it is not your product. You do not own the product, the IP, anything at all to do with the product. You have a "right to use," and that's it. You couldn't take it and reverse-engineer it, replicating it in your own Chinese factories. There are a *lot* of things you know you cannot legally do to it.
What you can do, however, is unlock the thing and install whatever you want on it. You're not stopped from doing this. The updates don't work well for it, but the updates are for a specific image, and unlocking it changes that image; if I install an nvidia driver for linux and then update my kernel through a normal package manager, guess what? I won't have dual-screen anymore (since I'm using VMs...). So, I have to set up the driver again - just like you would need to unlock the iPhone again if you wanted to install an update. You will not - at all - be at risk of going to jail for unlocking your iPhone. You will not have broken a single law. You won't have even voided the warranty on it. There is *absolutely nothing* stopping you from doing it, so far as civil or criminal activities are concerned, if you want to do it. Which means, if you want to complain...it's because you merely want to complain.
The sense of entitlement in the newer OSS community members is just...sickening, really. I don't go burning down butcher shops because I'm vegetarian. A valid complain about the iPhone is the poor performance of the 3g network and the poor lifespan of the battery. But the rest of it? Just childish.
Mod me -3 troll again if you like, mods - but the "insightful" people saying they want everything and anything for free and without limitations...well, those are the trolls, imnsho. You get an iPhone...it is NOT YOUR PRODUCT. To say that...wow. Yeah.
I know what you mean. Before I had the iPhone I got a few weeks ago, I had a an LG phone that was great - I could install all sorts of applications on it. Oh wait, no I didn't.
I've been in the Linux community longer than most (since 1994) but it boggles my mind why people feel entitled to change someone else's product. I don't rewire my car, nor my TV. Why would my phone be different? And it's not as though you can't unlock the darn thing anyway.
I haven't bought a single CD since the RIAA began to wage its war on its customers. Lars will forever be invited to rot in hell, so far as I'm concerned.
Nor, however, have I pirated, copied, "borrowed," stolen, or in any other way illegally obtained copies of music since then.
That music has declined in quality for a while, and that people don't need to replace their record and tape collections, may have more to do with those declining numbers. The market saturated, went in to a slump, and during that period the RIAA screwed themselves.
BTW - the fact that I can record music using relatively cheap hardware these days helps a lot too; we don't really need the mega-shops anymore when people can get together and make their own stuff really cheaply. There is no natural monopoly anymore. The RIAA can't claim a stranglehold.
I didn't say they are written that way. In fact, I was very clearly stating that they aren't written that way. What I said was, they are supposed to be written that way.
certain parts of the text are required to have greater visual emphasis relative to the rest of the document
Except, this fails itself far too often. I've seen many a EULA where the cap text outnumbers the properly capitalized text. When you emphasize nearly everything, the relative emphasis is gone. What you're left with is something barely readable.
Documents such as the EULA are supposed to be written with the reader - a non-lawyer - in mind. Since the target audience for many tech-related EULA is typically 20-40, and since most techies in that age group have gotten to where they glaze over the fully capitalized text, at this point doing it really serves the opposite - it deemphasizes things.
In World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, players will be able to play as two new races -- goblins and worgen -- as they explore newly revealed parts of Azeroth and re-experience familiar zones across Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms, areas rewrought by the cataclysm and filled with new opportunities for adventure.
Well, so - what do we know about those two races? Goblins are already all over, and thus have places they can be already. Booty Bay, K3, blah etc. What's important about these places is that they are neither alliance nor horde; in fact, alliance and horde players can use auction houses in goblin areas to buy from each other.
Worgen are killed equally by both horde and alliance. There are a few town-esque areas already established for them.
So...is blizzard going to keep the theme those two already have, and have 2 new player races that aren't associated with a faction? Seems like it be hard to do the group thing at that point...
I think it was lvl75 before I replaced my first item I had pre-wrath on my spriest, if I recall correctly. I had half the t6 set still at lvl79, and did just fine. Of course, I was leveling tailoring at the time, and made several 80 purples once I hit 80...
you're such a very hipster, anti-anti-disestablishmentarianist.
