Since when is it Germany's job to tell the US how to apply the First Amendment?
Since when does a german lawyer and his german clients represent the nation of Germany. The lawyer would be ignoring his duties in protecting his clients if he didn't petition US wikipedia and news agencies to not discuss his clients. He's not going to win this fight because of the first amendment but he has to try.
... as long as recidivism among "cured" criminals is so high, we, the honest people, have the right to know who are the people most likely to commit crimes against us.
I think one of the key points of bussdriver was that the current system in no way leads to curing the criminal. I happen to agree that sitting someone in a cage for X years does not lead itself to fixing the problem that caused that person to commit their crime. Until we find / implement a method to actually remedy the desire to commit crimes it is necessary for people to know that someone has committed a crime.
Nice attempt to troll but that bit is getting old, try to give it a little freshness by perhaps giving examples (no matter how marginal and irrelevant) of how US states are more independent from the federal government than EU member states are from the EU.
/Mikael
States have never been beyond federal jurisdiction. The entire essence of the United States of America is the fact that each state is connected through the federal government. Europe was composed of autonomous nations that have entered into an agreement known as the EU. These nations gave up a part of their autonomy to be in the EU. Therefore, comparing the autonomy of states in the USA to nations in the EU is apples to oranges.
"Pirated" content cannot be counted as a lost sale, because people who download media illegally do not magically have the money to purchase them legitimately, or even the desire to do so if the illegal option were removed.
I can all but guarantee you that there are plenty of people who pirate media that do have the money to purchase it. It's simply that they refuse to pay (maybe because they feel the prices are too high, maybe because of some rationalized justification, who knows).
One still has recourse for libel and slander if they can find out who the person is. It's no different than if someone anonymously sent a letter to a paper asserting that Rush Limbaugh was a racist. If the person cannot discern who that anonymous person is then they cannot file for recourse. It really shouldn't be that difficult to convince people that an anonymous statement shouldn't be taken as fact without some support of evidence, whether that be previous bone headed statements made by the accused or whatever other evidence there might be.
Agreeing with the parent post and adding a few extra.
You cannot customize the multi touch features. Two finger swipe goes forward or backward in Safari and goes to the next picture in iPhoto. Hopefully they come out with an ability to determine the function of two finger swipes (and other gestures).
No squeeze buttons. That's taking a long time to get used to.
The mouse is very slender and short which hurts the ergonomics for those with larger than small hands. This is probably the cause of the parents twisting mouse problem
No middle button. Probably the biggest drawback of the mouse.
The big 3 automakers were successful at this for a very long time. When they were no longer able to shape demand, then they failed because they were unprepared for what people actually wanted to buy. But it amazes me that they were so successful for so long.
It's amazing what decades of momentum can allow a company to do despite what fundamental economics says.
I am sure that I can eventually find a Mac tool for that,...
Yet another Rule: Must run on a Mac.
You are binding your own hands and then complaining about the content producers making the bonds too tight, sir.
Yes, the GP could plop down some cash on a windows license and VMware (or some similar setup) but regardless of the solution they would be violating DMCA by circumventing the DVDs encryption. And that's the real kicker, that one cannot legally use their products as they see fit. Digital media is the only product that I can think of that has this restriction.
Diversions from the responsibility of being a decent parent? Do you know how much of a twat you sound like?
I didn't see the GP say anything about not spending time with their child. They simply mentioned that sometimes there is a need to occupy a child when you are busy doing other things. Now, if the GP doesn't spend anytime with their kid and simply has them set down in front of a TV all day then yes, they are indeed a royal twat. But until proven otherwise you can't assess the twatness of the GP with any strong certainty.
Not to take anything away from the impressive feat of engineering that the Roman aqueducts are but there is a big difference between carrying water and carrying 250,000 vehicles ranging between 1 and 50+ tons. Also, the Romans didn't really have to worry about costs seeing as the aqueducts were more than likely built by slave labor.
And you know what Apple? If it was free I probably would have signed up.
