So what exactly is their justification for leaving DRM on the $0.99 tracks? It can't be that they are afraid people will release them into the wild if the higher quality tracks are now DRM free, so why not remove it?
The UK government is becoming alarmed at the spiralling costs of binge-drinking. The health bill for the NHS (national health service) is becoming a serious concern. The social costs - crime and the disruption to family life are rising dramatically.
The government is going to propose having wardens at taxi ranks at weekends at night. They said they are also going to bear down on pubs that serve alcohol to under 18s.
The problem is a cultural one, say many experts. Many of Britain's youth go out on Friday and Saturday nights with just one aim - to get blind drunk.
Two groups of people in the UK are beginning to become a serious problem to themselves and those around them.
The first group consists of people aged 18-25. They go out just to get as drunk as they can. Their behaviour causes serious problems of crime, disorder and the clogging up of emergency rooms in hospitals (A&E Departments).
The second group consists of older people who are chronic drinkers. They are drinking more often and more heavily. The NHS is seeing a rise in cases of cirrhosis and heart disease among this older group.
The government says it would like to see more of a continental European cafe-bar culture. Britons are the biggest binge-drinkers in Europe. Binge-drinking basically means going out on the town to get blind drunk.
>> How did this happen? How did we let ourselves be cowed in to this?
One word. Alcohol. The alcohol based culture of the UK causes both street crime and traffic fatalities so you end up with cameras in the streets and cameras on the roads, perhaps it also leads to numbed citizens that don't really care as well (debatable).
I lived in the UK till I was twenty and it's only when you leave and look back that you see just how much people drink there.
Just because you patent something doesn't mean that it becomes unavailable; it just prevents someone else from patenting it. So as long as the government allows free use of its inventions there really isn't a problem with this at all.
The targeting works as intended and is as annoying as hell because the stupid coupons are always for the wrong brand.
Well that's the whole point of the coupon isn't it? To get you to switch from your current brand. Doesn't make much sense to offer you a coupon to buy something you'd already buy at the undiscounted price..
The linked article states the jet is designed to fly at mach 2 which is the same as Concorde (albeit with three times as many passengers) so how is it supposed to fly Tokyo > New York in half the time Concorde could do it if it goes the same speed?
I think it's sad that while American schools have to order and pay for these things out of their already over stretched budgets they have gone out to every Secondary School in Britain.
and if for some reason, your investments crash just before you retire and you find yourself with no money what then? Do you really think the government could let you and those like you starve? Of course not.
It's a good idea, also in response to the 'my friends can't spell or write in l33t speak' crowd as long as it uses a local dictionary then it's still a valid method. Me likee.
Which like java is essentially write once run anywhere. If XBoX2 runs on a version of Longhorn then the only change needed to run on a PowerPC as opposed to x86 is a new CLR.
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Might want to try China Mieville's Perdido Street Station, it was up against American Gods for the Hugo award, very, very good book.
The thing that struck me about this article was how screwed up the US political system is whereby bills are all bundled together, I won't even get into the fact that with enough cash you can get your own laws considered. This particular law was denied twice (which in of itself should see it permanently denied) but on the third try it was ushered through because the bill it was riding on was a sure fire winner, lame.
All that being said it's cool that they finally got the cars into the US, only wish I could afford one:)
Seems pretty cool although disposable is a bit of a misnomer because they are really just recyclable, not like Ritz is throwing all the bits in the trash after processing them.
Not being able to review the pics instantly is a drag too as its one of the main reasons I like using digicams (well that and not having photo guy check out my, um, arty pics) and I'm also a little dubious of their claims that a 2 megapixel camera can give you decent prints at 8x10, all that being said having a self timer is neat and I'm sure they'll be pretty popular.
In fact thinking about the recycling a bit more, I wonder if you could ever grab somebodies old pics off of a recycled unit.... I know you can recover deleted pics from a normal digicams media.... Something to think about..:)
The attack on the SpamKing is definitely funny. But the paper seems like an overly windy article describing how to perpetrate the old misdirected pizza/taxi cab gag on the information superhighway. While mischeiveious and a nuisance it can hardly be described as a denial of service attack now can it ? The victim ends up with a stuffed mailbox and the post office makes bank with all the additional traffic.
Also this seems a little extreme 'The attack is, to some degree, a consequence of the availability of private information on the Web, and the increase in the amount of personal information that users must reveal to obtain Web services.'
Considering the webservices the article is talking about is requesting a catalog:)
The man is talking about restricting things that could potentially detroy the entire planet. When they detonated the first atomic bomb they considered that there was a chance the atmosphere could catch on fire, it's choices like those that will become more frequent the faster progress moves.
He's not condoning hushing things up counter to the 'information wants to be free' school of thinking, he's considering the fact that some lessons could potentially be the last thing we ever learn.
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So what exactly is their justification for leaving DRM on the $0.99 tracks? It can't be that they are afraid people will release them into the wild if the higher quality tracks are now DRM free, so why not remove it?
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The UK government is becoming alarmed at the spiralling costs of binge-drinking. The health bill for the NHS (national health service) is becoming a serious concern. The social costs - crime and the disruption to family life are rising dramatically.
The government is going to propose having wardens at taxi ranks at weekends at night. They said they are also going to bear down on pubs that serve alcohol to under 18s.
