You might be able to get away with that in a standard contract but the enforceability of a shrink-wrap license is very questionable. You cannot even see the conditions of the EULA until after you have purchased the product and opened it (therefore not being able to return it). Contracts of adhesion are hard to defend even under normal circumstances, and I'm sure if they ever took this to court MS would lose.
Anti-virus software firms used to do something similar, for instance McAfee used to have a clause that said you couldn't criticise their software without their permission. I wouldn't worry about it, stuff like this wouldn't hold up more than a second under First Amendment scrutiny.
He just landed here at Offut Air Force Base in Bellevue, NE just outside of Omaha. Dunno if he plans on staying here or moving on to somewhere else.
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Y'know, ssh under Windows is really rather painless. Just download PuTTY, it's a self-contained ssh client that is only a couple hundred K in size, and can be easily found by searching google for Putty and hitting "I'm feeling lucky." You don't need to install it, just run the program and you're good. I use this all the time when I'm on someone else's computer and I need to access one of my boxes.
It's sounds as if these Linux admins handled the whole situation really badly although instituting a better security policy is not, IMHO, ever a bad thing.
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Your workplace is running Windows XXL, and office XXL, and you have to take a Word XXL document home to edit it. You will have no choice but to be running Word XXL on Windows XXL at home, which means you will be stuck in the upgrade cycle too.
file->save as...
save as file type: Rich Text Format (*.rtf)
problem solved:)
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Just the other day my Windows 2000 install decided to kill itself for no reason. One minute it was working fine, rebooted, and the entire partition was completely fubar. Just because you never had problems doesn't mean they don't happen. It's strange, for some people Windows works fine and for others its pure torture.
On the other hand, I've never seen a linux box kill itself in this fashion. Sure, I've seen crap happen like ext2 volume corrupting from bad restarts, but with ReiserFS, XFS and JFS becoming stable that's not really a problem anymore.
You'll never see an anime where every character's relationship with the world and one another is fully explained.
How about Kare Kano? It's completely character-driven, and focuses on nothing but their relationships with each other. Sorry, but anime is too broad a medium to make such sweeping statements.
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In case you hadn't noticed, Llama Keeper was talking about servers while you were talking about desktop PCs. I'd say it's safe to say those are two different markets, and a company excelling at one and sucking at another is not unthinkable. I have had a somewhat positive experience with Compaq's server line, while I have had an overwhelmingly negative experience with their desktops. I think you're both right.
This looks neat, but it's still very rough. According to their website, if you want sound you have to start ac3dec manually and point it at what looks like a fifo the program creates. Also, you have to quit the progam to play another movie. Basic menu features like pause and fast forward aren't implemented either.
In short, this looks like it will be really neat but it is definately not ready for widespread use yet.
If that's all there was to it, I would agree... but a similar source doesn't really explain why both the crew of the Ulysses and Nautilus look exactly the same. Each little similarity, on their own, would be understandable. But When you add them all up... I dunno.
I think someone should do something to IRC and make it a Napster like service.. I wish I had the techie knowhow. I am quite able to get DCC's on IRC, but are others?
It's called Bithive and it looks like it may be up and running soon. Looks like it's Windows only right now, but it should be easy to reverse engineer.
How about instead of everyone running a distributed client to leech information from CDDB's database, everyone can take that same amount of time and enter their cd's into FreeDB's database instead. That's all it would really take to compete with CDDB. I do it whenever grip can't find a cd of mine, it's easy.
I think we all knew FAT sucks already. And besides, I've found the linux vfat driver to be at least as good on the native windows version. I'm really quite impressed with it, actually. Now, the filesystem itself is another matter...
I think it's be closer to say that he just likes good software. I'm using Konqueror right now, running under a severly hacked Ximian Gnome 1.2. Konqueror's good for light browsing on most sites; I use Mozilla when I come across java, flash or ssl.
Who is criminalized? Computer users who use Gnutella to pirate copyrighted material.
The article sounded like they took the mere use of the Gnutella network as proof of copyright infringement, in which case they're totally ignoring due process. I think the burden of proof should rest on the MPAA not the gnutella users.
You do know that an incident just like that actually happened right around the time they were writing the screenplay for Wargames, didn't you? I remember the two guys who wrote it were wondering if the storyline was too unbelievable, and then they saw the exact same thing reported in the news.
Screw Gnutella, just use OpenNap. In a couple of clicks my napster client was switched to it and I'll never notice the difference. That's the problem behind this course of action--eventually, the RIAA will have no choice but to sue their own customers, and that's suicide.
First of all, the Hollywood+ is supported under Linux since it uses the same em8300 processor the dxr3 does. It's not supported well, but what do you expect? Secondly, the Netstream2000 is over $2000 and is for commercial use only. You probably couldn't get one even if you had the money to burn.
Is this why geeks like it more than other socio-cultural groups?
In Japan, anime comprises more than 50% of television. It is only an underground phenomenon in other countries, but most definately mainstream in Japan. However, I think most geeks are the only types of people who would spend enough time to understand the nuances of television from another culture. Anime is best experienced in its original form, and marketing it for an American audience often ruins the best aspects of the original. Perhaps this is due to the Disneyfication process any imported animated show goes through in America.
