You are so right; the industry keeps reminding us we don't own the game but we just have a licence to play one copy at a time,
Whith that licence in hand we ought to get a new copy for manufacturing cost only.
This is obviously valid for anything with a copyright of sorts attached, like OEM software.
That's why it is legal to re-install a crashed W9X box using a full copy of W9X instead of trying to take the (unnecessary) hurdles of the OEM disk's installation.
I'm afraid you've lost track of society around you many years ago.
In the early seventies pocket calculators were banned at our technical college (in puritan Holland) "because they made you dumb".
A few years later I started working for a large international company, I was the only one never having used a calculator, not nice.
Further I object as well to the second half of your blanked statement "-and Study"; part of growing up into a whole human is testing a lot of things in the world around you and the networking experience of the internet is clearly a part of it.
We all know the arche typical Nerd that has only one interrest in life, it's the kind of kid that as an exception is not bad but you don't want a society entirely made up of.
Come on! You guys are stupid and irrisponsible!
Why should it be neccessary for these kids to work in sweatshops when their parents are unemployed and/or underpaid! We have to accept there are countries with a lack of government power/will to enact decent labour conditions but that should NEVER be a reason for greedy western companies to come in and abuse the weakest of that country.
So because Nike did not cause the problems they are allowed to further abuse such a rotten system, man you're a moron!
There is NOTHING except greed preventing Nike to pay decent wages and to only employ adults.
The main reason kids have to work in those countries are the low wages for the parents DUE TO COMPETITION FROM THE SAME KIDS!
It is despicable to buy anything of those western companies abusing the lack of worker protection in less developed countries.
Some info for our American friends; The American name for Unobtanium is Unobtanum, analogue to Aluminum and Uranum.
Hope this help you better understand this rather complex matter.
Hmm, I might have made a not very exact description with "their police"; it should have read:"their judicial system".
The problem is obviously not one or two rotten policemen, the problem is the ingrained unwillingness to deal with it at higher levels.
As the governement is supposedly controled by the electorate Belgium as a nation still has a way to go.
Hmm, you're a bit harsh on the Anglo Saxons, their old system was pretty good, about three centuries ago.
Funny thing is it was one of the first more-or-less standardised systems and now they have to use the METRIC system as a standard-reference since technology left the age of steam.....
It's a pitty that strange delusions keep them from embracing the I.S. as the new standard.
does this system block his IP or his block of IP's, does it block the entire domain
That's one of the problems of filtering software, I was recently using a computer of Amerada Hess, the oil company, to access my (web based) e-mail.
When I typed in the adress of my provider xs4all.nl I got the message that "this site is inappropriate according to the standards set by the company"....
xs4all is one of the most reputed ISP in the world so what made this silly machine think it should be banned, the combination of X and S in the name maybe?
Or was it the fact that the wel-known journalist Karin Spaink has her Scientology-critical site hosted by xs4all and is the blocking software infiltrated by Scientology?
Indeed, I can show you two near-identical versions of a perfume advert, one taken from a British mag and the other from a US publication.
On the US one the hint of aureole that was visible through the girls' T-shirt has miraculously disappeared....
What we in Europe consider life's essence is an abomination in the eyes of many US citizen.
I hope the calculations are not done by those idiots and retards at Martin-Marieta that destroyed a perfectly good spacecraft to Mars by mixing up long obsolete Imperial and real I.S. units.....
Keep in mind, though this is probably caused by well intentioned hyper-liberals trying to protect the masses, these types of measures are simply another example of why starting a business in Europe is so expensive...excessive regulation
Whoo! don't get the rest of Europe involved in this typical british scam, these people already have BY FAR the highes density of CCTV camera's on the street and WITHOUT any privacy legislation.
And the main backers are Conservatives
This kind of shit is in the british (well, english) genes; serving and being served
Just remember the book 1984
Stupid! It's in the british genes to bend over backwards. Big brother will only get bigger with such a party, after all the book (1984) was written by a brit.
I know this might not be cost-effective but hey!, when you can fight unreasonable licensing practices it might be worth it:
Take your 'puter with M$ sticker to a public notary and have a certified copy made before destroying the original sticker.....
censorware in public schools and libraries would pass with at least a 60%-70% approval rating. All you need is 60 mintes to show how detrimental pornography is to a child's mental and social development
Sjees! you must be living in a sick community!
