Regarding the tools from SysInternals: Some old downloads do not seem to contain any EULA at all (just a readme.txt with some general disclaimers)
more recent downloads (february 2006) contain a short and easily understandable EULA.
All zip files I just downloaded from sysinternals have a change date of 18.7.2006 17:53 GMT+1 (yesterday) and contain a changed and much longer EULA, that also mentions that sysinternals is a part of microsoft now
Old EULA:
This software is provided "as is" and use of the software is at your own risk. Sysinternals disclaims any and all warranties, whether express, implied or statutory, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement of third-party rights. Sysinternals does not warrant that the software is free of defects.
You are allowed to use software published by Sysinternals at home or at work without paying a commercial license fee provided that you downloaded the software yourself directly from Sysinternals, and:
* Use the software on computers for which you are the primary user; or
* Use the software on computers for which there is no primary user
(e.g. servers, including Terminal Servers) and you are a full-time
employee of the company that owns the computer; or
* Use the software on computers within your residence
A commercial license is required to use the software in any way not covered above, including for example:
* Redistributing the software in any manner, including by computer
media, a file server, an email attachment, etc.
* Embedding the software in or linking it to another program
* Use of the software for technical support on customer computers
Sales of commercial licenses support Sysinternals product development and assure that this Web site continues to offer valuable, up-to-date tools. Established software companies redistribute these utilities and incorporate the code into their products because this offers the potential to save significant development time. Sysinternals commercial licenses are priced according to the complexity of the licensed code and its role in the target application. If you are interested in licensing Sysinternals tools or source code for redistribution or for inclusion with or as part of a software product, please contact licensing@sysinternals.com.
NEW EULA:
HEREIN. SYSINTERNALS AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE PRODUCT(S) AND/OR THE PROGRAM(S) DESCRIBED HEREIN AT ANY TIME.
NOTICES REGARDING SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTS AND SERVICES AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE. IN NO EVENT SHALL SYSINTERNALS AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTS, PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE SERVICES.
MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY. If any of the Services requires you to open an account, you must complete the registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You also will choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify Sysinternals immediately of any unauthorized use of your a
And if all else fails, surely they could accelerate the iss a bit in the direction of the lost astronaut, since he could onle be moving very slowly in relation to the iss. The main problem might be not to accelerate too much and crush him.
Mixing does not create a "stronger" result. If anything, it creates a weaker result, depending on how different the two parents are. Why do you think the traits of various ethnic groups were selected? Do you think they are randomly arranged? No, they were selected based on adaptations to the environment of that group of people. Mixing in differnet traits that do not fit well into that environment will result in those traits being removed.
Now that is patently false. You could hardly be more wrong if you tried. Hard data for humans is sparse because of obvious ethical reasons, but for example the vast majority of corn grown is some sort of hybrid.
Humans are hardwired to focus on faces, or even just eyes. Maybe the eyes were just more noticeable than a less "eye-catching" textual reminder to pay? So the eyes made it less likely to forget the payment, but not because of guilt or fear, and a blinking light next to the notice would have the same effect?
It's logically. Any bid you put in is also a statement "I think this item is worth at least X$"
Now, a new bidder sees an item that also has several statements attached to it in the form "Person A thinks this item is worth at least X$" and a somewhat simmilar item that has no such statements. Either one might have a flaw that he has overlooked, or be offered by a untrustworthy seller.
Wich item will he most likely pick?
And so, the item with more bids gets yet annother, raising its attractiveness even more.
Re:And this is indeed a serious problem with EBay.
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What if eBay also had another auction type in addition to normal and Buy It Now ones: silent auctions. It tells you when it ends, the seller may optionally give a reccomended amount, and you get to put in your bid, without knowing what anyone else put down. Now you'd be more compelled to put your maximum bid down.
That is called a Vickrey auction. It has some theoretical advantages but for various reasons never caught quite on. (has some theoretical diasadvantages as well, such as the possibility of stable bidder cartels iirc)
It is always a bit ticklish confronting Germans with their past. You ask them why it happened. You ask whether they supported it. Why they didn't rebel against it? How could millions of people not see that they were wrong? Andreas from Berlin is a typical witness of the times. A mere 28 years old, his whole life will be marked by the mistakes of an entire nation -- an occurrence that is singular in world history.
