They probably will require all OEMs to pay $36 for every PC they sold without OS (if they wont - they will not get OEM status and will lose all big contracts - large companies and government require licensed soft from suppliers). It will be just like DOS back in time - $50 from any PC sold, just because it can run DOS...
Firstly i can see the OEMs not bothering to tell MS the truth on how many blank boxes they sold. Also i have this feeling that the russian Gov is not all that bothered about licenses
It hasn't crossed your mind that the amount of QA required for testing such a change (removal of a major OS component) on a whole shitload of configurations that Windows is normally expected to run on is mind-numbling?
So major that no problems occured when i removed it same for IE.
This attitude flowed through to his own job. He worked as a support engineer for a company that sold a particular brand of router. It was his view that once the customer had purchased one of these routers we were duty bound to support them ad infinitum. We had "customers" who had not bought a single product off us for several years. Yet they would always be calling him up and getting support for nothing, despite the fact that his wage was funded by those customers who actually purchased support contracts. He couldn't be deterred from supporting the freeloaders, he felt our company had some sort of duty to support them just because the had bought the stuff from us at some point in the distant past.
Do you know what there are still companies in the world that do this and they tend to get repeat custom from the more intelligent customer. There are plenty of companies who offer lifetime guarantees of there products. It is only in the software industry do you charge the customer to fix your own mistakes. By you theory I should stop downloading Windows updates as the development is being paid for by companies support contracts, or is it that despite being slow about it MS actually do understand a little bit about customer care. Unlike your company it seems, that must be embarrassing MS have better customer care than your company.
If the competitors in the markets they are moving into produced a better product, then they would have nothing to complain about
Product quality is irrelevant when a monopoly abuses it's position, only the geeky can be bothered to install a new player. Both these points have been made quite clearley before. If MS where sure of the quality of there product they wouldn't mind WMP being separated as it would stand up on it's own, given a choice most people will chose the better product anyway.
The RealPlayer installer, for instance, should be picked up by Norton's and quarantined before you can even install it.
why would Norton's be so dumb as to risk a lawsuit? If you don't like Real player you should try real alternative best media player by far.
It was more a joke about peckham spring water which was just tap water, but yes i kow they are more than tap water and have been purified/fortified but i also think there a rip off for what they are hence the only fools and horses reference.
No it's because we have a large amount of idiots who think that putting tap water into bottles makes it better. Like dasani or it's highclass rival peckham spring
Here you go claims to be the most powerfull and efficent prime mover and does claim more 50% efficency the stats are impresive:
Some facts on the 14 cylinder version:
Total engine weight: 2300 tons (The crankshaft alone weighs 300 tons.)
Length: 89 feet
Height: 44 feet
Maximum power: 108,920 hp at 102 rpm
Maximum torque: 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm
A single cylinder is 1820 Liters
All good electric guitar amps are tube, Solid state is fine for a small practice amp but if you want to do a gig, recording or just sound good whilst playing loud solid state can't hack it. It produces a really unpleasant distortion and end up sounding a bit like I'm playing a midi guitar, yuk.
Check out this site for some sound samples of high quality tube amps all hand wired and no printed circuit boards just scroll along and select sounds, I bought the harlequin not long ago it might be only 6 watts but it's a hell of a lot louder than the 20 watt Marshall hybrid (combination of tube and solid state) it replaced.
Using news article that are a year old is not very clever you should go for more recent facts, allow the home office to put you right Also none of those articles mentioned that gun crime has fallen from 1995-2003 and has started to drop again. 8 years of reducing crime and one year where it stood still sounds like a success to me.
"Later in the week the home secretary is to host a summit on tackling gun crime, which figures due out on Thursday are expected to show has risen sharply......It is expected the figures will show a 20% increase in firearm offences in England and Wales." That happened over a year ago and it showed a small rise which has been wiped out this year, just because the journalist perceived there to be a big increase in crime and excepts people to announce it doesn't mean it's true, you may not have been talking out of your ass but hindsight has shown the journalist was.
Bobbies are now being issued guns. If you want crime to go away, get guns in the hands of the citizens.