The problem is not blocking porn, it's the impossiblility to define porn!
What we in Europe see as just a picture of a human being in it's natural and god-designed way is exactely the same picture that is perceived a threath to society by certain sick and retarded right-wing control freaks. I know the US of A has a wide and diverse population and they will NEVER agree on the same definition of porn, so leave it up to the individual to decide what's good or bad.
I realy feel sorry for the simple people you would be able to fool within 60 minutes into believing that porn has such a bad effect on young peoples devellopment!
Yuck!
Well, you just hit a point! Not so long ago I was on this US oil rig (Rowan) offshore Louisiana and I questioned the realy tiny swing doors on the toilets, I was told by the toolpusher they were so small for the purpose of checking up on who was in there and for how long he was off work!
In the cabins (bedrooms) the privacy curtains (legal requirement in Holland) that were on the beds only a year before when the rig was still drilling in Holland had been removed, same reason: the ability to check up who was in bed instead of at the job.......
At work you are in a different world, you have in a lot of ways sold yourself for the wages you get.
Wow, you've just worded the difference between 'US of A' style capitalism and European humanity.
I am more for rights, privacy and personal responsibility than anyone I know but there are certain places where what you do is just public, on the work computer is one of them.
Ha!, 30 or maybe even 20 years ago a computer was indeed just a tool, today it's far more, it's communication regardless of the place of operation.
So quit whining and start writing those juicy e-mails at home
There you go again! mixing up issues, we're worried about private conversation not about irregularities
Hawk, what happened in your life to act so simple?
You sound like these guys that were sentenced in Nuerenburg in '48, life is not black and white, there are many shades in between.
We are not talking about abuse, it's simple use that's being put in jeopardy.
Abuse like espionage has always been an offence anyway and can be investigated regardless of the new 'law'.
Slashdot Mirror
Wake up! That some of science is sometimes at a (seeming) stand still is another reason to find more funding for interresting projects.
And IF life found it's origin in a Divine Action, what is so wrong in striving to understand as much as possible about what happened since?
Windows Media Player WILL play DVD's, it's crude but works.
Whith that licence in hand we ought to get a new copy for manufacturing cost only.
This is obviously valid for anything with a copyright of sorts attached, like OEM software.
That's why it is legal to re-install a crashed W9X box using a full copy of W9X instead of trying to take the (unnecessary) hurdles of the OEM disk's installation.
I grant you a single guess, for both questions.
I'm afraid you've lost track of society around you many years ago.
In the early seventies pocket calculators were banned at our technical college (in puritan Holland) "because they made you dumb".
A few years later I started working for a large international company, I was the only one never having used a calculator, not nice.
Further I object as well to the second half of your blanked statement "-and Study"; part of growing up into a whole human is testing a lot of things in the world around you and the networking experience of the internet is clearly a part of it.
We all know the arche typical Nerd that has only one interrest in life, it's the kind of kid that as an exception is not bad but you don't want a society entirely made up of.
I'm afraid "troll" is a kind moderation.
Come on! You guys are stupid and irrisponsible!
Why should it be neccessary for these kids to work in sweatshops when their parents are unemployed and/or underpaid! We have to accept there are countries with a lack of government power/will to enact decent labour conditions but that should NEVER be a reason for greedy western companies to come in and abuse the weakest of that country.
So because Nike did not cause the problems they are allowed to further abuse such a rotten system, man you're a moron!
There is NOTHING except greed preventing Nike to pay decent wages and to only employ adults.
The main reason kids have to work in those countries are the low wages for the parents DUE TO COMPETITION FROM THE SAME KIDS!
It is despicable to buy anything of those western companies abusing the lack of worker protection in less developed countries.
Some info for our American friends; The American name for Unobtanium is Unobtanum, analogue to Aluminum and Uranum.
Hope this help you better understand this rather complex matter.
Hmm, I might have made a not very exact description with "their police"; it should have read:"their judicial system".
The problem is obviously not one or two rotten policemen, the problem is the ingrained unwillingness to deal with it at higher levels.
As the governement is supposedly controled by the electorate Belgium as a nation still has a way to go.
