"Also to begin with you are not required to buy a computer that comes with Windows. Or you can read the EULA online [microsoft.com] before buying it. Or ask to read it in store."
The argument people make is that you buy the laptop, walk out of the store, then after you've already completed the transaction you are then asked to agree to additional terms in the EULA after you have already completed the contract. Some people would reason that if they bought a washing machine they wouldn't be required to agree to onerous terms post-purchase before being legally able to use it, so why should another piece of hardware (a laptop) be different. Furthermore (although I have not checked myself), I understand that the XP licence explicitly states that if you do not agree with these terms you should return the licence to the vendor and you will receive a refund.
peter mandelson isn't even elected so he should fuck right off - he is in the house of lords and the role of the house of lords is to monitor legislation passed by the house of commons
I paid for windows 7 to go legit after pirating other versions for a while and tbh I'm a little pissed off that many of the same defects occur in windows 7 as occurred in vista. For example if you run dual monitor and you move your main monitor with the nicely laid out icons to the other side, then it dumps all the icons in a stupid place in the other monitor. I've also clicked on a directory while there was a cd in the drive and its frozen the explorer window until it spun up the cd - this has been a problem since windows 95 so its fucking ridiculous that 14 years later the same defect sits there unaddressed.
This will adversely affect small businesses - why should someone's business be made unviable cos they can't stop their kids downloading a few bits and pieces.
Imagine if you weren't allowed to use roads because a bus company complained about your driving 3 times.
Ye i also paid 2$ for it on the basis that I hadn't heard of the game and may or may not play it. I'd have probably paid more if i'd found out beforehand that they had a linux build.
I think its as much the idea that other countries are doing america's dirty work and arresting and extraditing people to america, when the reverse rarely happens. i.e. america is generall unwilling to extradite its own citizens but generally very happy to extra people from all over the world and subject them to possibly the harshest sentences in the western world.
Straight out of the box the tabs are very slow to open. This was true in ie7 and is still true in ie8. Ie7 seemed clunky compared to the then-current firefox (2?) and firefox 2 now seems clunky compared to 3.5, particularly on javascript heavy pages. Microsoft is getting out-innovated.
just speculating but maybe someone dying in your family reflects badly on your family, e.g. you must have done something wrong to receive a punishment, or perhaps you didnt look after the person, or even perhaps you are a bad luck family.
if any of those were true then shame would be a logical response
"They want to in general portrait themselves like the Sci-Fi scientist who know what is going on and is always right."
absolute nonsense, its more scientific communication thats at fault rather than some theoretical general scientist and their self image. When scientific research gets reported in the press, it never has an accompanying confidence stated for example.
and the press reports things as fact which are just the results of one person's research, whereas the true state of scientific opinion is the combined research of multiple scientists, some of who's results will conflict.
Slashdot Mirror
Or that Eng Land was full of engineers?
"Also to begin with you are not required to buy a computer that comes with Windows. Or you can read the EULA online [microsoft.com] before buying it. Or ask to read it in store."
The argument people make is that you buy the laptop, walk out of the store, then after you've already completed the transaction you are then asked to agree to additional terms in the EULA after you have already completed the contract. Some people would reason that if they bought a washing machine they wouldn't be required to agree to onerous terms post-purchase before being legally able to use it, so why should another piece of hardware (a laptop) be different. Furthermore (although I have not checked myself), I understand that the XP licence explicitly states that if you do not agree with these terms you should return the licence to the vendor and you will receive a refund.
I guess part of it is css support
I agree with this
prolog is certainly common in academia
peter mandelson isn't even elected so he should fuck right off - he is in the house of lords and the role of the house of lords is to monitor legislation passed by the house of commons
article title is misleading, it should be "usb 3 sucks, sata6 is amazing"
I paid for windows 7 to go legit after pirating other versions for a while and tbh I'm a little pissed off that many of the same defects occur in windows 7 as occurred in vista. For example if you run dual monitor and you move your main monitor with the nicely laid out icons to the other side, then it dumps all the icons in a stupid place in the other monitor. I've also clicked on a directory while there was a cd in the drive and its frozen the explorer window until it spun up the cd - this has been a problem since windows 95 so its fucking ridiculous that 14 years later the same defect sits there unaddressed.
This will adversely affect small businesses - why should someone's business be made unviable cos they can't stop their kids downloading a few bits and pieces.
Imagine if you weren't allowed to use roads because a bus company complained about your driving 3 times.
Ye i also paid 2$ for it on the basis that I hadn't heard of the game and may or may not play it. I'd have probably paid more if i'd found out beforehand that they had a linux build.
although you can't extrapolate to 5.2 million/year because its unlikely that they could achieve this level of publicity for more than a week or two
I think its as much the idea that other countries are doing america's dirty work and arresting and extraditing people to america, when the reverse rarely happens. i.e. america is generall unwilling to extradite its own citizens but generally very happy to extra people from all over the world and subject them to possibly the harshest sentences in the western world.
I very much doubt any British study would have looked at candy consumption as that's not a word in common usage over here.
He wrote the article to defend himself against an article that RMS wrote.
De Icaza doesn't raise many points in his defence.
lol @ memory-holes in firefox
doesn't happen any more
with a hidden, apparrently gnaa, sub-troll
Straight out of the box the tabs are very slow to open. This was true in ie7 and is still true in ie8. Ie7 seemed clunky compared to the then-current firefox (2?) and firefox 2 now seems clunky compared to 3.5, particularly on javascript heavy pages. Microsoft is getting out-innovated.
techno handbag music?
just speculating but maybe someone dying in your family reflects badly on your family, e.g. you must have done something wrong to receive a punishment, or perhaps you didnt look after the person, or even perhaps you are a bad luck family.
if any of those were true then shame would be a logical response
"They want to in general portrait themselves like the Sci-Fi scientist who know what is going on and is always right."
absolute nonsense, its more scientific communication thats at fault rather than some theoretical general scientist and their self image. When scientific research gets reported in the press, it never has an accompanying confidence stated for example.
and the press reports things as fact which are just the results of one person's research, whereas the true state of scientific opinion is the combined research of multiple scientists, some of who's results will conflict.
well today is naughty friday so I wonder (at least for me, as I'm posting this)
maybe thats what made the banter between them so good
the book of the first series or so was very good I thought
friends is quite popular in teh UK and thats got a large joke committee