Ok where did you get Bobbies are now being issued with guns from? Because they don't carry guns and the biggest police union don't want to carry guns, there are highly trained armed police but they are support units not Bobbies on the beat. Also there are guns in the hands of Citizens (except ironically handguns) I have a full bore license, I have a Lee-Enfield.303 that I use for target shooting and culling deer and Browning 525 Shotgun for Clay pigeon shooting. If someone where to break into my house I would rather attach my Granddads bayonet to the lee-Enfield very intimidating, and if it came to a fight I would rather use the gun as a club anyway.
That's the next step, although MPs say that they have no recourse to act in a dispute with the council...the trouble is that it's looking like a vast loophole, let alone that nobody is currently _operating_ the things.
They may not want to if council is there own party but if it's the oposition im sure they would be delighted to go on TV and tell the council off publicley, that's possibley something you could try yourself Im sure they wouldn't want negative publicity in the news.
There economies are like America experiencing a jobless recovery there GDP etc are rising but the number of jobs isn't. I'm from the UK by the way we have plenty of jobs but not enough houses.
Hutton report also know as the whitewash report or the we F***ed up but were going to take down those who tell the truth about us report. Also the later butler report that looks specifically at the dosier not david kelly's death condraticts hutton by saying that the dossier was misleading. About 90% of the UK thinks the Hutton report was the biggest piece of BS ever made
I repeat: neither nitroglycerin nor nitrocellulose were routinely used as bomb fill in WWII
There was one use for Nitroglycerine the original sticky bomb (not the one they make in private ryan that's technicaly a gamon bomb)
The N 74 Grenade (Sticky Bomb) was designed as an anti-tank grenade and was disliked by everybody who ever came across it.
The grenade consisted of a glass ball on the end of a bakelite (plastic) handle. Inside the glass ball was an explosive filling whilst on the outside was a very sticky adhesive covering. Until used, this adhesive covering was encased in a metal outer casing.
Due to the use of glass in this grenade, they were fragile and travelled badly. Quite often the glass would crack in transit, causing the explosive to start leaking out. This explosive which leaked out was not very sensitive to friction but was very sensitive to impact and detonation could occur if the exposed explosive received a blow due to careless handling.
To use the grenade, you remove the case release pin (not the pin marked 'DANGER'). This allows the metal protective casing to fall free, exposing the adhesive coating. You then grip the handle and safety lever and remove the safety pin (marked 'DANGER'). The grenade is now ready to either throw or attach to the target.
This is where the sticky bomb is most dangerous! Whilst attempting to throw it, the grenade could stick to the wearers' clothing!
If the thrower has not let go of the safety lever, he has to try and remove the item of clothing without letting go of the lever.
If the thrower has let go of the lever, he has 5 second to remove the item of clothing and get a safe distance away from the bomb.
When this happened, it tended to end up stuck to the throwers' trousers - with the uniform which was worn at the time, to remove his trousers (which were held up by braces) the thrower would have to remove any equipment (belt, ammunition pouches, etc.) followed by his Battle Dress blouse (jacket). He would then have to try and take his trousers off over his boots - all in less than 5 seconds!
You may ask why the thrower could not just pull the grenade off of his clothing. They could try this but the adhesive coating was designed to allow the grenade, which weighed 2¼ lbs (1 Kg), to stick to the side of a tank.
Extract from training manual:
This grenade has been introduced for use against light A.F.Vs. It is designed to stick to a suitable target, thus ensuring that the high explosive has its maximum effect. The grenade will NOT stick should the surface be wet or muddy.
The grenade is suitable for use at road blocks, positions of ambush, or for dropping from upstairs windows on to tanks.
Although the effect of the explosion is localised, the thrower must take cover owing to the blast.
For night raids on tank parts, the grenade is an ideal weapon. It can be regarded as a portable demolition charge and planted by hand instead of thrown, so long as the operator retreats in such a direction that he is protected from the explosion. With practice and training, the grenade can be thrown up to about 20 yds.
You can hardly call the incendiary charges "cluster bombs" Indeed, there were many bomblets inside a larger container, but nobody called them cluster bombs. The usage in this case was a journalist who had no idea what he was reporting on, and simply made up details.
