He might have had an advantage if he wasn't simply and obviously suing the only company in the world using the word 'Vista' that would be able to give him a huge payday if it works.
There are a ton of software companies using the word 'Vista' for the company name and/or for a software package. Why pick now and why Microsoft to sue over it? Because Microsoft is one of the richest companies on the planet.
The guy is just looking for quick and easy money, this has nothing to do about trademarks or brand recognition.
First what what related from Luke was a parable and not an actual event, and second you appear to have a complete lack of knowledge of the legal status of a slave and his master at the time. The slave master was the law and was within his rights under law to dole out punishment as he saw fit, including killing them if that is what fit the crime. The master in the story was therefore not a vigilante. It would be akin to being fired for being lazy, your boss is within his rights for getting rid of you and is not on some vigilante crusade against lazy people.
Then compared to Red Hat, exactly what has Ubantu given back? Making a droolproof version of Debian isn't giving back btw, thats just making another distro available.
Its not outrageously silly. It might appear to be to someone who only runs one or two, (which is not necessarily you), but it makes complete sense to someone who runs several of them. It means that Debian is Debian no matter what system you run it on. I wouldn't have to think, ok which systems have a patch for exploit A, and which don't, I would know for everything before I started anything.
Depends how you enforce the cap. Its it actually a cap where you get less EXP, or is it just harder to get that experience.
If its just getting experience slower as I thought you were saying, then the player base is gone. If its harder to level up because you have to fight harder stuff and the exp required between levels increases each time, (which is how I thought all MMO's worked anyway), what I described was not your cap, but Final Fantasy XI. BTW this doesn't put casual gamers on even par.
Except that your solution will lead the players who have reached your cap slows down leave the game when they hit it, and there goes your revenue stream. They get there quick and then go 'now what?' There's a reason that while it takes 500EXP to get to lvl2, but takes 4000 between 18 and 19, and getting those 4000 is harder then getting the 500 earlier, so that its more and more challenging. It takes longer, so your paying more if you enjoy what your doing. Remove the challenge and its less fun, and your player base goes somewhere else.
You can also use PAM-Kerberos and PAM-LDAP to auth *nix against the AD. Microsoft made some extentions but they did not break the standard. Its there and it works in a standard way for clients that only understand that, and has more functionality if the client can understand that.
I'm sorry, i mention this every time someone says this, but while you have a point with MS extending HTML and Java to the point of almost changing them entirely, but
You create an MSI package and publish it via Active Directory. No installer, out of the users control and can reboot the machine or not at the admins request.
Yes I've never used LanDesk, but you don't ever have to run an installer by pushing a package through the AD if the admin doesn't want you too.
an act of robbery esp. on the high seas; specifically : an illegal act of violence, detention, or plunder committed for private ends by crew or passengers of a private ship or aircraft against another ship or aircraft on the high seas or in a place outside the jurisdiction of any state see also AIRCRAFT PIRACY Article I of the CONSTITUTION in the back matter
2 a : the unauthorized copying, distribution, or use of another's production (as a film) esp. in infringement of a copyright b : the unauthorized use, interception, or receipt of encoded communications (as satellite cable programming) esp. to avoid paying fees for use
3 : the crime of committing piracy
Now obviously when you say pirate in this case your not talking about robbery on the high seas, but isn't it suprising that piracy has always been used to describe a theft in a particular set of circumstances. This isn't the only time that the word steal or a synonym of it is used to denote the taking of an idea.
To use, appropriate, or preempt the use of another's idea, especially to one's own advantage and without consent by the originator.
Stealing also does not require you to take a physical object, the idea that so many here seem to console themselves with: Main Entry: steal
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: stole; stolen; stealing
Etymology: Old English stelan
: to take or appropriate without right or consent and with intent to keep or make use of; see also ROBBERY, THEFT
And finally, even if it were the case that once the word 'Steal' required an object, it doesn't any more. English is a living language that changes and evolves for the current situations. Copying anything Illegally is Stealing, accept it and get over it, or are you just a circus preformer?. geeky adj.
Our Living Language Our word geek is now chiefly associated with student and computer slang; one probably thinks first of a computer geek. In origin, however, it is one of the words American English borrowed from the vocabulary of the circus, which was a much more significant source of entertainment in the United States in the 19th and early 20th century than it is now. Large numbers of traveling circuses left a cultural legacy in various and sometimes unexpected ways. For example, Superman and other comic book superheroes owe much of their look to circus acrobats, who were similarly costumed in capes and tights. The circus sideshow is the source of the word geek, "a performer who engaged in bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken."
While this is slightly off topic, is there a cheap consumer router that will route between private IP ranges? I have a linksys befsr11 that just refuses to route 192.168.x.x to 172.16.x.x
I say the same thing about Linux, "Uh, what's the point?" I mean theres *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OS X, hell, theres a real Unix for every platform so why do all these people waste their time on this linux thing. Its just a solution looking for a problem. 'That's a *guaranteed* formula for failure in the mass market. Sure, there will be hobbyists that use this stuff forever, but most people will just look at it and think to themselves, "Uh, what's the point?"'