Clever, but actually that's not true. Think about it: if Windows used Linux as a backend, people would simply become more used to a UNIX system, making the switch to Linux much more painless. Windows emulation would become far simpler, so most Windows programs would work under Linux with little tweaking. It would be great for us but with little advantages for Microsoft. Plus, they're far to arrogant to do something like that.
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You might be able to get away with that in a standard contract but the enforceability of a shrink-wrap license is very questionable. You cannot even see the conditions of the EULA until after you have purchased the product and opened it (therefore not being able to return it). Contracts of adhesion are hard to defend even under normal circumstances, and I'm sure if they ever took this to court MS would lose.
Anti-virus software firms used to do something similar, for instance McAfee used to have a clause that said you couldn't criticise their software without their permission. I wouldn't worry about it, stuff like this wouldn't hold up more than a second under First Amendment scrutiny.
Yes, I'm on a 209.x.x.x IP and it's hit me almost 1200 times already today.
He just landed here at Offut Air Force Base in Bellevue, NE just outside of Omaha. Dunno if he plans on staying here or moving on to somewhere else.
It's sounds as if these Linux admins handled the whole situation really badly although instituting a better security policy is not, IMHO, ever a bad thing.
file->save as... save as file type: Rich Text Format (*.rtf)
problem solved :)
On the other hand, I've never seen a linux box kill itself in this fashion. Sure, I've seen crap happen like ext2 volume corrupting from bad restarts, but with ReiserFS, XFS and JFS becoming stable that's not really a problem anymore.
You lucky bastard.
How about Kare Kano? It's completely character-driven, and focuses on nothing but their relationships with each other. Sorry, but anime is too broad a medium to make such sweeping statements.
In case you hadn't noticed, Llama Keeper was talking about servers while you were talking about desktop PCs. I'd say it's safe to say those are two different markets, and a company excelling at one and sucking at another is not unthinkable. I have had a somewhat positive experience with Compaq's server line, while I have had an overwhelmingly negative experience with their desktops. I think you're both right.
It's not nice to tease people.
In short, this looks like it will be really neat but it is definately not ready for widespread use yet.
If that's all there was to it, I would agree... but a similar source doesn't really explain why both the crew of the Ulysses and Nautilus look exactly the same. Each little similarity, on their own, would be understandable. But When you add them all up... I dunno.
It's called Bithive and it looks like it may be up and running soon. Looks like it's Windows only right now, but it should be easy to reverse engineer.
I think Bithive is what you're looking for. Looks like it'll be Windows-only, unfortunately, but a promising system.
How about instead of everyone running a distributed client to leech information from CDDB's database, everyone can take that same amount of time and enter their cd's into FreeDB's database instead. That's all it would really take to compete with CDDB. I do it whenever grip can't find a cd of mine, it's easy.
I think we all knew FAT sucks already. And besides, I've found the linux vfat driver to be at least as good on the native windows version. I'm really quite impressed with it, actually. Now, the filesystem itself is another matter...
I think it's be closer to say that he just likes good software. I'm using Konqueror right now, running under a severly hacked Ximian Gnome 1.2. Konqueror's good for light browsing on most sites; I use Mozilla when I come across java, flash or ssl.
The article sounded like they took the mere use of the Gnutella network as proof of copyright infringement, in which case they're totally ignoring due process. I think the burden of proof should rest on the MPAA not the gnutella users.
You do know that an incident just like that actually happened right around the time they were writing the screenplay for Wargames, didn't you? I remember the two guys who wrote it were wondering if the storyline was too unbelievable, and then they saw the exact same thing reported in the news.
Screw Gnutella, just use OpenNap. In a couple of clicks my napster client was switched to it and I'll never notice the difference. That's the problem behind this course of action--eventually, the RIAA will have no choice but to sue their own customers, and that's suicide.
Are you forgetting rpm --rebuild and apt-get --compile source ? Both RPM and deb support compiling source packages.
First of all, the Hollywood+ is supported under Linux since it uses the same em8300 processor the dxr3 does. It's not supported well, but what do you expect? Secondly, the Netstream2000 is over $2000 and is for commercial use only. You probably couldn't get one even if you had the money to burn.
In Japan, anime comprises more than 50% of television. It is only an underground phenomenon in other countries, but most definately mainstream in Japan. However, I think most geeks are the only types of people who would spend enough time to understand the nuances of television from another culture. Anime is best experienced in its original form, and marketing it for an American audience often ruins the best aspects of the original. Perhaps this is due to the Disneyfication process any imported animated show goes through in America.
Clever, but actually that's not true. Think about it: if Windows used Linux as a backend, people would simply become more used to a UNIX system, making the switch to Linux much more painless. Windows emulation would become far simpler, so most Windows programs would work under Linux with little tweaking. It would be great for us but with little advantages for Microsoft. Plus, they're far to arrogant to do something like that.