Visto's well known and documented patented technology."
Until I saw this article, I have no idea who Visto ever was. Well-known my ass. These little ninjas patent me and you farting, and they just wait for a fish big enough.
If these people had bought a vacuum cleaner, they'd take it back for warranty replacement/refund. Because it's MS, these idiots are looking to sue and make a windfall. God, I hate society when it does stupid shit.
But more of a chapter list with what was contained. The OP didn't seem to give any insights into what he thought the author of the book was saying. Heck, anyone could have picked up the book, gone through the chapter titles and section headings, and written the "review" the OP posted.
And open source is corresponding such a threat to companies such as Microsoft. The idea of saving money and never having to worry about a blue screen of death is the proverbial win/win scenario."
As long as the software manufacturers that write the software people want (productivity and games, especially games), open source software won't be doing much of anything. Sure, you can play SOME of your games with Cedega (and how much is THAT per license?) under Linux, but not all work, and a lot of games that do work, have some quirks.
As far as the blue screen of death - I haven't seen one of those in hmm...bout 2 years. Granted, sure, some folks get them and lockups due to spyware, adware, virii, etc. But well, asking the average Joe Blow user to do much tweaking in Linux doesn't lend itself to anything remotely easy.
When will open source advocates like the author of this expensive toilet paper realize that until Linux becomes as easy to use as Windows AND the software manufacturers write native software for it, that it won't be a big player in the home consumer market on the desktop?
Parents are responsible for keeping up with their children. I have 2 kids myself. I know what they are doing, what limits to set with what they do, and when they should do something else. If parents think they can just sue someone because THEY weren't responsible enough to pay attention to what their kids were doing, much less where they "learn" the things they do, they are sorely mistaken.
I hope they get into court, and the judge and jury bitchslap them for being morons, and throws them in jail for contributing to the death of their own child. Maybe then people will wake up and smell the coffee.
...he has to retain high compatability with office, sending out documents in PDF format is useless. It would seem that the people he is sending stuff to needs to view, edit, change, and resend back whatever it is he is sending them. PDF is great if you wanna see it and print it...bout it.
As such, may as well either stay with what you have, or pay the money and upgrade to Office 2k3. Or you can wait til Office 12 comes out - it's pretty nice.
Like there's any country in the world that could "tell" us what to do. Excepting China, of course...just because they could send their whole population over to invade:P
And again, all your Biblical drudgery is meaningless, as there were people and religions, tried and true and proven to exist, well before the Bible existed in any form. Since we do not have all original texts available from the time the Bible was written (and if we do, please, show me where), you have no valid foundation for your assessment that it hasn't been changed. Excerpts mean nothing other than possible plagarism.
You say "many" - thus, not all, thus my assesstment that it's a book of fiction is still theorhetically possible, just as you saying it's all true is theorhetically possible. Thus, neither of us is right, neither of us is wrong. You have your blind faith in your religion, I just live life day to day the best that I can and will wait and see when I die.
And you're right - I never mentioned that evolution was the be all, end all. I don't know that either. Nor do you, beyond your clinging to your blind faith.
Then "you guys" have idiots like Pat Robertson. Today he was quoted as saying that in the PA town that voted out the school board that wanted to introduce "intelligent design" into biology classes, saying that the town had turned their back on god (note I don't capitilize his name), and not to expect his help.
Funny - as my understanding on Christianity is that all can be forgiven if you believe...but then again, I think god isn't benevloent, I think he's just as vengeful - as exemplified many times in the Bible itself, hell, the words in the Bible even contradict themselves many times.
Except then you will have to prove that a) you gave them the EULA where a human was able to read it and "agree to it" and also b) prove that any issues "breaking" your computer were not the fault of the operator (i.e. you) or the hardware - both of which, you cannot prove - simply because they can show, factually, that a power glitch caused the power supply in your computer to dip it's voltage, thus affecting your motherboard, it's memory, and processor, thus, it quite possibly could have been anything else:P
I mean, I'll give you this - anything is possible. I won't know til I die (even if then). However, I have a fundamental issue with anyone who has faith in a religion, based on a book, that came THOUSANDS OF YEARS after how many of other millions and millions of people had their religious beliefs trashed, in the "name of Christianity". What makes Christianity "right" and all the others wrong?
Personally, I think the Bible is a work of fiction, given how it was modified so many times since it's "inception", written by someone who was looking for "power" over people back in the day.
I will say that people having faith (in whatever) does help them get through hard times. For me, my faith is in myself, those whom I love, and those I believe in. All I can say is I'm glad that I was given the freedom to come to these conclusions myself, and not be brainwashed from birth (yes, I was even baptised - my parents were Presbyterian) with "this is how it is". If only everyone else were able to do the same for their kids. I know I'm giving my kids that freedom, and I will instill in them to let THEIR children to have that freedom.
