The reason for the harassment is that they have very little to no power to actually detect and punish those who watch TV without a license. All they can do is send threatening letters, so that's what they do. Bin them, safe in the knowledge that every other TV-less household in the country is getting them. Assuming you don't own a TV that is.
I'd have a lot more respect for such people if they blew their money on a good car, a TVR or an Aston Martin, or something that actually looks and goes like it costs a lot to run.
As for people not seeing them as unsafe, that doesn't make them safe.
Most people reading/. have 2 good excuses for not knowing anything about the geography of china though, the Great Wall, and the Great Firewall. Can't expect people to much about a country where the border controls are effectively a giant middle finger.
I'd be happy if the Americans who visit Scotland could figure out that it's not England, sigh....
It does apply to christians yes. Only in this case there tends to be an extra step of the law being written by a christian. Take a quick look at the history of Europe with special regard to the Catholic church to see how this works.
In fact the Catholic Church and the Church of Scientology have a lot in common...
The patents shouldn't have been granted, and that's what the EU is saying. It's not complicated. You might also want to try starting your sentences with a capital letter.
Well according to archive.org, the reccomended amount of memory to run Firefox used to be 128MB and is now 256MB. As I don't keep detailed logs of my systems memory usage I can only say that it used to be normal for Firefox to be using 30MB (and even then it was quite bloated) and now it's normal for it to be using 80MB.
If it's possible to run two versions of Firefox side by side then perhaps I'll test it.
Which comes from the marketing budget. At least the cinema audiences do.
Why is the industry really bothered about piracy? People can find out whether a film sucks before handing over their money.
Unless of course it was all those dodgy postal votes. Nearly every household in the country gets a "send your postal vote to my constituency office instead of dropping it in a postbox" letter and no-one bats an eyelid.
That would be terrible, different companies effectively bouncing ideas off each other instead of wasting a huge amount of time and money desperately trying to keep their stuff secret. I mean, it could lead to customers getting the best possible drivers.
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The reason for the harassment is that they have very little to no power to actually detect and punish those who watch TV without a license. All they can do is send threatening letters, so that's what they do. Bin them, safe in the knowledge that every other TV-less household in the country is getting them. Assuming you don't own a TV that is.
Verification of those claims of bias is required.
I'd have a lot more respect for such people if they blew their money on a good car, a TVR or an Aston Martin, or something that actually looks and goes like it costs a lot to run. As for people not seeing them as unsafe, that doesn't make them safe.
Most people reading /. have 2 good excuses for not knowing anything about the geography of china though, the Great Wall, and the Great Firewall. Can't expect people to much about a country where the border controls are effectively a giant middle finger.
I'd be happy if the Americans who visit Scotland could figure out that it's not England, sigh....
They're free to buy an SUV, and everyone else is free to mock them for buying an unsafe money burning machine.
Fuel injection anyone?
Before SUVs there were estate cars for exactly this purpose.
It does apply to christians yes. Only in this case there tends to be an extra step of the law being written by a christian. Take a quick look at the history of Europe with special regard to the Catholic church to see how this works. In fact the Catholic Church and the Church of Scientology have a lot in common...
The patents shouldn't have been granted, and that's what the EU is saying. It's not complicated. You might also want to try starting your sentences with a capital letter.
Any idea what this law is called?
DDT is not banned in area where Malaria is endemic: http://kenethmiles.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_kenethm iles_archive.html#107570569615970184
In which case the bottleneck is not the CPU, it's the idiot writing the software.
Then there's something very, very wrong with firefox's DOM implementation.
Well according to archive.org, the reccomended amount of memory to run Firefox used to be 128MB and is now 256MB. As I don't keep detailed logs of my systems memory usage I can only say that it used to be normal for Firefox to be using 30MB (and even then it was quite bloated) and now it's normal for it to be using 80MB. If it's possible to run two versions of Firefox side by side then perhaps I'll test it.
The point of Firefox used to be that it was lightweight. Now it isn't. This is a clear regression.
Other than it used to use a lot less memory than the others, and now only a little, no. "Everyone else is doing it," is not an excuse.
To me that's a huge amount of memory for displaying a few kbs of data.
!!!!! You're taking the piss right?
Which comes from the marketing budget. At least the cinema audiences do. Why is the industry really bothered about piracy? People can find out whether a film sucks before handing over their money.
Unless of course it was all those dodgy postal votes. Nearly every household in the country gets a "send your postal vote to my constituency office instead of dropping it in a postbox" letter and no-one bats an eyelid.
Even more annoying is the anthropomorphising of science. Statements like, "Science says ...," "Science does ...," really piss me off.
Shenanigans? I'll get my broom.
That would be terrible, different companies effectively bouncing ideas off each other instead of wasting a huge amount of time and money desperately trying to keep their stuff secret. I mean, it could lead to customers getting the best possible drivers.
Which is another reason Britain follows the US around like a sick puppy.
Could that be because the US has control over our military hardware?