International agreements might have the full force of the law and in some cases trump local laws.
In your country maybe, but not in mine. Here in the land of Oz, international agreements are gentlemen's agreements until they're ratified by law. (on 'ratified', dictionary.com says " To approve and give formal sanction to; confirm."). (given the type of 'gentlemen' we're talking about here, you can't expect that the 'international agreements' hold any particular weight really).
Actually, it kinda scares me, the amount of power your Pres' has... Our Prime Minister's power largely consists of his political counterparts, ministers, members of parliment, etc, voting the way he tells them to if they know what's good for them. He doesn't get to do a whole lot of decision making on his own.
No, not necessarily. the FTA is just an agreement. It's been signed, and that's effectively a note passed in class to the effect that "Johnnie agrees to go steady with Georgie". It's not law.
The next step(s) in it all is to get each bit of the agreement passed into law in the victim state. Often they try tricks like pushing small and unsightly laws through in the same bill as other larger, more popular, more important ones. The Australian Constitution prevents 'money' (tax) bills being pushed through with other little hangers-on, but everything else is pretty much fair game. There's every likelihood that we'll see a "Australia-US Free Trade Agreement Enactment Act" rushed through parliment sometime in the next year or so, and it will contain a huge bundle of nasties that wouldn't float on their own. Once that passes into law, then we're in trouble, but up until then, it's just an agreement, and it's lobbying time!
I don't know Chilean law from a hole in the ground, but I'm guessing that your 'Agreement' is no more 'law' than ours - ie: it isn't. You're not actually screwed until it passes into law, a seperate process.
Just 'cos the agreement is signed does not mean it's a done deal, but if there's something you (or Australians) don't like, then you'd better set about lobbying NOW!
What *I* love about slashdot is that there is no requirement that a poster must read the effing article before being modded up.
I wonder when we'll see wood-cone based speakers filter into the world of hi-fi, if ever.
RTFA....
This year, JVC introduced its first wood-cone speaker product based on Imamura's process
and
The system ships in May, at a suggested retail price of US $550. Back in Maebashi, Japan, his mission accomplished, Kuwahata has announced his retirement.
Actually no, he's right. 1000Gb DOES == 1Tb. You probably have the decimal mutiples that hard drive manufacturers use mixed up with the binary multiples that everyone wishes they used. 1000 Gigabytes == 1 Terabyte. You're thinking of Mebibytes and Gibibytes. Try an RTFM here and here.
A kid I knew in highschool was a registered sex offender because he kicked his little brother in the balls while they were wrestling and they decided to go to the doctor to get him checked out.
So now you're telling us that roshambo is illegal? How the hell else are we supposed to settle disputes? This government law-making business is just going too far!
Hell, my brother lives 20km from the Brisbane CBD and he can't get broadband.M/i>
Hey! My brother resembles that remark! You don't have to be very far at all from a major population centre before Hell$tra won't sell you 'broadband', in any flavour. They're a LONG way from actually real-world achieving the "% of population has access" that they claim.
Whilst I guess that the people doing this will counter with "you give up your rights when you take it upon yourself to play with little kids bottoms", it kinda flies right in the face of concepts of rehabilitation, etc. Does the status of 'sex offender' have a timeout, or is it a lifetime thing, once convicted?
You're saying that realtek shipped a line of ethernet cards that all had the same MAC address?!? That makes absolutely no sense.
It makes perfect sense: they screwed up. It certainly wasn't intentional. Sum Yung Guy in charge of flashing MAC addresses took a day off, and no-one thought to do his job for him
I struck an even stranger variant of the problem recently, with Asus P4S533-MX motherboards with the onboard SiS 10/100 ethernet. The Windows NT/2K/XP driver for the NIC was broken so that, even though the NICs did have unique MAC's, the driver got it wrong and passed the same MAC up the stack for all of the cards. (Driver version 1.06 fixes it, the driver on the CD is the broken one)
Certainly was an interesting one to troubleshoot:-)
Building management now considers the cable "theirs" and won't provide us access to the phone room to remove it.
And rightly so, under Australian law at least. English and Australian law has a concept of 'tenants fixture' in commercial leases. A 'fixture' is any item (light fittings, exhaust fans, air conditioning ducts, cabling, etc) added to the tenancy (property). A 'tenants fixture' is something that the tenanct can take with him when he leaves. The other sort (can't remember the name, 'landlord's fixture' maybe?) is that which becomes part of the property and stays
The differentiator is the way in which the item is attached to the property. Carpets stay, rugs go. Light fittings tend to stay. Cabling obviously stays, air conditioning obviously stays. Furniture goes, unless it is built-in. Commercial leases are pretty much always contracts between corporates, so they do have a lot of leeway to vary terms, etc (as opposed to residential tenancy agreements, where the govt tries to protect tenants from dodgy landlords by having a pre-defined and required set of terms) so the parties can of course specifically contract to include or exclude specific fixtures, etc. By default (ie: at common law), the tenant's fixtures rule applies.
