Or, when you can't handle it you jump over the cliff.
Rather an apropriate name to go with the comment!
The advantage of the 'Metric' paper sizes is obvious, the mill only makes one size stock (A0) and (someone) can cut it to any requested size without loss.
An other advantage, when you get a, say A4 envelope, you know how to easily fold an A3 or A2 sheet to fit in it. No need for a large inventory of funny sized envelopes or odly folded documents.
Present 3 hours before flight?
It's already the case when flying to the US from Europe.
That's ofcourse logic in the light that all these 9/11 hijackers were Europeans.
(Oops, that's demographic profiling the Bush-light way...)
If/when security is realy implemented at airports no locks are needed anyway.
Indeed, this must be the the main reason for M$ to come up with the plan.
And every computer running their product is one less for the competition...
A Eula restricting transfer of the use of the product is rather worthless in most (European) countries I know, in Africa and Asia most people and governements couldnt care less anyway.
this was not the case in britain, where a new, but incompatible, standard was created, that used bandwidth more effectively, and had better color.
The British colour standard was not new, it was the existing German PAL standard with a twist.
The incompatibility of the British colour standard was not so much a problem because it would not work on the old (pre-WWII) 405 lines B&W receivers but because its deviation from the widely accepted PAL standard.
For typical British reasons the offset for the sound channel was half a MHz more than the rest of Europe used and was basically only a piece of market protection.
Officially it was of course to allow for better colour saturation, yeah right.
I have not been a fan of new TLDs for some time, as it seems to promote confusion. I consider it to be more inefficient to have companyname.info, companyname.com, companyname.net, companyname.org, companyname.mail,
If M$ wants to stop support to Europe then European legislation would not be in the way of using/copying the US support in a manner that untill now is illegal.
Besides, M$ has only one priciple, profit.
So getting 80 cents to the previous Dollar is still profit!
Here in Europe virtually ALL DVD players are on display with a nice little notice they are Region Free.
Some are indeed from the start, most only require a little (explained in the manual) tinkering via the remote to get this Freedom to play the DVD's you legally bought.
I understand that the big $$$ lobbyists from the U$ are trying to influence European legislation towards a DMCA-style system but that has yet to happen.
Europeans keep in touch with your representatives!!
What happened in the last 60 years, then (1945) America brought us Freedom, now they try to take it away...
SCO says they have made the 'SCO IP license for Linux" part of their Unixware licenses.
As SCO has so far only identfied CA as buyer of such a Unixware license I can only conclude that this is the ONLY batch of Unixware licenses sold in the last half year or so.
And CA did not even go shopping for these licenses...
When the shops open tomorrow I'll have a look for replacement of my Xerox Workcentre 480 cartridges.
I've not seen them in shops for about 2 years now and they look VERY similar to the ones in the article...
Indeed all cartridges are expensive and Xerox double so.
I have a Visa and a Master Card and used to have an American Express card, all on a Dutch account.
I've never ever had to pay interest on anything I did with these cards including cash withdrawals.
But I *do* pay a fee for every cash withdrawal, sometimes a lump sum, sometimes a percentage.
As far as I know this is generally the way it's done in Europe maybe with the exception of the UK.
But then the UK interest on credit cards is generaly so much higher than in the rest of Europe, in The Netherlands such a level of interest would often be legally classed extortion and be punishable.
"because the Two Parties have made laws that make it tough for third parties to raise funds for a decent campaign."
Wrong!
The problem is the present funding allows for more than one vote for the rich.
Democratic would be a system of funding by individuals (not companies, unions, special interrest groups) only and per individual a sum that's affordable to any in the country.
Like $10.- a head per year.
That would be one man one vote!
You are SO right.
It's again a TYPICAL british tabloid driven story that's is now realy getting out of hand
The whole thing is not so much about minors accessing porn, even these FUD spreaders know tha's not REALY going to be a problem, it's just a bunch of naked people after all.
There CAN be a problem with paedophiles, but it is indeed unprooven and unlikely there are suddenly more of these sicko's than say 10 years ago.
As someone that grew up during the Cold War and to admire the USofA for doing The Right Thing (well often...) it makes me SO sad to see how the US legal system is not able to protect it's people against silly extortional tactics as these by SCO.
Why can't the US repair it's legal system so as to do what happened in for exemple Germany and Poland where the courts told SCO to "Put up or Shut up", i.e. shut up untill you SHOW the problem.
Regretfully the present situation reflects baldly not only on the flawed US legal system but on a once great nation (and people!) as a whole.
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Or, when you can't handle it you jump over the cliff.
Rather an apropriate name to go with the comment!