Go to www.google.com. What is it? What is the primary purpose of google.com? What is the primary purpose of the company itself? A toolbar that started out as a search box addon for web browsers back when the browsers didn't have them built in - obvious intent. Did extra features get added? Sure. Are they just extras to the primary and original task of immediate searching? Yes.
You're really going to compare that to a diverse company like Microsoft, that makes everything from mice, to touchscreens, to operating systems, to office suites? And who is best known for operating systems - specifically one named (this might come as a shock...) "Windows" - as in the "Windows" of "Windows Search Helper." When you install Windows Search Helper - Windows being the name of an operating system (versus google being the name of a search engine), how does that in any way suggest you're going to have your search engine preference changed to bing? Where does bing enter into the conversation?
You can whinge all you want, but this isn't a case of gratuitous Microsoft bashing.
If he'd installed the google toolbar (which by default sets your search to google), would he have been so similiarly "relieved" if Microsoft had popped up a warning message that "An attempt has been made to switch your default search away from Microsoft Search"?
You're deliberately installing the google search bar. You're doing it with intent. It should be obvious that if you're installing the google search bar, you're going to be using google search. It's not as though installing the google search toolbar causes gmail to be your default webmail, or some other unrelated google product. "Windows Search Helper" however does not imply that some other Microsoft product will be tied in. It's not intentional/obvious on the part of the user.
/. is trying to regain standing, maybe become as relevant as fark so far as news is concerned. Sad state of affairs, really - but they brought it on themselves.
The limit to precision isn't due to the units used, it's due to the tool used to measure the temp.
when a thermometer is +/- a couple degrees anyway, so the "precision" of F is a farce. The reason someone uses integers is precisely because it is an imprecise measurement.
It's silly to say F is more precise than C, regardless of whatever you want to tack on in front of, or behind, that claim. The lack of precision isn't from the units used, it's from the tool used to measure the temp.
or do both. I decided to not buy another car (blacktop footprint, gas, etc) and will only do 2-wheeled things now (bicycles, motorcycles, etc). And, I went vegan. It may sound drastic, but in actual implementation...well, I never have to wait in traffic (legal to split lanes in California), I never ever have to worry about parking, and it's not nearly as hard to find something to eat as people would think. So long as I don't keep in mind my Bs and omegas, I've got no problem keeping up with everything else.
Why? Is there a limit to the number of decimal places you're allowed to use where you're from? The limit to precision isn't due to the units used, it's due to the tool used to measure the temp.
The Iranian government has been actively seeking out and destroying sat dishes. Some still remain.
I already answered your question. Once a sat link is up, wireless from there. Then move the dish when appropriate. Any link to the outside (be it sat, or whatever else) gets shared.
Just how much bandwidth do you really think it takes to send a twitter update? There's a reason twitter is what is being used. They're not en-masse uploading youtube videos...
no, because I've been keeping up with the information coming out of there for the last week.
The demands of the protestors (who number in the millions):
1. Dismissal of Khamenei for not being a fair leader 2. Dismissal of Ahmadinejad for his illegal acts 3. Temporary appointment of Ayatollah Montazeri as the Supreme Leader 4. Recognition of Mousavi as the President 5. Forming the Cabinet by Mousavi to prepare for revising the Constitution 6. unconditional and immediate release of all political prisoners 7. Dissolution of all organs of repression, public or secret.
The Iranian government has been actively seeking out and destroying sat dishes. Some still remain. While wireless is easy to block, it's not easy to block completely - not when your own police force has disbanded, the military is refusing to do anything, and you're left with little more than the few extra thugs. Granted, your thugs have guns, and the population does not, but your thugs are also the less educated, generally rural types. Hick thugs versus educated urbanites, and you don't think some of those kids can find a way to get past the firewall Iran put up? Esp if you help out with a proxy for them?
