So if they can introduce a 25% penalty tax for companies deemed not to be paying enough tax, why the hell can't they fix the rules that these companies are using to avoid paying the existing tax? The companies aren't doing anything magical, they're just following the convoluted mess of tax law to pay the minimum tax possible, which is exactly what they should be doing.
This could get the Government in a sticky mess, if some years down the line a company challenges the 25% as a unlawful extortion (which it pretty much is) then they'll likely have to pay that tax back.
ah wait, you present that suggesting that the Star Wars guys ripped it off from the other films...is there anything to back that up?
This keeps coming up, somebody takes a scene or character from a current movie and strongly suggests it was nicked from some classic.
Surely there is an alternative, in that there is a certain flow/makeup of scenes that 'people' in general find more compelling than others? So the Star Wars trench scene started as something, then was edited etc till it felt right. The Dambusters scene most likely went through the same process. Given both involve flying things in a line, there are bound to be similarities...as even though Tie fighters and X-Wings have no need to behave like WWII fighters, its easier for the creators and our believability that they do. Which means they are going to use the same manoeuvres, and have the same restrictions. They're both climatic sequences too, so both directors will be going for similar psychological responses (intentionally or just case it 'feels right') etc etc
I've no idea if anybody as studied this aspect of films, but tbh I find it more likely, than modern films painstakingly copying old scenes, that just seems a pain in the arse to do.
As the article said one of the problems seems to be that there isn't enough knowledge to deem whether the patent is obvious when its granted.
Maybe one solution would be a Jury of experts. Basically the same as traditional jury service in the US/UK etc, you get called up and then, instead of deciding if he did or not, you spend a week going through patents in your field with other experts?
it's weirder than that, MS scrolls tended to work, Logitech (and the rebranded) didn't.
But FreeWheel (http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/freewheel.shtml) fixes all that, and in Access 97 VBA windows which behaved differently again...and yes unfortunately I still have to use both on a regular basis.
As the original RFC doesn't mention anything about what should happen if you went to example.com, I'd have thought the professional thing to do would be ask!
Release a statement, let people put some pros/cons...hell a surveymonkey would have been enough.
My results for Chrome 10.0.612.3 were around the 12k mark too, which seems to show that the browser performance is no where near what our CPU's are capable off. As the Intel i series is performing the same or worse! Either that or the engine in chrome 9/10 is vastly improved!
of every damn site now needing a login to do anything.
Shopping sites are the worse, no I don't need an account, I want to buy this one item from you, oh no google checkout or paypal...well I'll go else where then.
Thanks for that! I knew I recognized it as soon as I saw that 'squiggly' (well squiggly for doom) tunnel.
But fuck knows why my brain decides that remembering map layouts of game I last played 16 odd years ago is a good idea! Maybe it's because your using most of your senses and non-repetitive muscle movements??
A shame this, as a lot of the earlier reviews of the SED technology picture quality had it just about equalling CRT, but it was firmly beating Plasma, and obviously LCD was a distant 4th.
Oh well, maybe OLED can be ramped up in size and down in cost, as that doesn't do too bad in the PQ stakes.
tbh I think this is a good thing. Meamo died because there was just 3 devices that ever used it, so all the promise it had as an OS were stunted. With this descision MeeGo will *have* to evolve and at least keep up with Android and iOS.
Nokia have always had a problem with their ranges, they produce so many models that whats supposed to be high-end has less features than the middle phone of the other range...see the N and E ranges for quite a few examples of this. This will give the ranges a consistent and global difference.
Having said all that, Symbian S60 and ^3 still has (and had for a while) features that other phones are only just getting!
Concerns about privacy they'll have by the dozen...maybe someone should also point out what a technological clusterf**k this would be.
They can't even convert a PDF to an easily accessible HTML page. How the hell would the they manage with the massive amount of raw data from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, (do they even know how many search engines there are?) How would you deal with the false positives alone?
This is just as moronic as the UK government thinking its easy to just 'store' all comms for 3 months, in case the police needed it.
What they should be doing is making sure that the reporting methods are easy and universal accross the EU, that every EU memeber has the wording in its laws to take down host sites and to work with non-EU states to make sure that international sites can also be taken down quickly.
Then it can move to the much much harder issue of properly defining child porn, and making that standard. None of this wishwashy crap that would make Donald Duck illegal because he's got no pants on! Or locking up grandparents from taking photo's of their children.
No need to waste billions of our money on some half-assed badly implemented privacy invasion.
It's not online privacy that's broken. All that's changing is people's awareness (or more importantly lack of) of what privacy means in the digital connected world.
