My SP2 RC2 downloaded the official SP2 through its automatic updates and then installed it with absolutely no problem whatsoever. Dunno what these people are running.
Actually, here in Orlando FL, all of the downtown area is covered by a wireless access point. If you have a computer you can log on to the public network for free. (Well not for FREE free, I understand that there was a cost somewhere in there covered most likely by taxes, but you get the point.)
It's crap like this that you suffer from that is exactly why people need to start looking into the free enterprise system and out-earn the problem. Try checking out some low-cost franchises. People with jobs get the squeeze.
"The MSFT shareholders would never go for that strategy. How will selling Linux services enhance shareholder return on investment?"
Dude...
How much overhead would Microsoft have to spend in say, acquiring the rights to use the kernel? Nothing. How much would they have to spend in porting Office and other popular MS software? Minimal. How much would they have to spend to set up a support system for their Linux distro? Minimal. And what would they charge for this service? Go take a look at MS's current licensing prices. I can't believe you actually think it doesn't make sense for investor shareholders! They would make a killing!
"how about a guy like me who uses linux and doesn't really care what happens to windoze users ? Why should my mail box be filled up with such useless mails ?"
so you don't complain that google won't work due to a network slowdown because three zillion windows zombies are spewing network viruses everywhere.
that sounds pretty much exactly like xp sp2 with the automatic updating feature, and the background intelligent transfer service. D/l the updates automatically without you having to remember (good for granny & gramps & other not so techy users) and then it pops up reminders to install, lets you choose to install, and is done with it. works quite well if you ask me.
"Well you know, if people vote for a candidate and they get enough votes, yes they'll get office. You know, it's called democracy. That's how it votes. You pick the candidate whom you believe will do the best job and you vote for them."
go look up "Democracy" and then go look up "Republic" and see why you should have paid more attention in 2nd grade.
...I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC, for which it stands, one nation, Under GOD, with liberty and justice for all.
If you really think that tax cuts are "paid" for by everyone but the richest 2% then you're listening to the TV way too much. Get your head out of the sand. I bet you took your tax refund check straight to the bank (more likely straight to wal-mart)
Orrin Hatch falls in the same category as that other piece of "Republican" labeled crud: Arlen Spector. Neither is a conservative, republican can be debated, and both deserve to turn up missing.
"Repeat after me: "I am not a party. I am a person. I will cast my vote for the person who is most likely to represent me even though..."
selfish. I am not a party. I am a person. I will cast my vote for the person who is most likely to preserve individual freedoms as guaranteed to the Constitution of the United States of America, even though it may NOT be the choice of my employer... etc.
I would hate to have a computer that would only run Microsoft products, otherwise what would be the point of owning a PC in the first place?
This is pretty much exactly what Steve Jobs did (minus the technical digital signatures, etc.) with Apple. All parts were handled, sold, developed, etc. by Apple, and the end result was that the PC based systems crushed Apple's market share because there was simply more options for PCs. If Microsoft were to follow this road, they would probably see the same thing happen to them economically. As soon as their market share began to plummet they'd think twice. I can't see any company being so stupid as to pull something of that sort after being in perpetual antitrust lawsuits.
"Given a few years, are you expected to be able to modify and hack on your not-a-computer but a-computing-appliance? Minding the copyright controls, hacking hardware or commercializing hacking tools might be as illegal as modchipping PlayStations in the UK currently."
I see your point here. I also hope that there are more than enough users of Linux and other operating systems that use an open source standard to hack and modify these systems themselves, regardless of the legality of it. Look at file sharing applications--nearly everyone, by now, knows that sharing MP3s is considered illegal due to copyright infringements, yet the practice continues.
I think it's time for people (every day users, not the/.'ers or other people who know what they're doing computer-wise) to be educated on what seems to be happening. All over the globe there is a push away from actual ownership. It seems today you buy more and more licenses to use something instead of actually owning it--case in point, DVDs and the MPAA. They claim you only own a license to view their movie, thus you cannot duplicate it for personal use or use it on DVD players from a different region. (Total bs.) This Trustworthy Computing initiative, while hopefully in the long run, it will pan out to have a set of standards in place to allow instead of deny privileges. However, it seems instead to be tracking towards another licensing system, where you purchase hardware and then are granted a license to use (but not to modify as you see fit). The UK and the USA and France , etc. need to be informed that when a consumer purchases a product, that they OWN that particular product, and once they've paid the price asked by the manufacturer/retailer, what happens to that product is now under the control of the consumer, not the government or the vendor! Whether or not you limeys hack the crap out of your Playstation with a mod chip is none of the government or the manufacturer's concern.
However, in this day and age, all it takes is one moron to smear a family with a 1200 pound plane in their trailer home while taking SSRIs and the dumbasses will sue the drug maker, the plane maker, the FAA for licensing, and God for making air.
"of course it couldn't be yer homegrown militia types doing this i suppose. They *have* to be muslims... *sigh*"
...If the shoe fits...
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The architect was paid the fee he was charged, as was the artist (or his estate) by the museum. Most museums charge you admission to view their contents. Buildings charge rent for companies to do business. Shareware is an advertising scheme of only part of the whole software. Radio pays fees for playing music on air and recoups it by playing advertising to you. Publicly displayed art was purchased by someone, and hung for people to view.
Now why again did you think that you deserve everything scot-free??
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It would be interesting to hear Mr. Biggs' comments if his profits from his book were suddenly cut in half by an e-book version winding its way through Limwire, kazaa, and bit torrents.
No!
