If you had actually READ the article before scrambling to get in an early post, you'd have noticed that they said, several times, that there are likely just as many Earths...
A lot of users seem to think that they can sell off their no-longer-used software to subsidize upgrades, but that's just not what the EULAs say (at least with pre-installed MS software). Charmaine Gravning, a product manager for Microsoft's Windows XP, said the policy is clear that people cannot sell or even share the software that comes pre-loaded on computers. If a consumer buys a copy of Windows in a store, they can resell the software, provided they include the license agreement, and all other documentation and don't try to sell multiple copies.
The issue here is cutomers trying to resell their bundled system software when they upgrade. If you upgrade to Linux, you're still not allowed to resell the bundled OS.
I used to work at a small reseller/retailer (now defunct), and most of the vendors we got OEM Winblows products from sold OEM copies of said software only with hardware bundles - typically bare-bones systems, but also just HDDs qualified at times. Can any lawyers out there tell us if selling a HDD with our old copies of Winblows is cool?
Turning off people's connection is rude. Asking a 75 year old senior citizen, who is just happy to read a few web pages and send mail to his grandkids to keep up an endless stream of patches because a bunch of hackers can disrupt the net is backwards.
Somehow, I doubt that anybody's 75-year old grandma who just reads a few webpages and reads their email is running IIS...
So the WTC building weren't the tallest. So what. He never said they were. What he said was this:
"I just got to within a couple blocks of what the volunteers call "Ground Zero" -- the shockingly small pile of rubble that is all that is left of TWO OF THE BIGGEST buildings on the planet" (Emphasis added"
He never said biggest. Quit yer fuckin' nit-picking, and quit Katz bashing just for the sake of Katz-bashing. Bash him for the right reasons, not cuz' yer anal and can't read.
Touche. Also, people, like computers, have different specs. Some of us are running 1.5 GHz RISC technology with *nix ontop, others have got little 486-33 Wintel systems in their braincases... the former have little difficulty in switching from different languages/editors/shells...
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If you had actually READ the article before scrambling to get in an early post, you'd have noticed that they said, several times, that there are likely just as many Earths...
A lot of users seem to think that they can sell off their no-longer-used software to subsidize upgrades, but that's just not what the EULAs say (at least with pre-installed MS software).
Charmaine Gravning, a product manager for Microsoft's Windows XP, said the policy is clear that people cannot sell or even share the software that comes pre-loaded on computers. If a consumer buys a copy of Windows in a store, they can resell the software, provided they include the license agreement, and all other documentation and don't try to sell multiple copies. The issue here is cutomers trying to resell their bundled system software when they upgrade. If you upgrade to Linux, you're still not allowed to resell the bundled OS.
I used to work at a small reseller/retailer (now defunct), and most of the vendors we got OEM Winblows products from sold OEM copies of said software only with hardware bundles - typically bare-bones systems, but also just HDDs qualified at times. Can any lawyers out there tell us if selling a HDD with our old copies of Winblows is cool?
Turning off people's connection is rude. Asking a 75 year old senior citizen, who is just happy to read a few web pages and send mail to his grandkids to keep up an endless stream of patches because a bunch of hackers can disrupt the net is backwards.
Somehow, I doubt that anybody's 75-year old grandma who just reads a few webpages and reads their email is running IIS...
So the WTC building weren't the tallest. So what. He never said they were. What he said was this:
"I just got to within a couple blocks of what the volunteers call "Ground Zero" -- the shockingly small pile of rubble that is all that is left of TWO OF THE BIGGEST buildings on the planet" (Emphasis added"
He never said biggest. Quit yer fuckin' nit-picking, and quit Katz bashing just for the sake of Katz-bashing. Bash him for the right reasons, not cuz' yer anal and can't read.
Touche. Also, people, like computers, have different specs. Some of us are running 1.5 GHz RISC technology with *nix ontop, others have got little 486-33 Wintel systems in their braincases... the former have little difficulty in switching from different languages/editors/shells...