And running any of the GNU tools without a suitable kernel is kind of difficult also - so should we call it Linux/GCC? perhaps BSD/Linux/Windows/GCC?
And yes, of course I know it runs also on windows, even though that makes the 'pure blood' GNU aims seem somewhat odd, but does that actually help things?
Call me when HURD becomes workable for every day purposes (you know, like supporting hardware other than that of the core developers..) and we can talk.
So I assume then that you would not mind if you bought a new car, then afterwards found out that you could not drive it on the freeway because it was not able to get past 40 and started falling appart if you tried?
There were adds showing off 'Vista' primarily as aero, but then when it shipped, there was vista basic, which in no way resembled the 'Vista' people has got excited about, and bought computers claiming to support.
Its close to a delayed bait-and-switch - unload old machines based on a promise, then say 'oops, time to upgrade!'
Microsoft didnt sell the old machines, but they did provide the opportunity here.
> The point being that by default, Office 2007 saves in the new 2007 format.
This is easily configurable, moreover you can configure it once for all your users using group policy.
Really? could you please let me know how to easily reconfigure the Office 2007 being used by outside clients that email our staff documents in the new 2007 formats without asking them to, when they have no idea why it is even an issue?
> If you use Office 2000, and someone sends you a 2003 or 2007 file, you're forced to upgrade.
No, Office (if patched up to date) will helpfully offer you a plugin download that will enable your _current_ version of Office to read the new file - it doesn't upgrade the whole of office, just an additional file format plugin.
If, that is, you are happy to have all our general office PCs with open access to the internet..
> DOCX is vastly different from the DOC file format.
I think the point the GP was making is that the underlying format structure is the same - one is a binary dump of the document objects, the other is a simple XML dump. The documentation on the xml format can actually help understanding the older binary format.
The fact that it is an XML dump of the old format (based on the internal office data structures) rather than designed as an XML representation was/is a common and major criticism of OOXML.
You really dont have a clue do you? EVERY version of office has used a slightly different version of its binary format, and msoft has had to write a ton of internal converters to handle those - DOCX in NO way is a XML representation of the binary file formats. You are talking out of your arse on this one.
You would not have a job for long in the places I work.
I.T. is about customer service and politics and pissing people off will make them wonder why they are paying you. As a manager I would fire anyone with this kind of attitude similiar to what the other poster said about migration costs and whinners are a valid consideration.
Some people hate change and its a problem. O.O is not perfect and ms office just works so why rock the boat? Is the licensing costs worth pissing people off and damaging your career.
And you, sir, would not have a job in the company I run.
IT is not about customer service - if it was then IT workers would simply spend all day as the technical secretaries of what ever staff member decided to be the loudest whiner. It is about providing the services that the company needs to operate efficiently within budget, time, and operational constraints (including of course trying to work with others.) Nothing fails like an IT department that is run in the style of customer service. I love it when HR blurts that shit out - just ask them how their customers find their service...
You are also showing your bias - ms office certainly does not 'just work', and has a whole minefield of its own issues - neither is perfect, and both have areas in which they are better.
If the majority of traveling sales staff voiced a preference for sports SUVs as company cars for client visits, does that also mean they should have them?
I suspect you simply take the line of least resistance with situations, good luck with that.
UK government is decidedly more authoritarian and I wouldn't be surprised if they decide to steal from their people, but as far as U.S. is concerned, we have such things as the Fifth Amendment that prohibits the government from taking private properties unjustly.
Really? the good ole USA seems quite happy (previous and now current President anyway) to secretly spy on its own people, what makes you think it would not be willing to take from them if it could get away with it?
And dont even get me on to Taxation without Representation - how many representatives vote against the 'democratic' wish of their voters?
Seagate is STILL refusing to give a list of drives that have the problem (whats so hard about a matrix of model/firmware/etc?) - calls to their support do not get through, and emails are being ignored to the large part.
I personally have in excess of 50 500GB 7200.11 drives in semi-critical operation here, on machines that get restarted several times a day - for a while we have been losing drives at the rate of about one a week.
Now, Seagates response so far has been to RMA them once they fail - in our case that involves sending them a good 1/3 of the way around the world! at our cost! if ANYTHING does not satisfy Seagate in the handling, they refuse the RMA (happens about 50% of the time).
Of course since they will not pre-issue RMA drives (different in the US I believe..) this leaves us with a several week period with no drive, therefore we simply need to purchase replacements anyway.
