*sigh* your exact argument has been been debunked 10000000 times on/. already, but ok i'll bite one more time.
The only reason no one changes from MS office is due to the low pain threshold users have. The equation is thus - as long as the pain of changing does not exceed the painfulness of using office no change will happen.
MS has also been CONVICTED of leveraging it's OS to prevent all new comers from challenging. the pain isn't from any failings of other software options, it's interference from MS.
the eula i was talking about was INSIDE a sealed envolope which held the disks, with a sticker stating i agreed to the terms inside by opening it - totally different to a eula posted on the outside of the case. they could have put it back in the box and sent it back - they weren't required to agree with those terms before seeing them.
the idea that circumsision prevents STD's is a pathetic attempt to put a medical justification to reglious genital mutilation. And yes it DOES hurt, babies scream their lungs out the whole time you are butchering their bodies.
sounds like the windows eula i had once "by opening this box you agree to the terms listed inside" it's a violation of contract law to ask someone to agree to something you haven't allowed them to see.
i seriously doubt gateway will win this. you can't tell someone they have no right to legal recourse either, to allow that strips the courts of their power and doubt they will be happy about that attempt.
contracts require the ability to negotiate the terms and talk with the other party. EULA's do not allow this. more so ALL eula's are given to you post purchase of software/hardware, which means you've been forced into agreeing to something without seeing the details first, which is not legal under most contract law.
i've always had the opinoin that eula's are not legal, and are just used as a bully tactic. i hope this guy wins.
tell people what they want to hear and you'll have no problem getting them to listen. congress wants this whole copyright infringment/p2p thing to go away. they don't understand and don't want to, and this guy is telling them what they want to hear.
No, NOTHING like robert mugabe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe - do you consider homosexual hating, election rigging and bashing/murder of polical opponents as a good ethos do you?
your a moron and missing the point - they rewarded him for the very work they are now accusing him of breaking his contract to create. this is dispite that fact he only used publiched api's in the first place, so the fact he has broken any agreement is dubious.
they all do it that with the conclusions. tomshardware is really bad for compeltely ignoring their own results in their conclusions, i've seen them state one graphics card is far better then another after it only beat it's rivals in a single benchmark. the whole industry is rotten to the core.
exactly, from a photo all you would get in deep water is one solid mass of one colour. me thinks this asshole is just attempting to sell this snake oil to someone.
"analyze satellite photographs at different wavelengths"
he's popped this in to sound clever, but the reality all he could have done is take exisiting data the same as whats on google earth and examined the colour gradients in an attempt to identify shapes which could possibly be a sunken ship. problem is the resolution on those photo's is WAY too low to identify a ship let alone confidently proclaim to know WHICH ship it is.
in other words he's an attention seeking moron. i'll take that back when he goes there's a brings back some proof. i'm confident he won't
no the main material is silicon and it's plentiful, the expenive part is the production, it requires a LOT of processing and quality control. people keep rambling on about moore's "law" but fail to realise the price of a cpu hasn't really fell very much at all in 10 years, they've just gotten faster (which is all moores prediction is to do with). in the case of solar panels this will NOT help them sell. they need to get much much cheaper for adoption to happen.
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and then i lost interest. someone please name a single one of these bogus israeli ventures that's produced something that's in use today.
uuhh, fill me in on what wall that would be?
that's a terrible attitude to have in any business, people like you are whats wrong with the world.
That fine i'm pretty sure some other countries will take them cheap phones!
The only reason no one changes from MS office is due to the low pain threshold users have. The equation is thus - as long as the pain of changing does not exceed the painfulness of using office no change will happen.
MS has also been CONVICTED of leveraging it's OS to prevent all new comers from challenging. the pain isn't from any failings of other software options, it's interference from MS.
they can't compete based on the quality of their products, that's for sure
the eula i was talking about was INSIDE a sealed envolope which held the disks, with a sticker stating i agreed to the terms inside by opening it - totally different to a eula posted on the outside of the case. they could have put it back in the box and sent it back - they weren't required to agree with those terms before seeing them.
the idea that circumsision prevents STD's is a pathetic attempt to put a medical justification to reglious genital mutilation. And yes it DOES hurt, babies scream their lungs out the whole time you are butchering their bodies.
subby needs a kick in the teeth for that title - he is sueing to get his money back on a dud pc
i seriously doubt gateway will win this. you can't tell someone they have no right to legal recourse either, to allow that strips the courts of their power and doubt they will be happy about that attempt.
i've always had the opinoin that eula's are not legal, and are just used as a bully tactic. i hope this guy wins.
problem is he's totally full of fucking crap.
wtf do you mean by that or do you just get off on making vague statements on /.?
No, NOTHING like robert mugabe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe - do you consider homosexual hating, election rigging and bashing/murder of polical opponents as a good ethos do you?
your a moron and missing the point - they rewarded him for the very work they are now accusing him of breaking his contract to create. this is dispite that fact he only used publiched api's in the first place, so the fact he has broken any agreement is dubious.
not many employee's are overpaid in IT. consultants on the other hand.....
i can sell you a 100% safe pc if you want - it has no hd and no psu.
they all do it that with the conclusions. tomshardware is really bad for compeltely ignoring their own results in their conclusions, i've seen them state one graphics card is far better then another after it only beat it's rivals in a single benchmark. the whole industry is rotten to the core.
all i can say is, atleast he isn't engaging in premtive wars, aka iraq and afganhastan.
bull-fucking-shit
exactly, from a photo all you would get in deep water is one solid mass of one colour. me thinks this asshole is just attempting to sell this snake oil to someone.
he's popped this in to sound clever, but the reality all he could have done is take exisiting data the same as whats on google earth and examined the colour gradients in an attempt to identify shapes which could possibly be a sunken ship. problem is the resolution on those photo's is WAY too low to identify a ship let alone confidently proclaim to know WHICH ship it is.
in other words he's an attention seeking moron. i'll take that back when he goes there's a brings back some proof. i'm confident he won't
i guess the slashdot is your cheap version of self delusion
right because guys wangs just pop off no bleeding invloved - she really wasn't trying to kill him at all.
no the main material is silicon and it's plentiful, the expenive part is the production, it requires a LOT of processing and quality control. people keep rambling on about moore's "law" but fail to realise the price of a cpu hasn't really fell very much at all in 10 years, they've just gotten faster (which is all moores prediction is to do with). in the case of solar panels this will NOT help them sell. they need to get much much cheaper for adoption to happen.