And if I as a player have NEVER clicked agree on their EULA? I have a cat which loves to play with this *mouse* that I can dangle in front of it. All it does is *you guessed it - does a click* when it's hit.
So, if they'd care to enforce the EULA with my cat, they are more than welcome to. However, my cat will have to pay for his own lawyer.
Add to that, the fact, that on the side of my computer, in bold print, sits a sign stating the SPLA, the Software Providers License Agreement. It basically states that any software that allows itself to be installed on this computer, declares their own EULA to be null and void. If they do not like this SPLA, they need to prevent their software from installing. Failure to prevent the software from installing implies full compliance with this SPLA.
How about: Bathe, get a girlfriend, go outside, read a 20 minute FAQ and learn more than most *nix sysadmins seem to know. How about: Bathe, get a girlfriend, go outside, read a 20 minute FAQ and learn more than most self-proclaimed *nix sysadmins seem to know.
The difference is that IBM stated for the record that they were not publishing any information regarding the trial either themselves or through third parties.
If SCO could prove that IBM was using the *PJ* persona to funnel information (even if it's all accurate) it would go against IBM based on what they presented to the courts.
In the company that I work for, a majority of the IT staff use laptops for better or worse.
All of those, except for myself, use their laptops with the tops down, connected to external monitors.
I have mine set where the laptop is to the side of the monitor, and I keep e-mail, browsers, etc up on that, then the external monitor has my x-windows running on it.
It has greatly improved my efficiencies in that I can find documentation online (such as FAQs or manuals or how-to pages and read them, cut and paste - all without having to minimize, restore, maximize any screens. It's been a great timesaver, and I've also been able to catch messages that may have scrolled by without being seen if I'd been reading the next step in a how-to while the 1st step was processing behind a window.
Multiple monitors can help you become more efficient. Multiple monitors can help you become more accurate (side by side comparisons - especially if the external monitor is a wide-screen format).
The amount of time that it takes me to perform a certain task, that requires multiple steps, with information needed from an e-mail for each step, is much less than a counterpart who uses only one monitor.
most people don't want an indepth history of what happened, why it happened, how it happened.
They want it fixed.
It's not as if they will actually remember how to do this in the future. Why should they, when they can find you again to ask the same question over and over and over and over and over and over. Until finally you put up a neon sign pointing to the power switch so they know how to "Turn on" their computer.
Into their coffers - they've already got agreements with all the major cell carriers to cover those types.
I'm talking when the cell call goes from tower, into the regular phone network, off to ma and pa kettle in the remote mountains.
None of the carriers are paying those small bell shops to *carry* the call to the person being called. It's just part of being on the phone network.
If they think others should pay because they are using tech that verizon *supposedly* invented without relying on anyone elses work (which I don't believe), then they should be paying every company who's phone lines the call crosses.
Well by premium, I mean the fastest, most powerfull currently available.
Often times, with these components, you'll run into software timing glitches, where the developers assumed that nothing could respond faster than x, and built in waits, often missing interrupts, or corrupting data, causing BSODS.
Other times, you may have multiple audio processors (ie USB headphones for voice commo in games, and regular sound card for game audio) and run into issues where the sound is directed to the wrong processor.
These are but a few of the types of issues that can crop up.
To answer to the driver section, Windows may have the lead in driver selection, but that's only because the vendors have seen that the install base of Windows is (was) much higher than Linux and BSD derived installs. They (the hardware vendors) wrote the drivers for the OS that was most likely to be used with the hardware.
The folks that spend all of their time developing Linux/BSD based OSes also had to spend time writing their own drivers, often without any help from the manufacturer.
So while Windows may have *more* drivers that the others, I'll give props to the others as they actually wrote their own. Aside from the hardware the MS had OEM'd, and which the drivers were written by the OEM to MS's specs, MS has yet, to my knowledge, to actually write their own hardware drivers for any modern components.
Because somebody has to pay those bills, and if the law says that the ISPs can't charge the big guys - the big users - differently, it means that they have to charge them the same rate that they charge everyone else. And that means not that their rate will go down, but that everybody else's rate will go up.
Uhh - That bandwidth has already been paid for.
The content providers pay their ISPs for bandwidth in/out. The users pay their ISPs for bandwidth in/out. The ISPs pay the backbone providers for bandwidth in/out.
Adding any additional layers of charges onto this is double dipping, period - and should be treated as such.
The end-user who already pays for their bandwidth are the ones choosing to download from a site or content provider.
Should a content provider be asked to pay (again, for something that's already been paid for) just because one of it's users has asked for content to be pushed to them?
No.
That's just fucking greed on the part of the ISPs and backbone providers.
I think scores of us pointed out the fact that since MS can't be trusted to write a secure operating system, that we couldn't trust them to write software to secure and protect said defective product.