Why should it be free. It's not in Apple's business model to offer a free online service with remote storage. Google can afford to offer free web applications because that is their business model, to make as many people use their advertisement supported services. I really don't get everyone's expectation that things should be free just because they are unwilling to pay for it.
It takes ~110ms for my voip packets to reach South America, and I've not noticed much of a problem. Sure you get a bad connection sometimes but I've always blamed that on jitter/congestion. Are you sure those values are correct?
Obviously your threshold for good, annoying and unbearable are different than PLA's. Eventually latency gets to a point where there are pauses in conversation long enough that most people would not use it. The gp post seems to set reasonable limits (as best as a layman can tell) for most of society when concerned with local communications. A different set of standards is probably acceptable to most people for long distance communication.
The correct answer is "Nobody knows, and the research to calculate it isn't allowed."
I think more correctly is that it isn't profitable. I don't know all that much about finger print analysis but there probably aren't too many methods. If someone wanted to verify / invalidate the effectiveness of these methods they could but nobody will pay them to do it and so it doesn't get done. Bureaucracy at work, isn't it a beautiful thing.
Sorry people, but Murdoch has a point. Professional reporting takes time and money, and if no one pays for it, it's not going to happen.
His advertisers are paying for it. His subscriptions (if any of his sites are subscription based) are paying for it. News sources deserve to make a profit if there product warrants it in the general capitalistic model. But Google should not be paying for it. That's like asking for money from someone who tells a friend to check out a wall street journal article because they thought it best answered the question their friend had.
Did you really state that the number of households having a mac and a PC is equal to the number of households having a PC and a mac?
And then declared the first number to be exactly 9 times higher than the second?
A=A
or
A=9*A
Make up your mind. And they're not ordered pairs, BTW:)
What was trying to be said, though horribly worded, is that given a 9 times greater market share for windows compared to OSX the percentage of windows owners who own a mac will be 9 times lesser than the percentage of mac owners who own a windows computer. Maybe it made sense to me the first time I read it because my brain was just auto filtering out all the garbage.
And why does she need the insurance to pay for it? Because that's they're job.
Since when is it medical insurance's job to pay for someone's iPhone? Sorry, they are not medically necessary. Health insurance is supposed to pay for health problems that come up unexpectedly... but it quickly doesn't work if everyone is expected to get back more than they pay in.
The whole point of the article is to state that insurance currently pays for items that cost up to ten times as much as an iPhone. By replacing the more expensive item with an iPhone multiple goals are achieved. The cost is lower. The person with the disability can now communicate in a less conspicuous way. Everybody is happy, except for the people who don't understand how having a debilitating disease could be made worse by having an awkward and somewhat off putting speech device.
Yes, the ones where you pay anything up to $5/mb for cellular data.
You mean where you pay $20/month for unlimited data. I'm averaging about 1 GB/month on my phone. I think that works out to a hell of a lot less than $5/mb, but I could be wrong.
Microsoft's website spams me about IE 8. Apple shove a full screen image with an Ipod advert, meaning I have to click to get to anything else.
Having just gone to each site (in safari and firefox) the main difference I see is that Microsoft's IE 8 advert is a pop-up (or at least covers website space that normally displays something else). Apple's site has a huge advertisement for the iPod Nano, but it's not actually covering anything. It's what they decide to use their front page for. As an internet user I absolutely detest pop-ups (and everything else that websites use to throw advertisement in your face. If you're not willing to dedicate space to advertising then it's not worth it) and would prefer something a little more static. But then again, website design is 90% opinion and 10% objective.
The capacity of the classic is nice if you want a convenient way to transfer a lot of TV or movies around to a friends house. Not that bringing a laptop is that cumbersome, but an iPod is definitely easier. Other than that application it's really quite overkill.
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Even easier, assuming his father doesn't have a facebook profile, he can just leave his cookies on.
Since when is it Germany's job to tell the US how to apply the First Amendment?
Since when does a german lawyer and his german clients represent the nation of Germany. The lawyer would be ignoring his duties in protecting his clients if he didn't petition US wikipedia and news agencies to not discuss his clients. He's not going to win this fight because of the first amendment but he has to try.
