In an inertial reference frame [which is what I have used] it is possible [even easy] to have perfectly synchronised clocks between all observers - i.e. they all agree on the coordinates of all locations and times.
This is part of the definition of an inertial frame.
Fundamentally faster than light travel implies violation of causality. This is not a disputed fact, every physicist in the world knows and understands this result. I can't remember the complete proof off the top of my head but the justification I have given is moderately complete.
Try reading an elementary book on relativity, e.g.
French - Special Relativity, not a great book for teaching you relativity but comparitively easy for muppets to learn something
Rindler - Essential Relativity, a complex and difficult book explaining both special and general relativity which also addresses the difference between an actual observer and the reference frame, it covers things like whilst a high speed sphere is dilated to become an oval at speed to all observers it still appears to be a sphere.
Basically though, you don't understand relativity.
Er, you don't seem to have a Lorentz Transform for moving to a highspeed frame. It's quite possible my stuff is slightly confused since I was doing the whole thing from memory and may be transforming in the wrong direction and my mental arithmetic can be a bit shoddy , but essentially it comes down to the time component transforming as
(delta t)' = gamma((delta t) - (delta x)v/c^2)
(there may be a gamma missing from that)
where (delta t) is the time between events in the original frame (delta x) is the distance between events in the original fram (delta t)' is the time difference in an alternate reference frame
if (delta x)v/c^2 > (delta t) then in the second frame the events happen in the opposite order to the first frame.
If v approaches c for a very high speed frame, in order for causality to be retained
(delta x) / c (delta t)
or (delta x) c(delta t)
which is equivalent to saying that in order for event 2 to happen after event 1 in all reference frames, then the distance between them must be smaller than the distance that light could travel - i.e. nothing can travel faster than the speed of light without breaking causality.
This is all bog standard first year physics (UK degree courses anyway) and is not in dispute.
(0,0) (a, a/4c) for an object travelling at quadruple the speed of light.
we transform to a reference frame travelling at 3c/5 with matching origins
the standard transformation are
x' = gamma (x - vt)
t' = gamma (t - vx/c)
gamma = (1-(v/c)^2) ^-1/2
or gamma = 5/4
hence A' (A in the reference frame of our high speed observer is)
(0,0)
and B' is (5/4 (a - 3ca/10c) , 5/4(a/4c - 3ca/10c^2)
or (5/4 * 7/10 * a, 5/4 ( 1/4 - 3/10) a/c)
note that for B' the time the event takes place is negative - i.e. event B' takes place before A' which clearly isn't compatible with the idea that an object travels from A to B without invoking the existance of time travel.
Conclusion : Faster than light travel inokes causality problems.
However, all the advertised products will get cheaper since they no longer need to pay for advertising. The only people who lose out are those employed in advertising.
Exactly my experience, I've written a set of Oracle database administration tools with image display & mp3 playing capabilities, they were developed under Linux and run out of the box under Solaris, NT & OSX with a 1.3 runtime.
I haven't had a single cross platform problem, the one component written in Perl/Tk has caused no end of grief though.
If I only purchase the right to play it on approved players does that mean throwing it in the bin is illegal, or did I purchase that right too?
Can I hang it on my wall? Can I enlarge the cover to use a poster in my house? Can I play it with the video switched off so I only get the audio? Can I image it with a scanning electron microscope to get a picture of the pits? Can I pass it through a hash function to generate random data? Can I use it as a one time pad for my encryption system? Can I give it to a friend? Can I use it as a drinks mat? Can I use it as a frisbee? Can I remove the disk from the packaging and post it to a friend? Can I use it as a mirror? Can I build an ornament out of it?
I know I can't copy the data on it - thats copyright law, but what else is forbidden? Don't you think they should tell you on the pack?
"
A 17 year old teenager with a Trans Am drives through your residential neighborhood at over 100 miles an hour.
"
"
If the teenager incurs any damage to you or anyone else, he/she will be responsible for the damage. Beyond that, complain to the owner of the street, and convince the owner of the street to enforce a speed limit. You're only free to do what you want on your OWN property, on someone else's property, you have to follow their rules, otherwise you're using force against their property and they're free to defend themselves.
"
Street owner says that it's his son, he's allowed to do it and you can fuck off and you're not allowed to walk or drive down the street any more. That's a bit of a pisser if your house fronts onto the street isn't it? You've just been jailed because breaking out of your jail would involve your instigating a threat of force against the street owner for which you can be shot.