It's too bad that those that are religious practically force THEIR beliefs on their children, making their children believe as they do.
A new RC version. Now the Firefox guys can add another 20 million or so "downloads" to their total. Yet, they will fail to tell the world it's mostly the SAME people downloading the update, and not new convertees.
I think that patent holders have to actively defend their patents against all comers - just like trademark holders have to do. Otherwise, they lose their patent rights. That way, they have to sue EVERY COMPANY that they think is infringing, and to fail to do so, means they are giving up their patent.
Thus, companies that are useless, like Eolas, can't sit and wait to hit the jackpot with MS and other big companies, because they have to sue the smaller ones and open source ones too.
Basically, Microsoft is threatening to take their marbles and go home if they don't get the ruling they want."
Right...that should convince the South Korean government (and the rest of the world) that they're not an abusive monopoly.
Yeah - and the EU just seeing MS as a big bank they can make a withdrawl from has nothing to do with it. If I were MS, I'd pull all the licenses too, then start suing every person still using MS products. See how they like it.
...that unlike Trademark Infringement, where you have to voraciously defend your trademarks or risk losing them, that IP piece of $hit companies like NTP can pick and choose who to sue (i.e. whomever has the biggest pocketbooks).
Funny that they aren't going after any other cellphone company - I mean, I can send email using any of my wireless phones, yet I don't see these idiots suing Sprint, Vorizon, etc.
US Law should force IP holders a) to defend against ANY and *ALL* comers who "infringe" on their "patent" or they give up rights to that patent, b) in the Patent Office they need to look over all the bullcrap that's been submitted and approved, and do away with a lot of the "common sense" stuff. I mean, patents like this one, and like the one where the idiots have a patent on being able to "run" other applications in a browser.....never should have bene granted, and summarily struck out of existence.
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Visto's well known and documented patented technology."
Until I saw this article, I have no idea who Visto ever was. Well-known my ass. These little ninjas patent me and you farting, and they just wait for a fish big enough.
They are useless.
second must include links to competitors
Wonder when they will force competitors to start including links to Microsoft. After all, fair is fair.
If these people had bought a vacuum cleaner, they'd take it back for warranty replacement/refund. Because it's MS, these idiots are looking to sue and make a windfall. God, I hate society when it does stupid shit.
But more of a chapter list with what was contained. The OP didn't seem to give any insights into what he thought the author of the book was saying. Heck, anyone could have picked up the book, gone through the chapter titles and section headings, and written the "review" the OP posted.
And open source is corresponding such a threat to companies such as Microsoft. The idea of saving money and never having to worry about a blue screen of death is the proverbial win/win scenario."
As long as the software manufacturers that write the software people want (productivity and games, especially games), open source software won't be doing much of anything. Sure, you can play SOME of your games with Cedega (and how much is THAT per license?) under Linux, but not all work, and a lot of games that do work, have some quirks.
As far as the blue screen of death - I haven't seen one of those in hmm...bout 2 years. Granted, sure, some folks get them and lockups due to spyware, adware, virii, etc. But well, asking the average Joe Blow user to do much tweaking in Linux doesn't lend itself to anything remotely easy.
When will open source advocates like the author of this expensive toilet paper realize that until Linux becomes as easy to use as Windows AND the software manufacturers write native software for it, that it won't be a big player in the home consumer market on the desktop?
...Howards mom on the cover of Crack Whore magazine promoting her latest German scheisse movie
Parents are responsible for keeping up with their children. I have 2 kids myself. I know what they are doing, what limits to set with what they do, and when they should do something else. If parents think they can just sue someone because THEY weren't responsible enough to pay attention to what their kids were doing, much less where they "learn" the things they do, they are sorely mistaken.
I hope they get into court, and the judge and jury bitchslap them for being morons, and throws them in jail for contributing to the death of their own child. Maybe then people will wake up and smell the coffee.
...he has to retain high compatability with office, sending out documents in PDF format is useless. It would seem that the people he is sending stuff to needs to view, edit, change, and resend back whatever it is he is sending them. PDF is great if you wanna see it and print it...bout it.
As such, may as well either stay with what you have, or pay the money and upgrade to Office 2k3. Or you can wait til Office 12 comes out - it's pretty nice.
Like there's any country in the world that could "tell" us what to do. Excepting China, of course...just because they could send their whole population over to invade :P
And again, all your Biblical drudgery is meaningless, as there were people and religions, tried and true and proven to exist, well before the Bible existed in any form. Since we do not have all original texts available from the time the Bible was written (and if we do, please, show me where), you have no valid foundation for your assessment that it hasn't been changed. Excerpts mean nothing other than possible plagarism.
