Well you may have the right, but they may feel like taking it to court to determine it. But I'm sure they feel the EULA that comes with the windows installation on your Sony makes it so you aren't legally entitled to use it anywhere else (same if you buy an OEM version of windows its tied to one machine to them and now with product activation they're able to tell you when your computer is different enough to no longer qualify to be activated).
So the argument comes down to whether they are willing to take you to court to enforce what they see as a legally binding license agreement, or if you are willing to take them to court to enforce your percieved right.
This doesn't mean I agree with this expansion of copyright holders rights in this way at all. In fact I find the whole activation and EULAs in software fairly despicable, but this seems to be the way the judiciary, and legislatures are leaning however mistaken I feel that direction is.
You would think you had the right to use the product as you wish, but the software industry has created this whole new added feature to copyright where you don't actually buy what you buy.
Microsoft have sold you (through Sony) what they call an OEM version of the software which they purport to only allow you to use on the original hardware you bought it on.
This type of limitation on sales of product was attempted with books and the resulting court case resulted in the formation of the First Sale Doctrine where once you purchase the work you can do with it what you see fit unbound by limitations by the copyright holder, in that particular case it was to resell a book at a price not set by the copyright holder.
Unfortunately this right has fallen largely by the wayside in software and the courts, congress and the executive haven't done anything to prevent this erosion of rights - in fact most have been actively promoting this erosion.
So you don't currently have the right according to the license agreement to use that copy of the software anywhere other than the computer you bought it on.
But of course the original post you railed on mentioned all those characterisitcs but you still felt the need to make a snide remark. I never said that such a device was ready for market, only how a larger screen would be feasible to carry with additional technology mentioned by the original post.
Yup. Thats why it'd be somewhat bad if another gyro failed because they would have to go back to thruster attitude control - a step back from where they have been for a while.
Think 8.5"x11" that rolls up into a thin tube with the controls on it and containing the batteries. So carrying it wouldnt be that difficult although 8.5" is a bit long and having the controls at the bottom isn't the best place though you could do the controls on the side and 11" isn't much longer than 8.5". Still a 8.5" or 11" length 0.5" diameter tube isn't terrible to carry around.
I have to totally agree. I'm in the northeast and signed up for Suncom about 6 months before they got bought by AT&T wireless.
The service with Suncom was quite good. There was good coverage over the entire area and the voicemail and missed call alerts worked perfectly with almost no lag between the call and the notification.
AT&T wireless took over and service deteriorated rapidly. Coverage became spotty in the area and varied widely from day to day and the voicemail and call notification system became abysmal not noting calls that came in or voicemails for days after the original call was made.
6 months later the plan was up and so was my patience. Now on Verizon wireless for the last year or two and they've been quite good overall.
4. Someone doesn't know how to measure actual power correctly.
That was my thought. I was wondering what the input and output waveforms were like and what method they were using to measure them since they almost certainly aren't DC.
um no was to your redacted history that the government just handed at&t a monopoly and glossing over how it came to be - which included a free competition period during which at&t was beginning to agressively move to take over competitors successfully.
AT&T gained monopoly status partly through controlling its patents in the early years of the telephone industry. They then entered a settlement with the government who was considering anti trust action after AT&T started aquiring smaller competitors. The settlement required them to give competitors access to their lines. Rather than stopping a monopoly from occurring this stiffled competition in the long distance market because the local/regionals simply connected into the existing AT&T system which AT&T then leveraged this over time becoming larger and eventually the government stepped in and granted them the whole ball of wax but instituted price controls which also weren't terribly effective. Then they were broken up into separate companies (like Standard Oil was before - which allowed it to expand and become a healthier industry and generated more profit than it had as a single entity) in some ways resulting in the telecom boom of the late 80s-90s.
So again Microsoft's monopoly and Standard Oil, and AT&T had competition and crushed it using various tactics which might have been acceptable if they didn't control a large segment of the market and in 2 cases the government made poor attempts to control their monopolistic tendancies through settlements of which in at least one case resulted in cementing their monopoly in stone for decades.
In all these cases the companies had competition and was in the process of incorporating their competitors leaving them as the sole company providing the service when the government stepped in and tried to modify this behavior to preserve competition - which it does rather poorly, but that was the initial intent.
Can you name any company besides Microsoft that has emerged into a monopoly by taking over a free market?
