With the extensions turned off, you're forced to rely on the icon to tell you what the file is...
Hmmm... Doesn't Windows use icons in.exe files? (It's been a while since I was near a Windows box) If so, even looking at the icon is no guarantee that the file is actually what it claims to be.
What do you suppose will happen when they decide that they want to control the open source movement?
I'll wish them luck - they'll need it.
Apart from the fact that many programmers are outside of the US, there's also no central organisation to control. Unless you either stop each programmer, or make open source illegal, you can't do anything about it.
Anyway, even if they did stop open source software in the US, there's nothing they can do in other countries.
Put simply, VAT (in the UK, and I presume the rest of Europe) is added to the sale price of goods and services by any VAT-registered business at the time of sale. These businesses can reclaim the VAT on purchases they made for business purposes (raw materials, etc). So, essentially, the difference between the purchase price and the sales price of the materials, etc used to make the product - the added value - is taxed. Put simply - the business acts as an unpaid tax-collector for HM Customs and Excise.
All businesses with a turnover of more than £51,000 in a 12-month period (last time I looked - it may have gone up) are required to register. Others do it voluntarily; it makes a small-turnover business look bigger and more professional. Only VAT-registered businesses may reclaim VAT on purchases ('input tax') and add it to sales ('output tax').
Just to make it more complicated, there is more than one rate in the UK (17.5% for most things, 8% for domestic fuel, 0% for a whole list of things, like books, groceries, childrens clothes), plus exemtions (funerals, for example). Zero-rate VAT is different from VAT exemption (businesses which make exempt goods/services can't reclaim the input tax on purchases).
That was a trial, run by Norweb Communications (an offshoot of the private company that used to be the North Western Electricity Board), of a system to provide bandwidth into the home. This system is simply to move data around the home over power lines, which has been around for years (though at much slower speeds) - you can even get hobbyist kits to build yourself.
The biggest problem I can see with this system is that, unlike the slow old systems, this one is into radio frequencies (4-20MHz), which must surely cause problems for something.
I believe we moved over to 230V a few years ago, along with the rest of Europe.
We still have different plugs, though, and (unless they've made some significant changes to the ones on the other side of the Channel) long may it remain so...
Not that most of them do anything useful with it. "Professional level" would imply that it's to be used for some form of profession, with "near-professional level" carrying the same sort of implications
Admiteddly, gaming is probably a driving force in bringing better hardware (not just graphics, but sound hardware, processors, etc) to the masses, but it's primarily self-sustaining - for each new piece of hardware that comes out, a new game will push it to its very limits.
While I agree that games have provided an imperative for new hardware development, I feel that the fact that it's "near-professional level" is somewhat irrelevant.
...but a trademark only applies to something sold in the same field as the trademark holder. Hence Microsoft can't sue glaziers for trademark infringement - they're installing a completely different type of window.
No-one is going to sue you for mowing the lawn. You'd only get into trouble if you tried to sell a tennis ball that smelt of freshly-mown grass.
To be honest, it doesn't seem that surprising a decision at all - words, logos, etc are all used as trademarks to identify something with a particular vendor, why not smells?
Justice Charles Edward Ramos has ruled that an Antiguan gambling site is covered by the laws of New York state simply because the service can be accessed from there.
What about jurisdiction? How can an American court ruling affect Antigua? The owners of the site have no reason to obey any ruling given by a US court.
I saw a demo of the Amulet a couple of years ago, when I was at Manchester University. They'd wired up one to a variable-voltage power supply, and a speaker.
By putting it into a loop where it powered the speaker every couple of cycles, it generated a tone. By adjusting the voltage of the power supply, it was possible to make the tone higher or lower, as it wa having a direct effect on the running speed of the processor.
Also, when put into a 'halt' loop, it would power down until interrupted. An ammeter connected in series with it showed that it was using almost literally no power.
What exactly does "information wants to be free" mean? It's one of the phrases that gets bandied about whenever a copyright/secrecy/privacy issue comes up, yet it seems nothing more than a glib and meaningless statement.
Some people want information to be free, others want the information they have put some work into producing to be less free. "Information" itself doesn't want anything, it's not intelligent or self-aware; it can't decide that it wants to be free.
You can debate the merits of freedom of information vs rights of the artists/governments/individials to restrict their information, but throwing in a statement like "information wants to be free" is unhelpful and possibly counter-productive
According to the article, the telescope scans for gamma waves. These aren't suject to atmospheric effects the way light is. This means they can build a much bigger telescope, which is considerably easier to maintain, for a lot less money.
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Sorry, but you've got quite a few centuries of prior art to contend with.
Or, more accurately, the permanent members. USA, Russia, UK, China and France.
Hmmm... Doesn't Windows use icons in .exe files? (It's been a while since I was near a Windows box) If so, even looking at the icon is no guarantee that the file is actually what it claims to be.
I'll wish them luck - they'll need it.
Apart from the fact that many programmers are outside of the US, there's also no central organisation to control. Unless you either stop each programmer, or make open source illegal, you can't do anything about it.
