Unless they have totally warped the English language (and spacetime)
I'm pretty sure that is the primary function of lawyers. Well, maybe not warping spacetime, but warping languages until it suits your purpose but not your opponents'.
Still, that is an interesting catch. Maybe some lawyer will pick up on it someday, although I would imagine the worst that would happen is a suit for false advertising, which nobody cares about as I understand it.
You own the small plastic disc, and the flimsy plastic box it comes in.
You don't own the content that happens to be encrypted on that disc though. You don't even own the fancy art on the packaging. You're simply granted a license (which comes with the aforementioned flimsy pieces of plastic) to watch it. They can, however, cancel that license at any time they want.
I'm not sure what you're talking about; the article and the person you were replying to are both about Chromebooks, which are laptops, not tablets.
They have plenty of ports / expandable memory and are quite easy to install your own flavor of Linux on.
Well, it's not like Warhammer Fantasy was all that original, either. We had elves and orcs and trolls and dwarfs fighting eachother well before Games Workslop decided to overcharge for tiny pewter figures.
No, because quite frankly I don't want to give Games Workslop the free publicity.
My assumption is that, back in the day when games were trying to squeeze every last ounce of CPU cycles from a machine, checking the clock added just too much overhead.
It likely a compromise between making the game playable today (and maybe not later) versus not being able to ship today. Also, I'd imagine that people just couldn't comprehend the improvements. Trying to explain an AMD Thunderbird to somebody stuffing registers on a 8086 would be like nailing jelly to a tree.
It depends on what games you're talking about.
I've been running Steam in Arch and playing games natively with the OSS video-ati driver just fine. Granted, they're usually 2D or light 3D games; we're not talking Crysis 3 here.
Last I looked, FreeDOS couldn't slow down the environment to emulate old hardware. This is basically a requirement for many old games, and is the reason I use DosBox.
Meh, as an American, I've become desensitized to corruption. Yes, even more so than I have to violence.
Hearing that there is corruption in finance is like hearing water is wet.
The worst idea ever was to make a bit equal a small "b", and a byte a capital B. brrrr.
Why? It always made sense to me. SI is largely base 10, so the difference between a lowercase letter and a uppercase letter is some kind of factor of 10. Yes, I know that is heavily generalized.
Meanwhile, you can think of computers operating in base 8 (aka, Octal). Here, the difference is a factor of 8.
On the other hand, people might upgrade their hardware more often if they could be assured their new hardware wouldn't come with Microsoft's latest abomination and a shit-ton of bloatware.
I highly doubt this. Most consumers still call their computer case the "CPU" and buy new computers when they don't have to because they don't realize Windows and their computer are different things. Basically, the average person looks at their computer like they would an advanced VCR.
The sad fact is, most people go out and buy new computers precisely because it has the newest version of Microsoft's abomination and all that bloatware which are marketed as features on the box and by the Best Buy droids. Computer manufactures know this, love it, and bank on it. It's how companies like Intel can get away with requiring a new goddamned socket every year (or less) and not have people storming their castle with pitchforks and torches. My parents don't care. Dell don't care either, because they're selling whole systems and not parts. Likewise, every time Microsoft come out with a new version of Windows, computer makers start seeing dollarsigns.
Especially when it's far cheaper to pay the "protection fee" than fighting it in court. Most people, even if innocent, don't have the resources to fight the RIAA/MPAA in court; they can drag it out a loooooooooong time.
If you are "proxying" connection, then you are downloading from user D1 and uploading to D2. It does not matter if you are not retaining that data, you are still copying stuff illegally. So in the end if content owners are unable to determine identity of actual downloaders, they can go for proxying users and hit them with exactly the same lawsuit.
Copying data from storage into RAM
ISPs (all along the pipe from your house to the server) copying data into buffers for routing
Defragging your hard drive, copying data from one sector to another
All of these examples are just as silly as what you claim is infringement.
You must be new here. Government and "Big Money" are pretty much the same thing now.
I'm not sure how one would provide a source for this, but it seems to me that most new laws nowadays are obviously there to protect powerful companies, instead of the common good of the people.
What do all true Christians believe?
"True christians" believe in a Christ, Jesus, and in what he taught-- at least by the definition in use for the last 2000 years and as spelled out in the Bible.
Good try, but by including "and what he taught" in your definition, we're back to the same argument. Or do you prescribe to a literal interpretation?
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
