Which, as others have pointed out, would make it an actual number, and so render it incapable of being trademarked. VIIV, being nonsense, can be trademarked.
No, you need to calm down and wait for all the facts to become available before going off half-cocked and protesting something that may not even have happened.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof"; the claim that the guy was arrested for using lynx to access the site is extraordinary, and yet so far, I see no proof at all.
When you can walk into any shop selling software and see Linux versions of most or all of the titles alongside the Windows versions and Windows is still more popular, *then* we can talk.
Until then, while the *OSes* may be largely interchangeable, the software is not, and no-one in their right minds uses an OS for the sake of using the OS.
And here in the UK, it would be called an excess. I don't know if you get them on health insurance, but it's usual to get them on every other insurance, so I'd be surprised if you didn't.
"Encryption" does not mean "strong encryption" and most certainly does not mean "cannot ever be read by someone who shouldn't be able to read it". Check the definition - it says nothing about how hard or easy it is to crack. A simple Ceasar cipher, while laughably easy to crack, is still an encryption scheme, even if it isn't leet enough for you.
What on earth are you talking about? All of this applies only to machines in a domain - ie it doesn't apply to the vast majority of home users (who will have a workgroup if anything)
I very much doubt that you'd get very far at all trying to sue the petrol suppliers, but as I read the excerpt (IANAL, etc), yes you could sue PC World for selling them.
That's not to say you'd necessarily *win* the case, but I suspect you could argue that there was indeed a case to answer.
Oh no, in my experience that's pretty common too. People often shoehorn in references to their pet love or hate (be it MS, Linux, Java, C, whatever) whether it's entirely relevant or not.
I see a number of comments pointing out that you can get better deals in other countries. Well, that's great - I'm happy for you all, really.
However, the point you're missing is that - at the moment at least - this is an incredible deal in the UK. I currently pay £26/month for a 512/256 connection (static IP, no caps or filtering), and have seen a couple of 2Mb/256 connections offered for about the £40/month mark.
So, yeah, I'm envious of France and Hong Kong and everywhere else, but for the UK, this is incredible (in the literal sense of hardly being credible - time to check the small print...)
You're right - we didn't litigate, we just stomped on the natives until they gave up.
I refuse to be held responsible for actions commited before even my parents were alive. Furthermore, actions that my country commited in the past in no way excuse actions that your country commits now. "But they did it first!" is something most people grow out of around puberty.
I've played with hardware in my XP Pro machines at home, and a RAM updgrade isn't enough on its own to trigger reactivation. Either you've swapped some other stuff around that you've forgotten about, or something's gone wrong and you should consider submitting a bug report to MS.
That would be very, very interesting if true - I've (very) recently started having a look at video transcoding, and an average rate of ~7fps isn't a lot of fun.
I don't suppose you have any links to hand, do you? (I'll google myself, so don't put too much effort into it:-) )
That last will be the main excuse/justification, I suspect. Recreating the static page is hardly a problem at all - it has to be done for each newly posted comment anyway. There's just too much scope for abuse if editing comments was allowed, unless there was some sort of convoluted "view all previous versions" system in place.
If the software is available (which for the vast majority of people who aren't playing games, it is), Linux beats both mac and windows for productivity by huge margins.
How so? I've used both XP and Mandrake as my primary work OS, and can honestly say that I saw absolutely no change in my productivity when I switched between them. I'm as comfortable using one as the other, but neither increased my typing speed, shortened my compile times, or reduced the number of bugs in my code.
Could you explain to me how "Linux beats both mac and windows for productivity by huge margins"?
Okay let's say Bill is worth 50 billion dollars on paper.
"On paper" means he doesn't actually have $50bn sat in the bank. I have to wonder quite how much of his total worth is tied up in shares (especially of MS), and quite what it would do to the share price(s) if he tried to sell them all at once.
Just because you're worth X on paper doesn't mean you can quickly and easily get your hands on that money. That's not to say that he doesn't have a staggering amount of cash at his disposal, just that you're using the wrong figure.
Expecting users to use about:config to configure even the more advanced aspects of their browser's behaviour is assinine.
I'm a programmer with nearly 6 years experience of working in the web, and I cannot work out how to change the behaviour of Firefox's cache. I can find the setting, but it's an int; how do I know how to switch between, say, "always check" and "check automatically"? Sure, I could google, but why should I have to?
Why the hell was this modded flamebait? My father can't remember his *email address* half the time, let alone the password. There is absolutely zero chance he would ever use this, unless I could set it up for him such that he didn't have to do anything.
If he has to do anything extra at all, it just won't happen. True, he's not typical of PC users (he's in his 60s), but most are similarly mystified by such things. They don't want to have to jump through hoops to send and receive email - just click, type, click. If it's not that easy, it won't be used.
