Certainly the East Coast and California have the population density for it. A lot of the land area of Japan is sparsely populated and mountainous, but they are still comparatively well connected compared to the megapolitan areas of the US.
I just tried searching for "photo sharing", and I really can't see what your problem is. The top result is Google's biggest competitor - Flickr. There's a couple of well distinguished ads above that, the second of which is for Picasa Web Albums, and a tip which leads to Google Image search, which is less prominent than the search results and ads, and to be honest, I didn't even notice it at first because my eyes naturally skipped over to the larger type of the first search result below it.
The name is a trademark, and I suppose Sun want to keep it for compliant implementations, as has been the case since they started licensing Java to other companies for implementation. The problem is that a restriction that you cannot change the APIs to make them incompatible with other Java implementations would not be compatible with the GPL, so the only way around this for them is to change the name for what is released under the GPL.
I've always preferred to run my own spam filters, I trust myself not to filter out a genuine email by mistake more than I trust my ISP, but last week the spam level got to the point where I'd go away for a couple of hours and there would be 200 new spams in my Junk folder, so I enabled the filter in my ISP's mail settings to try to get some bandwidth back. But as this article said, the latest batch seems to be evading conventional filters, so I'm still buried and thinking along whitelist lines myself (I had a whitelist system years ago, but one day found I had missed several important emails because of it).
The Windows programming guidelines are clear on this, but I'm not surprised that MS Word does not follow them, as the Office team at Microsoft never seem to follow Microsoft's guidelines, especially when it comes to the UI. Programs should only prompt the user to interrupt the shutdown process if they are doing an uninterruptable task such as burning a CDROM.
MS Word supports autosave files and session recovery (clunky though that may be to use). There is no excuse for not using that mechanism here.
Leaving aside the stealing accusation for a minute, I can see how it is stealing the future of the people who "invest" in them, but I suspect that the increase in popularity that results from widespread copying actually benefits the musicians themselves by driving more people to concerts, T-shirt sales etc which is where the artists get a more reasonable cut of the proceeds.
Record companies have to wake up to the fact that just like has happened in other industries, the role of the middleman is being made redundant by the internet, and if they continue to fight it instead of adapting and finding a new role for themselves that fits into the new economy, they will soon be extinct.
Likewise, Windows has had arbitrary DPI setting for scalable fonts since at least Windows 2000, and dumbed down "small, normal, large" settings for 72, 96 and 120dpi respectively, and standard UI items like menus, buttons etc resize to match the font being displayed in them. The only new thing here is that pixel orientated images are now included in the scaling.
In most countries money is both size and color coded for reasons of convenience. The fact that the US uses bills that are all the same color and size has nothing to do with literacy, and everything to do with being luddites that don't want to get with the times.
It sounds like Blackberry are using developer keys as a tax on development for their platform. Developer keys should not work on any device, you should have to configure your device to accept them, either configuring it as a "development device", or better, configuring it to accept a specific developer key. In the latter case, the device manufacturer, network operator, or whoever controls the production keys, can get out of the way, and let developers create their own self-signed keys for development. Unfortunately too many of them see developers as a direct revenue opportunity, rather than encouraging Free development that increases their revenue more indirectly by making their platform more popular due to the wide range of apps that result.
My understanding is the Warsaw Convention protects the airline against liability due to factors outside their control. But when loss is caused by negligence on their part, their liability is unlimited.
The one time my luggage got "lost" in transit, the airline quickly found it and put it on an alternative flight to an airport that was actually closer to my home than the one I'd flown into. The result was I didn't have to carry my luggage home, and it was couriered to my doorstep within about half an hour of me arriving home. I suspect that the vast majority of "lost luggage" cases end up like this (maybe a bit more delay before the passenger gets their luggage, admittedly), and luggage actually going missing is very rare indeed, which is why companies that insure your luggage against loss can offer such an apparently attractive deal - that, and the fact that they can probably claim back everything from the airline anyway, so all they're really doing is saving you some long periods on hold to the airline while you try to get compensation sorted out.
