Ive already said it in previous story and ill say it again.
MS doesnt really need ur permission to find if your copy is legal or not.it could have alraedy built that into winXP,98,2k.And no one can verify it.
And whats the point in asking for people to volunteer?ONly those who have legal copies will do so.Those who dont will stay away.So all those who take part will be having valid copies.
No one sane enough will believe MS when they say they wont do anything to you if ur copy is illegal.The illegal user just doesnt have to use it.
I believe, the first thing Longhorn does when it is connected to internet will be to check with MS,whether the copy is legal.Or get caught up when the user hits Microsoft.com
And they can say dont require your permission for it...Probably screw up the PC if itsnt legal copy.A suit over that will probably lose for it is their product illegally used.
May be Consumer protection in US is not upto ur expectations,but dont say other countries are better!!
Iam from India,and I can tell you that no matter what "big" brand you buy here,no one even dreams of getting a replacement after purchase.It just isnt possible here.
You guys are so much better off , that you can return the product atleast upto a year.Not many countries will be having consumer protection anywhere near the current protection US offers.
You people forget that, those cheap computers are more importantly required in developing countries than in USA.
The zero shipping,the sites u mention etc are for USA.Its not that easy to get free comps in developing countries.
Every now and then a big prof or scientist comes out with a warning that " Its all going to get over".
Once its a Armageddon due to a incoming comet to hit the earth or like today " The end of Internet".
Not only havent we seen any of those happen,or has it happened.
The Earth and the universe has been out there for millions of years,and some "scientist " will come out with a prediction that earth will blow up due to a comet.Probably they want to cause a flutter in the media.
Same with the internet as any other thing.
Iam not a big scientist,but youll certainly accept as years go by.
None of those extinctions are gonna happen.May be the endangered species and crude oil.But thats about it.
Iam not from USA , but know slashdot is very popular.
For all the effort slashdotters do to soread firefox , will Rob Malda - Cmdrtaco,help spread too?
Can slashdot lend...
Slashdot recommends Firefox to the ad?
Queer enough,even slashdot doesnt render properly in FF.
Does any site in this world have
" Best Viewed in firefox 1.0 & Above " tag?
Does even mozilla.org/firefox have that?
If not let them atleast put it up b4 going to advert.
There are a lot of pages that render bad in firefox apart from slashdot.org.
Take for example Yahoo mail itself.Although it doesnt do a bad job of it like opera,its not near the perfect rendering of yahoo mail by IE.
As for overlap of text over each other , I have seen it happen over dozens of pages..
It also does a bad job in some sites where forms
have to be filled - the form spaces go haywire,wont submit etc...but works well in IE.
Infact one of Firefox's own page had overlapping problems..I dont remember the link,but i had posted that link in one of my earlier comments [ If you can see my entire comment history:"Firefox messes up its own page" is the subject i think ]
For sites I am sure are secure, its better to stick with IE,because the webpage seems to render so prefectly in IE than in FF.You might have noticed this difference in many sites.May be because most sites are developed with IE in mind,but then thats the way it displayed in FF.
Many a time,I have filled forms with all details and hit submit,but wont work.then i switch to IE fill it again , it works flawless.Thats real iritation for me.
And you say " Apart from Slashdot, I can't find a page that doesn't render just fine in Firefox "......
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If Indymedia does not want any of those government control....why have that copyright symbol put up?
Do they want justice from Govt when someone infringes it?
probably they dont know..... Mosft said, its developing a new filesystem for loonghorn, to make file search faster....
And the last time one of the microsoft executives
on blog [ Dont remember who,but was on slashdot],he said, he didnt know why he couldnt search his harddisk fast, when it was possible with internet using google.
When msoft has so many holes in so many of their
products,seriously,how does www.microsoft.com
manage to stay alive always, and let users download patches etc.....
Put differently,how does microsoft.com manage to be stable?
The safest Windows version to use I think is, longhorn.Its available for download as beta at the microsoft site.Atleast,malwares/viruses wont target it until it is launched.
When longhorn is launched,you could probably start using the next beta version of windows....
Ofcourse,All this only if someone wants to run Msoft windows.............and not *nix.
Usually Iam reminded of telepathy only when iam stuck up with a question i didnt know the answer to, in an exam hall,and wished that i could ask my pal by meer 'waves';-). But this prisoners dilemma reminded me of that.!
Slashdot Mirror
Doesnt a software have a particular key assigned to it?[the one that was given legally by the manfr ]
Wouldnt the manufacturer made the software such that it wouldnt accepr any other ket except the one assigned?
Like,how is it that ,a software key can accept more than one key? [ the ones generated by keygen]
Or the way it works is on the lines of crack?
Probably,Not even FBI would have known such things.
