Notice that mp3 trading is a classic example of the free market applying pressure to the suppliers and yet instead of heralding it as a success of capitalism in action the US and others are applying protectionism to the music industry.
CDs are too expensive. The only analysis I need is that people are putting effort into copying them for free. The market wants to see a CD album for somewhere in the $3.99 region.
The CD producers have been prosecuted for running cartels and still they whine.
If he then performed duties that were not his the company made a mistake and have to pay to have the mistakes taken care of.
I'm pretty sure that the company didn't have a lot of computers sitting there with no OS doing nothing and now have a lot of computers with an unlicensed OS installed sitting there doing nothing.
Seeing as you are now in the responsible position it is your duty to uninstall those OS's.
It's pretty simple really.
And it is the law not the "rules", there is no hesitation.
Still, if you install Windows what do you expect. It's when not if that day will come thay the decision will bite you in the ass.
Secondly, I thought the reason the Brits wanted the ID cards was to keep the French problem in check. And when you wash them, they're mostly white.
While the French haven't been our best neighbours the "problem" isn't French people trying to get into Britain, they are perfectly entitled to move to and live in Britain any time they want under EU law.
The situation is that people are using the channel tunnel as a way to get here from mainland Europe. These people are eminating from the poverty striken Eastern Europe countries, Russia and China and all manner of places where our pasty white skin just doesn't fit in.
I'm running 2048x1536 on a 22" & I'm very happy that for the first time in my computing career instead of using the space to display somewhere near a useful amount of workspace I can actually keep the workspace the same size and turn up the font size.
Running a term where the chars are 1cm high but I can still get 100+ columns is a godsend.
Big fonts rule and all the better that I have a dual head system and I dont have to squint at IRC to read the text. I can have it at 22pt and read it from anywhere in the room.
run your desktop at 2048x1536 and you'll get a harsh lesson in how poor the computing world deals with different resolutions.
If it wasn't for Mozilla's ability to have a minimum point size for fonts 75% of websites are too small to read (including my own).
Making a website that renders properly at all sorts of font sizes is a challenge.
A challenge made worse by I.E. & Mozilla's disagreement on what to change when you change the browser's font size. [View.. Text Zoom] on mozilla & [View... Text Size] on I.E.
I.e. doesn't change any font specified in pt, px em or en whereas moz changes soe of them but not others.
same with MS. I can bitch all day about monopoly abuses even if I buy and promote Windows because I expect the government to protect me from their illegal bahaviour. That's what anti-competitive laws are for.
I don't need any of those pieces of paperwork but all of a sudden it will be a legal requirement to have an ID card to go and see the doctor.
We have free health care don't forget. If I get injured I can call an ambulance, get taken to hospital and get treated without any worries. Introduce an ID card and should I hurt myself the first thing I will need to do is find my card.
Had a crash and trapped in a car - "Sorry mate can't do a thing unless you've got a card."
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
In the UK there is no real way of proving who you are or aren't.
Sure there are birth certificates & other paperwork but if I want to assume a new identity it's not that difficult, you just do it. Eventually with enough bits of paper containing your new name you can get just about anything that anyone else can.
The only real trouble you'll get is in paying income tax. Everything else is just done on your word.
And I know all of that because I live under an assumed identity. It was pretty easy. If you really need to get an N.I. number to pay income taxes then obtaining someone elses birth certificate and assuming their identity is pretty easy too.
We don't have ID cards in the UK because of WWII when the spectre of the words "Papers" loomed over us.
And how does this "only" solution work?
Do we have inter-city border checks for every person ?
Perhaps we could make life a bit simpler by having two queues, one for whites and one for non-whites, after all, only the tan skinned ones could come from abroad.
We are already in the position of forged passports & birth certificates and I really really don't want biometric data stored on a piece of plastic that I will lose at least once in my life.
You can't get new eyes when your old ones get forged
Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
There's no CCTV in my street, my neighbourhood, my house, my garage, my desk....
My gran has 3 CCTV cameras on her street. It's a council estate, no shops for miles around. Mind you, she loves it. the frequent trouble has moved on to somewhere else.
The housing estates were the fancy of the post-war socialists in an attempt to artificailly create communities. It's has worked rather too well. Nottingham's biggest estate - Broxtowe - has a community alright. There are 16 year old children that never leave the estate. The whole place as 'run' by 4 or 5 large families and the comminity shields itself through inter-marriage. The place is a fuck up. Car crime is endemic. Organised child abuse exists thanks to the past efforts of the local church. CCTV cameras are all over the place.
