On 23/5/2022 you thought about a book you had previousley read. The copyright for this book resides with us, and duly you have been charged $222.
On 23/5/2022 you hummed the tune to one of our songs. We remind you that you have not purchased a licence for humming this tune, only for listening. There were also a number of people within hearing distance of you, we remind you that sharing this tune is also a licence that you do not have, and subsequently you will be charged with contributery copyright infringement.
"If the LEGO trademark is used at all, it should always be used as an adjective, not as a noun. For example, say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGO BRICKS". Never say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGOs".Also, the trademark should appear in the same typeface as the surrounding text and should not be isolated or set apart from the surrounding text. In other words, the trademarks should not be emphasized or highlighted. Finally, the LEGO trademark should always appear with a (R) symbol each time it is used."
http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=fa ir play
Yea, sure there would have been problems - but there may have been ways around it - for example using a TSR and interrupts to try and catch any disk access.
And as MS would have had more resources to work on this, they came up with a better solution - I would have loved to be able to buy loads of hardware to break by hitting at the assembler level - but getting pissed and trying to pull would have been higher on my agenda at that time....
And as this would have been a dissertation/project, and as I didn't actually go down this route, it doesn't really matter - but it could have been an elegant solution.
Cor, I forgot that FAT never used to support more than 8.3 characters.
I was going to do for my final year dissertation a solution to this, with creating another file of the same type with an 8.idd extension. This other file would then have the long filename inside it, plus any other information you wanted to make with it (Picture types, last updates, authors etc ect).
There would have then been special command line utilities that worked to include these files. Say a dir would read all the.idd files and print the long filenames, rename would only change the name in the.idd file.
Each file would have to had a unique filname though, and it would have just been some sort of random number.
Maybe I should have Patented it, but then Doom came out and I didn't bother.
You do know that from 1938 - 1948 the Isrealies sent letter bombs, set off mines, threw Petrol Bombs, blew up hotels, blew up ships and assasinated government ministers.
And then made some of perpetrators Prime Ministers.
But thats okay, because 6,000,000 Jewish people died at the hands of evil buggers.
But thats not what it says, it doesn't mention "consumer", it's an assumption.... NT4, even NT3 was as much a Windows desktop OS as 2000.
It may not have been promoted as such, but it was. NT4 even came with DirectX....
The article claims that it took 15 years for a 32 bit Windows desktop to be made - it didn't. NT would have that title.
Windows 98/95 definately aren't full 32 bit operating systems, but they get pretty close, especially in the ME incarnation - I belive you can strip all the 16 bit libraries and programs out and still have a functioning OS.
And I seem to remember OS2 being promoted at one time as a consumer desktop OS, although obviousley it's not Windows.
"Fifteen years passed between the first 32-bit chip and a full 32-bit Windows. The 64-bit switch may be faster: Both chips and OS are here."
It then goes to show the a list of dates for the 32bit era, with the first Intel chip being made in 1985, so I assume they are saying that windows 2000 was the first 32bit desktop OS?
But, if they are including Windows 3.1 as a desktop OS then surely the should include NT3, which although looking like 3.1 was actaully a full 32bit desktop OS. Which would make their statement blatently false?
In order to be patentable, inventions in general and computer-implemented inventions in particular must be susceptible of industrial application, new and involve an inventive step. In order to involve an inventive step, computer-implemented inventions should make a technical contribution to the state of the art.
But wouldn't it fall foul of this? Using the LZW algorithm to compress data, isn't new and isn't inventive (data compression, been done for ages, but with different algorithms).
Well you'd hope the patent checker would pick it up....
I certainly remember games in the "olden" days that came with dongles. Followed rather quickly with cracks that didn't need the dongles.
Surely all you would need to do is isolate the code that calls the dongle to say "Are you there" to always return "Yes I am".
And if there is other code in the dongle (random number or whatever), how hard would it be to revese engineer to create an emulation of the dongle, then adapt the code so instead of calling the parallel port (or USB, or Seriel or whatever) calls the emulated code?
"This is just silly, first off, Samba can't act as an Active Dreictory domain controller. Well the AD is probably one of the best and coolest advances offered by 2000 server."
