you mean that the parents didn't pay their kid to provide evidence on how to get hurt with those terrorist bottles, like SafeNet/RIAA is doing in court ?:-)
what else can it do othen than "move along this road" ?
a human being is much more versatile and surely can be given some slack on dedicated tasks, even though I've heard of some in this species who have reached altitudes of 8 km or distances of 6000 km without too much refuelling or servicing:-)
the other main difference is the variety of "fuel" that can be used to replenish one or the other... namely we are only starting now to see hybrid or dual-fuel engines, while you can almost put anything in your mouth !
just a little historical correction: the V2 technology was "stolen" (ehm, acquired as war chest) from the Germans at the end of WW2
but otherwise I understand the social usefulness of the.gov.usa wanting to "sell" products and licences of research entirely funded by the taxpayers... how is that going to make me happy ?
not to mention that we don't know what to do with nuclear waste, the sky is already a very busy highway with or without radar (and wait for the day when we'll all use a personal flying vehicle), and medical research has always been under conditions and not really aiming at "helping normal people" as you say, otherwise pharmaceutical companies would be happy to have their products distributed in poor countries for a price affordable to those living there !
I noticed the same thing here and found a VERY simple solution after 2 days of throwing the mouse at the screen: keep the right-mouse-button pressed until the menu is displayed (MacOS users will find this familiar, but Windows users will need a little practice), then release and choose the option as usual with the left-mouse-button or simply keep holding the right-one and release it on the chosen option...
doesn't it compile already ?;-)
on the serious side, it shouldn't be that difficult to port any MacOS application to Linux, am I right ? and then we'll have a serious competitor to Firefox on Linux !!
sorry, on the serious side again, where does the new title-bar appear in the Windows version ? I saw some screenshots of the MacOS version and the tabs are above the main "window", is the same on Windows ? (that would be weird, like the first time that I saw non-rectangular splash screens, after Apple had been doing that for ages with arbitrary "regions"!)
one answer to your last paragraph will explain why it's not (yet) possible: software patents on protocols that Microsoft doesn't fully disclose
FYI, those "invented" up and until the court decision have already been made available - for a fee of $10,000 - but the real goal of releasing Server 2008 was exactly to implement new extensions for these protocols which are therefore not covered by the court decision and thus not made available
if you use AD as it is in Server 2003, any company willing to be extorted of $10,000 can write a fully compatible AD interface...
if it's so simple, have you ever tried to obtain a replacement copy of the software media (that is, the actual setup files) in case you lose the CD ?
heck, they will charge you for a full licence again !!
on the other hand, on many online shops where I can buy music, whenever I try to buy a second copy of a song that I like and I want to send as a gift to a friend, the shop doesn't actually have this feature at all, and simply points me to the download section of what I have already purchased...
I wonder who designs (as in, thinks of the functionalities of) these things... broken licences and broken shopping websites...
people is being "sectorialised" even in life, and is not able to see beyond their own nose anymore... get a book and read, go out and enjoy nature, eat healthy food and don't spend hours at a screen...
my point here is that copyright is obfuscated by bad trade practices: give a song, movie, software the right price (fair to the author and affordable for the buyer, not driven by silly "maximum profit for distributor" logic) and piracy will disappear the day after !
just to clarify, I was the one laughed at when I told my colleagues that I had withdrawn £40 during the lunch break but since the cash machine (ATM) had given me £50 instead, I went inside (the branch) and returned the extra 10...
"oh, I thought it was a gift for being a loyal customer" would probably work these days when people is used to hear of billions thrown away by banks...
in any case, a couple of days interest on that amount would still be ok with me, and they cannot deny that the money was on the account anyway... can they ?
isn't that what a "right" is supposed to be ?
something for which people before us fought so hard that it's now considered normal to be able to do what it states and also pass it on to future generations ?
maybe I'm missing something here (or maybe the people of USA are) but a "right" is not like some kind of goods that there cannot be enough for everybody...
like content from YouTube, Google talks, TED videos, cnet TV, GameSpot reviews and demos, and the dozens of national TVs that are starting to put their content online like news and series ? not to count plain and simple user uploaded content that is picking up with teenagers in sites like Bebo...
and probably only 10% of this is in HD at the moment, later it will require an order of bandwidth/traffic more...
