Microsoft have pointed out in the past that a site license for a given windows version is not a set of licenses for all the machines on the site. It's a universal upgrade/downgrade of all the existing licenses (one per machine) to the site license version.
I.e. A site license is not valid on machines lacking an OEM windows install.
True, but China does have more people living in an industrialised society than America does, making it clear that the claim/suggestion that it'll be easier for China to revolutionise everything and go entirely electrical (powered by some miracle microwave sattelite or something), is just not going to fly.
Your theoiry is based on a fundamental error in assumption.
Come on over and take a look sometime. You seem to think China runs on donkeys or something. In actuality there are as many cars on the streets as any other countries cities I've visited (18 countries on 6 of the 7 continents at the last count).
China's not so backward these days, at least not on the east coast.
Neither of the Walmarts in Shenyang City (7.2 million inhabitants, North-Eastern China), nor any of the four Carrefours I know of, nor any of the dedicated software stores of the "Computer-town" area (San Hao Jie), nor the two "official business suppliers" I've visited offer anything in the form of genuine MS software. The only non-copied software items commonly available are WoW items (and accounts) and the various versions of Counter-Strike/Half-Life 2 etc (Steam products).
They do however offer copies of Vista RC2 with the time limits and phone-home functionality apparently stifled, and copies of XP with various neutered versions of WGA built into the installers. 50 cents to one dollar apiece depending on whether you look foreign or not.
Fedora and Ubuntu installs are also available on request from the basement alcove store I do my hardware shopping in, though you have to ask specifically.
This is the prime cornerstone of all repressed anarchist thinking.
If you do not agree to abide by the local social structure your proper course of action is to ensure it knows it can't bully you with it's non-applicable "legislation". Remember, if you don't abide by its rules then it doesn't have to apply the "non-interference" aspects of its culture to you. Where such protections don't apply all that is left is "might makes right". After all, no free-thinking rational person would ever claim that a court genuinely has jurisdiction over entities that can outfight all aspects of law-enforcement that court can summon.
In short, while you don't have to be stronger than it, you do have to be strong enough to disuade it. Disuade it thoroughly.
Access to international newspapers, phone lines, TV and even just being able to send and receive letters would have a much more widespread effect. And be rather more reliable, usefull and realistic to boot.
The Internet. Yeah. Gret thing. Usefull tool. Fun plaything.
Ultimate requirement as a definition of a states wellbeing? Hell no.
The arrogance of suggesting the internet supercedes items such as newspapers, phones (remember those things? No IP, just voice -> voltage -> voice), hell, even a decent postal service is laughable.
North Korea? Yeah, the place sucks. I haven't lived there, but I have visited, and even by what could be seen from the touristy approved areas it's not a good place. That's not the point of my post.
If a credit card company gives unchecked loans to bad debts, well, that's their own lookout, neh?
Perhaps they need to look at their business model a litle closer. Pre-approved cards being mailed to names and addresses collected pretty much randomly is the norm these days after all.
Humanity in a form capable of doing anything useful with electromagnetic signals has existed for less than 50 years. We will (probably) exist in a vastly more powerfull state for a long time. (Sizable second and third possibilities of completely eradicating our species ourselves and resetting our society back to waiting for lightning to start a fire for us acknowledged).
Best guess : Whoever receives and decodes a TV signal like that won't have just started shoving EM-radiation around a mere 50 years ago. (Unless they see in the 54-72 MHz range and think in SECAM (which I reckon is just as likely as their existing in the 45 LY range).
Why would they bother with an invasion fleet? Surely a one time momentum investment in applying a giant chunk of iron based meteoric junk to the "Terran Problem" is a much more likely scenario?
Assuming we recognised it as a coherent signal at any rate.
Previously explorers have gone out and been eaten. They haven't sent out messages saying "I'm here. Come and do what you will to me".
Previous explorers risked themselves, not their entire civilisations. I'm not saying don't look. I'm just saying look cautiously, with a recognition that any intellignet life whose development we can comprehend will have evolved with (psychological) self-preservation and combat capabilities.
