British Airways - "The worlds favorite airline". Right, everyone in the world just loves British Air, especially for the cuisine. That's why Lufthansa gets such a bad rap.
Four complaints were made about that advert (one from a competitor, but the ITC found in favour of BA, as there was an argument for saying it was true in international flights.
The ITC will only act over claims in adverts that a reasonable person could consider to be a statement of fact, rather than just a slogan. So saying "The best personal computer in the world" is OK, but saying it's the fastest implies a statement presented as fact that can be objectively disproven, and therefore is not allowed. These laws are in place to protect the consumer - otherwise Mcdonalds could advertise their burgers as "healthy and fat free".
IBM, huge company, deep pockets, lots of lawyers. Hollywood, deep pockets, lots of lawyers. Seeing as SCO are coming over all suicidal at the moment, I guess their next target will be the US Army. Please please please. "Darl, meet my friend Mr. 5.56mm"
An average person speaks at about 100-150 words a minute, without much effort. An old lecturer of mine was once clocked at 250wpm while giving evidence as a scientific adviser (boy did you have to pay attention in his lectures!). So a person with no training at all, given perfect voice recognition, could dictate faster than you could type after (presumably) a lot of typing practice.
Because the whole point is that hobbits are very good at not being seen when they don't want to be. Hence their ability to sneak across Mordor without being seen.
Not really. In the letter from Tolkien at the start of the Simarillion he make the point that, while there are similarities to various legends, LOTR is not an allegory. I guess the introduction of a basic evil flaw in creation by Morgoth could be seen as some parallel of Christian original sin or whatever, but the lack of moralising beyond "being honourable is good" and the "if you're good all the time, it'll help you in the end" gollum thing really mean there's no bible relation at all.
There's kind of these books, that are, like, written by this guy, you know and they're really like the story in the film. I reckon they totally stole the story from him.
I know. I can't believe they took out so much of the plot in order to film the remaining scenes in *SLOW MOTION*.
Now they've left even more for the next film (passing minas morgul, the Shelob fight etc) that I suspect ROTK will be basically two battles, lots of slow-mo shouting and running followed by the mountain scene (hopefully I'm not spoiling the ending for anyone).
A graphics card with 32mb RAM and a reasonable GPU (geforce2 MX) is $30. We're not exactly talking new whizz-bang cards here - I bought a geforce2MX eighteen months ago now, and it was outdated then.
An average, modern-ish desktop PC is probaby going to have at least 256mb ram and a 32mb graphics card. Just because some people don't have the required computer doens't mean work shouldn't be done for those that do.
An average line up for a night's programming (UK tv):
show about a couple going house hunting show about two people buying a house and doing it up show about a pair of people building a house from scratch Show about two people who bought a house last year on a tv show and have redecorated it since.
Hmmm, interesting. As a 24 year old bloke, just what I want to watch. I think I'll go play BF1942.
Your average Windows user knows nothing about computers. It seems to take a few years before even basic things like "My computer", "drag and drop" and the fact that "The computer", "The operating system" and Microsoft Word are not all the same thing sink in. I see very little difference in ease of use between a (well) pre-configured Linux computer and a Windows computer. If anything, a Linux system can be easier to use for a beginner than Windows. No virus worries, for example. We're not talking about compiling the kernel here, just Internet, Office, mail and IM (which covers 99% of usage).
It's open source. Even if it requires some component that isn't free in its original form (are there any non-free parts in Lindows?), somebody can hack it so that it doesn't and release it for free as well.
The average all posts:non-0 rated post ratio on slashdot is around 1.3. On bsd.slashdot.org it's more like 3:1 to 5:1 (there's currently a story with 40:1). What is wrong with these people? Choice is good, mmm-kay.
The context to harold hunt saying "go fuck yourself" to Thomas Dickey:
Thomas Dickey says: "well, when you graduate and (presumably) find a real job, you'll have a chance to get an idea of where time goes. the patches _are_ applied, right?"
Which is an extremely rude thing to say to anyone. Even more so when Harold has already spent several emails explaining, and also is apparently currently suffering some fairly serious medical problem.
"When you are in a graduate degree program and working 30-40 hours per week, that is a *lot* of time."
"Seriously, I don't know why I waste my time submitting patches that are specific to my platform and then wait up to three weeks for them to be committed."
"Can I please finally be given CVS commit access with the understanding that I am a moron and that I will only commit things that are cygwin specific,..."
All he wants is the ability to commit to CVS for the module that he is the expert on, and David Dawes and Thomas Dickey are unfriendly, insulting and rude to him. Not exactly a good way to run an open-source project. Did they not read the Cathedral and the Bazaar?
From the poor-quality pictures on the website, this appears to be a shaped metal template which you copy onto a piece of wood with a router (a kind of jigsaw?).
Am I missing something? That seems a pretty simple thing - not the kind of thing you'd expect to make millions selling, or be able to force people to agree to such a licence to use. Does it have some magical properties not apparent to a guy who failed woodwork?
