Besides info, you can occasionally find money. A bond friend of mine that does surety work for banks says that a lot of the losses are often attributed to money being thrown away (knocked into the trash can or mixed with a pile of paper) and not employee theft.
DOJ sues them for giving their products away and crushing competition all the while increasing their monopolistic presence.....so as a remedy MS is forced to give away their products to school kids thus crushing competition and increasing their monopolistic presence. Sounds fair.
How is this different than a misdirected fax? Although potentially embarrassing for me a recipient of a misdialed fax is ethically oblicated to ingore/trash it.
AFAIK they aren't legally obligated to pretend they didn't see but certainly ethically.
I really don't see the problem with not owning your apps. I mean what windows user digs out their copy of Word 6 and drafts a letter? The complexity of modern word processors have made earlier versions worthless. If I can save money by renting the apps for two years, great. I would've upgraded anyway at full price so what's the diff. The old crap is useless.
I completely agree. My friends and I spend many a day just vegetating in from of that damn game. Back then it was something special to have a red turtle, not like in N64 where you get 3 at a time, to fire off like an idiot because you knew you get another in a few seconds. And what about the battle part? That rocked in snes, but was completely unplayable in n64. Damn you Nintendo.
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Besides info, you can occasionally find money. A bond friend of mine that does surety work for banks says that a lot of the losses are often attributed to money being thrown away (knocked into the trash can or mixed with a pile of paper) and not employee theft.
DOJ sues them for giving their products away and crushing competition all the while increasing their monopolistic presence.....so as a remedy MS is forced to give away their products to school kids thus crushing competition and increasing their monopolistic presence. Sounds fair.
How is this different than a misdirected fax? Although potentially embarrassing for me a recipient of a misdialed fax is ethically oblicated to ingore/trash it.
AFAIK they aren't legally obligated to pretend they didn't see but certainly ethically.
I really don't see the problem with not owning your apps. I mean what windows user digs out their copy of Word 6 and drafts a letter? The complexity of modern word processors have made earlier versions worthless. If I can save money by renting the apps for two years, great. I would've upgraded anyway at full price so what's the diff. The old crap is useless.
If I couldn't get away with playing games on my TI-82, I seriously doubt this is gonna fly.
I completely agree. My friends and I spend many a day just vegetating in from of that damn game. Back then it was something special to have a red turtle, not like in N64 where you get 3 at a time, to fire off like an idiot because you knew you get another in a few seconds. And what about the battle part? That rocked in snes, but was completely unplayable in n64. Damn you Nintendo.
No more tux.
In 20 years you'll probably be lucky to find a cdrom drive.