Of all the nasty things MS has done, they have never pushed for laws to make people buy their products
Hmmm... SSSCA and their patent on a DRM OS?
They probably haven't been as blatant about it as the RIAA - MS knows sneaky, because they've been practicing it for years. The RIAA is a petulant child by comparison.
Learning to spell will come in handy in more places than slashdot. This is not intended to be a troll or an insult...
Of course, if they could offload the dictionary search to the CLIENT end, I'm sure they'd do it, but I don't really want to see (or rather, NOT see) stories about slashdot slashdotting itself.
Frankly, if the best point of an architecture is that it can ramp up to a higher clock speed in the future, while currently being outperformed by lower clocked chips from a previous generation, that processor can kiss MY curvy butt GOOOOOOOD bye.
I don't care if a P4 *CAN* run without a heatsink, it shouldn't BE running without a heatsink anyway.
I know problems occur, like heatsinks detaching while the comp is operational, but I'd rather the machine just crashed hard so I knew there was something that seriously wrong with it. If the P4 produces a few memory/calculation bugs due to overheating, that doesn't really lead me to opening the case for troubleshooting. I'd probably just blame 'buggy windows' for a few months until the P4 died completely.
If I see anyone else claiming Opera is Free Software
The problem is that Opera is freely available... you don't have to pay anything if you accept the ads while you browse (which is a price, of course, and quite amusing given the context... Opera DOES let you block out the ads - just not the ones IT serves!)
This applies to the freely downloadable version... you can still support Opera Software directly (read: pay) and get an ad-free browser.
For the record, many of the better features in Mozilla were first to be found in Opera. Unfortunately, the one feature I wish Opera had is only available in Moz, and I hate Moz's load time. Opera is a split-second event.
The guy quoted obviously has no clue. Not downloading images with web pages is copyright infringement? From a public web page, that the creator put up in order FOR me to download?
That's just the sound of a lawyer clutching at straws. His bosses said "People are getting around our sleazy shit. We need something scary sounding to make sure dumbasses keep load our popup ads". I wonder what he thinks of people using text-mode...
"Today AOL sued ten thousand users of the browser lynx for copyright infringement, due to their not copying copyrighted images from their web... wait, what?"
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America: Home of the free (and the DMCA, MPAA, RIAA...)
I suggest:
America: Home of the people formerly known as free
"Now, is that the 01/01/00 EULA written before Windows 2000 existed, the one that came on the disc printed for build 2239, the one on the disc for build 2396, the one for service pack 1, 2 or 3, the additional bonus EULA for every additional hotfix and software update, or some other EULA?"
"Umm, fuck it, where do I return this lousy software for some that doesn't attempt to change all the rules every other day?"
"You'll need to take that back to the store you bought it from, where the owner has signed an agreement with us that only allows him to refund you at his expense. Don't expect anything, but thanks for your money. Did I mention we've preemptively castrated your legal recourse? Have a nice day."
And you're right about the manual... you've got to FTFM before you can RTFM. Also, you've got to KTFME (know the [reserved for future expansion] manual exists)
Yes they do deserve to be out of business, but your government donates taxpayer money to airlines who need it because they can't run their business properly. Do you think they'll sit by while MS (a *highly successful* company) goes under?
I tried your recommended "outdoors" product, and while pleasant looking and cheap, it was highly lacking in configurability. On the second day of my trial period, the sky began to leak and there was no way to disable this manually - I was forced to wait until the leaking ceased. The heating and lighting were wildly inconsistent with previous observations throughout this event. I was also astounded by the number of bugs in the system. Some of them got into our lunch and ruined it for everyone.
Free? You get what you pay for, it seems. I can only hope that many of these issues are fixed in the next version, or I will be uninstalling it posthaste.
Does it really matter? The whole point is that they are not shipping it with Windows.
But the point for me is that it doesn't cost any less to buy a PC with FreeDOS than it does with Windows. I happen to know Windows is an expensive piece of shit, and FreeDOS is... well, free.
From the article: N-series PCs will cost the same as PCs that ship with Windows, a Dell representative said.
So what's the deal? Are Dell being greedy, or are they still having to pay the MS tax?
With software there was no previous case history, and no president.
Damnit, someone elect a president of software, quickly!
