I believe that would be covered under the concept of fair use (although I don't completely understand the law, being non-US), as well as it being too insignificant portion of the whole OED for them to be interested in bringing suit. However, stranger things and shakier cases have been brought...
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I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that rear spoilers do have a genuine effect on countering this lifting force, although it may have been biased as it was probably in a car mag.
From memory (unreliable) the wing (or picnic table, possibly) on the back of 80s-early 90s Ford Cosworths turned a ~400Nm torque upwards (measured about the rear wheels) into a ~500Nm torque downward. Granted, these models were rear and later 4 wheel drive, but this is about the aerodynamics of the vehicle. It had lots of Scientists names around it too, so it must be true:)
In the aim of experimentation, I looked this up on the W3C HTML 4 pages. OK, so IE isn't usually one for sticking to the standards, but bear with me here... here is the bit distilled into/.ism below INPUT type (implied) one from text|password and so on if type is not present, text should be assumed. (This explains why everything renders it as a textbox, at least)
In the code that kills IE, the type attribute is present but not set, so its quite feasible that other browsers check for the type value in a different method, like assuming it is text unless the attribute value is in the list of valid types.
Strangely enough, the only problems I'm having are with Reiser... damn thing refused to mount/usr (RFS) and then complained when it couldn't do jack. I'm currently rebuilding with XFS and ext3 (for/boot,/) though
Yeah... it was the difference between a 12 and 15 rating, I believe. Almighty $ comes into play again, except in pounds sterling. There was a headbutt in Lord of the Rings which was screened in the UK, but that was deemed to be less violent due to the non-human characters taking part
No, because you can still run media player and IIS 5.1 (10 user) together....Net web server is a version of.Net server with web services enabled by default, and possibly different compile options used to make it run better in the corporate web environment (insert buzzword phrase here). Its the win2k server version for XP, witht he 2k theme by default
None, because on the beta (.NET Web Server, anyway) you can't install media player. I guess they decided to make the new servers only run server software.
I didn't know, tbh... my contract is for service only, but I had to buy a handset from them (at full price) to use with it. In that case, the phone is totally mine, but the link between phone and network represented by the IEMA no isn't mine to play with. I think the IEMA number should be hardwired into the phone by the manufacturer though, because I'd like to be sure that anyone who ran off with my handset was getting a pile of useless components for his effort.
The only problem with that is that the UIN on your_item( = new item()) is a connection between your_item and providers_network.
The connection between car and road provider is through the VIN, although Licence Plates refer to individual cars (and there isn't anything stopping you changing your licence plate).
This Law (if passed) would connect an individual handset to the phone network through an easily available UIN in the same way (and you can always change the phone number to 555-LEET if you must).
Another thing which has just occured to me is through the whole process of getting phone handsets in the first place... surely because of the subsidies that the providers put on the phones make them part owners of the handsets as well as you (which means that they would be able to dictate what you can and can not do to the unit)
According to an article in the UK Magazine Linux Format (http://www.linuxformat.co.uk) some similar kernel patches are available from your local kernel.org mirror in/pub/linux/kernel/crypto/
They also recommend the cryptoapi modules (http://cryptoapi.sf.net) as an alternative, with an in-depth guide.
It's in Issue 21, if you can get hold of their back issues department.
Next time you take it back, make sure the salesman or whoever you speak to agrees to you asking whether it will work in your PC's CD player. As a result, this will then become a condition of sale. If it then doesn't work, which is pretty much guarenteed, you can keep demanding replacements or refunds regardless of store policy, because they would be breaking the sales of goods acts. Of course, if this was also true in the US they'd follow up with a huge, law changing suit... perhaps our US bretheren can teach us something:)
There are other servers, like jabber.org which support some, any or possibly none of the services available. Just because you, like I did, thought of finding a jabber service by typing www.jabber.com into your browser doesn't mean you have to stick with it. Alternative servers are linked to at http://jabberview.com, and that may not be all of them, of course.
Also, if you push Jabber to your friends, with the selling point that they can still talk to other AIM/ICQ users, then maybe, just maybe, they may convert. My friends and I are trying to do this, although with a grand total of one conversion so far, we may not be doing too well... but every little helps.
As it happens, Jabber already has this capability... or at least, the servers do. Some of the clients don't support all of the features, but you'd expect that from pre-1.0 releases.
Encryption: PGP/GPG good enough for you?
Chat looks like IM chat, Messages look like e-mail and can have subjects, CCs
Oh yeah, and if you don't support the existing system and can't push the system onto all your customers, how do you get market share?
If you spend a year in your garage working on a project and come out with an innovative wooden widget you can walk to the patent office and obtain a 17 year monopoly on it.
If on the other hand you spend a year in your garage developing some innovative thing that had not been done before, but happens to be in software, many/.'ers propose that you shouldn't be able to patent it.
Having read the article, it seems that because you have actually innovated (and not in the microsoft way, either) you can patent this invention. Its when you are merely trying to patent software for the sake of software that it isn't allowed.
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If DRM gave you herpes, Windows users would still buy it.
I raise the original Kazaa as proof
I believe that would be covered under the concept of fair use (although I don't completely understand the law, being non-US), as well as it being too insignificant portion of the whole OED for them to be interested in bringing suit. However, stranger things and shakier cases have been brought...
I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that rear spoilers do have a genuine effect on countering this lifting force, although it may have been biased as it was probably in a car mag.
