I know that if I paid a premium to buy a genuine IBM ThinkPad in 3 or 4 years time, I'd be mightily annoyed to discover it's actually a Levono product that has nothing to do with IBM.
IBM might be allowing Levono to use the names, but will consumers and the courts allow it too?
The for4 is thought of by many Smart owners (myself included) as 'not a real Smart'. It's not got many of the original car's clever features, because it's actually just a Mitsubishi Colt with Smart-designed bodywork. If you liked the for4, you should definitely look at the Colt, because you'll be getting the same car with a higher spec for less money (and you won't have to deal with DaimlerChrysler's apallingly shoddy dealer network).
Since the holiday season is rolling around, I've been contemplating kicking out the big words for a nice TLA abbreviation. I'm a die-hard gamer, with several choices of grammar in the market today, it can get a little confusing. Ghosting seemed to be a problem with TLAs, but with displays reaching 8ms-16ms response time, is repeating the last word redundantly really an issue anymore? Is it time for this gamer to move on to greener pastures, or stay the course with my trusty TLA?"
You won't see people hacking the Xbox 2 and porting an emulator because the new Treacherous Computing technology, which may be used in the Xbox 2, is more powerful than the original Xbox lockout.
You are assuming Microsoft is going to write a competent piece of security software, and that no games leave a back door which allows arbitrary code execution. individually, I consider both of those to be pretty shaky assumptions, but put them both together and I think it's practically a certanty that Xbox2 owners are going to be able to use their machines as they wish, rather than as the seller wishes.
I've said this several times before in slashdot id card discussions, but I've yet to have a sensible explanation for it.
Why do I need to carry biometric data about my eyes and fingerprints with me, when I'm already taking my actual eyes and fingerprints?
If we are going to be identified by biometric data, how can looking at a forgable, breakable, swappable, stealable card be more reliable than looking at the actual evidence?
if it takes an AOL user an average of just 3 seconds of their time to see this, decide what to do with it and delete it, then 7.7 million such mails waste about 267 days of AOL users's time.
If a spammer was this active for more than 21 days, then they are going to be spending less time in jail than they stole from other people.
Their case is based on the wholly ridiculous assumption that one country's laws apply in all countries. All they need to do is find a country with decent anti-barratry laws (there must be one somewhere!) and threaten to counter-sue under their laws.
If creating a world-wide infinte copyright extension was as easy as finding just one country that would pass a law like that, do these people really think that Disney would have bothered buying their own senator and bribing the government do it in America?
"I could have sworn that it was illegal in the UK to have a TV playing within view of the driver."
This old law was a victim of it's own outdated wording... it referred specifically to CRTs, so LED and LCD based TVs were techinally not illegal. It's been replaced with a new definition based around prohibiting 'distractions' that also encompasses hand-held mobile phones, but it's so impenetrable that we need some case law to know what is allowed and what isn't.
For example, the law states you can only operate a mobile phone that is in a ''specially designed holder' not one held in your hand. The way the law is drafted, you can design your own holder that consists of a piece of paper held on with a rubber band, and provided you only lift the phone to your ear by the 'holder' you can use it just like before, and that's only the tip of the icebeg...
From TFA: "A smaller current of one thousandth of an amp had no effect." - this sounds like a good demonstartion that it's the current not the idea or placebo effect to me.
Presumably to get this study printed in a reputable journal they would have to reach a resonable standard of experimentation, which would require double-blind testing?
The reason I think this will work is that music is an impulse buy. The newest British phone boxes already have a big (17") colour screen, fast net access, and the guts of a PC, so all the extra hardware this will need is a USB socket (which makes sense if they want business users to move files around anyway). The revenue model is very nice for BT, they might make *something* on the bandwidth, but make a lot more selling advertising on that colour screen that's already there for internet access.
If a kid is walking past a phone box that is showing that video he saw last night on TV, can hear a 20 second clip by lifting the handset and can buy a download of the song right there and then, then I think we finally have a decent 'bricks and mortar' replacement for the record shop.
The way I'm reading this is that people are complaining about the story's inaccurate reporting.
It's a good thing that these songs are being released will less restrictions than normal, it's a bad thing that slashdot is giving the impression that the songs are totally unrestricted. 2 different issues!
Functionally it's just the same machine again, the interest here is in how much they've been able to reduce the component count, so I'm disappointed not to see the guts of the new machine on show.
If the machine is effectively a single 'PS2 chip' plus support and interfaces, then it would be a very strong pointer to the PS3 having the same chip in it for backwards compatibility.
The survey does NOT imply that parents are "simply not worried about video game violence."
It states that 89% of parents are very, or somewhat concerned about inappropriate content in entertainment media, and 34% of parents rate TV as the medium they are most concerned about. It says nothing about their other concerns, and how strongly they rate them.
Reading the survey, it is possible to reach the conclusion that somewhere between 5% and 89% of parents are very or seriously concerned about video game violence. Hardly a level of confidence that should be used for a headline!
Developing an OS is about as sensible as developing a browser... It's a horribly complex task that open source software alrady does very well, and for free.
