Eeerrr no. because in the real world that everyone except **AA live in, 'theft' means taking someone else's property with the intention of permanently depriving them of that property. It is only us poor saps in this music/movie/software world that have to put up with this spin/BS.
I would never buy a game or upgrade to a version that there is not a crack for. I do not begrudge game developers their income but I do begrudge them any rights to my machine or how I use their art. I do not want to have to suffer any DRM crap or even have to insert the disk each time I use a game. I 100% support the crackers and trust their work as much as I trust the game developers.
I used to work at a college were we had three classrooms with remote boot PCs. It was great because you could just turn off the power to the whole room without worrying and everytime a class came in the PCs worked as expected. I am still an advocate of remote boot even though it seems to have gone out of fashion. The downside in this senario is that it requires a server. It is only really good for multiple machines. With remote boot you can point home directories to the server and maintain just one machine and any updates are only done once on the image rather than to each machine.
Or set up a fee scheme for your consultancy time. Tell them the fee schedule and that you need their billing information before you can continue the call. Or even ask for a fax number so that you can send them an agreement to sign so that you can charge them if they wish to continue or call back.
They came swing in through the windows with cutlasses in their teeth did they?
The average person in India earns less in a year than you earn in a month and there is no way that they can afford to 'buy' a genuine copy of windows. In the west, we have got so used to the claptrap that surrounds overpricing cartelles that we have even adopted their propaganda (i.e. piracy). You can afford to pander to this extortion but someone else in India, Thailand, China etc. cannot. You are welcome to remain in your moral black hole and they in theirs but do not think that your cultural imperialism will make them change because they do not have that option.
You think you are right, and in your culture you may be. They think they are right, and in their culture they may be.
3 years ago I bailed out (made redundant) and took up teaching English in S. E. Asia. My only regret is that I did not do it sooner. I only earn a fraction of what I used to earn but I have so much more fun.
And if you write something that breaks China's laws should your country extradite you to China? Or how about Suadi Arabia or even Iran? If the idea is good for the US it is equally good for the rest of the world...
This is clearly a case of "unfit for the purpose for which it was sold", in the UK, and not something that should take up court time. The main purpose of consumer rights is so that the average Joe does not have to resort to the time and cost of a court case which can take years just for a simple purchasing dispute. If I buy a DVD and I own an ordinary DVD player that is standard and in good working order then I can assume that the DVD should work in it and I am therefore entitled to a full refund if the DVD does not work in my player. If on the other hand I have a non-standard, non-compliant Linux box then I am not entitled to a refund unless I can show without doubt that said DVD does not work in a standard and compliant player. If the shop argues I should be able to take the case to the office of fair trading and they would deal with it for me. That way big business cannot screw little guys with this sort of deal.
Most of these "wouldn't web be great" reports are written by people that are too Western centric to realise that most of the world does not have a good enough connection to use web apps.
You obviously know little about the UK. Anyone born in the UK to UK parents is a UK citizen and cannot cease to be such. You cannot even surrender UK citizenship if you where born with it. On the other hand, those born in British dependancies are British subjects, i.e. subject to British rule. My current passport clearly states that I am a UK citizen. Maybe the new passports will remove such rights as the current gov does not seem to see us as any more than their subjects.
I do not use Hotmail because they killed my account after Billy Boy took over because of the 30 day rule. I still have my Yahoo account which I have had since then because they do not enforce the 30 day rule. That said I have now switched to using Gmail because Yahoo no longer supports pop3 and I prefer to keep hold of my own mail so I do not have to worry about 30 day nazis like this girl had. I never bitched about Hotmail I just moved... I would not bitch if Gmail shafted me because I have a copy of everything and I can just move again...
I do support her arguement because Lycos appear to have been rude to her and provided a bad service which they had been paid for (by advertisers) and I think that she should shout about it so that said advertisers know that they are not getting what they paid for. But I also think that anyone that leaves anything that matters on a free account (and I have a lot on free accounts but with back ups at home) is a fool.
People buy a mac for the operating system more than the hardware.
and the OS works so well because it is tailor made for a know set of hardware. They could lose their wonderful reputation if people started trying to stick it on unknown boxes.