Meh - no thanks. While I abhor the idea of donating (I hate to call it purchasing, as anything MS makes is never worth what they charge, so I have to think of it as a donation) any more money to MS, I will never do that.
He's instructing you to perform a non SOX Compliant activity. If it was the medical industry, it would also be non HIPAA compliant, as that is personally identifiable information. I don't know whether the financial industry has a HIPAA like set of rules to follow. If they don't, they need one.
Don't forget those that download portions at work, the rest at home, install, then -oops - something breaks - then re-download, re-install - over and over again.
I for one, through various IPs,probably personally account for at least 40 installs.
And no, I don't currently have it running due to bugs.
It might be interesting if Senate and House legislators were to have all of their bank accounts (foreign and domestic) audited, pre election, post election, during term, after term. Oh, let's not forget the President's, and all of his cabinet member's accounts as well...
It might, just might, get rid of a lot of the "corporate influence" that seems to run through currently.
Like I said before, seriously: try to work it out in therapy. Do it for your kid. They way you are can't be good for her. Let me know how that works out for you.
You know, I haven't seen so many worthless responses from a supposedly human being in years.
But that's okay, I know you can't help yourself. You're sitting there watching for my every response, waiting, just waiting for a response, so that you can add your own comments to try and get the last word in.
You keep trying, and who knows, maybe I'll die of old age, or maybe you'll go blind sitting there spanking yourself waiting for my next response.
If and when you decide to grow up and act your age (which I'd estimate at approximately 12), maybe, just maybe, I'll let this go.
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And if I as a player have NEVER clicked agree on their EULA?
I have a cat which loves to play with this *mouse* that I can dangle in front of it. All it does is *you guessed it - does a click* when it's hit.
So, if they'd care to enforce the EULA with my cat, they are more than welcome to. However, my cat will have to pay for his own lawyer.
Add to that, the fact, that on the side of my computer, in bold print, sits a sign stating the SPLA, the Software Providers License Agreement. It basically states that any software that allows itself to be installed on this computer, declares their own EULA to be null and void. If they do not like this SPLA, they need to prevent their software from installing. Failure to prevent the software from installing implies full compliance with this SPLA.
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There, put it back the way it was. It was correct as is.
But thanks for playing.
Now, if you wanted to use "all" it would read
than all certified *nix sysadmins seem to know.
We all know that certifications when it comes to anything to do with computers aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
How about: Bathe, get a girlfriend, go outside, read a 20 minute FAQ and learn more than most *nix sysadmins seem to know.
How about: Bathe, get a girlfriend, go outside, read a 20 minute FAQ and learn more than most self-proclaimed *nix sysadmins seem to know.
There, fixed that for you.
The difference is that IBM stated for the record that they were not publishing any information regarding the trial either themselves or through third parties.
If SCO could prove that IBM was using the *PJ* persona to funnel information (even if it's all accurate) it would go against IBM based on what they presented to the courts.
In the company that I work for, a majority of the IT staff use laptops for better or worse.
All of those, except for myself, use their laptops with the tops down, connected to external monitors.
I have mine set where the laptop is to the side of the monitor, and I keep e-mail, browsers, etc up on that, then the external monitor has my x-windows running on it.
It has greatly improved my efficiencies in that I can find documentation online (such as FAQs or manuals or how-to pages and read them, cut and paste - all without having to minimize, restore, maximize any screens. It's been a great timesaver, and I've also been able to catch messages that may have scrolled by without being seen if I'd been reading the next step in a how-to while the 1st step was processing behind a window.
Multiple monitors can help you become more efficient.
Multiple monitors can help you become more accurate (side by side comparisons - especially if the external monitor is a wide-screen format).
The amount of time that it takes me to perform a certain task, that requires multiple steps, with information needed from an e-mail for each step, is much less than a counterpart who uses only one monitor.
Nuff said.
It's too little, way too fucking late...
Too bad Windows mucks things up in the handholding to the point that it makes everything soooo much slower than it needs to be.
You don't need to be a techie to figure things out. You just need to be able to figure things out.
Religion doesn't promote hate. Ignorance does.
Fight hate, ban ignorance.
most people don't want an indepth history of what happened, why it happened, how it happened.
They want it fixed.
It's not as if they will actually remember how to do this in the future. Why should they, when they can find you again to ask the same question over and over and over and over and over and over. Until finally you put up a neon sign pointing to the power switch so they know how to "Turn on" their computer.
Into their coffers - they've already got agreements with all the major cell carriers to cover those types.
I'm talking when the cell call goes from tower, into the regular phone network, off to ma and pa kettle in the remote mountains.
None of the carriers are paying those small bell shops to *carry* the call to the person being called. It's just part of being on the phone network.
