Don't think it would come under false advertising as "home" and "pro" don't really imply anything as to regards to what it contains like V6 and V8 would.
Besides, a lot of graphics card manufacturers do this anyway (fairly openly too I think?), as did Intel with the 386SX and 386DX chips I believe. If it was a false advertising issue it probably would have came up by now.
I'd say it's quite fair - they are using one monopoly to force another (which is against the law), would IE have the marketshare it does if it had to compete against Firefox and Netscape on a level playing field (ie without being bundled with Windows)? Would so many media stores choose to use MS DRM if almost every computer sold to home users could not play it by default?
Linux and MacOS are not monopolies, but if they were they would have to abide by the same rules which MS are being made to obey now.
First4Internet seems to be based in the UK - wouldn't this be illegal under the Computer Misuse act if they do distribute this software on CDs in the UK?
This is just another reason why I don't and won't buy (or download for that matter) mainstream music (I have autoplay disabled on all my machines anyway in Windows but still if they're even trying to do this I don't want anything to do with them). Funny how nazi music (link definatly Not Safe For Work) actually has more freedom in regard to DRM (or lack thereof) than mainstream music.
It complains if you try to install it on anything other than 2k or XP-32 (it even complains if you try to install it on 2k3 or XP-64) and won't let you install. You can however get around this by copying the CD to hard disk, modifying the MSI file and installing from there.
Probably won't work on a lot of sites though, as quite a few require you to confirm that you own the email account by clicking a URL within the email they send you, or entering a code from it on their site.
Maybe this security issue could be solved by instead of sticking up a message saying "email not found" if the email is entered incorrectly, it could randomly generate the "secret questions".
Another problem with "password reminders" I find is that people put far too obvious answers - for example when I was back at school I managed to gain access to someone's hotmail account because their "secret question" was "what do I do at the weekends?" and he'd been on local TV, newspapers and school newsletter about his football (soccer) refereeing.
In the short term yes, but AMD are members of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance too and might start adding DRM to their chips soon too unfortunatly.
" In the UK, there is no broadcast flag, and they still show nearly all movies on TV (within 3-4 years of release anyway)."
Exactly. By their logic there should be a thriving pirate film TV-rip market in the UK, hell when a film is shown on the BBC you don't even have adverts to take out!
Don't think much spam is coming from hotmail accounts (have to scrape the html or reverse engineer to automate MS's sending protocal to send using hotmail accounts I think? Also outgoing emails from hotmail accounts are tagged with IP address.), unless of course you count the idiots who forward chain emails (which usually contain hundreds of email addresses of who the email has been addressed to).
Spam to hotmail accounts I'd say is probably quite large too though.
Probably won't - IIRC you can do pretty much the same thing on some models of the NVIDIA 5900 to make it a 5950 by flashing it, and I don't think they increased the price to compensate.
I know you can just extract the torrent with a resource editor and use your own BT client, but it's also worth noting that the WoW BT client has issues of it's own. You can't cap either upload or download on it and as a result when I run the patcher, it pretty much seems to disable my internet access until it's done (web pages time out, pings timeout on first hop to ISP etc).
Well... duh. If you read the next part of that sentence I said " have installed Firefox for many other people who would be using IE" implying I installed it on people's system who weren't geeks.
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Netcraft confirms that Firefox users are already smart enough to figure out if a site is phishing"
Not necessarily, it isn't just geeks that use Firefox any more - I for one (and I'm sure many other/.ers have too) have installed Firefox for many other people who would be using IE otherwise.
Xandros aren't using a virtual monopoly to push another which is illegal. The reason I think the EU picked WMP to focus on is because pretty much all mainstream music stores (with the exception of a few like ITunes store and DRM-free indy ones) have chosen to use Microsoft's DRM as it is compatible with most computers due to WMP being shipped with 90%+ of all home computers sold.
Not in the UK it isn't. Only FTA channels here (not including digital freeview ones) are BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 (although Channel 5 isn't available in a few areas, like South East Kent for example).
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IIRC it is/was shipped with the AmigaOne motherboards.
Don't think it would come under false advertising as "home" and "pro" don't really imply anything as to regards to what it contains like V6 and V8 would.
Besides, a lot of graphics card manufacturers do this anyway (fairly openly too I think?), as did Intel with the 386SX and 386DX chips I believe. If it was a false advertising issue it probably would have came up by now.