If I was Google, and looking to make money on software, I'd do it by writing a competitor to Microsoft Office, since Word is an amazingly bad piece of software considering it's success.
If Microsoft has made that such a tough job that it that requires having a google-branded OS, then why not do it by writing a GUI that sits on top of a Google-Branded Linux?
There seems to me to be a trend in popular geek culture towards ever larger and more grandiose tales - Lord of the Rings and The impending Chronicles of Narnia series in the film Genre, epic video games that can absorb people's entire lives like Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies, and of course your own Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon being examples of the trend towards longer books/series. Is this a trend that will continue indefinitely? Will you ever write a novel as short as Zodiac again?
Why do I need to carry a piece of paper that has scans of my fingerprints and retinas? I always carry the real things with me!
If the purpose it to store other information linked to the scans/prints, isn't it ridiculously vulnerable to store that data on a forgeable, able-to-be-mislaid or stolen piece of paper in my pocket rather than in a secure database inside a locked building?
The submitter wouldn't need to 'ogle' for links if they paid attention to the BBC Article (which I had to google for since the article mised out the link).
It clearly says "use web tools such as the Ensembl Genome Browser at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, to mine the data." and on the right, under the heading "Related internet links" there is a link to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute who run the Ensembl Genome browser, as well as 3 other relevant links.
What the BBC site does not do is put inline links to other non BBC sites, they are always on the right, with a little disclaimer that " The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites".
More FUD, the Smart range starts at UKP6810, and the cheapest 'real' car I can find for sale in the UK is the Perouda Kelisa at UKP5142 - and with the Malaysian alternative you don't get a 6-speed semi-automatic gearbox, a turbocharger, reinforced sttel seat backs, the tridion safety cell, swappable body panels, or an engine made by Mercedes-Benz. (Note to non-UK readers - these prices include insane amounts of local car tax, don't panic if you convert them to your local currency.)
I very much doubt you had 3 people in a Smart, since there are only 2 seats and only 2 seatbelts.
As for the 'turbo' version, they ALL have turbos, apart from some of the very newest For4 model, which has 4 seats.
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I know that if I paid a premium to buy a genuine IBM ThinkPad in 3 or 4 years time, I'd be mightily annoyed to discover it's actually a Levono product that has nothing to do with IBM.
IBM might be allowing Levono to use the names, but will consumers and the courts allow it too?
The for4 is thought of by many Smart owners (myself included) as 'not a real Smart'. It's not got many of the original car's clever features, because it's actually just a Mitsubishi Colt with Smart-designed bodywork. If you liked the for4, you should definitely look at the Colt, because you'll be getting the same car with a higher spec for less money (and you won't have to deal with DaimlerChrysler's apallingly shoddy dealer network).
Here in England we are working on rain-driven turbines instead
It's not an absolute top 500, so there is not a lot of military simulation hardware there, nor anything that won't run the test suite.
I wonder where google's cluster would rank in the top 500, and how about the machine(s) that run Eschelon?
Would latency be too big a barrier to a seti-style distributed effort getting into the top 500? t500-at-home anyone?
Microsoft did NOT lose this lawsuit. They simply paid off one of the the victims of their crime.
Since the holiday season is rolling around, I've been contemplating kicking out the big words for a nice TLA abbreviation. I'm a die-hard gamer, with several choices of grammar in the market today, it can get a little confusing. Ghosting seemed to be a problem with TLAs, but with displays reaching 8ms-16ms response time, is repeating the last word redundantly really an issue anymore? Is it time for this gamer to move on to greener pastures, or stay the course with my trusty TLA?"
You won't see people hacking the Xbox 2 and porting an emulator because the new Treacherous Computing technology, which may be used in the Xbox 2, is more powerful than the original Xbox lockout.
You are assuming Microsoft is going to write a competent piece of security software, and that no games leave a back door which allows arbitrary code execution. individually, I consider both of those to be pretty shaky assumptions, but put them both together and I think it's practically a certanty that Xbox2 owners are going to be able to use their machines as they wish, rather than as the seller wishes.
I've said this several times before in slashdot id card discussions, but I've yet to have a sensible explanation for it.
Why do I need to carry biometric data about my eyes and fingerprints with me, when I'm already taking my actual eyes and fingerprints?
If we are going to be identified by biometric data, how can looking at a forgable, breakable, swappable, stealable card be more reliable than looking at the actual evidence?
Time to change the server name. Maybe usw.georgebush.com might be more appropriate?
if it takes an AOL user an average of just 3 seconds of their time to see this, decide what to do with it and delete it, then 7.7 million such mails waste about 267 days of AOL users's time.
If a spammer was this active for more than 21 days, then they are going to be spending less time in jail than they stole from other people.
Their case is based on the wholly ridiculous assumption that one country's laws apply in all countries. All they need to do is find a country with decent anti-barratry laws (there must be one somewhere!) and threaten to counter-sue under their laws.
