Re: Anglo-American communications studies

2001-01-09 Thread Steve Mynott
Ray Dillinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, David Honig wrote: > > >At 08:17 AM 1/8/01 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > >>and there are very few opportunities for real misunderstanding. We know > > > >The meaning of 'billion' differs by three orders of magnitude > >across the pond.

Re: Anglo-American communications studies

2001-01-09 Thread Ken Brown
David Honig wrote: > > >>and there are very few opportunities for real misunderstanding. > > So Ken if you read that Blair was near Thatcher's house and knocked > her up, Yanks would think something very different from Brits. You've been listening to those old Max Miller records again, haven't

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2001-01-09 Thread Blank Frank
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Re: Anglo-American communications studies

2001-01-09 Thread David Honig
At 11:45 AM 1/9/01 +, Ken Brown wrote: >David Honig wrote: >> >> >>and there are very few opportunities for real misunderstanding. >> >> So Ken if you read that Blair was near Thatcher's house and knocked >> her up, Yanks would think something very different from Brits. > >You've been listen

MS Product Activation for Windows (licensing)

2001-01-09 Thread Blank Frank
With all the hoopla over the release of the final version of the Linux 2.4.0 kernel last week, Microsoft Corp.'s delivery of an interim beta version of its Windows 2000 successor, code-named Whistler, got lost in the shuffle. But according to Whistler testers, Microsoft issued build 2410 of its

Re: MS Product Activation for Windows (licensing)

2001-01-09 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Blank Frank wrote: > But according to Whistler testers, Microsoft issued build 2410 of its >next version of Windows on Thursday. New in this build are many >user-interface tweaks, as well as the incorporation of new anti-piracy >code. >... >No more casual copying? >The most

Re: MS Product Activation for Windows (licensing)

2001-01-09 Thread Matt Elliott
At 5:23 PM -0500 1/9/01, Ray Dillinger wrote: >But if Microsoft and its ilk do in fact successfully create systems >that prevent "piracy", it won't be possible to be a hypocrite about >it any more. And with commercial software flatly refusing some >kinds of use, perhaps a fair number of people wh

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2001-01-09 Thread Josh Richards
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2001-01-09 Thread Declan McCullagh
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Re: MS Product Activation for Windows (licensing)

2001-01-09 Thread Bill Stewart
>>No more casual copying? >>The most potentially controversial addition to Whistler 2410, however, >>is anti-piracy code that Microsoft is calling "Microsoft Product >>Activation for Windows," Copy protection is annoying when you have only one machine. It's much more annoying in the commercially

Re: MS Product Activation for Windows (licensing)

2001-01-09 Thread Alan Olsen
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Bill Stewart wrote: > The El Cheapo PCs each came with a licensed Win98; > I've got the disks in a stack, and keeping track of which > CD goes with which PC would be a serious annoyance. > It's actually worse, because the PCs are pieces of junk > that need to be have major c