This is actually an interesting comment. For a strict analogy, "pirating" a car would involve creating an exact copy of it without removing, damaging or otherwise affecting the original car. OK, you've cheated BMW out of a sale, but you haven't damaged their reputation because your copy is exactly as good as the original. The only difference between this scenario and running off a bent copy of Office XP is that the latter is technically possible and cheap, whereas the other will have to wait until nanobots come along;-)
The other mind-bending analogy I like is that any executable binary program can be represented as a single number. Can you copyright 6786237544599987897343387989721333?
The figures won't include groups of friends making their MP3s available via private FTP servers, which I know goes on and is pretty much undetectable by anyone wanting to stop file sharing. Waste is the latest craze among my Net friends - the download may have been pulled, but the genie is out of the bottle.
File sharing is the only "killer application" for broadband, and most people with BB use file-sharing at least some of the time.
The almighty pound sterling too...especially for call centres. I'm not sure who really benefits from this trend long-term, apart from the people who get the jobs overseas (they're usually quite well paid compared to their fellow countrymen/women). The customers hate the thought of talking to someone thousands of miles away, so Indian call centre workers are taught British regional accents and given Anglicised names. You can fool some of the people some of the time but...
It's actually "impulse", which is a force, calculated by the change in momentum over time. So a 10g piece of foam hitting your spacecraft at 10,000 metres per second, which takes 1/100 second to come to rest (allowing for some deformation) exerts a force of (0.01 x 100000 x 100) = 10 kN. Over an area of a few square millimetres this can do some nasty damage.
Check out some of the articles on The Register. The general opinion, in Beavis and Butt-Head speak, seems to be that it sucks more than anything has ever sucked before. But what did you seriously expect from MS?
MS got the result they wanted anyway, and just had to give away a few free copies of their bloatware to some schools as compensation. It could be argued that the latter actually helps MS in the long term anyway, as more students are locked into the Redmond way of doing things. Thanks, Judge KK.
British Telecom's main fibre optic backbone is a packet-switched network. It's only the "last mile" that's truly circuit switched these days. We have a fairly modern telephone system in the UK, only hampered by stupid area codes based on centres of population rather than numbers of people as in the US (so the big towns such as London, Bristol, Reading and Leicester ran out of numbers quickly and had to have their codes changed). To be fair, no-one anticipated fax machines and data connections when the coding system was decided.
The Matrix program just made you *think* you did, so you could believe you were sticking one on The Man. This made you happy and contented so the machines could suck a few more amps out of your neural synapses.
The yard used to be defined as the distance between Henry VIII's nose and outstretched fingertip. Of course, subsequent kings redefined the yard to match their own vital statistics, so there are many obsolete English yards!
Not so. The old definition in terms of wavelengths of krypton-86 has gone and been replaced with a fraction of the speed of light in a vacuum (about 1/2.99795 x 10^8).
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The other mind-bending analogy I like is that any executable binary program can be represented as a single number. Can you copyright 6786237544599987897343387989721333?
This problem was solved ages ago by Trillian, but AOL are always trying to kill it off. Isn't Jabber just *another* IM standard?
The Norwegians have a Penguin rocket!
File sharing is the only "killer application" for broadband, and most people with BB use file-sharing at least some of the time.
The almighty pound sterling too...especially for call centres. I'm not sure who really benefits from this trend long-term, apart from the people who get the jobs overseas (they're usually quite well paid compared to their fellow countrymen/women). The customers hate the thought of talking to someone thousands of miles away, so Indian call centre workers are taught British regional accents and given Anglicised names. You can fool some of the people some of the time but...
Something this evil must be written in INTERCAL!
It's actually "impulse", which is a force, calculated by the change in momentum over time. So a 10g piece of foam hitting your spacecraft at 10,000 metres per second, which takes 1/100 second to come to rest (allowing for some deformation) exerts a force of (0.01 x 100000 x 100) = 10 kN. Over an area of a few square millimetres this can do some nasty damage.
So software ISN'T only expensive because of rampant piracy then? Must be profiteering after all.
At least we now know what the "BS" stands for in "BSA".
Check out some of the articles on The Register. The general opinion, in Beavis and Butt-Head speak, seems to be that it sucks more than anything has ever sucked before. But what did you seriously expect from MS?
Nah, he just copied the translucent colours from the Braun Ladyshave.
Tell that to the guy who did the Lara Croft case mod!
"I suppose you don't like tabloid newspapers either!"
I just looked under my copy of Mozilla 1.3 and it doesn't appear to have any feet. WTF?
MS got the result they wanted anyway, and just had to give away a few free copies of their bloatware to some schools as compensation. It could be argued that the latter actually helps MS in the long term anyway, as more students are locked into the Redmond way of doing things. Thanks, Judge KK.
What good is a Knowledge Base article, Mr Anderson? If you're unable to surf?
British Telecom's main fibre optic backbone is a packet-switched network. It's only the "last mile" that's truly circuit switched these days. We have a fairly modern telephone system in the UK, only hampered by stupid area codes based on centres of population rather than numbers of people as in the US (so the big towns such as London, Bristol, Reading and Leicester ran out of numbers quickly and had to have their codes changed). To be fair, no-one anticipated fax machines and data connections when the coding system was decided.
The Matrix program just made you *think* you did, so you could believe you were sticking one on The Man. This made you happy and contented so the machines could suck a few more amps out of your neural synapses.
The yard used to be defined as the distance between Henry VIII's nose and outstretched fingertip. Of course, subsequent kings redefined the yard to match their own vital statistics, so there are many obsolete English yards!
Not so. The old definition in terms of wavelengths of krypton-86 has gone and been replaced with a fraction of the speed of light in a vacuum (about 1/2.99795 x 10^8).
Does Minitel suffer from spam messages and pop-up ads, or has it avoided the plagues of the Internet?
I bet the RIAA second-in-command has his eye on that Admiral's uniform though ;-)
Syria?
Shuttle astronauts have asked for their craft to be tightly packed with moss for the next mission.
is What Car? in the UK. I never go there anymore because of the interstitial ads.