Businesses can make their store/website however they want. It is theirs. If they do not make it accessible, they will lose business, and someone will make theirs accessible, to get that business. Why must we have these ridiculous laws?
I generally do not support government intervention into business, but these companies are paying people to attack other people's computers, vandalizing their property. They should be shut down immediately, and the management should be arrested and forced to pay restitution to every affected user. The hackers should be forced to do the same. Then they can keep our sewers working for us for a few years, and clean up graffiti.
The root cause is jerks who like to hack other people's computers, and other jerks who employ them to make money from advertising. Insufficient security on most computers is helpful, though.
I meant peacefully, by voting with their dollar. Not forcing Microsoft to do what they immediately decide they want.
I certainly meant collectively. If a lot of people took it upon themselves (and not their overlords) to get together and boycott Windows, Microsoft would have to respond.
The company knowingly allowed Americans to gamble.
If someone sells illegal firearms to people in a European country, but they never actually enter that country to sell them, then they shouldn't be arrested if they do? He aided people in breaking U.S. law.
Why can't captchas just say "the letter at the beginning of the word that is spelled the reverse of the 3 letter name for an underwater vehicle or sandwich"? If someone can make a program that interprets that and gets the answer right after getting it off a captcha with OCR, then Google probably wants to know so they can hire them.
Someone will always want to attack us whether it is because we follow a different religion, different customs, etc. The best we can do is make sure that they aren't able to. And it is certainly possible to stop most weapons from getting onto planes.
The GP referred to someone who hacked OS X to run on any PC (and in the process violated license agreements, and likely pirated the OS) as a "hacker". I was simply using the same reference, and suggesting that someone who wasn't worried about those legalities wouldn't be worried about downloading a copyrighted DOS, which couldn't be obtained legally.
Yes, I know that "hacker" can refer to a benign person who makes toasters talk and vacuum cleaners cook food. It can just as easily as a person who hacks into other toasters and burn people's bread.
Intel OS X cannot be bought off the shelf. Just FYI. It has to be downloaded or copied from someone else who has a copy.
10.5 will be available as universal binary, but you will still need to download the "modified for all PCs" version, unless you can figure out how to do it.
There's plenty of leftist parties in western democracy, and some right wing ones. The leftist ones might not enforce personal freedoms as well as they should, but the same is true of the right wing parties and reduced spending/free market. So, they both stick to regulating more in their area (economical/personal), but they begin regulating the other area too.
I agree that they shouldn't try to compete with Dell, but how have they sacrificed quality or marketing? Their PCs aren't more "Dellish".
What's wrong with Dell as the price comparison? It is the most common.
I just did a comparison with Asus. A nearly equivalent MacBook is a few hundred dollars cheaper, albeit without the graphics card. The Asus is lighter, but the MacBook is smaller, and a lot more nicely made. This isn't taking into account OS X, which is the main reason the MacBook is better.
One thing about Asus that I really despise is all of the different models. They have useless alphanumerical names, and take a long time to look through. Surely a "1.8 GHz AsusBook" would be more helpful than an "ASUS kajf0394jljfsdd09fadfkaj". Car makers (particularly foreign ones) do this too, and it is quite irritating.
But if I ever want a Lamborghini laptop, I'll buy an ASUS. Hooray for useless models.
The only real advantage that PCs have for hardware is being able to build your own desktop, and being able to buy really, really cheap (in price, performance, and quality) PCs. The low end ones also have more customization options (which their buyers won't use). These are pretty big advantages for some people, though.
The Space Shuttle is only in that part of the atmosphere for a short time, and it is only at one point. The elevator is always there, and stretches from the earth to space.
But how is it profitable? As far as I can see, there are no advertisements, other than the RSS headline thing at the top. I can vaguely remember text ads at one time, but I don't see them any more. Is this normal?
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Actually, I'm seeing more popeye than roland.
No one would shop at a store that refused service based on race. It would go out of business in a heartbeat.
Dumping toxic waste into the sewers is affecting others, and is vandalizing others' property. So no, a business shouldn't be able to do this.
Not making everything fully accessible doesn't affect anyone unless they choose to enter your store. It will lose you their business, and others'.
Businesses can make their store/website however they want. It is theirs. If they do not make it accessible, they will lose business, and someone will make theirs accessible, to get that business. Why must we have these ridiculous laws?
I generally do not support government intervention into business, but these companies are paying people to attack other people's computers, vandalizing their property. They should be shut down immediately, and the management should be arrested and forced to pay restitution to every affected user. The hackers should be forced to do the same. Then they can keep our sewers working for us for a few years, and clean up graffiti.
