If you own a license for Office that is transferrable you can resell it. A transferrable license means a non-OEM bundled copy, i.e. the retail box purchasable at a store. If you have a site-licensed copy from your workplace, it has to stay at the workplace. With an OEM-bundled copy that came with your machine, you can only sell the Office License accompanying the hardware.
If they had paid off the scorekeeper/referees, there wouldn't have been the hubub there has been, and ZD wouldn't have put the comment up on the site about skewed results.
Of course, it will, and it is. It's used by all sides in all areas of conflict online.
The consensus model doesn't work when things scale up. That's why listservs and weblogs and various other methods of group communications can and will break down wherever the project they concern becomes significant.
Sorry, the net isn't a happy little world where everybody has a 'handle' named after their favorite hobbit any longer.
gack! I can't stomach all this marketing hype and frill talk on a geek discussion site.
What the hell does 'Premium Brand' have to do with anything we're interested in here? I mean, really. Can't you marketing guys find somewhere else to spam?
Nope. It means the store has to honor the terms printed on the package.
I remember returning opened Symantec software that way to CompUSA a few years ago. Symantec at that time offered a 100% return policy, which CompUSA markedly did NOT offer on opened software packages.
That's quite an idea. Most AOL users wouldn't want root access to their machine, and if they could subscribe to a $24 a month service provider who'd tweak it for them and keep it tuned and working right, they'd bite on it.
Actually, this is the future of network computing. It probably won't be using Linux, though, but it certainly could.
Al Gore lost the election in his home state of Tennesee. Count the votes. If he had won the 'Favorite Son' vote in his own home state, the Florida votes would not have mattered.
* I still haven't figured out why the hell the FTC allowed that one.
That happened during the 'punishment phase' of the DOJ/Microsoft case.
Many people seem to think Microsoft has not been punished. The government saw to it that they were punished before the trial even ended. The fear was that Microsoft was going to take over 'mass media.' The punishment was that the government sat on Microsoft while the Netscape-AOL-Time-Warner deal was allowed to go through.
The rationale was that two big mean media conglomerates were better than allowing one (Microsoft's) to ramble around.
Sadly, when elephants fight, everybody else in the field gets stomped.
Well, now we all know that Elcomsoft is a company that produces a closed source 'email utility' that is developed for the sole purpose of extracting email addresses from online forums, websites, newsgroups, etc.
It's a tool sold to spammers to do their nasty deed. Something that 'empowers' the kind of people who don't have a clue about the 'net and have no business here, makes it easy for them to spam us.
I'd say Elcomsoft should be getting a whole LOT of attention as a result of this heigtened prominence. If poor hacker dude hadn't been arrested, we'd all hate that company for being what they are: an enabler of spammers worldwide.
Does it scare you to think of not smoking marijuana daily?
If so, does it scare you that it scares you to think of going without?
What would change if you, say, practiced a form of meditation that gave you a similar 'high' but without chemical aids?
I'm just asking, not accusing you of anything.
I am certainly far too modest to claim that I am one of society's 'most valuable, productive members.' I think a dose of modesty would help you out a lot.
It's really disturbing that the maintainer of the tuxedo.org website has 'taken over maintenance' of the Jargon File. Who voted to let that guy take it over in the first place? There's been a gradual drift of said document (i.e. Hacking/Cracking now mean totally different things than they did to some of us in the 80's) that is just distressing.
Do geeks really need someone inventing a chapter-and-verse for us to invoke? I certainly hope not.
So, you're saying that that cat has the end of the string in it's mouth and enough down the stomach that it can't spit it out. But there's a huge ball of string still rolling aorund on the floor.
That's a delicious illustration of Apple's committment to the Power PC Architecture.
There always has to be a subsector of geeks who worry about crap like that. You remember, the guy who always raised his hand to correct the teacher in secondary school when the teacher made a mistake of this sort.
Everybody knows his real name is Eggbert, and feels sorry for him. But somehow he's managed to end up making more money than us. His job description reads 'keep oxides from forming that would change the length of the standard meter and the mass of the standard kilogram.' He fiddles around with knobs and has to measure and record those unsaturated standard cells in the oil bath regularly.
And, in fact, you'll discover that the NIST crew are the same eggheads trying to ram the Metric system down our throats.
No, I didn't mean to start a Metric system flamefest. The Metric system is just wonderful and evolved to meet human needs, as opposed to the traditional system of measures. I don't drink a cup of water, I drink some odd amount of multiple of litre units of water.
Oops, that will get the Beaker heads here going.. Never mind.
People move around and store information using the numbering system they work with in everyday life, which is base ten. If I want to create an audio file that is sampled at 44100 samples per second and use 16 byte samples, it's easy for me to calculate how many 8 byte chunks of storage the file will take for a given length.
This is techno-babble taken a step further. People are NOT going to want to convert values to base two in their head when estimating, say, how many minutes of audio or video they can record onto a given volume of storage.
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If you own a license for Office that is transferrable you can resell it. A transferrable license means a non-OEM bundled copy, i.e. the retail box purchasable at a store. If you have a site-licensed copy from your workplace, it has to stay at the workplace. With an OEM-bundled copy that came with your machine, you can only sell the Office License accompanying the hardware.
Americans are in grave danger of losing the liberties they value above life itself
Yeah, yeah.
One of the liberties I value above life itself is my ability to play DVD movies on a Linux box.
Uh-huh.
Don't even get started about slippery slopes. How many movies have you acted in or produced?
Guess what?
I think I'll not crack codes or computers or... security systems.
Wow, that was hard.
If they had paid off the scorekeeper/referees, there wouldn't have been the hubub there has been, and ZD wouldn't have put the comment up on the site about skewed results.
