Sure they can. In fact, the Supreme Court has upheld clauses forcing you into binding arbitration. Such clauses would be tossed out as unconscionable in almost any other country in the world, but in the US unconscionable is business as usual.
That's actually a large part of the benefit of native applications. Consistent look and feel, remember that? If Facebook were a local application, it would look a lot like our email and usenet clients. That's all facebook is anyway. A poor reimplementation of email, usenet, IRC and finger.
Basically what you're saying here is that the rule of law does not work. Only the rule of man (e.g. judges) works. If you were actually right, we could boil our entire legal system down to one rule "don't be a dick" and then rely on judges to do the rest. Obviously that won't work.
Which is really more just? A perfectly enforced law where you lose your license for going one mph over the limit? Or a randmoly enforced law where you can lose your license because the cop had a bad day? In neither case do you really deserve to lose your license, but in the former at least you know how to avoid those consequences. Accordingly, I will choose the former every time.
Sure, they can advertise one thing (internet access) and then sell you another (restricted network access). We usually refer to these cases as "false advertising" or "bait and switch". It's fraudulent.
The fact that fraud is tolerated simply as business as usual doesn't mean it's not fraud. It means the industry is thoroughly corrupt.
POGO's report is freely available on the web. If you actually look at their methodology, you'll see that they included benefits.
Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees,[66] POGO added OPMâ(TM)s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries[67] and BLSâ(TM)s 33.5 percent loading to private sector employee salaries to reflect the full fringe benefit package paid to full-time employees in service-providing organizations that employ 500 or more workers
True, but if you're paying more for your paper plates than I am for my stoneware plates, and trying to use the fact that you're overpaying for crap as a status symbol, then it's unequivocally clear that you're an ignorant fool.
The internet protocol is peer to peer. If I cannot run services, I am not a peer, and therefore I do not have internet access. If they have advertised internet access, and do not provide internet access, they are breaking the law.
Who says I'm not up in arms about it? Lack of software freedom is one of the reasons I don't have a cell phone. Locked down cell phones are just as bad, and bad for the same reasons, as locked down PCs.
The IE anti-trust cases came before Microsoft starting making large political donations. Microsoft learned its lesson, greased the right palms, and is back to abusing it's monopoly position as much as it ever did.
The technology is clearly intended to block adoption of Linux (and other operating systems), or they'd provide a way for the owner of a device to whitelist new operating systems. BIOS rootkits are a convenient excuse.
But only some. Today you can throw Linux on any old hardware, and do something useful with it. 5-10 years from now, you'll have to specifically hunt down unlocked hardware. This has a rather drastic effect on the utility of Linux, which is Microsoft's intention.
If you put the question to both of these kind of people about what kind of car to drive, you are going to get very different answers because one understands how cars are built, the other understands what the car means to other people who see it. There is a qualitiative difference there people don't always appreciate between different types of afficinados.
You get two different answers because one is well-informed and correct, the other is ignorant and wrong. One cares about things that matter, the other cares about things that don't.
Please. Few RPGs rely on physical obstacles in their dungeons, and ALL RPGs have stats and experience points. BGE is clearly a Zelda like and not an RPG at all.
Try to boot to a partition greater than 2TB on Bios. Try using a mouse in BIOS (Hint, if you're using a mouse, you are not in BIOS)
Why would you want to do either of those? It's easy enough to set up a boot partition. And arrow keys work just fine TYVM.
It is superior to BIOS in almost all ways because it has more features and can boot much faster.
More features doesn't mean it's superior. In fact, the BIOS could do with far fewer features. Provide a boot loader and let the OS do all the hardware stuff with drivers.
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OS X has a command line. It's a lot more usable than the finder.
How would you get rid of the 'grep bluefish' entry in the process list then?
Game companies take your money and provide a service. Transactions involving money go wrong once in a while.
As for why adults play games? They're fun. You like fun right? No kids here, and plenty of booze. Makes for great gaming. Try it.
