However, in Europe, Amazon is a Luxembourg company and the VAT rate there is 3% for these products.
However, since Amazon is a large retailer, it does not pay VAT in Luxembourg, but in the buyer's country. I would venture to say that most of Amazon's EU customers do not live in Luxembourg so the tax rates there do not mean much.
Just like ABS, traction control, stability control... they're all just ways of allowing drivers to become stupid, lazy and less involved.
And they are also great ways of avoiding accidents. I prefer being "lazy and less involved" (I fail to see how "stupid" comes into the equation) to being dead or crippled, thankyouverymuch.
We need to stop trying to mitigate stupid drivers and just get rid of stupid drivers
Well, if history is any indication, getting rid of stupid drivers Just Does Not Work(TM) *, while all the stuff to mitigate the dangers does, just look at the steady decline of fatalities per mile travelled
*: furthermore, you personally might be offended by your not being allowed to drive any more, unless you meant to "get rid of all the stupid drivers, but me", of course
Well, if you read a little bit further down you will see that this exemption will expire 30 months after enacting the regulation - but it is mostly moot anyway, since a desktop computer has to satisfy all four of the requirements above to be exempted, so it effects only a very-very small number of computers.
The thing is, the actual, public regulations have very little similarity to the fear-mongering (and certainly click-generating) article on nordichardware. You can check it out yourself: here (pdf). Also, note, that these regulations are about idle power - and that's an area where some real advancements were made - if AMD's claims are to be believed (3 W in idle with ZeroCore Power), their top-end 7970 GPU's idle power draw is about 10% of the maximum allowed.
The claim that GPUs over a certain bandwith will be banned seems to be absolutely fabricated - it's not something that the regulation's wording or intent or whatever would even hint about.
"Without epub support the thing is worthless to me."
Drama queen too much?
I have a K4 and I have absolutely no idea if it supports epub. I mean, it certainly does in the sense that I can send epubs to it and read that stuff on the Kindle without any problem. But the question that it supports it natively or by converting it during transfer is absolutely irrelevant for me and I guess mostly for everybody.
Actually, avoiding these problems is not hard and it can (and should) be automatized. Basically every AV company maintains two sets of files: a set of known bad files that is to be found, and a set of known good files (like Windows components and, yes, your own software) and they are continously testing them against the signatures. Testing new signatures against the known good files is something that should be done automatically and as a prerequisite to releasing them.
He is consistent. Universal jurisdiction does NOT apply to all crimes, only to a select few ones - and Pinochet has committed most of these crimes while Assange has not (and nobody accused him of doing so).
"They can just [...] bribe the employee in question."
So if a company engages in patent trolling for monetary gain it's evil but when an employee makes the same then suddenly he is the victim?... "Let's do some patent trolling and stuff our pockets" is evil and it does not matter if Myhrvold or a random Twitter engineer says it.
There ARE projects on Kickstarter where the reputation bit is more than sorted out: a project (to create a new adventure game) run by Tim Schafer, Al Lowe or even Andrew Plotkin is as reputable as it ever gets.
it's just whether it bothers to check for over-runs, abstract away certain details, make certain optimisations, etc. that makes any difference
Pardon?... Last time I looked checks, abstraction, automatic optimisation and stuff like that were the reasons to have computer languages too. Unfortunately no programming language will bring world peace but none aims to do so - they are about the stuff you just trivilialized.
I looked it up so you don't have to: Crook County is inhabited by 20k people, its economy largely consists of agriculture and tourism so it's no wonder that they do not use massive amounts of electricity.
"Apple doesn't want the rights to the ebooks made with iBook Author - all they say is any book made with their software, which they provide for free, can only be distributed,in Apple's iBook format created by the software, by them."
Sorry, but all you do is to prove the OP's point: the copyright grants the author the right to distribute his work as he sees fits - and Apple wants this right for themselves for ebooks made with iBook Author. Q.E.D.
They are not. 4th does not say "to perform or display the work" but "to perform or display the work publicly". Without the "publicly" bit you do not need any license, however, if you really want to perform it publicly, buying a record is not enough: buying a CD does not entitle you to play it at your club, your radio or to have it playing in your stage play. If you want to do that, you have to pay to the local performance rights organization (it's BMI, ASCAP and SESAC in the USA) - usually quite a bit more than that you pay for the CD.