Now we cannot even RMA drives, because they are so saturated dealing with the hole they have dug, their service has stopped.
There is ZERO reason that a list of 'currently known at risk' combinations could not be issued, allowing us to take those drives out of service until a fix is developed.
Right now our option is to replace ALL of those with a different manufacturers drive - will Seagate refund the costs involved? I dont think so.
Not every ones situation is a home user who doesnt get to play their FPS for a few days because of a drive failure..
This is a growing economy, perhaps they are just deciding to take the hit now rather than dig themselves deeper into the Microsoft dependency trap.
To me this seems like a very sensible call for smaller and growing countries - it frees up resources for other purposes and means they are not caught in the trap in the future.
Linux doesnt have to be 'all that great', it just has to work, and it does. We are not talking about countries that have developed to the fat-and-lazy level of needing everything to be 'managed for them' here.
And if you thin Microsoft bends over backwards to help large customers in 'other' countries, then good luck with that.
An interesting question is what happens if a companies internet link is used to download 'copyrighted material'?
Surely by this same measure, that companies link will be removed and they will not be allowed to have one? That should make staying in business interesting.
Should, for example, some foreign 'pirate' decide to share a large quantity of copyright material, log the IPs downloading it, scan for NZ companies static IP addresses, then forward all of that data to the ISPs/Authorities involved it would create quite a problem..
Could ALL the large companies/govt. dept. in New Zealand guarantee none of their staff will do such a thing?
That is after all much the same situation as cutting off a families internet connection when their 10 year old discovers music downloading before their parents notice (quite a common occurrence I suspect..).
If the policy implemented by an ISP is found upon later inspection to be too lenient on the 'evil pirates' then the ISP becomes legally responsible for the copyright infringement.
Then again, if someone gets incorrectly disconnected, I suspect the ISP could at worst be forced to reinstate their connection, IF they can prove this.
So, the only 'sane' thing an ISP can do is disconnect anyone at the slightest hint of trouble - anything else could result in the blame falling in their lap.
I bet the ISPs are very happy at providing free policing services to the music/movie industries.. after all, they make SO much more money:/.
your ellipses above are specifically positioned to try and change the intent of the post, although that does not surprise me for someone so obvious stupid.
>Of course the demographic of perpetrators gives a statistical indication as to intent.
No it does not, as the total number of people from the population who commit crime is not high enough to be statistically relevant to a single person. Therefore you cannot use such statistics to decide on a single individuals likelihood to have such intent.
Same thing applies to terrorism.
100% of Charles Mansons were a white guy, so therefore all white guys should be considered to have the same intent? See, its ridiculous.
'more likely to commit domestic abuse' says NOTHING about individuals intent you moron, if 90% of white male skinheads perpetrated domestic abuse (which of course they do not) then that would matter, but if 90% of a crime that is only committed by 1% of the population is committed by a certain subset, it does not say anything about an individual as the total from the population is too small.
Of course you obviously do not understand statistics enough to realise that.
That is why most of the 'targeting' used in current anti-terrorism is so foolish as to be laughable.
Statistically a larger proportion of crime is committed by people with coloured skin, should we treat all such people therefore as criminals?
Its the same damn thing.
(and BTW, my answer to the above is 'of course not you idiots' as such statistics mean nothing in relation to intent to commit any crime).
There is NO excuse for the treatment of these people, what started out as a mistake on the part of airline security was then made many times worse as those same idiots dug in their heals rather than just admit they were wrong.
Actually, while most people would agree it is 'distasteful' the previous poster has a perfectly valid point, and you are very very wrong.
If someone chooses to breastfeed in a public place, they have no 'expectation of privacy' and should accept someone taking a photo of them, watching them, whatever.
If it is find to do in public, then dont complain about the public taking notice!
Of course it is not NICE to stare/take pictures/whatever, but it is just as 'right' as the breastfeeding itself.
Or perhaps you think your double standards trump the previous posters rights?
Of course what you want to do above is assault at the least, and SHOULD get you arrested, and charged.
If the woman wants her privacy (and the rest of us for whatever we do in public..) then perhaps she should find somewhere where she does have privacy...
I suspect of course in the real world someone WOULD try to stop that photo being taken, or even call some misguided police to cause trouble - this is the world of double standards we live in, but that does not make it right.
Why not? if you buy your fuel in state A and drive around in state B isnt that exactly what happens now?
This is of course pointless, GPS is VERY easy to jam, and moderately easy to supply fake data to.
