Only if you don't turn off UAC. It's pretty easy for a user to figure out how to do that, and many do. However, given the default configuration you are largely correct.
Tell me about it. I drive from Pittsburgh to East Hanover NJ every other week or so. Why not take the '1 hour' flight to Newark? Well...45 minutes to drive to the Airport, get there 2 hours early, fly for an hour, add some delays, get the baggage, rent a car, drive to East Hanover from Newark. Takes me over six hours really. It takes me 6 hours or so to drive it, it's all highway, and I am not a human sardine. I can also stop anywhere I want and leave at a flexible time come week's end for the drive home.
It wasn't always like that. Short hops like that pre 9/11 were far quicker if you just flew.
Call me when it has 3G with decent battery life. Until then I'm sticking with my Motorola Q. I travel way too much away from Wi Fi spots, and thankfully the places I do travel have great EDVO signals for the most part.
We get posts that are 'newsworthy' every time the Linux kernel increments, so why not the Vista kernel?
I for one see it as a good thing, but yeah it's not newsworth. Anyone who's been following the development of SP1 even a little bit knew there would be a new kernel. That's good as it means MS is addressing bugs and other issues in the current kernel.
Taking something of commercial value without paying for it is stealing, period. You can sugarcoat it all you want if that makes you sleep better at night, but it's still stealing.
From dictionary.com: steal - 1. to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
Intellectual property is still property, and taking a copy of someone's work without due compensation is stealing. Rationalize away!
Do copyright laws need to be looked at? Yes. Does the definition of Fair Use need to be clarified and upheld? Yes. Is the DMCA bad law that needs to be changed? Yes. Is selling someone else's work for a profit without any legal right to do so stealing? Yes.
Being able to coexist peacefully without irritating your coworkers is important in an environment that locks a few people up together for months at a time. It's unfortunate that many autistics cannot do that well, but it's a fact.
"If you live in the Greater Boston area, you should check us out. It's one of the few places you'll find roleplayers willing to try just about anything."
I'm sure your group is great, but that is such a conceited statement. MOST groups of roleplayers that I've played with over the past 30+ years have been willing to try any good idea, and even some bad ones.
As I've stated many times in many places, I'm largely OS agnostic. I have Solaris, Linux, Mac OSX, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista at my disposal. I'm fairly happy with Vista so far. Despite the hate and FUD you see here it works fairly well, and the initial problems with drivers have been largely sorted out. It really is in many ways a replay of when XP shipped. The difference is that now there are real alternatives and the competition is a bit more.
It's not register memory that's taking up half the die space; it's SRAM cache. There's nothing all that interesting about it. It's old technology that's just gotten tiny enough to fit a ton of it on a CPU die.
The brouhaha over fetal stem cell research was largely amplified by the pro abortion lobby. They fear laws that call an embryo a life form or offer any protection to them. Adult stem cell research has been extremely fruitful, and there really is no reason to be growing and destroying embryos for research that has yet to show much promise.
I'm sure researchers in the US are looking into similar techniques since so far adult stem cell research has shown real theraputic results whereas fetal stem cell research has not.
Your living room is not a public gathering place. Like the disclaimer says, it's for 'private use'. I'm not agreeing with their stance, and I doubt they'll lose money over churches having Super Bowl parties, but the fact that you got modded up for such an obviously fallacious statement is astounding.
Very informative, but also very off topic. You should have a laywer explain to you what that section actually means. It has no bearing on this issue. The code TiVo has a patent on is not GPL code, first of all. Second, the section you quote refers to entities that get slapped with restrictions due to a patent they do not own and the effect thereof on their ability to distribute.
It wasn't even a BIT biased. It's a total piece of FUD for reasons already pointed out by numerous posts here. Granparent was not trolling, but you seem to be.
Ouch. I had a similar experience when I had Comcrap only it was a replacement modem. Since I work from home much of the time it was a big issue. I had to go out and just buy my own in order to get back up and running.
I really wish they would start giving honest descriptive names to Bills, rather than marketing names. Seriously, just like the new 'Economic Stimulus' bill, that should be 'It's an Election Year, here's a handout that won't really affect the economy much'. Bills to impose new taxes should have names like 'Bend over for us please' or 'Yeah, we're screwing you again.'
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, stop calling it a peacock. Yes, I know it will never happen. One can fantasize.
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Only if you don't turn off UAC. It's pretty easy for a user to figure out how to do that, and many do. However, given the default configuration you are largely correct.
Huh? The Internet is not an application. It's just a big network. Sounds like marketing speak to me.
Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of Internets! Bah.
It's just a way for the editors to abrogate their responsibilities while blaming the users when crappy submissions get posted.