I wish I could concede defeat and continue to dominate a market and make billions of dollars. They've had a 'emulation layer' for programs before, think OS/2 and POSIX. an OS X layer is not conceding defeat, its adding functionality to the base product that the consumer base wants.
OS X on intel is not going to be some magic bullet, and will probably make very little impact.
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He might have had an advantage if he wasn't simply and obviously suing the only company in the world using the word 'Vista' that would be able to give him a huge payday if it works.
There are a ton of software companies using the word 'Vista' for the company name and/or for a software package. Why pick now and why Microsoft to sue over it? Because Microsoft is one of the richest companies on the planet.
The guy is just looking for quick and easy money, this has nothing to do about trademarks or brand recognition.
If I steal someones idea, did it not hurt them since they still have it?
People do the same thing with a cop car on the side of the road, should we remove them from the roads?
First what what related from Luke was a parable and not an actual event, and second you appear to have a complete lack of knowledge of the legal status of a slave and his master at the time. The slave master was the law and was within his rights under law to dole out punishment as he saw fit, including killing them if that is what fit the crime. The master in the story was therefore not a vigilante. It would be akin to being fired for being lazy, your boss is within his rights for getting rid of you and is not on some vigilante crusade against lazy people.
Ya, because she can't even figure out how to get to a desktop.
Well you did say that you didn't like your neighbours.
Then compared to Red Hat, exactly what has Ubantu given back? Making a droolproof version of Debian isn't giving back btw, thats just making another distro available.
Damn you. I was gonna say that if I wanted to see Neanderthals, I'd go to a football game.
So to answer the question, 'yes.'
Its not outrageously silly. It might appear to be to someone who only runs one or two, (which is not necessarily you), but it makes complete sense to someone who runs several of them. It means that Debian is Debian no matter what system you run it on. I wouldn't have to think, ok which systems have a patch for exploit A, and which don't, I would know for everything before I started anything.
Depends how you enforce the cap. Its it actually a cap where you get less EXP, or is it just harder to get that experience.
If its just getting experience slower as I thought you were saying, then the player base is gone. If its harder to level up because you have to fight harder stuff and the exp required between levels increases each time, (which is how I thought all MMO's worked anyway), what I described was not your cap, but Final Fantasy XI. BTW this doesn't put casual gamers on even par.
Because they're *CHARGED* asteroids.
Except that your solution will lead the players who have reached your cap slows down leave the game when they hit it, and there goes your revenue stream. They get there quick and then go 'now what?' There's a reason that while it takes 500EXP to get to lvl2, but takes 4000 between 18 and 19, and getting those 4000 is harder then getting the 500 earlier, so that its more and more challenging. It takes longer, so your paying more if you enjoy what your doing. Remove the challenge and its less fun, and your player base goes somewhere else.
Retard, moron, idiot, et al have not been medical terms since psychiatry became a proper branch of the medical profession.
Yes they are.
Sorry, but no. Windows 2000 will happily authenticate against non-AD kerberos realms.
You can also use PAM-Kerberos and PAM-LDAP to auth *nix against the AD. Microsoft made some extentions but they did not break the standard. Its there and it works in a standard way for clients that only understand that, and has more functionality if the client can understand that.
I'm sorry, i mention this every time someone says this, but while you have a point with MS extending HTML and Java to the point of almost changing them entirely, but
What 'stunt' have they pulled with Kerberos?
You create an MSI package and publish it via Active Directory. No installer, out of the users control and can reboot the machine or not at the admins request.
Yes I've never used LanDesk, but you don't ever have to run an installer by pushing a package through the AD if the admin doesn't want you too.
Intel Landesk (don't know any other software deployment systems off the top of my head)
Uh, Active Directory?
I wouldn't say that to Rainier's face. It might get mad and show you just how 'big' it can be.
Piracy: Now obviously when you say pirate in this case your not talking about robbery on the high seas, but isn't it suprising that piracy has always been used to describe a theft in a particular set of circumstances. This isn't the only time that the word steal or a synonym of it is used to denote the taking of an idea.
Idiom: steal (someone's) thunder: Stealing also does not require you to take a physical object, the idea that so many here seem to console themselves with:
Main Entry: steal And finally, even if it were the case that once the word 'Steal' required an object, it doesn't any more. English is a living language that changes and evolves for the current situations. Copying anything Illegally is Stealing, accept it and get over it, or are you just a circus preformer?.
geeky adj.
true, but a little home router would use less power.
While this is slightly off topic, is there a cheap consumer router that will route between private IP ranges? I have a linksys befsr11 that just refuses to route 192.168.x.x to 172.16.x.x
I say the same thing about Linux, "Uh, what's the point?" I mean theres *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OS X, hell, theres a real Unix for every platform so why do all these people waste their time on this linux thing. Its just a solution looking for a problem. 'That's a *guaranteed* formula for failure in the mass market. Sure, there will be hobbyists that use this stuff forever, but most people will just look at it and think to themselves, "Uh, what's the point?"'
Have you seen pictures of these virus writers?
I wish I could concede defeat and continue to dominate a market and make billions of dollars. They've had a 'emulation layer' for programs before, think OS/2 and POSIX. an OS X layer is not conceding defeat, its adding functionality to the base product that the consumer base wants.
OS X on intel is not going to be some magic bullet, and will probably make very little impact.