The root cause is jerks who like to hack other people's computers, and other jerks who employ them to make money from advertising. Insufficient security on most computers is helpful, though.
I meant peacefully, by voting with their dollar. Not forcing Microsoft to do what they immediately decide they want.
I certainly meant collectively. If a lot of people took it upon themselves (and not their overlords) to get together and boycott Windows, Microsoft would have to respond.
I bet 90% of people who know what OpenOffice is know of another open office suite.
I happen to trust the people to handle such organizations.
Microsoft is selling a product. A lot of people choose to buy the product. Some people don't like it or Microsoft.
Why must the European Commission get involved? If Europeans don't like Microsoft or their products, they won't buy their products. Simple as that.
They do business with people in the U.S. They are not staying within their country.
So "Freedom Fighters" kill innocent people in the pursuit of totalitarian theocracy?
The company knowingly allowed Americans to gamble. If someone sells illegal firearms to people in a European country, but they never actually enter that country to sell them, then they shouldn't be arrested if they do? He aided people in breaking U.S. law.
Dell sells cheaper monitors that don't use the same panel. Apple doesn't even sell a 19 inch monitor.
Why can't captchas just say "the letter at the beginning of the word that is spelled the reverse of the 3 letter name for an underwater vehicle or sandwich"? If someone can make a program that interprets that and gets the answer right after getting it off a captcha with OCR, then Google probably wants to know so they can hire them.
Someone will always want to attack us whether it is because we follow a different religion, different customs, etc. The best we can do is make sure that they aren't able to. And it is certainly possible to stop most weapons from getting onto planes.
Apple is not a hardware. Apple is a solution company. They control both the hardware and software for their "solutions".
The GP referred to someone who hacked OS X to run on any PC (and in the process violated license agreements, and likely pirated the OS) as a "hacker". I was simply using the same reference, and suggesting that someone who wasn't worried about those legalities wouldn't be worried about downloading a copyrighted DOS, which couldn't be obtained legally.
Yes, I know that "hacker" can refer to a benign person who makes toasters talk and vacuum cleaners cook food. It can just as easily as a person who hacks into other toasters and burn people's bread.
Intel OS X cannot be bought off the shelf. Just FYI. It has to be downloaded or copied from someone else who has a copy.
10.5 will be available as universal binary, but you will still need to download the "modified for all PCs" version, unless you can figure out how to do it.
Why would that hacker then be worried about having a legal DOS?
There's plenty of leftist parties in western democracy, and some right wing ones. The leftist ones might not enforce personal freedoms as well as they should, but the same is true of the right wing parties and reduced spending/free market. So, they both stick to regulating more in their area (economical/personal), but they begin regulating the other area too.
I agree that they shouldn't try to compete with Dell, but how have they sacrificed quality or marketing? Their PCs aren't more "Dellish".
What's wrong with Dell as the price comparison? It is the most common.
I just did a comparison with Asus. A nearly equivalent MacBook is a few hundred dollars cheaper, albeit without the graphics card. The Asus is lighter, but the MacBook is smaller, and a lot more nicely made. This isn't taking into account OS X, which is the main reason the MacBook is better.
One thing about Asus that I really despise is all of the different models. They have useless alphanumerical names, and take a long time to look through. Surely a "1.8 GHz AsusBook" would be more helpful than an "ASUS kajf0394jljfsdd09fadfkaj". Car makers (particularly foreign ones) do this too, and it is quite irritating.
But if I ever want a Lamborghini laptop, I'll buy an ASUS. Hooray for useless models.
The only real advantage that PCs have for hardware is being able to build your own desktop, and being able to buy really, really cheap (in price, performance, and quality) PCs. The low end ones also have more customization options (which their buyers won't use). These are pretty big advantages for some people, though.
Those are true, but not all that important. Beyond that, if you were looking at the same survey as I was, Lenovo was last. And by the way:
"Why is Apple beating Dell at its own game?"
Apple's Mac Pro is cheaper than an equivalent Dell. Dell has even admitted this, a spokesman sagely saying "it is what it is".
Are they too lazy to take the stairs?
The Space Shuttle is only in that part of the atmosphere for a short time, and it is only at one point. The elevator is always there, and stretches from the earth to space.
Why must PC makers keep putting those massive, useless plugs on computers?
Why would you get a 25' converter cable? Just get an adapter (no cable), and get a long HDMI cable. It's going to be cheaper, and far more versatile.
But how is it profitable? As far as I can see, there are no advertisements, other than the RSS headline thing at the top. I can vaguely remember text ads at one time, but I don't see them any more. Is this normal?