Second Life is run by geeks, and I bet they read Slashdot. They know full well what will turn their customers away. I bet they have explicit instructions for their legal team not to C&D anyone without express permission from the owners.
It's true. If there's someone who will have to choose between buying Vista and feeding their dog, they might choose Vista and the dog will starve. If you care at all about puppies, avoid Vista.
I mean, I like anti-MS FUD as much as the next guy, but please ground it in some sort of reality.
It's not lies per se. It's selective sampling. Give me enough PC users, and I can find you one who has never seen a BSOD, and one who has never used a Windows PC for more than an hour without it crashing. You just pick the person who will send the message you want.
Has Vista finally lost its dependency on the floppy disk drive?
I was slightly annoyed when I found that I had a SATA card that wasn't supported by Windows. This meant that I needed the driver disk to install windows to my SATA drive. I was shocked that the only medium Windows XP could use for the driver was a floppy disk! It mean tthat I had to find and plug in a floppy disk drive, and find a damn working floppy disk. Not having used a floppy disk drive for several years, this was really really hard.
Apple abolished the floppy disk drive in 1998. SGI abandoned it some time in the 1980s and that was before CD-ROM was introduced (The OS was installed from tape).
But they're entitled to sit and watch traffic anyway. There's no expectation of privacy on a public road. There is in your own private human slaughterhouse.
No, it isn't fair, it's unconstitutional. Any evidence gained in this way should not be admissible in court or be allowed to be used to gain further evidence.
Okay - reducto ad absurdum time.
Someone who lives with me robs a bank. The police find out who it was, and get a search warrent, and storm the place. As it turns out, they also find the body of someone I've murdered. The search warrant has nothing to do with the murder. In fact, nobody suspected I was a serial killer. Should the dead body and the testomony of the officers who saw it be inadmissable as evidence since the search warrant only covered the bank robbery?
At the other extreme, neologisms such as "lengthy", "mob", or "sham" are perfectly acceptable this century. Likewise, "computer" is understood as exclusively referring to an electronic device.
PC World magazine focusses entirely on Windows based systems. As does PC Home, PC Gamer, PC Plus, PC Pro, PC Advisor, PC Zone, and PC Format. If I tell anyone I know I have a PC, they'll assume it's not a Mac (quite correctly).
No. He's not importing or creating the circumvention in the US. He's protected by the exceoptions for legitimate research. Vista DRM is not yet a protection mechanism for copyrighted works. If he goes to the US, he is unlikely to be arrested because the authorities really don't want a repeat of the Sklyarov fiasco. There's substantially less reason to prosecute for thsi.
Every time this sort of thing comes up, I get more convinced that Slashdot has a victim complex.
You've changed the playing field. You've gained an advantage. Yes, I am willing to pay the higher price, but you were willing to sell at the lower price. The fair price in a market economy is not the highest I will pay, or the lowest you will sell for, but somewhere inbetween. Auctions have evolved because they set up a fair price.
By artificially making the buyer pay towards the higher end of this "inbetween" range, the seller gaining a financial advantage. He does this by abusing the system, and by deception. I believe, fraud is defined as gaining a financial advantage by deception.
And if shill bidders drive the price above what you want to pay, just move along and wait for the next time that item comes up - they ALWAYS do!
But here's the problem - This time they know exactly how much you're willing to pay. The next time they'll be able to shill-bid you up to the amount you bid before you dropped out.
This kind of reminds me of property taxes, where someone walks up to your house, says "I reckons she's worth about this much, so you pay me that much", despite the fact that your house is earning you no income and will be taxed anyway when sold or inherited.
But there is a lot of law related directly to property, and fairly established mechanisms for dertermoning the value of a house. A spaceflight is different. Or at least it should be. Like anything else of this type, e.g. airlines, I have a cost, and a maximum number of people I can spread this cost between. I can divide the cost by the number of people, or I can charge the maximum I think the market will bear for each seat. If I have covered my costs without filling all the seats, then anything I charge for those other seats is pure profit. Once the market for expensive seats has been eliminated, that seat is worth the maximum anyone;eft over will pay for it. This could be as little as $1.
