yes a waiter can do that. However your wrong about the database, it is an offence for a retailer to record the 3 digit security code (if they did there would be no point in doing it). After the first transation (if they record the number) they put it through without the 3 digit code and hope because your vaild the first time, future transations will be ok. The CC company will not re-imburse card holder not present transations where the 3 digit number is not used.
I think you thinking of the power transmission equation that says, the best power transfer for DC is "50%" and this is when internal and external resistances are the same. This however assumes its a "normal" resistance, switched mode power supplies (for example) break these rules. When charging however the battery is receiving the power, so any heat generation would be an inefficany in the chemical reaction. Only when discharging would this 50% power supply rule possably apply, hopefully the discharge would not be done in 30 seconds! Interesting though looking at my laptop battery which is 12V 1800mAh W=VA 21.6 Watts per hour assuming so a 30 second charge would require a 2.5 KW supply.... an if it was 80 times as good a 200KW supply.. Assuming 100% efficency!
I wonder what the polerisation and memory effects will be though. Most rechargable devices are pretty good (have acceptabl life times) when new, 6 months in the battery usage level has falled to almost unacceptable levels. As an example Sony only waranties batteries for 1 month! If they offer 80 times more storage but die off to 1 times storage in 6 months, this would infact be worse, because devices would be made to "use" the extra power.
Funny you should say that, in the UK publishers of books are required to send the British Library a copy of the book (on acid free paper) without charge as part of the copyright entitlement process.
The US offical said we are just closing a loop hole for visa wava countries. "At the moment, someone can just fly to a wava country and get a passport and get straight into the US without checking.". Just get a passport? Strangly enough they are pretty hard to get here, you don't get one at the airport with a Big Mac. You either trust countries or you don't if you don't trust our systems here in the EU (fair enough). Require visas for those countries.
James PS I think gloves will be an important travel accessory in the future!
And the real PLUS is, dataprotection is normally for citizans, so they can do what every they like with the data. Personally i think the EU and the US would love to catalogue all of us. Perhaps its time for gloves to become a "cool" look.
Just because a project is old it does not mean the source code for it has to be old. Personally I wrote a program 8 years ago for a company, and they keep comming back to me to get changes done. Of course it does have very extensive documentation (but not a full image dump of my mind), as soon as code become duplicated it gets made generic (c++ is good for this) and the whole system has have 3 rewrites (every time better than the orginal, and gives me the chance to cut the legacy crud from the code that is no longer used.
If Microsoft did that the EU could pass a law to say its ok to copy microsoft software. Removing yourself from a market in general is bad cos it allows competitors to get a foothold. After all its better that people use your software (even if copied) than buy a competitors product.
Easy if you have a cable modem, some of those patches are huge, service packs require 5+ hours to download on a modem.
James
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My objection to them is the miscasification of the item, its clearly not an "electronic goods" but rather information. Note Ebay also does not allow sale of non physical things, like I-tunes tracks.
I was resently on, ebay for a laugh I put in "microsoft project", one guy was claiming is was ok for him to give you a cdr and feed on his "corporate licence" cos the Eula allow it;-) Others were selling the Education licence version that retails for 50 Pounds Uk for starting at 300+ yes they were clearly labled in the descriptions, which were obviously trying to trick the buyer, its up to you I guess if you think this is a scam (but not fraud), not all scams are illegal, they just trick the buyer.
Personally I think we can ONLY win the spam war though legal action. I believe in following the money, every spam has something to identify someone selling something (they may not be the spammer, but they know who the spammer is!). The first target is the people who are buying the spammers time, they are then bound over to stop spam and testify against who was spamming on there behalf. If no one wants by time from spammers, they will have no reason to spam. The spammers make their money from dumb people who THINK they can make a buck by selling penis enlargement etc. There is no reason to believe they can, spammers just have to make sure they have a long line of losers wanting to buy bulk emailing.
