I don't think any consumer if you asked them would consider that they licensed it, they would instead say that they bought it. A simple rule of thumb would be - if it comes in a box I "bought" it, if I signed a bit of paper then it was a contract/license.
You can do absolutely anything you want whatsoever with the software with absolutely no limitations at all, provided you don't distribute the software. If you choose to distribute then other people get the same freedoms to do absolutely anything they want.
"Back when I played WoW, I couldn't afford any decent blues, let alone epics at the AH. This is because prices were inflated by a bunch of people who bought gold and used that to buy all the good items."
You can blame it on gold farmers, but its as likely that people will pay that much money to equip their alt and that their main character is far more advanced (and therefore better at money-making) than you were.
There was a big meeting within the last couple of years between either Gates or Ballmer and the head honchos of the BBC. Since then, the BBC's attitude towards M$ has noticeably thawed.
I used to receive 30 bouncebacks a day due to spam. I switched to SPF, and it didnt immediately make a difference. After several weeks I noticed I was receiving maybe 1 or 2 bouncebacks a day.
I cannot be certain whether this is due to the spammer observing my implementation of SPF and no longer using my domain as a return address, or whether the spammer still uses my domain but mail servers have stopped sending me the bouncebacks.
A Freeview box is the national standard for terrestrial digital televsion. It is available to pretty much the entire country. Tough titties if you don't have the box.
An installation of windows media player is emphatically not a standard for media playing - anywhere, ever. If I cannot play windows media files on the platform I use, the unholy trinity of licenses, copyright and patents prevents me legally playing back these files.
The problem is that I pay for the content via my TV licence, and I don't really like the idea of paying for a delivery method that is inaccessible to me.
(ahem posted from IE6 in windows - at work, honest!)
It seems like M$ are trying to get as many of these agreements out as possible before GPLv3 comes out, although I imagine they will have learnt from the Novell deal.
Noone died, noone was physically threatened, noone felt fearful.
Yes millions have people have been inconvenienced, and yes phenomenal amounts of bandwidth have been wasted (the costs of this have been mostly incurred by victims of the spammer).This is a white collar crime.
The spammer is not a danger to society, just a pain in the arse so an appropriate punishment is a small prison sentence, coupled with a phenomenal fine - e.g. 10 million dollars.
Although he said MP3s, its not uncommon for people to use lossless compression these days, so 150GB isn't unreasonable. Also what if you have a lot of dance music mixes - those typically last 1-2 hours which is generally longer than a cd album.
"This line about the "minority" of violent muslims doesn't mean a damned thing, so long as that minority has 1) influence and 2) the ability to project power, which I argue it does."
Who cares what a minority of muslims think and how much influence and power they project, when the MAJORITY of the united states desired to invade an innocent country for no other reason than imperialistic agression.
That the most militarily advanced country in the world is trigger-happy is a far far far bigger problem. (Don't forget that USA foreign policy - meddling in the middle east - is more or less the entire reason that many of these muslims are vocal).
"A LOT, tens of millions(!), of hate-filled Muslims worldwide, ready to erupt into violence. "
an approximation: 300 million americans, roughly 50% of whom supported GWB's war of agression. That is 150 million americans who vastly threaten the security of the rest of the world.
Why do you focus so much on these moslems? The problem is a bit closer to home than you think mate.
there's always the effect of heavy drug use the night before on the next day's performance There is also the issue of heavy alcohol use the night before. I do not see this being tested, though it equally detracts from performance.
"It's not really a double standard. Booze is not illegal, a spliff is."
Basically you are saying that its not about whether an employee is in a fit state to do his work, merely whether he is breaking the law outside of work?
Or do you propose that private entities entering into an employment agreement should have their freedom to include such stipulations (as drug testing) abridged because you don't like the idea?
While I think every company has the right to ensure that employees do not consume drugs while at work, I cannot possibly see why they should even be allowed to dictate your behaviour when you are not at work.
There is an element of double standards here too - boozy working lunches are ok, a spliff to relax after work is verboten.
If they could devise a test that evaluated whether or not a person had recently consumed drugs while they were at work I would not object as much.
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I think you miss the point - the entire security risk IS when the web browser launches another application.
I don't think any consumer if you asked them would consider that they licensed it, they would instead say that they bought it. A simple rule of thumb would be - if it comes in a box I "bought" it, if I signed a bit of paper then it was a contract/license.
Is this not unreasonable?
What idiot of a moderator marked this as redundant? The parent comment contains loads of useful information.
