A "reasonable person" doesn't buy stuff through eBay and have any expectations as far as quality goes. If a "reasonable person" believes those silly seller ratings on eBay, please send them my way. I have a bridge to sell them.
Yes, a good deal. Especially considering that you paid full price for the software that you thought was "real." Exceptional deal.
Uuuh, and how is buying an illegal copy of Windows MS's fault? I still say that they're being quite generous. If they just handed every dumbass a legit copy, then there'd be no incentive for people to insist on buying a real copy.
Oh good point. Yeah, maybe in the 3rd world, where people are paid $0.25/hour. It'll probably be worth it to them. People living somewhere where the standard of living is a bit higher (and time is worth much mroe money) aren't going to care about $150. Hell, that's less than what most people I know pay for their cell phone in one month.
If you call offering you the real software at half price, "coming after you", I hope that more companies "come after me". It's a pretty goddamned good deal.
Given the choice of a super-crippled SE, a somewhat-crippled XP Home/Pro, or a fully-functional GNU/Linux, GNU/Linux becomes an increasingly "no-brainer" solution.
Considering that they'll give people the option of buying XP Pro for $150? Are you kidding? $150 isn't nearly enough to make people even consider switching platforms, and going through all the related headaches. If anything, they'll sell a hell of a lot more copies of XP. But, I think you're right. People who consider switching platforms over $150 are pretty brainless.
So if you're found to have a pirated copy, you need to show proof of purchase? If I have proof of purchase then it's not pirated, and therefore, I wouldn't need to buy it again at a discounted price.
Not true. You could've bought a pirated copy (see all those "bi S0ftw4ar3 4 cheep" emails?). And at least in the US, it's not legal to have stolen property, even if you didn't know that it was stolen. They're being very generous. Technically, they could sick the cops on each and every person using a pirated copy.
How exactly do they check for it being a pirated copy? I mean other then checking their database of registered windows users and comparing it to the computer, how do they know the difference?
300 people using the same single user registration key/serial number is a pretty damn good indication.
On a sidenote, is anyone going to buy this drive that is 4gb and costs 100 bucks? I don't think it's much use to anyone.
In the era of cheap, throwaway crap, I'm pretty much by myself when I say "I want QUALITY". So yes, I'm planning on buying several of these later today to put them in my main machines in my business. they'll be running our mission-critical cash registers.
The Register has always had about as much journalistic integrity as Slashdot (hence the frequent linking back and forth). I wouldn't expect anything better from them.
I noticed that Google World is at least that far behind by looking at my house and my business. I was sorely disappointed at how old the maps are. They're essentially useless, in my opinion.
Where's the opt-out box on this form called Life Under Big Brother?
No such thing. Just don't use a cell phone if you don't like being tracked. Nobody forced you to buy a cell phone (or any of the stupid techno-gadgets that allow this).
That's why I use DVD Shrink and copy every single movie I buy. The first thing I do after taking the shrink wrap is putting it in the ol' 'puter and let DVDShrink rip me a new copy of the movie that is JUST the movie (no ads, no stupid menus, etc.). But then again, it's gotten so ridiculous, that I'm now skipping buying movies altogether.
It's most interesting with pretty much zero insight as to what made it "successful"..
I think that it's implied that it was successful because a whopping 300 people registered. I'm not saying that this criteria is either good or bad, but that's what I take from the summary + article.
Please, don't lump all "religious people" together under the umbrella of fundamentalists.
All religious people are, by definition, wrong. The very definition of religion is believing in something in which there is no proof whatsoever (hence, faith). I personally have zero respect for any religious person, no matter how moderate the claim to be. Anybody who talks to invisible beings either A. Has a mental disorder or B. willfully chooses to ignore reality. I have no interest at all in having anything to do with such people.
Evidently Harvard would have us believe that a butterfly that looks like a butterfly, smells like a butterfly, and flies like a butterfly, but has a different colour stipe on its wing.......has become something other than a butterfly????
Please read the article again. You very obviously didn't understand it first time through. The discovery is very subtle, and seemingly obvious, but scientists are all about proof, so what was once assumed can now be proved better. That makes this important.
There is no evolution going on in dogs any more. Breeding is (generally) very controlled. Dogs are simply genetic toys that people like to play with. Hell, chihuahuas should not even exist. They cannot be born naturally... a cesarian section is required because the dogs' heads are too big for the birth canal. Dogs are genetic toys, and since breeders aren't geneticists, [purebred] dogs are getting sicker with each passing generation. Mutts, on the other hand, are a different story.
I have a "theory"... it's about this invisible man who lives in the sky. His name is "Jesus H. Christ". He's responsible for everything good in the world. He's everywhere all the time and you can talk to him anytime you want. He's very nice if you believe in him. If you believe in him, you get to live with him when you die. If you don't, then you're in bad shape. Oh yeah, and he hates gay people, and thinks they should all die. That's a funny theory, huh?
No, people just don't like a company -- any company -- get a patent on something which (a) the company did not invent, (b) already existed more than a decade ago, (c) is really really obvious, (d) is in common use by nearly every computer user today.
Well, OK. Then people should not like Amazon, Google, Ebay, Apple, VA Linux (the owners of Slashdot) and every other computer related on the planet because it seems that they all do this.
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...Or, you can get the equivalent Windows PC with a monitor, mouse and keyboard for the same price.
A "reasonable person" doesn't buy stuff through eBay and have any expectations as far as quality goes. If a "reasonable person" believes those silly seller ratings on eBay, please send them my way. I have a bridge to sell them.
Yes, a good deal. Especially considering that you paid full price for the software that you thought was "real." Exceptional deal.
