That's possibly the first sane comment I've seen on the subject yet. Conspiracy theorists, control freaks, US-bashers and jingoistic "WE INVENTED TEH INTARWEBS" shouters need not apply.
Actually, the US is the world's largest spam producer. According to Sophos 35.7% of spam messages originate from servers in the US. China only accounts for 9.7%. The only other country that even begins to compete is South Korea, with just under 25%.
Sounds like it's your half of the Internet that's got the problem.
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There are more recent precedents, in fact. In the UK, a letter threatening an ASBO (Anti Social Behaviour Order) was sent regarding Dominic Brown's abuse of his motor scooter. Which came as a surprise to his mother, because he wasn't due to be born until September.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Give a man a hand-cranked laptop, and your employer will outsource your work to him on the grounds that he'll work for fish, whereas you want tens of thousands of dollars per year.
Why is it wrong to compare them as pure equals? Speaking as someone wanting to implement a solution today, using today's technology, I want to know which one is better for my needs now. I'm not going to say "Well, Java sucks, but for the time it was great, so I'll use that instead of something that meets my requirements right now."
Yeah, I guess you get that a lot from people who can't find anything to complain about in what was actually being said, so have to pick at how it was said.
The way I look at it the only time your spelling and grammar deserve ridicule is when you're having a go at someone else for their spelling and grammar.
It's an explicit provision in the Trademarks Act of 1994. You aren't allowed to import goods into the UK without the permission of the UK trademark holder. This doesn't apply to goods imported within the EU, as I understand it, but certainly would for items originating in Japan. It's entirely up to Sony who they give permission to.
As I've said elsewhere on this topic, I don't see how this applies to Lik Sang, who aren't importing goods into the UK, but are exporting them from Hong Kong, where they claim this is perfectly legal.
The big difference in the two cases, of course, is that Tesco was importing the jeans into the UK for resale (which the Trade Marks Act of 1994 makes illegal without the consent of the trademark holder) and Lik Sang is not - individuals are importing the systems from Lik Sang who are based in Hong Kong. IANAL either, but that's a very significant difference, and as far as I'm aware individual consumers are perfectly entitled to import whatever they want.
More relevantly, in Australia this form of parallel importing is completely legal - though importers are far more responsible for making sure the imported goods are genuine.
So import. I've had my PSP since the US launch - it's a brilliant machine for importing, since the charger works fine at 240V (you'll just need a new power lead, which is a standard one that you've got tons of lying around the house anyway) and the games aren't region encoded. And it's not like you exactly owe SCEE any loyalty, is it?
No, I'm not an idiot. I'm good at recognising all sorts of not-entirely-serious posts. What's your excuse?
But while we're here, if wifi for the PSP hasn't been cracked, what the hell does the PSP Weather app use to download its data? How does the FTP server for PSP work? (I'll give you a clue - it's not by IR).
And I can't believe you're carping about the ability of the emulator to run games and don't even mention the fact that it has an entirely different UI to the PSP. Or perhaps you've got a cunning plan for emulating a touch screen with an analogue stick?
I thoroughly agree that we shouldn't be jumping to conclusions about who's responsible, though I thought the government's statements had been pretty good on that front. As for the number of deaths, the less the better obviously, but I can't help remembering how slowly we got a realistic count on 9/11.
Firstly, the number of reported deaths is a lot lower than the true figure - eyewitness reports (and seeing the aftermath) make it look unlikely that anyone on the top deck of that bus survived, and there are certainly more deaths to be counted from the underground attacks.
Secondly, this is a perfect target for a 'serious group' - a major capital with limited security as forces are diverted to Gleneagles.
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Absolutely true, but it's too good a story to pass up.
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Would it have more or less believability as a story if I mentioned the Mirror had also covered it?
That's possibly the first sane comment I've seen on the subject yet. Conspiracy theorists, control freaks, US-bashers and jingoistic "WE INVENTED TEH INTARWEBS" shouters need not apply.
Actually, the US is the world's largest spam producer. According to Sophos 35.7% of spam messages originate from servers in the US. China only accounts for 9.7%. The only other country that even begins to compete is South Korea, with just under 25%.
Sounds like it's your half of the Internet that's got the problem.
