Simple. In the http headers, you send "by sending me the link to your software to be displayed by my browser, you agree to be bound by the EULA..." in such a way that it is written in their logs.
(and the tail of the long EULA can even be an executable code)
Actually, another qustion is: How often anyone use the M$-added "windows" or "menu" buttons?
In my opinion, the extra keys should not be removed even if they are obsolete. They can be easily remapped to something good, like 'capslock' to 'esc' or additional 'control', 'win' key to 'mod' etc.
I've been wondering for a while why no one has tried to sell dual-headed displays with two keyboards and mice. It could lower the fratricide/soricide rates among families with only one computer.
Dual-headed vide cards, two keyboards, two displays, and a chain saw.
Better: two separate system boxes and a glue-stick.
The reason being that most small business owners do not know anything about computers and more importantly, do not want to be bothered with it at all and they are very quick to seize on the cost benefits of free software.
Small businesses that do not want to be bothered with it all just buy shrink-wrapped software from Microsoft and alike.
"Truths of Life", Truth No 465,478,981,121,324,478.
And biggest issue with DRG: it's not going to work. It is mainly designed to prohibit copying the content, so you cannot give it to your friend. But the principle is: if you can play it, you can copy it. If there are sound waves, or radio waves, or signals in a cable - they can be captured. Sophisticated pirates (or simply technically advanced people) will always find a way. So DRM will have impact ONLY on legitimate users.
I am not against DRM as long as it properly priced (market price not monopoly price). But what we are heading to is all-DRM prescribed-when-you-listen you-have-to-buy-Windows overly-priced CDs or DVDs, "the monopolistic way".
Your computer belongs to you. What happens with that computer is your responsibility. It should be apparent, but for some reason it isn't to most people.
Right. If your Windows computer is broken into by some music-stealing crackers using one of numerous bugs in Microsoft programs, and converted to a warez storage, without you even knowing it, why wouldn't you be responsible for that?
- Oh! I didn't know this. I am a novice. I just bought my first computer.
I had several continuous mailers who were not malicious spammers. I just called them and was removed from the lists. Presuming all spammers as non-malicious would be a good foundation for establishing an anti-SPAM law. Then those not listening your requests would face much more severe consequences rather that voice-bombing their answering machines.
Doesn't that corrrespond to what is now the Open Source? You can call it an ideology. It were this continent's greedy screwheads that tried (and trying) to use if to profit (I remember the idea of charging $0.002 per page which was utterly ridiculous).
Alternative WiFi internet, mentioned in the first few posts, is a good thing. I think we will be there finally.
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Simple. In the http headers, you send "by sending me the link to your software to be displayed by my browser, you agree to be bound by the EULA ..." in such a way that it is written in their logs.
(and the tail of the long EULA can even be an executable code)
"End USER License Agreement". They are not users. Oh, wait... Don't they use your computer to license you their software?
Dude, it does support 3D-accelerated rendering.
Actually, another qustion is: How often anyone use the M$-added "windows" or "menu" buttons?
In my opinion, the extra keys should not be removed even if they are obsolete. They can be easily remapped to something good, like 'capslock' to 'esc' or additional 'control', 'win' key to 'mod' etc.
and if we are SURE we can't get it for free somewhere else
To make "pay-for-content" scheme work they need to make free stuff unavailable, not to increase quality of the non-free stuff to make it worth paying.
Internet 101, and go over email, browser basics, Usenet, FTP, etc.
Almost everybody uses email and browser somehow. People are completely unaware of newsgroups (as in news://).
People who use the language are the only authority how it is used.
I've been wondering for a while why no one has tried to sell dual-headed displays with two keyboards and mice. It could lower the fratricide/soricide rates among families with only one computer.
Dual-headed vide cards, two keyboards, two displays, and a chain saw.
Better: two separate system boxes and a glue-stick.
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The reason being that most small business owners do not know anything about computers and more importantly, do not want to be bothered with it at all and they are very quick to seize on the cost benefits of free software.
Small businesses that do not want to be bothered with it all just buy shrink-wrapped software from Microsoft and alike.
"Truths of Life", Truth No 465,478,981,121,324,478.
And biggest issue with DRG: it's not going to work. It is mainly designed to prohibit copying the content, so you cannot give it to your friend. But the principle is: if you can play it, you can copy it. If there are sound waves, or radio waves, or signals in a cable - they can be captured. Sophisticated pirates (or simply technically advanced people) will always find a way. So DRM will have impact ONLY on legitimate users.
I am not against DRM as long as it properly priced (market price not monopoly price). But what we are heading to is all-DRM prescribed-when-you-listen you-have-to-buy-Windows overly-priced CDs or DVDs, "the monopolistic way".
Your computer belongs to you. What happens with that computer is your responsibility. It should be apparent, but for some reason it isn't to most people.
Right. If your Windows computer is broken into by some music-stealing crackers using one of numerous bugs in Microsoft programs, and converted to a warez storage, without you even knowing it, why wouldn't you be responsible for that?
- Oh! I didn't know this. I am a novice. I just bought my first computer.
- Go to jail, you MFer.
His move was to give people a chance.
I had several continuous mailers who were not malicious spammers. I just called them and was removed from the lists. Presuming all spammers as non-malicious would be a good foundation for establishing an anti-SPAM law. Then those not listening your requests would face much more severe consequences rather that voice-bombing their answering machines.
% dd if=/dev/random | mail sco.com
Those were "algorithms", you dumbhead. It was just a typo. Russians never confuse logarithms with algorithms - they learned both in school (did you?)
> THE ARPANET/INTERNET WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT TO WITHSTAND PHYSICAL ATTACK. THAT WAS THE REASON. THAT IS WHY IT WAS BUILT.
To my memory, Internet was created in CERN for free exchange of [scientific] ideas:
www.hitmill.com/internet/web_history.asp
Doesn't that corrrespond to what is now the Open Source? You can call it an ideology. It were this continent's greedy screwheads that tried (and trying) to use if to profit (I remember the idea of charging $0.002 per page which was utterly ridiculous).
Alternative WiFi internet, mentioned in the first few posts, is a good thing. I think we will be there finally.
UNDERSTOOD?!?!?