It sure did. Only if you downloaded third party software, such as Trumpet Winsock so one could use TCPIP to connect to the internet. Microsoft was busy trying to market their own propreitary networking service (MSN) at the time.
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Quarter-sized CD's?
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Damn. If they remove the restrictions,...
Never happen. Beware of this quote from the article suggesting where they got their funding: "The company has raised $119 million in funding from a number of powerhouses, such as music giant Universal Music Group..."
They have whored themselves and now have satan's baby.
Or do what I did. I programmed my ISDN box to only allow calls that had 0 - 9 as the first digit. In other words, if no number ID was sent with the call, it would not ring and they'd get the busy signal. No telemarketers.
But, ISDN wasn't worth it. Cell phone and cablemodem is cheaper. Never had a telemarketer on my cellphone yet. If I do, I'm gonna track down the motherfucking satanist scum bastard who tried to solicit crap and kick his balls so hard he (or she) will never be able to call another day sleeper again. Justice will be served. Amen.
Plain Old Telephone Service is the infomercial channel. No thanks. The telephone company won't get my business again.
This is why MS makes the distinction between OEM and Retail products in the first place.
This is great for Microsoft to have OEM and retail pricing schemes, but why ca'nt consumers have the option not to buy at all or at least refund the unused software? I was forced to buy the Windows OEM version with my Toshiba "linux" laptop at Microsoft's "discounted" price.
Can I at least get a refund or sell the unwanted property? It is property isn't it? Didn't I buy it? What is it? How do I get rid of it? In the legal world, these terms are supposed to be defined and fair. But they aren't.
And keep in mind while the BSA sends out it's threat letters all the time, it rarely ever follows up on any of them. it's a scare tactic.
I have this funny feeling at least one of Microsoft's legal staff is reading this that happens in the mood to set an example about how strict copyrights can get.
I'd imagine with a world with too many lawyers, some get bored and like to investigate the damnedest things. Do you feel lucky today?
I would return to the store the bundled software and request my money back for that portion.
When I bought my new Toshiba laptop last month, the seal on the box had large type stating the enclosed software operating system is sold with the unit, cannot be seperated, and may not be subject to a refund, except for the whole unit.
Since I bought a laptop, I was legally required to buy Windows and it would be illegal for me to sell it, unless I sold my laptop with it. Great free country we live in, eh?
I consider myself a casual Linux user and found the ALS to be a wonderful event. The day was packed with tutorials from morning till evening. Decisions, decisions, there were so many to choose from at one time. Our group split up to attend the tutorials of our interests and shared notes and pictures during breaks. Everyone has a digital camera to capture the celebreties demonstrating the latest in code wizardry. Don't expect to learn everything as the energy level is high. Don't be alarmed by the smoke from the keyboards, but just sit back and enjoy the show. You can learn a lot just by watching. They gave us a nice book of the papers presented at last years ALS that is an outstanding reference for many of the hottest development areas that year.
The evening continued the busy schedule with large feasts, complimented with a sampling of fine brews, with a wide variety of entertainment, and really didn't stop unless sleep conquered the senses.
Atlanta was great. It was just several hours drive away from where I was at. California should even be more intense. But I'm thousands of miles away. I'd give anything to attend, but my last dime is being spent buying a house this week. Hopefully, those who do attend will document the work and fun on the net for me to enjoy.
I really enjoy the ALS and strongly recommend attending. Those who put on the ALS and made the events so enjoyable are heroes for donating so much of their time and money making it happen. It was not a marketing show, but by enthusiasts for people who hopefully like the same.
But this is an ethernet appliance. Its the future. Listen to the music. Pretty soon, the lights in your room will have an ethernet jack as everything else. Imagine downloading some coordinated mood lighting from your server after dinner.
The stove, refrigerator, even the kitchen sink, er dishwasher... Everything will have an IP address. Your dinner will be cooked to exacting specifications and the groceries will be automatically ordered.