Doom3 supports four different rendering paths, depending on what hardware you use. This means that they are able to get very closely comparable graphics with the different styles of hardware pipelines that are supported. Each will be slightly different, but id promised that the game will keep most of the visual effect throughout a broad spectrum of hardware setups.
If anyone can do it right, it's id. John Carmack virtually pioneered the technology that drove the desktop 3d graphics cards.
"Deductive reasoning does not produce original (new) information"
There is no new information. Only information that no one's ever thought of before. It was already there, just never discovered. Kinda like America was here, just never seen, back in the 1300's.
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My SP2 RC2 downloaded the official SP2 through its automatic updates and then installed it with absolutely no problem whatsoever. Dunno what these people are running.
Actually, here in Orlando FL, all of the downtown area is covered by a wireless access point. If you have a computer you can log on to the public network for free. (Well not for FREE free, I understand that there was a cost somewhere in there covered most likely by taxes, but you get the point.)
It's crap like this that you suffer from that is exactly why people need to start looking into the free enterprise system and out-earn the problem. Try checking out some low-cost franchises. People with jobs get the squeeze.
Dude...
How much overhead would Microsoft have to spend in say, acquiring the rights to use the kernel? Nothing. How much would they have to spend in porting Office and other popular MS software? Minimal. How much would they have to spend to set up a support system for their Linux distro? Minimal. And what would they charge for this service? Go take a look at MS's current licensing prices. I can't believe you actually think it doesn't make sense for investor shareholders! They would make a killing!
Who on God's green earth was retarded enough to write a webpage for blind people?
Are you a friend to Leo?
sicko.
so you don't complain that google won't work due to a network slowdown because three zillion windows zombies are spewing network viruses everywhere.
that sounds pretty much exactly like xp sp2 with the automatic updating feature, and the background intelligent transfer service. D/l the updates automatically without you having to remember (good for granny & gramps & other not so techy users) and then it pops up reminders to install, lets you choose to install, and is done with it. works quite well if you ask me.
go look up "Democracy" and then go look up "Republic" and see why you should have paid more attention in 2nd grade.
If you really think that tax cuts are "paid" for by everyone but the richest 2% then you're listening to the TV way too much. Get your head out of the sand. I bet you took your tax refund check straight to the bank (more likely straight to wal-mart)
Orrin Hatch falls in the same category as that other piece of "Republican" labeled crud: Arlen Spector. Neither is a conservative, republican can be debated, and both deserve to turn up missing.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine? A crummy commercial?? Son of a BITCH!
selfish. I am not a party. I am a person. I will cast my vote for the person who is most likely to preserve individual freedoms as guaranteed to the Constitution of the United States of America, even though it may NOT be the choice of my employer... etc.
What if you use it on an intranet? then your ISP sees.... nothing.
This is pretty much exactly what Steve Jobs did (minus the technical digital signatures, etc.) with Apple. All parts were handled, sold, developed, etc. by Apple, and the end result was that the PC based systems crushed Apple's market share because there was simply more options for PCs. If Microsoft were to follow this road, they would probably see the same thing happen to them economically. As soon as their market share began to plummet they'd think twice. I can't see any company being so stupid as to pull something of that sort after being in perpetual antitrust lawsuits.
I see your point here. I also hope that there are more than enough users of Linux and other operating systems that use an open source standard to hack and modify these systems themselves, regardless of the legality of it. Look at file sharing applications--nearly everyone, by now, knows that sharing MP3s is considered illegal due to copyright infringements, yet the practice continues.
I think it's time for people (every day users, not the /.'ers or other people who know what they're doing computer-wise) to be educated on what seems to be happening. All over the globe there is a push away from actual ownership. It seems today you buy more and more licenses to use something instead of actually owning it--case in point, DVDs and the MPAA. They claim you only own a license to view their movie, thus you cannot duplicate it for personal use or use it on DVD players from a different region. (Total bs.) This Trustworthy Computing initiative, while hopefully in the long run, it will pan out to have a set of standards in place to allow instead of deny privileges. However, it seems instead to be tracking towards another licensing system, where you purchase hardware and then are granted a license to use (but not to modify as you see fit). The UK and the USA and France , etc. need to be informed that when a consumer purchases a product, that they OWN that particular product, and once they've paid the price asked by the manufacturer/retailer, what happens to that product is now under the control of the consumer, not the government or the vendor! Whether or not you limeys hack the crap out of your Playstation with a mod chip is none of the government or the manufacturer's concern.
MS actually purchased a $13 million license. They didn't buy out the company.
There's a thing called a period (.) that helps people understand what in the world you're trying to communicate.
Is it a European or an African stunt plane?
Gotta love frivolous civil suits...
The architect was paid the fee he was charged, as was the artist (or his estate) by the museum. Most museums charge you admission to view their contents. Buildings charge rent for companies to do business. Shareware is an advertising scheme of only part of the whole software. Radio pays fees for playing music on air and recoups it by playing advertising to you. Publicly displayed art was purchased by someone, and hung for people to view. Now why again did you think that you deserve everything scot-free??
It would be interesting to hear Mr. Biggs' comments if his profits from his book were suddenly cut in half by an e-book version winding its way through Limwire, kazaa, and bit torrents.
No! Doom3 supports four different rendering paths, depending on what hardware you use. This means that they are able to get very closely comparable graphics with the different styles of hardware pipelines that are supported. Each will be slightly different, but id promised that the game will keep most of the visual effect throughout a broad spectrum of hardware setups. If anyone can do it right, it's id. John Carmack virtually pioneered the technology that drove the desktop 3d graphics cards.
There is no new information. Only information that no one's ever thought of before. It was already there, just never discovered. Kinda like America was here, just never seen, back in the 1300's.