1. MS office is not shipped free with a dell computer. Open office would be like windows, something dell provides and thus their responsibility.
Utter bullshit. (The second point, not the first.) If you buy a Dell, or a Compaq, or whichever megavendor PC, they all come with 3rd party software and trials for software that disclaim any support from the system vendor.
2. The source is the major cost. Clearly the FTP server is not free, the bandwidth is not free some one needs to reply to the email address. The thus it will cost dell money to include open office with no measurable increase in revenue because of the inclusion of open office. the source requirement in the GLP is the biggest hurdle.
Once again, it's not. Even if the disk space cost $10,000 that is a business expense and written off. Bandwidth costs? Get real. No residential customer will download it. If they do, they will get it from download.openoffice.org more likely than not. Besides a URL on the system that points at openoffice.org would meet the requirement of the GPL if Dell doesn't make source changes, and custom configuration is NOT a source change.
Yea for Dr. Hulme! Advocating science simply be science and leave the alarmist claptrap of BOTH sides out. He must be lonely. A sane person in an insane world.
I believe that they are saying that you do not radiate that much on earth because all of the other radiation sources around you impinging you with their waste heat. The (Ts^4 - To^4) part of the equasion mentioned earlier, I think. You're 300k (Ts) and the surroundings are 295k (To) therfore the radiated amounts are much much lower. This actually only applies if you are far from a star. Depending on where you are and your (lack of) rotation you could have one side (sunward) cook while the other side (deepspaceward) would freeze.
Volunteer does not HAVE to mean without compensation, it means without coercion, of their own free will. Many volunteers are not compensted for their efforts, but others are. The people who join the U.S. military are volunteers, but they do get paid during their term of service and they do get other benefits. No less volunteers, just compensated volunteers.
A former employer of mine had some thing similar going on, but the roles were reversed. 50-60 a week for contract employees with a bill of 40 was the norm. First time billable hours came back >40 that person got a talking to. A second time precluded a third occurance.;)
No, you own a pice of plastic with a variably reflective substrate, not the copyrighted material encoded in the substrate. Once again the difference between real property and intilectual property. That "copy" to hard drive, or what not, is covered in the license. It tells you where and when you can and cannot copy the licensed materials.
Don't like the laws concerning copyright? Then legislate to have it changed. Run for office with copyright reform as part of your platform. Get a petition circulating. Do something besides whine that judges don't agree with you as to the application of concepts of "fair use" and "first sale".
That's the thing though, you license the copy of the software you don't own the copy. It's more like a lease than ownership of real property, but not really. It's its own beast.
Years ago I saw a poster. Wish I had gotten it. It said, "Smile, there's an angel behind that camera!" with an monocolor image of an angel watching a CCTV monitor. As was asked all those years ago, who watches the watchers. The MPs need to be held just as accountable as the citizens they govern.
Yes, so assume you are always under surveilance and act accordingly. If you are an average workaday bloke follow all the laws and say nothing provocative. If you are a person with wealth, connections, or clout simply keep breaking the laws since evidence has never mattered in the past so surveilance video won't make an difference.
Because nice sugar daddy Government will keep you warm, fed, and safe from all the nasties out there in the big bad world like football hooligans and terrorists. All you have to do is be amenable to a few, um, proclivities that your sugar daddy has. Now, close your eyes and think of England.
Well, I pride myself on not being "most yankees". Football, at least the USian version, used to just be one day a week in the afternoons. I could hold out through that. This season it was what, 4 days a week, with some in the evenings? Don't know. Now, hockey can be seen almost every evening during prime "not at work and not asleep" hours, so... Sometimes you just HAVE to multitask.
We are talking carriers. Bandwidth providers. They want the privilege of being allowed monopolies for laying cables on public lands and other functions, and then they want to be able to tell the people how they can use said monopoly granted resources that the customers are paying them for. They get to provide monopoly services for the good of the public, and then they also get to define "good of the public". Seems a bit fishy to most.
Ok. You get your 4Mb/s pipe to your house. No throttling. Too bad none of your content providers paid us for the privledge of communicating with you across our network. We're not throttling your bandwidth. Hell, if you want we can send you 4Mb/s of random 1s and 0s if you want to prove you are getting the bandwidth to your house your paying for. Now tell your deadbeat content providers to pony up so they can help you use that bandwidth for something besides exercising our PRNGs.
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1. MS office is not shipped free with a dell computer. Open office would be like windows, something dell provides and thus their responsibility.
Utter bullshit. (The second point, not the first.) If you buy a Dell, or a Compaq, or whichever megavendor PC, they all come with 3rd party software and trials for software that disclaim any support from the system vendor.
