It all hinges on what "you" and "distribute" mean. This clarification tells us that in the licence "You" can apply to corporate entities, and that distribute means to third parties (i.e. people who aren't you - those outside the company).
So you challenge is to find something credible that backup up your statement - that in-house changes should be distributed.
My initial contract is with, in this case, Amazon. My warranty is with Antec. Amazon's terms and conditions state 90 days, and this was more than 90 days. So, in this case, who I could get redress from was a bit ambigious. The 2003 Consumer Act does allow you a lot of scope in certain specific circumstances, one of which happens to be durability (or rather failure to meet claims of durability). In this case Antec was claiming "ultra-reliable", I bought under this understanding, and the product did not meet the description (as it failed), so Amazon were probably on the hook.
This is all a bit vague in the law so Amazon could have turned round and said "Sorry", and then I would have really only been left with the option of small claims court and there is no way I'd have bothered for fifty quid (and I probably wouldn't have had that good a case anyway as I had other redress in the form of the manufacturer's warranty).
If the product had failed after a reasonable length of time (say two years) then Amazon wouldn't be on the hook any more, and my problem would be with Antec and their useless warranty.
When I buy quality brands this is a useful stick to beat the company with. For example I have a Bosch Jigsaw which died (the thing that holds the blade in had failed). I was getting static from them until I pointed out this act, and that they advertise themselves as a durable brand, and it was unreasonable to expect the product to fail in this time. Result: new jigsaw. I got my coffee maker (Dualit) repaired for free after two years for the same reasons (don't know if our US cousins are familiar with Dualit but they make a big, big play about how rugged their appliances are).
I quite like how this act has brought about "truth in advertising" in at least a small section of the market.
Your contract, you'll find, is with the shop you bought it from. But generally customer service departments are wise to the fact that it is better for them to fix it rather than you having to go back to your vendor. The end result is that you'll have a working product, and direct will probably be cheaper for them.
Antec, however, are unusual in that they don't have representation in the UK. But I still think that this will cost them more than the 25GBP they were trying to save by making things awkward for me. Probably on average they find that it saves money in the long run, but it will hurt their reputation (as word gets out that their warranty outside NL in Europe is essentially useless).
I have done lots of RMAs before - both personal and business. The previous one, Netgear, for example, the process went
1) Phone them up 2) They issue the RMA and stick the new part in the post 3) It arrives 4) You use the box to send the broken one back (at my own expense) with the RMA on it.
That, or something close to it, is my expectation. I do not expect to wait a few weeks for an off-the-shelf part. I particularly do not expect to ship to an entirely different country. I wouldn't have minded as much if it was dodgy Joe's Ropey power supplies, but by buying Antec is was expecting (and paying for) "Best-of-Class customer service" where "my satisfaction was their priority".
Let's See:
Netgear: phone call resolution, 2 day turn-around, low postage cost Antec: 2 days (and lots of e-mail tennis) before I would have been able to get the process started, several week turn around, very large postage cost.
Now, call me Mr Picky, by I don't think they are giving "Best-of-Class customer service".
I did not "actually get very good customer service via Amazon" - I got exactly what I should have got (although one can certainly argue that getting what one should have got is actually very good). Under the relevant law durability is a factor - if the power supply stops working long before it should (which it did) then I am entitled (under the law) to have it fixed or replaced at minimum inconvenience and expense to me (i.e. realistically in this situation they would have to replace it).
Nope - don't go for Antec if you live in the UK. I bought one of their 430W power supplies, and after eight months it died. Fine, I thought, it is under warranty. So went to the web-site and after a bit of mucking about I managed to get an RMA. Or thought I did. I actually had filled in a form to request a form to request an RMA. Pointless bureaucracy gone mad. Still I got the form. Or rather excel spreadsheet. So now I need a) a working computer (erm, guys, the power supply's gone) and a copy of excel (probably an other speadsheet would have done) to tell them who I was, what I'd bought and when I'd bought it. Oh - they also wanted a scanned copy of the receipt sent back to them too. I did have an electronic copy that could have sent them, but it was on the computer that was dead. (They did suggest I could take a digital photo of the invoice and send that instead, but this was getting too Alice-in-Wonderlandish for me.)
But all this was just slightly stupid and annoying. What was very stupid and immensely annoying was that I had to send the power supply to them at my own expense to a different country. The power supply originally cost about 50GBP - to post it to the Netherlands (for that is where their warehouse is) from the UK cheaply (but insured) would cost about 25GBP. And they would not send me a new one until they had the old one back and checked out. I would end up out about half the cost of the power supply, and be without one for possible a couple of weeks. Suddenly, paying a premium price for a quality product did not seem to be such a good idea when faced with a avaricious and slow customer service department based in an entirely different country.
