It's true, while many companies do their best to prevent that their trademarks get genericized (e.g. like Adobe does with Photoshop), Microsoft seems to deliberately employ very basic and general terms, which on the other hand look as if they were standardized: New Technology File System, Common Internet File System, Graphics Device Interface, Office Open XML... oh wait, someone actually standardized this.
I have spent a good deal of time at these markets, and I can testify that I saw no porn. Ever. I never saw porn, alcohol, or drugs at these markets. Maybe these porn DVDs were passed around sub rosa or something. Thinking of the social acceptance of porn in muslim countries, merchants will certainly not sell it in the open. In their neighbour country of Iran, which bases its law on the Shariah, production of porn may carry capital punishment. While Iraq doesn't implement the Shariah rigorously, I wouldn't want to fall to the scrutiny of some extremist.
The same holds true for alcohol, drugs and pork. Their sale is morally prohibited.
1. Search for 'problems' which are to be addressed
2. Announce drastic counter-measures which won't help these problems much
3. Wait for publicity backlash
4. Calm the crowd by saying the measures you're about to take won't be that bad
5. ???
6. PROFIT!
If it works for getting laws passed, it will also work for PR.
He didn't say that regular users should need to understand their computers, but that there should be the option to understand them. To apply your analogy, what would car users think if rebuilding the whole car was the only way to fix issues even for a mechanic? There has to be a car anology?
Car makers would probably cherish that drivers could as well buy a new car. Okay, I guess some of them would protest, but buing a new one is exactly the way we deal with broken washing machines, kitchen equipment as well as most stuff which would cost something below 50 bucks.
Just anecdotal evidence, but I certainly see more than 4/100 laptops being Apple laptops when I'm out and about. And I believe that laptops are a significant number of sales for computers today. Yes, Apple has traditionally been strong in the laptop segment, but they didn't manage to get a noticeable grip in the desktop market. Which won't change very much, as all they offer now are Mac mini and iMac that are lacking in performance for the enthusiast gaming nuts and too expensive if all you want to do is browsing the Web and listening to some music.
And as Douglas Adams said:
"The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%." (Douglas Adams)" While he certainly was a literary genius, Adams was a mere fanboy when it came to computing. Which nevertheless is fine with me, as he seemed comfortable enough with his setup to write some masterworks on Macintoshes.
If you get into this situation that often, make rm an alias for 'rm -i'. The interactive flag overrides the force flag, so you'll have to confirm every deletion. Or better yet, be more careful
A good firmware won't help you in any way if you are limited by the specs of your camera. You should go for the best combination of a good (i.e. not too small) CCD and the zoom coverage you need. The G7 and the SD870/ Ixus860 would be some good picks.
Retaining control of software usage is semantically identical to a book publisher claiming that using a book they published as a prop for an uneven table leg is violating copyright. If, for instance, you did the same thing with a painting instead of a book, in many legislations that would actually be a breach of copyright without the painter's consent.
Being able to interact with a story can be brilliant; I think this is where some of the Final Fantasy series' popularity comes from. I don't think so.
Most Final Fantasy titles have mediocre stories with little or no meaningful interaction, somewhat nice gameplay and plenty of slashfic featurng the lead characters.
Most of the Internet access in Cuba is actually through satellite up- and downlink. The problem is that a single transponder cannot handle enough connections at the same time to give a whole country adequately fast Internet access. Plus, you have the barrier of buying an uplink-capable dish in the first place.
That's the reason satellites haven't been a viable option for rural areas in America and Europe (I'm thinking of Germany's Sky-DSL, which is horribly slow at 80â/month) and also the reason they won't be useful for large and middle-sized developing countries.
An NSLU2 has less performance and transfer speed than most home NAS systems with dedicated storage. And with NSLU2s, you have to carry all your hard disk enclosures and PSUs with you separately.
On the other hand, the NSLU2 is cheap if you want to use it for more exotic tasks like streaming webcam data.
Or maybe they're just blaming 3rd parties for something MS also didn't get right with 2k and XP. Runas would often fail if you wanted to install programs or device drivers requiring admin rights.
MS should have had the time to find a more stable and user-friendly approach, but UAC still seems to be on the half-way for both.
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Which could mean that you'd cede copyright on anything posted using an ICQ client. But nevertheless, do end-users complain?
Building it in a country which doesn't have patent treaties with nuclear weapon producing countries would do the job. Or even better, unrecognized territories.
Then again, bringing the equipment to Western Sahara or Kiribati would have to be accomplished.
This association actually seems to help with Muslim airlines. During my Thailand flight with Royal Brunei Air, I discovered their Inflight Entertainment System runs on Linux. And does that since at least 2004.
[T]here's a clear distinction here between people who are developing open source software and engaging in non-commercial distribution on the one hand, and people who are engaging in commercial distribution and use on the other hand. With respect to the former, meaning developers and those engaged in noncommercial distribution, this new covenant not to sue, with respect to patent rights, is applicable.
On the other hand, with respect to companies that are engaged in commercial distribution, or use internally, there is a need to obtain a patent license where there are applicable patent rights, and we're committing to make these patent licenses readily available.
