Wrong, sorry. In the UK at least, anyway. You have to register a trademark if you want to use the (R) symbol on it, but any unique mark is automatically a trademark, and TM can be used freely without any registration.
That said, courts look FAR more favourably on an (R) mark than a TM mark, because there is a definite legal process that's been followed (and hard cash invested - about US$400 here in UK) to obtain the mark. TM is pretty much the trademark equivalent of a cat pissing up a tree to say "That's mine" - i.e. it don't really mean shit til the courts decide one way or the other.
Note that all the above assumes a case in a single country - once you cross international lines your (R) mark doesn't mean anything.
Personally, I'm glad that IE doesn't filter pop-ups, for one reason. IE is the single most popular browser in the world, and it's what most sites are designed for. If it had the ability to filter pop-ups, it would force the spammers to try different tactics to target people, such as having the ad on the main page, with the actual content you want to look at in a pop-up, so you have no choice but to allow them to look at that site.
Granted, a site that did this would lose customers at first, but if IE allowed it, it may become the norm.
WinXP will still run decently on a P166 with 64MB of RAM (with the themes service off), and that is quite old HW by now
Indeed...I'm running.net Server on a P200/64MB quite happily at home. Terminal services drags it's heels a bit, but other than that it runs fine. Haven't quite dared to install Exchange Server on it yet though:-)
Look again:
Current Uptime: 147d 23h:04m:18s
Total Uptime: 151d 11h:45m:31s
i.e. those 8 reboots were in the first 4 days, shame it's dragged the mean time down so badly - couldn't be bothered to download Qchain (at 4 days to get it operational, you can see building it wasn't a high priority!)
C'mon people, this argument is getting tired. Isn't the industry well developed enough at this point to realise that hey, linux is stable...wow, MS is easy to use (therefore preferred by Joe User)...y'know, if I know both, I might just be able to get by....
For the record (from my 2K Server):
Current System Uptime: 147 day(s), 23 hour(s), 4 minute(s), 18 second(s) Since 25/06/2002:
System Availability: 99.9668%
Total Uptime: 151d 11h:45m:31s
Total Downtime: 0d 1h:12m:25s
Total Reboots: 8
Mean Time Between Reboots: 18.94 days
Total Bluescreens: 0
From my Linux server: 5:17am up 93 days, 20:22, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
I also download music. If I like the music, I used to ALWAYS buy the album (the truth is, when you have a reasonable CD collection, you don't want to start spoiling it with home-burned CDs).
Now though, I check the CD closely first. It it has a little box on it that reads [ This CD will not play on PC/MAC ], I don't buy it. Why? Simple. Despite owning the CD, all my music is also stored as MP3 for easy access. When I buy a CD I've already downloaded, I replace the download copies with my clean, home-ripped versions. That is my legal right.
If I can't choose to store my music as MP3, I won't buy it. And no, I don't delete the MP3s i've already downloaded.
this highlights my main concern over product activation. Leaving linux out of the equation for now - Example: I find an old 386. I can now build this with DOS6.22 or even NT3.51 if I'm so inclined, and have it do something useful but mundane. In 5 years time, if I come across an ancient 2Ghz P4, no use for current day-to-day stuff, but will make a good enough workhorse for routing/web server/{insert mundane task here} if I put an older non-subscription OS on it, what happens when I try and install my old (but still shrinkwrapped) XP or.net server? Will it work, or (more likely) will I get a 'Sorry, this product is no longer supported. Activation failed' message?
yeah, I've seen those about. I've avoided them for one reason - my UPS has 8 output sockets. This has one and costs nearly as much.
meandering OT:
although, in a box that you really don't want stolen, i daresay you could configure this to notify you over a wlan if it loses power...nice anti-theft device if you disconnect your power switch (I mean who turns computers off anyway?)
agreed - hence my suggestion of a wiring cupboard. I do the same thing myself (backwards tho - using citrix to get at my windows box from linux). All my servers are headless, I have a grand total of 2 monitors and one Wyse terminal covering my 16 boxes. This would be great for a dedicated server in a constricted space (example - a gateway with the dsl modem that needs to be within cables reach of the telephone point, therefore must squeeze into a tiny gap beneath, or even be wall mounted)
I wouldn't personally use it anywhere where I'm reliant on the hardware, or the box looking neat (if this laptop drive dies, will it live with a standard one but no lid til I get it replaced?