That is precisely what they did call them ICB's or "Incendiary cluster bombs" I have seen them referred to in official reports of the era I've even seen it written on the side of museum piece bombs. Do you know what a cluster bomb is? It is a cluster of small bombs inside a bigger case; this is exactly how ww2 incendiary bomb worked they where the first cluster bombs. Just because you don't call them clusters doesn't mean they didn't
A fragmentation bomb is a metal case full of explosive that fragments a cluster bomb is cluster of little bombs that can be fragmentation incendiary even toxic gas.
I can't believe someone is actually defending a journalist's sloppy, inaccurate reporting. The usage in this case was a journalist who had no idea what he was reporting on, and simply made up details. There were no such things as "cluster bombs" in WWII. Typical journalism. If it was the BBC reporting, I wouldn't be surprised in the least.
Perhaps you should apologise for those statements sources more credible than you disagree. And from your title of Shut the F**k up you know it as well but don't wan't to hear it.
But WAIT!!!!you're telling me that a large abandoned ship full of explosives existed exposed to the outside world for sixty some years and it WASN'T looted by hordes of pyro teenagers? There must be something fundamentally wrong with the teenagers across that ocean. Methinks not enough good ol american made rednek would fix it right up.
Nah it's just that we can get our hand explosive much easeyer than diving on a wreck, just go for walk across an army training ground (most are open to the public most of the time)and keep your eyes open if your lucky you will something cool.
Is this the new liberal idea of free speech and choice? Block people from seeing Republican websites, and block them from entering Republican headquarters?
I notice alot of people claim to be in favour of free speech but then are totally horrified when someone uses it to express an opinion different from there own.
I constantly hear about this "Republican attack machine," but honestly all I ever see is a liberal attack machine.
I suppose Swift boat veterans for the truth don't exist. To the impartial observer both parties are guilty of smearing the opposition both sink as low as each other, basically a lot of pot talking to kettle. Could you provide some links for the liberal attack machine as it seems to be ineffective or on a smaller scale than the republicans this is the first obviouse one I have seen. First Those swift boat vets now this what's next?
In any case, shouldn't those explosive materials start to decay after some time. I'm not saying that they can't explode, but at least I would expect the explosion to be a fraction of what it might have been fifty years ago.
Depends on the type of explosive but as they degrade they often get more volatile, had a disturbing example whilst on an adventure holiday with the school we did a walk through an army training area we had been given the standard talk about not picking up or kicking things on the floor, anyway after the walk we got back to the house where we are given another talk by the guide specifically about explosives and that if we picked anything up we should hand it in for our own safety at this point someone pulls out a red stick and places it on the table. The look on the guys face was pure terror. To cut a long story short we spent along time outside waiting for the Army to deal with it, what caused his terror was the explosive had started to "sweat" and beads of nitro-glycerine (I think) where just sitting on the surface you only need to a little bit of force to make the beads and as a result the rest of the explosive explode.
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Firstly i can see the OEMs not bothering to tell MS the truth on how many blank boxes they sold. Also i have this feeling that the russian Gov is not all that bothered about licenses
So major that no problems occured when i removed it same for IE.
Mark parent up this is the most insightfull comment on the whole topic
Do you know what there are still companies in the world that do this and they tend to get repeat custom from the more intelligent customer. There are plenty of companies who offer lifetime guarantees of there products. It is only in the software industry do you charge the customer to fix your own mistakes. By you theory I should stop downloading Windows updates as the development is being paid for by companies support contracts, or is it that despite being slow about it MS actually do understand a little bit about customer care. Unlike your company it seems, that must be embarrassing MS have better customer care than your company.
Product quality is irrelevant when a monopoly abuses it's position, only the geeky can be bothered to install a new player. Both these points have been made quite clearley before. If MS where sure of the quality of there product they wouldn't mind WMP being separated as it would stand up on it's own, given a choice most people will chose the better product anyway.
The RealPlayer installer, for instance, should be picked up by Norton's and quarantined before you can even install it.
why would Norton's be so dumb as to risk a lawsuit? If you don't like Real player you should try real alternative best media player by far.
Simply no because Photoshop can open BMP files and so can other paint packages.