Tell me about it. I drive from Pittsburgh to East Hanover NJ every other week or so. Why not take the '1 hour' flight to Newark? Well...45 minutes to drive to the Airport, get there 2 hours early, fly for an hour, add some delays, get the baggage, rent a car, drive to East Hanover from Newark. Takes me over six hours really. It takes me 6 hours or so to drive it, it's all highway, and I am not a human sardine. I can also stop anywhere I want and leave at a flexible time come week's end for the drive home.
It wasn't always like that. Short hops like that pre 9/11 were far quicker if you just flew.
Call me when it has 3G with decent battery life. Until then I'm sticking with my Motorola Q. I travel way too much away from Wi Fi spots, and thankfully the places I do travel have great EDVO signals for the most part.
We get posts that are 'newsworthy' every time the Linux kernel increments, so why not the Vista kernel?
I for one see it as a good thing, but yeah it's not newsworth. Anyone who's been following the development of SP1 even a little bit knew there would be a new kernel. That's good as it means MS is addressing bugs and other issues in the current kernel.
Taking something of commercial value without paying for it is stealing, period. You can sugarcoat it all you want if that makes you sleep better at night, but it's still stealing.
From dictionary.com: steal - 1. to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
Intellectual property is still property, and taking a copy of someone's work without due compensation is stealing. Rationalize away!
Do copyright laws need to be looked at? Yes. Does the definition of Fair Use need to be clarified and upheld? Yes. Is the DMCA bad law that needs to be changed? Yes. Is selling someone else's work for a profit without any legal right to do so stealing? Yes.
Being able to coexist peacefully without irritating your coworkers is important in an environment that locks a few people up together for months at a time. It's unfortunate that many autistics cannot do that well, but it's a fact.
I didn't say it wasn't as rough around the edges as any other OS. I just said I was fairly happy with my Vista Machine.
I'm fairly happy with my Mac too. I'm also fairly happy with my *nix boxen. They all have faults but they also all have uses.
"If you live in the Greater Boston area, you should check us out. It's one of the few places you'll find roleplayers willing to try just about anything."
I'm sure your group is great, but that is such a conceited statement. MOST groups of roleplayers that I've played with over the past 30+ years have been willing to try any good idea, and even some bad ones.
As I've stated many times in many places, I'm largely OS agnostic. I have Solaris, Linux, Mac OSX, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista at my disposal. I'm fairly happy with Vista so far. Despite the hate and FUD you see here it works fairly well, and the initial problems with drivers have been largely sorted out. It really is in many ways a replay of when XP shipped. The difference is that now there are real alternatives and the competition is a bit more.
It's not register memory that's taking up half the die space; it's SRAM cache. There's nothing all that interesting about it. It's old technology that's just gotten tiny enough to fit a ton of it on a CPU die.
I was going to post something similar. It's like saying "Potatoes are starchy, so the only starch must come from potatoes."
I've never heard it refered to as phantom matter, but the idea of 'exotic' matter has been around for quite some time and is the same thing.
The brouhaha over fetal stem cell research was largely amplified by the pro abortion lobby. They fear laws that call an embryo a life form or offer any protection to them. Adult stem cell research has been extremely fruitful, and there really is no reason to be growing and destroying embryos for research that has yet to show much promise.
I'm sure researchers in the US are looking into similar techniques since so far adult stem cell research has shown real theraputic results whereas fetal stem cell research has not.
Your living room is not a public gathering place. Like the disclaimer says, it's for 'private use'. I'm not agreeing with their stance, and I doubt they'll lose money over churches having Super Bowl parties, but the fact that you got modded up for such an obviously fallacious statement is astounding.
All the offspring would be female, not male. You lose.
Very informative, but also very off topic. You should have a laywer explain to you what that section actually means. It has no bearing on this issue. The code TiVo has a patent on is not GPL code, first of all. Second, the section you quote refers to entities that get slapped with restrictions due to a patent they do not own and the effect thereof on their ability to distribute.
It wasn't even a BIT biased. It's a total piece of FUD for reasons already pointed out by numerous posts here. Granparent was not trolling, but you seem to be.
It's just a ploy to get you to install Silverlight!
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I for one love when the fanboi mods show their true colors :-)
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To the fanbois: YHBT YHL HAND
Ouch. I had a similar experience when I had Comcrap only it was a replacement modem. Since I work from home much of the time it was a big issue. I had to go out and just buy my own in order to get back up and running.
FWIW, my FIOS connection has never NEEDED any support in over a year...It just works.
Which is exactly why 'artists' like Metallica and U2 shouldn't help support that fallacy.
I really wish they would start giving honest descriptive names to Bills, rather than marketing names. Seriously, just like the new 'Economic Stimulus' bill, that should be 'It's an Election Year, here's a handout that won't really affect the economy much'. Bills to impose new taxes should have names like 'Bend over for us please' or 'Yeah, we're screwing you again.'
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, stop calling it a peacock. Yes, I know it will never happen. One can fantasize.