Sure they can. In fact, the Supreme Court has upheld clauses forcing you into binding arbitration. Such clauses would be tossed out as unconscionable in almost any other country in the world, but in the US unconscionable is business as usual.
That's actually a large part of the benefit of native applications. Consistent look and feel, remember that? If Facebook were a local application, it would look a lot like our email and usenet clients. That's all facebook is anyway. A poor reimplementation of email, usenet, IRC and finger.
Basically what you're saying here is that the rule of law does not work. Only the rule of man (e.g. judges) works. If you were actually right, we could boil our entire legal system down to one rule "don't be a dick" and then rely on judges to do the rest. Obviously that won't work.
Which is really more just? A perfectly enforced law where you lose your license for going one mph over the limit? Or a randmoly enforced law where you can lose your license because the cop had a bad day? In neither case do you really deserve to lose your license, but in the former at least you know how to avoid those consequences. Accordingly, I will choose the former every time.
Leave the web for documents. Run applications natively. Why is this so hard?
Sure, they can advertise one thing (internet access) and then sell you another (restricted network access). We usually refer to these cases as "false advertising" or "bait and switch". It's fraudulent.
The fact that fraud is tolerated simply as business as usual doesn't mean it's not fraud. It means the industry is thoroughly corrupt.
Isn't that what would happen if you used your SSD for swap? Or is disk cache simply freed instead of paged out when RAM is needed?
POGO's report is freely available on the web. If you actually look at their methodology, you'll see that they included benefits.
What's the difference between this and just keeping your swap file on SSD?
True, but if you're paying more for your paper plates than I am for my stoneware plates, and trying to use the fact that you're overpaying for crap as a status symbol, then it's unequivocally clear that you're an ignorant fool.
The internet protocol is peer to peer. If I cannot run services, I am not a peer, and therefore I do not have internet access. If they have advertised internet access, and do not provide internet access, they are breaking the law.
I was going to object vociferously to the grandparent post, but I couldn't say anything that hasn't been said here.
Who says I'm not up in arms about it? Lack of software freedom is one of the reasons I don't have a cell phone. Locked down cell phones are just as bad, and bad for the same reasons, as locked down PCs.
The IE anti-trust cases came before Microsoft starting making large political donations. Microsoft learned its lesson, greased the right palms, and is back to abusing it's monopoly position as much as it ever did.
The fact that someone likes a low quality device doesn't change the fact that it's low quality.
Spycam videos of cows going to the bathroom? Pervert.
The technology is clearly intended to block adoption of Linux (and other operating systems), or they'd provide a way for the owner of a device to whitelist new operating systems. BIOS rootkits are a convenient excuse.
But only some. Today you can throw Linux on any old hardware, and do something useful with it. 5-10 years from now, you'll have to specifically hunt down unlocked hardware. This has a rather drastic effect on the utility of Linux, which is Microsoft's intention.
The US had its chance...and pissed on it.
You could say that about just about anything these days.
If you put the question to both of these kind of people about what kind of car to drive, you are going to get very different answers because one understands how cars are built, the other understands what the car means to other people who see it. There is a qualitiative difference there people don't always appreciate between different types of afficinados.
You get two different answers because one is well-informed and correct, the other is ignorant and wrong. One cares about things that matter, the other cares about things that don't.
Please. Few RPGs rely on physical obstacles in their dungeons, and ALL RPGs have stats and experience points. BGE is clearly a Zelda like and not an RPG at all.
The judge could just as easily deny him an opportunity to defend himself based on unspecified "national security" fears.
Try to boot to a partition greater than 2TB on Bios.
Try using a mouse in BIOS (Hint, if you're using a mouse, you are not in BIOS)
Why would you want to do either of those? It's easy enough to set up a boot partition. And arrow keys work just fine TYVM.
It is superior to BIOS in almost all ways because it has more features and can boot much faster.
More features doesn't mean it's superior. In fact, the BIOS could do with far fewer features. Provide a boot loader and let the OS do all the hardware stuff with drivers.