CCTV cameras are a solution but to the wrong problem.
I don't know where you live but the low income housing estates round me all have CCTV monitoring.
There's a camera outside my gran's house which is specifically placed to overlook 10 houses in the cul-de-sac opposite from which trouble has traditionally eminated.
She loves it btw. Aggro outside her house has disappeared.
To say it's only in shopping areas is truly misleading.
Maybe it's time you took a trip outside London once in a while.
Our state loves cameras. We have speed cameras now that don't just snap passing speeders but track your car along the road for through multiple cameras and uses them to calculate your *average* speed along the road. The ring-road at the end of my street has them and they cover over 3 miles of thoroughfare.
EU issues are rarely discussed on TV except on the minority news shows [i.e. the ones worth watching].
The EU parliament is seen as a bit of a gravy train for those serving. You never see your MEP in the news and I bet 90% if the people in the UK have no idea who their MEP is.
Big business is right in there, don't you worry. You'll do well to remember that the lovely people that bring us such tunes as All You Need is Love and Give Peace a Chance also help bring us such delights as the WE 177 tactical nuclear weapon and millions of the worlds landmines as well as a plethora of deadly devices.
Lucent developed an experimental Distributed VM cum OS.
The idea is that the whole machine / OS is virtualised and thus standard across architectures rather than Java's seemingly halfway house. With users & groups and plenty of runtime features.
Slashdot Mirror
to cover yourself in phosphorous anytime
only works if the govt. lets it work
Notice that mp3 trading is a classic example of the free market applying pressure to the suppliers and yet instead of heralding it as a success of capitalism in action the US and others are applying protectionism to the music industry.
CDs are too expensive. The only analysis I need is that people are putting effort into copying them for free. The market wants to see a CD album for somewhere in the $3.99 region.
The CD producers have been prosecuted for running cartels and still they whine.
And where do you find more honourable people than in Japan, East Asia?
WTF. This generalisation about East Asia is completely uncalled for
i miss that guy
They employed him.
If he then performed duties that were not his the company made a mistake and have to pay to have the mistakes taken care of.
I'm pretty sure that the company didn't have a lot of computers sitting there with no OS doing nothing and now have a lot of computers with an unlicensed OS installed sitting there doing nothing.
Seeing as you are now in the responsible position it is your duty to uninstall those OS's.
It's pretty simple really.
And it is the law not the "rules", there is no hesitation.
Still, if you install Windows what do you expect. It's when not if that day will come thay the decision will bite you in the ass.
it should be C.D.s
truncations require the apostrophe
think o'clock [which is a truncation of "on the clock"]
but real nerds use ^W which is delete word
lol that phone number in the title rings
Recipie cards in the kitchen is the generic house of the future feature. It still sucks balls
Secondly, I thought the reason the Brits wanted the ID cards was to keep the French problem in check. And when you wash them, they're mostly white.
While the French haven't been our best neighbours the "problem" isn't French people trying to get into Britain, they are perfectly entitled to move to and live in Britain any time they want under EU law.
The situation is that people are using the channel tunnel as a way to get here from mainland Europe. These people are eminating from the poverty striken Eastern Europe countries, Russia and China and all manner of places where our pasty white skin just doesn't fit in.
amen to that
I'm running 2048x1536 on a 22" & I'm very happy that for the first time in my computing career instead of using the space to display somewhere near a useful amount of workspace I can actually keep the workspace the same size and turn up the font size.
Running a term where the chars are 1cm high but I can still get 100+ columns is a godsend.
Big fonts rule and all the better that I have a dual head system and I dont have to squint at IRC to read the text. I can have it at 22pt and read it from anywhere in the room.
run your desktop at 2048x1536 and you'll get a harsh lesson in how poor the computing world deals with different resolutions.
.. Text Zoom] on mozilla & [View ... Text Size] on I.E.
If it wasn't for Mozilla's ability to have a minimum point size for fonts 75% of websites are too small to read (including my own).
Making a website that renders properly at all sorts of font sizes is a challenge.
A challenge made worse by I.E. & Mozilla's disagreement on what to change when you change the browser's font size. [View
I.e. doesn't change any font specified in pt, px em or en whereas moz changes soe of them but not others.
frikking n'mare
You need a mandate to rule, no votes = no mandate
same with MS. I can bitch all day about monopoly abuses even if I buy and promote Windows because I expect the government to protect me from their illegal bahaviour. That's what anti-competitive laws are for.