In my experience, you're right that it is the solder joints where most faults occur, but it is not the fine lead free solder joints, but the relatively large joints on power connectors etc, where a physical interface to the outside world occurs, and physical stress is transfered through plugging, unplugging etc. The difference with older equipment is that the older equipment would probably have the power cord hardwired, with sufficient clamping to prevent any stress on the solder joints. This is partly because older equipment had more room for proper physical connection of sockets to the casing, and partly because a 240V AC (or 117V in US) power cable going into a device was and still is subject to much more stringent regulations and testing than a 12V DC plug/socket connector. Non power sockets on older equipment sometimes suffer much the same reliability problems as modern equipment, though they were often screwed to the external case and connected to the main board via wires, rather than just soldered to the main board and relying on the casing lining up when everything is assembled.
My work had some ergonomics person come in and monitor us for a few minutes and ask us questions about our chairs and desks.
I went through the same thing a few years ago. Ergo-woman came around interviewing us to find who needed footstools, monitor stands etc to make their workstations more ergonomic. When she got to me, she asked "do you always sit like this?". "No," I reply, " sometimes I sit like this, or this, or this, or...", "hmmmm, how often do you switch positions?", "Oh, probably about every five minutes", "well OK, is there anything about your workstation you find uncomfortable", "no, I just can't sit still that long". "OK well your posture isn't, ahem, perfect, but as long as you're not holding it for long periods of time, and you feel comfortable, there is no problem."
Amendment X - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Now, I'm no expert on the US constitution from my position as an outside observer, but I wasn't aware that Federal law could trump State law in this regard. Does the consititution explicitly allow the government to pass laws protecting spammers?
Actually, that's not added security, but essential security. If the PIN was entered on the computer, and then sent to the smartcard for encryption, then a Trojan could still get it on that first leg of communication, before it was encrypted.
The way these things usually work, the PIN entered at the keyboard is not the PIN for the bank, but the PIN to decrypt the certificate on the smartcard. So knowing the PIN is only useful to the identity theives if it can get physical access to your smartcard.
Second, unscrupulous makers of rootkits will hardly be stopped by an EULA, Mr. Silver.
No, but at least Microsoft will be able to sue the clueless user who became infected, thus persuading them to choose a more robust OS next time around.
Down here in NZ, Jackson's announced that he will *not* be directing the Hobbit movie.
11.30am Tuesday November 21, 2006 By Joanna Hunkin
Down there in New Zealand, you seem to be a bit behind the times. Over here in Europe it is Friday November 24 already, and the news has moved on. RTFA for more details.
I wonder if PJ could use Sarbanes Oxley to have criminal charges brought against the executives at New Line? The article linked is about the music industry, but the accounting (mal)practices in both industries are the same.
Does the analogy with Reardon Metal, or McDonalds Secret Sauce, end when you realize that software is inherently different than a physical substance? If so, why is that? How is it different?
Software needs interoperability, food and metals generally don't. This is like if McDonalds Secret ingredient in their sauce reacted with any non-McDonalds burger consumed in the following week to make you violently ill. That would effectively shut out their smaller competitors, just having a secret ingredient that does not affect interoperability but still makes their burgers more popular than the competition is not a problem.
Novell's been paid a few hundred million dollars to give the impression that there are patent problems with Linux.
Since when did the patent holder ever pay an infringer a few hundred million dollars? The only impression this has given me is that Microsoft must be infringing on Novell's patents.
Hutchison, who this press release comes from, are a network provider. However, I have heard rumours recently that they might be about to pull out of the European market, so the cynic in me says this may just be a plan to increase their subscriber base in order to raise their valuation before a sale.
All it means is that the chunks of ice breaking off are bigger so survive longer, and that the ocean currents are in the right direction to bring them to New Zealand. If there were lots of them for a sustained period, it might cause local cooling in the area, but otherwise the local temperature isn't all that relevant. New Zealand's latitude is roughly the same as the South of France, Spain and into Morocco, to put it into perspective for people in the Northern Hemisphere (though Europe is in a warm current, so the equivalent latitude in East Coast US might be a better indicator of ocean temperature - probably centered somewhere around Washington DC I think).
Apple continue to show other makers how to not overload a music player.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you here, but my iPod has a photo viewer, PIM functionality and games. It's basically like my mobile phone, but without the phone. I don't know of any other MP3 player that is as overloaded with useless features.
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Certainly the East Coast and California have the population density for it. A lot of the land area of Japan is sparsely populated and mountainous, but they are still comparatively well connected compared to the megapolitan areas of the US.
