Several years ago I ran out of petrol going down a hill. I was able to coast into the petrol station further down the hill and put a load more petrol into my car. When I tried to start the car it would not start. I thought that it needed to pump the petrol from the tank to the engine and kept trying. What I did not know was that I had not run out of petrol, the petrol pipe had broken and the petrol was not getting to the carburetor, it was getting sprayed all over the engine and the floor. By the time the puddle of petrol finally managed to catch a spark from the starter motor the puddle had already spread under the car at the next pump. Most of the petrol station was destroyed. It was amazing to see so many people run so fast...
I do not accept that this theoretical risk of fire comes close to the real risk of fire in a normal engine...
You are writing in the future tense but this is already happening... I use http://malaysiabay.org/ because it is nearer to me and therefore quicker...
If they take that down I am sure that a copy will be up within hours... As usual the only people that will really benefit from all this are the lawyers.
If you are offered a drug that has a 90% chance of saving your life and a 1% chance of giving you a life threatening side affect, would you take it? I do think that with these things we should be given the choice. If I am in a strong loving relationship, would I want to take the 1% risk with an AIDS vaccine? My choice, do I really trust my partner? If I am playing around, would I want to risk not taking the vaccine...
All drugs have a risk as does all surgery. If you get taken into hospital next month for a life saving operation, there is a very small chance that the surgery will kill you. If the chance that not having the surgery will kill you is greater then you have the surgery.
The MMR vaccine has risks associated with it but the benefits far outweigh those risks and in my opinion those parents who do not vaccinate their children are not responsible parents.
The licenses do not tend to be much of a saving but once you have fired the 200+ college drop outs that are looking after the Windows computers and hired 40 people that actually know what they are doing you can save a lot on salaries and the reliability of the system causes a massive saving indirectly. I saw this in reverse several times when places that I dealt with replaced their Sun systems with Windows and had to take on loads of teenagers with a piece of college paper and no idea of how DHCP should be set up. Down times jumped from less than an hour a year to days per year.
But at least the staff could see the acne ridden youths working, they never believed that the old guys with beards and tank tops did anything as the system just worked...
Most countries only extradite criminals. The main point is that he is only wanted for questioning and there has been no suggestion of there being a charge ready. Britain should not have arrested him as there are no valid grounds for that. If there was an charge pending then yes but there is not. The whole thing is just a show to get him to a country that will role over and give him to the US. I am not sure why the UK didn't ???
If 33% of the population are doing it then why would the government that represents those people want to make it illegal? It is a democratic country, one that ours could learn a lot from. This is not stealing in any way so why would the government want to get involved. Why does the US government get involved? because they are much more corrupt and easily bought. This should have remained civil action and the fact that a country sees it that way should not even be news.
I have wanted to move my servers for quite a while. No one is going to ask to look at your logs... You can proxy through there and enjoy their sane legal system...
Stealing is the act of taking someone else's property with the intention of permanently depriving them of that property. This is not stealing in any way. There is no intention to permanently deprive anyone of anything.
It is not about the functionality. Most people use MS because it is all they know. They do not know and are not familiar with the alternatives. My mother went to university and studied art after she retired, and if you visit any of her uni friends, young and old, they now use Macs because they got used to them. If all the schools in one country switch to Linux, in few years all the universities will be full of people that are used to Linux and then, soon all the companies will be full of people that prefer Linux. It will be the OS that they are familiar with.
Too many people get into the My Computer is Better Than Your Computer without realising that MS are playing a different game. They do not even try to be the best, they just make sure that they are what most people are familiar with. To do that they will happily offer free software and free 100% support to all education establishments if that is what is required to keep the status quo and the schools and universities know this. Portugal will be using 100% free MS next term.
If you want a Start menu with OSX, it is easy to create one. I did with my last MBP. You just create an application folder organised into subdirectories and put it next to the bin. When you mouse over it will show the first level using the desired style and you can navigate down through the directories... Great, but I doubt that it is worth the effort as now I just use subdirectories so that there is not too much stuff on the top level of the applications directory and I can find stuff quickly.
In the UK, not only do they have to keep the logs for 18 months but practically anyone, including the fire service, can look at them. The British law is the craziest in the world in that regard and anyone stupid enough to use a British proxy/VPN must need their head examined. If you use a Swiss or a Swedish proxy they will not even keep logs, so there is nothing for the FBI to ask the court to make them hand over. If you buy a car you look into which car does the job that you want it to do... So if you get a proxy it is up to you to make sure it will do what you want. If you want to watch British TV or whatever without being told that you cannot because you are not in Britain then OK but for privacy??? MORON!!!
