I saw it in a furniture catalog a few month ago, and it remind me of some system from a few years ago, where you write on a paperboard, and when you have finished the drawing, paper roll under a scanner system, and can be printed or faxed.
I'm a long time windows user , and a long time mac user, and a long time unix user... I expect windows to implement [ctrl][ins], [shift][ins] and [ctrl][del], not to copy the mac [cmd][x], [cmd][c] and [cmd][v].
The point is that what users expect can change over time, and what you consider perfectly coherent windows behaviour is a change from the old days. one more time, windows is not completly coherent with itself (the old cut, copy, paste do no longuer work everywhere).
If user staying on windows can change, why can they not change changing OS?
remember that the backslash (which by the wat is directly accessible on qwerty keyboard, think of us poor french who need to type [alt Gr][7]) was introduced for DOS 1 compatibility.
DOS 1 did not have folder, and used / as a command parameters identifier (dir/p).
So, when DOS 2 was introduced, / was allready taken.
It's still the better solution in my view,
but the courts are right to intervene
I disagree on your last point. Courts have a limited juridiction. By refusing to serve content from an inadequate referer, you take control of what you publish worldwide.
As an Open codec and format, I can put faith into the fact that in thirty years my Oggs will be usable. With MP3, there is exists the chance that Fraufenhofer will put out a legal Jihad and attempt to excorcise mp3 encoders and decoders from the planet.
yeah, you can be paranoid, but in 30 years, all relevant patents will be expired for a long time. What is worying is the shorter term.
I'm french, and we had recently our midly patriot act, but as far as I remember, I'm not legally obliged to have an ID card. And in fact, I don't have one since 1998, when my 1983, 1993 expired one was lost.
It is one of many proof of identity, like a passport, a driving licence, or the fact that a witness say you are really you (the last one not in every case, obviously;).
But now, for a bit of history :
in 1976, there was a governemental project, called SAFARI, whose goal was to centralise all gouvernemental databases. There was enough outcry to remove the project and to pass a law called :
Informatique et libertés(EDP and liberties). This law restrict in many ways what governements and corporations can do with personnal data, explicitly prohibit linking together governements databases, providing garantee of correction of databases to citizens, and creating the CNIL : Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés, (
National Comission on EDP and liberties) which work to protect citizens against violations of the law, and is consulted by the administration.
One example of the process come to mind :
In France, the detention of a TV set means that you must pay a tax.
Many french peoples with a TV set are unknown of the service that collect this tax.
There exists a private channel, with many paying customers, all of them in a database, obviously.
When the governement asked to get a copy of this database to detect defrauders, the CNIL said :
-No you cannot have a copy. All you can do is, if you have suspission someone has a TV set, is to ask the channel if they have this particular person as a custommer. And you are not allowed to make this request for everybody in your files, but only for a limited number.
Conclusion : France was until recently one of the less bigbrotherish contry in the world, and even if european legal convergence tend to lessen a little citizens protection in France, even if Europe fakes to believe USA will protect it's citizens informations, in the name of commerce, Europe is light years ahead of USA on the subject.
they are guaranteed to work with _all_ Windows software
I never found this written anywhere.
Perhaps WXP is garanteed to work with WXP compatible applications, but try to mix Win 3.00 executable with WNT or other (your claim), or very old drivers for old material with new OS.
I remember, years ago, a presentation of write only memory modules, in which you could write TERABYTES of data, in a very small (for the time)dip 16 form factor.
That was a lot of capacity.
And for the fact you could never read it, bah, examine your computer, your diskets box, your cdrom collection... how many Gb did you not read in the last three years.
Please explain me how quantum computer can decrypt random one time pads.
It is not public key crypto, and it is used by many states.
The pad management and diffusion is the weak point, but I don't see how quantum computers can help break them.
A friend of mine was annoyed my his incapacity to rip a Nathalie Imbroglia CD under WXP.
I don't remember if it was an Universal CD, but, after exmining it, the only mention of compact disc I found on the beast was the compact disc logo inside the box, on the black plastic. No mention of cdda, neither outside the box, or on the disc.
Nevertheless, Exact Audio Copy had no problem with cactus protection.
Concerning respect of internationnal treaties by US, I should say that your point of view seems incomplete.
Remember that the reason the DMCA is here is (officially) to comply with internationnal treaty, so...
