The idea is giving discounts or freebies to people who will tell others about your product. Right now they might just give it away for free to reviewers with a large audience. What they'd like to do is identify people they could sell the product to for half price or some other fraction while getting a similar effect. They don't want to give it to them for free if they could get them to pay something for it while still telling all their friends.
So all those searches for fake antivirus removal tools to use to cleanup other people's computers is why I see all these ads for bogus trojan infested antimalware downloads? Thanks Google.
The first thing I do when I'm cleaning up a slow running PC for someone is to remove Google desktop software. I consider the toolbars malware because of the way they get installed riding on the back of other software and certainly seem to cripple browsers. The only good desktop software they've produced IMO has been their browser but because of the phone home stuff embedded in it, I wouldn't use it for anything other than reading the news and browsing MSDN.
The police apparently only arrested her after the managers (who would be in line for a $500 bounty from the MPAA) insisted on pressing charges. Also it sounds like this isn't a digitial video camera but a photo camera with the ability to record short video clips. Not something suitable for pirating a movie. Also what she recorded was in short segments according to the police. So apparently she wasn't even recording continuously.
It would depend. If you kick them to death after they're already down and disabled and there's a witness, you'll probably be charged with manslaughter.
If they happen to find your drugs while looking for weapons, you're probably still going to jail since they actually found something illegal rather than "evidence" of illegal activities.
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They were probably removed with DROP statement which will generally leave them in the database file until the space is reclaimed for storing something useful. This is probably why there's useless junk in the parses they took.
The date thing is from a Lotus 1-2-3 bug that they've chosen to emulate for backwards compatibility reasons. It would be nice they'd just made it an option for converted documents.
How does this work when the person redeeming the voucher could already acquire the software with full permission of the copyright holder but without the support contract from Novell?
The throttling is intentional as a means to prevent audio playback from glitching. They've been really focused on user experience for Vista. It really is true that few users will actually notice the throttling. Power users just get the shaft *again* until the fix it for beefier systems.
The ODF supporters are trying to block OOXML from becoming a standard ONLY because they've lobbied governments into passing open standards laws that will REQUIRE those governments to use their format if OOXML fails. They don't give a damn if it's the best format or not; they want a monopoly enforced by law.
The ODF supporters are trying to use open standards as a weapon against Microsoft. If Microsoft's format becomes an open standard, then all the effort put into ODF and lobbying for laws requiring government use of open standards will be a big waste. If OOXML becomes a standard, they won't be able to sue governments with open standards laws into using ODF...
WTF is with all this "report your boss" BS on/.? They may never even talk to you about it! They might suggest 3 months beforehand that they're "afraid" of the opposing candidate being bad for their business and then just let you go when business slows down after finding out you voted for them.
Some of the systems like that now have a program that will burn DVDs with the backup data for the OS and applications. Why they can't just ship the recovery stuff on DVDs to begin with I do not know.
Microsoft isn't claiming code was stolen. Microsoft is claiming patents are being violated. You can violate a patent without the plaintiff even knowing where the code that's violating it is located as long as they can show it's doing what they patented.
Since they stripped hardware acceleration out of DirectSound, you have to use something like OpenAL if you want your stuff done in hardware anyway. I've never heard of the rest of it being used unless there's joystick/gamepad support (DirectInput).
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MySQL is a proprietary database in open source clothing.
The idea is giving discounts or freebies to people who will tell others about your product. Right now they might just give it away for free to reviewers with a large audience. What they'd like to do is identify people they could sell the product to for half price or some other fraction while getting a similar effect. They don't want to give it to them for free if they could get them to pay something for it while still telling all their friends.
The article title could've used some work IMO.
So all those searches for fake antivirus removal tools to use to cleanup other people's computers is why I see all these ads for bogus trojan infested antimalware downloads? Thanks Google.
The first thing I do when I'm cleaning up a slow running PC for someone is to remove Google desktop software. I consider the toolbars malware because of the way they get installed riding on the back of other software and certainly seem to cripple browsers. The only good desktop software they've produced IMO has been their browser but because of the phone home stuff embedded in it, I wouldn't use it for anything other than reading the news and browsing MSDN.
The police apparently only arrested her after the managers (who would be in line for a $500 bounty from the MPAA) insisted on pressing charges. Also it sounds like this isn't a digitial video camera but a photo camera with the ability to record short video clips. Not something suitable for pirating a movie. Also what she recorded was in short segments according to the police. So apparently she wasn't even recording continuously.
http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/02/20/a-new-look-for-visual-studio-2010.aspx If I'm not mistaken, Visual Studio 2010 will have a WPF UI including the editor.
They're going to be using DirectX.
It would depend. If you kick them to death after they're already down and disabled and there's a witness, you'll probably be charged with manslaughter.
If they happen to find your drugs while looking for weapons, you're probably still going to jail since they actually found something illegal rather than "evidence" of illegal activities.
The information on Groklaw has been prepared as a service to the FOSS community in particular and the general public. It is not intended to constitute legal advice. PJ is a paralegal, not a lawyer. Even when lawyers write or contribute to articles, it is still not legal advice.
The magic numbers are from a file format specification. You're not going to change those magic numbers if you want the tool to work.
They were probably removed with DROP statement which will generally leave them in the database file until the space is reclaimed for storing something useful. This is probably why there's useless junk in the parses they took.
Microsoft can no longer dictate how badly OEMs can screw up a Windows PC since the anti-trust trial.
The date thing is from a Lotus 1-2-3 bug that they've chosen to emulate for backwards compatibility reasons. It would be nice they'd just made it an option for converted documents.
How does this work when the person redeeming the voucher could already acquire the software with full permission of the copyright holder but without the support contract from Novell?
When is the FSF going to start suing retailers?
The throttling is intentional as a means to prevent audio playback from glitching. They've been really focused on user experience for Vista. It really is true that few users will actually notice the throttling. Power users just get the shaft *again* until the fix it for beefier systems.
The ODF supporters are trying to block OOXML from becoming a standard ONLY because they've lobbied governments into passing open standards laws that will REQUIRE those governments to use their format if OOXML fails. They don't give a damn if it's the best format or not; they want a monopoly enforced by law.
The ODF supporters are trying to use open standards as a weapon against Microsoft. If Microsoft's format becomes an open standard, then all the effort put into ODF and lobbying for laws requiring government use of open standards will be a big waste. If OOXML becomes a standard, they won't be able to sue governments with open standards laws into using ODF...
WTF is with all this "report your boss" BS on /.? They may never even talk to you about it! They might suggest 3 months beforehand that they're "afraid" of the opposing candidate being bad for their business and then just let you go when business slows down after finding out you voted for them.
Some of the systems like that now have a program that will burn DVDs with the backup data for the OS and applications. Why they can't just ship the recovery stuff on DVDs to begin with I do not know.
I doubt they wanted to lose their jobs and the possibility of ever finding work again when SCO brought a bad lawsuit against their company...
Microsoft isn't claiming code was stolen. Microsoft is claiming patents are being violated. You can violate a patent without the plaintiff even knowing where the code that's violating it is located as long as they can show it's doing what they patented.
Since they stripped hardware acceleration out of DirectSound, you have to use something like OpenAL if you want your stuff done in hardware anyway. I've never heard of the rest of it being used unless there's joystick/gamepad support (DirectInput).
WOMEN aren't using the condoms correctly? You do know that the condom goes on the man's PENIS, right?
If Intel paid someone not to sell a competitor's product, it's not about competition.