you only bought a license to use the game according to the terms of the EULA
No, when I took the game off the shelf and gave the checkout chick the cash, the game became mine.
In Australia a contract for sale is complete when both the contractor and the contractee agree to the same terms. Both parties must be fully aware of all relevant terms before acceptance. Additional terms cannot be imposed after acceptance.
So once their suite is out of beta, and Google offers an G-Office Appliance which you can buy outright and install in your own server room, you'd have no objections?
With the notable exceptions of clicking "Install Now," choosing a hard disk, and entering your license key, that actually describes a standard Vista installation very well.
But it's still unusable.
Once you've installed Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro), you have a fully usable desktop computer. With Windows, you have to track down install disks for every app you might want to use, plus a dozen or so utilities like antivirus, DVD burners, etc etc.
You generally have to budget half a day to get a newly built Windows machine productive.
Perhaps Windows ME was New Coke and Vista is just Pepsi.
No, Vista is definitely a Ford Edsel
That's why we're all here, right? To celebrate V Day, the date 2 years ago when Microsoft took one of the computer industry's most hilarious pratfalls. But why? It really wasn't that bad an operating system. True, the OS was kind of homely, resource hungry and too expensive, particularly at the outset of the late '00s recession. But what else? It was the first victim of Redmond hyper-hype. Microsoft's marketing mavens had led the public to expect some plutonium-powered, pancake-making wonderOS; what they got was a XP in drag. Cultural critics speculated that the software was a flop because the CEO behaved like a cunt.
And you're seriously trying to compare a bug in a largely obsolete parser generator that only runs on one version of BSD, with an entire OS that's so poorly written that it can't even last 5 minutes without being pwned?
You evangelists are getting desperate. No wonder Microsoft is having to spend +$300 million to try to persuade MVPs not to abandon ship...
yet somehow this made it all the way across the spectrum to red, and from there to the front page. I've suspected for a long time that the Firehose was being gamed, this makes it almost certain.
Yahoo is a $19 stock and if investors want to make 50% return than they should sell off to MS.
Yahoo isn't a $19 stock, and investors wouldn't make a 50% return.
It's a volatile stock which was at $31 three months prior to the Microsoft offer. The $19 price at the time when MS made its offer was unusually low, and I wouldn't be surprised if the SEC investigated events surrounding the the fall in Yahoo share value in the months leading up to the bid.
The purchase price for the search assets would also have been taxable, which means Yahoo would only have netted 70% of the offer's value. In reality, Microsoft's initial bid didn't appear to be a serious attempt to purchase - there's more to this game than a simple buyout.
Australia has had five incidents of BSE and the U.S. has had two.
Where did you get that idea?
Australia has never recorded a case of BSE or vCJD and is one of a handful of countries recognised as having a negligible BSE risk by the World Organisation for Animal Health.
Slashdot Mirror
There's only one country?
It's not an assumption. It's a fact.
Try reading the rest of the thread.
I don't need to convince anyone.
Unless they specifically state that on the box or the point of sale, the game is mine to use as I see fit.
No, when I took the game off the shelf and gave the checkout chick the cash, the game became mine.
In Australia a contract for sale is complete when both the contractor and the contractee agree to the same terms. Both parties must be fully aware of all relevant terms before acceptance. Additional terms cannot be imposed after acceptance.
CD cracks aren't just for stealing games.
One of the first things I do when I buy a game is download the CD crack so I don't have to keep track of where the install disks are.
I bought the game, it's mine. I can do whatever the fuck I like with it, including disabling annoying shit like DRM.
It's my considered opinion that many people with keys to the mod-car shouldn't have been allowed off the short bus.
Yes, that's what a "G-Office Appliance" addresses.
It would be like these search serverssearch servers, but with an office suite.
Are you seriously trying to blame Twitter for Vista's poor reputation? Take a look outside Slashdot for a second;
Google search:
Results 1 - 10 of about 9,170 for "Vista failure". (0.18 seconds)
Do you really think Twitter is that influential?
So once their suite is out of beta, and Google offers an G-Office Appliance which you can buy outright and install in your own server room, you'd have no objections?
You are not the centre of the world.
These online suites are in their infancy, and already they're as or more useful than the old-school suites for many purposes. They'll only get better.
But it's still unusable.
Once you've installed Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro), you have a fully usable desktop computer. With Windows, you have to track down install disks for every app you might want to use, plus a dozen or so utilities like antivirus, DVD burners, etc etc.
You generally have to budget half a day to get a newly built Windows machine productive.
Less likely than en ex-member of the Hitler Youth?
No, Vista is definitely a Ford Edsel
That's why we're all here, right? To celebrate V Day, the date 2 years ago when Microsoft took one of the computer industry's most hilarious pratfalls. But why? It really wasn't that bad an operating system. True, the OS was kind of homely, resource hungry and too expensive, particularly at the outset of the late '00s recession. But what else? It was the first victim of Redmond hyper-hype. Microsoft's marketing mavens had led the public to expect some plutonium-powered, pancake-making wonderOS; what they got was a XP in drag. Cultural critics speculated that the software was a flop because the CEO behaved like a cunt.
Paraphrased from Time's 50 Worst Cars.
Exactly.
Everybody's long since upgraded to the Storm worm.
Yes they did.
And you're seriously trying to compare a bug in a largely obsolete parser generator that only runs on one version of BSD, with an entire OS that's so poorly written that it can't even last 5 minutes without being pwned?
You evangelists are getting desperate. No wonder Microsoft is having to spend +$300 million to try to persuade MVPs not to abandon ship...
The time of worry is over.
Lol...
Yes. Of course.
Can you still buy Redhat 8?
We already have;
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl
yet somehow this made it all the way across the spectrum to red, and from there to the front page. I've suspected for a long time that the Firehose was being gamed, this makes it almost certain.
Actually, that was a mistake. We've sobered up now and want to go home.
Sorry about Florida.
Yahoo isn't a $19 stock, and investors wouldn't make a 50% return.
It's a volatile stock which was at $31 three months prior to the Microsoft offer. The $19 price at the time when MS made its offer was unusually low, and I wouldn't be surprised if the SEC investigated events surrounding the the fall in Yahoo share value in the months leading up to the bid.
The purchase price for the search assets would also have been taxable, which means Yahoo would only have netted 70% of the offer's value. In reality, Microsoft's initial bid didn't appear to be a serious attempt to purchase - there's more to this game than a simple buyout.
None did that I'm aware of.
Which one didn't?
His previous endeavour is still chugging along.
I think he may have discovered a sustainable income source. It's kept him fed for a few years at least.
Where did you get that idea?
Australia has never recorded a case of BSE or vCJD and is one of a handful of countries recognised as having a negligible BSE risk by the World Organisation for Animal Health.
You're saying that because you're a gamer, you're not an expert?