Buzz!!It's not copyright violation. You've purchased a legal version under what's known as Doctrine of First Sale. What it does do if you're a businesss, is prevents you from getting Tech Support. Simply put, MS refuses to provide support to a commercial user of the teacher/student Editions. It's that simple and that's a legal solution. They gets your money, you get the product, which is all MS says you're entitled to.
I just purchased a brand new Emachine for a family member and the first thing I did was check the recovery disk (Yep they included a full recovery disk for Vista Home Premium, which meant I could wipe the drive (delete all bloatware) and repartition it. Very nice as California requires them to include a proper recovery disk or they'd be in violation of State Law now.
2) The 64-bit version of Vista removes backwards compatability for 16-bit applications. I dunno about you, but sometimes I get nostalgic for the games I grew up with... and some of those games are good enough that horrible dated graphics don't matter.
Strange that I was able to crash the 16Bit module in both Vista 32/64 business with Total Annihilation. Yep, I managed to crash the 16bit support in both versions (got them through the university) and wanted to see how many of my games would fail.
I only grabbed Vista Business because of the need to test things out. Thankfully, since I got it through the university, I didn't spend an arm/leg/2 front teeth and first born to purchase both copies.
Overall, about the only thing I found that Vista finally got right was the Suspend to Ram mode but since XP finally got the improved code backported there's little reason anymore to even consider Vista.
I'm sorry but the U.S and UK are not Civil Law Countries. Both of them are Common Law Countries. Civil Law refers to the Legal structure created by the Roman Empire and used throughout most of Europe with the exception of the UK and Possessions/Colonies (former/current) and the U.S.
Forget about small scale. Combine with a 4x4x4 meter Holographic display (stage/tank) and use it for Cad/Cam or any other 3d design work. Heck I'd be happy with a 1/2x1/2x1/x meter 3d display for some of my modeling work
Funny you should mention Gentoo as I finished installing it in December and no, I'm not one of the idiots who insist on folowing the damn update daily/weekly cycle believing that if it aint broke don't fix it.
out of the damn Union. Remember folks, California is the only state that can do so because of how we joined. California actually voted to amend the states constitution so it was secondary to the United States Constitution. Because of this, it's simply a matter of revoking that amendment and make California's Constitution the supreme document of the land once again.
Another interesting fact is that California's state budget is 1/5 of the federal budget without the current spending on the "W.o.T" (war on terror) that's being pushed by Bush and his cronies. So overall, I think the combination of the Real ID act, the EPA trying to tell us we don't have they right to set tougher standards then the nation, along with all the other flak and shit from Washington is finally giving us the needed push to leave the nest.
One of the reasons I made the switch to Gentoo was the other distro's started to feel like MS with all the unneeded services starting at boot.
WTF is it with all of them? I prefer the Slackware setup. Nothing starts until the user decides what purpose the system has and Gentoo gives me the same level of control. I also get the ability to decide what dependencies are to be installed through the use-flags. For example, Do I want Imap support in all apps that have that option? Hell no, I don't need Imap support at all. Same for Ldap. Damn system is a single user desktop.
That's what I like about Gentoo. The ability to configure it for my usage and unlike most of the new Gentoo users, I have never performed daily/weekly updates to my system since I follow the "If it aint broke - Don't fix it" philosophy. This means the only time I update the system is when a security fix actually impacts one of my primary applications. Otherwise, I'll run things until they're so damn old people don't recognize them anylonger.
As to the problems with Portage, there is a project called Palidus to create a package manager written in C/C++ that can be easily fixed/updated/patched/extended by any distro instead of the mess of spaghetti that Portage has become.
Damn near everything is worse then one of those "Roll Up USB Keyboards" since I actually use one of them. very nice and I don't have to worry about buttons popping off, liquids contaminating the insides and such.
Well My sister purchased an Aveo on our recomendation and she got a sweet deal. Not only did she get it fully loaded but she also got a full maintenance contract (think BMW Ads) that includes tires for ten years.
Of course she is paying almost 15K for that maintenance contract but that's through Chevy and GM Dealer in the U.S./Canada and the best thing is, no mileage Limit on the coverage plus it's transferable to a new owner, making the car far more valuable in resell then it would otherwise have been.
Actually being in the military subjects you to the UCMJ (Universal Code Military Justice) and yes they do have authority to decide what you do in your off duty hours because you are for the duration of your enlistment property of the government. Basically what it boils down to is any activity that interferes with your combat readiness is in violation of your enlistment contract and can be punished according to how severe the impairment is.
