It's been tried - and it was so unpopular over here they stopped doing it* (in fact all forms of loyalty cards are facing review because the customers hate them, won't use them, and they cost more to administer than the benefit they give).
The Nectar card is an attempt to rebalance the cost/benefit equation by only having a single card used by many retailers... it seems to be working, at least for now.
I wouldn't surprise me if RFID replaced it as they can get much the same marketing information for free. Personally I'll be getting RFID ECM as soon as I can.
I wouldn't have one so powerful though.. maybe just something strapped to my wrist that burned out the RFID for around 2-3 inches... then spend a few minutes browsing....
We are already Sol III... It's just not a term in common usage (there was a fashion for it when I was at college, but I don't hear it a lot these days). Names are easier though.
They could have come up with something better than 'earth' though... So dull.
That is a legal fiction to satisfy the food regulations - not a reclassification, more a kind of dual-licensing:)
Carrot Jam is quite common - you can buy it in corner shops around here - however food regulations specify that jam must have a certain percentage of fruit to be called jam (which is good - I want to be sure what I'm buying is what it says on the pack). This is just a workaround for it.
Well if they don't, there will be another fine, then another, etc. until they either change or the 'cost of doing business' gets too high and they pull out completely. My hunch is they'll change.
You have it backwards. If they don't pay up, they'll not be able to trade in the EU at all. That'd be more than an 'irritant'. They'd also face even larger fines for non-compliance and in extreme cases BG could face extradition and trial (it'll never get that far though).
The european market is worth a hell of a lot more than they're being fined - they'll pay up, just to protect the right to sell in that market. Can you imagine the knock-on effects of not being able to sell to the EU? We'd develop our own apps and OS (or use one that someone had conveniently written and given away free...), that'd become the defacto standard in Europe, and would murder the MS monopoly elsewhere because they couldn't force Office upgrades on people any more... Aint gonna happen - BG isn't that stupid.
I actually doubt IE has a 90% market share any more.
I run a site that's for a windows app, so there's a majority of Windows users (I'd guess almost exclusively windows actually) visiting it... you'd expect a very high IE percentage there, but I've currently got (based on ~1.2 million hits):
Actually sz = Zero terminated string (or pointer to char), and str = STL string (object).
Integer is usually 'i', unless you're using it as a counter then it becomes 'n' (this is unrelated to type - an size_t nCount is the same as int nCount).
The problem with hungarian notation though is nobody can really agree what to use... We had a war between two developers once changing all the ints to 'n' and another one changing them all back.
Aside from the fact that it has enormous amounts of cash reserves... sex itself is powerful enough that to ignore it is to create problems in society.
What happens if the loonies get their way? Nobody is allowed to see or discuss sex, but the sexual drive doesn't go away - it just comes out again in another form - possibly a very desctructive one.
Liability means nothing on a global internet, without extending international law (which isn't going to happen - GWB wouldn't even accept an international court).
It's another of those sites that swears blind it's real... then gives it away in the Faq:
"Is it necessary to rehydrate your product before use, like any other product?" Response: It depends on how you choose to use the product. If you wish to consume it, you must rehydrate the dehydrated water first.
Quite funny, actually. I wonder if anyone has actually sent them money?
When I was 15 there was no internet... you got your porn by fleeting glimpses of a breast in the tabloids, underwear catalogues and possibly finding your fathers' magazine collection.
By the time I have a 15 year old son he'll probably have access to gigabit pipes into the home, realtime streaming video... and all the porn he could want.
I have two choices:
1) Say that the internet is 'evil', make the child wear earmuffs and dark glasses so he never sees/hears anything 'bad', never talk to people his own age (and cerainly not adults!), never watch TV, and post on slashdot about how everyting is 'corrupting'. 2) Live with it and teach him a moral framework that allows him to decide for himself where the boundaries are.
I'm fully aware that at 15 if I'd had access to kazaa and DSL I'd have had a much larger porn collection than my father very quickly... It'd be stupid to believe that this isn't going to be repeated by the next generation.
It depends on how you say it, and what you mean (ie. do you mean it to hurt another person or simply to express an emotion).
As a christian I say those things in context all the time... I mean, WTF are you going to say if you close the car door on your hand 'oops I appear to have severed a limb?', or 'Fucking hell motherfucker bastard that fucking hurts'.
It's a bit wierd that the source of most of the porn in the world (the US) should get into such a lather over *gasp* a breast.
Once Linux Journal had a scene from Monty Python on their cover (for an article on, err..., python) which had a middle aged bloke playing a piano naked (you couldn't see anything except his back).
The letters pages then lit up with accusations that they had started publishing porn, with phrases like 'what if my teenage daughter had seen this?'. It just seems like americans are in complete denial about the human body... here in europe we just fall about laughing every time we hear of the next wierdness.
