I wonder if Mike Hatch (MN Attorney General) is going to have time to pursue Microsoft now that he's also suing baseball.
My preferred solution: break Microsoft into 28 operating companies. Give one to each MLB owner. Let Bill & Steve run baseball. Benefits of this solution are that baseball still gets run like a monopoly, but by people who are good at running a monopoly, and baseball comes with a built-in anti-trust exemption. Microsoft goes down the tubes, just like baseball has been doing for years. And best of all, programmer salaries get to match those of baseball players.
Michael is not going to read your email. CmdrTaco is not going to detain you for seven days without a phone call. Hemos, much as he would like to, is not going to freeze your bank account.
Power given to any government agency is automatically bad. The question is, will the good that will be done as a consequence outweigh the bad?
People in Afghanistan have no freedom. Does that mean they are perfectly secure?
What the Senate has passed reduces our freedom significantly without increasing our security one iota. Read the Act as passed in the Senate and explain to me how it would have prevented the 9/11 hijackings.
I think you'll find that Scotland simply bypassed QEI. More interestingly, I remember reading that the current heir apparent would be Charles III of the UK, even thought there previously was a Charles III of Scotland.
This is not really about the location. If the company running the Voyeur Dorm was showing the live video feeds on a TV in its offices in (say) Miami, then that would be subject to Miami's zoning laws, not Tampa's (where the house is). Presumably a city could come up with a zoning law that restricted the areas in which adult web-hosting businesses could operate.
This ruling would strike down such zoning laws. The judge ruled that because there are no secondary effects of operating the business (late night visitors, disturbances, unsavory characters roaming the streets) then the city does not have the right to restrict constitutionally protected behavior.
Microsoft has a well funded PR department to put out benchmarks that show Windows in a positive light. The Linux community doesn't. If we want to compare OSes in areas in which Linux excels (and admittedly there are some who don't) we have to use grassroots methods, such as posting it to Slashdot.
You then end up with an extremely unbalanced work load as the ones who care the most do the most and produce the better product. Then they usually have to go around and fix up the people's work who really didn't care as much. All in all, it rarely leads to a produtive group
That sounds exactly like where I work. I don't know where you are employed that you think this
doesn't teach you much about the work force
but I'd be interested in hearing if they're hiring.
You're missing the whole point. You have to decide *now* to ditch W2K, and get on the upgrade-when-we-tell-you-not-when-you-want treadmill, or you will be denied the opportunity to upgrade anything in the future. Full retail for every new version of Windows or Office, regardless of what was already on the PC.
I'm glad you like W2K, because sticking with XP until something better comes along will not be an option.
I would be wary of falling into the trap of thinking Microsoft guilty of ignorance or incompetence (that's what they want us to think!). So your assumption that they are not lying scum must be flawed.
It's not an irrational fear. Service packs for NT (particularly SP6) have been known to do horrible things to third party applications. I had an application that ran just fine on SP3, but when we went to SP5 (might have been SP4) for Y2K, I could not get it to work. Eventually I rewrote it from scratch using a different set of APIs.
Since you are not the copyright holder, you have no rights to sell, or redistribute, or make copies (other than for personal use) of the software. The software comes with a licence that, if you choose to accept it, allows you to do that with some restrictions (i.e. you must use the GPL). If you do not accept the licence, you must make other arrangements with the copyright holder if you wish to distribute the software.
Not that there's anything wrong with making cases in a variety of colours, but when that's a major selling point of your product, I think you have problems.
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I wonder if Mike Hatch (MN Attorney General) is going to have time to pursue Microsoft now that he's also suing baseball.
My preferred solution: break Microsoft into 28 operating companies. Give one to each MLB owner. Let Bill & Steve run baseball. Benefits of this solution are that baseball still gets run like a monopoly, but by people who are good at running a monopoly, and baseball comes with a built-in anti-trust exemption. Microsoft goes down the tubes, just like baseball has been doing for years. And best of all, programmer salaries get to match those of baseball players.
So go be master of your reality somewhere else.
Michael is not going to read your email. CmdrTaco is not going to detain you for seven days without a phone call. Hemos, much as he would like to, is not going to freeze your bank account.
Power given to any government agency is automatically bad. The question is, will the good that will be done as a consequence outweigh the bad?
People in Afghanistan have no freedom. Does that mean they are perfectly secure?