Not GW though. And don't ask Florida this time. =D
If it's threatened that retired women can't trade romance paperbacks with each other anymore
I don't think you need to restrict that to retired women. For that matter, I don't think you need to restrict it to women OR romance novels. If it's threatened that ANYONE can't share ANY book they paid for with their friends, look forward to bloody revolution.
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What about just ripping off the shrinkwrap from the back, and throwing it away? This is what I do all the time... if someone stuck a license on the front of it, I'd never even see it.
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"Uh, hi, mass media with widespread audience? Yeah, yeah, my friends and I just stole a hundred thousand copies of this book, and uh, this is the time and place where we'll be destroying this property that belongs to someone else. Yep, yep, here are our names and phone numbers. That's right, breaking a just law to attempt to halt an unjust practice, yes. Hope to see you there!"
Well, apparently, they're the materialistic small-minded bitches who would marry someone for the financial security they could provide. OF COURSE they're going to want something ridiculously expensive and pointless - it establishes the way things are to go from that point on.
Client-side javascript, because it's fast, friendly, easy, and generates no load on your server while being nice to the user.
This is a common thought, and I wish it would fucking die.
Javascript is not nice, it doesn't even behave the same in any two different browsers. Using Javascript to validate anything should be a hanging offense.
Creating a web page that causes a user to click multiple times in frustration before realising the only way they'll get it to work is by firing up [the Author's undeclared choice of] Mozilla or IE...*takes breath*...is disgusting.
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Of all the nasty things MS has done, they have never pushed for laws to make people buy their products
Hmmm... SSSCA and their patent on a DRM OS?
They probably haven't been as blatant about it as the RIAA - MS knows sneaky, because they've been practicing it for years. The RIAA is a petulant child by comparison.
So, your position is that language can never be altered or extended? Rules may never be broken for enhanced understanding or brevity?
Hey, here's a suggestion - learn to proofread!
Learning to spell will come in handy in more places than slashdot. This is not intended to be a troll or an insult...
Of course, if they could offload the dictionary search to the CLIENT end, I'm sure they'd do it, but I don't really want to see (or rather, NOT see) stories about slashdot slashdotting itself.
Frankly, if the best point of an architecture is that it can ramp up to a higher clock speed in the future, while currently being outperformed by lower clocked chips from a previous generation, that processor can kiss MY curvy butt GOOOOOOOD bye.
I don't care if a P4 *CAN* run without a heatsink, it shouldn't BE running without a heatsink anyway.
I know problems occur, like heatsinks detaching while the comp is operational, but I'd rather the machine just crashed hard so I knew there was something that seriously wrong with it. If the P4 produces a few memory/calculation bugs due to overheating, that doesn't really lead me to opening the case for troubleshooting. I'd probably just blame 'buggy windows' for a few months until the P4 died completely.
Uhh, that's not the same song, dude.
There's a hole in my bucket
dear eliza, dear eliza
There's a hole in my bucket
dear eliza, a hole
Then mend it
dear henry, dear henry, dear henry
then mend it
dear henry, dear henry, mend it.
With what shall I mend it,
dear eliza
and so fucking on.
My grandmother is over 70, and when I mentioned Eliza, she told me she had a hole in her bucket.
If I see anyone else claiming Opera is Free Software
The problem is that Opera is freely available... you don't have to pay anything if you accept the ads while you browse (which is a price, of course, and quite amusing given the context... Opera DOES let you block out the ads - just not the ones IT serves!)
This applies to the freely downloadable version... you can still support Opera Software directly (read: pay) and get an ad-free browser.
For the record, many of the better features in Mozilla were first to be found in Opera. Unfortunately, the one feature I wish Opera had is only available in Moz, and I hate Moz's load time. Opera is a split-second event.
The guy quoted obviously has no clue. Not downloading images with web pages is copyright infringement? From a public web page, that the creator put up in order FOR me to download?
That's just the sound of a lawyer clutching at straws. His bosses said "People are getting around our sleazy shit. We need something scary sounding to make sure dumbasses keep load our popup ads". I wonder what he thinks of people using text-mode...
"Today AOL sued ten thousand users of the browser lynx for copyright infringement, due to their not copying copyrighted images from their web... wait, what?"
America: Home of the free (and the DMCA, MPAA, RIAA...)
