The EULA says she has to abides by its term or get a refund if she declines. Well, guess what, the judge felt that the vendor had to respect the terms of what it put forth. Big fucking surprise. This thread is so full of fail, it's painful.
1. It's the law. If you don't like French law, stay out of the fucking country, it's not like Asus was forced to come here anyway.
2. It's the fucking law.
3. The EULA says that if you don't agree, you are entitled to... A FUCKING REFUCKINGFUND. The judge said that a refund should be a full, no question asked, no bothersome bullshit ship your computer at your own cost pseudo refund.
The law explictly, specifically, prohibits tie-ins. It's the fucking law. It applies to carpets, car insurance, hair stylists and frozen vegetables. So why shouldn't it apply to computer and operating systems? If you or Asus don't like it, why don't you fucking go to Russia or something?
Respiration: cellular respiration: the metabolic process by which an organism obtains energy by reacting oxygen with glucose to give water, carbon dioxide and ATP (energy). Photosynthesis is what, in plants, takes CO2 out.
With a properly designed power supply, it can be done with over 90% efficiency, possibly even more.
Furthermore, newer data centers tend to be wired with DC power, so that there is only AC/DC conversion at the UPS. DC/DC conversion can be made even more efficient.
Contrast this with running a gasoline engine, which is about 20% efficient.
I don't think I've ever seen one that does that, and it shouldn't. However it's just as trivial to change the "From:" field. There's no provision in the SMTP protocol to validate this, or anything else for that matter.
And besides, this is a suspended sentence, ie she will not be banned for 6 months this time, but would in the future if she commits more ethics violations.
My point is, there's no way a micro black hole would accumulate mass, even withoiut hawking's radiation, because it's event horizon would be smaller in size than it's component particles anyway, and therefore the strong nuclear force would win every time.
How could a tiny black hole engender a positive feedback loop? I'm not even speaking of Hawking's radiation here; but how would a few g big blackhole do anything? Its mass being tiny, it's not going to have much gravity at all, so it's not going to attract anything to grow. At most will behave like a heavy particle. Big black holes suck up stuff because their gravity overcomes all other forces, but here that can't be the case. Clearly, they have mistaken the catchy name for the definition.
ISO has standard on tens of thousands of things that matter, and those standards make international trade and cooperation possible. It just so happens that, in some cases, other standards have won over ISO's, so what? What matters here is not whether one particular ISO standard is fucked up, or unusable, or braindead: these are the kind of things that are expected to happen. What matters is that the ISO itself has been corrupted, its processes have been damaged, the trust it enjoyed has been dilapidated, because MS has demonstrated someone corrupt enough, sociopathic enough could do it.
That's a nice POV you've got here, but it conveniently ignore the "well regulated" part. Well regulated. Regular forces. See the pattern? I'm not anti 2nd amendment. You guys can keep it, along with all your gun nuts. I wouldn't want it here, where only reich wing fanatics oppose gun control. I'm just saying, while you're busy killing each other, try not to butcher logic, k thx bye.
Japan uses the "research" exception to keep on hunting whales despite the whaling ban they're supposed, by treaty, to obey. The "researchers" aren't trying to make whale-cow hybrids, they're just bullshitting to fulfill a legal requirement. They could just as well try out whether whale sperm cures cancer, or see if agitating whale baleens in one's butt result in time travel. "Nope, doesn't work, but we tried! So now let's hunt s'more whales."
Not flamebait, but I have to ask, why spend $100 or so for less reliability and for RAM usage? Is there anything you can do with XP but can't do with whichever version of Linux?
I just bought a new motherboard with integrated Intel GMA3100 graphics. I ended up buying a low end Nvidia 8400 for 40 EUROS because it sucked so much. The Intel can barely run Google Earth. It runs Quake3 worse than a 6 year old Geforce. The 8400 runs ET:QW at 30 fps @ 1680x1050, medium-low settings with shadows disabled. That's not £300, just £30, and it's capable of running recent games decently. So yeah, the guy's right, Intel's graphics adaptors are terrible. I don't know about the X3xxx series, they're supposed to be much better, but I wouldn't count on it.
* OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE/. still can't display the EURO sign, what the fuck is wrong with you people? *
Europe, a loss leader... given the exchange rate and the fact that most of their costs are in $$$ while the revenue is in EUR, and that their margin is astronomical, I call complete and utter BS.
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The EULA says she has to abides by its term or get a refund if she declines. Well, guess what, the judge felt that the vendor had to respect the terms of what it put forth.
Big fucking surprise.
This thread is so full of fail, it's painful.
1. It's the law. If you don't like French law, stay out of the fucking country, it's not like Asus was forced to come here anyway.
... A FUCKING REFUCKINGFUND. The judge said that a refund should be a full, no question asked, no bothersome bullshit ship your computer at your own cost pseudo refund.
