So long as you don't mind the lack of support from MS, there's no problem with those licences for the majority of people. It's not a "student" licence, it's "Home office and student", ie general household usage.
There's a good quote by someone whose name I can never remember but it goes like this: "That which is of interest to the public may not always be of public interest".
Most people would like to see pics of random hot people in the shower. Despite this demand, it would be an incredibly poor excuse if this was used to justify a photographer putting hidden cameras in people's showers.
The popularity of porn and the phenomenon of rubbernecking show that people generally have a pretty depraved curiosity. It's up to media companies to ensure that if they cater to these aspects, they do it responsibly (in consensual adult films and horror movies in that context).
It's great when this happens to a big business... But what about when it happens to individuals and victims?
To use an example. Imagine a celebrity's 13 year old daughter gets raped and there's a court order banning the publication of any information that can identify her. Will she have to deal with so many blogs reporting on it that the court order becomes pointless? Will she then have to live with horrific details of her attack being public knowledge?
With the Rihanna leaked pictures showing the results of her attack, it's become pretty clear to me that a good portion of the blogging community are devoid of tact and decency. It's only a matter of time before something of the nature of what I described happening.
1. Which you can avoid 99% of the time by unticking boxes
2. and replace it with their own. Only you won't know it's installing until it's too late. Also, in the majority of pirated software, you're forced to install the copy protection stuff anyway, then add a crack that bypasses it for that piece of software.
3. malware and spyware in commercial software are the exception to the norm. Hence why it's big news when they turn up.
Yes, pirated software is famous for being completely free from malware and torrent sites would never think about hosting ads that use exploits on visitors...
"orthodox morality"?
You have no automatic right to software. The fact there's no net cost to them does not make it right.
I'm not going to 'deprive myself' of a place to sleep so I'll pick the lock (in a non-damaging way) of your front door and sleep in a spare room in your house. No cost to you so any complaints about my squatting are just based on stupid orthodox morality.
Inane example yes but this sense of entitlement that some people have is sickening. By all means pirate but don't pretend you're not doing anything wrong by doing so.
Just because you can describe a system doesn't make it easy to design or implement. You basically just said "It's simple! Just put a SQL backed php application on a server and back it up! Make sure it's good too!".
They've only got at least 3 Windows 7 launch party stories on slashdot plus countless on other news sites, they've got people showing others how lame the Windows 7 launch party ads are. Some are even signing up for the Windows 7 Party packs with no intention of holding a Windows 7 party or just holding regular parties. Just so they can get a free copy of Windows 7 and tell people how stupid it is they're expecting people to hold parties for something as geeky as the Windows 7 launch.
I've read lots of vague new stories about this over the past few months and seen lots of videos but I'd like them to just release some proper technical specs without having to parse a collection of transcribed press releases and watch dull 10 minute videos.
how much exactly does a screen cost at each size?
Resolution at each size or DPI?
response time?
Power usage in W?
Can we drop the whole 'microsoft killed the OLPC' thing? The more extreme OSS advocates did far more damage to the devices success than MS ever did with their belief that making a device as Open source as possible (apparently Africa is full of 10 year old kernel programmers) was far more important than getting it into the hands of as many kids as possible. The second signs were shown that having the device open source played second fiddle to more important concerns, the device was viciously attacked by these people.
People in the west were screaming to buy this product but negroponte refused to sell it to the west. Selling them at a slight markup could have funded charitable donations, as well as drive the prices down. When he did offer it for sale, it was with a stupid 100% markup for which you could, by then buy a much more powerful eeepc and have money left over.
'Brain Dead'? The police knew the package contained drugs, they watched the guy take possession of them, then commenced with the raid. The only stupid people in this case were the drug dealers who came up with such an obviously flawed scam.
Let me put it this way, if criminals dumped a dead body in the back of someone's car without his knowledge, and the car is stopped by police for whatever reason who then find the body, would you not expect the police to arrest the man (and anyone else in the vehicle), guns drawn, treating him like a potential murderer?
Your point? It's been proven there are next to difference between how different layouts affect your typing. Qwerty keyboards aren't even standardised (look at a UK one compared to an American one).
But what about the flaws with the menu system too?
Greyed out options with no indication of what is needed to enable them.
Dropdown boxes the go to the bottom of the screen (or need an extra click to show all the options) or to get to a particular option you need to go through 3+ 'layers' (don't know the real term) of menus to get to?
The option of having to either keep switching tool bars manually or having a huge amount of screen real estate taken up.
Tool bars having tiny icons that aren't readable for those with accessibility issues unless they want to lose huge amounts of screen real estate.