Some may think it's a joke about the soldier being charged with damaging government property by being involved in an auto accident but it has actually happened and was upheld by the JAG (Judge Advocate) Office as a legitimate right of the military.
I've been considering one of the 32GB laptop models because of power consumption. Hell I'd be damn happy to get an extra 3/4 hr battery life from the damn thing because that's more important to me then speed. As to large storage needs, that's what my desktop is for. Main thing is, battery life. More is always better and I'd like a laptop that runs for a minimum of 72 hours before the battery dies.
Laws, mechanics are required to return the old parts as proof they've been replaced (anti-fraud measure).
In regards to hard drives that fail, the only option that comes into play now is the usage of disk/file encryption such as truecrypt. So use encryption for those sensitive files and data instead of leaving them wide open.
Well I'll have to correct you on those figures as I live in an All Electric House and my current avg. demand is 5.7kw per day. Of course this is during the winter with radiant heat in each room instead of a central heatpump that's highly efficient.
As to how expensive it is to switch to a PV Array? I've already priced it out and for the location I'm planning on building in, it's comparable to having power line installed as that cost is $100K due to distance. That's right, when you start to factor in the cost of running power line to an isolated location and it reaches $50+K, then PV begins to reach parity with a grid connection and I don't have to worry about ever increasing utility costs since the overall cost is amortized over a minimum of 25 years with an expected operational lifespan of 50 years per panel. The normal panel warranty for high quality panels is 25-40 years and not the 10-20 years you see for amorphous and other less efficient panels. Sorry but the actual costs are not born out by many of the assumptions being made by lots of folks contributing to this discussion.
For those interested, there's a very good book written in the Late 80's called "The New Solar Home" that includes a critical set of PV Array Size Calculation Sheets. Check your local Library and see if you can get a copy either through reservation or inter-library loan and simply copy the calculation sheets for later use in figuring how large of a PV array you would need as I've done. You already have the primary information on your personal demand and it's called an Electric Bill (shows the breakdown per avg. Daily usage). Very solid and with the work sheet you get a chance to examine the projected cost of switching yourself to PV power.
Of course when you factor it in on new construction, you suddenly realize that if the building permit authority in your community would require a minimum of 1KW of PV array per new home (roofs facing south) you could begin reducing overall peak daily deman (office buildings and such) along withe base load production by local production.
Well this provides the oppurtunity to begin developing UMCV's (unmanned construction vehicles) for use underwater/moon/mars/asteroids and what ever. Isn't that a good thing?
I've fixed systems or installed hardware such as burners for others and I never touch the my docs folder. Shared docs is fair game because it is shared by the My Docs is not and never should be considered fair game.
In the case of installing a burner such as this one, I find that there are enough files in the Windows folder itself to give a damn good test (Updates and such) to ensure such a burner is working.
I've even been asked to install a combo-drive for the express purpose of viewing DVD's on the system and the test is damn simple then. Try to play a dvd movie. If I see problems with it, then I'm obligated to begin investigating the graphics and cpu's to determine where the problem is and it gives me another point of sale.
Hey bud, you aint got good enough cpu/memorygraphics to handle the playback right
Simply put, the ethical issue revolves around the reason the techs needed to go into the my docs folder to see if things were working correctly because as I stated, to test the ability of a new burner, simply use the Windows folder as there's plenty of stuff in it and the verify data mode ensures that everything was burned correctly. You also have the option of taking the disk to another system with a known working drive and using the Nero tools testing the quality of the disk itself. Did it burn correctly or are there errors on the disk?
The main advantage is you never touch the private data of the users nor do you touch the program files folder when installing.
Now I've had users bring systems in complaining about not being able to open certain files types and have had to investigate though I usually take a bit of time to ask them to show me the specific file they're having problems with and usually it's an Office format and they need the latest converters or version of Office to open the damn things (Another Sale). So by doing my job correctly, I've managed to earn a rep as a good tech who fixes systems and doesn't invade my clients privacy unnecessarily and this helps get me repeat business while covering my ass and preventing customers from suing it off in this lawsuit happy country.
Tell that to an Islamic Country like Iran/Iraq/Saudi Arabia or to Israel. Church Law is The Law of the land in such places as they are a combination of both religious and non-religious laws. In other words, the church is the second power in government and that is something no one ignores.
You do know that many system restore/recovery disks specifically warn you to backup your data before using because they wipe the drive and restore things to OEM Factory Defaults? How does this not cause data loss?