If creating a world-wide infinte copyright extension was as easy as finding just one country that would pass a law like that, do these people really think that Disney would have bothered buying their own senator and bribing the government do it in America?
"I could have sworn that it was illegal in the UK to have a TV playing within view of the driver."
This old law was a victim of it's own outdated wording... it referred specifically to CRTs, so LED and LCD based TVs were techinally not illegal. It's been replaced with a new definition based around prohibiting 'distractions' that also encompasses hand-held mobile phones, but it's so impenetrable that we need some case law to know what is allowed and what isn't.
For example, the law states you can only operate a mobile phone that is in a ''specially designed holder' not one held in your hand. The way the law is drafted, you can design your own holder that consists of a piece of paper held on with a rubber band, and provided you only lift the phone to your ear by the 'holder' you can use it just like before, and that's only the tip of the icebeg...
From TFA: "A smaller current of one thousandth of an amp had no effect." - this sounds like a good demonstartion that it's the current not the idea or placebo effect to me.
Presumably to get this study printed in a reputable journal they would have to reach a resonable standard of experimentation, which would require double-blind testing?
The reason I think this will work is that music is an impulse buy. The newest British phone boxes already have a big (17") colour screen, fast net access, and the guts of a PC, so all the extra hardware this will need is a USB socket (which makes sense if they want business users to move files around anyway). The revenue model is very nice for BT, they might make *something* on the bandwidth, but make a lot more selling advertising on that colour screen that's already there for internet access.
If a kid is walking past a phone box that is showing that video he saw last night on TV, can hear a 20 second clip by lifting the handset and can buy a download of the song right there and then, then I think we finally have a decent 'bricks and mortar' replacement for the record shop.
The way I'm reading this is that people are complaining about the story's inaccurate reporting.
It's a good thing that these songs are being released will less restrictions than normal, it's a bad thing that slashdot is giving the impression that the songs are totally unrestricted. 2 different issues!
For terrorists. All they need to do is ping the right frequency in any tourist town.
Transparent Graphite already exists too.
Functionally it's just the same machine again, the interest here is in how much they've been able to reduce the component count, so I'm disappointed not to see the guts of the new machine on show.
If the machine is effectively a single 'PS2 chip' plus support and interfaces, then it would be a very strong pointer to the PS3 having the same chip in it for backwards compatibility.
The survey does NOT imply that parents are "simply not worried about video game violence."
It states that 89% of parents are very, or somewhat concerned about inappropriate content in entertainment media, and 34% of parents rate TV as the medium they are most concerned about. It says nothing about their other concerns, and how strongly they rate them.
Reading the survey, it is possible to reach the conclusion that somewhere between 5% and 89% of parents are very or seriously concerned about video game violence. Hardly a level of confidence that should be used for a headline!
Developing an OS is about as sensible as developing a browser... It's a horribly complex task that open source software alrady does very well, and for free.
If I was Google, and looking to make money on software, I'd do it by writing a competitor to Microsoft Office, since Word is an amazingly bad piece of software considering it's success.
If Microsoft has made that such a tough job that it that requires having a google-branded OS, then why not do it by writing a GUI that sits on top of a Google-Branded Linux?
Don't you mean 'looks like a bank, acts like a bank, but doesn't bother following proper banking practice' Panic?
There seems to me to be a trend in popular geek culture towards ever larger and more grandiose tales - Lord of the Rings and The impending Chronicles of Narnia series in the film Genre, epic video games that can absorb people's entire lives like Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies, and of course your own Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon being examples of the trend towards longer books/series. Is this a trend that will continue indefinitely? Will you ever write a novel as short as Zodiac again?
Why do I need to carry a piece of paper that has scans of my fingerprints and retinas? I always carry the real things with me!
If the purpose it to store other information linked to the scans/prints, isn't it ridiculously vulnerable to store that data on a forgeable, able-to-be-mislaid or stolen piece of paper in my pocket rather than in a secure database inside a locked building?
The submitter wouldn't need to 'ogle' for links if they paid attention to the BBC Article (which I had to google for since the article mised out the link).
It clearly says "use web tools such as the Ensembl Genome Browser at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, to mine the data." and on the right, under the heading "Related internet links" there is a link to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute who run the Ensembl Genome browser, as well as 3 other relevant links.
What the BBC site does not do is put inline links to other non BBC sites, they are always on the right, with a little disclaimer that " The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites".
you can get a 'real' car for 50% less
More FUD, the Smart range starts at UKP6810, and the cheapest 'real' car I can find for sale in the UK is the Perouda Kelisa at UKP5142 - and with the Malaysian alternative you don't get a 6-speed semi-automatic gearbox, a turbocharger, reinforced sttel seat backs, the tridion safety cell, swappable body panels, or an engine made by Mercedes-Benz. (Note to non-UK readers - these prices include insane amounts of local car tax, don't panic if you convert them to your local currency.)
I very much doubt you had 3 people in a Smart, since there are only 2 seats and only 2 seatbelts.
As for the 'turbo' version, they ALL have turbos, apart from some of the very newest For4 model, which has 4 seats.