It would also cost a LOT of build a suitable 'protected' and robust system and install it into all the cars, of course guess who would end up carrying that additional 'tax'
Just put up the damn fuel tax already, if more money is really required, or more sensibly fire some idiots.
And ms.Pronk does not seem to realise that even PAL has a field rate of 50Hz, not 25 (and on many new flatscreens that is horrible redisplayed at 60hz..)
Field rate is what atters when it comes to seeing refreshed motion, so if they can easily see issues in PAL, they will also see issues in wither 50i or 50p 'HDTV' signals.
So, its either a resolution issue, or more likely an error in measurement.
Of course the reason most home 'hunting' animals (dogs, cats) dont react much to tv is that they have excellent depth perception, so the flat screen is obviously false to them.
This guy is talking about SOHO type NAS boxes, their cpu and network throughput is their bottleneck.
If he was talking about 'real' NAS, then that is very different (although it is still trivial to get a NAS that can saturate GBit for many workloads).
Our 16/32 drive Raid6 SATA raid arrays easily sustain 400MB/sec locally for moderately non-random workloads - there are workloads for which this of course does not apply, but since he is apparently moving around GByte lumps, it would not be his case.
SOHO NAS devices normally run out of grunt at around 6MB/secish, even for long linear reads, some do better at up to 25.
I am thinking your workload is TPC type database loads, dont assume everyones is (we have a mix of video files and software development, very different..). TPC type disk loads are a corner case.
We also love ATAOE but that is DEFINITELY not what he is looking for.
Section 101 of Title 17 of the U.S. Code defines "work made for hire" as:
1. A work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or
2. A work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire.
If it is a 'work for hire', ie: you are employed to create it, copyright goes to the person who employed you.
Isnt that obvious? you really think people will employ you, pay you to do a job, then you own the outcome of that?
I assume that one day when your wife gets spooked at night in an alley somewhere by some street-bad looking kid, pulls her gun and shoots him dead, only to find that he was trying to ask her directions to the closest 7-11, that you will happily surrender her to the justice system on a murder charge?
Or perhaps it is a mugger, and your wife shoots him dead (after all he pulled a gun..), then she turns around just as someone else walks in the the alley, they see her with a gun having just shot someone, turning towards them still holding her gun, so they grab theirs and open fire.. Will you uphold the third persons right to self defense?
In fact, lots of our children also dont have guns, and dont have the physical strength to defend themselves either.
Not all "children" are "crazy", and many "young" and not so young people have limited ability to deal with to macho over-mechanised design of a modern firearm. Leaving out the complex mechanics of firing a semi-auto, even the imposing and un-friendly look of the gun may stop them.
We better contact this company and tell them to get working on the barbie-gun!
It is worth noting that there are no serious methods of self-defence available to young child other than firearms. If they are alone or with another young person, assailants have plenty of time to rob,/beat/snuff them.
Wrong, 3.0 seriously breaks the python-C interface, meaning such small things as wxPython are going to be major porting efforts.
Without the mountain of essential 3rd party libraries that python lives on, python 3.0 is next to useless for major projects.
This is a great pity, so much effort has gone in to providing nice tools to forward-port python code, but without the C extensions..
Unless a LOT of effort is put into porting over the top 20-30 binary extensions, I predict a long and slow birth for python 3.0, which would be a great pity.
It all feels rather rushed, and the 10% slower, with a 'maybe we can one day fix that' hurts as well.
If it is your 'job' to produce such items, they are completely owned by the person PAYING for their creation.
A good example is a TV cameraman, believe it or not he does now own the copyright to the pictures coming out of his camera if he was contracted to operate the camera.
The question here is simply is it the job of the person involved to produce the items/ideas/whatever in question.
If say your job was to wash cars, and while there you invented quantum computing, your employer would not own that UNLESS they had an additional IP contract with you, as it was not your job to do that (they could however fire you for spending work time doing something other than your job;))
There are basic terms of employment that are assumed - not everything has to be specifically contracted, otherwise employment contracts would be insanely long and complex.
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And running any of the GNU tools without a suitable kernel is kind of difficult also - so should we call it Linux/GCC? perhaps BSD/Linux/Windows/GCC?
And yes, of course I know it runs also on windows, even though that makes the 'pure blood' GNU aims seem somewhat odd, but does that actually help things?
Call me when HURD becomes workable for every day purposes (you know, like supporting hardware other than that of the core developers..) and we can talk.
Ah, but you forgot the obvious one:
'Buy an existing 2nd hand phone in the market that does not make a noise'
As there are plenty of small, good quality camera phones, are they going to outlaw them?
