We USED TO be able to go from New York to London in two hours. What the hell went wrong?
1) US refusing Concorde at supersonic speed over US territory. 2) Price of petrol 3) 2 hours of transatlantic flight, 2 hours to go to the initial airport, 2 hours to go from the final airport... 4) Looking back at this, it was somewhat an ecological catastrophe
How will all those factors be taken into account by the sdcramjet developers?
Second, if somebody's going to spend the extra $$ to buy a disc with super extra high quality
If history is a teacher we want to hear, very soon, you will have one and only one choice : to buy the more expensive audio dvd with "super high quality", even when made from 60's and 70's magnetic bands, or from the audioo CD of last year.
For the vast majority of user, audio quality is no concern. And I don't even want to discuss artistic quality.
where I live, I have a lot of time (in fact, each time I'm pedestrian) the urge to make sticker to replace "Pedestrian, press to cross" with the much more true "Pedestrian, press if you have time to lose, it will give you an occupation"
The period start when you receive, and can check that what you think you commanded is really what is provided. There is a seven day retractation period after purchase for certains type of products you buy face to face, but for mail order, it is from reception. Side note : Apple Store in France extend this period to ten business days for anything bought through the web site, except for software unsealed by the consumer.
From apple store for French customers (same must apply in EU)
7. Votre droit de retourner les Produits
7.1 Si vous n'etes pas satisfait de l'un quelconque des Produits ou des termes de tout ordre de Services que vous nous avez achetes, vous pourrez nous retourner les Produit ou annuler cet ordre de Services, et obtenir le remboursement du prix du Produit retourne ou de l'ordre de Service si vous nous contactez dans les dix (10) Jours Ouvres a compter de la livraison du Produit ou dans les 10 Jours Ouvres de la conclusion de cet ordre de Services. Cependant, vous ne pourrez pas nous retourner un Produit et reclamer un remboursement si le Produit concerne est un Logiciel que nous vous avons livre dans un emballage ferme et inutilise et que vous avez ouvert l'emballage. Vous ne pourrez pas obtenir le remboursement de tout ordre de Service si vous avez commence a utiliser le Service.
7.2 Afin d'exercer votre droit de retourner un Produit ou d'un ordre de Service qui ne vous satisfait pas, vous devez nous telephoner au numero 0800 046 046 entre 9 heures et 22 heures du lundi au vendredi, pour definir les modalites concernant la restitution. Vous devez nous retourner les Produits dans leur emballage d'origine et le Produit doit etre intact. Vous devez obtenir et conserver une copie signee du document d'enlevement au moment de la reprise des Produits par le transporteur.
7.3 A condition que les Produits nous etant retournes soient intacts, nous vous rembourserons le prix paye pour les Produits retournes.
Basically, as long as the products are intacts, they are reinbursed 10 business days after delivery. The main exception is software sold in a sealed package and returned unsealed.
So, in France, Apple is more nice that the law (10 day instead of 7), no matter what the configuration is.
If customer is in France, and is not professionnal, and it is commerce at distance () sorry, don't know exact translation), he has 7 days to say : "In fact, I don't like it". He then return it, and the provider must reimburse everything except postage.
It is not a matter of custom config, it is a matter of law, when the consumer cannot see the product he is buying.
And the fact that US consumers are not protected this way is quite frightening.
By the way, this (quite old) legislation does not seems to impose an undue burden on french corporations, because they continue to sell at distance... So you can have high customer protection and working economy at the same time.
Perhaps, but DRM systems prevent you to copy, even if works are in the public domain. It is not just either, and I don't trust a private central clearing house to provide free cleareance for free works (and a governemental one will be not free either, because of taxes).
they are also better, because they tick. I don't remember the number of time I was checking reactivity of an interface, with my left hand near my left ear. Full visual control of the screen, full tactile control (being right-handed) of the mouse, full auditive control of the time.
So if you type http://www.slashdot.org:foo@www.whitehouse.gov/ you get directed to a nasty site, even though the URL appears to say www.slashdot.org.
if you type http://www.slashdot.org:foo@www.whitehouse.gov/, you are, by the spec of url, directed to www.whitehouse.gov using user www.slashdot.org and password foo.
if you say the url appear to be toward/., you: 1) don't belongs to/. or 2) should have been more clear in saying that unsuspecting users are cheated.
I don't know of a simple solution to this problem. And given the "if they are stupid, it's there fault" sentiment I feel in a lot of US/. readers, I don't even want to suggest some solution involving some government.
