The drive checks the region on insertion, as many do, but also prohibits the kind of random access to the disk that programs such as DVD Anywhere use to circumvent the lock for normal sequential access. And nobody has managed to fix the firmware since that is extravagently protected too.
There's a consumer goods law in the UK concerning accurate descriptions - would be nice to try holding Sony and any others who advertise "world ready" laptops to it!
Be warned that while the menace of DVD region locking can be defeated for many drives, Matshita have gone out of their way to enforce it. These are unfortunately pretty common (e.g. in Sony SZs) so help reeducate this brand by avoiding.
It is also true that many people feel that the extremely poor quality of recent movies makes paying for a ticket (and devoting an evening to watching it) a very risky proposition. Wanting to taste before buying is an understandable reaction - we don't want to miss out on something good but we don't want to get suckered by another "War of the Worlds" or "Elizabeth - the Golden Age" either. Finding a reviewer you can trust is another option of course.
Racism in Spain, AIDS denial (listing mostly US authors) and homeopathic beliefs in Britain do not amount to evidence of irrationality in Europe on anything like the scale of the US.
Rather than attempting to prove an equal distribution of "stupid people", you should instead be looking at precisely those cultural factors which encourage irrationality. "Stupidity" is the effect and not the cause, we're all reasoning beings.
The church in many European countries is busy trying to show that if the Bible is read like it is supposed to (i.e. not taken literally) it really does correspond with the scientific findings. 7 days for god is obviously some billion years for man
Really? This sounds more like the debate circa 1880 not 2007, at least for the mainstream churches.
In case anyone else misunderstands my post, the response I refer to is that of bloggers, the media and politicians generally - what Boris Johnson thinks on his own is hardly likely to be decisive.
The kow-towing hosting provider in this case is Fasthosts of Gloucester, no doubt some customers will be reconsidering their patronage, especially in the absence of any explanation. I certainly will be.
As a side effect of removing Craig Murray's site, celeb MP Boris Johnson also disappeared from the web for a time. On reappearing, Boris has very commendably wasted no time in making a statement:
This is London, not Uzbekistan. It is unbelievable that a website can be wiped out on the say-so of some tycoon. We live in a world where internet communication is increasingly vital, and this is a serious erosion of free speech.
Good show! Things are indeed looking less than peachy for Usmanov and his legal hit team. Next up, Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz?
Oh yes, classpath... except that most Java applications don't use classpath for most of their libraries, on the server side they use JEE mechanisms like WEB-INF/lib (something like the magic directory, perhaps?) while on the client side we have Java Web Start, which can download JARs on demand (or upfront, you choose), update them automatically etc.
And for most of the years of Java's existence, JARs have been able to specify their own classpath rather than the user. Low-tech, but that seems to be what Dotnet does, unless I'm missing a vastly superior Dotnet feature that would justify me switching all my environments to Windows to take advantage of it?
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The Morgan Lifecar does this I believe.
It only looks like it's from the 1930s...
A trifle harsh? He's been more use than some figureheads we could mention... ahead of the game, even, in his batty way.
McCreevy is a Commissioner for the Irish Republic. He has previous form in attempting to impose US-style software patents in the EU.
Previously Ireland finance minister, his basic position is whatever is good for big business is good for the EU.
Because the only way artists get compensated is via copies of their work?
Well that's gracious, thanks!
The drive checks the region on insertion, as many do, but also prohibits the kind of random access to the disk that programs such as DVD Anywhere use to circumvent the lock for normal sequential access. And nobody has managed to fix the firmware since that is extravagently protected too.
There's a consumer goods law in the UK concerning accurate descriptions - would be nice to try holding Sony and any others who advertise "world ready" laptops to it!
And it didn't mention email either, so we can be sure this person and all other people looking for tips in this article have no need for it.
Anything else you'd like to chip in with?
And your point is...?
Be warned that while the menace of DVD region locking can be defeated for many drives, Matshita have gone out of their way to enforce it. These are unfortunately pretty common (e.g. in Sony SZs) so help reeducate this brand by avoiding.
You merely repeat the point of the parent without adding anything except confusion (how can I not like to pay for something that I own on DVD?!)
All true.
It is also true that many people feel that the extremely poor quality of recent movies makes paying for a ticket (and devoting an evening to watching it) a very risky proposition. Wanting to taste before buying is an understandable reaction - we don't want to miss out on something good but we don't want to get suckered by another "War of the Worlds" or "Elizabeth - the Golden Age" either. Finding a reviewer you can trust is another option of course.
And of course translations differ, I see one does actually omit the "missing" word here.
You said the church in Europe "is busy" trying to map the days of creation onto the evolutionary scale. It isn't.
Your examples are hardly convincing.
Racism in Spain, AIDS denial (listing mostly US authors) and homeopathic beliefs in Britain do not amount to evidence of irrationality in Europe on anything like the scale of the US.
Rather than attempting to prove an equal distribution of "stupid people", you should instead be looking at precisely those cultural factors which encourage irrationality. "Stupidity" is the effect and not the cause, we're all reasoning beings.
Something like that, yes.
Really? This sounds more like the debate circa 1880 not 2007, at least for the mainstream churches.
Not so weird if you play DVDs - SZs use 1/3 height Matshita drives which cannot be region unlocked. That's why I didn't buy one.
Nope, still wrong. CORBA 1.0 came out in October 1991, the earliest date you could claim for COM is 1993.
And of course, COM isn't the distributed version, you had to wait until 1997 for DCOM.
They already did - the original was Java.
There are excellent reasons to push Mono; in the long term, Linux needs something better than C/C++.
Non sequitur. Linux has something better than C/C++, and did have before the useful idiots "invented" Mono, in the form of Python, Java etc.
Classic! One more "insightful" I think, no?
In case anyone else misunderstands my post, the response I refer to is that of bloggers, the media and politicians generally - what Boris Johnson thinks on his own is hardly likely to be decisive.
As a side effect of removing Craig Murray's site, celeb MP Boris Johnson also disappeared from the web for a time. On reappearing, Boris has very commendably wasted no time in making a statement:
Good show! Things are indeed looking less than peachy for Usmanov and his legal hit team. Next up, Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz?
That's the idea behind things like AiR or XUL or Web 2.0
or Java.
An obvious benchmark to track is the number of changes going into the Windows Server product for compatibility vs. those going into Suse Linux.
If Suse has to make all the running it will be pretty obvious who is wearing the trousers (as we say).
Oh yes, classpath... except that most Java applications don't use classpath for most of their libraries, on the server side they use JEE mechanisms like WEB-INF/lib (something like the magic directory, perhaps?) while on the client side we have Java Web Start, which can download JARs on demand (or upfront, you choose), update them automatically etc.
And for most of the years of Java's existence, JARs have been able to specify their own classpath rather than the user. Low-tech, but that seems to be what Dotnet does, unless I'm missing a vastly superior Dotnet feature that would justify me switching all my environments to Windows to take advantage of it?