'Windows is about choice - you can mix and match software and music player stuff. We believe you should have the same choice when it comes to music services.'
The fact that HP chooses to clone the iPod, or include a music player designed for a certain format doesn't limit anyones choice. These HP boxes are still windows machines, and will support all of the MS 'standards'.
As I see it; this doesn't harm consumers, and only angers MS because HP is not promoting the windows format.
The whole freedom of speech thing comes becomes paradoxical when you speak out against the US as a whole
Freedom of speech is acknowledged in the constitution specifically for the purpose of speaking out against the government.
The framers of the constitution were members of sovereign states who advocated giving limited power to a federal government.
The bill of rights simply states certain rights that we are not willing to give up for the convenience of a centralized government. These rights protect the ability of the 'citizens of the states' to revoke the power of the fedral government if it infringes on their personal freedoms.
If this person provided material support to terrorists, then he is a criminal. If he only spoke out against the government, then he is a patriot.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin. Liberty has always demanded a price, and a society completly free from danger will be devoid of liberty.
I served my country (USA) with honor in the armed forces. I swore an oath when I enlisted that I still hold sacred today to defend her 'from all enemies, foreign and domestic'
and there is stretching your mind to work out Kabbalistic numerology
If you are sufficiently well versed in Kabbalistic numerology, You don't need a controller to make your legos move.
Check this out They have already gotten over $8 million from Microsoft. This has been a good way for MS to fight Linux without getting their hands dirty.
Actually this is exactly what they are doing (getting back to ordinary bricks)
The basic, ordinary LEGO building block set has allways been LEGO's most profitable product. Other products (including mindstorm) have cost much more to create and produce than they have ever made in sales.
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'Windows is about choice - you can mix and match software and music player stuff. We believe you should have the same choice when it comes to music services.'
The fact that HP chooses to clone the iPod, or include a music player designed for a certain format doesn't limit anyones choice. These HP boxes are still windows machines, and will support all of the MS 'standards'.
As I see it; this doesn't harm consumers, and only angers MS because HP is not promoting the windows format.
The whole freedom of speech thing comes becomes paradoxical when you speak out against the US as a whole
Freedom of speech is acknowledged in the constitution specifically for the purpose of speaking out against the government.
The framers of the constitution were members of sovereign states who advocated giving limited power to a federal government.
The bill of rights simply states certain rights that we are not willing to give up for the convenience of a centralized government. These rights protect the ability of the 'citizens of the states' to revoke the power of the fedral government if it infringes on their personal freedoms.
If this person provided material support to terrorists, then he is a criminal. If he only spoke out against the government, then he is a patriot.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin.
Liberty has always demanded a price, and a society completly free from danger will be devoid of liberty.
I served my country (USA) with honor in the armed forces. I swore an oath when I enlisted that I still hold sacred today to defend her 'from all enemies, foreign and domestic'
and there is stretching your mind to work out Kabbalistic numerology
If you are sufficiently well versed in Kabbalistic numerology, You don't need a controller to make your legos move.
If you relly want to know how people feel about something, you have to put it on Slashdot
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They have already gotten over $8 million from Microsoft. This has been a good way for MS to fight Linux without getting their hands dirty.
Actually this is exactly what they are doing (getting back to ordinary bricks) The basic, ordinary LEGO building block set has allways been LEGO's most profitable product. Other products (including mindstorm) have cost much more to create and produce than they have ever made in sales.