It does say owner which generally means you have to be licensed (you don't own the actual program really). If you have a licensed copy, you can make all the copies you want of the disc as long as you don't make unauthorized use of it. Nobody's had the balls to go up against MS over their EULA or licensing so that means whatever is in the EULA or license for now.
If there's a large amount of debug data and the binaries aren't optimized in the least bit (debug builds typically aren't), there's no way it would be either slim in system memory or on disk or lightning fast to execute.
And what if the upstream providers decided they wanted to get rid of the downstream "leeches" who are just pointing people at their FTPs (and stealing their customers!).
Especially for owners of quarter million dollar beachfront property. The government provides insurance at lower than market rates even for inland properties and will rebuild the same (up to) $250,000 property an unlimited number of times. Owners would probably rather just build a brand new one rather than repair one left standing (nothing is like new like BRAND NEW!) so they build them as if hurricanes were a myth and just evacuate when one comes anywhere near. Afterall, these particular bastards have an inland house somewhere and will simply spend government tax dollars to rush construction so their new beach house is ready by the time they want to vacation there...
That is the root of the problem. He went in there knowing full well he wouldn't be welcomed and made a big stink over it. He made himself and the Free Software movement look like a bunch of retards in the process.
Microsft could never even ship a stripped down crippled version of an office suite with Windows without being dragged into court by Apple (!) and friends.
If it weren't for Microsoft, we'd be paying for a copy of Netscape 6.87 based on the Netscape 4.x codebase instead of running Firefox. Thank you, Bill Gates.
It has absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft Windows. Complain to the third party author of the *broken* software. Microsoft's stuff has been working fine for a long long time without admin rights. Why can't everyone else?
It's their customers demanding they only release fixes after they've tested and approved them. God only knows how many fixes we may never get because one huge customer has an issue with it and has the lawyers ready to go if they get exploited due to documentation of a flaw. That's probably why we've gotten so many fixes rolled in with other fixes undocumented.
You only get the option if there's actually crash that produces crash data. I don't think nVidia users are going to buy an ATI card and somehow fake crash data to submit while "gangbanging" ATI. I doubt MS will count every single crash due to the same bug against their rating either.
They're submitting OpenXML for standardization and the format would become *owned* by the standards organization. So they're already *trying* to open their format. I'm sure the ODF crew will do whatever they can to prevent OpenXML becoming a standard so they may continue pointing to it as "non-open".
XPS is an XML format introduced to a market that has been crazy over anything XML. If it were truely open and available to all to implement without restrictions, it could've been a great format for its purpose.
The position of the FTC is that Rockstar hid content in the game and the ESRB gave it an inaccurate rating which Rockstar put on the game packaging to mislead consumers. If such a thing happens, then the company in question is LYING to the purchaser. I wouldn't call this particular misrating a lie since it wasn't really hidden and it requires modding, but the principle is there.
Tell that to the Mozilla.org folks who were singing their own praises for continuing to support those poor Win9x bastards after Microsoft dropped their support;p Now that nobody remembers MS dropping them, Mozilla.org is ready to do the same.
I think it's a fitting punishment to make a mockery of both of these guys by having them on the local news playing rock, paper, scissors on the court house steps instead of working something out on their own.
I wonder if we could ever get Doom 3, Doom 3 Resurrection of Evil and Quake 4 ports for the Wii. Given there were rumblings about Doom 3 on the GC before, at 2-2.5x the power of the GC, the Wii might be able to handle it smoothly if it has the memory...
The only portion of the population that might be remotely considered political is the 21% (2002 figure) that were convicted on drug charges. The rest were violent crimes, property crimes, and 7% public-order (typically county/state jails; these prisoners probably rotate in and out at a constant rate). 51% were violent offenders and 21% were drug charges.
One of the reasons the prison population is growing is that we keep people in for a very long time for some offenses even while letting the worst offenders back on the streets for others (sex offenders we know will be coming right back after killing their next victim).
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It does say owner which generally means you have to be licensed (you don't own the actual program really). If you have a licensed copy, you can make all the copies you want of the disc as long as you don't make unauthorized use of it. Nobody's had the balls to go up against MS over their EULA or licensing so that means whatever is in the EULA or license for now.