On the other hand, having to go to Holland for three weeks for a client visit left me obtaining a replacement passport in three hours to go to work and the two indian group members huddled in the cold infront of the embassy waiting for a work visa for which they applied six weeks ago.
Work forces are already becoming more mobile across countries now. If you wish to work in a different country it's now quite easy to do so - at least for short periods of time.
"
Are you saying that they should be forced to release all their documents in TXT format just because some poor slob can use/usr/local/bin/pico to view it? PDF is an Internet (dare I say industry) standard nowadays.
"
Should the government produce documents in order for them to look pretty or should they be produced to convey information to the largest number of citizens possible.
The government should be producing it's electronic documents in a simple to parse format that works with braille displays, text->speech convertors and similar. It should be readable by completely free software or the government should provide software to read the documents. It governs blind people, deaf people and people who don't own Microsoft Word, all of these people have an equal say in how the country is run.
Should Ximian have a monopoly such that every new computer bought requires you to spend $10 / month on updates or your computer stops working then I think they would get bitched at a great deal.
Here it is still optional - that's not usually the case with Microsoft.
I live in the UK and my company pays for health insurance [not really necessary since the NHS is fairly good], 2Mbit ADSL. I had to buy my own computer though.
The argument was that as an ISP it's a damn site cheaper for them to buy it for me than it is for me to buy if off them. [no income tax, VAT, National Insurance etc]
They then made it so we could telecommute [or the Inland Revenue might suss...] , we got ADSL & the ability to work from home instead of a payrise too small to buy ADSL.
I suspect they've learnt that the probability of getting a decent person from the pool of people with good GPA and college is much higher than the pool of people without a good GPA or college.
This also probably ensures that all the people who work for them are fairly smart and well educated which is exactly the impression they wish to put over.
As a Cambridge University graduate [UK] I've discovered that whilst there are many people who are smart who didn't go to university, the density of smart people is much higher at a good university and consequently is one of the first places I'd look if I wanted to employ smart people.
"
When it's as simple as checking a box during installation (or 5 minutes on the phone, if don't have an internet connection), sends no personal data, and is very non-intrusive (you have to do some major hardware upgrades to force a re-activation, and XP doesn't need the customary yearly re-install like the win9x line), what's the proble
m? It's simply a company protecting their IP.
"
Advance the clock five years. Windows XP is now 'unsupported'. You have a hard disk crash and need to reinstall your operating system. How do you intend to do that when the phoneline has been shut down? Suppose you upgrade your PC after support has been discontinued - new OS for you.
That's not protecting their IP. That's disabling software I purchased.
Do they have a number I can call to register the transfer of my software when I sell it or move it to a different computer?
Secondly, scale this up so every application you have needs to be registered before use, and every audio CD has to be registered against each of your CD players, every book has to be registered against your ebook device. Now, if you think it's a hassle dealing with the insurance company after your laptop got stolen think how bad it will be now after you have to get each and every application reissued to you and disabled from someone elses use.
I think they're fine providing they are seperate release.
Product 1 : GPL'd program with plugin capability. Source available.
Product 2 : Proprietry plugin for product 1. No source.
The GPL would only prevent you from distributing both together unless they can reasonably be considered an aggregation - which if they have seperate installers they can.
You write to the licensing people to tell them you don't have a TV and don't want a licence. They send someone round to visit to check. If you don't let them in then thats enough reason for them to get a warrant to search your house.
"
The GPL circumvents both of the companies defenses: they must provide the source code to all users who want it and they cannot apply additional restrictions to the license so anyone with the source can legally redistribute it in anyway they choose and the company can do nothing about it. Not many companies would be happy with that situation.
"
I don't believe this. The GPL affects distribution. If a person uses my computer to run linux I am obliged to show them the source if they ask me? No. I didn't distribute the software too them.
When a company delivers me a piece of software for my desktop computer they do not give the software to me. If they did I could delete it from my work machine and take it home to run there. The company id providing me the ability to use a machine that it owns with it's software. The GPL would apply to the company - i.e. software distributed by the company must give the source but internally it doesn't matter.
That's the point. The artist is paying back that $250000 so the record company doesn't have to. The repayments don't have to come out of the record companies share unless the artist doesn't earn enough to pay it back.
Essentially the deal is.
We lend you $big_sum.
