Is it different in the US? In the UK, as I understand it, a sale is a fairly normal contract - I give you x in exchange for y - with some of its terms mandated by law. But what do I know?
Anyway, of course, if you did try to claim there was no contract after drinking the whiskey, the bartender would have every right to demand the whiskey back; and, since you would presumably be unable to return it in its original state, he would have a claim against you for having misappropriated his property. But meh, I was just being facetious.
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This story was actually broken by the Sunday Times, and followed up by the BBC.
From the BBC report:
"The chip plan emerges in the first part of an initial feasibility study, an 85-page document drafted by the Association of Chief Police Officers on the orders of transport secretary Alistair Darling."
There's also a response from Tory trade spokespman Tim Yeo. Might be worth at least provisionally believing it.
Certainly ensures that OPEC can't unilaterally raise the price of oil.
Only while the US is running Iraq. And that's extremely expensive, both in terms of dollars and in terms of exposure to terrorism and political reprisal.
I kind of whinged about this above, but only implicitly...
I have to say, I'm wary of converting from 48kHz down to 44.1kHz. Seems to me the result would be worse than recording at 44.1kHz in the first place, because it's simply an awkward division (like viewing at a picture in Photoshop at 91.875% zoom - it looks a lot better at 75% or 50%). Of course, the Audigy 2's 96kHz doesn't divide neatly into 44.1kHz either; but you have a much more detailed recording to start with (especially since the Audigy also supports 24-bit audio), so downsampling it to 44.1kHz should produce MUCH better results than a 48kHz source.
From what I can tell, a lot of semi-audio professionals like usb sound cards because there isn't quite the interference with them, that one gets from a sound card sitting inside your case.
Sounds fair enough, but if I remember rightly the Extigy only supports 16-bit audio at something like 44.1kHz, while the Audigy 2 supports 24-bit recording at 96kHz. Since I don't have an Extigy, I can't comment on the benefits of its isolation, but I can tell you that the noise floor on my Audigy 2 is really, REALLY low (sadly I'm not in front of that computer or I'd give you figures, but trust me, it's superb); and the extra resolution is very good to have. I'm not pretending I can listen to a sound and instantly recognise it as being 24-bit / 96kHz, but it's certainly nice to be able to work at such a high resolution. Naturally you can always downsample if you need to burn a track to CD.
I've never understood why you can't just say to the user "press any key for any amount of time", see how many clock cycles they hold the key down for, and then use the least significant n digits backwards. For extra fun, hash the result with the time between the message appearing and the key being pressed. Seems pretty unpredictable to me - am I missing something obvious?
Obviously my explanation rested on various assumptions. Yes, it's true, a lot of these terms are imprecisely defined, and are open to a wide range of interpretations in either direction.
But I guess at least four people agreed with my basic point: that, while it may be difficult to settle on a precise definition of where to draw the line, pretty much all of us can look at MS' behaviour and agree that it goes beyond a fair-minded interpretation of the law. To steal the words of Justice Potter Stewart, we may not be able to precisely define unfair exploitation of a monopoly, but we know it when we see it.
Can you honestly tell me that if it was your company making the os and you also made a media app that you wouldn't add it to your os as well??? I highly doubt it.
I can't help but feel we've been here a million times before, but here goes for the 1,000,001st...
MS has - or at least was judged at the time of the US court case to have - a monopoly on the OS market. It is illegal to exploit a monopoly in one market to gain one in another, for reasons which I hope are obvious. Thus MS cannot simply add applications into Windows. Doing so would give them an unfair advantage over their competitors, and the whole purpose of consumer capitalism - to let competition drive up living standards - would be defeated.
Nonetheless, not only did MS break the law and incorporate new applications into their monopoly OS, they made it impossible to uninstall them. A more flagrant violation of both the letter and the spirit of the anti-trust laws is hard to imagine.
So yes, if I made an OS and a media app I would want to bundle the two together. But if I had a monopoly in either market, it would be illegal for me to actually do so; and we should all be glad of that.
Same with that last Eminem album. I keep meaning to make a copy of the CD just so I can make "Curtains Up" (the intro) about half the volume it currently is. Then the start of "White America" would actually have the impact it's obviously supposed to.
Not quite what I meant - I meant making a phone with a standard plug that charged off some standard voltage, so you could buy six multi-AC adaptors from WalMart for $5 or whatever and be set for life.
The ability to recharge from any power outlet would be a great selling point - I'm sure some company or other will release a phone that does that. And then the genie will be out of the bottle and everyone else will have a very strong incentive to follow suit.
I don't think capitalism is the answer to all of society's iniquities; but I think it's quite a good answer to "I want a phone with such and such a feature."
I suspect that the IP they're referring to isn't just source code. Off the top of my head, for example, check out this fvwm95 screenshot. I'm sure MS considers the Windows UI as its intellectual property, and though IANAL I suspect they may be right.
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Is it different in the US? In the UK, as I understand it, a sale is a fairly normal contract - I give you x in exchange for y - with some of its terms mandated by law. But what do I know?
Anyway, of course, if you did try to claim there was no contract after drinking the whiskey, the bartender would have every right to demand the whiskey back; and, since you would presumably be unable to return it in its original state, he would have a claim against you for having misappropriated his property. But meh, I was just being facetious.
There's an easy away around the EULA. I always install my EULAed software stoned drunk. No contract is valid if you're not in your sane mind.
Tell that to the barman as you refuse to pay for that twelfth whiskey you just downed.
A terrorist? It's a lot quicker and cheaper that way.