My original post was actually intended for another, similar-sounding post that said it wasn't worth the money, I just clicked reply on the wrong one.
It does seem odd that apple can't (or won't) maintain some sort of backwards compatibility, even if only to a limited extent. That said, I imagine the value of the time saved in a year for an average worker using a Mac instead of a Windows machine is probably more than $130.
I don't own a mac personally - my OS comes with free upgrades every few hours (Gentoo).
So let's see. This release is faster, more secure and contains many significant UI and system improvements - encryption, Expose, power on/off scheduling. Also improvements to the apps included as well - TextEdit, Mail etc. Just because Apple is being modest and only calling it a 0.1 increase doesn't mean it's only a minor upgrade.
The game really sounds more like something from the 'Good old days' of Ulimate Play the Game (now Rare) - trapped in a small area, lots of bad guys to fight, using specific moves/equipment/order to kill the monsters. Like JetPac or Psst! (damn that game was hard).
But you can justify anything that way. "I heard about these people whose house fell down and killed them. I'm living in a tepee, not one of those dangerous houses." The point is, the chance of the figures being right is *not* 3%. The strength of the magnetic fields is small, especially compared to all the electrical equipment you already have in your house. I would worry about incidence of meteorite strikes in the area before power lines.
While I agree with your points, something needed to be done about university funding. The money needs to come from somewhere, and the US fees are probably closer to the actual cost of providing a world-class education. Blindly complaining about the system changing fails to recognise that providing for a large fraction of the population to stay in education until the age of 21 is expensive. I was in the last year to get a grant as an undergrad (1997):).
Except that you can cancel the phone "in seconds" according to the article. Plus, for transactions beyond buying cans of coke, you need a passcode, making it significantly more secure than the standard signature based credit card system. I doubt anyone will bother nicking your phone in order to buy 1000 cans of coke.
The transaction data is encypted too, so you won't get people hanging around checkouts with radio/IR receivers stealing details, and the cashier can't copy your card number too, like they can with credit cards.
>Did anybody who means anything in the OSS community call for it?
That's my point, and possibly his. The OSS community didn't call for it, nobody thought it was a good idea, apart from the idiot that did it. Yet, it contributes to a general background idea of OSS people as lawless.
I don't think I've ever read anything by this guy before today, I just took his statements at face value.
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British Airways - "The worlds favorite airline". Right, everyone in the world just loves British Air, especially for the cuisine. That's why Lufthansa gets such a bad rap.
Four complaints were made about that advert (one from a competitor, but the ITC found in favour of BA, as there was an argument for saying it was true in international flights.
The ITC will only act over claims in adverts that a reasonable person could consider to be a statement of fact, rather than just a slogan. So saying "The best personal computer in the world" is OK, but saying it's the fastest implies a statement presented as fact that can be objectively disproven, and therefore is not allowed. These laws are in place to protect the consumer - otherwise Mcdonalds could advertise their burgers as "healthy and fat free".
IBM, huge company, deep pockets, lots of lawyers. Hollywood, deep pockets, lots of lawyers. Seeing as SCO are coming over all suicidal at the moment, I guess their next target will be the US Army. Please please please. "Darl, meet my friend Mr. 5.56mm"
An average person speaks at about 100-150 words a minute, without much effort. An old lecturer of mine was once clocked at 250wpm while giving evidence as a scientific adviser (boy did you have to pay attention in his lectures!).
So a person with no training at all, given perfect voice recognition, could dictate faster than you could type after (presumably) a lot of typing practice.
Because the whole point is that hobbits are very good at not being seen when they don't want to be. Hence their ability to sneak across Mordor without being seen.
Not really. In the letter from Tolkien at the start of the Simarillion he make the point that, while there are similarities to various legends, LOTR is not an allegory.
I guess the introduction of a basic evil flaw in creation by Morgoth could be seen as some parallel of Christian original sin or whatever, but the lack of moralising beyond "being honourable is good" and the "if you're good all the time, it'll help you in the end" gollum thing really mean there's no bible relation at all.
There's kind of these books, that are, like, written by this guy, you know and they're really like the story in the film. I reckon they totally stole the story from him.
I know. I can't believe they took out so much of the plot in order to film the remaining scenes in *SLOW MOTION*.
Now they've left even more for the next film (passing minas morgul, the Shelob fight etc) that I suspect ROTK will be basically two battles, lots of slow-mo shouting and running followed by the mountain scene (hopefully I'm not spoiling the ending for anyone).
A graphics card with 32mb RAM and a reasonable GPU (geforce2 MX) is $30. We're not exactly talking new whizz-bang cards here - I bought a geforce2MX eighteen months ago now, and it was outdated then.
An average, modern-ish desktop PC is probaby going to have at least 256mb ram and a 32mb graphics card. Just because some people don't have the required computer doens't mean work shouldn't be done for those that do.
An average line up for a night's programming (UK tv):
show about a couple going house hunting
show about two people buying a house and doing it up
show about a pair of people building a house from scratch
Show about two people who bought a house last year on a tv show and have redecorated it since.
