Apple have had their developer community working on Leopard for about 3 months now. It is very unlikely that they would rip the work these guys have been doing out from under them with just 2 - 4 months to the launch of the next OS.
Major developers like Adobe and Microsoft may have even been working to this platform for longer.
So if there is a new UI coming, it won't be for 10.5
Nope, no information I've omitted here, other than the fact that I live in Newham. Despite 4 separate reports of Tesco selling fresh produce beyond its use by date (not sell by date!) the DTI say there is nothing that they can do because on the days that the were there, there were not goods for sale past their use by dates.
Calling the citizens advice bureau is a joke... They have an 0871 number so it costs a fortune to call and on 11 calls so far I have just received a message saying 'We are sorry that we cannot take your call at this time as all of our operators (not correct word) are on other calls. Please call again later or look on our Internet site at for more information'. So that's 5 calls charged at 0870 rates with not even an answerphone for my time.
I will be taking Game to small claims court, I just have to work out how to file all of the paperwork. The problem is that this will cost me well over 300 quid because I will have to take a day off work and at contractor rates, that hurts me. Financially, I'm better off sucking up the loss and buying a new device, but that would be giving in and letting them win.
I don't think these kids set the rules, I think this is just bad reporting. What is more likely is that the kids had a whinge that they weren't getting any mom time, so mom promised to leave the crackberry alone for certain hours of the day.
See, mom is just too much of a pussy to tell her kids that her work is more important than they are, so she pays lip service to understanding their issue, says that she will do something to resolve it just to get them off their back, then lies to them forever more.
I just got my UK Wii. The main strap looks a lot wider, but from what I've seen, the cord fastening the strap to the remote is the part that has been failing. This doesn't look much stonger on the UK ones than what I saw on the US ones.
I have an Xbox 360 that has an intermittent fault with the DVD reader. Occasionally it just won't read discs. Game PLC claim that because it is outside of the 1 month that they support it, I have to deal with Microsoft. They will not honour their claimed 1 year warranty!
I called the DTI and they said that there was nothing they could do about it. I explained that it was a device made to play games off of DVDs and that this was not reliably working. I could not play the games when I wanted to. This made it not fit for the purpose intended. The DTI still claim there is nothing I can do about it.
So in about 32 minutes, I'm going to trade my slightly faulty xbox 360 in for a Wii and hope like hell the fault doesn't manifest when Game are testing it:)
Can someone please point me to a legal document involved in this case that shows that the RIAA are actively involved? All I can find is letters naming Elektra who is a label.
Why is it that you believe all elected congressmen are "oligarchs which are selected based on their ignorance and heritage" ??
The GP was talking about British laws. You may find this shocking, but congressmen have nothing at all to do with our laws. We have an elected house (parliament) and an unelected house (lords, although this is changing). Historically, the house of lords was populated by people who were born to their station and had the post for life.
Oligarch sounds like a good description for that, no ?
I don't really think that there's anything particularly special or important about the W3C that makes their arbitary standards better than somebody else's arbitrary standards.
How about the fact that I can contribute to W3C standards, but not MS standards. How about the fact that I can actually drive new standards from scratch with W3C but not MS?
All jokes aside, I really don't want to know how fast I'm going while I'm flying; I can happily wait until I'm on the ground to check my neptune and protrack for that info.
How high I am would be nice, but even then I've got an alti on each wrist and an audible screaming in my ear at designated altitudes.
The liquid ban was bullshit hysteria caused by some flawed intel in the UK.
As for ordering tea, the TSA are only able to collect data about stuff that you order as part of your travel experience... i.e. when you make / amend your booking. If you ask for a lot of tea, you'll either be doing this to the hostess (in which case no record) or on the ground.
In the answers, he makes the following statement: The RIAA isn't American. 3 of the 4 members of the cartel are "offshore corporations".
This statement is provably false. The RIAA is by every single definition of the term, American. They are incorporated in the USA, they do not have offices in any other country in the world and only pay taxes in the USA.