Street view is a good example, no one bothered to drive around the world taking 360 pictures of everything and logging the gps coords, so before Google did it, that information just wasn't accessible but more importantly it wasn't private either. By making it easily accesible to all, made people jump to outragous claims of privacy invasions. But afaik there isn't a single country where the roads aren't owned by the 'public'. So everyone has the right to go down a street and 'look' and so the drunks, cats in windows and people leaving sex stores with Black Mamba dongs where doing so in public and could have been seen by anybody. Just because Google 'looked' and stored what they saw, doesn't change this fact. If you don't want Google or anybody else to see what your doing, don't do it in a public or publicly visible space. You've never had the right to stop people looking through your windows, but you do have the right to block those windows, that's your choice.
The wifi mac/ssid issue is similar, you are publicly broadcasting those bits of information, anybody can retrieve them from the 'public' electromagnetic waves and store it. You decided to make those bits of data public when you chose to use WiFi tech, the fact you (and a lot of others) don't understand or care how WiFi works is irrelevant. Again you have the choice not to use WiFi.
Similar with FaceBook, you are choosing to publish information to a third-party. At the end of day it doesn't matter what privacy you thought you'd agreed to when you hit 'submit'. You've choosen to make it less private.
I think it boils down to: "People are slowly realising just because no-one gathered or analysed the information before, doesn't make that information private."
That's just illogical, if you allow on base.NET language you should allow both. The syntax is the biggest difference and arguably given C# closeness to Java and C++ it would the more logical choice for a school taught language.
Sorry, but Open != Detailed Documentation any more than Closed does. See Mark Russinovich's blog for way too much detail about the Windows kernel and ecosystem. I'd also argue the MSDN site is far more comprehensive and easy to use (if they'd stop pratting about with the colours and layout every other week) than any single source of linux docs (if there even is one) MS do seem to realise that you can't write docs assuming the reader knows what the doc is about, unlike most OSS documentation that assumes way to much knowledge.
These IBM pages are very useful and a commendable activity and a good read for any one interested in *nix, or operating systems. But these are the exception rather than the general rule.
Urm why block it? If its illegal, then get a court order and take it down. Arrest those responsible etc etc. If its not illegal then it must be legal and then also be fine for public consumption.
But as people have pointed out numerous times, the governments don't want to block illegal content, they want to control access to legal content.
The UK had a similar responce after a large pedophilla case, I thought at the time I don't want you to block it, I want you to delete the content then find the scum and hang'em. In fact pedophilla is one of the few types of content that has fairly consistent global laws, and should be easy to prosecute for.
It does seem a rather ott response from the boss. Our's tried a similar thing, but was slightly more reasonable and said one ear only...ie so you could still respond. luckily that seems to have been dropped now.
I would suggest you find out if there is an underlying reason, maybe he's had complaints of people ignoring the phones or something.
As many have already said, AP and Reuters provide the source of the news, and far far to many 'newspapers' just republish it.
People like content, which Murdoch seems to forget about his own site, WSJ was good and people pay for it because it was more than just AP reprints, it was decent articles...similar to the BBC they tend to start with a summary and then add value by adding more detail.
It's like the difference between Engadget and AnandTech, Engadget will tell you Intel have launched i7 and some bullet points. Anandtech will have a 10 page analysis. I read both, but would only ever consider paying for Anandtech, knowing that I could get the same info as the Engadget from hundreds of other sites.
Newspapers need to reposition themselves, either go back to geographical seperation, or hirer proper journalists that can write proper stories, there will be less news per paper, but should better information, that I can't get elsewhere.
I do agree with the looting, you kill some badass baddy and get a single healing potion. Where did their armour and weapon go? Doesn't always have to be special, just represent what they were holding.
I also think its been dumbed down a bit, possibly for the console generation (or console tech limitations). Very simple stats and skill trees, no mage loosing powers in armour stuff, no needing to learn spells or stupid identify crap.
But I also played it for 23 hours over the release weekend...so maybe that's more telling:)
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Personally with Plex, served from my Synology NAS.
But it also supports Kodi, Netflix 4k & HDR.
Its game streaming from a PC works well enough too.
Since 1974 in fact, when Parliament decided the US's crappy definition was too prevalent, and decided to adopt it for all official documents.
So if they can introduce a 25% penalty tax for companies deemed not to be paying enough tax, why the hell can't they fix the rules that these companies are using to avoid paying the existing tax? The companies aren't doing anything magical, they're just following the convoluted mess of tax law to pay the minimum tax possible, which is exactly what they should be doing.