Quite enough I suspect to supply the 'evil-doers' for quite some time.
IE: the whole idea is pointless.
So I assume then that you would not mind if you bought a new car, then afterwards found out that you could not drive it on the freeway because it was not able to get past 40 and started falling appart if you tried?
There were adds showing off 'Vista' primarily as aero, but then when it shipped, there was vista basic, which in no way resembled the 'Vista' people has got excited about, and bought computers claiming to support.
Its close to a delayed bait-and-switch - unload old machines based on a promise, then say 'oops, time to upgrade!'
Microsoft didnt sell the old machines, but they did provide the opportunity here.
> The point being that by default, Office 2007 saves in the new 2007 format.
This is easily configurable, moreover you can configure it once for all your users using group policy.
Really? could you please let me know how to easily reconfigure the Office 2007 being used by outside clients that email our staff documents in the new 2007 formats without asking them to, when they have no idea why it is even an issue?
> If you use Office 2000, and someone sends you a 2003 or 2007 file, you're forced to upgrade.
No, Office (if patched up to date) will helpfully offer you a plugin download that will enable your _current_ version of Office to read the new file - it doesn't upgrade the whole of office, just an additional file format plugin.
If, that is, you are happy to have all our general office PCs with open access to the internet..
> DOCX is vastly different from the DOC file format.
I think the point the GP was making is that the underlying format structure is the same - one is a binary dump of the document objects, the other is a simple XML dump. The documentation on the xml format can actually help understanding the older binary format.
The fact that it is an XML dump of the old format (based on the internal office data structures) rather than designed as an XML representation was/is a common and major criticism of OOXML.
You really dont have a clue do you?
EVERY version of office has used a slightly different version of its binary format, and msoft has had to write a ton of internal converters to handle those - DOCX in NO way is a XML representation of the binary file formats. You are talking out of your arse on this one.
You would not have a job for long in the places I work.
I.T. is about customer service and politics and pissing people off will make them wonder why they are paying you. As a manager I would fire anyone with this kind of attitude similiar to what the other poster said about migration costs and whinners are a valid consideration.
Some people hate change and its a problem. O.O is not perfect and ms office just works so why rock the boat? Is the licensing costs worth pissing people off and damaging your career.
And you, sir, would not have a job in the company I run.
IT is not about customer service - if it was then IT workers would simply spend all day as the technical secretaries of what ever staff member decided to be the loudest whiner. It is about providing the services that the company needs to operate efficiently within budget, time, and operational constraints (including of course trying to work with others.)
Nothing fails like an IT department that is run in the style of customer service. I love it when HR blurts that shit out - just ask them how their customers find their service...
You are also showing your bias - ms office certainly does not 'just work', and has a whole minefield of its own issues - neither is perfect, and both have areas in which they are better.
If the majority of traveling sales staff voiced a preference for sports SUVs as company cars for client visits, does that also mean they should have them?
I suspect you simply take the line of least resistance with situations, good luck with that.
UK government is decidedly more authoritarian and I wouldn't be surprised if they decide to steal from their people, but as far as U.S. is concerned, we have such things as the Fifth Amendment that prohibits the government from taking private properties unjustly.
Really? the good ole USA seems quite happy (previous and now current President anyway) to secretly spy on its own people, what makes you think it would not be willing to take from them if it could get away with it?
And dont even get me on to Taxation without Representation - how many representatives vote against the 'democratic' wish of their voters?
If the ISPs and their staff are expected to do this for free, then why are the police not expected to do this for free?
Then CEOP would have no problem meeting budget, since no one there would be charging a wage!
Really, why should their budget go to police officers, while they expect private enterprise to supply them services for free?
I think you miss the issue.
Seagate is STILL refusing to give a list of drives that have the problem (whats so hard about a matrix of model/firmware/etc?) - calls to their support do not get through, and emails are being ignored to the large part.
I personally have in excess of 50 500GB 7200.11 drives in semi-critical operation here, on machines that get restarted several times a day - for a while we have been losing drives at the rate of about one a week.
Now, Seagates response so far has been to RMA them once they fail - in our case that involves sending them a good 1/3 of the way around the world! at our cost! if ANYTHING does not satisfy Seagate in the handling, they refuse the RMA (happens about 50% of the time).
Of course since they will not pre-issue RMA drives (different in the US I believe..) this leaves us with a several week period with no drive, therefore we simply need to purchase replacements anyway.
