Does anyone know if people in the UK have been sacked for not signing the opt-out, and if so, have they successfully won an unfair dismissal case on those grounds.
I doubt any company would dare threaten to sack someone on those grounds, precisely becuase they know they'd be highly unlikely to win at a tribunal.
I've noticed though, that a lot of people are happy to just buckle under and sign. My answer is always "nope!", and always has been, and I don't seem to have suffered reprecussions yet.
This would be nice on an ITX machine. Not many of them have upgradeably graphics (None of the quiet ones AFAIK). Lack of graphics upgradability has been putting me off buying one.
Lunux was created by Xerox labs. Linus toured the labs, and memorized some key lines of code. In order to obfuscate the origin, he renamed it Linux, and released it under the GPL.
I may be wronmg here, but i'd have thought there would be some frequencies reserved for emergency calls - You really don't want to prevent people calling 911 for anything that isn't an emergency - so it should be possible to not jam those frequencies. (Although I do agree there are probably a lot of reasons a mobile phone may be useful in such a situation)
Unless you have security guards that require written permission for every single hardware move your hardware is not going to be 100% safe.
True. Of course, this policy isn't too hard to implement. Even companies with two nearby buildings don't move stuff between them very often. The last time I worked for a company that had an actual security policy, you needed a form signed by the right person to take any hardware out of the building. Even a laptop (and security did check). Nobody seemed to mind too much.
And unless you have a zero tollerance policy on holding the door open for someone, your information is not safe.
They also managed to work out a way around this. Cards would not let people out if they been logged going in. Nobody ever held the door open for me, because they knew I didn't want them to.
How hard can it be to get usernames/passwords this way?
I read about early hackers in "Approaching Zero" (by Brian clough & Paul Mungo) It's been common practice amongst hackers since the 80's or before. I hope that since then companies have learned to train their staff to check people are who they say they are. However, lots of money has been lost by people being tricked by email into going to fake bank websites and entering their personal details. It's more or less the same thing.
Roughly translated, it mean It means "I have the worlds worst luck when it comes to scrabble. I have recorded my initial set of tiles here for posterity."
Well, okey. Changing the definition of the kilogram would result in changing the definition of the mole, but I was talking about how it worked in my proposal. I know that the kilogram is defined as the mass of an arbitrary lump of metal in Paris. It's just a little arbitrary.
No it doesn't. The mole is defined as a specified number of atoms. No dependency on the gram at all. We simply need to define Avagadro's number to be a specific amount. The gram is defined as the mass of 1 mole of neutrons.
It almost could be argued that the invention of the assembly line really should be mentioned vs that of the automobile but meh
Perhaps. This happened a long time before the invention of the automobile, of course. Mark Isambard brunel had a mechanised production line for manufacturing Ppulley blocks in 1803. And the internal combustion engine was invented in Switzerland.
On to computers; while the term 'computer' can be applied to anything that can add 1 and 1 the real breakthough with computers came with the invention of the transistor which was done in Bell Labs by Americans.
I'd say the electronic switch (The valve/vacuum tube was invented by John Ambrose Fleming) was probably a lot more significant than the transistor, which was simply a miniaturisation of existing objects.
Are Europeans more or less creative than Americans?
Yes.
Does this question make sense?
Possibly, but it's probably the wrong question.
Simply being American does not make you more creative. Nor does it make you less creative. However, there could be a cultural aspect, which encourages innovation, and makes people willing to take a risk on a new idea.
innovations such as human flight, refrigeration, electrification, the telephone, automobiles, television, computers, space travel and the Internet--you see that almost all of them were either invented by Americans, or had some crucial American link that helped turn a fledgling technology into a major boon for human kind.
Hmmm.. Okay, I'll grant human flight (assuming we mean powered controlled flight), and possibly TV (Assuming we mean an electron beam based system). Computers were invented by the british, space travel was pioneered in Germany, and accomplished by the Soviet Union. Automobiles were simply an extension of the steam locomotive with a control system added.
I'm no expert, but I gather that the GPL states that if you distribute the software, you must also distribute the source. So, basically, yes. You're correct.
Or does this read like a troll? I mean choice quotes like "In the name of globalization, the U.S. has relentlessly pursued business partnerships with countries that are home to relentless intellectual property theft.",
"Why are workers abroad able to produce our technology at all? The reason is because they know how to -- because they have our intellectual property.