The fact that a pro-democracy, pro human-rights, even pro women's-rights Grand Ayatollah ( Montazeri ) is likely to become the new temporary Supreme Leader while a new constitution is written means nothing to you?
Again, I suggest you start digging a bit deeper. Revolutions don't require extensive bloodshed, this one seems to be doing fairly well considering - using mostly hugs. Who said this isn't a fullscale revolution?
ah, that sucks...because that's the name to give if someone gives a name:/ I bet he'll have to get a new account after this. That, and the next time I'm in his town, I've got a beer for him. Or hell, her - I dunno. Tats can probably give you info to; check his profile on fark for contact info.
You must have missed the part where several Grand Ayatollahs have come out against the election results, and only 1 is backing it. And where part of the demands of the dissidents is that Khamenei - who first blessed, then condemned, then blessed again the results - be removed. In fact, there is substantial talk about the fact that Khamenei clearly does not have Allah's voice if he is changing his position; once he blessed it, he really should have stuck with that. The double reversal greatly harms his reputation, both inside and outside of Iran.
I even tossed together a wiki page about the stances of the various Marjas. And L-rd have mercy, I'd love to have help editing it. There's a lot of things to try to filter, and most of those official pages are in languages I unfortunately cannot read.
This isn't a simple "nothing will change" situation anymore. Even Mousavi is likely to be temporary now, considering he was only allowed to run because Khamenei approved him.
This might seem a bit unnecessary, but readily handing out names to someone that replies to a comment isn't necessarily a good idea, what with the Iranian authorities actively looking for dissidents.
I'd suggest checking out the latest fark thread and either finding the info there, or just posting the question. Someone will likely email you if you ask for it. I'm not sure I trust my own people-vetting skills. It's easy to find the info there at fark though, and thanks for the proxies:)
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it is not your product. You do not own the product, the IP, anything at all to do with the product. You have a "right to use," and that's it. You couldn't take it and reverse-engineer it, replicating it in your own Chinese factories. There are a *lot* of things you know you cannot legally do to it.
What you can do, however, is unlock the thing and install whatever you want on it. You're not stopped from doing this. The updates don't work well for it, but the updates are for a specific image, and unlocking it changes that image; if I install an nvidia driver for linux and then update my kernel through a normal package manager, guess what? I won't have dual-screen anymore (since I'm using VMs...). So, I have to set up the driver again - just like you would need to unlock the iPhone again if you wanted to install an update. You will not - at all - be at risk of going to jail for unlocking your iPhone. You will not have broken a single law. You won't have even voided the warranty on it. There is *absolutely nothing* stopping you from doing it, so far as civil or criminal activities are concerned, if you want to do it. Which means, if you want to complain...it's because you merely want to complain.
The sense of entitlement in the newer OSS community members is just...sickening, really. I don't go burning down butcher shops because I'm vegetarian. A valid complain about the iPhone is the poor performance of the 3g network and the poor lifespan of the battery. But the rest of it? Just childish.
Mod me -3 troll again if you like, mods - but the "insightful" people saying they want everything and anything for free and without limitations...well, those are the trolls, imnsho. You get an iPhone...it is NOT YOUR PRODUCT. To say that...wow. Yeah.
and I can "rewire" my iPhone if I wanted, like I stated. It can be easily unlocked, and doesn't have the same "brick" risk as it initially did.
I know what you mean. Before I had the iPhone I got a few weeks ago, I had a an LG phone that was great - I could install all sorts of applications on it. Oh wait, no I didn't.
I've been in the Linux community longer than most (since 1994) but it boggles my mind why people feel entitled to change someone else's product. I don't rewire my car, nor my TV. Why would my phone be different? And it's not as though you can't unlock the darn thing anyway.
I haven't bought a single CD since the RIAA began to wage its war on its customers. Lars will forever be invited to rot in hell, so far as I'm concerned.
Nor, however, have I pirated, copied, "borrowed," stolen, or in any other way illegally obtained copies of music since then.
That music has declined in quality for a while, and that people don't need to replace their record and tape collections, may have more to do with those declining numbers. The market saturated, went in to a slump, and during that period the RIAA screwed themselves.