You get similar warnings from OO saving a document in.doc format, even if that was the original format. *Most* applications I've used have similar warnings where appropriate; saving in non-native formats can most certainly lead to loss of formatting (oe even data), but it's almost impossible to tell the user exactly what will be different for any given document.
One of the main complaints about closed source software is that the proprietary, closed file formats keep you locked in to using the product, and that changes to said file formats tend to push you to upgrading because everyone else has, so you have to to be able to read their documents.
Opening the file formats removes this restriction - now *anyone* can write software to create and edit them flawlessly. You're no longer tied to a single editor. How many.doc editors are there, compared to.html or.xml?
Mandating open source software, while appearing good, would be a bad thing. Software should be used based on fitness for purpose; if the open source solution is superior, then use it. But don't use an inferior open source app just because it's open source if a superior closed source one is available and affordable. Mandating open file formats increases the likelihood that an appropriate open source solution will become available.
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all do swf with varying degrees of utility.
So, do any of them truly compare to the Windows Flash tools? "Varying degrees of utility" covers a multitude of sins, after all; a little more detail would be appreciated.
I find it hard to believe anyone seriously involved with 3D animation could fail to be aware the role of Linux within the industry. It's Dreamworks, ILM, Disney, Weta and Pixar's main platform, for fuck's sake.
And how many of those places you list use off the shelf software of the type mere mortals like you and I can ever hope to use? I'm sure renderman and its ilk are truly supurb pieces of software, but at hundreds of thousands of dollars a licence, they may as well not exist from my point of view.
There are plenty of pro level audio tools for Linux too. Just have a look on Sourceforge or Freshmeat.
In my experience, "pro level" and sf (especially) and fm do not generally mix. For every high-quality, usable project there are a dozen or more that are a complete waste of time. Telling someone "just look on sourceforge" is next to useless without supplying a project name or two.
parading your ignorance when a couple of minutes with google would have enlightened you is just FUD-spreading
As far as I can see, all you've really done is said "no, there's plenty of software!!!". With the exception of the Flash stuff (and even there you're hazy), you've really not given much in the way of definite information. Just some hand-wavy "lots of people use it for that" type stuff.
So you can verify the information for yourself, perhaps?
If nothing else, the poster asserts that the blog carries ads from blogads.com; verifying that is most easily done by going to it and checking to see where the ads are served from.
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So, an intel 64 should read "intel LXIV"
Which, as others have pointed out, would make it an actual number, and so render it incapable of being trademarked. VIIV, being nonsense, can be trademarked.
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No, you need to calm down and wait for all the facts to become available before going off half-cocked and protesting something that may not even have happened.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof"; the claim that the guy was arrested for using lynx to access the site is extraordinary, and yet so far, I see no proof at all.
When you can walk into any shop selling software and see Linux versions of most or all of the titles alongside the Windows versions and Windows is still more popular, *then* we can talk.
Until then, while the *OSes* may be largely interchangeable, the software is not, and no-one in their right minds uses an OS for the sake of using the OS.
And here in the UK, it would be called an excess. I don't know if you get them on health insurance, but it's usual to get them on every other insurance, so I'd be surprised if you didn't.
(Note that I've no idea where the OP lives)
What right has been taken away from you?
I think you'll find that Apple did a little more than simply smacking a logo on BSD.
"Encryption" does not mean "strong encryption" and most certainly does not mean "cannot ever be read by someone who shouldn't be able to read it". Check the definition - it says nothing about how hard or easy it is to crack. A simple Ceasar cipher, while laughably easy to crack, is still an encryption scheme, even if it isn't leet enough for you.
This is mandatory for home users why?
What on earth are you talking about? All of this applies only to machines in a domain - ie it doesn't apply to the vast majority of home users (who will have a workgroup if anything)
I very much doubt that you'd get very far at all trying to sue the petrol suppliers, but as I read the excerpt (IANAL, etc), yes you could sue PC World for selling them.
That's not to say you'd necessarily *win* the case, but I suspect you could argue that there was indeed a case to answer.
but not reading the posts you're replying to?
Oh no, in my experience that's pretty common too. People often shoehorn in references to their pet love or hate (be it MS, Linux, Java, C, whatever) whether it's entirely relevant or not.
I see a number of comments pointing out that you can get better deals in other countries. Well, that's great - I'm happy for you all, really.
However, the point you're missing is that - at the moment at least - this is an incredible deal in the UK. I currently pay £26/month for a 512/256 connection (static IP, no caps or filtering), and have seen a couple of 2Mb/256 connections offered for about the £40/month mark.
So, yeah, I'm envious of France and Hong Kong and everywhere else, but for the UK, this is incredible (in the literal sense of hardly being credible - time to check the small print...)
You're right - we didn't litigate, we just stomped on the natives until they gave up.
I refuse to be held responsible for actions commited before even my parents were alive. Furthermore, actions that my country commited in the past in no way excuse actions that your country commits now. "But they did it first!" is something most people grow out of around puberty.
