Why would they bother modifying and testing their bootloader with competing operating systems? That is what wouldn't make business sense. If it even costs them $100 in programmer time to make it play well with Linux (a competitor), then it is probably a waste. They'd prefer you just run your alternative OSes in a VM on their OS.
For one thing research is ongoing on ensuring the scanned print is coming off the *flesh* surface of a warm, live finger attached to a live human being.
It might help if people realized that when they download files with a p2p app that it usually ends up sharing them too and that US copyright law lets the RIAA come take their money. Any time I fix a computer, I usually find p2p apps or someone asks me about "downloading free music". I always tell them to a) remove the p2p software or b) do not download music through p2p or otherwise. For one, I don't want my name coming up in association with the machine if the RIAA comes calling and the owner wants to cover their ass.
They go after people with no money or other expenses who will settle and get on a payment plan to pay whatever the RIAA wants + interest. Why go after someone who can pay a lawyer or might have a lawyer friend who can file the paperwork to put the stops to the suit immediately. They look much better if they get people who won't be able to get a good lawyer before those short notice hearings and then get boned at the hearing.
The one and only time I ever had to call, I was immediately accused of installing the software on too many machines. They were so quick to jump the gun on it, that I know damn well they couldn't have been actually looked at the history for the software since it had been activated ONCE on the EXACT same hardware on ONE machine almost a year prior.
That is the ONE problem I have with Microsoft's software: they see pirates around every corner and their customers are criminals.
I don't think XP requires a reboot for any network configuration change aside from perhaps changing the computer name/workgroup. I think changing the workgroup usually works without a reboot though.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. "
In other words: The people do have a constitutional right preventing unreasonable searches and seizures. No warrant to perform a search may be issued without probable cause. A warrant to perform a search must describe the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
For one thing, even if police have a warrant, there may be things that they still may not be allowed to seize if they are not in a place included in the warrant. If they have a warrant to search your house specifically, they may not be allowed to search your cabin in the woods even if it's on the same property.
The reason evidence gets thrown out over a warrantless search in court is because the search or the specific seizure of an item was ILLEGAL from the start and should never have happened. Just because someone doesn't go to jail at the end of the day for it, that doesn't mean they had the right to perform that action.
You do know that Hawaii is entirely composed of active volcanoes and their exhaust, right? I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to go tell the population that having seismographs there is a "waste".
By the time Windows XP Pro SP2 / SP3 / whatever the last SP is goes out of support, these companies should have upgraded their hardware due to the machines falling over dead. Microsoft will mainstream support and sale of XP to OEMs and retail for a year after Windows Vista is generally available. After that, it will enter extended support for businesses for another 5+ years. I think most of them will replace their machines with something that can run laps around Vista by 2013-14.
It would be nice if they extended the mainstream support phase after the next SP release since the new version does require a hardware upgrade in most cases...
Kids at that age would likely impede the *continued* development of their brain by consuming excessive amounts of alcohol. Ever notice how sometimes a 25 year old that drank till they were drunk regularly when they were 14-15 still acts like they were about that age (reckless, thoughtless for consequences, etc)? I see it all the time. I wonder why...
They have every protection under the US Constitution and US Federal law. Students only have SOME of their rights slightly restricted. This is typically while at school or during the time they are supposed to be going/coming to/from school or when they are supposed to be there. The US Constitution makes no claims as to the age when you receive any rights. All citizens born in the US received are protected by the Constitution from birth.
Why else would any lawyers argue over a minors' Constitutional rights in court all the time?
The majority of the development team for the almighty Mac probably look like a cross between RMS and Bill Gates. There might be some vapid artists designing the UI. Of course it's been toned down in nearly every release because it was just too damn artsy for their users' taste.
Except when IBM, RedHat, Novell and others get a judge to say "simply having a paper contract is not sufficient proof that a currently binding contract exists". Maybe you violated some terms and it's been revoked!
If OpenXML is standardized like Microsoft wants, and there is still no accessibility capable ODF products available, MS Office could end up winning by default anywhere with accessibility laws on the books. That is exactly the reason governments are asking for ODF support. They want to use the ODF format, but want to use Microsoft Office to satisfy their legal obligations. They could end up using OpenXML and MS Office if OpenXML becomes a standard.
I'm not sure that outsiders blocking their people from getting out of the great firewall would be much of a concern to them. They can always tell them the evil capitalists are just out to destroy their utopia.;p
The original 53 member Commission on Human Rights was based in Geneva and is now being REPLACED by the UN and seats are being filled by vote of the General Assembly. Seats are apportioned in such a way that there are a total of 7 out of 47 seats to be filled from Western Europe, North America and other states not located in Eastern Europe (6), Asia (13), Latin America and Carribean (8), and Africa (13). After the voting to fill the seats China, Cuba, Mexico, Saudi Arabian and Jordan were some of the shining stars to get 3 year terms on the Council.
Some of the very dictators that are getting those headaches get to put a man on the council to undermine them.
The suit alleges that Google fiddled with their ranking. While it does seem unlikely that they could be competition for Google when their traffic RELIES on Google, a court might not take kindly to the #1 search engine intentionally neutering another search engine's ranking without damn good reason.
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Microsoft generally thinks you should buy another copy of Windows if you change motherboards for any other reason than a defective board.
The boot sector of the partition you install XP to MUST be the XP bootloader. The MBR is the issue.
Supposedly Bill Gates asked why anyone would ever want to shut down Windows...
