Who owns the copyright on the compositions of Bach or Mozart, for example?
As the GP says, copyright expires. Everything is copyrighted at some point, but everything eventually passes into the public domain. That is the bargain that was struck, and that is the bargain that (large parts of) the content-producing industry is fighting to renege on.
Data point: the HTC Desire usually ships with a pretty fast ROM. I had the UK T-Mobile one and it was as quick as standard.
While that's true (I have a Desire on T-Mobile too), I think what the parent poster meant was slow *in releasing updated versions*. I've heard that too, and may go stock Android when 2.2 comes out. (Though I may wait and see if my workmate who also has a Desire does first, to see how he gets on with it...)
Or perhaps they don't view the fact that what they're trying to do is ultimately futile as a reason to simply ignore that the law is being broken on a huge scale?
You can argue that Society is essentially saying "we do not like this law any more", but that's not the job of the lawyers to do anything about, that's for your government to address.
I live in Elm Park, which is out in Zone 6 in London (still inside the M25!) and I used to get truly horrible ADSL service. My line would peak at about 2Mbps, but real-world I'd regularly only get about 1. It would also drop out frequently, and sometimes was throttled back to 300Kpbs or less due to the equipment at the exchange detecting problems on my line.
I'm lucky enough to live in a cabled street, and switched to Virgin cable; the difference is night and day. Rock solid, and I actually get the 10Mbps advertised - obviously it depends on the source, but I've seen downloads running at 1.2MBps (i.e. ~9.6Mbps).
Unless you're lucky enough to be close to the exchange, have good wiring in your house and have good wiring between your house and the exchange, you can pretty-much forget ADSL in my experience. (That said, my daughter's mum lived in a couple of newly-built flats in Colchester over a couple of years, and got excellent ADSL service - the hint is in the "newly-built" and therefore newly-connected)
Thank you, that's exactly what I was going to say - apart from the occasional restart because Firefox is using 500MB+*, I generally shut it down when I shut down my PC, in which case I do not want to wait. I'd much rather wait at start up, than at shut down.
(* Yes yes I know it's all the fault of those eevil plugins; that's irrelevant however. Killing Firefox frees the RAM.)
Because Slashdot is in love with Apple. In fact, if I were feeling particularly cynical and suspicious, I'd wonder who that "anonymous reader" is, and if in fact the notes had pictures of dead presidents on them...
Let me guess - in Europe, you'd pay exactly those prices listed? No sales tax added on?
I can't speak for the rest of Europe, but here in the UK you are correct - we pay the list price. Sometimes the price is listed as "ex VAT", so you have to factor in an extra 17.5% on top, but that's almost exclusively done by merchants that are targeting business customers. (And generally the price inclusive of VAT is listed alongside anyway)
You're forgetting that HTML 5 still supports the object tag, so as long as there's a Flash plugin available for IE9 it will still support Flash. This isn't going to kill off Flash at all, just give sites a viable alternative. *That* may kill Flash, but in that case it'll be because the better technology won (where "better" = "more attractive in some compelling way")
That's very interesting indeed; I live alone, but my daughter and her mother live literally across the street, and they share my (secured) wifi connection. I most certainly am providing a service to them, and they don't even live under my roof.
My current employer described, for example, a scenario in which someone offered to sell a competitors designs and told us we should contact the FBI if this happened. They also cited a famous case where someone tried to sell coke's formula to pepsi and explained that pepsi could not legally purchase it and so they contacted the FBI.
Both of those would most likely put the buyer (and seller) at risk of being accused of industrial espionage, which most certainly is illegal. It simply isn't worth the legal hassles.
I was going to say exactly the same thing. Even more frustrating is that the Wikipedia article linked to makes no mention of it being a backronym either; the guy hasn't even read (or perhaps hasn't understood) his own reference.
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and (though not yet fully implemented) the United Kingdom
There is also a good chance that the new coalition government will look at stopping ours in its tracks, though that's by no means certain.
No, it most certainly is not.
Who owns the copyright on the compositions of Bach or Mozart, for example?
As the GP says, copyright expires. Everything is copyrighted at some point, but everything eventually passes into the public domain. That is the bargain that was struck, and that is the bargain that (large parts of) the content-producing industry is fighting to renege on.
You might want to read the article again yourself:
That's in the summary and also in the article - third paragraph from the end.
Data point: the HTC Desire usually ships with a pretty fast ROM. I had the UK T-Mobile one and it was as quick as standard.
While that's true (I have a Desire on T-Mobile too), I think what the parent poster meant was slow *in releasing updated versions*. I've heard that too, and may go stock Android when 2.2 comes out. (Though I may wait and see if my workmate who also has a Desire does first, to see how he gets on with it...)