This could get the Government in a sticky mess, if some years down the line a company challenges the 25% as a unlawful extortion (which it pretty much is) then they'll likely have to pay that tax back.
The goal of a labyrinth is meditative.
Tell that to Theseus, or Jennifer!
ah wait, you present that suggesting that the Star Wars guys ripped it off from the other films...is there anything to back that up?
This keeps coming up, somebody takes a scene or character from a current movie and strongly suggests it was nicked from some classic.
Surely there is an alternative, in that there is a certain flow/makeup of scenes that 'people' in general find more compelling than others? So the Star Wars trench scene started as something, then was edited etc till it felt right. The Dambusters scene most likely went through the same process. Given both involve flying things in a line, there are bound to be similarities...as even though Tie fighters and X-Wings have no need to behave like WWII fighters, its easier for the creators and our believability that they do. Which means they are going to use the same manoeuvres, and have the same restrictions. They're both climatic sequences too, so both directors will be going for similar psychological responses (intentionally or just case it 'feels right') etc etc
I've no idea if anybody as studied this aspect of films, but tbh I find it more likely, than modern films painstakingly copying old scenes, that just seems a pain in the arse to do.
As the article said one of the problems seems to be that there isn't enough knowledge to deem whether the patent is obvious when its granted.
Maybe one solution would be a Jury of experts. Basically the same as traditional jury service in the US/UK etc, you get called up and then, instead of deciding if he did or not, you spend a week going through patents in your field with other experts?
it's weirder than that, MS scrolls tended to work, Logitech (and the rebranded) didn't.
But FreeWheel (http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/freewheel.shtml) fixes all that, and in Access 97 VBA windows which behaved differently again...and yes unfortunately I still have to use both on a regular basis.
As the original RFC doesn't mention anything about what should happen if you went to example.com, I'd have thought the professional thing to do would be ask!
Release a statement, let people put some pros/cons...hell a surveymonkey would have been enough.
My results for Chrome 10.0.612.3 were around the 12k mark too, which seems to show that the browser performance is no where near what our CPU's are capable off. As the Intel i series is performing the same or worse! Either that or the engine in chrome 9/10 is vastly improved!
Core 2 Duo 2.66 @ 2.81Ghz
4Gb
Win 7 64Bit
of every damn site now needing a login to do anything.
Shopping sites are the worse, no I don't need an account, I want to buy this one item from you, oh no google checkout or paypal...well I'll go else where then.
Why? Why not use RTF, or in fact just plain text?
well no, that's the thing...yes I played it quite a bit, but not *that* much! didn't play
Same as Wolfenstien I know all the secrets on the first few levels, but again not played that in years.
But it gets released on a phone or latest console and I know exactly where to go:)
Thanks for that! I knew I recognized it as soon as I saw that 'squiggly' (well squiggly for doom) tunnel.
But fuck knows why my brain decides that remembering map layouts of game I last played 16 odd years ago is a good idea! Maybe it's because your using most of your senses and non-repetitive muscle movements??
Add .qr to the end of shortend url and you get the QR code:
So for this page: http://goo.gl/pWiq.qr
A shame this, as a lot of the earlier reviews of the SED technology picture quality had it just about equalling CRT, but it was firmly beating Plasma, and obviously LCD was a distant 4th.
Oh well, maybe OLED can be ramped up in size and down in cost, as that doesn't do too bad in the PQ stakes.
tbh I think this is a good thing. Meamo died because there was just 3 devices that ever used it, so all the promise it had as an OS were stunted. With this descision MeeGo will *have* to evolve and at least keep up with Android and iOS.
Nokia have always had a problem with their ranges, they produce so many models that whats supposed to be high-end has less features than the middle phone of the other range...see the N and E ranges for quite a few examples of this.
This will give the ranges a consistent and global difference.
Having said all that, Symbian S60 and ^3 still has (and had for a while) features that other phones are only just getting!
Concerns about privacy they'll have by the dozen...maybe someone should also point out what a technological clusterf**k this would be.
They can't even convert a PDF to an easily accessible HTML page. How the hell would the they manage with the massive amount of raw data from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, (do they even know how many search engines there are?) How would you deal with the false positives alone?
This is just as moronic as the UK government thinking its easy to just 'store' all comms for 3 months, in case the police needed it.
What they should be doing is making sure that the reporting methods are easy and universal accross the EU, that every EU memeber has the wording in its laws to take down host sites and to work with non-EU states to make sure that international sites can also be taken down quickly.
