The company sits down with MS and hammers out an agreement, and then they both sign it.
And the only thing they negotiate is "how much?". How many include access to the source, for example?
Just because it's a B to B transaction rather than B to C doesn't mean a court can't override the contract, deem one of the terms unfair or non-enforceable etc etc...
I second everything you said. Why there isn't an option on IE to disble any and all auto-installs is beyond me. The option "Enable install on demand" whose name might make you think does that just blocks foreign language fonts.
I also agree with the grandparent - many people click OK first and think second, if at all.
Our stateside rep for the Indian contractor didn't have the guts to tell me directly,
I've found that's common among Indians[1]. It's a cultural thing. You must always say yes, it's very impolite to say no, disagreement is bad. Which makes this article all the more surprising - if it's anything more than a stunt. Chinese are similar with their constant "face saving" nonesense.
I don't like it one jot. Nobody knows everything, but with robust, open discussion you can produce something where everybody's knowledge is factored in (and anybody's ignorance filtered out). With the yes-yes-yes approach you have to run with whatever the first idiot says. Mustn't rock the boat.
[1] You didn't say whether the guy was - but working for an Indian firm, it would still rub off on him.
There are some bank transfers I can't do via teihr intarsiteweb. Before, when their phone ops were in the UK, I'd call and they could do them within 15 minutes. Now, from India, 4 worrking days. Are they even using computers? Messenger pigeons would be faster.
And the person understood what you were saying. Some don't even understand the alphabet well enough to enter the pass letters. G, I thought you were saying C.
Thanks for the economics lesson. But when it comes down to it, they're in profit not due to their underlying operations, but because they gambled right.
What's more, if fuel prices continue to rise (or rather are expected to), futures will become prohibitively expensive too. They aren't a panacea, and you can't buck the market forever.
Every good inventor has had to have some kind of inspiration to actually make the invention. Sometimes necessity is the mother of invention -- the inventor needs a particular device or effect, so he creates it -- but sometimes they don't realize there is a need
What you say may be true in a few cases. A very few cases. But if simply having the idea was the difficult part, we'd have cured cancer, visted the stars and made windows secure by now.
This is related to the main problem with patents these days. WIBNI syndrome - believing that being the first person to say "Wouldn't it be nice if..." means you pwn the guy who actually goes out and makes it happen.
Whether you think i's a good idea for society or not, they sell licenses. A license by its very nature is more ambiguous than ownership, because it is, at its heart, an agreed upon, ungoing relationship between the licensee and licensor.
Beh. They may claim they sell licenses, and that you only rent the software from them. But if a court decides that's just a loophole and in fact they sell software, and after you've bought it then you own it, then that's how it is.
but the only reason many things are possible today is because someone wrote "pointless" articles about them when they were only theoretically possible.
Not really. The main reason things are possible is because somebody went out and worked out how to do them.
A caveman dreaming about being warmer doesn't do much to get a fire lit, does it?
When SCO's house of cards finally falls, it will be with a deafening crash amid roars of appreciation from the OSS crowd, but in the meantime, hats off to the talented lawyers that have managed to keep it standing this long. They deserve respect, grudging though it my be.
But what will be really funny is SCO losing the case and haveing no money to pay them. Then I would say, in my bestest Nelson Muntz voice, "Har har". A lot.
"the number of pixels is simply not as important as the optical properties of the system" - True, but only for similar numbers of pixels.
Nonesense. The first thing the light hits is the lens. If that's poor quality, whatever you put behind it can't make up for that.
Are you saying that you can get away with a crappy amp if you feed it into top-of-the-range speakers? If anything that would probably show up just how bad it is.
The hole has gotten smaller, but there is still a hole. That is not "hot demand".
There is always a certain amount of churn. It's the relative sizes - the net effect - of the two flows that matter. Shouldn't be a difficult concept for someone with a four figure ID to grasp.
Where does it say outsourcing a job CAUSES 9 jobs to be created?
It doesn't, but I'll guess that more than half of people reading it would thing that it does - and believe it. It misleads, but without provably lying.
one set of data easily digestible by the bots (and not displayed to the human reader), while retaining an entertaining writing style for human consumption?
Web design's not my area, but this question doesn't seem like rocket science. You have one field for this, and another for that.
Isn't it just an extension of the old database rule of semantic consistency? Having said that, I've seen so many people who won't let a product code be just a unique identifier for a product. It needs to contain the weight, colour, primary raw material, quantity sold last October and the shirt size & SSN of the guy who designed it. All of which and more simply cannot possibly stored anywhere else. Because, well, we've always done it like that.
I see the Grandparent's point. There is a particular style of writng Germans tend to use. What's more, many of them carry the style over when they write English - it's very easy when you've seen it a few times to recognise.
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Doesn't that signify alarm/panic?
I second everything you said. Why there isn't an option on IE to disble any and all auto-installs is beyond me. The option "Enable install on demand" whose name might make you think does that just blocks foreign language fonts.
I also agree with the grandparent - many people click OK first and think second, if at all.
I don't like it one jot. Nobody knows everything, but with robust, open discussion you can produce something where everybody's knowledge is factored in (and anybody's ignorance filtered out). With the yes-yes-yes approach you have to run with whatever the first idiot says. Mustn't rock the boat.
[1] You didn't say whether the guy was - but working for an Indian firm, it would still rub off on him.
There are some bank transfers I can't do via teihr intarsiteweb. Before, when their phone ops were in the UK, I'd call and they could do them within 15 minutes. Now, from India, 4 worrking days. Are they even using computers? Messenger pigeons would be faster.
And the person understood what you were saying. Some don't even understand the alphabet well enough to enter the pass letters. G, I thought you were saying C.
What's more, if fuel prices continue to rise (or rather are expected to), futures will become prohibitively expensive too. They aren't a panacea, and you can't buck the market forever.
But it's always almost done.
This is related to the main problem with patents these days. WIBNI syndrome - believing that being the first person to say "Wouldn't it be nice if ..." means you pwn the guy who actually goes out and makes it happen.
A caveman dreaming about being warmer doesn't do much to get a fire lit, does it?
Paper. I win!
Are you saying that you can get away with a crappy amp if you feed it into top-of-the-range speakers? If anything that would probably show up just how bad it is.
Isn't it just an extension of the old database rule of semantic consistency? Having said that, I've seen so many people who won't let a product code be just a unique identifier for a product. It needs to contain the weight, colour, primary raw material, quantity sold last October and the shirt size & SSN of the guy who designed it. All of which and more simply cannot possibly stored anywhere else. Because, well, we've always done it like that.
I see the Grandparent's point. There is a particular style of writng Germans tend to use. What's more, many of them carry the style over when they write English - it's very easy when you've seen it a few times to recognise.
It's worse than that, they're revolting.
It's a palindrome.