Did you know NT4 had an "active directory" add on? It wasn't called active directory, and I think it was a "unsupported" feature from one of the resource kits, but it was there. NT5 just built upon it.
The thing is this doesn't work either - in the UK thats what the goverment decided to do with the railways - the lines were owned by one company and the services run by a number of different companies.
All that happened is that prices have gone up, services have been cut, standars have fallen and the Railtrack shareholders got richer. (in fact I seem to remember Railtrack got a 250 million subsidy from the goverment, and then paid 200million in dividends at the same time)
The infrastucture company was recently "re-nationalised", but instead of making things better services have been cut and prices have gone up to pay for line repairs.
Its usually stuff under £25 that customs will ignore - so if those cosmetics had "trickled" through one item at a time, she probably wouldn't have had to pay any VAT.
"... 50 cents for a newspaper article, 2 euros for a smutty picture... "
Did you not get that far? I mean it wasn't a very long BBC article, now was it.
The word "smutty" though brings visions of a cartoon postcard of a bloke holding a cucumber and a big breasted woman with a caption of "That's a big one". But I somehow doubt that's quite the level of smut that will cost 2 euros.
For those amoung us, like myself, who didn't know what alacrity means, but can't be bothered to look it up
Alacrity - A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy.
Are you sure about that? I thought anything the highway code said "MUST" or "MUST NOT" with meant that it was law (you MUST NOT break the speed limit, you MUST giveway).
Everything else is advisable, but you could still get pulled up for - beeping your horn in a built up area, driving without due care and attention, probably even using full beam in a 30 mph lighted area etc.
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Ahha, I answer my own question
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"If the LEGO trademark is used at all, it should always be used as an adjective, not as a noun. For example, say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGO BRICKS". Never say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGOs".Also, the trademark should appear in the same typeface as the surrounding text and should not be isolated or set apart from the surrounding text. In other words, the trademarks should not be emphasized or highlighted. Finally, the LEGO trademark should always appear with a (R) symbol each time it is used."
http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=f
Isn't Legos a character out of Lord of the Rings? :-)
Anyway, does Lego pluralise? It just seems wrong if it does.
I own many Legos? I own many Lego pieces?
Eat lots of plums?
Yea, sure there would have been problems - but there may have been ways around it - for example using a TSR and interrupts to try and catch any disk access.
....
And as MS would have had more resources to work on this, they came up with a better solution - I would have loved to be able to buy loads of hardware to break by hitting at the assembler level - but getting pissed and trying to pull would have been higher on my agenda at that time
And as this would have been a dissertation/project, and as I didn't actually go down this route, it doesn't really matter - but it could have been an elegant solution.
Cor, I forgot that FAT never used to support more than 8.3 characters.
.idd files and print the long filenames, rename would only change the name in the .idd file.
I was going to do for my final year dissertation a solution to this, with creating another file of the same type with an 8.idd extension. This other file would then have the long filename inside it, plus any other information you wanted to make with it (Picture types, last updates, authors etc ect).
There would have then been special command line utilities that worked to include these files. Say a dir would read all the
Each file would have to had a unique filname though, and it would have just been some sort of random number.
Maybe I should have Patented it, but then Doom came out and I didn't bother.
You do know that from 1938 - 1948 the Isrealies sent letter bombs, set off mines, threw Petrol Bombs, blew up hotels, blew up ships and assasinated government ministers.
And then made some of perpetrators Prime Ministers.
But thats okay, because 6,000,000 Jewish people died at the hands of evil buggers.
But thats not what it says, it doesn't mention "consumer", it's an assumption .... NT4, even NT3 was as much a Windows desktop OS as 2000.
....
It may not have been promoted as such, but it was. NT4 even came with DirectX
The article claims that it took 15 years for a 32 bit Windows desktop to be made - it didn't. NT would have that title.
Windows 98/95 definately aren't full 32 bit operating systems, but they get pretty close, especially in the ME incarnation - I belive you can strip all the 16 bit libraries and programs out and still have a functioning OS.
And I seem to remember OS2 being promoted at one time as a consumer desktop OS, although obviousley it's not Windows.
to quote the article
.....
"Fifteen years passed between the first 32-bit chip and a full 32-bit Windows. The 64-bit switch may be faster: Both chips and OS are here."
