The stores that got them late lost out on a lot of sales... the solution is the stores enter into a voluntary agreement (if they do not agree the books arent shipped until after the release date)
Well, it may be voluntary, but it doesn't sound like the stores really have a lot of choice, unless they want to "miss out on a lot of sales".
He had an Air Marshal sitting next to him because he was one of the highest risk passangers for that day.
He knew that he was sat next to an air marshal? What use is that? Did he promise not to beat the shit out of him and steal his weapon or something?
(Not saying that he would, of course, but surely knowing who the air marshal is is completely counter to the point of having them in the first place, especially if they're sat next to the "highest risk" person on board)
I'd be surprised if any modern filesystem didn't work in more or less that way - eg a big list of filenames pointing to the actual locations of the start of the files on the disk.
But as the GP says, the users of the computer don't think of it that way. They think of putting/saving a file *in* the folder, not saving it on disk somewhere and adding the link to it to a given directory.
MS's anti-spyware tool isn't the only one available, it isn't bundled with the OS, it doesn't attempt to prevent the user from installing other anti-spyware tools - in short, it is one option of many and you are free to install others as well or instead of MS's one.
Why is this in YRO? What right is being infringed or threatened? If you don't like MS's anti-spyware tool, don't use it!
Click Start, or press the power button, or use the button on the keyboard (assuming you have one, some do some don't), or focus the desktop and press ctrl-f4, or press ctrl-alt-delete and choose shutdown, or start up Task Manager (either from the start menu, Win-R, ctrl-alt-delete or ctrl-shift-escape) and choose shut down...
Seriously, what's with the "omg you have to press start to stop!!!!one!! lolololoz" comments every single time the Windows UI is mentioned? Last time I used KDE you had to use its menu to logoff or shutdown the machine, too...
What exactly did you expect to see in a screenshot that would indicate that it's using a new filesystem? "Powered by WinFS!" in the Explorer title bar?
Each station would cost from £150,000 to £2 million to fit depending on its size and the number of entrances.
As others have said, there's a wide range in sizes of Undergound station. My local station has a single small-ish entrance and two platforms. King's Cross has half a dozen large entrances and a dozen or more platforms.
That's only 720 people per hour, they'd need 42 scanners + personnel to cope....and somewhere to put the scanners, and some way of splitting the crowds of people up into lines for each scanner. A lot of those bigger stations can only just handle the rush hour traffic as it is. Throw in something like this and they'll not be able to cope, no matter how many scanners they have.
This isn't going to happen. Even just putting a bunch of them along a corridor and forcing people through in single file would bring the entire thing to a halt.
Did you not hear all about phone systems and long-distance phone networks getting clogged with calls?
Some of us didn't just hear about it, we were trying to use the network at the time. I live on the outskirts of London and work in the centre, and was walking across London (due to the public transport shutdown) at the time. The first I knew of any bombs was when I got an sms from my parents asking if I was ok.
It took a frustrating couple of minutes to get through to them, and then to my girlfriend, who had been trying to get in touch with me for about an hour. Still, in the circumstances, I think a couple of minutes is perfectly acceptable; it's the same at New Year's Eve, another time when everyone is phoning everyone.
In contrast, when I finally got to the office at around 10:30, my net connection was fine. The BBC news website (news.bbc.co.uk) was responding well, although a little sluggishly, while the Transport for London site (www.tfl.gov.uk, the main website for information on public transport in London) was naturally having trouble coping until they replaced it with a single static page. The net itself was unaffected, at least from my point of view.
Possibly, although it's worth noting that all standard ASP.NET components generate HTML and javascript that work with Gecko-based browsers as well as IE.
That's no guarantee that these will, of course, but it does demonstrate that MS are at least trying to support alternatives.
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I'll second The Skinner and the Revelation Space series (Revelation Space, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap - there's another book, Chasm City, set in the same universe and timeline, but not part of that triology, which is also well worth a read). I've not read the other books, although I've read some Iain M. Banks and some Jon Courtenay Grimwood, which were also well worth a read.
Not that I've noticed. Yes, there have been headlines about rising violent crime, but I don't recall any talking of "an epidemic of stabbings".
All of this is politcally correct claptrap, designed to keep everyone looking busy doing something about problems while ignoring the real problem: poorly raised, intellectually stunted people with no sense of accountability.
