If I'm running a business and have only a couple dozen highly intelligent investors funding me, I have a good chance of convincing them my business will do much better in the long term if I don't bleed the customer dry for short term profits and returns. My intelligent investors who don't plan to cash out in the next couple years will like this since they get long term returns on their investment. However, when I go public, whoever wants to may buy part of my company. I may end up with thousands of investors who don't give a shit about long term profit as long as they can sell their stock for a profit next week or next year.
Their headquarters are in the US. Those companies are no more than offices for their foreign operations. Those companies can be folded by MS anytime they want. The only think the EU can do is force MS to pay fines and do things in order to do business in the EU. They could demand that MS break up into separate divisions in order to do business in the EU, but they cannot force it like the US could.
The only time I've ever had to look at a text is when an instructor has assigned homework from questions in the book or I just didn't go to class and needed to read what they would've lectured on. At ~$600 per semester, they are rather expensive for such little use.
If it comes from the factory in a single package, it's a single proecessor regardless of how many cores are inside it. Hyperthreading CPUs aren't dual core btw. The OS sees them as 2 CPUs but they are not actually 2 CPUs.
Are you shitting me? That button is a standard feature on a lot of Microsoft dialog boxes. Putting it on the toolbar for a regular app is no different. I'm guessing MS licensed it and these guys thought they were just implementing a standard feature in a different part of the application. I think Microsoft should be sued for not informing people that their operating system is patent encumbered and implementing standard Windows features in your applications exposes you to patent liability.
It would help if MozSoft would get their act together and stop coding security flaws into WinZilla so that third parties don't have to worry about being screwed the the perpetual patch cycle.
How is that any different from the fact that a Linux kernel hacker should never look at closed MS WinNT kernel sources (even with permission) and an MS WinNT kernel hacker should never look at GPLed Linux kernel sources?
At what point does reimplementing an algorithm you saw (in code) somewhere else stop being code theft?
You realize that a congressma is anyone from either the House or the Senate, right? You also realize that the Senate is elected by popular vote statewide and the Representatives are elected by popular vote in districts. So Reps are just subdivided further than Senators, but they are still accountable to people and not the state government (who used to hold the leash).
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If I'm running a business and have only a couple dozen highly intelligent investors funding me, I have a good chance of convincing them my business will do much better in the long term if I don't bleed the customer dry for short term profits and returns. My intelligent investors who don't plan to cash out in the next couple years will like this since they get long term returns on their investment. However, when I go public, whoever wants to may buy part of my company. I may end up with thousands of investors who don't give a shit about long term profit as long as they can sell their stock for a profit next week or next year.
at which point Verizon beats them down in court over it
Yeah, but when there's nobody ordering it, how are they going to distribute it?
Their headquarters are in the US. Those companies are no more than offices for their foreign operations. Those companies can be folded by MS anytime they want. The only think the EU can do is force MS to pay fines and do things in order to do business in the EU. They could demand that MS break up into separate divisions in order to do business in the EU, but they cannot force it like the US could.
The only time I've ever had to look at a text is when an instructor has assigned homework from questions in the book or I just didn't go to class and needed to read what they would've lectured on. At ~$600 per semester, they are rather expensive for such little use.
Isn't the artist infringing hundreds of copyrights by reflecting all thos buildings and peoples' images in his sculpture?
If it comes from the factory in a single package, it's a single proecessor regardless of how many cores are inside it. Hyperthreading CPUs aren't dual core btw. The OS sees them as 2 CPUs but they are not actually 2 CPUs.
Actually that was pretty much right after telling her that she was totally screwed. The whole prayer thing was kind of a last resort thing ;p
The funny thing is the US nuclear threat would vaporize their entire country in a single salvo :| Who are they kidding?
and the (now known to be false) orders for Iraqi troops to use WMD on invading troops wasn't enough at the time?
I think you pissed the fact that the poster was making a joke...
Too bad we aren't getting the good commercial tools. The free Qt for Windows won't work with MS Visual Studio or Borland :(
Are you shitting me? That button is a standard feature on a lot of Microsoft dialog boxes. Putting it on the toolbar for a regular app is no different. I'm guessing MS licensed it and these guys thought they were just implementing a standard feature in a different part of the application. I think Microsoft should be sued for not informing people that their operating system is patent encumbered and implementing standard Windows features in your applications exposes you to patent liability.
Sounds to me like it was restricted. If you think there's only "classified" and "unclassified" in this world, please get a clue.
I'm sure their unwitting families have it coming too?
And Microsoft never intended anyone to use .doc, .xls etc outside of MS Office but that doesn't stop anyone from whining about those closed formats :)
Yeah, we all deal with the system of typing.
That's why there will be a HURD of Longhorn SKUs!
That's how reverse engineering works and it used to be perfectly legal. How do you think we have "IBM compatible" PCs? ;p
and yet they were granted statehood...pretty good for not being a state!
On top of that, it has unpatched security flaws.
It would help if MozSoft would get their act together and stop coding security flaws into WinZilla so that third parties don't have to worry about being screwed the the perpetual patch cycle.
I don't know. Do you classify the majority of Mozilla, which was written by paid Netscape developers, not Netscape code?
How is that any different from the fact that a Linux kernel hacker should never look at closed MS WinNT kernel sources (even with permission) and an MS WinNT kernel hacker should never look at GPLed Linux kernel sources?
At what point does reimplementing an algorithm you saw (in code) somewhere else stop being code theft?
You realize that a congressma is anyone from either the House or the Senate, right? You also realize that the Senate is elected by popular vote statewide and the Representatives are elected by popular vote in districts. So Reps are just subdivided further than Senators, but they are still accountable to people and not the state government (who used to hold the leash).