It then goes to show the a list of dates for the 32bit era, with the first Intel chip being made in 1985, so I assume they are saying that windows 2000 was the first 32bit desktop OS?
But, if they are including Windows 3.1 as a desktop OS then surely the should include NT3, which although looking like 3.1 was actaully a full 32bit desktop OS. Which would make their statement blatently false?
Or have I missed something
I take it you mean a valid concern of the carriers?
Of course it is - in the same way it's a valid concern of any business if I take my custom else where.
But wouldn't it fall foul of this? Using the LZW algorithm to compress data, isn't new and isn't inventive (data compression, been done for ages, but with different algorithms).
Well you'd hope the patent checker would pick it up ....
Great way to avaid customs though, just drive up a deserted beach.
Hmmm are you sure?
I certainly remember games in the "olden" days that came with dongles. Followed rather quickly with cracks that didn't need the dongles.
Surely all you would need to do is isolate the code that calls the dongle to say "Are you there" to always return "Yes I am".
And if there is other code in the dongle (random number or whatever), how hard would it be to revese engineer to create an emulation of the dongle, then adapt the code so instead of calling the parallel port (or USB, or Seriel or whatever) calls the emulated code?
Theory on how to win at Roulette :
Choose a colour and stick to it.
Start by betting 1 chip on that colour. If you win, make another 1 chip bet. Do that until you have won loads of money.
If you lose, double your bet for the next go, if you lose double it again, do that continuosley until you do win, then go back to one chip betting.
Hope you don't have a big loseing streak, as you will have to bet a lot as the sequence will go 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512 etc
Basically, with each win you "make" one chip. Although I suppose this theory is wrong somewhere.
"This is just silly, first off, Samba can't act as an Active Dreictory domain controller. Well the AD is probably one of the best and coolest advances offered by 2000 server."
Did you know NT4 had an "active directory" add on? It wasn't called active directory, and I think it was a "unsupported" feature from one of the resource kits, but it was there. NT5 just built upon it.
The thing is this doesn't work either - in the UK thats what the goverment decided to do with the railways - the lines were owned by one company and the services run by a number of different companies.
All that happened is that prices have gone up, services have been cut, standars have fallen and the Railtrack shareholders got richer. (in fact I seem to remember Railtrack got a 250 million subsidy from the goverment, and then paid 200million in dividends at the same time)
The infrastucture company was recently "re-nationalised", but instead of making things better services have been cut and prices have gone up to pay for line repairs.
Its usually stuff under £25 that customs will ignore - so if those cosmetics had "trickled" through one item at a time, she probably wouldn't have had to pay any VAT.
"... 50 cents for a newspaper article, 2 euros for a smutty picture ... "
Did you not get that far? I mean it wasn't a very long BBC article, now was it.
The word "smutty" though brings visions of a cartoon postcard of a bloke holding a cucumber and a big breasted woman with a caption of "That's a big one". But I somehow doubt that's quite the level of smut that will cost 2 euros.
As you should, because we all know that pirates support drugs and prostitution rackets. So says Kim Howels, the UKs culture minister.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/
I read that as "farcists", and I wondered why anyone would call the EU a farce.
:-)
Then it struck me, it is.
:-)
The thing is if you leave more than about 10m as a stopping distance then it seems to become fair game for undertaking.
For those amoung us, like myself, who didn't know what alacrity means, but can't be bothered to look it up
Alacrity - A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy.
> I probably use a flash about once every two minutes
:-)
Just going to that, I had the most annoying thing happen to me the other day, in the outside lane, with a car about 20 meters ahead of me.
Bloke (or women) comes up behind me flashes his lights, undertakes me and then drops into my 20 meters of stopping distance.
Wasn't you was it
Are you sure about that? I thought anything the highway code said "MUST" or "MUST NOT" with meant that it was law (you MUST NOT break the speed limit, you MUST giveway).
Everything else is advisable, but you could still get pulled up for - beeping your horn in a built up area, driving without due care and attention, probably even using full beam in a 30 mph lighted area etc.
Why would I want to sulley myself by downgrading to a Spectrum?
:-)
C64 Rulez Ok. And the Amiga beats the ST too.