I don't know how many people in the west realises this; that PRoC despite all the "diplomatic olive branches" they've extending, has *NEVER* ceased considering the United States as their enemy number one, nor have they ever stopped educating their young of that. Anyone thinking otherwise is fooling themselves.
I would hope that Apple does not ever release their OS for the standard PC.
I think it's fairly obvious the moment Apple enters PC OS market, Microsoft will discontinue all Office support for OSX. An OS without a killer app is... rather useless.
As a point of reference, DELL laptops probably only get about 5%. Most low end storage subsystems (drive enclosures with embedded RAID controllers) gets about 35%.
Just think about the type of things that Microsoft do (competitive practice that edge on illegality) and the sort of things that are said repeatly about Open Source movement by this company, from employees in the trenches all the way to officers of highest level. My own conclusion is that a snowball has better chance in hell than Microsoft ever switching over to Open Source model.
Finally, the Taiwanese voluntarily invested more than $100 billion into more than 50,000 businesses in mainland China. More than 1 million Taiwanese have emigrated to China to live and work.
So by your logic, Japan, Germany, the United States and frankly any country with corporate investment or citizen working in People's Republic of China is by default a part of People's Republic of China? Sir, I really don't know how you arrive at that conclusion. Please understand that national policies does not (always) equal to corporation policies. By that logic, I think the United States can safely claim India and most of the countries on the planet as states in the union?
Taiwan is NOT a part of People's Republic of China, despite of what PRoC government propaganda wants the rest of the planet to believe. Please make a note of it in the future.
But indeed, there still isn't a way to enforce any anti-spam law(s) across varies national borders. Frankly, considering that the existing laws could not even be enforced in the spamhole known as state of Florida (that is a part of the United States,) what chance is there that they're enforced anywhere else outside of United States?
Judging from the number of bad motherboards I've gotten from DFI and Gigabyte, I'm surprised motherboard makers test them at all.
I think they mean that they SAMPLE board from batch to batch. If a board "randomly selected" from a batch is tested good, the entire batch is considered good; not an uncommon practice.
It seems to me that every now and then (in recent years) Sun will come out supporting Open Source movement and then short time later put its foot in its mouth by coming out swinging *AT* Open Source movement. It leaves me wondering if burried somewhere in the legalese of their license agreement is some nasty clause that will just screw Open Source movement over at a later time.
I think for most of us, it's more important for the manufacturors to come up with an ink formula that doesn't dry out and clugging the print head than any minute per page speed improvement. Print head clugging is probably (in my own experience) the single most frustrating problem with inkjet. Of course, this might cut into manufacturors' profit derived from ink cartridges...
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And I concurr. Akihabara is one place where you are expected to haggle. Failure to do so will leave you pretty screwed. That aside, the place is good for people with little or no time to spare, to find (almost) everything a geek would want.
These are the people that would pay through the nose for armoured car to truck their cash around, but would send huge amount of customer information through UPS.
What about the work that are outsourced to foreign countries? Every now and then we hear stories about foreign workers taking liberities with personal information, a Federal law doesn't exactly cover foreign soil.
We can conclusively dis/prove the existence of god, when all simulation model successfully/fail to produce "intelligent life" as we know it in the simulated universe.
It's fairly obvious that this is a ploy to... *stimulate* economy. Let's face it, vendors (including Microsoft) needs the revenue from upgrades. With hundreds, if not thousands, of businesses contently using W2k, there's little reason for software or hardware upgrade. Kill W2k, and revenue from software and hardware upgrade will come streaming in...
I think people need to cut Faut some slack; open admission of wrong doing would expose SysCon to legal liablities. We could argue that PJ isn't the sort that would sue, but we live in world where we are often compelled to judge (perceived) adversaries by their capabilities and not by their intentions. That said, Faut in his position cannot possibily admit to any wrong doing, regardless of being in the right or wrong.
Nearly all the cases thus far felt like nothing more than a mild slap on the wrist. This is evident by the ever increasing volume of spam that floods our inbox daily, DESPITE all thse "prosecutions."