Why would they bother modifying and testing their bootloader with competing operating systems? That is what wouldn't make business sense. If it even costs them $100 in programmer time to make it play well with Linux (a competitor), then it is probably a waste. They'd prefer you just run your alternative OSes in a VM on their OS.
They'd probably start screaming that God made THEM in his image or something until confronted with something older than themselves :P
For one thing research is ongoing on ensuring the scanned print is coming off the *flesh* surface of a warm, live finger attached to a live human being.
It might help if people realized that when they download files with a p2p app that it usually ends up sharing them too and that US copyright law lets the RIAA come take their money. Any time I fix a computer, I usually find p2p apps or someone asks me about "downloading free music". I always tell them to a) remove the p2p software or b) do not download music through p2p or otherwise. For one, I don't want my name coming up in association with the machine if the RIAA comes calling and the owner wants to cover their ass.
They go after people with no money or other expenses who will settle and get on a payment plan to pay whatever the RIAA wants + interest. Why go after someone who can pay a lawyer or might have a lawyer friend who can file the paperwork to put the stops to the suit immediately. They look much better if they get people who won't be able to get a good lawyer before those short notice hearings and then get boned at the hearing.
The one and only time I ever had to call, I was immediately accused of installing the software on too many machines. They were so quick to jump the gun on it, that I know damn well they couldn't have been actually looked at the history for the software since it had been activated ONCE on the EXACT same hardware on ONE machine almost a year prior.
That is the ONE problem I have with Microsoft's software: they see pirates around every corner and their customers are criminals.
I don't think XP requires a reboot for any network configuration change aside from perhaps changing the computer name/workgroup. I think changing the workgroup usually works without a reboot though.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. "
In other words: The people do have a constitutional right preventing unreasonable searches and seizures. No warrant to perform a search may be issued without probable cause. A warrant to perform a search must describe the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
For one thing, even if police have a warrant, there may be things that they still may not be allowed to seize if they are not in a place included in the warrant. If they have a warrant to search your house specifically, they may not be allowed to search your cabin in the woods even if it's on the same property.
The reason evidence gets thrown out over a warrantless search in court is because the search or the specific seizure of an item was ILLEGAL from the start and should never have happened. Just because someone doesn't go to jail at the end of the day for it, that doesn't mean they had the right to perform that action.
So there's GPLed BIOS and firmware for all those PC components too?
You do know that Hawaii is entirely composed of active volcanoes and their exhaust, right? I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to go tell the population that having seismographs there is a "waste".
By the time Windows XP Pro SP2 / SP3 / whatever the last SP is goes out of support, these companies should have upgraded their hardware due to the machines falling over dead. Microsoft will mainstream support and sale of XP to OEMs and retail for a year after Windows Vista is generally available. After that, it will enter extended support for businesses for another 5+ years. I think most of them will replace their machines with something that can run laps around Vista by 2013-14.
It would be nice if they extended the mainstream support phase after the next SP release since the new version does require a hardware upgrade in most cases...
Kids at that age would likely impede the *continued* development of their brain by consuming excessive amounts of alcohol. Ever notice how sometimes a 25 year old that drank till they were drunk regularly when they were 14-15 still acts like they were about that age (reckless, thoughtless for consequences, etc)? I see it all the time. I wonder why...
They have every protection under the US Constitution and US Federal law. Students only have SOME of their rights slightly restricted. This is typically while at school or during the time they are supposed to be going/coming to/from school or when they are supposed to be there. The US Constitution makes no claims as to the age when you receive any rights. All citizens born in the US received are protected by the Constitution from birth.
Why else would any lawyers argue over a minors' Constitutional rights in court all the time?
The majority of the development team for the almighty Mac probably look like a cross between RMS and Bill Gates. There might be some vapid artists designing the UI. Of course it's been toned down in nearly every release because it was just too damn artsy for their users' taste.
Except when IBM, RedHat, Novell and others get a judge to say "simply having a paper contract is not sufficient proof that a currently binding contract exists". Maybe you violated some terms and it's been revoked!
If OpenXML is standardized like Microsoft wants, and there is still no accessibility capable ODF products available, MS Office could end up winning by default anywhere with accessibility laws on the books. That is exactly the reason governments are asking for ODF support. They want to use the ODF format, but want to use Microsoft Office to satisfy their legal obligations. They could end up using OpenXML and MS Office if OpenXML becomes a standard.
Quit posting FUD. It's a prototype version 0.1.
I'm not sure that outsiders blocking their people from getting out of the great firewall would be much of a concern to them. They can always tell them the evil capitalists are just out to destroy their utopia. ;p
Microsoft seems to manage auto-indenting just fine in Visual Studio and VS Express.
The original 53 member Commission on Human Rights was based in Geneva and is now being REPLACED by the UN and seats are being filled by vote of the General Assembly. Seats are apportioned in such a way that there are a total of 7 out of 47 seats to be filled from Western Europe, North America and other states not located in Eastern Europe (6), Asia (13), Latin America and Carribean (8), and Africa (13). After the voting to fill the seats China, Cuba, Mexico, Saudi Arabian and Jordan were some of the shining stars to get 3 year terms on the Council.
Some of the very dictators that are getting those headaches get to put a man on the council to undermine them.
I say give it to the UN security council. That way NOTHING will ever get done.
The suit alleges that Google fiddled with their ranking. While it does seem unlikely that they could be competition for Google when their traffic RELIES on Google, a court might not take kindly to the #1 search engine intentionally neutering another search engine's ranking without damn good reason.