We need government to protect our industry from lawbreaking foreign corporations. For anyone outside the US, MS is a foreign corp. who like to play dirty.
Maybe it's due to them all being connected to the Link network these days. Back in the '80s, you usually had to find an ATM belonging to your own bank. These days, you can withdraw money from virtually any machine. I imagine that the verification process takes longer than it used to.
It's not a new problem either. Read back through this whole thread, most of these arguments have been bouncing back and forth since 8-bit tape copying.
Hmm, I'm not gonna get involved in the unauthorised copying debate, but according to amazon.co.uk, the UK Amazon price in pounds is:
RRP: 34.99 Our Price: 25.99 You Save: 9.00 (25%)
With an exchange rate of $1.82 to the pound, the US price would be just under 16.50UKP. So the consumer is being ripped, at least on this side of the pond (I assume it doesn't cost $10 per CD to ship them by the boxload).
It should be called a Greek horse. The Greeks gave it to the Trojans, then utterly destroyed the whole city once they'd infiltrated. Civilised my arse!
I was always taught that the ancient Jews became superstitious about pronouncing the name, so the pronunciation was forgotten. The hebrew text was just written as consonants, people filled in the vowel sounds themselves when reading.
Would that only apply if the seller thought that it actually was marijuana? If they knew it wasn't, then they didn't intend to supply. Since an illegal contract is not enforcable, would they be guilty of fraud?
Interesting analogy you have there. I'm not sure about the law elsewhere, but in the UK it is not illegal to smoke weed. It is illegal to possess it, and in order to smoke you have to be in possession, but smoking a joint is not illegal in itself.
I'm not so sure. The file was freely downloaded from their machine by others, who then passed it on. Ok, the software they offered has different functionality than the victims expected, but that could apply to any program that 'phones home' without the user's knowledge. As soon as the downloader opens the file, it declares its function on the screen. If this is illegal, so are the likes of Bonzai Buddy.
The el-cheapo Compaq machines we have bought for our office over the last year have all come with WinXP on CD. Not sure if it just a reinstall image, or a vanilla install CD. We get our computers through a HP vendor, maybe that makes a difference.
I expect that almost all cars are serviced at the main dealer for the warranty period. Once they get older, poorer people will own those same cars and they will certainly want to avoid paying the official dealer's prices for repairs.
Go to www.ntk.net and look through the last few editions. They were running a challenge to register the silliest.name domains (such as no.name , so you can host www.the.man.with.no.name)
Well, there's the story of how Win3.1 was designed to fail when used with DR-DOS, Digital Research's (almost) drop-in replacement for the dominant MS-DOS. This happened over 10 years ago, and DR-DOS was quickly patched to deal with the 'problem', but it's instructive to watch Microsoft's tactics when they were on the cusp of World (Desktop) Domination:
Bloody hell, I'd forgotten about that. I also remember the night the order was repealed, Newsnight opened with footage of Gerry Adams speaking with a voiceover, then did a simulated rewind and ran the tape again with his real voice.
Quite possibly, I suppose it depends how error reporting is configured on the server. After posting the comment, it struck me as more likely caused by a database server being down or a mistake in the db connection string maybe. I still think it's more likely caused by a misconfiguration rather than a reflection of the server OS. And I deal with Windows machines all day, so I have no love for MS.
The UK government's final sanction against publication of a story is called a 'D Notice'. This threatens closure of a publication if it publishes the offending article. Note that this cannot prevent the article being published, it just threatens punishment if the notice is ignored.
And the UK government, whilst being comprised of lying sacks of shit, does not "often quash news stories it finds offensive". Please cite some examples if you disagree.
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We need government to protect our industry from lawbreaking foreign corporations. For anyone outside the US, MS is a foreign corp. who like to play dirty.
Maybe it's due to them all being connected to the Link network these days. Back in the '80s, you usually had to find an ATM belonging to your own bank. These days, you can withdraw money from virtually any machine. I imagine that the verification process takes longer than it used to.
It's not a new problem either. Read back through this whole thread, most of these arguments have been bouncing back and forth since 8-bit tape copying.