The continuation, '3 of the 4 members of the cartel' is also provably false. These may be the only four labels (currently) bringing lawsuits, but that does not mean that they are the only members of the RIAA.
We can weasel this all we like, but I'm not comfortable with a lawyer submitting as many stories to/. as NYCL does (and having them accepted) who is this imprecise in his definitions
I like to actually have the facts to hand. We're supposed to be able to deal with understanding this kind of thing here, aren't we ? If it takes as many comments and challenges as it did during that conversation, don't you think it's fair to question the poster's motives for being so evasive? We're not stupid - tell us the actual truth and then if people ask, simplify it.
We have enough code buffer overflows. Let's not go creating legal buffer overflows or vulnerabilities just because explaining the actual situation accurately and unbiased doesn't make our case look that good.
You're missing the point though... His statements were wrong. There may be more to the situation, but his statements were wrong. The RIAA are not a global organisation. There are equivalent organisations in some other countries, but they are not the RIAA. And there are more than 4 labels that are members of the RIAA.
As a lawyer fighting the RIAA, he should not be misstating this case. Additionally, if the RIAA is not bringing these cases, then he should stop with the anti RIAA propaganda make it clear on a submission by submission basis exactly who is involved in the lawsuit (saying it is the RIAA vs Joe Blogs when it is actually Universal vs Joe Blogs) is again a misstatement of the facts. But that's not as dramatic as 'Big corp not involved directly with artists attacks poor health worker now, is it?
Responding by attacking the messenger makes him no better than Jack Thompson IMHO.
Oh believe, I don't believe the Zune is better at all. I just believe that the iTMS is shit and I will never use it. There are no degrees here - all DRM, all shackles are bad.
You see, when you're 9000KMs from home in an African country with your laptop, there is no such thing as simply opening itunes and connecting to the Internet to beg for permission to use something that you already bought. It's just not an option in a lot of places.
I'm arguing against DRM in general because you are saying that iTMS DRM isn't so bad. It is. It is bloody terrible to force someone to beg for permission to use their legally purchased goods.
That comment was standard NYCL paranoia. He accuses anyone who disagrees with him and presents a case he can't easily dismiss of being an RIAA plant. I'm on his foes list, and I've been here since long before we were talking about the RIAA.
I got onto his foes list by calling him on his bullshit statements. He claimed that the RIAA is a global company. It's not (hint, one of the A's stands for America). He claimed that the RIAA had 4 members when they have hundreds. Pointing out that he was wrong on those two comments got me accused of being an RIAA shill and onto his foes list.
In light of that, maybe you should take his comments about RIAA shills with a little salt... an ocean or two ought to do it.
Why is this modded as flamebait? The user is pointing out that the Zune hurts everyone whether you buy one or not. Their deal with Universal is already causing grief for us, no matter what player you own.
Wait until you're 9000KMs from home trying to play something for your dad, when you find out that you forgot to ask permission to use that song you already bought on a different device.
I will NOT ask for permission to use the things I've paid for. This isn't fair use, this is just use and I will not fund this tyranny.
I bought about 5 tracks from iTMS, and I will never buy another one.
I still think South Africa and Europe have it better on this - each note and coin is simple for the blind to identify, even in the absence of other bills or coins to compare to.
I'm sorry to be an ass, but your spelling and grammar have really diluted your point. I had to read quite a few sentences more than once to understand them.
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Apple have had their developer community working on Leopard for about 3 months now. It is very unlikely that they would rip the work these guys have been doing out from under them with just 2 - 4 months to the launch of the next OS.
Major developers like Adobe and Microsoft may have even been working to this platform for longer.
So if there is a new UI coming, it won't be for 10.5
Nope, no information I've omitted here, other than the fact that I live in Newham. Despite 4 separate reports of Tesco selling fresh produce beyond its use by date (not sell by date!) the DTI say there is nothing that they can do because on the days that the were there, there were not goods for sale past their use by dates.
