The only thing that bugs me is the reactivation on upgrades. Seriously, it wouldn't be that difficult to allow a user unlimited upgrades.
The link is old:
The Windows XP Product Activation Code is based on a combination of 10 system hardware settings, including CPU, NIC card, RAM, Video card, sound card, etc., If your machine has a PCMCIA slot (most laptops), you can change 9 of the 10 items before you need to reactivate XP. For most desktop systems, you can change up to six items, however changing the same component repeatedly counts only as one change. Also, adding additional components doesn't count as a change. If you purchased a new PC with Windows XP preloaded from the manufacturer, the product ID is linked to the BIOS, so you can technically change as many hardware components as you wish, as long as you don't change the system BIOS.Windows XP FAQ
I believe that if your XP hardware configuaration remains reasonably stable for four to six months any changes will be grandfathered in.
Why does the open source community have to be so mature/professional?
When you have persuaded your boss to take open source seriously you do want him reading about an adolescent hissy-fit that transforms the successfully branded Firefox browser into Iceweasel.
He's twelve, likes games, but doesn't have a huge budget for the big-name games.
You don't need the big bucks unless you want the bleeding-edge games. The backlist of quality budget titles, freeware and abandonware games available for Windows is enormous.
Most people expect a new version of an operating system to have more features, not less.
Most people won't give a damn about the restrictions in Vista that obsesss the Geek.
They don't change motherboards every alternate Tuesday. They have no interest in maintaining multiple operating systems. They will never reach the limits on home networking.
"The Saudi passports the hijackers carried were genuine, and so were the visas to the U.S. But investigators believe the hijackers obtained fresh passports after telling Saudi authorities they had "lost" their old ones, presumably to cover up trips to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Then, knowing that spanking-new passports would raise questions, the hijackers artificially aged them and forged entry and exit stamps -- probably with old-fashioned rubber stamps and ink pads -- to innocuous countries in the Middle East." 9/11 Hijackers: The Passport Scam: A new look at how the terrorists forged documents
the only strongly exportable products produced by the American economy are linked to IP.
The problem is that for this to work, the rest of the world has to adopt USA IP laws, and most countries know it goes against their best interest, so they are not very enthusiastic about it.
How much do you think Harry Potter and the James Bond franchise are worth to the UK? How many countries (as politically diverse as Canada and China) worry about the cultural impact of cheap foreign imports?
The Geek makes a mistake when he assumes too carelessly that the American IP model has no appeal abroad.
Perhaps someone can explain how homocide cases in the US go?
There are preliminary hearings in the U.S. in which the state must show some of it cards in ordere to establish probable cause for the arrest, argue for the denial of bail, and so on.
Americans have chosen to keep the investigation of crime and the prosecution of crime as open and public a process as possible.
It is worth mentioning in this context that the stiffest resistance to President Bush's proposed rules for military tribunals came from within the American military justice system itself anf from those like Senators McCain and Warner steeped in its traditions and values.
To arrest someone you have to have evidence
No you don't. Police can arrest anyone at any time.
As as mattter of law, this is simply not true.
"PROBABLE CAUSE - A reasonable belief that a person has committed a crime. The test the court...employs to determine whether probable cause existed for purposes of arrest is whether facts and circumstances within the officer's knowledge are sufficient to warrant a prudent person to believe a suspect has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime. U.S. v. Puerta, 982 F.2d 1297, 1300 (9th Cir. 1992)." Legal Definition of Probable Cause
The "you" he spoke of is "plural" and "generic." Not *you* specifically. Technically he should hae said 'one' I suppose, but really - don't be a clueless ass.
He is speaking in the plural as well. We don't have the time. We don't have the skills. We don't have the money to pay those who do.
Tell that to Leno next time he cracks a 9/11 joke.
Or Letterman next time he cracks an Iraqi occupation joke.
Or the SNL writers next time they do an Abu Graib skit.
Leno wasn't heard cracking 9/11 jokes in the first hours and days after the WTC towers collapsed. Letterman and SNL aren't broadcasting live from Iraq and to an Iraqi audience.
The only genuinely funny black humor I know of has come from men and women who live every day in the shadow of death. Patients in the wards. Nurses. Doctors. Firemen. Police.
all of what you are are available on linux if you only exert a tiny bit of effort to find them.
not all and not all that easy to find.
Orion bundles MaxIm Windows software with its Peltier cooled CCD camera, it is generally a safe assumption that any accessory you buy for a home pc will come with a Windows software bundle.
too bad mom did not buy a decent sewing machine that used open formats instead of that locked down pattern crap that singer uses to keep you from making your own.
singer's embroidery patterns can be derived from a true type font, a vector graphics image, or a scanned photograph. not so very "closed" after all.
outside of games, which most people use a console for nowdays anyhoo... your argument for a home user is pretty much without merit.
Geeks have tunnel vision when it comes to Windows and the home PC market. Dad's Orion telescope is a Windows peripheral, Mom's Singer sewing machine.
It doesn't matter whether your ambitions go no farther than printing out a personalized birthday card for your kid or designing and decorating your new home. There is a mature Windows app out there to do the job.
