If you don't want someone to know how you did something, close the source. If someone comes around 2 weeks later and duplicates your work.. well it wasn't really novel was it?
I've come up with many algorithms in the past that I've thought were novel... then found out someone thought of it and gave it a fancy name 50 years ago. I could have got a patent on it if I'd wanted - but I wouldn't have deserved it. I'm just not *that* good.
LCDs do cause a certain amount of eyestrain... something to do with the backlights I think.
Usually after a few weeks of using one my headaches subside as I've adjusted to it. Never had that problem with CRT - they're just 'easier' to look at.
One thing to watch is not to enable cleartype if you can help it - the blurryness causes your eyes to constantly try to compensate, which causes very bad eyestrain (I can't look at a cleartype display for more than about 15 minutes without developing headaches).
My wife switched *back* to CRT because LCD was causing extreme health problems.
It started with headaches, and I guess she was just adjusting (LCDs gave me headaches for the first couple of months). Then it turned into migranes, with some really nasty side effects.
Switching back to CRT she's completely well again and is a lot better.
Apparently some people are sensitive to the flicker in the LCD backlights (more common amongst women I'm told) and for those people LCD is extremely unwise.
If a "loser pays" sysem is implemented, it's a disincentive against any individual who might sue a large corporation, a wealthy person (Such as a doctor.) or even the goverment.
This is a *good* thing.
If you're going to sue someone you'd better be damned sure of your case before starting. No more suing McDonalds because your tea is hot.
OTOH If you have a good case you'll get a good lawyer (because the big corp. will end up paying) and get justice.
Yes I think they just killed their chances right there.
The ability to give this a try on a Mac would have been cool, however I'm not going to pay $1,300 for a custom board just because I'm a bit nostalgic.
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100 messages per 24 hour period? I know single users who go well above that.
I run a mailing list with 1000 users on it. If a topic gets a lot of messages on a good day there may be 50 replies, so that's 50,000 to start with. Non spam, non commercial.
Won't work. We've tried very hard to do that, but it's created a real crisis.
Private pensions charge many times what national insurance (as we call it here) costs, and a lot of people just can't afford it (it would cut my wages by 30% to have a private pension and I just about get away with paying the rent already).
So we have a whole generation who have nothing to look forward to but starvation at 65. Personally I'll probably find an inventive way to kill myself (seriously... living as a vagrant from 65-death isn't worth it).
Get over yourself. That episode was about the beginning of the emergence the vulcan empire in TOS (where the 'subculture' have basically taken over) and the struggles of how they got there.
They could have done a lot more with the plotline (which was indeed quite weak) but it had nothing to do with 'gay rights'. Neither did most of the other examples you cite, except by accident.
The threw away the UK market by making a system that spammed TV programs (did it once [I was watching at the time and the only way to stop it was to power cycle the Tivo, then the spam was undeletable].. that about sealed their fate - if you ask anyone about Tivo here they say "Oh yes that's the one that spams tv programs" and that's the end of the conversation). Prior to that their only attempt at an advert was some lame 'it pauses live TV' to which the entire population went "Why the F*ck would I want to do that?" and stuck to their VCRs.
That was at the time they were charging £600 (~$1000) for a hideous looking silver box that had only one tuner. They screwed up so badly they never got chance to make another.
The US is a much bigger market - you have to screw up a *lot* to effectively drive yourself out of it, but with Tivo marketing I could believe they could do it, if the attempts at 'advertising' that I've seen are anything to go by.
Doesn't really work... I installed an SP2 machine from scratch (from the MSDN CD) and it still got virused before I'd even finished downloading the video card drivers. And that's behind a tight firewall too...
So you're expecting someone with no income to emigrate to *another country* just because there's an economic downturn.
That's about the lamest thing I've ever heard. If you're unemployed you're going to have trouble getting bus fare let alone buying a new house in a foreign country.
I paid a hell of a lot more for mine, *and* had to have a 20 minute phone conversation with the South Africa before they'd accept that I worked for a real company...and I have to go through that every year.
You can lease dark fiber from a telco... I worked for a company that did it for a short while.
There's probably 100* more dark fiber than lit fiber in the world - when they're putting it down it's dirt cheap to put a few more bundles in. You can get it pretty much anywhere to anywhere (where there's some kind of physical link anyway).
The real cost though is lighting the thing. It costs a fortune to rent the mux equiment, and it's large enough that space considerations at the other end come into play. That's mostly the reason why it's still dark in the first place (that and the telcos have so much excess bandwidth already they don't know what to do with it... it's more cost effective to negotiate a cut rate on a piece of existing fiber).
The 1979 sale of goods act gives consumers the power to sue a retailer for damages up to five years after a product is bought if it breaks down during that time.
(slightly OT) 'extended warranties' take advantage of peoples ignorance of the law - a small claim cost £39 to bring, which is *far* cheaper than extending any warranty period.
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If you don't want someone to know how you did something, close the source. If someone comes around 2 weeks later and duplicates your work.. well it wasn't really novel was it?
I've come up with many algorithms in the past that I've thought were novel... then found out someone thought of it and gave it a fancy name 50 years ago. I could have got a patent on it if I'd wanted - but I wouldn't have deserved it. I'm just not *that* good.
LCDs do cause a certain amount of eyestrain... something to do with the backlights I think.
Usually after a few weeks of using one my headaches subside as I've adjusted to it. Never had that problem with CRT - they're just 'easier' to look at.
One thing to watch is not to enable cleartype if you can help it - the blurryness causes your eyes to constantly try to compensate, which causes very bad eyestrain (I can't look at a cleartype display for more than about 15 minutes without developing headaches).
Ugh. Just tried the tuner applet, and it still doesn't have any settings other than 'really blurry'.
