It was 240V +/- 6%. They did actually use those tolerances. Quite a lot of people had a supply lower than 230V or above 250V.
Now it's 230V+10%/-2% which isn't a perfect overlap but only a few areas were outside of that range so it wasn't too much to fix.
Still makes no difference. Even if, having done the calculation, I can work out a means for this to be completely effective, I've lost the suspension of disbelief. When telling a story, things should be presented in a way we'll accept them.
We shouldn't need to leave our involvement of the movie, come up with an entire fan theory and then go back in having established it will work. That's just bad scrptwriting.
Surely this will be a decision to be made by the first independent government. Alex Salmond may not be the majority leader. The SNP may not get a single vote (I can't think why anyone would want to vote for them afterwards).
If Independent Scotland chooses to ban nuclear weapons then that is theiur right as an independent state. If they choose not to that is also their right. But whether they actually do or not is a matter of national party politics, and notpart of the independdence movement. The fact that they will have the decision is a matter for the independence debate but what that decision should be is no.
Salmond seems to think the referendum is bout electing him Scotland's president.
Having the word "I have a gun" written on a piece of paper is legal.
Handing a piece of paper to a bank teller is legal.
Catching the train to Basingstoke, walking past and then into a bank, and handing over a piece of paper that says "I have a gun" is probably going to be considered a fairly compelling case that you intended to rob a bank.
Watching the video is not a crime. It could, conceivably, be used as evidence of committing a crime. So could getting the 8:45 to Basingstoke, but only is that was something you did in order to commit a crime.
Pretty much anyone else who has spoken on the matter has said the police overstepped, and that watching the video is not illegal.
I've had a mixture. Developing a demo for a new game pitch was fun. Coming in late to an existing game was dull. Developing a trade show display using cool technology was fun, as was developing demo tools to show off a price of tech. Maintaining an established product with years of legacy code is extremely tedious.
I do consider myself lucky to have been involved in the greenfield projects. Well over 90% of the work out there is pretty dull maintenance stuff, but it is possible to get interesting work working for a company.
The problem here for a lot of people is it breaks them out of their suspension of disbelief. We've established this as a representation of a fairly realistic world when something we know wouldn't happen happens.
If we established earlier that this was a world with its own physics then we'd accept it.
Theodore Beale (who uses the en name Vox Day) has generally been making enemies by being racist, sexist and generally unpleasant. He does seem to have at least some fans though.
He allegedly encouraged his fans to buy a memebership solely to get his short story on the ballot.
Probably wouldn't have blown up quite so much but Beale seems to have been winding up the sci-fi writers association for some time.
Successful desktop operating systems have been based on various kernels. Apple used a pretty crummy one before switching to a BSD derived one. The Atari ST and Commodore Amiga each used their own, and they had certain success in their niches.
The problem is the GUI. People don't like X, and Linux people have no desire to give us anything else. Engineers and enthusiasts may well argue that it's better from various objective reasons but the end user doesn't care. They use it and they think it sucks. Perhaps the problem is that it still pretty much needs the shell. Perhaps it's large, slow and clunky. Perhaps it's the poor support for games.
Android doesn't have these problems because the developers didn't cripple themselves with X. TiVos and Tomtoms (before switching to Android) used Linux without X and people were quite happy with them.
Give us a nice, simple, standard GUI without a bazillion customisations, and with the ability to to just install an app from the GUI and run it from the GUI, and Linux might actually work on the desktop.
Not really related, but apparently an embassy isn't considered the representative state's soil. There are all sorts of treaty agreements that provide a lot of liitation on the hot country, but if I go to the Chinese Embassy in London, and shoot someone, I will be tried under English law.
Now, as for the car shaped container, there would probably be a diplomatic incident if they searched it and found that there was no Assange. On the flipside, if it turned out that Ecuador was smuggling out fugitives in the guise of diplomaic baggage, that too would cause an incident.
