatible).
nah. Make it that the loser dies along with their lawyer. Should help reduce frivolous lawsuits drastically while reducing the damn population in congress.
I will not ever pay or use cloud services for anything important unless the files are encrypted on my end.
I'm sorry but this is America where they don't want you thinking for yourself because you wont consume, consume, consume and spend, spend, spend. Slaves are so much better and cheaper then real workers.
Of course, where I live "EULA's" are invalid and can not be enforced under California law. Sorry UbiSoft, you've just made a tactical error that will get your asses sued in California and no, since an EULA is not recognized by California and Symantec has? their HQ in Silicon Valley - Don't know about McAffee, they're protected from DMCA issues.
considering that the American Schools don't teach kids how to reason or even think for themselves, I'd say the Chinese will be the only ones to really benefit. Keep in mind that for the last 40 years, American Schools have been pushing consumerism instead as Corprate America doesn't want thinkers. They Want "Consumers" and they'll continue pushing that as long until it's way to late and China has simply gobbled up America by buying the damn corporations and politicians.