IANA.U.S.L, but if your law is anything like ours, then the cabling belongs to the landlord.
We paid for it, it's not theirs, so.. get out the hacksaw
You paid for it, it is theirs, and by getting out the hacksaw, you're opening yourself up to a lawsuit with the landlord sueing you to make good the damage to his property, and you'll lose the case.
Actually, my mousewheel scrolling works fine on those demo pages. Though strictly speaking, I'm not using a scroll-wheel. I'm using middle-button on one of those 3M Renaissance mouse things...
The bit that impresses me more is that the page rendered properly with Mozilla Firebird 0.7 on Win32. The real slashdot doesn't render particularly well at all with Firebird for me.
Either I've been trolled really well, or this is actually really good stuff. RTFA slashdotters, this Strouhal write-up is actually a really good/interesting read. They've basically come up with a simple formula to describe efficient flight for all animals, regardless of size. Really interesting stuff.
I think a fundamental problem that all bits of the IT industry need to address is "stop calling the customers 'users'!!!"
Drug addicts are called 'users'. Customers are called 'customers', or 'Sir' or 'Ma-am'. If we can just manage to stop insulting them every time we refer to them, we're probably half way towards gaining some kind of acceptance already.
It's an insipient problem, and one that infects even the largest of marketing departments. Australia's largest ISP for example calls it's customers 'users', to their faces. They even have this big DSL-in-a-box campaign with a DSL modem and all the stuff you need in a nice shrink-wrapped box on the shop shelves. The big promo version of the box has an oh-so-politically-correct Australian-guy/Asian-girl couple hugging, with the postscript "John and Tam, Ozemail users". I mean, what are these marketeers on?
How about we deal with giving the customers a little respect first, and deal with shoving our favourite OS down their throats just a little bit later on?
One area of study had been Repetition Blindness that thinks a person's ability to remember pictures when subjected to many at a time lessens.
I reject that suggestion. If that is true, then explain to me why one can view heaps and heaps of pr0n and still recognise individual pictures as dupes in a database of, oh, 21Gigabytes worth. (I'm speaking on behalf of a friend, of course)
... Haven't read the whole article yet, I have
some pork in the frypan, and I need to keep an
eye on it!
I've shelved the Qube 1, and now a PII-500 running FreeBSD takes care of *my* home storage (caching, web serving, mysql, php, wireless access point, you-name-it) needs...
Should I be exhuming my Qube 1 and making something of it, or stick it on eBay, or stick it back in the cupboard? Anyone interested in it?
AFAIK, DVB-* is 'not quite' MPEG2. It comes in various flavours. Direct from the card, you get a DVI 'transport stream' which is essentially one mpeg2-ish video stream, and one audio stream. The TS is not something your common-of-garden MP2 player will handle, despite that it's 99% mp2. There's another thing called an 'PS' (don't remmeber what 'P' stands for), and that is what works. The streams are the same, just the glue is different. Apparently.
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So you're telling me superglue is like perl? OK then... fair enuff...!
In your country maybe, but not in mine. Here in the land of Oz, international agreements are gentlemen's agreements until they're ratified by law. (on 'ratified', dictionary.com says " To approve and give formal sanction to; confirm."). (given the type of 'gentlemen' we're talking about here, you can't expect that the 'international agreements' hold any particular weight really).
Actually, it kinda scares me, the amount of power your Pres' has... Our Prime Minister's power largely consists of his political counterparts, ministers, members of parliment, etc, voting the way he tells them to if they know what's good for them. He doesn't get to do a whole lot of decision making on his own.
The next step(s) in it all is to get each bit of the agreement passed into law in the victim state. Often they try tricks like pushing small and unsightly laws through in the same bill as other larger, more popular, more important ones. The Australian Constitution prevents 'money' (tax) bills being pushed through with other little hangers-on, but everything else is pretty much fair game. There's every likelihood that we'll see a "Australia-US Free Trade Agreement Enactment Act" rushed through parliment sometime in the next year or so, and it will contain a huge bundle of nasties that wouldn't float on their own. Once that passes into law, then we're in trouble, but up until then, it's just an agreement, and it's lobbying time!
I don't know Chilean law from a hole in the ground, but I'm guessing that your 'Agreement' is no more 'law' than ours - ie: it isn't. You're not actually screwed until it passes into law, a seperate process.
Just 'cos the agreement is signed does not mean it's a done deal, but if there's something you (or Australians) don't like, then you'd better set about lobbying NOW !
Slashdot editors only put goatse and tubgirl links in the articles on April 1st.
I wonder when we'll see wood-cone based speakers filter into the world of hi-fi, if ever.
RTFA....
This year, JVC introduced its first wood-cone speaker product based on Imamura's process
and
The system ships in May, at a suggested retail price of US $550. Back in Maebashi, Japan, his mission accomplished, Kuwahata has announced his retirement.
sigh....
No it won't. RTFM.
