Just as with Windows XP, a third-party DRIVER upgrade (e.g., removing then installing a newer NVidia driver or a NIC driver) can trigger the activation, so buyer beware. Windows XP is the end of the line for Microsoft products for me. a shame too, because I tried the Vista public beta and the new Media Center application is amazing, plus unlike Myth, it's fully Plug & Play.
In spite of that: Sorry, Microsoft, I'll take freedom and the cost of freedom (the PITA of shuffling firmware files to figure out which will work with the rev chipset and tuner my PVR-150 has) over your fascist removal of my first sale rights AND fair use rights. In short, I'll be blunt: fuck you, Steve Ballmer. Vista may be pretty and the Media Center might be breathtaking, but your illegal removal of my rights is unacceptable.
ICANN is your very best resource in these instances. Not only will you get your domain back, but the misbehaving registrar stands a very good chance of getting their license revoked, especially if it's the likes of enom who is notorious for doing this to their affiliates when their affiliates decide to become accredited registrars themselves. I went through this myself with a number of domains and was getting fed up to the point where I was considering going to ICANN but knew that the "registrar" we registered through was not at fault but enom, so we just stuck with the former affiliate. Took almost two months, but they did manage to get everything resolved and got enom to release any holds on all of our domains.
Actually. based on what I've seen of Microsoft's actions over the last few years, their view of security is that their monopoly must be protected, regardless of right of first sale, fair use, or any other consumer rights.
Those that still prefer to avoid SP2 (there are strange users out there)
What is so strange about rejecting Microsoft's declaration that "by installing SP2 you agree to let us do whatever we want to your computer, and also change the terms of use at whim despite our having no legal right to do so since WinXP is a commodity product and thus right of first sale applies since it is not technically a licensed product under a work for hire contract but in fact a commodity good"
Someone has no sense of humor and threw away mod points marking that troll. To that I ask: why?
Some of us found it funny. I found it hilarious.
That you do not find it funny or work for Microsoft and feel insulted does not mean it's a troll.
Reserve your troll and flamebait mods for racist bullshit posts. Spend mod points modding up a really insightful or at least well-written-even-if-wrong post elsewhere. Like the guideline says, focus on modding up, not down, nitwit.
Exactly identical hardware doesn't, if it's identical down to the HDD serial number. Depending on what you change in addition to the HDD, moving an installation can trigger it.
However, I've found that simply upgrading video or NIC drivers (NOT swapping cards) can trigger it.
Idiotic, and with Vista's "Activate twice then buy another copy" bullshit runs contrary to right of first sale. You buy it you OWN it. Microsoft is trying to phase in a subscription model, where you never buy it so you can never claim right of first sale to it.
The software licenses that Apple and Microsoft give you are more like renting than buying. You didn't really purchase Windows Vista, you paid for the right to install it on one computer.
What you are saying is true if it is something you SUBSCRIBE to, or if it is a work for hire under a contract with such provisions. However, for a commodity good sold off the shell, it is untrue, especially when they advertise that you should OWN A COPY or BUY A COPY. DVDs/movies/etc. fall under a similar deal: they advertise in practically every commercial "OWN IT ON DVD TODAY" but turn around and try to convince the courts that they merely "license the content" which any rational person knows is incorrect.
Well, upgrading from Windows to Windows due to security issues is kind of like buying a Dodge Caravan, experiencing nothing but constant breakdowns with it, and then deciding to go out and buy another Dodge Caravan in the hopes that it will be a more reliable vehicle. Oh sure, it'll be shiny, and the new one will probably have two DVD players and a GPS, but it's still a Dodge Caravan built by the same people with the good old "it's not my job" and "it's good enough" UAW mentality.
To be fair, there are no strings attached when it comes to USE of the software. Those strings only apply if you wish to incorporate that software into products you choose to distribute. There is a BIG difference.
Compare to Apple's "Thou shall not install OS X on Non-Apple-Branded PeeCees even though you paid for it" or Microsoft's upcoming "We give you two activations, and if a video driver upgrade triggers the need for a third activation, tough shit, you need to buy another license."
(and yes, a NIC or video card DRIVER upgrade CAN trigger Activation, I just had it happen on two machines last week. Fuck Microsoft)
The point is, do you prefer Apple's or Microsoft's strings, or the GPL's strings?
But when you come down to it, BSD's and MPL's strings (keeping copyright notices intact in the code, IIRC, and in certain cases having to give credit in an about screen) are the [i]most[/i] free.