1) from the article:
Sam Hiser, who handles marketing for OpenOffice.org, doubted the application would go far given the wide array of precedents for applications sharing XML data.
"I think it's going to be a non-issue, legally. I just don't think the patent will be accepted," he said. "This is Microsoft doing its aggressive best to protect its interests."
2) from reading the application: I don't even understand what is the claimed invention (perhaps I'm just stupid in the morning), what is novel, original and non obvious.
And they keep repeating time and time again that all is in 1 file. So just use 2 and you are safe... (IANAPL, of course)
The telegraph was invented by Claude Chappe (1763 - 1805). The Chappe brothers carried out on March 3, 1791 a first public experiment of air telegraph of Brulon with Parce on a distance of 14 km. The air telegraphs were adopted on July 26, 1793 by national Convention. July 16, 1794 the first official line Paris-Lille was brought into service.
It remains to be demonstrated. Note: for foreigners, your US ssystem with one level of indirection seems the best way to have undemocratic results. You can have a president elected without the majority of the people vote. Last time was an example of such, not the first, but the most flagrant. And don't bother me with federalism, and the weight of the states. Your constitution begin with: We the People, not We the States, or We the Corps.
Possibly BSOD jokes are no longer relevant, but seeing the pathetic state of justice in america, my contribution is total boycott of microsoft products. Perhaps the new OS is ok, but 98SE and ME with all updates are still BSOD jokes worthy. And look at statistics about running windows systems. Perhaps for you, it is ok, but I'm sure more than 50% peoples use still system where BSOD is a reality.
don't know about the rightofuse, but I have a 1998 color lasejet that I have used with windows, and now os X. In each case, there is , on every page, 2 groups of 4 colored points, constant spacement, different place on the page. I'm convinced it is the signature of the printer (because I read something about it a few year ago). So perhaps, new drivers prevent you to print, but old printer sign their work.
perhaps this library is useful, but (without consideration about the case of the GPL violaton): - as a professionnal java developer, I look for libraries I can include in my work. The FIRST thing I check is the licence. I want to be sure, before investing time with a library, that I can use it the way I want. So, apache, bsd, lgpl, artistic, etc... ok, GPL:NO! I don't discuss the interest of GPL, but it is not compatible with my work. So, perhaps, some day, I found those libraries, and forgot them immadiately. - CSV is not the way to go for Excel. In an international context, Excel is far to much sensible to regional settings. If you want to manipulate (read and write) excel files in java, use poi (apache).
Oh sorry, I forgot to switch to american date format, ok, it will come for april fool day. Great.
Buyer: I come to take my copy of Doom. Seller: Ah, Doom, see the date ? Ah Ah ah !!!
As a side note, I think it would be great to use iso date format in/., at least for the article. It is totally unambigous, standard, and should be more common.
SCO sued International Business Machines Corp. last year and sent notice to thousands of companies to pay to use Linux. SCO said it now has Unix license agreements with more than 6,000 companies.
I think this part, while technically exact, is written in a way to make believe 6000 companies paid unix licence for the right to run linux, notably because of the use of now in the second sentence. Can someone enlighten me, please ? 1) As english is not my mother tongue, my paranoia about SCO surfaced, and in fact, the meaning I perceived is not perceptible by native english speaker. or 2) Forbes want SCO to succeed (again all those commies who believe in free things (imagine free, as in : no market, and no need for economic journal ( and they are again IP, too, and we are producer of IP, so we must fight them (but of course, every OSS person knows that OSS exist because of IP, not against it (and my teacher always said you should not imbricate parenthesis when writing literary text, contrary to mathematics (but perhaps this text is not very literary)))))). or 3) The Forbes journalist, as many many many other, just copied/pasted a press release without checking, perhaps even without understanding. or 4) Some other reason I didn't think about.
Slashdot Mirror
Obviously, the web server is not industrial strength, at least not /.proof.
As for industrial strength of the langage, knowing some industry guys, some pre alpha system is certaintly not ready.
We USED TO be able to go from New York to London in two hours. What the hell went wrong?
1) US refusing Concorde at supersonic speed over US territory.
2) Price of petrol
3) 2 hours of transatlantic flight, 2 hours to go to the initial airport, 2 hours to go from the final airport...
4) Looking back at this, it was somewhat an ecological catastrophe
How will all those factors be taken into account by the sdcramjet developers?
