I hope they confiscate the source directly from MS production servers.. then check that copy against this "licence"source for any differences.
From the link: All source distributions for research use are UNSUPPORTED. There are no mechanisms in place for help with interpretation or compiling of the code.
meaning that if somebody tries check if it's the real deal by compiling it and comparing that to retail-Windows, they can't because MS won't tell any details about compiling or linking?
As I see it, one license means one copy of XP and that's it. It doesn't matter where that copy is from as long as it is the same product you have the license for.
Go on and make a copy of your friend's XP CD set. You've paid for, it's legal and at the same time you'll learn how easy it really is to make copies of everything.
Maybe that project needs somebody to make it full-baked. You seem to know enough about kernels so why not help them? And don't forget to add that "deterministic"-thingy to the next release.
Did Sony/Philips/Pioneer, whoever, invest so much to development, as to explain this premium on price? Have they disclosed those numbers somewhere as to show how much did it cost? Did they tell back then when these were invented how much the profit expectations were for these technologies? No?
Why the hell not? Is it because they want as big profits as they can get? Of course. Why allow this relentless cashing and not set the target (profit expectation) beforehand so that other investors can decide at the beginning wich one of the new competing technologies is least expensive?
I mean, isn't that how it works with private inventors, make something up and decide a price on it when selling the patent? Why allow per-unit license fees in the first place, isn't selling the patent (or shares of it) for some fixed price enough? Apparently not, and that's why we got many major PITAs all over the world, because "one can never have too much money! gimme more!".
As long as these three are after their unlicensed technology and not enforcing cheap cashing schemes, it's ok with me.
If they really want to target only makers of DVD players, they should get their own act together and level the prices of DVDs in different regions or stop this stupid region coding BS altogether.
When somebody drives their own interests on the back of a legitimate (or good) cause, that somebody ought to get punished big time for using people's good will to wrong causes! (hint.hint.gwb, don't let us down)
profit is perfectly valid reason, getting rich overnight isn't. moreover, getting rich by something not valuable in itself but using law to manipulate things to make extra money with it is wrong!
there's always people unable to see things without examining it thorough applicable laws and regulations. so then there will always be persons or entities using holes that conservative forces don't dare to patch up.
it tells something about complexity of nation's laws when ordinary citizens give up on thinking what's right and what's wrong and resort to law-jargon and prior cases instead.
when you could have a LAN in your car, where NFS box is in the trunk, 4 or 5 workstations for all passengers, switchrack in the middle console, mailserver and uplink/remoteaccess boxes under the front seats! wow!
I'm exaggerating a bit but: they seem to think that if average user downloads 10Mb/month, they can share even 128kbps line between nearly 35000 users and claim they all get 128kbps downstream bandwith.
...forgetting any and all traffic spikes, assuming that 100% of capasity is used all the time and evenly consumed by users. 10Mb/month with 128kbps line means that if user utilizes full 100% of bandwith downloading stuff, he's online only approx. 1m18s/month.
Even with this Stable=!Stable mess I'm pleased to the way this discussion goes and depth of it, compared to typical Windows-talk:
"Yeah, I tried to check that checkbox too and moved the other slider little bit left but it didn't really fix things. It still freezes occasionally and I have to restart. Let's hope there's something in the coming servicepatch that'll fix this."
"much better" is not needed if current system works fine. not until server takes such a big load that'll slow it down enough to affect users' work, anything other than security patches are not needed.
Let's not forget every other way they and we pollute the surroundings. If I could force it, I'd order all car manufacturers to make their cars release exhaust gases inside.
Rule of thumb: If you won't drink or inhale it, don't dump it without cleaning it first.
Anyway, seems like this thing happened years ago but was addressed by EPA not until recently.
NS, Real and others don't have even playing field on win32 against MS. They cannot control how Windows changes from version to version and can begin planning the changes needed only when MS already has working and ready product to ship with the new beta-stageOS. We're lucky to have Linux indeed.
