The BBFC don't cut anything. Its the studios/distributors that cut their films in order to receive lower ratings (based on advice from the BBFC).
That's why they aren't censors - they aren't censoring anything. Its the money-grubbing movie execs that are doing the censoring.
It's censorship alright if you're under the age of 18. Merely calling it classification, whilst at the same time labelling the classes with ages and actively enforcing age limits, is just a PR effort. It's still censorship. You don't get to see the juicy bits. Ever. Also, the BBFC can still ban films; if a film is not "classified" it's automatically illegal (contrast this to the US or any number of European countries where unclassified films default to 18/X).
Each (multinational) company is formally registered in one country. This is not some loose idea, but is indeed important in many ways, in particular in legal areas. Hence, it does make sense to call DaimlerChrysler a German company. Also note that the merger was more like 60-40, and not 50-50.
DaimlerChrysler AG (which is the publically traded company) is registered with the SEC as being statutorily seated in Auburn Hills, MI.
This issue has nothing to do with Word. You'll have the same issue in any Windows app if you are using TrueType fonts. TrueType fonts are device dependant unlike OpenType or PostScript fonts.
No they are not. That's in fact the reason that they are called TrueType. The whole deal about TrueType fonts is that the OS either embeds them if the printer is TTF compatible, or rasters them for the printer. Unlike for instance Postscript Type-1 fonts; the Type-1 font for "times" installed on your computer can, and often does differs from the "times" Type-1 font installed in your printer, but the font is not embedded because it is present in the printer - and so, things get screwed up. You need Adobe Type Manager on your windows machine to even get Type-1 fonts to work properly. In Windows terminology Type-1 fonts are called "printer fonts" and are installed by, for example, HP printer drivers - these drivers install the same Type-1 font as is present in the printer so you don't get screw-ups. (However, generating PDF will screw up because HP's Type-1 "times" printer font differs from Adobe's "times" font used in PDF).
OpenType btw is nothing more than a wrapper for both Postscript and TrueType fonts. To get even nit-pickier, TrueType fonts are Postscript Type-43 fonts. OpenType does have additional features to make sure Type-1 fonts behave less screwy - it makes sure they get embedded.
The issue with word screwing up layout is to do with printer-margins. Word will not allow documents to spill over the printer driver's hardcoded margins, even if the piece spilling over is pure white... Microsoft Publisher has no problem whatsoever with this concept, which is handy; you can use the edge of the page to "crop" vector based images.
Note also that word will change all of your pages text margins if you include even 1 footnote (affecting only one page), which does not make sense. TeX doesn't do this, does it?
Word absolutely, unequivocally SUCKS for layout purposes (and for large documents which use footnotes and such).
You could also use redmon, available at the ghostscript site, and follow the instructions in the online help file on how to set up a RPT1: (or as I like to call it PDF:) printer port, which will automatically prompt for a filename, and converts ps to pdf on the fly, no cygwin neccesary.
For added coolpoints, you could use the Adobe Acrobat Distiller PPDs for the postscript printer that's attached to the PDF: port - this will allow custom "paper" sizes for example.
You will either need the adobe ps driver (winsteng.zip), or use the following oemsetup.ini for windows 2000/xp
Tell all your friends about redmon!! Redmon rules!
For click-monkeys, you can also use pdf995 a commercial distro which installs ghostscript in a hidden away directory (no source! GPL??) and has its own redmon-alike functionality. The PPD used is from an Apple colorwriter (doubt they have permission to distribute it). It also will fire up iexplore to go to its own homepage after each file you print.
And Java is a free download. Heck, if you're programming you're such a nerd you have broadband as well..
And then there's of course javascript. And actionscript (so, kids pirate flash, so big deal.. )
It's all just a download away.. Really, I don't see the big deal. Just because BASIC isn't in ROM anymore doesn't mean you can't get started programming on Windows.
You're listening to the equivalent of a table-top transitor radio and then proclaiming there's no difference between FM and CD's and that you have to be a "gold ear" to hear the difference.
In fact, there isn't much difference between FM and CD for a lot of popular music. (Think Britney spears). The singles that are released are typically postprocessed in such a way that they'll sound marvellous (and not be distorted) on FM radio, and the exact same, FM-radio-filtered version is pressed on CD.
