You cannot refuse to take payment of money owed to you if it's in the legal tender, and the exact amount.
Actually, in Canada at least I'm pretty sure it is acceptable to refuse to take payment if it is in an inconvenient form. ie. you could not go into a car dealership and expect them to accept 3 000 000 pennies for a new car, even if that is the exact amount.
I have 5 vehicles. SUV, sportscar, GT car, sportsbike and an enduro bike.
On any given trip I can take ONE of them (I'm single and live alone). I get a whopping 10% discount for multiple vehicles....that's right - I get charged 5 times as much, and then get backed off 10%.
Why should I pay for 4 vehicles that I'm not driving??? BTW I have liability only on all of them, as the $600/month insurance bill was killing me when I had full coverage on them, so should they be stolen, or otherwise harmed in my garage, te insurance company wouldn't pay a dime for them.
Send me one (err 5) of those GPS thingies and let me pay for the miles I actually drive - and tell me if city or highway is cheaper, because it doesn't make a difference in time to work whether I'm on the highway or the city streets! Woohooo!!!
but if they had to BUY thousands of MS or proprietary unix licenses, I doubt they would have gotten off the ground - selling their search engines came late in the game - after they were the de facto search engine on the internet. they leveraged that success into selling their engine separately.
In your case perhaps a few licenses for operating systems and a few applications would be a few thousand dollars - quite a different story for google...
The best way to deal with blatant violations of privacy by a large corporation is a strong negative consumer reaction.
Too bad an optional program in one company in an industry where there are multiple companies offering competing services is not a blatant violation of privacy...
There is no legitimate (legal) speeding - ever taken a traffic school course? They always stress that even passing on a two lane road, you must complete all maneuvers within the posted speed limit.
Realistically that means you would not be able to pass someone doing 5 miles below the speed limit unless there was NO oncoming traffic for an awfully long time....
it seems to me enforcing a Bittorrent ban would be infinitely easier than enforcing a lot of things that are currently illegal. simply monitor networks for the protocol, grab the users IP address, get the address from the isp and break the door down and get to the PC before it can be turned off.
If ISPs 'had' to comply, and the resources were allotted, it would be a piece of cake to enforce.
You could even have an automated system - a GPS in the swat team van coupled with a network connection to a master sniffer compiling data from multiple isps, could automatically route the team to the nearest perpetrator.
Honestly, if the machine you want to install it on doesn't have access to the internet then why do you need the security changes of SP2?
Cuz there's more than just security fixes in SP2? Like Bluetooth support (well, that's kind of network stuff, but not generally internet type network stuff).
Or perhaps the windows machine isn't on the network until it gets the security fixes but will be shortly after?
Of course, they'll be banking on the fact that relatively few people will stick to such technologies, but it only takes one person with a linux-based PVR and a copy of gtk-gnutella to totally screw the pooch.
And what happens when your capture card in that PC dies? Any new one you buy will have to honour the broadcast flag. The Broadcast flag isn't an over-night fix, but 20 years from now when all the hardware that doesn't support the broadcast flag has died, it will reign supreme - except of course for the foreign hardware that illegally trickles in from places that are not the land of the 'free' thus are not mandated to provide broadcast flag censorship.
it is not uncommon for manufacturers to sell "industrial" parts as "consumer" rated, at a lower price point. this is usually because it is cheaper to make one part than two.
Dude - you are totally misreading the article - the CHEAPER version is aimed at businesses.
So in your example, your TV remote control is controlling your antilock brake system...hmmm...what a great idea - a remote control for your brakes...just what every back seat (or passenger seat driver needs).
Can I patent this? Can you imagine wives everywhere: "Honey, you're going to fast!!!"
I bought a DELL DJ (15GB) because it was $100 cheaper than an IPOD. the design was not as polished as the ipod, too many buttons, i had a difficult time adjusting volume or skipping a song without actually pulling the device off my belt or straining around to see the buttons.
It was heavy - bounced around when I ran with it. Locked up quite often (once every few days) and required a unbent paperclip (or something similar) to reset.
I then used a buddy's Ipod and found it to be MUCH better in all respects, except battery life, which is 8 hours comapred to 16 (which probably explains the weight difference).
I finally settled on an Ipod mini because it was lighter and smaller still, and 4GB is plenty for me - I don't mind having to juggle around songs from my laptop to the mini every couple of weeks when I want a change.
All the points the previous posters made regarding usability, integration, reliability are certainly true in the case of the ipod to dell dj comparison.
I initially thought that the finer touches of the ipod were not worth $100. I realized they were (in my case).
