The United States has accused Antigua and Barbuda of contemplating “government-authorized piracy” and “intellectual property theft” as the Caribbean nation...
either deliberately misleading or is just plain stupid by saying that IP violation is theft. It is not. Theft is a criminal offense, IP violation is a civil one.
So the Gov't of the USA will now get to know every time I identify myself to my own government ? What the hell as Francis Maude been smoking -- a politician that must have actually inhaled.
He has not said why he wants to do this, ie what problem he is trying to solve. Depending on the question the answer may be different.
Does he want a cloud because:
* data must be available from many places - ie over the Internet ?
* data is to be safe from one place (ie home/office machine) blowing up and losing everything ?
* fast access is needed from many places at once ?
Please first answer these questions so that we may provide you with what you need rather than random solutions that may not be what you need.
Sometimes you need to leave a line like that in the code - else some programmer in 5 years time may attempt to put some more code in that does the same thing; being completely unaware of why that was taken out previously.
Leave a comment saying something like: Version XX removed code to do YY because ZZ. The important things to comment are not what the code is doing (although that is useful) but the reasons for doing things and even more importantly the reasons for NOT doing things (eg: tried it but it was too slow).
Comments are an apparently obscure feature of every programming language. I say obscure as most of the code that I see uses it rarely except for a copyright block.
However, there's another more important point: what other obvious things didn't we really bother to check?
It occurs to me that we have a similar meme: Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow, however it can be surprising how long a nasty bugs can survive in code that many people look at (unfortunately). Checking is not as exciting as looking for (or writing) something new.
Very little of what I do with my PC is about shopping. If I want to do shopping I take some definite action, I don't want the default assumption that I am using my machine because I may want to buy something. I know that we are supposed to live in a consumer society, but this is stupid.
Like everyone else lawyers need to get something nice at this time of year. What better than to initiate some nice expensive legal action! With a bit of luck it will keep them going until Santa comes again.
Assuming that the justices do the right thing and give us the right to sell e-goods to others, then next fight is going to be where we are allowed to sell them. If your friend wants to sell you a song from his iPod can you just give him $2 in cash and transfer it to your iPod ?
I can see Apple wanting to force you to use iSecondHandMarket which creams off 30% of every sale. I should be able to sell any e-good on any market that I choose and from any device to any other device (eg buy on iPod, sell to someone else who has an Android something). Once Apple is prevented from forcing use of iSecondHandMarket it will then charge a 30% administration fee.... this is going to run and run.
(Apple just for way of illustration, others will be just as evil.)
So companies don't sell real estate, they sell a shell company that technically owns the property.
That happened in the UK as well until the government decided that it was wrong and would tax the sales anyway; I think that they also added an extra tax in this case - the practise soon stopped.
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That title must go to Meccano. With this you could build real things that worked and would not fall into bits at the first knock. With strips of metal held together with nuts and bolts you could create great things. I loved it.
who is spending some time in Madagascar. I ordered 3 components on 3rd November, all marked in stock. 3 days later I am told that the camera will be available but a spare battery and bacpak will take 2-4 weeks. The camera is delivered on time. On 18 Dec I am told ''We wanted to let you know that your order will be slightly delayed. We expect to receive the items for shipment to you on Feb/05/2013.". I think that I need a new dictionary with a revised definition of slightly.
WARNING: do not get one of these things if you need it quickly.
Part of the reason for the pacpak is to control the camera. You are supposed be able to do this with an Android app; but that does not work properly.
My son also complains that the camera crashes and it has lost video footage that he has shot. Be careful of these things.
As long as I can view a video on YouTube/BBC/... I don't really care; and I have been able to do that for many years. I'm not interested in playing games and don't care about fancy desktop effects - is there something else that I should care about ?
I am annoyed that Ubuntu running in a VM (qemu-kvm under CentOS 6.3) is very slow at desktop operations like moving to a new workspace, it probably works nicely with a real graphics card but is slow running under VNC. I wish it would go for simplicity/speed rather than eye candy effects.
Have you ever been in an office somewhere: You pick up a 'phone to make a call and need to press a 9 to get an outside line. Other desks may have 'phones that are directly connected to the outside, so you do not need the 9. With 999 it is easy, you just keep going and dial 9999.
You might think that is stupid, why not just dial and see what happens, if it does not work try again with/without the leading 9. The trouble is that when you make an emergency call you are probably under stress or may not have a lot of time - so keep it easy.
Having said that I see nothing wrong with having several in use everywhere: 999, 112, 911,.... very easy with a modern 'phone system.
Wrong. It was used because it was easy to locate the '9' in the dark. The old dial had a metal rest that you could use to locate 0 and (next to it) 9.
See: rotary dial
I know this since I read it 45 years ago in an old telephone box.
But at least the extradiction request would have to be made in the open -- so it could not be done in secret as can be done under the patriot act.
If enough fuss is made then local (non USA) politicians might get enough complains to do something about it.
I buy 1/2 sized loaves and freeze them, these loaves are sold in a breathable wrapping. I take them out a few hours before I need them (or pop in the microwave if I am in a rush).
I don't buy bread that is wrapped up in a plastic bag - such bread is generally tasteless mush.
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either deliberately misleading or is just plain stupid by saying that IP violation is theft. It is not. Theft is a criminal offense, IP violation is a civil one.
So the Gov't of the USA will now get to know every time I identify myself to my own government ? What the hell as Francis Maude been smoking -- a politician that must have actually inhaled.
