Who is this ranting, cross-posting idiot with a "mission"? Why should anyone give a damn about them posting the same drivel over and over to every comment branch on this thread?
The law is structured such that everyone is a "criminal." The question is not whether you have broken some obscure law or run afoul of some perverse interpretation of the law, but whether the powers that be choose to make your life miserable.
Your personal breach of the law may be something so trivial as J-walking to get a cup of coffee, but you have broken the law.
More to the point, there innumerable trade agreements between nations that mandate that foreign companies follow local legislation while doing business with their communities. The Sikhs would have to win in an *Indian* court for the case to have *any* impact or jurisdiction on the situation.
You flat out can NOT dictate that a company break a foreign country's laws. You can dictate that they're not allowed to do business *at* *all* in that country, but you can't force them to break the law.
Before everyone jumps on this with their "Hatez the Microsoft" commentary, let me just point out that Android relies on exactly this kind of branding, except it's Google instead of Bing.
Technology may get better, but the rules of electrical circuits, physics, and so on rarely change enough to make a difference on a planetary scale. Unless there has been some earth-shattering change in the way electricity works, it's a scam.
With the demise of tvtorrents.com, I got tired of trying to find TV episodes online and went back to IPTV with a PVR. Sure there are other sites where I could have gotten the content, but tvtorrents.com had made it easy to follow a show instead of searching through a bunch of bogus torrents that you have to actually watch to know if you got a legit episode or not.
The torrent sites are too full of fake crap nowadays to be worth the hassle. Well, maybe "fake" is too strong a word: shittily transcoded might be better.
It has been a very long time since I bought a "latest and greatest" chip when building a new computer, because 2-3 revisions old still has many times the performance of the machine it's replacing and far more "snort" than I could ever use on day-to-day activities.
With any luck, this announcement and release will bring the price down on the chips I want by another $100 or so by January-February, when I hope to actually be building a new machine.
The bleeding edge is fine for gamers and hard-core video encoders and number crunchers, but for the rest of us folks, it is just an insane waste of money to buy the "latest and greatest." It's been a lot of years since anyone needed to do that for anything even vaguely resembling sane home or business use.
It's an "alternate" release, so I'll bite and install Windows 10. Historically, pretty much every second release of Windows was worth the effort of installing, with the "in between" release being a total screw up that never got deployed anywhere except for being pre-installed on devices.
Do you know of anyone who voluntarily ran Windows 8? Or paid for it as an upgrade?
I actually browsed their website, too. I did see some crude edit-and-run tools for web development of JavaScript and such, but that kind of stuff had been bread-and-butter for a number of tools for years, so I can't see them being so stupid as to patent that. There is nothing "innovative" about it.
What IS of consequence is whether the CEO took a "golden parachute" while leaving the employees unpaid. Excecutives should be the LAST at the bankruptcy trough in my books. THEY'RE the ones responsible for the condition of the company, so any losses should be out of THEIR pockets.
Yeah, but I only "saw" evidence of tampering when I was having manic episodes while unmedicated. Until you've dealt with clinical paranoia, you have no idea just how terrifying it is to think that every black SUV you see is an undercover cop, that everyone with a bluetooth headset is with CSIS/GCHQ/NSA/FBI/CIA, or to hear "voices" in the rumble of a furnace duct.
I didn't change my behaviour because I was already doing what I could to protect myself from spammers, scammers, sniffers, man-in-the-middle attacks, and other such annoying and often illegal behaviour. Wherever encryption was available, I used it.
Being somewhat paranoid due to my periodic bi-polar "manic" periods, I already was convinced the goobernmints and corporations of the world were up to nefarious snooping and hacking. Snowden didn't "inform" me of anything; all he did was confirm what I already believed.
What ticks me off is not that bubbles kill companies, but that bubbles kill retirement plans because of all the greedy "analysts" betting on a "sure thing."
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Get well soon. You're far too young and energetic to be taken from us all yet!
Who is this ranting, cross-posting idiot with a "mission"? Why should anyone give a damn about them posting the same drivel over and over to every comment branch on this thread?
The law is structured such that everyone is a "criminal." The question is not whether you have broken some obscure law or run afoul of some perverse interpretation of the law, but whether the powers that be choose to make your life miserable.
Your personal breach of the law may be something so trivial as J-walking to get a cup of coffee, but you have broken the law.