Yes you can blame that on the OEM for not providing a proper full installation CD but by then it's already too damn late as the worst case scenario has already happend.
Furthermore, by them being willing to reimburse for outside support (Geek Squad/Others) They've already admitted they f'scked up badly enough to be responsible, thus the EULA would not even come into play though if they were to argue it is still valid, the courts would probably rule that in this case "No It doesn't".
Hot fusion is useful for baseline energy demands and can be built large enough to support it with reasonable growth. Another advantage is the lack of large scale radioactive waste products. Cold fusion on the other hand has the advantage of being portable and fairly reliable. It can easily be used as a replacement for fuel cells, in/external combustion engines and with a simple conversion readily replace current automotive engines with electric drive systems.
Oh Really? Let me tell you that MS lied through their teeth about no 16bit app support under Vista as I've managed to crash it and the Kernel. Yep, surprised the hell out of me on Vista Business to get a crash dialog about 16bit app support being terminated and then a BSOD with a Vista has been shutdown to protect the Operating System message.
Now how in hell did I do that if there is no 16bit application support under Vista? Guess it was IE7 when I hit my ISP's help page, which uses flash for everything (damn idiots). So I'd have to say that Yes Vista does Crash and it's completely unexpected when it does.
What I find damn near criminal is I attempted a test install onto a Compaq Laptop with both a Turion ML32 and a full GB of memory and the damn installer couldn't even finish loading. Claimed it ran out of system memory. WFT?? On a laptop that qualified for Vista as it was purchased 3 weeks before Vista's release.
Sorry bout that but MS has gotten so bad that I am trying to figure out how to move the laptop over to Gentoo Linux like my desktop. Or I'll switch to FreeBSD or PC-BSD, if either of them will finish booting.
The issue here though is dependent on which start menu item. If you dive into the damn folder, you soon realize that MS didn't design things right to begin with in Vista because instead of the skeleton file that linux includes when adding new users, Vista has the shared menu and then a user menu. If you're attempting to change something in the shared menu, it'll bug you with UAC for with allow/deny several times.
Sorry MS but I'd rather have a skeleton menu structure that simply duplicates all of the icons/shortcuts because it then means I have the ability to restore a fragged menu simply by copying the default back in. Of course just like the multiple desktops the X windows system has supported for many years, MS had to go and reinvent the damn wheel instead of simply using what was already there. That's why their wheels are not round. They thought it was better to have corners to back into Damn Idiots
I've always figured that everything I ever posted on the net could come back and bite me, thus I've always lived by the simple rule, if you want it to stay secret, then don't tell anyone, otherwise it's no longer a secret.
Since I've always followed this simple rule, there is nothing on the net that I'm ashamed to claim as my own but any interviewer who asked me a question about anything would terminate the interview right then with sorry sir but as the net is not under my control and your question in reference to someone's online comments/thoughts indicates to me that this is not a company I desire to work for and I'd walk out the door. I might take the afterwards to fire off a letter (hardcopy) to the CEO about the interviewers inappropriate question and that due to it, he lost at least one potential employee who may have been able to contribute significantly to the company and the worst of this is that I've actually responded this way.
Sorry to say the salary figure was quite nice but after being asked a question like that, I terminated the interview, picked up my resume and left and yes I wont leave a resume behind if I terminate the interview because I've made the decision that I wont work for them and don't want them to contact me or share my information with another company as they're suggestions are no longer worth my while.
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Buzz!!It's not copyright violation. You've purchased a legal version under what's known as Doctrine of First Sale. What it does do if you're a businesss, is prevents you from getting Tech Support. Simply put, MS refuses to provide support to a commercial user of the teacher/student Editions. It's that simple and that's a legal solution. They gets your money, you get the product, which is all MS says you're entitled to.
I just purchased a brand new Emachine for a family member and the first thing I did was check the recovery disk (Yep they included a full recovery disk for Vista Home Premium, which meant I could wipe the drive (delete all bloatware) and repartition it. Very nice as California requires them to include a proper recovery disk or they'd be in violation of State Law now.
Well if GoDaddy Disappears because of this, I'll have to find another Registar for the next 10 years as I just renewed mine with them.
Strange that I was able to crash the 16Bit module in both Vista 32/64 business with Total Annihilation. Yep, I managed to crash the 16bit support in both versions (got them through the university) and wanted to see how many of my games would fail.
I only grabbed Vista Business because of the need to test things out. Thankfully, since I got it through the university, I didn't spend an arm/leg/2 front teeth and first born to purchase both copies.