It was more a joke about peckham spring water which was just tap water, but yes i kow they are more than tap water and have been purified/fortified but i also think there a rip off for what they are hence the only fools and horses reference.
No it's because we have a large amount of idiots who think that putting tap water into bottles makes it better. Like dasani or it's highclass rival peckham spring
Some facts on the 14 cylinder version: Total engine weight: 2300 tons (The crankshaft alone weighs 300 tons.) Length: 89 feet Height: 44 feet Maximum power: 108,920 hp at 102 rpm Maximum torque: 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm A single cylinder is 1820 Liters
The pictures are even more impresive:
Check out this site for some sound samples of high quality tube amps all hand wired and no printed circuit boards just scroll along and select sounds, I bought the harlequin not long ago it might be only 6 watts but it's a hell of a lot louder than the 20 watt Marshall hybrid (combination of tube and solid state) it replaced.
"Later in the week the home secretary is to host a summit on tackling gun crime, which figures due out on Thursday are expected to show has risen sharply......It is expected the figures will show a 20% increase in firearm offences in England and Wales." That happened over a year ago and it showed a small rise which has been wiped out this year, just because the journalist perceived there to be a big increase in crime and excepts people to announce it doesn't mean it's true, you may not have been talking out of your ass but hindsight has shown the journalist was.
Bobbies are now being issued guns. If you want crime to go away, get guns in the hands of the citizens.
Ok where did you get Bobbies are now being issued with guns from? Because they don't carry guns and the biggest police union don't want to carry guns, there are highly trained armed police but they are support units not Bobbies on the beat. Also there are guns in the hands of Citizens (except ironically handguns) I have a full bore license, I have a Lee-Enfield .303 that I use for target shooting and culling deer and Browning 525 Shotgun for Clay pigeon shooting. If someone where to break into my house I would rather attach my Granddads bayonet to the lee-Enfield very intimidating, and if it came to a fight I would rather use the gun as a club anyway.
They may not want to if council is there own party but if it's the oposition im sure they would be delighted to go on TV and tell the council off publicley, that's possibley something you could try yourself Im sure they wouldn't want negative publicity in the news.
Because bad driving can kill at any speed where as speed only kills when combined with bad driving.
No simpsons for you Then
There economies are like America experiencing a jobless recovery there GDP etc are rising but the number of jobs isn't. I'm from the UK by the way we have plenty of jobs but not enough houses.
A business strategy that plans to produce bad work (but on time of course as thats more important than quality)and stiff the customer
IBM: What do you meen it's a scratch your arms hanging off
SCO:I've had worse
IBM:You liar
Hutton report also know as the whitewash report or the we F***ed up but were going to take down those who tell the truth about us report. Also the later butler report that looks specifically at the dosier not david kelly's death condraticts hutton by saying that the dossier was misleading. About 90% of the UK thinks the Hutton report was the biggest piece of BS ever made
There was one use for Nitroglycerine the original sticky bomb (not the one they make in private ryan that's technicaly a gamon bomb)
The N 74 Grenade (Sticky Bomb) was designed as an anti-tank grenade and was disliked by everybody who ever came across it.
The grenade consisted of a glass ball on the end of a bakelite (plastic) handle. Inside the glass ball was an explosive filling whilst on the outside was a very sticky adhesive covering. Until used, this adhesive covering was encased in a metal outer casing.
Due to the use of glass in this grenade, they were fragile and travelled badly. Quite often the glass would crack in transit, causing the explosive to start leaking out. This explosive which leaked out was not very sensitive to friction but was very sensitive to impact and detonation could occur if the exposed explosive received a blow due to careless handling.
To use the grenade, you remove the case release pin (not the pin marked 'DANGER'). This allows the metal protective casing to fall free, exposing the adhesive coating. You then grip the handle and safety lever and remove the safety pin (marked 'DANGER'). The grenade is now ready to either throw or attach to the target.
This is where the sticky bomb is most dangerous! Whilst attempting to throw it, the grenade could stick to the wearers' clothing!