Note I'm not citing any reviews, and everything here is based on owning a Dell DJ for a month and my mini for about 6 weeks now.
However, I don't see many people outside of their "MVP" community (which is who? people stuck working on windows device drivers?) really being interested in doing their busy work for them. And for this reason, because of being unwilling to fully relinquish control, they are going to find themselves unable to fully benefit from openness.
They don't do this to help themselves, they do this so developers can better understand the operating system thus develop their more efficient applications, drivers etc.
It used to be if you wanted to see their source you had to pay big $$$ and get select parts of it.
Although clearly microsoft is going to benefit from having higher quality apps and drivers available for it platform, the main benefit was to the third party, not microsoft.
Well if the domain that you're bouncing the message back is actually a little one and a spammer is sending like... millions of messages spoofing that domain you're collaborating to a DDoS against that mail server
Perhaps that DDoS will make the admin stop the spammer - sounds like a good thing to me!
Wow - you're kidding right? By that theory we should all just add nitrous oxide systems to our car as burning the nitrous releases oxygen thus increases the volumetric efficiency of the engine.
Unfortunately at reasonble RPMs our engines aren't limited by voumetric efficiency. Dumping in pure oxygen may increase power at high rpms but it certainly won't increase mileage. The goal is to burn LESS fuel thus require LESS oxygen. Our engine management computers do a lot to maintain the stoichioemtric ratio of fuel to air, and don't have any problems doing so at low rpms.
You are missing the point - hydrogen fuel cells aren't intended to by themselves negate the need for fossil fuels, they are a means to the end though. 10 years ago you couldn't really have an electric car...batteries weren't good enough. Even now, they aren't all that great - long-ish charging times and low capacity, high weight to stored energy ratio etc. Granted they are improving greatly as of late and that is certainly one path to take.
Another path is to have a better (different) means of storing electricity. Hydrogen fuel cells may be this way. Once we have proven the technology to run a car (or whatever) in this manner, we can then concentrate on ways to get the hydrogen without fossil fuel...maybe a nuclear generator providing the electricity for elecrolysis, or perhaps everyone with their own little windmill on top of their house. Or maybe a fancy new catalyst that allows the reaction to proceed with very little energy input.
Hydrogen fuel cells might not be the answer to fossil fuels, but they might - can you think of a better alternative beside each car having their own little nuclear reactor?
. The fuel for nuclear reactors, though not highly abbundant, is available in large enough quantities to suffice any demand.
And 640K ought to be enough for anyone...
and there is the matter of waste heat heating up lakes and that little matter of the nuclear waste - not exactly an ideal solution.
Just look at Passport, even if they had the best security in the world it'd still get broken eventually simply because it's such a huge target.
So what you are saying is NEVER release ANYTHING because even if it had the "best security in the world" it will get broken?
HEY EVERYBODY!!! Stop developing Linux - it may be pretty secure but it will get broken. Better stop Apache, Mozilla and OpenOffice too - it's inevitable - no matter how secure you make it, it wil get broken...if you continue to develop given this information then you obviously don't care about security.
So I buy a computer - it's got an Intel 2.4 GHz chip in it (theoretically). I notice it runs, but tends to lockupo and do other strange things. I think "Stupid Intel chip - next time I won't buy a computer with an Intel chip".
Little do I know the place I bought it from put in a 1.8 GHz chip and overclocked it to 2.4. Intel just lost a future sale through no fault of its own - well maybe cuz they didn't have this overclocking protection in sooner...
This could open up an extremely dangerous black market of genetic trade. ie: I could sell my DNA strand on the black market for money, and then I could be freely cloned etc.
As opposed to you NOT owning your DNA strand and having someone grab some of your cells and freely clone you for free?
the last 10 years has seen a huge advancement in batteries - hence the feasibility of having electric flight RC planes. LIPOs are much lighter and have a much higher power density and batteries even 5 years ago.
Furthermore our laptop batteries are still only keeping our laptops running for 4 hours or so, but they are running ridiculously faster with bigger full colour displays, and heating our entire house!
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You cannot refuse to take payment of money owed to you if it's in the legal tender, and the exact amount.
Actually, in Canada at least I'm pretty sure it is acceptable to refuse to take payment if it is in an inconvenient form. ie. you could not go into a car dealership and expect them to accept 3 000 000 pennies for a new car, even if that is the exact amount.
I have 5 vehicles. SUV, sportscar, GT car, sportsbike and an enduro bike.
On any given trip I can take ONE of them (I'm single and live alone). I get a whopping 10% discount for multiple vehicles....that's right - I get charged 5 times as much, and then get backed off 10%.