You can do absolutely anything you want whatsoever with the software with absolutely no limitations at all, provided you don't distribute the software. If you choose to distribute then other people get the same freedoms to do absolutely anything they want.
"Back when I played WoW, I couldn't afford any decent blues, let alone epics at the AH. This is because prices were inflated by a bunch of people who bought gold and used that to buy all the good items."
You can blame it on gold farmers, but its as likely that people will pay that much money to equip their alt and that their main character is far more advanced (and therefore better at money-making) than you were.
You have reached to the heart of Slashdot's rotten core. I salute you.
There was a big meeting within the last couple of years between either Gates or Ballmer and the head honchos of the BBC. Since then, the BBC's attitude towards M$ has noticeably thawed.
I used to receive 30 bouncebacks a day due to spam. I switched to SPF, and it didnt immediately make a difference. After several weeks I noticed I was receiving maybe 1 or 2 bouncebacks a day.
I cannot be certain whether this is due to the spammer observing my implementation of SPF and no longer using my domain as a return address, or whether the spammer still uses my domain but mail servers have stopped sending me the bouncebacks.
Either way I+internet won, spammer lost.
A Freeview box is the national standard for terrestrial digital televsion. It is available to pretty much the entire country. Tough titties if you don't have the box.
An installation of windows media player is emphatically not a standard for media playing - anywhere, ever. If I cannot play windows media files on the platform I use, the unholy trinity of licenses, copyright and patents prevents me legally playing back these files.
Therefore I cry.
The problem is that I pay for the content via my TV licence, and I don't really like the idea of paying for a delivery method that is inaccessible to me.
(ahem posted from IE6 in windows - at work, honest!)
Thats a very immature attitude haha
It seems like M$ are trying to get as many of these agreements out as possible before GPLv3 comes out, although I imagine they will have learnt from the Novell deal.
These kind of things just don't happen anywhere near as often in countries that have sane gun laws, privacy laws or not.
Fixed the defect introduced in the patch.
I don't get a huge amount of junk mail where I live in England - maybe a few takeaway menus from time to time.
Still, the fact is that under GWB the world has come the closest to WW3 than at any other time since the fall of the berlin wall.
Noone died, noone was physically threatened, noone felt fearful.
Yes millions have people have been inconvenienced, and yes phenomenal amounts of bandwidth have been wasted (the costs of this have been mostly incurred by victims of the spammer).This is a white collar crime.
The spammer is not a danger to society, just a pain in the arse so an appropriate punishment is a small prison sentence, coupled with a phenomenal fine - e.g. 10 million dollars.
pwned :)
Although he said MP3s, its not uncommon for people to use lossless compression these days, so 150GB isn't unreasonable. Also what if you have a lot of dance music mixes - those typically last 1-2 hours which is generally longer than a cd album.
As far as I know, spiders do not currently threaten to provoke world war 3.
THAT is your future, coward.
You are correct - america scares the shit out of me!
"This line about the "minority" of violent muslims doesn't mean a damned thing, so long as that minority has 1) influence and 2) the ability to project power, which I argue it does."
Who cares what a minority of muslims think and how much influence and power they project, when the MAJORITY of the united states desired to invade an innocent country for no other reason than imperialistic agression.
That the most militarily advanced country in the world is trigger-happy is a far far far bigger problem. (Don't forget that USA foreign policy - meddling in the middle east - is more or less the entire reason that many of these muslims are vocal).
"A LOT, tens of millions(!), of hate-filled Muslims worldwide, ready to erupt into violence. "
an approximation:
300 million americans, roughly 50% of whom supported GWB's war of agression. That is 150 million americans who vastly threaten the security of the rest of the world.
Why do you focus so much on these moslems? The problem is a bit closer to home than you think mate.
"This means that success in the game depends on both player skill, AND player computer power."
This is true of all computer games. BZZZT. Lose one point.
there's always the effect of heavy drug use the night before on the next day's performance
There is also the issue of heavy alcohol use the night before. I do not see this being tested, though it equally detracts from performance.
"It's not really a double standard. Booze is not illegal, a spliff is."
Basically you are saying that its not about whether an employee is in a fit state to do his work, merely whether he is breaking the law outside of work?
Or do you propose that private entities entering into an employment agreement should have their freedom to include such stipulations (as drug testing) abridged because you don't like the idea?
While I think every company has the right to ensure that employees do not consume drugs while at work, I cannot possibly see why they should even be allowed to dictate your behaviour when you are not at work.
There is an element of double standards here too - boozy working lunches are ok, a spliff to relax after work is verboten.
If they could devise a test that evaluated whether or not a person had recently consumed drugs while they were at work I would not object as much.