The problem is a cultural one, say many experts. Many of Britain's youth go out on Friday and Saturday nights with just one aim - to get blind drunk.
Two groups of people in the UK are beginning to become a serious problem to themselves and those around them.
The first group consists of people aged 18-25. They go out just to get as drunk as they can. Their behaviour causes serious problems of crime, disorder and the clogging up of emergency rooms in hospitals (A&E Departments).
The second group consists of older people who are chronic drinkers. They are drinking more often and more heavily. The NHS is seeing a rise in cases of cirrhosis and heart disease among this older group.
The government says it would like to see more of a continental European cafe-bar culture. Britons are the biggest binge-drinkers in Europe. Binge-drinking basically means going out on the town to get blind drunk.
>> How did this happen? How did we let ourselves be cowed in to this?
One word. Alcohol. The alcohol based culture of the UK causes both street crime and traffic fatalities so you end up with cameras in the streets and cameras on the roads, perhaps it also leads to numbed citizens that don't really care as well (debatable).
I lived in the UK till I was twenty and it's only when you leave and look back that you see just how much people drink there.
Just because you patent something doesn't mean that it becomes unavailable; it just prevents someone else from patenting it. So as long as the government allows free use of its inventions there really isn't a problem with this at all.
The targeting works as intended and is as annoying as hell because the stupid coupons are always for the wrong brand.
Well that's the whole point of the coupon isn't it? To get you to switch from your current brand. Doesn't make much sense to offer you a coupon to buy something you'd already buy at the undiscounted price..
The FAA restricts the noise not the speed of aircraft going over the US, so keep it quiet and you can go as fast as you want.
The linked article states the jet is designed to fly at mach 2 which is the same as Concorde (albeit with three times as many passengers) so how is it supposed to fly Tokyo > New York in half the time Concorde could do it if it goes the same speed?
From their site they are a spinoff from the Denmark Tech Univeristy who do a lot of research into storing hydrogen in Metal Hydrides here
Yes it would be terrible to have consistent standards wouldn't it.
I think it's sad that while American schools have to order and pay for these things out of their already over stretched budgets they have gone out to every Secondary School in Britain.
and if for some reason, your investments crash just before you retire and you find yourself with no money what then? Do you really think the government could let you and those like you starve? Of course not.
It's a good idea, also in response to the 'my friends can't spell or write in l33t speak' crowd as long as it uses a local dictionary then it's still a valid method. Me likee.
Well the BBC is paid for with tax and license fee money so it's not exactly free now is it. At least in the US you get the choice....
Okay, well at least in California that's the case...
If your neighbor with T-Mobile gets a good signal then it's your phone. Cingular and T-Mobile use the same network.
I have two IMAP accounts running and it works great
Which like java is essentially write once run anywhere. If XBoX2 runs on a version of Longhorn then the only change needed to run on a PowerPC as opposed to x86 is a new CLR.
Might want to try China Mieville's Perdido Street Station, it was up against American Gods for the Hugo award, very, very good book.
The thing that struck me about this article was how screwed up the US political system is whereby bills are all bundled together, I won't even get into the fact that with enough cash you can get your own laws considered. This particular law was denied twice (which in of itself should see it permanently denied) but on the third try it was ushered through because the bill it was riding on was a sure fire winner, lame.
:)
All that being said it's cool that they finally got the cars into the US, only wish I could afford one
Depending on how they recyle these I wonder if it would be possible to recover other peoples pics from the reused memory card ?
Seems pretty cool although disposable is a bit of a misnomer because they are really just recyclable, not like Ritz is throwing all the bits in the trash after processing them.
:)
Not being able to review the pics instantly is a drag too as its one of the main reasons I like using digicams (well that and not having photo guy check out my, um, arty pics) and I'm also a little dubious of their claims that a 2 megapixel camera can give you decent prints at 8x10, all that being said having a self timer is neat and I'm sure they'll be pretty popular.
In fact thinking about the recycling a bit more, I wonder if you could ever grab somebodies old pics off of a recycled unit.... I know you can recover deleted pics from a normal digicams media.... Something to think about..
I'm sorry but that's absolutely absurd my friend, $100k is more than enough to sustain a nice standard of living anywhere in Silicon Valley.
All they are doing is matching the price of the software they are competing against, how is that dumping exactly ?
The attack on the SpamKing is definitely funny. But the paper seems like an overly windy article describing how to perpetrate the old misdirected pizza/taxi cab gag on the information superhighway. While mischeiveious and a nuisance it can hardly be described as a denial of service attack now can it ? The victim ends up with a stuffed mailbox and the post office makes bank with all the additional traffic.
:)
Also this seems a little extreme 'The attack is, to some degree, a consequence of the availability of private information on the Web, and the increase in the amount of personal information that users must reveal to obtain Web services.'
Considering the webservices the article is talking about is requesting a catalog
The man is talking about restricting things that could potentially detroy the entire planet. When they detonated the first atomic bomb they considered that there was a chance the atmosphere could catch on fire, it's choices like those that will become more frequent the faster progress moves.
He's not condoning hushing things up counter to the 'information wants to be free' school of thinking, he's considering the fact that some lessons could potentially be the last thing we ever learn.