There's a pile of other manufacturers on Newegg (won't link spam that, but go to Newegg.com, select sound cards and pick "Power Search") like Asus, Turtle Beach, Diamond, Razer, and Zalman. I've never used any of these cards, so as always YMMV.
You think that's bad? How about ignoring even seemingly innocuous treaties with Canada—despite being at peace with them for over a century? How about kicking immigrant widows out, and giving the finger to courts that dare say "You can't do that"? It's all about the administration's demonstration of unitary executive power. There are numerous examples of this, but this radio show demonstrates how meticulously it pursues any challenge to the President's, and by extension, the administration's authority—no matter how small.
I say there's a new Godwin's Law. As a discussion's posts increases, the probability that the 2001-2009 George W. Bush administration or 1930s-40s Germany gets mentioned approaches 1.
Because OS X and Linux aren't de facto monopolies with 80%+ of the market.
And, because removing said applications from these systems isn't like removing organs from an angry wrestler who's awake. Naively removing IE (as in, find iexplore.exe/mshtml.dll and hit shift-delete) from any version of Windows from 98 to XP is like giving them a lobotomy.
The policy of doing things because they are expedient, but violate the rule of law, is a classic characteristic of an autocracy. With his pen, his Vice President, and his VP's lead counsel, Mr. Bush is trying to render this republic's foundation null and void. And for what? To regain the heady feeling of power that a certain Republican had as part of the Nixon administration? That Congress will not even touch the idea of impeachment means that they do not know, do not care, or have given up any hope that even impeachment and conviction will get anything of value done. Or, worst of all, they benefit from the many abuses of power that the administration have established.
I'd love to go to another country and beg for asylum, but the anti-terror rhetoric has other governments dreaming up asinine power grabs of their own (I'm looking at you, UK, Japan).
The thing is, the casual piracy that occurs in the USA (which this bill will target) is little more than a stray eyelash in the corporations' eyes. If you want actual rape of corporations, try the counterfeit factories across the Pacific. Ironic, given that they invested billions in that region for cheap labor.
The only ones to benefit are Microsoft, who are using it as marketing. This is something that the world at large, especially governments and the ISO, need to understand. Microsoft is, by and large, not a technology company in the sense of developing new things for people to buy and use (a small fraction of their products have been developed from Microsoft proper, not a company they purchased to cannibalize their technology). They are, first and foremost, a marketing company, and it has been true ever since Bill Gates sent his open letter to hobbyists, arguing for proprietary software licensing. Whatever functionality and convenience their products have is secondary to their ability to make gobs of money off their licensing, and once Microsoft became accustomed to a perpetual renewing license business model, they have been fighting Scientology-style to keep it.
I can sympathize with people who have mouths to feed and debts to pay, but at what point should those of us in IT and other industries sacrifice the basic engineering ethos of "giving the customer the best possible solution" for what amounts to MS chump change?
There is no such thing as getting paid in spades for something with practically no manufacturing cost. See, Paulo, I can make completely false statements, too.
Of course he does. But he knows China would destroy Tibet rather than grant it. He's no fool. Asking for that would just give China another stick to beat him with. The sad part is, the PRC and those who agree with GP will point to the Dalai Lama's request for autonomy and say "See? He doesn't want independence, so why the hell should we give it to Tibet?" There was an NPR broadcast a week ago that pointed out that China is probably just waiting for him to die, so that they can "find" a new Dalai Lama they can control.
Not nearly as brilliant as your "Happy Fun Ball" ripoff, but...
Side effects may include: dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, water retention, painful rectal itch, hallucination, dementia, psychosis, coma, death, and halitosis. Buckyballs are not for everyone. Consult your doctor before use.
To be overly optimistic*, the first 2 issues are things you can raise with the OO.o dev community-- or, if you have some coding skills, implement on your own and submit as a patch.
As for the third, I can only say that MS Office has the advantage of licensing with commercial font foundries. Free-as-in-libre fonts are still in their infancy (I can only think of 2 projects off the top of my head).
* Optimistic, because I hear that submitting a bug report or patch that actually gets implemented is akin to, well, pulling teeth.