I suggest:
America: Home of the people formerly known as free
"Could you read me the EULA for Windows 2000?"
"Now, is that the 01/01/00 EULA written before Windows 2000 existed, the one that came on the disc printed for build 2239, the one on the disc for build 2396, the one for service pack 1, 2 or 3, the additional bonus EULA for every additional hotfix and software update, or some other EULA?"
"Umm, fuck it, where do I return this lousy software for some that doesn't attempt to change all the rules every other day?"
"You'll need to take that back to the store you bought it from, where the owner has signed an agreement with us that only allows him to refund you at his expense. Don't expect anything, but thanks for your money. Did I mention we've preemptively castrated your legal recourse? Have a nice day."
WTF??
He must be an MCSE.
MCSE Lesson 1:
Accept the defaults.
And you're right about the manual... you've got to FTFM before you can RTFM. Also, you've got to KTFME (know the [reserved for future expansion] manual exists)
Hey, that's only 208 bits! And over half of them repeating!
What the hell is MS trying to pull NOW?
Yes they do deserve to be out of business, but your government donates taxpayer money to airlines who need it because they can't run their business properly. Do you think they'll sit by while MS (a *highly successful* company) goes under?
Dear sir,
I tried your recommended "outdoors" product, and while pleasant looking and cheap, it was highly lacking in configurability. On the second day of my trial period, the sky began to leak and there was no way to disable this manually - I was forced to wait until the leaking ceased. The heating and lighting were wildly inconsistent with previous observations throughout this event.
I was also astounded by the number of bugs in the system. Some of them got into our lunch and ruined it for everyone.
Free? You get what you pay for, it seems. I can only hope that many of these issues are fixed in the next version, or I will be uninstalling it posthaste.
Disgruntled user.
Does it really matter? The whole point is that they are not shipping it with Windows.
But the point for me is that it doesn't cost any less to buy a PC with FreeDOS than it does with Windows. I happen to know Windows is an expensive piece of shit, and FreeDOS is... well, free.
From the article:
N-series PCs will cost the same as PCs that ship with Windows, a Dell representative said.
So what's the deal? Are Dell being greedy, or are they still having to pay the MS tax?
When common sense goes out the window, what else is left but uncommon nonsense?
;)
There'd be a little common nonsense, and some uncommon sense too
copyright barrons like Disney and Microsoft
You see the damage these so-called educational books do?? =D
With software there was no previous case history, and no president.
Damnit, someone elect a president of software, quickly!
Not GW though. And don't ask Florida this time.
=D
If it's threatened that retired women can't trade romance paperbacks with each other anymore
I don't think you need to restrict that to retired women. For that matter, I don't think you need to restrict it to women OR romance novels. If it's threatened that ANYONE can't share ANY book they paid for with their friends, look forward to bloody revolution.
What about just ripping off the shrinkwrap from the back, and throwing it away? This is what I do all the time... if someone stuck a license on the front of it, I'd never even see it.
"Uh, hi, mass media with widespread audience? Yeah, yeah, my friends and I just stole a hundred thousand copies of this book, and uh, this is the time and place where we'll be destroying this property that belongs to someone else. Yep, yep, here are our names and phone numbers. That's right, breaking a just law to attempt to halt an unjust practice, yes. Hope to see you there!"
Who the fuck do these bitches think they are?
Well, apparently, they're the materialistic small-minded bitches who would marry someone for the financial security they could provide. OF COURSE they're going to want something ridiculously expensive and pointless - it establishes the way things are to go from that point on.
Sorry, I do know you were joking...
Yeah, keep bashing his word of choice, while you go spouting 'rediculous, rediculous'.
No one cares how a database performs when there is one single user.
Except that single user, of course.
Client-side javascript, because it's fast, friendly, easy, and generates no load on your server while being nice to the user.
This is a common thought, and I wish it would fucking die.
Javascript is not nice, it doesn't even behave the same in any two different browsers. Using Javascript to validate anything should be a hanging offense.
Creating a web page that causes a user to click multiple times in frustration before realising the only way they'll get it to work is by firing up [the Author's undeclared choice of] Mozilla or IE...*takes breath*...is disgusting.
Nobody wants a copy, they want something original
Well, that's obviously not always the case. Just look at Windows.
Damn straight. I'd MUCH rather copy windows than purchase the original.