Not to mention MS Office will run on a Mac. So MS Office doesn't tie the user into Windows exclusively (but you are partially right, in that it is a barrier to the average user switching to Linux).
There's a difference between being able to find prior art for something, and being able to afford to go to court to defend yourself against a patent infringement lawsuit. Sadly, the gulf between the two positions is pretty wide. Maybe there should be an appeal process for patent awards? If you can show that a patent affects you in some way, and shouldn't have been granted for some reason (eg prior art), you could appeal against the patent award and attempt to get it rescinded in a quicker and cheaper process than a full-on court case?
...is that no-one, including the people who make the decision about phones on planes, wants to spend their next long-haul flight next to someone yakking on their phone for the entire time.
As someone who regularly flies across the Atlantic, I thank them.
Potentially, and I hope someone can fill in the details, there could be a difference in the licensing for the hardware players. MP3 is patent encumbered (see the recent $1.6 billion judgement in the patent fight between Alcatel-Lucent and MS, for example); presumably, so is AAC. Maybe the AAC patent holders will licence the patent for less than MP3? Maybe the patent situation is clearer for AAC (Fraunhofer also has a claim on MP3, I believe)?
I'm going to disagree with that. I hadn't watched the series when I went to the cinema to see the film, and I thoroughly enjoyed the film. Hence why I bought the DVDs of the series on the way home. The series is good, the film is good, I don't think it really matters which you watch first. The only things in the film that, I think, rely on the series are the characters of Book and Inara; although they're relatively minor characters in the film. Far more important, I think, is that the film has, in Chiwetel Ejiofor, a genuinely sinister "bad guy".
If you ever actually need a lawyer, I sincerely hope you look somewhere other than wikipedia.
If not, I have a business opportunity in Nigeria you might be interested in...
Where you running an anti-virus programme? I've had similar issues with just this operation with XP and Win 2K (Not used a Vista machine yet) if McAfee's on-access scan capability was enabled. Might be worth checking?
I'd agree with you about the menu bar, except for one circumstance. When working on my laptop with a small screen (12", I think?), having one menu bar at the top of the screen for all of the applications saves valuable screen real estate. Which is why I have KDE set up that way on the laptop, but the one menu bar per application setting on my desktop.
Apps in the menus fails horribly when you have too many apps. I find in KDE or gnome that, 9 times out of 10, I start apps from the command line 'cos it's easier than digging through the menu to find them.
And macs do have a right click. Have had since before I started using one. True the default mouse used to be one button (I think the mighty mouse is now default?), but that's easy to replace. I'm not sure if the Apple laptops are multi- or single-mouse button?
Last time I checked, shooting somebody with a gun was already illegal.
Not in all circumstances. Plenty of people are injured or killed by accidents (both through accidental discharge and through confusion) involving firearms. New York police seem to shoot someone by accident every couple of years, for example. In Britain, returning to the subject of the article, police officers do not routinely carry guns. And there are no political parties in the UK advocating arming the public (hence why the police are rarely armed).
The only people who get hurt while around guns are using them in an illegal and unsafe manner
While I desire to only read posts with basic grammar intact, such as capital letters at the start of sentences. Sadly, we're both going to be disappointed.
I think most liberals (and most non-liberals) want the liberty of not being shot? Personally, I value that liberty more highly than the liberty to carry a gun.
Instead of voting in representatives, why not just have an online referendum for every law change etc?
A really, really bad idea. It's called mob rule, or the tyranny of the majority. Unpopular, difficult decisions are (occasionally) made by governments. For example, in the US, the civil rights reform in the 60s.
Plus government funding would end up solely going to the most populous areas. Government services, on the other hand, generally cost more in rural, rather than urban, areas (for example, rubbish collection is cheaper in a city, where the truck has to go less distance between pick ups, than in remote locations).
Of course, the status quo is hardly nirvana either...
It was also available on shiny disc. The old (2006) rules in the UK were that download sales only counted when the CD was available or in the week prior to the CD release. Hence, Crazy hit number 1 in the week before the CD came out, and became the first song to reach number 1 in the UK on downloads alone, but for the other 8 weeks, the CD was available.
This week is the first week of the new rules here, where downloads count irrespective of the availability of the CD. See here for more.
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Hmm, but you don't expect your DVD player to play your VHS videocassettes?
