Danish newspaper publishes cartoon of Mohammed depicted as a terrorist. By association, the cartoon implies Muslims are violent terrorists. Muslims, agreived on two counts (1:Depicting Mohammed. 2: Disrespecting Mohammed) promptly firebomb anything from Scandinavia.
Blank DVDs £25 each. At least they tended to work.
Want my prediction for the coming years?
The price of blank media will fall, and its capacity and quality shall rise.
Do I get my award now? Or a job in journalism? I've got more:
CPU power will rise, but at a different rate to now. Storage capacity of home PCs will continue to outgrow actual usage. And for the finale': People will carry around devices that allow them to both talk to and see other people, even if they are very far away.
"make sure you have everything backed up. Because eventually, you will have a catastrophic HDD failure."
When will people learn?
Hard disks fail. I care little for "my 100 hdds have been running 24/7 for 10 years with out a single failure" anecdotes. Moving parts fail.
Make your backups.
Don't come crying to me when you lose data.
You just need to ask one question: Do I care if I lose my data? No: Fine. Yes: Backup. Properly. Off your PC. Preferably off-site. Yes, but my drive will not fail: Take your hands off the keyboard and back away slowly. The men in white coats are on the way.
There is no limit to how many times a retail XP can be installed. OEM Editions can only be installed on the hardware it is sold with, but can be re-installed on that h/w as often as you like, including after upgrades.
It may be that the rep was refering to how many times before the online activation and phone auto-activation work, before having to talk to someone.
I don't trust MS to explain their EULA or Terms of Service to me.
"She just eluded to Microsoft wanting to limit the number of upgrades that are not forced upgrades due to hardware failure." What about software failure? Most often a re-install is because it is the quickest, easiest way to fix an infested PC.
You are correct, most of the Linux community could give a damn. And they do.
I presume you mean "could not give a damn" in wich case you somehow missed every flamewar that happens when someone mentions "My OS is better than your OS". You usally get this: "My OS is better" "My OS could beat up your OS" "My OS was in the army" "Your OS's momma..." "My OS Shagged your OS... and your OS liked it!" *thump* *scratch* *claw* *bite*...
Mind, i think Dell used FreeDOS as it is not very popular. How would you feel if you mention "I use Linux Distro X" "Oh, thats the Dell one, isn't it?" "Aaaarrrrggghh..... must supress urge to kill...."
I have re-installed many copies of WinXPHome, OEM and retail. Usually, when they are transfered to new hardware they will want re-activating. This sometimes goes through OK on the web, but if it doesn't, a phone call (toll free) to MS will get it re-activated. If they ask why it needs it, i say the HDD died, or I had to replace teh motherboard, or somesuch. Some of teh copies here have been activated at least 10 times. 3 installs? For a retail edition? I'm not sure where you got that number, but if it was "a MS rep on the phone" then I take it with a pinch of salt.
Currently, they only suppy excerpts, but they are creating a library of full books. What is to stop someone writing a script that accesses multiple (all) excerpts?
With micro-payments, they could easily charge £0.05 for each access.
Also, once they have a library,they _could_ charge for access to the full texts.
The Author's Guild is not sueing for the copying of web-pages but for the scanning of physical media, which Google is then planning to put online. The Author's Guild have not "opted-in to the Internet". Indexing content is quite different from producing full copies of that content.
Right or wrong, The Authors' Guild is saying that Google are acting illegally.
Just because Google (and some of it's supporters) think this is a good idea does not make it legal. We can all have our opinions about what "should" happen, but whether Google is allowed to do this is down to the Courts, now that the copyright owners have asked that it be looked into.
I think the OP's point is that Google are not doing this because of the wonderful, freeing effect it will have on literature, rather that they are doing it to make money.
I wonder what would happen if Google started to charge for access to this library?
A lot of people will not care too much about things that do not directly affect them (e.g. Chinese dissidents in China), but do care about things that directly affect them (e.g. pop-up adverts on their webpages).
Indeed, how can I organise the online protest against Chinese draconian government with all these pop-ups all over the place????