If there's a large amount of debug data and the binaries aren't optimized in the least bit (debug builds typically aren't), there's no way it would be either slim in system memory or on disk or lightning fast to execute.
And what if the upstream providers decided they wanted to get rid of the downstream "leeches" who are just pointing people at their FTPs (and stealing their customers!).
Especially for owners of quarter million dollar beachfront property. The government provides insurance at lower than market rates even for inland properties and will rebuild the same (up to) $250,000 property an unlimited number of times. Owners would probably rather just build a brand new one rather than repair one left standing (nothing is like new like BRAND NEW!) so they build them as if hurricanes were a myth and just evacuate when one comes anywhere near. Afterall, these particular bastards have an inland house somewhere and will simply spend government tax dollars to rush construction so their new beach house is ready by the time they want to vacation there...
That is the root of the problem. He went in there knowing full well he wouldn't be welcomed and made a big stink over it. He made himself and the Free Software movement look like a bunch of retards in the process.
They were also pretty popular with the coal companies in the United States...
Microsft could never even ship a stripped down crippled version of an office suite with Windows without being dragged into court by Apple (!) and friends.
If it weren't for Microsoft, we'd be paying for a copy of Netscape 6.87 based on the Netscape 4.x codebase instead of running Firefox. Thank you, Bill Gates.
It has absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft Windows. Complain to the third party author of the *broken* software. Microsoft's stuff has been working fine for a long long time without admin rights. Why can't everyone else?
It's their customers demanding they only release fixes after they've tested and approved them. God only knows how many fixes we may never get because one huge customer has an issue with it and has the lawyers ready to go if they get exploited due to documentation of a flaw. That's probably why we've gotten so many fixes rolled in with other fixes undocumented.
so they won't fix it for you and others in a patch? that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of ;o
I'm not sure I'd want to deal with customers that are having driver issues with my "Vista Ready" PC that has been deemed not Vista ready by MS...
You only get the option if there's actually crash that produces crash data. I don't think nVidia users are going to buy an ATI card and somehow fake crash data to submit while "gangbanging" ATI. I doubt MS will count every single crash due to the same bug against their rating either.
aside from the fact that they wouldn't be able to get it WHQL certified with such a thing in place?
There's only so much you can expect with a certification for compatibility. Compatible and rock-solid stable are mutually exclusive.
It's about $115 OEM.
They're submitting OpenXML for standardization and the format would become *owned* by the standards organization. So they're already *trying* to open their format. I'm sure the ODF crew will do whatever they can to prevent OpenXML becoming a standard so they may continue pointing to it as "non-open".
XPS is an XML format introduced to a market that has been crazy over anything XML. If it were truely open and available to all to implement without restrictions, it could've been a great format for its purpose.
The position of the FTC is that Rockstar hid content in the game and the ESRB gave it an inaccurate rating which Rockstar put on the game packaging to mislead consumers. If such a thing happens, then the company in question is LYING to the purchaser. I wouldn't call this particular misrating a lie since it wasn't really hidden and it requires modding, but the principle is there.
There's also the statistic for active sites where IIS went +3% and Apache -3%.
Windows XP can view them with the WinFX framework installed.
Tell that to the Mozilla.org folks who were singing their own praises for continuing to support those poor Win9x bastards after Microsoft dropped their support ;p Now that nobody remembers MS dropping them, Mozilla.org is ready to do the same.
I think it's a fitting punishment to make a mockery of both of these guys by having them on the local news playing rock, paper, scissors on the court house steps instead of working something out on their own.
I wonder if we could ever get Doom 3, Doom 3 Resurrection of Evil and Quake 4 ports for the Wii. Given there were rumblings about Doom 3 on the GC before, at 2-2.5x the power of the GC, the Wii might be able to handle it smoothly if it has the memory...
The only portion of the population that might be remotely considered political is the 21% (2002 figure) that were convicted on drug charges. The rest were violent crimes, property crimes, and 7% public-order (typically county/state jails; these prisoners probably rotate in and out at a constant rate). 51% were violent offenders and 21% were drug charges.
One of the reasons the prison population is growing is that we keep people in for a very long time for some offenses even while letting the worst offenders back on the streets for others (sex offenders we know will be coming right back after killing their next victim).