When you get so used to a system you often become oblivious to it's problems because you're so used to them and don't want to learn a different one. Sure you've learnt where things are but you're an experienced users. There are constantly new users having to learn an old, harder to learn system. Is it not a bit selfish to say that all users in the future should have to learn a harder to learn, less intuitive system purely because a single set of experienced users who are more able to learn a new system, can't be bothered to?
Neither of those currently have the capability to output HD video. They're only able to play the videos at all using a workaround and they're not officially supported.
Sky TV have over 240 channels. The BBC has 8. Doesn't really sound like a monopoly does it.
The BBC is not government sponsored at all (except for the BBC World service). The money the BBC gets is collected by the BBC and is never even seen by the Government.
The BBC is only required to broadcast to the British public free of charge, not to provide their titles for free (hence they charge for DVDs and such).
They also don't exclusively show content they have full rights to. For example sporting events, Hollywood movies and so on have restrictions on how they can show them.
Why not get them covered by your home contents insurance? Most people don't realise they usually cover goods outside of the home and it's not that expensive.
Because it moves the data from the each user's downloads, documents, images etc. folders to a temporary location. It then creates the user's folder structure for Win 7 and re-indexes all the files.
If you've thousands of images that's a time consuming task. If you've not much free disk space, it'll take even longer.
I've caught about 4 viruses through general browsing in Firefox that abuse various exploits. Regular Firefox is easily as vulnerable as IE is now but has less sand boxing so when a virus does take advantage of an exploit, by the time AVG or whatever picks up the virus installing itself, you've already got a bastard of a regenerative virus firmly embedded in your system.
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Yeah I could use no script, disable flash, run adblock etc. but I don't particularly want to browse a crippled web.
The article seems to be fully of quibbles about simplifications or unscientific use of language rather than the overall point (which it finally gets to in the final paragraph).
It's not unthinkable that placebos could be having a more pronounced results than they have in the past. In the Prozac example, psychiatry related drugs are especially prone to placebo effects. Given that the average citizen knows a lot more about these drugs than they did 10+ years ago due to ads and the media, they're more likely to believe it'll work for them than people used to.
Changes attitudes towards drugs having an effect on placebos isn't something that should be dismissed offhand like that writer seems to be doing.
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So long as you don't mind the lack of support from MS, there's no problem with those licences for the majority of people. It's not a "student" licence, it's "Home office and student", ie general household usage.
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional $139.99
Cheapest Nehalem Processor: $199.99
Latest Office 20xx: $119.99
Total : $459.97
There's a good quote by someone whose name I can never remember but it goes like this: "That which is of interest to the public may not always be of public interest".
Most people would like to see pics of random hot people in the shower. Despite this demand, it would be an incredibly poor excuse if this was used to justify a photographer putting hidden cameras in people's showers.
The popularity of porn and the phenomenon of rubbernecking show that people generally have a pretty depraved curiosity. It's up to media companies to ensure that if they cater to these aspects, they do it responsibly (in consensual adult films and horror movies in that context).
It's great when this happens to a big business... But what about when it happens to individuals and victims?
To use an example. Imagine a celebrity's 13 year old daughter gets raped and there's a court order banning the publication of any information that can identify her. Will she have to deal with so many blogs reporting on it that the court order becomes pointless? Will she then have to live with horrific details of her attack being public knowledge?
With the Rihanna leaked pictures showing the results of her attack, it's become pretty clear to me that a good portion of the blogging community are devoid of tact and decency. It's only a matter of time before something of the nature of what I described happening.
Fine then.
I create a program using GPL'ed code and distribute it in binary only.
1. Which you can avoid 99% of the time by unticking boxes
2. and replace it with their own. Only you won't know it's installing until it's too late. Also, in the majority of pirated software, you're forced to install the copy protection stuff anyway, then add a crack that bypasses it for that piece of software.
3. malware and spyware in commercial software are the exception to the norm. Hence why it's big news when they turn up.
Yes, pirated software is famous for being completely free from malware and torrent sites would never think about hosting ads that use exploits on visitors...
"orthodox morality"?
You have no automatic right to software. The fact there's no net cost to them does not make it right.
I'm not going to 'deprive myself' of a place to sleep so I'll pick the lock (in a non-damaging way) of your front door and sleep in a spare room in your house. No cost to you so any complaints about my squatting are just based on stupid orthodox morality.
Inane example yes but this sense of entitlement that some people have is sickening. By all means pirate but don't pretend you're not doing anything wrong by doing so.
Just because you can describe a system doesn't make it easy to design or implement. You basically just said "It's simple! Just put a SQL backed php application on a server and back it up! Make sure it's good too!".
They've only got at least 3 Windows 7 launch party stories on slashdot plus countless on other news sites, they've got people showing others how lame the Windows 7 launch party ads are. Some are even signing up for the Windows 7 Party packs with no intention of holding a Windows 7 party or just holding regular parties. Just so they can get a free copy of Windows 7 and tell people how stupid it is they're expecting people to hold parties for something as geeky as the Windows 7 launch.