Now there I agree with you 100%. It's not just the fault of the politicians, though - most of the tabloids go on crusades on some subject or another (eg crime, immigration, etc) and whip up their readership to the point that the politicians almost *have* to be seen to be doing something, or face the wrath of the papers. (Not that they don't anyway...)
Australia took away everyone's guns, too, and have seen violent crime of all sorts skyrocket as a result.
"As a result"? Do you have any proof that violent crime has increased *because* of the ban on guns, rather that *despite* it?
go to Jail for dozens of years, never expect to use a computer or have any rights or freedoms again.
Do you have any sources for those claims?
Besides which, as others have pointed out, your (doubtful) copyright example is for US law, while this is German law. Different legal systems have different punishments...
When I purchase a car, I own that car. I have the right to that particular instance of that car to use,modify ( pimp my ride ),combine, dispose or resell without having to seek permission from the car builders, vendors etc.
I know it's only an analogy, but there are regulations governing cars which will affect how you modify yours. Here in the UK there are noise and emissions regulations at least, plus regulations on tires (tread must be of at least a certain depth, etc) and other parts. Even bolt-ons would have to not be distracting or a danger to other road users.
There are also rules regarding disposal/selling of the car, mostly around making sure that you don't end up liable for road tax on it after you've disposed of it.
(None of those things are regulated by the vendors, of course, but by the government)
Yes, I'm being pedantic, but I find it hard to let flawed analogies slide, I'm afraid...
I've bought books online (from amazon) on several occasions and claimed the money back from the company. I would not be prepared to do this if I knew that my credit card details were being logged.
Also, we are required to use an online SAP system to access various HR functionality, including checking our payslips (which are no longer posted to us). This is not available outside of the corporate network. With keyloggers installed, anyone who had access to the logs would have access to these records for every affected employee.
And giving away this code, via GPL or otherwise, would be no loss to the company or gain to its competitors whatsoever, since the whole point is that the systems are customized to fit that particular company's needs, and would be pretty useless to any other company without modifications so big that you might as well start from scratch.
Given that that is the case, what *advantage* is there (to anyone) in giving away the code, if it's essentially useless to everyone else?
Keeping the code closed takes zero effort - you just don't release it - while opening it takes some effort (especially if the legal department get involved), so *in these situations* why bother?
Thankfully, I was late, so I missed the worst of it. My train was held at one of the stations on the way in because of "power surges" in multiple locations. I finally made it to Fenchurch Street (just by the Tower of London) and, having heard that the District Line was suspended, set off about finding a bus.
The stop that the signs directed me to was on a road that the police were cordoning off as I arrived. I saw several police cars and fire engines, and a group of dazed-looking people being escorted away from some buses, clutching bits of paper. (I'm assuming that the paper was for taking statements)
Given that it was a reasonably nice day at the time, I decided to walk the rest of the way. On the journey (which took about an hour or so) I heard lots of sirens and helicopters, and saw quite a few police cars and fire engines (including one with "COMMAND UNIT" painted on the side). I also saw an unmarked car driven by someone not in uniform, tearing along with siren blaring and a stick-on light flashing. That gave me pause; the plain-clothes guys don't get called out for "power surges", even if they've caused a transformer or two to blow.
Now, everything's pretty quiet. The 'phone networks are getting back to normal, although for a while it was hard to get through - it took me a couple of dozen tries to get through to my girlfriend and parents (who knew more about what was going on than I did, walking through central London), but nothing that you wouldn't expect from everyone calling everyone else (eg as they do on NYE).
Apart from that, and the complete shut down of transport in central London (including the whole of hte Tube network), everything is more or less as it is any other day. The streets are a little quieter, and some shops are closed, but apart from that you could be forgiven for not realising that anything had happened. That won't be the case in the areas directly affected, but here in the West End, it's almost like any other day.
The news is a different story, of course, and there are rumours and counter rumours flying around like crazy. Talk of people being shot by police, suicide bombers in Canary Wharf (lots of financial companies there), more bombs being found, uncomfirmed reports of it being a terrorist attack; it's hard to tell what's true and what isn't.
(As I type this, I can hear more sirens out in the streets below)
My heart goes out to those that were caught up in it, and the people who have lost loved ones or who simply can't contact them to find out.
Bad word perhaps, but piracy has meant copyright infringement since at least 1701 (second meaning). At what point do people accept that the use and meaning of words changes from time to time?