Overall, about the only thing I found that Vista finally got right was the Suspend to Ram mode but since XP finally got the improved code backported there's little reason anymore to even consider Vista.
I'm sorry but the U.S and UK are not Civil Law Countries. Both of them are Common Law Countries. Civil Law refers to the Legal structure created by the Roman Empire and used throughout most of Europe with the exception of the UK and Possessions/Colonies (former/current) and the U.S.
Forget about small scale. Combine with a 4x4x4 meter Holographic display (stage/tank) and use it for Cad/Cam or any other 3d design work. Heck I'd be happy with a 1/2x1/2x1/x meter 3d display for some of my modeling work
Funny you should mention Gentoo as I finished installing it in December and no, I'm not one of the idiots who insist on folowing the damn update daily/weekly cycle believing that if it aint broke don't fix it.
Another interesting fact is that California's state budget is 1/5 of the federal budget without the current spending on the "W.o.T" (war on terror) that's being pushed by Bush and his cronies. So overall, I think the combination of the Real ID act, the EPA trying to tell us we don't have they right to set tougher standards then the nation, along with all the other flak and shit from Washington is finally giving us the needed push to leave the nest.
WTF is it with all of them? I prefer the Slackware setup. Nothing starts until the user decides what purpose the system has and Gentoo gives me the same level of control. I also get the ability to decide what dependencies are to be installed through the use-flags. For example, Do I want Imap support in all apps that have that option? Hell no, I don't need Imap support at all. Same for Ldap. Damn system is a single user desktop.
That's what I like about Gentoo. The ability to configure it for my usage and unlike most of the new Gentoo users, I have never performed daily/weekly updates to my system since I follow the "If it aint broke - Don't fix it" philosophy. This means the only time I update the system is when a security fix actually impacts one of my primary applications. Otherwise, I'll run things until they're so damn old people don't recognize them anylonger.
As to the problems with Portage, there is a project called Palidus to create a package manager written in C/C++ that can be easily fixed/updated/patched/extended by any distro instead of the mess of spaghetti that Portage has become.
Damn near everything is worse then one of those "Roll Up USB Keyboards" since I actually use one of them. very nice and I don't have to worry about buttons popping off, liquids contaminating the insides and such.
Of course she is paying almost 15K for that maintenance contract but that's through Chevy and GM Dealer in the U.S./Canada and the best thing is, no mileage Limit on the coverage plus it's transferable to a new owner, making the car far more valuable in resell then it would otherwise have been.
Some may think it's a joke about the soldier being charged with damaging government property by being involved in an auto accident but it has actually happened and was upheld by the JAG (Judge Advocate) Office as a legitimate right of the military.
I've been considering one of the 32GB laptop models because of power consumption. Hell I'd be damn happy to get an extra 3/4 hr battery life from the damn thing because that's more important to me then speed. As to large storage needs, that's what my desktop is for. Main thing is, battery life. More is always better and I'd like a laptop that runs for a minimum of 72 hours before the battery dies.
In regards to hard drives that fail, the only option that comes into play now is the usage of disk/file encryption such as truecrypt. So use encryption for those sensitive files and data instead of leaving them wide open.
As to how expensive it is to switch to a PV Array? I've already priced it out and for the location I'm planning on building in, it's comparable to having power line installed as that cost is $100K due to distance. That's right, when you start to factor in the cost of running power line to an isolated location and it reaches $50+K, then PV begins to reach parity with a grid connection and I don't have to worry about ever increasing utility costs since the overall cost is amortized over a minimum of 25 years with an expected operational lifespan of 50 years per panel. The normal panel warranty for high quality panels is 25-40 years and not the 10-20 years you see for amorphous and other less efficient panels. Sorry but the actual costs are not born out by many of the assumptions being made by lots of folks contributing to this discussion.
For those interested, there's a very good book written in the Late 80's called "The New Solar Home" that includes a critical set of PV Array Size Calculation Sheets. Check your local Library and see if you can get a copy either through reservation or inter-library loan and simply copy the calculation sheets for later use in figuring how large of a PV array you would need as I've done. You already have the primary information on your personal demand and it's called an Electric Bill (shows the breakdown per avg. Daily usage). Very solid and with the work sheet you get a chance to examine the projected cost of switching yourself to PV power.
Of course when you factor it in on new construction, you suddenly realize that if the building permit authority in your community would require a minimum of 1KW of PV array per new home (roofs facing south) you could begin reducing overall peak daily deman (office buildings and such) along withe base load production by local production.
