There is a way an EULA can be a binding contract for the consumer, if and only if the retailer puts into his terms and conditions a clause, that by buying a good the buyer agrees to whatever EULA comes with the good purchased. But in this case the retailer should be able to hand a copy of the EULA to the consumer whenever asked for it.
There is a contract of the consumer with the retailer about a good with specified properties. This contract is not fulfilled, because the manufacturer (Sony) deliberately changed the good with an update. So the consumer is right to sue the retailer, and the retailer can sue Sony for deliberate damage. I wonder how that will work out.
The government and academia are dropping billions of dollars into biotech right now, even with patents. So what's the point? And no. Just identifying a genome and explaining its properties is not patentable. If you discover an hitherto unknown species of beetle and describe it and its ecology you don't get a patent on it either. You just get the right to name it. Currently my body belongs to me (restrictions may apply). If I do something with it, feed it a certain way, train it a certain way, I am free to do so without a patent license. But if my genome gets mapped and patented, suddenly I have to make sure that none of the things I do with my body are patent encumbred. Do I know which genes I affect? Which of them are patented? What the patent claims are? The point is: My body was here before the patents. It hasn't changed by the patents. But the patents change what I am allowed to do with it. I have an anomalous hemogram. I know that certain things are easier for me (I don't get exhausted that easily), and others are more dangerous (my blood tends to coagulate more easily). If someone patents the gene combination that causes my condition, are I am still allowed to go running? If I am taking heparine as a measure of precaution, have I to pay a patent license fee? I don't know exactly the mechanism behind all this, but if someone explains the biochemistry behind it and patents the genes, am I infringing on his patents just because he can explain why the things I do work?
Where do you see the government involved here? As far as I understood the article those meters are to be distributed by the utilities, and those (at least in California) are privately owned. So I call that a cheap shot from someone who wants his prejudices confirmed.
You run into problems here if the systems you have to support are 15 to 25 years old though, and the software to support them does not run under anything newer than Windows XP. And telling the customer he has to rip out his whole infrastructure and replace it by something new (and to pay for it) gets ugly very fast. We still keep some Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 boxes around for those tasks though.
I was doing some work with real time stuff, and it helped me greatly to be able to imagine parameters like jitter as parameters in an integral over time, where the maximum of the integral was the size of the buffer I need. I never worked out the math completely, because I didn't need to. But it was a very productive model for me. And no, you don't find that kind of math ready-made in a library for coding.
The team was actually pondering that this may be a case of contamination. But -- which mitochondrial DNA contamination will yield a result that shows a divergence that is larger than Homo sapiens sapiens vs. Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, but not large enough for Homo sapiens sapiens vs. Pan troglodytes?
PS: The Neanderthal is a narrow valley between the towns of Erkrath and Mettman, called so in memoriam of the Calvinist church teacher and hymn writer Joachim Neander. I wonder what he would have to say about a human subspecies indirectly named for him.
It was shown with some mineral waters in Germany. A company selling mineral water was trying to increase their revenue, and when they increased the price, the demand for their water actually rose.
As far as I can see, the BSI didn't release a new EU DIN which required "any browser except Firefox 3.6 until Firefox 3.6.2". So where do you see a bureaucrat telling you what you have to do?`
It works completely different. If an organisation gets into IT trouble in the next time and the root cause can be determined to be the usage of a pre 3.6.2 release of Firefox 3.6 it can't claim "act of God", because they have been warned.
Which is good by the way, because one of my boxes still has a Mach64 card, as many servers do which just have 1024x768 graphics just to support a graphic installation process.
It gets more ridiculous. Viacom sent DCMA notices to Google about videos their own employees or someone at Viacom's demand uploaded - and later on pulled back and asked Google to reinstate them. So Viacom exactly knew about the way YouTube worked. And now they are suing Google about break of copyright for videos Viacom itself got uploaded, pulled with DMCA notices and reinstated at Viacom's wish. How ridiculous is that?
