It's a business, so they can cancel you for most any reason they want and dont need 'proof' or a judgment in court. Of cousre you can too, and it sounds like it is time to pack up and change services. Vote with your feet.
So the plaintiff doesn't have to pony up the cash to do it, and can now accuse at will, without any regard to potential returns. However, keeping it in civil court keeps the accused at a disadvantage as they have to effectively prove their innocence, at their expense.
To a totalitarian country as private speech is squelched under the guise of 'anti piracy' ( or 'hate speech' or several other forms of free speech that is under attack ).
Of course i realize he could be guilty regardless of how 'good' his cause it, and if so should be locked up forever. The problem is the circumstances and timing here lead one to think its a smear campaign, especially since no charges are being filed for this particular incident.
have we bought a central processing unit which has now become our property because we paid for it, or are we simply buying a "license" to use Intel's "intellectual property"?
It has always been that way. You bought the silicon, but you purchased a perpetual license to use the code in it. But this new proposal is just plain scam. The bad thing is the masses will fall for it and they will make billions.
What is next, if you don't pony up more after a particular time all the cores turn off? "Demo/Trial" CPUs?
Buying a chip that is underrated to pass QA is far different then selling you something with the intentional plan to charge you later to fully utilize what you bought. One is saving the scrap, the other is a scam.
Correct, until the real pirates get a call to arms and go destroy the building and run the staff off the plank, this is nothing more then a cool stunt.
its really hard these days to come up with useful names these days without infringing on another companies trademark. ESPECIALLY if you want to go international.
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It's a business, so they can cancel you for most any reason they want and dont need 'proof' or a judgment in court. Of cousre you can too, and it sounds like it is time to pack up and change services. Vote with your feet.
and if you don't like it, too damned bad.
Please come with us.
On the road to total control of people. Basic knowledge has to be limited at some point to keep the people in line.
Wow. Sounds like they are more screwed up then us down here in the US.
Its about time.
Should I be afraid that the Senate will try to ban toilet paper, because they can't manage to wipe their own asses?
No, be afraid they will make you do it for them.
Chinese officials consider censorship demands to be state secrets so we cannot disclose that information at this time," said Google.
So tell me why we should believe anything they say?
windows firewall only blocks incoming. In today's world you need to lock down outgoing as well.
But ya, ZA sux. Where are the OSS firewalls? It cant be that hard to write one?
I have another term for the entire lot of them.
Presumed innocence only works in criminal court and they are trying very hard to keep these cases in the the 'civil' arena.
So the plaintiff doesn't have to pony up the cash to do it, and can now accuse at will, without any regard to potential returns. However, keeping it in civil court keeps the accused at a disadvantage as they have to effectively prove their innocence, at their expense.
Buying laws is fun.
I disagree, in reality the supreme court holds more power, since they can pick and choose what cases/issues they take.
I agree the founders never meant for it to be that way however.
To a totalitarian country as private speech is squelched under the guise of 'anti piracy' ( or 'hate speech' or several other forms of free speech that is under attack ).
Of course i realize he could be guilty regardless of how 'good' his cause it, and if so should be locked up forever. The problem is the circumstances and timing here lead one to think its a smear campaign, especially since no charges are being filed for this particular incident.
But still has his reputation scarred for life. I wouldn't take a private plane out of town, if i was him.
have we bought a central processing unit which has now become our property because we paid for it, or are we simply buying a "license" to use Intel's "intellectual property"?
It has always been that way. You bought the silicon, but you purchased a perpetual license to use the code in it. But this new proposal is just plain scam. The bad thing is the masses will fall for it and they will make billions.
What is next, if you don't pony up more after a particular time all the cores turn off? "Demo/Trial" CPUs?
Buying a chip that is underrated to pass QA is far different then selling you something with the intentional plan to charge you later to fully utilize what you bought. One is saving the scrap, the other is a scam.
Or is that a monthly subscription?
it did for me, at about 9:20 EST
Correct, until the real pirates get a call to arms and go destroy the building and run the staff off the plank, this is nothing more then a cool stunt.
One Word: Trademark.
its really hard these days to come up with useful names these days without infringing on another companies trademark. ESPECIALLY if you want to go international.
shhh stop telling the facts... gives people one less thing to inaccurately bash apple on.
One step above attorneys.
Huh? WTF?
Now i can waste the resources on a 64 bit machine too. If they would just FIX it i think they would have a lot of happy users.