2. The source is the major cost. Clearly the FTP server is not free, the bandwidth is not free some one needs to reply to the email address. The thus it will cost dell money to include open office with no measurable increase in revenue because of the inclusion of open office. the source requirement in the GLP is the biggest hurdle.
Once again, it's not. Even if the disk space cost $10,000 that is a business expense and written off. Bandwidth costs? Get real. No residential customer will download it. If they do, they will get it from download.openoffice.org more likely than not. Besides a URL on the system that points at openoffice.org would meet the requirement of the GPL if Dell doesn't make source changes, and custom configuration is NOT a source change.
May I ask exactly what those CO2 concentrations would do to the humans that we "can't take"? Just curious.
Yea for Dr. Hulme! Advocating science simply be science and leave the alarmist claptrap of BOTH sides out. He must be lonely. A sane person in an insane world.
Dahak would prefer that you not spread his little secret around.
I believe that they are saying that you do not radiate that much on earth because all of the other radiation sources around you impinging you with their waste heat. The (Ts^4 - To^4) part of the equasion mentioned earlier, I think. You're 300k (Ts) and the surroundings are 295k (To) therfore the radiated amounts are much much lower. This actually only applies if you are far from a star. Depending on where you are and your (lack of) rotation you could have one side (sunward) cook while the other side (deepspaceward) would freeze.
No. Maybe you should go look up volunteer and employee in a dictionary. Then you might understand the difference.
Everybody pile in the flower themed VW bus and fire up the bong! We're off to Linuxstock 2.0.
Volunteer does not HAVE to mean without compensation, it means without coercion, of their own free will. Many volunteers are not compensted for their efforts, but others are. The people who join the U.S. military are volunteers, but they do get paid during their term of service and they do get other benefits. No less volunteers, just compensated volunteers.
A former employer of mine had some thing similar going on, but the roles were reversed. 50-60 a week for contract employees with a bill of 40 was the norm. First time billable hours came back >40 that person got a talking to. A second time precluded a third occurance. ;)
No, you own a pice of plastic with a variably reflective substrate, not the copyrighted material encoded in the substrate. Once again the difference between real property and intilectual property. That "copy" to hard drive, or what not, is covered in the license. It tells you where and when you can and cannot copy the licensed materials.
Don't like the laws concerning copyright? Then legislate to have it changed. Run for office with copyright reform as part of your platform. Get a petition circulating. Do something besides whine that judges don't agree with you as to the application of concepts of "fair use" and "first sale".
That's the thing though, you license the copy of the software you don't own the copy. It's more like a lease than ownership of real property, but not really. It's its own beast.
You sir or madame are a person after my own heart.
Yeah. Too bad the real legal system in the U.S. doesn't take its que from T.V. shows. Then everyone could be a legal expert.
Years ago I saw a poster. Wish I had gotten it. It said, "Smile, there's an angel behind that camera!" with an monocolor image of an angel watching a CCTV monitor. As was asked all those years ago, who watches the watchers. The MPs need to be held just as accountable as the citizens they govern.
Yes, so assume you are always under surveilance and act accordingly. If you are an average workaday bloke follow all the laws and say nothing provocative. If you are a person with wealth, connections, or clout simply keep breaking the laws since evidence has never mattered in the past so surveilance video won't make an difference.
Because nice sugar daddy Government will keep you warm, fed, and safe from all the nasties out there in the big bad world like football hooligans and terrorists. All you have to do is be amenable to a few, um, proclivities that your sugar daddy has. Now, close your eyes and think of England.
It could have unintended consiquences.
Well, I pride myself on not being "most yankees". Football, at least the USian version, used to just be one day a week in the afternoons. I could hold out through that. This season it was what, 4 days a week, with some in the evenings? Don't know. Now, hockey can be seen almost every evening during prime "not at work and not asleep" hours, so... Sometimes you just HAVE to multitask.
But that only applies to Ma Bell in the USA not to the Bells in Canada.
We are talking carriers. Bandwidth providers. They want the privilege of being allowed monopolies for laying cables on public lands and other functions, and then they want to be able to tell the people how they can use said monopoly granted resources that the customers are paying them for. They get to provide monopoly services for the good of the public, and then they also get to define "good of the public". Seems a bit fishy to most.
Ok. You get your 4Mb/s pipe to your house. No throttling. Too bad none of your content providers paid us for the privledge of communicating with you across our network. We're not throttling your bandwidth. Hell, if you want we can send you 4Mb/s of random 1s and 0s if you want to prove you are getting the bandwidth to your house your paying for. Now tell your deadbeat content providers to pony up so they can help you use that bandwidth for something besides exercising our PRNGs.
Hell, some of us in the States do it for the same reason.
Well, at least Ma Bell knows best. They know what's best for their customers. Riiiight.
Security through obscurity never works. ;)
No, apparently it is a brand name. Say so right in the article you linked.