I have. I remember reading the whole "Lexicon for the Young: Youth together", an encycopedia encompassing about everything sexual I could imagine at the time, at the age of 13. I remember looking through all the art books of my mother (a graphic designer) looking for nude pictures. I remember having an audio cassette with erotic stories. I remember a female class mate of mine having pictures of a naked man hidden in her bag and taking them out when she wasn't looking. I remember a guy telling me "dirty secrets" about alleged attempts of sex, and I remember thinking that this was plainly lying and trying to be interesting. I remember my first masturbation. I remember my sexual phantasies at the time, and how they changed. I remember vivid discussions between the guys at our walk home about the size and the look of the tits of the female class mates. I remember children of another school walking up behind me and calling me and telling me "She wants to fuck you" and pointing to the biggest girl in their group. And I remember being a geek, a nerd, a bookworm even in my sexual phantasies. I calculated the number of women I had to have in my harem given certain probabilities of them becoming pregnant. I set up complicated ranking and classification schemes for the imagined women in my imagined harem.
So yes. I remember how it was being young and discovering sexuality very well.
And... you know, until the end Viacom was up to buy YouTube. They just lost to Google. So Viacom also knew how evil YouTube was -- and they were still trying to buy it.
As someone who actually has children and remembers well growing up himself, I tell you: No child will engage in sexual intercourse if there is something else interesting to do. So the best way to keep your child away from teenage pregnancy is 1) support your child if it starts to show interest in some hobby, get it interested, keep it occupied with something it has fun doing. 2) don't make the impression sex would be something overly interesting, by being completely normal and honest about it. Children notice if you feel not well talking about something, and if they get the impression you want to hide something that may be fun to do, they will engage in it regardless of anything you tell them.
Adolf Hitler was not democratically elected. In the last election the NSDAP won only about 30% of the votes. But after the Reichtagsbrand he got something else: An "Ermächtigungsgesetz" (Law of Empowerment) that actually removed the need for him to be democratically elected.
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There is a way an EULA can be a binding contract for the consumer, if and only if the retailer puts into his terms and conditions a clause, that by buying a good the buyer agrees to whatever EULA comes with the good purchased. But in this case the retailer should be able to hand a copy of the EULA to the consumer whenever asked for it.
There is a contract of the consumer with the retailer about a good with specified properties.
This contract is not fulfilled, because the manufacturer (Sony) deliberately changed the good with an update.
So the consumer is right to sue the retailer, and the retailer can sue Sony for deliberate damage. I wonder how that will work out.
Between blinds, the one-eyed is king.
I like car analogies when talking about copyright :)
The government and academia are dropping billions of dollars into biotech right now, even with patents. So what's the point?
And no. Just identifying a genome and explaining its properties is not patentable. If you discover an hitherto unknown species of beetle and describe it and its ecology you don't get a patent on it either. You just get the right to name it.
Currently my body belongs to me (restrictions may apply). If I do something with it, feed it a certain way, train it a certain way, I am free to do so without a patent license. But if my genome gets mapped and patented, suddenly I have to make sure that none of the things I do with my body are patent encumbred. Do I know which genes I affect? Which of them are patented? What the patent claims are?
The point is: My body was here before the patents. It hasn't changed by the patents. But the patents change what I am allowed to do with it. I have an anomalous hemogram. I know that certain things are easier for me (I don't get exhausted that easily), and others are more dangerous (my blood tends to coagulate more easily). If someone patents the gene combination that causes my condition, are I am still allowed to go running? If I am taking heparine as a measure of precaution, have I to pay a patent license fee? I don't know exactly the mechanism behind all this, but if someone explains the biochemistry behind it and patents the genes, am I infringing on his patents just because he can explain why the things I do work?
Where do you see the government involved here? As far as I understood the article those meters are to be distributed by the utilities, and those (at least in California) are privately owned.
So I call that a cheap shot from someone who wants his prejudices confirmed.
You know that every IPv4 address is by definition also an IPv6 address as in ::127.0.0.1?
And there was me, with 38910 BASIC BYTES deeply ingrained into my brain...
You run into problems here if the systems you have to support are 15 to 25 years old though, and the software to support them does not run under anything newer than Windows XP. And telling the customer he has to rip out his whole infrastructure and replace it by something new (and to pay for it) gets ugly very fast.
We still keep some Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 boxes around for those tasks though.
No, it has nothing to do with OO.org. SoftMaker is in the Office software business since the late 1980ies, when they were first publishing TextMaker.