But has any developer gone to such lengths for its users?
Yes, pretty much any development shop that does anything other than COTS product development.
There's a difference between my service provider potentially having the information, and some random website I happen to visit having it.
Never mind, console yourself with this pedantic reply pointing out that comments on slashdot are not emails instead.
Or perhaps they don't view the fact that what they're trying to do is ultimately futile as a reason to simply ignore that the law is being broken on a huge scale?
You can argue that Society is essentially saying "we do not like this law any more", but that's not the job of the lawyers to do anything about, that's for your government to address.
I live in Elm Park, which is out in Zone 6 in London (still inside the M25!) and I used to get truly horrible ADSL service. My line would peak at about 2Mbps, but real-world I'd regularly only get about 1. It would also drop out frequently, and sometimes was throttled back to 300Kpbs or less due to the equipment at the exchange detecting problems on my line.
I'm lucky enough to live in a cabled street, and switched to Virgin cable; the difference is night and day. Rock solid, and I actually get the 10Mbps advertised - obviously it depends on the source, but I've seen downloads running at 1.2MBps (i.e. ~9.6Mbps).
Unless you're lucky enough to be close to the exchange, have good wiring in your house and have good wiring between your house and the exchange, you can pretty-much forget ADSL in my experience. (That said, my daughter's mum lived in a couple of newly-built flats in Colchester over a couple of years, and got excellent ADSL service - the hint is in the "newly-built" and therefore newly-connected)
The right to conjugal visits only guarantees you that your partner can visit for that purpose, it doesn't actually guarantee you a partner...
And if he could have demonstrated that that was what happened then he would have been acquitted. That's not exactly a catch-22 situation.
Maybe they believe that legal action should be a last resort, not a first?
Funny doesn't give karma, so some people mod interesting or insightful when it really should be funny.
Yes, that is an abuse of the moderation system, but if you ask me so is taking it that seriously in the first place...
But, so what?
If you understand programming, picking up any given language is straightforward.
If you don't understand programming, it doesn't really matter what languages you know.
Thank you, that's exactly what I was going to say - apart from the occasional restart because Firefox is using 500MB+*, I generally shut it down when I shut down my PC, in which case I do not want to wait. I'd much rather wait at start up, than at shut down.
(* Yes yes I know it's all the fault of those eevil plugins; that's irrelevant however. Killing Firefox frees the RAM.)
Because Slashdot is in love with Apple. In fact, if I were feeling particularly cynical and suspicious, I'd wonder who that "anonymous reader" is, and if in fact the notes had pictures of dead presidents on them...
Offtopic for directly addressing one of the OP's points?
Nice going mods.
Let me guess - in Europe, you'd pay exactly those prices listed? No sales tax added on?
I can't speak for the rest of Europe, but here in the UK you are correct - we pay the list price. Sometimes the price is listed as "ex VAT", so you have to factor in an extra 17.5% on top, but that's almost exclusively done by merchants that are targeting business customers. (And generally the price inclusive of VAT is listed alongside anyway)
The short answer is no, Voyager's frame isn't different enough to the Earth's for that huge a time dilation to have occurred purely because of that.
The long answer requires recourse to general relativity, which I'm far too tired for I'm afraid.
But be aware that it's their network, and expect them to refuse to allow you to connect to it.
The real solution is that if you need a machine for your job, they should be providing it to you. If you do not, then leave it at home.
Isn't the earth just a big ol' ball of rock formed by the collisions of a bunch of asteroids that were orbiting in a cloud while the sun was forming?
That and the collapse of the Sun's accretion disk under self-gravity, yes.
You're forgetting that HTML 5 still supports the object tag, so as long as there's a Flash plugin available for IE9 it will still support Flash. This isn't going to kill off Flash at all, just give sites a viable alternative. *That* may kill Flash, but in that case it'll be because the better technology won (where "better" = "more attractive in some compelling way")
That's very interesting indeed; I live alone, but my daughter and her mother live literally across the street, and they share my (secured) wifi connection. I most certainly am providing a service to them, and they don't even live under my roof.
My current employer described, for example, a scenario in which someone offered to sell a competitors designs and told us we should contact the FBI if this happened. They also cited a famous case where someone tried to sell coke's formula to pepsi and explained that pepsi could not legally purchase it and so they contacted the FBI.
Both of those would most likely put the buyer (and seller) at risk of being accused of industrial espionage, which most certainly is illegal. It simply isn't worth the legal hassles.
I was going to say exactly the same thing. Even more frustrating is that the Wikipedia article linked to makes no mention of it being a backronym either; the guy hasn't even read (or perhaps hasn't understood) his own reference.