The only thing similar I remember was when I bought a harddrive by credit card over the phone they wanted me to pay an extra £6 for the OS to be installed on it.
How about the "intelligent vote" or the "people who can actually be bothered to vote so don't bother wasting your time trying to appeal to the other one's vote" - no I think the first one's catchier!
No doubt if this law was passed in the EU we'd end up with computer mountains for five years until somebody finally figures out you need to build somewhere to recycle them. Its already happened with fridges & if the manufacturer's moaning about WEEE (I've forgotten what it stands for) is to be believed it'll happen to computers too.
I wonder if they'd gone the way of PCAnywhere and charged for their software they'd still be going! Having said that I still hope they release the source code so further versions can be made.
Over a period of a few months - more and more errors appeared which I fixed with Disksalv - when the drive finally was not only unreadable by the OS (and DOS) - but invisible too I replaced it with a new one - both replacements suffered the same fate within a few days - and I've been mainly using the PC ever since. The drive was 4 1/2years old - so I suppose it was just its time to die & I should've backed it up when it started giving me warning signs!
Another reason they may go after schools with an audit in this way is that they (and I'm just speaking from my own personal experience) sometimes have Microsoft pieces of software with a single-user licence used by the whole school. If schools are flagrantly flouting Microsoft licensing rules then Microsoft are quite entitled to go after them. After all if they're innocent of any wrong doing they have nothing to fear from an audit!
" MS right now they'd not pull this kind of...tight economy"
It's probably down to the stock market reaction to Microsoft that they've all been told to pull their socks up and increase revenue. This in turn has resulted in things they'd never think twice about actually happening.
Time to dig out that old Commodore 64, BBC Micro (with 5 1/4" disks), and assorted Amigas to make a killing in the "Oh no all our data's gone and we've been too stingy to upgrade for 10 years market!". But on a serious point does anyone know how I can recover a 540Mb Western Digital 2.5" hard drive with data under the FFS (Fast File System) - Amiga data format? Western Digital's tools only cover MS-DOS formats & it's been unreadable now for about 15 months.
I think also the fact that the licence doesn't actually specify punishments if certain clauses are broken would weaken your case. I mean what specific laws are broken if someone breaks certain clauses?
Seriously I remember a related story in New Scientist a few years ago. In real time (using CCTV footage of a car park) gave the security guards about 45 seconds warning that someone was going to break into a car based on their movements - giving the security guard time to get there in time to apprehend them!
I think what's ruined it more for X-Files viewers is the fact that the shows been cancelled -/. saying what happens in the last episode before it's aired is just throwing petrol on the fire!
Actually you're technically wrong there - the original post posted the link with a space in it - which resulted in a 404 error. If someone copied and pated the link without removing it they too would get the error. So if you're going to be pedantic it's for those too lazy to copy, paste the link and remove the superfluous space!
If you notice which companies grow the most - it's the small ones. They're flexible enough to change their working practices unlike the big behemoths where they're virtually set in stone!
"he was advised not to risk arrest by coming to the U.S. for the ceremony" - if he had any sense he'd have worked that out for himself already without having to be told it.
If businesses see their profits threatened by something the government is going to do they will try and get it delayed as long as possible. After all - their first duty is to their shareholders. As the telecomms sector has been one of the ones suffering the most - I'm not surprised that the FCC would delay a decision that in the long run - wouldn't let them hang on to customers for such a long time & cost them more in advertising having to advertise for new ones.
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The only thing similar I remember was when I bought a harddrive by credit card over the phone they wanted me to pay an extra £6 for the OS to be installed on it.
How about the "intelligent vote" or the "people who can actually be bothered to vote so don't bother wasting your time trying to appeal to the other one's vote" - no I think the first one's catchier!
I wonder how (thinking of the market this is aimed at) they think they can get away with prices like that!
No doubt if this law was passed in the EU we'd end up with computer mountains for five years until somebody finally figures out you need to build somewhere to recycle them. Its already happened with fridges & if the manufacturer's moaning about WEEE (I've forgotten what it stands for) is to be believed it'll happen to computers too.
With MS Office, Star Office & Open Office all going after the same customers I don't rate their chances of making an impact very high!
I wonder if they'd gone the way of PCAnywhere and charged for their software they'd still be going! Having said that I still hope they release the source code so further versions can be made.
Anyone know how much this'll be yet?
Over a period of a few months - more and more errors appeared which I fixed with Disksalv - when the drive finally was not only unreadable by the OS (and DOS) - but invisible too I replaced it with a new one - both replacements suffered the same fate within a few days - and I've been mainly using the PC ever since. The drive was 4 1/2years old - so I suppose it was just its time to die & I should've backed it up when it started giving me warning signs!
Another reason they may go after schools with an audit in this way is that they (and I'm just speaking from my own personal experience) sometimes have Microsoft pieces of software with a single-user licence used by the whole school. If schools are flagrantly flouting Microsoft licensing rules then Microsoft are quite entitled to go after them. After all if they're innocent of any wrong doing they have nothing to fear from an audit!
Is this support as in tech support for it or support as in helping create new versions?
" MS right now they'd not pull this kind of ...tight economy"
It's probably down to the stock market reaction to Microsoft that they've all been told to pull their socks up and increase revenue. This in turn has resulted in things they'd never think twice about actually happening.
and get a headache induced not by the flashing banners - but by trying to understand the above article!
Sorry I've seen so much about the xenu.net thing on /. I've grown apathetic towards the whole thing!
I've just thought of a good title for a Zope book for beginners - not Zope for Beginners, or Zope for Dummies but Zope for Dopes! :o)
Time to dig out that old Commodore 64, BBC Micro (with 5 1/4" disks), and assorted Amigas to make a killing in the "Oh no all our data's gone and we've been too stingy to upgrade for 10 years market!". But on a serious point does anyone know how I can recover a 540Mb Western Digital 2.5" hard drive with data under the FFS (Fast File System) - Amiga data format? Western Digital's tools only cover MS-DOS formats & it's been unreadable now for about 15 months.
I think also the fact that the licence doesn't actually specify punishments if certain clauses are broken would weaken your case. I mean what specific laws are broken if someone breaks certain clauses?
Seriously I remember a related story in New Scientist a few years ago. In real time (using CCTV footage of a car park) gave the security guards about 45 seconds warning that someone was going to break into a car based on their movements - giving the security guard time to get there in time to apprehend them!
I think what's ruined it more for X-Files viewers is the fact that the shows been cancelled - /. saying what happens in the last episode before it's aired is just throwing petrol on the fire!
Actually you're technically wrong there - the original post posted the link with a space in it - which resulted in a 404 error. If someone copied and pated the link without removing it they too would get the error. So if you're going to be pedantic it's for those too lazy to copy, paste the link and remove the superfluous space!
If you notice which companies grow the most - it's the small ones. They're flexible enough to change their working practices unlike the big behemoths where they're virtually set in stone!
"he was advised not to risk arrest by coming to the U.S. for the ceremony" - if he had any sense he'd have worked that out for himself already without having to be told it.
Ah - the *cue dramatic music* Phantom Error!
I think the gist of it is this:
If businesses see their profits threatened by something the government is going to do they will try and get it delayed as long as possible. After all - their first duty is to their shareholders. As the telecomms sector has been one of the ones suffering the most - I'm not surprised that the FCC would delay a decision that in the long run - wouldn't let them hang on to customers for such a long time & cost them more in advertising having to advertise for new ones.
And for those of us who know how to write links in /. - just click here for the picture.
Going into debt and buying more stuff is not the answer. Although that'd produce a short upturn in the economy the long term effects are not good.