Providing dial-up access? Web hosting business? Home network with a Linux box???!!!
Wow, what marvelous and exciting toys for a growing boy's mind. Clearly their editor wanted 13 "toys", and things got a little hairy towards the end, where they dump in extra hardware, etc.
As with most lawsuits, especially ones that drag out like this, the only people that really win are the lawyers.
Yes, only the lawyers win. I don't care, its a great system. If you didn't have the class action lawsuit system, whats to prevent Verizon from saying, "Hey, lets overbill a random 40% of our customers 35 cents each this month. Nobody will notice or care, and we'll make MILLIONS!"
Only the lawyers make money, but it punishes corporations that screw their customers.
OK, now I'm entering rant mode. America itself was founded on lawbreaking. The Boston tea party?
Funny you should mention that. The Boston Tea Party happened when the British enacted new taxes on tea against the colonists. It was actually a tax _decrease_ over the old tax, but the leaders in favor of independance whipped up the public over "new" tea taxes.
So in fact, our country was founded on politicians fucking with us, a tradition we hold to even today.
Just because they're using Linux as their OS doesn't mean they have to give out copies of their entire source tree. It also doesn't mean they have to provide isos of their HD images. It certainly doesn't mean they have to allow other people to do it.
I remember way back in the day, when Tivo hacking was overly encouraged by the company, the president of Tivo posted on the boards pissed off that people were imaging. Evidently, several people had imaged a Philips image on a Sony system or vice-versa, and it was screwing up the company's update system. That may be why they're cracking down on the sites.
Then I come here and read stuff like "Since they use linux, they're required to send an engineer over to my house to explain how their data structures work." Great! Some microsoft exec is already planning a happy hour for their marketing group. Maybe you'll get invited.
I still remember homework about a driver being stopped because he ignored a red traffic light. He claimed the light was green because of Doppler shift caused by high speed of the car. The amount of fuel required to reach this speed was by far higher than the total consumption by mankind.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but most of your homework problems didn't actually happen in real life. For example, there probably isn't a train leaving san franciso and denver at the same time at different speeds heading towards each other on parallel tracks.
After suspecting I was being scammed by my mortgage broker, I types "Mortgage broker scams" into google. I'm in favor of google doing anything it needs to do to stop garbage like this.
This is the type of link I got back. The last paragraph is my favorite:
http://www.mortgage-broker-in-1.com/mortgage_bro ke r_scams.htm
The text of the page, that was followed by a LOT of links:
"Sourcing on the web for the best deals on mortgage broker scams? Well you've definitely arrived at the right place because that's what we're information experts in. Of course, being a new information web portal we don't yet have a monumental amount of information on the precise search term you were looking for - mortgage broker scams, but we're getting there.
Locating relevant and useful mortgage broker scams sites is often difficult. Which is why we created this website. Detailed research went into building this web site on mortgage broker scams to send you to the best web sites.
Coming across the best mortgage broker scams websites isn't as easy as it sounds. After a meeting of our team of planners and engineers we decided to build this site to assist you with your navigation. I'm thrilled to say that the countless hours of work we did studying info databases on mortgage broker scams for you to visit.
As the mushrooming of e-commerce continues mortgage broker scams businesses learn more in offering their products and services for sale The biggest benefit that the web mortgage broker scams businesses will maintain over store-front mortgage broker scams businesses is the significant savings they have an operating a successful business.
ps. Wouldn't it be great if you order something over the Internet, legitimately, using your own credit card, receive the product or service but never pay a single penny? Well you can, it's easy, every online retailer knows how it's done and credit card companies have no interest in preventing it.
Well dammit man, tell us how to do it! I did some math, and if I don't have to pay money, I can get a LOT more stuff!
Linus can't do that. Linus can just dominate the software world, but his power is mostly limited to that subject. I don't think Linus will ever have a giant laser cannon.
I know you're joking, but I have to give Bill Gates some credit. If I was obscenely wealthy like that, I don't think I would be ABLE to stop myself from buying a laser cannon.
When I was a kid, and explaining to my parents that I needed a modem to call BBSs, they asked me how much it would cost. When I said most BBSs were free, run by people for fun, they didn't believe me. They said that nothing is ever free.
Now, you have all these guys out there who are extremely suspecious of how Linux works. They just don't understand how you can get something for nothing.
Then SCO comes along and confidently says what they've been expecting all along.
"I knew it!" says average Joe, "Its SCO that's going to get the money for Linux! BUY BUY BUY!"
Now that more mainstream publications are exposing SCO for the con artists they are, they're losing that edge.
Its that once there is a system in place to track and bill per email, its only a matter of time before the email tax slowly gets increased for revenue purposes.
Too many comments along the lines of "That there is a big monitor to just throw away when the iMac is obsolete!"
