"I challenge ANYONE in the western world to proove that they come into contact with more variety of polymers due to their computer than in the rest of their life. If you drive a car, you already loose Almost every fascia component on the interior and exterior of a car is polypropylene; include the ABS/PC." (I DID proof read it too... duh!)
should be....If you drive a car you alread loose, almost every fascia component on the interior and exterior is polypropylene; include the abs/pc, PMMA, PE and the NON fascia PP; the TPE's etc, and the ammount is even higher.
"High-density hard synthetics like polypropylene (a popular material at Ikea) or acrylic"
(warning, I am about to rant again, one of those weeks)
Polymers such as Polypropylene are not just popular with Ikea, there is a good change damn near every white good in your house; most of your car and several of your brown goods are mostly polypropylene (PP) (toilet seats/cisterns even in some countries); your outdoor furniture is almost certainly PP if it isnt metal and glass; maybe even have polyamide (see rant below) cushions. Im certain the top of your washing machine is polypropylene unless it is one of the very new (recently trendy) aluminium exterior or an industrial steel construction one.
Lets not forget the ABS/PC (Acrylonitrile butadiene Styrene/Poly Carbonate) Alloys often used in computer equipment and cars and most "finished" (painted or electroplated) polymer products; "Acrylic" (sic), perhaps you mean PMMA (Poly Methyl Methacrylate); like most of the non-glass drinkware in your house?? That woodgrain in your car, unless it is a VERY EXPENSIVE luxury vehicle, it is almost certainly cubic printed PC/ABS (mercedes owners, sit down, most of yours are cubic printed too). The lenses of your sunglasses/glasses are almost certainly Poly Carbonate or, worse, a thermoset polymer; more volatiles!!! (used in production, but, being volatiles, long past outgassed) oh no!!!.
As for plasticisers; except for FLEXIBLE polymers (like the TPE's used on your mouse wheel and your toothbrush), manufacturers try to avoid volatile plasticisers as they outgas and cause defects during processing; indeed, correct processing of rigid thermoplastics tends to ensure all volatiles are outgassed during processing. If they dont outgas at the 200~300 degrees C they are processed at, they wont at room temperature!!!
Your car's Instrument Panel is almost certainly skinned with a TPE that will outgas volatiles. Either that or painted with a soft feel paint, once again, it will outgas volatiles. Why do you think you need to clean the inside of your winshield so often??
Do you use a latex or synthetic pillow?? or blanket/quilt/doona/comforter(insert name for said from your country here)... more polymers with volatile plasticisers.
I am fairly certain, in fact, that your computer is the LEAST LIKELY item in your home/life to produce volatiles which make you sick/cause allergic reaction. Unless dust/fluid from YOUR ENVIRONMENT is frying on heatsinks etc...
Do you wear ALL COTTON/WOOL clothes??? well, bugger me if you arent wearing plasticised poly amide filaments ("Nylon" or "polyester"); your toothbrush bristles are made of similar materials. Even your toothpaste probably comes out of a PET (Poly Ethylene Teripthalate) or PE (poly ethylene) or PP receptacle.
Hell, the shelves in your fridge are likely to be PMMA or PC if they arent steel mesh. Im fairly certain you have a Poly Ethylene chopping board in your house and drink your favourite soft drink or fruit juice from a PET bottle (oh! no, plastic!!!) bottle.
Bloody hell, whilst we do tear shit out of the enviroment using fossil fuels to create these polymers (although recycling helps, ALOT, you all should do it or lobby your local council/government to do it; takes maybe 5 minutes out of your day); they are so all pervasive that suggesting the use of plasticised polymers in your computer or doped ceramics is making you sick. Lacquered wood or coated metals are just as likely to outgas if heated as many polymers...
What a crock; most allergy specialists would look for OBVIOUS causes first... dust, dust mites, pollen... And even if it *IS* from polymer additives (not plasticisers, these are far from common in rigid polymers), your computer hardware is almost certainly the SMALLEST contributor.
I challenge ANYONE in the western world to proove that they come into contact with more variety of polymers due to their computer than in the rest of their life. If you drive a car, you already loose Almos
OOOH! George I-Hate-My-Fans Lucas has...
on
Star Wars on DVD
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· Score: 1
...found another way to shit on our childhoods.
!!major rant warning!!
Like the poor dude from pvponline I am subconsciously programmed from seeing the originals at the cinema to buy this crap but; Ill bet Han Solo doesnt fucking fire first like in those special editions (LISTEN UP LUCAS, YOU FUCKNUT, IT WAS BETTER THE ORIGINAL WAY!!!!); IMHO he would have been better served making the new movies more old school and, perhaps, AVOIDING THE FUCKING MIDICHLORIAN IDEA!!!
Lets face it, Obi-Oh-look-I-was-Irish-as-a-young-man-but-british -as-an-adult-Wan apparently knew about these things when he explained the force to luke in ep IV according to ep I... WHY THE FUCK WOULD HE FORGET TO MENTION IT THEN??? unless they were something George I-Like-To-Shit-On-My-Fans Lucas dreamed up while smoking crack and planning to make a mockery of our childhood adoration of him.