"I swear, I have no idea how a David Hasselhoff song could top the German charts for eight weeks in 1989," he says. His tone is defensive and apologetic -- a tone one hears across Germany when talking about the historical black mark.
Right now, if I want to get tickets for some event that is expected to sell out instantly, I can either invest a lot of time to hopefully be one of the "lucky few", or buy it from a scalper. The scalper wants to make a profit too, and has business expenses (his invested time, possibility of not finding a buyer, the legal dificulties...) which are all added to the scalpers price, so by buing it directly from the source I should still be cheaper of. It's just cutting out the middle man.
Why are these tickets usually sold underpriced anyway? Surely not just because the organizers are so good at heart?
Does anyone have any experience in setting up these free anti virus tools as on demand-scanners ONLY?
I already have a scanner, but would like to cross-check my files with other tools occassionally.
However, setting them up so that they do not run in the background proved to be virtually impossible.
Alamost always there are some resident components remaining, and if I manage disable them all manually either the thing refuses to scan, or refuses to update manually.
I am considering setting up a VMWare virtual machine just for virus scanners
If it's going to cost them 10 million to "tear em a new one" in court, or 0.5 million in re-negotiated royalty fees, the choice is pretty clear.
I suspect the re-negotiation fees are meant to be a more permanent income stream for the RIAA meaning they want something recurring per song or per month. In the long run, this fee will be more expensive than any court fee.
I tried downloading their software and signing up with them over the last week. Figured if a spammer is that pissed off at them they must be doing something right. The sign up site was often down, but when it was up I always seemed to fail their captcha. Did anyone have more luck?
I never understood why tickets are usually underpriced.
Often demand exceeds supply by far, and since prices are cheap there is a big incentive to purchase tickets just to resell them on the black market.
If these tickets were priced higher, or even sold in a sort of auction, all the profit of the black market resellers would instead go to the organisers.
So why are tickets sold apparently below market value? It cann't just be because of goodwil towards the fans, can it?
Well, at the "line", they would cancel each other out exactly, but close to the line they would still almost cancel each other out, so a small object might be able to hold together there. It would be an instable position, but a small spaceship might be able to maintain that position?
What if they don't collide exactly head-on, but just circle each other? They would circle closer and closer, whithout ever actually coliding, so would this "line" stay?
this filters ALL mail that is not in your whitelist, which would include many of my non-spam mails.
what I meant was a filter that filters all CAN-SPAM compliant spam that is not in your whitelist, which would be quite usefull if spam were actually can-spam compliant.
Something I always wondered: When two black holes are close together, then something that has exactly the same distance to each of them should not fall into either one.
What happens when they are so close that their event horizons overlap?
Shouldn't there always be some flat zone between them that is not part of either event horizon?
I think compliant spam must have some sort of tag in the header? Not sure since noone seems ot be complying.
But if it would actually work, email providers could offer a simple checkbox "no spam unless whitelisted" and block ALL of these whithout the user even knowing how to set up filters. Good providers would probably include this checkbox (pre-checked) with the signup process.
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Some old downloads do not seem to contain any EULA at all (just a readme.txt with some general disclaimers)
more recent downloads (february 2006) contain a short and easily understandable EULA.
All zip files I just downloaded from sysinternals have a change date of 18.7.2006 17:53 GMT+1 (yesterday) and contain a changed and much longer EULA, that also mentions that sysinternals is a part of microsoft now
Old EULA:
NEW EULA:
Just my thoughts.
And if all else fails, surely they could accelerate the iss a bit in the direction of the lost astronaut, since he could onle be moving very slowly in relation to the iss.
The main problem might be not to accelerate too much and crush him.
I speak Chinese, and I can't for the life of me understand why people think it's so hard.
I cannot speak for others but for me it is because of the darn íntônàtion rules.
Now that is patently false. You could hardly be more wrong if you tried.
Hard data for humans is sparse because of obvious ethical reasons, but for example the vast majority of corn grown is some sort of hybrid.
check out Heterosis.
Humans are hardwired to focus on faces, or even just eyes.
Maybe the eyes were just more noticeable than a less "eye-catching" textual reminder to pay?
So the eyes made it less likely to forget the payment, but not because of guilt or fear, and a blinking light next to the notice would have the same effect?
It's logically.