Well this provides the oppurtunity to begin developing UMCV's (unmanned construction vehicles) for use underwater/moon/mars/asteroids and what ever. Isn't that a good thing?
Thank you for the momentary joy.
In the case of installing a burner such as this one, I find that there are enough files in the Windows folder itself to give a damn good test (Updates and such) to ensure such a burner is working.
I've even been asked to install a combo-drive for the express purpose of viewing DVD's on the system and the test is damn simple then. Try to play a dvd movie. If I see problems with it, then I'm obligated to begin investigating the graphics and cpu's to determine where the problem is and it gives me another point of sale.
Simply put, the ethical issue revolves around the reason the techs needed to go into the my docs folder to see if things were working correctly because as I stated, to test the ability of a new burner, simply use the Windows folder as there's plenty of stuff in it and the verify data mode ensures that everything was burned correctly. You also have the option of taking the disk to another system with a known working drive and using the Nero tools testing the quality of the disk itself. Did it burn correctly or are there errors on the disk?
The main advantage is you never touch the private data of the users nor do you touch the program files folder when installing.
Now I've had users bring systems in complaining about not being able to open certain files types and have had to investigate though I usually take a bit of time to ask them to show me the specific file they're having problems with and usually it's an Office format and they need the latest converters or version of Office to open the damn things (Another Sale). So by doing my job correctly, I've managed to earn a rep as a good tech who fixes systems and doesn't invade my clients privacy unnecessarily and this helps get me repeat business while covering my ass and preventing customers from suing it off in this lawsuit happy country.
Tell that to an Islamic Country like Iran/Iraq/Saudi Arabia or to Israel. Church Law is The Law of the land in such places as they are a combination of both religious and non-religious laws. In other words, the church is the second power in government and that is something no one ignores.
Yes you can blame that on the OEM for not providing a proper full installation CD but by then it's already too damn late as the worst case scenario has already happend.
Furthermore, by them being willing to reimburse for outside support (Geek Squad/Others) They've already admitted they f'scked up badly enough to be responsible, thus the EULA would not even come into play though if they were to argue it is still valid, the courts would probably rule that in this case "No It doesn't".
Hot fusion is useful for baseline energy demands and can be built large enough to support it with reasonable growth. Another advantage is the lack of large scale radioactive waste products. Cold fusion on the other hand has the advantage of being portable and fairly reliable. It can easily be used as a replacement for fuel cells, in/external combustion engines and with a simple conversion readily replace current automotive engines with electric drive systems.
Now how in hell did I do that if there is no 16bit application support under Vista? Guess it was IE7 when I hit my ISP's help page, which uses flash for everything (damn idiots). So I'd have to say that Yes Vista does Crash and it's completely unexpected when it does.
What I find damn near criminal is I attempted a test install onto a Compaq Laptop with both a Turion ML32 and a full GB of memory and the damn installer couldn't even finish loading. Claimed it ran out of system memory. WFT?? On a laptop that qualified for Vista as it was purchased 3 weeks before Vista's release.
Sorry bout that but MS has gotten so bad that I am trying to figure out how to move the laptop over to Gentoo Linux like my desktop. Or I'll switch to FreeBSD or PC-BSD, if either of them will finish booting.
Sorry MS but I'd rather have a skeleton menu structure that simply duplicates all of the icons/shortcuts because it then means I have the ability to restore a fragged menu simply by copying the default back in. Of course just like the multiple desktops the X windows system has supported for many years, MS had to go and reinvent the damn wheel instead of simply using what was already there. That's why their wheels are not round. They thought it was better to have corners to back into Damn Idiots
Since I've always followed this simple rule, there is nothing on the net that I'm ashamed to claim as my own but any interviewer who asked me a question about anything would terminate the interview right then with sorry sir but as the net is not under my control and your question in reference to someone's online comments/thoughts indicates to me that this is not a company I desire to work for and I'd walk out the door. I might take the afterwards to fire off a letter (hardcopy) to the CEO about the interviewers inappropriate question and that due to it, he lost at least one potential employee who may have been able to contribute significantly to the company and the worst of this is that I've actually responded this way.
Sorry to say the salary figure was quite nice but after being asked a question like that, I terminated the interview, picked up my resume and left and yes I wont leave a resume behind if I terminate the interview because I've made the decision that I wont work for them and don't want them to contact me or share my information with another company as they're suggestions are no longer worth my while.