Backwards compatibility is fine where practical, but sometimes the past needs to be buried. Who would buy a computer now with a punch card reader? Or a 5.25" floppy drive?
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Never found it in my visits to the country!
Yeah, 'cos the mob have never been involved in boxing...
Not to mention MS Office will run on a Mac. So MS Office doesn't tie the user into Windows exclusively (but you are partially right, in that it is a barrier to the average user switching to Linux).
There's a difference between being able to find prior art for something, and being able to afford to go to court to defend yourself against a patent infringement lawsuit. Sadly, the gulf between the two positions is pretty wide. Maybe there should be an appeal process for patent awards? If you can show that a patent affects you in some way, and shouldn't have been granted for some reason (eg prior art), you could appeal against the patent award and attempt to get it rescinded in a quicker and cheaper process than a full-on court case?
As someone who regularly flies across the Atlantic, I thank them.
Potentially, and I hope someone can fill in the details, there could be a difference in the licensing for the hardware players. MP3 is patent encumbered (see the recent $1.6 billion judgement in the patent fight between Alcatel-Lucent and MS, for example); presumably, so is AAC. Maybe the AAC patent holders will licence the patent for less than MP3? Maybe the patent situation is clearer for AAC (Fraunhofer also has a claim on MP3, I believe)?
I'm going to disagree with that. I hadn't watched the series when I went to the cinema to see the film, and I thoroughly enjoyed the film. Hence why I bought the DVDs of the series on the way home. The series is good, the film is good, I don't think it really matters which you watch first. The only things in the film that, I think, rely on the series are the characters of Book and Inara; although they're relatively minor characters in the film. Far more important, I think, is that the film has, in Chiwetel Ejiofor, a genuinely sinister "bad guy".
Where? /.; intelligent comments should be taken outside and shot!
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You are assuming that no-one can make more than one intelligent comment?
If you ever actually need a lawyer, I sincerely hope you look somewhere other than wikipedia.
If not, I have a business opportunity in Nigeria you might be interested in...
Where you running an anti-virus programme? I've had similar issues with just this operation with XP and Win 2K (Not used a Vista machine yet) if McAfee's on-access scan capability was enabled. Might be worth checking?
Apps in the menus fails horribly when you have too many apps. I find in KDE or gnome that, 9 times out of 10, I start apps from the command line 'cos it's easier than digging through the menu to find them.
And macs do have a right click. Have had since before I started using one. True the default mouse used to be one button (I think the mighty mouse is now default?), but that's easy to replace. I'm not sure if the Apple laptops are multi- or single-mouse button?
Still no honourary degree offer yet Steve? Bill.
Not in all circumstances. Plenty of people are injured or killed by accidents (both through accidental discharge and through confusion) involving firearms. New York police seem to shoot someone by accident every couple of years, for example. In Britain, returning to the subject of the article, police officers do not routinely carry guns. And there are no political parties in the UK advocating arming the public (hence why the police are rarely armed).
The only people who get hurt while around guns are using them in an illegal and unsafe mannerSuch as Amadou Diallo?
While I desire to only read posts with basic grammar intact, such as capital letters at the start of sentences. Sadly, we're both going to be disappointed.
I think most liberals (and most non-liberals) want the liberty of not being shot? Personally, I value that liberty more highly than the liberty to carry a gun.
Clearly only one winner there, though. Firefly...
You've driven in New Jersey, then?
A really, really bad idea. It's called mob rule, or the tyranny of the majority. Unpopular, difficult decisions are (occasionally) made by governments. For example, in the US, the civil rights reform in the 60s.
Plus government funding would end up solely going to the most populous areas. Government services, on the other hand, generally cost more in rural, rather than urban, areas (for example, rubbish collection is cheaper in a city, where the truck has to go less distance between pick ups, than in remote locations).
Of course, the status quo is hardly nirvana either...
This week is the first week of the new rules here, where downloads count irrespective of the availability of the CD. See here for more.
Equally, what the heck is 'outlook'?
Surely more convenient for everyone to fax it to them...
...or you could just go to the BBC's Newsnight site here, and see the BBC's flagship news programme online (real player format)?
Surely that should be 42 times?
Hmm, but you don't expect your DVD player to play your VHS videocassettes?
Backwards compatibility is fine where practical, but sometimes the past needs to be buried. Who would buy a computer now with a punch card reader? Or a 5.25" floppy drive?