If you live in Massachusetts, you'll be happy to hear you'll be getting less spam now that..."
the realality is of course "If you live in Massachusetts, you'll be happy to hear you'll be getting less hatred on account of less spam being send from you area"
But if they see that there is a good reason to upgrade, they will.
No they won't. No sane person, and only a tiny percentage of insane ones, is going to install a new release of Windows on a working machine. By now, the world has sufficient accrued knowledge to avoid replacing a working OS with anything other than
(a) The exact same version of Windows that was on it before it was connected to ADSL
(b) Something that has never been anywhere near Redmond.
It can take n months to get a different verison of Windows to run at all, and when it does, half your hardware, and most of your apps won't work. And if you call in a nerd, he will call you rude names, and replace it win Penguine 9.8.1 anyway.
Of course, we in Europe already have penalties for driving during the day, deliveries done at night, and dynamic traffic congestion info used by virtually every professional driver. ("At the end of the road, turn right, TURN RIGHT") Our driving standards are generally higher than in America. We need this partly because out traffic lanes are half the width of yours (but the cars are smaller too), partly because the side roads are made deliberately impassable to through traffic (to save lives - our death toll is 10% of Americas per 1,000 population) and partly our population density is far higher than America: UK has 1/4 the population of the USA in an area the size of Kansas.
We still have massive congestion and the occasional 4 hour gridlock, but its better that it would be otherwise. Of course, if there were alternative routes to take when you had a warning of congestion, it would help!
The only real solution is for everyone to cycle, and so long as there is diesel oil or rape seed (Cannola) oil on the planet, I for one, won't get on a bike.
Let me explain again for the benefit of you and your president:
US Law does not apply in Europe. The DCMA does not apply in Europe. Reverse engineering is your right in Europe.
Americans may or may not be entitled to use software developed in Europe, regardless of the methods by which it was developed. I don't know.
Nikon's software is so crap, I'd recommend you go somewhere else if you want digital pics, unless you can get third party software to work with the cameras.
I have a nikon E4100, with their software, which is Windows only.
It also started core dumping after a month.
I downloaded an upgrade, and this would not install because the original software was still installed, so I removed the original software. Now the upgrade won't install because the original software is NOT there.
I bet good money that Nikon wont release their format for one of two perfectly good reasons
A) They have forgotten what it is, and no one who knows is till working for the company.
b) Its so stupid they would be embarassed if anyone got to know what it was.
Nikon may be able to make good cameras, but the average teenage hacker could write massively better software. They should release the specs and let someone else do it - they are clearly incompetent.
Doen't CUPS have to be working for kde printing to work?
I have a printer with jetDirect type of server interface. I have been a Un*x sysadmin for over 20 years, and it still took a week to get this working
Its simple things that floor you - How the hell are you supposed to know that the url for a jetDirect printer is
socket://printer.here.com:9100
An example would fix this! A lot of the problems could be solved by better use of typefaces in the explanations, and less dumbing down. If you mean fully qualified domain name, then say so. If you mean port, then say so. If you can/must use an IP address instead, say so!
Remember if your idiot cousin from the cake shop wants the printer to work, she will phone rent-a-nerd. If you are lucky, she will wear a low cut blouse and very short skirt for the occasion. She will not type urls into dialogue boxes, even if you use words of one syllable to describe it. She won't even think of plugging a USB printer into a Windows box by herself. The idea would not occur to her. And if it did, you both know she would phone you to come and get the USB plug out of the RJ11 socket shortly after.
And don't tell me about OSX - it took my son two months to get it working on his ibook. It could find the cups entry on my computer, but that did not work. It could not even find the printer directly. The one day, it started working by itself.
And don't even mention printing under windows as an example of what is "good" - it gives me pains in all the diodes in my left leg...
Well borrow one from a third world kid - most have two or three - just because they dont have 3 mega pixel cameras doesnt mean they cant send SMS messages.
All the money, from all spam and spyware. everywhere, is collected through US owned credit card companies.
If the credit card companies were threatened with a charge of conspiracy to promote spam/spyware/all the other immoral or illegal acts commited for money via the itnernet, it would stop overnight.
It exits because the credit card companies profit from it. Take the profit from the credit card companies, and it would not exist.
Nothing in the above statement should be taken to imply that I do not support cruel and inhuman torture and/or death for anyone connected with the promotion/distribution of Spam/Spyware.
if you're one of those mutants with a fourth color receptor, you'll hate these lights. Reply to This
Yes, I am. You might be too...
Most people have another type of receptor, called a rod, which is not colour sensitive, unlike the three kinds of cones which are colour sensitive. However, my rods have a much wide spectral response than the normally accepted colour range of white light. I have known for a long time that light without significant ultraviolet content makes it hard for me to accurately resolve edges. I find technical drawing very difficult by incandescent light. Others may be the same too.