Other problem is unrealistic goals for profits. Big companies don't even think of single-payment licenses anymore, they're after continuous cash flows from users. Until then they're shortening their release cycles from years to months and selling once free updates now as new versions, hoping their customers to get used to the idea of constant upgradings.
"Think constant learning. That's what todays people need to stay productive. Same goes for our software!" They're hoping we begin to think that all software is like antivirus scanners: update update update! "World changes every day, keep up and hang on! We help you!"
It's just the way business works: predictability means everything and steady income flow is predictable. Marketing new stuff is not.
First and best that comes to mind is Civilization by Microprose, original version. It tells the most important advances in history and shows their effects. It's violence is on par with a chess: there's icons for tanks and infantry but no visualized fights.
Role playing games are cool but often alienating and violent, Jones In The Fast Lane by Sierra isn't one of those. It's a career simulator: go to a job, earn money. Check it out.
Other old but good adventure games (by Lucas Arts or Sierra) are:
Monkey Island (trilogy), one of the best adventure games all time.
Day Of The Tentacle, very funny, history-oriented...sort of.
Loom, beautiful fairytale story altough a bit old, EGA graphics. That didn't matter when I played it, I was really hooked by the story.
Leisure Suit Larry series, women chasing and lot's of jokes, maybe not very suitable for sexual offenders..
now take care when handling XP only files or networkpackets. block them. any questions or complaints from users? just tell them that win/office XP has such a bugs that they doesn't work and tell them not to use XP. use 9x/nt/2k if you must but don't use XP. it doesn't work because geeks won't let it. do as firewalls do: don't just reject XP, drop it. don't say: "we don't support XP", say: "XP doesn't work, it has bugs".
tell people who has problems opening emails coming from outlook clients or their office-file attachments to ask sender to send it again in correct format like in staroffice format wich anyone can open, "just download and install staroffice, it's free". remember:.doc or.xls are not standards, you're not required to be able to open them. it's senders job to take care than recipient can open them too.
Seems like AMD is pretty fed up with stupid people, still they want those same dumb customers to buy their processors. Impressions are for lazy people, facts serve us better. If somebody is stupid enough to only look at the Mhz of a certain single section of one small part of a computer, then it servers them right to get misleaded.
There's graphics card makers, who name their GeForce2MX200-based cards as 'Ultimate', some watchmakers put text 'Water resistant 50M' on their watches when they're only resistant to splashes, 1GB NICs are sold even though they doesn't perform half as fast, etc. False promises are everywhere, but they never have bothered educated buyers. Fools pay more for less.
Hostile retrieval of Sklyarov by Russian undercover squad or some other paramilitant group? He's freed for now after bails of $50,000 so somebody do this man a favour and smuggle him out of the country.
This US justice shit has gone too far, kidnapping foreign people for no reason (Adobe retreated) and promoting US as the last country where one could find fair trials. It's a circus, paid clowns babbling whatever bs that makes'em most money and making general public somewhat content about the show.
I can tell what's fair when I see such actions. Maybe Adobe and other corporations should understand not to treat individual people as they treat other corps. It may backfire other ways than to what they are prepared for.
Ok, having read it, my view of MS and DoJ remains the same: for some reason DoJ doesn't do everything it could, MS doesn't do anything to adjust their behaviour and all these issues are too hard for general public to understand. What else is new?
Maybe some nice company could port small linux distro for XBox so game programmers could start working on linux wich boots from game CD before the game itself? And more importantly, drop MS out of the XBox game business.
Or someone could make these all-set-and-ready customized Linux install CDs for most popular business computers like Dell's Dimension and Compaq's Deskpro. Setup would rip settings and preferences from Windows , Office and IE and transfer them to staroffice (or openoffice or koffice) and other Linux programs. That'd make transfer to Linux as painless as possible.
strange.. it shows this message and throws me to, you guessed it, to www.eff.org
It didn't say what did I lose or did they found the thing I've lost or anything. Oh well, EFF is a good site, it's nice they direct people there. More eyes on the real issues of todays world.