There are more recent precedents, in fact. In the UK, a letter threatening an ASBO (Anti Social Behaviour Order) was sent regarding Dominic Brown's abuse of his motor scooter. Which came as a surprise to his mother, because he wasn't due to be born until September.
The full story.
According to the BBC coverage of this, these things cost $100 each to make.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Give a man a hand-cranked laptop, and your employer will outsource your work to him on the grounds that he'll work for fish, whereas you want tens of thousands of dollars per year.
Data East went bankrupt in June of 2003. Not sure what happened to the rights to their games, though.
Why is it wrong to compare them as pure equals? Speaking as someone wanting to implement a solution today, using today's technology, I want to know which one is better for my needs now. I'm not going to say "Well, Java sucks, but for the time it was great, so I'll use that instead of something that meets my requirements right now."
Eclipse only rocks if you've never used IntelliJ IDEA.
So what was E equal to in 1904?
Nice. Now, how about a Beowulf cluster of PSPs. ;)
Yeah, I guess you get that a lot from people who can't find anything to complain about in what was actually being said, so have to pick at how it was said.
The way I look at it the only time your spelling and grammar deserve ridicule is when you're having a go at someone else for their spelling and grammar.
Ah. You clearly haven't tried the graphical installer yet, then. :P
Well, with attitude like that I'm sure you have no problem getting help with the problems over on the Gentoo forums. ;)
I think the magic word in this one might be 'experimental'. Hope you've reported the problems you're having with it.
It's an explicit provision in the Trademarks Act of 1994. You aren't allowed to import goods into the UK without the permission of the UK trademark holder. This doesn't apply to goods imported within the EU, as I understand it, but certainly would for items originating in Japan. It's entirely up to Sony who they give permission to.
As I've said elsewhere on this topic, I don't see how this applies to Lik Sang, who aren't importing goods into the UK, but are exporting them from Hong Kong, where they claim this is perfectly legal.
The big difference in the two cases, of course, is that Tesco was importing the jeans into the UK for resale (which the Trade Marks Act of 1994 makes illegal without the consent of the trademark holder) and Lik Sang is not - individuals are importing the systems from Lik Sang who are based in Hong Kong. IANAL either, but that's a very significant difference, and as far as I'm aware individual consumers are perfectly entitled to import whatever they want.
More relevantly, in Australia this form of parallel importing is completely legal - though importers are far more responsible for making sure the imported goods are genuine.
So import. I've had my PSP since the US launch - it's a brilliant machine for importing, since the charger works fine at 240V (you'll just need a new power lead, which is a standard one that you've got tons of lying around the house anyway) and the games aren't region encoded. And it's not like you exactly owe SCEE any loyalty, is it?
You must have missed the bit where you had to provide proof of purchase (or, to put it another way, to turn in the supplier of your pirated copy).
No, I'm not an idiot. I'm good at recognising all sorts of not-entirely-serious posts. What's your excuse?
But while we're here, if wifi for the PSP hasn't been cracked, what the hell does the PSP Weather app use to download its data? How does the FTP server for PSP work? (I'll give you a clue - it's not by IR).
And I can't believe you're carping about the ability of the emulator to run games and don't even mention the fact that it has an entirely different UI to the PSP. Or perhaps you've got a cunning plan for emulating a touch screen with an analogue stick?
Not a problem - just run it on the PSP using the Nintendo DS emulator and you've killed two birds with one stone. :)
Well, The Register says they don't have a sense of humour...
I thoroughly agree that we shouldn't be jumping to conclusions about who's responsible, though I thought the government's statements had been pretty good on that front. As for the number of deaths, the less the better obviously, but I can't help remembering how slowly we got a realistic count on 9/11.
I have to disagree with you on this one.
Firstly, the number of reported deaths is a lot lower than the true figure - eyewitness reports (and seeing the aftermath) make it look unlikely that anyone on the top deck of that bus survived, and there are certainly more deaths to be counted from the underground attacks.
Secondly, this is a perfect target for a 'serious group' - a major capital with limited security as forces are diverted to Gleneagles.
I know you're joking, but for the record 'Izvestia' means 'News' and 'Pravda', one of Russia's other leading papers means 'Truth'.
Hence the old Russian joke that there's no Izvestia in Pravda and no Pravda in Izvestia.