Of course, you will have spotted this a long time ago, seeing as you are so acute of hearing.
And I'm sure you listen to your music in a room which is as close to 0 degrees Kelvin as possible to prevent distortion due to atmosferic (i.e. convection) disturbance, and make sure that the room is sealed air tight to prevent pressure differences, which only makes sense as you've already paid thousands of dollars to insulate the room against any outside noises, as well as breathing as lightly as possible.
On the other hand, you might just be another freak that has 6 speaker boxes, even though he's only got two ears and high-end headphones would be much, much better quality -- and you know what, you actually enjoy the distortions that are introduced in a "surround" setting [1]even though you claim to be an audiophile..
[1] or by using radio-tube analog amplifiers.. damn things only introduce additional odd harmonics that weren't in the original. feh.
You should choose neither! There is no Red Hat Advanced Server! They have taken all of their enterprise server capabilities from our product! We have sued the Red Hat Infadels out of existence! You will all be running SCO Unix soon!
OK, who let loose the debian zealot? What the.. SCO? Who are they? Am I missing something?
The people who need the money the most are the people who are unemployed. When you are unemployed you have no income, and hence pay no taxes.
No federal income tax, perhaps. They do pay sales tax for example (which in the US is not a hugely big deal, but in EU countries can be as high as 19%, and each hike is "compensated" fiscally, i.e. with incometax cuts, which do not benefit the poor). Unemployed people with a phone (really, it's quite handy when you're looking for a job..) also pay ridiculous DTMF surcharges and universal service fees. And municipal and state taxes, fees and surcharges to things like rent. Anything non-income related and you're screwed basically.
There are programs to give some of that money back, but hey, the most screwed people typically have better things to do with their time than hunting down each and every subsidy and rebate they can get (like single parents taking care of their kids).
Before I can release the copyright, I have to state I have it.
As the author, copyright belongs to you initially, as soon as you've created your work as a matter of law.
When you add a (c) symbol, it limits stututory damages that may be awarded if a defendent is succesful in an "innocent infringement" defense.
In other countries a copyright notice might serve to limit the extent of fair use provisions, however, a copyright notice is not needed to claim copyright, persuant to the Berne convention.
(In the US, you need to register a work with the Copyright Office in order to be able to claim damages in civil proceedings IIRC - this was brought up in the SCOX case recently - Novell is still registered as UNIX' copyright owner..)
Before 1976 a copyright notice was needed in the US for copyright to be valid. This is no longer the case.
If you do not plan to prosecute anyone over copying your code (and I assume you don't if you're donating it to the public domain *cough*), claiming copyright is nonsensical. A simple "this is public domain" would do.
It's not the entire Kernel.... But this Microsoft-supported litigation by SCO does claim that it took only 80 lines of code to make Linux enterprise-ready;-)
If my Post Office didn't have to pay someone $20/hr, plus full benefits and a month of vacation, to sort mail the postage rates would be a lot lower; you could get a high school kid to do this for minimum wage.
If your Post Office did indeed do that, "going postal" would soon be less of an urban myth than a reality.
The RFID chip itself would not have to be deactivated upon checkout--only the ID in the store database would need to be deactivated.
This would not solve the very real "camping" problem he mentioned.
Serial numbers don't have to be related to the product you know. Under the presumption they'll be using a BigAssDatabase to track these things (which, frankly, you'd have to assume if you're worried about privacy) a random number, or a SHA-1 hash is just as good. SELECT price,productname FROM bigAssCodeTable WHERE daCode=0x34b635e8a7590 you get the idea.
And, no need for PKI like Mr. Bread-and-Butter-Man would have you believe. Whether they will be using a BigAssDatabase, now that's the question. RFIDs certainly do not preclude it, and do offer the potential for individual tracking, unlike UPC barcodes.
Consider; aside for Moore's Law, RFIDs will become a lot cheaper still when the patents expire..
If you don't have much time, just check out the 250. The newest notes feature almost exclusively abstract images, raised ink as well as different levels of height in paper (quite distinguisable by hand, or even in daylight), LSD induced colors, barcodes, microprints of poems, and no image of any identifiable person whatsoever!
Really, click on those links, and if you collect money (who doesn't?;-) get your hands on some of those notes.. They are very purdy! Did I mention silly?