Belgian ways
Hmm, you're a bit harsh on the Anglo Saxons, their old system was pretty good, about three centuries ago.
Funny thing is it was one of the first more-or-less standardised systems and now they have to use the METRIC system as a standard-reference since technology left the age of steam.....
It's a pitty that strange delusions keep them from embracing the I.S. as the new standard.
This is a good example: xs4all.nl
You stupid??
All other ISP's have allways been able to trace you anyway!
Does not work, caller ID will be enforced as part of the legal package, back to the old 300 b/s 'modems' you could use in a phone box......
does this system block his IP or his block of IP's, does it block the entire domain
That's one of the problems of filtering software, I was recently using a computer of Amerada Hess, the oil company, to access my (web based) e-mail. When I typed in the adress of my provider xs4all.nl I got the message that "this site is inappropriate according to the standards set by the company"....
xs4all is one of the most reputed ISP in the world so what made this silly machine think it should be banned, the combination of X and S in the name maybe?
Or was it the fact that the wel-known journalist Karin Spaink has her Scientology-critical site hosted by xs4all and is the blocking software infiltrated by Scientology?
Indeed, I can show you two near-identical versions of a perfume advert, one taken from a British mag and the other from a US publication.
On the US one the hint of aureole that was visible through the girls' T-shirt has miraculously disappeared....
What we in Europe consider life's essence is an abomination in the eyes of many US citizen.
I hope the calculations are not done by those idiots and retards at Martin-Marieta that destroyed a perfectly good spacecraft to Mars by mixing up long obsolete Imperial and real I.S. units.....
Whoo! don't get the rest of Europe involved in this typical british scam, these people already have BY FAR the highes density of CCTV camera's on the street and WITHOUT any privacy legislation.
And the main backers are Conservatives
This kind of shit is in the british (well, english) genes; serving and being served
Just remember the book 1984
Bunch of serfs.
Stupid! It's in the british genes to bend over backwards. Big brother will only get bigger with such a party, after all the book (1984) was written by a brit.
I know this might not be cost-effective but hey!, when you can fight unreasonable licensing practices it might be worth it:
Take your 'puter with M$ sticker to a public notary and have a certified copy made before destroying the original sticker.....
censorware in public schools and libraries would pass with at least a 60%-70% approval rating. All you need is 60 mintes to show how detrimental pornography is to a child's mental and social development
Sjees! you must be living in a sick community!
The problem is not blocking porn, it's the impossiblility to define porn!
What we in Europe see as just a picture of a human being in it's natural and god-designed way is exactely the same picture that is perceived a threath to society by certain sick and retarded right-wing control freaks. I know the US of A has a wide and diverse population and they will NEVER agree on the same definition of porn, so leave it up to the individual to decide what's good or bad.
I realy feel sorry for the simple people you would be able to fool within 60 minutes into believing that porn has such a bad effect on young peoples devellopment!
Yuck!
so is the toilet.. how'd you like a camera there?
Well, you just hit a point! Not so long ago I was on this US oil rig (Rowan) offshore Louisiana and I questioned the realy tiny swing doors on the toilets, I was told by the toolpusher they were so small for the purpose of checking up on who was in there and for how long he was off work!
In the cabins (bedrooms) the privacy curtains (legal requirement in Holland) that were on the beds only a year before when the rig was still drilling in Holland had been removed, same reason: the ability to check up who was in bed instead of at the job.......
this style of management makes me sick
At work you are in a different world, you have in a lot of ways sold yourself for the wages you get.
Wow, you've just worded the difference between 'US of A' style capitalism and European humanity.
I am more for rights, privacy and personal responsibility than anyone I know but there are certain places where what you do is just public, on the work computer is one of them.
Ha!, 30 or maybe even 20 years ago a computer was indeed just a tool, today it's far more, it's communication regardless of the place of operation.
So quit whining and start writing those juicy e-mails at home
There you go again! mixing up issues, we're worried about private conversation not about irregularities
Hawk, what happened in your life to act so simple?
You sound like these guys that were sentenced in Nuerenburg in '48, life is not black and white, there are many shades in between.
We are not talking about abuse, it's simple use that's being put in jeopardy.
Abuse like espionage has always been an offence anyway and can be investigated regardless of the new 'law'.