People who buy iMacs don't want to upgrade them every year. They're home users who expect to buy a computer, and keep it until it breaks or some amazing reason comes out to get a new one. They upgrade only when new applications require it, which is why Apple focuses a lot on new features and software innovation to motivate people to upgrade.
Take a look on eBay at used Mac prices sometime, then rethink the "wasting a monitor" idea.
if you get the virtual windows software get the version that doesn't come with windows. it's like $100 and you can install your corporate site licensed version/warez version. same with office on the windows side.
Well hellthen... why not get the warez version of Virtual PC as well?;)
I, like many other folks, run OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) on an older, "Beige" G3, which is not supported by Panther.
Just because you own a mac doesn't mean you can expect to have your hardware supported until the case turns to dust.
"I run Windows 95 on an older "Pentium 90", which is not supported by Windows XP. I'm enraged that Microsoft has dropped support for Windows 95 leaving all of us Pentium 90 users stuck with a system with KNOWN SECURITY HOLES."
They originally announced that the reason that they wouldn't put the malware in the next release is because their studies showed that it didn't reduce piracy. You can be sure that if it had worked, they wouldn't be sending out this apology today.
Q: What happens if the product is discontinued?
A: Adobe is fully committed to honoring the terms of its product license agreements. In the event that a product is discontinued, Adobe will enable automatic approval of all activation requests for that product or provide a means to remove activation outright. In either case, the customer will not experience any change in software capabilities.
No worries, Adobe. We'll already have it off usenet.
Davis took a big hit with motorists when he jacked up license fees. He's trying to mitigate that damage. You have the recall to thank for that, and anything other pro-motorist acts that mysteriously get signed during the next two weeks. Feel free to fall for it.
Its not like "motorists" are a slim minority group he's trying to appeal to. I doubt he's trying to defeat the recall on a pro-motorist campaign.
Though I suppose he's correct: If he can get just 50% of the motorists on his side, he'll win.
I mean, I have to reply to my own freaking comment. That's like Ford putting up an article about a crazy escaped child molester who ran over 6 people before finally being taken down by a SWAT team, because the article mentioned that the man's Ford truck withstood over 142 bullets before bursting into flame.
NOT because of corporate/government censorship but they provide software to China so they can find out who goes to western news sites and suspicious political sites.
"Why, Gannoc", you might be claiming, "Wherever did you hear such vicious slander against Websense?"
Why, right on their goddamn website. They're proud of it, of course, because the type of people who invest in a company like Websense are the type of people who don't mind the idea of a few people going to jail for going to a politically progressive web site, as long as the stock price goes up.
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Providing dial-up access? Web hosting business? Home network with a Linux box???!!!
Wow, what marvelous and exciting toys for a growing boy's mind. Clearly their editor wanted 13 "toys", and things got a little hairy towards the end, where they dump in extra hardware, etc.
As with most lawsuits, especially ones that drag out like this, the only people that really win are the lawyers.
Yes, only the lawyers win. I don't care, its a great system. If you didn't have the class action lawsuit system, whats to prevent Verizon from saying, "Hey, lets overbill a random 40% of our customers 35 cents each this month. Nobody will notice or care, and we'll make MILLIONS!"
Only the lawyers make money, but it punishes corporations that screw their customers.
Get it up on Quicktime/Apple like all other trailers, you bastards.
OK, now I'm entering rant mode. America itself was founded on lawbreaking. The Boston tea party?
Funny you should mention that. The Boston Tea Party happened when the British enacted new taxes on tea against the colonists. It was actually a tax _decrease_ over the old tax, but the leaders in favor of independance whipped up the public over "new" tea taxes.
So in fact, our country was founded on politicians fucking with us, a tradition we hold to even today.
I remember way back in the day, when Tivo hacking was overly encouraged by the company, the president of Tivo posted on the boards pissed off that people were imaging. Evidently, several people had imaged a Philips image on a Sony system or vice-versa, and it was screwing up the company's update system. That may be why they're cracking down on the sites.
Then I come here and read stuff like "Since they use linux, they're required to send an engineer over to my house to explain how their data structures work." Great! Some microsoft exec is already planning a happy hour for their marketing group. Maybe you'll get invited.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but most of your homework problems didn't actually happen in real life. For example, there probably isn't a train leaving san franciso and denver at the same time at different speeds heading towards each other on parallel tracks.
After suspecting I was being scammed by my mortgage broker, I types "Mortgage broker scams" into google. I'm in favor of google doing anything it needs to do to stop garbage like this.
o ke r_scams.htm
This is the type of link I got back. The last paragraph is my favorite:
http://www.mortgage-broker-in-1.com/mortgage_br
The text of the page, that was followed by a LOT of links:
"Sourcing on the web for the best deals on mortgage broker scams? Well you've definitely arrived at the right place because that's what we're information experts in. Of course, being a new information web portal we don't yet have a monumental amount of information on the precise search term you were looking for - mortgage broker scams, but we're getting there.