I was sad to see these wonderful notes go the way of the dodo with the introduction of the euro.. The euro is even a weaker currency (the guilder was linked to the Deutsch Mark, one of the hardest currencies in the basket).
..I think the larger issue here is how do you balance security vs. ease of use. We are committed to providing a secure desktop operating system and make policy decisions about how to achieve a secure but usable system...
Sounds like PR speak to me...I could easily see Dilbert's boos (Bossbert?) saying this.
On the other hand, he might just mean exactly what he's saying. For example, another poster pointed out that the Mac OS X default Admin account can't look at all directories; likewise, in Windows XP, you can't browse all directories without encountering some resistance; not quite entering a root password, but at least a boilerplate warning. That makes using the system less convenient, but might dissuade those people who know they're but lusers to not do too much damage.
Perhaps in later versions of Lindows they will start using permissions, but the user's userid will still be 0, or the user won't be root, but the filesystem will be rwxrwxrwx (almost) all the way..
According to the register, British Airway is set to introduce on-board broadband services next month. and Connexion By Boeing has received to go ahead from the US Federal Aviation Administration to use WiFi networks with satellite links aboard planes, after satisfying the authority that the technology is safe.
Anyway, your cell phone won't work on a plane, it goes to fast to do hand-offs between cells properly.
O'Reilly's gesture is a good and excellent thing of course, but most of their titles are computer books that will be obsolete in six months and useless in three years, so having it enter the public domain in 28 years isn't all that impressive:-)
That of course, is the whole point. Usually publishers just let a book hang in 'out-of-print but copyrighted' limbo. Maybe in 28 years you'd like to put a copy of "Perl in a nutshell" online, just to show people how much the state-of-the-art has advanced. Or even degraded.. Who are you to say that if a work is not economically valuable it is worthless in every other respect? Conventional publishers don't think so, that's why they hang on to the copyright no-matter-what, to the detriment of the public interest.
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It's censorship alright if you're under the age of 18. Merely calling it classification, whilst at the same time labelling the classes with ages and actively enforcing age limits, is just a PR effort. It's still censorship. You don't get to see the juicy bits. Ever. Also, the BBFC can still ban films; if a film is not "classified" it's automatically illegal (contrast this to the US or any number of European countries where unclassified films default to 18/X).
The C stands for Censorship.
DaimlerChrysler AG (which is the publically traded company) is registered with the SEC as being statutorily seated in Auburn Hills, MI.
Oh.. no it's not..
No they are not. That's in fact the reason that they are called TrueType. The whole deal about TrueType fonts is that the OS either embeds them if the printer is TTF compatible, or rasters them for the printer. Unlike for instance Postscript Type-1 fonts; the Type-1 font for "times" installed on your computer can, and often does differs from the "times" Type-1 font installed in your printer, but the font is not embedded because it is present in the printer - and so, things get screwed up. You need Adobe Type Manager on your windows machine to even get Type-1 fonts to work properly. In Windows terminology Type-1 fonts are called "printer fonts" and are installed by, for example, HP printer drivers - these drivers install the same Type-1 font as is present in the printer so you don't get screw-ups. (However, generating PDF will screw up because HP's Type-1 "times" printer font differs from Adobe's "times" font used in PDF).
OpenType btw is nothing more than a wrapper for both Postscript and TrueType fonts. To get even nit-pickier, TrueType fonts are Postscript Type-43 fonts. OpenType does have additional features to make sure Type-1 fonts behave less screwy - it makes sure they get embedded.
The issue with word screwing up layout is to do with printer-margins. Word will not allow documents to spill over the printer driver's hardcoded margins, even if the piece spilling over is pure white... Microsoft Publisher has no problem whatsoever with this concept, which is handy; you can use the edge of the page to "crop" vector based images.
Note also that word will change all of your pages text margins if you include even 1 footnote (affecting only one page), which does not make sense. TeX doesn't do this, does it?
Word absolutely, unequivocally SUCKS for layout purposes (and for large documents which use footnotes and such).
You could also use redmon, available at the ghostscript site, and follow the instructions in the online help file on how to set up a RPT1: (or as I like to call it PDF:) printer port, which will automatically prompt for a filename, and converts ps to pdf on the fly, no cygwin neccesary.