2. It's the fucking law.
3. The EULA says that if you don't agree, you are entitled to
4. IT'S THE FUCKING LAW.
The law explictly, specifically, prohibits tie-ins. It's the fucking law. It applies to carpets, car insurance, hair stylists and frozen vegetables. So why shouldn't it apply to computer and operating systems?
If you or Asus don't like it, why don't you fucking go to Russia or something?
It's, among other things, what allows auto discovery of devices, plug-and-play and auto mounting on modern linux distros.
Mass is measured in kg
Thrust is measured in N (newtons)
There wouldn't be such confusion if you USians used proper units.
your left testicle torn off, or your right testicle chopped away?
Nice false dichotomy there, buddy.
Respiration: cellular respiration: the metabolic process by which an organism obtains energy by reacting oxygen with glucose to give water, carbon dioxide and ATP (energy).
Photosynthesis is what, in plants, takes CO2 out.
With a properly designed power supply, it can be done with over 90% efficiency, possibly even more.
Furthermore, newer data centers tend to be wired with DC power, so that there is only AC/DC conversion at the UPS. DC/DC conversion can be made even more efficient.
Contrast this with running a gasoline engine, which is about 20% efficient.
I don't think I've ever seen one that does that, and it shouldn't. However it's just as trivial to change the "From:" field. There's no provision in the SMTP protocol to validate this, or anything else for that matter.
F/OSS is to window makers what an unbreakable window would be to a conventional window.
Which is what it is to a certain maker of Windows®!
... who don't know how to spell "plagiarism."
And besides, this is a suspended sentence, ie she will not be banned for 6 months this time, but would in the future if she commits more ethics violations.
My point is, there's no way a micro black hole would accumulate mass, even withoiut hawking's radiation, because it's event horizon would be smaller in size than it's component particles anyway, and therefore the strong nuclear force would win every time.
I meant to write "a few micrograms", but this braindead pice of shit slashdot can't parse UTF-8 for mu god damn it.
How could a tiny black hole engender a positive feedback loop? I'm not even speaking of Hawking's radiation here; but how would a few g big blackhole do anything? Its mass being tiny, it's not going to have much gravity at all, so it's not going to attract anything to grow. At most will behave like a heavy particle. Big black holes suck up stuff because their gravity overcomes all other forces, but here that can't be the case.
Clearly, they have mistaken the catchy name for the definition.
If you contribute back to a F/OSS project, such project grows and attracts new contributors, who will in turn give you stuff for free.
Win/win.
ISO has standard on tens of thousands of things that matter, and those standards make international trade and cooperation possible. It just so happens that, in some cases, other standards have won over ISO's, so what? What matters here is not whether one particular ISO standard is fucked up, or unusable, or braindead: these are the kind of things that are expected to happen. What matters is that the ISO itself has been corrupted, its processes have been damaged, the trust it enjoyed has been dilapidated, because MS has demonstrated someone corrupt enough, sociopathic enough could do it.
That's a nice POV you've got here, but it conveniently ignore the "well regulated" part.
Well regulated. Regular forces. See the pattern?
I'm not anti 2nd amendment. You guys can keep it, along with all your gun nuts. I wouldn't want it here, where only reich wing fanatics oppose gun control. I'm just saying, while you're busy killing each other, try not to butcher logic, k thx bye.
Compared to Torquemada, that is.
Japan uses the "research" exception to keep on hunting whales despite the whaling ban they're supposed, by treaty, to obey. The "researchers" aren't trying to make whale-cow hybrids, they're just bullshitting to fulfill a legal requirement. They could just as well try out whether whale sperm cures cancer, or see if agitating whale baleens in one's butt result in time travel. "Nope, doesn't work, but we tried! So now let's hunt s'more whales."
Not flamebait, but I have to ask, why spend $100 or so for less reliability and for RAM usage? Is there anything you can do with XP but can't do with whichever version of Linux?
I know about €, but seriously WTF, slashcode is in Perl, and Perl has handled UTF-8 for fucking ages. What is WRONG with those people?
I just bought a new motherboard with integrated Intel GMA3100 graphics. I ended up buying a low end Nvidia 8400 for 40 EUROS because it sucked so much. The Intel can barely run Google Earth. It runs Quake3 worse than a 6 year old Geforce. The 8400 runs ET:QW at 30 fps @ 1680x1050, medium-low settings with shadows disabled. That's not £300, just £30, and it's capable of running recent games decently.
/. still can't display the EURO sign, what the fuck is wrong with you people? *
So yeah, the guy's right, Intel's graphics adaptors are terrible. I don't know about the X3xxx series, they're supposed to be much better, but I wouldn't count on it.
* OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE
Europe, a loss leader ... given the exchange rate and the fact that most of their costs are in $$$ while the revenue is in EUR, and that their margin is astronomical, I call complete and utter BS.