So they opened it and installed it, therefore they agreed to the EULA not the end user. I would think that this means that the end user is not responsible for the agreement....
How about introducing some professional responsibility? If a lawyer charges for advice then he is professionally responsible for that advice. In other words he is jointly responsible for 'bad' advice and if the court feels that this is just a scam the lawyers can be made to help pay for their bad advice in that the person that was sued according to that bad professional advice deserves restitution. He has lost a lot more than just the cost of his defence fees. His time and distress etc. Lawyers suffering punitive damages for frivolous cases would soon change things:-)
Do you honestly believe that DRM helps sales? I do buy games but I will never buy one that I cannot play. I buy certain games and I am happy to buy them but I do not buy one that has DRM until a good crack comes out. What is the good of a game that is crippled? and why would I pay for something that is deliberately made into crap? I do not believe that I am the only one that thinks like me but I am sure that there are far more that do not bother to buy the game in the first place. I buy the game for the manuals etc. but now you often do not even get any thing but a disk, so more and more people cannot see why they would want to buy a broken product with no value added... If the games makers want to get the customers back they need to supply something that is worth buying.
F*ck off, we do not want them... You can keep them and their money (well maybe we will accept the money) but they represent America and you can keep them.
The standard VOIP is available on Linux, Mac and windows and there is a good selection of clients. I have never understood why people used the bastardised version (Skype) when the standard version is just as good. M$ have already started to ruin Skype and will continue to flush it down the toilet so that they can push MSN on people but, for voice calls VOIP is great, and for chat there are more options that I could list here.
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Several years ago I ran out of petrol going down a hill. I was able to coast into the petrol station further down the hill and put a load more petrol into my car. When I tried to start the car it would not start. I thought that it needed to pump the petrol from the tank to the engine and kept trying. What I did not know was that I had not run out of petrol, the petrol pipe had broken and the petrol was not getting to the carburetor, it was getting sprayed all over the engine and the floor. By the time the puddle of petrol finally managed to catch a spark from the starter motor the puddle had already spread under the car at the next pump. Most of the petrol station was destroyed. It was amazing to see so many people run so fast...
I do not accept that this theoretical risk of fire comes close to the real risk of fire in a normal engine...
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and which species gets the #1 spot? Ants?
Will I have to go to Pirate Bay to get a copy of Pirate Bay for my thumb drive or will I go to a thumb drive copy for the latest version :-D
You are writing in the future tense but this is already happening... I use http://malaysiabay.org/ because it is nearer to me and therefore quicker...
If they take that down I am sure that a copy will be up within hours... As usual the only people that will really benefit from all this are the lawyers.
Has anyone else noticed that their is a "jobs" menu at the top of this page? Expect another law suit soon...
You need to let people know when you are being sarcastic as many are too dumb to realise...
If you are offered a drug that has a 90% chance of saving your life and a 1% chance of giving you a life threatening side affect, would you take it? I do think that with these things we should be given the choice. If I am in a strong loving relationship, would I want to take the 1% risk with an AIDS vaccine? My choice, do I really trust my partner? If I am playing around, would I want to risk not taking the vaccine...
All drugs have a risk as does all surgery. If you get taken into hospital next month for a life saving operation, there is a very small chance that the surgery will kill you. If the chance that not having the surgery will kill you is greater then you have the surgery.
The MMR vaccine has risks associated with it but the benefits far outweigh those risks and in my opinion those parents who do not vaccinate their children are not responsible parents.
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The licenses do not tend to be much of a saving but once you have fired the 200+ college drop outs that are looking after the Windows computers and hired 40 people that actually know what they are doing you can save a lot on salaries and the reliability of the system causes a massive saving indirectly. I saw this in reverse several times when places that I dealt with replaced their Sun systems with Windows and had to take on loads of teenagers with a piece of college paper and no idea of how DHCP should be set up. Down times jumped from less than an hour a year to days per year.
But at least the staff could see the acne ridden youths working, they never believed that the old guys with beards and tank tops did anything as the system just worked...
It is there own flavour of Linux, you will not find it anywhere else.
