Microsoft produced a work eligible for copyright. They sell copies of that work.
No, Microsoft sells a $25 license to use that work. The work is free to download.
The $25 license is a *new* OEM license key, meant to be used with a pc that did not previously have a license key. For example, a pc that was put together from parts from other pc's of the same exact series and model.
Lundgren made his own copies, distributed them, and benefitted from that distribution of someone else's work.
Lundgren made copies of a freely downloadable copy of a Dell Restore Disc, as a convenience to customers, to sell with old/refurbished computers, that already *had* an OEM license key.
Please tell me why, in very specific terms, it would be just to allow this act?
Microsoft relies on consumers to buy a new pc with a newer version of windows when their old pc becomes unworkable, for example when a harddrive crashes, requiring a new harddrive in that pc, and then restoring the operating system with a Restore Disc, or if the file system corrupts beyond repair (or if said harddrive has a restore image which becomes corrupt), requiring again, restoring the operating system with a Restore Disc.
By the time this happens, the Restore Disc will often have gone missing, and/or the user/customer might have forgotten/lost the information that a Restore Disc even exists, or can be downloaded for free.
From my perspective, Lundgren was endangering sales of new licenses of newer operating systems, as well as sales of $25 licenses to go with old/refurbished pc's (as refurbishers will often go that route), by making it very convenient for users/customers to keep using old pc's with older versions of operating systems, in a way that was freely available, but seldom used, probably due to non-awareness.
Lundgren may have been infringing copyright in a minor way, but it certainly doesn't look as if he was doing it in a for-profit way. He had set a $0.50 price target for each disc. He was even very specific as to why he got in trouble: he put an official Microsoft and Dell logo on each disc, and that's against the terms of use for (the copy of) that Restore Disc.
Source: https://news.softpedia.com/new...
We've made cut gemstones. I'm guessing most of these would not decompose even after two million years. (I don't know if or how you could distinguish a diamond that was cut a million years ago from one that was cut a hundred years ago, but still).
Very interesting thought.
It should certainly be possible to distinguish diamonds that were cut in the last 30 years or so:
https://www.jewelry-secrets.co...
Now I'm wondering if diamonds with unknown ID numbers were ever found in mines, and what was done with them.
Part of being a good scientist or engineer (in some fields), is being able to 'turn off' your normal responses to otherwise nauseating experiences, and look at things from a very clinical or 'machine-like' perspective.
Then, there are also people that even enjoy those experiences. That's a bit more disturbing.
There's no such thing as gravitational lensing. Light is not bent by gravity.
Light is an electromagnetic impulse, can't 'bend' that with no matter involved.
The galaxy in between is merely a lens-shaped blob of matter acting as a lens:
Yep, just one more to add to the list of what needs to be reversed, once that piece of [expletive] on two legs is no longer in office.
Seriously, there will probably be nation-wide parties when he's out, one way or another.
That should have been "Speed limit enforced by drones".
Maybe the signs were made by someone whose first language isn't English, and/or someone who is not that good at it.
The way it's written, I'd think a minimum speed was enforced by drones - as in; drive too slowly and get blown to bits with a missile.
I am partial to that kind of enforcement. Some people just like to take their sweet time getting somewhere.
- I'm just kidding..maybe >:-]
OCZ is the lowest-cost brand in SSDs. Look at any shop listing SSDs, you'll find OCZ at the cheap end of the list.
It is virtually certain that OCZ uses bottom-of-the-barrel Flash chips and controllers to be able to sell SSDs that cheap.
I don't know what the failure/RMA rate is, but probably closer to (if not actually at) a double-digit percentage, than both you and OCZ would like.
OCZ also pulled a fast one not so long ago: The Vertex 2 series was changed to use 25 nm Flash chips without changing the product code.
Benchmarks were not quite the same with 25 nm chips (most benchmarks slower, a few slightly faster), and endurance is likely to be a low single-digit number of years, depending on how much data is written to it.