Then it can move to the much much harder issue of properly defining child porn, and making that standard. None of this wishwashy crap that would make Donald Duck illegal because he's got no pants on! Or locking up grandparents from taking photo's of their children.
No need to waste billions of our money on some half-assed badly implemented privacy invasion.
It's not online privacy that's broken. All that's changing is people's awareness (or more importantly lack of) of what privacy means in the digital connected world.
Street view is a good example, no one bothered to drive around the world taking 360 pictures of everything and logging the gps coords, so before Google did it, that information just wasn't accessible but more importantly it wasn't private either. By making it easily accesible to all, made people jump to outragous claims of privacy invasions. But afaik there isn't a single country where the roads aren't owned by the 'public'. So everyone has the right to go down a street and 'look' and so the drunks, cats in windows and people leaving sex stores with Black Mamba dongs where doing so in public and could have been seen by anybody. Just because Google 'looked' and stored what they saw, doesn't change this fact. If you don't want Google or anybody else to see what your doing, don't do it in a public or publicly visible space. You've never had the right to stop people looking through your windows, but you do have the right to block those windows, that's your choice.
The wifi mac/ssid issue is similar, you are publicly broadcasting those bits of information, anybody can retrieve them from the 'public' electromagnetic waves and store it. You decided to make those bits of data public when you chose to use WiFi tech, the fact you (and a lot of others) don't understand or care how WiFi works is irrelevant. Again you have the choice not to use WiFi.
Similar with FaceBook, you are choosing to publish information to a third-party. At the end of day it doesn't matter what privacy you thought you'd agreed to when you hit 'submit'. You've choosen to make it less private.
I think it boils down to: "People are slowly realising just because no-one gathered or analysed the information before, doesn't make that information private."
That's just illogical, if you allow on base .NET language you should allow both. The syntax is the biggest difference and arguably given C# closeness to Java and C++ it would the more logical choice for a school taught language.
Sorry, but Open != Detailed Documentation any more than Closed does. See Mark Russinovich's blog for way too much detail about the Windows kernel and ecosystem.
I'd also argue the MSDN site is far more comprehensive and easy to use (if they'd stop pratting about with the colours and layout every other week) than any single source of linux docs (if there even is one)
MS do seem to realise that you can't write docs assuming the reader knows what the doc is about, unlike most OSS documentation that assumes way to much knowledge.
These IBM pages are very useful and a commendable activity and a good read for any one interested in *nix, or operating systems. But these are the exception rather than the general rule.
Agreed, its the only one that stays in the background, doesn't bother the user unless there's a problem.
Doesn't seem to need to many resources either.
Urm why block it? If its illegal, then get a court order and take it down. Arrest those responsible etc etc.
If its not illegal then it must be legal and then also be fine for public consumption.
But as people have pointed out numerous times, the governments don't want to block illegal content, they want to control access to legal content.
The UK had a similar responce after a large pedophilla case, I thought at the time I don't want you to block it, I want you to delete the content then find the scum and hang'em. In fact pedophilla is one of the few types of content that has fairly consistent global laws, and should be easy to prosecute for.
It does seem a rather ott response from the boss.
Our's tried a similar thing, but was slightly more reasonable and said one ear only...ie so you could still respond. luckily that seems to have been dropped now.
I would suggest you find out if there is an underlying reason, maybe he's had complaints of people ignoring the phones or something.
As many have already said, AP and Reuters provide the source of the news, and far far to many 'newspapers' just republish it.
People like content, which Murdoch seems to forget about his own site, WSJ was good and people pay for it because it was more than just AP reprints, it was decent articles...similar to the BBC they tend to start with a summary and then add value by adding more detail.
It's like the difference between Engadget and AnandTech, Engadget will tell you Intel have launched i7 and some bullet points. Anandtech will have a 10 page analysis. I read both, but would only ever consider paying for Anandtech, knowing that I could get the same info as the Engadget from hundreds of other sites.
Newspapers need to reposition themselves, either go back to geographical seperation, or hirer proper journalists that can write proper stories, there will be less news per paper, but should better information, that I can't get elsewhere.
I do agree with the looting, you kill some badass baddy and get a single healing potion. Where did their armour and weapon go? Doesn't always have to be special, just represent what they were holding.
I also think its been dumbed down a bit, possibly for the console generation (or console tech limitations). Very simple stats and skill trees, no mage loosing powers in armour stuff, no needing to learn spells or stupid identify crap.
But I also played it for 23 hours over the release weekend...so maybe that's more telling:)