Given how many corporations are now farting in the BBB's general direction rather than addressing customer grievances, I would go for a class action suit. Unfortunately the contract probably has a mandatory binding arbitration clause in it buried somewhere.
Note: The author meant the reason why Linux users use Linux, not reasons why your boss should pay to deploy Linux in your company. If you're looking for the latter, find an IT rag that PHBs would read.
Funny. Those guys have already been paid by the time the movie is released. The execs, however, are the ones that stand to make money by the continual sales of completed works.
Has the user pressed a key? No. Has the user pressed a key? No! Has the user pressed a key? No!! Has the user pressed a key? NO!!... Has the user pressed a key? Look, if I process a keypress, will you stop asking me? Yes, of course.
It would work, if you could get it through the legislature, of which many are under the influence of the powerful media lobby. Even if you did get it past both houses of Congress and the President's desk unaltered, you'll have to deal with some labels and studios finding loopholes around the fee, and others pulling a Microsoft and outright ignoring it. Still others may lobby/bribe the registrar to set royalties to a similar exponential scale.
Oh, it's a great way to legislate punishment for the media middlemen, but the current state of affairs in the USA make it nigh-impossible to make it happen.
He didn't buy a new Xbox because he couldn't afford one (or wanted to keep the stats on his old box), and switching cases with a new box would have voided the warranty on both— this is not something you'd want to do on a shoestring budget. He's not a Comic Book Store Guy-type collector, so he didn't get two boxes to begin with (which would've made the signed box CSR-proof).
That said, surely he heard of all the RRoD horror stories, so perhaps working toward a second box should have been in his plans?
If there's written evidence from Microsoft that promised him they wouldn't touch the signatures, there's no doubt that they are liable. It'll be quite a bit harder to prove without that.
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Daniel knows that only sociopaths threaten before negotiating.
There's a pile of other manufacturers on Newegg (won't link spam that, but go to Newegg.com, select sound cards and pick "Power Search") like Asus, Turtle Beach, Diamond, Razer, and Zalman. I've never used any of these cards, so as always YMMV.
You think that's bad? How about ignoring even seemingly innocuous treaties with Canada—despite being at peace with them for over a century? How about kicking immigrant widows out, and giving the finger to courts that dare say "You can't do that"? It's all about the administration's demonstration of unitary executive power. There are numerous examples of this, but this radio show demonstrates how meticulously it pursues any challenge to the President's, and by extension, the administration's authority—no matter how small.
I say there's a new Godwin's Law. As a discussion's posts increases, the probability that the 2001-2009 George W. Bush administration or 1930s-40s Germany gets mentioned approaches 1.
And, because removing said applications from these systems isn't like removing organs from an angry wrestler who's awake. Naively removing IE (as in, find iexplore.exe/mshtml.dll and hit shift-delete) from any version of Windows from 98 to XP is like giving them a lobotomy.
The policy of doing things because they are expedient, but violate the rule of law, is a classic characteristic of an autocracy. With his pen, his Vice President, and his VP's lead counsel, Mr. Bush is trying to render this republic's foundation null and void. And for what? To regain the heady feeling of power that a certain Republican had as part of the Nixon administration? That Congress will not even touch the idea of impeachment means that they do not know, do not care, or have given up any hope that even impeachment and conviction will get anything of value done. Or, worst of all, they benefit from the many abuses of power that the administration have established.
I'd love to go to another country and beg for asylum, but the anti-terror rhetoric has other governments dreaming up asinine power grabs of their own (I'm looking at you, UK, Japan).
The thing is, the casual piracy that occurs in the USA (which this bill will target) is little more than a stray eyelash in the corporations' eyes. If you want actual rape of corporations, try the counterfeit factories across the Pacific. Ironic, given that they invested billions in that region for cheap labor.
The only ones to benefit are Microsoft, who are using it as marketing.
This is something that the world at large, especially governments and the ISO, need to understand. Microsoft is, by and large, not a technology company in the sense of developing new things for people to buy and use (a small fraction of their products have been developed from Microsoft proper, not a company they purchased to cannibalize their technology). They are, first and foremost, a marketing company, and it has been true ever since Bill Gates sent his open letter to hobbyists, arguing for proprietary software licensing. Whatever functionality and convenience their products have is secondary to their ability to make gobs of money off their licensing, and once Microsoft became accustomed to a perpetual renewing license business model, they have been fighting Scientology-style to keep it.