If they think others should pay because they are using tech that verizon *supposedly* invented without relying on anyone elses work (which I don't believe), then they should be paying every company who's phone lines the call crosses.
Really?
Does Verizon pay every ma and pa phone shop who's lines they use passing Cell Calls to land lines?
I highly doubt it.
Well by premium, I mean the fastest, most powerfull currently available.
Often times, with these components, you'll run into software timing glitches, where the developers assumed that nothing could respond faster than x, and built in waits, often missing interrupts, or corrupting data, causing BSODS.
Other times, you may have multiple audio processors (ie USB headphones for voice commo in games, and regular sound card for game audio) and run into issues where the sound is directed to the wrong processor.
These are but a few of the types of issues that can crop up.
To answer to the driver section, Windows may have the lead in driver selection, but that's only because the vendors have seen that the install base of Windows is (was) much higher than Linux and BSD derived installs. They (the hardware vendors) wrote the drivers for the OS that was most likely to be used with the hardware.
The folks that spend all of their time developing Linux/BSD based OSes also had to spend time writing their own drivers, often without any help from the manufacturer.
So while Windows may have *more* drivers that the others, I'll give props to the others as they actually wrote their own. Aside from the hardware the MS had OEM'd, and which the drivers were written by the OEM to MS's specs, MS has yet, to my knowledge, to actually write their own hardware drivers for any modern components.
If you run commodity hardware with commodity drivers, you're stuck with commodity blandness and performance.
If you decide to hand-craft your own from premium parts, that's where you start to run into problems.
Windows has been designed for the masses, the commoners, the lowest common denominator.
Try moving above that line and you'll see all kinds of funky not-so-fun stuff happen.
Because somebody has to pay those bills, and if the law says that the ISPs can't charge the big guys - the big users - differently, it means that they have to charge them the same rate that they charge everyone else. And that means not that their rate will go down, but that everybody else's rate will go up.
Uhh - That bandwidth has already been paid for.
The content providers pay their ISPs for bandwidth in/out.
The users pay their ISPs for bandwidth in/out.
The ISPs pay the backbone providers for bandwidth in/out.
Adding any additional layers of charges onto this is double dipping, period - and should be treated as such.
The end-user who already pays for their bandwidth are the ones choosing to download from a site or content provider.
Should a content provider be asked to pay (again, for something that's already been paid for) just because one of it's users has asked for content to be pushed to them?
No.
That's just fucking greed on the part of the ISPs and backbone providers.
I think scores of us pointed out the fact that since MS can't be trusted to write a secure operating system, that we couldn't trust them to write software to secure and protect said defective product.
This may have already been pointed out.
It's NOT google that's putting this out there.
It's individuals.
Not much different from someone putting a post of chapters of a book in a forum somewhere.
The content posted, and with that, the offense (if any is committed) is by the poster.
Meh - no thanks. While I abhor the idea of donating (I hate to call it purchasing, as anything MS makes is never worth what they charge, so I have to think of it as a donation) any more money to MS, I will never do that.
ie - create the new DRM free Vista - they could call it the "Vista PUDRMFE" - Vista Penultimate Digital Rights Management Free Edition
Of course, they'll probably claim they can't take out the DRM because it's a crucial part of the operating system.
Hmmm - wonder how ReactOS is doing lately....
notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
127.0.0.1 genuine.microsoft.com
Ask your boss if he'd like to work at McDonald's.
He's instructing you to perform a non SOX Compliant activity.
If it was the medical industry, it would also be non HIPAA compliant, as that is personally identifiable information.
I don't know whether the financial industry has a HIPAA like set of rules to follow. If they don't, they need one.
Don't forget those that download portions at work, the rest at home, install, then -oops - something breaks - then re-download, re-install - over and over again.
I for one, through various IPs,probably personally account for at least 40 installs.
And no, I don't currently have it running due to bugs.
It might be interesting if Senate and House legislators were to have all of their bank accounts (foreign and domestic) audited, pre election, post election, during term, after term. Oh, let's not forget the President's, and all of his cabinet member's accounts as well...
It might, just might, get rid of a lot of the "corporate influence" that seems to run through currently.
You know, I haven't seen so many worthless responses from a supposedly human being in years.
But that's okay, I know you can't help yourself. You're sitting there watching for my every response, waiting, just waiting for a response, so that you can add your own comments to try and get the last word in.
You keep trying, and who knows, maybe I'll die of old age, or maybe you'll go blind sitting there spanking yourself waiting for my next response.
If and when you decide to grow up and act your age (which I'd estimate at approximately 12), maybe, just maybe, I'll let this go.
Eagerly anticipating your next mindless response.
Hah - oh gawd, you're killing me....
seriously though... I let my toddler read your comments and she suggested a response, from which I took out the big words so that you'd understand it.