So my advice is avoid Antec if you live in the UK - you effectively pay about half the cost of the power supply if you need warranty repairs/replacement.
The story does have a happy ending - I bought the supply thought Amazon originally, and so phoned them up. After a bit of reminding them of their duty under Sale of Goods act (basically a quality brand should last longer than eight months) they agreed to replace it. They dropped the ball on the first attempt, so I actually ended up with a better spec'ed supply. Still an Antec, so if it dies it hits the bin rather than muck about with any ludicrious postal demands.
And I think that you'll find that chemists refer to the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics as "The Rubber Bible" (CRC standing for the Chemical Rubber Company).
Ok - I'm a recruiter for a company who can make the decision about getting you in for an interview for a job (I am actually, but that's beside the point). Your CV lands on my desk. What am I going to use as an objective measure of your quality?
Lets see - would that be certifications? That is all they are - a ticket for an interview. Once you actually get in front of the interviewer then you can impress them with your scientific approach and controlled experimentation.
Other things can stand in leiu - length of experience, making your project work sound compelling - but if you are in a field where there is a standard cert then you'd be a mug not to get it.
One of the things that I was asked when I applied for my current job was "What made you get an MCSE?", to which my answer was "I knew I'd be applying for jobs so I went and got it."
Perfect 10's product is photographs Someone rips off their photos and puts them on their website - www.scammingpirates.com. Google indexes scammingpirates and displays the images in their index.
How is Perfect 10 going to use robots.txt to stop Google indexing scammingpirates? How will Perfect 10 removing the pictures from their website stop google displaying the results from another website?
What course of action can Perfect 10 take to remove their photos from Google's index? It seems like a reasonable request, but it would seem that Google still has the photos despite the owner's objections. It is a shame that it takes a lawsuit, but if Google is being stubborn...
You can get trained as a rec diver to use 40% 02 MAX, and definitely not for doing deco.
Oh dear - I guess my BSAC advanced nitrox qualification (50% stage mix) was just a dream then. They also do an extended range course that gives 80% stage mix. Others do 100% stage mix (dunno why - risky, little extra benefit, and considerably more expensive) Just because PADI don't do it...
Again, Google is following the simple rule of Don't make it a hassle for your customers to do business with you. Google's advertisements are the best out there that I've seen. They don't try to jump out at you, they don't annoy you with flashing pictures or insipid audio, and a real attempt is made to make the advertisements relevant to the person viewing them.
You appear to be under a misapprehension that you are a customer of google because you view their ads- you're not. You are their product. Their customers are the people that buy the ads.
Actually Outlook 2003 is now 33TB for a PST, and you can obviously have multiple PST files (even in the old versions). So if you organise your mail properly there is no problem having petabytes of mail...
Well, have a read of this article and see what you think.
Finland in the 70s decided that enough was enough, and bribed the nation back to health. The Glasgow experiment is based on this (on a very small scale). Hopefully it will take off over the entire UK as the dietary situation is grim.
What happened (and what is still happening in some areas) was "a rush to the bottom". School meals were contracted out to whoever could provide them cheapest (subject only the the most rudimentary controls). The net result is that the cost for a child's school meal is less that that of an army dog. And the dog's meal is probably more nutritious.
The population has been forcibly reminded of this recently (courtesy largely of Mr Jamie Oliver, whom I didn't like, but kudos for this) and has almost been embarrassed into taking action. Well, embarrassed into talking about taking action at the moment - we shall see.
Ah - but they are (if it is the same scheme as my friend worked on several years ago). Your card gets charged up with points which allow you free entry into sports centres etc if you kept a weekly balance above a certain amount (I think it was something like two healthy meals in the last week). This gave a good element of peer pressure because if a group of kids went to play five-a-side football (basically indoor soccer for our transatlantic cousins) on only one of them had to pay then the next week if that one was you you'd make sure that you had your two health meals.
Basically they have made it cool to eat healthy food - great psychology..
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That's nothing. The headline says "affect". Obviously it should be "effect".
Dumb humans.
That misses out flying fish (well, gliding fish actually).
I'll go to the horse's mouth here
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It all hinges on what "you" and "distribute" mean. This clarification tells us that in the licence "You" can apply to corporate entities, and that distribute means to third parties (i.e. people who aren't you - those outside the company).
So you challenge is to find something credible that backup up your statement - that in-house changes should be distributed.
Well, that's debatable.
My initial contract is with, in this case, Amazon. My warranty is with Antec. Amazon's terms and conditions state 90 days, and this was more than 90 days. So, in this case, who I could get redress from was a bit ambigious. The 2003 Consumer Act does allow you a lot of scope in certain specific circumstances, one of which happens to be durability (or rather failure to meet claims of durability). In this case Antec was claiming "ultra-reliable", I bought under this understanding, and the product did not meet the description (as it failed), so Amazon were probably on the hook.
