first of all, the same would be true for basically any GPS cell phone. Secondly, banning it will only stop law abiding citizens.... are they afraid of the law abiding citizens or terrorists, I assure you the terrorist does not care about the ban.
They should just bad suicide bombers, and go ahead and make terrorists illegal too. Obviously making things illegal makes them go away so if you outlaw being bad everyone will be good.
because it could eventually kill off Apple, like the first wave of clones almost did. Apple is a hardware manufacturer the software is to boost hardware sales, if they loose the software, it could hurt apple.
now, I am not saying Microsoft is behind it, but that would be a possible motivation.
The problem with your example is simply
that is Microsoft's business model. They know what they are in for
they sell their software to run on basically any computer.
Now call Microsoft and tell them that your vista doesn't work on your 386 with 128mb of ram and see what they tell you
I am sure it was no accident that when they were on trial for abusing monopoly power they suddenly started spending tons of money on lobbying congress.
At least we know that they did, and it was not hidden from view.
The problem is this is public money being spent, and they should be willing to divulge this information to clear up any ideas people might get concerning government collusion with a large corporation. They are free to use whomever the please, but the practices they use in determining who to contract with should be a matter of publicly available policy.
They need to protect businesses equally, and if it appears they may be protecting a certain business over others, it does make it look as if there might be a conflict of intrests with the public good.
I am not saying that is the case, just that they should make it clear that it is not the case.
sometimes its like eating a bowl of sawdust without the milk.
I have had problems with it when it didn't like my browser, and like right now, I have a bad cable splitter in my attic that I have to get to this afternoon so I have no internet at home because of low signal and bad noise.
and the hummer definitely wins cause it could roll over top of a prius without slowing down.
it could also go into areas a prius would just be stuck
of course if you need to get through a space less than like 10 feet wide the hummer is straight out.
This is a false comparison because the apps were meant for different things, and don't really compete, well at least not in my opinion. I have used both, and for different reasons/projects.
I don't think unions are the answer, maybe what we need is an association like lawyers and doctors have, there would need to be legislation to make sure programmers would have to be members to be hired somewhere....but that could lead to corruption as well and might still bite us in the ass.
probably better to have non-competes made illegal, or force companies to continue your pay until the non-compete is up or they let you out of it.
you are completely right, especially in an economy like this!
A company should be allowed to do this and it is my fault!
I should turn down the job and my wife and kids should suffer, I am sure there are 50 more jobs gonna open up tomorrow at good companies where they won't make me sign away my rights and try to steal any work I do at home in my own time.
now thats one of the funniest things I have ever heard, I bet they did alot of tracking down problems just to find that the reason the global kept changing was some loops.....not to mention when loops started interfering with each other
you obviously have never actually purchased business class laptops. Especially thinkpads. For comparable laptops the mac is at least close if not cheaper. your $600-$800 laptop will not last the 3 year upgrade cycle.
maybe you should actually take an economics course. The reason we have anti-trust laws is because the government has already interfered in the market with such things as copyright/patents/trademarks etc.. if there was a real free market anti-trust would not be necessary it is there to protect consumers because of the barriers to competition that the government has already put into place.
sorry, but you have no idea what you are talking about. Unless I misread what you said.
they could in fact change the license, however that would not apply to copies already released under GPL, you can't take the license back.
So, you could in fact fork the project from already released code.
I see the problem here, you are just spewing clueless fud without actually reasearching anything. ALL mac pro's are dual processor, either dual dual core or dual quad core, check out the apple store.
all the windows security problems are caused by the computers these companies build to run it, I mean windows is perfectly secure so long as it sits in it's box there on the shelf....if these darn companies would just stop installing it on computers there would be no problem
this is FUD
you people need to start doing some research before you keep parroting the dems and media
the congressional reports show that this is not true and Saddams own generals and scientists told us this is not true
I know you want it to be, but even if the investigations did not show that it was untrue, it would make no sense, if it were then Saddam would have had no problem allowing the inspectors to do their jobs, and don't parrot that crap that they were, even when he did let them in, he gave them handlers who led them around, and by the accounts of saddams people they moved stuff away ahead of the inspectors.
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first of all, the same would be true for basically any GPS cell phone. Secondly, banning it will only stop law abiding citizens.... are they afraid of the law abiding citizens or terrorists, I assure you the terrorist does not care about the ban.