Why should I pay for 4 vehicles that I'm not driving??? BTW I have liability only on all of them, as the $600/month insurance bill was killing me when I had full coverage on them, so should they be stolen, or otherwise harmed in my garage, te insurance company wouldn't pay a dime for them.
Send me one (err 5) of those GPS thingies and let me pay for the miles I actually drive - and tell me if city or highway is cheaper, because it doesn't make a difference in time to work whether I'm on the highway or the city streets! Woohooo!!!
but if they had to BUY thousands of MS or proprietary unix licenses, I doubt they would have gotten off the ground - selling their search engines came late in the game - after they were the de facto search engine on the internet. they leveraged that success into selling their engine separately.
In your case perhaps a few licenses for operating systems and a few applications would be a few thousand dollars - quite a different story for google...
The best way to deal with blatant violations of privacy by a large corporation is a strong negative consumer reaction.
Too bad an optional program in one company in an industry where there are multiple companies offering competing services is not a blatant violation of privacy...
There is no legitimate (legal) speeding - ever taken a traffic school course? They always stress that even passing on a two lane road, you must complete all maneuvers within the posted speed limit.
Realistically that means you would not be able to pass someone doing 5 miles below the speed limit unless there was NO oncoming traffic for an awfully long time....
Huh?
it seems to me enforcing a Bittorrent ban would be infinitely easier than enforcing a lot of things that are currently illegal. simply monitor networks for the protocol, grab the users IP address, get the address from the isp and break the door down and get to the PC before it can be turned off.
If ISPs 'had' to comply, and the resources were allotted, it would be a piece of cake to enforce.
You could even have an automated system - a GPS in the swat team van coupled with a network connection to a master sniffer compiling data from multiple isps, could automatically route the team to the nearest perpetrator.
OOhhhh - can I patent this?
Sweet!
Honestly, if the machine you want to install it on doesn't have access to the internet then why do you need the security changes of SP2?
Cuz there's more than just security fixes in SP2? Like Bluetooth support (well, that's kind of network stuff, but not generally internet type network stuff).
Or perhaps the windows machine isn't on the network until it gets the security fixes but will be shortly after?
Of course, they'll be banking on the fact that relatively few people will stick to such technologies, but it only takes one person with a linux-based PVR and a copy of gtk-gnutella to totally screw the pooch.
And what happens when your capture card in that PC dies? Any new one you buy will have to honour the broadcast flag. The Broadcast flag isn't an over-night fix, but 20 years from now when all the hardware that doesn't support the broadcast flag has died, it will reign supreme - except of course for the foreign hardware that illegally trickles in from places that are not the land of the 'free' thus are not mandated to provide broadcast flag censorship.
it is not uncommon for manufacturers to sell "industrial" parts as "consumer" rated, at a lower price point. this is usually because it is cheaper to make one part than two.
Dude - you are totally misreading the article - the CHEAPER version is aimed at businesses.
So in your example, your TV remote control is controlling your antilock brake system...hmmm...what a great idea - a remote control for your brakes...just what every back seat (or passenger seat driver needs).
Can I patent this? Can you imagine wives everywhere: "Honey, you're going to fast!!!"
Isnt this like the whole "Frosted Mini-Wheats" VS. "Frosted Mini-Spooners" (Brand X) debate?
I don't know about mini wheats and spooners, but I do know that store brand 'frosted flakes' SUCK compared to real Frosted Flakes.
I bought a DELL DJ (15GB) because it was $100 cheaper than an IPOD. the design was not as polished as the ipod, too many buttons, i had a difficult time adjusting volume or skipping a song without actually pulling the device off my belt or straining around to see the buttons.
It was heavy - bounced around when I ran with it. Locked up quite often (once every few days) and required a unbent paperclip (or something similar) to reset.
I then used a buddy's Ipod and found it to be MUCH better in all respects, except battery life, which is 8 hours comapred to 16 (which probably explains the weight difference).
I finally settled on an Ipod mini because it was lighter and smaller still, and 4GB is plenty for me - I don't mind having to juggle around songs from my laptop to the mini every couple of weeks when I want a change.
All the points the previous posters made regarding usability, integration, reliability are certainly true in the case of the ipod to dell dj comparison.
I initially thought that the finer touches of the ipod were not worth $100. I realized they were (in my case).
Note I'm not citing any reviews, and everything here is based on owning a Dell DJ for a month and my mini for about 6 weeks now.
However, I don't see many people outside of their "MVP" community (which is who? people stuck working on windows device drivers?) really being interested in doing their busy work for them. And for this reason, because of being unwilling to fully relinquish control, they are going to find themselves unable to fully benefit from openness.