The book that famously failed to predict the importance of the internet, even though it had ben fairly mainstream for a couple of years by the time. And the man whose company failed to consider any GUI innovations until after the release of the Apple Mac. He predicted that there would some version of basic replacing command.com, that there would be more non-PC devices that PCs connected to the internet. Even the best, most successful businessmen aren't that good at guessing what will succeed. They're just very good at maximising the success of the good ideas and minimising the cost of bad ones.
He's a good marketting man but I don't see him as a fortune teller.
Only looking into the patent DB is a bit short sighted, no? Prior art does not have to be patented, no?... Asking the developer if this is an original idea is not part of their research into the matter?
Quite true. I'm just suggesting MS are lazy rather than evil.
What happens is the deelopment department works on something. Then the patent and legal department takes a look at the features, and finds anything that looks innovative. They do a prior art search, and if there are no patents in the field, they patent it. It is possible, that the patents department simply didn't know that this idea was taken from another.
I suspect the Russian government knows full well that the British Government can't hand over Boris Berezovsky. That's why they're likely to make the request. It's not, on the face of it, unreasonable. Just legally impossible. But Britain's "refusal" to hand him over will mean that Russia has a better bargaining position. They can push Britain into offering an alternative of greater value.
The British don't do that sort of thing. Well, they probably do, but officially they don't, so they have to make sure they're incredibly subtle. He may well be killed through some completely unrelated but completely plausible reason, in a manner that that only the craziest conspiracy theorist would ever link to MI5.
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So that means 5 of 7 ways to avoid being considered a spammer (1, 2, 3, 5, 7) are "don't be a spammer", 2 of them (4, 6) are "Don't be an open relay".
Second Life is run by geeks, and I bet they read Slashdot. They know full well what will turn their customers away. I bet they have explicit instructions for their legal team not to C&D anyone without express permission from the owners.
It's true. If there's someone who will have to choose between buying Vista and feeding their dog, they might choose Vista and the dog will starve. If you care at all about puppies, avoid Vista.
I mean, I like anti-MS FUD as much as the next guy, but please ground it in some sort of reality.
It's not lies per se. It's selective sampling. Give me enough PC users, and I can find you one who has never seen a BSOD, and one who has never used a Windows PC for more than an hour without it crashing. You just pick the person who will send the message you want.
Has Vista finally lost its dependency on the floppy disk drive?
I was slightly annoyed when I found that I had a SATA card that wasn't supported by Windows. This meant that I needed the driver disk to install windows to my SATA drive. I was shocked that the only medium Windows XP could use for the driver was a floppy disk! It mean tthat I had to find and plug in a floppy disk drive, and find a damn working floppy disk. Not having used a floppy disk drive for several years, this was really really hard.
Apple abolished the floppy disk drive in 1998. SGI abandoned it some time in the 1980s and that was before CD-ROM was introduced (The OS was installed from tape).
But they're entitled to sit and watch traffic anyway. There's no expectation of privacy on a public road. There is in your own private human slaughterhouse.
No, it isn't fair, it's unconstitutional. Any evidence gained in this way should not be admissible in court or be allowed to be used to gain further evidence.
Okay - reducto ad absurdum time.
Someone who lives with me robs a bank. The police find out who it was, and get a search warrent, and storm the place. As it turns out, they also find the body of someone I've murdered. The search warrant has nothing to do with the murder. In fact, nobody suspected I was a serial killer. Should the dead body and the testomony of the officers who saw it be inadmissable as evidence since the search warrant only covered the bank robbery?
At the other extreme, neologisms such as "lengthy", "mob", or "sham" are perfectly acceptable this century. Likewise, "computer" is understood as exclusively referring to an electronic device.
I said "PC". Not "personal computer".
PC World magazine focusses entirely on Windows based systems. As does PC Home, PC Gamer, PC Plus, PC Pro, PC Advisor, PC Zone, and PC Format. If I tell anyone I know I have a PC, they'll assume it's not a Mac (quite correctly).
