It also indicates that's not the product in question. Or have our reading comprehension skills gone down?
Not the product in question? The product in question is windows vista. The screenshot shows a system crash. Reading the article and looking at a picture is not rocket science.
I suppose it's possible that he's lying, but unless you can present some evidence to the contrary, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Evidence? He posted a frign picture himself. He should explain that crash. He should have written near flawlessly or that vista runs as well as Microsofts current offerings. He's probably just exaggerating. That's as far as my benefit of doubt extends. I can't look at that image and come to the conclusion that the machine he's running is running flawlessly.
"I think you're reading too much into that. The article used "making copies" for brevity. You are assuming that this includes "backup copies," but I believe it was intended to be read as "making copies to give to friends, or making copies so that they can have a permanent copy for the price of a rental."
Saying things like (in effect), "ha ha, they are so stupid they think me making a backup copy of something I bought is a loss!" is funny and all, but it's not very intellectually honest. We're all pretty smart here, so I think we all understand that they don't actually think this."
If you read the definition of illegal copying they say "Making illegal copies for self or receiving illegal copies from friends of a legitimate VHS/DVD/VCD". They do not define what an illegal self copy is. Since it is poorly defined in the report there is no way to know if backups are included in that number. Decrypting a DVD with certain programs is illegal even if it is for backup purposes. Why would you assume they would omit a group of people that the MPAA has previously sued under the DMCA or Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 in the EU?
I've emailed boxer to make sure she won't support this bill. The article forgot to mention that the bill is also cosponsored by Senator Frist: Scroll down to bill 2644. Click on that link and then cosponsors. I would provide a permanent link but that website won't let me.
I am NOT voting for this lady. Everything that she does just makes me angry.
Democracy = TV = advertising = buying things and throwing them in landfills while your society overpopulates, pollutes, and destroys all finer things for convenience. Brilliant name!
Infoterror = woke up on wrong side of bed = likes making two sides of an equation not equal = Insightful mod. Brilliant Post!
Well I'm looking forward to global warming. Maybe Canada will finally be warm enough so that I can move my ass up there. I like the idea of a government that spends it's money on social programs instead of the military. It's just too cold up there for me. I require California weather.
"We (our family) have moved away from Macs because every major OS release broke half of our software. You end up paying for the new OS plus buying half of your software again. And you can't stick with the old OS because of some new software you need. For all of Windows problems, it has been doing a better job with older software."
So true. I can't afford to have the latest and greatest computers. Because of this I try to by a good computer and have it last as long as possible. Apple just decides that it won't support my machine with the latest release of the operating system. Apple put an arbitrary check for older systems and then refuses to upgrade your computer. I have an old powermac and an old powerbook that got stuck at some version of OS X. At first I was mad and then I just put Linux on my machines. Linux has way better support for older machines. Apple wants you to buy a new computer every three years and they do this by limiting their support for older machines.
Yeah google would be stupid to acquire this site. Look what you would get: young, talented programmer with a drive to create good software. If I were google I wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole.
Individuals do not have the resources to develop and deploy weapons the same way that states do. People die on a mass scale from rouge states, not from rouge individuals. The more money that states pour into developing weapons, the more likely they are to use them. The US has developed and used many different chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. The US has also used these same weapons. I could easily see the US developing more devastating and lethal weapons and then using them.
"the middle east will be as Democratic as Japan."
We can all dream. I'm hopeful this will happen but skeptical that it will.
"The war on terrorism is necessary to PREVENT people from abusing these kinds of technology. INDIVIDUALS, not rogue states."
The war on terrorism is going so well that osama is still not caught after about 4.5 years. That war is not going so well. The US operations in Iraq acts as a wonderful recruitment tool for terrorist organizations. Preventing someone from becoming a terrorist is all about winning hearts and minds. We lost that battle a while ago. Terrorists don't use advanced technology to kill people. They use the guns and weapons the US sold to them in the 60's 70's 80's, or whenever we sold them weapons, or they use other methods such as planes.