What are they thinking?
I've read lots of vague new stories about this over the past few months and seen lots of videos but I'd like them to just release some proper technical specs without having to parse a collection of transcribed press releases and watch dull 10 minute videos.
how much exactly does a screen cost at each size?
Resolution at each size or DPI?
response time?
Power usage in W?
Can we drop the whole 'microsoft killed the OLPC' thing? The more extreme OSS advocates did far more damage to the devices success than MS ever did with their belief that making a device as Open source as possible (apparently Africa is full of 10 year old kernel programmers) was far more important than getting it into the hands of as many kids as possible. The second signs were shown that having the device open source played second fiddle to more important concerns, the device was viciously attacked by these people.
People in the west were screaming to buy this product but negroponte refused to sell it to the west. Selling them at a slight markup could have funded charitable donations, as well as drive the prices down. When he did offer it for sale, it was with a stupid 100% markup for which you could, by then buy a much more powerful eeepc and have money left over.
'Brain Dead'? The police knew the package contained drugs, they watched the guy take possession of them, then commenced with the raid. The only stupid people in this case were the drug dealers who came up with such an obviously flawed scam.
Let me put it this way, if criminals dumped a dead body in the back of someone's car without his knowledge, and the car is stopped by police for whatever reason who then find the body, would you not expect the police to arrest the man (and anyone else in the vehicle), guns drawn, treating him like a potential murderer?
Your point? It's been proven there are next to difference between how different layouts affect your typing. Qwerty keyboards aren't even standardised (look at a UK one compared to an American one).
But what about the flaws with the menu system too?
Greyed out options with no indication of what is needed to enable them.
Dropdown boxes the go to the bottom of the screen (or need an extra click to show all the options) or to get to a particular option you need to go through 3+ 'layers' (don't know the real term) of menus to get to?
The option of having to either keep switching tool bars manually or having a huge amount of screen real estate taken up.
Tool bars having tiny icons that aren't readable for those with accessibility issues unless they want to lose huge amounts of screen real estate.
When you get so used to a system you often become oblivious to it's problems because you're so used to them and don't want to learn a different one. Sure you've learnt where things are but you're an experienced users. There are constantly new users having to learn an old, harder to learn system. Is it not a bit selfish to say that all users in the future should have to learn a harder to learn, less intuitive system purely because a single set of experienced users who are more able to learn a new system, can't be bothered to?
MS Keyboards, MS mice, other MS computer accessories, Zune, xbox360, games...
If anything, MS have more products to fill out a store than Apple do.
Neither of those currently have the capability to output HD video. They're only able to play the videos at all using a workaround and they're not officially supported.
The Zune HD can play back and output 720p videos...
You're confusing the definition of HD radio with the Zune HD.
Sky TV have over 240 channels. The BBC has 8. Doesn't really sound like a monopoly does it.
The BBC is not government sponsored at all (except for the BBC World service). The money the BBC gets is collected by the BBC and is never even seen by the Government.
The BBC is only required to broadcast to the British public free of charge, not to provide their titles for free (hence they charge for DVDs and such).
They also don't exclusively show content they have full rights to. For example sporting events, Hollywood movies and so on have restrictions on how they can show them.
Why not get them covered by your home contents insurance? Most people don't realise they usually cover goods outside of the home and it's not that expensive.
Even the cheapest possible phones have SMS and devices with mobile internet are increasingly cheap.
Because it moves the data from the each user's downloads, documents, images etc. folders to a temporary location. It then creates the user's folder structure for Win 7 and re-indexes all the files. If you've thousands of images that's a time consuming task. If you've not much free disk space, it'll take even longer.
I've caught about 4 viruses through general browsing in Firefox that abuse various exploits. Regular Firefox is easily as vulnerable as IE is now but has less sand boxing so when a virus does take advantage of an exploit, by the time AVG or whatever picks up the virus installing itself, you've already got a bastard of a regenerative virus firmly embedded in your system.
br> Yeah I could use no script, disable flash, run adblock etc. but I don't particularly want to browse a crippled web.
The article seems to be fully of quibbles about simplifications or unscientific use of language rather than the overall point (which it finally gets to in the final paragraph).
It's not unthinkable that placebos could be having a more pronounced results than they have in the past. In the Prozac example, psychiatry related drugs are especially prone to placebo effects. Given that the average citizen knows a lot more about these drugs than they did 10+ years ago due to ads and the media, they're more likely to believe it'll work for them than people used to.
Changes attitudes towards drugs having an effect on placebos isn't something that should be dismissed offhand like that writer seems to be doing.