You spend $big_sum making an album etc.
Of the money that the album makes we take 3x the money you receive. Out of your share you have to repay all of the costs for making the album apart from the few we haven't managed to foist upon you yet.
Maybe I've got this wrong but it seems to me that on a $14.99 CD sold that the article states $5.75 goes to the record company and $2.25 to the artist.
Doesn't the article forget that until the artist repays the advance that $2.25 goes back to the record company.
I reckon this moves the break-even point to 62500 CD's and the record company will effectively make $8 profit - not $5.75 up until the band repays it's advance.
"
That's exactly the sort of attitude that has caused the sort of spectactular failures of software projects to be accepted as the norm. Software Engineering is *not* "hacking" or "coding" or "programming", it's *engineering*, like building a bridge or a skyscraper. Yes, those projects go over time and budget too sometimes, but they are the exception rather than the rule.
"
But that's simply not true. Writing software of anything that is non-trivial is not the same as straightforward engineering. For a start there is the rate of progress, how many people have 30 years + experience of building 50 story + buildings. How many people have 30 years + experience of dealing with terabyte + sized datasets?
When buildling software previous code can be reused for a very small amount of effort, when building skyscrapers the previous design can be reused for only marginally less effort than the last one.
Compare the difference between building a C compiler from the gcc source and the world trade centre from the blueprints.
Essentially the estimate is
Time = [time to do the bits we know how to do [accurate] ] + [guess for the bits we don't know how to do [inaccurate] ]
With software, the first part of that expression tends towards zero since most things we know how to do we can reuse code, whereas with building it remains a large accurate estimate.
The error here will be of the form
Error = [variance of inaccurate terms] / [total]
For the example of a skyscraper whos construction is mostly a known method this will tend to a small number since the inaccuate term is much smaller than the accurate term, but for software with reuse of all the known methods of coding this will tend to 1 - i.e.. 100% error in the estimate and hence the conclusion that it's worthless to even bother estimating.
In my company we can accurately estimate how long projects will take providing the projects are mostly identical to ones we have done before, and if this is the case it generally costs the client more in programmer time in meetings to dicuss the cost of the job than it does to write it.
"
You also have to pay the people who fronted the money to pay for the production of the album. Hmm... that's often the record companies, isn't it?
"
No it isn't. When you sign with a record company you receive an advance of $money which is borrowed against your future earnings. This is then spent on studio time / marketing etc. etc. etc. and you only see any money you have made after your record has recouped all the costs. The costs of producing album 2 are taken from the profit of the previous albums and should your album make a loss in any country this loss is removed from the profit from profitable companies.
Essentially the record company is a loan shark with fairly draconian provisions and the ability to keep spending your money on their services to ensure you never make any of it back until you reach the end of the $n album deal and are famous enough to negotiate a contact with decent terms, roylaties and liabilities.
If you're a teeny bopper band it's even worse - the best example is S Club 7 I think - the band members got paid around $50000 for three years work on tour and the manager and record company waltzed off with $50000000 between them.
If you want fun, own a laptop and change network cards and networks regularly.
I pass through three logical networks each with wireless and non wireless access points. Any set of IP settings and network card may be in use at any time.
Linux : Take 10 minutes to write and app that changes symlinks for/etc/resolv.con etc. Compile a kernel with all the known network drivers. Then, plug in PCMCIA network card and execute netchange [network] and you're away.
Note, that you can change network card without dropping tcp connections [e.g. move from non wireless to wireless mid download without it failing]
Windows [98] : Inset new make of network card. Discover you have no drivers. Find another machine with an internet link to download the drivers. Install the drivers. Discover you now have to copy stuff over from the Windows CD. Find copy of Correct Windows CD & CDROM drive. Install stuff. Reboot machine. Change IP settings. Reboot Machine. Reapply service packs & patches. Reboot Machine many times. Plug into network.
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In an inertial reference frame [which is what I have used] it is possible [even easy] to have perfectly synchronised clocks between all observers - i.e. they all agree on the coordinates of all locations and times.
This is part of the definition of an inertial frame.
Fundamentally faster than light travel implies violation of causality. This is not a disputed fact, every physicist in the world knows and understands this result. I can't remember the complete proof off the top of my head but the justification I have given is moderately complete.
Try reading an elementary book on relativity, e.g.