I was under the impression that the CD ISO Standard does not include copy-protection. Any small-silver-disk that includes copy-protection could not be labelled as a 'CD', and must have the fact that it has copy-protection notified to the customer. Has this changed, or does this type of protection not break the CD Standard?
There are many references to their usage of the chord of an angle in a circle, and the fact that the perimiter of a hexagon is 6 times the diameter of the corcle around it.
I'm not sure abotu he specifics, but it all apeasrs to relate back to their base 60 system (Along with 60 seconds/minutes).
From my experience of the GIMP vs PhotoShop debate, one of the gripes levelled at GIMP is that it does not have the functionality of PhotoShop. They are both trying to be Graphical Manipulation Programs, and in the case of your analogy, it is the hippies producing the tricycle to compete with the Corporate Produced Stelth Bomber.
A tricycle and a stealth bomber are designed to work in very different arenas, and have different capabilities as they are designed to do different jobs. And in the case of your analogy, it is the hippies producing the tricycle to compete with the Corporate Produced Stealth Bomber.
You also continuously equate "different" with "difficult". There are certainly differences betweeen different products, even in the same arena, but often the only increase in difficulty is due to familiarity (as you mention with your "install Linux" vs "continue with Windows"). Is LinCity realy more _difficult_ to play than SimCity? A harder difficulty level, or more unmanagable controls? Or a different game?
The whole point (As far as I can tell) of this version of GIMP is to allow people familiar with PhotoShop to use GIMP without having to learn a new, unfamiliar interface. As (AFAIK) PhotoShop does not run on Linux (or any Non-MS OS), this helps to fulfil the much-seen problem of people not chaning OS because of reliance upon applications.
Who mentioned the technology? "Intellectual Property" is a broad and ill-defined concept that is usually taken to include Trademark, Patent copyright and maybe other concepts. IIIR is sueing for use of the name.
"Besides, the name is actually Google Mail, isn't it? GMail is just an abbreviation commonly used, although I guess it might be trademarked as well."
My GMail account is labelled as "GMail, by Google". Throughout Google's Terms of Service and other legal documentation I found many references to the service as "GMail", none to "Google MaiL" and no refence to "GMail" being an abbreviation. Also, "Coke" was just an abbreviation, but you see what happens if you try to market a drink using "Coke" in its name.
Do trademarks have to justify their reasons? Logos and styles can be trademarked (Again, see coke-bottle shape.) Try asking why coke feel they have a right to that shape. What if i decide to create a service called Y-Mail. Yahoo might go for me, but so long as I am legal owner of the trademark, why should I have to justify the name? I'll have a go though: "I liked the sound of it" "It's a pun on chromosomes" "My grandma was called Yasmin" "Y is the 25th letter, and 25 is my lucky number"
NDA? I thought the whole point of patents was that they had to be disclosed. How can you patent something with a NDA, to promote the progress of science and useful arts?
Yes, there are several cases of people being kicked out of stores for using "portable imaging devices" to compare prices. Some have been from competing stores, others people looking around for bargains.
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'its not "stealing" and therefore with your logic your not hurting anyone.'
There are many ways to hurt someone without stealing from them.
Assault.
Slander.
Libel.
Copyright Infringement.
Etc.
The pedant did not make any distinction between being hurt or not. Just in the name of the action.
Danish newspaper publishes cartoon of Mohammed depicted as a terrorist. By association, the cartoon implies Muslims are violent terrorists.
Muslims, agreived on two counts (1:Depicting Mohammed. 2: Disrespecting Mohammed) promptly firebomb anything from Scandinavia.
No-one else see any irony here?
With a reliability rate of about 1 in 4!
Blank DVDs £25 each. At least they tended to work.
Want my prediction for the coming years?
The price of blank media will fall, and its capacity and quality shall rise.
Do I get my award now? Or a job in journalism?
I've got more:
CPU power will rise, but at a different rate to now.
Storage capacity of home PCs will continue to outgrow actual usage.
And for the finale':
People will carry around devices that allow them to both talk to and see other people, even if they are very far away.
"make sure you have everything backed up. Because eventually, you will have a catastrophic HDD failure."
