Can you be sued for having a document that someone else produced with a pirated copy of software? I mean I don't think I could be sued for having a piece of paper printed on a stolen printing press so long as the paper was not stolen nor the ink. I guess I might be wrong but I doubt any owner of windows has anything to worry about.
On the other hand MS most likely is going to get one of those $150,000 fines that the BSA speaks about.
No pirate materials were distributed. MS is guilty at most of using software for which they have no licence. Now that this is discovered MS will pay damages (there is a set amount they are liable for even if it is hundreds of thousands of dollars) and life will go on. I think MS should be punished to the fullest extent but I also realize that the fullest extent is pretty much nothing to MS.
No, really all it proves is that a browser control is integrated into the file browser. But in reality the file browser and web browser are the same code. None of it is the "os" though but rather a shell.
Its sort of worse than that. Many times the people that actualy run the datacenters avoid the software at anything lower than thier application level. For anything deeper than that they call the hardware vender who handles tech support for the OS and the hardware vender escalates any issues they don't know how to solve. On a winnt web server most problems that the admin can't solve are hardware related anyways. (at least in my experience)
This is not to say that OSS won't work but we need more HP (used to be compaq) type vendors that handle service contracts this way. They provide a web server, not a machine that runs a web server. Maybe this is actually a smaller part of the market (I haven't actually looked) but its pretty much the way all the 8proc and 16proc machines are sold to the datacenter I deal with. If there were a linux vender that set up webservers precanned and handled support on them for a datacenter it would work well.
Considering that most printers now sell with a midget ink cartridge specially designed to lure you into a printer and then rip you off for ink 1 or 2 months later its not unrealistic to figure in the price of an ink pot into your printer purchase.
Thats why I was pleasantly surprised when I found out I could purchase aftermarket ink for my canon printer for about $3 per cartridge that last about 1/3 a year each. Compared to the $50 worth of cartridges in my last HP that lasted 1 year I'm getting a great deal with the canon.
Not always true. If the market is highly competative the cost savings will translate into lower prices for the consumers. This will lead to more money in the pockets of the execs but at the loss of store X and not the consumer. Well not right away.
I get unlimited long distance from sprint for $15 + taxes a month. Only good if you plan to rack up major minutes but since my wife seems to hit around 2000 a month its a great deal for me.
That or you can replace the original crap connector in the NES with a aftermarket replacement (I saw them around a few years ago when I cared) that is higher quality and not have the problems.
My favorite "old" controller is the suntech (I think thats who it was) for the atari 2600. Nothing like the solid feel it had and it was nigh indestructable since its switches were heavy metal plates.
Its not that apples (and most likely some of the x86 based computers too though I haven't really looked into it) aren't supercomputers. Its just that given the current definition of a supercomputer its just not that amazing anymore. Maybe its the definition that needs to change rather than you being upset at people that follow the definition.
While your situation is extremely unfortunate, I think that "need" is too strong a word for this procedure. While I fully understand the desire to have a child, it is not at all a necessity.
My stand is that IVF is a luxury and paying luxury prices for it is not out of the question. If you can't have children and can't afford IVF there are many children that need parents to adopt them who would create a wonderful family if given the chance.
I work with someone who is Indian (still a citizen there too I think) and his comment was that there are too many schools that just give out medical degress in india without the people needing to actually be qualified for the field. He is truely afraid of the indian healthcare because of this. In the end I think there has to be a midpoint where you can have a culture of cheap effective (no waiting for months to get your procedure done at a govt approved clinic or whatever) healthcare and a minimal level of safety that is guaranteed by the system. Unfortunately I don't know (personally, it may exist without me knowing) a place in the world that has this balance.
You don't remember back to the problems they had with one of the 7 series bwm's. It was a year or more ago so I don't have a link sitting around anymore. Yes the computer was connected to critical systems.
This might be funny but BMW has proven it true. They integrated win CE into one of thier cars ages ago and it did LOTS of wierd things (such as shifting into reverse at high speed and popping the trunk lid at random times). It wasn't necessarily CE's fault that it went so poorly but integrating software which is known to be flakey (in general, not any specific application) into a car which must be fairly reliable is not something to take lightly.
