I wonder whether this "CD" bore the Compact Disc logo we all know and love. If it did then perhaps he should email Philips and let them know - Philips don't (or at least didn't) take too kindly copy-proctected cd's using the compact disc logo. This is because by baring the logo it claims to be a proper "Red Book" cd, but isn't because it has copy protection.
Does anyone actually know who (if anyone) in Philips to bother about this? As I've just discovered that a supposed "cd" (it bears the logo) that I own is copy protected and I'm in a record label bashing mood.
ee when i were a lad I used to get-up before I went to bed and work 25 hours a day 8 days week at the coal face. Then when I got home I had to dig the garden, kill my dinner....
Seriously though, how much work you do as a PhD student depends on the stubject area. I know know of one bloke who wrote a PhD Thesis on Batman - I kid you not.
It would be fair to ask NTL to drop the High Speed claim, 128kbps isn't that fast, but it is technically broadband - by the ASAs' own admittion! Thereby having "broadband access from £14.99" instead of "high speed broadband....", but no this is too much like a good idea.
Mind you doing things that define common sense isn't new to the ASA. A couple of years ago they banded a car newspaper/magazine ad because it had a blurred background and gave the impression of breaking the speed limit (the car was actually standind still with no driver as I remember). To further prove that they are a bunch of silly people several months later didn't ban a similar ad by another car maker - doh! In general the ASA do do a good job, but it's at times like these you wonder if they have the heads screwed on.
Sorry - but terrorists will just use other means. In the UK the IRA was able to perform terrorist acts without computers, mobile phones, the internet etc... So it really doesn't matter what measures are taken the terrorist will work around them. Also would the FBI, CIA, NSA etc. be capable of dealing with all the information they gather - I think not!
The only way to deal with terrorism properly is to deal with it's ROOT CAUSES (both real and percieved - from the point of the terrorist) i.e. poverty, oppression, discrimination... It is far better to treat the cause rather than the symptoms, isn't it better to give kids sex education so that they don't contract HIV rather than have to live on medication for the rest of their lives, isn't it better to discourage a person from smoking than to treat their lung cancer?
Fianlly, sure terrorists kill a lot of people, but so do car drivers - more lives are lost every year due to car accidents than to terrorism. Out of sight out of mind - that's the problem. People saw 9/11 on CNN, but they don't see all the car accidents etc.
Unless the tag is waterproofed and very securely attached to the item of clothing putting it in the washing machine should do the job.
I'm sure tumble dryers get rather hot as well, what effect would this have a the tag (and it's physical attachment to the item of clothing)? Well if it's glued-in and depending on the type of adhesive used it may well become detached.
After a couple of goes in the washing machine and tumble dryer I'm sure it'll either a) Not work, b) Wind-up in a water treatment plant.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I'm sure someone implemented a telnet or similar client for the BBC micro - I sure I remember seeing beebs runing as unix terminals back in the early 90's.
Ooh, wonder if they'll do a version for the BBC Micro (http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/) and I wonder if I could knock up an RJ45 to Econet socket adpator;-)
No reason why this isn't possible, port lynx to the beeb, get the tcp/ip stack sorted, port ppp and finally see what modem I can get running off the RS423 port. Then cram it onto a 40-track 320kb floppy.
Could it possibly have something to do with the fact he isn't driving a good car e.g. Ferrari, McLaren or even Williams-BMW ? He's an ex-world F1 champion so his driving can't be that bad...
How about putting this a different way, an American publishing house publishes a book on subject X and that happens to be not allowed in country Z (where the publishing house has offices). If someone from country Z bought the book in America, and took it home with them would it be "right and proper" for the courts in country Z to tell the publishing house to stop exports of the book or to burn all copies of the book because the topic is illegal?
NO Why? Because it is unreasonable (you can't seriously expect the publisher to make sure that a purchaser isn't from country Z). It is the job the government of country Z to prevent import by whatever means they deem fit as they have made it illegal.
So my argument on this matter is: if the French want to ban such content they should do what the Chinese, Saudi Arabian etc. governments have done, that is prevent access to such sites themselves. You might not agree with the policies of these countries but if they say something is illegal they prevent you from getting to it.
There is one very big driving force for using Linux in schools - MONEY! Here in the UK schools quite frankly don't have a lot of money. So every £ they save on MS windows/office/etc. licenses they can spend on books and equipment for the pupils.
