For work, I buy quite a few machines a year (about 20-30 depending on contracts) from Dell. I then gut the machines, add my own hardware (Digiboards, Network Memory Boards, FO Ethernet, Colorgraphics boards, etc...) and my own operating system. Problem is, the only way I can buy these machines is with a modem, video card, and Winbloze ME. I have a drawer full of WinModems, video card (pretty good ones too) and Windows licenses.
How much money am I wasting paying for Windows ME, that I don't need and have no use for. Of course, M$ likes it this way, since I effectily paid for two copies of Windows. The WinME that came pre-installed and the Win2000 I had to buy seperatly to put on the machine. It is a rip-off, and I would build the machines myself if it was an option.
Somebody please correct me if I am mistaken, but when I read the law it refered to recordings.
any contemporaneous recording of an academic presentation in
a classroom or equivalent site of instruction by an instructor of
record. This prohibition applies to a recording made in any medium,
including, but not necessarily limited to, handwritten or typewritten
class notes.
Does not "recording" imply that you write down exactly what the professor says. Therefore summarizing the lecture and selling it should still be legal. So why is this law neccessary. Since the teacher's lecture is already copyrighted, would you not be violating copyright law if you "recorded" his or her lecture and sold it.
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Perhaps Gore would like to talk about how he created the internet.
For work, I buy quite a few machines a year (about 20-30 depending on contracts) from Dell. I then gut the machines, add my own hardware (Digiboards, Network Memory Boards, FO Ethernet, Colorgraphics boards, etc...) and my own operating system. Problem is, the only way I can buy these machines is with a modem, video card, and Winbloze ME. I have a drawer full of WinModems, video card (pretty good ones too) and Windows licenses. How much money am I wasting paying for Windows ME, that I don't need and have no use for. Of course, M$ likes it this way, since I effectily paid for two copies of Windows. The WinME that came pre-installed and the Win2000 I had to buy seperatly to put on the machine. It is a rip-off, and I would build the machines myself if it was an option.