*shudder* if only we weren't, generally speaking, limited to star-trek-wars for Sci-Fi; some writers (JMS, Im talking about you) can maintain continuity across a complex storyline; even remembering the past when they write the future, even if the tell the story out of step...
!!end rant!!
Look, I love starwars, and treasure the original videos (long since ripped onto DVD) as great films and stories... such a pity he fucked everything up from that point (JAR JAR FUCKING BINKS ANYONE???)... ah well, what are you gonna do??
I can assure you I was as surprised as anyone to be modded insightful or interesting... I expected a funny or two.
For reference people; NEVER do what I suggested to manually change the expected MD5 hash. Kaseijin is dead right in suggesting that the cause of variance may indeed be due to l337 hax0rz pwnZing a server and modding the downloads to infect your system...
In fact, Kaseijins entire comment is informative, mine was a joke in VERY bad taste.
Hell, I dont recommend taking my advice at the best of times:)
Or, as an alternative; fsck transgaming and use traditional WINE... or simply use the gentoo ebuild tools to generate a new MD5 hash based on the.tgz you downloaded... you *DO* trust transgaming's own binaries, dont you??? hmmm???:)
In manufacturing the Assembly line is only ideal when you are building EXACTLY the same thing over and over again.
There are other factory layouts with far more synergy with software development.
Let us consider the functional layout; where you have a layout of work cells with specific functions, but no need to mindlessly trudge through in a specific order. Essentially for modular products (such as machinery and tooling, most commonly) this is ideal. This is alot like software; GOOD software design AFAIK is modular, with separate functions in separate libraries. So you have teams whose job it is to make libraries which are optimised and bug free, in isolation, and then integration teams who link these libraries into apps and feedback bugs, as if they were simply assembly or design problems to those specific teams.
Such an approach would require project managers with far more rigorous training than I (a mechanical engineer) have encountered from software companies in the past; as you need to be able to compartmentalise the components and objectively assess the whole to determine the most efficient breakdown and, more critically, the root cause of problems and plan effective resolution.
However, I see it as inevetable; Software development is more like manufacturing trades IMHO, toolmaking, boilermaking etc... than it is like consumer product manufacture, building cars or kettles etc... The layout I have described allows people to focus in their core skills without being forced into working like automatons; and the more skilled developers move higher up the product tree into integration groups.
Project managers could be anyone competent enough to schedule and manage the complex "assembly" whilst having sufficient skill to conduct root cause analysis on problems and assign solutions to appropriate groups and also be able to filter bitching and bullshit from facts when dealing with the team leaders.
Of course, I understand this is how many development companies already work to a certain extent.
Modularising like this would also make offshoring etc. less painful; as you keep the high value add work locally and ship out the low value add stuff to minimise risk and maximise return to shareholders (this is how Manufacturing is tending to go).
Course, Im far from an expert, just my $0.02. err! jak
Firstly, the chances that these log a years worth of data (In Australia, we dont have yearly inspectiond for registration; we just pay the bill) are slim; I imagine that he rolling store would be 1 hour at most with a cut out to cease logging in a catastrophic event (firing of seatbelt pretensioners or airbags is probably a good one).
Secondly, It would seem to me that logging your exceeding of a speed limit for the purpose of fining you rather that limiting the vehicle from exceeding these safe speeds would struggle to be lawful in most western countries.
Certainly, however, there is a risk such data could be used by insurance companies and manufacturers; but in Australia you are legally bound to inform your insurer of ANY information which may affect your insurance, so there would be no legal barrier to insurance companies examining your tendancy to do burnouts and deciding not to cover you.
So, in summary, we actually need someone with the balls to ASK to get sued for it:)
As far as Im told, copyright law in Australia is targeted at Owners of copyright and Users of copyright; individual consumers do NOT classify as users; but can become infringers. Our guys have alot of faith in the strength of consumer protection laws in Australia.
Anyway, the copyright act is available here http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pasteact/0/244/to p.htm. The computer software sections contain some excellent fair dealing excemptions for backups, security research and interoperability.
I got a last cubicle wall comment from someone who is actually a lawyer... If there is any actual case law which shows that (legal term) "reasonable" reproduction has been deemed illegal, please put it forward; I have created a small storm in the office with this topic, I must say...
Making copies of a non-infringing copy of computer software is SPECIFICALLY ALLOWED for the purposes of backup and interoperability (amongst other things).
sorry... I should have added that consumer law in Australia theoretically guarantees to the purchaser the ability to use the item they have purchased in a manner any reasonable observer would agree is fair, this includes items which have been licensed. Books and computer software already have strong protection for fair dealing; but fair dealing provisions are NOT aimed at consumers or licensees, meerly copyright users and owners (the Copyright Act 1968 defines who are copyright users, consumers are NOT, AFAIK).
Therefore it appears to me that this test would provide that listening to music you have licensed is fair wether it be the publication upon which it was delivered or a copy of that publication; However, listening to said copy while your mate has the original publication is NOT, and fairly so.
Here is a pdf from the Australian Copyright Council which is the deinitive statement on this issue. It explicitly states (on pages 2 and 3) that you are not allowed to make MP3s from a CD you own.
The Australian Copyright Council is not a legal body nor is it a binding Authority for opinions or interpretations; It represents the interests of its members, that is all.
AFAIK, the only test for infringement is enclosed in Copyright Act 1968 section 36; where the relationship of the copyright owner and the infringer must be taken into account. Couple this with consumer law, if I have a legitemate license to posess and use a copyrighted item, it therefore stands that I am not infringing my media shifting unless such shifting allows me to breach the copyright act (such as copying a cd to mp3 and then lending said CD to someone else)... sorry, the blokes from legal have finished lunch now, so my arguements will get far less erudite...:)
In Australia this is all illegal. If you make an MP3 of a CD you own, you are breaking the law. If you make a backup of some software you bought (reportedly including copying Windows CAB files onto the HDD), you are committing a crime. In fact, despite 100,000 iPods being sold in Australia, there are very few legal uses for them.
Im stepping well beyond my legal competence, but I believe Australian copyright law explicitly allows for the reasonable use of legitemately purchased copyright material; such as photocopying pages for a talk, making mix tapes etc... ripping to mp3 hasnt, AFAIK, ever been tested against this standard, let alone been defeated.
...whilst I am content to wait for my pre-order to arrive some time next week; I know several of these "Pirates". They want to play the game NOW, not wait until they buy it (and they will) next week.
Hell, if they had released a desent demo, I am certain that the piracy would be significantly reduced.
Course, I reflexively purchase EVERY game with a linux client or for linux as soon as I have the opportunity, so I am hardly a fair or balanced advocate for this kind of arguement:)
(disclaimer, IANAL and my recollection may well be flawed)...a legal system where the supreme court has already told Big Media to get fucked over the concept of "DVD's are software" and ruled that they are for all legal purposes to be treated indentically to Video movies and, hence, bypassing region coding is LEGAL if it allows a person to view a LEGALLY ACQUIRED movie.
ie: The Australian Supreme court has already ruled that you can not use the technological methods to obfuscate the actual function of an item; a dvd movie is NO DIFFERENT to a video movie beyond its sound and picture quality.
The same court ruled region zoning as an unfair barrier to trade. Government legislation CANNOT overturn case law until the legislation itself has been tested in court AFAIK. It has also found that you can do whatever the fuck you like to something you own as long as you dont break the law. Therefore it is legal to chip your PS2 to play Japanese games, but illegal to chip it to play pirated games; as well it should be.
Our judges here may be fucked up when it comes to dealing with criminal law (rapists and child molesters regularly get non-parole periods that do not exceed their natural lifespan), but are pretty switched on when it comes to managing civil law.
I dont know where the "no fair use protection" crap comes from either; Fair Use (not by that name) is implicit in Australian civil law, particularly as relates to consumer products. Our copyright law in particular has strong fair use protection.
The FTA is IMHO (I work in the manufacturing sector and regularly deal with US companies and we crap all over them in terms if flexibility and cost effectiveness, remove tarrifs and our crap is cheaper:) of net benefit to the country and our legal system (and that in the US) should tidy up any sloppy seconds.
Also, software patents are likely to be a hard sell, once again, IIRC, our Supreme Court has already ruled that software code is a publication protected by copyright law and, therefore, cannot be an invention covered by patent law. I am fairly certain the same is true of mathematical methods, although I could easily be wrong here.
Anyway, in summary; legislation ISNT law until it passes the courts and I think you will find the FTA itself allows for aspects deemed not legally binding to be overturned in the courts without validating the agreement, our Government is not allowed to make descisions which effect our legal precedent unilaterally, thats why we have separation of the powers between legislature and judiciary.
we enlightened ones simply emerge sync emerge -uDv world emerge -v depclean revdep-rebuild -v dispatch-conf
every other day or so and we are up to date.
Much as I lurve Gentoo, there is absolutely no need, ever, to announce releases because they are meaningless. If a new architecture has been added; thats newsworthy. A new cool feature to portage. But otherwise it is unimportant, when you wise up and switch, just download the latest stable image and start from there.
And for those "compiling takes to long" whiners; you can use binary packages just as easily (moreso IMHO) as debian. That and on a modern (P4 / AMD64) system, compiling a fully functional desktop with openoffice will happily complete overnight. Start after lunch one day; spend about 20 minutes; come back 2 hours later, build your kernel and reboot and start to install packages (maybe 15 minutes) then leave. Next morning your system is in full, optimised, working glory and you know EXACTLY what is installed and EXACTLY what daemons are running because you explicitly installed and activated them.
alot of creatonist propaganda pops up when you search for this. I tend to assume the poarty making the most noise (creatonists in this case) is the one with the least facts.
umm, didn't UC San Diego discover genetic evidence of macro evolution in 2000/2001 (relating, IIRC, to leg pairs on insects or some such) when they demonstrated a protein which caused the organism to develop one less pair of legs.
Furthermore, there is no such thing as Scientific Fact. Everything, EVERYTHING, is a theory; even though many (gravity, thermodynamics) are discussed as fact. No theory stands longer than its disproof; dont yabber about it you fscking christian psycopath; disprove it and it will go away.
Just my $0.02 err! jak
Disclaimer: My disparaging remark about christians should not lead you to conclude I am anti-christian. I spread my dislike of religion equally.
...whilst no-one actually BROWSES with it; our standards (we are an ISO compliant automotive supplier, we have standards for EVERYTHING, it is so bloody annoying) require all content to be W3C compliant, so we test it with amaya (www.w3c.org) to verify it looks right on the "reference" platform. All our web content is developed for internal corporate deployment.
That being said, they still often have to run down bugs discovered in IE regularly (we would *love* to switch to png, but as IE cant spell alpha channel, let alone implelent it effectively, we stick with jpg), firefox bugs occasionally and the odd assortment of Epiphany/Safari bugs regularly. Since we use a variety of hardware (depending on need), we tend to fix bugs on the intranet content directly (often by building multiple versions of a page depending on the browser in the end) for expediency, not common sense; since we have a shiteload of web development guys and about 3 blokes who are paid to code/bugfix software.
Our typical desktop now has firefox since the Sysadmin finally spat the dummy with lUsers clicking on all kinds of crap. We are slowly deploying firefox across ALL OS's within the organisation to simplify life.
In summary, firefox seems to have the LEAST problems with web content not appearing as expected; but it still doesn't render everything exactly as the standards would have you believe they should appear.
course, I meandered around the point there... err! jak.
Would Ford sue you for removing the rev limiter from your Focus?
Ford wouldn't sue you (they would invalidate your warranty). But in many countries homologation standards would prevent you from making such modifications and legally using your vehicle on the roads.
The point is different in TFA, I understand. Nothing is more annoying than being guilty of a crime before you even consider committing it; which is basically what the UK high court has decided.
...as many senior professionals as possible to make future IP lawsuits easier; assuming said professionals would work on Open Source or competing software.
"No doubt about that but slack will taken up by new businesses to creat applicationgs for these operating systems like bsd or linux."
Slack, linux, slackware... get it??? Im I the only one sad enough to get that joke, dodgy english aside. I'm a rabid gentoo psycopath and I laughed... ok, Im going away now:)
"Employee business expenses have a 2% AGI floor on Schedule A. What that means is if your income is about $60K a year, you don't get to deduct ANY of those expenses until they are more than $1200. If you have $1500 in expenses you get to deduct $300. (If you make more than $140K it's even further limited.) Whoop de frickin do."
Another reason I am happy not to be an American:) At least the incompetent prats that run Australia only put a ceiling on work related tax deductions, not a floor.
Of course, tax deduction only saves you the taxed portion of the monies spent; which is for most professionals in Australia about 48% (our top tax bracket... we mostly pay tax as we earn over here, then beg to get it back at the end of the financial year); Tho thankfully I work for a company that will pay expense claims for personal assets used for business (mobile phone, broadband, car etc...). Naturally they bitch about paying and ask me to reduce my expenses (something which I, as a shareholder, am PLEASED they do), but if they are legitimate, they *DO* pay.
I recommend the poster just tell them to cram it crosswise up their arse and fuck off and find a new job. Even better, leave and agree to come back as an hourly rate contractor when it all begins to fall apart on them:). Contractors aren't "headcount" and the kind of hatchetman who has to pick peanuts out of poo to make savings is likely to have bonuses in place for reducing headcount... that way both you and the managoid win;)
The concept of "Mutually Assured Destruction" was used to ensure that there were sufficient, redundant and ready weapons capability to ensure that the planet would be unuseable to the survivors, regardless of who started it; this concept was derived with careful thought from game theory mathematics by great men trying VERY hard to ensure that there were additional genrations of humans following the cold war period. This ensured that no "stable" nation-state which actually intended to survive, flourish and propogate its ideals would ever start the exchange of nuclear weapons.
The aim was to ensure that ALL possible engagements resulted in NO winners in the mathematical sense. The only real problem is that for rogue or terrorist states, sometimes destruction of the planet could be considered a victory condition, which changes the playing field today.
Anyway, my point is you are so wrong I dont know why I bothered to comment; some things just annoy me I suppose, complacency moreso than most. For the vast majority of the cold war period, unlimited nuclear exchange would have resulted in the functional destruction of the planet because that was the ONLY safe state which ensured nuclear weapons werent used; furthermore, it was almost impossible to create a limited exchange which did not immediately precipitate an unlimited exchange. Remember that until the late 70's no US minuteman silos had active failsafes, we are very lucky to be here.
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....If you drive a car you alread loose, almost every fascia component on the interior and exterior is polypropylene; include the abs/pc, PMMA, PE and the NON fascia PP; the TPE's etc, and the ammount is even higher.
"I challenge ANYONE in the western world to proove that they come into contact with more variety of polymers due to their computer than in the rest of their life. If you drive a car, you already loose Almost every fascia component on the interior and exterior of a car is polypropylene; include the ABS/PC." (I DID proof read it too... duh!)
should be
Well, rant and we shall be punished...
jak.
"High-density hard synthetics like polypropylene (a popular material at Ikea) or acrylic"
(warning, I am about to rant again, one of those weeks)
Polymers such as Polypropylene are not just popular with Ikea, there is a good change damn near every white good in your house; most of your car and several of your brown goods are mostly polypropylene (PP) (toilet seats/cisterns even in some countries); your outdoor furniture is almost certainly PP if it isnt metal and glass; maybe even have polyamide (see rant below) cushions. Im certain the top of your washing machine is polypropylene unless it is one of the very new (recently trendy) aluminium exterior or an industrial steel construction one.
Lets not forget the ABS/PC (Acrylonitrile butadiene Styrene/Poly Carbonate) Alloys often used in computer equipment and cars and most "finished" (painted or electroplated) polymer products; "Acrylic" (sic), perhaps you mean PMMA (Poly Methyl Methacrylate); like most of the non-glass drinkware in your house?? That woodgrain in your car, unless it is a VERY EXPENSIVE luxury vehicle, it is almost certainly cubic printed PC/ABS (mercedes owners, sit down, most of yours are cubic printed too). The lenses of your sunglasses/glasses are almost certainly Poly Carbonate or, worse, a thermoset polymer; more volatiles!!! (used in production, but, being volatiles, long past outgassed) oh no!!!.
As for plasticisers; except for FLEXIBLE polymers (like the TPE's used on your mouse wheel and your toothbrush), manufacturers try to avoid volatile plasticisers as they outgas and cause defects during processing; indeed, correct processing of rigid thermoplastics tends to ensure all volatiles are outgassed during processing. If they dont outgas at the 200~300 degrees C they are processed at, they wont at room temperature!!!
Your car's Instrument Panel is almost certainly skinned with a TPE that will outgas volatiles. Either that or painted with a soft feel paint, once again, it will outgas volatiles. Why do you think you need to clean the inside of your winshield so often??
Do you use a latex or synthetic pillow?? or blanket/quilt/doona/comforter(insert name for said from your country here)... more polymers with volatile plasticisers.
I am fairly certain, in fact, that your computer is the LEAST LIKELY item in your home/life to produce volatiles which make you sick/cause allergic reaction. Unless dust/fluid from YOUR ENVIRONMENT is frying on heatsinks etc...
Do you wear ALL COTTON/WOOL clothes??? well, bugger me if you arent wearing plasticised poly amide filaments ("Nylon" or "polyester"); your toothbrush bristles are made of similar materials. Even your toothpaste probably comes out of a PET (Poly Ethylene Teripthalate) or PE (poly ethylene) or PP receptacle.
Hell, the shelves in your fridge are likely to be PMMA or PC if they arent steel mesh. Im fairly certain you have a Poly Ethylene chopping board in your house and drink your favourite soft drink or fruit juice from a PET bottle (oh! no, plastic!!!) bottle.
Bloody hell, whilst we do tear shit out of the enviroment using fossil fuels to create these polymers (although recycling helps, ALOT, you all should do it or lobby your local council/government to do it; takes maybe 5 minutes out of your day); they are so all pervasive that suggesting the use of plasticised polymers in your computer or doped ceramics is making you sick. Lacquered wood or coated metals are just as likely to outgas if heated as many polymers...
What a crock; most allergy specialists would look for OBVIOUS causes first... dust, dust mites, pollen... And even if it *IS* from polymer additives (not plasticisers, these are far from common in rigid polymers), your computer hardware is almost certainly the SMALLEST contributor.
I challenge ANYONE in the western world to proove that they come into contact with more variety of polymers due to their computer than in the rest of their life. If you drive a car, you already loose Almos
...found another way to shit on our childhoods.
h -as-an-adult-Wan apparently knew about these things when he explained the force to luke in ep IV according to ep I... WHY THE FUCK WOULD HE FORGET TO MENTION IT THEN??? unless they were something George I-Like-To-Shit-On-My-Fans Lucas dreamed up while smoking crack and planning to make a mockery of our childhood adoration of him.
;) just my 0.02
!!major rant warning!!
Like the poor dude from pvponline I am subconsciously programmed from seeing the originals at the cinema to buy this crap but; Ill bet Han Solo doesnt fucking fire first like in those special editions (LISTEN UP LUCAS, YOU FUCKNUT, IT WAS BETTER THE ORIGINAL WAY!!!!); IMHO he would have been better served making the new movies more old school and, perhaps, AVOIDING THE FUCKING MIDICHLORIAN IDEA!!!
Lets face it, Obi-Oh-look-I-was-Irish-as-a-young-man-but-britis
*shudder* if only we weren't, generally speaking, limited to star-trek-wars for Sci-Fi; some writers (JMS, Im talking about you) can maintain continuity across a complex storyline; even remembering the past when they write the future, even if the tell the story out of step...
!!end rant!!
Look, I love starwars, and treasure the original videos (long since ripped onto DVD) as great films and stories... such a pity he fucked everything up from that point (JAR JAR FUCKING BINKS ANYONE???)... ah well, what are you gonna do??
Sorry
err!
jak
I can assure you I was as surprised as anyone to be modded insightful or interesting... I expected a funny or two.
:)
For reference people; NEVER do what I suggested to manually change the expected MD5 hash. Kaseijin is dead right in suggesting that the cause of variance may indeed be due to l337 hax0rz pwnZing a server and modding the downloads to infect your system...
In fact, Kaseijins entire comment is informative, mine was a joke in VERY bad taste.
Hell, I dont recommend taking my advice at the best of times
err!
jak
Or, as an alternative; fsck transgaming and use traditional WINE... or simply use the gentoo ebuild tools to generate a new MD5 hash based on the .tgz you downloaded... you *DO* trust transgaming's own binaries, dont you??? hmmm??? :)
...may not be the Answer.
In manufacturing the Assembly line is only ideal when you are building EXACTLY the same thing over and over again.
There are other factory layouts with far more synergy with software development.
Let us consider the functional layout; where you have a layout of work cells with specific functions, but no need to mindlessly trudge through in a specific order. Essentially for modular products (such as machinery and tooling, most commonly) this is ideal. This is alot like software; GOOD software design AFAIK is modular, with separate functions in separate libraries. So you have teams whose job it is to make libraries which are optimised and bug free, in isolation, and then integration teams who link these libraries into apps and feedback bugs, as if they were simply assembly or design problems to those specific teams.
Such an approach would require project managers with far more rigorous training than I (a mechanical engineer) have encountered from software companies in the past; as you need to be able to compartmentalise the components and objectively assess the whole to determine the most efficient breakdown and, more critically, the root cause of problems and plan effective resolution.
However, I see it as inevetable; Software development is more like manufacturing trades IMHO, toolmaking, boilermaking etc... than it is like consumer product manufacture, building cars or kettles etc... The layout I have described allows people to focus in their core skills without being forced into working like automatons; and the more skilled developers move higher up the product tree into integration groups.
Project managers could be anyone competent enough to schedule and manage the complex "assembly" whilst having sufficient skill to conduct root cause analysis on problems and assign solutions to appropriate groups and also be able to filter bitching and bullshit from facts when dealing with the team leaders.
Of course, I understand this is how many development companies already work to a certain extent.
Modularising like this would also make offshoring etc. less painful; as you keep the high value add work locally and ship out the low value add stuff to minimise risk and maximise return to shareholders (this is how Manufacturing is tending to go).
Course, Im far from an expert, just my $0.02.
err!
jak
Firstly, the chances that these log a years worth of data (In Australia, we dont have yearly inspectiond for registration; we just pay the bill) are slim; I imagine that he rolling store would be 1 hour at most with a cut out to cease logging in a catastrophic event (firing of seatbelt pretensioners or airbags is probably a good one).
Secondly, It would seem to me that logging your exceeding of a speed limit for the purpose of fining you rather that limiting the vehicle from exceeding these safe speeds would struggle to be lawful in most western countries.
Certainly, however, there is a risk such data could be used by insurance companies and manufacturers; but in Australia you are legally bound to inform your insurer of ANY information which may affect your insurance, so there would be no legal barrier to insurance companies examining your tendancy to do burnouts and deciding not to cover you.
Just my $0.02.
err!
jak
So, in summary, we actually need someone with the balls to ASK to get sued for it :)
o p.htm. The computer software sections contain some excellent fair dealing excemptions for backups, security research and interoperability.
As far as Im told, copyright law in Australia is targeted at Owners of copyright and Users of copyright; individual consumers do NOT classify as users; but can become infringers. Our guys have alot of faith in the strength of consumer protection laws in Australia.
Anyway, the copyright act is available here http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pasteact/0/244/t
err!
jak.
I got a last cubicle wall comment from someone who is actually a lawyer... If there is any actual case law which shows that (legal term) "reasonable" reproduction has been deemed illegal, please put it forward; I have created a small storm in the office with this topic, I must say...
Making copies of a non-infringing copy of computer software is SPECIFICALLY ALLOWED for the purposes of backup and interoperability (amongst other things).
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jak.
sorry... I should have added that consumer law in Australia theoretically guarantees to the purchaser the ability to use the item they have purchased in a manner any reasonable observer would agree is fair, this includes items which have been licensed. Books and computer software already have strong protection for fair dealing; but fair dealing provisions are NOT aimed at consumers or licensees, meerly copyright users and owners (the Copyright Act 1968 defines who are copyright users, consumers are NOT, AFAIK).
Therefore it appears to me that this test would provide that listening to music you have licensed is fair wether it be the publication upon which it was delivered or a copy of that publication; However, listening to said copy while your mate has the original publication is NOT, and fairly so.
Here is a pdf from the Australian Copyright Council which is the deinitive statement on this issue. It explicitly states (on pages 2 and 3) that you are not allowed to make MP3s from a CD you own.
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The Australian Copyright Council is not a legal body nor is it a binding Authority for opinions or interpretations; It represents the interests of its members, that is all.