:)
From memory (unreliable) the wing (or picnic table, possibly) on the back of 80s-early 90s Ford Cosworths turned a ~400Nm torque upwards (measured about the rear wheels) into a ~500Nm torque downward. Granted, these models were rear and later 4 wheel drive, but this is about the aerodynamics of the vehicle. It had lots of Scientists names around it too, so it must be true
In the aim of experimentation, I looked this up on the W3C HTML 4 pages. OK, so IE isn't usually one for sticking to the standards, but bear with me here... /.ism below
here is the bit distilled into
INPUT
type (implied) one from text|password and so on
if type is not present, text should be assumed. (This explains why everything renders it as a textbox, at least)
In the code that kills IE, the type attribute is present but not set, so its quite feasible that other browsers check for the type value in a different method, like assuming it is text unless the attribute value is in the list of valid types.
Perhaps if you break the document down into different chunks to the Code diffs Code line idea... say, a sentence :)
Strangely enough, the only problems I'm having are with Reiser... damn thing refused to mount /usr (RFS) and then complained when it couldn't do jack. I'm currently rebuilding with XFS and ext3 (for /boot, /) though
If you said that, she'd spark up again and hold you to your comment
They cheated, by sending you the bill (for which you opened up the phone and used the money within to pay)
Yeah... it was the difference between a 12 and 15 rating, I believe. Almighty $ comes into play again, except in pounds sterling. There was a headbutt in Lord of the Rings which was screened in the UK, but that was deemed to be less violent due to the non-human characters taking part
No, because you can still run media player and IIS 5.1 (10 user) together... .Net web server is a version of .Net server with web services enabled by default, and possibly different compile options used to make it run better in the corporate web environment (insert buzzword phrase here). Its the win2k server version for XP, witht he 2k theme by default
None, because on the beta (.NET Web Server, anyway) you can't install media player. I guess they decided to make the new servers only run server software.
I didn't know, tbh... my contract is for service only, but I had to buy a handset from them (at full price) to use with it. In that case, the phone is totally mine, but the link between phone and network represented by the IEMA no isn't mine to play with. I think the IEMA number should be hardwired into the phone by the manufacturer though, because I'd like to be sure that anyone who ran off with my handset was getting a pile of useless components for his effort.
The only problem with that is that the UIN on your_item( = new item()) is a connection between your_item and providers_network.
The connection between car and road provider is through the VIN, although Licence Plates refer to individual cars (and there isn't anything stopping you changing your licence plate).
This Law (if passed) would connect an individual handset to the phone network through an easily available UIN in the same way (and you can always change the phone number to 555-LEET if you must).
Another thing which has just occured to me is through the whole process of getting phone handsets in the first place... surely because of the subsidies that the providers put on the phones make them part owners of the handsets as well as you (which means that they would be able to dictate what you can and can not do to the unit)
I'll second that, and raise you an "not yet released in foreign countries", which the cases above don't exclude.
Yeah, but the new Harley is actually *shock horror* new ;)
:)
I think it's actually completely different... new V-angle, water cooled, more capacity, does over 100MPH standard, stuff like that
Actually, a turbo is a form of supercharger, and it's full name is turbine driven supercharger (as opposed to gear or belt driven superchargers).
Basically, the turbine is driven by exhaust gases, where as a standard one is driven off the crankshafts
According to an article in the UK Magazine Linux Format (http://www.linuxformat.co.uk) some similar kernel patches are available from your local kernel.org mirror in /pub/linux/kernel/crypto/
They also recommend the cryptoapi modules (http://cryptoapi.sf.net) as an alternative, with an in-depth guide.
It's in Issue 21, if you can get hold of their back issues department.
Well according to http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/Public/datashop /print-catalogue/EN?catalogue=Eurostat&theme=3-Pop ulation%20and%20Social%20Conditions for the EU and http://tier2.census.gov/cgi-win/PL94-171/pl94data. exe for the US, The population counts are (for all 15 EU member states)
EU: 375346459
US: 268396514
I don't know about the relative area, but they look to be about equal on an atlas too.
As for Data sources, well... those two sites are the appropriate bodies for such things (US Census Bureau and Eurostat)
Next time you take it back, make sure the salesman or whoever you speak to agrees to you asking whether it will work in your PC's CD player. As a result, this will then become a condition of sale. If it then doesn't work, which is pretty much guarenteed, you can keep demanding replacements or refunds regardless of store policy, because they would be breaking the sales of goods acts. :)
Of course, if this was also true in the US they'd follow up with a huge, law changing suit... perhaps our US bretheren can teach us something
There are other servers, like jabber.org which support some, any or possibly none of the services available. Just because you, like I did, thought of finding a jabber service by typing www.jabber.com into your browser doesn't mean you have to stick with it. Alternative servers are linked to at http://jabberview.com, and that may not be all of them, of course.
Also, if you push Jabber to your friends, with the selling point that they can still talk to other AIM/ICQ users, then maybe, just maybe, they may convert. My friends and I are trying to do this, although with a grand total of one conversion so far, we may not be doing too well... but every little helps.
As it happens, Jabber already has this capability... or at least, the servers do. Some of the clients don't support all of the features, but you'd expect that from pre-1.0 releases.
- Encryption: PGP/GPG good enough for you?
- Chat looks like IM chat, Messages look like e-mail and can have subjects, CCs
Oh yeah, and if you don't support the existing system and can't push the system onto all your customers, how do you get market share?If you spend a year in your garage working on a project and come out with an innovative wooden widget you can walk to the patent office and obtain a 17 year monopoly on it. /.'ers propose that you shouldn't be able to patent it.
If on the other hand you spend a year in your garage developing some innovative thing that had not been done before, but happens to be in software, many
Having read the article, it seems that because you have actually innovated (and not in the microsoft way, either) you can patent this invention. Its when you are merely trying to patent software for the sake of software that it isn't allowed.
The only problem with that is that even those trasmission speeds will be increasing soon (up to 300kbps within 18 months, then over 1Mbps in 3 years)