",
In other words, surely these scummy foreigners can't possibly produce software. Only good honest hard working Americans are able to do that (Speaking as a troll, I would have added a comment along the lines of this being because we have Jeeaasus on our side, but I digress.)
"Open Source activists that... eventually, they want all intellectual property protection to end, including patents and trademarks. "
Tarring us all with the same brush. I'll grant that some people do. However, a lot of us see trademarks as very useful.
nVidia happened. Since all their competitors made thir own boards, they were pretty much the only player in the market, so they could bully the board manufacturers into refusing to buy Kyro chips.
Well, that was part of the problem. The other factor was delays. Kyro I was delayed by several months, which pushed back development on KyroII. By the time Kyro II came out, DX8 had been released, and Kyro II was a DX7 part.
Yes, but surely you still want to get rid of some of the higher order structures. Maybe you don't want to care about individual triangles, but you don't want to draw parts of the world that are in a totally different room. Even with early Z rejection, depth complexity can be a killer.
And when it comes to complex meshes, it certainly makes sense to decide whether you can actually see the object before calculating several hundred vertices.
Because people don't think like that. Just about nobody works out the maximum cost they'll be willing to pay for an item, and then decides to buy something if it costs less.
Instead, they look at the current price they can get something for, and if they think it's worth it, they'll make an offer.
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Does anyone know if people in the UK have been sacked for not signing the opt-out, and if so, have they successfully won an unfair dismissal case on those grounds.
I doubt any company would dare threaten to sack someone on those grounds, precisely becuase they know they'd be highly unlikely to win at a tribunal.
I've noticed though, that a lot of people are happy to just buckle under and sign. My answer is always "nope!", and always has been, and I don't seem to have suffered reprecussions yet.
This would be nice on an ITX machine. Not many of them have upgradeably graphics (None of the quiet ones AFAIK). Lack of graphics upgradability has been putting me off buying one.
Lunux was created by Xerox labs. Linus toured the labs, and memorized some key lines of code. In order to obfuscate the origin, he renamed it Linux, and released it under the GPL.
Television - Britain. Philo Farnsworth was American
:)
Logie baird was the intentor of television.
Computers - Britain. Eniac was American
Collussus wasn't.
The Internet - America. algore
Lightbulb - American
Tungsten filament lightbulb: British.
Antibiotics - American
An American beat Fleming to penecilin?
Aluminum refining - American
Hall (American) and Héroult (French) simultaneously.
John logie baird did manage to transmit a picture a year before Farnsworth invented his television.
I may be wronmg here, but i'd have thought there would be some frequencies reserved for emergency calls - You really don't want to prevent people calling 911 for anything that isn't an emergency - so it should be possible to not jam those frequencies. (Although I do agree there are probably a lot of reasons a mobile phone may be useful in such a situation)
I'm sure you could get a fair amount for the original P-P-P-Powerbook. Trouble is, to sell it, you'd implicate yourself in attempted fraud.
Unless you have security guards that require written permission for every single hardware move your hardware is not going to be 100% safe.
True. Of course, this policy isn't too hard to implement. Even companies with two nearby buildings don't move stuff between them very often. The last time I worked for a company that had an actual security policy, you needed a form signed by the right person to take any hardware out of the building. Even a laptop (and security did check). Nobody seemed to mind too much.
And unless you have a zero tollerance policy on holding the door open for someone, your information is not safe.
They also managed to work out a way around this. Cards would not let people out if they been logged going in. Nobody ever held the door open for me, because they knew I didn't want them to.
How hard can it be to get usernames/passwords this way?
I read about early hackers in "Approaching Zero" (by Brian clough & Paul Mungo) It's been common practice amongst hackers since the 80's or before. I hope that since then companies have learned to train their staff to check people are who they say they are. However, lots of money has been lost by people being tricked by email into going to fake bank websites and entering their personal details. It's more or less the same thing.
Roughly translated, it mean It means "I have the worlds worst luck when it comes to scrabble. I have recorded my initial set of tiles here for posterity."
Well, okey. Changing the definition of the kilogram would result in changing the definition of the mole, but I was talking about how it worked in my proposal. I know that the kilogram is defined as the mass of an arbitrary lump of metal in Paris. It's just a little arbitrary.
