What would stop Microsoft from deliberately crippling the OS (and making it practically useless as a result) like they did with the starter editions of XP and Vista?
Nothing at all. What's the incentive for people to use an OS from an manufacturer who deems them worthy of crapware?
Yes, that was actually my point. The legality of the matter is rather secondary, in terms of importance, to the fact that getting a botnet is so easy to do.
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Indeed, and also why nobody produces any cultural products in countries without aggressive copyright enforcement.
Future generations will look back on this time in history and wonder why the recording industry was so hot to protect top 40 crap-pop.
Everyone's going on about how it's actually illegal and the intent doesn't matter (I don't know either way - it is Britain and maybe things work differently there).
What about the fact that some guys from the BBC were able to gain control of 20k infected machines on the web just for the purposes of doing a story? To me, the implications of that are far worse than any possible criminality.
Not quite; a number of apps put stuff outside of the.app wrapper directory. Anything that loads a kernel extension (vmware, for example), as well as other application that put frameworks in/Library and/System/Library. And then there's prefs and cache files left over in your own Library directory.
Still, it's significantly better than it is on windows.
If that's the kind of people they are, they'll slag you off no matter how long you stay.
Make sure to keep any copies of performance reviews, etc., but don't give in to that kind of bullshit. Probably won't matter in the long run, anyway - if they're run by assholes like that, they'll be out of business in a few years.
a standard shot is 1.5 oz or about 44.3 ml - that's about 17 per bottle or roughly 4 for a quarter of the bottle. And i didn't say feeling it, I said drunk. If you drink 4 shots of liquor and you're drunk, you're a puss.
I don't know about Swedish, but I use Google translate for Chinese and Arabic translations into English a lot,and they've gotten notably better in some places over the past year.
MT system performance is often very dependent on language genre. They tend to be good at translating news because news text has been a big focus of NLP training corpus development. It's a pretty well controlled genre (you don't get a lot of random slang or neologisms, non-standard syntax, etc.) and there's a whole lot of it already electronically encoded (no print or speech to text conversion needed). And it's packed full of information, which is important to a lot of the big funders of MT research.
Yeah, till the come back later and slash the tires on your car, or pour bleach on your grass. It might make you feel better, but ultimately pointless and liable to piss off people to no effect.
Actually, for native speakers of English, your interpretation isn't the default one; if I'd said "I'm not the same scat munching freak you are," then you'd have something.
One could probably make a good case for a decent paraphrase being "I'm not as much of a scat muncher as you are," being the default or a common alternative.
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S/he has a grasp of actual facts.
My answer was laziness, which isn't really an incentive, per se. I'll change my vote to masochism.
Nothing at all. What's the incentive for people to use an OS from an manufacturer who deems them worthy of crapware?
Yes, that was actually my point. The legality of the matter is rather secondary, in terms of importance, to the fact that getting a botnet is so easy to do.
Indeed, and also why nobody produces any cultural products in countries without aggressive copyright enforcement.
Future generations will look back on this time in history and wonder why the recording industry was so hot to protect top 40 crap-pop.
nobody would ever produce music, art, or literature. Which is also why works need to be protected for a century or longer.
Everyone's going on about how it's actually illegal and the intent doesn't matter (I don't know either way - it is Britain and maybe things work differently there).
What about the fact that some guys from the BBC were able to gain control of 20k infected machines on the web just for the purposes of doing a story? To me, the implications of that are far worse than any possible criminality.
Not quite; a number of apps put stuff outside of the .app wrapper directory. Anything that loads a kernel extension (vmware, for example), as well as other application that put frameworks in /Library and /System/Library. And then there's prefs and cache files left over in your own Library directory.
Still, it's significantly better than it is on windows.
"droog" is the Russian word for friend. Also, how come I can't enter UTF-8 chars in a slashdot post without them getting mangled?
If that's the kind of people they are, they'll slag you off no matter how long you stay.
Make sure to keep any copies of performance reviews, etc., but don't give in to that kind of bullshit. Probably won't matter in the long run, anyway - if they're run by assholes like that, they'll be out of business in a few years.
a standard shot is 1.5 oz or about 44.3 ml - that's about 17 per bottle or roughly 4 for a quarter of the bottle. And i didn't say feeling it, I said drunk. If you drink 4 shots of liquor and you're drunk, you're a puss.
If 1/4 of a standard 750 ml bottle of tequila gets you drunk, you're featherweight.
Maybe more.
They'll also suggest a whole bunch of other, probably not so helpful stuff.
Ignore that.
I'm sure the very thought must have them terrified, Jack.
While sucking as much dick as you do?
It's a little malware detection thing that went awry. Maybe when you get out of high school and get laid finally you'll relax a bit.
Chill the fuck out.
I don't know about Swedish, but I use Google translate for Chinese and Arabic translations into English a lot ,and they've gotten notably better in some places over the past year.
MT system performance is often very dependent on language genre. They tend to be good at translating news because news text has been a big focus of NLP training corpus development. It's a pretty well controlled genre (you don't get a lot of random slang or neologisms, non-standard syntax, etc.) and there's a whole lot of it already electronically encoded (no print or speech to text conversion needed). And it's packed full of information, which is important to a lot of the big funders of MT research.
Come on Dave, where's the long screed defending the Bushies?
Yeah, till the come back later and slash the tires on your car, or pour bleach on your grass. It might make you feel better, but ultimately pointless and liable to piss off people to no effect.
Human languages, living ones at any rate, are constantly changing and acquiring new vocabulary. It's a fact.
Bitching about it is about as effective as you waving your fist at those kids who won't get the hell off your lawn.
Quite so. I have lovely singing voice, as well.
Actually, for native speakers of English, your interpretation isn't the default one; if I'd said "I'm not the same scat munching freak you are," then you'd have something.
One could probably make a good case for a decent paraphrase being "I'm not as much of a scat muncher as you are," being the default or a common alternative.
Or for real cheap we could just shoot you in the back of the head. Which I think would be a great solution to things
You and your silly reliance on facts over emotional appeals. That's not gonna get you far at Slashdot.