Ultimately all of it winds up shredded and scattered in farmer's field somewhere, leaking its toxins into the ground. And from their point of view, better there than here.Ultimately all of it winds up shredded and scattered in farmer's field somewhere, leaking its toxins into the ground. And from their point of view, better there than here.
There's propaganda and real market value going on here. I read they were also selling them to the French Police for desktops and Renault for automotive systems, so there's more to this than waste disposal. Notice that they are pretending to have some kind of patent lever over both free software and China. If they convince China that real trade sanctions would follow if they disobey, there will be some insignificant return of US Import dollars. The real goal is to convince US companies that the Soft somehow owns all free software - that's where the money is. It's not like either US or China is going to buy into Vista and Office 2007.
Dilithium crystals are a form of the window out of anti-matter containment chamber. They were first used as an exit window for more primitive vacuum magnetic bottles, where the lattice distance was used to refract anti-protons of the correct inertial energy to the reaction chamber. Eventually, it was realized that a hexagonal close packed arrangement at the correct temperature could not only guide but store anti-protons when subjected to a properly constructed optical pump field. This greatly simplified anti-matter storage and was considerably safer than the massive bottle designs of the late 21st century. The crystals are consumed in both cases because nothing is perfect but a good set of crystals can serve for decades before needing replacement.
Heisenberg compensators work by quantum entanglements correction. Events that could lead to local instability are intentionally entangled and shifted to random locations in the universe. A more interesting version of this is to capture potential differences across parallel universes and harness it for useful work. This provided a limitless supply of energy in the 23rd century that replaced almost all others and started a process of cooling our current universe, though the overall heat balance between the infinite possible universes has yet to be discovered and there was a furious ethical debate over dumping random energy to other universes before it was realized that others must be doing the same to us and this is why the universe is actually self organizing.
Transporter malfunctions in the early 23rd century, interestingly, led the way to that energy source by proving the existence of parallel worlds and pointing to the mechanisms of quantum entanglement between them. The people you saw there were not really "split" so much as they were shifted and rotated.
I made all of that up in the last 5 minutes, but I can't imagine Vista being useful or interesting. What are they going to do, upload their "live" photos to solve crimes between lock ups? Will a BSD infusion bring stability to the madness? Stay tuned... only the most creative of geniuses will make that pig fly.
It does not exist yet and you lose it if you quit paying your subscription. Though you never really did own Windows or the computer running it, this takes vaporware to the next level.
Software "piracy", entertainment "piracy", phishing... the author is obviously conflating these things under the banner of IP and suggesting that there's an economic argument similar to one raised when the US was a free republic. The differences are glaring and obvious:
This is an attack on US Citizen rights to share and conduct commerce in a free way.
There is little common economic interest because the victims are media and software monopolies and users of their products.
The fight against industrial espionage and phishing is easily won by avoiding Microsoft Windows but those responsible are everywhere and nearly impossible to track, where pirates hide in well known, impossible to avoid places.
There already are massive law enforcement efforts to catch frauds.
Oh yeah, that big one, pirates murder people and steal real property. Sharing things is good. Draining bank accounts is bad, but it's not murder. The copyright warriors are nuts.
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I'm twitter because I like a female goat better than a male one? That's one step beyond reality.
That is a better goat, thanks.
Ultimately all of it winds up shredded and scattered in farmer's field somewhere, leaking its toxins into the ground. And from their point of view, better there than here.Ultimately all of it winds up shredded and scattered in farmer's field somewhere, leaking its toxins into the ground. And from their point of view, better there than here.
There's propaganda and real market value going on here. I read they were also selling them to the French Police for desktops and Renault for automotive systems, so there's more to this than waste disposal. Notice that they are pretending to have some kind of patent lever over both free software and China. If they convince China that real trade sanctions would follow if they disobey, there will be some insignificant return of US Import dollars. The real goal is to convince US companies that the Soft somehow owns all free software - that's where the money is. It's not like either US or China is going to buy into Vista and Office 2007.
I can explain almost everything for you.
Dilithium crystals are a form of the window out of anti-matter containment chamber. They were first used as an exit window for more primitive vacuum magnetic bottles, where the lattice distance was used to refract anti-protons of the correct inertial energy to the reaction chamber. Eventually, it was realized that a hexagonal close packed arrangement at the correct temperature could not only guide but store anti-protons when subjected to a properly constructed optical pump field. This greatly simplified anti-matter storage and was considerably safer than the massive bottle designs of the late 21st century. The crystals are consumed in both cases because nothing is perfect but a good set of crystals can serve for decades before needing replacement.
Heisenberg compensators work by quantum entanglements correction. Events that could lead to local instability are intentionally entangled and shifted to random locations in the universe. A more interesting version of this is to capture potential differences across parallel universes and harness it for useful work. This provided a limitless supply of energy in the 23rd century that replaced almost all others and started a process of cooling our current universe, though the overall heat balance between the infinite possible universes has yet to be discovered and there was a furious ethical debate over dumping random energy to other universes before it was realized that others must be doing the same to us and this is why the universe is actually self organizing.
Transporter malfunctions in the early 23rd century, interestingly, led the way to that energy source by proving the existence of parallel worlds and pointing to the mechanisms of quantum entanglement between them. The people you saw there were not really "split" so much as they were shifted and rotated.
I made all of that up in the last 5 minutes, but I can't imagine Vista being useful or interesting. What are they going to do, upload their "live" photos to solve crimes between lock ups? Will a BSD infusion bring stability to the madness? Stay tuned ... only the most creative of geniuses will make that pig fly.
It does not exist yet and you lose it if you quit paying your subscription. Though you never really did own Windows or the computer running it, this takes vaporware to the next level.
Software "piracy", entertainment "piracy", phishing ... the author is obviously conflating these things under the banner of IP and suggesting that there's an economic argument similar to one raised when the US was a free republic. The differences are glaring and obvious: