I've seen a few green/black screens of death though on Natwest cash machines (I believe it was windows NT of some flavour). Most of these green screen machines have been upgraded now.
You should have kept one of the HDD screws, or maybe the power lead, just so that it still has an original part in it. Actually, I bet you have got one of the screws in there still.
If I state "In my opinion, X." then the whole statement is a statement of fact, and cannot be libellous, on grounds of truth, as long as I believe X. X still might not be true. So a disclaimer on any page saying that all of the content is a statement of opinion and may be wrong, should make libel impossible.
This ruling does change the laws, just because it's the internet. In my opinion, the courts should have taken the view that the material is published at the location of the webserver(s), and the internet acts as a distribution system for those documents. This finding says that if a document can by transmitted in some form to a country then it was published there. So if I can post a copy of "The Satanic Verses" to Saudi Arabia, then it was published in Saudi Arabia.
I see it as saying that if I decompile some binary software, I own the software. Or if I read a book, I own the book.
What probably is patentable (subject to originality) is the method used in changing the genome. Sort of like inventing a decompilation method, or OCR software, and patenting that.
What is being patented here (and this may be the case) should be the method of introducing cancer susceptibility in mice by using a particular sequencing technique to alter a specific part of the mouse genome.
Depends what resolution your system has. If you use VLBI and/or high frequencies (although these two options are somewhat mutually exclusive) then you can get ridiculous resolutions within the Solar System.
The point is that on hitting the atmosphere, the rate at which a meteor burns up is proportional to the surface area over the volume (for uniformly distributed frictional heating, constant density, etc. etc.). So if you split a 100 m radius asteroid into 1000 10 m radius asteroids, a much lower mass will hit the ground, assuming that the bits are seperated enough that they see "fresh" atmosphere. If they all still hit together, then slipstreaming etc. will occur and there won't be much difference.
SO a 1000 10 m radius asteroids cannot do _more_ damage than a 100 m radius asteroid, and might do much less.
So you buy an upgrade version with (I assume) a licence that requires you to own a copy of iDVD1. Just because you paid for the upgrade doesn't mean you have a licence to use the software if you don't have the first version.
If no movies make profit, then how do studios make profit? Surely they must, or you'd hear about it on financial news etc. Or are they using the Enron method of financial reporting?
In other words, isn't claiming that a movie makes no profit a deliberate mistatement of financial earnings (ok, so it's not an official statement of earnings, but it is a statement), possibly punishable by the SEC. If they claim to have made no profit in court (and I'm sure a decent lawyer would ask about all the other movies they made as well), and then report an overall profit to the SEC, then they would be guilty of something. This should be part of Stan Lee's case, at least to the press, if not to the court.
Also, don't upgrade mobile phone after 11 months of contract, because there's a new more fashionable one out. This is what drives a huge amount of mobile phone sales in Britain now, and there's no reason for it.
I'd upgrade my phone even less if any of them lasted more than 11 months without breaking.
Don't upgrade. Don't play the very latest games with all the graphics turned up to full. Don't install the latest bloatware OS (I'm remaining very carefully vendor neutral here). Buy fewer products with microchips in them.
it does mean that all the error correction is intact. However, this is only one method of copy protection, others put signatures in the error correction (although this really only a copy detection mechanism). To comply with Red Book, I think the error correction has to still be there, so the TOC corruption might be the only way of making red book compliant protected CDs.
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Given that most artists (i.e. those that _write_ and record new music, not those that sing over the work some record company's producer, and dance in the video) probably don't care as much about the money as they do about getting their work heard, then this would probably be the most effective route to changing the record labels minds.
Frankly I don't care if the new CD of Abba covers from whoever won the 25th series of Popstars is copy protected, but if say Radiohead refused to produce more albums on a label because they crippled their cd's then some parts of the music industry will take notice.
Taking the Radiohead example further, their last two albums went straight into the charts at number 1, despite both being available on the net 4 weeks before their release. So I'm sure they know what mp3s can do for them.
I've just had a thought. Does anyone know how the supposed fall in CD sales breaks down between original albums and compilations? If all the drop in sales is attributable to the drop in sales of Now 78 etc. then that may actually be due to people burning compilations and/or piracy.
What about Microsoft's entertainment pc? how is that supposed to cope with copy protected cds? Isn't there a case here for Microsoft demanding that consumers fair use rights are protected so that it can sell more multimedia pc thingymajigs?
Maybe MS's monopoly can be used for something useful.
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I've seen a few green/black screens of death though on Natwest cash machines (I believe it was windows NT of some flavour). Most of these green screen machines have been upgraded now.
You should have kept one of the HDD screws, or maybe the power lead, just so that it still has an original part in it. Actually, I bet you have got one of the screws in there still.
I love the description "a family of ham-like products". Spam doesn't even get to be a foodstuff anymore.
You mean you read spam? I haven't seen many which I can't spot just from the subject. Although I do like to keep up with current events in Nigeria.
it's like if i made a webpage that said g. bush shoots up heroin 3am every morning, and the next day someone published it as first page news..