This is my own personal TAD (pat. pend.) - I don't like machines that I can't grab cheap bits for from my local shop, and that I can't squeeze lots more bits into as needed.
with a well placed rear fan, comes well placed rear fan noise, so where's the saving? Although in principle, I do agree that external PSUs have their place, especially if they have connections at both ends (psu and mobo). That way, you can store all your PSU's in one location, along with a couple of spares, and if one fries, just unplug and move to another one.
this definitely has potential in the right place, the right place IMO being a wiring cupboard or somewhere else where space is at a real premium. I wouldn't use it as a standard desktop, purely because if you have space for a monitor you have space for a slightly larger unit (I'd hope).
I wouldn't say the savings of a few inches are enough to make me use a laptop hard drive and one of those crappy 'blade' (or whatever) CD roms that you can't just swap out/upgrade/yada yada.
But then again, I like my PC's to have lots of growth space inside, YMMV.
Did anyone stop to define 'Game' when they introduced this law? If we want to get technical about it, I can use word to play hangman or a thousand other word games. VBA is capable of knocking together some games with very little effort.
Taking it even further to the extreme, this is a forum of geeks. By our nature, we find computers entertaining for recreational use. I personally have great fun trying to track down bugs in code, and the rush when you finally get all your known bugs killed off is better than anything I can get off a game. Could this be considered a game, and therefore illegal?
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Wrong, sorry. In the UK at least, anyway. You have to register a trademark if you want to use the (R) symbol on it, but any unique mark is automatically a trademark, and TM can be used freely without any registration. That said, courts look FAR more favourably on an (R) mark than a TM mark, because there is a definite legal process that's been followed (and hard cash invested - about US$400 here in UK) to obtain the mark. TM is pretty much the trademark equivalent of a cat pissing up a tree to say "That's mine" - i.e. it don't really mean shit til the courts decide one way or the other. Note that all the above assumes a case in a single country - once you cross international lines your (R) mark doesn't mean anything.
aaah yes, don't you just love it when somebody calls you and says "Can you come and take a look - my pc's just done a physical dump"
hmm....wonder if it's possible to slashdot a phone number?
Please do not cut, bend, fold, staple or otherwise mutilate this post.
Personally, I'm glad that IE doesn't filter pop-ups, for one reason. IE is the single most popular browser in the world, and it's what most sites are designed for. If it had the ability to filter pop-ups, it would force the spammers to try different tactics to target people, such as having the ad on the main page, with the actual content you want to look at in a pop-up, so you have no choice but to allow them to look at that site.
Granted, a site that did this would lose customers at first, but if IE allowed it, it may become the norm.
I can't believe someone actually took that one...
Look at the name....think about it. DIhydrogen (H2) MONoxide (O1). That would give us a chemical makeup of H2O1...or H2O for short. Sound familiar?
WinXP will still run decently on a P166 with 64MB of RAM (with the themes service off), and that is quite old HW by now
.net Server on a P200/64MB quite happily at home. Terminal services drags it's heels a bit, but other than that it runs fine. Haven't quite dared to install Exchange Server on it yet though :-)
Indeed...I'm running
I think i speak for a sizable proportion of /.ers when i say "ugh! gross!"
which one?
Linux: uptime
Windows: Download uptime.exe from MS (google search on Windows 2000 Uptime site:microsoft.com
Look again: Current Uptime: 147d 23h:04m:18s Total Uptime: 151d 11h:45m:31s i.e. those 8 reboots were in the first 4 days, shame it's dragged the mean time down so badly - couldn't be bothered to download Qchain (at 4 days to get it operational, you can see building it wasn't a high priority!)
it ain't broke yet, so i ain't fixin nuthink
C'mon people, this argument is getting tired. Isn't the industry well developed enough at this point to realise that hey, linux is stable...wow, MS is easy to use (therefore preferred by Joe User)...y'know, if I know both, I might just be able to get by....
For the record (from my 2K Server):
Current System Uptime: 147 day(s), 23 hour(s), 4 minute(s), 18 second(s)
Since 25/06/2002:
System Availability: 99.9668%
Total Uptime: 151d 11h:45m:31s
Total Downtime: 0d 1h:12m:25s
Total Reboots: 8
Mean Time Between Reboots: 18.94 days
Total Bluescreens: 0
From my Linux server:
5:17am up 93 days, 20:22, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
(sorry, that's as detailed as you get with linux)
I also download music. If I like the music, I used to ALWAYS buy the album (the truth is, when you have a reasonable CD collection, you don't want to start spoiling it with home-burned CDs).