Most countries only extradite criminals. The main point is that he is only wanted for questioning and there has been no suggestion of there being a charge ready. Britain should not have arrested him as there are no valid grounds for that. If there was an charge pending then yes but there is not. The whole thing is just a show to get him to a country that will role over and give him to the US. I am not sure why the UK didn't ???
If 33% of the population are doing it then why would the government that represents those people want to make it illegal? It is a democratic country, one that ours could learn a lot from. This is not stealing in any way so why would the government want to get involved. Why does the US government get involved? because they are much more corrupt and easily bought. This should have remained civil action and the fact that a country sees it that way should not even be news.
I have wanted to move my servers for quite a while. No one is going to ask to look at your logs... You can proxy through there and enjoy their sane legal system...
Stealing is the act of taking someone else's property with the intention of permanently depriving them of that property. This is not stealing in any way. There is no intention to permanently deprive anyone of anything.
It is not about the functionality. Most people use MS because it is all they know. They do not know and are not familiar with the alternatives. My mother went to university and studied art after she retired, and if you visit any of her uni friends, young and old, they now use Macs because they got used to them. If all the schools in one country switch to Linux, in few years all the universities will be full of people that are used to Linux and then, soon all the companies will be full of people that prefer Linux. It will be the OS that they are familiar with.
Too many people get into the My Computer is Better Than Your Computer without realising that MS are playing a different game. They do not even try to be the best, they just make sure that they are what most people are familiar with. To do that they will happily offer free software and free 100% support to all education establishments if that is what is required to keep the status quo and the schools and universities know this. Portugal will be using 100% free MS next term.
Did anyone else notice the Facebook like button at the bottom of the page? They now know you know they are watching you ....
If you want a Start menu with OSX, it is easy to create one. I did with my last MBP. You just create an application folder organised into subdirectories and put it next to the bin. When you mouse over it will show the first level using the desired style and you can navigate down through the directories... Great, but I doubt that it is worth the effort as now I just use subdirectories so that there is not too much stuff on the top level of the applications directory and I can find stuff quickly.
In the UK, not only do they have to keep the logs for 18 months but practically anyone, including the fire service, can look at them. The British law is the craziest in the world in that regard and anyone stupid enough to use a British proxy/VPN must need their head examined. If you use a Swiss or a Swedish proxy they will not even keep logs, so there is nothing for the FBI to ask the court to make them hand over. If you buy a car you look into which car does the job that you want it to do... So if you get a proxy it is up to you to make sure it will do what you want. If you want to watch British TV or whatever without being told that you cannot because you are not in Britain then OK but for privacy??? MORON!!!
So they opened it and installed it, therefore they agreed to the EULA not the end user. I would think that this means that the end user is not responsible for the agreement....
How about introducing some professional responsibility? If a lawyer charges for advice then he is professionally responsible for that advice. In other words he is jointly responsible for 'bad' advice and if the court feels that this is just a scam the lawyers can be made to help pay for their bad advice in that the person that was sued according to that bad professional advice deserves restitution. He has lost a lot more than just the cost of his defence fees. His time and distress etc. Lawyers suffering punitive damages for frivolous cases would soon change things :-)
Do you honestly believe that DRM helps sales? I do buy games but I will never buy one that I cannot play. I buy certain games and I am happy to buy them but I do not buy one that has DRM until a good crack comes out. What is the good of a game that is crippled? and why would I pay for something that is deliberately made into crap? I do not believe that I am the only one that thinks like me but I am sure that there are far more that do not bother to buy the game in the first place. I buy the game for the manuals etc. but now you often do not even get any thing but a disk, so more and more people cannot see why they would want to buy a broken product with no value added... If the games makers want to get the customers back they need to supply something that is worth buying.
'If MS wants immunity, it has to leave America.'
F*ck off, we do not want them... You can keep them and their money (well maybe we will accept the money) but they represent America and you can keep them.
And this is because the US has such good clear and well thought out copyright laws...
Wow, if you want to be a grammar nazi you should learn grammar first.
'You post would' should be 'Your post would' ...
Grammar nazis look stupid anyway but when they make mistakes like that they look more like a joke that should be forwarded to all my friends...
The standard VOIP is available on Linux, Mac and windows and there is a good selection of clients. I have never understood why people used the bastardised version (Skype) when the standard version is just as good. M$ have already started to ruin Skype and will continue to flush it down the toilet so that they can push MSN on people but, for voice calls VOIP is great, and for chat there are more options that I could list here.