MS doesnt really need ur permission to find if your copy is legal or not.it could have alraedy built that into winXP,98,2k.And no one can verify it.
And whats the point in asking for people to volunteer?ONly those who have legal copies will do so.Those who dont will stay away.So all those who take part will be having valid copies.
No one sane enough will believe MS when they say they wont do anything to you if ur copy is illegal.The illegal user just doesnt have to use it.
I believe, the first thing Longhorn does when it is connected to internet will be to check with MS ,whether the copy is legal.Or get caught up when the user hits Microsoft.com
And they can say dont require your permission for it...Probably screw up the PC if itsnt legal copy.A suit over that will probably lose for it is their product illegally used.
Iam from India,and I can tell you that no matter what "big" brand you buy here,no one even dreams of getting a replacement after purchase.It just isnt possible here.
You guys are so much better off , that you can return the product atleast upto a year.Not many countries will be having consumer protection anywhere near the current protection US offers.
yOu guys are better off.
Yea True VR.And later post another story on slashdot -" Laser Powered Virtual Display causing blindess - reported"
Nice to see Rag pickers post in slashdot.:-)
And Where exactly is the Garbage u pick located?
You people forget that, those cheap computers are more importantly required in developing countries than in USA. The zero shipping,the sites u mention etc are for USA.Its not that easy to get free comps in developing countries.
Once its a Armageddon due to a incoming comet to hit the earth or like today " The end of Internet".
Not only havent we seen any of those happen,or has it happened.
The Earth and the universe has been out there for millions of years,and some "scientist " will come out with a prediction that earth will blow up due to a comet.Probably they want to cause a flutter in the media.
Same with the internet as any other thing.
Iam not a big scientist ,but youll certainly accept as years go by.
None of those extinctions are gonna happen.May be the endangered species and crude oil.But thats about it.
For all the effort slashdotters do to soread firefox , will Rob Malda - Cmdrtaco,help spread too?
Can slashdot lend...
Slashdot recommends Firefox
to the ad?
Queer enough,even slashdot doesnt render properly in FF.
Does any site in this world have
" Best Viewed in firefox 1.0 & Above " tag?
Does even mozilla.org/firefox have that?
If not let them atleast put it up b4 going to advert.
So what did you do?
Did you call up Toshiba?Did you get a replacement? [ may be different model ]
Take for example Yahoo mail itself.Although it doesnt do a bad job of it like opera,its not near the perfect rendering of yahoo mail by IE.
As for overlap of text over each other , I have seen it happen over dozens of pages..
It also does a bad job in some sites where forms have to be filled - the form spaces go haywire,wont submit etc...but works well in IE.
Infact one of Firefox's own page had overlapping problems..I dont remember the link,but i had posted that link in one of my earlier comments [ If you can see my entire comment history:"Firefox messes up its own page" is the subject i think ]
For sites I am sure are secure, its better to stick with IE,because the webpage seems to render so prefectly in IE than in FF.You might have noticed this difference in many sites.May be because most sites are developed with IE in mind,but then thats the way it displayed in FF.
Many a time,I have filled forms with all details and hit submit,but wont work.then i switch to IE fill it again , it works flawless.Thats real iritation for me.
And you say " Apart from Slashdot, I can't find a page that doesn't render just fine in Firefox "......
huh
How abt other papers?
Iam dissapointd that even slashdot allows the word 'spyware' to be used in title.
In a wide user base like calling someone 'spyware' without verification is blasphemy.
If Indymedia does not want any of those government control....why have that copyright symbol put up?
Do they want justice from Govt when someone infringes it?
The endpoints have to be rooted in the physical world as people will have to use them!
with one exception.
People Using the internet at 40,000 ft on british airways fligt maybe better off..
Thats reapeating what they say.who knows what really happens?
And the last time one of the microsoft executives on blog [ Dont remember who,but was on slashdot],he said, he didnt know why he couldnt search his harddisk fast, when it was possible with internet using google.
You really got me laughing !
MOD it up !
who is kruschev?
Put differently,how does microsoft.com manage to be stable?
When longhorn is launched,you could probably start using the next beta version of windows....
Ofcourse,All this only if someone wants to run Msoft windows.............and not *nix.
I always confessed ,and i kept winning.Albert kept losing.I stopped thegame after albert got 300 years and I got none.
Am i missing something?
thats one of the biggest cooperative things..........did asians do it? OR
The western world?
Usually Iam reminded of telepathy only when iam stuck up with a question i didnt know the answer to, in an exam hall,and wished that i could ask my pal by meer 'waves' ;-) .
But this prisoners dilemma reminded me of that.!
Is telepathy scientifically possible? ( communicating to another person without any contact - not even eye,but by sheer WILL)