They are fighting against counterfeit copies of Windows, so their use of the word is correct in a literal sense. This is not redefining a term. It sucks though, because they make it impossible (or difficult at least) for Linux users to download patches to take to client sites.
If you want to discuss redefining terms, how about discussing Microsoft's definition of downtime vs. the rest of the industry's definition of that term.
And I have rechargable alkalines that are six years old now. Their capacity is decreasing so it's time replace them (they've been recharged several hundred times) but I cannot find rechargable alkalines anywhere any more.:( I really liked rechargable alkalines - decent life, higher voltage than NiMH. I've thought about just recharging standard Energizer or Duracell alkalines (all mass-market alkalines are theoretically rechargable) but they're not designed to be charged, and are not vented, so . . .
So, I look for rechargable NiMH D-Cells (AA cells are readily available). Can't find them anywhere. Eveready advertises rechargable Energizer D-cells on their web site, but does Sprawl*Mart or Home Depot, etc. stock them? Of course not. But even if they did: 1.2V per cell vs. 1.5V.
No-Name/Off-brand Ni-Cd are readily available, but who the hell wants NiCd batteries?
I miss rechargable alkalines. Damn the Ray-o-Vac folks to Hell for discontinuing their environmentally-friendly rechargable alkaline batteries.
nudity is not automatically pornography. Duh. It's all in the context.
Video of a childbirth? Pictures of a newborn? A home video of you taking your clothes off and running around the house giggling while your mom chases you to put your clothes back on your mischievous ass? Not porn.
I'd consider that insightful, FWIW, If you think it's flamebait, you've been lucky and haven't been stung by magic quotes yet. Key word: yet. Magic Quotes is a great idea, but there are cases where it'll totally screw you up.
Not much good that does if the company is an Indian company based in India, making calls from India, and making the sale from India.
For offshored telemarketing, then yes, you might have some ground but what the heck is the FCC going to do about it? Ask Duhbya to invade India? (oh wait, he just might;))
Only 3,000 people (a bit less actually) died. While I may sound like a troll for saying "only", it's because we need to relativize, 3,000 people dying en masse is not a lot nor even exceptional compared to what happens all the time on Earth.
Yeah, but: ter'rists! You're not thinking of the children, damn it!;)
It's the warm fuzzy feeling some people get when they choose something they paid for over something that's free, because, if it's free, it's no good, right?
FWIW, I'd rip a DVD right in front of an MPAA rep. When he threatens to sue, I'd point at the interoperability clause in the DMCA, and point at the fair use clause in Copyright Law, as well as DVD advertisements which state that I OWN the DVD, along with various court precedents pertaining to the first sale doctrine. Providing I am not violating Copyright Law by distributing the content in violation of it, there isn't much they can do. There's not much they can do if I rip all of my DVDs to xvid to keep readily available on my HDD, and nothing they can do about my copying them to my PocketPC for mobile viewing.
Why fear the MPAA when merely exercising your rights?
Only a benefit if you're cheap or poor, or a programmer.
Not at all. Open Source benefits the users directly. Case in point: MCE can't write to MPEG4, because MS will never care about writing the feature. Obviously, someone around MythTV wanted this (honestly, essential) feature and wrote it in. MCE only has support for DRM formats. Open Source in this instance basically means you can play the movie you recorded on any computer. Obviously a benefit. A big one.
Another benefit: Open source pretty much guarantees your software will always be supported, at least minimally. When Vista comes out there is little chance ATI will release drivers for the AiW Radeon series, but with Gatos being merged into X.org the chances are fairly high that MythTV will eventually work with the AiW cards, and provide an upgrade path for Win2K and WinXP users. Ditto for various no-name USB tuner cards which are produced by fly-by-night vendors.
I think that if I want to sell a product at a discount and ask that my brand is kept there in exchange I should be allowed to do so.
You can ask to put your logo on the product, and they do so. However, once the ownership of that product changes hands, the new owner can do anything he desires with his purchased good, including removing logos and repainting it. If you do not like that, then do not sell product, but rent or lease it to clients instead.
