Developer certs are issued to individuals based on verification of passports and
drivers licenses. These documents are however easily
forged and we have therefore had to take the executive decision of not issuing
certs where the verification process may be
questionable.
Interesting. What's next? Sorry sir, but you are not allowed to travel. You know, passport controls rely on pasports and these documents are easy to forge.
If goverments and legal institutions trust these documents, for far more important things than software, why cannot they?
This comment is sort of short-sighted. It assumes that all people and political parties agree on voting on a certain subject and, more important, under certain circumstances. Well, that might not always be the case.
One example from recent European history is dictatorship in Serbia, under Slobodan Milosevic. Circumstances and conditions of several elections were totally unacceptable by opposition (no access to media, arrests, etc.) and therefore they decided to boycott the elections and ran campains in that direction.
With laws like this, it would render their effort illegal, instead of successful choice of expressing free will - we will not participate in a charade.
First of all, let's assume that judges are honorable, respected, well situated and above all well educated people.
If above is true, it might just happen that lady is not after money, but really after apology. Given that she wins, what is more likely to happen? Her getting some 5 kilobucks (or more) or an apology?
Even if everything WAS her fault, her contract said 24h technical support. In my understanding (and no, I'm not from the States) says that technical support EXISTS and ANSWERS phones, e-mails, etc. and actually helps people out-there. Not having that is pretty much enough to go to court and win. ISP would probably sue (and win) if you accidentaly forgot to do your part of contract (pay your subscription for few months).
Well, I thought, but now I'm sure that I was not the only one who has this sort of pain. It was quite annoying (and, of course painful) from time to time. So, I reckoned something must be done.
Pain comes from the opposite of moving;-). Therefore, I thought in order to get rid of the thing, I must move. Practically, some sort of excercise is needed.
Completely wrong would be to go out to a gym after work. That will work just fine to further destroy your back. I got advice from a friend who's a doctor to go to a swimming pool three times a week and swim.
After just few weeks, I felt quite reliefed of the pain in the back.
This is quite nice development. I understand that some company put enormous effort and money into research in chemistry (or whatever science). The thingh that makes me wonder is just how complicated research has to be to have patent on it.
If my startup company discovers nifty solution how to make H2O (water) out of H2 (hydrogen) and O2 (oxygen), can we have patent on H2O?
I suppose that patents COULD cover only process, but not the result. On the other hand, if the process is "discovered" through research, how can somebody be sued for plain research?
All this patent stories *are* becoming more silly every day.
Marko.
I'm no optical or microelectronics expert, but let's assume that B/W lcd doesn't consume that much power. IMHO, it won't be impossible to build small contact lense like device that will have small wireless receiver and be powered from a piezo-magic of your eyelid movement or something similar. It would be small, transperent and always there. Of course, this is more than I saw in many SF stories, but that would be cool. It's not permanent implant, but it sort of like that.
Living in a economically disturbed environment when salaries often range around the price of a decent sound card (or equally fun device) teaches you one rather important lesson in life. Being a young engineer coming from an environment like that (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), taught me to do my best to solve the problems with the only thing I had - my brains. Not my wallet. When I moved out to one economically rather different and technically advanced place (Iceland), my hard time in doing so payed off.
Effort to make working PC speaker kernel driver is not a waste, although it can be solved with a little bit of cash more eleganlty.
Slashdot Mirror
It might have been posted, but what's with other major Linux players? Most notably Slackware and Debian?
Those companies working together is interesting indeed, but it is missing some more key players in the game, I think.
Anyone noticed that the message was sent out on April 1st at 00:00:00?
If you are referring to the Skjoldklassen from that link, that one works just fine ;-).
It was on display for about a week in Reykjavik harbor in Icelad, few months ago.
Very nice looking boat, indeed. I would presume around 1000-1200 tonns displacement, but I'm no expert o:-).
Marko.
If goverments and legal institutions trust these documents, for far more important things than software, why cannot they?
Marko.
This comment is sort of short-sighted. It assumes that all people and political parties agree on voting on a certain subject and, more important, under certain circumstances. Well, that might not always be the case.
One example from recent European history is dictatorship in Serbia, under Slobodan Milosevic. Circumstances and conditions of several elections were totally unacceptable by opposition (no access to media, arrests, etc.) and therefore they decided to boycott the elections and ran campains in that direction.
With laws like this, it would render their effort illegal, instead of successful choice of expressing free will - we will not participate in a charade.
Marko.
It was just a matter of time, wasn't it? ;-)
Marko.
First of all, let's assume that judges are honorable, respected, well situated and above all well educated people.
If above is true, it might just happen that lady is not after money, but really after apology. Given that she wins, what is more likely to happen? Her getting some 5 kilobucks (or more) or an apology?
Even if everything WAS her fault, her contract said 24h technical support. In my understanding (and no, I'm not from the States) says that technical support EXISTS and ANSWERS phones, e-mails, etc. and actually helps people out-there. Not having that is pretty much enough to go to court and win. ISP would probably sue (and win) if you accidentaly forgot to do your part of contract (pay your subscription for few months).
Marko.
Well, losts of thing bounce radar signals back, but operators are still able to spot the planes, aren't they?
Well, I thought, but now I'm sure that I was not the only one who has this sort of pain. It was quite annoying (and, of course painful) from time to time. So, I reckoned something must be done.
;-). Therefore, I thought in order to get rid of the thing, I must move. Practically, some sort of excercise is needed.
Pain comes from the opposite of moving
Completely wrong would be to go out to a gym after work. That will work just fine to further destroy your back. I got advice from a friend who's a doctor to go to a swimming pool three times a week and swim.
After just few weeks, I felt quite reliefed of the pain in the back.
No drugs, no doctors, just plain-old swimming.
Marko.
If i remember well my school, Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian are much related.
This is quite nice development. I understand that some company put enormous effort and money into research in chemistry (or whatever science). The thingh that makes me wonder is just how complicated research has to be to have patent on it. If my startup company discovers nifty solution how to make H2O (water) out of H2 (hydrogen) and O2 (oxygen), can we have patent on H2O? I suppose that patents COULD cover only process, but not the result. On the other hand, if the process is "discovered" through research, how can somebody be sued for plain research? All this patent stories *are* becoming more silly every day. Marko.
I'm no optical or microelectronics expert, but let's assume that B/W lcd doesn't consume that much power. IMHO, it won't be impossible to build small contact lense like device that will have small wireless receiver and be powered from a piezo-magic of your eyelid movement or something similar. It would be small, transperent and always there. Of course, this is more than I saw in many SF stories, but that would be cool. It's not permanent implant, but it sort of like that.
Living in a economically disturbed environment when salaries often range around the price of a decent sound card (or equally fun device) teaches you one rather important lesson in life. Being a young engineer coming from an environment like that (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), taught me to do my best to solve the problems with the only thing I had - my brains. Not my wallet. When I moved out to one economically rather different and technically advanced place (Iceland), my hard time in doing so payed off.
Effort to make working PC speaker kernel driver is not a waste, although it can be solved with a little bit of cash more eleganlty.
Marko.