If history is a teacher we want to hear, very soon, you will have one and only one choice : to buy the more expensive audio dvd with "super high quality", even when made from 60's and 70's magnetic bands, or from the audioo CD of last year.
For the vast majority of user, audio quality is no concern. And I don't even want to discuss artistic quality.
where I live, I have a lot of time (in fact, each time I'm pedestrian) the urge to make sticker to replace "Pedestrian, press to cross" with the much more true "Pedestrian, press if you have time to lose, it will give you an occupation"
The period start when you receive, and can check that what you think you commanded is really what is provided.
There is a seven day retractation period after purchase for certains type of products you buy face to face, but for mail order, it is from reception.
Side note : Apple Store in France extend this period to ten business days for anything bought through the web site, except for software unsealed by the consumer.
From apple store for French customers (same must apply in EU)
7. Votre droit de retourner les Produits
7.1 Si vous n'etes pas satisfait de l'un quelconque des Produits ou des termes de tout ordre de Services que vous nous avez achetes, vous pourrez nous retourner les Produit ou annuler cet ordre de Services, et obtenir le remboursement du prix du Produit retourne ou de l'ordre de Service si vous nous contactez dans les dix (10) Jours Ouvres a compter de la livraison du Produit ou dans les 10 Jours Ouvres de la conclusion de cet ordre de Services. Cependant, vous ne pourrez pas nous retourner un Produit et reclamer un remboursement si le Produit concerne est un Logiciel que nous vous avons livre dans un emballage ferme et inutilise et que vous avez ouvert l'emballage. Vous ne pourrez pas obtenir le remboursement de tout ordre de Service si vous avez commence a utiliser le Service.
7.2 Afin d'exercer votre droit de retourner un Produit ou d'un ordre de Service qui ne vous satisfait pas, vous devez nous telephoner au numero 0800 046 046 entre 9 heures et 22 heures du lundi au vendredi, pour definir les modalites concernant la restitution. Vous devez nous retourner les Produits dans leur emballage d'origine et le Produit doit etre intact. Vous devez obtenir et conserver une copie signee du document d'enlevement au moment de la reprise des Produits par le transporteur.
7.3 A condition que les Produits nous etant retournes soient intacts, nous vous rembourserons le prix paye pour les Produits retournes.
Basically, as long as the products are intacts, they are reinbursed 10 business days after delivery. The main exception is software sold in a sealed package and returned unsealed.
So, in France, Apple is more nice that the law (10 day instead of 7), no matter what the configuration is.
The only problem is that mail order can very often take three weeks to arrive.
Wait still...
Depends of the country.
If customer is in France, and is not professionnal, and it is commerce at distance () sorry, don't know exact translation), he has 7 days to say : "In fact, I don't like it".
He then return it, and the provider must reimburse everything except postage.
It is not a matter of custom config, it is a matter of law, when the consumer cannot see the product he is buying.
And the fact that US consumers are not protected this way is quite frightening.
By the way, this (quite old) legislation does not seems to impose an undue burden on french corporations, because they continue to sell at distance... So you can have high customer protection and working economy at the same time.
yeah, but each time I'm with friends and they surf, and they get popups, I show them fire(bird-fox), and tabbed browsing.
a few week later, they only launch ie when obliged.
Perhaps, but DRM systems prevent you to copy, even if works are in the public domain. It is not just either, and I don't trust a private central clearing house to provide free cleareance for free works (and a governemental one will be not free either, because of taxes).
do you know java ?
;). we speak about generics as implemented in jdk 1.5
do you understand what are generics in the context of 1.5 ?
I don't understand how you were moderated interseting.
Here, we don't speak about generic generics
And from my experience, the banking sector avoids STL because they came years after C++, (which itself took years to be standardized)
they are also better, because they tick.
I don't remember the number of time I was checking reactivity of an interface, with my left hand near my left ear. Full visual control of the screen, full tactile control (being right-handed) of the mouse, full auditive control of the time.
So if you type http://www.slashdot.org:foo@www.whitehouse.gov/ you get directed to a nasty site, even though the URL appears to say www.slashdot.org.
/., you: /.
/. readers, I don't even want to suggest some solution involving some government.
if you type http://www.slashdot.org:foo@www.whitehouse.gov/, you are, by the spec of url, directed to www.whitehouse.gov using user www.slashdot.org and password foo.
if you say the url appear to be toward
1) don't belongs to
or
2) should have been more clear in saying that unsuspecting users are cheated.