Any bid you put in is also a statement "I think this item is worth at least X$"
Now, a new bidder sees an item that also has several statements attached to it in the form "Person A thinks this item is worth at least X$" and a somewhat simmilar item that has no such statements.
Either one might have a flaw that he has overlooked, or be offered by a untrustworthy seller.
Wich item will he most likely pick?
And so, the item with more bids gets yet annother, raising its attractiveness even more.
That is called a Vickrey auction. It has some theoretical advantages but for various reasons never caught quite on.
(has some theoretical diasadvantages as well, such as the possibility of stable bidder cartels iirc)
Not really twice:
As soon as one format takes a lead and hardware producers are tempted to drop the other one, royalties for that one will magically approach zero.
Royalties might even end up cheaper overall with two rivaling formats than with one format monopoly.
Wrong, They were obviously pirated. Damn product pirates.
This seems to be something that could be done just as well on the software side by combining a harddrive and a flash card reader.
Are there drivers that can do this?
I tried that, it did not seem to have much effect. After a day firefox still approaches 300 mb.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1
If I wanted to get lucky, i'd play the lottery.
...) which are all added to the scalpers price, so by buing it directly from the source I should still be cheaper of. It's just cutting out the middle man.
Right now, if I want to get tickets for some event that is expected to sell out instantly, I can either invest a lot of time to hopefully be one of the "lucky few", or buy it from a scalper.
The scalper wants to make a profit too, and has business expenses (his invested time, possibility of not finding a buyer, the legal dificulties
Why are these tickets usually sold underpriced anyway? Surely not just because the organizers are so good at heart?
Does anyone have any experience in setting up these free anti virus tools as on demand-scanners ONLY?
I already have a scanner, but would like to cross-check my files with other tools occassionally.
However, setting them up so that they do not run in the background proved to be virtually impossible.
Alamost always there are some resident components remaining, and if I manage disable them all manually either the thing refuses to scan, or refuses to update manually.
I am considering setting up a VMWare virtual machine just for virus scanners
I guess that transmitting the data over regular broadband would take longer than processing it
If it's going to cost them 10 million to "tear em a new one" in court, or 0.5 million in re-negotiated royalty fees, the choice is pretty clear.
I suspect the re-negotiation fees are meant to be a more permanent income stream for the RIAA meaning they want something recurring per song or per month.
In the long run, this fee will be more expensive than any court fee.
I tried downloading their software and signing up with them over the last week.
Figured if a spammer is that pissed off at them they must be doing something right.
The sign up site was often down, but when it was up I always seemed to fail their captcha.
Did anyone have more luck?
no no, pointing out that one will get modded down/up always results in a mod of the opposite direction. Its some sort of law.
However, after I pointed this out some moderator must have come to his sense for a few seconds and modded us both down again.
Ah poop, I'm going to get modded offtopic again, aren't I?
You would have gotten, if you had not included that last sentence.
I never understood why tickets are usually underpriced.
Often demand exceeds supply by far, and since prices are cheap there is a big incentive to purchase tickets just to resell them on the black market.
If these tickets were priced higher, or even sold in a sort of auction, all the profit of the black market resellers would instead go to the organisers.
So why are tickets sold apparently below market value? It cann't just be because of goodwil towards the fans, can it?
Maybe he did not want to be a famous actor?
Well, at the "line", they would cancel each other out exactly, but close to the line they would still almost cancel each other out, so a small object might be able to hold together there. It would be an instable position, but a small spaceship might be able to maintain that position?
What if they don't collide exactly head-on, but just circle each other? They would circle closer and closer, whithout ever actually coliding, so would this "line" stay?
That's not what I meant.
this filters ALL mail that is not in your whitelist, which would include many of my non-spam mails.
what I meant was a filter that filters all CAN-SPAM compliant spam that is not in your whitelist, which would be quite usefull if spam were actually can-spam compliant.
Something I always wondered:
When two black holes are close together, then something that has exactly the same distance to each of them should not fall into either one.
What happens when they are so close that their event horizons overlap?
Shouldn't there always be some flat zone between them that is not part of either event horizon?
So how can they merge?
I think compliant spam must have some sort of tag in the header?
Not sure since noone seems ot be complying.
But if it would actually work, email providers could offer a simple checkbox "no spam unless whitelisted" and block ALL of these whithout the user even knowing how to set up filters.
Good providers would probably include this checkbox (pre-checked) with the signup process.