I don't think so, because it's not obvious that this is a mechanism to prevent access, but if they put a lock there (no matter how weak) to prevent you from adding the fuse then it possibly would be. At least that's the analogy. If we're talking about a real car then obviously it wouldn't be.
Yes. You may be able to guess the password, but based on the "reasonable man" test, I think most people would assume that you weren't meant to guess it. I don't have a problem with this in principle. I do have a problem that it seems to allow companies to extend the reach of copyright.
My way of seeing it is that anyone who buys the oscilloscope has a legally acquired copy of the software. They just can't access it. Actually accessing legally acquired software should not be illegal. It's not like there's a business model that would be unsustainable without the protection. If they don't want people to use the software, then don't give them the software. If they pay extra then provide the software.
I agree with your desscription of it being "crippled". This is essentially a law criminalising repair. In the physical world, if I were to sell off faulty stock (which is legitimate as long as I was honest about the fact that it was faulty), I would not be able to use the law to prevent them from repairing it, even if the buyer was competing with my repair business.
Also, for it to be a DCMA, doesn't the requested takedown have to have something to do with DRM?
The DMCA doesn't mention DRM. It mentions somethign along the lines of mechanisms that prevent access to protected works (software can be a mechanism for the purposes of the act).
Personally I don't think this should qualify as infringement since it prevents use - which should not be a copyright violation - rather than duplication, but that's my opinion on what the law should be rather than what it would be when interpreted by the courts.
Look at that thing. It's smart, stylish, with a convenient touch screen interface and comes in a range of colours, and a recognised brand. It should do at least as well as the other ebook readers at the same price.
There's somethign really really wrong in Sony that the company is failing to address. Without their video games division I'd be surprised if the company remained afloat at all.
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Yes it does. It's called fair dealing. But it doesn't allow you to offer complete episodes of a TV show.
So you consider your inability to purchase a vacuum cleaner with an inefficient motor a hardship on the same level as death?
The inefficient motors in your vacuum cleaner mean more pollution, which affects me so it makes it my business.
It was 240V +/- 6%. They did actually use those tolerances. Quite a lot of people had a supply lower than 230V or above 250V. Now it's 230V+10%/-2% which isn't a perfect overlap but only a few areas were outside of that range so it wasn't too much to fix.
In the EU, inlcuding the UK, 230V is standard. The tolerances are different though.
Still makes no difference. Even if, having done the calculation, I can work out a means for this to be completely effective, I've lost the suspension of disbelief. When telling a story, things should be presented in a way we'll accept them.
We shouldn't need to leave our involvement of the movie, come up with an entire fan theory and then go back in having established it will work. That's just bad scrptwriting.
Surely this will be a decision to be made by the first independent government. Alex Salmond may not be the majority leader. The SNP may not get a single vote (I can't think why anyone would want to vote for them afterwards).
If Independent Scotland chooses to ban nuclear weapons then that is theiur right as an independent state. If they choose not to that is also their right. But whether they actually do or not is a matter of national party politics, and notpart of the independdence movement. The fact that they will have the decision is a matter for the independence debate but what that decision should be is no.
Salmond seems to think the referendum is bout electing him Scotland's president.
The police aren't our leaders.
Having the word "I have a gun" written on a piece of paper is legal.
Handing a piece of paper to a bank teller is legal.
Catching the train to Basingstoke, walking past and then into a bank, and handing over a piece of paper that says "I have a gun" is probably going to be considered a fairly compelling case that you intended to rob a bank.
Watching the video is not a crime. It could, conceivably, be used as evidence of committing a crime. So could getting the 8:45 to Basingstoke, but only is that was something you did in order to commit a crime.
Pretty much anyone else who has spoken on the matter has said the police overstepped, and that watching the video is not illegal.
But then he probably said a lot of other stupid things as well.
I've had a mixture. Developing a demo for a new game pitch was fun. Coming in late to an existing game was dull. Developing a trade show display using cool technology was fun, as was developing demo tools to show off a price of tech. Maintaining an established product with years of legacy code is extremely tedious.