When the focus of the keyboard is not the VM, then the VM will not see any keystrokes.
I was doing some work with real time stuff, and it helped me greatly to be able to imagine parameters like jitter as parameters in an integral over time, where the maximum of the integral was the size of the buffer I need. I never worked out the math completely, because I didn't need to. But it was a very productive model for me.
And no, you don't find that kind of math ready-made in a library for coding.
The team was actually pondering that this may be a case of contamination. But -- which mitochondrial DNA contamination will yield a result that shows a divergence that is larger than Homo sapiens sapiens vs. Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, but not large enough for Homo sapiens sapiens vs. Pan troglodytes?
PS: The Neanderthal is a narrow valley between the towns of Erkrath and Mettman, called so in memoriam of the Calvinist church teacher and hymn writer Joachim Neander. I wonder what he would have to say about a human subspecies indirectly named for him.
It was shown with some mineral waters in Germany.
A company selling mineral water was trying to increase their revenue, and when they increased the price, the demand for their water actually rose.
So honey is better because exactly what? Because it consists of 20% water, 70% glucose and fructose, 10% saccharose and maltose?
As far as I can see, the BSI didn't release a new EU DIN which required "any browser except Firefox 3.6 until Firefox 3.6.2".
So where do you see a bureaucrat telling you what you have to do?`
It works completely different. If an organisation gets into IT trouble in the next time and the root cause can be determined to be the usage of a pre 3.6.2 release of Firefox 3.6 it can't claim "act of God", because they have been warned.
That's the whole purpose of the warning.
No. The ones used by the Germans in WWII weren't.
Oh? Outlook? Sidekick got a graphic user interface?
Which is good by the way, because one of my boxes still has a Mach64 card, as many servers do which just have 1024x768 graphics just to support a graphic installation process.
It gets more ridiculous. Viacom sent DCMA notices to Google about videos their own employees or someone at Viacom's demand uploaded - and later on pulled back and asked Google to reinstate them.
So Viacom exactly knew about the way YouTube worked. And now they are suing Google about break of copyright for videos Viacom itself got uploaded, pulled with DMCA notices and reinstated at Viacom's wish.
How ridiculous is that?
I have. I remember reading the whole "Lexicon for the Young: Youth together", an encycopedia encompassing about everything sexual I could imagine at the time, at the age of 13. I remember looking through all the art books of my mother (a graphic designer) looking for nude pictures. I remember having an audio cassette with erotic stories. I remember a female class mate of mine having pictures of a naked man hidden in her bag and taking them out when she wasn't looking. I remember a guy telling me "dirty secrets" about alleged attempts of sex, and I remember thinking that this was plainly lying and trying to be interesting. I remember my first masturbation. I remember my sexual phantasies at the time, and how they changed. I remember vivid discussions between the guys at our walk home about the size and the look of the tits of the female class mates. I remember children of another school walking up behind me and calling me and telling me "She wants to fuck you" and pointing to the biggest girl in their group.
And I remember being a geek, a nerd, a bookworm even in my sexual phantasies. I calculated the number of women I had to have in my harem given certain probabilities of them becoming pregnant. I set up complicated ranking and classification schemes for the imagined women in my imagined harem.
So yes. I remember how it was being young and discovering sexuality very well.
And... you know, until the end Viacom was up to buy YouTube. They just lost to Google.
So Viacom also knew how evil YouTube was -- and they were still trying to buy it.
As someone who actually has children and remembers well growing up himself, I tell you: No child will engage in sexual intercourse if there is something else interesting to do. So the best way to keep your child away from teenage pregnancy is
1) support your child if it starts to show interest in some hobby, get it interested, keep it occupied with something it has fun doing.
2) don't make the impression sex would be something overly interesting, by being completely normal and honest about it. Children notice if you feel not well talking about something, and if they get the impression you want to hide something that may be fun to do, they will engage in it regardless of anything you tell them.
Adolf Hitler was not democratically elected. In the last election the NSDAP won only about 30% of the votes. But after the Reichtagsbrand he got something else: An "Ermächtigungsgesetz" (Law of Empowerment) that actually removed the need for him to be democratically elected.
The amphipod is actually a Lysianassid, not a Lyssianasid, if someone tries to google it :)