People like that will not be aware of the existance of 'service packs.' They will not know the value of such things and will not know that microsoft offers to send you SP2 on a disk. They most likely will not be knowledgeabl enough to navigate the MS knowledge base to learn any of those facts
They don't need to search the the knowlege base.
They only need to read their e-mail, visit the home pages of their PC manufactuer or ISP, turn on automatic updates, launch the Windows Update site, etc., etc. This information has never been hidden under a rock.
Except for those people who bought and paid for SP1 and do not have a good fast internet connection to download the hundgreds of MBs of patches released to bring SP1 up to the current 'standard'.
You do not need broadband to keep XP patched.
Windows Update downloads in the background and downloads only the patches you need. Not the all-inclusive 300 MB ISO with the hotfixies needed by the service tech or system administrator.
These people expect too much. What do they want? A release candidate that's actually fit for release?
Who cares if you call it an RC or a Beta? If you are developing hardware or software for the Vista platform you are good to go and that is all that matters.
If you need help to install Ubuntu then you shouldn't be in front of a PC:P
The next time somebody tells you that they use Windows because it's easier to install, slap them with some humanity towards others:D
How many people do you suppose have ever installed Windows from scratch?
---or OSX, or any other operating system, for that matter. The OEM system install has been the gold standard for end users for over twenty-five years.
I'd take the odds that in a non-Geek game of Trivial Pursuit "Lt. Ubuntu" is "the black woman who worked the radios on the old Star Trek series."
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Why is it called a rocket "Belt", when it's typically something the size of a surfboard with a pair of propane tanks that you strap on your back?
The rocket belt made its first appearance in comic strips like Flash Gordon around 1934. It is everyone's evokes dream of someday flying like a bird, without the need for magic.
The Geek never quite seems to grasp the basic distinctions between civil and criminal law.
Civil actions are all about the balance of probabilites, what is more likely than not. There is no burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Damages under the DMCA are assessed according to a statutory formula:
"At any time before final judgment is entered, a complaining party may elect to recover an award of statutory damages for each violation of [17 U.S.C. 1201] in the sum of not less than $200 or more than $2,500 per act of circumvention, device, product, component, offer, or performance of service, as the court considers just." Hefty award to Sony in action against seller of PlayStation 2 "mod chips"
"The amount of damages was calculated by awarding $800 per mod chip sold before June 12, 2004, and the full amount of $2,500 per mod chip sold after June 12, 2004. On that date, Filipiak had signed a stipulated injunction in which he agreed to discontinue sales of the chips and related software. The court concluded that the sales made after Filipiak signed the agreement constituted a willful violation of the DMCA, thus justifying a higher amount of statutory damages."
I don't like the idea of introducing new characters and a set in a Star Trek movie, but I dislike the idea of bringing back old characters in their early academy days even more.
You have an entire galaxy to play with and all you ever see of it is an idealized Federation military. You'd think there would be something else of interest happening here.
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And my guess would be that Fortune 500 enterprise Linux server replaced Unix running on proprietary hardware.
The link is old:
The Windows XP Product Activation Code is based on a combination of 10 system hardware settings, including CPU, NIC card, RAM, Video card, sound card, etc., If your machine has a PCMCIA slot (most laptops), you can change 9 of the 10 items before you need to reactivate XP. For most desktop systems, you can change up to six items, however changing the same component repeatedly counts only as one change. Also, adding additional components doesn't count as a change. If you purchased a new PC with Windows XP preloaded from the manufacturer, the product ID is linked to the BIOS, so you can technically change as many hardware components as you wish, as long as you don't change the system BIOS. Windows XP FAQ
I believe that if your XP hardware configuaration remains reasonably stable for four to six months any changes will be grandfathered in.
When you have persuaded your boss to take open source seriously you do want him reading about an adolescent hissy-fit that transforms the successfully branded Firefox browser into Iceweasel.
You don't need the big bucks unless you want the bleeding-edge games. The backlist of quality budget titles, freeware and abandonware games available for Windows is enormous.
Most people won't give a damn about the restrictions in Vista that obsesss the Geek.
They don't change motherboards every alternate Tuesday. They have no interest in maintaining multiple operating systems. They will never reach the limits on home networking.
"Iceweasel" is a name chosen out of pure spite.
What kind of message do you think this sends to the small business and enterprise markets about the maturity of the FOSS community?
"The Saudi passports the hijackers carried were genuine, and so were the visas to the U.S. But investigators believe the hijackers obtained fresh passports after telling Saudi authorities they had "lost" their old ones, presumably to cover up trips to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Then, knowing that spanking-new passports would raise questions, the hijackers artificially aged them and forged entry and exit stamps -- probably with old-fashioned rubber stamps and ink pads -- to innocuous countries in the Middle East." 9/11 Hijackers: The Passport Scam: A new look at how the terrorists forged documents
How much do you think Harry Potter and the James Bond franchise are worth to the UK? How many countries (as politically diverse as Canada and China) worry about the cultural impact of cheap foreign imports?
The Geek makes a mistake when he assumes too carelessly that the American IP model has no appeal abroad.