Remember 10% of men lack one kind of cone, and are partly colour blind. A lot more lack fashion sense, but you can't blame that on LEDs
Not only that, originally, in the days of the Roman Empire/time of Christ, the word was "Denarius" which meant 1/10 of a pound weight of gold. Its still called a Dinar in some parts of Europe and the middle East, although its generally worth about 1/10 of a cigarette.
However, some punster changed it to "Dolor" which means grief/sadness cos it cause so much suffering!
The Dollar sign, represents the Pillars of Hurculese, wrapped with a ribbon - representing the "End of the world" as in where you fall off the edge of the flat earth - a tribute to both Columbus and the Sun readers who thought the world was flat.
People who attended Naval college in Columbus' time know how to calculate the distance from an object of known height appearing over the horizon, using the diameter of the earth. Of course politicians and court officials did not attend Naval College,.. and Columbus could sell them a load of BS.
It would not break any treaties. If MS is in breach of the law, then the government can size their assets until they are paid, same way they can sneak up in the night and take my car from outside my house if I dont pay my taxes.
If MS break the law, they can lose ownership. If they don't own it, then they dont control it.
As for trade wars, don't think that the EU won't vote for one. We have constant trade wars: eg the USA trying to force us to buy GM food we don't want, and refusing to buy Scotch Whisky if we don't eat beaf contaminated with hormones. This could go VERY BAD for MS.
RTFA - Its the _prototypes_ they are refusing to supply! Because they want to charge for them, and if they are incorporated in open source, people will get to see the prototypes witout paying
Yes its logically sound.
Yes its totally obscene.
Yes there is a good chance that someone in the EU executive will get the hump, and
yes the penalty for contempt of court is a good long term on the inside.
This is every bit as exciting as SCO vs IBM, has own goals on a scale rarely seen outside league division 2, and its Much more fun than Days of Our lives
The EU might just declare that MS is not entitled to be paid for copies of WIndows - and it becomes available for free download from an EU site - that would give MS a shock!
Or more fun still, you can buy it for EUR5 from the EU government's bailiffs until such time as the revenues equal MS' unpaid fine.
You may use e-mail only for playing, but in the real world, people actually conduct legitimate business, and need to have e-mail addresses like "sales@mybusiness.com" visible on their web site.
This applies to one-man businesses run by teenagers and grannies as much as IBM and M$.
I have news for you: Having to spend twenty times as much time on deleteing penis enlarger ads as responding to sales leads does not appeal to the average grannie.
These people are legitimate and constructive e-mail users, and not geeks. There is no reason why they should be showered with shit just because the US legal authorities fails to lock up the perpetrators of scams within its jurisdiction.
If you tell me Canada is better,I'll whack you round the head with a 512MB ST506 hard disk filled with spam from some Canadian pharmacy that can't tell the difference between the USA and Europe, and appears to have purchased an "Op-in" mainling list consisting of 10,000 copies of my e-mail address spelt wrong.
A power user will probably use Linux, BSD or a Mac.
The problem is the terminally stupid, and the fact that there are more terminally stupid people in the world than anyone can imagine. In the next ten years, most of them will be Windows users unless we are struck by an asteroid.
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the realality is of course "If you live in Massachusetts, you'll be happy to hear you'll be getting less hatred on account of less spam being send from you area"
(HINT: Its not a mis-spelling of PHP)
It is analagous to the romans selling their right to vote for bread and circuses.
He already does - or do you have another explanation for the fine quality of Windows code?
No they won't. No sane person, and only a tiny percentage of insane ones, is going to install a new release of Windows on a working machine. By now, the world has sufficient accrued knowledge to avoid replacing a working OS with anything other than
(a) The exact same version of Windows that was on it before it was connected to ADSL
(b) Something that has never been anywhere near Redmond.
It can take n months to get a different verison of Windows to run at all, and when it does, half your hardware, and most of your apps won't work. And if you call in a nerd, he will call you rude names, and replace it win Penguine 9.8.1 anyway.
We still have massive congestion and the occasional 4 hour gridlock, but its better that it would be otherwise. Of course, if there were alternative routes to take when you had a warning of congestion, it would help!
The only real solution is for everyone to cycle, and so long as there is diesel oil or rape seed (Cannola) oil on the planet, I for one, won't get on a bike.
Not if you are the kind of nerd that goes to watch poll dancing, and consumes prune cocktails.
Its hard work being illiterate, but someone has to do it!
US Law does not apply in Europe. The DCMA does not apply in Europe. Reverse engineering is your right in Europe.
Americans may or may not be entitled to use software developed in Europe, regardless of the methods by which it was developed. I don't know.
Nikon's software is so crap, I'd recommend you go somewhere else if you want digital pics, unless you can get third party software to work with the cameras.
It also started core dumping after a month.
I downloaded an upgrade, and this would not install because the original software was still installed, so I removed the original software. Now the upgrade won't install because the original software is NOT there.
I bet good money that Nikon wont release their format for one of two perfectly good reasons
A) They have forgotten what it is, and no one who knows is till working for the company.
b) Its so stupid they would be embarassed if anyone got to know what it was.