Calling the citizens advice bureau is a joke... They have an 0871 number so it costs a fortune to call and on 11 calls so far I have just received a message saying 'We are sorry that we cannot take your call at this time as all of our operators (not correct word) are on other calls. Please call again later or look on our Internet site at for more information'. So that's 5 calls charged at 0870 rates with not even an answerphone for my time.
I will be taking Game to small claims court, I just have to work out how to file all of the paperwork. The problem is that this will cost me well over 300 quid because I will have to take a day off work and at contractor rates, that hurts me. Financially, I'm better off sucking up the loss and buying a new device, but that would be giving in and letting them win.
I don't think these kids set the rules, I think this is just bad reporting. What is more likely is that the kids had a whinge that they weren't getting any mom time, so mom promised to leave the crackberry alone for certain hours of the day.
See, mom is just too much of a pussy to tell her kids that her work is more important than they are, so she pays lip service to understanding their issue, says that she will do something to resolve it just to get them off their back, then lies to them forever more.
I would say no, but I just can't swim that well. Plus, 9000KMs to see the family is a BITCH of a drive :(
I just got my UK Wii. The main strap looks a lot wider, but from what I've seen, the cord fastening the strap to the remote is the part that has been failing. This doesn't look much stonger on the UK ones than what I saw on the US ones.
You ever tried to use that argument?
:)
I have an Xbox 360 that has an intermittent fault with the DVD reader. Occasionally it just won't read discs. Game PLC claim that because it is outside of the 1 month that they support it, I have to deal with Microsoft. They will not honour their claimed 1 year warranty!
I called the DTI and they said that there was nothing they could do about it. I explained that it was a device made to play games off of DVDs and that this was not reliably working. I could not play the games when I wanted to. This made it not fit for the purpose intended. The DTI still claim there is nothing I can do about it.
So in about 32 minutes, I'm going to trade my slightly faulty xbox 360 in for a Wii and hope like hell the fault doesn't manifest when Game are testing it
Can someone please point me to a legal document involved in this case that shows that the RIAA are actively involved? All I can find is letters naming Elektra who is a label.
What? You expect NYCL to present just the relevant facts with no hyperbole, omission of important details or other hysteria? Don't be silly!
You lucky bugger! my local retailer is only opening at 09:00 tomorrow
I was watching a stunning Samsung HD demo the other day. It was only after about 30 seconds that I realised that I was watching it on an LG TV.
That's not true... Some of them were REAL bastards... prison guards :D
Why is it that you believe all elected congressmen are "oligarchs which are selected based on their ignorance and heritage" ??
The GP was talking about British laws. You may find this shocking, but congressmen have nothing at all to do with our laws. We have an elected house (parliament) and an unelected house (lords, although this is changing). Historically, the house of lords was populated by people who were born to their station and had the post for life.
Oligarch sounds like a good description for that, no ?
I don't really think that there's anything particularly special or important about the W3C that makes their arbitary standards better than somebody else's arbitrary standards.
How about the fact that I can contribute to W3C standards, but not MS standards. How about the fact that I can actually drive new standards from scratch with W3C but not MS?
All jokes aside, I really don't want to know how fast I'm going while I'm flying; I can happily wait until I'm on the ground to check my neptune and protrack for that info.
How high I am would be nice, but even then I've got an alti on each wrist and an audible screaming in my ear at designated altitudes.
The liquid ban was bullshit hysteria caused by some flawed intel in the UK.
As for ordering tea, the TSA are only able to collect data about stuff that you order as part of your travel experience... i.e. when you make / amend your booking. If you ask for a lot of tea, you'll either be doing this to the hostess (in which case no record) or on the ground.
The original article is here: http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/0 9/13/1627205
6 480&threshold=2&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=1611 6418#16121432 after saying 'boy oh boy are you technical'. At this point he mentions that he meant 3 of the 4 litigating members are international companies.
