While a contract might make things more difficult to win personally, it's still false advertising, or even possibly antitrust actions.
Various ISPs advertise something they have no intentions of offering. IBM did almost the same thing to eliminate competition years back. They were slammed pretty hard for it, too.
If you saw an ad for a power company advertising unlimited power, would you even POSSIBLY think that meant that I could use power at any time?
I (and probably everyone hear) would think that meant I could use as much power as I wanted and still pay the same price.
The only way the access time got incorporated into this is because it's a rather convenient excuse for broadband companies to add limits, based on how the market matured (i.e. dial-up)
I may be wrong, but isn't the famous clause about EFFECTIVE protections? I doubt this would hold up any better than a DO NOT COPY sticker, which is exactly what the lawmakers wanted to prevent.
Actually, there is a Gameboy remote control- it's a homebrew ROM, and to use it you need a cart copier- AFAIk you go through the menus, then you aim the normal remote at the infrared part of the GBC and the data is stored. Repeat as necessary, then get to the part about using the controls. It can then be used to send the signals out to the TV, VCR, sewing machine, etc. Of course, it has virtually no range so it's kind of self-defeating...
the ads are the same as the ones on so many websites, I figured it was achieved similarly (a piece of code to get a random banner with its corresponding link) I had no idea it was anything like it actually is, and with good reason.
I have an uncle, 46 IIRC, doing COBOL coding at Proctor & Gamble in Cincinnati (btw, he thinks C is nothing special, been around in other forms for ages, etc) so there'll definitely be a market for you as you age, doing exactly what, though, is questionable (I'd hate to think that C/C++ will be looked upon as useless old crap in 20 years)
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While a contract might make things more difficult to win personally, it's still false advertising, or even possibly antitrust actions.
Various ISPs advertise something they have no intentions of offering. IBM did almost the same thing to eliminate competition years back. They were slammed pretty hard for it, too.
If you saw an ad for a power company advertising unlimited power, would you even POSSIBLY think that meant that I could use power at any time?
I (and probably everyone hear) would think that meant I could use as much power as I wanted and still pay the same price.
The only way the access time got incorporated into this is because it's a rather convenient excuse for broadband companies to add limits, based on how the market matured (i.e. dial-up)
I may be wrong, but isn't the famous clause about EFFECTIVE protections? I doubt this would hold up any better than a DO NOT COPY sticker, which is exactly what the lawmakers wanted to prevent.
Actually, there is a Gameboy remote control- it's a homebrew ROM, and to use it you need a cart copier- AFAIk you go through the menus, then you aim the normal remote at the infrared part of the GBC and the data is stored. Repeat as necessary, then get to the part about using the controls. It can then be used to send the signals out to the TV, VCR, sewing machine, etc. Of course, it has virtually no range so it's kind of self-defeating...
2) How immoral/illegal is it to lie about which OS you are using? How low are you willing to stoop to claim to be using winDOwS?
the ads are the same as the ones on so many websites, I figured it was achieved similarly (a piece of code to get a random banner with its corresponding link) I had no idea it was anything like it actually is, and with good reason.
how many hours of what quality video can it convert to 350MB?
I have an uncle, 46 IIRC, doing COBOL coding at Proctor & Gamble in Cincinnati (btw, he thinks C is nothing special, been around in other forms for ages, etc) so there'll definitely be a market for you as you age, doing exactly what, though, is questionable (I'd hate to think that C/C++ will be looked upon as useless old crap in 20 years)