Martin Taylor: Resistence is futile. You will be assimilated. Bill Hilf: I am a non-Microsoft guy working at Microso.f.. aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh... Resistence is futile... You will be... Locutus?
A license violation is a license violation. Stopping now does not undo the past violations. They did profit from license violation, and that violation must be paid, one way or another.
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I don't know how many people in the west realises this; that PRoC despite all the "diplomatic olive branches" they've extending, has *NEVER* ceased considering the United States as their enemy number one, nor have they ever stopped educating their young of that. Anyone thinking otherwise is fooling themselves.
Just think about the type of things that Microsoft do (competitive practice that edge on illegality) and the sort of things that are said repeatly about Open Source movement by this company, from employees in the trenches all the way to officers of highest level. My own conclusion is that a snowball has better chance in hell than Microsoft ever switching over to Open Source model.
Imagin the power government will weld when they can change education text of our children on the fly to suit the preveiling views of the government.
Taiwan is NOT a part of People's Republic of China , despite of what PRoC government propaganda wants the rest of the planet to believe. Please make a note of it in the future.
But indeed, there still isn't a way to enforce any anti-spam law(s) across varies national borders. Frankly, considering that the existing laws could not even be enforced in the spamhole known as state of Florida (that is a part of the United States,) what chance is there that they're enforced anywhere else outside of United States?
I don't know how much G5 parts Apple's got in their warehouse, but surely this move is to clear their existing inventory to make way for x86?
So it has finally dawn on Apple that they're a software company shipping expensive hardware dongle?
It seems to me that every now and then (in recent years) Sun will come out supporting Open Source movement and then short time later put its foot in its mouth by coming out swinging *AT* Open Source movement. It leaves me wondering if burried somewhere in the legalese of their license agreement is some nasty clause that will just screw Open Source movement over at a later time.
I think for most of us, it's more important for the manufacturors to come up with an ink formula that doesn't dry out and clugging the print head than any minute per page speed improvement. Print head clugging is probably (in my own experience) the single most frustrating problem with inkjet. Of course, this might cut into manufacturors' profit derived from ink cartridges...
And I concurr. Akihabara is one place where you are expected to haggle. Failure to do so will leave you pretty screwed. That aside, the place is good for people with little or no time to spare, to find (almost) everything a geek would want.
These are the people that would pay through the nose for armoured car to truck their cash around, but would send huge amount of customer information through UPS.
What about the work that are outsourced to foreign countries? Every now and then we hear stories about foreign workers taking liberities with personal information, a Federal law doesn't exactly cover foreign soil.
We can conclusively dis/prove the existence of god, when all simulation model successfully/fail to produce "intelligent life" as we know it in the simulated universe.
It's fairly obvious that this is a ploy to... *stimulate* economy. Let's face it, vendors (including Microsoft) needs the revenue from upgrades. With hundreds, if not thousands, of businesses contently using W2k, there's little reason for software or hardware upgrade. Kill W2k, and revenue from software and hardware upgrade will come streaming in...
How many want to bet that it will be back in the next session? The persistence of corporate greed should never be underestimated.
They are being punished more for making the "adults" looked foolish than the severity of their mischief.
I think people need to cut Faut some slack; open admission of wrong doing would expose SysCon to legal liablities. We could argue that PJ isn't the sort that would sue, but we live in world where we are often compelled to judge (perceived) adversaries by their capabilities and not by their intentions. That said, Faut in his position cannot possibily admit to any wrong doing, regardless of being in the right or wrong.
Nearly all the cases thus far felt like nothing more than a mild slap on the wrist. This is evident by the ever increasing volume of spam that floods our inbox daily, DESPITE all thse "prosecutions."
Martin Taylor: Resistence is futile. You will be assimilated. ... Resistence is futile ... You will be ... Locutus?
Bill Hilf: I am a non-Microsoft guy working at Microso.f.. aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh
A license violation is a license violation. Stopping now does not undo the past violations. They did profit from license violation, and that violation must be paid, one way or another.