No it doesn't. The mole is defined as a specified number of atoms. No dependency on the gram at all. We simply need to define Avagadro's number to be a specific amount. The gram is defined as the mass of 1 mole of neutrons.
Yup. I often use this format for precisely this reason.
The kilogram is the only SI base unit that has not yet been defined in terms of a natural constant (speed of light, radioactivity, etc).
Indeed. I've often wondered why they don't specify it as something like the mass of 5.02 x10^25 atoms of Carbon-12.
It almost could be argued that the invention of the assembly line really should be mentioned vs that of the automobile but meh
Perhaps. This happened a long time before the invention of the automobile, of course. Mark Isambard brunel had a mechanised production line for manufacturing Ppulley blocks in 1803. And the internal combustion engine was invented in Switzerland.
On to computers; while the term 'computer' can be applied to anything that can add 1 and 1 the real breakthough with computers came with the invention of the transistor which was done in Bell Labs by Americans.
I'd say the electronic switch (The valve/vacuum tube was invented by John Ambrose Fleming) was probably a lot more significant than the transistor, which was simply a miniaturisation of existing objects.
Are Europeans more or less creative than Americans?
Yes.
Does this question make sense?
Possibly, but it's probably the wrong question.
Simply being American does not make you more creative. Nor does it make you less creative. However, there could be a cultural aspect, which encourages innovation, and makes people willing to take a risk on a new idea.
innovations such as human flight, refrigeration, electrification, the telephone, automobiles, television, computers, space travel and the Internet--you see that almost all of them were either invented by Americans, or had some crucial American link that helped turn a fledgling technology into a major boon for human kind.
Hmmm.. Okay, I'll grant human flight (assuming we mean powered controlled flight), and possibly TV (Assuming we mean an electron beam based system). Computers were invented by the british, space travel was pioneered in Germany, and accomplished by the Soviet Union. Automobiles were simply an extension of the steam locomotive with a control system added.
(and please no diatribe on whether steal is the right word).
Since you already know many of us (including the entire judicial system) disagree that copying is stealing, why use that word?
which certainly points toward a possible sale.
But only a "possible" sale. Hell, even if I shoplifted it, the shop I stole it from has only lost the amount they paid for it.
How is Microsoft making things easy for developers a bad thing? Why should we have to reinvent the wheel every time we start a new program?
Because if you had to do that, you wouldn't be able to work as quickly, so there would be more jobs for programmers.
Yes, I know it's a stupid argument, but it's pretty much the same as the argument that open source destroys the community.
I'm no expert, but I gather that the GPL states that if you distribute the software, you must also distribute the source. So, basically, yes. You're correct.
Or does this read like a troll? I mean choice quotes like
... eventually, they want all intellectual property protection to end, including patents and trademarks. "
"In the name of globalization, the U.S. has relentlessly pursued business partnerships with countries that are home to relentless intellectual property theft.",
"Why are workers abroad able to produce our technology at all? The reason is because they know how to -- because they have our intellectual property. ",
In other words, surely these scummy foreigners can't possibly produce software. Only good honest hard working Americans are able to do that (Speaking as a troll, I would have added a comment along the lines of this being because we have Jeeaasus on our side, but I digress.)
"Open Source activists that
Tarring us all with the same brush. I'll grant that some people do. However, a lot of us see trademarks as very useful.
Whatever happened to the Kyro II?
nVidia happened. Since all their competitors made thir own boards, they were pretty much the only player in the market, so they could bully the board manufacturers into refusing to buy Kyro chips.
Well, that was part of the problem. The other factor was delays. Kyro I was delayed by several months, which pushed back development on KyroII. By the time Kyro II came out, DX8 had been released, and Kyro II was a DX7 part.
Yes, but surely you still want to get rid of some of the higher order structures. Maybe you don't want to care about individual triangles, but you don't want to draw parts of the world that are in a totally different room. Even with early Z rejection, depth complexity can be a killer.
And when it comes to complex meshes, it certainly makes sense to decide whether you can actually see the object before calculating several hundred vertices.
True. And back in 1999, BeOS was heading in that direction. Not exactly a database, but it had some nice features that are associated with databases.
Because people don't think like that. Just about nobody works out the maximum cost they'll be willing to pay for an item, and then decides to buy something if it costs less.
Instead, they look at the current price they can get something for, and if they think it's worth it, they'll make an offer.