2 5-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}c turer]
t aSection=PSCRIPT_DATA= PSCRIPT.OEM, PSCRIPT_DATA
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For added coolpoints, you could use the Adobe Acrobat Distiller PPDs for the postscript printer that's attached to the PDF: port - this will allow custom "paper" sizes for example.
You will either need the adobe ps driver (winsteng.zip), or use the following oemsetup.ini for windows 2000/xp
--------
[Version]
Signature="$Windows NT$"
Provider=%slashdot%
ClassGUID={4D36E979-E3
Class=Printer
[Manufa
%slashdot%=slashdot
[slashdot]
"Adobe Acrobat Distiller"=ADIST5.PPD
[OEM URLS]
[ADIST5.PPD]
CopyFiles=@ADIST5.PPD,PSCRIPT
Da
Include=ntprint.inf
Needs
[DestinationDirs]
DefaultDestDir=66000
[SourceDisksNames]
4= %DiskID1%,,,
[SourceDisksFiles]
ADIST5.PPD = 4
[Strings]
DiskID1="ADIST5"
slashdot="slashdot
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Tell all your friends about redmon!! Redmon rules!
For click-monkeys, you can also use pdf995 a commercial distro which installs ghostscript in a hidden away directory (no source! GPL??) and has its own redmon-alike functionality. The PPD used is from an Apple colorwriter (doubt they have permission to distribute it). It also will fire up iexplore to go to its own homepage after each file you print.
Wasn't it designed to teach?
With some Tk in the mix there as well..
And Java is a free download. Heck, if you're programming you're such a nerd you have broadband as well..
And then there's of course javascript. And actionscript (so, kids pirate flash, so big deal.. )
It's all just a download away.. Really, I don't see the big deal. Just because BASIC isn't in ROM anymore doesn't mean you can't get started programming on Windows.
However, the RIAA announced that actually AMD shipped the equivalent of 3 billion MP3 encoders, mostly straight to music pirates.
Of course, if you patent the business model of "registering foo.com" then foo.com Inc will have to buy a license for your patent! ;-)
In fact, there isn't much difference between FM and CD for a lot of popular music. (Think Britney spears). The singles that are released are typically postprocessed in such a way that they'll sound marvellous (and not be distorted) on FM radio, and the exact same, FM-radio-filtered version is pressed on CD.
Of course, you will have spotted this a long time ago, seeing as you are so acute of hearing.
And I'm sure you listen to your music in a room which is as close to 0 degrees Kelvin as possible to prevent distortion due to atmosferic (i.e. convection) disturbance, and make sure that the room is sealed air tight to prevent pressure differences, which only makes sense as you've already paid thousands of dollars to insulate the room against any outside noises, as well as breathing as lightly as possible.
On the other hand, you might just be another freak that has 6 speaker boxes, even though he's only got two ears and high-end headphones would be much, much better quality -- and you know what, you actually enjoy the distortions that are introduced in a "surround" setting [1]even though you claim to be an audiophile..
[1] or by using radio-tube analog amplifiers.. damn things only introduce additional odd harmonics that weren't in the original. feh.
OK, who let loose the debian zealot? What the.. SCO? Who are they? Am I missing something?
No federal income tax, perhaps. They do pay sales tax for example (which in the US is not a hugely big deal, but in EU countries can be as high as 19%, and each hike is "compensated" fiscally, i.e. with incometax cuts, which do not benefit the poor). Unemployed people with a phone (really, it's quite handy when you're looking for a job..) also pay ridiculous DTMF surcharges and universal service fees. And municipal and state taxes, fees and surcharges to things like rent. Anything non-income related and you're screwed basically.
There are programs to give some of that money back, but hey, the most screwed people typically have better things to do with their time than hunting down each and every subsidy and rebate they can get (like single parents taking care of their kids).
As the author, copyright belongs to you initially, as soon as you've created your work as a matter of law.
When you add a (c) symbol, it limits stututory damages that may be awarded if a defendent is succesful in an "innocent infringement" defense.
In other countries a copyright notice might serve to limit the extent of fair use provisions, however, a copyright notice is not needed to claim copyright, persuant to the Berne convention.
