I can't figure out how to get a list of mail that I haven't read and haven't tagged. Or how I can get a list of mail that I've tagged on which I'm CC'd as well as envelope to, or a list of mail that I've tagged on which I'm CC'd in or sent at least one message in the thread.
No, I *AM* buying software. That's what you do when the sales guy in a high street shop hands you a box with software in and you hand him money. It *is* a sale. It is virtually the very legal definition of a what a sale is. I suggest you read up on British consumer law.
> You do realize that (although I do not agree with it) you are licensing the software for use from Microsoft right? Read the terms in their acceptable use policy. If you did not, it's your fault for not knowing this.
No you're not, you're licensing the right to do some of the things that copyright law reserves for the copyright proprietor. The software, however, is sold and is mine. I know this because if I go into PC world and say "I'd like to buy a Windows Vista for my computer, please, it has currently got a Linux inside it and I want to switch.", they say "Certainly sir, that'll be pounds, please", then I give them the money and they give me the software and a receipt for it.
Fortunately, in the UK, copyright law allows me to use the software if I own it, and I do, even without a license for any of the reserved rights because using the software for what it is made for and advertised/sold for is not reserved - and rightly so - so I don't even need a license. That also means that the EULA is technically an extortion.
... expansion of the universe is an observed phenomena...
There are so many inferred phenomena that it is quite possible to get convinced of the inferred phenomena as if it was an observed phenomena. Indeed! The expansion of the universe is an inferred phenomena - we cannot see it growing because it is too big. We see a variety of spectra from a variety of resolvable features in our telescopes and infer, rightly or wrongly, that everything is moving away from us and from *that* inference then infer that the entire universe is expanding.
inflation is a feature of the big bang theory to explain observed phenomena. It is not an observed phenomena itself and need not be explained. String theory doesn't need to have the same features as big bang - it just needs to explain the same observed phenomena.
> I'm curious about the accessibility support for that helpful feature it has, where entering the password characters puts up random numbers of bullets while hieroglyphics blink randomly around the input box, apparently to distract and confuse shoulder surfers.
The random number of bullets is so that a shoulder surfer has to here the keys clack and count them go past to know how many characters your password is. The hieroglyphs are supposed to avoid man in the middle attacks because the algorithm is supposed to be unknown and you know what hieroglyph it should end up on - dumb because by the time you get to that point you've given away the password. But, according to Lotus Notes trainers, that is the purpose.
X auto detection (of which this is an emergency component - for the auto detection to be tuned/hinted when it fails) is probably *the* biggest deal for Linux since 1997. This is the thing that gives Mr Ballmer angina.
It was the "Halifax Three" and another poster gave a link to wikipedia. It seems they are accused in the USA of doing something that may well be illegal in the UK which may have unfairly disadvantaged only a British company but the Crown Prosecution Service decided that they shouldn't be tried under UK law, which I am assuming means that either it wasn't illegal in the UK through some technicality or it whatever the actually did is simply morally acceptable by British standards.
Nono, these guys were in the UK and did something legal in the UK (allegedly - which seems to be supported by the fact that they weren't tried for breaking British law) but were arrested and extradited to the US because the US forbids what they did. Simply put, the US laws apply to the UK, the UK is a jurisdiction of the USA - if they ban it in the USA you must also not do it in the UK or you could be lifted.
No, they arranged an investment deal for one of their customers... Enron Their work was apparently carried out in the UK and they were definitely extradited (well one of them had a heart attack from the stress)
US law extends over most of the world, they just normally can't arrest you until you set foot on US soil - and microsoft is in seattle right now.
If you're unlucky enough to live in the UK, for the last few years you've had to understand US law to avoid being arrested here just doing normal everyday things. Three top bank managers were extradited not long ago for engaging in business practices from the UK that are legal to engage in under British law but illegal under US law. The UK is the 51st state - other countries are the same.
The spirit of the GPL is that if they've got any improvements at all (such as packaging them in a dll - nice) they *have* to offer to make them available on request and follow through on that offer. That is the whole point of the GPL - guarantee that distributers of improved versions don't devalue the versions that are more generally available by letting them fall behind.
A few things in the interview suggest that they've actually captured multiple depth frames so they can turn the actors and props themselves into drawn style. It sounds like the backgrounds *will* be cartoons. This could be very wierd to watch - real human (and chimp) motion as a cartoon.
A lot of GUI software these days is *much* slower and uses *much* more memory than it needs to to do what it does (in the case of memory often 10 times more is used than necessary). Speed up GUI stuff and use less memory - particularly evolution (which also needs a vast amount of fixing) and firefox but also GNOME in general.
> Don't kid yourself... he's no one's hero. He's just started to believe his own press.
Nono, he's always been an arsehole. But when it comes to "herding cats" you have to listen to his experiences because you can't learn how to do what he's been doing day-in day-out for 15 years without either doing the same or fastforwarding by learning from his time doing it.
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I can't figure out how to get a list of mail that I haven't read and haven't tagged. Or how I can get a list of mail that I've tagged on which I'm CC'd as well as envelope to, or a list of mail that I've tagged on which I'm CC'd in or sent at least one message in the thread.
In the case of gmail it might be because the current UI is shitty.
What proportion of the total cost of the system are existing setups?
It won't leave a mark.
There's no service contract at the point of sale. It's just a plain old sale.
