http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case209.cfmCourt holds that Gateway's Standard Terms and Conditions, supplied along with and inside the packaging of a computer purchased by the plaintiff, do not create a binding contract with that consumer under either the law of either Missouri or Kansas. The court reached this conclusion despite the fact that the Standard Terms provide that they will constitute the terms of such an agreement if the consumer retains the computer for more than 5 days, and the consumer so retained the computer.
Look up "Software license agreement", the law is not clear cut at all.
2) HDTV is making the video quality of consoles far more appealing and arguably superior to the PC gaming experience
How is it arguably superior? The average gaming PC can output video signals at higher resolutions than HDTVs can display. The hardware used in both consoles and PCs is virtually the same.
A helluva lot more than 10% of the population think its acceptable. Just because the majority of people aren't downloading stuff themselves, doesn't mean they aren't getting copies from people who are.
Let's say I check into a hotel. I'm there before checkin, so I leave my bags at the front desk, and they are stolen. Ooops, I had my $1,000,000 in diamonds in one of those bags. Is the hotel responsible for the bag's content? Of course not. I'm an idiot for keeping $1,000,000 in diamonds in a suitcase.
If the hotel kept telling you that the bags were safe and just misplaced, for months, while they KNEW they had been stolen. Yes, they would have to shoulder some of the responsibility for the loss of the contents, because they willing stopped the you, the "idiot", from making an attempt to recover them at an earlier date.
In my day, we had to download linux onto floppy disks over a 2400 baud modem connection.
We'd start downloading 5 hours before we went to bed, eat a cup of cold gravel, work 32 hours down the mine, and when we got home our fathers would whip us within an inch of our lives, and then if we were lucky, the download was finished.
Huh? I am typing this message right now on a very useful non-junk computer that is more than five years old.
I don't, however, necessarily want to change the perceptions of people like you, as I only paid about $5 for this machine (a used Dell Pentium III system.) It's useful to people like me who make 'best use' of less-than-new hardware for people like you to be out spending three or four figure amounts on the machines we buy with pennies-on-the-dollar a few years from now.
So flame on, tiger. Buy the new flashy stuff! Hoorah for you!!
In context, Alienware computers are promoted as being GAMES machines.
The problem is that if they listened to everyone who says "I know what I'm doing with computers!", they'd spend all day shipping out new computers to thousands of people whose cat knocked the power cord out of the outlet.
Is that why tech support's first question is always: "Do you own a cat?"
Who wants to bet that maybe Microsoft just charge more?:)
...and keep charging after the initial sale too.
Truly independent TCO studies have repeatedly shown that Linux servers are cheaper to maintain than Windows servers.
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That's not a nervous tick... It's RSI of the face muscles.
Can someone explain how exactly are they going to snoop on encrypted VOIP conversations?
http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case209.cfm Court holds that Gateway's Standard Terms and Conditions, supplied along with and inside the packaging of a computer purchased by the plaintiff, do not create a binding contract with that consumer under either the law of either Missouri or Kansas. The court reached this conclusion despite the fact that the Standard Terms provide that they will constitute the terms of such an agreement if the consumer retains the computer for more than 5 days, and the consumer so retained the computer. Look up "Software license agreement", the law is not clear cut at all.
The average PC can output more than 1024 vertical lines. You are talking about the monitor not the PC.
2) HDTV is making the video quality of consoles far more appealing and arguably superior to the PC gaming experience How is it arguably superior? The average gaming PC can output video signals at higher resolutions than HDTVs can display. The hardware used in both consoles and PCs is virtually the same.
Who says we'd send a living human? I'm sure some Billionare can pony up to have his ashes be laid to rest on Mars.
Bill Gates can go first.
Is that a subtle allusion to the GP's homosexuality? Yeah, he's a real "lisp programmer".
A helluva lot more than 10% of the population think its acceptable. Just because the majority of people aren't downloading stuff themselves, doesn't mean they aren't getting copies from people who are.
Let's say I check into a hotel. I'm there before checkin, so I leave my bags at the front desk, and they are stolen. Ooops, I had my $1,000,000 in diamonds in one of those bags. Is the hotel responsible for the bag's content? Of course not. I'm an idiot for keeping $1,000,000 in diamonds in a suitcase. If the hotel kept telling you that the bags were safe and just misplaced, for months, while they KNEW they had been stolen. Yes, they would have to shoulder some of the responsibility for the loss of the contents, because they willing stopped the you, the "idiot", from making an attempt to recover them at an earlier date.
So at least one of them is against sharing/downloading.
That article was dated the 12th of May, 2004, perhaps he has changed his mind since then.
Want to know what raises my blood?
People who start sentences with the numerical form of numbers.
Really?
Do they live on a blood farm?
How does that work?
Does your blood grow on trees?
and we were grateful!
Redhat 7.2, Luxury!
In my day, we had to download linux onto floppy disks over a 2400 baud modem connection. We'd start downloading 5 hours before we went to bed, eat a cup of cold gravel, work 32 hours down the mine, and when we got home our fathers would whip us within an inch of our lives, and then if we were lucky, the download was finished.
Sounds like the ultimate peripheral for Duke Nukem Forever.
Ever hear of a company called Sager? Paint their high-end laptops green, add $500 to the price and you've got an Alienware laptop.
Exactly!
I bought a Clevo D470W for about half the price of what Alienware were selling a green version of the same laptop.
Huh? I am typing this message right now on a very useful non-junk computer that is more than five years old. I don't, however, necessarily want to change the perceptions of people like you, as I only paid about $5 for this machine (a used Dell Pentium III system.) It's useful to people like me who make 'best use' of less-than-new hardware for people like you to be out spending three or four figure amounts on the machines we buy with pennies-on-the-dollar a few years from now. So flame on, tiger. Buy the new flashy stuff! Hoorah for you!! In context, Alienware computers are promoted as being GAMES machines.
That is not a correct scientific method they using to measure it.
Whoever modded that as "Troll" is mitigating a valid point.
Wouldn't the cooking have something to do with the signals
from both phones interfering with each other?
(where the waves clash)
The problem is that if they listened to everyone who says "I know what I'm doing with computers!", they'd spend all day shipping out new computers to thousands of people whose cat knocked the power cord out of the outlet.
Is that why tech support's first question is always: "Do you own a cat?"
Department of Energy guide Ray Smith said on Monday. 'All this material was coming in, truckload after truckload, and nothing ever left.'"
The Mayor of Hiroshima begged to differ, reminding
the gathered media of his off-touted phrase
(just after the explosion) "What the f*** was that?"
Fastest privately owned supercomputer? That would be my computer running Windows. It has a record of Always-Flops.
Sounds like your computer needs some of that "Virtual Viagra" I keep getting e-mails about.
Hi, my name is David, and I'm an Emailaholic.
Who wants to bet that maybe Microsoft just charge more? :)
...and keep charging after the initial sale too.
Truly independent TCO studies have repeatedly shown
that Linux servers are cheaper to maintain than Windows servers.
Because Penny Arcade is rarely funny, and that makes them feel inadequate.