Actually no, he's right. 1000Gb DOES == 1Tb. You probably have the decimal mutiples that hard drive manufacturers use mixed up with the binary multiples that everyone wishes they used. 1000 Gigabytes == 1 Terabyte. You're thinking of Mebibytes and Gibibytes. Try an RTFM here and here.
Seriously, what's the OS and Window manager that the screenshots are taken from. I like the look of that.
I'll give you tree-fidddy, and a kickindanuts, and that's my final offer!
So now you're telling us that roshambo is illegal? How the hell else are we supposed to settle disputes? This government law-making business is just going too far!
damned shift key!
Hey! My brother resembles that remark! You don't have to be very far at all from a major population centre before Hell$tra won't sell you 'broadband', in any flavour. They're a LONG way from actually real-world achieving the "% of population has access" that they claim.
Whilst I guess that the people doing this will counter with "you give up your rights when you take it upon yourself to play with little kids bottoms", it kinda flies right in the face of concepts of rehabilitation, etc. Does the status of 'sex offender' have a timeout, or is it a lifetime thing, once convicted?
It makes perfect sense: they screwed up. It certainly wasn't intentional. Sum Yung Guy in charge of flashing MAC addresses took a day off, and no-one thought to do his job for him
I struck an even stranger variant of the problem recently, with Asus P4S533-MX motherboards with the onboard SiS 10/100 ethernet. The Windows NT/2K/XP driver for the NIC was broken so that, even though the NICs did have unique MAC's, the driver got it wrong and passed the same MAC up the stack for all of the cards. (Driver version 1.06 fixes it, the driver on the CD is the broken one)
Certainly was an interesting one to troubleshoot :-)
And rightly so, under Australian law at least. English and Australian law has a concept of 'tenants fixture' in commercial leases. A 'fixture' is any item (light fittings, exhaust fans, air conditioning ducts, cabling, etc) added to the tenancy (property). A 'tenants fixture' is something that the tenanct can take with him when he leaves. The other sort (can't remember the name, 'landlord's fixture' maybe?) is that which becomes part of the property and stays
The differentiator is the way in which the item is attached to the property. Carpets stay, rugs go. Light fittings tend to stay. Cabling obviously stays, air conditioning obviously stays. Furniture goes, unless it is built-in. Commercial leases are pretty much always contracts between corporates, so they do have a lot of leeway to vary terms, etc (as opposed to residential tenancy agreements, where the govt tries to protect tenants from dodgy landlords by having a pre-defined and required set of terms) so the parties can of course specifically contract to include or exclude specific fixtures, etc. By default (ie: at common law), the tenant's fixtures rule applies.
IANA.U.S.L, but if your law is anything like ours, then the cabling belongs to the landlord.
We paid for it, it's not theirs, so.. get out the hacksaw
You paid for it, it is theirs, and by getting out the hacksaw, you're opening yourself up to a lawsuit with the landlord sueing you to make good the damage to his property, and you'll lose the case.
Strange, but true!
The bit that impresses me more is that the page rendered properly with Mozilla Firebird 0.7 on Win32. The real slashdot doesn't render particularly well at all with Firebird for me.
... and illegal to operate in California, 'cos it draws too much current!
'OSF' was already taken.
Right up to the bit where the feds pull the video tapes.
Drug addicts are called 'users'. Customers are called 'customers', or 'Sir' or 'Ma-am'. If we can just manage to stop insulting them every time we refer to them, we're probably half way towards gaining some kind of acceptance already.
It's an insipient problem, and one that infects even the largest of marketing departments. Australia's largest ISP for example calls it's customers 'users', to their faces. They even have this big DSL-in-a-box campaign with a DSL modem and all the stuff you need in a nice shrink-wrapped box on the shop shelves. The big promo version of the box has an oh-so-politically-correct Australian-guy/Asian-girl couple hugging, with the postscript "John and Tam, Ozemail users". I mean, what are these marketeers on?
How about we deal with giving the customers a little respect first, and deal with shoving our favourite OS down their throats just a little bit later on?
I reject that suggestion. If that is true, then explain to me why one can view heaps and heaps of pr0n and still recognise individual pictures as dupes in a database of, oh, 21Gigabytes worth. (I'm speaking on behalf of a friend, of course)
I've shelved the Qube 1, and now a PII-500 running FreeBSD takes care of *my* home storage (caching, web serving, mysql, php, wireless access point, you-name-it) needs...
Should I be exhuming my Qube 1 and making something of it, or stick it on eBay, or stick it back in the cupboard? Anyone interested in it?
AFAIK, DVB-* is 'not quite' MPEG2. It comes in various flavours. Direct from the card, you get a DVI 'transport stream' which is essentially one mpeg2-ish video stream, and one audio stream. The TS is not something your common-of-garden MP2 player will handle, despite that it's 99% mp2. There's another thing called an 'PS' (don't remmeber what 'P' stands for), and that is what works. The streams are the same, just the glue is different. Apparently.
DRM isn't a compelling reason to change?