Another point completely different : from my european background, I have the biggest dificulties to reconcile the hyper-chauvinism of americans with their permanent bitching against their governement. To me, it seems they should be proud of being american with their leaders, or not so proud of a country who is unable to produce different leaders.
That's your^h^h^h^hthe point of view you express, but/. readers must understand/. readers are present worldwide and have different sensibilities.
Once , there were USA/capitalism and USSR/communism, with socialist Europe providing middle ground.
Now, the middle ground as moved toward capitalism, and as such, a business only view of a social organisation become prevalent.
The fact you are intoxicated to accept it doesn't mean market-driven is the only way to manage society. Individual protection, and restrictions to what corporations do, are principles you cannot throw away for a big part of the world.
As some have remarked , there is a restricted use text on the page.
I happen to just come back home from a presentation at my daughter's school of those and other martian images, presentation made by Olivier de Goursac, that is the author of the page, and of the images. (Note to american reader : yes there are people in France, including scientist and/. readers).
I asked him about the copy restriction, and his argument is as follow :
It doesn't matter if an individual print and copy those images for his personnal use, but there where recently problems with a news agency which removed the references of the creators (look at the images) and sold them for quite a huge sum of money as print, privatizing public images, and preventing others to benefit freely (as in beer, at least) of the effort of Nasa and Mars society.
This introduce a question we can perhaps ask also in another thread to L. Lessig : is it possible, given present and future copyright law, to protect the public domain, à la GPL, with something like : (c) Mankind, copy restriction prohibited.
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I saw it in a furniture catalog a few month ago, and it remind me of some system from a few years ago, where you write on a paperboard, and when you have finished the drawing, paper roll under a scanner system, and can be printed or faxed.
... all those community networks seems quite anti-american to me.
;)
(at least anticorporateamerican
I find strange there is Sybase and not Oracle.
I'm a long time windows user , and a long time mac user, and a long time unix user...
I expect windows to implement [ctrl][ins], [shift][ins] and [ctrl][del], not to copy the mac [cmd][x], [cmd][c] and [cmd][v].
The point is that what users expect can change over time, and what you consider perfectly coherent windows behaviour is a change from the old days. one more time, windows is not completly coherent with itself (the old cut, copy, paste do no longuer work everywhere).
If user staying on windows can change, why can they not change changing OS?
very hot, when they leave the trap...
yeah, it was given by France to US, and there was a US subscription to pay for the pedestal.
"Products and services described in this publication are subject to availability and may be modified from time to time."
Perhaps a standard BT disclaimer, but funny nevertheless.
remember that the backslash (which by the wat is directly accessible on qwerty keyboard, think of us poor french who need to type [alt Gr][7]) was introduced for DOS 1 compatibility. /p).
DOS 1 did not have folder, and used / as a command parameters identifier (dir
So, when DOS 2 was introduced, / was allready taken.
all (well most) modern cell phones have integrated aerial.
Is it here only to tear pockets, or to be geeky?
or perhaps is it the extractible pen?
It's still the better solution in my view,
but the courts are right to intervene
I disagree on your last point. Courts have a limited juridiction. By refusing to serve content from an inadequate referer, you take control of what you publish worldwide.
As an Open codec and format, I can put faith into the fact that in thirty years my Oggs will be usable. With MP3, there is exists the chance that Fraufenhofer will put out a legal Jihad and attempt to excorcise mp3 encoders and decoders from the planet.
yeah, you can be paranoid, but in 30 years, all relevant patents will be expired for a long time. What is worying is the shorter term.
Personnally, I can hapilly live without a 3.5 '' drive.
And if you really need diskets, USB solution exist.
Just say mary to hook the VCR into the DVD player... as she is not going to record the DVDs on VHS, no problem.
I'm french, and we had recently our midly patriot act, but as far as I remember, I'm not legally obliged to have an ID card. And in fact, I don't have one since 1998, when my 1983, 1993 expired one was lost.
It is one of many proof of identity, like a passport, a driving licence, or the fact that a witness say you are really you (the last one not in every case, obviously;).
