I know it's not exactly "allofTV.com" but I reckon Jump TV could be the start of something like that.
Yes, for the time being this is really only 'foreign' stations, but I wonder how long it takes for someone to start this for stations from western countries...
Just out of curiosity (extreme curiosity, seeing as I don't even live in the US): would it be illegal to sell second hand non-compliant devices after that date, or only new ones?
If it's only new ones, I think someone should buy a lot of those devices just before that date, just to resell later on...
I started spelling it pron for the simple fact that I didn't need my girlfriend searching for any directories with "porn" in their name on my computer.
After that, the whole leet thing turned it into pr0n. Along with the fact that my g/f started hearing my mates and I talking about "pron", so needed to make sure she couldn't search for that, either...
Where will this whole "go after the software producers" attitude end? You'll know we are in trouble the day Microsoft gets sued because of the file sharing functionality within Windows.
They make sharing so easy (right click on a folder and it's right there in the menu!) they're all but telling their users to infringe copyright...
I don't think you could really say, though, that they are without blame: if you type "bulk" "email" "software" and that hosting company comes up, then what words do you think they gave Google to be advertised with?
They obviously want to be associated with "bulk" "email" "software", so I would not exactly call it "friendly fire"...
Correct: voting in Australia is compulsory (well, at least turning up and getting your name crossed off is).
I honestly believe that this is a good thing. I think that Australians in general have a better understanding not only of international politics, but also of what's happening internally, too. They don't necessarily know names, but they do know fairly well the various stances on policy (and I don't just mean: "Oh, the Labor Party? They're for workers rights").
I think that at some level, this increased knowledge is influenced by our requirement to vote. Yes, a lot of people submit blank ballots and donkey votes, but this is more a show of lack of faith than not turning up to vote ever could be. A lot of people figure that if they have to vote, they may as well do it properly.
Except that seeing as William himself spelt his name in different ways, including Shakespear (apparently), maybe the grand parent post is on to something!
There are virtual window applications for Win32. I loved VirtuaWin.
At least then you can just have GIMP in it's own window. I realise that your biggest problem is that nearly every other Windows app in the world supports MDI, so why doesn't GIMP? But then to that I would say that nearly every other window system in the world supports virtual windows, so why doesn't MS Windows? I mean if they're writing a cross platform application, why should they be restricted by that one without vitual window support?
I think you'll find that that whole ordeal actually came down to MS licensing their "reference code", not the actual patents.
They basically said "hey, that code that was always available for free? Well, now you have to pay for it. Feel free to write your own, but we've already got it written for you if you like..."
Yahoo! may do it all the time, but as I originally said:
"It doesn't happen all the time (and in fact I think I've only ever seen it twice) but it does happen."
I'd guess that it's worse to do it all the time: if I were half inclined, I'd set a bot to search for a few generic, partly related words for my site, then just click on my link. If I did that often enough, and Yahoo! took my feedback each time, it shouldn't take too long for it to believe that those generic words really do mean my site...
Sorry, I didn't word that very well. The way it works (I believe!) is that once you've done your search, all of the search result hyperlinks go through a redirect on google.com. So, imagine you make a search that gives you 10 results. If you scan over those results and only click on the ninth one, then as you're going through the redirect, Google knows that (I guess from the link) for that particular search that you made, you thought that the ninth was relevant.
Rinse and repeat for the other links you follow from that search and it might work out that results 4, 7 and 8 are not relevant (from your point of view) to the words you searched for.
I believe that Google kind of already does this sometimes by changing the links that it returns to an internal link that records what you actually chose to follow (then of course redirecting you to the chosen site).
It doesn't happen all the time (and in fact I think I've only ever seen it twice) but it does happen.
Excuse me if I'm mistaken, but are you trying to say that GSM is "newer technology"??
Australia has been using GSM for at least 8 or 9 years, it's not new technology. I don't mean to offend, but the lack of US support for GSM for so many years feels, to an outsider, as though it's more because it's supported so heavily elsewhere!
Plus, regarding the geography you have to cover: Australia, again, is about 70% of the area of the main "chunk" of the United States, and yet they don't seem to have much problem. The way I see it, with the higher population density, it would actually be more economical for the US to provide these so called "newer technologies" than Australia, for instance...
An Irish man in New York walks into a bar one afternoon and orders 2 pints of Guinness. He sits down with the two pints and slowly drinks them both by taking a drink from one, then the other, and back to the first.
After he finishes them, he orders another two. The barman mentions that by buying two at a time they'll both be getting warm by the end, and suggests that he just bring the second over to the guy when he's almost finished the first.