So everybody knows everything about anybody. So what? Really: so what? I'm curious what could happen if all personal information would suddenly become freely available to anyone. Life right now is boring and too many bastards hiding behind scenes. I want real changes and this sounds like one.:)
At least it would save us from stupid tabloid headline "uncoverings" and "revealings" when all is public knowledge already. Oh, how it'd confuse the heck out of those sorry asses whos only joy of life is snooping on other peoples doings! Suckers, snoop on this! <vulgar_gesture>
Anyway we're going to see where this path takes us. Kinda interesting, isn't it? Are you going to weep over how matters used to be or look forward and try to grasp how differently all could be?
So, Roches is learning some lesson here. They're thinking probably that "hmm, Brazil did this now and they and other nations too are probably going to continue their parctises. That means if we announce a life saving new drug, we might not get as much dough anymore. Maybe we should concentrate more on drugs wich only cure everyday annoyances."
Other drug companies follow Roches's lead. So then governments hopefully wake to the situtation and start funding more universities' drug R&D and everybody's happy again!:D
What exactly is their definition of copyrighted? Doesn't the New York Times copyright their online articles? Can I not view them any more for fear of violating Excite's policies?
Hey maybe they're just looking for MP3s and paid programs and games and such? They can't seriously be looking for NYT articles or what you think?
Maybe someone at Excite@Home knows that definition. Call them and ask and you can ask about NYT articles and their policies too.
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From the link: All source distributions for research use are UNSUPPORTED. There are no mechanisms in place for help with interpretation or compiling of the code.
meaning that if somebody tries check if it's the real deal by compiling it and comparing that to retail-Windows, they can't because MS won't tell any details about compiling or linking?
Go on and make a copy of your friend's XP CD set. You've paid for, it's legal and at the same time you'll learn how easy it really is to make copies of everything.
Maybe that project needs somebody to make it full-baked. You seem to know enough about kernels so why not help them? And don't forget to add that "deterministic"-thingy to the next release.
Why the hell not? Is it because they want as big profits as they can get? Of course. Why allow this relentless cashing and not set the target (profit expectation) beforehand so that other investors can decide at the beginning wich one of the new competing technologies is least expensive?
I mean, isn't that how it works with private inventors, make something up and decide a price on it when selling the patent? Why allow per-unit license fees in the first place, isn't selling the patent (or shares of it) for some fixed price enough? Apparently not, and that's why we got many major PITAs all over the world, because "one can never have too much money! gimme more!".
If they really want to target only makers of DVD players, they should get their own act together and level the prices of DVDs in different regions or stop this stupid region coding BS altogether.
When somebody drives their own interests on the back of a legitimate (or good) cause, that somebody ought to get punished big time for using people's good will to wrong causes! (hint.hint.gwb, don't let us down)
there's always people unable to see things without examining it thorough applicable laws and regulations. so then there will always be persons or entities using holes that conservative forces don't dare to patch up.
it tells something about complexity of nation's laws when ordinary citizens give up on thinking what's right and what's wrong and resort to law-jargon and prior cases instead.
when you could have a LAN in your car, where NFS box is in the trunk, 4 or 5 workstations for all passengers, switchrack in the middle console, mailserver and uplink/remoteaccess boxes under the front seats! wow!
excuse me, how much does it cost to just keep these gene samples in a refridgerator?
What is this, a world from "Demolition Man"? I tought it was a joke.. but nooo, "we want to see those nice ads and sing along with their tunes!"
...forgetting any and all traffic spikes, assuming that 100% of capasity is used all the time and evenly consumed by users. 10Mb/month with 128kbps line means that if user utilizes full 100% of bandwith downloading stuff, he's online only approx. 1m18s/month.
"Yeah, I tried to check that checkbox too and moved the other slider little bit left but it didn't really fix things. It still freezes occasionally and I have to restart. Let's hope there's something in the coming servicepatch that'll fix this."
"much better" is not needed if current system works fine. not until server takes such a big load that'll slow it down enough to affect users' work, anything other than security patches are not needed.