Well I did a linux build from source code in 1996 my current system its still just an update of that original! Infact using tar it has spread to new hard disks, handled new motherboard and processors without ever having to go back to a cd, install infact its spread from one system orginally (my laptop at the time) to 5, an no time did I have to say, well I am going blank this computer and reinstall everything from media again and most of my machines runs 24x7 and only reboot for new kernels.
I payed 350 pounds (thats 525 dollars) for 16 Meg of memory for my 486, and I spent another 300 quid on another 16Meg! So I think memory is really cheap these days.
Is for their code to be used. If its in some app that people pay for and then gets shelved, your code is now effectly dead. If its open source and you lose interest in it, someone can take your good bits so your code can live on in other peoples programs. Its possible for payware to continue, I improve and support a program I wrote for a company 10 years ago which is great, however its their program not mine, and if the business changes they may not need it anymore, which will kill my "lifes work" over night. Anything I do opensource wise however cannot be killed except by my own hand. So its not is my code worth money, do you want less control and some money, or complete control and no money...!
I still use vtwm due to its speed, small size, and the lack of wanting to steal large ammounts of desktop space. I believe its short for Virtual TAB window manager. Tom was in tvtwm.
Well before X2 there was Xbtf (X Beyond the Fronteer) that was the first game where you got to own factories as well as the trading ship you upgrade and fly arround in. Xt (X tension) with the 2.1 patch, you could own your own captal but it was only a transporter type with no guns, before that it was Xbft with ship swapping. X2 however you can own and fly the compete navy. You can also write your own scripts for controlling them! Egosoft have a history of patching far beyond their release date. You get that polishing you were looking for.....
The officer was asked why, "Investigating an Investigation" is not probably cause. I am investigating a domestic violence report and you and the female in the car fit the description does.
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So what about recording script kiddies on honeypot machines. Is that also not allow? Damn lawers destroy everything fun.
James
I think the police oftain have to ask for "permission". Such as asking the person for a cup for used cigarettes.
James
That will be the Earth after its been strip mined and destroyed by everyone else. Personally I want first cuts on the new planet!
James
Well in these hard times we have all had to cutback. Perhaps the execs should find themselves a cheaper drug habit!
James
But when is the revolution going to happen, I want it now!
James
yes a waiter can do that. However your wrong about the database, it is an offence for a retailer to record the 3 digit security code (if they did there would be no point in doing it). After the first transation (if they record the number) they put it through without the 3 digit code and hope because your vaild the first time, future transations will be ok. The CC company will not re-imburse card holder not present transations where the 3 digit number is not used.
James
By the time microsoft has appealled to the courts in europe it will be time for blackcomb!
James
I think you thinking of the power transmission equation that says, the best power transfer for DC is "50%" and this is when internal and external resistances are the same. This however assumes its a "normal" resistance, switched mode power supplies (for example) break these rules. When charging however the battery is receiving the power, so any heat generation would be an inefficany in the chemical reaction. Only when discharging would this 50% power supply rule possably apply, hopefully the discharge would not be done in 30 seconds! Interesting though looking at my laptop battery which is 12V 1800mAh W=VA 21.6 Watts per hour assuming so a 30 second charge would require a 2.5 KW supply.... an if it was 80 times as good a 200KW supply.. Assuming 100% efficency!
James
I wonder what the polerisation and memory effects will be though. Most rechargable devices are pretty good (have acceptabl life times) when new, 6 months in the battery usage level has falled to almost unacceptable levels. As an example Sony only waranties batteries for 1 month! If they offer 80 times more storage but die off to 1 times storage in 6 months, this would infact be worse, because devices would be made to "use" the extra power.
James
Funny you should say that, in the UK publishers of books are required to send the British Library a copy of the book (on acid free paper) without charge as part of the copyright entitlement process.
James
The US offical said we are just closing a loop hole for visa wava countries. "At the moment, someone can just fly to a wava country and get a passport and get straight into the US without checking.". Just get a passport? Strangly enough they are pretty hard to get here, you don't get one at the airport with a Big Mac. You either trust countries or you don't if you don't trust our systems here in the EU (fair enough). Require visas for those countries.
James
PS I think gloves will be an important travel accessory in the future!
