Just a reference point but in the UK, in the last week I've driven the new Ford Fiesta and a 2001 Fiat Stilo, both of which kill the headlights when you cut the ignition.
I think you are the one who is confused....
I belive but am too lazy to prove that the UK uses the same definition of assult as AU/NZ, ie: you have to actually physically assult someone before it becomes a crime.
But you believe incorrectly. Threatening to assault someone in the UK does in fact constitute assault.
Interesting, but what would happen to their current business model? (which has proven HIGHLY profitable since its inception.) How many ads do you see on Amazon.com? None,.
Not so - Amazon (.co.uk at least) actually has ads for Google, in fact (Chrome.)
That doesn't follow - Sony doesn't have my details just because I bought this laptop. Ebuyer do, because that's who I bought it from.
Why should anyone other than the entity I buy from have my information?
It might not bode well to be supporting a post modded flamebait but jesus. Really. THE SUMMARY dammit! Nobody mentioned the article! Not RingTFA seems reasonable, but not reading the summary is pushing it, and not reading posts?
Actually, this raises a good point.
There are plenty of boycotts I remember committing to - RIAA label music for one thing (I'll allow buying it 2nd hand) but you know I'm pretty sure that I've forgotten several of the things I've decided I don't buy/use/support anymore, purely from letting them slip out of my mind..
Perhaps we could organise a list on/. that we're all boycotting? That'd be a useful tool. It'd be useless propaganda because of the 1-in-20 ratio you mention (and I'll bet it's more depressing even than that) but it'd help my frail memory!
Heck, I'm sure there are loads of examples out there, but I've got a couple right here from my local Toyota dealership (from which I bought my car 3 years ago, new, and to which I'd have returned for my next car were it not for all this)
Turbocharger died, slowly on my car. Being a diesel this left it basically undriveable. Took it in, they cleaned the EGR Valve, problem went away. For twelve hours. It happened again, slowly, 200miles from home. Took it back when I'd crawled back. Mechanic suggested the turbo itself needed replacing - cost a few thousand. Luckily the mechanic that had cleaned the EGR valve was around and I asked him to intervene - eventually they just replaced the valve (cost a couple of hundred) and it's golden.
I pulled the seat forward too vigorously, and broke the sliding/locking mechanism. Took it in to the Toyota place - took them half an hour to tell me I needed a new seat at a cost of a couple of hundred. took it into my local garage, they simply re-attached the spring mechanism that had fallen apart. Nothing wrong with the seat whatsoever. They only charged me (for half an hour's labour) because I insisted on paying something..
And then there's the brake pad thing I've nearly fallen for twice. Now whenever the Toyota place says they need replacing I head to my local garage to have them checked.
I honestly believe it's mainly incompetence. They didn't even remove the fallen-out spring bits from under the seat, so if they were pulling a scam they weren't trying very hard...
Alright, I'll give it a go:
Affect: to affect something is to change it. ie "contamination from person working in cotton swab factory had an AFFECT on criminal investiagtions"
Effect: To accomplish, to do. ie "Lady working in cotton swab factory effected an incredible escape from prosecution by deliberately adding her DNA to cotton swabs used in a multitude of investigations across Europe, thereby creating herself an alibi."
Thanks you. I'll be here all week, be sure to tip your waitress.
Erm.
I'm going to take a shot at this. The word you were looking for was affected, not effected. As indeed the linked definition should have made clear you. I can't be bothered to post links to the definitions of those words, but you know where to look..
At the risk of walking into a trap here, I think the reference was a (fairly tenuous) reference to the famous 640K is enough for anyone remark that was never actually made...
No, obviously not, but with great power comes great responsibility: Yes, you're free to say anything, but no, you can't openly accuse folk of things that they've been proven by due process to be innocent of.
If you were to have no curbs on what can be said then I would be free to visit your place of work, your home and all your friends and make endless statements which might be provably false but which nonetheless serve to your detriment.
Personally I think Apple should have gone the route of having store with signed code but allowing unsigned code. If you install a signed app from their store, it installs with no question. If it is another app you get a "Warning, this code is unsigned and could be unsafe," box with a button for more info. Ask for more info and it explains that Apple has looked at signed apps and decided they are ok and aren't going to mess up your phone. They haven't looked at unsigned apps so they don't know, and if it messes up your phone they can't really help you.
Sounds good on paper - but wasn't a massive hit when in the guise of UAC in Vista, was it?
Yes. except, being fair, in the case of Win XP, SP3 was little (if anything?) more than a patch to allow for a larger batch of Product Keys to be issued for installation was it now? In which case it was in fact technically a way of extending the longevity of an existing product at the expense of revenue from an already struggling new product.
In fact, PayPal (Europe) Ltd. is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom as an electronic money institution. NOT as a bank.
Big difference. For one thing it doesn't cover anything for balances over £1000
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OK, third data point - the 2008 Vauxhall Insignia does indeed kill the headlights if you have them set to 'auto' - as does the 2004 Renault Megane...
Just a reference point but in the UK, in the last week I've driven the new Ford Fiesta and a 2001 Fiat Stilo, both of which kill the headlights when you cut the ignition.
Or you could, y'know, just fucking pay for it...