I don't know of a simple solution to this problem. And given the "if they are stupid, it's there fault" sentiment I feel in a lot of US
so, let say the files are virtual, and now, it is stored in 0(zero) file. ;)
How one can patent nothing ?
I was looking at the application in Europe. I don't know (and don't mind) about a US one.
1) from the article:
Sam Hiser, who handles marketing for OpenOffice.org, doubted the application would go far given the wide array of precedents for applications sharing XML data.
"I think it's going to be a non-issue, legally. I just don't think the patent will be accepted," he said. "This is Microsoft doing its aggressive best to protect its interests."
2) from reading the application:
I don't even understand what is the claimed invention (perhaps I'm just stupid in the morning), what is novel, original and non obvious.
And they keep repeating time and time again that all is in 1 file. So just use 2 and you are safe... (IANAPL, of course)
The telegraph was invented by Claude Chappe (1763 - 1805). The Chappe brothers carried out on March 3, 1791 a first public experiment of air telegraph of Brulon with Parce on a distance of 14 km. The air telegraphs were adopted on July 26, 1793 by national Convention. July 16, 1794 the first official line Paris-Lille was brought into service.
...The voters willed President Bush into power...
It remains to be demonstrated.
Note: for foreigners, your US ssystem with one level of indirection seems the best way to have undemocratic results. You can have a president elected without the majority of the people vote. Last time was an example of such, not the first, but the most flagrant. And don't bother me with federalism, and the weight of the states. Your constitution begin with: We the People, not We the States, or We the Corps.
Possibly BSOD jokes are no longer relevant, but seeing the pathetic state of justice in america, my contribution is total boycott of microsoft products.
Perhaps the new OS is ok, but 98SE and ME with all updates are still BSOD jokes worthy. And look at statistics about running windows systems. Perhaps for you, it is ok, but I'm sure more than 50% peoples use still system where BSOD is a reality.
don't know about the rightofuse, but I have a 1998 color lasejet that I have used with windows, and now os X.
In each case, there is , on every page, 2 groups of 4 colored points, constant spacement, different place on the page. I'm convinced it is the signature of the printer (because I read something about it a few year ago). So perhaps, new drivers prevent you to print, but old printer sign their work.
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perhaps this library is useful, but (without consideration about the case of the GPL violaton):
- as a professionnal java developer, I look for libraries I can include in my work. The FIRST thing I check is the licence. I want to be sure, before investing time with a library, that I can use it the way I want. So, apache, bsd, lgpl, artistic, etc... ok, GPL:NO! I don't discuss the interest of GPL, but it is not compatible with my work. So, perhaps, some day, I found those libraries, and forgot them immadiately.
- CSV is not the way to go for Excel. In an international context, Excel is far to much sensible to regional settings. If you want to manipulate (read and write) excel files in java, use poi (apache).
04/01/2003 was last week.
/., at least for the article. It is totally unambigous, standard, and should be more common.
Oh sorry, I forgot to switch to american date format, ok, it will come for april fool day. Great.
Buyer: I come to take my copy of Doom.
Seller: Ah, Doom, see the date ? Ah Ah ah !!!
As a side note, I think it would be great to use iso date format in
yyyymmdd or yyyy-mm-dd and no confusions
SCO sued International Business Machines Corp. last year and sent notice to thousands of companies to pay to use Linux. SCO said it now has Unix license agreements with more than 6,000 companies.
I think this part, while technically exact, is written in a way to make believe 6000 companies paid unix licence for the right to run linux, notably because of the use of now in the second sentence. Can someone enlighten me, please ?
1) As english is not my mother tongue, my paranoia about SCO surfaced, and in fact, the meaning I perceived is not perceptible by native english speaker.
or
2) Forbes want SCO to succeed (again all those commies who believe in free things (imagine free, as in : no market, and no need for economic journal ( and they are again IP, too, and we are producer of IP, so we must fight them (but of course, every OSS person knows that OSS exist because of IP, not against it (and my teacher always said you should not imbricate parenthesis when writing literary text, contrary to mathematics (but perhaps this text is not very literary)))))).
or
3) The Forbes journalist, as many many many other, just copied/pasted a press release without checking, perhaps even without understanding.
or
4) Some other reason I didn't think about.
So, what's your advice?
from the paper:
The purpose of this paper is to propose a simplified
description of the bouncing process of a stone on water,