And the real PLUS is, dataprotection is normally for citizans, so they can do what every they like with the data. Personally i think the EU and the US would love to catalogue all of us. Perhaps its time for gloves to become a "cool" look.
James
Just because a project is old it does not mean the source code for it has to be old. Personally I wrote a program 8 years ago for a company, and they keep comming back to me to get changes done. Of course it does have very extensive documentation (but not a full image dump of my mind), as soon as code become duplicated it gets made generic (c++ is good for this) and the whole system has have 3 rewrites (every time better than the orginal, and gives me the chance to cut the legacy crud from the code that is no longer used.
James
If Microsoft did that the EU could pass a law to say its ok to copy microsoft software. Removing yourself from a market in general is bad cos it allows competitors to get a foothold. After all its better that people use your software (even if copied) than buy a competitors product.
James
Easy if you have a cable modem, some of those patches are huge, service packs require 5+ hours to download on a modem.
James
My objection to them is the miscasification of the item, its clearly not an "electronic goods" but rather information. Note Ebay also does not allow sale of non physical things, like I-tunes tracks.
;-) Others were selling the Education licence version that retails for 50 Pounds Uk for starting at 300+ yes they were clearly labled in the descriptions, which were obviously trying to trick the buyer, its up to you I guess if you think this is a scam (but not fraud), not all scams are illegal, they just trick the buyer.
I was resently on, ebay for a laugh I put in "microsoft project", one guy was claiming is was ok for him to give you a cdr and feed on his "corporate licence" cos the Eula allow it
James
Personally I think we can ONLY win the spam war though legal action. I believe in following the money, every spam has something to identify someone selling something (they may not be the spammer, but they know who the spammer is!). The first target is the people who are buying the spammers time, they are then bound over to stop spam and testify against who was spamming on there behalf. If no one wants by time from spammers, they will have no reason to spam. The spammers make their money from dumb people who THINK they can make a buck by selling penis enlargement etc. There is no reason to believe they can, spammers just have to make sure they have a long line of losers wanting to buy bulk emailing.
James
Well I did a linux build from source code in 1996 my current system its still just an update of that original! Infact using tar it has spread to new hard disks, handled new motherboard and processors without ever having to go back to a cd, install infact its spread from one system orginally (my laptop at the time) to 5, an no time did I have to say, well I am going blank this computer and reinstall everything from media again and most of my machines runs 24x7 and only reboot for new kernels.
James
I will stick with my 1.5 pound sony viao picturebook! So light you don't even notice its in your bag.
James
I payed 350 pounds (thats 525 dollars) for 16 Meg of memory for my 486, and I spent another 300 quid on another 16Meg! So I think memory is really cheap these days.
James
Is for their code to be used. If its in some app that people pay for and then gets shelved, your code is now effectly dead. If its open source and you lose interest in it, someone can take your good bits so your code can live on in other peoples programs. Its possible for payware to continue, I improve and support a program I wrote for a company 10 years ago which is great, however its their program not mine, and if the business changes they may not need it anymore, which will kill my "lifes work" over night. Anything I do opensource wise however cannot be killed except by my own hand. So its not is my code worth money, do you want less control and some money, or complete control and no money...!
James
I still use vtwm due to its speed, small size, and the lack of wanting to steal large ammounts of desktop space. I believe its short for Virtual TAB window manager. Tom was in tvtwm.
James
Well before X2 there was Xbtf (X Beyond the Fronteer) that was the first game where you got to own factories as well as the trading ship you upgrade and fly arround in. Xt (X tension) with the 2.1 patch, you could own your own captal but it was only a transporter type with no guns, before that it was Xbft with ship swapping. X2 however you can own and fly the compete navy. You can also write your own scripts for controlling them! Egosoft have a history of patching far beyond their release date. You get that polishing you were looking for.....
James
Another X2 owner.
The officer was asked why, "Investigating an Investigation" is not probably cause. I am investigating a domestic violence report and you and the female in the car fit the description does.
James
When I saw the your subject title I thought you were going to suggest getting the red wine rather than the wine!
James