I think you are the one who is confused. ...
I belive but am too lazy to prove that the UK uses the same definition of assult as AU/NZ, ie: you have to actually physically assult someone before it becomes a crime.
But you believe incorrectly. Threatening to assault someone in the UK does in fact constitute assault.
Interesting, but what would happen to their current business model? (which has proven HIGHLY profitable since its inception.) How many ads do you see on Amazon.com? None,.
Not so - Amazon (.co.uk at least) actually has ads for Google, in fact (Chrome.)
Didn't the build-up state that you could hammer in a nail with the phone? Nail heads have pretty small surface areas too...
No, but people in genuine fear of their life probably wouldn't even think about that, would they
That doesn't follow - Sony doesn't have my details just because I bought this laptop. Ebuyer do, because that's who I bought it from. Why should anyone other than the entity I buy from have my information?
This is slashdot. How many people actually RTFA?
It might not bode well to be supporting a post modded flamebait but jesus. Really. THE SUMMARY dammit! Nobody mentioned the article! Not RingTFA seems reasonable, but not reading the summary is pushing it, and not reading posts?
Actually, this raises a good point. There are plenty of boycotts I remember committing to - RIAA label music for one thing (I'll allow buying it 2nd hand) but you know I'm pretty sure that I've forgotten several of the things I've decided I don't buy/use/support anymore, purely from letting them slip out of my mind..
/. that we're all boycotting? That'd be a useful tool. It'd be useless propaganda because of the 1-in-20 ratio you mention (and I'll bet it's more depressing even than that) but it'd help my frail memory!
Perhaps we could organise a list on
WD-40 works very well for everything
Yeah sure: hunter2
Heck, I'm sure there are loads of examples out there, but I've got a couple right here from my local Toyota dealership (from which I bought my car 3 years ago, new, and to which I'd have returned for my next car were it not for all this)
Turbocharger died, slowly on my car. Being a diesel this left it basically undriveable. Took it in, they cleaned the EGR Valve, problem went away. For twelve hours. It happened again, slowly, 200miles from home. Took it back when I'd crawled back. Mechanic suggested the turbo itself needed replacing - cost a few thousand. Luckily the mechanic that had cleaned the EGR valve was around and I asked him to intervene - eventually they just replaced the valve (cost a couple of hundred) and it's golden.
I pulled the seat forward too vigorously, and broke the sliding/locking mechanism. Took it in to the Toyota place - took them half an hour to tell me I needed a new seat at a cost of a couple of hundred. took it into my local garage, they simply re-attached the spring mechanism that had fallen apart. Nothing wrong with the seat whatsoever. They only charged me (for half an hour's labour) because I insisted on paying something..
And then there's the brake pad thing I've nearly fallen for twice. Now whenever the Toyota place says they need replacing I head to my local garage to have them checked.
I honestly believe it's mainly incompetence. They didn't even remove the fallen-out spring bits from under the seat, so if they were pulling a scam they weren't trying very hard...
But he wasn't asking a question, was he?
Fuck off :)
Um... Why'd you need anything like that? Apache, locally installed on one PC designated as a 'server'?
" hmmm....
Alright, I'll give it a go: Affect: to affect something is to change it. ie "contamination from person working in cotton swab factory had an AFFECT on criminal investiagtions" Effect: To accomplish, to do. ie "Lady working in cotton swab factory effected an incredible escape from prosecution by deliberately adding her DNA to cotton swabs used in a multitude of investigations across Europe, thereby creating herself an alibi." Thanks you. I'll be here all week, be sure to tip your waitress.
Erm. I'm going to take a shot at this. The word you were looking for was affected, not effected. As indeed the linked definition should have made clear you. I can't be bothered to post links to the definitions of those words, but you know where to look..
At the risk of walking into a trap here, I think the reference was a (fairly tenuous) reference to the famous 640K is enough for anyone remark that was never actually made...
No, obviously not, but with great power comes great responsibility: Yes, you're free to say anything, but no, you can't openly accuse folk of things that they've been proven by due process to be innocent of. If you were to have no curbs on what can be said then I would be free to visit your place of work, your home and all your friends and make endless statements which might be provably false but which nonetheless serve to your detriment.
Personally I think Apple should have gone the route of having store with signed code but allowing unsigned code. If you install a signed app from their store, it installs with no question. If it is another app you get a "Warning, this code is unsigned and could be unsafe," box with a button for more info. Ask for more info and it explains that Apple has looked at signed apps and decided they are ok and aren't going to mess up your phone. They haven't looked at unsigned apps so they don't know, and if it messes up your phone they can't really help you.
Sounds good on paper - but wasn't a massive hit when in the guise of UAC in Vista, was it?
I'm lost - where does the 'h' come from in your French pronunciation? Or is this a different France?
Or perhaps 'beta'?
Yes. except, being fair, in the case of Win XP, SP3 was little (if anything?) more than a patch to allow for a larger batch of Product Keys to be issued for installation was it now? In which case it was in fact technically a way of extending the longevity of an existing product at the expense of revenue from an already struggling new product.
In fact, PayPal (Europe) Ltd. is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom as an electronic money institution. NOT as a bank. Big difference. For one thing it doesn't cover anything for balances over £1000