Hmmm, interesting. As a 24 year old bloke, just what I want to watch. I think I'll go play BF1942.
It was mostly built by a bunch of students paid in pizza. Not exactly your average Cray-supercomputer project, is it?
Your average Windows user knows nothing about computers. It seems to take a few years before even basic things like "My computer", "drag and drop" and the fact that "The computer", "The operating system" and Microsoft Word are not all the same thing sink in.
I see very little difference in ease of use between a (well) pre-configured Linux computer and a Windows computer. If anything, a Linux system can be easier to use for a beginner than Windows. No virus worries, for example.
We're not talking about compiling the kernel here, just Internet, Office, mail and IM (which covers 99% of usage).
It's open source. Even if it requires some component that isn't free in its original form (are there any non-free parts in Lindows?), somebody can hack it so that it doesn't and release it for free as well.
The average all posts:non-0 rated post ratio on slashdot is around 1.3. On bsd.slashdot.org it's more like 3:1 to 5:1 (there's currently a story with 40:1). What is wrong with these people? Choice is good, mmm-kay.
More importantly, what OS was the mainframe they switched the tape reels on (in the *real* Italian Job film) running?
The context to harold hunt saying "go fuck yourself" to Thomas Dickey:
Thomas Dickey says:
"well, when you graduate and (presumably) find a real job, you'll have a chance to get an idea of where time goes. the patches _are_ applied, right?"
Which is an extremely rude thing to say to anyone. Even more so when Harold has already spent several emails explaining, and also is apparently currently suffering some fairly serious medical problem.
"When you are in a graduate degree program and working 30-40 hours per week, that is a *lot* of time."
"Seriously, I don't know why I waste my time submitting patches that are specific to my platform and then wait up to three weeks for them to be committed."
"Can I please finally be given CVS commit access with the understanding that I am a moron and that I will only commit things that are cygwin specific,..."
All he wants is the ability to commit to CVS for the module that he is the expert on, and David Dawes and Thomas Dickey are unfriendly, insulting and rude to him. Not exactly a good way to run an open-source project. Did they not read the Cathedral and the Bazaar?
Ahem...
is Twelve channels with no adverts enough?
From the poor-quality pictures on the website, this appears to be a shaped metal template which you copy onto a piece of wood with a router (a kind of jigsaw?).
Am I missing something? That seems a pretty simple thing - not the kind of thing you'd expect to make millions selling, or be able to force people to agree to such a licence to use. Does it have some magical properties not apparent to a guy who failed woodwork?
My original post was actually intended for another, similar-sounding post that said it wasn't worth the money, I just clicked reply on the wrong one.
It does seem odd that apple can't (or won't) maintain some sort of backwards compatibility, even if only to a limited extent. That said, I imagine the value of the time saved in a year for an average worker using a Mac instead of a Windows machine is probably more than $130.
I don't own a mac personally - my OS comes with free upgrades every few hours (Gentoo).
So let's see. This release is faster, more secure and contains many significant UI and system improvements - encryption, Expose, power on/off scheduling. Also improvements to the apps included as well - TextEdit, Mail etc.
Just because Apple is being modest and only calling it a 0.1 increase doesn't mean it's only a minor upgrade.
The game really sounds more like something from the 'Good old days' of Ulimate Play the Game (now Rare) - trapped in a small area, lots of bad guys to fight, using specific moves/equipment/order to kill the monsters. Like JetPac or Psst! (damn that game was hard).
But you can justify anything that way. "I heard about these people whose house fell down and killed them. I'm living in a tepee, not one of those dangerous houses."
The point is, the chance of the figures being right is *not* 3%. The strength of the magnetic fields is small, especially compared to all the electrical equipment you already have in your house. I would worry about incidence of meteorite strikes in the area before power lines.
While I agree with your points, something needed to be done about university funding. The money needs to come from somewhere, and the US fees are probably closer to the actual cost of providing a world-class education. Blindly complaining about the system changing fails to recognise that providing for a large fraction of the population to stay in education until the age of 21 is expensive. :).
I was in the last year to get a grant as an undergrad (1997)
Except that you can cancel the phone "in seconds" according to the article. Plus, for transactions beyond buying cans of coke, you need a passcode, making it significantly more secure than the standard signature based credit card system. I doubt anyone will bother nicking your phone in order to buy 1000 cans of coke.
The transaction data is encypted too, so you won't get people hanging around checkouts with radio/IR receivers stealing details, and the cashier can't copy your card number too, like they can with credit cards.
For example, tuition alone for undergraduates at Harvard is currently $26,066 a year as compared with $1,840 at Oxford University.
I guess we British students should stop moaning so much.
>Did anybody who means anything in the OSS community call for it?
That's my point, and possibly his. The OSS community didn't call for it, nobody thought it was a good idea, apart from the idiot that did it. Yet, it contributes to a general background idea of OSS people as lawless.
I don't think I've ever read anything by this guy before today, I just took his statements at face value.