"Oh no," says the Irish man. "You see, I have to drink them like that. Many years ago my brother and I used to both sit down for a couple of pints everyday after work. Now that I've moved away, I drink this way so as to remember drinking with my brother, and my brother does the same each day, too."
The barman is impressed with this mans love for his brother, and serves up the two drinks.
For months the man comes in every day and performs this ritual. However one day, he orders just the one pint with a tear in his eye.
The barman is shocked, but gives him the one.
"I'm sorry about your loss," says the barman.
"What are you talking about?"
"Your brother," says the barman. "I assumed by only ordering one pint, and the sorrowful look on your face that your brother has passed away."
"Oh that," says the Irish man. "No, it's just that I've had to give up my drinking."
The plastic isn't embedded in the Australian notes, though. The notes themselves are an extremely durable plastic, and the see through bit is just unprinted. That particular section is also embossed.
Other smaller areas are also only partially printed on both sides in a way that when held to the light, a complete image is formed.
MySQL Connector/C++ (the C++ API from MySQL) is LGPL.
So long as you link it correctly, you do not need to release the source code to your application: no matter how confusing the licencing on the MySQL website is...
I'm sure it'll be said here more than once this discussion but the fact of the matter is that if the life of your business depends on your Google ranking I would say "Don't be annoyed when it drops and breaks you: be thankful that it was up there in the first place, giving a chance to a business that obviously has no other hope".
In Australia the Orange network would let you use your mobile as a landline when at home (well, anywhere within about a 100m radius). OK, so I know it's not what you were really talking about, but I saw that as the first step towards the whole "a mobile is no different to a landline" thing.
In fact, the Orange deal was pretty good: you got a landline number and a mobile number. If someone called your landline and you weren't in the "home zone" then it just redirected to your mobile (unfortunately you picked up the cost, then). Even better, though, was that you could start a call in your home zone then walk out of that zone and it would still be charged as a normal landline call.
Ahh... so this system is only good for a domain to check emails that are supposedly coming from itself? That's good, but a lot of the spam I get is from bizarre (non existent?) domains. Plus, wouldn't this just mean that the spammer will have to do two runs? One to all AOL addresses from a Yahoo account, and vice versa?
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For those who don't know, the "Lost" section of Snopes only contains things that are made up by the Snopes guys themselves.
Apparently, the idea is to make you think about everything you read, and not just to trust it because Snopes said it...
Yes, for the time being this is really only 'foreign' stations, but I wonder how long it takes for someone to start this for stations from western countries...
Just out of curiosity (extreme curiosity, seeing as I don't even live in the US): would it be illegal to sell second hand non-compliant devices after that date, or only new ones?
If it's only new ones, I think someone should buy a lot of those devices just before that date, just to resell later on...
I started spelling it pron for the simple fact that I didn't need my girlfriend searching for any directories with "porn" in their name on my computer.
After that, the whole leet thing turned it into pr0n. Along with the fact that my g/f started hearing my mates and I talking about "pron", so needed to make sure she couldn't search for that, either...
Where will this whole "go after the software producers" attitude end? You'll know we are in trouble the day Microsoft gets sued because of the file sharing functionality within Windows.
They make sharing so easy (right click on a folder and it's right there in the menu!) they're all but telling their users to infringe copyright...
I don't think you could really say, though, that they are without blame: if you type "bulk" "email" "software" and that hosting company comes up, then what words do you think they gave Google to be advertised with?
They obviously want to be associated with "bulk" "email" "software", so I would not exactly call it "friendly fire"...
I wouldn't worry too much: if you can hold out for a few more years, all that hardware will basically be free :)
The first result from searching Google for "immunity to hiv" suggests so...
Correct: voting in Australia is compulsory (well, at least turning up and getting your name crossed off is).
I honestly believe that this is a good thing. I think that Australians in general have a better understanding not only of international politics, but also of what's happening internally, too. They don't necessarily know names, but they do know fairly well the various stances on policy (and I don't just mean: "Oh, the Labor Party? They're for workers rights").
I think that at some level, this increased knowledge is influenced by our requirement to vote. Yes, a lot of people submit blank ballots and donkey votes, but this is more a show of lack of faith than not turning up to vote ever could be. A lot of people figure that if they have to vote, they may as well do it properly.
That can't be a bad thing, I don't think.
I could be wrong, but I believe this is an example...
And some countries (for example, the US) use trade tarriffs to artificially raise import prices.
They're just as bad as each other.
Oh I love being able to set a caption from within the URL!
Except that seeing as William himself spelt his name in different ways, including Shakespear (apparently), maybe the grand parent post is on to something!