In order to prepare for the coming hunting season, I recycled the Windows2000 manuals, license, and CD that came with my laptop into clay pigeons at the sand pits this month with my rifle.
The cheesy book looked exploded into what looked like a thousand feathers of pages. The license required me to wad it up in a ball to throw it and was a difficult target, but it met its demise.
Only problem was shooting the CD. Kept missing the damn thing. When it did get hit, it would not shatter. Only a tiny hole. Emptied a dozen boxes of shells on the CD alone.
Using cardboard for structure in a building reminds me of the stuff packed in boxes last springtime during the flood. Water has an affinity to cardboard, soon to be followed by fungus (the fungus is among us,) cockroaches, rats, etc...
Cardboard is a great way to recycle and support lower life forms.
Hopefully, you're operatating system is secure enough to prevent unauthorized viewing of your webcam.
You can be sure to trust the legally enforced backdoors required by government with your privacy. They are after all, supposed to serve and protect. You will never have to be in fear of being arrested for indecent or immorality. That has never happened by a government for the people before. Trust you shall. It will be law.
Using a vacuum to pull rope is a good idea, but what I found best is nylon string and compressed air . You can push hundreds of feet of nylon string in seconds through hundreds of feet of any size tubing with your portable air tank. Pulling wire couldn't be easier.
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Microsoft must position the MSFT stock as a growth stock.
Microsoft is really going downhill compared to other companies.
Our money comes from applications and renewals
If I understand this motivation, investing in an approval now yields future returns in renewals
So can I take my Sony Aibo back since I can't use it for the hack value I got it for?
Now its useless as a Barbie Doll.
What is on this black box? Does it use Windows as its operating system? Complete with the IIS web server?
It had support for networking that most users
It sure did. Only if you downloaded third party software, such as Trumpet Winsock so one could use TCPIP to connect to the internet. Microsoft was busy trying to market their own propreitary networking service (MSN) at the time.
Freedom? Today, its the US. Tomorrow, the world.
Watch out.
Damn. If they remove the restrictions,...
Never happen. Beware of this quote from the article suggesting where they got their funding: "The company has raised $119 million in funding from a number of powerhouses, such as music giant Universal Music Group..."
They have whored themselves and now have satan's baby.
I suppose the person who thought this was flamebait wouldn't mind providing us with an mpeg version?
I would like to see the movie or perhaps even a screenshot.
Or do what I did. I programmed my ISDN box to only allow calls that had 0 - 9 as the first digit. In other words, if no number ID was sent with the call, it would not ring and they'd get the busy signal. No telemarketers.
But, ISDN wasn't worth it. Cell phone and cablemodem is cheaper. Never had a telemarketer on my cellphone yet. If I do, I'm gonna track down the motherfucking satanist scum bastard who tried to solicit crap and kick his balls so hard he (or she) will never be able to call another day sleeper again. Justice will be served. Amen.
Plain Old Telephone Service is the infomercial channel. No thanks. The telephone company won't get my business again.
This is why MS makes the distinction between OEM and Retail products in the first place.
This is great for Microsoft to have OEM and retail pricing schemes, but why ca'nt consumers have the option not to buy at all or at least refund the unused software? I was forced to buy the Windows OEM version with my Toshiba "linux" laptop at Microsoft's "discounted" price.
Can I at least get a refund or sell the unwanted property? It is property isn't it? Didn't I buy it? What is it? How do I get rid of it? In the legal world, these terms are supposed to be defined and fair. But they aren't.
And keep in mind while the BSA sends out it's threat letters all the time, it rarely ever follows up on any of them. it's a scare tactic.
I have this funny feeling at least one of Microsoft's legal staff is reading this that happens in the mood to set an example about how strict copyrights can get.
I'd imagine with a world with too many lawyers, some get bored and like to investigate the damnedest things. Do you feel lucky today?
I'm afraid to tell you about the recent tragedy of the counter's death. It happened today.
It has been slashdotted.