No kidding. Thanks to the price war I scored a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo really cheap, and have it happily overclocked at 3.06Ghz. I wanted to go AMD, but I didn't because:
1. They are no longer cost-effective in comparison to Core 2
2. Compatibility issues; athough the chipset I chose is not 100% supported on the kernel rev I'm running, it's still a far sight better than getting an ATI or NForce chipset to run acceptably well. Also, The AMD-ATI merger does not bode well for Linux users, given ATI's abysmal track record. I refuse to buy ATI products and am now avoiding AMD until I see whether or not ATI cleans up its act. (insert a rabid "fuck ATI" right about here)
3. at stock clock speeds, it is 80% faster (according to benchmarks) than the Pentium D I sometimes use at the office, and well over 100% faster than the Pentium 4 (the other box) my primary box at the office. At 3.06Ghz, it's (obviously) much faster than even that.:)
I wanted to go AMD, I really did, but with Intel's quad core processor coming out Real Soon Now and with my board's already being certified to run it, it was the logical choice. Quad core upgradability was the clincher.
Aren't Visa and Mastercard two brands of the same company?
Re:I guess this also precludes 'Smear the Queer'?
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That game would not fly here in Massachusetts - after all, this is the commonwealth where the courts ordered the legislation to make it legal for gays to "marry." See, if that game were played here, Johnny's parents, who happen to be two guys, would sue the school claiming that the school supports "hate crimes" and that they are "offended" because their liberal mind cann't understand that one can have a difference of opinion without the presence of hatred.
(Now, my own personal position on gay "marriage?" Marriage is a religious construct which is by its very definition between a man and a woman; government has no business in getting involved, whether it's a normal marriage or a gay "marriage" so what the courts should have done is invoked the establishment clause and removed commonwealth interference in the family to begin with)
Sometimes the "professionals" can't see the long term profit potential of fair and honest work past their greed and their bent for a relatively small short-term gain.
a. can't play on my existing PC (running Linux) b. can't play using my existing DVD players c. will lose the god damned dongle for d. will not obtain any benefit from. In fact, I'll LOSE my fair use rights.
Thanks, but after thinking it over really hard, I decided to pass on it.
Now Intel has come out with actual real-live open-source drivers for their 3D graphics cards, and there's been a chorus of folks planning to switch over to them (even though they're rather underpowered compared to the NVidia cards).
What Intel graphics cards? I haven't seen any.
They have embedded graphics chipsets which rely heavily on the processor, and come in a single-VGA-only flavor (no DVI unless it's a notebook). Is that what we're talking about? Where is the dual head/Xinerama/Twinview capability?
Until then, I'll take Nvidia, even with the proprietary driver blob. I prefer that the driver be open source so that older products won't get phased out even while they are still being actively distributed (I won't mention any names but will just look over in ATI's direction and whistle), but the products have to perform well. So, in the meantime I choose Nvidia over the rest, because They Just Work(tm) and so far NVidia has been fairly good about maintaining the drivers even for older products, including even discontinued models.
I go out of my way to turn off APM on every computer, and I LIKE the fact that my ancient (by today's standards) CRT television takes only 10 seconds to turn on instead of 3 minutes. I remember my parents' first "big" (27" or 25" Zenith console) color television would take 2-3 minutes if the "standby feature" was turned off (it was labeled "vacation" on old TV models).
If you had ever bothered to read The Constitution of The united States of America, you would, of course, know that the President of America is not elected via populat vote, but but the Electoral College.
As much as I hate Duhbya, I agree with the SCOTUS decision; all they did was basically tell FL: "It's your farking problem; electors are determined by the State constitution, all we care about is who do your electors vote for? Settle this internally, and come back with your answer. Oh by the way, you have a deadline, so don't keep dickering around else you lose your electors' votes and piss off your constituents further." Yeah, I know, that wasn't what they said or how they said it but that is the jist of it.
Printed books:
- Give me my fair use rights
- Enable me to lend them to a friend
- Enable me to donate them to libraries
- Five me my first sale doctrine rights
- Enable me to sell used if I tire of the book
- Enable me to give away if I tire of the book
- Don't crash
- Don't malfunction
- Don't run out of battery power
- Work in dim lighting, office lighting, and even direct noontime sunlight without washing out
- Are not platform-dependent; no vendor lock.
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Just as with Windows XP, a third-party DRIVER upgrade (e.g., removing then installing a newer NVidia driver or a NIC driver) can trigger the activation, so buyer beware. Windows XP is the end of the line for Microsoft products for me. a shame too, because I tried the Vista public beta and the new Media Center application is amazing, plus unlike Myth, it's fully Plug & Play.