So, what you're saying is this: Windows XP is okay as long as you do not install Windows XP?
(I kid, I kid)
Windows XP is ok. Here is what I dislike about Windows (XP and server alike):
- You're pretty much stuck with the Explorer desktop
- You HAVE to load the GUI
- killing apps often do not die, whereas on *nix, kill -9 kills processes dead
- multiuser-capable but disabled by Micro$oft (so if I want to connect to a remote machine, I disturb the existing session.)
- WEAK shell (Cygwin makes Windows administration and automation tolerable)
- explorer.exe as a file browser SUCKS. Konqueror is almost perfect.
- Activation, Genuine Advantage, and constant phoning home (I bought a MSDN Universal subscription as a home user, and have subscribed at my office as well. I should not have to put up with Activation bullshit)
- The installer sucks. It reminds me of Slackware circa 1994, only much, much less advanced.
Here is what I like about Windows:
- hardware compatibility (pick anything ranging from a crap Bill & Ted's Excellent SIS board to a SuperMicro or Tyan Quad-processor board (dual in the case of XP) and Windows is supported and practically guaranteed to work.
- The administration GUI is pretty good, but then again, it HAS to be because the CLI is so damned weak
- Assigning processor affinity (if/when the need does arise is fairly easy, making working around certain race conditions in buggy drivers and/or apps fairly easy
- You know, I cannot think of anything else about Windows that I actually like
Interesting, signatures are not what is supposed to be moderated. My signature links to one of many articles covering Bush's "the constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper" outburst. IMHO, quoting the President is not flamebait.
But, if the rumor rings true that they provided those backports to ATI, Nvidia, etc. in an XP installer so that they could develop DirectX 10-compliant drivers, doesn't it stand to reason that the bulk of the work is done, and it's NOT unreasonable to demand that they do the same for end users?
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They are fighting against counterfeit copies of Windows, so their use of the word is correct in a literal sense. This is not redefining a term. It sucks though, because they make it impossible (or difficult at least) for Linux users to download patches to take to client sites.
If you want to discuss redefining terms, how about discussing Microsoft's definition of downtime vs. the rest of the industry's definition of that term.
You were there for that, in the 1800s? Just how old ARE you?
And I have rechargable alkalines that are six years old now. Their capacity is decreasing so it's time replace them (they've been recharged several hundred times) but I cannot find rechargable alkalines anywhere any more. :( I really liked rechargable alkalines - decent life, higher voltage than NiMH. I've thought about just recharging standard Energizer or Duracell alkalines (all mass-market alkalines are theoretically rechargable) but they're not designed to be charged, and are not vented, so . . .
So, I look for rechargable NiMH D-Cells (AA cells are readily available). Can't find them anywhere. Eveready advertises rechargable Energizer D-cells on their web site, but does Sprawl*Mart or Home Depot, etc. stock them? Of course not. But even if they did: 1.2V per cell vs. 1.5V.
No-Name/Off-brand Ni-Cd are readily available, but who the hell wants NiCd batteries?
I miss rechargable alkalines. Damn the Ray-o-Vac folks to Hell for discontinuing their environmentally-friendly rechargable alkaline batteries.
nudity is not automatically pornography. Duh. It's all in the context.
Video of a childbirth? Pictures of a newborn? A home video of you taking your clothes off and running around the house giggling while your mom chases you to put your clothes back on your mischievous ass? Not porn.
Video of some old guy diddling your weewee? Porn.
Common sense, folks.
I'd consider that insightful, FWIW, If you think it's flamebait, you've been lucky and haven't been stung by magic quotes yet. Key word: yet. Magic Quotes is a great idea, but there are cases where it'll totally screw you up.
Not much good that does if the company is an Indian company based in India, making calls from India, and making the sale from India.