the media world is shifting to the "tubes" medium and the ISPs are simply trying to find a way to squeeze more money for the "unlimited" packages that they even couldn't provide so far...
just to add a little wisdom, I did a similar research as TFA a year ago and found that based on "their" BSA global study, the number of unlicensed software is about 50% (weighted by country, and it changes only by 1%-2% along the years), so that would mean that the 90% of so of Internet browsing done with Windows is actually only 45% paid for... that is, actual market share (see above)
even if it does, why the heck are THEY being sued ? surely Microsoft should go after the thousands of Open Source developers who actually wrote the source code... or is it their "theory" that since one can compile Linux on its own, then it means to have willingly violated the patent by not removing the offending code ? (which by the way they were asked for a million times but they never provided specific references to the 200-some violations simply because they are greedy and bossy and want to show off with "smaller" companies/entities that cannot afford to fight them in court ? wait, when have I seen Microsoft doing this before... ?)
thanks, no clapping please...
I had replied to another post some days ago and was criticised about it not being "ready" for cinema viewing (people looking from multiple angles), but I was referring to personal viewing at home.
no glasses, no fuss, it just works...
flying cars are also already here (and am not talking about the one with the parachute-thing on it...), but they are simply too difficult to "drive", when your average joe-six-speeds can barely pass a test for 2D roads:-)
not qualified to speak about fusion power (why do you use capital letters anyway?) but I believe that quite some progress is being done - watched a short documentary the other day showing a reactor to create a stable kernel of plasma, somewhere in southern Asia, in collaboration with other countries...
talking of space elevators (slight offtopic, but still - funnily - related to the subject), couldn't we just use a counter-weight like a small asteroid or a roaming satellite to "lift" the elevator's cabin, like in traditional ones ?
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you mean that a company never makes the same mistake twice ? :-)
any reference to Microsoft in this post is purely coincidental...
you mean that the parents didn't pay their kid to provide evidence on how to get hurt with those terrorist bottles, like SafeNet/RIAA is doing in court ? :-)
is this going to be like the public phones in some countries "please insert 2 more coins to submit this website form to the Work & Pernsion Dept..." ?
is this what they call a "toxic debt" ?
are you talking about giant cockroaches with a chip in their brain ?
what else can it do othen than "move along this road" ? :-)
a human being is much more versatile and surely can be given some slack on dedicated tasks, even though I've heard of some in this species who have reached altitudes of 8 km or distances of 6000 km without too much refuelling or servicing
the other main difference is the variety of "fuel" that can be used to replenish one or the other... namely we are only starting now to see hybrid or dual-fuel engines, while you can almost put anything in your mouth !
just a little historical correction: the V2 technology was "stolen" (ehm, acquired as war chest) from the Germans at the end of WW2 .gov.usa wanting to "sell" products and licences of research entirely funded by the taxpayers... how is that going to make me happy ?
but otherwise I understand the social usefulness of the
not to mention that we don't know what to do with nuclear waste, the sky is already a very busy highway with or without radar (and wait for the day when we'll all use a personal flying vehicle), and medical research has always been under conditions and not really aiming at "helping normal people" as you say, otherwise pharmaceutical companies would be happy to have their products distributed in poor countries for a price affordable to those living there !
is that mph or km/h ?
because 7 mph is roughly 10 km/h so you both might be right...
surely the damage done over 15 years to the families of those not employed because of this illegal practice is much bigger than £1.8mln...
I noticed the same thing here and found a VERY simple solution after 2 days of throwing the mouse at the screen: keep the right-mouse-button pressed until the menu is displayed (MacOS users will find this familiar, but Windows users will need a little practice), then release and choose the option as usual with the left-mouse-button or simply keep holding the right-one and release it on the chosen option...
problem gone !
doesn't it compile already ? ;-)
on the serious side, it shouldn't be that difficult to port any MacOS application to Linux, am I right ? and then we'll have a serious competitor to Firefox on Linux !!
sorry, on the serious side again, where does the new title-bar appear in the Windows version ? I saw some screenshots of the MacOS version and the tabs are above the main "window", is the same on Windows ? (that would be weird, like the first time that I saw non-rectangular splash screens, after Apple had been doing that for ages with arbitrary "regions"!)
one answer to your last paragraph will explain why it's not (yet) possible: software patents on protocols that Microsoft doesn't fully disclose
FYI, those "invented" up and until the court decision have already been made available - for a fee of $10,000 - but the real goal of releasing Server 2008 was exactly to implement new extensions for these protocols which are therefore not covered by the court decision and thus not made available
if you use AD as it is in Server 2003, any company willing to be extorted of $10,000 can write a fully compatible AD interface...
if it's so simple, have you ever tried to obtain a replacement copy of the software media (that is, the actual setup files) in case you lose the CD ?
heck, they will charge you for a full licence again !!
on the other hand, on many online shops where I can buy music, whenever I try to buy a second copy of a song that I like and I want to send as a gift to a friend, the shop doesn't actually have this feature at all, and simply points me to the download section of what I have already purchased...