But now, for a bit of history :
in 1976, there was a governemental project, called SAFARI, whose goal was to centralise all gouvernemental databases. There was enough outcry to remove the project and to pass a law called :
Informatique et libertés(EDP and liberties). This law restrict in many ways what governements and corporations can do with personnal data, explicitly prohibit linking together governements databases, providing garantee of correction of databases to citizens, and creating the CNIL : Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés, (
National Comission on EDP and liberties) which work to protect citizens against violations of the law, and is consulted by the administration.
One example of the process come to mind :
In France, the detention of a TV set means that you must pay a tax.
Many french peoples with a TV set are unknown of the service that collect this tax.
There exists a private channel, with many paying customers, all of them in a database, obviously.
When the governement asked to get a copy of this database to detect defrauders, the CNIL said :
-No you cannot have a copy. All you can do is, if you have suspission someone has a TV set, is to ask the channel if they have this particular person as a custommer. And you are not allowed to make this request for everybody in your files, but only for a limited number.
Conclusion : France was until recently one of the less bigbrotherish contry in the world, and even if european legal convergence tend to lessen a little citizens protection in France, even if Europe fakes to believe USA will protect it's citizens informations, in the name of commerce, Europe is light years ahead of USA on the subject.
hints :
1) last year = 2001
2) the black thing was 1x4x9 (no matter the unit)
Nevertheless, I agree that there was a lack of musical references. Perhaps something like a Strauss waltz was playing at the time.
and don't forget not modern electronic music ;)
o t/
see : The Ondes-Martenot (1928) -> http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/marten
perhaps I am right.
I know for certain some old educative CDROM from 1996 that are windows applications and that don't run under 98SE
they are guaranteed to work with _all_ Windows software
I never found this written anywhere.
Perhaps WXP is garanteed to work with WXP compatible applications, but try to mix Win 3.00 executable with WNT or other (your claim), or very old drivers for old material with new OS.
I remember, years ago, a presentation of write only memory modules, in which you could write TERABYTES of data, in a very small (for the time)dip 16 form factor.
That was a lot of capacity.
And for the fact you could never read it, bah, examine your computer, your diskets box, your cdrom collection... how many Gb did you not read in the last three years.
Please explain me how quantum computer can decrypt random one time pads.
It is not public key crypto, and it is used by many states.
The pad management and diffusion is the weak point, but I don't see how quantum computers can help break them.
A friend of mine was annoyed my his incapacity to rip a Nathalie Imbroglia CD under WXP.
I don't remember if it was an Universal CD, but, after exmining it, the only mention of compact disc I found on the beast was the compact disc logo inside the box, on the black plastic. No mention of cdda, neither outside the box, or on the disc.
Nevertheless, Exact Audio Copy had no problem with cactus protection.
Concerning respect of internationnal treaties by US, I should say that your point of view seems incomplete.
Remember that the reason the DMCA is here is (officially) to comply with internationnal treaty, so...
Another point completely different : from my european background, I have the biggest dificulties to reconcile the hyper-chauvinism of americans with their permanent bitching against their governement. To me, it seems they should be proud of being american with their leaders, or not so proud of a country who is unable to produce different leaders.
cool idea, did you patent it? /. be viewed as prior art?
or if someone, someday want to patent it, can
That's your^h^h^h^hthe point of view you express, but /. readers must understand /. readers are present worldwide and have different sensibilities.
Once , there were USA/capitalism and USSR/communism, with socialist Europe providing middle ground.
Now, the middle ground as moved toward capitalism, and as such, a business only view of a social organisation become prevalent.
The fact you are intoxicated to accept it doesn't mean market-driven is the only way to manage society. Individual protection, and restrictions to what corporations do, are principles you cannot throw away for a big part of the world.
As some have remarked , there is a restricted use text on the page. /. readers).
I happen to just come back home from a presentation at my daughter's school of those and other martian images, presentation made by Olivier de Goursac, that is the author of the page, and of the images. (Note to american reader : yes there are people in France, including scientist and
I asked him about the copy restriction, and his argument is as follow :
It doesn't matter if an individual print and copy those images for his personnal use, but there where recently problems with a news agency which removed the references of the creators (look at the images) and sold them for quite a huge sum of money as print, privatizing public images, and preventing others to benefit freely (as in beer, at least) of the effort of Nasa and Mars society.
This introduce a question we can perhaps ask also in another thread to L. Lessig : is it possible, given present and future copyright law, to protect the public domain, à la GPL, with something like : (c) Mankind, copy restriction prohibited.