Euh Monopoly 100% market. Microsoft does have a monopoly on the operating system market, and has used it illegally. That was clear from the US trial and has been declared such by the EU officials in charge of this matter.
And this may be regular business for other companies, but although monopolies aren't illegal per se, they face specific legal restrictions as to their business practices. Such as these, which Microsoft is barred from doing.
If you'd read the information properly, you'd realize they're directed at different needs and cost. The 40Gbps can work over copper, but has limited range, whereas the 100Gbps is high-distance but fiber-only.
How can you play MW on a console? You need like 30,000 keybinds to play that game (not a criticism of the game, I love MW2, and a lot of keybinds is good for me in a game).
None of which points address the argument that his prose is ugly.
All points which ignore that the book is written in a style that requires such flaws in a way, especially 3 and 4.
Oh and regarding point 6: Well, the names are quite self-consistent within the linguistic frameworks and ended up that way. I don't think he would have felt like redoing 2 or 3 languages for such a minor complaint. The main issue being that Sauron's name is in Elvish, whereas Saruman's is in English. How about Gorthaur and Curunir? Different enough? They're the Sindarin version of each of the names.
Strange, I first read Tolkien in French and liked it, but once I read it in English I couldn't believe how horrible a translation of Tolkien is horrible.
Oh and I love reading stuff which requires broad knowledge and understanding of literature or history to understand and appreciate. It's certainly harder to read than HP but it's intellectually more rewarding.
They are black and white only in the sense that it is how Harry sees them. Book 7 shows him and us how Snape wasn't that evil, and that Dumbledore wasn't always that good a man. Seeing the world in shades of gray is part of growing up, and that is what Harry does.
Logic called, wants to know if you want an appointment.
Something is not good because it's popular, it is often true that popular things show bad taste, BUT and that's where your logic fails (or rather, where you fail logic), that doesn't mean that if something is popular then it's not good. Something can be good AND popular.
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The only reason I use my DVD extraction software is to change it to a different format to use it on a different device, namely in this case my video iPod, which is perfectly legal in Canada.
You are thinking about a system like in the US where someone could sue a company for millions of dollars for damage. Up here, you could certainly get the cost of the software back and return it, which only makes sense. Beyond that, you would have to prove actual financial damages and would almost never get much more than that.
Over-litigation and mounting monetary rewards are mostly a US problem. What's more these provisions only apply to stuff you pay for: OSS isn't affected.
Well, here in Quebec at least, such provisions are illegal and software manufacturers can and have been held responsible for the reliability and functionality of their products.
That is stupid, indeed. That's what deep sleep or hibernating modes are for. Such modes use either a trickle of power or none at all, and allow waking up in a very short time.
Still makes no sense. No modern operating system should require you to cold-boot a computer, even less a laptop at any time. I only reboot my iBook for updates, once in a while.
We all would like to believe in this day and age that OS's and applications do not leak memory or become unstable but the fact is that they do. Applications do. That's what restarting your applications once in a while is a good idea, and that's what a relog is useful for, but once a day is quite overkill on a laptop. And if you operating system is really leaking ram usage, I'll wonder like that other guy if you're running Win ME.
Same here. On my 12" 1024x768 laptop, I use 110-column setting on my Terminal settings. It's a good compromise, I can still have a few windows opened tiled and switch easily, and still get a good display on a ls -l or top.
Canadian copyright law allows a person to make a copy for personal use of a copyrighted work. I can borrow a CD off a friend, copy it, and keep the copy for myself. But I cannot buy a CD, make copies, and distribute those. It has been clearly ruled by a judge that downloading shared copyrighted content on the internet was essentially the same thing, and was thus legal. It hasn't been determined if the actual sharing would be considered distribution, and whether or not it is legal, since all cases against file-sharers in Canada that I know of have been thrown out or crippled either by an inability to even obtain the identity of the persons being sued, or on grounds of frivolity, lack of proof, etc even before points of law were even considered. So the music industry lawsuits haven't had much effect on P2P usage up here.
Copying a piece of software for personal use is most likely legal, and although it doesn't give you a "license" to use the product, I've never heard of any case regarding personal software copying brought to a court, and it would most likely be easily defeated (professional pirates HAVE been pursued and sent to prison though) most likely because consumer protection laws are very powerful here, especially in Quebec, and most EULA provisions have no legal basis and are most certainly invalid here, especially the stuff about lack of "implied warranties" and inability to get a refund for opened products. In Canada, Microsoft for example have to offer a refund within 30 days of buying any of its software products (Windows, Office, etc) if the customer is not satisfied. This is handled directly through them, and not the resellers though.
Note: I am not a lawyer, and shouldn't take my legal advice, but I've followed such issues for many years, have been working for 10 years in the computer industry at a computer reseller/VAR, and it's the kind of stuff my customers will often ask and that I've had to check into, inquire about and research carefully:-)
The difference is that Microsoft have enough money and power and clout to be able to afford to ignore whatever law they want to ignore. Look what happened with the antitrust lawsuit.