Previous explorers also tended to have defense capabilities equivalent to the task. Most civilisations capable of plucking a TV signal from the ether and decoding it completely (from scratch) will be so far beyond us that should they decide we're a danger (or even decide we're too noisy and likely to draw negative attention to this corner of the spiral) we'll never even know about it.
Why do people continue to delude themselves that an alien intelligence will be able to comprehend communication as we consider it? And if they can that they'll be foolish enough to waste time on decoding, renderring and interpreting an unreachably distant point of light? And if they go that far, why the heck does anyone expect a usefull response?
At best there'll be no response, but should they then pick up on our everyday TV the likely response is surely some form of uncrewed planet buster. I know I'd prefer not to leave a hornets nest like humanity brewing in any corner of my galaxy. No intelligence with a self-preservation process would.
We are a crippled duck, currently hidden in a vast swamp. Our only security being through obscurity. Why the hell do people insist on flailing around screaming for the hunters? Actually, that doesn't quite work. We are a crippled unknown creature, that appears to have the mindset of a ravaging beast, but lacking the ability. Which lives longer? The rabid dog spazzing out in broad daylight in th emiddle of the street or the rabid cat stalking the shadows?
Slashdot Mirror
One to deal with presidential hopefulls who here voices telling them to do Gawds work might be in order as well.
Hence Shrubs desperate filling of the Supreme C's Chambers with folks owing him their careers?
Well, ok, one of several reasons for his actions there, but a significant one.
Microsoft have pointed out in the past that a site license for a given windows version is not a set of licenses for all the machines on the site. It's a universal upgrade/downgrade of all the existing licenses (one per machine) to the site license version.
I.e. A site license is not valid on machines lacking an OEM windows install.
Where the majority of internet users go = Where to find the most morons.
Not to say slashdot is moron-free, but at least they're not deified celebrities as on digg.
True, but China does have more people living in an industrialised society than America does, making it clear that the claim/suggestion that it'll be easier for China to revolutionise everything and go entirely electrical (powered by some miracle microwave sattelite or something), is just not going to fly.
Your theoiry is based on a fundamental error in assumption.
Come on over and take a look sometime. You seem to think China runs on donkeys or something. In actuality there are as many cars on the streets as any other countries cities I've visited (18 countries on 6 of the 7 continents at the last count).
China's not so backward these days, at least not on the east coast.
Silly Diebold (and friends).
1. Crippple and eliminate Democracy
2. Remove justice from the justice system.
3. THEN crack down on dissenters and make them vanish.
Trying to do 3 while still only two thirds through 1 and halfway through 2 is just plain silly.
Neither of the Walmarts in Shenyang City (7.2 million inhabitants, North-Eastern China), nor any of the four Carrefours I know of, nor any of the dedicated software stores of the "Computer-town" area (San Hao Jie), nor the two "official business suppliers" I've visited offer anything in the form of genuine MS software. The only non-copied software items commonly available are WoW items (and accounts) and the various versions of Counter-Strike/Half-Life 2 etc (Steam products).
They do however offer copies of Vista RC2 with the time limits and phone-home functionality apparently stifled, and copies of XP with various neutered versions of WGA built into the installers. 50 cents to one dollar apiece depending on whether you look foreign or not.
Fedora and Ubuntu installs are also available on request from the basement alcove store I do my hardware shopping in, though you have to ask specifically.
the right to riot
Precisely.
This is the prime cornerstone of all repressed anarchist thinking.
If you do not agree to abide by the local social structure your proper course of action is to ensure it knows it can't bully you with it's non-applicable "legislation". Remember, if you don't abide by its rules then it doesn't have to apply the "non-interference" aspects of its culture to you. Where such protections don't apply all that is left is "might makes right". After all, no free-thinking rational person would ever claim that a court genuinely has jurisdiction over entities that can outfight all aspects of law-enforcement that court can summon.
In short, while you don't have to be stronger than it, you do have to be strong enough to disuade it. Disuade it thoroughly.
Access to international newspapers, phone lines, TV and even just being able to send and receive letters would have a much more widespread effect. And be rather more reliable, usefull and realistic to boot.
