I wonder... is the fact that they can now prove he received the letter the reason that it was sent postage due?
I doubt it: there is no tracking number recorded, so there is no way of the sender knowing whether it was collected or destroyed. The charging for letters got complicated fairly recently: as well as a maximum weight for the letter, there are maximum lengths, widths and thicknesses too. You need scales, a ruler and a micrometer before you can post a letter.
In any case, AIUI, this is just an offer to settle out of court. Is there any need for it to be formally served?
I'm a huge fan of Mr. Card's fiction, but I find his taking the moral high road on the issue of Dumbledore being gay rather disengenuous. He implies that he would have written his sexuality into the story when, in fact he's never had a gay character in *any* of his novels (at least, not the ones I've read). Songmaster would be one. Here's some comments from OSC on the issue of homosexuality in his work.
From their white paper, "The draft standard for 10 Gigabit Ethernet is significantly different in some respects from earlier Ethernet standards, primarily in that it will only function over optical fiber, and only operate in full-duplex mode" That's not their white paper; it's an old one by the 10Gb Ethernet Alliance, which was wound up in 2003. It predates the standards work on copper 10Gb Ethernet.
This article is about the 10 Gigabit Ethernet *Storage* Alliance i.e. iSCSI vendors. Completely different animal: confusing article title.
We're in this mess partly because the governments saw fit to grant monopolies to various companies who now behave like monopolies. It's not quite that simple, at least in the UK. It's largely because the market is *so* competitive that we're in this mess. There are hundreds of ISPs to choose from, and like all the cheap airlines that have sprung up, are all busy bottom feeding for the cheapest deals around.
Sadly, the cheap ISPs are all eating up the quality ISPs, like Pharaoh's cows. Things aren't going to change until people start voting with their wallet for quality. At the moment, most people don't: they moan about the poor service from budget sellers but still but from them.
At this point I'm convinced that the only solution is a worldwide series of gory murders of spam kings with "death to spammers" written on the walls at the crime scenes in the spammers' blood.
Maybe attractive at first. Then when you consider spammers have more money and less scruples...
This makes no sense to me, the KHTML/Webkit people must be doing something right if they can meet the standards and the Mozilla people can't.
They are doing something right. However, people kind of lose their perspective over the ACID2 test. It's either completely useless, or the best thing since sliced bread.
The truth is, all browsers have probably dozens of layout bugs in the odd corners of CSS2. The KHTML folks looked at ACID2, decided to prioritise those bugs; the Mozilla folk decided not to.
Yeah, sure, respect to the KHTML guys. That engine has come from way behind Opera/Gecko to be a real competitior. Its' just that ACID2 Isn't the last word.
Seriously though it's things like this that make me ask, what on earth lead them to define it like that? Its not 9 million cycles, not 9.5 million, not an obvious number of cycles at all.
Most of the SI units have been through several iterations. At each refinement you try to have a more precise value, whilst changing the absolute value as little as possible.
For example, why do we define an international mile to be 0.9144 metres, rather than the original 1000 double paces of a Roman legionary? Well, it's pretty hard to find a properly calibrated legionary these days.
They can appeal against a poor reading of the law in the lower court. I don't it find it particularly scary that someone who is incorrectly acquitted on technical grounds can face a retrial, if a higher court so orders.
Are the people taking this road all getting directions from a GPS
95% of them, probably. As the article says, they get a lot of sales reps and once an Argos delivery truck. A huge percentage of folks like that will be using GPS.
This will be made by EDS, in a poorly thought out 'Public Private Partnership' and will cost three times as much, arrive in 2010 and be obsolete when it does.
Fortunately the fact that it is public money doesn't mean the government run it. The UK research community have a proven track record on running big iron; it's really no different to US.gov giving money to LLNL to run Blue Gene/L.
Pardon my ignorance as an American here, but is that literally an unelected body, and, if so, why would a modern nation have an unelected governing body in the 21st century, let alone the 20th?
Modern, such a tricky word; not everything novel is good. As an American, I'm sure you understand that adjusting your constitutional arrangement is something only done after very serious thought.