... as long as recidivism among "cured" criminals is so high, we, the honest people, have the right to know who are the people most likely to commit crimes against us.
I think one of the key points of bussdriver was that the current system in no way leads to curing the criminal. I happen to agree that sitting someone in a cage for X years does not lead itself to fixing the problem that caused that person to commit their crime. Until we find / implement a method to actually remedy the desire to commit crimes it is necessary for people to know that someone has committed a crime.
Nice attempt to troll but that bit is getting old, try to give it a little freshness by perhaps giving examples (no matter how marginal and irrelevant) of how US states are more independent from the federal government than EU member states are from the EU.
/Mikael
States have never been beyond federal jurisdiction. The entire essence of the United States of America is the fact that each state is connected through the federal government. Europe was composed of autonomous nations that have entered into an agreement known as the EU. These nations gave up a part of their autonomy to be in the EU. Therefore, comparing the autonomy of states in the USA to nations in the EU is apples to oranges.
This is like plugging in a desk lamp into your wall outlet for 5 minutes and ComEd charging you for an entire kWh.
That sounds like a deal to me (unless your desk lamp is rated under 12 watts).
Forget that post. I'm an idiot (fucking unit conversions).
This is like plugging in a desk lamp into your wall outlet for 5 minutes and ComEd charging you for an entire kWh.
That sounds like a deal to me (unless your desk lamp is rated under 12 watts).
"Pirated" content cannot be counted as a lost sale, because people who download media illegally do not magically have the money to purchase them legitimately, or even the desire to do so if the illegal option were removed.
I can all but guarantee you that there are plenty of people who pirate media that do have the money to purchase it. It's simply that they refuse to pay (maybe because they feel the prices are too high, maybe because of some rationalized justification, who knows).
One still has recourse for libel and slander if they can find out who the person is. It's no different than if someone anonymously sent a letter to a paper asserting that Rush Limbaugh was a racist. If the person cannot discern who that anonymous person is then they cannot file for recourse. It really shouldn't be that difficult to convince people that an anonymous statement shouldn't be taken as fact without some support of evidence, whether that be previous bone headed statements made by the accused or whatever other evidence there might be.
Agreeing with the parent post and adding a few extra.
You cannot customize the multi touch features. Two finger swipe goes forward or backward in Safari and goes to the next picture in iPhoto. Hopefully they come out with an ability to determine the function of two finger swipes (and other gestures).
No squeeze buttons. That's taking a long time to get used to.
The mouse is very slender and short which hurts the ergonomics for those with larger than small hands. This is probably the cause of the parents twisting mouse problem
No middle button. Probably the biggest drawback of the mouse.
The big 3 automakers were successful at this for a very long time. When they were no longer able to shape demand, then they failed because they were unprepared for what people actually wanted to buy. But it amazes me that they were so successful for so long.
It's amazing what decades of momentum can allow a company to do despite what fundamental economics says.
I am sure that I can eventually find a Mac tool for that, ...
Yet another Rule: Must run on a Mac.
You are binding your own hands and then complaining about the content producers making the bonds too tight, sir.
Yes, the GP could plop down some cash on a windows license and VMware (or some similar setup) but regardless of the solution they would be violating DMCA by circumventing the DVDs encryption. And that's the real kicker, that one cannot legally use their products as they see fit. Digital media is the only product that I can think of that has this restriction.
Diversions from the responsibility of being a decent parent? Do you know how much of a twat you sound like?
I didn't see the GP say anything about not spending time with their child. They simply mentioned that sometimes there is a need to occupy a child when you are busy doing other things. Now, if the GP doesn't spend anytime with their kid and simply has them set down in front of a TV all day then yes, they are indeed a royal twat. But until proven otherwise you can't assess the twatness of the GP with any strong certainty.
Not to take anything away from the impressive feat of engineering that the Roman aqueducts are but there is a big difference between carrying water and carrying 250,000 vehicles ranging between 1 and 50+ tons. Also, the Romans didn't really have to worry about costs seeing as the aqueducts were more than likely built by slave labor.
And you know what Apple? If it was free I probably would have signed up.