Shh. You'll be sued for libel in Australia if you're not careful.
If I state "In my opinion, X." then the whole statement is a statement of fact, and cannot be libellous, on grounds of truth, as long as I believe X. X still might not be true. So a disclaimer on any page saying that all of the content is a statement of opinion and may be wrong, should make libel impossible.
This ruling does change the laws, just because it's the internet. In my opinion, the courts should have taken the view that the material is published at the location of the webserver(s), and the internet acts as a distribution system for those documents. This finding says that if a document can by transmitted in some form to a country then it was published there. So if I can post a copy of "The Satanic Verses" to Saudi Arabia, then it was published in Saudi Arabia.
I agree.
I see it as saying that if I decompile some binary software, I own the software. Or if I read a book, I own the book.
What probably is patentable (subject to originality) is the method used in changing the genome. Sort of like inventing a decompilation method, or OCR software, and patenting that.
What is being patented here (and this may be the case) should be the method of introducing cancer susceptibility in mice by using a particular sequencing technique to alter a specific part of the mouse genome.
Shirley a mouse isn't digital? Unless it's from logitech.
So it's like NASA's approach to building a satelite then? If you follow one of the more heavily documented programming techniques, maybe.
Ok, so maybe the particular ads here aren't especially clever, but there are some good ones out there.
Just because it's deceptive doesn't mean it's not genius.
I can appreciate how well socially engineered some of these are without condoning them.
I could think of lots of effects it could be used for in games (how about as an night-vision or x-ray vision style power up).
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"Dude, your getting a gel!"
Depends what resolution your system has. If you use VLBI and/or high frequencies (although these two options are somewhat mutually exclusive) then you can get ridiculous resolutions within the Solar System.
No. If that was the case we'd get hit every few hours.
What's happened is that God's finally finished compiling a new kernel, and he really needs a journalling religion.
The point is that on hitting the atmosphere, the rate at which a meteor burns up is proportional to the surface area over the volume (for uniformly distributed frictional heating, constant density, etc. etc.). So if you split a 100 m radius asteroid into 1000 10 m radius asteroids, a much lower mass will hit the ground, assuming that the bits are seperated enough that they see "fresh" atmosphere. If they all still hit together, then slipstreaming etc. will occur and there won't be much difference.
SO a 1000 10 m radius asteroids cannot do _more_ damage than a 100 m radius asteroid, and might do much less.
So you buy an upgrade version with (I assume) a licence that requires you to own a copy of iDVD1. Just because you paid for the upgrade doesn't mean you have a licence to use the software if you don't have the first version.
So how come the MPAA can buy so many politicians? Or are MPAA subscriptions part of the cost of the movies?
The parent was sarcastic.
If no movies make profit, then how do studios make profit? Surely they must, or you'd hear about it on financial news etc. Or are they using the Enron method of financial reporting?
In other words, isn't claiming that a movie makes no profit a deliberate mistatement of financial earnings (ok, so it's not an official statement of earnings, but it is a statement), possibly punishable by the SEC. If they claim to have made no profit in court (and I'm sure a decent lawyer would ask about all the other movies they made as well), and then report an overall profit to the SEC, then they would be guilty of something. This should be part of Stan Lee's case, at least to the press, if not to the court.
Surely the studio should cut its losses, and not make the proposed sequel then.
Shareholders should be complaining to the board as you read this.
Also, don't upgrade mobile phone after 11 months of contract, because there's a new more fashionable one out. This is what drives a huge amount of mobile phone sales in Britain now, and there's no reason for it.
I'd upgrade my phone even less if any of them lasted more than 11 months without breaking.
Don't upgrade. Don't play the very latest games with all the graphics turned up to full. Don't install the latest bloatware OS (I'm remaining very carefully vendor neutral here). Buy fewer products with microchips in them.
it does mean that all the error correction is intact. However, this is only one method of copy protection, others put signatures in the error correction (although this really only a copy detection mechanism). To comply with Red Book, I think the error correction has to still be there, so the TOC corruption might be the only way of making red book compliant protected CDs.
Given that most artists (i.e. those that _write_ and record new music, not those that sing over the work some record company's producer, and dance in the video) probably don't care as much about the money as they do about getting their work heard, then this would probably be the most effective route to changing the record labels minds.
Frankly I don't care if the new CD of Abba covers from whoever won the 25th series of Popstars is copy protected, but if say Radiohead refused to produce more albums on a label because they crippled their cd's then some parts of the music industry will take notice.
Taking the Radiohead example further, their last two albums went straight into the charts at number 1, despite both being available on the net 4 weeks before their release. So I'm sure they know what mp3s can do for them.
I've just had a thought. Does anyone know how the supposed fall in CD sales breaks down between original albums and compilations? If all the drop in sales is attributable to the drop in sales of Now 78 etc. then that may actually be due to people burning compilations and/or piracy.
What about Microsoft's entertainment pc? how is that supposed to cope with copy protected cds? Isn't there a case here for Microsoft demanding that consumers fair use rights are protected so that it can sell more multimedia pc thingymajigs?
Maybe MS's monopoly can be used for something useful.