Now though, I check the CD closely first. It it has a little box on it that reads [ This CD will not play on PC/MAC ], I don't buy it. Why? Simple. Despite owning the CD, all my music is also stored as MP3 for easy access. When I buy a CD I've already downloaded, I replace the download copies with my clean, home-ripped versions. That is my legal right.
If I can't choose to store my music as MP3, I won't buy it. And no, I don't delete the MP3s i've already downloaded.
this highlights my main concern over product activation. Leaving linux out of the equation for now - Example: I find an old 386. I can now build this with DOS6.22 or even NT3.51 if I'm so inclined, and have it do something useful but mundane. In 5 years time, if I come across an ancient 2Ghz P4, no use for current day-to-day stuff, but will make a good enough workhorse for routing/web server/{insert mundane task here} if I put an older non-subscription OS on it, what happens when I try and install my old (but still shrinkwrapped) XP or .net server? Will it work, or (more likely) will I get a 'Sorry, this product is no longer supported. Activation failed' message?
Tim
yeah, I've seen those about. I've avoided them for one reason - my UPS has 8 output sockets. This has one and costs nearly as much.
meandering OT: although, in a box that you really don't want stolen, i daresay you could configure this to notify you over a wlan if it loses power...nice anti-theft device if you disconnect your power switch (I mean who turns computers off anyway?)
agreed - hence my suggestion of a wiring cupboard. I do the same thing myself (backwards tho - using citrix to get at my windows box from linux). All my servers are headless, I have a grand total of 2 monitors and one Wyse terminal covering my 16 boxes. This would be great for a dedicated server in a constricted space (example - a gateway with the dsl modem that needs to be within cables reach of the telephone point, therefore must squeeze into a tiny gap beneath, or even be wall mounted)
I wouldn't personally use it anywhere where I'm reliant on the hardware, or the box looking neat (if this laptop drive dies, will it live with a standard one but no lid til I get it replaced?
This is my own personal TAD (pat. pend.) - I don't like machines that I can't grab cheap bits for from my local shop, and that I can't squeeze lots more bits into as needed.
with a well placed rear fan, comes well placed rear fan noise, so where's the saving? Although in principle, I do agree that external PSUs have their place, especially if they have connections at both ends (psu and mobo). That way, you can store all your PSU's in one location, along with a couple of spares, and if one fries, just unplug and move to another one.
Better still, RAID PSU's.....
this definitely has potential in the right place, the right place IMO being a wiring cupboard or somewhere else where space is at a real premium. I wouldn't use it as a standard desktop, purely because if you have space for a monitor you have space for a slightly larger unit (I'd hope).
I wouldn't say the savings of a few inches are enough to make me use a laptop hard drive and one of those crappy 'blade' (or whatever) CD roms that you can't just swap out/upgrade/yada yada.
But then again, I like my PC's to have lots of growth space inside, YMMV.
I'm safe then - I use the pinkie for the shift, and whatever finger happens to be closest for the press.
Pat. Pend.
unless, of course, the patent office were to start approving patents with no regard whatsoever for their validity....
yeah, and let's face it, that's never gonna happen...
oh...wait...
Did anyone stop to define 'Game' when they introduced this law? If we want to get technical about it, I can use word to play hangman or a thousand other word games. VBA is capable of knocking together some games with very little effort.
Taking it even further to the extreme, this is a forum of geeks. By our nature, we find computers entertaining for recreational use. I personally have great fun trying to track down bugs in code, and the rush when you finally get all your known bugs killed off is better than anything I can get off a game. Could this be considered a game, and therefore illegal?
I smell a cover-all DMCA style law coming on...
I thought backspace was ^H? Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup
that'd be because you posted as AC....AC=0.
that'd be one approach...personally, I'd have two foursomes, one condom each. If they catch anything from each other, that's their problem
"Things involving the computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such, I'd be more in my element." -- Giles
If I tell everyone I'm a transvestite, they have no weapon any more
:-)
so that's why you're posting as AC
Never trust anyone whose VCR blinks 12:00