AFAIK, the only test for infringement is enclosed in Copyright Act 1968 section 36; where the relationship of the copyright owner and the infringer must be taken into account. Couple this with consumer law, if I have a legitemate license to posess and use a copyrighted item, it therefore stands that I am not infringing my media shifting unless such shifting allows me to breach the copyright act (such as copying a cd to mp3 and then lending said CD to someone else)... sorry, the blokes from legal have finished lunch now, so my arguements will get far less erudite...
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"Anyone know of a large island that is well connected to the Internet?
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Great Britain?
Cheers,
Ian"
He said "large"
In Australia this is all illegal. If you make an MP3 of a CD you own, you are breaking the law. If you make a backup of some software you bought (reportedly including copying Windows CAB files onto the HDD), you are committing a crime. In fact, despite 100,000 iPods being sold in Australia, there are very few legal uses for them.
Im stepping well beyond my legal competence, but I believe Australian copyright law explicitly allows for the reasonable use of legitemately purchased copyright material; such as photocopying pages for a talk, making mix tapes etc... ripping to mp3 hasnt, AFAIK, ever been tested against this standard, let alone been defeated.
...whilst I am content to wait for my pre-order to arrive some time next week; I know several of these "Pirates". They want to play the game NOW, not wait until they buy it (and they will) next week.
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Hell, if they had released a desent demo, I am certain that the piracy would be significantly reduced.
Course, I reflexively purchase EVERY game with a linux client or for linux as soon as I have the opportunity, so I am hardly a fair or balanced advocate for this kind of arguement
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(disclaimer, IANAL and my recollection may well be flawed) ...a legal system where the supreme court has already told Big Media to get fucked over the concept of "DVD's are software" and ruled that they are for all legal purposes to be treated indentically to Video movies and, hence, bypassing region coding is LEGAL if it allows a person to view a LEGALLY ACQUIRED movie.
:) of net benefit to the country and our legal system (and that in the US) should tidy up any sloppy seconds.
ie: The Australian Supreme court has already ruled that you can not use the technological methods to obfuscate the actual function of an item; a dvd movie is NO DIFFERENT to a video movie beyond its sound and picture quality.
The same court ruled region zoning as an unfair barrier to trade. Government legislation CANNOT overturn case law until the legislation itself has been tested in court AFAIK. It has also found that you can do whatever the fuck you like to something you own as long as you dont break the law. Therefore it is legal to chip your PS2 to play Japanese games, but illegal to chip it to play pirated games; as well it should be.
Our judges here may be fucked up when it comes to dealing with criminal law (rapists and child molesters regularly get non-parole periods that do not exceed their natural lifespan), but are pretty switched on when it comes to managing civil law.
I dont know where the "no fair use protection" crap comes from either; Fair Use (not by that name) is implicit in Australian civil law, particularly as relates to consumer products. Our copyright law in particular has strong fair use protection.
The FTA is IMHO (I work in the manufacturing sector and regularly deal with US companies and we crap all over them in terms if flexibility and cost effectiveness, remove tarrifs and our crap is cheaper
Also, software patents are likely to be a hard sell, once again, IIRC, our Supreme Court has already ruled that software code is a publication protected by copyright law and, therefore, cannot be an invention covered by patent law. I am fairly certain the same is true of mathematical methods, although I could easily be wrong here.
Anyway, in summary; legislation ISNT law until it passes the courts and I think you will find the FTA itself allows for aspects deemed not legally binding to be overturned in the courts without validating the agreement, our Government is not allowed to make descisions which effect our legal precedent unilaterally, thats why we have separation of the powers between legislature and judiciary.
just my $0.02
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...to those not already using it.
we enlightened ones simply
emerge sync
emerge -uDv world
emerge -v depclean
revdep-rebuild -v
dispatch-conf
every other day or so and we are up to date.
Much as I lurve Gentoo, there is absolutely no need, ever, to announce releases because they are meaningless. If a new architecture has been added; thats newsworthy. A new cool feature to portage. But otherwise it is unimportant, when you wise up and switch, just download the latest stable image and start from there.
And for those "compiling takes to long" whiners; you can use binary packages just as easily (moreso IMHO) as debian. That and on a modern (P4 / AMD64) system, compiling a fully functional desktop with openoffice will happily complete overnight. Start after lunch one day; spend about 20 minutes; come back 2 hours later, build your kernel and reboot and start to install packages (maybe 15 minutes) then leave. Next morning your system is in full, optimised, working glory and you know EXACTLY what is installed and EXACTLY what daemons are running because you explicitly installed and activated them.
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I was out by a year... best link I could find
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/02/02
alot of creatonist propaganda pops up when you search for this. I tend to assume the poarty making the most noise (creatonists in this case) is the one with the least facts.
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umm, didn't UC San Diego discover genetic evidence of macro evolution in 2000/2001 (relating, IIRC, to leg pairs on insects or some such) when they demonstrated a protein which caused the organism to develop one less pair of legs.
