Well, European regulations on the sharing of private information tend to be stricter than their corresponding American ones. Though quite right, public figures tend to be afforded much more privacy in continental Europe (in the UK, the Sun started a downright spiral when it comes to reporting on the Royal Family)
Some people say that their lawsuit is a petty attempt to steal what was never theirs, but I really think that petty is too trivial for what they are doing
One thing for sure: the SCO shareholders are mighty happy right now. Wonder how many of them will get burned for not bailing in time - i.e. before the court ruling.
Their lawsuit keeps changing too - did they not say a few months back that they have no plan to sue Linux distributors?
I'm also not entirely familiar with European laws except for where they match U.S. law
That would be the UK and Ireland - afaik most countries in the Continent derive their codes of law from the Napoleonic Code, and before that, the Justinian Codex.
That would be curious indeed. Normally plane engines are interchangeable, you basically have engine manufacturers competing in every thrust classes. Rolls-Royce Trent vs GE vs Pratt&Whitney. Unless Boeing pays a fortune for an exclusive deal I don't see why the engine manufacturers would not sell to Airbus too.
And if Boeing had an exclosive contract with one, there is nothing stopping the other two manufacturers from supplying Airbus with comparable engines...
The A330/340 series use a lot of composites in their constructions anyway. I would grant Boeing that this is a step forward from their 757/767 series, but not much beyond the Airbuses really.
After all the A320 is the first with an all-glass cockpit.
It is expected that advances in engine technology will contribute as much as 8 percent of the increased efficiency
This thing is 10% more efficient, and 8% of it is due to new engines? Great, Airbus can just install the new engines on its planes and get almost all the benefits, then.
This is just a normal plane. The A380 was hyped to boast a piano lounge etc., but of course that's at the discretion of the customer. I'm willing to bet most of the 7E7s would be as well equipped as most of the new A330/340 at the time, and not more.
Not too sure if it is enshrined in law, but newspapers do tend to allow their probe target the opportunity to reply in the letters page. And if the story is proven to be inaccurate the newspaper would tend to provide a public retraction.
How much is due to this 'right of reply' and how much is due to common-sense courtesy and libel suit avoidance, I do not know. Any Slashdotters work for a European newspaper?
America tends towards protection of free speech; Europe tends towards protection of privacy.
Though this might be taking it a bit too far though. I don't like the authentication requirement. Surely it's up to the other person to prove he is who he claims to be before I should post his reply?
Given reasonable limits, of course. I should not be allowed to interrogate him and use regression hypnosis, etc. to make sure he's not a mole:)
If I criticise SCO my Slashdot journal, and me being based in Europe, SCO demanded that I give them the right of reply, what does it entail?
A SCO rep could just reply on the journal entry, but how does the authentication work? Could I require him to PGP-sign his message? Or would it be irrelevant because Slashdot is not based in Europe?
I thought Congress Bills are named after their sponsors?
About your sig... not to nitpick, but that map shows the distribution of Muslims by their major denomination (Sunni/Shiah), not by population percentage. In India Muslims are a minority, for example. And please, as an Indonesian, don't send any Hamas people my way!
I find Safari nearly unusable on some pages I go to because of flaws in KHTML
Dont' have Konqueror installed here, and sold my Powerbook, so out of curiosity - have they fixed browsing International Herald Tribune?
Annoyed me real bad with Safari up to... err, v73, the text is supposed to be split into multiple columns but Safari displayed the whole page on each column, with screwed up placement.
Ah, yes. It's something the Kuru people in Papua New Guinea used to do, actually. That's how they managed to track down Kuru disease. Basically the men got to eat the deceased' body, and the women got the remains - i.e., brain and other leftover. And the disease - related to BSE and CJD - affected women more than men.
Quite logical, actually. Paying respect to the dead by making full use of the body he left behind. Although from a hygienic point of view, eating anything closely related is a very bad idea - wonder if that's why the Torah prohibited eating pork in the first place.