When will people learn?
Hard disks fail.
I care little for "my 100 hdds have been running 24/7 for 10 years with out a single failure" anecdotes.
Moving parts fail.
Make your backups.
Don't come crying to me when you lose data.
You just need to ask one question:
Do I care if I lose my data?
No: Fine.
Yes: Backup. Properly. Off your PC. Preferably off-site.
Yes, but my drive will not fail: Take your hands off the keyboard and back away slowly. The men in white coats are on the way.
Are you volunteering?
... why is no-one doing much about it?
Seriously, there are enough of us here (and elsewhere) who disagree with what the RIAA are doing
As we all know, if we want to put a stop to their activities, they must find it more profitable to do something else.
The RIAA are beholden to their member companies, who are beholden to their shareholders, who are in it for the $$$.
Convincing the companies that the RIAA tactics are losing money for their shareholders is the only way to alter their tactics.
Yes, the MS reps will tell you such things.
There is no limit to how many times a retail XP can be installed.
OEM Editions can only be installed on the hardware it is sold with, but can be re-installed on that h/w as often as you like, including after upgrades.
It may be that the rep was refering to how many times before the online activation and phone auto-activation work, before having to talk to someone.
I don't trust MS to explain their EULA or Terms of Service to me.
"She just eluded to Microsoft wanting to limit the number of upgrades that are not forced upgrades due to hardware failure."
What about software failure? Most often a re-install is because it is the quickest, easiest way to fix an infested PC.
You are correct, most of the Linux community could give a damn.
..." ... and your OS liked it!" ...
..... must supress urge to kill ...."
And they do.
I presume you mean "could not give a damn" in wich case you somehow missed every flamewar that happens when someone mentions "My OS is better than your OS". You usally get this:
"My OS is better"
"My OS could beat up your OS"
"My OS was in the army"
"Your OS's momma
"My OS Shagged your OS
*thump*
*scratch*
*claw*
*bite*
Mind, i think Dell used FreeDOS as it is not very popular. How would you feel if you mention "I use Linux Distro X"
"Oh, thats the Dell one, isn't it?"
"Aaaarrrrggghh
I have re-installed many copies of WinXPHome, OEM and retail.
Usually, when they are transfered to new hardware they will want re-activating.
This sometimes goes through OK on the web, but if it doesn't, a phone call (toll free) to MS will get it re-activated. If they ask why it needs it, i say the HDD died, or I had to replace teh motherboard, or somesuch.
Some of teh copies here have been activated at least 10 times.
3 installs? For a retail edition? I'm not sure where you got that number, but if it was "a MS rep on the phone" then I take it with a pinch of salt.
Have you tried your local mom-n-pop computer store?
Usually can get all the bits you want, build it up for you and be close-on-hand for any problems.
" Before that, we used the normal technique of throwing military supplies at our European allies "
I beleive the word you were loking for was "selling".
It took the UK well into the 1980s to repay the debt that USA demanded.
Sorry, out of mod-points here.
8o)
Currently, they only suppy excerpts, but they are creating a library of full books.
What is to stop someone writing a script that accesses multiple (all) excerpts?
With micro-payments, they could easily charge £0.05 for each access.
Also, once they have a library,they _could_ charge for access to the full texts.
The Author's Guild is not sueing for the copying of web-pages but for the scanning of physical media, which Google is then planning to put online.
The Author's Guild have not "opted-in to the Internet".
Indexing content is quite different from producing full copies of that content.
Right or wrong, The Authors' Guild is saying that Google are acting illegally.
Just because Google (and some of it's supporters) think this is a good idea does not make it legal.
We can all have our opinions about what "should" happen, but whether Google is allowed to do this is down to the Courts, now that the copyright owners have asked that it be looked into.
I think the OP's point is that Google are not doing this because of the wonderful, freeing effect it will have on literature, rather that they are doing it to make money.
I wonder what would happen if Google started to charge for access to this library?
A lot of people will not care too much about things that do not directly affect them (e.g. Chinese dissidents in China), but do care about things that directly affect them (e.g. pop-up adverts on their webpages).