One word: firewall.
I've played with hardware in my XP Pro machines at home, and a RAM updgrade isn't enough on its own to trigger reactivation. Either you've swapped some other stuff around that you've forgotten about, or something's gone wrong and you should consider submitting a bug report to MS.
That would be very, very interesting if true - I've (very) recently started having a look at video transcoding, and an average rate of ~7fps isn't a lot of fun.
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I don't suppose you have any links to hand, do you? (I'll google myself, so don't put too much effort into it
That last will be the main excuse/justification, I suspect. Recreating the static page is hardly a problem at all - it has to be done for each newly posted comment anyway. There's just too much scope for abuse if editing comments was allowed, unless there was some sort of convoluted "view all previous versions" system in place.
If the software is available (which for the vast majority of people who aren't playing games, it is), Linux beats both mac and windows for productivity by huge margins.
How so? I've used both XP and Mandrake as my primary work OS, and can honestly say that I saw absolutely no change in my productivity when I switched between them. I'm as comfortable using one as the other, but neither increased my typing speed, shortened my compile times, or reduced the number of bugs in my code.
Could you explain to me how "Linux beats both mac and windows for productivity by huge margins"?
Okay let's say Bill is worth 50 billion dollars on paper.
"On paper" means he doesn't actually have $50bn sat in the bank. I have to wonder quite how much of his total worth is tied up in shares (especially of MS), and quite what it would do to the share price(s) if he tried to sell them all at once.
Just because you're worth X on paper doesn't mean you can quickly and easily get your hands on that money. That's not to say that he doesn't have a staggering amount of cash at his disposal, just that you're using the wrong figure.
Expecting users to use about:config to configure even the more advanced aspects of their browser's behaviour is assinine.
I'm a programmer with nearly 6 years experience of working in the web, and I cannot work out how to change the behaviour of Firefox's cache. I can find the setting, but it's an int; how do I know how to switch between, say, "always check" and "check automatically"? Sure, I could google, but why should I have to?
Why the hell was this modded flamebait? My father can't remember his *email address* half the time, let alone the password. There is absolutely zero chance he would ever use this, unless I could set it up for him such that he didn't have to do anything.
If he has to do anything extra at all, it just won't happen. True, he's not typical of PC users (he's in his 60s), but most are similarly mystified by such things. They don't want to have to jump through hoops to send and receive email - just click, type, click. If it's not that easy, it won't be used.
Yet not nerdy enough to use ^W?
You get similar warnings from OO saving a document in .doc format, even if that was the original format. *Most* applications I've used have similar warnings where appropriate; saving in non-native formats can most certainly lead to loss of formatting (oe even data), but it's almost impossible to tell the user exactly what will be different for any given document.
You couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
.doc editors are there, compared to .html or .xml?
One of the main complaints about closed source software is that the proprietary, closed file formats keep you locked in to using the product, and that changes to said file formats tend to push you to upgrading because everyone else has, so you have to to be able to read their documents.
Opening the file formats removes this restriction - now *anyone* can write software to create and edit them flawlessly. You're no longer tied to a single editor. How many
Mandating open source software, while appearing good, would be a bad thing. Software should be used based on fitness for purpose; if the open source solution is superior, then use it. But don't use an inferior open source app just because it's open source if a superior closed source one is available and affordable. Mandating open file formats increases the likelihood that an appropriate open source solution will become available.
all do swf with varying degrees of utility.
So, do any of them truly compare to the Windows Flash tools? "Varying degrees of utility" covers a multitude of sins, after all; a little more detail would be appreciated.
I find it hard to believe anyone seriously involved with 3D animation could fail to be aware the role of Linux within the industry. It's Dreamworks, ILM, Disney, Weta and Pixar's main platform, for fuck's sake.
And how many of those places you list use off the shelf software of the type mere mortals like you and I can ever hope to use? I'm sure renderman and its ilk are truly supurb pieces of software, but at hundreds of thousands of dollars a licence, they may as well not exist from my point of view.
There are plenty of pro level audio tools for Linux too. Just have a look on Sourceforge or Freshmeat.
In my experience, "pro level" and sf (especially) and fm do not generally mix. For every high-quality, usable project there are a dozen or more that are a complete waste of time. Telling someone "just look on sourceforge" is next to useless without supplying a project name or two.
parading your ignorance when a couple of minutes with google would have enlightened you is just FUD-spreading
As far as I can see, all you've really done is said "no, there's plenty of software!!!". With the exception of the Flash stuff (and even there you're hazy), you've really not given much in the way of definite information. Just some hand-wavy "lots of people use it for that" type stuff.
So you can verify the information for yourself, perhaps?
If nothing else, the poster asserts that the blog carries ads from blogads.com; verifying that is most easily done by going to it and checking to see where the ads are served from.