No, it's more like if your neighbour has a sprinkler going that's spraying out on to the pavement, or part of your garden, or whatever, and you move some potted plants so they catch some of the water.
After all, using the hose deprives them of the ability to use it (while you're using it), and most likely requires that you go and get it and turn the supply on; none of those things are the case in using someone else's wifi connection. (Unless you saturate their bandwidth, in which case they'd have trouble using it at the same time)
If your aim is to convince someone of a claim, you're going to have to persuade them to agree to each of your "axioms."
That really depends on the axioms that you choose. The point of an axiom, as the parent poster said, is that they're supposed to be self-evident. If they're not, then perhaps they're not axiomatic after all. Either that, or the person you're arguing with is coming from a completely different point of view, in which case you're going to have a much harder, longer argument ahead of you.
There is nothing wrong with using well developed analogies
No there isn't, but they're so rare. For every good analogy used here, dozens of poor and inappropriate ones are.
I (personally) don't think that arguing by analogy should be abandoned, just that most people here are no good at it and really should stop trying to do it.
It's an interesting diversion to while away a few minutes with in between tasks, or over lunch or whatever. A rest for the mind, allowing it to return to more pressing matters refreshed. Isn't that purpose enough?
If people only did that which served a useful purpose, life would be a much poorer thing, I think.
Reason 1 has more or less gone away on modern hardware
That really depends on what you call "modern". I have a 2.4GHz P4 with 3/4 gig of RAM and a 6800GT, and I can't comfortably run Doom 3, UT2k4 or Vampire: Bloodlines (which uses the Source engine) at my (19" CRT) monitor's preferred resolution. Actually, I probably could if I sacrificed a lot of visual detail, but I'd rather drop the res a level or two and keep the eye candy.
Actually, before I got the 6800GT, I tried running Doom 3 at 640*480. Even at high detail, it looks like arse.
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The stores that got them late lost out on a lot of sales... the solution is the stores enter into a voluntary agreement (if they do not agree the books arent shipped until after the release date)
Well, it may be voluntary, but it doesn't sound like the stores really have a lot of choice, unless they want to "miss out on a lot of sales".
He had an Air Marshal sitting next to him because he was one of the highest risk passangers for that day.
He knew that he was sat next to an air marshal? What use is that? Did he promise not to beat the shit out of him and steal his weapon or something?
(Not saying that he would, of course, but surely knowing who the air marshal is is completely counter to the point of having them in the first place, especially if they're sat next to the "highest risk" person on board)
I'd be surprised if any modern filesystem didn't work in more or less that way - eg a big list of filenames pointing to the actual locations of the start of the files on the disk.
But as the GP says, the users of the computer don't think of it that way. They think of putting/saving a file *in* the folder, not saving it on disk somewhere and adding the link to it to a given directory.
MS's anti-spyware tool isn't the only one available, it isn't bundled with the OS, it doesn't attempt to prevent the user from installing other anti-spyware tools - in short, it is one option of many and you are free to install others as well or instead of MS's one.
Why is this in YRO? What right is being infringed or threatened? If you don't like MS's anti-spyware tool, don't use it!
Click Start, or press the power button, or use the button on the keyboard (assuming you have one, some do some don't), or focus the desktop and press ctrl-f4, or press ctrl-alt-delete and choose shutdown, or start up Task Manager (either from the start menu, Win-R, ctrl-alt-delete or ctrl-shift-escape) and choose shut down...
Seriously, what's with the "omg you have to press start to stop!!!!one!! lolololoz" comments every single time the Windows UI is mentioned? Last time I used KDE you had to use its menu to logoff or shutdown the machine, too...
Common Microsoft, wheres the new File System
What exactly did you expect to see in a screenshot that would indicate that it's using a new filesystem? "Powered by WinFS!" in the Explorer title bar?
From TFA:
Each station would cost from £150,000 to £2 million to fit depending on its size and the number of entrances.
As others have said, there's a wide range in sizes of Undergound station. My local station has a single small-ish entrance and two platforms. King's Cross has half a dozen large entrances and a dozen or more platforms.
That's only 720 people per hour, they'd need 42 scanners + personnel to cope. ...and somewhere to put the scanners, and some way of splitting the crowds of people up into lines for each scanner. A lot of those bigger stations can only just handle the rush hour traffic as it is. Throw in something like this and they'll not be able to cope, no matter how many scanners they have.