French - Special Relativity, not a great book for teaching you relativity but comparitively easy for muppets to learn something
Rindler - Essential Relativity, a complex and difficult book explaining both special and general relativity which also addresses the difference between an actual observer and the reference frame, it covers things like whilst a high speed sphere is dilated to become an oval at speed to all observers it still appears to be a sphere.
Basically though, you don't understand relativity.
Er, you don't seem to have a Lorentz Transform for moving to a highspeed frame. It's quite possible my stuff is slightly confused since I was doing the whole thing from memory and may be transforming in the wrong direction and my mental arithmetic can be a bit shoddy , but essentially it comes down to the time component transforming as
(delta t)' = gamma((delta t) - (delta x)v/c^2)
(there may be a gamma missing from that)
where
(delta t) is the time between events in the original frame
(delta x) is the distance between events in the original fram
(delta t)' is the time difference in an alternate reference frame
if (delta x)v/c^2 > (delta t) then in the second frame the events happen in the opposite order to the first frame.
If v approaches c for a very high speed frame, in order for causality to be retained
(delta x) / c (delta t)
or (delta x) c(delta t)
which is equivalent to saying that in order for event 2 to happen after event 1 in all reference frames, then the distance between them must be smaller than the distance that light could travel - i.e. nothing can travel faster than the speed of light without breaking causality.
This is all bog standard first year physics (UK degree courses anyway) and is not in dispute.
Okay, two events, ship leaving and ship arriving
A & B
these occur at (x, time)
(0,0) (a, a/4c) for an object travelling at quadruple the speed of light.
we transform to a reference frame travelling at 3c/5 with matching origins
the standard transformation are
x' = gamma (x - vt)
t' = gamma (t - vx/c)
gamma = (1-(v/c)^2) ^-1/2
or gamma = 5/4
hence A' (A in the reference frame of our high speed observer is)
(0,0)
and B' is (5/4 (a - 3ca/10c) , 5/4(a/4c - 3ca/10c^2)
or (5/4 * 7/10 * a, 5/4 ( 1/4 - 3/10) a/c)
note that for B' the time the event takes place is negative - i.e. event B' takes place before A' which clearly isn't compatible with the idea that an object travels from A to B without invoking the existance of time travel.
Conclusion : Faster than light travel inokes causality problems.
However, all the advertised products will get cheaper since they no longer need to pay for advertising. The only people who lose out are those employed in advertising.
Exactly my experience, I've written a set of Oracle database administration tools with image display & mp3 playing capabilities, they were developed under Linux and run out of the box under Solaris, NT & OSX with a 1.3 runtime.
I haven't had a single cross platform problem, the one component written in Perl/Tk has caused no end of grief though.
If I only purchase the right to play it on approved players does that mean throwing it in the bin is illegal, or did I purchase that right too?
Can I hang it on my wall? Can I enlarge the cover to use a poster in my house? Can I play it with the video switched off so I only get the audio? Can I image it with a scanning electron microscope to get a picture of the pits? Can I pass it through a hash function to generate random data? Can I use it as a one time pad for my encryption system? Can I give it to a friend? Can I use it as a drinks mat? Can I use it as a frisbee? Can I remove the disk from the packaging and post it to a friend? Can I use it as a mirror? Can I build an ornament out of it?
I know I can't copy the data on it - thats copyright law, but what else is forbidden? Don't you think they should tell you on the pack?
"
A 17 year old teenager with a Trans Am drives through your residential neighborhood at over 100 miles an hour.
"
"
If the teenager incurs any damage to you or anyone else, he/she will be responsible for the damage. Beyond that, complain to the owner of the street, and convince the owner of the street to enforce a speed limit. You're only free to do what you want on your OWN property, on someone else's property, you have to follow their rules, otherwise you're using force against their property and they're free to defend themselves.
"
Street owner says that it's his son, he's allowed to do it and you can fuck off and you're not allowed to walk or drive down the street any more. That's a bit of a pisser if your house fronts onto the street isn't it? You've just been jailed because breaking out of your jail would involve your instigating a threat of force against the street owner for which you can be shot.
On the other hand, having to go to Holland for three weeks for a client visit left me obtaining a replacement passport in three hours to go to work and the two indian group members huddled in the cold infront of the embassy waiting for a work visa for which they applied six weeks ago.
Work forces are already becoming more mobile across countries now. If you wish to work in a different country it's now quite easy to do so - at least for short periods of time.