I don't need any of those pieces of paperwork but all of a sudden it will be a legal requirement to have an ID card to go and see the doctor.
We have free health care don't forget. If I get injured I can call an ambulance, get taken to hospital and get treated without any worries. Introduce an ID card and should I hurt myself the first thing I will need to do is find my card.
Had a crash and trapped in a car - "Sorry mate can't do a thing unless you've got a card."
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
In the UK there is no real way of proving who you are or aren't.
Sure there are birth certificates & other paperwork but if I want to assume a new identity it's not that difficult, you just do it. Eventually with enough bits of paper containing your new name you can get just about anything that anyone else can.
The only real trouble you'll get is in paying income tax. Everything else is just done on your word.
And I know all of that because I live under an assumed identity. It was pretty easy. If you really need to get an N.I. number to pay income taxes then obtaining someone elses birth certificate and assuming their identity is pretty easy too.
We don't have ID cards in the UK because of WWII when the spectre of the words "Papers" loomed over us.
And how does this "only" solution work?
Do we have inter-city border checks for every person ?
Perhaps we could make life a bit simpler by having two queues, one for whites and one for non-whites, after all, only the tan skinned ones could come from abroad.
We are already in the position of forged passports & birth certificates and I really really don't want biometric data stored on a piece of plastic that I will lose at least once in my life.
You can't get new eyes when your old ones get forged
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
There's no CCTV in my street, my neighbourhood, my house, my garage, my desk....
My gran has 3 CCTV cameras on her street.
It's a council estate, no shops for miles around.
Mind you, she loves it. the frequent trouble has moved on to somewhere else.
The housing estates were the fancy of the post-war socialists in an attempt to artificailly create communities. It's has worked rather too well. Nottingham's biggest estate - Broxtowe - has a community alright. There are 16 year old children that never leave the estate. The whole place as 'run' by 4 or 5 large families and the comminity shields itself through inter-marriage. The place is a fuck up. Car crime is endemic. Organised child abuse exists thanks to the past efforts of the local church. CCTV cameras are all over the place.
CCTV cameras are a solution but to the wrong problem.
I don't know where you live but the low income housing estates round me all have CCTV monitoring.
There's a camera outside my gran's house which is specifically placed to overlook 10 houses in the cul-de-sac opposite from which trouble has traditionally eminated.
She loves it btw. Aggro outside her house has disappeared.
To say it's only in shopping areas is truly misleading.
Maybe it's time you took a trip outside London once in a while.
Our state loves cameras. We have speed cameras now that don't just snap passing speeders but track your car along the road for through multiple cameras and uses them to calculate your *average* speed along the road. The ring-road at the end of my street has them and they cover over 3 miles of thoroughfare.
http://www.xanthas.com/corp.html
Simone Yakamoto - Director of ©Xanthas Mobile
Prior to joining Xanthas, Ms. Yakamoto was a Vice President of Information Technology within Constellation Energy Compendium, formerly Cleveland Gas & Electric, where her career spanned 25 years. Ms. Yakamoto holds two Bachelors degrees from the University of Osaka in Mathematics and Economics, and a MBA from Loyola College of Maryland. She oversees all wireless development efforts including the soon to be finished LikeLike-to-Go project.
1. Put eggs in Microsoft basket
2. ????
3. Loss
by a dis-interested populous
EU issues are rarely discussed on TV except on the minority news shows [i.e. the ones worth watching].
The EU parliament is seen as a bit of a gravy train for those serving. You never see your MEP in the news and I bet 90% if the people in the UK have no idea who their MEP is.
Big business is right in there, don't you worry. You'll do well to remember that the lovely people that bring us such tunes as All You Need is Love and Give Peace a Chance also help bring us such delights as the WE 177 tactical nuclear weapon and millions of the worlds landmines as well as a plethora of deadly devices.
buy some proper video editing equipment
better money spent than in your fancy smancy gfx card
for under $1000 you can get full broadcast quality non-linear editing with full resulution capture
and you can use a $10 Trident 8900C VGA card
Mine's over 10 years old and will work just fine on my Pentium 90. If you want to add effects then a bit moor oomph wouldn't go amiss.
Lucent developed an experimental Distributed VM cum OS.
The idea is that the whole machine / OS is virtualised and thus standard across architectures rather than Java's seemingly halfway house. With users & groups and plenty of runtime features.
Better to take a look yourself than rely on my patchy description.
The source code is available if you pay. [& other stuff]
take a trip down the slaughterhouse & watch some of the billion animals killed very year by factory farming, that should turn a few things.