Gay marriage was the next one... WTF is the freaking issue? Great amusement for all, tinged with sadness for the people being mistreated.
Hmm that's not illegal here... it's well known that when the new students arrive every year some jokers sell them 'grass' and make a nice income from it.
They're not actually claiming it's illegal, though... Saying 'Wanna buy some grass?' when the stuff you're selling really *is* grass isn't even fraud...
Writing a trojan, hacking, illegal modification of data, illegal retention/use of personal data, fraud...
The US doesn't seem to have any legislation about the first 4 (presumably to protect the corporations who like to write spyware & crapware) but it definately has for the last one.
The offer's on the table - if your laws aren't up to it we'll extradite them and nail their asses to the wall over here...
If any of their victims were in the UK they have committed a crime - unauthorised modification of data on a computer - which carries a 5 year jail term.
So if the US don't want to prosecute them there are extradition treaties to fall back on...
Some ISPs in the UK have already gone a little way down this road.
Yes, the customers were mad, but I have no sympathy.
Computers are *not* toasters. You have to learn how to use them, just like you learn how to drive. If I'm in a car and drive like a madman I'm (rightly) likely to be banned from driving. Same for computers.
You're already the support center for everything from the machine not booting to the bad weather last thursday... nothing really changes. 90% of ISPs already have bootable CDs with drivers etc. so adding firewall and AV isn't much.
XP SP2 won't solve the problem - joe sixpack is still using 9x/Me anyway, and guess what? If a virus wants to open a listening port you get a nice friendly dialog, which the clueless will just hit 'yes' to out of reflex... rendering the firewall useless.
You have to introduce real consequences, otherwise people won't wise up and this mess will continue to get work.
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Tell me when you get one of those... I can steal your credit card number while I'm walking past....
It's been tried - and it was so unpopular over here they stopped doing it* (in fact all forms of loyalty cards are facing review because the customers hate them, won't use them, and they cost more to administer than the benefit they give).
The Nectar card is an attempt to rebalance the cost/benefit equation by only having a single card used by many retailers... it seems to be working, at least for now.
I wouldn't surprise me if RFID replaced it as they can get much the same marketing information for free. Personally I'll be getting RFID ECM as soon as I can.
No, but... what happens if they start saying "Programmers like Ramen. Let's charge them 10% more because they'll keep buying".
Amazon already do this with book prices.
That'd be cool...
I wouldn't have one so powerful though.. maybe just something strapped to my wrist that burned out the RFID for around 2-3 inches... then spend a few minutes browsing....
I have a great relationship with Ben and Jerrys
The give me some, I eat it.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
We are already Sol III... It's just not a term in common usage (there was a fashion for it when I was at college, but I don't hear it a lot these days). Names are easier though.
They could have come up with something better than 'earth' though... So dull.
I liked Flintlewoodlewix.
That is a legal fiction to satisfy the food regulations - not a reclassification, more a kind of dual-licensing :)
Carrot Jam is quite common - you can buy it in corner shops around here - however food regulations specify that jam must have a certain percentage of fruit to be called jam (which is good - I want to be sure what I'm buying is what it says on the pack). This is just a workaround for it.
Well if they don't, there will be another fine, then another, etc. until they either change or the 'cost of doing business' gets too high and they pull out completely. My hunch is they'll change.
You have it backwards. If they don't pay up, they'll not be able to trade in the EU at all. That'd be more than an 'irritant'. They'd also face even larger fines for non-compliance and in extreme cases BG could face extradition and trial (it'll never get that far though).
The european market is worth a hell of a lot more than they're being fined - they'll pay up, just to protect the right to sell in that market. Can you imagine the knock-on effects of not being able to sell to the EU? We'd develop our own apps and OS (or use one that someone had conveniently written and given away free...), that'd become the defacto standard in Europe, and would murder the MS monopoly elsewhere because they couldn't force Office upgrades on people any more... Aint gonna happen - BG isn't that stupid.
I actually doubt IE has a 90% market share any more.
I run a site that's for a windows app, so there's a majority of Windows users (I'd guess almost exclusively windows actually) visiting it... you'd expect a very high IE percentage there, but I've currently got (based on ~1.2 million hits):
IE6 60%
Mozilla 11%
IE5 6%
IE5.5 2.3%
Opera7.2 1.7%
Opera7.1 0.3%
The rest is made up of sundry bots and capture scripts.
Looking at those stats... why the $$% do people target IE5 over mozilla??? (I'd love to know why IE5 is 3 times more popular than 5.5, too...)
Actually sz = Zero terminated string (or pointer to char), and str = STL string (object).
Integer is usually 'i', unless you're using it as a counter then it becomes 'n' (this is unrelated to type - an size_t nCount is the same as int nCount).