Locating relevant and useful mortgage broker scams sites is often difficult. Which is why we created this website. Detailed research went into building this web site on mortgage broker scams to send you to the best web sites.
Coming across the best mortgage broker scams websites isn't as easy as it sounds. After a meeting of our team of planners and engineers we decided to build this site to assist you with your navigation. I'm thrilled to say that the countless hours of work we did studying info databases on mortgage broker scams for you to visit.
As the mushrooming of e-commerce continues mortgage broker scams businesses learn more in offering their products and services for sale The biggest benefit that the web mortgage broker scams businesses will maintain over store-front mortgage broker scams businesses is the significant savings they have an operating a successful business.
ps. Wouldn't it be great if you order something over the Internet, legitimately, using your own credit card, receive the product or service but never pay a single penny? Well you can, it's easy, every online retailer knows how it's done and credit card companies have no interest in preventing it.
Well dammit man, tell us how to do it! I did some math, and if I don't have to pay money, I can get a LOT more stuff!
I know you're joking, but I have to give Bill Gates some credit. If I was obscenely wealthy like that, I don't think I would be ABLE to stop myself from buying a laser cannon.
It would be like you or me buying a Snickers.
I'll believe that when I see a parody of the Matrix with Linus in it.
When I was a kid, and explaining to my parents that I needed a modem to call BBSs, they asked me how much it would cost. When I said most BBSs were free, run by people for fun, they didn't believe me. They said that nothing is ever free.
Now, you have all these guys out there who are extremely suspecious of how Linux works. They just don't understand how you can get something for nothing.
Then SCO comes along and confidently says what they've been expecting all along.
"I knew it!" says average Joe, "Its SCO that's going to get the money for Linux! BUY BUY BUY!"
Now that more mainstream publications are exposing SCO for the con artists they are, they're losing that edge.
Really means "Execs hire bodyguards for execs, with SCO money"
Its that once there is a system in place to track and bill per email, its only a matter of time before the email tax slowly gets increased for revenue purposes.
Too many comments along the lines of "That there is a big monitor to just throw away when the iMac is obsolete!"
People who buy iMacs don't want to upgrade them every year. They're home users who expect to buy a computer, and keep it until it breaks or some amazing reason comes out to get a new one. They upgrade only when new applications require it, which is why Apple focuses a lot on new features and software innovation to motivate people to upgrade.
Take a look on eBay at used Mac prices sometime, then rethink the "wasting a monitor" idea.
if you get the virtual windows software get the version that doesn't come with windows. it's like $100 and you can install your corporate site licensed version/warez version. same with office on the windows side.
;)
Well hellthen... why not get the warez version of Virtual PC as well?
Why would you mock that as a hilarious quote? Isn't that exactly the attitude we want music companies to have?
I, like many other folks, run OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) on an older, "Beige" G3, which is not supported by Panther.
Just because you own a mac doesn't mean you can expect to have your hardware supported until the case turns to dust.
"I run Windows 95 on an older "Pentium 90", which is not supported by Windows XP. I'm enraged that Microsoft has dropped support for Windows 95 leaving all of us Pentium 90 users stuck with a system with KNOWN SECURITY HOLES."
They originally announced that the reason that they wouldn't put the malware in the next release is because their studies showed that it didn't reduce piracy. You can be sure that if it had worked, they wouldn't be sending out this apology today.
A: Adobe is fully committed to honoring the terms of its product license agreements. In the event that a product is discontinued, Adobe will enable automatic approval of all activation requests for that product or provide a means to remove activation outright. In either case, the customer will not experience any change in software capabilities.
No worries, Adobe. We'll already have it off usenet.
Its not like "motorists" are a slim minority group he's trying to appeal to. I doubt he's trying to defeat the recall on a pro-motorist campaign.
Though I suppose he's correct: If he can get just 50% of the motorists on his side, he'll win.
So for a family of complete techo-illiterates, they bought a PC _and_ a Mac. That way they'll never figure out how to use anything. Bravo.
"Built Ford Tough!"
"Why, Gannoc", you might be claiming, "Wherever did you hear such vicious slander against Websense?"
Why, right on their goddamn website. They're proud of it, of course, because the type of people who invest in a company like Websense are the type of people who don't mind the idea of a few people going to jail for going to a politically progressive web site, as long as the stock price goes up.
Bah.
The moderators are getting so bad, they're making the submitters produce dupes for them in advance...
I now hate SCO more than Microsoft.
At least Windows _exists_