What the Senate has passed reduces our freedom significantly without increasing our security one iota. Read the Act as passed in the Senate and explain to me how it would have prevented the 9/11 hijackings.
I think you'll find that Scotland simply bypassed QEI. More interestingly, I remember reading that the current heir apparent would be Charles III of the UK, even thought there previously was a Charles III of Scotland.
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This is not really about the location. If the company running the Voyeur Dorm was showing the live video feeds on a TV in its offices in (say) Miami, then that would be subject to Miami's zoning laws, not Tampa's (where the house is). Presumably a city could come up with a zoning law that restricted the areas in which adult web-hosting businesses could operate.
This ruling would strike down such zoning laws. The judge ruled that because there are no secondary effects of operating the business (late night visitors, disturbances, unsavory characters roaming the streets) then the city does not have the right to restrict constitutionally protected behavior.
And quite right, too.
Microsoft has a well funded PR department to put out benchmarks that show Windows in a positive light. The Linux community doesn't. If we want to compare OSes in areas in which Linux excels (and admittedly there are some who don't) we have to use grassroots methods, such as posting it to Slashdot.
Anyone want to take bets on how long it will take for a rip of this album to appear on the various P2P networks, and which one will get it first?
You then end up with an extremely unbalanced work load as the ones who care the most do the most and produce the better product. Then they usually have to go around and fix up the people's work who really didn't care as much. All in all, it rarely leads to a produtive group
That sounds exactly like where I work. I don't know where you are employed that you think this
doesn't teach you much about the work force
but I'd be interested in hearing if they're hiring.
3G can deliver 384k while you're moving. Without a lot of clever routing, freenets aren't going to do that for you.
Freenets are for using your laptop on a park bench or in a coffee shop. 3G is for in your car, or for content direct to your phone.
You're missing the whole point. You have to decide *now* to ditch W2K, and get on the upgrade-when-we-tell-you-not-when-you-want treadmill, or you will be denied the opportunity to upgrade anything in the future. Full retail for every new version of Windows or Office, regardless of what was already on the PC.
I'm glad you like W2K, because sticking with XP until something better comes along will not be an option.
now is an "optimal time" to settle the case out of court and that they could strike a deal "if everybody is reasonable and acting in good faith."
Good faith? Microsoft? US Government? I wonder what colour the Blue Screen of Death is in her world?
Boy, the way Taco is trying to start a holy war here, anyone would think that he made money on ad impressions every time someone posted a comment.
I think dropping Be on Kabul would be a bad idea. There are no rootkits for BeOS. How would we haXor Al Qeyda then?
That made my day - and it's not even 9am yet.
I have a stuffed Tiny Clanger in my cube. It makes Clanger noises. Wonderful.
I have heard the Clangers is out on DVD now - presumably Region 2 only?
And what of the 160 hours of work that I have invested in the company. Don't I deserve to be compensated for that?
[This is hypothetical. I work at a really stable company - so far]
I would be wary of falling into the trap of thinking Microsoft guilty of ignorance or incompetence (that's what they want us to think!). So your assumption that they are not lying scum must be flawed.
It's not an irrational fear. Service packs for NT (particularly SP6) have been known to do horrible things to third party applications. I had an application that ran just fine on SP3, but when we went to SP5 (might have been SP4) for Y2K, I could not get it to work. Eventually I rewrote it from scratch using a different set of APIs.
Just like a real ecosystem, then, which many people have compared the internet to.
I think something like this may be inevitable. You may even get parasites on the worms. So long as they don't turn out like the viruses in Hyperion...
FreeSWAN and OpenBSD are both hosted in Canada, so I think you are right.
EULAs are not really related to copyright. They are more like a contract that you don't sign but are still bound by.
The action of redistributing the software.
Since you are not the copyright holder, you have no rights to sell, or redistribute, or make copies (other than for personal use) of the software. The software comes with a licence that, if you choose to accept it, allows you to do that with some restrictions (i.e. you must use the GPL). If you do not accept the licence, you must make other arrangements with the copyright holder if you wish to distribute the software.
Where's the "Wrong" moderation option when you need it?
If you give or sell me some copyrighted code, fair use provisions allow me to execute it.
Amundsen was obviously prepared for the conditions, why wasn't Scott?
While Scott probably doesn't deserve the villification he has received in recent years, he was also not entirely competent as a polar explorer.
Not that there's anything wrong with making cases in a variety of colours, but when that's a major selling point of your product, I think you have problems.