A lot of people make the mistake of saying that the war on terrorism is working because we have not had a nuke or a biological attack in the US. It's like saying I've never seen flying pink cows cause I sprinkled magic dust in the air. The dust must work cause I've never seen one of those cows yet. The fact is that terrorists won't use nukes or biological weapons. They will use crude weapons cause that's all they can afford. You can't prevent someone from obtaining a crude weapon so you HAVE to prevent that person from becoming a terrorist in the first place.
Too bad I can't download any current episodes. I want to be able to download a full episode on within 24 hours of it being on the air. That would be sweet. I don't want to have to pay apple or anyone else. It should be free.
I am familiar with this research project and turned down an opportunity to have worked on it. The thing is the pentagon wants to develop these shark brain implants so that they could one day be used in humans. Congress shut down the BMI section of darpa (brain machine Interface). It got renamed to something fluffy like neural interfaces research group. The whole purpose of it is to be able to implant a device in someones brain so that the pentagon can read a signal on what they are thinking. I would rather work for NIH on a brain implant to help restore neural activity for the disabled instead of making tools for war.
What are you talking about? I reach my full potential because of Microsoft. There is no way THAT's marketing. That's the truth, and no amount of trolling by anyone can change that.
Apple Computer is not a person and therefore cannot have a sense of humor. Only people can understand humor. Some engineer at apple or their boss has a sense of humor. As a corporation Apple is made up of some lawyers. The Apple lawyers do not have a sense of humor.
"those hospitals and ambulances wearing the red cross were found to house weapons and transport enemies."
link please. The pictures of hospitals from Iraq that I have seen show doctors treating patients with wounds. Killing doctors and people trying to help sounds pretty counter productive to winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. Yes shooting all the ambulances will tactically win the battle if your statement about transporting weapons and hostiles is correct. After the battle it's those innocents that get killed that make you lose the war.
The murder of innocents because there is a chance you could be killing an enemy is a war crime as far as I'm concerned.
"Insulting the Living God, the Creator of the universe is quite alot different to simply not believing in said God. Find one scripture where killing a non-believer is commissioned. Even harder, find one in the New Testament - seeing that the New Testament is a totally new paradigm and is the current rule set (so to speak)."
A quick google of "New Testament kill" brings up the following website: http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/nt.h tml I'm not saying that everything on the website is true and the correct interpritaion, but there certainly are passages in the new testament where killing is ok.
The trouble is that the other half are the ones running the country at the moment...
"You mean the half that wasn't involved in the unprovoked bombing of Afganistan during the Clinton administration? That didn't have anything to do with the problems we now face in the middle east does it? Or is it somehow different?"
He's talking about the half that funded and armed al qaeda to fight the soviets. Funding terrorist groups was the norm all in the name of fighting the cold war.
"Generally, when Congressmen resort to theatrics, its a sure sign the actually plan to do nothing."
The complaint quoted came from a Democrat. The Democrats are not in power and just about everything they do right now are theatrics. If a Republican were outrage there might be a response that was not verbal. Of course republicans are not going to enforce regulations on industry so this whole thing is a huge non story.
Actually what you have to say is very important even though not very well written out. It is important to know what is being censored from you. If Chinese people know what is being censored from them then I don't think the censorship is as bad as it is in the US. US citizens have a false sense that their search results are uncensored. That is a worse mentality than those that know what is being censored.
That basically sums up why I stopped playing. I wish Blizzard would release content that would make the endgame of WoW less like a job and more like a game. I guess I'll just have to wait until DnD online shows up.
"Not only does Steve Jobs have a dynamic personality, but he KNOWS he does and can promote himself and his company accordingly. On top of that, Apple is the true innovator in the industry -- they produce must-have products, and those products almost unfailingly work extremely well."
I'm going to venture a guess here: You own a mac. I'm basing my guess on your use of the phrase "unfailingly work" which is an obvious mac users phase and not at all upon the spewing fountain of unquestioning praise that you blindly heap upon apple. You can always spot a mac user from that phrase. It's a dead giveaway.