In spite of that: Sorry, Microsoft, I'll take freedom and the cost of freedom (the PITA of shuffling firmware files to figure out which will work with the rev chipset and tuner my PVR-150 has) over your fascist removal of my first sale rights AND fair use rights. In short, I'll be blunt: fuck you, Steve Ballmer. Vista may be pretty and the Media Center might be breathtaking, but your illegal removal of my rights is unacceptable.
Wow, the "Global" from Earth: Final Conflict is finally reality!
:)
Does it run Linux or Windows Mobile, so one can actually put software on it?
ICANN is your very best resource in these instances. Not only will you get your domain back, but the misbehaving registrar stands a very good chance of getting their license revoked, especially if it's the likes of enom who is notorious for doing this to their affiliates when their affiliates decide to become accredited registrars themselves. I went through this myself with a number of domains and was getting fed up to the point where I was considering going to ICANN but knew that the "registrar" we registered through was not at fault but enom, so we just stuck with the former affiliate. Took almost two months, but they did manage to get everything resolved and got enom to release any holds on all of our domains.
Actually. based on what I've seen of Microsoft's actions over the last few years, their view of security is that their monopoly must be protected, regardless of right of first sale, fair use, or any other consumer rights.
What is so strange about rejecting Microsoft's declaration that "by installing SP2 you agree to let us do whatever we want to your computer, and also change the terms of use at whim despite our having no legal right to do so since WinXP is a commodity product and thus right of first sale applies since it is not technically a licensed product under a work for hire contract but in fact a commodity good"
Someone has no sense of humor and threw away mod points marking that troll. To that I ask: why?
Some of us found it funny. I found it hilarious.
That you do not find it funny or work for Microsoft and feel insulted does not mean it's a troll.
Reserve your troll and flamebait mods for racist bullshit posts. Spend mod points modding up a really insightful or at least well-written-even-if-wrong post elsewhere. Like the guideline says, focus on modding up, not down, nitwit.
The OOo manual is every bit as thorough as the typical OEM Microsoft Office manual.
What? There is no manual for M$ Office, you say? At least not one worth the paper it's printed on?
Well then, we are indeed comparing apples to apples here.
Exactly identical hardware doesn't, if it's identical down to the HDD serial number. Depending on what you change in addition to the HDD, moving an installation can trigger it.
However, I've found that simply upgrading video or NIC drivers (NOT swapping cards) can trigger it.
Idiotic, and with Vista's "Activate twice then buy another copy" bullshit runs contrary to right of first sale. You buy it you OWN it. Microsoft is trying to phase in a subscription model, where you never buy it so you can never claim right of first sale to it.
What you are saying is true if it is something you SUBSCRIBE to, or if it is a work for hire under a contract with such provisions. However, for a commodity good sold off the shell, it is untrue, especially when they advertise that you should OWN A COPY or BUY A COPY. DVDs/movies/etc. fall under a similar deal: they advertise in practically every commercial "OWN IT ON DVD TODAY" but turn around and try to convince the courts that they merely "license the content" which any rational person knows is incorrect.
I corrected your misspelling for you.
Well, upgrading from Windows to Windows due to security issues is kind of like buying a Dodge Caravan, experiencing nothing but constant breakdowns with it, and then deciding to go out and buy another Dodge Caravan in the hopes that it will be a more reliable vehicle. Oh sure, it'll be shiny, and the new one will probably have two DVD players and a GPS, but it's still a Dodge Caravan built by the same people with the good old "it's not my job" and "it's good enough" UAW mentality.
Check out the interoperability clause in the DMCA itself; it provides for exceptions. Think of it as an analogue to Fair Use and Copyright.
To be fair, there are no strings attached when it comes to USE of the software. Those strings only apply if you wish to incorporate that software into products you choose to distribute. There is a BIG difference.
Compare to Apple's "Thou shall not install OS X on Non-Apple-Branded PeeCees even though you paid for it" or Microsoft's upcoming "We give you two activations, and if a video driver upgrade triggers the need for a third activation, tough shit, you need to buy another license."
(and yes, a NIC or video card DRIVER upgrade CAN trigger Activation, I just had it happen on two machines last week. Fuck Microsoft)
The point is, do you prefer Apple's or Microsoft's strings, or the GPL's strings?
But when you come down to it, BSD's and MPL's strings (keeping copyright notices intact in the code, IIRC, and in certain cases having to give credit in an about screen) are the [i]most[/i] free.
Here's a question for him:
:D /kidding, only kidding. . .
If you have a Linux system, but with BSD userland tools in place of GNU tools, would he still insist it be called GNU/Linux or would he STFU?