The advantage of the 'Metric' paper sizes is obvious, the mill only makes one size stock (A0) and (someone) can cut it to any requested size without loss.
An other advantage, when you get a, say A4 envelope, you know how to easily fold an A3 or A2 sheet to fit in it. No need for a large inventory of funny sized envelopes or odly folded documents.
From the Swede's I would have expected a little more trust in his product (even though he's a Fin).
But then someone else explained the budgetary problems of the Swedish armed forces so I suspect it was all financed by Redmond.
It's already the case when flying to the US from Europe.
That's ofcourse logic in the light that all these 9/11 hijackers were Europeans.
(Oops, that's demographic profiling the Bush-light way...)
If/when security is realy implemented at airports no locks are needed anyway.
And every computer running their product is one less for the competition...
A Eula restricting transfer of the use of the product is rather worthless in most (European) countries I know, in Africa and Asia most people and governements couldnt care less anyway.
The British colour standard was not new, it was the existing German PAL standard with a twist.
The incompatibility of the British colour standard was not so much a problem because it would not work on the old (pre-WWII) 405 lines B&W receivers but because its deviation from the widely accepted PAL standard.
For typical British reasons the offset for the sound channel was half a MHz more than the rest of Europe used and was basically only a piece of market protection.
Officially it was of course to allow for better colour saturation, yeah right.
I am truly troubled these statements of some US politicians and officials.
You missed Halliburton.mil, Halliburton.gov
If I've ever seen a Troll, you're *da Man*!
If M$ wants to stop support to Europe then European legislation would not be in the way of using/copying the US support in a manner that untill now is illegal.
Besides, M$ has only one priciple, profit.
So getting 80 cents to the previous Dollar is still profit!
The form says: US address, city & state, or zip
Well it's Beta and you gotta start somewhere.
So some backwater is the logical point.
Or the UN maybe?
Some are indeed from the start, most only require a little (explained in the manual) tinkering via the remote to get this Freedom to play the DVD's you legally bought.
I understand that the big $$$ lobbyists from the U$ are trying to influence European legislation towards a DMCA-style system but that has yet to happen.
Europeans keep in touch with your representatives!!
What happened in the last 60 years, then (1945) America brought us Freedom, now they try to take it away...
2.6 pounds with 3+6= 9 hours of battery life.
As SCO has so far only identfied CA as buyer of such a Unixware license I can only conclude that this is the ONLY batch of Unixware licenses sold in the last half year or so.
And CA did not even go shopping for these licenses...
My experience in Holland, Germany and Denmark is these Xerox cartridges cost close to US$100.- in regular shops and some US$60.- via the internet.
Would I order in the US I have to pay for shipping (US$12-18) and, depending on the country, 17-25%VAT as an import duty.
(You DID read the article?)
I've not seen them in shops for about 2 years now and they look VERY similar to the ones in the article...
Indeed all cartridges are expensive and Xerox double so.
I've never ever had to pay interest on anything I did with these cards including cash withdrawals.
But I *do* pay a fee for every cash withdrawal, sometimes a lump sum, sometimes a percentage.
As far as I know this is generally the way it's done in Europe maybe with the exception of the UK.
But then the UK interest on credit cards is generaly so much higher than in the rest of Europe, in The Netherlands such a level of interest would often be legally classed extortion and be punishable.
Goofy boy!
Wrong!
The problem is the present funding allows for more than one vote for the rich.
Democratic would be a system of funding by individuals (not companies, unions, special interrest groups) only and per individual a sum that's affordable to any in the country.
Like $10.- a head per year. That would be one man one vote!
Ofcourse it would kill an industry.
That lot is usually able to get warrants to enter places.
I believe 'the rest of the world' will follow the German way and let a court tell them to either put up or shut up.
When that kid comes back after a few years in the camp he'll be trained to do a lot more damage than $5.
I sure hope you were joking!
It's again a TYPICAL british tabloid driven story that's is now realy getting out of hand
The whole thing is not so much about minors accessing porn, even these FUD spreaders know tha's not REALY going to be a problem, it's just a bunch of naked people after all.
There CAN be a problem with paedophiles, but it is indeed unprooven and unlikely there are suddenly more of these sicko's than say 10 years ago.
But Mike says he explained them that the work he had put into the site had a price.
And this work can not be seen separate from the domain.
The reason behind it all is that The Industry has told them DRM enabled stuff is The Future.
Why can't the US repair it's legal system so as to do what happened in for exemple Germany and Poland where the courts told SCO to "Put up or Shut up", i.e. shut up untill you SHOW the problem.
Regretfully the present situation reflects baldly not only on the flawed US legal system but on a once great nation (and people!) as a whole.