He has not said why he wants to do this, ie what problem he is trying to solve. Depending on the question the answer may be different. Does he want a cloud because:
* data must be available from many places - ie over the Internet ?
* data is to be safe from one place (ie home/office machine) blowing up and losing everything ?
* fast access is needed from many places at once ?
Please first answer these questions so that we may provide you with what you need rather than random solutions that may not be what you need.
Makes me wonder how much hidden government involvement there was; complete with back doors only available to ''friendly'' nations.
Sometimes you need to leave a line like that in the code - else some programmer in 5 years time may attempt to put some more code in that does the same thing; being completely unaware of why that was taken out previously.
Comments.
Leave a comment saying something like: Version XX removed code to do YY because ZZ. The important things to comment are not what the code is doing (although that is useful) but the reasons for doing things and even more importantly the reasons for NOT doing things (eg: tried it but it was too slow).
Comments are an apparently obscure feature of every programming language. I say obscure as most of the code that I see uses it rarely except for a copyright block.
It occurs to me that we have a similar meme: Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow, however it can be surprising how long a nasty bugs can survive in code that many people look at (unfortunately). Checking is not as exciting as looking for (or writing) something new.
In exactly the same way as you seem to be able to patent something that you have not made.
Very little of what I do with my PC is about shopping. If I want to do shopping I take some definite action, I don't want the default assumption that I am using my machine because I may want to buy something. I know that we are supposed to live in a consumer society, but this is stupid.
Like everyone else lawyers need to get something nice at this time of year. What better than to initiate some nice expensive legal action! With a bit of luck it will keep them going until Santa comes again.
Assuming that the justices do the right thing and give us the right to sell e-goods to others, then next fight is going to be where we are allowed to sell them. If your friend wants to sell you a song from his iPod can you just give him $2 in cash and transfer it to your iPod ?
I can see Apple wanting to force you to use iSecondHandMarket which creams off 30% of every sale. I should be able to sell any e-good on any market that I choose and from any device to any other device (eg buy on iPod, sell to someone else who has an Android something). Once Apple is prevented from forcing use of iSecondHandMarket it will then charge a 30% administration fee .... this is going to run and run.
(Apple just for way of illustration, others will be just as evil.)
So companies don't sell real estate, they sell a shell company that technically owns the property.
That happened in the UK as well until the government decided that it was wrong and would tax the sales anyway; I think that they also added an extra tax in this case - the practise soon stopped.
That title must go to Meccano. With this you could build real things that worked and would not fall into bits at the first knock. With strips of metal held together with nuts and bolts you could create great things. I loved it.
I've been using a HD Hero 2 for 4 months...
It was a Hero 3 that I bought, maybe they have, by now, got the bugs out of the Hero 2.
who is spending some time in Madagascar. I ordered 3 components on 3rd November, all marked in stock. 3 days later I am told that the camera will be available but a spare battery and bacpak will take 2-4 weeks. The camera is delivered on time. On 18 Dec I am told ''We wanted to let you know that your order will be slightly delayed. We expect to receive the items for shipment to you on Feb/05/2013.". I think that I need a new dictionary with a revised definition of slightly.
WARNING: do not get one of these things if you need it quickly.
Part of the reason for the pacpak is to control the camera. You are supposed be able to do this with an Android app; but that does not work properly.
My son also complains that the camera crashes and it has lost video footage that he has shot. Be careful of these things.
As long as I can view a video on YouTube/BBC/... I don't really care; and I have been able to do that for many years. I'm not interested in playing games and don't care about fancy desktop effects - is there something else that I should care about ?
I am annoyed that Ubuntu running in a VM (qemu-kvm under CentOS 6.3) is very slow at desktop operations like moving to a new workspace, it probably works nicely with a real graphics card but is slow running under VNC. I wish it would go for simplicity/speed rather than eye candy effects.
To you (and me) an extra $20 is peanuts. We might think differently if we were from the 3rd world.
is that you just keep on pressing the digit 9.
Have you ever been in an office somewhere: You pick up a 'phone to make a call and need to press a 9 to get an outside line. Other desks may have 'phones that are directly connected to the outside, so you do not need the 9. With 999 it is easy, you just keep going and dial 9999.
You might think that is stupid, why not just dial and see what happens, if it does not work try again with/without the leading 9. The trouble is that when you make an emergency call you are probably under stress or may not have a lot of time - so keep it easy.
Having said that I see nothing wrong with having several in use everywhere: 999, 112, 911, .... very easy with a modern 'phone system.
Wrong. It was used because it was easy to locate the '9' in the dark. The old dial had a metal rest that you could use to locate 0 and (next to it) 9. See: rotary dial I know this since I read it 45 years ago in an old telephone box.
I wonder if you could claim polical assylum in your own country to stop yourself being extradicted to the USA ?
But at least the extradiction request would have to be made in the open -- so it could not be done in secret as can be done under the patriot act. If enough fuss is made then local (non USA) politicians might get enough complains to do something about it.
I buy 1/2 sized loaves and freeze them, these loaves are sold in a breathable wrapping. I take them out a few hours before I need them (or pop in the microwave if I am in a rush). I don't buy bread that is wrapped up in a plastic bag - such bread is generally tasteless mush.
If so, then quick tell Richard Dawkins -- he is wrong Invisible Pink Unicorns really do exist!
dropping litter again. Why can't they take the plastic bags they brought their lunch in home with them!
Quite. I raised exactly that point in February. I hope that my government does not give my data to the US government.