This isn't going to happen. Even just putting a bunch of them along a corridor and forcing people through in single file would bring the entire thing to a halt.
Did you not hear all about phone systems and long-distance phone networks getting clogged with calls?
Some of us didn't just hear about it, we were trying to use the network at the time. I live on the outskirts of London and work in the centre, and was walking across London (due to the public transport shutdown) at the time. The first I knew of any bombs was when I got an sms from my parents asking if I was ok.
It took a frustrating couple of minutes to get through to them, and then to my girlfriend, who had been trying to get in touch with me for about an hour. Still, in the circumstances, I think a couple of minutes is perfectly acceptable; it's the same at New Year's Eve, another time when everyone is phoning everyone.
In contrast, when I finally got to the office at around 10:30, my net connection was fine. The BBC news website (news.bbc.co.uk) was responding well, although a little sluggishly, while the Transport for London site (www.tfl.gov.uk, the main website for information on public transport in London) was naturally having trouble coping until they replaced it with a single static page. The net itself was unaffected, at least from my point of view.
Possibly, although it's worth noting that all standard ASP.NET components generate HTML and javascript that work with Gecko-based browsers as well as IE.
That's no guarantee that these will, of course, but it does demonstrate that MS are at least trying to support alternatives.
I'll second The Skinner and the Revelation Space series (Revelation Space, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap - there's another book, Chasm City, set in the same universe and timeline, but not part of that triology, which is also well worth a read). I've not read the other books, although I've read some Iain M. Banks and some Jon Courtenay Grimwood, which were also well worth a read.
of course there's an epidemic of stabbings
Not that I've noticed. Yes, there have been headlines about rising violent crime, but I don't recall any talking of "an epidemic of stabbings".
All of this is politcally correct claptrap, designed to keep everyone looking busy doing something about problems while ignoring the real problem: poorly raised, intellectually stunted people with no sense of accountability.
Now there I agree with you 100%. It's not just the fault of the politicians, though - most of the tabloids go on crusades on some subject or another (eg crime, immigration, etc) and whip up their readership to the point that the politicians almost *have* to be seen to be doing something, or face the wrath of the papers. (Not that they don't anyway...)
Australia took away everyone's guns, too, and have seen violent crime of all sorts skyrocket as a result.
"As a result"? Do you have any proof that violent crime has increased *because* of the ban on guns, rather that *despite* it?
go to Jail for dozens of years, never expect to use a computer or have any rights or freedoms again.
Do you have any sources for those claims?
Besides which, as others have pointed out, your (doubtful) copyright example is for US law, while this is German law. Different legal systems have different punishments...
When I purchase a car, I own that car. I have the right to that particular instance of that car to use,modify ( pimp my ride ),combine, dispose or resell without having to seek permission from the car builders, vendors etc.
I know it's only an analogy, but there are regulations governing cars which will affect how you modify yours. Here in the UK there are noise and emissions regulations at least, plus regulations on tires (tread must be of at least a certain depth, etc) and other parts. Even bolt-ons would have to not be distracting or a danger to other road users.
There are also rules regarding disposal/selling of the car, mostly around making sure that you don't end up liable for road tax on it after you've disposed of it.
(None of those things are regulated by the vendors, of course, but by the government)
Yes, I'm being pedantic, but I find it hard to let flawed analogies slide, I'm afraid...
I've bought books online (from amazon) on several occasions and claimed the money back from the company. I would not be prepared to do this if I knew that my credit card details were being logged.
Also, we are required to use an online SAP system to access various HR functionality, including checking our payslips (which are no longer posted to us). This is not available outside of the corporate network. With keyloggers installed, anyone who had access to the logs would have access to these records for every affected employee.
Or, *you* could show us something to back up that 6%, rather than a gut feel...
And giving away this code, via GPL or otherwise, would be no loss to the company or gain to its competitors whatsoever, since the whole point is that the systems are customized to fit that particular company's needs, and would be pretty useless to any other company without modifications so big that you might as well start from scratch.
Given that that is the case, what *advantage* is there (to anyone) in giving away the code, if it's essentially useless to everyone else?
Keeping the code closed takes zero effort - you just don't release it - while opening it takes some effort (especially if the legal department get involved), so *in these situations* why bother?