If the thrower has not let go of the safety lever, he has to try and remove the item of clothing without letting go of the lever. If the thrower has let go of the lever, he has 5 second to remove the item of clothing and get a safe distance away from the bomb. When this happened, it tended to end up stuck to the throwers' trousers - with the uniform which was worn at the time, to remove his trousers (which were held up by braces) the thrower would have to remove any equipment (belt, ammunition pouches, etc.) followed by his Battle Dress blouse (jacket). He would then have to try and take his trousers off over his boots - all in less than 5 seconds! You may ask why the thrower could not just pull the grenade off of his clothing. They could try this but the adhesive coating was designed to allow the grenade, which weighed 2¼ lbs (1 Kg), to stick to the side of a tank.
Extract from training manual: This grenade has been introduced for use against light A.F.Vs. It is designed to stick to a suitable target, thus ensuring that the high explosive has its maximum effect. The grenade will NOT stick should the surface be wet or muddy.
The grenade is suitable for use at road blocks, positions of ambush, or for dropping from upstairs windows on to tanks.
Although the effect of the explosion is localised, the thrower must take cover owing to the blast.
For night raids on tank parts, the grenade is an ideal weapon. It can be regarded as a portable demolition charge and planted by hand instead of thrown, so long as the operator retreats in such a direction that he is protected from the explosion. With practice and training, the grenade can be thrown up to about 20 yds.
Pretty much everyone would change there views 180 degrees regardless of which party they support. Pot to kettle Pot to kettle you are black.
That is precisely what they did call them ICB's or "Incendiary cluster bombs" I have seen them referred to in official reports of the era I've even seen it written on the side of museum piece bombs. Do you know what a cluster bomb is? It is a cluster of small bombs inside a bigger case; this is exactly how ww2 incendiary bomb worked they where the first cluster bombs. Just because you don't call them clusters doesn't mean they didn't
Just found this piece of information it also tells you a bit about incendiary cluster bombs Cluster bomb technology was first used by Germany against the United Kingdom in the Second World War, and developed independently by America and Russia, and is now widely available. Please, please, please review the differences between a WWII fragmentation bomb, and a cluster bomb. I can't believe someone is actually defending a journalist's sloppy, inaccurate reporting.
A fragmentation bomb is a metal case full of explosive that fragments a cluster bomb is cluster of little bombs that can be fragmentation incendiary even toxic gas.
I can't believe someone is actually defending a journalist's sloppy, inaccurate reporting. The usage in this case was a journalist who had no idea what he was reporting on, and simply made up details. There were no such things as "cluster bombs" in WWII. Typical journalism. If it was the BBC reporting, I wouldn't be surprised in the least.
Perhaps you should apologise for those statements sources more credible than you disagree. And from your title of Shut the F**k up you know it as well but don't wan't to hear it.
Nah it's just that we can get our hand explosive much easeyer than diving on a wreck, just go for walk across an army training ground (most are open to the public most of the time)and keep your eyes open if your lucky you will something cool.
I notice alot of people claim to be in favour of free speech but then are totally horrified when someone uses it to express an opinion different from there own.
I constantly hear about this "Republican attack machine," but honestly all I ever see is a liberal attack machine.
I suppose Swift boat veterans for the truth don't exist. To the impartial observer both parties are guilty of smearing the opposition both sink as low as each other, basically a lot of pot talking to kettle. Could you provide some links for the liberal attack machine as it seems to be ineffective or on a smaller scale than the republicans this is the first obviouse one I have seen. First Those swift boat vets now this what's next?
Depends on the type of explosive but as they degrade they often get more volatile, had a disturbing example whilst on an adventure holiday with the school we did a walk through an army training area we had been given the standard talk about not picking up or kicking things on the floor, anyway after the walk we got back to the house where we are given another talk by the guide specifically about explosives and that if we picked anything up we should hand it in for our own safety at this point someone pulls out a red stick and places it on the table. The look on the guys face was pure terror. To cut a long story short we spent along time outside waiting for the Army to deal with it, what caused his terror was the explosive had started to "sweat" and beads of nitro-glycerine (I think) where just sitting on the surface you only need to a little bit of force to make the beads and as a result the rest of the explosive explode.
there are still supporters of the Tzar about?