At best, all could ever accomplish is loosing your right to distribute the software at all.
Which is fine for some, as long as everybody loses that right. Some would pee in the fountain, so long as it ruins the resource, and preserves monopoly privileges for the few.
Hole-punching a regular DVD is just a good way to make the DVD go wakka-wakka-wakka in the drive (and ruin it, too). BTW, I used to own one of those hole punches. Good times...
He was driving a black Mustang, and must have thought he had the room, but he did not: a semi was stopped in his lane ahead.
I swear I never sped up, but by the time he realized he couldn't swing over in time, it was too late. He squalled tires vainly, came within inches of swerving into me, collided full on with the semi's rear.
VISTA: A great deal of concerted effort has gone into making Vista the easiest operating system to network with others, especially other Vista systems, so that anyone, even without massive computing experience, can easily set up a wired or wireless network.
While that sounds positively delightful, does Mr Iemma really know what he is getting himself in for? To start with, the NSW Government has now decided it is going to be an Internet Service Provider to compete with publicly run companies.
I was following that until that very last paragraph... did I stray into another article?
They won't listen. This is for all the times they told you to ride your bike with a helmet and you ignored them. Or they told you not to climb that really tall tree, and you ignored them. Or "don't play with the illegal fireworks!"...and you ignored them.
Just consider yourself lucky they don't go around naked.
And many people are going to be PISSED when, after their Dell (or Gateway, etc.) motherboard gets fried, they find out they either have to buy another DELL certified part to replace it (big $$, for the same reason the theater's popcorn is expensive), or buy a $400 copy of Vista to go with their new mobo, as opposed to about $100 for XP.
Home-built's already can hardly compete on price with the big box retailers, but now it's just going to be stupid. Unfair advantage to the big guys.
want to go today? Sorry, can't to do that. Nope, not that either. And don't even THINK you can do that. (Why? Because THEY... CAN!)
Unless things change around here, who knows what all you won't be able to do in Vista 2011? Criticize Microsoft? Use it once your license "expires"? Or maybe it will only install on DRM-approved hardware, or only hardware manufactured by a limited number of companies who pony up a prohibitive licensing fee, driving the cost of hardware up? Hell, maybe the CD will erase itself once you install it, forcing you to buy it again! (And their crack marketing team will sell it to you as a "feature"!)
The grand irony is that, like Greenland not being green, Vista is named for a word that implies or suggests freedom, a boundless future. Quite the opposite. They tighten the noose because they perceive themselves to have no competition. And this will continue until the public (the 98% of their customers) start to leave their product behind.
Can't SOMEBODY put these pig fuckers out of business?
of the treasonous bastards who voted for this pile of monkey shit? Would be nice to know who NOT to vote for in November. And who to send a hate letter to.
The congress-bastards need to get acquainted with the concept of consequences of actions. Just as a three-year-old learns not to touch a hot stove.
it'll put a few women who have been victims of stalkers on your jury.
And any good defense team will make sure that does not happen. They would argue, and rightly so, that those jurors might be biased against the defendant.
Assuming there were a group of people conspiring to steal the next election in a most subtle way, the best way to publicly destroy their intended means is to coopt said means for the purpose of "electing" anybody who is currently on the ballot but is obviously not in the running. The errors would be blatantly obvious, and they would have no choice but to agree with the majority that the voting machines must go. (That, or validate RMS as the next POTUS, grumble, grumble...) They'd just have to fall back on their old plans of brain-washing the masses.
to expect a corporation to not be evil is unrealistic
Like expecting a dog not to lick its balls. Reminds me of the fable of the Scorpion and the Toad. Corporations become evil because it's in their nature to be evil.
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Which is fine for some, as long as everybody loses that right. Some would pee in the fountain, so long as it ruins the resource, and preserves monopoly privileges for the few.
Hole-punching a regular DVD is just a good way to make the DVD go wakka-wakka-wakka in the drive (and ruin it, too). BTW, I used to own one of those hole punches. Good times...
I swear I never sped up, but by the time he realized he couldn't swing over in time, it was too late. He squalled tires vainly, came within inches of swerving into me, collided full on with the semi's rear.
The over-confident prick deserved it.
While that sounds positively delightful, does Mr Iemma really know what he is getting himself in for? To start with, the NSW Government has now decided it is going to be an Internet Service Provider to compete with publicly run companies.
I was following that until that very last paragraph... did I stray into another article?
At least the spiders ain't barking.
Fridge: ...
Me: Well?
Fridge: Uh, nothing was found that involves a two-month old can of moldy pork-and-beans.
"Hold still now, you'll feel a little prick."
beats a good day phishing. At least if you're these guys.
If he had a cellphone, this could really screw things up.
Just consider yourself lucky they don't go around naked.
Home-built's already can hardly compete on price with the big box retailers, but now it's just going to be stupid. Unfair advantage to the big guys.
That is all.
Usually there's something else in hand. Reminds me, I'm out of hand lotion.
It's called "a disturbance in the farce."
I've never been in a Turkish prison. Where's my merit badge?
Unless things change around here, who knows what all you won't be able to do in Vista 2011? Criticize Microsoft? Use it once your license "expires"? Or maybe it will only install on DRM-approved hardware, or only hardware manufactured by a limited number of companies who pony up a prohibitive licensing fee, driving the cost of hardware up? Hell, maybe the CD will erase itself once you install it, forcing you to buy it again! (And their crack marketing team will sell it to you as a "feature"!)
The grand irony is that, like Greenland not being green, Vista is named for a word that implies or suggests freedom, a boundless future. Quite the opposite. They tighten the noose because they perceive themselves to have no competition. And this will continue until the public (the 98% of their customers) start to leave their product behind.
Can't SOMEBODY put these pig fuckers out of business?
they were encrypted.
Oh, Not So Humble Opinion. At first, I thought that was some borrowed Japanese word.
The congress-bastards need to get acquainted with the concept of consequences of actions. Just as a three-year-old learns not to touch a hot stove.
(Shhhh. I know. I was being ironic.)
Indeed. Most people here can't spell Manigot.
Spain should never get their own AOL. They'd be SOL.
And any good defense team will make sure that does not happen. They would argue, and rightly so, that those jurors might be biased against the defendant.
Assuming there were a group of people conspiring to steal the next election in a most subtle way, the best way to publicly destroy their intended means is to coopt said means for the purpose of "electing" anybody who is currently on the ballot but is obviously not in the running. The errors would be blatantly obvious, and they would have no choice but to agree with the majority that the voting machines must go. (That, or validate RMS as the next POTUS, grumble, grumble...) They'd just have to fall back on their old plans of brain-washing the masses.
Like expecting a dog not to lick its balls. Reminds me of the fable of the Scorpion and the Toad. Corporations become evil because it's in their nature to be evil.