Regardless of the amount of trade we do with them, its going to hurt. The Ukrainian economy is in terrible shape already, so this cant help.
And I've been to Ukraine a number of times in the last few years, and the level of CD piracy (software, audio and video) is *insane*. Its not just a few here and a few there. Its to the point were it is almost impossible to even find legitimate copies of anything - all thats available is the $2 pirated versions.
You can find stands in every market, outside the subway stops, street corners and every single CD of the hundreds for sale is pirated. Stores rarely offer legitimate versions for sale, and they're 10x the price. I've never actually even seen legitimate software for sale, only a handful of audio CD's in expensive stores in Kyiv and Lviv.
Its not just Britney Spears, WindowsXP and Titanic, its also smaller artists like Die Form, and linux friendly developers like id. You name it, its on the market.
Consider that when you're hyping the latest cool game developer and encouraging Linux users to go out and buy a legit copy to support the developers. In Ukraine the piracy is so out of control you couldnt purchase one even if you had the money and wanted to.
Once everyone has XP installed do you think they'll buy Nero or Easy CD Creator? No of course not Microsoft has closed them out by including rudimentary cd-burning in the OS. thats not anti-competitive? then what the hell is? the list goes on and on.
Yea, it also includes things like adding a TCP/IP stack to Windows. That certainly put a damper on the business of some companies, but now its viewed as an obvious part of any OS.
The concept of what features are part of an OS evolves over time, and it grows to include things like browsers, disk-defragmenters and yes, even CD burning. Why should using CD based media be any different than using a Zip disc or compact flash card?
"I thought that United States currency was legal tender for all debts. Some businesses or governmental agencies say that they will only accept checks, money orders or credit cards as payment, and others will only accept currency notes in denominations of $20 or smaller. Isn't this illegal?"
"The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 102. This is now found in section 392 of Title 31 of the United States Code. The law says that: "All coins and currencies of the United States (including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banking associations) . . . shall be legal-tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal law mandating that a person or organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy "
Er, no sir - you either put Quaxxon gasoline in it every time you fill up, or if you DO fill up somewhere else, you're required to make sure you ALSO run down the street and put in a half a tank of Quaxxon.
Which might apply if you just bought a license to use the car, rather than actually purchased the car.
But if I go to the computer shop around the corner and buy a windows license, I am allowed to install whatever program I like on it.
why isn't AOL or compaq allowed to do the same ?
Because they're re-selling it, you're not.
You can take your copy of Titanic and re-edit it any way you want at home for personal viewing, but you cant do that and resell it.
Should mod up that comment as "Funny" since the Passport required by MSN is essentially a hotmail.com account!
The whole reason the new MSN doesnt support POP3 is because the MSN mail system has been migrated to the Hotmail backend that manipulates the email over an HTTP interface.
They're simply consolidating the mail services the provide to their customers into one solution rather than several.
MS makes most of it's money from the Office suite, not from sales of Windows
Thats not true. Microsoft makes more money from the sales of Windows than its Office Suite.
See their last SEC filing at http://www.microsoft.com/msft/sec/10q3 00.htm, and note that the revenue for revenue of Windows is almost the same as for ALL Productiviy Applicaions and Developer (Office, Visual Studio, server applications, other desktop and developer apps, etc..) Sure Office makes a good bit of cash, but the OS makes more.
His site is hosted by best.com, probably on a shell machine with alot of other sites. The typical account has a 200MB/day, 25k hits/day limit.
The total amount is compared against the last 24 hours, computed on the hour. Check just after the hour and you may get thru, before he's back over the limit again.
This is just like any other quota system to keep one user from hogging an unfair share of the available resources, in this case bandwidth, hits or cgi cpu cycles.
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Regardless of the amount of trade we do with them, its going to hurt. The Ukrainian economy is in terrible shape already, so this cant help.
And I've been to Ukraine a number of times in the last few years, and the level of CD piracy (software, audio and video) is *insane*. Its not just a few here and a few there. Its to the point were it is almost impossible to even find legitimate copies of anything - all thats available is the $2 pirated versions.
You can find stands in every market, outside the subway stops, street corners and every single CD of the hundreds for sale is pirated. Stores rarely offer legitimate versions for sale, and they're 10x the price. I've never actually even seen legitimate software for sale, only a handful of audio CD's in expensive stores in Kyiv and Lviv.
Its not just Britney Spears, WindowsXP and Titanic, its also smaller artists like Die Form, and linux friendly developers like id. You name it, its on the market.
Consider that when you're hyping the latest cool game developer and encouraging Linux users to go out and buy a legit copy to support the developers. In Ukraine the piracy is so out of control you couldnt purchase one even if you had the money and wanted to.
> Diversity... works for evolution, works for software, works for operating systems...
... doesnt work very well for support or training.
Yea, it also includes things like adding a TCP/IP stack to Windows. That certainly put a damper on the business of some companies, but now its viewed as an obvious part of any OS.
The concept of what features are part of an OS evolves over time, and it grows to include things like browsers, disk-defragmenters and yes, even CD burning. Why should using CD based media be any different than using a Zip disc or compact flash card?
At which point Microsoft would kill Mac version of MS Office, and then Apple would really be screwed.
Businesses or individuals can refuse to accept cash. See the answer on the US Treasury web site.
Er, no sir - you either put Quaxxon gasoline in it every time you fill up, or if you DO fill up somewhere else, you're required to make sure you ALSO run down the street and put in a half a tank of Quaxxon.
Which might apply if you just bought a license to use the car, rather than actually purchased the car.
But if I go to the computer shop around the corner and buy a windows license, I am allowed to install whatever program I like on it. why isn't AOL or compaq allowed to do the same ?
Because they're re-selling it, you're not. You can take your copy of Titanic and re-edit it any way you want at home for personal viewing, but you cant do that and resell it.
Should mod up that comment as "Funny" since the Passport required by MSN is essentially a hotmail.com account!
The whole reason the new MSN doesnt support POP3 is because the MSN mail system has been migrated to the Hotmail backend that manipulates the email over an HTTP interface.
They're simply consolidating the mail services the provide to their customers into one solution rather than several.
DirectX is a core OS component, it'd go with the Windows company. Its clearly not a cross platform type application.
MS makes most of it's money from the Office suite, not from sales of Windows
Thats not true. Microsoft makes more money from the sales of Windows than its Office Suite.
See their last SEC filing at http://www.microsoft.com/msft/sec/10q3 00.htm, and note that the revenue for revenue of Windows is almost the same as for ALL Productiviy Applicaions and Developer (Office, Visual Studio, server applications, other desktop and developer apps, etc..) Sure Office makes a good bit of cash, but the OS makes more.
His site is hosted by best.com, probably on a shell machine with alot of other sites. The typical account has a 200MB/day, 25k hits/day limit.
The total amount is compared against the last 24 hours, computed on the hour. Check just after the hour and you may get thru, before he's back over the limit again.
This is just like any other quota system to keep one user from hogging an unfair share of the available resources, in this case bandwidth, hits or cgi cpu cycles.
Ok, I'll correct you. It was Software Arts, Inc.
See http://www.bricklin.com/history/sai.htm for details.
It was eventually sold to Lotus, who decided not to continue publishing it.