" /usr/local/bin/pico to view it? PDF is an Internet (dare I say industry) standard nowadays.
Are you saying that they should be forced to release all their documents in TXT format just because some poor slob can use
"
Should the government produce documents in order for them to look pretty or should they be produced to convey information to the largest number of citizens possible.
The government should be producing it's electronic documents in a simple to parse format that works with braille displays, text->speech convertors and similar. It should be readable by completely free software or the government should provide software to read the documents. It governs blind people, deaf people and people who don't own Microsoft Word, all of these people have an equal say in how the country is run.
There's an important difference between
In order to do A we charge you $
and
If you want to do A, we'll do if for you for $
Should Ximian have a monopoly such that every new computer bought requires you to spend $10 / month on updates or your computer stops working then I think they would get bitched at a great deal.
Here it is still optional - that's not usually the case with Microsoft.
I've found MS's support to be atrocious. Questions like
'
How to I move 50 sites from one NT machine to another without losing all their configuration settings?
'
'How do I backup my webserver configuration under NT 4 / IIS 4 ?'
were answered with
Have a refund, we've no idea either.
I haven't yet paid for linux support because every question I've even asked has been answered by a bit of prodding and a judicious google search.
I live in the UK and my company pays for health insurance [not really necessary since the NHS is fairly good], 2Mbit ADSL. I had to buy my own computer though.
The argument was that as an ISP it's a damn site cheaper for them to buy it for me than it is for me to buy if off them. [no income tax, VAT, National Insurance etc]
They then made it so we could telecommute [or the Inland Revenue might suss...] , we got ADSL & the ability to work from home instead of a payrise too small to buy ADSL.
I suspect they've learnt that the probability of getting a decent person from the pool of people with good GPA and college is much higher than the pool of people without a good GPA or college.
This also probably ensures that all the people who work for them are fairly smart and well educated which is exactly the impression they wish to put over.
As a Cambridge University graduate [UK] I've discovered that whilst there are many people who are smart who didn't go to university, the density of smart people is much higher at a good university and consequently is one of the first places I'd look if I wanted to employ smart people.
"
When it's as simple as checking a box during installation (or 5 minutes on the phone, if don't have an internet connection), sends no personal data, and is very non-intrusive (you have to do some major hardware upgrades to force a re-activation, and XP doesn't need the customary yearly re-install like the win9x line), what's the proble
m? It's simply a company protecting their IP.
"
Advance the clock five years. Windows XP is now 'unsupported'. You have a hard disk crash and need to reinstall your operating system. How do you intend to do that when the phoneline has been shut down? Suppose you upgrade your PC after support has been discontinued - new OS for you.
That's not protecting their IP. That's disabling software I purchased.
Do they have a number I can call to register the transfer of my software when I sell it or move it to a different computer?
Secondly, scale this up so every application you have needs to be registered before use, and every audio CD has to be registered against each of your CD players, every book has to be registered against your ebook device. Now, if you think it's a hassle dealing with the insurance company after your laptop got stolen think how bad it will be now after you have to get each and every application reissued to you and disabled from someone elses use.
How does this improve the world we have today?
I think they're fine providing they are seperate release.
Product 1 : GPL'd program with plugin capability. Source available.
Product 2 : Proprietry plugin for product 1. No source.
The GPL would only prevent you from distributing both together unless they can reasonably be considered an aggregation - which if they have seperate installers they can.
This already occurs in the UK.
Try not owning a television.
You write to the licensing people to tell them you don't have a TV and don't want a licence. They send someone round to visit to check. If you don't let them in then thats enough reason for them to get a warrant to search your house.
"
The DMCA only covers copyrighted material, not material which is in the public domain.
"
Like an ebook of Alice in Wonderland which is out of copyright.
Is it legal to circumvent the access controls on this since it's out of copyright?
"
The GPL circumvents both of the companies defenses: they must provide the source code to all users who want it and they cannot apply additional restrictions to the license so anyone with the source can legally redistribute it in anyway they choose and the company can do nothing about it. Not many companies would be happy with that situation.
"
I don't believe this. The GPL affects distribution. If a person uses my computer to run linux I am obliged to show them the source if they ask me? No. I didn't distribute the software too them.
When a company delivers me a piece of software for my desktop computer they do not give the software to me. If they did I could delete it from my work machine and take it home to run there. The company id providing me the ability to use a machine that it owns with it's software. The GPL would apply to the company - i.e. software distributed by the company must give the source but internally it doesn't matter.
