A. They're not breaking *any* laws. Copyright infringement is NOT A CRIMINAL MATTER, it's a civil one. Hence, they're suing.
B. The people they accuse have to either pay for a lawyer (~ 5k$?) or settle out of court (2k$). If proven that they didn't share, guess what - they're still out 5k.
Would you like it if someone accused you of infringing thier copyright, and in doing so caused you to incur 5k$ in legal expenses, with little to no hope of ever regaining those lost funds?
I don't think you understand; what Pharmboy was saying would not apply to these people.
He was saying that he doesn't get atheists (like myself) that are intolerant of "people of faith." He was not saying that he doesn't understand atheists who are intolerant of zealot nutjobs like this group.
So, all in all, fuck it, let's kill them all* and let thier god sort them out?
(*sigh, just bitter that the anti-abortion rallies can have billboards of mutilated fetuses, but I can't have a billboard of a naked chick. Why is death more acceptable than nudity in our society?!)
when you close the lid on the Powerbook, it goes into sleep mode
You can disable that. System Preferences -> Power... etc. Too lazy to look right now.. (That, and my powerbook is at home, and I'm at work on my XP machine. )
HAHA, thier reply makes for a more amusing story than the original, with classics like "The author did just what Dan Rather and CBS did when they took the bogus paperwork from Lt. Col. whathisname." and "jumping up and down with glee that finally he found his "patsy.""
Yeah, but the good thing is that it's cheaper on vendors - so they can deliver an overall cheaper machine, that the end user can install a pirated copy of XP on.
If the companys were really smart, they'd install a *free* OS, but.. Microsoft does have a history of strong-arming vendors, so it's probably not a lack of intelligence on the vendors part.
If the US were really committed to ending discrimination, the Equal Rights/etc crap would've been disbanded by now.
You meant "discrimination against minorities," not discrimination in general - because the Equal Rights stuff favors minorities/women OVER white males, based soley on race/sex; that's still discrimination against someone.
The advert appeared in an IT magazine and was headed: "Weighing the cost of Linux vs Windows? Let's review the facts".
The ad contained a graph comparing the cost in US dollars between a Linux images running on two z900 mainframe CPUs and a Windows Server 2003 image running two 900MHz Intel Xeons chips.
Hmm, who wants to help me do some "independent research" of our own? We could
compare Linux running on a WRT54G
versus the cost of, say, a dual CPU P4 XEON system with 4 gbs RAM, SCSI array,
redundant everything, and dual 19" LCD monitors.
Lesse, that makes linux roughly 100 times cheaper (70$ vs. 7000$). Didn't I also
see this ad on slashdot and in Linux Journal?
Not intended to be a flamebait, it's not just a Microsoft problem - all
marketing people are evil. Perhaps we should enact the death penalty for
marketing droids?
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Copyright infringement is not a criminal matter.
They broke NO LAWS. M'kay? They infringed copyright, a *CIVIL* matter. Otherwise they'd be in jail.
A. They're not breaking *any* laws. Copyright infringement is NOT A CRIMINAL MATTER, it's a civil one. Hence, they're suing.
B. The people they accuse have to either pay for a lawyer (~ 5k$?) or settle out of court (2k$). If proven that they didn't share, guess what - they're still out 5k.
Would you like it if someone accused you of infringing thier copyright, and in doing so caused you to incur 5k$ in legal expenses, with little to no hope of ever regaining those lost funds?
Name calling is a great way to benefit your cause there....
Of course people are going to get irritated by ads, irregardless of it they're for a free product.
About the same time as slashdot gets a spell and dupe checker.. (which is effectively never. )
I don't think you understand; what Pharmboy was saying would not apply to these people.
He was saying that he doesn't get atheists (like myself) that are intolerant of "people of faith." He was not saying that he doesn't understand atheists who are intolerant of zealot nutjobs like this group.
So, all in all, fuck it, let's kill them all* and let thier god sort them out?
(*sigh, just bitter that the anti-abortion rallies can have billboards of mutilated fetuses, but I can't have a billboard of a naked chick. Why is death more acceptable than nudity in our society?!)
Peoples freedoms are better protected?
You can disable that. System Preferences -> Power... etc. Too lazy to look right now.. (That, and my powerbook is at home, and I'm at work on my XP machine. )
I think if you use software that ignores the "copy protect flag" (e.g. not windows media player) that you won't have too much trouble.
If you do continue to have trouble, email me - I'll go out and buy it, just to figure out a way around the DRM. "Fuck teh RIAA."
HAHA, thier reply makes for a more amusing story than the original, with classics like "The author did just what Dan Rather and CBS did when they took the bogus paperwork from Lt. Col. whathisname." and "jumping up and down with glee that finally he found his "patsy.""
Yeah, but the good thing is that it's cheaper on vendors - so they can deliver an overall cheaper machine, that the end user can install a pirated copy of XP on.
If the companys were really smart, they'd install a *free* OS, but.. Microsoft does have a history of strong-arming vendors, so it's probably not a lack of intelligence on the vendors part.
spam me at krism@mailsnare.net .. please! i'm training my spam filter <g>
(Incidentally, we switching from that.. very shortly, thank $diety.)
Whoa! A real live descriptive user name.
Closed mine, with a link to the yahoo story and an explanation of why I closed the account emailed to paypal. :)
Oh, uh, "way to tell us."
On my personal network? Approximately...
Nope, still never. 10 days to take action against their spammers, when it should take 15 minutes to disable all those accounts?
In short, I won't believe it until I see it.
It's for re-entry, not for general flight in space.
It's the heat shields that are inflatable, and they are armored - e.g. not the same material as your pool floats...
Uh, when you apply for a passport, you need two duplicate photos.
This is a perl script to print two duplicate photos, e.g. to take with you when you apply for a passport.
We need a "-1, Incoherent"..
That would be like them, to threaten to use a tool that they claim doesn't exist in order to coerce people to pay them. :)
If the US were really committed to ending discrimination, the Equal Rights/etc crap would've been disbanded by now.
You meant "discrimination against minorities," not discrimination in general - because the Equal Rights stuff favors minorities/women OVER white males, based soley on race/sex; that's still discrimination against someone.
lol, nice picture. ;)
The advert appeared in an IT magazine and was headed: "Weighing the cost of Linux vs Windows? Let's review the facts". The ad contained a graph comparing the cost in US dollars between a Linux images running on two z900 mainframe CPUs and a Windows Server 2003 image running two 900MHz Intel Xeons chips.
Hmm, who wants to help me do some "independent research" of our own? We could compare Linux running on a WRT54G versus the cost of, say, a dual CPU P4 XEON system with 4 gbs RAM, SCSI array, redundant everything, and dual 19" LCD monitors.
Lesse, that makes linux roughly 100 times cheaper (70$ vs. 7000$). Didn't I also see this ad on slashdot and in Linux Journal?
Not intended to be a flamebait, it's not just a Microsoft problem - all marketing people are evil. Perhaps we should enact the death penalty for marketing droids?
I agree.
:/
My complaint is that they're spreading FUD instead of competing.
Viola, un-fuglied version. ;)
So he's saying we shouldn't buy thier latest offerings involving Linux
:(
because it's not as good as thier non Linux offerings?
I never expected FUD from Cray.