Hey, if Best Buy sells you hardware that's broken, just take it back to the store, and get it exchanged or refunded. Easy, isn't it? And if they won't stand up for their products, well, then you know where you won't be shopping the next time around.
Of course the opinion of a French court does not apply to Yahoo, US. But we knew that all along. However, the opinion of the French court applies very well to Yahoo, France , and if the court says "you cannot sell nazi memorabilia", or "you cannot be affiliated to a company selling nazi memorabilia", they better respect that opinion if they want to continue doing business in France. And unfortunately, Yahoo, France is not bound by the US federal ruling which claimed Yahoo! was not bound by the French ruling that demanded that all nazi memorabilia be removed from its auction site...
I didn't see the lowercase w. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft's marketing picked up on this and used it.
The comment you replied to has a lowercase w. Alan's diary has an uppercase w. And that's correct. Indeed, English spelling rules dictate that the first word of a sentence should be capitalized...
1) The talk of serious problems if you cannot produce your card on demand. (Remember, this is the country of "guilty until proven innocent". cf RIP act et al for examples)
Isn't that more a problem of the "guilty until proven innocent" mindset, rather than with the cards?
2) The amount of data they are looking to put on the "smart chip" on the card. I got no objection to having a card with my photo, name and some sort of ID number on it. But why on earth do they need to store my DOB, Home address, Mothers maiden name, Blood type etc. etc.?
Actually, in most other European countries, there is indeed a movement to put less and less info on the card. Nowadays, it's basically just photo, name and home town. Not even the exact street address is put on it.
Medical information goes onto a separate card (which may, or may not have a photo), and whose posession is not mandatory. The rationale for
carrying a card with medical info with you is that if you were caught in an accident, and delivered to hospital conciousless, the medical personnel could find critical information (such as blood type) quickly, without needing to redo lenghty analysis.
What if someone steals it?
Most thieves try to get rid of this type of items as quickly as possible anyways, they're only interested in cash. Just look in the garbage cans or appartment building corridors near the place where you have been robbed. Chances are that your wallet is still nearby (minus the cash, obviously, but still containing most other items)...
the contradictions really make me laugh, oh the hypocrisy.
Yeah, the British are the only country in Europe where people don't carry ID cards, because of privacy concerns. Ironically, it is also the country with the most cameras...
...but in the meantime, your mugshot has been captured by zillions of cameras... Y'a know, that's Britain after all, the land of Her Majesty's Subjects.
The transmeta thing is hairier; they have a damn fine product, but...
Actually, the main reason why we love Transmeta is not because of their kewl processors... (which aren't actually that kewl, as you pointed out...). No, the main reason is because our God works there;-)
And what about the concrete steps leading to it? Why, oh why do they have to spoil those ancient designs by adding modern materials to it? Couldn't they just have made those steps out of wood too?
Anybody else spot the pir8 near the mac-o-lantern?
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Load the image into the gimp, and turn brightness+contrast all the way up...
>because the more meteorites to hit the earth, the less there are out there to hit it,
Even if you flip heads 10 times in a row, you still have a 50-50 chance on the 11th flip (which you would see, statistically, if you looked at a thousand situations where there were 10 flips of all heads, about 50% of the 11th would be heads, 50% tails.)
True enough, but if you draw an ace out of a deck of cards 4 times in a row, you'd have exactly 0 chance of drawing another ace at the fifth time. Not all gambler's reasonings are fallacious.
However, realistically speaking, we are playing with a very large deck here. Thus, although the probability does slightly decrease after a hit, there are still so many meteorites left out there that this decrease can be considered zero for all practical purposes.
Still different. Liquid is not the same thing as gazeous. Water has a well defined surface, so you can indeed speak about impact (...and feel it while bellyflopping). The atmosphere on the other hand has not real limit: it gradually gets thinner the higher you get. A meteor falling towards the earth would just experience an atmosphere becoming gradually denser, and only suffer an impact when it hits soil or water.