That's the point. The artist is paying back that $250000 so the record company doesn't have to. The repayments don't have to come out of the record companies share unless the artist doesn't earn enough to pay it back.
Essentially the deal is.
We lend you $big_sum.
You spend $big_sum making an album etc.
Of the money that the album makes we take 3x the money you receive. Out of your share you have to repay all of the costs for making the album apart from the few we haven't managed to foist upon you yet.
Maybe I've got this wrong but it seems to me that on a $14.99 CD sold that the article states $5.75 goes to the record company and $2.25 to the artist.
Doesn't the article forget that until the artist repays the advance that $2.25 goes back to the record company.
I reckon this moves the break-even point to 62500 CD's and the record company will effectively make $8 profit - not $5.75 up until the band repays it's advance.
"
That's exactly the sort of attitude that has caused the sort of spectactular failures of software projects to be accepted as the norm. Software Engineering is *not* "hacking" or "coding" or "programming", it's *engineering*, like building a bridge or a skyscraper. Yes, those projects go over time and budget too sometimes, but they are the exception rather than the rule.
"
But that's simply not true. Writing software of anything that is non-trivial is not the same as straightforward engineering. For a start there is the rate of progress, how many people have 30 years + experience of building 50 story + buildings. How many people have 30 years + experience of dealing with terabyte + sized datasets?
When buildling software previous code can be reused for a very small amount of effort, when building skyscrapers the previous design can be reused for only marginally less effort than the last one.
Compare the difference between building a C compiler from the gcc source and the world trade centre from the blueprints.
Essentially the estimate is
Time = [time to do the bits we know how to do [accurate] ] + [guess for the bits we don't know how to do [inaccurate] ]
With software, the first part of that expression tends towards zero since most things we know how to do we can reuse code, whereas with building it remains a large accurate estimate.
The error here will be of the form
Error = [variance of inaccurate terms] / [total]
For the example of a skyscraper whos construction is mostly a known method this will tend to a small number since the inaccuate term is much smaller than the accurate term, but for software with reuse of all the known methods of coding this will tend to 1 - i.e.. 100% error in the estimate and hence the conclusion that it's worthless to even bother estimating.
In my company we can accurately estimate how long projects will take providing the projects are mostly identical to ones we have done before, and if this is the case it generally costs the client more in programmer time in meetings to dicuss the cost of the job than it does to write it.
"
You also have to pay the people who fronted the money to pay for the production of the album. Hmm... that's often the record companies, isn't it?
"
No it isn't. When you sign with a record company you receive an advance of $money which is borrowed against your future earnings. This is then spent on studio time / marketing etc. etc. etc. and you only see any money you have made after your record has recouped all the costs. The costs of producing album 2 are taken from the profit of the previous albums and should your album make a loss in any country this loss is removed from the profit from profitable companies.
Essentially the record company is a loan shark with fairly draconian provisions and the ability to keep spending your money on their services to ensure you never make any of it back until you reach the end of the $n album deal and are famous enough to negotiate a contact with decent terms, roylaties and liabilities.
If you're a teeny bopper band it's even worse - the best example is S Club 7 I think - the band members got paid around $50000 for three years work on tour and the manager and record company waltzed off with $50000000 between them.
If you want fun, own a laptop and change network cards and networks regularly.
/etc/resolv.con etc. Compile a kernel with all the known network drivers. Then, plug in PCMCIA network card and execute netchange [network] and you're away.
I pass through three logical networks each with wireless and non wireless access points. Any set of IP settings and network card may be in use at any time.
Linux : Take 10 minutes to write and app that changes symlinks for
Note, that you can change network card without dropping tcp connections [e.g. move from non wireless to wireless mid download without it failing]
Windows [98] : Inset new make of network card. Discover you have no drivers. Find another machine with an internet link to download the drivers. Install the drivers. Discover you now have to copy stuff over from the Windows CD. Find copy of Correct Windows CD & CDROM drive. Install stuff. Reboot machine. Change IP settings. Reboot Machine. Reapply service packs & patches. Reboot Machine many times. Plug into network.
"
You bought it. You broke it. Buy another one. That's hwo the world works
"
I bought it. It doesn't play. You give me a refund. Thats how the world works...
....unless you're a record company and you believe people aren't allowed to return faulty merchandise.