I wonder who designs (as in, thinks of the functionalities of) these things... broken licences and broken shopping websites...
people is being "sectorialised" even in life, and is not able to see beyond their own nose anymore... get a book and read, go out and enjoy nature, eat healthy food and don't spend hours at a screen...
my point here is that copyright is obfuscated by bad trade practices: give a song, movie, software the right price (fair to the author and affordable for the buyer, not driven by silly "maximum profit for distributor" logic) and piracy will disappear the day after !
just to clarify, I was the one laughed at when I told my colleagues that I had withdrawn £40 during the lunch break but since the cash machine (ATM) had given me £50 instead, I went inside (the branch) and returned the extra 10...
"oh, I thought it was a gift for being a loyal customer" would probably work these days when people is used to hear of billions thrown away by banks...
in any case, a couple of days interest on that amount would still be ok with me, and they cannot deny that the money was on the account anyway... can they ?
isn't that what a "right" is supposed to be ?
something for which people before us fought so hard that it's now considered normal to be able to do what it states and also pass it on to future generations ?
maybe I'm missing something here (or maybe the people of USA are) but a "right" is not like some kind of goods that there cannot be enough for everybody...
like content from YouTube, Google talks, TED videos, cnet TV, GameSpot reviews and demos, and the dozens of national TVs that are starting to put their content online like news and series ? not to count plain and simple user uploaded content that is picking up with teenagers in sites like Bebo...
and probably only 10% of this is in HD at the moment, later it will require an order of bandwidth/traffic more...
the media world is shifting to the "tubes" medium and the ISPs are simply trying to find a way to squeeze more money for the "unlimited" packages that they even couldn't provide so far...
just to add a little wisdom, I did a similar research as TFA a year ago and found that based on "their" BSA global study, the number of unlicensed software is about 50% (weighted by country, and it changes only by 1%-2% along the years), so that would mean that the 90% of so of Internet browsing done with Windows is actually only 45% paid for... that is, actual market share (see above)
then they should stop being double-edged and keep saying "Open Source" (read Linux) is our enemy and still embrace the same technologies...
:-)
I'll extend the concept here for you: it's a fire that they need to estinguish
even if it does, why the heck are THEY being sued ? surely Microsoft should go after the thousands of Open Source developers who actually wrote the source code... or is it their "theory" that since one can compile Linux on its own, then it means to have willingly violated the patent by not removing the offending code ? (which by the way they were asked for a million times but they never provided specific references to the 200-some violations simply because they are greedy and bossy and want to show off with "smaller" companies/entities that cannot afford to fight them in court ? wait, when have I seen Microsoft doing this before ... ?)
thanks, no clapping please...
3D TV is here already.
:-)
I had replied to another post some days ago and was criticised about it not being "ready" for cinema viewing (people looking from multiple angles), but I was referring to personal viewing at home.
no glasses, no fuss, it just works...
flying cars are also already here (and am not talking about the one with the parachute-thing on it...), but they are simply too difficult to "drive", when your average joe-six-speeds can barely pass a test for 2D roads
not qualified to speak about fusion power (why do you use capital letters anyway?) but I believe that quite some progress is being done - watched a short documentary the other day showing a reactor to create a stable kernel of plasma, somewhere in southern Asia, in collaboration with other countries...
why are there doors in public toilets then ?
(sorry for feeding the off-topic)
then why go for the space elevator when there is a chance to discover/invent antigravity first ?
or are there different "degrees" of impossibility/impracticality, in your opinion ?
talking of space elevators (slight offtopic, but still - funnily - related to the subject), couldn't we just use a counter-weight like a small asteroid or a roaming satellite to "lift" the elevator's cabin, like in traditional ones ?