Thankfully, I was late, so I missed the worst of it. My train was held at one of the stations on the way in because of "power surges" in multiple locations. I finally made it to Fenchurch Street (just by the Tower of London) and, having heard that the District Line was suspended, set off about finding a bus.
The stop that the signs directed me to was on a road that the police were cordoning off as I arrived. I saw several police cars and fire engines, and a group of dazed-looking people being escorted away from some buses, clutching bits of paper. (I'm assuming that the paper was for taking statements)
Given that it was a reasonably nice day at the time, I decided to walk the rest of the way. On the journey (which took about an hour or so) I heard lots of sirens and helicopters, and saw quite a few police cars and fire engines (including one with "COMMAND UNIT" painted on the side). I also saw an unmarked car driven by someone not in uniform, tearing along with siren blaring and a stick-on light flashing. That gave me pause; the plain-clothes guys don't get called out for "power surges", even if they've caused a transformer or two to blow.
Now, everything's pretty quiet. The 'phone networks are getting back to normal, although for a while it was hard to get through - it took me a couple of dozen tries to get through to my girlfriend and parents (who knew more about what was going on than I did, walking through central London), but nothing that you wouldn't expect from everyone calling everyone else (eg as they do on NYE).
Apart from that, and the complete shut down of transport in central London (including the whole of hte Tube network), everything is more or less as it is any other day. The streets are a little quieter, and some shops are closed, but apart from that you could be forgiven for not realising that anything had happened. That won't be the case in the areas directly affected, but here in the West End, it's almost like any other day.
The news is a different story, of course, and there are rumours and counter rumours flying around like crazy. Talk of people being shot by police, suicide bombers in Canary Wharf (lots of financial companies there), more bombs being found, uncomfirmed reports of it being a terrorist attack; it's hard to tell what's true and what isn't.
(As I type this, I can hear more sirens out in the streets below)
My heart goes out to those that were caught up in it, and the people who have lost loved ones or who simply can't contact them to find out.
Bad word perhaps, but piracy has meant copyright infringement since at least 1701 (second meaning). At what point do people accept that the use and meaning of words changes from time to time?
I've had around 4MB/s (yes, megabytes) from microsoft.com in the past. I agree that it's reasonably rare, though.
No, it's more like if your neighbour has a sprinkler going that's spraying out on to the pavement, or part of your garden, or whatever, and you move some potted plants so they catch some of the water.
After all, using the hose deprives them of the ability to use it (while you're using it), and most likely requires that you go and get it and turn the supply on; none of those things are the case in using someone else's wifi connection. (Unless you saturate their bandwidth, in which case they'd have trouble using it at the same time)
If your aim is to convince someone of a claim, you're going to have to persuade them to agree to each of your "axioms."
That really depends on the axioms that you choose. The point of an axiom, as the parent poster said, is that they're supposed to be self-evident. If they're not, then perhaps they're not axiomatic after all. Either that, or the person you're arguing with is coming from a completely different point of view, in which case you're going to have a much harder, longer argument ahead of you.
There is nothing wrong with using well developed analogies
No there isn't, but they're so rare. For every good analogy used here, dozens of poor and inappropriate ones are.
I (personally) don't think that arguing by analogy should be abandoned, just that most people here are no good at it and really should stop trying to do it.
It's an interesting diversion to while away a few minutes with in between tasks, or over lunch or whatever. A rest for the mind, allowing it to return to more pressing matters refreshed. Isn't that purpose enough?
If people only did that which served a useful purpose, life would be a much poorer thing, I think.
Reason 1 has more or less gone away on modern hardware
That really depends on what you call "modern". I have a 2.4GHz P4 with 3/4 gig of RAM and a 6800GT, and I can't comfortably run Doom 3, UT2k4 or Vampire: Bloodlines (which uses the Source engine) at my (19" CRT) monitor's preferred resolution. Actually, I probably could if I sacrificed a lot of visual detail, but I'd rather drop the res a level or two and keep the eye candy.
Actually, before I got the 6800GT, I tried running Doom 3 at 640*480. Even at high detail, it looks like arse.
At that age, I was mixing potassium nitrate with charcoal and sulphur, and I made some very nice craters with the resulting gunpowder.
But were you blowing up stuff that belonged to other people? Because this kid sure infected a lot of machines that belonged to other people...