And since you don't have these rights, of course, you can not sell them.
So, in the end, you buy only a physical object, because to use it privately you do not need any license and buying the CD does not grant you license to do anything that requires one.
It had the the last 50-60 years (ever since vinyl records were sold) to educate the public and put forth the perception that you were not buying the record as much as you were buying the right to listen to the record. Important distinction, which would have lead to a real understanding of just what copyright is, and what intellectual property is.
Huh?... You ARE buying the record, a physical object. There's no such thing as a "right to listen". It simply does not exist just as there is no a "right to breathe". Copyright does not extend to this area because - as it was originally created - it is set to regulate publishers, not end-users. Yes, the big media would like to brainwash everyone into thinking that copyright extends to a much larger area than it actually does and that there are no exceptions for fair use (and - judging by highly rated comments here on Slashdot, where people should know better - they have not been without success) but it does not make it a fact - it just might make the way for it to become a fact, since who would complain when something is put into law that was thought to be situation all along?
Of course, the current situation leaves one wondering that what are you actually buying from, say, iTMS. You are not buying a physical object and certainly no license to any rights - it seems, you pay for a service that you can download songs from their server.
IIRC, one of the major things with iOS was that graphic routines would be given priority over everything else
Why does this bullshit have to be repeated over and over again?... It's simply not true: Android also have higher priority for that as that's a very-very-very basic technique. If you would take a look at the original article, it's spelled out very clearly.
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There was not any balance. What was there an utter incapability to deliver any meaningful treatment to serious cases, so anyone who got seriously ill just died and they could not do anything about it. Now, we can do more: some can be cured completely, others can have a partial recovery, others can have their agony extended. It's - to a degree, mercy killing did exist, but it was not something that a common man would do - a new situation that previous generations did not have to deal with.
Shigeru Miyamoto is by far the most famous person with the Miyamoto surname. Especially outside of Japan.
Also, outside of Japan people are usually referred to by their family name and Miyamoto Musashi is the most famous person with the Miyamoto family name. However, in all fairness, it is rather unlikely that a samurai who spent the last 366 years being dead would be a game design head at Nintendo.
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Yes, it is. My A6-3500*-based PC idles under 30 W, full load is around 60 W.
*: 3x2.1 GHz CPU + HD 6530D GPU.
However, since Amazon is a large retailer, it does not pay VAT in Luxembourg, but in the buyer's country. I would venture to say that most of Amazon's EU customers do not live in Luxembourg so the tax rates there do not mean much.
How did this garbage moderated to +5 insightful when it's a collection of lies and deceiving half-truths?
And they are also great ways of avoiding accidents. I prefer being "lazy and less involved" (I fail to see how "stupid" comes into the equation) to being dead or crippled, thankyouverymuch.
Well, if history is any indication, getting rid of stupid drivers Just Does Not Work(TM) *, while all the stuff to mitigate the dangers does, just look at the steady decline of fatalities per mile travelled
*: furthermore, you personally might be offended by your not being allowed to drive any more, unless you meant to "get rid of all the stupid drivers, but me", of course
Well, if you read a little bit further down you will see that this exemption will expire 30 months after enacting the regulation - but it is mostly moot anyway, since a desktop computer has to satisfy all four of the requirements above to be exempted, so it effects only a very-very small number of computers.
The thing is, the actual, public regulations have very little similarity to the fear-mongering (and certainly click-generating) article on nordichardware. You can check it out yourself: here (pdf).
Also, note, that these regulations are about idle power - and that's an area where some real advancements were made - if AMD's claims are to be believed (3 W in idle with ZeroCore Power), their top-end 7970 GPU's idle power draw is about 10% of the maximum allowed.
The claim that GPUs over a certain bandwith will be banned seems to be absolutely fabricated - it's not something that the regulation's wording or intent or whatever would even hint about.
"Without epub support the thing is worthless to me."
Drama queen too much?
I have a K4 and I have absolutely no idea if it supports epub. I mean, it certainly does in the sense that I can send epubs to it and read that stuff on the Kindle without any problem. But the question that it supports it natively or by converting it during transfer is absolutely irrelevant for me and I guess mostly for everybody.
Well, then you fall back to drones, I guess.
Actually, avoiding these problems is not hard and it can (and should) be automatized.