Uuuh, and how is buying an illegal copy of Windows MS's fault? I still say that they're being quite generous. If they just handed every dumbass a legit copy, then there'd be no incentive for people to insist on buying a real copy.
You're right. Thanks for the correction.
Oh good point. Yeah, maybe in the 3rd world, where people are paid $0.25/hour. It'll probably be worth it to them. People living somewhere where the standard of living is a bit higher (and time is worth much mroe money) aren't going to care about $150. Hell, that's less than what most people I know pay for their cell phone in one month.
If you call offering you the real software at half price, "coming after you", I hope that more companies "come after me". It's a pretty goddamned good deal.
Given the choice of a super-crippled SE, a somewhat-crippled XP Home/Pro, or a fully-functional GNU/Linux, GNU/Linux becomes an increasingly "no-brainer" solution.
Considering that they'll give people the option of buying XP Pro for $150? Are you kidding? $150 isn't nearly enough to make people even consider switching platforms, and going through all the related headaches. If anything, they'll sell a hell of a lot more copies of XP. But, I think you're right. People who consider switching platforms over $150 are pretty brainless.
So if you're found to have a pirated copy, you need to show proof of purchase? If I have proof of purchase then it's not pirated, and therefore, I wouldn't need to buy it again at a discounted price.
Not true. You could've bought a pirated copy (see all those "bi S0ftw4ar3 4 cheep" emails?). And at least in the US, it's not legal to have stolen property, even if you didn't know that it was stolen. They're being very generous. Technically, they could sick the cops on each and every person using a pirated copy.
How exactly do they check for it being a pirated copy? I mean other then checking their database of registered windows users and comparing it to the computer, how do they know the difference?
300 people using the same single user registration key/serial number is a pretty damn good indication.
On a sidenote, is anyone going to buy this drive that is 4gb and costs 100 bucks? I don't think it's much use to anyone.
In the era of cheap, throwaway crap, I'm pretty much by myself when I say "I want QUALITY". So yes, I'm planning on buying several of these later today to put them in my main machines in my business. they'll be running our mission-critical cash registers.
Would you pay $100 for a 4GB Solid State Drive that is up to 6x faster than a WD Raptor?"
No, but I'd pay $100 for a 4 gig drive that is up to 6 times more reliable than a WD Raptor (or any modern hard drive with moving parts).
They're mindless consumers and can be easily led like the sheep they are.
You mean like all of the Slashdotters that only shop at mega-corporate stores like Amazon, EBay, Best Buy, and Fry's?
The Register has always had about as much journalistic integrity as Slashdot (hence the frequent linking back and forth). I wouldn't expect anything better from them.
I noticed that Google World is at least that far behind by looking at my house and my business. I was sorely disappointed at how old the maps are. They're essentially useless, in my opinion.
Do you have a link for those of us with a conscience who don't shop at Wal-Mart?
Where's the opt-out box on this form called Life Under Big Brother?
No such thing. Just don't use a cell phone if you don't like being tracked. Nobody forced you to buy a cell phone (or any of the stupid techno-gadgets that allow this).
It's funny because it's true!
That's why I use DVD Shrink and copy every single movie I buy. The first thing I do after taking the shrink wrap is putting it in the ol' 'puter and let DVDShrink rip me a new copy of the movie that is JUST the movie (no ads, no stupid menus, etc.). But then again, it's gotten so ridiculous, that I'm now skipping buying movies altogether.
It's most interesting with pretty much zero insight as to what made it "successful"..
I think that it's implied that it was successful because a whopping 300 people registered. I'm not saying that this criteria is either good or bad, but that's what I take from the summary + article.
Please, don't lump all "religious people" together under the umbrella of fundamentalists.
All religious people are, by definition, wrong. The very definition of religion is believing in something in which there is no proof whatsoever (hence, faith). I personally have zero respect for any religious person, no matter how moderate the claim to be. Anybody who talks to invisible beings either A. Has a mental disorder or B. willfully chooses to ignore reality. I have no interest at all in having anything to do with such people.
1. The Bible is fiction.
2. Get over it.
Evidently Harvard would have us believe that a butterfly that looks like a butterfly, smells like a butterfly, and flies like a butterfly, but has a different colour stipe on its wing.... ...has become something other than a butterfly????
Please read the article again. You very obviously didn't understand it first time through. The discovery is very subtle, and seemingly obvious, but scientists are all about proof, so what was once assumed can now be proved better. That makes this important.
There is no evolution going on in dogs any more. Breeding is (generally) very controlled. Dogs are simply genetic toys that people like to play with. Hell, chihuahuas should not even exist. They cannot be born naturally... a cesarian section is required because the dogs' heads are too big for the birth canal. Dogs are genetic toys, and since breeders aren't geneticists, [purebred] dogs are getting sicker with each passing generation. Mutts, on the other hand, are a different story.
I have a "theory"... it's about this invisible man who lives in the sky. His name is "Jesus H. Christ". He's responsible for everything good in the world. He's everywhere all the time and you can talk to him anytime you want. He's very nice if you believe in him. If you believe in him, you get to live with him when you die. If you don't, then you're in bad shape. Oh yeah, and he hates gay people, and thinks they should all die. That's a funny theory, huh?
No, people just don't like a company -- any company -- get a patent on something which (a) the company did not invent, (b) already existed more than a decade ago, (c) is really really obvious, (d) is in common use by nearly every computer user today.
Well, OK. Then people should not like Amazon, Google, Ebay, Apple, VA Linux (the owners of Slashdot) and every other computer related on the planet because it seems that they all do this.