No, I *AM* buying software. That's what you do when the sales guy in a high street shop hands you a box with software in and you hand him money. It *is* a sale. It is virtually the very legal definition of a what a sale is. I suggest you read up on British consumer law.
> You do realize that (although I do not agree with it) you are licensing the software for use from Microsoft right? Read the terms in their acceptable use policy. If you did not, it's your fault for not knowing this.
No you're not, you're licensing the right to do some of the things that copyright law reserves for the copyright proprietor. The software, however, is sold and is mine. I know this because if I go into PC world and say "I'd like to buy a Windows Vista for my computer, please, it has currently got a Linux inside it and I want to switch.", they say "Certainly sir, that'll be pounds, please", then I give them the money and they give me the software and a receipt for it.
Fortunately, in the UK, copyright law allows me to use the software if I own it, and I do, even without a license for any of the reserved rights because using the software for what it is made for and advertised/sold for is not reserved - and rightly so - so I don't even need a license. That also means that the EULA is technically an extortion.
Uuh, RTFA? Automatic Updates were off.
... expansion of the universe is an observed phenomenaThere are so many inferred phenomena that it is quite possible to get convinced of the inferred phenomena as if it was an observed phenomena. Indeed! The expansion of the universe is an inferred phenomena - we cannot see it growing because it is too big. We see a variety of spectra from a variety of resolvable features in our telescopes and infer, rightly or wrongly, that everything is moving away from us and from *that* inference then infer that the entire universe is expanding.
inflation is a feature of the big bang theory to explain observed phenomena. It is not an observed phenomena itself and need not be explained. String theory doesn't need to have the same features as big bang - it just needs to explain the same observed phenomena.
It seems science really *is* dead after all.
> I'm curious about the accessibility support for that helpful feature it has, where entering the password characters puts up random numbers of bullets while hieroglyphics blink randomly around the input box, apparently to distract and confuse shoulder surfers.
The random number of bullets is so that a shoulder surfer has to here the keys clack and count them go past to know how many characters your password is. The hieroglyphs are supposed to avoid man in the middle attacks because the algorithm is supposed to be unknown and you know what hieroglyph it should end up on - dumb because by the time you get to that point you've given away the password. But, according to Lotus Notes trainers, that is the purpose.
X auto detection (of which this is an emergency component - for the auto detection to be tuned/hinted when it fails) is probably *the* biggest deal for Linux since 1997. This is the thing that gives Mr Ballmer angina.
It was the "Halifax Three" and another poster gave a link to wikipedia. It seems they are accused in the USA of doing something that may well be illegal in the UK which may have unfairly disadvantaged only a British company but the Crown Prosecution Service decided that they shouldn't be tried under UK law, which I am assuming means that either it wasn't illegal in the UK through some technicality or it whatever the actually did is simply morally acceptable by British standards.
> Doah... Enron money was probably illegally gained money
As I say, they weren't tried in British courts which suggests whatever they did, it wasn't illegal here.
Nono, these guys were in the UK and did something legal in the UK (allegedly - which seems to be supported by the fact that they weren't tried for breaking British law) but were arrested and extradited to the US because the US forbids what they did. Simply put, the US laws apply to the UK, the UK is a jurisdiction of the USA - if they ban it in the USA you must also not do it in the UK or you could be lifted.
No, they arranged an investment deal for one of their customers... Enron
Their work was apparently carried out in the UK and they were definitely extradited (well one of them had a heart attack from the stress)
US law extends over most of the world, they just normally can't arrest you until you set foot on US soil - and microsoft is in seattle right now.
If you're unlucky enough to live in the UK, for the last few years you've had to understand US law to avoid being arrested here just doing normal everyday things. Three top bank managers were extradited not long ago for engaging in business practices from the UK that are legal to engage in under British law but illegal under US law. The UK is the 51st state - other countries are the same.
The spirit of the GPL is that if they've got any improvements at all (such as packaging them in a dll - nice) they *have* to offer to make them available on request and follow through on that offer. That is the whole point of the GPL - guarantee that distributers of improved versions don't devalue the versions that are more generally available by letting them fall behind.
time-law will-has forbidden revealing postronic-bubble-tek or your space-time-travel while in was-space. back-travel at once for recycling.
Oh no! I've revealed my space-time-travel too. I must back-travel now.
By recycling I ensure my life
Improvement saves my matter
I give thanks for learning
By recycling I ensure my life
A few things in the interview suggest that they've actually captured multiple depth frames so they can turn the actors and props themselves into drawn style. It sounds like the backgrounds *will* be cartoons. This could be very wierd to watch - real human (and chimp) motion as a cartoon.
Perhaps they use "Microsoft Office software" as a descriptive term for software that processes Microsoft Office files.
Most of them will have never used or heard of Linux, that means it doesn't carry any meaning for them and is thus not synonymous with anything.
A lot of GUI software these days is *much* slower and uses *much* more memory than it needs to to do what it does (in the case of memory often 10 times more is used than necessary). Speed up GUI stuff and use less memory - particularly evolution (which also needs a vast amount of fixing) and firefox but also GNOME in general.
Write a kernel module to log the number of keystrokes.
> Don't kid yourself... he's no one's hero. He's just started to believe his own press.
Nono, he's always been an arsehole. But when it comes to "herding cats" you have to listen to his experiences because you can't learn how to do what he's been doing day-in day-out for 15 years without either doing the same or fastforwarding by learning from his time doing it.