He implied he'd be willing to pay a reasonable price for the individual components. Presumably, if the components were individualized, other people would also be willing to pay whatever they see as reasonable, and if MS-I, MS-II, and/or MS-III couldn't figure that out, they'd go out of business.
No, the MAFIAA sues poor people all the time. They have recommended that college students drop out in order to pay. They just like ruining people's lives (Yes, I'm aware that's probably ungrammatical, don't bother telling me).
The problem is that such laws need to deal with complex circumstances (e.g. killing in self defense, "manslaughter" by drunk driving, estoppel etc.). The more circumstances need to be dealt with, the more complex the laws need to be (that's ungrammatical, isn't it?).
Except Apple and linux aren;t able to play back Blu-ray because they don't have that stuff in there. If it wasn't there, you wouldn't be able to watch in it in Vista as well, and it ONLY affects stuff like Blu-ray, there is no affect on non-DRM'd stuff.
I thought it affected DVDs too, including ones made in your own camcorder (i.e. things like young Sebastian's first word etc.).
Unfortunately, that's still got some degradation, but OTOH it takes advantage of the analog hole, which means in the long run it trumps whatever DRM nonsense they can throw at you... short of trusted computing (ick ick ick!).
Given current lobbying trends? Not likely. They even have Obama in their collective pocket (yes, I know he's not the miracle the media thinks he is, but he was explicitly anti-lobbying during the debates.).
For buying stuff, in general, go to ebay or craigslist.
For info, you might possibly find something at wikibooks (a complement project of Wikipedia, with the same degree of reliability) en.wikibooks.org (for the english version). OTOH, you might find nothing.
I'm not an expert in any of this; I've never put together a notebook myself; I'm just guessing that if there's information/parts/etc. to be had, these websites will have it/them/what-have-you. As a last resort, try google.
They put the search bar and awesome bar (URL etc. bar a la firefox) together to make a super-awesome bar (the next step is some form of hyper-awesome bar). You don't need Google toolbar; use the super-awesome bar.
The purpose of any open source project is writing good software. Not converting people. Not waxing philosophical. Not appealing to the masses. And not arguing about naming.
[snip] Firefox [...], at least on Linux, is pretty unstable.
Use Ubuntu. Now turn off all the addons that didn't come with it. Now disable the unstable Ubuntu repositories (-backports, -proposed etc.) and downgrade to the latest stable version. Now run whatever "scientific" test you ran last time. It's solid as a rock for me, but maybe I'm just lucky. Try it yourself; see what happens.
WinFS was billed as one of the pillars of the "Longhorn" wave of technologies, and would ship as part of the next version of Windows. It was subsequently decided that WinFS would ship after the release of Windows Vista, but those plans were shelved in June 2006, with some of its component technologies being integrated into upcoming releases of ADO.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. While it was then assumed by observers that WinFS was finished as a project, in November 2006 Steve Ballmer announced that WinFS was still in development, though it was not clear how the technology was to be delivered.
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Woosh! (I don't get it either :P )
He implied he'd be willing to pay a reasonable price for the individual components. Presumably, if the components were individualized, other people would also be willing to pay whatever they see as reasonable, and if MS-I, MS-II, and/or MS-III couldn't figure that out, they'd go out of business.
No, the MAFIAA sues poor people all the time. They have recommended that college students drop out in order to pay. They just like ruining people's lives (Yes, I'm aware that's probably ungrammatical, don't bother telling me).
"Normal, 'thinking' people" can arrive at drastically different conclusions. See Conservative v. Liberal v. Libertarian.
Wait, why are you talking about thinking people in the first sentence and then switch to a totally different topic in the second one?
Libertarians are thinking people. The first two though...
The problem is that such laws need to deal with complex circumstances (e.g. killing in self defense, "manslaughter" by drunk driving, estoppel etc.). The more circumstances need to be dealt with, the more complex the laws need to be (that's ungrammatical, isn't it?).
There are several varieties of "wild boar" (at least in N. America). Some are viscous...
God help us all
... lest we be killed by slow-moving, sticky boars.
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Except Apple and linux aren;t able to play back Blu-ray because they don't have that stuff in there. If it wasn't there, you wouldn't be able to watch in it in Vista as well, and it ONLY affects stuff like Blu-ray, there is no affect on non-DRM'd stuff.
I thought it affected DVDs too, including ones made in your own camcorder (i.e. things like young Sebastian's first word etc.).
Unfortunately, that's still got some degradation, but OTOH it takes advantage of the analog hole, which means in the long run it trumps whatever DRM nonsense they can throw at you... short of trusted computing (ick ick ick!).
Given current lobbying trends? Not likely. They even have Obama in their collective pocket (yes, I know he's not the miracle the media thinks he is, but he was explicitly anti-lobbying during the debates.).
And of course, HP printers never work without silly broken drivers.
For buying stuff, in general, go to ebay or craigslist.
For info, you might possibly find something at wikibooks (a complement project of Wikipedia, with the same degree of reliability) en.wikibooks.org (for the english version). OTOH, you might find nothing.
I'm not an expert in any of this; I've never put together a notebook myself; I'm just guessing that if there's information/parts/etc. to be had, these websites will have it/them/what-have-you. As a last resort, try google.
You have a karma bonus so I'll assume the troll moderation was mistaken.
Servicing a vehicle != "accepting" the vehicle | holding onto it.
IANAL
Sounds like a job for the attorney general and/or the FTC. Not that you can get their attention.
IANAL. You might even claim it's anticompetitive behavior since it interferes with the ability of consumers and used computer stores to do business.
Unforeseeable. How was the clone's dev supposed to know his clone would be used for mission critical things like that? IANAL.
No, slashdot doesn't like unicode, thank you for checking before hitting submit. You want to try again using an HTML entity?
Chrome is still too simplifistic
Apparently so is English.
He obviously meant a long s; he just has no key for it (and slashdot doesn't like unicode and has a love/hate relationship with (X|HT)ML entities).
They put the search bar and awesome bar (URL etc. bar a la firefox) together to make a super-awesome bar (the next step is some form of hyper-awesome bar). You don't need Google toolbar; use the super-awesome bar.
The purpose of any open source project is writing good software. Not converting people. Not waxing philosophical. Not appealing to the masses. And not arguing about naming.
[snip] Firefox [...], at least on Linux, is pretty unstable.
Use Ubuntu. Now turn off all the addons that didn't come with it. Now disable the unstable Ubuntu repositories (-backports, -proposed etc.) and downgrade to the latest stable version. Now run whatever "scientific" test you ran last time. It's solid as a rock for me, but maybe I'm just lucky. Try it yourself; see what happens.
Adam Smith needs revision...
I see you are posting anonymously on slashdot. Why do I suspect you are a 17 year old pimply faced youth?
There, fixed that for you.
*pause*
I'm a pimply faced youth, you insensitive clod!
You have to be stupid to get a Darwin Award. Now, Windows fanbois, they're another story...
Wrong:
WinFS was billed as one of the pillars of the "Longhorn" wave of technologies, and would ship as part of the next version of Windows. It was subsequently decided that WinFS would ship after the release of Windows Vista, but those plans were shelved in June 2006, with some of its component technologies being integrated into upcoming releases of ADO.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. While it was then assumed by observers that WinFS was finished as a project, in November 2006 Steve Ballmer announced that WinFS was still in development, though it was not clear how the technology was to be delivered.
How about that really annoying dialog box that windows pops up whenever you try to run an executable that lusers just ignore and hit "yes" on?