I, as the publisher of my website, need to controle what's shown including any links, if M$ thinks it can improve on my writings then it's still my site and maybe I could allow them to use further smart? linking.
This tag on my page could for example tell these smart? tags what database I prefer them to use ( and which one I expressly don't want to be used).
M$: hands off my editing till I tell you different!
Hmm, you just mentioned the word: PROPORTION.
That's just what's missing in the US system: proportion.
How in the hell (!) can a cop or any one else use death as a proportional reaction to some infringement of property....
No, they don't need them.
After only a short time they'll be obsolete even by third world standards and be thrown out.
As these countries typically don't have the necessary recycling technology that means they end up as very dangerous land fill.
Computers contain large quantities of heavy metals and other disturbing materials.
Some think power is expensive in California but considering the typical income in a third world country it is MUCH more precious over there and thus little processing power at a high power consumption is not so great either...
110V @60Hz VS. 230V @50Hz has it's pro's and cons.
The US has due to the low Voltage and high current a FAR higher incidence of fires. (As well partially due to aluminium wiring)
Europe has (had in most countries) due to the higher Voltage and lower frequency a higher number of electrocutions.
In most of Europe this danger has been overcome by putting earth-fault relais in every home and installation.
And sure the losses in a 110V line are quadratic higher than in a 230V line but then the US system far ofter uses (3000V?)transformers right on the doorstep.
No it would not be in direct opposition to the new digital copyright circumvention laws as these are USA-only, the zone-free players would only be required within the Austrailian jurisdiction.
Don't try to impose US law on the rest of the world:).
Glad it's different in most of Europe.
Here in The Netherlands the text of the laws is public and can be copied at will.
A law student ran into trouble when he published the law books on the net, a court made it clear the comments that were included in the book don't belong in the public domain.
So the chap removed the add-ons but was still able to publish the pure law-texts.
As said; if it's to be the Law of the Land that I am expected to follow, it better be public!
Pt. 1, I too believe (hope..) the man is trolling.
Pt. 2, One of the best and yet understandable reasonings on this subject I've seen!
Indeed the anti Darwinist (anti-evolutionary or pro-creationist) lobby is again mistaking 'right and wrong' with 'your sinful and my rightious' opinion.
The biggest sinners are those that claim all their doings are from god's devine will whilst conveniently forgetting their own responsabilities.
Maybe that's a sign of BUILD IN obsolence, it get's slower when time passes.
Maybe it'll be back to it's old speed when you set your clock to just after the release date...
THAT would be a nice scandal.
So what's the difference with an outright quiting after a few years?
It all smells like the early.net reports, you pay for every minute or byte you use an application.
Since when do you need passion to do a job? Do you think coal miners had a passion for their work? How about janitors?
Hmm, you're both a little OT, there are many different types of coders needed but here on/. many expect to find the kind that can be artistic and creative.
And that often (usually?) brings along a certain eccentricity that is not commonly found (nor needed!) in the other trades mentioned.
And no, you don't need passion to do a job but when you want to excel in it it's a near prerequisite.
As we're not informed about the requirements for the job offered it's hard to comment on the reason for not hiring the lady.
Home Planet is a nice simulator, only for Windows I'm afraid but public domain!
It's possible to enter the trajectory of various objects and observe them in animations.
Home Planet
OK, let's say there IS a call for sencorware at schools ( instead I think a supervisor should be around).
Then it should be rateable depending on age or research purpose.
And it should DEFENATELY be possible for a teacher/guardian to override it when it hampers research.
For me it's absolutely unacceptable that some uncontrolable person/company/forum decides what is good/bad for the kids.
Hmm, I'm Dutch too but then there must be two different countries with the name....
You're very ill-informed about our privacy theory AND practice, your example is rediculous.
Any organisation (be it commercial or governement) in The Netherlands with a databank has to comply with the relevant and very strict privacy law. There are several examples of organisations proposing a database to the independent supervising authority and being told to change their set-up even befor starting!.
Contrary to in the US most power lines in Europe are below ground, you'll hardly ever see overhead lines except long distance high voltage lines.
By consequence power outages are quite rare in countries like Germany
When it became apparent that the Brits and Danes needed a few hand outs to make them join Europe the abandonment of the existing vaccination policy was one of them.
Especially the Danes were making money by exporting to Japan and that country did not allow import of meat with anti bodies to Foot and Mouth.
Problem is that a lab can not see a distinction between the vaccinated and the infected animal.
Among others the Brits and the Dutch were willing to try to get onto the Japanese marked and supported the new non vaccination policy.
And that's how it happened that Margareth Thatcher was first responsible for BSE and now at least partially for the outbreak of Foot and Mouth....
Remarkable is that the present British government does not entertain the option to return to the safe policy of vaccination eventhough it looks like the disease has already wiped out any profit that's made in the last ten years.
The Dutch have made a profit in the Japanese marked but wish to return to vaccination for the benefit of animal health.
We must all have read the book, when I did in the 70's it was generally
seen as a tale of someone who foresaw around 1948 how things would be run
in the Soviet 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat'.
With secret services like the KGB in Russia, the Stasi in Eastern Germany
and Securitate in Rumania being in their prime (in the 70's not yet in '48!) this was
on the face of it a reasonable assumption.
But most people forgot this book was written from a British perspective,
the later film is clearly situated in southern England.
Many western politicians used the books tale as a warning against
communist totalitarianism, yet it was not written from that perspective...
The old Soviet block has collapsed since 1989, when it still existed it
was probably the best defence we had against government (Big Brother)
tactics as described in the book.
The Soviets are gone and cynically (or was it predicted?) the British are
furthest on the unholy path of total surveillance.
