If they can tie up enough hardware and software distributors and make it difficult to release anything commercially for linux, it will help kill it off or at least reduce it back down to a mere hobby and no longer a threat.
Once the next generation of hardware comes out, and you cant get a driver as its so tied up in the legal world that it can never escape, what will you have left to run? Why, officially endorsed Microsoft software and hardware of course.
It wont happen today, or tomorrow, but they have the time and money to think *really* long term ( like in decades ) on this
Smarter then most, with an unlimited black budget to play with , and no overseeing authority to call the shots or get in the way.. and they get to carry guns and fly in black helicopters scaring people..
Hmm forget not trifle with, where do i sign up to work with these guys ?
Its still a hacked version, so no, it really doesnt. I'm talking fully supported booting, not some risky hack that might die tomorrow, leaving you with a dead machine and all your files held hostage.
If it needs glass tubes to work, its not like it will just 'dissapear', and would be a lot more fragile than a metal one. That might be ok for light use, but stick it out in the battlefield and i dont see it holding up for long.
Might work disguised as a neon 'eat at joes' lamp for undercover work..
It also mentions needing several 'segments' to prevent jamming. Couldn't this also be done with more traditional antennas?
In some sates they can get away with this if you sign the form and agree to it. Others, they dont have a prayer of enforcement and its mostly a scare tactic even if you did agree.
Myself, if my employer tried to pull this on me, id refuse to sign and be filing a suit with the state that same day, ( even if its eventually lost because you live in a state with stupid laws, it still puts things on hold and would help prevent them from firing you over it ) and finding another job.
' I'm not feeling well and i need to go home, ill sign this when i get back'... to get you out of the immediate threat.
If the distribution prevents sales that would otherwise occur, it falls under 'for profit' ( a handfull of lost sales dont count, since there are always bad apples out there that abuse a well intended system ). If the distributor mkes a profit solely by distribution ( sales of p2p accounts, AD revenue on those particular pages, etc ) its also wrong.
If the distribution is to people that wouldnt have purcahsed the 'product' ( which is normally the case in a adhoc p2p ) then its still non-profit in my book. ( not the law, but how i feel )
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If they can tie up enough hardware and software distributors and make it difficult to release anything commercially for linux, it will help kill it off or at least reduce it back down to a mere hobby and no longer a threat.
Once the next generation of hardware comes out, and you cant get a driver as its so tied up in the legal world that it can never escape, what will you have left to run? Why, officially endorsed Microsoft software and hardware of course.
It wont happen today, or tomorrow, but they have the time and money to think *really* long term ( like in decades ) on this
Nah, they know what they are doing. Its all part of a grand plan.
And if you cant make it law, then blackmail people into comforming. ( which is what is really happening here )
Yes, i agree their *merchandise* is/was worth more then Elvis's. Their music isn't however.
Back in Elvis's days, selling barbie doll representations of yourself or playing cards wasn't really on the radar. Making decent music was.
College people made the industry. and i do agree they will break it too. But not for the reasons some bitter has-been like Gene thinks it will.
Not for everyone.
Smarter then most, with an unlimited black budget to play with , and no overseeing authority to call the shots or get in the way.. and they get to carry guns and fly in black helicopters scaring people..
Hmm forget not trifle with, where do i sign up to work with these guys ?
Hey, i guess we all gotta go sometime. Might as well make it child's play to wipeout 1/2 the planet from one 'oops' .
No longer applies in this country either?
So I'm going to be put in jail because i forgot my key due to all the emotional stress of being investigated?
Its still a hacked version, so no, it really doesnt. I'm talking fully supported booting, not some risky hack that might die tomorrow, leaving you with a dead machine and all your files held hostage.
This is Russia we are speaking about here, i dont believe this is a right that they currently have.
1/2 the OS market would mean that 1/2 of the machines in japan are farily new Macintoshes. Thats unheard of market penetration.
Or will it now run on whitebox PC's and i missed the announcement?
So you just shield the electronics..
Though the impulse crook, and carjacker wont be able to do that, but the hardcore plan-head for a getaway car criminal could.
Yahoo just admitted that knowledge is forbidden fruit, and the governments of the world should control its distribution.
Still, size per size, metal would be more sturdy in combat.
You dont see cannons made out of Lexan ( yes i know thats a polymer.. ).
I think SCO already has that. If not, they get the 'prior art' award at the least.
If it needs glass tubes to work, its not like it will just 'dissapear', and would be a lot more fragile than a metal one. That might be ok for light use, but stick it out in the battlefield and i dont see it holding up for long.
Might work disguised as a neon 'eat at joes' lamp for undercover work..
It also mentions needing several 'segments' to prevent jamming. Couldn't this also be done with more traditional antennas?
Then apparently you dont read well, or enough.
I doubt id have excellent karma if i was just 'yet another troll'.. But sure, when the subject at hand warrants a snide reply, it gets one.
Must be election time again. A bunch of wortheless ' feel good ' posturing. " i care about the kiddies "
Yet another group of overpaid people working at a overvalued company.
Id rather get one of those tiny little asus(?) sub-notebooks for that sort of price.
In some sates they can get away with this if you sign the form and agree to it. Others, they dont have a prayer of enforcement and its mostly a scare tactic even if you did agree.
Myself, if my employer tried to pull this on me, id refuse to sign and be filing a suit with the state that same day, ( even if its eventually lost because you live in a state with stupid laws, it still puts things on hold and would help prevent them from firing you over it ) and finding another job.
' I'm not feeling well and i need to go home, ill sign this when i get back'... to get you out of the immediate threat.
If the distribution prevents sales that would otherwise occur, it falls under 'for profit' ( a handfull of lost sales dont count, since there are always bad apples out there that abuse a well intended system ). If the distributor mkes a profit solely by distribution ( sales of p2p accounts, AD revenue on those particular pages, etc ) its also wrong.
If the distribution is to people that wouldnt have purcahsed the 'product' ( which is normally the case in a adhoc p2p ) then its still non-profit in my book. ( not the law, but how i feel )
For profit piracy is wrong. Personal duplication/sharing is not.
I dont choose to pay taxes. I'm forced like most middle class people, so no need to call me something I'm not.
And since i do pay, i demand to get my share of what it goes to pay for. ( like most people do )