There's the 'really blurry with multi-coloured edges' setting, the 'really blurry with big thick fonts' setting, etc.
but no 'non-blurry' setting, other than switching it off.
My wife switched *back* to CRT because LCD was causing extreme health problems.
It started with headaches, and I guess she was just adjusting (LCDs gave me headaches for the first couple of months). Then it turned into migranes, with some really nasty side effects.
Switching back to CRT she's completely well again and is a lot better.
Apparently some people are sensitive to the flicker in the LCD backlights (more common amongst women I'm told) and for those people LCD is extremely unwise.
Me too.. I hate it. Cleartype just blurs everyting and my eyes try to compensate, giving increased eyestrain.
If a "loser pays" sysem is implemented, it's a disincentive against any individual who might sue a large corporation, a wealthy person (Such as a doctor.) or even the goverment.
This is a *good* thing.
If you're going to sue someone you'd better be damned sure of your case before starting. No more suing McDonalds because your tea is hot.
OTOH If you have a good case you'll get a good lawyer (because the big corp. will end up paying) and get justice.
Under the GPL, any two pieces of code that are linked together are derivative works of each other.
So the filter driver I wrote for XP means that Windows is a derivative work of my driver... (err... ????)
This even got tested in court - in germany it was decided that any app that uses MySql is a derivative work of it, and must be GPL licensed.
Yes I think they just killed their chances right there.
The ability to give this a try on a Mac would have been cool, however I'm not going to pay $1,300 for a custom board just because I'm a bit nostalgic.
100 messages per 24 hour period? I know single users who go well above that.
I run a mailing list with 1000 users on it. If a topic gets a lot of messages on a good day there may be 50 replies, so that's 50,000 to start with. Non spam, non commercial.
Won't work. We've tried very hard to do that, but it's created a real crisis.
Private pensions charge many times what national insurance (as we call it here) costs, and a lot of people just can't afford it (it would cut my wages by 30% to have a private pension and I just about get away with paying the rent already).
So we have a whole generation who have nothing to look forward to but starvation at 65. Personally I'll probably find an inventive way to kill myself (seriously... living as a vagrant from 65-death isn't worth it).
Get over yourself. That episode was about the beginning of the emergence the vulcan empire in TOS (where the 'subculture' have basically taken over) and the struggles of how they got there.
They could have done a lot more with the plotline (which was indeed quite weak) but it had nothing to do with 'gay rights'. Neither did most of the other examples you cite, except by accident.
Hot? Poor acting, abysmal camera work, and a script that sounds like it's being made up on the spot.
Hell, I'd even watch Enterprise over that.
Could this possibly be related to the huge coronal mass ejection
Well I never heard it called *that* before....
Or even Cyrixsat... altough that would have probably overheated long before now :)
A naked statue is a model of whorish disrespect for the inherent intimacy and sexuality of the body.
Why?
Because you say so?
Go back to the rock from whence you came, zealot.
The threw away the UK market by making a system that spammed TV programs (did it once [I was watching at the time and the only way to stop it was to power cycle the Tivo, then the spam was undeletable].. that about sealed their fate - if you ask anyone about Tivo here they say "Oh yes that's the one that spams tv programs" and that's the end of the conversation). Prior to that their only attempt at an advert was some lame 'it pauses live TV' to which the entire population went "Why the F*ck would I want to do that?" and stuck to their VCRs.
That was at the time they were charging £600 (~$1000) for a hideous looking silver box that had only one tuner. They screwed up so badly they never got chance to make another.
The US is a much bigger market - you have to screw up a *lot* to effectively drive yourself out of it, but with Tivo marketing I could believe they could do it, if the attempts at 'advertising' that I've seen are anything to go by.
Doesn't really work... I installed an SP2 machine from scratch (from the MSDN CD) and it still got virused before I'd even finished downloading the video card drivers. And that's behind a tight firewall too...
Move.
So you're expecting someone with no income to emigrate to *another country* just because there's an economic downturn.
That's about the lamest thing I've ever heard. If you're unemployed you're going to have trouble getting bus fare let alone buying a new house in a foreign country.
Probably an american thing.
Remember this is the country that ground to a virtual halt at the sight of half a breast.
$20? Wow.
..and I have to go through that every year.
I paid a hell of a lot more for mine, *and* had to have a 20 minute phone conversation with the South Africa before they'd accept that I worked for a real company.
If they do them for $20 I'd like to know where.
Plus if you see a certificate from MS, and it's 'expired' what do you do? Think they're stupid for letting it expire and click 'OK'.
Perfectly legitimate companies let their certificates expire, sometimes leaving it months.. Heck even my bank left it 2 weeks.
You can lease dark fiber from a telco... I worked for a company that did it for a short while.
There's probably 100* more dark fiber than lit fiber in the world - when they're putting it down it's dirt cheap to put a few more bundles in. You can get it pretty much anywhere to anywhere (where there's some kind of physical link anyway).
The real cost though is lighting the thing. It costs a fortune to rent the mux equiment, and it's large enough that space considerations at the other end come into play. That's mostly the reason why it's still dark in the first place (that and the telcos have so much excess bandwidth already they don't know what to do with it... it's more cost effective to negotiate a cut rate on a piece of existing fiber).
It's more than that...
The 1979 sale of goods act gives consumers the power to sue a retailer for damages up to five years after a product is bought if it breaks down during that time.
(slightly OT) 'extended warranties' take advantage of peoples ignorance of the law - a small claim cost £39 to bring, which is *far* cheaper than extending any warranty period.
Bizarre.
In Manchester I know of only one person with an Ipod. Everyone else has either minidisc (v. popular around here) or a standard 128k MP3 player.
Out in public I've *never* seen an ipod (other than the ones in stores).