Actually, in the current climate I wouldn't be surprised if the prosecution does invoke "terrorism" at some point. God help us all.
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Insightful??
This story was actually broken by the Sunday Times, and followed up by the BBC.
From the BBC report:
"The chip plan emerges in the first part of an initial feasibility study, an 85-page document drafted by the Association of Chief Police Officers on the orders of transport secretary Alistair Darling."
There's also a response from Tory trade spokespman Tim Yeo. Might be worth at least provisionally believing it.
Although the client will up your maximum download rate if you raise your maximum upload rate.
:)
Though since it's open source, presumably this can be rectified easily enough...?
Dude, it's commutative.
And good luck to him when he takes that story to the insurers.
There's such a thing as negligence, you know.
The grid is indeed horrendous and old, and President Bush himself said as much today, urging that it be upgraded.
Despite this, I do think it actually should be upgraded.
Certainly ensures that OPEC can't unilaterally raise the price of oil.
Only while the US is running Iraq. And that's extremely expensive, both in terms of dollars and in terms of exposure to terrorism and political reprisal.
I kind of whinged about this above, but only implicitly...
I have to say, I'm wary of converting from 48kHz down to 44.1kHz. Seems to me the result would be worse than recording at 44.1kHz in the first place, because it's simply an awkward division (like viewing at a picture in Photoshop at 91.875% zoom - it looks a lot better at 75% or 50%). Of course, the Audigy 2's 96kHz doesn't divide neatly into 44.1kHz either; but you have a much more detailed recording to start with (especially since the Audigy also supports 24-bit audio), so downsampling it to 44.1kHz should produce MUCH better results than a 48kHz source.
Anyone have any real life experience of this?
From what I can tell, a lot of semi-audio professionals like usb sound cards because there isn't quite the interference with them, that one gets from a sound card sitting inside your case.
Sounds fair enough, but if I remember rightly the Extigy only supports 16-bit audio at something like 44.1kHz, while the Audigy 2 supports 24-bit recording at 96kHz. Since I don't have an Extigy, I can't comment on the benefits of its isolation, but I can tell you that the noise floor on my Audigy 2 is really, REALLY low (sadly I'm not in front of that computer or I'd give you figures, but trust me, it's superb); and the extra resolution is very good to have. I'm not pretending I can listen to a sound and instantly recognise it as being 24-bit / 96kHz, but it's certainly nice to be able to work at such a high resolution. Naturally you can always downsample if you need to burn a track to CD.
I've never understood why you can't just say to the user "press any key for any amount of time", see how many clock cycles they hold the key down for, and then use the least significant n digits backwards. For extra fun, hash the result with the time between the message appearing and the key being pressed. Seems pretty unpredictable to me - am I missing something obvious?
Dude, take a chill pill!
Obviously my explanation rested on various assumptions. Yes, it's true, a lot of these terms are imprecisely defined, and are open to a wide range of interpretations in either direction.
But I guess at least four people agreed with my basic point: that, while it may be difficult to settle on a precise definition of where to draw the line, pretty much all of us can look at MS' behaviour and agree that it goes beyond a fair-minded interpretation of the law. To steal the words of Justice Potter Stewart, we may not be able to precisely define unfair exploitation of a monopoly, but we know it when we see it.
Can you honestly tell me that if it was your company making the os and you also made a media app that you wouldn't add it to your os as well??? I highly doubt it.
I can't help but feel we've been here a million times before, but here goes for the 1,000,001st...
MS has - or at least was judged at the time of the US court case to have - a monopoly on the OS market. It is illegal to exploit a monopoly in one market to gain one in another, for reasons which I hope are obvious. Thus MS cannot simply add applications into Windows. Doing so would give them an unfair advantage over their competitors, and the whole purpose of consumer capitalism - to let competition drive up living standards - would be defeated.
Nonetheless, not only did MS break the law and incorporate new applications into their monopoly OS, they made it impossible to uninstall them. A more flagrant violation of both the letter and the spirit of the anti-trust laws is hard to imagine.
So yes, if I made an OS and a media app I would want to bundle the two together. But if I had a monopoly in either market, it would be illegal for me to actually do so; and we should all be glad of that.
At the risk of dating myself ...
Trust me, you're not at risk of dating anyone.
Dude, it's spelt N-E-A-L.
Same with that last Eminem album. I keep meaning to make a copy of the CD just so I can make "Curtains Up" (the intro) about half the volume it currently is. Then the start of "White America" would actually have the impact it's obviously supposed to.
Not quite what I meant - I meant making a phone with a standard plug that charged off some standard voltage, so you could buy six multi-AC adaptors from WalMart for $5 or whatever and be set for life.
The ability to recharge from any power outlet would be a great selling point - I'm sure some company or other will release a phone that does that. And then the genie will be out of the bottle and everyone else will have a very strong incentive to follow suit.
I don't think capitalism is the answer to all of society's iniquities; but I think it's quite a good answer to "I want a phone with such and such a feature."
It's not about getting them all - - it's about nailing a few and scaring the rest
Reminds me of my days in that co-ed dorm.
I suspect that the IP they're referring to isn't just source code. Off the top of my head, for example, check out this fvwm95 screenshot. I'm sure MS considers the Windows UI as its intellectual property, and though IANAL I suspect they may be right.
Well then we can strap a Scooty-Puff Senior to it and propel it into the sun. Or out into distant and uncharted galaxies - I've no preference.
Actually, SE did add Internet Connection Sharing and had better DV capture support. But still.
Base it in France. Hell, they'd probably give you a government grant.