I do consider myself lucky to have been involved in the greenfield projects. Well over 90% of the work out there is pretty dull maintenance stuff, but it is possible to get interesting work working for a company.
Yes, but I know full well that when an object's motion is arrested, the object will not continue pulling on whatever arrests it.
The problem here for a lot of people is it breaks them out of their suspension of disbelief. We've established this as a representation of a fairly realistic world when something we know wouldn't happen happens.
If we established earlier that this was a world with its own physics then we'd accept it.
Have been for some time. Very few awards aren't.
So is historical fiction if the theme seems sci-fi enough; Apollo 13 had a nomination.
Theodore Beale (who uses the en name Vox Day) has generally been making enemies by being racist, sexist and generally unpleasant. He does seem to have at least some fans though.
He allegedly encouraged his fans to buy a memebership solely to get his short story on the ballot.
Probably wouldn't have blown up quite so much but Beale seems to have been winding up the sci-fi writers association for some time.
What should have won?
Successful desktop operating systems have been based on various kernels. Apple used a pretty crummy one before switching to a BSD derived one. The Atari ST and Commodore Amiga each used their own, and they had certain success in their niches.
The problem is the GUI. People don't like X, and Linux people have no desire to give us anything else. Engineers and enthusiasts may well argue that it's better from various objective reasons but the end user doesn't care. They use it and they think it sucks. Perhaps the problem is that it still pretty much needs the shell. Perhaps it's large, slow and clunky. Perhaps it's the poor support for games.
Android doesn't have these problems because the developers didn't cripple themselves with X. TiVos and Tomtoms (before switching to Android) used Linux without X and people were quite happy with them.
Give us a nice, simple, standard GUI without a bazillion customisations, and with the ability to to just install an app from the GUI and run it from the GUI, and Linux might actually work on the desktop.
Not really related, but apparently an embassy isn't considered the representative state's soil. There are all sorts of treaty agreements that provide a lot of liitation on the hot country, but if I go to the Chinese Embassy in London, and shoot someone, I will be tried under English law.
Now, as for the car shaped container, there would probably be a diplomatic incident if they searched it and found that there was no Assange. On the flipside, if it turned out that Ecuador was smuggling out fugitives in the guise of diplomaic baggage, that too would cause an incident.
Does that use less bandwidth than piracy? Surely their concern is that it uses a lot of data. Not that it's not "legit"
I don't think so, because it's not obvious that this is a mechanism to prevent access, but if they put a lock there (no matter how weak) to prevent you from adding the fuse then it possibly would be. At least that's the analogy. If we're talking about a real car then obviously it wouldn't be.
Yes. You may be able to guess the password, but based on the "reasonable man" test, I think most people would assume that you weren't meant to guess it. I don't have a problem with this in principle. I do have a problem that it seems to allow companies to extend the reach of copyright.
My way of seeing it is that anyone who buys the oscilloscope has a legally acquired copy of the software. They just can't access it. Actually accessing legally acquired software should not be illegal. It's not like there's a business model that would be unsustainable without the protection. If they don't want people to use the software, then don't give them the software. If they pay extra then provide the software.
I agree with your desscription of it being "crippled". This is essentially a law criminalising repair. In the physical world, if I were to sell off faulty stock (which is legitimate as long as I was honest about the fact that it was faulty), I would not be able to use the law to prevent them from repairing it, even if the buyer was competing with my repair business.
The DMCA doesn't mention DRM. It mentions somethign along the lines of mechanisms that prevent access to protected works (software can be a mechanism for the purposes of the act).
Personally I don't think this should qualify as infringement since it prevents use - which should not be a copyright violation - rather than duplication, but that's my opinion on what the law should be rather than what it would be when interpreted by the courts.
Look at that thing. It's smart, stylish, with a convenient touch screen interface and comes in a range of colours, and a recognised brand. It should do at least as well as the other ebook readers at the same price.
There's somethign really really wrong in Sony that the company is failing to address. Without their video games division I'd be surprised if the company remained afloat at all.