Basically every AV company maintains two sets of files: a set of known bad files that is to be found, and a set of known good files (like Windows components and, yes, your own software) and they are continously testing them against the signatures.
Testing new signatures against the known good files is something that should be done automatically and as a prerequisite to releasing them.
You could do that because that code was disabled in the production version - though still present.
For the technical details see this fine article.
He is consistent. Universal jurisdiction does NOT apply to all crimes, only to a select few ones - and Pinochet has committed most of these crimes while Assange has not (and nobody accused him of doing so).
I would like to see the actual data where these numbers come because to have a 15 year drop in the averages in 10 years... that's extraordinary.
As far as I understand, even its creators did not expect ACTA to be accepted in China.
Because you can't outlaw stupidness, that's why.
"They can just [...] bribe the employee in question."
So if a company engages in patent trolling for monetary gain it's evil but when an employee makes the same then suddenly he is the victim?...
"Let's do some patent trolling and stuff our pockets" is evil and it does not matter if Myhrvold or a random Twitter engineer says it.
There ARE projects on Kickstarter where the reputation bit is more than sorted out: a project (to create a new adventure game) run by Tim Schafer, Al Lowe or even Andrew Plotkin is as reputable as it ever gets.
Pardon?... Last time I looked checks, abstraction, automatic optimisation and stuff like that were the reasons to have computer languages too.
Unfortunately no programming language will bring world peace but none aims to do so - they are about the stuff you just trivilialized.
I am not really sure if it makes you feel any better but we have the same idiots here in Hungary (though the religious wackos are uncommon).
Polak, Wegier, dwa bratanki ;-)
I looked it up so you don't have to: Crook County is inhabited by 20k people, its economy largely consists of agriculture and tourism so it's no wonder that they do not use massive amounts of electricity.
"Apple doesn't want the rights to the ebooks made with iBook Author - all they say is any book made with their software, which they provide for free, can only be distributed ,in Apple's iBook format created by the software, by them."
Sorry, but all you do is to prove the OP's point: the copyright grants the author the right to distribute his work as he sees fits - and Apple wants this right for themselves for ebooks made with iBook Author. Q.E.D.
They are not.
4th does not say "to perform or display the work" but "to perform or display the work publicly". Without the "publicly" bit you do not need any license, however, if you really want to perform it publicly, buying a record is not enough: buying a CD does not entitle you to play it at your club, your radio or to have it playing in your stage play. If you want to do that, you have to pay to the local performance rights organization (it's BMI, ASCAP and SESAC in the USA) - usually quite a bit more than that you pay for the CD.
And since you don't have these rights, of course, you can not sell them.
So, in the end, you buy only a physical object, because to use it privately you do not need any license and buying the CD does not grant you license to do anything that requires one.
Huh?... You ARE buying the record, a physical object. There's no such thing as a "right to listen". It simply does not exist just as there is no a "right to breathe". Copyright does not extend to this area because - as it was originally created - it is set to regulate publishers, not end-users.
Yes, the big media would like to brainwash everyone into thinking that copyright extends to a much larger area than it actually does and that there are no exceptions for fair use (and - judging by highly rated comments here on Slashdot, where people should know better - they have not been without success) but it does not make it a fact - it just might make the way for it to become a fact, since who would complain when something is put into law that was thought to be situation all along?
Of course, the current situation leaves one wondering that what are you actually buying from, say, iTMS. You are not buying a physical object and certainly no license to any rights - it seems, you pay for a service that you can download songs from their server.
Why does this bullshit have to be repeated over and over again?...
It's simply not true: Android also have higher priority for that as that's a very-very-very basic technique. If you would take a look at the original article, it's spelled out very clearly.
There was not any balance. What was there an utter incapability to deliver any meaningful treatment to serious cases, so anyone who got seriously ill just died and they could not do anything about it. Now, we can do more: some can be cured completely, others can have a partial recovery, others can have their agony extended. It's - to a degree, mercy killing did exist, but it was not something that a common man would do - a new situation that previous generations did not have to deal with.
Also, outside of Japan people are usually referred to by their family name and Miyamoto Musashi is the most famous person with the Miyamoto family name.
However, in all fairness, it is rather unlikely that a samurai who spent the last 366 years being dead would be a game design head at Nintendo.