They should just bad suicide bombers, and go ahead and make terrorists illegal too. Obviously making things illegal makes them go away so if you outlaw being bad everyone will be good.
because it could eventually kill off Apple, like the first wave of clones almost did. Apple is a hardware manufacturer the software is to boost hardware sales, if they loose the software, it could hurt apple.
now, I am not saying Microsoft is behind it, but that would be a possible motivation.
The problem with your example is simply
that is Microsoft's business model. They know what they are in for
they sell their software to run on basically any computer.
Now call Microsoft and tell them that your vista doesn't work on your 386 with 128mb of ram and see what they tell you
I am sure it was no accident that when they were on trial for abusing monopoly power they suddenly started spending tons of money on lobbying congress.
At least we know that they did, and it was not hidden from view.
The problem is this is public money being spent, and they should be willing to divulge this information to clear up any ideas people might get concerning government collusion with a large corporation. They are free to use whomever the please, but the practices they use in determining who to contract with should be a matter of publicly available policy.
They need to protect businesses equally, and if it appears they may be protecting a certain business over others, it does make it look as if there might be a conflict of intrests with the public good.
I am not saying that is the case, just that they should make it clear that it is not the case.
in other news I know a bunch of people who eat living scorpions for breakfast, they must therefore be much better than captain crunch.
Just because people you know use google docs instead for open office doesn't mean that it is better or more used.
If you are in the apple store and say every computer I see is a mac, would you say noone must use windows anymore?
sometimes its like eating a bowl of sawdust without the milk.
I have had problems with it when it didn't like my browser, and like right now, I have a bad cable splitter in my attic that I have to get to this afternoon so I have no internet at home because of low signal and bad noise.
and the hummer definitely wins cause it could roll over top of a prius without slowing down.
it could also go into areas a prius would just be stuck
of course if you need to get through a space less than like 10 feet wide the hummer is straight out.
This is a false comparison because the apps were meant for different things, and don't really compete, well at least not in my opinion. I have used both, and for different reasons/projects.
funny, the first thing that comes to mind for me is monty python.
I don't think unions are the answer, maybe what we need is an association like lawyers and doctors have, there would need to be legislation to make sure programmers would have to be members to be hired somewhere....but that could lead to corruption as well and might still bite us in the ass.
probably better to have non-competes made illegal, or force companies to continue your pay until the non-compete is up or they let you out of it.
you are correct, however in his defense the declaration is the document outlining the principles that the constitution was founded on.
you are completely right, especially in an economy like this!
A company should be allowed to do this and it is my fault!
I should turn down the job and my wife and kids should suffer, I am sure there are 50 more jobs gonna open up tomorrow at good companies where they won't make me sign away my rights and try to steal any work I do at home in my own time.
mod parent up, this is not a troll.
moderation was not meant to be used to silence people who do not agree with you
now thats one of the funniest things I have ever heard, I bet they did alot of tracking down problems just to find that the reason the global kept changing was some loops.....not to mention when loops started interfering with each other
you obviously have never actually purchased business class laptops. Especially thinkpads. For comparable laptops the mac is at least close if not cheaper. your $600-$800 laptop will not last the 3 year upgrade cycle.
maybe you should actually take an economics course. The reason we have anti-trust laws is because the government has already interfered in the market with such things as copyright/patents/trademarks etc.. if there was a real free market anti-trust would not be necessary it is there to protect consumers because of the barriers to competition that the government has already put into place.
sorry, but you have no idea what you are talking about. Unless I misread what you said.
they could in fact change the license, however that would not apply to copies already released under GPL, you can't take the license back.
So, you could in fact fork the project from already released code.
I see the problem here, you are just spewing clueless fud without actually reasearching anything. ALL mac pro's are dual processor, either dual dual core or dual quad core, check out the apple store.
actually the article states that Gates says he didn't say it.
I am not saying he did, just making the distinction.
I hereby copyright the number 42. now I own the answer to life, the uiverse and everything
OK, pull your head out and get your history right. Apple PAID!! Zerox for what they used!!!!
all the windows security problems are caused by the computers these companies build to run it, I mean windows is perfectly secure so long as it sits in it's box there on the shelf....if these darn companies would just stop installing it on computers there would be no problem
now if Gmail could just make it out of beta
this is FUD
you people need to start doing some research before you keep parroting the dems and media
the congressional reports show that this is not true and Saddams own generals and scientists told us this is not true
I know you want it to be, but even if the investigations did not show that it was untrue, it would make no sense, if it were then Saddam would have had no problem allowing the inspectors to do their jobs, and don't parrot that crap that they were, even when he did let them in, he gave them handlers who led them around, and by the accounts of saddams people they moved stuff away ahead of the inspectors.