What rules is he breaking? You make it sound like Steve Jobs is some sort of rebel. He is definitely not. Apple keeps it's image fresh through massive amounts of advertising. Huge amounts of it.
You say Steve "does it his way". I say he's stubborn and rarely admits mistakes. I really don't understand some people's fascination with the guy. He started a company, made a lot of money, left, and then came back to make even more money. wheee. What an earth shaker.
saying "it would be like George Bush becoming a Muslim" is a bit overboard.
In reality it would be like George Bush giving Iraq reconstruction contracts to Bechtel over Haliburton. Haliburton has always had the inside track on government contracts. Apple's Intel switch is not exactly the huge shift that your example portrays.
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Not the product in question? The product in question is windows vista. The screenshot shows a system crash. Reading the article and looking at a picture is not rocket science.
I suppose it's possible that he's lying, but unless you can present some evidence to the contrary, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Evidence? He posted a frign picture himself. He should explain that crash. He should have written near flawlessly or that vista runs as well as Microsofts current offerings. He's probably just exaggerating. That's as far as my benefit of doubt extends. I can't look at that image and come to the conclusion that the machine he's running is running flawlessly.
Saying things like (in effect), "ha ha, they are so stupid they think me making a backup copy of something I bought is a loss!" is funny and all, but it's not very intellectually honest. We're all pretty smart here, so I think we all understand that they don't actually think this."
I don't think you can make such a definitive statement. I was only able to find summaries of the study here:u mm.pdf
http://www.mpaa.org/press_releases/2006_05_03leks
If you read the definition of illegal copying they say "Making illegal copies for self or receiving illegal copies from friends of a legitimate VHS/DVD/VCD". They do not define what an illegal self copy is. Since it is poorly defined in the report there is no way to know if backups are included in that number. Decrypting a DVD with certain programs is illegal even if it is for backup purposes. Why would you assume they would omit a group of people that the MPAA has previously sued under the DMCA or Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 in the EU?
Bad examples. The US government gave Microsoft a slap on the wrist:c ase#Settlement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_antitrust_
Meanwhile AT&T is merging it's way back together while the SEC does nothing:c ase#Settlement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_antitrust_
Scroll down to bill 2644. Click on that link and then cosponsors. I would provide a permanent link but that website won't let me.
I am NOT voting for this lady. Everything that she does just makes me angry.
Infoterror = woke up on wrong side of bed = likes making two sides of an equation not equal = Insightful mod. Brilliant Post!
Well I'm looking forward to global warming. Maybe Canada will finally be warm enough so that I can move my ass up there. I like the idea of a government that spends it's money on social programs instead of the military. It's just too cold up there for me. I require California weather.
So true. I can't afford to have the latest and greatest computers. Because of this I try to by a good computer and have it last as long as possible. Apple just decides that it won't support my machine with the latest release of the operating system. Apple put an arbitrary check for older systems and then refuses to upgrade your computer. I have an old powermac and an old powerbook that got stuck at some version of OS X. At first I was mad and then I just put Linux on my machines. Linux has way better support for older machines. Apple wants you to buy a new computer every three years and they do this by limiting their support for older machines.
Yeah google would be stupid to acquire this site. Look what you would get: young, talented programmer with a drive to create good software. If I were google I wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole.
"the middle east will be as Democratic as Japan."
We can all dream. I'm hopeful this will happen but skeptical that it will.
"The war on terrorism is necessary to PREVENT people from abusing these kinds of technology. INDIVIDUALS, not rogue states."
The war on terrorism is going so well that osama is still not caught after about 4.5 years. That war is not going so well. The US operations in Iraq acts as a wonderful recruitment tool for terrorist organizations. Preventing someone from becoming a terrorist is all about winning hearts and minds. We lost that battle a while ago. Terrorists don't use advanced technology to kill people. They use the guns and weapons the US sold to them in the 60's 70's 80's, or whenever we sold them weapons, or they use other methods such as planes.