Apart from history there are two main arguments: firstly, there is the practical one. The unelected chamber's main function is to improve legislation by taking it apart, amending it and putting it back together again. It can do this without career politicians having to vote against their own party.
The other one is more political which is: would you give an elected second chamber full veto powers? If so you run the risk of deadlock. If not, who wants to be a second rank politican? What needs to be avoided at all costs is parliament being 'modernised' so that it becomes too easy for the ruling party to get new laws on the book. Which is pretty much where we came in...
Personally I think murder is murder. But that's not the view of the British public and things may change.
Actually, I think it is the view of the British public but not mine. Here are two examples of murder that I strongly believe shouldn't have a mandatory life sentence:
1. Assisted suicide: the prosecuting authorities almost never bring a charge of murder but there would be no defence if they did.
2. Gross provocation: the whole business of pleading not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter "on the grounds of diminished responsibility" unnecessarily medicalises cases. Battered wife cases often fall into this category, as does the Tony Martin case.
The judge acknowledged that his intent wasn't to cause loss, but could not find him innocent and as a result gave him the most lenient sentence he could.
He did not; the most lenient sentence would be an absolute discharge. He gave a smallish fine because the defendent hadn't admitted the offence when questioned and then pleaded not guilty at trial.
What is EU's legal jurisdiction over a US company? Sure they can stop from selling their products but what else ?
Nothing. If they want to close all their offices in Europe and stop selling their product here it's their right. Then the whole of the EU switches to Linux, and Microsoft is in grave danger of becoming irrelevant on the world stage. Good plan!
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I wonder... is the fact that they can now prove he received the letter the reason that it was sent postage due?
I doubt it: there is no tracking number recorded, so there is no way of the sender knowing whether it was collected or destroyed. The charging for letters got complicated fairly recently: as well as a maximum weight for the letter, there are maximum lengths, widths and thicknesses too. You need scales, a ruler and a micrometer before you can post a letter.
In any case, AIUI, this is just an offer to settle out of court. Is there any need for it to be formally served?
Actually, I posted the source of that upthread...it is called Hanlon's Razor, and WP mentions nothing about it being attributed to Napoleon.
Not in it's current form; the Napolean meme is lurking in previous versions and the discussion page though.The version quoted above: " Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable
from malice." is commonly known as the Napolean-Clarke law.
"The draft standard for 10 Gigabit Ethernet is significantly different in some respects from earlier Ethernet standards, primarily in that it will only function over optical fiber, and only operate in full-duplex mode" That's not their white paper; it's an old one by the 10Gb Ethernet Alliance, which was wound up in 2003. It predates the standards work on copper 10Gb Ethernet.
This article is about the 10 Gigabit Ethernet *Storage* Alliance i.e. iSCSI vendors. Completely different animal: confusing article title.
Sadly, the cheap ISPs are all eating up the quality ISPs, like Pharaoh's cows. Things aren't going to change until people start voting with their wallet for quality. At the moment, most people don't: they moan about the poor service from budget sellers but still but from them.
At this point I'm convinced that the only solution is a worldwide series of gory murders of spam kings with "death to spammers" written on the walls at the crime scenes in the spammers' blood.
Maybe attractive at first. Then when you consider spammers have more money and less scruples...
This makes no sense to me, the KHTML/Webkit people must be doing something right if they can meet the standards and the Mozilla people can't.
They are doing something right. However, people kind of lose their perspective over the ACID2 test. It's either completely useless, or the best thing since sliced bread.
The truth is, all browsers have probably dozens of layout bugs in the odd corners of CSS2. The KHTML folks looked at ACID2, decided to prioritise those bugs; the Mozilla folk decided not to.
Yeah, sure, respect to the KHTML guys. That engine has come from way behind Opera/Gecko to be a real competitior. Its' just that ACID2 Isn't the last word.
Oops, I meant 1760 * 0.19144 metres, obviously. World's least accurate approximation of a mile there :(
More importantly, how many people need it enough to pay $70-100 for it?
About the same number as need it enough to pay $30-$40 for it.