I wouldn't trust a SSD from OCZ with 25 nm chips, to last over a year.
25 nm Flash chips use a larger percentage of spare area to compensate (though I suspect far from entirely) for the reduced endurance from the smaller die-size.
With the new 64 Gbit chips with an even larger spare area, that meant a somewhat smaller Vertex 2 than advertised; not quite the, for example 120 GB ( 120 billion bytes), but only 115 GB (in BIOS).
After the news about it spread, OCZ now offers to swap drives, but still to ones with 25 nm, just not 64 Gbit chips, instead double the 32 Gbit chips so the capacity is actually 120 GB, primarily to help customers with RAID setups, but that's basically too little, too late.
I am NEVER buying a OCZ SSD - that company is only interested in making money and now that they've started to screw over their customers to do so, I'll bet that company goes the way of the Dodo in a few years.
Fiat currency will always decrease in value. It's a function of the interest rate. Fiat money has no way of multiplying (like plants or animals), other than printing more, which will also decrease the value of each note or coin equally, percentagewise.
Bitcoins will increase in value over a sufficiently long period, especially after the maximum amount is reached. Every bitcoin lost by harddisk crash or in some other way, will increase the scarcity of the rest and thereby make them more valuable.
Bitcoin has yet to stand the test of time, but right now, it's looking pretty good.
The problem of course is my Steam folder is already over 100Gb and my regular games folder adds another 60Gb or so, so obviously games on the SSD would be right out.
Unless you think SSDs are too expensive for their size, an OCZ Agility 3 240GB will speed up boot and especially your games quite a lot. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227727 If it's still too small, perhaps use this one solely for games and get a small SSD just for Win 7 (if you want the faster boot). It's not like one more SSD makes more noise or wastes a lot more power.
I've talked to a few who tried it, and it worked. Fortunately I never needed it myself, usually replaced my HDDs after 2-3 years and sold off the old ones, many months or years before they (I assume) would start to fail.
I've had it work myself two times - with cell phone batteries (my sister's and her son's). But that was probably NiMH type, that had developed some memory effect, which the freezing undid.
Nowadays, it's either Li-ion or some other type of Lithium-based batteries, which die because people discharge them way too deeply and probably also do that too often. Li-based batteries, especially Li-ion should never be discharged below 50 %. I've consistently made sure my cell phone batteries never went below that, and I'm quite sure that's what made them last 4-5 years each. By the way, the freezer trick will NOT help recover Li-based batteries.
Sure, but that could mean a lot less 'dead' drives, and a matching drop in sales, so.. Now, if they'd used a socketed chip with bad block mappings since the first harddrives came along, there'd be no problem, no drop in sales. But in that case, somebody probably would have suggested dropping the socket somewhere along the way, to get a nice increase in sales..
He's extremely unlikely to succeed, period. Even assuming the 120 GB is a one-platter drive, any dust and moisture that gets on the platter during the move will damage the surface initially, and then extensively when the drive spins up and the dust specks get whirled around, hitting the surface again and again, and sometimes coming between the head and the surface rushing by. Imagine a vertical-axis cement-mixer with some tiny pebbles in it, (like this one: http://image.ec21.com/image/sunday6323/OF0009411949_1/Sell_JZW350_Vertical_Concrete_Mixer.jpg ) only shrunk down to harddisk-size and running at 7200 rpm.
The filesystem might look okay in Windows Explorer (or in some file manager in a different OS) at first, but when you try to read/copy the files, there will either be a plethora of errors, or the system will just hang.
That should be a no-brainer, for pretty much anyone with some knowledge of electromagnetism. If the temperature is above the Curie temp. for any material, and there's still a magnetic field, then that magnetic field is caused by an electric current.