BTW - the fact that I can record music using relatively cheap hardware these days helps a lot too; we don't really need the mega-shops anymore when people can get together and make their own stuff really cheaply. There is no natural monopoly anymore. The RIAA can't claim a stranglehold.
I didn't say they are written that way. In fact, I was very clearly stating that they aren't written that way. What I said was, they are supposed to be written that way.
certain parts of the text are required to have greater visual emphasis relative to the rest of the document
Except, this fails itself far too often. I've seen many a EULA where the cap text outnumbers the properly capitalized text. When you emphasize nearly everything, the relative emphasis is gone. What you're left with is something barely readable.
Documents such as the EULA are supposed to be written with the reader - a non-lawyer - in mind. Since the target audience for many tech-related EULA is typically 20-40, and since most techies in that age group have gotten to where they glaze over the fully capitalized text, at this point doing it really serves the opposite - it deemphasizes things.
can a 5 digit get me at least $4? I was thinking about getting some coffee...
In World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, players will be able to play as two new races -- goblins and worgen -- as they explore newly revealed parts of Azeroth and re-experience familiar zones across Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms, areas rewrought by the cataclysm and filled with new opportunities for adventure.
Well, so - what do we know about those two races? Goblins are already all over, and thus have places they can be already. Booty Bay, K3, blah etc. What's important about these places is that they are neither alliance nor horde; in fact, alliance and horde players can use auction houses in goblin areas to buy from each other.
Worgen are killed equally by both horde and alliance. There are a few town-esque areas already established for them.
So...is blizzard going to keep the theme those two already have, and have 2 new player races that aren't associated with a faction? Seems like it be hard to do the group thing at that point...
I think it was lvl75 before I replaced my first item I had pre-wrath on my spriest, if I recall correctly. I had half the t6 set still at lvl79, and did just fine. Of course, I was leveling tailoring at the time, and made several 80 purples once I hit 80...
you're such a very hipster, anti-anti-disestablishmentarianist.
Go to www.google.com. What is it? What is the primary purpose of google.com? What is the primary purpose of the company itself? A toolbar that started out as a search box addon for web browsers back when the browsers didn't have them built in - obvious intent. Did extra features get added? Sure. Are they just extras to the primary and original task of immediate searching? Yes.
You're really going to compare that to a diverse company like Microsoft, that makes everything from mice, to touchscreens, to operating systems, to office suites? And who is best known for operating systems - specifically one named (this might come as a shock...) "Windows" - as in the "Windows" of "Windows Search Helper." When you install Windows Search Helper - Windows being the name of an operating system (versus google being the name of a search engine), how does that in any way suggest you're going to have your search engine preference changed to bing? Where does bing enter into the conversation?
You can whinge all you want, but this isn't a case of gratuitous Microsoft bashing.
If he'd installed the google toolbar (which by default sets your search to google), would he have been so similiarly "relieved" if Microsoft had popped up a warning message that "An attempt has been made to switch your default search away from Microsoft Search"?
You're deliberately installing the google search bar. You're doing it with intent. It should be obvious that if you're installing the google search bar, you're going to be using google search. It's not as though installing the google search toolbar causes gmail to be your default webmail, or some other unrelated google product. "Windows Search Helper" however does not imply that some other Microsoft product will be tied in. It's not intentional/obvious on the part of the user.
and you don't see that there is a differential there, that subby is suggesting should be included in TCO outlays?
/. is trying to regain standing, maybe become as relevant as fark so far as news is concerned. Sad state of affairs, really - but they brought it on themselves.
why would you be ashamed to be an IBM fan - IBM hasn't owned it for a while.
The limit to precision isn't due to the units used, it's due to the tool used to measure the temp.
Learn to read. You're giving an imprecise temp anyway.
When responding to a response, read it as well.
The limit to precision isn't due to the units used, it's due to the tool used to measure the temp.
when a thermometer is +/- a couple degrees anyway, so the "precision" of F is a farce. The reason someone uses integers is precisely because it is an imprecise measurement.
