And you probably won't as most of the bugs are hardware compatibility bugs. So as long as you stay with your base system you should be good.:) (You have a dell don't you?)
Blade (short for Bladenc, short for Blade Encoder) is a free Encoder (I think just MP3) the creater got charged with violating the patents on MP3 technology, and Bladenc no longer exist.
IANAL also, but I've read much commentary, and suppositivly there isn't any presendence for doing it the other way. Apparently all other anti-trust trials have done the judgement phase the same way. But its still up to the Supreme Court to decide if such presedent is wrong.
Well its generally precident that in anti-trust cases, the verdict is not supposed to be punishment, but remedial in nature. In other words Microsoft isn't being punished (and if they were the punishment would have been harsh,) but simply the desisions by the courts are indented to fix the problem and help everyone, even possibly Bill Gates if he handles the split right, could continue to make even more money.
Yes, but intellectual Property that is used both in a product developed, distributed, or sold by the Applications Business and in a product developed, distributed, or sold by the Operating Systems Business as of April 27, 2000, shall be assigned to the Applications Business, and the Operating Systems Business shall be granted a perpetual, royalty-free license to license and distribute such Intellectual Property in its products...
This means that OS can continue to use COM without restrictions, they just don't own it:) I don't see what the problem is?
Another revenuestream for MSOS would be to buy applications companies and to rebuild its App division (permitted under Section 1(c)(ii) of the decree)
I'm confused, where are you seeing this? I guess if you read that it denies the Operating System buisness the right to develop an Internet Browser, you could assume that it by default gives them the right to produce anything else.???
Well if you read the document, that was their point. They offered to open up their source code, but if they did that they claim they have to be able to review the otehr guys source code to make sure that they didn't copy anything from it. :)
Yes, but the idea of letting clients search eachother and share files, the Napster or the Gnutella, way is a very good idea. It has many legitimate possibilities, its just that it started out being used for piracy, but saying that its only use is for piracy is a bit short sighted. Though honestly, it can be easy to see things that way. I used to believe the only good use for CD-R technology, was copying games and music. But then I became a network administrator, and realized its benifits for cheap backups. Anyways, my point is that you should never abandon the new ideas, just because its first uses are bad (take nuclear power for instance:)
I has always heard that in absence of the moon, our polar tilt would constantly change, giving us a completly unlivable earth. What did he think it would do?
Have you ever been in a internet chat room, with a guest, and tried to ask a well thought out lucid question. Well let me tell you, its rather impossible. With the slashdot interviews, each person is allowed to spend thier time writting out their questions, and then the best questions get moderated up (theoretically). The end result, is a set of fairly good questions, directed towards the guest rather than a stream of nonsense. In no way am I implying that the slashdot audience is better, but the method for interviewing is in my opinion better.
Thats the point, landing planes also use local transmitters, which are reliable. But if you completly rely on the satallites, you may be happily dissapointed, as was stated that the government reserves the right to turn off the signal for certain regions.
Its dangerous to build anything that relies on GPS to the point where if the service failed, you could be seriously injured. So if that telephone pole suddenly dissapears you don't want to go crashing into it. As the press release said, they still reserve the right to turn back on SA, and completly turn off the signal for certain regions.
And btw they already have a way of seeing the puck in hockey, where have you been?
Well the scroll bar is just stupid, but you could easily impliment some client side script to handle the adding to 100 problem. Such could not only make it easier for stupid users, but it would make it slightly faster for the smart ones if they don't have to stop to do the additions. The few seconds you shave off of every transation adds up.
Microsoft once created a good, operating system for home users, and they never forgot it. France was once a world power, and they have never forgotten that.
He said absolutly nothing about religion, did he? Anyways there is reason to believe that our whole idea of carbon half-life is comply bunk. There has been a few examples of things that were known to be only a few hundred years old, that were carbon dated to be several hundred thousand years old. But anyhow I really don't keep up with this stuff, I only ask the previous posted to come back, I am accually interested in his evidence, as its rarly reported. (As for evolution, I honestly don't care, but its a big all hairbrained, I mean geez, if you believed everything evolution taught us, you would know that my golden retriver couldn't mate with your taco bell burrito)
Well your both right. (Not really) suppositivly the gulf of mexico was helped out by a meteor, for some other reason, it got alot bigger, probably a plate technonic thing:) But probably not the same meteor that killed out the dinosaurs, but who knows when exactly..
Well yes, and no:) I'll have to ask my GF to clarrify (shes a complete dino freak, shrugs) But anyway suppositivly many experts now say that reptiles existed first, I think this was the early triasic period. Most of these reptiles died out, and one type (which sorta looked like a large compy, don't remember the name), survived, because of its dinosaurian traits -grin- And evolved into pretty much all the dinosaurs we know today. And something that looked very simular to the crocodile also survived, but didn't exactly evolve. And no I don't know where all the other reptiles we have today came from:)
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Why shouldn't he just be asking for the hard drive? That is all he needs in order to find out what is on the computer? DUH
I think they meant decrypt CSS, (accually reverse-engineer). Which was done to create DeCSS.