As has been pointed out in other comments, what really happens is that while travelling through the atmosphere, it heats up due to friction, which may evaporate its liquid core, leading to a buildup of pressure, and eventually an explosion.
My concern is whether there is actually a demand for supersonic flight, or whether the current conventional airliners represent the 'good enough' level of technology which means there is no incentive to replace them.
In the olden days, you could still duck for cover under your desk when you heard a jet approaching. With those newfangled scramjets, they'll be in your office before you hear them...
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The settlement was under a strict non- disclosure agreement, so few even know DR sued, never mind that they won.
So how do you (or the author of the book) know about it, if the suit and settlement were such a well-kept secret? Sure you aren't making this up on the fly?
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If I go and take pictures you tell me to, where and when etc. directed by you with your camera and your film,they are still MY pictures.
This is ridiculous. You mean, you if you go on holidays, you want to have a photo of all of you, and you ask a random stranger to take a group photo of all of you standing in front of some monument ("just press the big button..."), somehow this random stranger now has all rights to the picture? This is ridiculous!
Wedding photos, I can understand: the wedding photographer usually brings his own equipment, and adds creative work (by chosing when and how to shoot pictures), but generalizing this to any situation is somewhat absurd.
In conclusion, the best way to contact your congressperson now seems to be standing on the tallest building near them and yelling. Just don't get too close to them.
Yeah, but who in their right mind would dare to stand on top of a tall building these days? What with all those low-flying planes around?
In fact, i'm kinda counting on it because of Slashdot's stupid URL chopper. If I make it a link, it translates the %'s into clear text and if I write the URL out it gets cut at the fourth letter. What's a trickster to do?
What would that be? Sending out e-mails with attachments that are not actually viruses, but are merely meant to make the recipient think that they are viruses? (in analogy to the talcum and flour shens, which are usually prosecuted under the label "disturbing the peace")
We can't bomb the RIAA et al so we'll have to resort to other methods of getting attention to have the DMCA reviewed.
We sure can't bomb them, but we can try to influence them by a letter writing campaign. Keep the letters polite, but firm and to the point. And generously sprinkle them with flour before sending.
Yeah, that same reasoning is killing the Axel Boldt's Linux Giveaway List. After noticing that it costs as much to send a used SuSE to Indonesia than the same SuSE cost when it was new, I now throw my old distros into the trash, and give the saved postage money to charity. Even if it pains to throw good Linux distros where Windows belongs...
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Hey, if Best Buy sells you hardware that's broken, just take it back to the store, and get it exchanged or refunded. Easy, isn't it? And if they won't stand up for their products, well, then you know where you won't be shopping the next time around.
Careful here... Apple might sue you over this blatant infringment on their trademarked Aqua vocabulary.
I mean, if you have that much cash... Well fortunately, they wouldn't make it through the airport metal detectors.
They'd provide the money.
Of course the opinion of a French court does not apply to Yahoo, US. But we knew that all along. However, the opinion of the French court applies very well to Yahoo, France , and if the court says "you cannot sell nazi memorabilia", or "you cannot be affiliated to a company selling nazi memorabilia", they better respect that opinion if they want to continue doing business in France. And unfortunately, Yahoo, France is not bound by the US federal ruling which claimed Yahoo! was not bound by the French ruling that demanded that all nazi memorabilia be removed from its auction site...
Didn't the SuSE cease its US operations a while back, due to the economic slowdown?
The comment you replied to has a lowercase w. Alan's diary has an uppercase w. And that's correct. Indeed, English spelling rules dictate that the first word of a sentence should be capitalized...
Isn't that more a problem of the "guilty until proven innocent" mindset, rather than with the cards?
2) The amount of data they are looking to put on the "smart chip" on the card. I got no objection to having a card with my photo, name and some sort of ID number on it. But why on earth do they need to store my DOB, Home address, Mothers maiden name, Blood type etc. etc.?
Actually, in most other European countries, there is indeed a movement to put less and less info on the card. Nowadays, it's basically just photo, name and home town. Not even the exact street address is put on it.