I just tried searching for "photo sharing", and I really can't see what your problem is. The top result is Google's biggest competitor - Flickr. There's a couple of well distinguished ads above that, the second of which is for Picasa Web Albums, and a tip which leads to Google Image search, which is less prominent than the search results and ads, and to be honest, I didn't even notice it at first because my eyes naturally skipped over to the larger type of the first search result below it.
The name is a trademark, and I suppose Sun want to keep it for compliant implementations, as has been the case since they started licensing Java to other companies for implementation. The problem is that a restriction that you cannot change the APIs to make them incompatible with other Java implementations would not be compatible with the GPL, so the only way around this for them is to change the name for what is released under the GPL.
No, its not just you.
I've always preferred to run my own spam filters, I trust myself not to filter out a genuine email by mistake more than I trust my ISP, but last week the spam level got to the point where I'd go away for a couple of hours and there would be 200 new spams in my Junk folder, so I enabled the filter in my ISP's mail settings to try to get some bandwidth back. But as this article said, the latest batch seems to be evading conventional filters, so I'm still buried and thinking along whitelist lines myself (I had a whitelist system years ago, but one day found I had missed several important emails because of it).
Anyways, they say the fossils are unlike any others. So that does support the idea that it lived in Australia and evolved there.
The only thing that would support that idea would be if the fossils were VERY like fossils found in Australia.
The Windows programming guidelines are clear on this, but I'm not surprised that MS Word does not follow them, as the Office team at Microsoft never seem to follow Microsoft's guidelines, especially when it comes to the UI. Programs should only prompt the user to interrupt the shutdown process if they are doing an uninterruptable task such as burning a CDROM.
MS Word supports autosave files and session recovery (clunky though that may be to use). There is no excuse for not using that mechanism here.
Leaving aside the stealing accusation for a minute, I can see how it is stealing the future of the people who "invest" in them, but I suspect that the increase in popularity that results from widespread copying actually benefits the musicians themselves by driving more people to concerts, T-shirt sales etc which is where the artists get a more reasonable cut of the proceeds.
Record companies have to wake up to the fact that just like has happened in other industries, the role of the middleman is being made redundant by the internet, and if they continue to fight it instead of adapting and finding a new role for themselves that fits into the new economy, they will soon be extinct.
Likewise, Windows has had arbitrary DPI setting for scalable fonts since at least Windows 2000, and dumbed down "small, normal, large" settings for 72, 96 and 120dpi respectively, and standard UI items like menus, buttons etc resize to match the font being displayed in them. The only new thing here is that pixel orientated images are now included in the scaling.
In most countries money is both size and color coded for reasons of convenience. The fact that the US uses bills that are all the same color and size has nothing to do with literacy, and everything to do with being luddites that don't want to get with the times.
It sounds like Blackberry are using developer keys as a tax on development for their platform. Developer keys should not work on any device, you should have to configure your device to accept them, either configuring it as a "development device", or better, configuring it to accept a specific developer key. In the latter case, the device manufacturer, network operator, or whoever controls the production keys, can get out of the way, and let developers create their own self-signed keys for development. Unfortunately too many of them see developers as a direct revenue opportunity, rather than encouraging Free development that increases their revenue more indirectly by making their platform more popular due to the wide range of apps that result.
My understanding is the Warsaw Convention protects the airline against liability due to factors outside their control. But when loss is caused by negligence on their part, their liability is unlimited.
The one time my luggage got "lost" in transit, the airline quickly found it and put it on an alternative flight to an airport that was actually closer to my home than the one I'd flown into. The result was I didn't have to carry my luggage home, and it was couriered to my doorstep within about half an hour of me arriving home. I suspect that the vast majority of "lost luggage" cases end up like this (maybe a bit more delay before the passenger gets their luggage, admittedly), and luggage actually going missing is very rare indeed, which is why companies that insure your luggage against loss can offer such an apparently attractive deal - that, and the fact that they can probably claim back everything from the airline anyway, so all they're really doing is saving you some long periods on hold to the airline while you try to get compensation sorted out.