In the Athlon era (2003 or so) I read about a local guy (in Denmark) with a dead motherboard, and an Athlon processor, which somehow fried another motherboard he put it in, which then fried another Athlon. Supposedly, it could have gone on until he ran out of money. Fortunately, he wasn't that stupid and dumped the whole lot in the trash and ordered a new motherboard and processor. Can't remember if it was Athlon again, or Pentium IV. AFAIR, the Athlons were visibly burned (when looking closely), the motherboards weren't. No idea what brand they were.
you DO know, that Maxtor was bought up by Seagate in 2006, right? They kept the Maxtor brand alive, but for some years now, I've only seen external harddrives with the name on the box. Internally, they do have Maxtor-branded drives, and bad (power-sucking) ones at that.
I had a Maxtor III OneTouch 300 GB: the drive consumed 21.7 Watts at max. (I'm not kidding). I kept a picture of it: http://bayimg.com/baainAaen I took the Maxtor hdd out and put a 1 TB WDC hdd in the box (consumes ~8 Watts at most).
In 2010, I sold the Maxtor to a guy who, just as he left, said he intended to use it as a system drive in his PC, instead of the old hdd that died. I felt sorry for the guy, but said nothing. I am pretty sure he learned the hard way not to use extremely power-intensive drives as a system drive. Well, either that, or he learned to cool it really well.
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Apparently MS sells physical disks to refurbishers for $25 a pop
If you look into it, I'm sure refurbishers buy the discs from the OEM (Dell, Lenovo, etc.)
Microsoft produced a work eligible for copyright. They sell copies of that work.
No, Microsoft sells a $25 license to use that work. The work is free to download.
The $25 license is a *new* OEM license key, meant to be used with a pc that did not previously have a license key. For example, a pc that was put together from parts from other pc's of the same exact series and model.
Lundgren made his own copies, distributed them, and benefitted from that distribution of someone else's work.
Lundgren made copies of a freely downloadable copy of a Dell Restore Disc, as a convenience to customers, to sell with old/refurbished computers, that already *had* an OEM license key.
Please tell me why, in very specific terms, it would be just to allow this act?
Microsoft relies on consumers to buy a new pc with a newer version of windows when their old pc becomes unworkable, for example when a harddrive crashes, requiring a new harddrive in that pc, and then restoring the operating system with a Restore Disc, or if the file system corrupts beyond repair (or if said harddrive has a restore image which becomes corrupt), requiring again, restoring the operating system with a Restore Disc.
By the time this happens, the Restore Disc will often have gone missing, and/or the user/customer might have forgotten/lost the information that a Restore Disc even exists, or can be downloaded for free.
From my perspective, Lundgren was endangering sales of new licenses of newer operating systems, as well as sales of $25 licenses to go with old/refurbished pc's (as refurbishers will often go that route), by making it very convenient for users/customers to keep using old pc's with older versions of operating systems, in a way that was freely available, but seldom used, probably due to non-awareness.
Lundgren may have been infringing copyright in a minor way, but it certainly doesn't look as if he was doing it in a for-profit way. He had set a $0.50 price target for each disc. He was even very specific as to why he got in trouble: he put an official Microsoft and Dell logo on each disc, and that's against the terms of use for (the copy of) that Restore Disc.
Source: https://news.softpedia.com/new...
abysmal level of pollution
Abysmal is usually used about something extremely _low_, in a negative contextual way.
We've made cut gemstones. I'm guessing most of these would not decompose even after two million years. (I don't know if or how you could distinguish a diamond that was cut a million years ago from one that was cut a hundred years ago, but still).
Very interesting thought. It should certainly be possible to distinguish diamonds that were cut in the last 30 years or so: https://www.jewelry-secrets.co...
Now I'm wondering if diamonds with unknown ID numbers were ever found in mines, and what was done with them.
Part of being a good scientist or engineer (in some fields), is being able to 'turn off' your normal responses to otherwise nauseating experiences, and look at things from a very clinical or 'machine-like' perspective.
Then, there are also people that even enjoy those experiences. That's a bit more disturbing.