/. as NYCL does (and having them accepted) who is this imprecise in his definitions
In the answers, he makes the following statement:
The RIAA isn't American. 3 of the 4 members of the cartel are "offshore corporations".
This statement is provably false. The RIAA is by every single definition of the term, American. They are incorporated in the USA, they do not have offices in any other country in the world and only pay taxes in the USA.
The continuation, '3 of the 4 members of the cartel' is also provably false. These may be the only four labels (currently) bringing lawsuits, but that does not mean that they are the only members of the RIAA.
He finally agrees to be precise at http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=19
We can weasel this all we like, but I'm not comfortable with a lawyer submitting as many stories to
I like to actually have the facts to hand. We're supposed to be able to deal with understanding this kind of thing here, aren't we ? If it takes as many comments and challenges as it did during that conversation, don't you think it's fair to question the poster's motives for being so evasive? We're not stupid - tell us the actual truth and then if people ask, simplify it.
We have enough code buffer overflows. Let's not go creating legal buffer overflows or vulnerabilities just because explaining the actual situation accurately and unbiased doesn't make our case look that good.
You're missing the point though... His statements were wrong. There may be more to the situation, but his statements were wrong. The RIAA are not a global organisation. There are equivalent organisations in some other countries, but they are not the RIAA. And there are more than 4 labels that are members of the RIAA.
As a lawyer fighting the RIAA, he should not be misstating this case. Additionally, if the RIAA is not bringing these cases, then he should stop with the anti RIAA propaganda make it clear on a submission by submission basis exactly who is involved in the lawsuit (saying it is the RIAA vs Joe Blogs when it is actually Universal vs Joe Blogs) is again a misstatement of the facts. But that's not as dramatic as 'Big corp not involved directly with artists attacks poor health worker now, is it?
Responding by attacking the messenger makes him no better than Jack Thompson IMHO.
Oh believe, I don't believe the Zune is better at all. I just believe that the iTMS is shit and I will never use it. There are no degrees here - all DRM, all shackles are bad.
You see, when you're 9000KMs from home in an African country with your laptop, there is no such thing as simply opening itunes and connecting to the Internet to beg for permission to use something that you already bought. It's just not an option in a lot of places.
I'm arguing against DRM in general because you are saying that iTMS DRM isn't so bad. It is. It is bloody terrible to force someone to beg for permission to use their legally purchased goods.
You mean this statement:
/. since long before discussions about the RIAA were common on /.
I've been here since long before we were talking about the RIAA
I meant I've been on
Does that make more sense?
That comment was standard NYCL paranoia. He accuses anyone who disagrees with him and presents a case he can't easily dismiss of being an RIAA plant. I'm on his foes list, and I've been here since long before we were talking about the RIAA.
I got onto his foes list by calling him on his bullshit statements. He claimed that the RIAA is a global company. It's not (hint, one of the A's stands for America). He claimed that the RIAA had 4 members when they have hundreds. Pointing out that he was wrong on those two comments got me accused of being an RIAA shill and onto his foes list.
In light of that, maybe you should take his comments about RIAA shills with a little salt... an ocean or two ought to do it.
Why is this modded as flamebait? The user is pointing out that the Zune hurts everyone whether you buy one or not. Their deal with Universal is already causing grief for us, no matter what player you own.
Wait until you're 9000KMs from home trying to play something for your dad, when you find out that you forgot to ask permission to use that song you already bought on a different device.
I will NOT ask for permission to use the things I've paid for. This isn't fair use, this is just use and I will not fund this tyranny.
I bought about 5 tracks from iTMS, and I will never buy another one.
I still think South Africa and Europe have it better on this - each note and coin is simple for the blind to identify, even in the absence of other bills or coins to compare to.
Sorry... I consider myself to be suitably chastised... I'll go and flog myself shortly...
I'm sorry to be an ass, but your spelling and grammar have really diluted your point. I had to read quite a few sentences more than once to understand them.