I would return to the store the bundled software and request my money back for that portion.
When I bought my new Toshiba laptop last month, the seal on the box had large type stating the enclosed software operating system is sold with the unit, cannot be seperated, and may not be subject to a refund, except for the whole unit.
Since I bought a laptop, I was legally required to buy Windows and it would be illegal for me to sell it, unless I sold my laptop with it. Great free country we live in, eh?
I consider myself a casual Linux user and found the ALS to be a wonderful event. The day was packed with tutorials from morning till evening. Decisions, decisions, there were so many to choose from at one time. Our group split up to attend the tutorials of our interests and shared notes and pictures during breaks. Everyone has a digital camera to capture the celebreties demonstrating the latest in code wizardry. Don't expect to learn everything as the energy level is high. Don't be alarmed by the smoke from the keyboards, but just sit back and enjoy the show. You can learn a lot just by watching. They gave us a nice book of the papers presented at last years ALS that is an outstanding reference for many of the hottest development areas that year.
The evening continued the busy schedule with large feasts, complimented with a sampling of fine brews, with a wide variety of entertainment, and really didn't stop unless sleep conquered the senses.
Atlanta was great. It was just several hours drive away from where I was at. California should even be more intense. But I'm thousands of miles away. I'd give anything to attend, but my last dime is being spent buying a house this week. Hopefully, those who do attend will document the work and fun on the net for me to enjoy.
I really enjoy the ALS and strongly recommend attending. Those who put on the ALS and made the events so enjoyable are heroes for donating so much of their time and money making it happen. It was not a marketing show, but by enthusiasts for people who hopefully like the same.
But this is an ethernet appliance. Its the future. Listen to the music. Pretty soon, the lights in your room will have an ethernet jack as everything else. Imagine downloading some coordinated mood lighting from your server after dinner.
The stove, refrigerator, even the kitchen sink, er dishwasher... Everything will have an IP address. Your dinner will be cooked to exacting specifications and the groceries will be automatically ordered.
Damn good book. Refreshingly concise. A must have.
I just wish all distributions would ship this one in their shrink wrap boxes as the technical reference manual.
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Yup.. you just need enough Jigga-watts, and a flux capacitor!
The time traveling bike should have an efficiency advantage over your DeLorean in that much less than half of two jiggawatts would be required.
Microjiggawatts, anyone?
Now that I think of it, I didn't use enough ammo. If I remember right, I bought those 100 boxes of 10 rounds of SKS ammunition for $100 total.
It may have cost me more to own W2K...
It sure is!
How bout we recycle linux into something usefull.
In order to prepare for the coming hunting season, I recycled the Windows2000 manuals, license, and CD that came with my laptop into clay pigeons at the sand pits this month with my rifle.
The cheesy book looked exploded into what looked like a thousand feathers of pages. The license required me to wad it up in a ball to throw it and was a difficult target, but it met its demise.
Only problem was shooting the CD. Kept missing the damn thing. When it did get hit, it would not shatter. Only a tiny hole. Emptied a dozen boxes of shells on the CD alone.
Using cardboard for structure in a building reminds me of the stuff packed in boxes last springtime during the flood. Water has an affinity to cardboard, soon to be followed by fungus (the fungus is among us,) cockroaches, rats, etc...
Cardboard is a great way to recycle and support lower life forms.
Hopefully, you're operatating system is secure enough to prevent unauthorized viewing of your webcam.
You can be sure to trust the legally enforced backdoors required by government with your privacy. They are after all, supposed to serve and protect. You will never have to be in fear of being arrested for indecent or immorality. That has never happened by a government for the people before. Trust you shall. It will be law.
Using a vacuum to pull rope is a good idea, but what I found best is nylon string and compressed air . You can push hundreds of feet of nylon string in seconds through hundreds of feet of any size tubing with your portable air tank. Pulling wire couldn't be easier.
36-24-36 is not just a telephone number, but the dimensions of a perfectly shaped woman.