This is fantastic stuff, pity this sort of technology (internet I mean) wasn't available in 1969. I was glued to the TV set then, I will be glued to t'internet now.
Whilst it may be trivial to remove an OS from a computer, it's certainly not trivial to get refunded for something you do not want. In this case it took a court case.
Your analogy is not sound, you _can_ buy a car without power windows or AC, it's extremely difficult to buy a computer without a Microsoft operating system.
The computer was sold with XP pre-installed & a "shrink-wrapped" EULA. She wanted a computer but not XP, but was unable to buy a computer without XP pre-installed. This is generally called "The Microsoft Tax", because people who buy computers in order to run other Operating Systems (yes there are others) are forced to pay this tax.
She didn't want to pay this "tax" so asked to be refunded the cost of XP.
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Bruce Willis please :-)
WTF does that mean?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTAT-1
WTF? "not commercially viable"
Agree. Also the stupid advert on the front page (have to use Exploder 7 at work) completely covers the article, rendering it unreadable. Bah.
Some Partners!!
Watch your backs guys.
PS. How can 39% rise 5 fold?
How many are required to make it official?
Also, where is the appeal from BSI? T'would seem they stay bought.
Heh, see: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poxy
It's buses & bloody bus-lanes that are the cause of most of the traffic problems.
Certainly in London, and especially the poxy "bendy" ones.
on the NASA page.
This is fantastic stuff, pity this sort of technology (internet I mean) wasn't available in 1969. I was glued to the TV set then, I will be glued to t'internet now.
Aaah. Thanks.
Just googled it, nope. Still never heard it or of it before.
On a brighter note, don't chew on life's gristle.
Your point precisely?
Nuff said
And will not be re-visiting the ad-laden abomination that is ZDNet UK ever again.
They should have included themselves on the bloody list.
Huh? Isn't it obvious; so they can lose the entire database in the post.
Agree completely. Here in the UK I can buy unencumbered computer-tooters from Novatech.
:-)
Yay.
Disclaimer: I have no association with them other than being a satisfied customer
Whilst it may be trivial to remove an OS from a computer, it's certainly not trivial to get refunded for something you do not want. In this case it took a court case.
Your analogy is not sound, you _can_ buy a car without power windows or AC, it's extremely difficult to buy a computer without a Microsoft operating system.
The computer was sold with XP pre-installed & a "shrink-wrapped" EULA. She wanted a computer but not XP, but was unable to buy a computer without XP pre-installed. This is generally called "The Microsoft Tax", because people who buy computers in order to run other Operating Systems (yes there are others) are forced to pay this tax.
She didn't want to pay this "tax" so asked to be refunded the cost of XP.
Just the one usually, as soon as my missus opens her eyes in the morning :-)
My long baited line failed to hook you t'would seem.
As long as there is an operating system created by a company as inherently "evil" as monopolysoft.
One cannot, in all conscience, trust them to "Do the right thing"
Nerdy pedantry aside :-)
:^)
Freeze it & it becomes ice.
I didn't say push ice (frozen water), nor did I say push steam (gaseous water)
Nuff said
That would be as easy as pushing water uphill with a sharp stick :-)
He will probably claim that he simply "Misspoke" :-)
Very Funny :-)
I'm now back to 2008
I'm a little older :-(
:-) Green plastic in a cardboard sleeve.
Still, BASIC was the first language I used in CS at school in 1975. Then FORTRAN IV. Fond memories.
I still have my coveted IBM flowchart template
Perhaps I should have stolen the code for the compiler & sold it to hobbyists, who knows I might be rich now......
There's nothing new under the sun..