Standard Oil
AT&T
Both were broken up by the government into competing businesses which went on to great success as competitors and IMO added more to the economy separately than if they had remained a single monlithic (emphasis on the lithic) entity.
Hmm I checked on British power rates and came up with a rate of about $0.11 (US) per kW-hr. My rate in the US is currently is about $0.13 (US) per kW-hr. I know (most) other places in the US where it is quite a bit cheaper than that (about half of that is the cheapest i know of). However since electricity is regulated at a state level prices vary quite a bit across different states (though regional prices tend to track together). So power isn't cheap everywhere in the US, at least compared to Britain (although they had the misfortune of going through electric supplier deregulation). So I'm wondering what the rates are where you are.
MSWord isnt really up to anything over a few pages long IMO unless its just straight text with minimal formating. Once you start pushing the endges of what MSWord can do you start hitting its limitations hard and it becomes really painful to use.
Word Perfect once you get used to some of its idisyncracies is significantly better at handling longer more complex documents than MSWord, again IMO. However you still run up against its limitations sooner than you'd like.
There is other software actually designed to handle larger documents though (Framemaker is one such program) which combines the nicities of WYSIWYG with the 'it does what you tell it to not what it thinks you want' level of LaTeX.
Its only sort of a scam but my guess is the OP is referring to what some cable companies did in this area... when they start up a digital service, charge more for the service but no one buys the package because it doesn't add any channels or services they want for that price. Then since no one is signing up they take a moderately popular set of channels that had been in the basic cable tier and move them on to the digital only tier.
The price for jumping when Wal-Mart says jump can be very dear though -- http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.htm l : interesting article on what suppliers to Wal-Mart go through (let alone Wal-Mart competitors)
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Well you may have the right, but they may feel like taking it to court to determine it. But I'm sure they feel the EULA that comes with the windows installation on your Sony makes it so you aren't legally entitled to use it anywhere else (same if you buy an OEM version of windows its tied to one machine to them and now with product activation they're able to tell you when your computer is different enough to no longer qualify to be activated).
So the argument comes down to whether they are willing to take you to court to enforce what they see as a legally binding license agreement, or if you are willing to take them to court to enforce your percieved right.
This doesn't mean I agree with this expansion of copyright holders rights in this way at all. In fact I find the whole activation and EULAs in software fairly despicable, but this seems to be the way the judiciary, and legislatures are leaning however mistaken I feel that direction is.
You would think you had the right to use the product as you wish, but the software industry has created this whole new added feature to copyright where you don't actually buy what you buy.
Microsoft have sold you (through Sony) what they call an OEM version of the software which they purport to only allow you to use on the original hardware you bought it on.
This type of limitation on sales of product was attempted with books and the resulting court case resulted in the formation of the First Sale Doctrine where once you purchase the work you can do with it what you see fit unbound by limitations by the copyright holder, in that particular case it was to resell a book at a price not set by the copyright holder.
Unfortunately this right has fallen largely by the wayside in software and the courts, congress and the executive haven't done anything to prevent this erosion of rights - in fact most have been actively promoting this erosion.
So you don't currently have the right according to the license agreement to use that copy of the software anywhere other than the computer you bought it on.
One of the Daily Show's best interviews ever
Its online now at Daily Show: Corddry - Email Trouble (Real Player Stream).
(Only "The Daily Show Rocks comes close IMHO)
or to be more pedantic, a democratic representative republic. and any democratic XXXXX XXXXX system will ignore non-vocal segments of the population.
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I like the graphing HP calcs because they have more elements in the stack visible at a time, though the graphing ability isn't terribly useful though.
But of course the original post you railed on mentioned all those characterisitcs but you still felt the need to make a snide remark. I never said that such a device was ready for market, only how a larger screen would be feasible to carry with additional technology mentioned by the original post.
Yup. Thats why it'd be somewhat bad if another gyro failed because they would have to go back to thruster attitude control - a step back from where they have been for a while.
Lol.
Kinda hard to use a solid state gyro to generate torque by pushing against it though.
These aren't navigational gyros, they're used to actually rotate the station (or stop rotating the station).
Think 8.5"x11" that rolls up into a thin tube with the controls on it and containing the batteries. So carrying it wouldnt be that difficult although 8.5" is a bit long and having the controls at the bottom isn't the best place though you could do the controls on the side and 11" isn't much longer than 8.5". Still a 8.5" or 11" length 0.5" diameter tube isn't terrible to carry around.
