Piracy directly benefits companies like Microsoft. It doesn't take an MBA to understand today's pirated copy is tomorrow's customer.
If you're right, then tomorrow Microsoft will sell one hell of a lot of copies of Vista to all those Chinese pirates. Care to place a bet on that happening?
.. according to a comment here, so the overall efficiency could even be negative. This is an example of one problem with solar cells, that if you increase efficiency by making incoming light pass through several collecting layers (such as the tiny towers in the article) you also increase the amount of heat (infra-red) collected and risk destroying your panel.
It has become the seventh most popular suffix worldwide
They mean "most common". Claiming.EU is popular because it has high uptake is like saying chlamidia tracomatis (PDF) is the most popular sexually transmitted disease. The real reason companies like mine have registered.EU domains is to defend against cyber-squatting.
is being used to abuse, harass, stalk, or threaten others
is libelous, knowingly false, ad-hominem, or misrepresents another person.
deliberately misconstrues the posted matter with the purpose of quarreling
is overly quarrelsome or intended to cause strife through quarreling or objecting.
This is a cynical attempt to harass and threaten people who prefer to post anonymously. It follows a knowingly falsearticle which misrepresented and deliberately misconstrued teenage trash-talk. It is intended to gain publicity by causing strife.
4. When we believe someone is unfairly attacking another, we take action.
When someone who is publishing comments or blog postings that are offensive, we'll tell them so (privately, if possible) and ask them to publicly make amends. If those published comments could be construed as a threat, and the perpetrator doesn't withdraw them and apologize, we will cooperate with law enforcement to protect the target of the threat.
Author cannot be serious. The police have plenty of real crime to fight without protecting hurt feelings. OTOH I have never seen such an offensive article, so perhaps I should co-operate with them to get author locked up.
The estate tax in the United States is a tax imposed on the transfer of the "taxable estate" of a deceased person - Estate Tax
In the United Kingdom, Death Duty was first introduced as a tax on estates in England and Wales over a certain value from 1796 - Inheritance Tax
We need to hunt down these scofflaws who think they can die in WOW and get away without paying tax!
Also if WOW gold has real value, given that killing a creep is basically a wager on what it will drop, the game could be just as illegal as online poker
And THEN complains about the real problem, which is the iTunes Store content itself, not the AppleTV... In short, I call Microsoft shill on this guy.
Remind me again, who runs iTunes? Parent thinks one Apple product is sabotaging another Apple product and it's all Microsoft's fault. Only on Slashdot.
Microsoft has hinted that it may be close to reaching a deal with EMI to sell songs without anti-piracy protection via its Zune platform.
Surely nobody still thinks that digital restrictions management provides "anti-piracy protection"? It's about control.
Even the MPAA knows that current DRM encourages piracy by making paid-for music more of a hassle.
A Montana man has sued media giant Viacom, saying the MTV show "Jackass" plagiarized his name, infringed on the trademark and copyright of his name and defamed his good character. The plaintiff's name is Jack Ass.
An inmate in a Virginia penitentiary has filed a lawsuit against himself, claiming that he violated his own civil rights by getting arrested.
When fans of eating can no longer trust their cheese-covered puffs boiled in oil to be healthy, it's more than sad. It's your ticket to millions. Meredith Berkman claims the secret fat caused her "weight gain, mental anguish, outrage, and indignation."
she tells of her niece's fish, named Mortimer, who one day leaped from his bowl, flopped on the table and gasped for air. "Mortimer took the leap to freedom," she said. "He said, 'I'm free, but I'm dead,' " said Ms. Antonellis.
I wouldn't pay to see it though. Anyone got the YouTube Link?
Buy the Condo Downtown (iTunes) = marry Buy the Small Condo (Napster) = marry slapper Buy the Small Condo Downtown (Yahoo!) = marry chav Buy the Even Smaller Condo Downtown (Yahoo!) = marry troll Buy the Ranch On the Edge of Town (eMusic) = marry cutie Buy the Ranch in the Country (Amie street) = marry heiress Rent the Mansion in the Slums (Napster) = hooker Rent the Mansion in A Different Slum (Zune) = rent boy
No gravity means no convection. No headwind means little conduction.
Will they generate an artificial headwind using a fan, or does the International Space Station have powerful air conditioning already?
The article is hilarious and will be widely mocked. The offensive comments are from tards who amuse themselves by posting racist, sexist, homophobic and generally illegal content for the lulz. This doesn't mean they are racist etc - they generally aren't - just that it's very funny to troll against politically-correct idiots who don't "get it". And wow have they succeeded in this case!
They are my personal clowns, so I'll not break rule one. The complainants should lurk more and not feed the trolls.
Bored of the Rings is a short satirical novel by Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney, first published in 1969 by Signet for the Harvard Lampoon. This parody follows the general plot of The Lord of the Rings, including the Preface, Prologue, poetry, and songs, while making light of all that Tolkien made very serious (e.g. "He would have finished him off then and there, but pity stayed his hand. It's a pity I've run out of bullets, he thought, as he went back up the tunnel..."). Map
Genius! Or goddam awful. Something starting with g anyway.