This is all a bit vague in the law so Amazon could have turned round and said "Sorry", and then I would have really only been left with the option of small claims court and there is no way I'd have bothered for fifty quid (and I probably wouldn't have had that good a case anyway as I had other redress in the form of the manufacturer's warranty).
If the product had failed after a reasonable length of time (say two years) then Amazon wouldn't be on the hook any more, and my problem would be with Antec and their useless warranty.
The law is "The Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers Regulations 2003". A rather good guide can be found at http://www.dti.gov.uk/ccp/topics1/guide/saleslong. pdf
When I buy quality brands this is a useful stick to beat the company with. For example I have a Bosch Jigsaw which died (the thing that holds the blade in had failed). I was getting static from them until I pointed out this act, and that they advertise themselves as a durable brand, and it was unreasonable to expect the product to fail in this time. Result: new jigsaw. I got my coffee maker (Dualit) repaired for free after two years for the same reasons (don't know if our US cousins are familiar with Dualit but they make a big, big play about how rugged their appliances are).
I quite like how this act has brought about "truth in advertising" in at least a small section of the market.
Your contract, you'll find, is with the shop you bought it from. But generally customer service departments are wise to the fact that it is better for them to fix it rather than you having to go back to your vendor. The end result is that you'll have a working product, and direct will probably be cheaper for them.
Antec, however, are unusual in that they don't have representation in the UK. But I still think that this will cost them more than the 25GBP they were trying to save by making things awkward for me. Probably on average they find that it saves money in the long run, but it will hurt their reputation (as word gets out that their warranty outside NL in Europe is essentially useless).
I have done lots of RMAs before - both personal and business. The previous one, Netgear, for example, the process went
1) Phone them up
2) They issue the RMA and stick the new part in the post
3) It arrives
4) You use the box to send the broken one back (at my own expense) with the RMA on it.
That, or something close to it, is my expectation. I do not expect to wait a few weeks for an off-the-shelf part. I particularly do not expect to ship to an entirely different country. I wouldn't have minded as much if it was dodgy Joe's Ropey power supplies, but by buying Antec is was expecting (and paying for) "Best-of-Class customer service" where "my satisfaction was their priority".
Let's See:
Netgear: phone call resolution, 2 day turn-around, low postage cost
Antec: 2 days (and lots of e-mail tennis) before I would have been able to get the process started, several week turn around, very large postage cost.
Now, call me Mr Picky, by I don't think they are giving "Best-of-Class customer service".
I did not "actually get very good customer service via Amazon" - I got exactly what I should have got (although one can certainly argue that getting what one should have got is actually very good). Under the relevant law durability is a factor - if the power supply stops working long before it should (which it did) then I am entitled (under the law) to have it fixed or replaced at minimum inconvenience and expense to me (i.e. realistically in this situation they would have to replace it).
Nope - don't go for Antec if you live in the UK. I bought one of their 430W power supplies, and after eight months it died. Fine, I thought, it is under warranty. So went to the web-site and after a bit of mucking about I managed to get an RMA. Or thought I did. I actually had filled in a form to request a form to request an RMA. Pointless bureaucracy gone mad. Still I got the form. Or rather excel spreadsheet. So now I need a) a working computer (erm, guys, the power supply's gone) and a copy of excel (probably an other speadsheet would have done) to tell them who I was, what I'd bought and when I'd bought it. Oh - they also wanted a scanned copy of the receipt sent back to them too. I did have an electronic copy that could have sent them, but it was on the computer that was dead. (They did suggest I could take a digital photo of the invoice and send that instead, but this was getting too Alice-in-Wonderlandish for me.)
But all this was just slightly stupid and annoying. What was very stupid and immensely annoying was that I had to send the power supply to them at my own expense to a different country. The power supply originally cost about 50GBP - to post it to the Netherlands (for that is where their warehouse is) from the UK cheaply (but insured) would cost about 25GBP. And they would not send me a new one until they had the old one back and checked out. I would end up out about half the cost of the power supply, and be without one for possible a couple of weeks. Suddenly, paying a premium price for a quality product did not seem to be such a good idea when faced with a avaricious and slow customer service department based in an entirely different country.
So my advice is avoid Antec if you live in the UK - you effectively pay about half the cost of the power supply if you need warranty repairs/replacement.