If it'd make him (RMS) STFU, then let's encourage distribution maintainers to consider switching to BSD tools.
No kidding. Thanks to the price war I scored a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo really cheap, and have it happily overclocked at 3.06Ghz. I wanted to go AMD, but I didn't because:
:)
1. They are no longer cost-effective in comparison to Core 2
2. Compatibility issues; athough the chipset I chose is not 100% supported on the kernel rev I'm running, it's still a far sight better than getting an ATI or NForce chipset to run acceptably well. Also, The AMD-ATI merger does not bode well for Linux users, given ATI's abysmal track record. I refuse to buy ATI products and am now avoiding AMD until I see whether or not ATI cleans up its act. (insert a rabid "fuck ATI" right about here)
3. at stock clock speeds, it is 80% faster (according to benchmarks) than the Pentium D I sometimes use at the office, and well over 100% faster than the Pentium 4 (the other box) my primary box at the office. At 3.06Ghz, it's (obviously) much faster than even that.
I wanted to go AMD, I really did, but with Intel's quad core processor coming out Real Soon Now and with my board's already being certified to run it, it was the logical choice. Quad core upgradability was the clincher.
Aren't Visa and Mastercard two brands of the same company?
That game would not fly here in Massachusetts - after all, this is the commonwealth where the courts ordered the legislation to make it legal for gays to "marry." See, if that game were played here, Johnny's parents, who happen to be two guys, would sue the school claiming that the school supports "hate crimes" and that they are "offended" because their liberal mind cann't understand that one can have a difference of opinion without the presence of hatred.
(Now, my own personal position on gay "marriage?" Marriage is a religious construct which is by its very definition between a man and a woman; government has no business in getting involved, whether it's a normal marriage or a gay "marriage" so what the courts should have done is invoked the establishment clause and removed commonwealth interference in the family to begin with)
You misspelled 100%.
You're wrong.
Exhibit A: Sony rootkit.
Sometimes the "professionals" can't see the long term profit potential of fair and honest work past their greed and their bent for a relatively small short-term gain.
I know I want to buy a movie format that I:
a. can't play on my existing PC (running Linux)
b. can't play using my existing DVD players
c. will lose the god damned dongle for
d. will not obtain any benefit from. In fact, I'll LOSE my fair use rights.
Thanks, but after thinking it over really hard, I decided to pass on it.
Hint: drop the DRM.
Now Intel has come out with actual real-live open-source drivers for their 3D graphics cards, and there's been a chorus of folks planning to switch over to them (even though they're rather underpowered compared to the NVidia cards).
What Intel graphics cards? I haven't seen any.
They have embedded graphics chipsets which rely heavily on the processor, and come in a single-VGA-only flavor (no DVI unless it's a notebook). Is that what we're talking about? Where is the dual head/Xinerama/Twinview capability?
Until then, I'll take Nvidia, even with the proprietary driver blob. I prefer that the driver be open source so that older products won't get phased out even while they are still being actively distributed (I won't mention any names but will just look over in ATI's direction and whistle), but the products have to perform well. So, in the meantime I choose Nvidia over the rest, because They Just Work(tm) and so far NVidia has been fairly good about maintaining the drivers even for older products, including even discontinued models.
I go out of my way to turn off APM on every computer, and I LIKE the fact that my ancient (by today's standards) CRT television takes only 10 seconds to turn on instead of 3 minutes. I remember my parents' first "big" (27" or 25" Zenith console) color television would take 2-3 minutes if the "standby feature" was turned off (it was labeled "vacation" on old TV models).
If you had ever bothered to read The Constitution of The united States of America, you would, of course, know that the President of America is not elected via populat vote, but but the Electoral College.
As much as I hate Duhbya, I agree with the SCOTUS decision; all they did was basically tell FL: "It's your farking problem; electors are determined by the State constitution, all we care about is who do your electors vote for? Settle this internally, and come back with your answer. Oh by the way, you have a deadline, so don't keep dickering around else you lose your electors' votes and piss off your constituents further." Yeah, I know, that wasn't what they said or how they said it but that is the jist of it.
I think there are laws covering the real intent, you know, laws banning murder, vandalism, etc.
That ought to cover it.
Printed books:
- Give me my fair use rights
- Enable me to lend them to a friend
- Enable me to donate them to libraries
- Five me my first sale doctrine rights
- Enable me to sell used if I tire of the book
- Enable me to give away if I tire of the book
- Don't crash
- Don't malfunction
- Don't run out of battery power
- Work in dim lighting, office lighting, and even direct noontime sunlight without washing out
- Are not platform-dependent; no vendor lock.