Now we cannot even RMA drives, because they are so saturated dealing with the hole they have dug, their service has stopped.
There is ZERO reason that a list of 'currently known at risk' combinations could not be issued, allowing us to take those drives out of service until a fix is developed.
Right now our option is to replace ALL of those with a different manufacturers drive - will Seagate refund the costs involved? I dont think so.
Not every ones situation is a home user who doesnt get to play their FPS for a few days because of a drive failure..
This is a growing economy, perhaps they are just deciding to take the hit now rather than dig themselves deeper into the Microsoft dependency trap.
To me this seems like a very sensible call for smaller and growing countries - it frees up resources for other purposes and means they are not caught in the trap in the future.
Linux doesnt have to be 'all that great', it just has to work, and it does. We are not talking about countries that have developed to the fat-and-lazy level of needing everything to be 'managed for them' here.
And if you thin Microsoft bends over backwards to help large customers in 'other' countries, then good luck with that.
An interesting question is what happens if a companies internet link is used to download 'copyrighted material'?
Surely by this same measure, that companies link will be removed and they will not be allowed to have one? That should make staying in business interesting.
Should, for example, some foreign 'pirate' decide to share a large quantity of copyright material, log the IPs downloading it, scan for NZ companies static IP addresses, then forward all of that data to the ISPs/Authorities involved it would create quite a problem..
Could ALL the large companies/govt. dept. in New Zealand guarantee none of their staff will do such a thing?
That is after all much the same situation as cutting off a families internet connection when their 10 year old discovers music downloading before their parents notice (quite a common occurrence I suspect..).
You are missing the subtle half of the plan.
If the policy implemented by an ISP is found upon later inspection to be too lenient on the 'evil pirates' then the ISP becomes legally responsible for the copyright infringement.
Then again, if someone gets incorrectly disconnected, I suspect the ISP could at worst be forced to reinstate their connection, IF they can prove this.
So, the only 'sane' thing an ISP can do is disconnect anyone at the slightest hint of trouble - anything else could result in the blame falling in their lap.
I bet the ISPs are very happy at providing free policing services to the music/movie industries.. after all, they make SO much more money :/.
ah, you are an idiot.
your ellipses above are specifically positioned to try and change the intent of the post, although that does not surprise me for someone so obvious stupid.
>Of course the demographic of perpetrators gives a statistical indication as to intent.
No it does not, as the total number of people from the population who commit crime is not high enough to be statistically relevant to a single person.
Therefore you cannot use such statistics to decide on a single individuals likelihood to have such intent.
Same thing applies to terrorism.
100% of Charles Mansons were a white guy, so therefore all white guys should be considered to have the same intent? See, its ridiculous.
'more likely to commit domestic abuse' says NOTHING about individuals intent you moron, if 90% of white male skinheads perpetrated domestic abuse (which of course they do not) then that would matter, but if 90% of a crime that is only committed by 1% of the population is committed by a certain subset, it does not say anything about an individual as the total from the population is too small.
Of course you obviously do not understand statistics enough to realise that.
That is why most of the 'targeting' used in current anti-terrorism is so foolish as to be laughable.
Statistically a larger proportion of crime is committed by people with coloured skin, should we treat all such people therefore as criminals?
Its the same damn thing.
(and BTW, my answer to the above is 'of course not you idiots' as such statistics mean nothing in relation to intent to commit any crime).
There is NO excuse for the treatment of these people, what started out as a mistake on the part of airline security was then made many times worse as those same idiots dug in their heals rather than just admit they were wrong.
Wow, I didnt know that 'society' consisted of only US states ;) pity the rest of the world...
Actually, not disagreeing with you, but that was a PARTICULARLY stupid thing to say.
Actually, while most people would agree it is 'distasteful' the previous poster has a perfectly valid point, and you are very very wrong.
If someone chooses to breastfeed in a public place, they have no 'expectation of privacy' and should accept someone taking a photo of them, watching them, whatever.
If it is find to do in public, then dont complain about the public taking notice!
Of course it is not NICE to stare/take pictures/whatever, but it is just as 'right' as the breastfeeding itself.
Or perhaps you think your double standards trump the previous posters rights?
Of course what you want to do above is assault at the least, and SHOULD get you arrested, and charged.
If the woman wants her privacy (and the rest of us for whatever we do in public..) then perhaps she should find somewhere where she does have privacy...
I suspect of course in the real world someone WOULD try to stop that photo being taken, or even call some misguided police to cause trouble - this is the world of double standards we live in, but that does not make it right.