It's silly to say F is more precise than C, regardless of whatever you want to tack on in front of, or behind, that claim. The lack of precision isn't from the units used, it's from the tool used to measure the temp.
or do both. I decided to not buy another car (blacktop footprint, gas, etc) and will only do 2-wheeled things now (bicycles, motorcycles, etc). And, I went vegan. It may sound drastic, but in actual implementation...well, I never have to wait in traffic (legal to split lanes in California), I never ever have to worry about parking, and it's not nearly as hard to find something to eat as people would think. So long as I don't keep in mind my Bs and omegas, I've got no problem keeping up with everything else.
Fahrenheit is a more precise unit
Why? Is there a limit to the number of decimal places you're allowed to use where you're from? The limit to precision isn't due to the units used, it's due to the tool used to measure the temp.
did you...read what I wrote at all?
The Iranian government has been actively seeking out and destroying sat dishes. Some still remain.
I already answered your question. Once a sat link is up, wireless from there. Then move the dish when appropriate. Any link to the outside (be it sat, or whatever else) gets shared.
Just how much bandwidth do you really think it takes to send a twitter update? There's a reason twitter is what is being used. They're not en-masse uploading youtube videos...
no, because I've been keeping up with the information coming out of there for the last week.
The demands of the protestors (who number in the millions):
1. Dismissal of Khamenei for not being a fair leader
2. Dismissal of Ahmadinejad for his illegal acts
3. Temporary appointment of Ayatollah Montazeri as the Supreme Leader
4. Recognition of Mousavi as the President
5. Forming the Cabinet by Mousavi to prepare for revising the Constitution
6. unconditional and immediate release of all political prisoners
7. Dissolution of all organs of repression, public or secret.
The Iranian government has been actively seeking out and destroying sat dishes. Some still remain. While wireless is easy to block, it's not easy to block completely - not when your own police force has disbanded, the military is refusing to do anything, and you're left with little more than the few extra thugs. Granted, your thugs have guns, and the population does not, but your thugs are also the less educated, generally rural types. Hick thugs versus educated urbanites, and you don't think some of those kids can find a way to get past the firewall Iran put up? Esp if you help out with a proxy for them?
The fact that a pro-democracy, pro human-rights, even pro women's-rights Grand Ayatollah ( Montazeri ) is likely to become the new temporary Supreme Leader while a new constitution is written means nothing to you?
Again, I suggest you start digging a bit deeper. Revolutions don't require extensive bloodshed, this one seems to be doing fairly well considering - using mostly hugs. Who said this isn't a fullscale revolution?
ah, that sucks...because that's the name to give if someone gives a name :/ I bet he'll have to get a new account after this. That, and the next time I'm in his town, I've got a beer for him. Or hell, her - I dunno. Tats can probably give you info to; check his profile on fark for contact info.
You must have missed the part where several Grand Ayatollahs have come out against the election results, and only 1 is backing it. And where part of the demands of the dissidents is that Khamenei - who first blessed, then condemned, then blessed again the results - be removed. In fact, there is substantial talk about the fact that Khamenei clearly does not have Allah's voice if he is changing his position; once he blessed it, he really should have stuck with that. The double reversal greatly harms his reputation, both inside and outside of Iran.
I even tossed together a wiki page about the stances of the various Marjas. And L-rd have mercy, I'd love to have help editing it. There's a lot of things to try to filter, and most of those official pages are in languages I unfortunately cannot read.
This isn't a simple "nothing will change" situation anymore. Even Mousavi is likely to be temporary now, considering he was only allowed to run because Khamenei approved him.
This might seem a bit unnecessary, but readily handing out names to someone that replies to a comment isn't necessarily a good idea, what with the Iranian authorities actively looking for dissidents.
I'd suggest checking out the latest fark thread and either finding the info there, or just posting the question. Someone will likely email you if you ask for it. I'm not sure I trust my own people-vetting skills. It's easy to find the info there at fark though, and thanks for the proxies :)