Its more like they won because the people they were fighting against were to busy in an argument with someone else to properly deal with some pesky colonists in a place they weren't even sure was much good for anything except for a few taxes that were probably not enough to pay for the military they had to provide to insure that they were collected.
That said I am on the same lines of thinking as you that in America you should have the protected right to bear any arms available. You should not however have the right to use those arms in any manner that you please except in the case you plan to overthrow the established government through show of arms. In that case you better have friends who are thinking the same as you are.
There are enhancements in the code compiled for SP2 that don't require a newer processor though the NX flag is only in newer processors. The point is that SP2 is better even for people without the NX flag due to changes in the compiler.
The new compiler has a whole slew of tricks to prvent aribtrary code execution by buffer overrun. Most of it seems to be memory re-ordering as well as extra detection. Its pretty good stuff from what I've seen but it doesn't replace correct coding. If he is testing SP2 of IE the fact that IE has fewer crashes would have a lot to do with the new standards at MS in both development and testing.
you could use 2 separate switches, one for KVM switching and the other for just the 2nd monitor.
I find it more useful to have 3 monitors, 1 hooks to primary monitor on both machines and 1 hooked to each of the secondary monitors. That way I can have the stuff I monitor (whether that be application running or work e-mail) up on the secondary monitors and have anything that needs input on the primary monitor. Works pretty well, its what my boss uses and if I had dual monitor in my admin machine I'd do the same. As it is I only have dual mon on my dev machine so 2 monitors suffice.
The thing I find most useful (as a software devloper) about having two monitors is having your source debugger (I use Visual Studio but that is sort of beside the point) open in one window and the application running on a second window. Lets me see more of whats happening.
The other useful thing (at least in win2k3 because I haven't tried it elsewhere) is having fullscreen termserv in one window and then the apps in the console on the other. Makes 2 computers behave as if they are on the same desktop (mouse moves seamlessly between the two and cut and paste works between the two). This only seems to work if the termserv window occupies the 2nd monitor. To do this minimize the window when you first make it, drag it onto monitor 2 and maximize.
From the sounds of it the "purposes" of a 2nd monitor seem to be lacking from the original article so hopefully these two "tips" (for what they are worth) help someone out.
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Can you be sued for having a document that someone else produced with a pirated copy of software? I mean I don't think I could be sued for having a piece of paper printed on a stolen printing press so long as the paper was not stolen nor the ink. I guess I might be wrong but I doubt any owner of windows has anything to worry about.
On the other hand MS most likely is going to get one of those $150,000 fines that the BSA speaks about.
No pirate materials were distributed. MS is guilty at most of using software for which they have no licence. Now that this is discovered MS will pay damages (there is a set amount they are liable for even if it is hundreds of thousands of dollars) and life will go on. I think MS should be punished to the fullest extent but I also realize that the fullest extent is pretty much nothing to MS.
On the other hand with a few of these things they needed to work closer with the industry to have a reasonable migration in advance.
The changes to work with sp2 were deeper, mainly with stuff getting turned off and having to figure out what to turn back on.
No, really all it proves is that a browser control is integrated into the file browser. But in reality the file browser and web browser are the same code. None of it is the "os" though but rather a shell.
This is not to say that OSS won't work but we need more HP (used to be compaq) type vendors that handle service contracts this way. They provide a web server, not a machine that runs a web server. Maybe this is actually a smaller part of the market (I haven't actually looked) but its pretty much the way all the 8proc and 16proc machines are sold to the datacenter I deal with. If there were a linux vender that set up webservers precanned and handled support on them for a datacenter it would work well.
Considering that most printers now sell with a midget ink cartridge specially designed to lure you into a printer and then rip you off for ink 1 or 2 months later its not unrealistic to figure in the price of an ink pot into your printer purchase.
Thats why I was pleasantly surprised when I found out I could purchase aftermarket ink for my canon printer for about $3 per cartridge that last about 1/3 a year each. Compared to the $50 worth of cartridges in my last HP that lasted 1 year I'm getting a great deal with the canon.
Not always true. If the market is highly competative the cost savings will translate into lower prices for the consumers. This will lead to more money in the pockets of the execs but at the loss of store X and not the consumer. Well not right away.
I get unlimited long distance from sprint for $15 + taxes a month. Only good if you plan to rack up major minutes but since my wife seems to hit around 2000 a month its a great deal for me.