P.S. Once you get the basic principles of using a computer across to kids they won't really have any problems transfering their skills to other platforms. Ever noticed how kids always figure out how to use the new TV/Video before their parents do?
A couple of things....
A) We have a written constitution but NOT a codified one. So what does that mean in English I hear you cry! It means that the consitution is written down in various places (acts of Parliment etc...) but not in one big document (like the US constitution).
B) If I am british subject then why does it say I'm a British Citizen in my passport?
CCTV cameras? In the city I live in (Cardiff, Wales) I feel that cameras have made a difference. Personally I feel safer in the city centre on a Friday/Saturday evening now than I did 8 years ago when I first moved to the city. It was around then that an Asian friend and myself were chased down a side-street by some (drunk) lunatic with a hammer shouting racist abuse at my friend. I'm sure this wouldn't happen now (or would at least be stopped by the police) as there are 2 or 3 cameras in that street.
Talking about companies is a very interesting issue. A company in the town where my parents live was forced to take-down (or move) several CCTV cameras as they looked directly into the bedroom windows of peoples houses that backed onto the companies land. I remember there being quite a battle about this as the company was far from happy about this, can't remember if it was the local council or the courts that forced them.
I can't help thinking that the whole trademark needs some sort of overhaul, or just an injection of common sense. For example, the way things are nowadays McDonalds will sue any place calling itself McDonalds..., even if it's McDonalds Cafe (owned and run by the McDonald family for 6 generations). So I think any applications for trademarks based on a word or collections words used in the public domain should be disallowed.
Examples I could give include Windows (not ok - think Windows Icons Mouse Pointer), Windows 95/NT... (fair enough - haven't been used together in the public domain), one-click (not ok as it's reasonable to say that the term is in the public domain).
But I guess (like with software patents) common sense is a bit too much to ask for...
Call me stupid but how exactly are they going to install Linux and KDE 2 without a HDD of some sorts. I know Linux is compact, but you can't exactly call KDE 2 compact - certainly not compact enough to fit into a 16Mb flash card.
I guess it won't. QT is under GPL, these libraries are included in QT and as far as i can tell QT is still going to be free, therefore KDE won't have to be moved to non-free.
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So what we really need....(well in the uk at least) is a 9p 49p and 99p along with the £9 and £99 note.
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I wonder whether this "CD" bore the Compact Disc logo we all know and love. If it did then perhaps he should email Philips and let them know - Philips don't (or at least didn't) take too kindly copy-proctected cd's using the compact disc logo. This is because by baring the logo it claims to be a proper "Red Book" cd, but isn't because it has copy protection.
Does anyone actually know who (if anyone) in Philips to bother about this? As I've just discovered that a supposed "cd" (it bears the logo) that I own is copy protected and I'm in a record label bashing mood.
ee when i were a lad I used to get-up before I went to bed and work 25 hours a day 8 days week at the coal face. Then when I got home I had to dig the garden, kill my dinner....
Seriously though, how much work you do as a PhD student depends on the stubject area. I know know of one bloke who wrote a PhD Thesis on Batman - I kid you not.
It would be fair to ask NTL to drop the High Speed claim, 128kbps isn't that fast, but it is technically broadband - by the ASAs' own admittion! Thereby having "broadband access from £14.99" instead of "high speed broadband....", but no this is too much like a good idea.
Mind you doing things that define common sense isn't new to the ASA. A couple of years ago they banded a car newspaper/magazine ad because it had a blurred background and gave the impression of breaking the speed limit (the car was actually standind still with no driver as I remember). To further prove that they are a bunch of silly people several months later didn't ban a similar ad by another car maker - doh! In general the ASA do do a good job, but it's at times like these you wonder if they have the heads screwed on.
Sorry - but terrorists will just use other means. In the UK the IRA was able to perform terrorist acts without computers, mobile phones, the internet etc... So it really doesn't matter what measures are taken the terrorist will work around them. Also would the FBI, CIA, NSA etc. be capable of dealing with all the information they gather - I think not!
The only way to deal with terrorism properly is to deal with it's ROOT CAUSES (both real and percieved - from the point of the terrorist) i.e. poverty, oppression, discrimination... It is far better to treat the cause rather than the symptoms, isn't it better to give kids sex education so that they don't contract HIV rather than have to live on medication for the rest of their lives, isn't it better to discourage a person from smoking than to treat their lung cancer?