There are preliminary hearings in the U.S. in which the state must show some of it cards in ordere to establish probable cause for the arrest, argue for the denial of bail, and so on.
Some recent examples pulled from Google:
LHS Math Dept. chairman waives probable-cause hearing in rape case
Judge finds probable cause in city razor blade fight
Probable cause found in Centralia man's alleged bomb threat.
Americans have chosen to keep the investigation of crime and the prosecution of crime as open and public a process as possible.
It is worth mentioning in this context that the stiffest resistance to President Bush's proposed rules for military tribunals came from within the American military justice system itself anf from those like Senators McCain and Warner steeped in its traditions and values.
You don't need a body to prosecute a murder. The Acid Bath Vampire
If you are the Ken and Barbie of serial killers, you videotape your abduction and assault of teenage girls.
---and Inspector Clouseau gets assigned to your case.
But the "smart ones" try very hard not to leave behind so conspicuous a gift for the police.
No you don't. Police can arrest anyone at any time.
As as mattter of law, this is simply not true.
"PROBABLE CAUSE - A reasonable belief that a person has committed a crime. The test the court...employs to determine whether probable cause existed for purposes of arrest is whether facts and circumstances within the officer's knowledge are sufficient to warrant a prudent person to believe a suspect has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime. U.S. v. Puerta, 982 F.2d 1297, 1300 (9th Cir. 1992)." Legal Definition of Probable Cause
He is speaking in the plural as well. We don't have the time. We don't have the skills. We don't have the money to pay those who do.
Or Letterman next time he cracks an Iraqi occupation joke. Or the SNL writers next time they do an Abu Graib skit.
Leno wasn't heard cracking 9/11 jokes in the first hours and days after the WTC towers collapsed. Letterman and SNL aren't broadcasting live from Iraq and to an Iraqi audience.
The only genuinely funny black humor I know of has come from men and women who live every day in the shadow of death. Patients in the wards. Nurses. Doctors. Firemen. Police.
not all and not all that easy to find.
Orion bundles MaxIm Windows software with its Peltier cooled CCD camera, it is generally a safe assumption that any accessory you buy for a home pc will come with a Windows software bundle.
too bad mom did not buy a decent sewing machine that used open formats instead of that locked down pattern crap that singer uses to keep you from making your own.
singer's embroidery patterns can be derived from a true type font, a vector graphics image, or a scanned photograph.
not so very "closed" after all.
Geeks have tunnel vision when it comes to Windows and the home PC market. Dad's Orion telescope is a Windows peripheral, Mom's Singer sewing machine.
It doesn't matter whether your ambitions go no farther than printing out a personalized birthday card for your kid or designing and decorating your new home. There is a mature Windows app out there to do the job.
They don't need to search the the knowlege base.
They only need to read their e-mail, visit the home pages of their PC manufactuer or ISP, turn on automatic updates, launch the Windows Update site, etc., etc. This information has never been hidden under a rock.
You do not need broadband to keep XP patched.
Windows Update downloads in the background and downloads only the patches you need. Not the all-inclusive 300 MB ISO with the hotfixies needed by the service tech or system administrator.
Order Windows XP Service Pack 2 on CD Share the CD with anyone who needs it.
Who cares if you call it an RC or a Beta? If you are developing hardware or software for the Vista platform you are good to go and that is all that matters.
To put it more plainly, YouTube is to Google what AOL is to Timw-Warner.
The next time somebody tells you that they use Windows because it's easier to install, slap them with some humanity towards others
How many people do you suppose have ever installed Windows from scratch?
---or OSX, or any other operating system, for that matter. The OEM system install has been the gold standard for end users for over twenty-five years.
I'd take the odds that in a non-Geek game of Trivial Pursuit "Lt. Ubuntu" is "the black woman who worked the radios on the old Star Trek series."
The rocket belt made its first appearance in comic strips like Flash Gordon around 1934. It is everyone's evokes dream of someday flying like a bird, without the need for magic.
and an open source project is never under pressure to get something out the door?
The reality is that exporting culture -- in a book, a game, or a video -- is hard. The stateside market for the region-free console is microscopic.
The Geek never quite seems to grasp the basic distinctions between civil and criminal law.
Civil actions are all about the balance of probabilites, what is more likely than not. There is no burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Damages under the DMCA are assessed according to a statutory formula:
"At any time before final judgment is entered, a complaining party may elect to recover an award of statutory damages for each violation of [17 U.S.C. 1201] in the sum of not less than $200 or more than $2,500 per act of circumvention, device, product, component, offer, or performance of service, as the court considers just." Hefty award to Sony in action against seller of PlayStation 2 "mod chips"
"The amount of damages was calculated by awarding $800 per mod chip sold before June 12, 2004, and the full amount of $2,500 per mod chip sold after June 12, 2004. On that date, Filipiak had signed a stipulated injunction in which he agreed to discontinue sales of the chips and related software. The court concluded that the sales made after Filipiak signed the agreement constituted a willful violation of the DMCA, thus justifying a higher amount of statutory damages."
You have an entire galaxy to play with and all you ever see of it is an idealized Federation military. You'd think there would be something else of interest happening here.