;))
For offshored telemarketing, then yes, you might have some ground but what the heck is the FCC going to do about it? Ask Duhbya to invade India? (oh wait, he just might
Doesn't nuclear fuel theoretically originate from supernovae?
Why is that modded flamebait? It's FUNNY.
Worst. comment. ever.
Neither. Jay and Silent Bob would kick both of their asses. :)
Yeah, but: ter'rists! You're not thinking of the children, damn it!
And, of course, no matter the outcome, laywers get paid for participating in this stupidity.
There, I corrected the typo for you.
It's the warm fuzzy feeling some people get when they choose something they paid for over something that's free, because, if it's free, it's no good, right?
FWIW, I'd rip a DVD right in front of an MPAA rep. When he threatens to sue, I'd point at the interoperability clause in the DMCA, and point at the fair use clause in Copyright Law, as well as DVD advertisements which state that I OWN the DVD, along with various court precedents pertaining to the first sale doctrine. Providing I am not violating Copyright Law by distributing the content in violation of it, there isn't much they can do. There's not much they can do if I rip all of my DVDs to xvid to keep readily available on my HDD, and nothing they can do about my copying them to my PocketPC for mobile viewing.
Why fear the MPAA when merely exercising your rights?
Another benefit: Open source pretty much guarantees your software will always be supported, at least minimally. When Vista comes out there is little chance ATI will release drivers for the AiW Radeon series, but with Gatos being merged into X.org the chances are fairly high that MythTV will eventually work with the AiW cards, and provide an upgrade path for Win2K and WinXP users. Ditto for various no-name USB tuner cards which are produced by fly-by-night vendors.
So, what you're saying is this: Windows XP is okay as long as you do not install Windows XP?
(I kid, I kid)
Windows XP is ok. Here is what I dislike about Windows (XP and server alike):
- You're pretty much stuck with the Explorer desktop
- You HAVE to load the GUI
- killing apps often do not die, whereas on *nix, kill -9 kills processes dead
- multiuser-capable but disabled by Micro$oft (so if I want to connect to a remote machine, I disturb the existing session.)
- WEAK shell (Cygwin makes Windows administration and automation tolerable)
- explorer.exe as a file browser SUCKS. Konqueror is almost perfect.
- Activation, Genuine Advantage, and constant phoning home (I bought a MSDN Universal subscription as a home user, and have subscribed at my office as well. I should not have to put up with Activation bullshit)
- The installer sucks. It reminds me of Slackware circa 1994, only much, much less advanced.
Here is what I like about Windows:
- hardware compatibility (pick anything ranging from a crap Bill & Ted's Excellent SIS board to a SuperMicro or Tyan Quad-processor board (dual in the case of XP) and Windows is supported and practically guaranteed to work.
- The administration GUI is pretty good, but then again, it HAS to be because the CLI is so damned weak
- Assigning processor affinity (if/when the need does arise is fairly easy, making working around certain race conditions in buggy drivers and/or apps fairly easy
- You know, I cannot think of anything else about Windows that I actually like
Windows ME is worse. Microsoft Bob, as annoying as he was, was at least stable. It WORKED. When it did break, it could be fixed.
Windows ME? Unstable. Flaky. Difficult to fix.
Interesting, signatures are not what is supposed to be moderated. My signature links to one of many articles covering Bush's "the constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper" outburst. IMHO, quoting the President is not flamebait.
But, if the rumor rings true that they provided those backports to ATI, Nvidia, etc. in an XP installer so that they could develop DirectX 10-compliant drivers, doesn't it stand to reason that the bulk of the work is done, and it's NOT unreasonable to demand that they do the same for end users?
How the hell is this flamebait? It was a court decision which made business practices patentable. See post (#16067282) elsewhere in this thread.
Don't throw mod points away modding posts down. Sheesh.
Ever since it has become possible to buy a judge and/or jury.
s/cirriculum/curriculum/ :(
There obviously will be no ethics classes in the cirriculum.
When you post it, I'll get it and check it out. For some of the more obscure ones I may have to checksum references.