If I download a program, the person I got from distributed it. I copied it. No, that's not correct. The distributor made a copy and gave it to you. This is comparable to purchasing a book or CD. You don't "copy" the book or CD when you acquire it. The distributor made or otherwise obtained copies that he's providing you. This is what's known as the "first sale". Not sure about that. In Canada at least, if I download a music file from someone else's share on the internet, *I* am considered as having made a copy, same as if the person had lent me the CD and I'd made a copy, a procedure which is legal in Canada at this point.
Indeed. I find it weird to see many modern atheists try to give significant thought to the question "Does God exist?" and try to answer it in a rational, logical, and scientific manner. But the problem as it is, is not to answer the question, but to realize it's not a valid question. It's not even a question!
First of all, use of the word "God" implies a certain concept that, for most people and most versions of the question, would imply the 3 O: omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. Any of those necessarily defies temporal causality, the law of the conservation of energy, and the second law of thermodynamics. It's a pretty bad start for a rational argument. But even worse, those properties also defy the basic laws of logic (aristotelian OR modal). Which essentially means that discussing such a "thing" or considering its properties is necessarily pointless: you will get into contradictions and/or tautologies.
The second part of the question asks whether the thing in question called "God" "exists". Existence is often by theologians defined as a property. But property that entails WHAT isn't clear. Many people would theorize that it entails actualization in the spatio-temporal universe, but that wouldn't fit the idea of a God that created the universe (I'm not entering into pantheist interpretations here as those discuss something else entirely when they talk about "God") or make any sense in conjunction with the 3 Os. Thus it must entails something "outside" the Universe. But how can we surmise about what existence outside of space-time means? How can we test either logically or epistemologically such a property? How can we even suppose "existence" even means anything outside of a spatio-temporal cadre?
This is (a short version of) why I don't even consider the question "Does God exist?" a meaningful, useful, answerable question. My only answer to the question is mu.
What's more, the most often used argument to prove the "yes" answer to the question is the ontological one, which is essentially a tautology, as it argues that God must possess the property of existence within its nature. So they're arguing that asking the question implies that the subject of the question ("God") necessarily possesses the property being asked. In other words: "He exists because my definition of God says he must exist". It's like saying the answer to the question "Is a blee blue?" is "yes" because I defined a blee as being blue.
I first read "Wiles" and wondered what FLT had to do with this. Then I wondered what the Wheel of Time had to do with this. Then I realized it was Wales and Ayn, not Al'Thor.
You are mistaken, because you think Microsoft's customer is the end-user or even the corporate buyer but it isn't. Microsoft's customer here is the RIAA and the MPAA and their constituents, and you're just an ATM machine to them.
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Euh Monopoly 100% market. Microsoft does have a monopoly on the operating system market, and has used it illegally. That was clear from the US trial and has been declared such by the EU officials in charge of this matter.
And this may be regular business for other companies, but although monopolies aren't illegal per se, they face specific legal restrictions as to their business practices. Such as these, which Microsoft is barred from doing.
If you'd read the information properly, you'd realize they're directed at different needs and cost. The 40Gbps can work over copper, but has limited range, whereas the 100Gbps is high-distance but fiber-only.
How can you play MW on a console? You need like 30,000 keybinds to play that game (not a criticism of the game, I love MW2, and a lot of keybinds is good for me in a game).
You mean like posting an updated story?
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None of which points address the argument that his prose is ugly.
All points which ignore that the book is written in a style that requires such flaws in a way, especially 3 and 4.
Oh and regarding point 6: Well, the names are quite self-consistent within the linguistic frameworks and ended up that way. I don't think he would have felt like redoing 2 or 3 languages for such a minor complaint. The main issue being that Sauron's name is in Elvish, whereas Saruman's is in English. How about Gorthaur and Curunir? Different enough? They're the Sindarin version of each of the names.
Strange, I first read Tolkien in French and liked it, but once I read it in English I couldn't believe how horrible a translation of Tolkien is horrible.
Oh and I love reading stuff which requires broad knowledge and understanding of literature or history to understand and appreciate. It's certainly harder to read than HP but it's intellectually more rewarding.
They are black and white only in the sense that it is how Harry sees them. Book 7 shows him and us how Snape wasn't that evil, and that Dumbledore wasn't always that good a man. Seeing the world in shades of gray is part of growing up, and that is what Harry does.
Logic called, wants to know if you want an appointment.
Something is not good because it's popular, it is often true that popular things show bad taste, BUT and that's where your logic fails (or rather, where you fail logic), that doesn't mean that if something is popular then it's not good. Something can be good AND popular.
Or rather
if p then g
being false doesn't imply
if p then not g
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The only reason I use my DVD extraction software is to change it to a different format to use it on a different device, namely in this case my video iPod, which is perfectly legal in Canada.