That or you can replace the original crap connector in the NES with a aftermarket replacement (I saw them around a few years ago when I cared) that is higher quality and not have the problems.
My favorite "old" controller is the suntech (I think thats who it was) for the atari 2600. Nothing like the solid feel it had and it was nigh indestructable since its switches were heavy metal plates.
Can you give me the recipie for making potato chips from hot apples because I might be able to make money on that.
Its not that apples (and most likely some of the x86 based computers too though I haven't really looked into it) aren't supercomputers. Its just that given the current definition of a supercomputer its just not that amazing anymore. Maybe its the definition that needs to change rather than you being upset at people that follow the definition.
While your situation is extremely unfortunate, I think that "need" is too strong a word for this procedure. While I fully understand the desire to have a child, it is not at all a necessity.
My stand is that IVF is a luxury and paying luxury prices for it is not out of the question. If you can't have children and can't afford IVF there are many children that need parents to adopt them who would create a wonderful family if given the chance.
I work with someone who is Indian (still a citizen there too I think) and his comment was that there are too many schools that just give out medical degress in india without the people needing to actually be qualified for the field. He is truely afraid of the indian healthcare because of this. In the end I think there has to be a midpoint where you can have a culture of cheap effective (no waiting for months to get your procedure done at a govt approved clinic or whatever) healthcare and a minimal level of safety that is guaranteed by the system. Unfortunately I don't know (personally, it may exist without me knowing) a place in the world that has this balance.
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You don't remember back to the problems they had with one of the 7 series bwm's. It was a year or more ago so I don't have a link sitting around anymore. Yes the computer was connected to critical systems.
This might be funny but BMW has proven it true. They integrated win CE into one of thier cars ages ago and it did LOTS of wierd things (such as shifting into reverse at high speed and popping the trunk lid at random times). It wasn't necessarily CE's fault that it went so poorly but integrating software which is known to be flakey (in general, not any specific application) into a car which must be fairly reliable is not something to take lightly.
show of arms = fighting the enemy with your weapons, not showing your weapons to the enemy
That said I am on the same lines of thinking as you that in America you should have the protected right to bear any arms available. You should not however have the right to use those arms in any manner that you please except in the case you plan to overthrow the established government through show of arms. In that case you better have friends who are thinking the same as you are.
There are enhancements in the code compiled for SP2 that don't require a newer processor though the NX flag is only in newer processors. The point is that SP2 is better even for people without the NX flag due to changes in the compiler.
The new compiler has a whole slew of tricks to prvent aribtrary code execution by buffer overrun. Most of it seems to be memory re-ordering as well as extra detection. Its pretty good stuff from what I've seen but it doesn't replace correct coding. If he is testing SP2 of IE the fact that IE has fewer crashes would have a lot to do with the new standards at MS in both development and testing.
you could use 2 separate switches, one for KVM switching and the other for just the 2nd monitor.
I find it more useful to have 3 monitors, 1 hooks to primary monitor on both machines and 1 hooked to each of the secondary monitors. That way I can have the stuff I monitor (whether that be application running or work e-mail) up on the secondary monitors and have anything that needs input on the primary monitor. Works pretty well, its what my boss uses and if I had dual monitor in my admin machine I'd do the same. As it is I only have dual mon on my dev machine so 2 monitors suffice.
The thing I find most useful (as a software devloper) about having two monitors is having your source debugger (I use Visual Studio but that is sort of beside the point) open in one window and the application running on a second window. Lets me see more of whats happening.
The other useful thing (at least in win2k3 because I haven't tried it elsewhere) is having fullscreen termserv in one window and then the apps in the console on the other. Makes 2 computers behave as if they are on the same desktop (mouse moves seamlessly between the two and cut and paste works between the two). This only seems to work if the termserv window occupies the 2nd monitor. To do this minimize the window when you first make it, drag it onto monitor 2 and maximize.
From the sounds of it the "purposes" of a 2nd monitor seem to be lacking from the original article so hopefully these two "tips" (for what they are worth) help someone out.
Windows can be like that, which was my point, they just need to get it there. They took the easy route and it is biting them now.
As far as 3rd party applications go they are equally guilty of taking the easy route and just asking thier users to be admins.