The problem with hungarian notation though is nobody can really agree what to use... We had a war between two developers once changing all the ints to 'n' and another one changing them all back.
Aside from the fact that it has enormous amounts of cash reserves... sex itself is powerful enough that to ignore it is to create problems in society.
What happens if the loonies get their way? Nobody is allowed to see or discuss sex, but the sexual drive doesn't go away - it just comes out again in another form - possibly a very desctructive one.
And of course if the site isn't hosted in the US?
Liability means nothing on a global internet, without extending international law (which isn't going to happen - GWB wouldn't even accept an international court).
That's not surprising... lynx is a good starting point for a basic install when you're tweaking, and you might fubar X.
I prefer links myself though.
It's another of those sites that swears blind it's real... then gives it away in the Faq:
"Is it necessary to rehydrate your product before use, like any other product?"
Response: It depends on how you choose to use the product. If you wish to consume it, you must rehydrate the dehydrated water first.
Quite funny, actually. I wonder if anyone has actually sent them money?
Quite possibly.
When I was 15 there was no internet... you got your porn by fleeting glimpses of a breast in the tabloids, underwear catalogues and possibly finding your fathers' magazine collection.
By the time I have a 15 year old son he'll probably have access to gigabit pipes into the home, realtime streaming video... and all the porn he could want.
I have two choices:
1) Say that the internet is 'evil', make the child wear earmuffs and dark glasses so he never sees/hears anything 'bad', never talk to people his own age (and cerainly not adults!), never watch TV, and post on slashdot about how everyting is 'corrupting'.
2) Live with it and teach him a moral framework that allows him to decide for himself where the boundaries are.
I'm fully aware that at 15 if I'd had access to kazaa and DSL I'd have had a much larger porn collection than my father very quickly... It'd be stupid to believe that this isn't going to be repeated by the next generation.
It depends on how you say it, and what you mean (ie. do you mean it to hurt another person or simply to express an emotion).
As a christian I say those things in context all the time... I mean, WTF are you going to say if you close the car door on your hand 'oops I appear to have severed a limb?', or 'Fucking hell motherfucker bastard that fucking hurts'.
As long as he doesn't find my DVD collection downloaded from kazaa...
:)
OTOH he'll have his own collection by then... maybe we can swap
It's a bit wierd that the source of most of the porn in the world (the US) should get into such a lather over *gasp* a breast.
Once Linux Journal had a scene from Monty Python on their cover (for an article on, err..., python) which had a middle aged bloke playing a piano naked (you couldn't see anything except his back).
The letters pages then lit up with accusations that they had started publishing porn, with phrases like 'what if my teenage daughter had seen this?'. It just seems like americans are in complete denial about the human body... here in europe we just fall about laughing every time we hear of the next wierdness.
Gay marriage was the next one... WTF is the freaking issue? Great amusement for all, tinged with sadness for the people being mistreated.
Yeah but the ratings boost would more than offset the fine :)
Hmm that's not illegal here... it's well known that when the new students arrive every year some jokers sell them 'grass' and make a nice income from it.
They're not actually claiming it's illegal, though... Saying 'Wanna buy some grass?' when the stuff you're selling really *is* grass isn't even fraud...
Writing a trojan, hacking, illegal modification of data, illegal retention/use of personal data, fraud ...
The US doesn't seem to have any legislation about the first 4 (presumably to protect the corporations who like to write spyware & crapware) but it definately has for the last one.
The offer's on the table - if your laws aren't up to it we'll extradite them and nail their asses to the wall over here...
If any of their victims were in the UK they have committed a crime - unauthorised modification of data on a computer - which carries a 5 year jail term.
So if the US don't want to prosecute them there are extradition treaties to fall back on...
Some ISPs in the UK have already gone a little way down this road.
Yes, the customers were mad, but I have no sympathy.
Computers are *not* toasters. You have to learn how to use them, just like you learn how to drive. If I'm in a car and drive like a madman I'm (rightly) likely to be banned from driving. Same for computers.
You're already the support center for everything from the machine not booting to the bad weather last thursday... nothing really changes. 90% of ISPs already have bootable CDs with drivers etc. so adding firewall and AV isn't much.
XP SP2 won't solve the problem - joe sixpack is still using 9x/Me anyway, and guess what? If a virus wants to open a listening port you get a nice friendly dialog, which the clueless will just hit 'yes' to out of reflex... rendering the firewall useless.
You have to introduce real consequences, otherwise people won't wise up and this mess will continue to get work.
mplayer has been in the unnoficial debian archives for ages... xine is in the offical ones (and is much better at DVDs IMO).
'apt-cache search dvd' would have given you a nice list... not sure how you managed to miss all those packages???
dvd recording is a little harder as cdrecord-dvd is payware, and dvdrecord seems to have died. However it's perfectly do-able with a little patience.