(In the US, you need to register a work with the Copyright Office in order to be able to claim damages in civil proceedings IIRC - this was brought up in the SCOX case recently - Novell is still registered as UNIX' copyright owner..)
Before 1976 a copyright notice was needed in the US for copyright to be valid. This is no longer the case.
If you do not plan to prosecute anyone over copying your code (and I assume you don't if you're donating it to the public domain *cough*), claiming copyright is nonsensical. A simple "this is public domain" would do.
It's not the entire Kernel.... But this Microsoft-supported litigation by SCO does claim that it took only 80 lines of code to make Linux enterprise-ready ;-)
If your Post Office did indeed do that, "going postal" would soon be less of an urban myth than a reality.
Serial numbers don't have to be related to the product you know. Under the presumption they'll be using a BigAssDatabase to track these things (which, frankly, you'd have to assume if you're worried about privacy) a random number, or a SHA-1 hash is just as good.
SELECT price,productname FROM bigAssCodeTable WHERE daCode=0x34b635e8a7590 you get the idea.
And, no need for PKI like Mr. Bread-and-Butter-Man would have you believe.
Whether they will be using a BigAssDatabase, now that's the question. RFIDs certainly do not preclude it, and do offer the potential for individual tracking, unlike UPC barcodes.
Consider; aside for Moore's Law, RFIDs will become a lot cheaper still when the patents expire..
Yes I did ;-)
is with the firewalls that block port 22 (ssh) egress entirely.. Especially when they leave 25 (telnet) wide open! Stoopid BigCorps!
the article is a dupe, I mean..
Pre-euro Dutch money was the absolutely silliest money on earth.
;-) get your hands on some of those notes.. They are very purdy! Did I mention silly?
Check out these babies (the top ones are the newest you should be looking at;
10 guilder note
10 guilder note 25 guilder note 50 guilder note
100 guilder note
250 guilder note
1000 guilder note
If you don't have much time, just check out the 250. The newest notes feature almost exclusively abstract images, raised ink as well as different levels of height in paper (quite distinguisable by hand, or even in daylight), LSD induced colors, barcodes, microprints of poems, and no image of any identifiable person whatsoever!
Really, click on those links, and if you collect money (who doesn't?
I was sad to see these wonderful notes go the way of the dodo with the introduction of the euro.. The euro is even a weaker currency (the guilder was linked to the Deutsch Mark, one of the hardest currencies in the basket).
Ow wait, South-Korea.. Those are the good guys, right? Dagnammit!
Sounds like PR speak to me...I could easily see Dilbert's boos (Bossbert?) saying this.
On the other hand, he might just mean exactly what he's saying. For example, another poster pointed out that the Mac OS X default Admin account can't look at all directories; likewise, in Windows XP, you can't browse all directories without encountering some resistance; not quite entering a root password, but at least a boilerplate warning. That makes using the system less convenient, but might dissuade those people who know they're but lusers to not do too much damage.
Perhaps in later versions of Lindows they will start using permissions, but the user's userid will still be 0, or the user won't be root, but the filesystem will be rwxrwxrwx (almost) all the way..
What's with this newfangled internet? Don't they have UUCP?
Do you leave it on in your pocket when you fill up with "gas" (petrol) too because it's ridiculous that a spark could cause an explosion of fumes ?
Ridiculous.
Do you smoke while filling the car up too ?
Not ridiculous.
According to the register,
British Airway is set to introduce on-board broadband services next month. and Connexion By Boeing has received to go ahead from the US Federal Aviation Administration to use WiFi networks with satellite links aboard planes, after satisfying the authority that the technology is safe.
Anyway, your cell phone won't work on a plane, it goes to fast to do hand-offs between cells properly.
O'Reilly's gesture is a good and excellent thing of course, but most of their titles are computer books that will be obsolete in six months and useless in three years, so having it enter the public domain in 28 years isn't all that impressive :-)
That of course, is the whole point. Usually publishers just let a book hang in 'out-of-print but copyrighted' limbo. Maybe in 28 years you'd like to put a copy of "Perl in a nutshell" online, just to show people how much the state-of-the-art has advanced. Or even degraded.. Who are you to say that if a work is not economically valuable it is worthless in every other respect? Conventional publishers don't think so, that's why they hang on to the copyright no-matter-what, to the detriment of the public interest.