The Internet. Yeah. Gret thing. Usefull tool. Fun plaything.
Ultimate requirement as a definition of a states wellbeing? Hell no.
The arrogance of suggesting the internet supercedes items such as newspapers, phones (remember those things? No IP, just voice -> voltage -> voice), hell, even a decent postal service is laughable.
North Korea? Yeah, the place sucks. I haven't lived there, but I have visited, and even by what could be seen from the touristy approved areas it's not a good place. That's not the point of my post.
Whoever registered fake.com had to know what they were getting into...
Unlike machine manufacturing corporations, people have no bias and would never commit fraud.
Oh. Wait.
It does.
You're completely free to get your own accomodation and your own internet connection from any ISP you want.
Off you go.
Oh, wait, you mean you want the university accomodation and internet access spoonfed to you on terms you get to dictate?
Pfft.
It's the standard localised blocking they use for the entire net.
Anytime you retrieve pages for a variety of "trigger" terms you get blocked from that site for a while.
(Shenyang here, full access to all. Yay.)
WHY?!?
Has humanity sunk so low that this gets listed as an achievement?
I mean, come on now. I'm a nerd, a geek, asocial...
BUT DAMMIT PEOPLE! Please stop proving the jocks right.
How do you think Fox find their stories in the first place?
If a credit card company gives unchecked loans to bad debts, well, that's their own lookout, neh?
Perhaps they need to look at their business model a litle closer. Pre-approved cards being mailed to names and addresses collected pretty much randomly is the norm these days after all.
Heh, a good point. Mind you the allegedly "new" sig has been there so long I'd forgotten it existed.
The "Apes or Angels" concept.
Humanity in a form capable of doing anything useful with electromagnetic signals has existed for less than 50 years. We will (probably) exist in a vastly more powerfull state for a long time. (Sizable second and third possibilities of completely eradicating our species ourselves and resetting our society back to waiting for lightning to start a fire for us acknowledged).
Best guess : Whoever receives and decodes a TV signal like that won't have just started shoving EM-radiation around a mere 50 years ago. (Unless they see in the 54-72 MHz range and think in SECAM (which I reckon is just as likely as their existing in the 45 LY range).
Why would they bother with an invasion fleet? Surely a one time momentum investment in applying a giant chunk of iron based meteoric junk to the "Terran Problem" is a much more likely scenario?
Assuming we recognised it as a coherent signal at any rate.
Previously explorers have gone out and been eaten. They haven't sent out messages saying "I'm here. Come and do what you will to me".
Previous explorers risked themselves, not their entire civilisations.
I'm not saying don't look. I'm just saying look cautiously, with a recognition that any intellignet life whose development we can comprehend will have evolved with (psychological) self-preservation and combat capabilities.
Previous explorers also tended to have defense capabilities equivalent to the task. Most civilisations capable of plucking a TV signal from the ether and decoding it completely (from scratch) will be so far beyond us that should they decide we're a danger (or even decide we're too noisy and likely to draw negative attention to this corner of the spiral) we'll never even know about it.
Why do people continue to delude themselves that an alien intelligence will be able to comprehend communication as we consider it? And if they can that they'll be foolish enough to waste time on decoding, renderring and interpreting an unreachably distant point of light? And if they go that far, why the heck does anyone expect a usefull response?
At best there'll be no response, but should they then pick up on our everyday TV the likely response is surely some form of uncrewed planet buster. I know I'd prefer not to leave a hornets nest like humanity brewing in any corner of my galaxy. No intelligence with a self-preservation process would.
We are a crippled duck, currently hidden in a vast swamp. Our only security being through obscurity. Why the hell do people insist on flailing around screaming for the hunters? Actually, that doesn't quite work. We are a crippled unknown creature, that appears to have the mindset of a ravaging beast, but lacking the ability. Which lives longer? The rabid dog spazzing out in broad daylight in th emiddle of the street or the rabid cat stalking the shadows?
$3? Try 50 cents. That's what they cost here in Shenyang.
Oh, good. An easy one.
No.