I'd say it's quite fair - they are using one monopoly to force another (which is against the law), would IE have the marketshare it does if it had to compete against Firefox and Netscape on a level playing field (ie without being bundled with Windows)? Would so many media stores choose to use MS DRM if almost every computer sold to home users could not play it by default?
Linux and MacOS are not monopolies, but if they were they would have to abide by the same rules which MS are being made to obey now.
First4Internet seems to be based in the UK - wouldn't this be illegal under the Computer Misuse act if they do distribute this software on CDs in the UK?
This is just another reason why I don't and won't buy (or download for that matter) mainstream music (I have autoplay disabled on all my machines anyway in Windows but still if they're even trying to do this I don't want anything to do with them). Funny how nazi music (link definatly Not Safe For Work) actually has more freedom in regard to DRM (or lack thereof) than mainstream music.
2k uses less RAM than XP IIRC even with changing the themes the same and runs quicker on older hardware.
It complains if you try to install it on anything other than 2k or XP-32 (it even complains if you try to install it on 2k3 or XP-64) and won't let you install. You can however get around this by copying the CD to hard disk, modifying the MSI file and installing from there.
Probably won't work on a lot of sites though, as quite a few require you to confirm that you own the email account by clicking a URL within the email they send you, or entering a code from it on their site.
Maybe this security issue could be solved by instead of sticking up a message saying "email not found" if the email is entered incorrectly, it could randomly generate the "secret questions".
Another problem with "password reminders" I find is that people put far too obvious answers - for example when I was back at school I managed to gain access to someone's hotmail account because their "secret question" was "what do I do at the weekends?" and he'd been on local TV, newspapers and school newsletter about his football (soccer) refereeing.
In the short term yes, but AMD are members of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance too and might start adding DRM to their chips soon too unfortunatly.
The EU introduced the EUCD which is similer to the DMCA.
" In the UK, there is no broadcast flag, and they still show nearly all movies on TV (within 3-4 years of release anyway)."
Exactly. By their logic there should be a thriving pirate film TV-rip market in the UK, hell when a film is shown on the BBC you don't even have adverts to take out!
Don't think much spam is coming from hotmail accounts (have to scrape the html or reverse engineer to automate MS's sending protocal to send using hotmail accounts I think? Also outgoing emails from hotmail accounts are tagged with IP address.), unless of course you count the idiots who forward chain emails (which usually contain hundreds of email addresses of who the email has been addressed to).
Spam to hotmail accounts I'd say is probably quite large too though.
I mean two PCI-E graphics (x16? x8? I forget the name) slots. It also has a smaller PCI-E slot between the two PCI-E slots.
My ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe has two PCI-E slots.
Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 seems to have IPV6 support already (not installed as default though), so I'd say network hardware (routers etc) and ISPs is the real major barrier.
Probably won't - IIRC you can do pretty much the same thing on some models of the NVIDIA 5900 to make it a 5950 by flashing it, and I don't think they increased the price to compensate.
Presumably that's an estimate of complete copies transferred using the tracker (not just from one seed). With enough people I'd say it's possible.
I know you can just extract the torrent with a resource editor and use your own BT client, but it's also worth noting that the WoW BT client has issues of it's own. You can't cap either upload or download on it and as a result when I run the patcher, it pretty much seems to disable my internet access until it's done (web pages time out, pings timeout on first hop to ISP etc).
Don't think so. He worked shortly for Valve though.
Well... duh. If you read the next part of that sentence I said " have installed Firefox for many other people who would be using IE" implying I installed it on people's system who weren't geeks.
" Netcraft confirms that Firefox users are already smart enough to figure out if a site is phishing"
/.ers have too) have installed Firefox for many other people who would be using IE otherwise.
Not necessarily, it isn't just geeks that use Firefox any more - I for one (and I'm sure many other
Xandros aren't using a virtual monopoly to push another which is illegal. The reason I think the EU picked WMP to focus on is because pretty much all mainstream music stores (with the exception of a few like ITunes store and DRM-free indy ones) have chosen to use Microsoft's DRM as it is compatible with most computers due to WMP being shipped with 90%+ of all home computers sold.
"who will take great care of me AND my source code in my very old age. "
This gives a whole new meaning to "legacy software"!
I doubt these phones will count though as they only recieve digital video, not the "over the air" television channels.
Not in the UK it isn't. Only FTA channels here (not including digital freeview ones) are BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 (although Channel 5 isn't available in a few areas, like South East Kent for example).