The story does have a happy ending - I bought the supply thought Amazon originally, and so phoned them up. After a bit of reminding them of their duty under Sale of Goods act (basically a quality brand should last longer than eight months) they agreed to replace it. They dropped the ball on the first attempt, so I actually ended up with a better spec'ed supply. Still an Antec, so if it dies it hits the bin rather than muck about with any ludicrious postal demands.
So how about "weighs about the same as an apple*, and is about the thickness of your little finger".
* Fruit, not stock certificate.
And I think that you'll find that chemists refer to the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics as "The Rubber Bible" (CRC standing for the Chemical Rubber Company).
Sigh.
Ok - I'm a recruiter for a company who can make the decision about getting you in for an interview for a job (I am actually, but that's beside the point). Your CV lands on my desk. What am I going to use as an objective measure of your quality?
Lets see - would that be certifications? That is all they are - a ticket for an interview. Once you actually get in front of the interviewer then you can impress them with your scientific approach and controlled experimentation.
Other things can stand in leiu - length of experience, making your project work sound compelling - but if you are in a field where there is a standard cert then you'd be a mug not to get it.
One of the things that I was asked when I applied for my current job was "What made you get an MCSE?", to which my answer was "I knew I'd be applying for jobs so I went and got it."
Site is in Russia (hypothetically). Next step?
All they host are thumbnails which can be easily proven to be "fair use" for informative purposes.
Ok then - prove it.
Please, read the article. Then comment.
Perfect 10's product is photographs
Someone rips off their photos and puts them on their website - www.scammingpirates.com.
Google indexes scammingpirates and displays the images in their index.
How is Perfect 10 going to use robots.txt to stop Google indexing scammingpirates? How will Perfect 10 removing the pictures from their website stop google displaying the results from another website?
What course of action can Perfect 10 take to remove their photos from Google's index? It seems like a reasonable request, but it would seem that Google still has the photos despite the owner's objections. It is a shame that it takes a lawsuit, but if Google is being stubborn...
Arrrrhhh! No.
0h 0m 0s = Midnight
12h 0m 0s = Noon.
These is no such time as 12:00:00am (or 12:00:00pm).
See NIST for the gory details.
It's just lucky for them that Malcolm X is dead, isn't it?
No. This is a close of of said guy.
But he has to pay tax on the original price of the share option - about $1 billion.
So his $2 billion would become -$1 billion.
Oh - I dunno - never driven a car in a tunnel under a river?
You can get trained as a rec diver to use 40% 02 MAX, and definitely not for doing deco.
Oh dear - I guess my BSAC advanced nitrox qualification (50% stage mix) was just a dream then. They also do an extended range course that gives 80% stage mix. Others do 100% stage mix (dunno why - risky, little extra benefit, and considerably more expensive) Just because PADI don't do it...
But other than that spot on.
Again, Google is following the simple rule of Don't make it a hassle for your customers to do business with you. Google's advertisements are the best out there that I've seen. They don't try to jump out at you, they don't annoy you with flashing pictures or insipid audio, and a real attempt is made to make the advertisements relevant to the person viewing them.
You appear to be under a misapprehension that you are a customer of google because you view their ads- you're not. You are their product. Their customers are the people that buy the ads.
Actually Outlook 2003 is now 33TB for a PST, and you can obviously have multiple PST files (even in the old versions). So if you organise your mail properly there is no problem having petabytes of mail...
I think that is a staggering amount.
2G is about where Outlook irreparably damages your mailbox,
Care to provide some evidence of this?
How about http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=288283
Quote: "Offline files (.ost) are limited to approximately 2GB in size. The is the same limitation as a personal folders (.pst) file. "
The mains lead.
Well, have a read of this article and see what you think.
Finland in the 70s decided that enough was enough, and bribed the nation back to health. The Glasgow experiment is based on this (on a very small scale). Hopefully it will take off over the entire UK as the dietary situation is grim.
What happened (and what is still happening in some areas) was "a rush to the bottom". School meals were contracted out to whoever could provide them cheapest (subject only the the most rudimentary controls). The net result is that the cost for a child's school meal is less that that of an army dog. And the dog's meal is probably more nutritious.
The population has been forcibly reminded of this recently (courtesy largely of Mr Jamie Oliver, whom I didn't like, but kudos for this) and has almost been embarrassed into taking action. Well, embarrassed into talking about taking action at the moment - we shall see.
Ah - but they are (if it is the same scheme as my friend worked on several years ago). Your card gets charged up with points which allow you free entry into sports centres etc if you kept a weekly balance above a certain amount (I think it was something like two healthy meals in the last week). This gave a good element of peer pressure because if a group of kids went to play five-a-side football (basically indoor soccer for our transatlantic cousins) on only one of them had to pay then the next week if that one was you you'd make sure that you had your two health meals.
Basically they have made it cool to eat healthy food - great psychology..