Furthermore, there is no such thing as Scientific Fact. Everything, EVERYTHING, is a theory; even though many (gravity, thermodynamics) are discussed as fact. No theory stands longer than its disproof; dont yabber about it you fscking christian psycopath; disprove it and it will go away.
Just my $0.02
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Disclaimer: My disparaging remark about christians should not lead you to conclude I am anti-christian. I spread my dislike of religion equally.
...whilst no-one actually BROWSES with it; our standards (we are an ISO compliant automotive supplier, we have standards for EVERYTHING, it is so bloody annoying) require all content to be W3C compliant, so we test it with amaya (www.w3c.org) to verify it looks right on the "reference" platform. All our web content is developed for internal corporate deployment.
That being said, they still often have to run down bugs discovered in IE regularly (we would *love* to switch to png, but as IE cant spell alpha channel, let alone implelent it effectively, we stick with jpg), firefox bugs occasionally and the odd assortment of Epiphany/Safari bugs regularly. Since we use a variety of hardware (depending on need), we tend to fix bugs on the intranet content directly (often by building multiple versions of a page depending on the browser in the end) for expediency, not common sense; since we have a shiteload of web development guys and about 3 blokes who are paid to code/bugfix software.
Our typical desktop now has firefox since the Sysadmin finally spat the dummy with lUsers clicking on all kinds of crap. We are slowly deploying firefox across ALL OS's within the organisation to simplify life.
In summary, firefox seems to have the LEAST problems with web content not appearing as expected; but it still doesn't render everything exactly as the standards would have you believe they should appear.
course, I meandered around the point there...
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Would Ford sue you for removing the rev limiter from your Focus?
Ford wouldn't sue you (they would invalidate your warranty). But in many countries homologation standards would prevent you from making such modifications and legally using your vehicle on the roads.
The point is different in TFA, I understand. Nothing is more annoying than being guilty of a crime before you even consider committing it; which is basically what the UK high court has decided.
...as many senior professionals as possible to make future IP lawsuits easier; assuming said professionals would work on Open Source or competing software.
Just my $0.02
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"No doubt about that but slack will taken up by new businesses to creat applicationgs for these operating systems like bsd or linux."
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Slack, linux, slackware... get it??? Im I the only one sad enough to get that joke, dodgy english aside. I'm a rabid gentoo psycopath and I laughed... ok, Im going away now
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"Employee business expenses have a 2% AGI floor on Schedule A. What that means is if your income is about $60K a year, you don't get to deduct ANY of those expenses until they are more than $1200. If you have $1500 in expenses you get to deduct $300. (If you make more than $140K it's even further limited.) Whoop de frickin do."
:) At least the incompetent prats that run Australia only put a ceiling on work related tax deductions, not a floor.
:). Contractors aren't "headcount" and the kind of hatchetman who has to pick peanuts out of poo to make savings is likely to have bonuses in place for reducing headcount... that way both you and the managoid win ;)
Another reason I am happy not to be an American
Of course, tax deduction only saves you the taxed portion of the monies spent; which is for most professionals in Australia about 48% (our top tax bracket... we mostly pay tax as we earn over here, then beg to get it back at the end of the financial year); Tho thankfully I work for a company that will pay expense claims for personal assets used for business (mobile phone, broadband, car etc...). Naturally they bitch about paying and ask me to reduce my expenses (something which I, as a shareholder, am PLEASED they do), but if they are legitimate, they *DO* pay.
I recommend the poster just tell them to cram it crosswise up their arse and fuck off and find a new job. Even better, leave and agree to come back as an hourly rate contractor when it all begins to fall apart on them
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Perhaps you need to study your Game Theory...
The concept of "Mutually Assured Destruction" was used to ensure that there were sufficient, redundant and ready weapons capability to ensure that the planet would be unuseable to the survivors, regardless of who started it; this concept was derived with careful thought from game theory mathematics by great men trying VERY hard to ensure that there were additional genrations of humans following the cold war period. This ensured that no "stable" nation-state which actually intended to survive, flourish and propogate its ideals would ever start the exchange of nuclear weapons.
The aim was to ensure that ALL possible engagements resulted in NO winners in the mathematical sense. The only real problem is that for rogue or terrorist states, sometimes destruction of the planet could be considered a victory condition, which changes the playing field today.
Anyway, my point is you are so wrong I dont know why I bothered to comment; some things just annoy me I suppose, complacency moreso than most. For the vast majority of the cold war period, unlimited nuclear exchange would have resulted in the functional destruction of the planet because that was the ONLY safe state which ensured nuclear weapons werent used; furthermore, it was almost impossible to create a limited exchange which did not immediately precipitate an unlimited exchange. Remember that until the late 70's no US minuteman silos had active failsafes, we are very lucky to be here.
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what about amd64 you insensitive clod??
XFree is officially deprecated on gentoo; so, for us amd64 users at least, all we do is
opengl-update xfree
emerge --unmerge xfree
emerge xorg-x11
emerge nvidia-glx
opengl-update nvidia
and boom, it is all tickety boo. No problems, no hassles, it "just worked"; xorg-x11 needs no ~arch keywords AFAIK
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