Why should it be free. It's not in Apple's business model to offer a free online service with remote storage. Google can afford to offer free web applications because that is their business model, to make as many people use their advertisement supported services. I really don't get everyone's expectation that things should be free just because they are unwilling to pay for it.
It takes ~110ms for my voip packets to reach South America, and I've not noticed much of a problem. Sure you get a bad connection sometimes but I've always blamed that on jitter/congestion. Are you sure those values are correct?
Obviously your threshold for good, annoying and unbearable are different than PLA's. Eventually latency gets to a point where there are pauses in conversation long enough that most people would not use it. The gp post seems to set reasonable limits (as best as a layman can tell) for most of society when concerned with local communications. A different set of standards is probably acceptable to most people for long distance communication.
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The correct answer is "Nobody knows, and the research to calculate it isn't allowed."
I think more correctly is that it isn't profitable. I don't know all that much about finger print analysis but there probably aren't too many methods. If someone wanted to verify / invalidate the effectiveness of these methods they could but nobody will pay them to do it and so it doesn't get done. Bureaucracy at work, isn't it a beautiful thing.
Sorry people, but Murdoch has a point. Professional reporting takes time and money, and if no one pays for it, it's not going to happen.
His advertisers are paying for it. His subscriptions (if any of his sites are subscription based) are paying for it. News sources deserve to make a profit if there product warrants it in the general capitalistic model. But Google should not be paying for it. That's like asking for money from someone who tells a friend to check out a wall street journal article because they thought it best answered the question their friend had.
Did you really state that the number of households having a mac and a PC is equal to the number of households having a PC and a mac?
And then declared the first number to be exactly 9 times higher than the second?
A=A
or
A=9*A
Make up your mind. And they're not ordered pairs, BTW :)
What was trying to be said, though horribly worded, is that given a 9 times greater market share for windows compared to OSX the percentage of windows owners who own a mac will be 9 times lesser than the percentage of mac owners who own a windows computer. Maybe it made sense to me the first time I read it because my brain was just auto filtering out all the garbage.
A more gruesome check would be to simply slice a vein and see if blood comes out :)
That would only work if the person had been dead for a significantly long amount of time. The just recently dead still bleed like you and I.
Look, allow me to present you with a shitty analogy:
Fantastic, simply fantastic.
And why does she need the insurance to pay for it? Because that's they're job.
Since when is it medical insurance's job to pay for someone's iPhone? Sorry, they are not medically necessary. Health insurance is supposed to pay for health problems that come up unexpectedly... but it quickly doesn't work if everyone is expected to get back more than they pay in.
The whole point of the article is to state that insurance currently pays for items that cost up to ten times as much as an iPhone. By replacing the more expensive item with an iPhone multiple goals are achieved. The cost is lower. The person with the disability can now communicate in a less conspicuous way. Everybody is happy, except for the people who don't understand how having a debilitating disease could be made worse by having an awkward and somewhat off putting speech device.
How about GoldenEye, Smash Bros, Battletoads, Mario Kart, Street Fighter, etc.
Yes, the ones where you pay anything up to $5/mb for cellular data.
You mean where you pay $20/month for unlimited data. I'm averaging about 1 GB/month on my phone. I think that works out to a hell of a lot less than $5/mb, but I could be wrong.
Microsoft's website spams me about IE 8. Apple shove a full screen image with an Ipod advert, meaning I have to click to get to anything else.
Having just gone to each site (in safari and firefox) the main difference I see is that Microsoft's IE 8 advert is a pop-up (or at least covers website space that normally displays something else). Apple's site has a huge advertisement for the iPod Nano, but it's not actually covering anything. It's what they decide to use their front page for. As an internet user I absolutely detest pop-ups (and everything else that websites use to throw advertisement in your face. If you're not willing to dedicate space to advertising then it's not worth it) and would prefer something a little more static. But then again, website design is 90% opinion and 10% objective.
The capacity of the classic is nice if you want a convenient way to transfer a lot of TV or movies around to a friends house. Not that bringing a laptop is that cumbersome, but an iPod is definitely easier. Other than that application it's really quite overkill.