Anyway, even if they did stop open source software in the US, there's nothing they can do in other countries.
All businesses with a turnover of more than £51,000 in a 12-month period (last time I looked - it may have gone up) are required to register. Others do it voluntarily; it makes a small-turnover business look bigger and more professional. Only VAT-registered businesses may reclaim VAT on purchases ('input tax') and add it to sales ('output tax').
Just to make it more complicated, there is more than one rate in the UK (17.5% for most things, 8% for domestic fuel, 0% for a whole list of things, like books, groceries, childrens clothes), plus exemtions (funerals, for example). Zero-rate VAT is different from VAT exemption (businesses which make exempt goods/services can't reclaim the input tax on purchases).
I did try reading between the lines, and you're right. There was nothing there but blank space.
I really wasted my time trying to read it, too. Although I have to say that I couldn't see any wool...
How so? The small nation could fill its own domain with whatever crap it wants, but what could it do to the rest of the world?
Exhibit A: The Van-de-Graaf Generator, which is incredibly good fun, but produces extremely high voltages.
That was a trial, run by Norweb Communications (an offshoot of the private company that used to be the North Western Electricity Board), of a system to provide bandwidth into the home. This system is simply to move data around the home over power lines, which has been around for years (though at much slower speeds) - you can even get hobbyist kits to build yourself.
The biggest problem I can see with this system is that, unlike the slow old systems, this one is into radio frequencies (4-20MHz), which must surely cause problems for something.
I believe we moved over to 230V a few years ago, along with the rest of Europe.
We still have different plugs, though, and (unless they've made some significant changes to the ones on the other side of the Channel) long may it remain so...
Not that most of them do anything useful with it. "Professional level" would imply that it's to be used for some form of profession, with "near-professional level" carrying the same sort of implications
Admiteddly, gaming is probably a driving force in bringing better hardware (not just graphics, but sound hardware, processors, etc) to the masses, but it's primarily self-sustaining - for each new piece of hardware that comes out, a new game will push it to its very limits.
While I agree that games have provided an imperative for new hardware development, I feel that the fact that it's "near-professional level" is somewhat irrelevant.
Nah... IOS is far too illogical to ever be a vulcan
Congratulations! You get the job. Welcome to the NSA. Sign here, here and here.
Oh, and this conversation never took place.
...but a trademark only applies to something sold in the same field as the trademark holder. Hence Microsoft can't sue glaziers for trademark infringement - they're installing a completely different type of window.
No-one is going to sue you for mowing the lawn. You'd only get into trouble if you tried to sell a tennis ball that smelt of freshly-mown grass.
To be honest, it doesn't seem that surprising a decision at all - words, logos, etc are all used as trademarks to identify something with a particular vendor, why not smells?
(I am not a lawyer, etc...)
Justice Charles Edward Ramos has ruled that an Antiguan gambling site is covered by the laws of New York state simply because the service can be accessed from there.
What about jurisdiction? How can an American court ruling affect Antigua? The owners of the site have no reason to obey any ruling given by a US court.
Let's face it, geeks don't need sports wear...
Babelfish not half of product that some hard-with-read the text
(Babelfish doesn't half produce some hard-to-read text)
>I'd rather not talk to my computer, really.
Me neither. I had some voice recognition software a while back, but I deleted it as I felt so incredibly stupid talking to the computer.
I saw a demo of the Amulet a couple of years ago, when I was at Manchester University. They'd wired up one to a variable-voltage power supply, and a speaker.
By putting it into a loop where it powered the speaker every couple of cycles, it generated a tone. By adjusting the voltage of the power supply, it was possible to make the tone higher or lower, as it wa having a direct effect on the running speed of the processor.
Also, when put into a 'halt' loop, it would power down until interrupted. An ammeter connected in series with it showed that it was using almost literally no power.
ARM has some market share - the ARM chip is used in all sorts of small low-power devices. The most popular of which is probably the Psion range.
When I log into Napster, it says, quite clearly:
"NO BOTS ARE ALLOWED ON THIS SERVICE. IF YOU RUN ONE HERE, IT WILL BE BLOCKED AND YOUR IP WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED"
So will Napster be blocking NetPD's bots?
What exactly does "information wants to be free" mean? It's one of the phrases that gets bandied about whenever a copyright/secrecy/privacy issue comes up, yet it seems nothing more than a glib and meaningless statement.
Some people want information to be free, others want the information they have put some work into producing to be less free. "Information" itself doesn't want anything, it's not intelligent or self-aware; it can't decide that it wants to be free.
You can debate the merits of freedom of information vs rights of the artists/governments/individials to restrict their information, but throwing in a statement like "information wants to be free" is unhelpful and possibly counter-productive
>Had it crossed these peoples minds that Woomera is a MISSILE RANGE?!?!?!
Yes.
"Sited on a former rocket range at Woomera [...]"
According to the article, the telescope scans for gamma waves. These aren't suject to atmospheric effects the way light is. This means they can build a much bigger telescope, which is considerably easier to maintain, for a lot less money.
Do you think they'll find the black hole that sucked away all the talent of Australian soap stars?