Au contraire. The system came with Windows pre-installed. I had to go to an *effort* to install Linux on it.
I didn't save a damned dime.
More to the point, there innumerable trade agreements between nations that mandate that foreign companies follow local legislation while doing business with their communities. The Sikhs would have to win in an *Indian* court for the case to have *any* impact or jurisdiction on the situation.
You flat out can NOT dictate that a company break a foreign country's laws. You can dictate that they're not allowed to do business *at* *all* in that country, but you can't force them to break the law.
Before everyone jumps on this with their "Hatez the Microsoft" commentary, let me just point out that Android relies on exactly this kind of branding, except it's Google instead of Bing.
Downvoted? *LOL*
Apparently you have no idea just how much technology goes into automating hydroponics if you have an unlimited budget. :D
Technology may get better, but the rules of electrical circuits, physics, and so on rarely change enough to make a difference on a planetary scale. Unless there has been some earth-shattering change in the way electricity works, it's a scam.
Properly equipped, ventilated, and cooled cannabis grow rooms to treat my migraines. 'nuff said.
If you think the telcos aren't going to suck at the federal teat for all they're worth, it's you that's a fucking retard.
With the demise of tvtorrents.com, I got tired of trying to find TV episodes online and went back to IPTV with a PVR. Sure there are other sites where I could have gotten the content, but tvtorrents.com had made it easy to follow a show instead of searching through a bunch of bogus torrents that you have to actually watch to know if you got a legit episode or not.
The torrent sites are too full of fake crap nowadays to be worth the hassle. Well, maybe "fake" is too strong a word: shittily transcoded might be better.
The first I heard of memristors was in the mid '80s. I don't recall if it was HP or someone else ballyhooing them, though.
You didn't think the government was going to give up their addiction to surveillance crack that easily, did you?
It has been a very long time since I bought a "latest and greatest" chip when building a new computer, because 2-3 revisions old still has many times the performance of the machine it's replacing and far more "snort" than I could ever use on day-to-day activities.
With any luck, this announcement and release will bring the price down on the chips I want by another $100 or so by January-February, when I hope to actually be building a new machine.
The bleeding edge is fine for gamers and hard-core video encoders and number crunchers, but for the rest of us folks, it is just an insane waste of money to buy the "latest and greatest." It's been a lot of years since anyone needed to do that for anything even vaguely resembling sane home or business use.
Not really. They're manufacturing their devices; all HP ever seems to have done is talk.
8.1 was a fluffed up service pack.
It's an "alternate" release, so I'll bite and install Windows 10. Historically, pretty much every second release of Windows was worth the effort of installing, with the "in between" release being a total screw up that never got deployed anywhere except for being pre-installed on devices.
Do you know of anyone who voluntarily ran Windows 8? Or paid for it as an upgrade?
I actually browsed their website, too. I did see some crude edit-and-run tools for web development of JavaScript and such, but that kind of stuff had been bread-and-butter for a number of tools for years, so I can't see them being so stupid as to patent that. There is nothing "innovative" about it.
How can you patent course material? I could see copyright, but a patent?
What IS of consequence is whether the CEO took a "golden parachute" while leaving the employees unpaid. Excecutives should be the LAST at the bankruptcy trough in my books. THEY'RE the ones responsible for the condition of the company, so any losses should be out of THEIR pockets.
Yeah, but I only "saw" evidence of tampering when I was having manic episodes while unmedicated. Until you've dealt with clinical paranoia, you have no idea just how terrifying it is to think that every black SUV you see is an undercover cop, that everyone with a bluetooth headset is with CSIS/GCHQ/NSA/FBI/CIA, or to hear "voices" in the rumble of a furnace duct.
'tis scary shit, and far from realistic.
I didn't change my behaviour because I was already doing what I could to protect myself from spammers, scammers, sniffers, man-in-the-middle attacks, and other such annoying and often illegal behaviour. Wherever encryption was available, I used it.
Being somewhat paranoid due to my periodic bi-polar "manic" periods, I already was convinced the goobernmints and corporations of the world were up to nefarious snooping and hacking. Snowden didn't "inform" me of anything; all he did was confirm what I already believed.
And there is nobody in the world who could be affected except /. users, right?
What ticks me off is not that bubbles kill companies, but that bubbles kill retirement plans because of all the greedy "analysts" betting on a "sure thing."
Once they acquire the patents, they'll make a tablet with a keyboard and insist it's not a laptop. :P