> The Oberlandesgericht Koln (Germany's Higher Regional Court of Cologne)
Köln != Cologne
There's no such thing as gravitational lensing. Light is not bent by gravity.
Light is an electromagnetic impulse, can't 'bend' that with no matter involved.
The galaxy in between is merely a lens-shaped blob of matter acting as a lens:
https://www.thunderbolts.info/...
Yep, just one more to add to the list of what needs to be reversed, once that piece of [expletive] on two legs is no longer in office. Seriously, there will probably be nation-wide parties when he's out, one way or another.
I kinda see your point, but I think you'll discover that the 'rabbithole' goes much, much deeper than you could ever imagine. Want some examples?
What do you want to bet that we will eventually learn, that there's essentially no difference between asteroids and comets?
How does liquor/tobacco/sugar have anything to do with a vegan lifestyle?
Credit Karma will set up a new corporate entity like "Karma New Holdings LLC," transfer all assets
.. unless the settlement specifically prohibits them from doing so.
The sales figures do not lie.
I think this just about says it all:
http://w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
By fall 2014, Windows 8/8.1 should be completely irrelevant.
(and thank God/Allah/Buddha/Cthulhu/whatever for that).
That should have been "Speed limit enforced by drones".
..maybe >:-]
Maybe the signs were made by someone whose first language isn't English, and/or someone who is not that good at it.
The way it's written, I'd think a minimum speed was enforced by drones - as in; drive too slowly and get blown to bits with a missile.
I am partial to that kind of enforcement. Some people just like to take their sweet time getting somewhere.
- I'm just kidding
Probably some mineral, that can only form on the bottom of an ocean.
Dang. I was going to start a bet about how long till Cheney bites it from a "malfunctioning" pacemaker.
On a side note; I've heard about organ recipients developing traits of their donors, so this might be a good thing.
Then again, bad news for whoever has their soul linked to Cheney until the ticker stops.
OCZ is the lowest-cost brand in SSDs. Look at any shop listing SSDs, you'll find OCZ at the cheap end of the list.
.
It is virtually certain that OCZ uses bottom-of-the-barrel Flash chips and controllers to be able to sell SSDs that cheap.
I don't know what the failure/RMA rate is, but probably closer to (if not actually at) a double-digit percentage, than both you and OCZ would like.
OCZ also pulled a fast one not so long ago: The Vertex 2 series was changed to use 25 nm Flash chips without changing the product code
Benchmarks were not quite the same with 25 nm chips (most benchmarks slower, a few slightly faster), and endurance is likely to be a low single-digit number of years, depending on how much data is written to it.
I wouldn't trust a SSD from OCZ with 25 nm chips, to last over a year.
25 nm Flash chips use a larger percentage of spare area to compensate (though I suspect far from entirely) for the reduced endurance from the smaller die-size.
With the new 64 Gbit chips with an even larger spare area, that meant a somewhat smaller Vertex 2 than advertised; not quite the, for example 120 GB ( 120 billion bytes), but only 115 GB (in BIOS).
After the news about it spread, OCZ now offers to swap drives, but still to ones with 25 nm, just not 64 Gbit chips, instead double the 32 Gbit chips so the capacity is actually 120 GB, primarily to help customers with RAID setups, but that's basically too little, too late.
I am NEVER buying a OCZ SSD - that company is only interested in making money and now that they've started to screw over their customers to do so, I'll bet that company goes the way of the Dodo in a few years.
Fiat currency will always decrease in value. It's a function of the interest rate. Fiat money has no way of multiplying (like plants or animals), other than printing more, which will also decrease the value of each note or coin equally, percentagewise.
Bitcoins will increase in value over a sufficiently long period, especially after the maximum amount is reached. Every bitcoin lost by harddisk crash or in some other way, will increase the scarcity of the rest and thereby make them more valuable.