I can sympathize with people who have mouths to feed and debts to pay, but at what point should those of us in IT and other industries sacrifice the basic engineering ethos of "giving the customer the best possible solution" for what amounts to MS chump change?
There is no such thing as getting paid in spades for something with practically no manufacturing cost. See, Paulo, I can make completely false statements, too.
Of course he does. But he knows China would destroy Tibet rather than grant it. He's no fool. Asking for that would just give China another stick to beat him with.
The sad part is, the PRC and those who agree with GP will point to the Dalai Lama's request for autonomy and say "See? He doesn't want independence, so why the hell should we give it to Tibet?" There was an NPR broadcast a week ago that pointed out that China is probably just waiting for him to die, so that they can "find" a new Dalai Lama they can control.
Not nearly as brilliant as your "Happy Fun Ball" ripoff, but...
Side effects may include: dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, water retention, painful rectal itch, hallucination, dementia, psychosis, coma, death, and halitosis. Buckyballs are not for everyone. Consult your doctor before use.
To be overly optimistic*, the first 2 issues are things you can raise with the OO.o dev community-- or, if you have some coding skills, implement on your own and submit as a patch.
As for the third, I can only say that MS Office has the advantage of licensing with commercial font foundries. Free-as-in-libre fonts are still in their infancy (I can only think of 2 projects off the top of my head).
* Optimistic, because I hear that submitting a bug report or patch that actually gets implemented is akin to, well, pulling teeth.
Given how many corporations are now farting in the BBB's general direction rather than addressing customer grievances, I would go for a class action suit. Unfortunately the contract probably has a mandatory binding arbitration clause in it buried somewhere.
I'm more of an Eric Idle person in this circumstance.
The difference between a good-natured jab and a trollish slap? The word "EVER".
Oh, they'll use it, but they'll prioritize HD PPV television over Internet. They've been chomping at the bit to get even with FIOS and U-Verse.
Note: The author meant the reason why Linux users use Linux, not reasons why your boss should pay to deploy Linux in your company. If you're looking for the latter, find an IT rag that PHBs would read.
I'm sure, being from Fermilab, he'll want to be a part of restoring the Dept. of Energy budget for high-energy research and the like.
Yep, and the execs will figuratively give everyone else the finger if asked to uphold the letter of the contracts.
Although he's far from stupid, "there's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot." (Dilbert)
Be glad it isn't Homer Simpson's brain in that mouse:
...
Has the user pressed a key?
No.
Has the user pressed a key?
No!
Has the user pressed a key?
No!!
Has the user pressed a key?
NO!!
Has the user pressed a key?
Look, if I process a keypress, will you stop asking me?
Yes, of course.
So You Hacked Our Site!?
I think someone should trademark the term "Hacking," as people take it to mean both "trespassing online" and "breaching our illusion of security."
It would work, if you could get it through the legislature, of which many are under the influence of the powerful media lobby. Even if you did get it past both houses of Congress and the President's desk unaltered, you'll have to deal with some labels and studios finding loopholes around the fee, and others pulling a Microsoft and outright ignoring it. Still others may lobby/bribe the registrar to set royalties to a similar exponential scale.
Oh, it's a great way to legislate punishment for the media middlemen, but the current state of affairs in the USA make it nigh-impossible to make it happen.
He didn't buy a new Xbox because he couldn't afford one (or wanted to keep the stats on his old box), and switching cases with a new box would have voided the warranty on both— this is not something you'd want to do on a shoestring budget. He's not a Comic Book Store Guy-type collector, so he didn't get two boxes to begin with (which would've made the signed box CSR-proof).
That said, surely he heard of all the RRoD horror stories, so perhaps working toward a second box should have been in his plans?
If there's written evidence from Microsoft that promised him they wouldn't touch the signatures, there's no doubt that they are liable. It'll be quite a bit harder to prove without that.
That's precisely the stuff he would stonewall with: "Sorry, I can't comment on ongoing legal cases."