You are thinking about a system like in the US where someone could sue a company for millions of dollars for damage. Up here, you could certainly get the cost of the software back and return it, which only makes sense. Beyond that, you would have to prove actual financial damages and would almost never get much more than that.
Over-litigation and mounting monetary rewards are mostly a US problem. What's more these provisions only apply to stuff you pay for: OSS isn't affected.
As far as I know, these law-required provisions are only required if you SELL your product. If it's free, well...
Well, here in Quebec at least, such provisions are illegal and software manufacturers can and have been held responsible for the reliability and functionality of their products.
That is stupid, indeed. That's what deep sleep or hibernating modes are for. Such modes use either a trickle of power or none at all, and allow waking up in a very short time.
Same here. On my 12" 1024x768 laptop, I use 110-column setting on my Terminal settings. It's a good compromise, I can still have a few windows opened tiled and switch easily, and still get a good display on a ls -l or top.
Canadian copyright law allows a person to make a copy for personal use of a copyrighted work. I can borrow a CD off a friend, copy it, and keep the copy for myself. But I cannot buy a CD, make copies, and distribute those. It has been clearly ruled by a judge that downloading shared copyrighted content on the internet was essentially the same thing, and was thus legal. It hasn't been determined if the actual sharing would be considered distribution, and whether or not it is legal, since all cases against file-sharers in Canada that I know of have been thrown out or crippled either by an inability to even obtain the identity of the persons being sued, or on grounds of frivolity, lack of proof, etc even before points of law were even considered. So the music industry lawsuits haven't had much effect on P2P usage up here.
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Copying a piece of software for personal use is most likely legal, and although it doesn't give you a "license" to use the product, I've never heard of any case regarding personal software copying brought to a court, and it would most likely be easily defeated (professional pirates HAVE been pursued and sent to prison though) most likely because consumer protection laws are very powerful here, especially in Quebec, and most EULA provisions have no legal basis and are most certainly invalid here, especially the stuff about lack of "implied warranties" and inability to get a refund for opened products. In Canada, Microsoft for example have to offer a refund within 30 days of buying any of its software products (Windows, Office, etc) if the customer is not satisfied. This is handled directly through them, and not the resellers though.
Note: I am not a lawyer, and shouldn't take my legal advice, but I've followed such issues for many years, have been working for 10 years in the computer industry at a computer reseller/VAR, and it's the kind of stuff my customers will often ask and that I've had to check into, inquire about and research carefully
The difference is that Microsoft have enough money and power and clout to be able to afford to ignore whatever law they want to ignore. Look what happened with the antitrust lawsuit.
Indeed. I find it weird to see many modern atheists try to give significant thought to the question "Does God exist?" and try to answer it in a rational, logical, and scientific manner. But the problem as it is, is not to answer the question, but to realize it's not a valid question. It's not even a question!
First of all, use of the word "God" implies a certain concept that, for most people and most versions of the question, would imply the 3 O: omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. Any of those necessarily defies temporal causality, the law of the conservation of energy, and the second law of thermodynamics. It's a pretty bad start for a rational argument. But even worse, those properties also defy the basic laws of logic (aristotelian OR modal). Which essentially means that discussing such a "thing" or considering its properties is necessarily pointless: you will get into contradictions and/or tautologies.
The second part of the question asks whether the thing in question called "God" "exists". Existence is often by theologians defined as a property. But property that entails WHAT isn't clear. Many people would theorize that it entails actualization in the spatio-temporal universe, but that wouldn't fit the idea of a God that created the universe (I'm not entering into pantheist interpretations here as those discuss something else entirely when they talk about "God") or make any sense in conjunction with the 3 Os. Thus it must entails something "outside" the Universe. But how can we surmise about what existence outside of space-time means? How can we test either logically or epistemologically such a property? How can we even suppose "existence" even means anything outside of a spatio-temporal cadre?
This is (a short version of) why I don't even consider the question "Does God exist?" a meaningful, useful, answerable question. My only answer to the question is mu.
What's more, the most often used argument to prove the "yes" answer to the question is the ontological one, which is essentially a tautology, as it argues that God must possess the property of existence within its nature. So they're arguing that asking the question implies that the subject of the question ("God") necessarily possesses the property being asked. In other words: "He exists because my definition of God says he must exist". It's like saying the answer to the question "Is a blee blue?" is "yes" because I defined a blee as being blue.
I first read "Wiles" and wondered what FLT had to do with this. Then I wondered what the Wheel of Time had to do with this. Then I realized it was Wales and Ayn, not Al'Thor.
FF1: The Prelude and the Prologue. Considering at least one of them has been reused in every FF game since (the Prelude became the "Crystal theme").
FF8: Too many good ones to decide for a single one in my opinion, really the best music in the FF series.
But the question is: Are you on Sue's "do her" list?
Anyone driving a car running on gasoline is an eco-terrorist.
You are mistaken, because you think Microsoft's customer is the end-user or even the corporate buyer but it isn't. Microsoft's customer here is the RIAA and the MPAA and their constituents, and you're just an ATM machine to them.