Fianlly, sure terrorists kill a lot of people, but so do car drivers - more lives are lost every year due to car accidents than to terrorism. Out of sight out of mind - that's the problem. People saw 9/11 on CNN, but they don't see all the car accidents etc.
Unless the tag is waterproofed and very securely attached to the item of clothing putting it in the washing machine should do the job.
I'm sure tumble dryers get rather hot as well, what effect would this have a the tag (and it's physical attachment to the item of clothing)? Well if it's glued-in and depending on the type of adhesive used it may well become detached.
After a couple of goes in the washing machine and tumble dryer I'm sure it'll either a) Not work, b) Wind-up in a water treatment plant.
I known replying to my own post!
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I'm sure someone implemented a telnet or similar client for the BBC micro - I sure I remember seeing beebs runing as unix terminals back in the early 90's.
Ooh, wonder if they'll do a version for the BBC Micro (http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/) and I wonder if I could knock up an RJ45 to Econet socket adpator ;-)
No reason why this isn't possible, port lynx to the beeb, get the tcp/ip stack sorted, port ppp and finally see what modem I can get running off the RS423 port. Then cram it onto a 40-track 320kb floppy.
And there was me thinking you couldn't trademark actual words. Ignorant or what.
Could it possibly have something to do with the fact he isn't driving a good car e.g. Ferrari, McLaren or even Williams-BMW ? He's an ex-world F1 champion so his driving can't be that bad...
How about putting this a different way, an American publishing house publishes a book on subject X and that happens to be not allowed in country Z (where the publishing house has offices). If someone from country Z bought the book in America, and took it home with them would it be "right and proper" for the courts in country Z to tell the publishing house to stop exports of the book or to burn all copies of the book because the topic is illegal?
NO Why? Because it is unreasonable (you can't seriously expect the publisher to make sure that a purchaser isn't from country Z). It is the job the government of country Z to prevent import by whatever means they deem fit as they have made it illegal.
So my argument on this matter is: if the French want to ban such content they should do what the Chinese, Saudi Arabian etc. governments have done, that is prevent access to such sites themselves. You might not agree with the policies of these countries but if they say something is illegal they prevent you from getting to it.
P.S. Once you get the basic principles of using a computer across to kids they won't really have any problems transfering their skills to other platforms. Ever noticed how kids always figure out how to use the new TV/Video before their parents do?
A couple of things.... A) We have a written constitution but NOT a codified one. So what does that mean in English I hear you cry! It means that the consitution is written down in various places (acts of Parliment etc...) but not in one big document (like the US constitution). B) If I am british subject then why does it say I'm a British Citizen in my passport? CCTV cameras? In the city I live in (Cardiff, Wales) I feel that cameras have made a difference. Personally I feel safer in the city centre on a Friday/Saturday evening now than I did 8 years ago when I first moved to the city. It was around then that an Asian friend and myself were chased down a side-street by some (drunk) lunatic with a hammer shouting racist abuse at my friend. I'm sure this wouldn't happen now (or would at least be stopped by the police) as there are 2 or 3 cameras in that street. Talking about companies is a very interesting issue. A company in the town where my parents live was forced to take-down (or move) several CCTV cameras as they looked directly into the bedroom windows of peoples houses that backed onto the companies land. I remember there being quite a battle about this as the company was far from happy about this, can't remember if it was the local council or the courts that forced them.
I can't help thinking that the whole trademark needs some sort of overhaul, or just an injection of common sense. For example, the way things are nowadays McDonalds will sue any place calling itself McDonalds ..., even if it's McDonalds Cafe (owned and run by the McDonald family for 6 generations). So I think any applications for trademarks based on a word or collections words used in the public domain should be disallowed.
Examples I could give include Windows (not ok - think Windows Icons Mouse Pointer), Windows 95/NT... (fair enough - haven't been used together in the public domain), one-click (not ok as it's reasonable to say that the term is in the public domain).
But I guess (like with software patents) common sense is a bit too much to ask for...
Call me stupid but how exactly are they going to install Linux and KDE 2 without a HDD of some sorts. I know Linux is compact, but you can't exactly call KDE 2 compact - certainly not compact enough to fit into a 16Mb flash card.
I guess it won't. QT is under GPL, these libraries are included in QT and as far as i can tell QT is still going to be free, therefore KDE won't have to be moved to non-free.