Indeed, how can I organise the online protest against Chinese draconian government with all these pop-ups all over the place????
I was under the impression that the CD ISO Standard does not include copy-protection.
Any small-silver-disk that includes copy-protection could not be labelled as a 'CD', and must have the fact that it has copy-protection notified to the customer.
Has this changed, or does this type of protection not break the CD Standard?
Ancient Babylon worked in Base 60.
There are many references to their usage of the chord of an angle in a circle, and the fact that the perimiter of a hexagon is 6 times the diameter of the corcle around it.
I'm not sure abotu he specifics, but it all apeasrs to relate back to their base 60 system (Along with 60 seconds/minutes).
Plenty of Google-facts available.
From my experience of the GIMP vs PhotoShop debate, one of the gripes levelled at GIMP is that it does not have the functionality of PhotoShop.
They are both trying to be Graphical Manipulation Programs, and in the case of your analogy, it is the hippies producing the tricycle to compete with the Corporate Produced Stelth Bomber.
A tricycle and a stealth bomber are designed to work in very different arenas, and have different capabilities as they are designed to do different jobs. And in the case of your analogy, it is the hippies producing the tricycle to compete with the Corporate Produced Stealth Bomber.
You also continuously equate "different" with "difficult". There are certainly differences betweeen different products, even in the same arena, but often the only increase in difficulty is due to familiarity (as you mention with your "install Linux" vs "continue with Windows").
Is LinCity realy more _difficult_ to play than SimCity? A harder difficulty level, or more unmanagable controls? Or a different game?
The whole point (As far as I can tell) of this version of GIMP is to allow people familiar with PhotoShop to use GIMP without having to learn a new, unfamiliar interface.
As (AFAIK) PhotoShop does not run on Linux (or any Non-MS OS), this helps to fulfil the much-seen problem of people not chaning OS because of reliance upon applications.
Who mentioned the technology?
"Intellectual Property" is a broad and ill-defined concept that is usually taken to include Trademark, Patent copyright and maybe other concepts.
IIIR is sueing for use of the name.
"Besides, the name is actually Google Mail, isn't it? GMail is just an abbreviation commonly used, although I guess it might be trademarked as well."
My GMail account is labelled as "GMail, by Google".
Throughout Google's Terms of Service and other legal documentation I found many references to the service as "GMail", none to "Google MaiL" and no refence to "GMail" being an abbreviation.
Also, "Coke" was just an abbreviation, but you see what happens if you try to market a drink using "Coke" in its name.
Do trademarks have to justify their reasons? Logos and styles can be trademarked (Again, see coke-bottle shape.) Try asking why coke feel they have a right to that shape.
What if i decide to create a service called Y-Mail. Yahoo might go for me, but so long as I am legal owner of the trademark, why should I have to justify the name? I'll have a go though:
"I liked the sound of it"
"It's a pun on chromosomes"
"My grandma was called Yasmin"
"Y is the 25th letter, and 25 is my lucky number"
"does not guarantee that the software will work as documented or even at all"
The same as pretty much all other software??
"The Sims may have done a lot for the Casual gamers , but it was dull as dishwate."
The Sims relies upon the player to provide the interest. It is more of a write-your-own-soap-opera than a traditional score-points-and-win game.
I found much to like in The sims, including house design, interior design to creating stories with the characters.
There are lots of dedicated Sims players, who neither are "casual gamers", or find it "dull as dishwater". Your opinion is noted.
Sim City is a different game.
IMHO Civilisation should be on the list, and it is better than Madden by a long stick.
NDA? I thought the whole point of patents was that they had to be disclosed.
How can you patent something with a NDA, to promote the progress of science and useful arts?
"Call upon the Lord, but row away from the rocks." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yes, there are several cases of people being kicked out of stores for using "portable imaging devices" to compare prices.
Some have been from competing stores, others people looking around for bargains.
How about all the people on here whining about how they could have done a better job ... GOING AND DOING A BETTER JOB!
Write an example form-page and send it (with full code) to FEMA.
Maybe they'll give you a job.