A quote: "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength"
Britain is a strange society, until recent there was no photo on a driving licence
due to fears of invasion of privacy, traffic police can STILL not do random
alcohol tests on motorists, again a privacy issue, yet the camera's
(telescreens maybe?) are absolutely everywhere!
PS, I support the fight against crime, but not with dubious means.
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M$: hands off my editing till I tell you different!
You are so right and I was too quick....
That's why it's an Asinchronous line :)
The difference between quality and quantity. (Oops...)
That's just what's missing in the US system: proportion.
How in the hell (!) can a cop or any one else use death as a proportional reaction to some infringement of property....
This is the bad variety of capitalism!
After only a short time they'll be obsolete even by third world standards and be thrown out.
As these countries typically don't have the necessary recycling technology that means they end up as very dangerous land fill.
Computers contain large quantities of heavy metals and other disturbing materials.
Some think power is expensive in California but considering the typical income in a third world country it is MUCH more precious over there and thus little processing power at a high power consumption is not so great either...
110V @60Hz VS. 230V @50Hz has it's pro's and cons. The US has due to the low Voltage and high current a FAR higher incidence of fires. (As well partially due to aluminium wiring)
Europe has (had in most countries) due to the higher Voltage and lower frequency a higher number of electrocutions. In most of Europe this danger has been overcome by putting earth-fault relais in every home and installation.
And sure the losses in a 110V line are quadratic higher than in a 230V line but then the US system far ofter uses (3000V?)transformers right on the doorstep.
Don't try to impose US law on the rest of the world :).
English is not my mothers tongue but I have this feeling that an insecure computer would be a form of artificial intelligence.....
Here in The Netherlands the text of the laws is public and can be copied at will.
A law student ran into trouble when he published the law books on the net, a court made it clear the comments that were included in the book don't belong in the public domain.
So the chap removed the add-ons but was still able to publish the pure law-texts.
As said; if it's to be the Law of the Land that I am expected to follow, it better be public!
Surely we would have found the Coke cans and assiociated trash as witnesses.....
Pt. 2, One of the best and yet understandable reasonings on this subject I've seen! Indeed the anti Darwinist (anti-evolutionary or pro-creationist) lobby is again mistaking 'right and wrong' with 'your sinful and my rightious' opinion. The biggest sinners are those that claim all their doings are from god's devine will whilst conveniently forgetting their own responsabilities.
THAT would be a nice scandal.
So what's the difference with an outright quiting after a few years? It all smells like the early .net reports, you pay for every minute or byte you use an application.
Hmm, you're both a little OT, there are many different types of coders needed but here on /. many expect to find the kind that can be artistic and creative.
And that often (usually?) brings along a certain eccentricity that is not commonly found (nor needed!) in the other trades mentioned.
And no, you don't need passion to do a job but when you want to excel in it it's a near prerequisite. As we're not informed about the requirements for the job offered it's hard to comment on the reason for not hiring the lady.
"The vision that comes to mind is Michael Jackson's head in a glass jar."
That should allready be possible using the parts that came off in the last few years......
Home Planet is a nice simulator, only for Windows I'm afraid but public domain! It's possible to enter the trajectory of various objects and observe them in animations. Home Planet
OK, let's say there IS a call for sencorware at schools ( instead I think a supervisor should be around).
Then it should be rateable depending on age or research purpose.
And it should DEFENATELY be possible for a teacher/guardian to override it when it hampers research.
For me it's absolutely unacceptable that some uncontrolable person/company/forum decides what is good/bad for the kids.
Hmm, I'm Dutch too but then there must be two different countries with the name....
You're very ill-informed about our privacy theory AND practice, your example is rediculous.
Any organisation (be it commercial or governement) in The Netherlands with a databank has to comply with the relevant and very strict privacy law. There are several examples of organisations proposing a database to the independent supervising authority and being told to change their set-up even befor starting!.
As long as M$ allows Streaming Media to be recorded via ME's MovieMaker software there is something to be desired in this marriage.....
Contrary to in the US most power lines in Europe are below ground, you'll hardly ever see overhead lines except long distance high voltage lines. By consequence power outages are quite rare in countries like Germany
And that's how it happened that Margareth Thatcher was first responsible for BSE and now at least partially for the outbreak of Foot and Mouth....
Remarkable is that the present British government does not entertain the option to return to the safe policy of vaccination eventhough it looks like the disease has already wiped out any profit that's made in the last ten years. The Dutch have made a profit in the Japanese marked but wish to return to vaccination for the benefit of animal health.
Education is what you need so you can decide for yourself if this is valid science or just bullshit.<P>
I'm ashamed to be in the same species as you!
Basic research seems to have a hard time ahead with this US administration.
You forget the DeCSS as a problem is mainly a USofA legal issue, other developed countries see things differently.
'Criminal' is in the vast majority of cases the unwillingness not inability to respect the discern between "Mine and Thine", be it life or goods.
But most people forgot this book was written from a British perspective, the later film is clearly situated in southern England.
Many western politicians used the books tale as a warning against communist totalitarianism, yet it was not written from that perspective...
The old Soviet block has collapsed since 1989, when it still existed it was probably the best defence we had against government (Big Brother) tactics as described in the book.
The Soviets are gone and cynically (or was it predicted?) the British are furthest on the unholy path of total surveillance.
A quote: "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength"
Britain is a strange society, until recent there was no photo on a driving licence due to fears of invasion of privacy, traffic police can STILL not do random alcohol tests on motorists, again a privacy issue, yet the camera's (telescreens maybe?) are absolutely everywhere!
PS, I support the fight against crime, but not with dubious means.