Why not? if you buy your fuel in state A and drive around in state B isnt that exactly what happens now?
This is of course pointless, GPS is VERY easy to jam, and moderately easy to supply fake data to.
It would also cost a LOT of build a suitable 'protected' and robust system and install it into all the cars, of course guess who would end up carrying that additional 'tax'
Just put up the damn fuel tax already, if more money is really required, or more sensibly fire some idiots.
And ms.Pronk does not seem to realise that even PAL has a field rate of 50Hz, not 25 (and on many new flatscreens that is horrible redisplayed at 60hz..)
Field rate is what atters when it comes to seeing refreshed motion, so if they can easily see issues in PAL, they will also see issues in wither 50i or 50p 'HDTV' signals.
So, its either a resolution issue, or more likely an error in measurement.
Of course the reason most home 'hunting' animals (dogs, cats) dont react much to tv is that they have excellent depth perception, so the flat screen is obviously false to them.
Ah, wrong.
This guy is talking about SOHO type NAS boxes, their cpu and network throughput is their bottleneck.
If he was talking about 'real' NAS, then that is very different (although it is still trivial to get a NAS that can saturate GBit for many workloads).
Our 16/32 drive Raid6 SATA raid arrays easily sustain 400MB/sec locally for moderately non-random workloads - there are workloads for which this of course does not apply, but since he is apparently moving around GByte lumps, it would not be his case.
SOHO NAS devices normally run out of grunt at around 6MB/secish, even for long linear reads, some do better at up to 25.
I am thinking your workload is TPC type database loads, dont assume everyones is (we have a mix of video files and software development, very different..). TPC type disk loads are a corner case.
We also love ATAOE but that is DEFINITELY not what he is looking for.
Eiffel ;)
Section 101 of Title 17 of the U.S. Code defines "work made for hire" as:
1. A work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or
2. A work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire.
If it is a 'work for hire', ie: you are employed to create it, copyright goes to the person who employed you.
Isnt that obvious? you really think people will employ you, pay you to do a job, then you own the outcome of that?
Idiot.
I assume that one day when your wife gets spooked at night in an alley somewhere by some street-bad looking kid, pulls her gun and shoots him dead, only to find that he was trying to ask her directions to the closest 7-11, that you will happily surrender her to the justice system on a murder charge?
Or perhaps it is a mugger, and your wife shoots him dead (after all he pulled a gun..), then she turns around just as someone else walks in the the alley, they see her with a gun having just shot someone, turning towards them still holding her gun, so they grab theirs and open fire.. Will you uphold the third persons right to self defense?
Yes, horrible scenarios I know, but they happen..
Yes, I agree completely!
In fact, lots of our children also dont have guns, and dont have the physical strength to defend themselves either.
Not all "children" are "crazy", and many "young" and not so young people have limited ability to deal with to macho over-mechanised design of a modern firearm. Leaving out the complex mechanics of firing a semi-auto, even the imposing and un-friendly look of the gun may stop them.
We better contact this company and tell them to get working on the barbie-gun!
It is worth noting that there are no serious methods of self-defence available to young child other than firearms. If they are alone or with another young person, assailants have plenty of time to rob,/beat/snuff them.
Sigh.
Wrong, 3.0 seriously breaks the python-C interface, meaning such small things as wxPython are going to be major porting efforts.
Without the mountain of essential 3rd party libraries that python lives on, python 3.0 is next to useless for major projects.
This is a great pity, so much effort has gone in to providing nice tools to forward-port python code, but without the C extensions..
Unless a LOT of effort is put into porting over the top 20-30 binary extensions, I predict a long and slow birth for python 3.0, which would be a great pity.
It all feels rather rushed, and the 10% slower, with a 'maybe we can one day fix that' hurts as well.
WRONG.
If it is your 'job' to produce such items, they are completely owned by the person PAYING for their creation.
A good example is a TV cameraman, believe it or not he does now own the copyright to the pictures coming out of his camera if he was contracted to operate the camera.
The question here is simply is it the job of the person involved to produce the items/ideas/whatever in question.
If say your job was to wash cars, and while there you invented quantum computing, your employer would not own that UNLESS they had an additional IP contract with you, as it was not your job to do that (they could however fire you for spending work time doing something other than your job ;))
There are basic terms of employment that are assumed - not everything has to be specifically contracted, otherwise employment contracts would be insanely long and complex.
You mean like speed cameras on motorways?