Let's be real here, folks.
That's the movie where they had Don Knotts play the part of Eric Corley, right?
That wacky penguin is at it again, I tell you.
Of course, it will, and it is. It's used by all sides in all areas of conflict online.
The consensus model doesn't work when things scale up. That's why listservs and weblogs and various other methods of group communications can and will break down wherever the project they concern becomes significant.
Sorry, the net isn't a happy little world where everybody has a 'handle' named after their favorite hobbit any longer.
gack! I can't stomach all this marketing hype and frill talk on a geek discussion site.
What the hell does 'Premium Brand' have to do with anything we're interested in here? I mean, really. Can't you marketing guys find somewhere else to spam?
Nope. It means the store has to honor the terms printed on the package.
I remember returning opened Symantec software that way to CompUSA a few years ago. Symantec at that time offered a 100% return policy, which CompUSA markedly did NOT offer on opened software packages.
That's quite an idea. Most AOL users wouldn't want root access to their machine, and if they could subscribe to a $24 a month service provider who'd tweak it for them and keep it tuned and working right, they'd bite on it.
Actually, this is the future of network computing. It probably won't be using Linux, though, but it certainly could.
Hay, cosmic, man.
All you are is dust in the wind, and all that.
Woops. The wind blew. You're gone, man.
buh-bye.
Al Gore lost the election in his home state of Tennesee. Count the votes. If he had won the 'Favorite Son' vote in his own home state, the Florida votes would not have mattered.
That is terrorism, not civil disobedience.
It's frightening how little the kids are learning in school these days.
Ghandi and MLK would be dismayed that there are critters like you in the world in this day and age.
You haven't figured it out yet, have you?
The 'karma' system here is not a Meritocracy. People are not 'rewarded' with karma in some big competition to see who can get the most.
When an article is marked up, or down, it is for the sake of the quality of the discussion.
You people, gathering up your little karma points are really the problem. Or maybe you're just one of the meta-problems on this forum.
Nobody likes us, except the millions of people fighting like crazy to be allowed to emigrate here.
* I still haven't figured out why the hell the FTC allowed that one.
That happened during the 'punishment phase' of the DOJ/Microsoft case.
Many people seem to think Microsoft has not been punished. The government saw to it that they were punished before the trial even ended. The fear was that Microsoft was going to take over 'mass media.' The punishment was that the government sat on Microsoft while the Netscape-AOL-Time-Warner deal was allowed to go through.
The rationale was that two big mean media conglomerates were better than allowing one (Microsoft's) to ramble around.
Sadly, when elephants fight, everybody else in the field gets stomped.
Well, now we all know that Elcomsoft is a company that produces a closed source 'email utility' that is developed for the sole purpose of extracting email addresses from online forums, websites, newsgroups, etc.
It's a tool sold to spammers to do their nasty deed. Something that 'empowers' the kind of people who don't have a clue about the 'net and have no business here, makes it easy for them to spam us.
I'd say Elcomsoft should be getting a whole LOT of attention as a result of this heigtened prominence. If poor hacker dude hadn't been arrested, we'd all hate that company for being what they are: an enabler of spammers worldwide.
It ends up discredting Dmitry's cause when nutcases like you jump on the bandwagon.
Please, isn't there a tarpaper shack you should be building somewhere?
Does it scare you to think of not smoking marijuana daily?
If so, does it scare you that it scares you to think of going without?
What would change if you, say, practiced a form of meditation that gave you a similar 'high' but without chemical aids?
I'm just asking, not accusing you of anything.
I am certainly far too modest to claim that I am one of society's 'most valuable, productive members.' I think a dose of modesty would help you out a lot.
It's really disturbing that the maintainer of the tuxedo.org website has 'taken over maintenance' of the Jargon File. Who voted to let that guy take it over in the first place? There's been a gradual drift of said document (i.e. Hacking/Cracking now mean totally different things than they did to some of us in the 80's) that is just distressing.
Do geeks really need someone inventing a chapter-and-verse for us to invoke? I certainly hope not.
So, you're saying that that cat has the end of the string in it's mouth and enough down the stomach that it can't spit it out. But there's a huge ball of string still rolling aorund on the floor.
That's a delicious illustration of Apple's committment to the Power PC Architecture.
SI originates as a French term.
It means 'we surrender' just the same as all French words.
This is important stuff. There was the need for another never-ending Usenet thread, so this one was pulled out of storage and deployed.
Come now, be more tolerant.
There always has to be a subsector of geeks who worry about crap like that. You remember, the guy who always raised his hand to correct the teacher in secondary school when the teacher made a mistake of this sort.
Everybody knows his real name is Eggbert, and feels sorry for him. But somehow he's managed to end up making more money than us. His job description reads 'keep oxides from forming that would change the length of the standard meter and the mass of the standard kilogram.' He fiddles around with knobs and has to measure and record those unsaturated standard cells in the oil bath regularly.
Poor sucker.
And, in fact, you'll discover that the NIST crew are the same eggheads trying to ram the Metric system down our throats.
No, I didn't mean to start a Metric system flamefest. The Metric system is just wonderful and evolved to meet human needs, as opposed to the traditional system of measures. I don't drink a cup of water, I drink some odd amount of multiple of litre units of water.
Oops, that will get the Beaker heads here going.. Never mind.
WHY is the standard power of two multiples?
People move around and store information using the numbering system they work with in everyday life, which is base ten. If I want to create an audio file that is sampled at 44100 samples per second and use 16 byte samples, it's easy for me to calculate how many 8 byte chunks of storage the file will take for a given length.
This is techno-babble taken a step further. People are NOT going to want to convert values to base two in their head when estimating, say, how many minutes of audio or video they can record onto a given volume of storage.