... OS/360 for dummies! Comes bundled with the Hercules emulator and DASD images. Money back guarante efor people who could not grok mainframes after 21 days.
Well in my case it is slightly cheaper. The benefit of flying London-Jakarta with Emirates is its availability; my preferred airline is Air France (food, movies, no fussy regulation on electronics). One gets longer delays in Charles de Gaulle than in Dubai, but in Dubai one inevitably waits longer to catch a plane.
This would be the first time I fly back carrying my Handspring Treo, let's see if they freak out:)
I hate QT, why don't they bring it out with something OSS
Mplayer can play Quicktime just fine on Linux/x86 - and with the newer QT being based on MPEG4, presumably it will be possible to use ffmpeg/xvid/insert favourite mpeg4 codec combined with libquicktime to read QT files on all platforms.
What this is useful, IMHO, is archiving. For all those DVDs that you have - it's quite nifty being able to burn 4 movies into a DVD-R. As for it catching on with businesses, well, not until long before Ogg Vorbis does. It might be nice to have in-house though - non-media companies can thus save money from being spent on Real/QT/WMP licenses.
Right now some airlines like Emirates take a 'better safe than sorry' option and ban any electronic device during the flight.
No discman, no PDA, no notebook... nasty. More research like this would show exactly which electronic equipment can cause disruption and which are safe.
Gotta love the advertising line though, almost as bad as selling computers using P2P and music sharing as a 'feature'
Heh, here in UK I've been cringing everytime I saw a BT Internet advertisement, with people supposed to be users touting its use for downloading music.
In the worst ad, the girl even said she used to buy CDs but now she just downloaded them. Granted, there are ways to do it legally (hello Apple Store) but in UK and on a PC?
I can only imagine there is a technical reason embedded device companies choose Linux/GPL over FreeBSD/BSD
Over FreeBSD, yes: platform support. Most embedded device companies that use BSD, prefer NetBSD - it simply runs on many more platforms, more than Linux, in fact.
Yes, but the opinion in the paddock is that BMW has had the most powerful engine since 2001 (their second year in the sport in this period).
One can compare engines with CPUs and the whole car (engine+chassis+tyre) with the whole computer; in this case blaming Williams-BMW's (not BMW) loss to Ferrari on the engine is like blaming the CPU for a slower system when it has an inferior bus, or chipset, or hard drive.
You have the P4 Xeon for that. The original poster should probably have said each Intel CPU architecture are multi-proc capable (since the PPro, that is).
When you buy a new car, do you look for the one with the engine featuring the highest RPM ? (thougth not)
When F1 teams choose engine partners the RPM is the surest indicator of performance, OTOH. The most powerful engine out there is probably the BMW, which was the first to hit 19,000 RPM.
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Well, European regulations on the sharing of private information tend to be stricter than their corresponding American ones. Though quite right, public figures tend to be afforded much more privacy in continental Europe (in the UK, the Sun started a downright spiral when it comes to reporting on the Royal Family)
One thing for sure: the SCO shareholders are mighty happy right now. Wonder how many of them will get burned for not bailing in time - i.e. before the court ruling.
Their lawsuit keeps changing too - did they not say a few months back that they have no plan to sue Linux distributors?
That would be the UK and Ireland - afaik most countries in the Continent derive their codes of law from the Napoleonic Code, and before that, the Justinian Codex.
That would be curious indeed. Normally plane engines are interchangeable, you basically have engine manufacturers competing in every thrust classes. Rolls-Royce Trent vs GE vs Pratt&Whitney. Unless Boeing pays a fortune for an exclusive deal I don't see why the engine manufacturers would not sell to Airbus too.
And if Boeing had an exclosive contract with one, there is nothing stopping the other two manufacturers from supplying Airbus with comparable engines...
After all the A320 is the first with an all-glass cockpit.
This thing is 10% more efficient, and 8% of it is due to new engines? Great, Airbus can just install the new engines on its planes and get almost all the benefits, then.
This is just a normal plane. The A380 was hyped to boast a piano lounge etc., but of course that's at the discretion of the customer. I'm willing to bet most of the 7E7s would be as well equipped as most of the new A330/340 at the time, and not more.