... or get qualified and work in a better job for 5 years then bail out completely and get a job teaching in a school in south east asia that pays me less for a day than I used to spend on lunch. I am glad that I got qualified (when I was in my 30s) because I know what I have to fall back on, but I am really enjoying life now and that is more important.
Stop putting reality in the way of a good/. arguement...
The problems I have trying to get GPS working in the car without an external booster... takes so long to get a good lock I can be there before I get directions.
"It is hard to see why anyone would want to access the information on the chip."
Just like it is hard to see why anyone would want to blow up an aircraft? I think that people are still thinking within the sandbox and not realising that the real risk is what we have not yet thought of. There will be lots of reasons to want to access the information and to change it or learn to create false IDs that Joe Average security assumes to be valid because it is state of the art.
I completely agree with you. Balder's Gate II is still the best because you could play a different game each time you played it. NWN lost a lot of that and NWN2 is just a single path game. With BGII you could wander off and do something different but with NWN2 you can only go one way. BGII is the only open world game that I still go back to. I have been playing the new one and am fed up with the bugs and being forced to take the path that is set. I cannot understand why the team that made the best, now settle for the same mediocraty that everyone else pumps out. The graphics may be great but I want a game...
I have noticed that more people want TVs with hard disks in now, still not mainstream but a fast growing market. There is a large selection of big flat TVs with HDs fitted with between 80 and 250 Gb so they have the best of VCD, Tivo and DVD in one. What is the point in staying with little disks at all?
I need VOIP capability and I cannot see anywhere that says this has it. Skype is an implementation of the idea rather than a true version of it. I cannot get free calls to all other VOIP users with Skype hype.
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Eeerrr no. because in the real world that everyone except **AA live in, 'theft' means taking someone else's property with the intention of permanently depriving them of that property. It is only us poor saps in this music/movie/software world that have to put up with this spin/BS.
I would never buy a game or upgrade to a version that there is not a crack for. I do not begrudge game developers their income but I do begrudge them any rights to my machine or how I use their art. I do not want to have to suffer any DRM crap or even have to insert the disk each time I use a game. I 100% support the crackers and trust their work as much as I trust the game developers.
I used to work at a college were we had three classrooms with remote boot PCs. It was great because you could just turn off the power to the whole room without worrying and everytime a class came in the PCs worked as expected. I am still an advocate of remote boot even though it seems to have gone out of fashion. The downside in this senario is that it requires a server. It is only really good for multiple machines. With remote boot you can point home directories to the server and maintain just one machine and any updates are only done once on the image rather than to each machine.
I thought that the US had signed the international agreement that anything that goes into space must not be a weapon???
Maybe, lots of Linux people want to keep a Windoze partition for games and therefore buy a Dozer box and dual boot it.
Or set up a fee scheme for your consultancy time. Tell them the fee schedule and that you need their billing information before you can continue the call. Or even ask for a fax number so that you can send them an agreement to sign so that you can charge them if they wish to continue or call back.
even though everyone else iGnored you...
this is quite blatant piracy
They came swing in through the windows with cutlasses in their teeth did they?
The average person in India earns less in a year than you earn in a month and there is no way that they can afford to 'buy' a genuine copy of windows. In the west, we have got so used to the claptrap that surrounds overpricing cartelles that we have even adopted their propaganda (i.e. piracy). You can afford to pander to this extortion but someone else in India, Thailand, China etc. cannot. You are welcome to remain in your moral black hole and they in theirs but do not think that your cultural imperialism will make them change because they do not have that option.
You think you are right, and in your culture you may be. They think they are right, and in their culture they may be.
3 years ago I bailed out (made redundant) and took up teaching English in S. E. Asia. My only regret is that I did not do it sooner. I only earn a fraction of what I used to earn but I have so much more fun.
And if you write something that breaks China's laws should your country extradite you to China? Or how about Suadi Arabia or even Iran? If the idea is good for the US it is equally good for the rest of the world...