A lot of people make the mistake of saying that the war on terrorism is working because we have not had a nuke or a biological attack in the US. It's like saying I've never seen flying pink cows cause I sprinkled magic dust in the air. The dust must work cause I've never seen one of those cows yet. The fact is that terrorists won't use nukes or biological weapons. They will use crude weapons cause that's all they can afford. You can't prevent someone from obtaining a crude weapon so you HAVE to prevent that person from becoming a terrorist in the first place.
Too bad I can't download any current episodes. I want to be able to download a full episode on within 24 hours of it being on the air. That would be sweet. I don't want to have to pay apple or anyone else. It should be free.
I am familiar with this research project and turned down an opportunity to have worked on it. The thing is the pentagon wants to develop these shark brain implants so that they could one day be used in humans. Congress shut down the BMI section of darpa (brain machine Interface). It got renamed to something fluffy like neural interfaces research group. The whole purpose of it is to be able to implant a device in someones brain so that the pentagon can read a signal on what they are thinking. I would rather work for NIH on a brain implant to help restore neural activity for the disabled instead of making tools for war.
What are you talking about? I reach my full potential because of Microsoft. There is no way THAT's marketing. That's the truth, and no amount of trolling by anyone can change that.
Apple Computer is not a person and therefore cannot have a sense of humor. Only people can understand humor. Some engineer at apple or their boss has a sense of humor. As a corporation Apple is made up of some lawyers. The Apple lawyers do not have a sense of humor.
Oracle decided to hire and then subsequently fire steve jobs 2000 times. Geez RTFA.
link please. The pictures of hospitals from Iraq that I have seen show doctors treating patients with wounds. Killing doctors and people trying to help sounds pretty counter productive to winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. Yes shooting all the ambulances will tactically win the battle if your statement about transporting weapons and hostiles is correct. After the battle it's those innocents that get killed that make you lose the war.
The murder of innocents because there is a chance you could be killing an enemy is a war crime as far as I'm concerned.
A quick google of "New Testament kill" brings up the following website:h tml
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/nt.
I'm not saying that everything on the website is true and the correct interpritaion, but there certainly are passages in the new testament where killing is ok.
"You mean the half that wasn't involved in the unprovoked bombing of Afganistan during the Clinton administration? That didn't have anything to do with the problems we now face in the middle east does it? Or is it somehow different?"
He's talking about the half that funded and armed al qaeda to fight the soviets. Funding terrorist groups was the norm all in the name of fighting the cold war.
The clinton bombings were targeted at osama: http://www.cnn.com/US/9808/20/us.strikes.01/
The complaint quoted came from a Democrat. The Democrats are not in power and just about everything they do right now are theatrics. If a Republican were outrage there might be a response that was not verbal. Of course republicans are not going to enforce regulations on industry so this whole thing is a huge non story.
Actually what you have to say is very important even though not very well written out. It is important to know what is being censored from you. If Chinese people know what is being censored from them then I don't think the censorship is as bad as it is in the US. US citizens have a false sense that their search results are uncensored. That is a worse mentality than those that know what is being censored.
That basically sums up why I stopped playing. I wish Blizzard would release content that would make the endgame of WoW less like a job and more like a game. I guess I'll just have to wait until DnD online shows up.
I predict your browser rendered that website wrong cause the text doesn't overlap a black line here. BOOM. I'm also 100% for 2006.
Roughly a kabillion. Give or take.
I'm going to venture a guess here: You own a mac. I'm basing my guess on your use of the phrase "unfailingly work" which is an obvious mac users phase and not at all upon the spewing fountain of unquestioning praise that you blindly heap upon apple. You can always spot a mac user from that phrase. It's a dead giveaway.
You say Steve "does it his way". I say he's stubborn and rarely admits mistakes. I really don't understand some people's fascination with the guy. He started a company, made a lot of money, left, and then came back to make even more money. wheee. What an earth shaker.
In reality it would be like George Bush giving Iraq reconstruction contracts to Bechtel over Haliburton. Haliburton has always had the inside track on government contracts. Apple's Intel switch is not exactly the huge shift that your example portrays.