Hmm, I'm not gonna get involved in the unauthorised copying debate, but according to amazon.co.uk, the UK Amazon price in pounds is:
RRP: 34.99
Our Price: 25.99
You Save: 9.00 (25%)
With an exchange rate of $1.82 to the pound, the US price would be just under 16.50UKP. So the consumer is being ripped, at least on this side of the pond (I assume it doesn't cost $10 per CD to ship them by the boxload).
It should be called a Greek horse. The Greeks gave it to the Trojans, then utterly destroyed the whole city once they'd infiltrated. Civilised my arse!
I was always taught that the ancient Jews became superstitious about pronouncing the name, so the pronunciation was forgotten. The hebrew text was just written as consonants, people filled in the vowel sounds themselves when reading.
I think it masquerades as a keygen or cracking program.
Would that only apply if the seller thought that it actually was marijuana? If they knew it wasn't, then they didn't intend to supply. Since an illegal contract is not enforcable, would they be guilty of fraud?
Interesting analogy you have there. I'm not sure about the law elsewhere, but in the UK it is not illegal to smoke weed. It is illegal to possess it, and in order to smoke you have to be in possession, but smoking a joint is not illegal in itself.
I'm not so sure. The file was freely downloaded from their machine by others, who then passed it on. Ok, the software they offered has different functionality than the victims expected, but that could apply to any program that 'phones home' without the user's knowledge. As soon as the downloader opens the file, it declares its function on the screen. If this is illegal, so are the likes of Bonzai Buddy.
So long as the compiler-compiler was clean in the first place. There would still be room for conspiracy theories.
There's more to this than meets the eye:
"Mr Turner said she claimed she got the bills from her husband."
Maybe Mr and Mrs Turner are one and the same person. I think we should be told!
The el-cheapo Compaq machines we have bought for our office over the last year have all come with WinXP on CD. Not sure if it just a reinstall image, or a vanilla install CD. We get our computers through a HP vendor, maybe that makes a difference.
Just remove the bulb before taking it to be checked. (or can they also detect a blown service bulb?)
I expect that almost all cars are serviced at the main dealer for the warranty period. Once they get older, poorer people will own those same cars and they will certainly want to avoid paying the official dealer's prices for repairs.
Go to www.ntk.net and look through the last few editions. They were running a challenge to register the silliest .name domains (such as no.name , so you can host www.the.man.with.no.name)
Works fine for me at 1152x864 on XP Pro.
Well, there's the story of how Win3.1 was designed to fail when used with DR-DOS, Digital Research's (almost) drop-in replacement for the dominant MS-DOS. This happened over 10 years ago, and DR-DOS was quickly patched to deal with the 'problem', but it's instructive to watch Microsoft's tactics when they were on the cusp of World (Desktop) Domination:
o soft/caldera.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS
and an article from the time of the lawsuit, which was brought by Caldera (who bought DR-DOS in 1996):
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~kkoster/micr
The case was settled, but you be the judge.
And Windows machines are still a pain in the arse, IMO.
"Dad, Dad, Dave just hit me"
"Don't worry son, I'll give Fred the hiding of his life for that"
Thanks for the info, I had always assumed that a C-128 was just a C-64 with memory paging bolted on.
CP/M on a C-128, that's interesting. I always thought that CP/M was a Z-80 program. Did the C-128 need a Z80 processor card to run CP/M?
Bloody hell, I'd forgotten about that. I also remember the night the order was repealed, Newsnight opened with footage of Gerry Adams speaking with a voiceover, then did a simulated rewind and ran the tape again with his real voice.
Quite possibly, I suppose it depends how error reporting is configured on the server. After posting the comment, it struck me as more likely caused by a database server being down or a mistake in the db connection string maybe. I still think it's more likely caused by a misconfiguration rather than a reflection of the server OS. And I deal with Windows machines all day, so I have no love for MS.
The UK government's final sanction against publication of a story is called a 'D Notice'. This threatens closure of a publication if it publishes the offending article. Note that this cannot prevent the article being published, it just threatens punishment if the notice is ignored.
And the UK government, whilst being comprised of lying sacks of shit, does not "often quash news stories it finds offensive". Please cite some examples if you disagree.