This is clearly a case of "unfit for the purpose for which it was sold", in the UK, and not something that should take up court time. The main purpose of consumer rights is so that the average Joe does not have to resort to the time and cost of a court case which can take years just for a simple purchasing dispute. If I buy a DVD and I own an ordinary DVD player that is standard and in good working order then I can assume that the DVD should work in it and I am therefore entitled to a full refund if the DVD does not work in my player. If on the other hand I have a non-standard, non-compliant Linux box then I am not entitled to a refund unless I can show without doubt that said DVD does not work in a standard and compliant player. If the shop argues I should be able to take the case to the office of fair trading and they would deal with it for me. That way big business cannot screw little guys with this sort of deal.
Most of these "wouldn't web be great" reports are written by people that are too Western centric to realise that most of the world does not have a good enough connection to use web apps.
:- http://www.mediaplayer.telegraph.co.uk/?item=f52ee af7-6878-4ed4-a23b-fe68f2b73ad4/
I have just spent 40 minutes trying unsuccesfully to watch
I cannot and will have to give up. I do not think that I, or most of Asia (outside of Japan and South Korea) will be switching either.
You obviously know little about the UK. Anyone born in the UK to UK parents is a UK citizen and cannot cease to be such. You cannot even surrender UK citizenship if you where born with it. On the other hand, those born in British dependancies are British subjects, i.e. subject to British rule. My current passport clearly states that I am a UK citizen. Maybe the new passports will remove such rights as the current gov does not seem to see us as any more than their subjects.
I do not use Hotmail because they killed my account after Billy Boy took over because of the 30 day rule. I still have my Yahoo account which I have had since then because they do not enforce the 30 day rule. That said I have now switched to using Gmail because Yahoo no longer supports pop3 and I prefer to keep hold of my own mail so I do not have to worry about 30 day nazis like this girl had. I never bitched about Hotmail I just moved... I would not bitch if Gmail shafted me because I have a copy of everything and I can just move again...
I do support her arguement because Lycos appear to have been rude to her and provided a bad service which they had been paid for (by advertisers) and I think that she should shout about it so that said advertisers know that they are not getting what they paid for. But I also think that anyone that leaves anything that matters on a free account (and I have a lot on free accounts but with back ups at home) is a fool.
People buy a mac for the operating system more than the hardware.
and the OS works so well because it is tailor made for a know set of hardware. They could lose their wonderful reputation if people started trying to stick it on unknown boxes.
... or get qualified and work in a better job for 5 years then bail out completely and get a job teaching in a school in south east asia that pays me less for a day than I used to spend on lunch. I am glad that I got qualified (when I was in my 30s) because I know what I have to fall back on, but I am really enjoying life now and that is more important.
Stop putting reality in the way of a good /. arguement...
The problems I have trying to get GPS working in the car without an external booster... takes so long to get a good lock I can be there before I get directions.
Or perhaps she's lucky enough to have a good mother
If so she is likely to be raised in a one parent family.
however, I have to find clever ways of curtailing décadence with a light hand.
and then Peter Paedophile cracks your account and uses it to track her so that he can insert his desease...
how is a kid supposed to be a kid if they are continually being monitored by their parents?
By turning their phone off?
"It is hard to see why anyone would want to access the information on the chip."
Just like it is hard to see why anyone would want to blow up an aircraft? I think that people are still thinking within the sandbox and not realising that the real risk is what we have not yet thought of. There will be lots of reasons to want to access the information and to change it or learn to create false IDs that Joe Average security assumes to be valid because it is state of the art.
I completely agree with you. Balder's Gate II is still the best because you could play a different game each time you played it. NWN lost a lot of that and NWN2 is just a single path game. With BGII you could wander off and do something different but with NWN2 you can only go one way. BGII is the only open world game that I still go back to. I have been playing the new one and am fed up with the bugs and being forced to take the path that is set. I cannot understand why the team that made the best, now settle for the same mediocraty that everyone else pumps out. The graphics may be great but I want a game...
VCD should be VDO :)
I have noticed that more people want TVs with hard disks in now, still not mainstream but a fast growing market. There is a large selection of big flat TVs with HDs fitted with between 80 and 250 Gb so they have the best of VCD, Tivo and DVD in one. What is the point in staying with little disks at all?
I need VOIP capability and I cannot see anywhere that says this has it. Skype is an implementation of the idea rather than a true version of it. I cannot get free calls to all other VOIP users with Skype hype.