In my experience, you're right that it is the solder joints where most faults occur, but it is not the fine lead free solder joints, but the relatively large joints on power connectors etc, where a physical interface to the outside world occurs, and physical stress is transfered through plugging, unplugging etc. The difference with older equipment is that the older equipment would probably have the power cord hardwired, with sufficient clamping to prevent any stress on the solder joints. This is partly because older equipment had more room for proper physical connection of sockets to the casing, and partly because a 240V AC (or 117V in US) power cable going into a device was and still is subject to much more stringent regulations and testing than a 12V DC plug/socket connector. Non power sockets on older equipment sometimes suffer much the same reliability problems as modern equipment, though they were often screwed to the external case and connected to the main board via wires, rather than just soldered to the main board and relying on the casing lining up when everything is assembled.
My work had some ergonomics person come in and monitor us for a few minutes and ask us questions about our chairs and desks.
I went through the same thing a few years ago. Ergo-woman came around interviewing us to find who needed footstools, monitor stands etc to make their workstations more ergonomic. When she got to me, she asked "do you always sit like this?". "No," I reply, " sometimes I sit like this, or this, or this, or...", "hmmmm, how often do you switch positions?", "Oh, probably about every five minutes", "well OK, is there anything about your workstation you find uncomfortable", "no, I just can't sit still that long". "OK well your posture isn't, ahem, perfect, but as long as you're not holding it for long periods of time, and you feel comfortable, there is no problem."
Amendment X - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Now, I'm no expert on the US constitution from my position as an outside observer, but I wasn't aware that Federal law could trump State law in this regard. Does the consititution explicitly allow the government to pass laws protecting spammers?
Actually, that's not added security, but essential security. If the PIN was entered on the computer, and then sent to the smartcard for encryption, then a Trojan could still get it on that first leg of communication, before it was encrypted.
The way these things usually work, the PIN entered at the keyboard is not the PIN for the bank, but the PIN to decrypt the certificate on the smartcard. So knowing the PIN is only useful to the identity theives if it can get physical access to your smartcard.
hospitals have wireless networks
people die in hospitals, these wireless network tubes must be dangerous things! won't anyone think of the children?
Second, unscrupulous makers of rootkits will hardly be stopped by an EULA, Mr. Silver.
No, but at least Microsoft will be able to sue the clueless user who became infected, thus persuading them to choose a more robust OS next time around.
Down here in NZ, Jackson's announced that he will *not* be directing the Hobbit movie.
11.30am Tuesday November 21, 2006 By Joanna Hunkin
Down there in New Zealand, you seem to be a bit behind the times. Over here in Europe it is Friday November 24 already, and the news has moved on. RTFA for more details.
I wonder if PJ could use Sarbanes Oxley to have criminal charges brought against the executives at New Line? The article linked is about the music industry, but the accounting (mal)practices in both industries are the same.
Does the analogy with Reardon Metal, or McDonalds Secret Sauce, end when you realize that software is inherently different than a physical substance? If so, why is that? How is it different?
Software needs interoperability, food and metals generally don't. This is like if McDonalds Secret ingredient in their sauce reacted with any non-McDonalds burger consumed in the following week to make you violently ill. That would effectively shut out their smaller competitors, just having a secret ingredient that does not affect interoperability but still makes their burgers more popular than the competition is not a problem.
Novell's been paid a few hundred million dollars to give the impression that there are patent problems with Linux.
Since when did the patent holder ever pay an infringer a few hundred million dollars? The only impression this has given me is that Microsoft must be infringing on Novell's patents.
Notice the absence of network providers.
Hutchison, who this press release comes from, are a network provider. However, I have heard rumours recently that they might be about to pull out of the European market, so the cynic in me says this may just be a plan to increase their subscriber base in order to raise their valuation before a sale.
All it means is that the chunks of ice breaking off are bigger so survive longer, and that the ocean currents are in the right direction to bring them to New Zealand. If there were lots of them for a sustained period, it might cause local cooling in the area, but otherwise the local temperature isn't all that relevant. New Zealand's latitude is roughly the same as the South of France, Spain and into Morocco, to put it into perspective for people in the Northern Hemisphere (though Europe is in a warm current, so the equivalent latitude in East Coast US might be a better indicator of ocean temperature - probably centered somewhere around Washington DC I think).
Apple continue to show other makers how to not overload a music player.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you here, but my iPod has a photo viewer, PIM functionality and games. It's basically like my mobile phone, but without the phone. I don't know of any other MP3 player that is as overloaded with useless features.