What, the flight is that slow you have time to brew something up?
Not too sure if it is enshrined in law, but newspapers do tend to allow their probe target the opportunity to reply in the letters page. And if the story is proven to be inaccurate the newspaper would tend to provide a public retraction.
How much is due to this 'right of reply' and how much is due to common-sense courtesy and libel suit avoidance, I do not know. Any Slashdotters work for a European newspaper?
Though this might be taking it a bit too far though. I don't like the authentication requirement. Surely it's up to the other person to prove he is who he claims to be before I should post his reply?
Given reasonable limits, of course. I should not be allowed to interrogate him and use regression hypnosis, etc. to make sure he's not a mole :)
A SCO rep could just reply on the journal entry, but how does the authentication work? Could I require him to PGP-sign his message? Or would it be irrelevant because Slashdot is not based in Europe?
About your sig ... not to nitpick, but that map shows the distribution of Muslims by their major denomination (Sunni/Shiah), not by population percentage. In India Muslims are a minority, for example. And please, as an Indonesian, don't send any Hamas people my way!
Dont' have Konqueror installed here, and sold my Powerbook, so out of curiosity - have they fixed browsing International Herald Tribune?
Annoyed me real bad with Safari up to ... err, v73, the text is supposed to be split into multiple columns but Safari displayed the whole page on each column, with screwed up placement.
Hey, if the FSF re-brands free software as Freedom Software for the US market, it might gain acceptance among certain government circles!
Quite logical, actually. Paying respect to the dead by making full use of the body he left behind. Although from a hygienic point of view, eating anything closely related is a very bad idea - wonder if that's why the Torah prohibited eating pork in the first place.
Well, the audience for the Dummies series probably need a hint that it is a jargon word. Don't want to get flamed for a perceived misspelling
That was a brilliant book though, Stranger from a Strange Land. Remember the suicide cult?
... OS/360 for dummies! Comes bundled with the Hercules emulator and DASD images. Money back guarante efor people who could not grok mainframes after 21 days.
Gnu's Not is Yoda-speak for GNU is no more. Because it's no longer not Unix?
And speak not should I in negative doubled. How true that is. Nodding am I.
This would be the first time I fly back carrying my Handspring Treo, let's see if they freak out :)
Mplayer can play Quicktime just fine on Linux/x86 - and with the newer QT being based on MPEG4, presumably it will be possible to use ffmpeg/xvid/insert favourite mpeg4 codec combined with libquicktime to read QT files on all platforms.
What this is useful, IMHO, is archiving. For all those DVDs that you have - it's quite nifty being able to burn 4 movies into a DVD-R. As for it catching on with businesses, well, not until long before Ogg Vorbis does. It might be nice to have in-house though - non-media companies can thus save money from being spent on Real/QT/WMP licenses.
No discman, no PDA, no notebook... nasty. More research like this would show exactly which electronic equipment can cause disruption and which are safe.
Heh, here in UK I've been cringing everytime I saw a BT Internet advertisement, with people supposed to be users touting its use for downloading music.
In the worst ad, the girl even said she used to buy CDs but now she just downloaded them. Granted, there are ways to do it legally (hello Apple Store) but in UK and on a PC?
Over FreeBSD, yes: platform support. Most embedded device companies that use BSD, prefer NetBSD - it simply runs on many more platforms, more than Linux, in fact.
Just ask Wasabi...
One can compare engines with CPUs and the whole car (engine+chassis+tyre) with the whole computer; in this case blaming Williams-BMW's (not BMW) loss to Ferrari on the engine is like blaming the CPU for a slower system when it has an inferior bus, or chipset, or hard drive.
You have the P4 Xeon for that. The original poster should probably have said each Intel CPU architecture are multi-proc capable (since the PPro, that is).
When F1 teams choose engine partners the RPM is the surest indicator of performance, OTOH. The most powerful engine out there is probably the BMW, which was the first to hit 19,000 RPM.