Nikon may be able to make good cameras, but the average teenage hacker could write massively better software. They should release the specs and let someone else do it - they are clearly incompetent.
Machines to record key strokes from organs existed around 100 years before that.
No news here folks!
I have a printer with jetDirect type of server interface. I have been a Un*x sysadmin for over 20 years, and it still took a week to get this working
Its simple things that floor you - How the hell are you supposed to know that the url for a jetDirect printer is
An example would fix this! A lot of the problems could be solved by better use of typefaces in the explanations, and less dumbing down. If you mean fully qualified domain name, then say so. If you mean port, then say so. If you can/must use an IP address instead, say so!Remember if your idiot cousin from the cake shop wants the printer to work, she will phone rent-a-nerd. If you are lucky, she will wear a low cut blouse and very short skirt for the occasion. She will not type urls into dialogue boxes, even if you use words of one syllable to describe it. She won't even think of plugging a USB printer into a Windows box by herself. The idea would not occur to her. And if it did, you both know she would phone you to come and get the USB plug out of the RJ11 socket shortly after.
And don't tell me about OSX - it took my son two months to get it working on his ibook. It could find the cups entry on my computer, but that did not work. It could not even find the printer directly. The one day, it started working by itself.
And don't even mention printing under windows as an example of what is "good" - it gives me pains in all the diodes in my left leg...
Well borrow one from a third world kid - most have two or three - just because they dont have 3 mega pixel cameras doesnt mean they cant send SMS messages.
Theres dumb, and there's Amerca's dumbest ...
If the credit card companies were threatened with a charge of conspiracy to promote spam/spyware/all the other immoral or illegal acts commited for money via the itnernet, it would stop overnight.
It exits because the credit card companies profit from it. Take the profit from the credit card companies, and it would not exist.
Nothing in the above statement should be taken to imply that I do not support cruel and inhuman torture and/or death for anyone connected with the promotion/distribution of Spam/Spyware.
Yes, I am. You might be too ...
Most people have another type of receptor, called a rod, which is not colour sensitive, unlike the three kinds of cones which are colour sensitive. However, my rods have a much wide spectral response than the normally accepted colour range of white light. I have known for a long time that light without significant ultraviolet content makes it hard for me to accurately resolve edges. I find technical drawing very difficult by incandescent light. Others may be the same too.
Remember 10% of men lack one kind of cone, and are partly colour blind. A lot more lack fashion sense, but you can't blame that on LEDs
However, some punster changed it to "Dolor" which means grief/sadness cos it cause so much suffering!
The Dollar sign, represents the Pillars of Hurculese, wrapped with a ribbon - representing the "End of the world" as in where you fall off the edge of the flat earth - a tribute to both Columbus and the Sun readers who thought the world was flat.
People who attended Naval college in Columbus' time know how to calculate the distance from an object of known height appearing over the horizon, using the diameter of the earth. Of course politicians and court officials did not attend Naval College,.. and Columbus could sell them a load of BS.
Think of it as an Access application coded in VisualBasic.
I should be careful where you say that. People with funny accents could have you locked away for a long time!
If MS break the law, they can lose ownership. If they don't own it, then they dont control it.
As for trade wars, don't think that the EU won't vote for one. We have constant trade wars: eg the USA trying to force us to buy GM food we don't want, and refusing to buy Scotch Whisky if we don't eat beaf contaminated with hormones. This could go VERY BAD for MS.
Yes its logically sound.
Yes its totally obscene.
Yes there is a good chance that someone in the EU executive will get the hump, and
yes the penalty for contempt of court is a good long term on the inside.
This is every bit as exciting as SCO vs IBM, has own goals on a scale rarely seen outside league division 2, and its Much more fun than Days of Our lives
Or more fun still, you can buy it for EUR5 from the EU government's bailiffs until such time as the revenues equal MS' unpaid fine.
They aren't. They are expected to publish honest and accurate descriptions of their APIs in such a way that open source can use them.
They are twisting the words to get the support of the terminally ignorant.
Flash on a web site is like a pony tail on man ... its there as a warning to steer well clear.
This applies to one-man businesses run by teenagers and grannies as much as IBM and M$.
I have news for you: Having to spend twenty times as much time on deleteing penis enlarger ads as responding to sales leads does not appeal to the average grannie.
These people are legitimate and constructive e-mail users, and not geeks. There is no reason why they should be showered with shit just because the US legal authorities fails to lock up the perpetrators of scams within its jurisdiction.
If you tell me Canada is better,I'll whack you round the head with a 512MB ST506 hard disk filled with spam from some Canadian pharmacy that can't tell the difference between the USA and Europe, and appears to have purchased an "Op-in" mainling list consisting of 10,000 copies of my e-mail address spelt wrong.
The problem is the terminally stupid, and the fact that there are more terminally stupid people in the world than anyone can imagine. In the next ten years, most of them will be Windows users unless we are struck by an asteroid.
Panic now, before its too late...