At least then you can just have GIMP in it's own window. I realise that your biggest problem is that nearly every other Windows app in the world supports MDI, so why doesn't GIMP? But then to that I would say that nearly every other window system in the world supports virtual windows, so why doesn't MS Windows? I mean if they're writing a cross platform application, why should they be restricted by that one without vitual window support?
I think you'll find that that whole ordeal actually came down to MS licensing their "reference code", not the actual patents.
They basically said "hey, that code that was always available for free? Well, now you have to pay for it. Feel free to write your own, but we've already got it written for you if you like..."
Yahoo! may do it all the time, but as I originally said:
"It doesn't happen all the time (and in fact I think I've only ever seen it twice) but it does happen."
I'd guess that it's worse to do it all the time: if I were half inclined, I'd set a bot to search for a few generic, partly related words for my site, then just click on my link. If I did that often enough, and Yahoo! took my feedback each time, it shouldn't take too long for it to believe that those generic words really do mean my site...
Sorry, I didn't word that very well. The way it works (I believe!) is that once you've done your search, all of the search result hyperlinks go through a redirect on google.com. So, imagine you make a search that gives you 10 results. If you scan over those results and only click on the ninth one, then as you're going through the redirect, Google knows that (I guess from the link) for that particular search that you made, you thought that the ninth was relevant.
Rinse and repeat for the other links you follow from that search and it might work out that results 4, 7 and 8 are not relevant (from your point of view) to the words you searched for.
I believe that Google kind of already does this sometimes by changing the links that it returns to an internal link that records what you actually chose to follow (then of course redirecting you to the chosen site).
It doesn't happen all the time (and in fact I think I've only ever seen it twice) but it does happen.
Excuse me if I'm mistaken, but are you trying to say that GSM is "newer technology"??
Australia has been using GSM for at least 8 or 9 years, it's not new technology. I don't mean to offend, but the lack of US support for GSM for so many years feels, to an outsider, as though it's more because it's supported so heavily elsewhere!
Plus, regarding the geography you have to cover: Australia, again, is about 70% of the area of the main "chunk" of the United States, and yet they don't seem to have much problem. The way I see it, with the higher population density, it would actually be more economical for the US to provide these so called "newer technologies" than Australia, for instance...
An Irish man in New York walks into a bar one afternoon and orders 2 pints of Guinness. He sits down with the two pints and slowly drinks them both by taking a drink from one, then the other, and back to the first.
After he finishes them, he orders another two. The barman mentions that by buying two at a time they'll both be getting warm by the end, and suggests that he just bring the second over to the guy when he's almost finished the first.
"Oh no," says the Irish man. "You see, I have to drink them like that. Many years ago my brother and I used to both sit down for a couple of pints everyday after work. Now that I've moved away, I drink this way so as to remember drinking with my brother, and my brother does the same each day, too."
The barman is impressed with this mans love for his brother, and serves up the two drinks.
For months the man comes in every day and performs this ritual. However one day, he orders just the one pint with a tear in his eye.
The barman is shocked, but gives him the one.
"I'm sorry about your loss," says the barman.
"What are you talking about?"
"Your brother," says the barman. "I assumed by only ordering one pint, and the sorrowful look on your face that your brother has passed away."
"Oh that," says the Irish man. "No, it's just that I've had to give up my drinking."
The plastic isn't embedded in the Australian notes, though. The notes themselves are an extremely durable plastic, and the see through bit is just unprinted. That particular section is also embossed.
Other smaller areas are also only partially printed on both sides in a way that when held to the light, a complete image is formed.
MySQL Connector/C++ (the C++ API from MySQL) is LGPL.
So long as you link it correctly, you do not need to release the source code to your application: no matter how confusing the licencing on the MySQL website is...
I'm sure it'll be said here more than once this discussion but the fact of the matter is that if the life of your business depends on your Google ranking I would say "Don't be annoyed when it drops and breaks you: be thankful that it was up there in the first place, giving a chance to a business that obviously has no other hope".
In Australia the Orange network would let you use your mobile as a landline when at home (well, anywhere within about a 100m radius). OK, so I know it's not what you were really talking about, but I saw that as the first step towards the whole "a mobile is no different to a landline" thing.
In fact, the Orange deal was pretty good: you got a landline number and a mobile number. If someone called your landline and you weren't in the "home zone" then it just redirected to your mobile (unfortunately you picked up the cost, then). Even better, though, was that you could start a call in your home zone then walk out of that zone and it would still be charged as a normal landline call.
Ahh... so this system is only good for a domain to check emails that are supposedly coming from itself?
That's good, but a lot of the spam I get is from bizarre (non existent?) domains. Plus, wouldn't this just mean that the spammer will have to do two runs? One to all AOL addresses from a Yahoo account, and vice versa?