Rule of thumb: If you won't drink or inhale it, don't dump it without cleaning it first.
Anyway, seems like this thing happened years ago but was addressed by EPA not until recently.
fixes all problems with IE, present and future alike. www.98lite.net/ieradicator.html
Other problem is unrealistic goals for profits. Big companies don't even think of single-payment licenses anymore, they're after continuous cash flows from users. Until then they're shortening their release cycles from years to months and selling once free updates now as new versions, hoping their customers to get used to the idea of constant upgradings.
"Think constant learning. That's what todays people need to stay productive. Same goes for our software!" They're hoping we begin to think that all software is like antivirus scanners: update update update! "World changes every day, keep up and hang on! We help you!"
It's just the way business works: predictability means everything and steady income flow is predictable. Marketing new stuff is not.
Role playing games are cool but often alienating and violent, Jones In The Fast Lane by Sierra isn't one of those. It's a career simulator: go to a job, earn money. Check it out.
Other old but good adventure games (by Lucas Arts or Sierra) are:
Monkey Island (trilogy), one of the best adventure games all time.
Day Of The Tentacle, very funny, history-oriented ...sort of.
Loom, beautiful fairytale story altough a bit old, EGA graphics. That didn't matter when I played it, I was really hooked by the story.
Leisure Suit Larry series, women chasing and lot's of jokes, maybe not very suitable for sexual offenders..
tell people who has problems opening emails coming from outlook clients or their office-file attachments to ask sender to send it again in correct format like in staroffice format wich anyone can open, "just download and install staroffice, it's free". remember: .doc or .xls are not standards, you're not required to be able to open them. it's senders job to take care than recipient can open them too.
There's graphics card makers, who name their GeForce2MX200-based cards as 'Ultimate', some watchmakers put text 'Water resistant 50M' on their watches when they're only resistant to splashes, 1GB NICs are sold even though they doesn't perform half as fast, etc. False promises are everywhere, but they never have bothered educated buyers. Fools pay more for less.
This US justice shit has gone too far, kidnapping foreign people for no reason (Adobe retreated) and promoting US as the last country where one could find fair trials. It's a circus, paid clowns babbling whatever bs that makes'em most money and making general public somewhat content about the show.
I can tell what's fair when I see such actions. Maybe Adobe and other corporations should understand not to treat individual people as they treat other corps. It may backfire other ways than to what they are prepared for.
Maybe some nice company could port small linux distro for XBox so game programmers could start working on linux wich boots from game CD before the game itself? And more importantly, drop MS out of the XBox game business.
Or someone could make these all-set-and-ready customized Linux install CDs for most popular business computers like Dell's Dimension and Compaq's Deskpro. Setup would rip settings and preferences from Windows , Office and IE and transfer them to staroffice (or openoffice or koffice) and other Linux programs. That'd make transfer to Linux as painless as possible.
strange.. it shows this message and throws me to, you guessed it, to www.eff.org
It didn't say what did I lose or did they found the thing I've lost or anything. Oh well, EFF is a good site, it's nice they direct people there. More eyes on the real issues of todays world.
At least it would save us from stupid tabloid headline "uncoverings" and "revealings" when all is public knowledge already. Oh, how it'd confuse the heck out of those sorry asses whos only joy of life is snooping on other peoples doings! Suckers, snoop on this! <vulgar_gesture>
So, Roches is learning some lesson here. They're thinking probably that "hmm, Brazil did this now and they and other nations too are probably going to continue their parctises. That means if we announce a life saving new drug, we might not get as much dough anymore. Maybe we should concentrate more on drugs wich only cure everyday annoyances."
Other drug companies follow Roches's lead. So then governments hopefully wake to the situtation and start funding more universities' drug R&D and everybody's happy again! :D
Hey maybe they're just looking for MP3s and paid programs and games and such? They can't seriously be looking for NYT articles or what you think?
Maybe someone at Excite@Home knows that definition. Call them and ask and you can ask about NYT articles and their policies too.