Seriously though it's things like this that make me ask, what on earth lead them to define it like that? Its not 9 million cycles, not 9.5 million, not an obvious number of cycles at all.
Most of the SI units have been through several iterations. At each refinement you try to have a more precise value, whilst changing the absolute value as little as possible.
For example, why do we define an international mile to be 0.9144 metres, rather than the original 1000 double paces of a Roman legionary? Well, it's pretty hard to find a properly calibrated legionary these days.
They can appeal against a poor reading of the law in the lower court. I don't it find it particularly scary that someone who is incorrectly acquitted on technical grounds can face a retrial, if a higher court so orders.
Addresses that can be spoofed are completely dependant on each ISPs filter rules.
Well, yes. That's the whole point of the project: to see how widespread proper filtering rules are.
I can't just send ODF files to people with attached note...
You can if they ask you to.
how exactly do you represent or see half a pixel? i thought pixels were supposed to be atomic...?
Antialiasing.
Are the people taking this road all getting directions from a GPS
95% of them, probably. As the article says, they get a lot of sales reps and once an Argos delivery truck. A huge percentage of folks like that will be using GPS.
This will be made by EDS, in a poorly thought out 'Public Private Partnership' and will cost three times as much, arrive in 2010 and be obsolete when it does.
Fortunately the fact that it is public money doesn't mean the government run it. The UK research community have a proven track record on running big iron; it's really no different to US.gov giving money to LLNL to run Blue Gene/L.
Both were dictators. Getting democratically elected once does not change it.
If Mossadegh was a dictator, he wasn't a very good one, as he didn't even manage to serve one full term in office.
Pardon my ignorance as an American here, but is that literally an unelected body, and, if so, why would a modern nation have an unelected governing body in the 21st century, let alone the 20th?
Modern, such a tricky word; not everything novel is good. As an American, I'm sure you understand that adjusting your constitutional arrangement is something only done after very serious thought.
Apart from history there are two main arguments: firstly, there is the practical one. The unelected chamber's main function is to improve legislation by taking it apart, amending it and putting it back together again. It can do this without career politicians having to vote against their own party.
The other one is more political which is: would you give an elected second chamber full veto powers? If so you run the risk of deadlock. If not, who wants to be a second rank politican? What needs to be avoided at all costs is parliament being 'modernised' so that it becomes too easy for the ruling party to get new laws on the book. Which is pretty much where we came in...
And as for why the opposition parties and UK media aren't mentioning it, I have no idea.
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They have. Here's some links:
http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.sto
http://www.libdems.org.uk/government/story.html?i
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506
Didn't Microsoft engineers claim, in court, to the EU that they couldn't remove Internet Explorer from the Operating System without breaking it?
Nope, that was the US case. The EU case is primarily about bundling Windows Media Player.
Personally I think murder is murder. But that's not the view of the British public and things may change.
Actually, I think it is the view of the British public but not mine. Here are two examples of murder that I strongly believe shouldn't have a mandatory life sentence:
1. Assisted suicide: the prosecuting authorities almost never bring a charge of murder but there would be no defence if they did.
2. Gross provocation: the whole business of pleading not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter "on the grounds of diminished responsibility" unnecessarily medicalises cases. Battered wife cases often fall into this category, as does the Tony Martin case.
The judge acknowledged that his intent wasn't to cause loss, but could not find him innocent and as a result gave him the most lenient sentence he could.
He did not; the most lenient sentence would be an absolute discharge. He gave a smallish fine because the defendent hadn't admitted the offence when questioned and then pleaded not guilty at trial.
What is EU's legal jurisdiction over a US company? Sure they can stop from selling their products but what else ?
Nothing. If they want to close all their offices in Europe and stop selling their product here it's their right. Then the whole of the EU switches to Linux, and Microsoft is in grave danger of becoming irrelevant on the world stage. Good plan!
If I remember correctly, Eco references HBHG in FP
Eco has his characters use a random conspiracy generator to generate the HBHG plot. Then he quotes from it directly just to rub it in.
It would be very nice to have say 48V DC around the house.
Well, that pretty much defines the Power over Ethernet niche (at least for smallish values of Power).