...if there's a huge conspiracy happening? Explain that!
It's been their plan all along to implement something called "The Grid" - a massive centralized network including phones, computers, televisions, etc. This "Grid" would be accessible only by first giving personally identifiable info in the form of some kind of digital signature.
Perhaps you mistook this drama series for a documentary?
Now you need a library to use SOAP because its so complicated.
No you don't. And no it's not. I support a product which includes a SOAP API and several clients access it using hand-crafted XML for their SOAP calls. This is pretty straightforward, certainly easier than e.g real-world CSS or XSL.
To return to the original subject of this thread: if you think SOAP is complex, no way should you consider using AJAX!
"Sun's license for Java insists that all implementations be "compatible". This resulted in a legal dispute with Microsoft after Sun claimed that the Microsoft implementation did not support the RMI and JNI interfaces and had added platform-specific features of their own. Sun sued and won both damages (some $20 million) and a court order enforcing the terms of the license from Sun. As a result, Microsoft no longer ships Java with Windows, and in recent versions of Windows, Internet Explorer cannot support Java applets without a third-party plugin." - Wikipedia
Dunno what "100% pure Java apps" are, but MS Java ran better than Sun Java at the time. Sun didn't want to lose control, hence the lawsuit and also Sun's delay in Open-Sourcing Java. Unfortunately some readers are too young to remember these events.
With so much FUD in the air, I am glad we get our own reports like this, with audio, so we can reach our own conclusions [... Anonymous:] The biggest mistake SCOG has made, and MS is continuing to make from the very begining of targeting Open Source: It's a community the likes of which has never formed before. It's a community without Country borders. A community that chooses to communicate and protect itself the world-wide.
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.. according to a comment here, so the overall efficiency could even be negative. This is an example of one problem with solar cells, that if you increase efficiency by making incoming light pass through several collecting layers (such as the tiny towers in the article) you also increase the amount of heat (infra-red) collected and risk destroying your panel.
- The estate tax in the United States is a tax imposed on the transfer of the "taxable estate" of a deceased person - Estate Tax
- In the United Kingdom, Death Duty was first introduced as a tax on estates in England and Wales over a certain value from 1796 - Inheritance Tax
We need to hunt down these scofflaws who think they can die in WOW and get away without paying tax!Also if WOW gold has real value, given that killing a creep is basically a wager on what it will drop, the game could be just as illegal as online poker
Even the MPAA knows that current DRM encourages piracy by making paid-for music more of a hassle.
6. Weaving 7. Stone tools 8. Metal tools 9. Farming 10. Money
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Buy the Condo Downtown (iTunes) = marry
Buy the Small Condo (Napster) = marry slapper
Buy the Small Condo Downtown (Yahoo!) = marry chav
Buy the Even Smaller Condo Downtown (Yahoo!) = marry troll
Buy the Ranch On the Edge of Town (eMusic) = marry cutie
Buy the Ranch in the Country (Amie street) = marry heiress
Rent the Mansion in the Slums (Napster) = hooker
Rent the Mansion in A Different Slum (Zune) = rent boy
No gravity means no convection. No headwind means little conduction.
Will they generate an artificial headwind using a fan, or does the International Space Station have powerful air conditioning already?
The article is hilarious and will be widely mocked. The offensive comments are from tards who amuse themselves by posting racist, sexist, homophobic and generally illegal content for the lulz. This doesn't mean they are racist etc - they generally aren't - just that it's very funny to troll against politically-correct idiots who don't "get it". And wow have they succeeded in this case!
They are my personal clowns, so I'll not break rule one. The complainants should lurk more and not feed the trolls.
Bored of the Rings is a short satirical novel by Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney, first published in 1969 by Signet for the Harvard Lampoon. This parody follows the general plot of The Lord of the Rings, including the Preface, Prologue, poetry, and songs, while making light of all that Tolkien made very serious (e.g. "He would have finished him off then and there, but pity stayed his hand. It's a pity I've run out of bullets, he thought, as he went back up the tunnel..."). Map
Genius! Or goddam awful. Something starting with g anyway.
Remember Microsoft Bob?
To return to the original subject of this thread: if you think SOAP is complex, no way should you consider using AJAX!
"Sun's license for Java insists that all implementations be "compatible". This resulted in a legal dispute with Microsoft after Sun claimed that the Microsoft implementation did not support the RMI and JNI interfaces and had added platform-specific features of their own. Sun sued and won both damages (some $20 million) and a court order enforcing the terms of the license from Sun. As a result, Microsoft no longer ships Java with Windows, and in recent versions of Windows, Internet Explorer cannot support Java applets without a third-party plugin." - Wikipedia
Dunno what "100% pure Java apps" are, but MS Java ran better than Sun Java at the time. Sun didn't want to lose control, hence the lawsuit and also Sun's delay in Open-Sourcing Java. Unfortunately some readers are too young to remember these events.