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Is it extra if you don't want the weapons edited out and replaced with walkie-talkies in the news report?
It took a bit, but if you go to Advanced Search and select a genre with a blank keywork that gives you the whole genre.
They really should make that easier to do.
"Don't, worry it will work out".
Most people would not accept that answer from a mechanic when they hear loud clanking noises from their car without a detailed explanation.
I fear we're going to see a big bill sometime soon when we go to pick up our vehicle because we acceptted that answer.
I have to totally agree. I'm in the northeast and signed up for Suncom about 6 months before they got bought by AT&T wireless.
The service with Suncom was quite good. There was good coverage over the entire area and the voicemail and missed call alerts worked perfectly with almost no lag between the call and the notification.
AT&T wireless took over and service deteriorated rapidly. Coverage became spotty in the area and varied widely from day to day and the voicemail and call notification system became abysmal not noting calls that came in or voicemails for days after the original call was made.
6 months later the plan was up and so was my patience. Now on Verizon wireless for the last year or two and they've been quite good overall.
4. Someone doesn't know how to measure actual power correctly.
That was my thought. I was wondering what the input and output waveforms were like and what method they were using to measure them since they almost certainly aren't DC.
They didnt go the punctuation as part of the company name route.
um no was to your redacted history that the government just handed at&t a monopoly and glossing over how it came to be - which included a free competition period during which at&t was beginning to agressively move to take over competitors successfully.
These are an easier pictures to get the idea of what they are doing - Artists Impressions
um no.
AT&T gained monopoly status partly through controlling its patents in the early years of the telephone industry. They then entered a settlement with the government who was considering anti trust action after AT&T started aquiring smaller competitors. The settlement required them to give competitors access to their lines. Rather than stopping a monopoly from occurring this stiffled competition in the long distance market because the local/regionals simply connected into the existing AT&T system which AT&T then leveraged this over time becoming larger and eventually the government stepped in and granted them the whole ball of wax but instituted price controls which also weren't terribly effective. Then they were broken up into separate companies (like Standard Oil was before - which allowed it to expand and become a healthier industry and generated more profit than it had as a single entity) in some ways resulting in the telecom boom of the late 80s-90s.
So again Microsoft's monopoly and Standard Oil, and AT&T had competition and crushed it using various tactics which might have been acceptable if they didn't control a large segment of the market and in 2 cases the government made poor attempts to control their monopolistic tendancies through settlements of which in at least one case resulted in cementing their monopoly in stone for decades.
In all these cases the companies had competition and was in the process of incorporating
their competitors leaving them as the sole company providing the service when the government stepped in and tried to modify this behavior to preserve competition - which it does rather poorly, but that was the initial intent.
Can you name any company besides Microsoft that has emerged into a monopoly by taking over a free market?
Standard Oil
AT&T
Both were broken up by the government into competing businesses which went on to great success as competitors and IMO added more to the economy separately than if they had remained a single monlithic (emphasis on the lithic) entity.
Hmm I checked on British power rates and came up with a rate of about $0.11 (US) per kW-hr. My rate in the US is currently is about $0.13 (US) per kW-hr. I know (most) other places in the US where it is quite a bit cheaper than that (about half of that is the cheapest i know of). However since electricity is regulated at a state level prices vary quite a bit across different states (though regional prices tend to track together). So power isn't cheap everywhere in the US, at least compared to Britain (although they had the misfortune of going through electric supplier deregulation). So I'm wondering what the rates are where you are.
MSWord isnt really up to anything over a few pages long IMO unless its just straight text with minimal formating. Once you start pushing the endges of what MSWord can do you start hitting its limitations hard and it becomes really painful to use.
Word Perfect once you get used to some of its idisyncracies is significantly better at handling longer more complex documents than MSWord, again IMO. However you still run up against its limitations sooner than you'd like.
There is other software actually designed to handle larger documents though (Framemaker is one such program) which combines the nicities of WYSIWYG with the 'it does what you tell it to not what it thinks you want' level of LaTeX.
Its only sort of a scam but my guess is the OP is referring to what some cable companies did in this area... when they start up a digital service, charge more for the service but no one buys the package because it doesn't add any channels or services they want for that price. Then since no one is signing up they take a moderately popular set of channels that had been in the basic cable tier and move them on to the digital only tier.
The price for jumping when Wal-Mart says jump can be very dear though -- http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.htm l : interesting article on what suppliers to Wal-Mart go through (let alone Wal-Mart competitors)