If anything Adobe wants to buy Autodesk (or the other way around), since those tools are so closely tied together.
Autodesk and Adobe are not closely tied. Autodesk is closely tied with Microsoft. Autodesk products are heavily dependent on Microsoft libraries. KB918118 fixed security issue and Inventor was hosed. CAD products previously written for OpenGL now can also use DirectX. It is good only for Microsoft, because their graphic system is used instead of OpenGL. It is not good for CAD card manufacturers, because cheaper DirectX cards are outperforming older generation FireGLs and Quatros
Maya runs on Mac and Linux, but it was written by Alias and not by Adobe.
Yes... did anyone even read the books before posting that? seriously, there are issues with those laws.
As other posters said your assumption is based on "I, Robot", the movie and machine that does not follow laws of robotics. "Evidence" from "I, Robot" stories. If somebody follows three laws of robotics, it is either machine or very good human being. You must violate those laws in order to prove that you are human. Only medical scans might show that robot following laws of robotics is not human.
to force ISP's to filter the entire fscking Internet, one service at a time?
How about filtering of their bills? If ISP blocks some part of Internet, I don't have to pay for that part of bill. TOS does not say anything about the fact that I can't use some ports.
To Intel and vendors: How bloody hard is to include "supports ECC" in your online product summary?
You looked at the wrong page. Check links under "Server Boards" and "Server and workstation chipsets". Intel supports ECC and Windows Server drivers only on pricey server broads and chipsets.
"More people died in religious wars as percentage of population than any other wars in the history of this planet."
That's kind of a grand statement, do you have any actual data to back it up?
There were wars, when religion was used to justify aggression.
Crusades to MidEast and to Baltics
Arabic expansion in Mediterranean in Middle Ages
Current Middle East situation
Huguenot wars in France
Colonization of America
It is impossible to backup claims that religion killed more than other things, because Western countries stopped using religion as justification of military actions and World Wars have big influence on statistics. We don't have numbers about people lost during conflicts in Middle Ages or colonization and current Middle East conflict hasn't reached phase of total annihilation.
Microsoft would love to do this. The OEM deal is in the consumers and manufacturers best interest and not all that great for Microsoft. Except for perhaps reinforcing the dominance of Windows which is unlikely to be dimenshed any time soon. Microsoft would experience 2x or 3x their current revenue should this happen.
Only when people continue to buy their product for increased price and Microsoft doesn't have to invest into support infrastructure. Otherwise company will have to reduce price and lose more money on support.
Every site I have ever been to that uses Outlook experiences periodic Outlook lock-ups.
Every Outlook Express installation eventually has mailbox issues. OE locks up with unintuitive error messages during POP3 or SMTP operations when INBOX, Sent Items or some other folder reaches its limits. Limit is somewhere close to 2GB. That's less than 2 years of emails.
If the playerbase actually go through this verification process (big if), it would offer a rare opportunity to observe macroscopic differences in how men and women behave in MMOs.
Only if entire player base goes through verification process.
I really don't see how this improves the bottom line. Does it hurt Apple for people to be using something other than their media player (which is free to obtain) to put songs on their iPod?
In the real world, outside of software, there are plenty of non-transferable licenses. Buy a "lifetime" membership at your local gym, and then try selling it someone else - it isn't allowed since it is stated in the contract at the time of sale. Same thing with Autodesk's software. If someone doesn't like Autodesk's licensing terms they are free not to buy Autodesk software.
Check your country's customer protection laws. Autodesk does not have the right to restrict it. If person buys license from Autodesk, he or she has the right to sell that license. Any EULA term restricting this right is illegal and is an attempt to monopolize market.
You can't print money unless you are entity with the right to print money. If microsoft pays fine in vouchers, receivers of these vouchers can pay with monopoly money for purchased software.
Slashdot Mirror
Server provided banner - 1,521,596 - 85.95%
Server banner identifies software in use - 921,048 - 52.03%
Qmail does not provide banner that allows to identify software. 0.17% is for Qmail toaster.
How many times a day you search for something in google? Can you use other search engine and stop using google?
How many urchin cookies you have in your browser?
Autodesk and Adobe are not closely tied. Autodesk is closely tied with Microsoft. Autodesk products are heavily dependent on Microsoft libraries. KB918118 fixed security issue and Inventor was hosed. CAD products previously written for OpenGL now can also use DirectX. It is good only for Microsoft, because their graphic system is used instead of OpenGL. It is not good for CAD card manufacturers, because cheaper DirectX cards are outperforming older generation FireGLs and Quatros
Maya runs on Mac and Linux, but it was written by Alias and not by Adobe.
US English shows up as POP/IMAP and has IMAP options. Russian shows up as POP and does not have IMAP options.
As other posters said your assumption is based on "I, Robot", the movie and machine that does not follow laws of robotics. "Evidence" from "I, Robot" stories. If somebody follows three laws of robotics, it is either machine or very good human being. You must violate those laws in order to prove that you are human. Only medical scans might show that robot following laws of robotics is not human.
It operates within limitations of Internet.
There were wars, when religion was used to justify aggression.
It is impossible to backup claims that religion killed more than other things, because Western countries stopped using religion as justification of military actions and World Wars have big influence on statistics. We don't have numbers about people lost during conflicts in Middle Ages or colonization and current Middle East conflict hasn't reached phase of total annihilation.
It will be higher for the short period of time. Then search engines will adjust their ranking algorithms.
P.S. Thanks for giving shorter filter for ranking abusers.
Every Outlook Express installation eventually has mailbox issues. OE locks up with unintuitive error messages during POP3 or SMTP operations when INBOX, Sent Items or some other folder reaches its limits. Limit is somewhere close to 2GB. That's less than 2 years of emails.
Same 2GB limit affects Thunderbird mailboxes.
You can't print money unless you are entity with the right to print money. If microsoft pays fine in vouchers, receivers of these vouchers can pay with monopoly money for purchased software.