Bitcoin has yet to stand the test of time, but right now, it's looking pretty good.
it'd cost crazy money
What's 'crazy money' in numbers (and currency)?
The problem of course is my Steam folder is already over 100Gb and my regular games folder adds another 60Gb or so, so obviously games on the SSD would be right out.
Unless you think SSDs are too expensive for their size, an OCZ Agility 3 240GB will speed up boot and especially your games quite a lot.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227727
If it's still too small, perhaps use this one solely for games and get a small SSD just for Win 7 (if you want the faster boot). It's not like one more SSD makes more noise or wastes a lot more power.
I've talked to a few who tried it, and it worked. Fortunately I never needed it myself, usually replaced my HDDs after 2-3 years and sold off the old ones, many months or years before they (I assume) would start to fail.
I've had it work myself two times - with cell phone batteries (my sister's and her son's). But that was probably NiMH type, that had developed some memory effect, which the freezing undid.
Nowadays, it's either Li-ion or some other type of Lithium-based batteries, which die because people discharge them way too deeply and probably also do that too often.
Li-based batteries, especially Li-ion should never be discharged below 50 %. I've consistently made sure my cell phone batteries never went below that, and I'm quite sure that's what made them last 4-5 years each.
By the way, the freezer trick will NOT help recover Li-based batteries.
Sure, but that could mean a lot less 'dead' drives, and a matching drop in sales, so..
Now, if they'd used a socketed chip with bad block mappings since the first harddrives came along, there'd be no problem, no drop in sales.
But in that case, somebody probably would have suggested dropping the socket somewhere along the way, to get a nice increase in sales..
He's extremely unlikely to succeed, period.
Even assuming the 120 GB is a one-platter drive, any dust and moisture that gets on the platter during the move will damage the surface initially, and then extensively when the drive spins up and the dust specks get whirled around, hitting the surface again and again, and sometimes coming between the head and the surface rushing by.
Imagine a vertical-axis cement-mixer with some tiny pebbles in it,
(like this one: http://image.ec21.com/image/sunday6323/OF0009411949_1/Sell_JZW350_Vertical_Concrete_Mixer.jpg )
only shrunk down to harddisk-size and running at 7200 rpm.
The filesystem might look okay in Windows Explorer (or in some file manager in a different OS) at first, but when you try to read/copy the files, there will either be a plethora of errors, or the system will just hang.
That should be a no-brainer, for pretty much anyone with some knowledge of electromagnetism.
If the temperature is above the Curie temp. for any material, and there's still a magnetic field, then that magnetic field is caused by an electric current.
In the Athlon era (2003 or so) I read about a local guy (in Denmark) with a dead motherboard, and an Athlon processor, which somehow fried another motherboard he put it in, which then fried another Athlon. Supposedly, it could have gone on until he ran out of money.
Fortunately, he wasn't that stupid and dumped the whole lot in the trash and ordered a new motherboard and processor. Can't remember if it was Athlon again, or Pentium IV.
AFAIR, the Athlons were visibly burned (when looking closely), the motherboards weren't. No idea what brand they were.
you DO know, that Maxtor was bought up by Seagate in 2006, right?
They kept the Maxtor brand alive, but for some years now, I've only seen external harddrives with the name on the box.
Internally, they do have Maxtor-branded drives, and bad (power-sucking) ones at that.
I had a Maxtor III OneTouch 300 GB: the drive consumed 21.7 Watts at max. (I'm not kidding).
I kept a picture of it: http://bayimg.com/baainAaen
I took the Maxtor hdd out and put a 1 TB WDC hdd in the box (consumes ~8 Watts at most).
In 2010, I sold the Maxtor to a guy who, just as he left, said he intended to use it as a system drive in his PC, instead of the old hdd that died.
I felt sorry for the guy, but said nothing.
I am pretty sure he learned the hard way not to use extremely power-intensive drives as a system drive.
Well, either that, or he learned to cool it really well.