And you probably won't as most of the bugs are hardware compatibility bugs. So as long as you stay with your base system you should be good. :)
(You have a dell don't you?)
Blade (short for Bladenc, short for Blade Encoder) is a free Encoder (I think just MP3) the creater got charged with violating the patents on MP3 technology, and Bladenc no longer exist.
IANAL also, but I've read much commentary, and suppositivly there isn't any presendence for doing it the other way. Apparently all other anti-trust trials have done the judgement phase the same way. But its still up to the Supreme Court to decide if such presedent is wrong.
Well Microsoft Office and Outlook and IE all bundled together seems like an obvious idea, especially if they work seamlessly togther.
Well its generally precident that in anti-trust cases, the verdict is not supposed to be punishment, but remedial in nature. In other words Microsoft isn't being punished (and if they were the punishment would have been harsh,) but simply the desisions by the courts are indented to fix the problem and help everyone, even possibly Bill Gates if he handles the split right, could continue to make even more money.
Yes, but intellectual Property that is used both in a product developed, distributed, or sold by the Applications Business and in a product developed, distributed, or sold by the Operating Systems Business as of April 27, 2000, shall be assigned to the Applications Business, and the Operating Systems Business shall be granted a perpetual, royalty-free license to license and distribute such Intellectual Property in its products...
:) I don't see what the problem is?
This means that OS can continue to use COM without restrictions, they just don't own it
I'm confused, where are you seeing this? I guess if you read that it denies the Operating System buisness the right to develop an Internet Browser, you could assume that it by default gives them the right to produce anything else.???
Well if you read the document, that was their point. They offered to open up their source code, but if they did that they claim they have to be able to review the otehr guys source code to make sure that they didn't copy anything from it.
:)
Yes, but the idea of letting clients search eachother and share files, the Napster or the Gnutella, way is a very good idea. It has many legitimate possibilities, its just that it started out being used for piracy, but saying that its only use is for piracy is a bit short sighted. Though honestly, it can be easy to see things that way. I used to believe the only good use for CD-R technology, was copying games and music. But then I became a network administrator, and realized its benifits for cheap backups. Anyways, my point is that you should never abandon the new ideas, just because its first uses are bad (take nuclear power for instance :)
Wow, I'm usually not easily offended, but I have to say.. that was offensive :)
I has always heard that in absence of the moon, our polar tilt would constantly change, giving us a completly unlivable earth. What did he think it would do?
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Translates to,
The People have a right to bear arms, because the ability for form militias are nessesary in protecting a free state.
Think old english, its kinda backwards sometimes.
BTW you missed a comma between militia, and being nessessary (Well the guy before you did that is)
You don't happen to have a copy laying around, I would love something like that -grin- :)
Have you ever been in a internet chat room, with a guest, and tried to ask a well thought out lucid question. Well let me tell you, its rather impossible. With the slashdot interviews, each person is allowed to spend thier time writting out their questions, and then the best questions get moderated up (theoretically). The end result, is a set of fairly good questions, directed towards the guest rather than a stream of nonsense. In no way am I implying that the slashdot audience is better, but the method for interviewing is in my opinion better.
Thats the point, landing planes also use local transmitters, which are reliable. But if you completly rely on the satallites, you may be happily dissapointed, as was stated that the government reserves the right to turn off the signal for certain regions.
And btw they already have a way of seeing the puck in hockey, where have you been?
Ok, I only have a slight programming knowledge, so I honestly don't know. What is ;; for??? I'm serious.
Well the scroll bar is just stupid, but you could easily impliment some client side script to handle the adding to 100 problem. Such could not only make it easier for stupid users, but it would make it slightly faster for the smart ones if they don't have to stop to do the additions. The few seconds you shave off of every transation adds up.
You obviously forgot about Godwin's Law! From the Jargon File
Microsoft once created a good, operating system for home users, and they never forgot it. France was once a world power, and they have never forgotten that.
He said absolutly nothing about religion, did he? Anyways there is reason to believe that our whole idea of carbon half-life is comply bunk. There has been a few examples of things that were known to be only a few hundred years old, that were carbon dated to be several hundred thousand years old. But anyhow I really don't keep up with this stuff, I only ask the previous posted to come back, I am accually interested in his evidence, as its rarly reported. (As for evolution, I honestly don't care, but its a big all hairbrained, I mean geez, if you believed everything evolution taught us, you would know that my golden retriver couldn't mate with your taco bell burrito)
Well your both right. (Not really) suppositivly the gulf of mexico was helped out by a meteor, for some other reason, it got alot bigger, probably a plate technonic thing:) But probably not the same meteor that killed out the dinosaurs, but who knows when exactly..
Well yes, and no :) I'll have to ask my GF to clarrify (shes a complete dino freak, shrugs) But anyway suppositivly many experts now say that reptiles existed first, I think this was the early triasic period. Most of these reptiles died out, and one type (which sorta looked like a large compy, don't remember the name), survived, because of its dinosaurian traits -grin- And evolved into pretty much all the dinosaurs we know today. And something that looked very simular to the crocodile also survived, but didn't exactly evolve. And no I don't know where all the other reptiles we have today came from :)