But with Firefox's "Edit Text Box" extension (or whatever it's called), you can change the EULA to whatever you want...
Hell, I could change the wording on the sales slip in Tescos with a pen, but that wouldn't mean the manager of the branch selling me my copy of Halo 2 has to give me their firstborn daughter as soon as she turns 19.
I think unless you make the vendor aware of your changes, you're just pissing in the wind. Course, IANRemotelyAL...
You might be interested to hear how the Ordnance Survey (govt mapping) in the UK use differential GPS:
Firstly you drive to the site in a Big Van with a dGPS kit on it. Then you park the van, and leave it working out its location to a high degree of accuracy while you walk around mapping relative to the van.
Then you add (a) to all points (b) and you've got a top-quality dataset to work with.
My fucking Sony Walkman is in violation of this bullshit patent. There's a little microprocessor in it, which fetches data from the CD or 'music database' according to instructions mediated by a little LCD UI on the front.
If I stick an MP3 disk in it, I can even choose music by artist/album attributes.
Someone please shoot the US patent office. It's been a faithful pet for a long time, but it's old now, and it can't be enjoying itself. A quick death from a shotgun behind the barn is all it can hope for now.
I remember back in the 1930s when, just for old time's sake, we would dissolve our own salts and make our own paper. Just wasn't the same when we bought it.
Times move on, nobody/prohibits/ anything like this so it's just economics of scale. You'll still be able to buy your pogo stick / print paper, just at a different price to reflect how few people use it.
for some extremes, like Adam's, probably never will
Do people learn nothing from experience?
Against all the claimed odds, air quality improves, we still haven't run out of oil, transistors haven't hit a limit, there is a world market for more than four computers, phones no longer need copper wiring, we grow food with less land and water than ever before and digital cameras will continue to get better and better and better.
There are plenty of technological tricks yet to be discovered or yet to be brought to market, and I will bet you my left testicle that a clever digital camera doing super-macro right through to ten-inch paperazi shots will arrive within our lifetimes.
They admitted it wouldn't help with that about ten days ago.
* Cracking down on illegal immigrants.
They admitted it wouldn't help with that about ten weeks ago.
* Identity theft.
Still claiming this one. In fact, it's now (and always was, Winston) the primary purpose of this legislation.
* If you're innocent, you have nothing to fear.
Probably still claiming this one. But then fascists always do, and then go and redefine 'innocent' at some later stage. Yes I am calling Blair et al fascists.
He gives lots of indications that his system is borked. His comment about normal.dot is a sure sign that something is wrong.
Actually, his borked system is probably pretty much like most mom 'n' pop's machines, which arguably makes this a much more valid test than any 'clean install' version!
Now I think more about it, yes, fair point! I apologise. I'd still say though, that a one-stop shop for more information is not a bad thing, although it would be better done by w3c than Google.
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Fucking science, always wasting my time.
J.
Hell, I could change the wording on the sales slip in Tescos with a pen, but that wouldn't mean the manager of the branch selling me my copy of Halo 2 has to give me their firstborn daughter as soon as she turns 19.
I think unless you make the vendor aware of your changes, you're just pissing in the wind. Course, IANRemotelyAL...
Justin.
Actually, I'd be all for that, even if it was called 'school lunches for poor minorities'
J.
Firstly you drive to the site in a Big Van with a dGPS kit on it. Then you park the van, and leave it working out its location to a high degree of accuracy while you walk around mapping relative to the van.
Then you add (a) to all points (b) and you've got a top-quality dataset to work with.
Neat, eh?
Justin.
My fucking Sony Walkman is in violation of this bullshit patent. There's a little microprocessor in it, which fetches data from the CD or 'music database' according to instructions mediated by a little LCD UI on the front.
If I stick an MP3 disk in it, I can even choose music by artist/album attributes.
Someone please shoot the US patent office. It's been a faithful pet for a long time, but it's old now, and it can't be enjoying itself. A quick death from a shotgun behind the barn is all it can hope for now.
Justin.
Aha, but until you posted, we didn't know it was your house!
J.
And just because some people can drive safely doesn't mean the majority would drive safely, in terms of puting themselves and/or others in danger.
Time to outlaw those dangerous cars folks! Some people may drive badly, so no-one can drive.
Justin.
Hmm... just like for car accidents. I love doing equations/scenarios in energy terms, they give such neat answers.
J.
Justin.
I remember back in the 1930s when, just for old time's sake, we would dissolve our own salts and make our own paper. Just wasn't the same when we bought it.
/prohibits/ anything like this so it's just economics of scale. You'll still be able to buy your pogo stick / print paper, just at a different price to reflect how few people use it.
Times move on, nobody
Justin.
Do people learn nothing from experience?
Against all the claimed odds, air quality improves, we still haven't run out of oil, transistors haven't hit a limit, there is a world market for more than four computers, phones no longer need copper wiring, we grow food with less land and water than ever before and digital cameras will continue to get better and better and better.
There are plenty of technological tricks yet to be discovered or yet to be brought to market, and I will bet you my left testicle that a clever digital camera doing super-macro right through to ten-inch paperazi shots will arrive within our lifetimes.
J.
If your OEM has put something else on, why would you still want it around?
There should be only one application opening videos/mp3s - the one the OEM provided.
We call this 'modularity'.
J.
"I just buy stuff at random, then if it goes up I sell it, and if it doesn't I tell them it's a long term investment"
(GWH is Martin Brigstock, UK comedian).
Justin.
* Fighting terrorism.
They admitted it wouldn't help with that about ten days ago.
* Cracking down on illegal immigrants.
They admitted it wouldn't help with that about ten weeks ago.
* Identity theft.
Still claiming this one. In fact, it's now (and always was, Winston) the primary purpose of this legislation.
* If you're innocent, you have nothing to fear.
Probably still claiming this one. But then fascists always do, and then go and redefine 'innocent' at some later stage. Yes I am calling Blair et al fascists.
Justin.
Hi Roger!
Actually, his borked system is probably pretty much like most mom 'n' pop's machines, which arguably makes this a much more valid test than any 'clean install' version!
Justin.
That is the funniest post I've read here in months. Thank you.
J.
J.
Q: If George Bush and Tony Blair jumped off a tall tower together, who would hit the ground first?
A: Who cares!
J.
Suddenly I feel better about Blair...
Justin.
PS Not really.
I agree. It's the only way to be sure.
J.
Well it was news to me.
J.
You can, by finding ways to make your competitors stop competing, so that your product is the only one available, even if it's crap.
Not saying that that's what MS have done, but it's certainly possible.
J.
Now I think more about it, yes, fair point! I apologise. I'd still say though, that a one-stop shop for more information is not a bad thing, although it would be better done by w3c than Google.
J.
Because Google, rather sensibly, doesn't want to have to visit every page every day to see if it has changed. It wants to have a hint.
J.