The legislation is designed to protect both the purchaser and the vendor. If you went into a store and saw a widescreen 32in. TV priced at £900 instead of £1,000, then the store would be bound into selling it to you at that price or not at all. They couldn't turn around and say, "sorry, the price is £100 more, pay the full £1,000 if you wan't it", but they could refuse to sell it to you.
But that's before the sale is agreed. My commitment to make payment via credit card should be looked as a contract. If Amazon did not provide a cancellation service, then I would not be able to back out of the purchase legally. Why should Amazon be able to back out?
I reckon every successful purchaser (like me) should get together and start a website. We all sue Amazon then it would be more cost effective to just give us the PDAs (or a pay off) than to fight umpteen different cases in court.
Does the US employ prisoner tagging using GPS technology for 'soft' imprisonment of criminals to their homes or local area? If so, have the implications of inaccurate GPS been considered in this respect, i.e. the confined area becoming suddenly wider.
I guess their choices are to move the tagged prisoners back to jails, deal with implications of the reduced certainty of location (i.e. harder to use as evidence) or to move to another technology.
It will certainly lead to the prisoner's virtual boundary being made 90 metres wider which will make it a lot easier for a criminal to disassociate him- or herself with a crime.
It says they are '50% lower in weight and thickness' than other devices. This doesn't equate to 'totally flat' which I imagined to be a matter of a few molecules thick or perhaps as thick as an organic cell. A light emmitting device as thin as 1 organic cell would be pretty impressive stuff as one would be able to layer it onto pretty much anything and I imagine would be pretty much transparent -- like the thin membranes in onions.
Hmm, well my memory is not what it was. I'm just surprised I made it through the middle two to even get to 'Revealed'. Maybe my expectations were set so low at that point that anything would have been good.
Really good? That game was the most annoying thing I ever played. I absolutely loved the books (well, the first and last), and bought the game without a second thought when I heard about it. But it really was dreadful...movement was between a set of pre-rendered scenes and navigation was very confusing, the puzzles were trivial and involved moving back and forth with objects -- nothing like you'd expect on Rama.
Actually, Rendezvous was amazing, the next two were very poor and added nothing new to the experience, apart from the emotions of a set of astronauts. Garden of Rama, however, was as fantastic (well, almost) as the first book. It rekindled the spark that somehow went amiss after Rendezvous.
I think they should make Rendezvous into a movie, and merge the ideas of the next three books into a sequel.
Faced with imminent competition, any commercial, closed source software company would start looking for ways of rapidly building their brand and distributing their product before the mighty MS comes along.
I don't see why it should be any different for any of the threatened open source software developers. It's important, at least from my standpoint, that the Linux environment does not become another place that is dominated and led by the likes of MS.
If I were involved with Open Office, Gnome, KDE, etc. then I would be ramping up the marketing tasks as a top priority and spreading the word of our labours down as many avenues as possible.
Code, even good code, doen't necessarily mean success.
As a side, what's to stop the likes of Walmart from massively customizing the linux distribution for their own benefits at the cost of the Linux image and brand?
Are there any safeguards to prevent the Linux name from being tarred (in the treacle sense) by the brush of unscrupulous vendors? Walmart (or AOL or even Microsoft) could easily create their own distro that does everything most Linux users dread -- media copy protection, subscription software, vendor controlled updates and restrictions. They have the might after all few outside the mainstream would have the insight that there is anything better out there when it comes to a well marketed product. Look at the sucess of AOL as an example.
How many of the existing Linux distros would not be tempted by a contract with one of the big companies, even if it does mean compromising their existing morals?
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Not true. Microsoft are anticipating the mass adoption of Un*x-like platfroms by educational institutes, public Internet access providers and governments et cetera. With increased exposure, M$ needs to cash in on this userbase early before the populous learns the alternatives.
Simple, intelligent business move, that's all. They really are exploring all posibilites for several moves ahead. That company has quite remarkable self-preservation techniques.
Crap. Just because its a democracy doesn't mean you can't complain. Just becaues you don't vote doesn't mean you can't complain.
Any individual's vote makes no difference. Elected democracy doesn't represent the true belief of the populous, except whene the overall view is particularly strong.
People vote for who they prefer out of who they think has a reasonable chance of winning, otherwise they believe it is a wasted vote.
If the elected party is doing stupid things, you can complain, whether you voted for them or not...or didn't vote at all.
