Being forced to bay for something I don't want is simply wrong
But you're not being forced to pay anything, you're choosing to.
There are workstations, laptops, netbooks, servers and smartphones for sale with no MS software on at all. If you don't want to buy MS software, the logical thing would be to buy one of those. When I buy computers, I don't pick a Windows one and then try to get a refund on it. I buy one that either comes with no OS or comes with a free one. It's far simpler and it it encourages the guys who sell PCs without MS on them. I've never quite got my head round the mentality of the free softwarists who somehow feel they're making a statement by jumping through hoops to get their money for XP back. If you're buying a PC with Windows on it (which you are), you're contributing to MS's sales figures at the expense of whoever's doing free software. Surely that's counter productive.
In any case, the issue here is not about the morality of bundling goods (which seems perfectly fine everywhere that doesn't involve MS), it's about the precedent of awarding the fair market value when someone excercises a particular clause in a particular EULA.
Yeah, but it was bad in a harmless, almost innocent way. Not like MySpace which is plain offensive.
Geocities was a primary school kid drawing a fire engine, that sort of thing. Myspace is a bunch of secondary school kids repeatedly etching their names into the bus windows.
GNOME and KDE merged into one GUI that emulates both of them, GNIGHT or something./blockquote?
Why? And how would that work? They're far too different for anyone who particularly likes one to get along with the bastard lovechild of the two, so you'd just end up with two quite popular DEs, and something that tries to be both and mostly fails at it.
If that is the case, it's probably worth noticing how easily everyone took to the idea that this was the action of the PRS as a body, not some rogue worker.
Thats right, it's creating a pleasant environment for their worker(s). As such they are gaining a business benefit from it and they should really pay for that privilege.
Ah, as they do for the light fittings! Though light fittings are probably more important as a means of creating a pleasant working environment than the radio.
I think they're referring to the 'competition concerns identified by the commission' from the end of the quote. That is, the commission has told Oracle where it feels there are problems, and would either like some proof that there are no problems, or a plan to solve them.
Oh yeah, Doom3 was painful. I played that for all of a couple of hours before figuring that I'd probably seen all there was to see.
I know Q3 isn't that dark, but OpenArena is *so* much brighter, I don't see why Q3 wasn't. Though this was played on two PCs, it's likely there's a difference in display settings.
Sorry but i can't agree, my pc costs less than a ps3 yet i can run all the latest games in ultra high graphics without sacraficing my framerate. The trick is to buy decent parts and build it yourself
What did you build it out of?
I breach £300 with just a motherboard and processor.
Having grown up with id, I remember being quite startled to find out that in Half Life Valve had managed to make an atmospheric, and at times downright scary, game without just making all the corners dark. Even Q3 Arena was mostly dark, and that wasn't supposed to incite fear.
Maybe they've all got really bright monitors at id...
I can't confirm either way, but last I heard the plan for a new UI was a very long-term one, and, though spurred by the ribbon, wasn't necessarily aiming to mimic it.
Of course, I'm equally worried about them abandoning moves towards something similar to the ribbon UI purely on the grounds that a lot of noisy people dislike it - the huge bulk of office users to whom we've rolled out Office 07 are quite content with it, and I find it a definite improvement.
Oh, I know furriners do it all the time, particularly the Americans.
That said, most of the people I know from England regard everything outside of the M25 as quaint and foreign.
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But you're not being forced to pay anything, you're choosing to. There are workstations, laptops, netbooks, servers and smartphones for sale with no MS software on at all. If you don't want to buy MS software, the logical thing would be to buy one of those. When I buy computers, I don't pick a Windows one and then try to get a refund on it. I buy one that either comes with no OS or comes with a free one. It's far simpler and it it encourages the guys who sell PCs without MS on them. I've never quite got my head round the mentality of the free softwarists who somehow feel they're making a statement by jumping through hoops to get their money for XP back. If you're buying a PC with Windows on it (which you are), you're contributing to MS's sales figures at the expense of whoever's doing free software. Surely that's counter productive. In any case, the issue here is not about the morality of bundling goods (which seems perfectly fine everywhere that doesn't involve MS), it's about the precedent of awarding the fair market value when someone excercises a particular clause in a particular EULA.
Which 'assholes'?
Anyone opposed to torrenting would likely appreciate the extra bandwidth.
In theory, the author(s) of the code. In practice, they'd likely hand it over to the FSF who exist partly for the protection of GPL'd code.
You've clearly not seen the UK govt. recently. Working out well is not an objective of particular significance.
seven ate nine.
Troll? I meant that in humour!
And what did Europe ever do for us?
Yeah, but it was bad in a harmless, almost innocent way. Not like MySpace which is plain offensive.
Geocities was a primary school kid drawing a fire engine, that sort of thing. Myspace is a bunch of secondary school kids repeatedly etching their names into the bus windows.
Defending american soldiers?
Exactly why those soldiers need defending (and whether they should) is open to some debate.
3.5mm jack?
bluetooth?
What was wrong with the already approaching-de-facto standard of mini usb? Or is it only that popular where I am?
Mini USB is one of those things that *everyone* has a lead for, they come with cameras and mp3 players and the like. What's better about micro usb?
In case you'd assumed that a press release from a communications agency on the subject of the Internet would be a web page?
Come on, they're at least in the late nineties by now. They've got support for 64-bit architectures and everything!
If that is the case, it's probably worth noticing how easily everyone took to the idea that this was the action of the PRS as a body, not some rogue worker.
Ah, as they do for the light fittings! Though light fittings are probably more important as a means of creating a pleasant working environment than the radio.
I think they're referring to the 'competition concerns identified by the commission' from the end of the quote. That is, the commission has told Oracle where it feels there are problems, and would either like some proof that there are no problems, or a plan to solve them.
Oh yeah, Doom3 was painful. I played that for all of a couple of hours before figuring that I'd probably seen all there was to see.
I know Q3 isn't that dark, but OpenArena is *so* much brighter, I don't see why Q3 wasn't. Though this was played on two PCs, it's likely there's a difference in display settings.
What did you build it out of? I breach £300 with just a motherboard and processor.
Having grown up with id, I remember being quite startled to find out that in Half Life Valve had managed to make an atmospheric, and at times downright scary, game without just making all the corners dark. Even Q3 Arena was mostly dark, and that wasn't supposed to incite fear. Maybe they've all got really bright monitors at id...
I'd hazard a guess that google gets a tad more connections than archive.org
I can't confirm either way, but last I heard the plan for a new UI was a very long-term one, and, though spurred by the ribbon, wasn't necessarily aiming to mimic it.
Of course, I'm equally worried about them abandoning moves towards something similar to the ribbon UI purely on the grounds that a lot of noisy people dislike it - the huge bulk of office users to whom we've rolled out Office 07 are quite content with it, and I find it a definite improvement.
The project page is here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance and is both short on information and sarcastically Web2.0.
Oh, I know furriners do it all the time, particularly the Americans. That said, most of the people I know from England regard everything outside of the M25 as quaint and foreign.
I haven't come across anyone from England who'd refer to the whole thing as 'England'.
My firefox install has only just (about 20mins ago) popped up and told me it's disabled the add-on and would like to restart.