Medical information goes onto a separate card (which may, or may not have a photo), and whose posession is not mandatory. The rationale for carrying a card with medical info with you is that if you were caught in an accident, and delivered to hospital conciousless, the medical personnel could find critical information (such as blood type) quickly, without needing to redo lenghty analysis.
What if someone steals it?
Most thieves try to get rid of this type of items as quickly as possible anyways, they're only interested in cash. Just look in the garbage cans or appartment building corridors near the place where you have been robbed. Chances are that your wallet is still nearby (minus the cash, obviously, but still containing most other items)...
Yeah, the British are the only country in Europe where people don't carry ID cards, because of privacy concerns. Ironically, it is also the country with the most cameras...
...but in the meantime, your mugshot has been captured by zillions of cameras... Y'a know, that's Britain after all, the land of Her Majesty's Subjects.
Actually, the main reason why we love Transmeta is not because of their kewl processors... (which aren't actually that kewl, as you pointed out...). No, the main reason is because our God works there ;-)
And what about the concrete steps leading to it? Why, oh why do they have to spoil those ancient designs by adding modern materials to it? Couldn't they just have made those steps out of wood too?
Load the image into the gimp, and turn brightness+contrast all the way up...
Even if you flip heads 10 times in a row, you still have a 50-50 chance on the 11th flip (which you would see, statistically, if you looked at a thousand situations where there were 10 flips of all heads, about 50% of the 11th would be heads, 50% tails.)
True enough, but if you draw an ace out of a deck of cards 4 times in a row, you'd have exactly 0 chance of drawing another ace at the fifth time. Not all gambler's reasonings are fallacious.
However, realistically speaking, we are playing with a very large deck here. Thus, although the probability does slightly decrease after a hit, there are still so many meteorites left out there that this decrease can be considered zero for all practical purposes.
Still different. Liquid is not the same thing as gazeous. Water has a well defined surface, so you can indeed speak about impact (...and feel it while bellyflopping). The atmosphere on the other hand has not real limit: it gradually gets thinner the higher you get. A meteor falling towards the earth would just experience an atmosphere becoming gradually denser, and only suffer an impact when it hits soil or water.
As has been pointed out in other comments, what really happens is that while travelling through the atmosphere, it heats up due to friction, which may evaporate its liquid core, leading to a buildup of pressure, and eventually an explosion.
In the olden days, you could still duck for cover under your desk when you heard a jet approaching. With those newfangled scramjets, they'll be in your office before you hear them...
So how do you (or the author of the book) know about it, if the suit and settlement were such a well-kept secret? Sure you aren't making this up on the fly?
This is ridiculous. You mean, you if you go on holidays, you want to have a photo of all of you, and you ask a random stranger to take a group photo of all of you standing in front of some monument ("just press the big button..."), somehow this random stranger now has all rights to the picture? This is ridiculous!
Wedding photos, I can understand: the wedding photographer usually brings his own equipment, and adds creative work (by chosing when and how to shoot pictures), but generalizing this to any situation is somewhat absurd.
Careful with that if you work in a bakery...or you might get arrested for creating a false security threat!
Yeah, but who in their right mind would dare to stand on top of a tall building these days? What with all those low-flying planes around?
Hitler was elected democratically...
Just use + to represent a space.
What would that be? Sending out e-mails with attachments that are not actually viruses, but are merely meant to make the recipient think that they are viruses? (in analogy to the talcum and flour shens, which are usually prosecuted under the label "disturbing the peace")
We sure can't bomb them, but we can try to influence them by a letter writing campaign. Keep the letters polite, but firm and to the point. And generously sprinkle them with flour before sending.
Yeah, that same reasoning is killing the Axel Boldt's Linux Giveaway List. After noticing that it costs as much to send a used SuSE to Indonesia than the same SuSE cost when it was new, I now throw my old distros into the trash, and give the saved postage money to charity. Even if it pains to throw good Linux distros where Windows belongs...