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User error ;)
But that's before the sale is agreed. My commitment to make payment via credit card should be looked as a contract. If Amazon did not provide a cancellation service, then I would not be able to back out of the purchase legally. Why should Amazon be able to back out?
I reckon every successful purchaser (like me) should get together and start a website. We all sue Amazon then it would be more cost effective to just give us the PDAs (or a pay off) than to fight umpteen different cases in court.
I guess their choices are to move the tagged prisoners back to jails, deal with implications of the reduced certainty of location (i.e. harder to use as evidence) or to move to another technology.
It will certainly lead to the prisoner's virtual boundary being made 90 metres wider which will make it a lot easier for a criminal to disassociate him- or herself with a crime.
Anal probe.
It's blindingly obvious: they used these clay jars -- perhaps to or three in series -- to start their car engines.
I can't believe an article from 2,200 years ago is still readable now, and surely the BBC should hand it over to a museum
It says they are '50% lower in weight and thickness' than other devices. This doesn't equate to 'totally flat' which I imagined to be a matter of a few molecules thick or perhaps as thick as an organic cell. A light emmitting device as thin as 1 organic cell would be pretty impressive stuff as one would be able to layer it onto pretty much anything and I imagine would be pretty much transparent -- like the thin membranes in onions.
Yeah, apparently they had to be clad in red jackets to prevent dry rot ;)
I'm beginning to think that this has very little to do with cheese... ;)
I'm beginning to think that this has nothing to do with cheese... ;)
Hmm, well my memory is not what it was. I'm just surprised I made it through the middle two to even get to 'Revealed'. Maybe my expectations were set so low at that point that anything would have been good.
Really good? That game was the most annoying thing I ever played. I absolutely loved the books (well, the first and last), and bought the game without a second thought when I heard about it. But it really was dreadful...movement was between a set of pre-rendered scenes and navigation was very confusing, the puzzles were trivial and involved moving back and forth with objects -- nothing like you'd expect on Rama.
I think they should make Rendezvous into a movie, and merge the ideas of the next three books into a sequel.
I don't see why it should be any different for any of the threatened open source software developers. It's important, at least from my standpoint, that the Linux environment does not become another place that is dominated and led by the likes of MS.
If I were involved with Open Office, Gnome, KDE, etc. then I would be ramping up the marketing tasks as a top priority and spreading the word of our labours down as many avenues as possible.
Code, even good code, doen't necessarily mean success.
Maybe they should send it back to Earth, sell it to the UK and we can place it next to our dome.
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Are there any safeguards to prevent the Linux name from being tarred (in the treacle sense) by the brush of unscrupulous vendors? Walmart (or AOL or even Microsoft) could easily create their own distro that does everything most Linux users dread -- media copy protection, subscription software, vendor controlled updates and restrictions. They have the might after all few outside the mainstream would have the insight that there is anything better out there when it comes to a well marketed product. Look at the sucess of AOL as an example.
How many of the existing Linux distros would not be tempted by a contract with one of the big companies, even if it does mean compromising their existing morals?
'Thats'. Or maybe 'thatii'.
I'm sure it must L6kld8j4's ability to come up with a novel slant in D6y893 that makes it so appealing to 8q39ys.
8q39ys.
Solar power? Hmm, denial of service with some towels.
Not true. Microsoft are anticipating the mass adoption of Un*x-like platfroms by educational institutes, public Internet access providers and governments et cetera. With increased exposure, M$ needs to cash in on this userbase early before the populous learns the alternatives.
Simple, intelligent business move, that's all. They really are exploring all posibilites for several moves ahead. That company has quite remarkable self-preservation techniques.
Any individual's vote makes no difference. Elected democracy doesn't represent the true belief of the populous, except whene the overall view is particularly strong.
People vote for who they prefer out of who they think has a reasonable chance of winning, otherwise they believe it is a wasted vote.
If the elected party is doing stupid things, you can complain, whether you voted for them or not...or didn't vote at all.
The left hand won't do what the right hand is doing. Reminds me of RSI. ;)
Well, Slashdot should put an ISOC posting once a week until they get the message ;)
Some Large Publisher will contact Small Independant with a proposition.
Small Independant will droll at the increased exposure and new opportunities.
Large Publisher wants technology and cult following before any other publisher gets it and before it takes off.
Small Publisher sells controlling share to Large Publisher.
Large Publisher decides that, actually, it's not worthwhile after all and closes site down.
Small Independant disappears.
343 million flood to Google cache as Internet sites drop like flies around the world.