Yup. I was thinking those would be good names for my computers if I was buying one of each any time soon.
So what do you call:
A PC running linux?
A computer.
A mac bootcamped into windows?
A computer.
A mac running linux?
A computer.
Today our contestants are Simon, who's a PC, and Julie who's also a Mac...
PC is has become a term meaning x86 based PC running Windows. That's evolution of language for you.
No. He's not importing or creating the circumvention in the US. He's protected by the exceoptions for legitimate research. Vista DRM is not yet a protection mechanism for copyrighted works. If he goes to the US, he is unlikely to be arrested because the authorities really don't want a repeat of the Sklyarov fiasco. There's substantially less reason to prosecute for thsi.
Every time this sort of thing comes up, I get more convinced that Slashdot has a victim complex.
Assuming one is dumb enough to attempt to buy another item from that same seller, you have a point.
Profiting from the stupidity of others by means of deceit is still fraud, even if they are stupid.
You've changed the playing field. You've gained an advantage. Yes, I am willing to pay the higher price, but you were willing to sell at the lower price. The fair price in a market economy is not the highest I will pay, or the lowest you will sell for, but somewhere inbetween. Auctions have evolved because they set up a fair price.
By artificially making the buyer pay towards the higher end of this "inbetween" range, the seller gaining a financial advantage. He does this by abusing the system, and by deception. I believe, fraud is defined as gaining a financial advantage by deception.
And if shill bidders drive the price above what you want to pay, just move along and wait for the next time that item comes up - they ALWAYS do!
But here's the problem - This time they know exactly how much you're willing to pay. The next time they'll be able to shill-bid you up to the amount you bid before you dropped out.
This kind of reminds me of property taxes, where someone walks up to your house, says "I reckons she's worth about this much, so you pay me that much", despite the fact that your house is earning you no income and will be taxed anyway when sold or inherited.
;eft over will pay for it. This could be as little as $1.
But there is a lot of law related directly to property, and fairly established mechanisms for dertermoning the value of a house. A spaceflight is different. Or at least it should be. Like anything else of this type, e.g. airlines, I have a cost, and a maximum number of people I can spread this cost between. I can divide the cost by the number of people, or I can charge the maximum I think the market will bear for each seat. If I have covered my costs without filling all the seats, then anything I charge for those other seats is pure profit. Once the market for expensive seats has been eliminated, that seat is worth the maximum anyone
What am I, fucking spiderman?
Woudln;t that make you Mary Jane Watson?
Then I ate his website with a nice chiantti.
The book that famously failed to predict the importance of the internet, even though it had ben fairly mainstream for a couple of years by the time. And the man whose company failed to consider any GUI innovations until after the release of the Apple Mac. He predicted that there would some version of basic replacing command.com, that there would be more non-PC devices that PCs connected to the internet. Even the best, most successful businessmen aren't that good at guessing what will succeed. They're just very good at maximising the success of the good ideas and minimising the cost of bad ones.
He's a good marketting man but I don't see him as a fortune teller.
Only looking into the patent DB is a bit short sighted, no? Prior art does not have to be patented, no?... Asking the developer if this is an original idea is not part of their research into the matter?
Quite true. I'm just suggesting MS are lazy rather than evil.
What happens is the deelopment department works on something. Then the patent and legal department takes a look at the features, and finds anything that looks innovative. They do a prior art search, and if there are no patents in the field, they patent it. It is possible, that the patents department simply didn't know that this idea was taken from another.
I suspect the Russian government knows full well that the British Government can't hand over Boris Berezovsky. That's why they're likely to make the request. It's not, on the face of it, unreasonable. Just legally impossible. But Britain's "refusal" to hand him over will mean that Russia has a better bargaining position. They can push Britain into offering an alternative of greater value.
The British don't do that sort of thing. Well, they probably do, but officially they don't, so they have to make sure they're incredibly subtle. He may well be killed through some completely unrelated but completely plausible reason, in a manner that that only the craziest conspiracy theorist would ever link to MI5.