This distinction cannot be made if the results are to be published under a FOSS license. The OSI Open Source Definition and the Debian Free Software Guidelines both forbid discrimination against certain fields of endeavour. Microsoft obviously does discriminate against commercial use. Likewise, the FSF's Free Software Definition requires availability for commercial use. Nothing produced under the terms this agreement can be integrated in anything under a license complying these definitions.
At best, it could be what the FSF calls semi-free software, like what PGP, Scilab, Angband or MAME are.
Or actually, you could have saved much more, as the 360 core system's price tag dropped to 200. And you could also buy a 360 case for as few as 15, stuff it with spare parts and thrash it, it would look almost the same.
And some idiot on eBay would have probably bought the PS3 then for up to 650-700.
I don't think it would be that easy. The PS2 runs on a MIPS processor, while the PS3 relies on a PPC, just to give one example of their different architecture.
I'd doubt that many games were designed with special focus on forward compatibility, but rather on performance on the platform they were intended for, so a lot of functions must be emulated on PS3. End the EE seems to turn out as a problem.
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It's true, while many companies do their best to prevent that their trademarks get genericized (e.g. like Adobe does with Photoshop), Microsoft seems to deliberately employ very basic and general terms, which on the other hand look as if they were standardized: New Technology File System, Common Internet File System, Graphics Device Interface, Office Open XML... oh wait, someone actually standardized this.
The same holds true for alcohol, drugs and pork. Their sale is morally prohibited.
1. Search for 'problems' which are to be addressed
2. Announce drastic counter-measures which won't help these problems much
3. Wait for publicity backlash
4. Calm the crowd by saying the measures you're about to take won't be that bad
5. ???
6. PROFIT!
If it works for getting laws passed, it will also work for PR.
Have you ever seen a stable-running x.0 release? Of course it won't come close to that.
Car makers would probably cherish that drivers could as well buy a new car. Okay, I guess some of them would protest, but buing a new one is exactly the way we deal with broken washing machines, kitchen equipment as well as most stuff which would cost something below 50 bucks.
I heard 192.168.1.1 is among...
If you get into this situation that often, make rm an alias for 'rm -i'. The interactive flag overrides the force flag, so you'll have to confirm every deletion. Or better yet, be more careful
A good firmware won't help you in any way if you are limited by the specs of your camera. You should go for the best combination of a good (i.e. not too small) CCD and the zoom coverage you need. The G7 and the SD870/ Ixus860 would be some good picks.
In Soviet Russia, files find and kill YOU!
This never seems to get old.
Most Final Fantasy titles have mediocre stories with little or no meaningful interaction, somewhat nice gameplay and plenty of slashfic featurng the lead characters.
Most of the Internet access in Cuba is actually through satellite up- and downlink. The problem is that a single transponder cannot handle enough connections at the same time to give a whole country adequately fast Internet access. Plus, you have the barrier of buying an uplink-capable dish in the first place.
That's the reason satellites haven't been a viable option for rural areas in America and Europe (I'm thinking of Germany's Sky-DSL, which is horribly slow at 80â/month) and also the reason they won't be useful for large and middle-sized developing countries.
I'd rather have shoes in my shoe box.
Sure, you can strap hard disks too, but it just doesn't feel as comfortable walking on them.
An NSLU2 has less performance and transfer speed than most home NAS systems with dedicated storage. And with NSLU2s, you have to carry all your hard disk enclosures and PSUs with you separately. On the other hand, the NSLU2 is cheap if you want to use it for more exotic tasks like streaming webcam data.
They are aware of that, they're just converting the porn to Braille.
Or maybe they're just blaming 3rd parties for something MS also didn't get right with 2k and XP. Runas would often fail if you wanted to install programs or device drivers requiring admin rights. MS should have had the time to find a more stable and user-friendly approach, but UAC still seems to be on the half-way for both.
Building it in a country which doesn't have patent treaties with nuclear weapon producing countries would do the job. Or even better, unrecognized territories. Then again, bringing the equipment to Western Sahara or Kiribati would have to be accomplished.
This association actually seems to help with Muslim airlines. During my Thailand flight with Royal Brunei Air, I discovered their Inflight Entertainment System runs on Linux. And does that since at least 2004.
This distinction cannot be made if the results are to be published under a FOSS license. The OSI Open Source Definition and the Debian Free Software Guidelines both forbid discrimination against certain fields of endeavour. Microsoft obviously does discriminate against commercial use. Likewise, the FSF's Free Software Definition requires availability for commercial use. Nothing produced under the terms this agreement can be integrated in anything under a license complying these definitions.
At best, it could be what the FSF calls semi-free software, like what PGP, Scilab, Angband or MAME are.
Or actually, you could have saved much more, as the 360 core system's price tag dropped to 200. And you could also buy a 360 case for as few as 15, stuff it with spare parts and thrash it, it would look almost the same. And some idiot on eBay would have probably bought the PS3 then for up to 650-700.
I don't think it would be that easy. The PS2 runs on a MIPS processor, while the PS3 relies on a PPC, just to give one example of their different architecture. I'd doubt that many games were designed with special focus on forward compatibility, but rather on performance on the platform they were intended for, so a lot of functions must be emulated on PS3. End the EE seems to turn out as a problem.