They don't do this to help themselves, they do this so developers can better understand the operating system thus develop their more efficient applications, drivers etc.
It used to be if you wanted to see their source you had to pay big $$$ and get select parts of it.
Although clearly microsoft is going to benefit from having higher quality apps and drivers available for it platform, the main benefit was to the third party, not microsoft.
oops - didn't the the spoofing thing...my bad
Well if the domain that you're bouncing the message back is actually a little one and a spammer is sending like... millions of messages spoofing that domain you're collaborating to a DDoS against that mail server
Perhaps that DDoS will make the admin stop the spammer - sounds like a good thing to me!
Wow - you're kidding right? By that theory we should all just add nitrous oxide systems to our car as burning the nitrous releases oxygen thus increases the volumetric efficiency of the engine.
Unfortunately at reasonble RPMs our engines aren't limited by voumetric efficiency. Dumping in pure oxygen may increase power at high rpms but it certainly won't increase mileage. The goal is to burn LESS fuel thus require LESS oxygen. Our engine management computers do a lot to maintain the stoichioemtric ratio of fuel to air, and don't have any problems doing so at low rpms.
You are missing the point - hydrogen fuel cells aren't intended to by themselves negate the need for fossil fuels, they are a means to the end though. 10 years ago you couldn't really have an electric car...batteries weren't good enough. Even now, they aren't all that great - long-ish charging times and low capacity, high weight to stored energy ratio etc. Granted they are improving greatly as of late and that is certainly one path to take.
Another path is to have a better (different) means of storing electricity. Hydrogen fuel cells may be this way. Once we have proven the technology to run a car (or whatever) in this manner, we can then concentrate on ways to get the hydrogen without fossil fuel...maybe a nuclear generator providing the electricity for elecrolysis, or perhaps everyone with their own little windmill on top of their house. Or maybe a fancy new catalyst that allows the reaction to proceed with very little energy input.
Hydrogen fuel cells might not be the answer to fossil fuels, but they might - can you think of a better alternative beside each car having their own little nuclear reactor?
. The fuel for nuclear reactors, though not highly abbundant, is available in large enough quantities to suffice any demand.
And 640K ought to be enough for anyone...
and there is the matter of waste heat heating up lakes and that little matter of the nuclear waste - not exactly an ideal solution.
I doubt it. I think a lot of people would die of exhaustion, even professional runners.
For example, my drive is about 25 km.
but I bet if you had to run to work everyday, you wouldn't be living 25km away...
Just look at Passport, even if they had the best security in the world it'd still get broken eventually simply because it's such a huge target.
So what you are saying is NEVER release ANYTHING because even if it had the "best security in the world" it will get broken?
HEY EVERYBODY!!! Stop developing Linux - it may be pretty secure but it will get broken. Better stop Apache, Mozilla and OpenOffice too - it's inevitable - no matter how secure you make it, it wil get broken...if you continue to develop given this information then you obviously don't care about security.
So I buy a computer - it's got an Intel 2.4 GHz chip in it (theoretically). I notice it runs, but tends to lockupo and do other strange things. I think "Stupid Intel chip - next time I won't buy a computer with an Intel chip".
Little do I know the place I bought it from put in a 1.8 GHz chip and overclocked it to 2.4. Intel just lost a future sale through no fault of its own - well maybe cuz they didn't have this overclocking protection in sooner...
This could open up an extremely dangerous black market of genetic trade. ie: I could sell my DNA strand on the black market for money, and then I could be freely cloned etc.
As opposed to you NOT owning your DNA strand and having someone grab some of your cells and freely clone you for free?
sure ya can - it won't look good, and probably won't sound good, but ya can!
Also, if they did this right, even if there is a new connector involved it'll just take a cable upgrade from BMW to make it work.
I can see it now:
Brand new IPOD3super+ - $599
New BMW interface Cable - $849
Having more money than you know what to do with - pricele$$
As I understand, for these second two reasons, most commerically available bicycle lights are now NiCad.
According to Nashbar.com
most seem to be NiMH now...
Huh?
the last 10 years has seen a huge advancement in batteries - hence the feasibility of having electric flight RC planes. LIPOs are much lighter and have a much higher power density and batteries even 5 years ago.
Furthermore our laptop batteries are still only keeping our laptops running for 4 hours or so, but they are running ridiculously faster with bigger full colour displays, and heating our entire house!
Let's see. $50 WAP/router = 10 watts. Free P2 = 150 watts. Which one do I want running 24/7?
How bout Free P2 that is running anyways 150 watts, $50 WAP router 10 watts
Total with routert 160 watts, total with using PC as router 150 watts.
Seems simple to me...