You say "many" - thus, not all, thus my assesstment that it's a book of fiction is still theorhetically possible, just as you saying it's all true is theorhetically possible. Thus, neither of us is right, neither of us is wrong. You have your blind faith in your religion, I just live life day to day the best that I can and will wait and see when I die.
And you're right - I never mentioned that evolution was the be all, end all. I don't know that either. Nor do you, beyond your clinging to your blind faith.
Then "you guys" have idiots like Pat Robertson. Today he was quoted as saying that in the PA town that voted out the school board that wanted to introduce "intelligent design" into biology classes, saying that the town had turned their back on god (note I don't capitilize his name), and not to expect his help.
Funny - as my understanding on Christianity is that all can be forgiven if you believe...but then again, I think god isn't benevloent, I think he's just as vengeful - as exemplified many times in the Bible itself, hell, the words in the Bible even contradict themselves many times.
Except then you will have to prove that a) you gave them the EULA where a human was able to read it and "agree to it" and also b) prove that any issues "breaking" your computer were not the fault of the operator (i.e. you) or the hardware - both of which, you cannot prove - simply because they can show, factually, that a power glitch caused the power supply in your computer to dip it's voltage, thus affecting your motherboard, it's memory, and processor, thus, it quite possibly could have been anything else :P
...in some greater being.
I mean, I'll give you this - anything is possible. I won't know til I die (even if then). However, I have a fundamental issue with anyone who has faith in a religion, based on a book, that came THOUSANDS OF YEARS after how many of other millions and millions of people had their religious beliefs trashed, in the "name of Christianity". What makes Christianity "right" and all the others wrong?
Personally, I think the Bible is a work of fiction, given how it was modified so many times since it's "inception", written by someone who was looking for "power" over people back in the day.
I will say that people having faith (in whatever) does help them get through hard times. For me, my faith is in myself, those whom I love, and those I believe in. All I can say is I'm glad that I was given the freedom to come to these conclusions myself, and not be brainwashed from birth (yes, I was even baptised - my parents were Presbyterian) with "this is how it is". If only everyone else were able to do the same for their kids. I know I'm giving my kids that freedom, and I will instill in them to let THEIR children to have that freedom.
It's too bad that those that are religious practically force THEIR beliefs on their children, making their children believe as they do.
And your penis is integrated into your body, thus making you a dick.
Generalizations FTW!
...that GMail is still better =/
Lemme know when you can prove it. Sorry, but I don't take THEIR word for it.
A new RC version. Now the Firefox guys can add another 20 million or so "downloads" to their total. Yet, they will fail to tell the world it's mostly the SAME people downloading the update, and not new convertees.
I think that patent holders have to actively defend their patents against all comers - just like trademark holders have to do. Otherwise, they lose their patent rights. That way, they have to sue EVERY COMPANY that they think is infringing, and to fail to do so, means they are giving up their patent. Thus, companies that are useless, like Eolas, can't sit and wait to hit the jackpot with MS and other big companies, because they have to sue the smaller ones and open source ones too.
Basically, Microsoft is threatening to take their marbles and go home if they don't get the ruling they want."
Right...that should convince the South Korean government (and the rest of the world) that they're not an abusive monopoly.
Yeah - and the EU just seeing MS as a big bank they can make a withdrawl from has nothing to do with it. If I were MS, I'd pull all the licenses too, then start suing every person still using MS products. See how they like it.
Probably so - he's just showing how stupid he is. He didn't go far enough away from the US.
Says the Shaman....or a druid that only knows how to run away when getting owned or spams moonfire because they can't do anything else.
If your app/OS can't live securely in a networked environment w/o a firewall then it shouldn't be using TCP/IP anyway
So you're saying that no OS should use TCP/IP? Because nothing is secure - if you believe so, you're more of an idiot than Bill Gates.
If you weren't a dumbass and drinking and driving in the first place, machines like this wouldn't need to exist anyways.
...still only 15 million users that have to download a full copy to update for some patch....
Let's bring in more foreigners...now he can break US laws and get arrested and put in jail :)
...that unlike Trademark Infringement, where you have to voraciously defend your trademarks or risk losing them, that IP piece of $hit companies like NTP can pick and choose who to sue (i.e. whomever has the biggest pocketbooks).
Funny that they aren't going after any other cellphone company - I mean, I can send email using any of my wireless phones, yet I don't see these idiots suing Sprint, Vorizon, etc.
US Law should force IP holders a) to defend against ANY and *ALL* comers who "infringe" on their "patent" or they give up rights to that patent, b) in the Patent Office they need to look over all the bullcrap that's been submitted and approved, and do away with a lot of the "common sense" stuff. I mean, patents like this one, and like the one where the idiots have a patent on being able to "run" other applications in a browser.....never should have bene granted, and summarily struck out of existence.