But, they make toilets in japan that play the sound of running water, in the vain hope that it will stop japanese women from continually flushing the toilet while they urinate becasue they think the sound of them urinating sdhouldn't be heard by others.... even if it means htat they have to waste many many gallons of water.
Never saw the text before, and it was still quite legible. This was my first time reading those words, and I did have to do a google search to figure out why people were saying it was a familiar text.
It's quite legible on this laptop (15" screen, 1920x1200 native resolution) not familiar with the text, but I read the entire thing through with no real hassle.
What is your first-langage, and what portion can't you read?
Currenty Symbol Rupee Sign: U+20A8 It's already encoded, all people have to do is change the symbol on the character from looking like "Rs" to look like the new symbol.
You do realise, that you could have already registered domains with IDN names for years. All this new update is extending it to the.com portion. So, countries without latin scripts don't have to settle for.cn, or.jp.
UTF-8 at the very least is ASCII-safe. if bit 8 is set, then it is part of a multi-byte character (all bytes of a multibyte character have bit-8 set). But if bit 8 is not set, then it's a plain ascii character, no matter it's position. It was this self-correcting portion of UTF-8 that maraks whether you are on a initial byte, or single byte that makes it good for syncronising in stream.
Encodings like S-JIS where the lead byte changes the meaning of all bytes ahead of it, does have the issue you mentioned. But, that's the reason everyone switched to UTF-8.
Buy a cheap wacom tablet, and use Microsoft's Math Panel Input Editor on Windows 7. Amazing recognition of handritten scrawl to MathML equations with preview and quick-fix for any element.
No, the serial number on the dreamcast, as well as the serial number on the WII are encoded in a scannable bar-code for cashiers to record the serial number of the unit (barcode and text are printed on both the box, and the unit for most consoles)
And then you have the US: $0.18/Gal + State (Avg 0.28) = $0.46 The US is severely lagging behind in taxing the gasoline to fund transportation projects. They won't bring it up to European Levels of $4/Gal in taxes. But Canadian levels of increasing the gas tax 250% certainly is doable, and will help to fund transit, rail, roads.
They need to use the Library argument of putting a photocopier in a library. Just because the means to commit copyright infringement is in place, doesn't mean that it is happenning.
As one of the contract negotiators for a software development house, there is a big difference between permanent exclusive, and transfer.
A permanent exclusive license states that you have the right to use the code indefinitely. And (in our contracts anyhow) state that you also have the right to modify, and reuse the code in other internal projects. This is the cheaper option for the client, as it means the development house can also do the same -- create derivatives, alter and reuse the components in other projects to other clients -- we just cannot resell the software as a whole to someone else.
On the other hand, transferring the copyright means that the client now owns the code. Period. We are unable to reuse the code, nor create derivatives. This costs the client a hell of a lot more, as any R&D, and modules can not be used in future projects for the development house to improve efficiency in future projects.
In the end, the poster really should have a lawyer, or just have an experienced (meaning burned) persons look over the contract, and ask the questions that need to be asked before anything is signed.
Because god forbid you get an XBOX360 or PS3 where just idling in the console uses 160-170W. As opposed to the Wii's 13W
And if you don't want to spend that money, turn off your computer and monitor overnight, and while you're at work. That'll save more money than the WiiConnect24 after only 400 hrs (assuming 200W consumpton, which isn't that much) for an hour and save the 200Wh.
Or, wouldn't it be better for them to follow Canada and Europe and just ditch the valuable metals and start using steel cored coins? It also has the benefit of making the coins lighter. And it's a lot cheaper to do than to make them entirely out of a valuable metal.
Canadian Penny Composition: 94% steel 1.5% nickel 4.5% copper plating
Well, google has been used for hundreds of years. Google is listed in the OED as a n. one who goggles, a goggling look; the white of the eyes (slang);... and first sited 1616
adj: of the eye used since the 1500s 1540 T. RAYNALDE Byrth Mankynde II. 78b, Yf the chylde haue google eyes [L. strabos oculos]. 1544 T. PHAER Regim. Lyfe (1546) Ccijb, Of gogle eyes.
verb: since the 1300s c1380 WYCLIF Wks. (1880) 341 Pharesees alargen her browes & gogelen fer fro goddis lawe.
So, with trademark law as it is, I would surely say that the word "google" has been part of the English language for at least 600 years, and that must surely predate the invention of the word "googol"
You do need a US Transfer VISA, and yes, they will ask for ID, Passports, VISAs, and fingerprinting for connecting flights from an international location to an international location (canada/korea via LAX)
Well, the difference is the laws in place. This ruling is specifically for copyright infringement claims under current Canadian copyright law. In addition, the text of the Copyright Act limits the freedom of creating personal copies solely to sound recordings of or containing musical works, or performances of musical works, from one medium to another for personal use.
As software is a not a sound recording, it does not fall under the private copying section (and the levy collected on all mediums capable of holding sound recordings does not go out to non-music companies)
They probably use Outlook Express as well, send them a text email with the tag to start it off, OE will autodetect html and begin processing and crash their program. Or send a dangerous MIDI through the dangerous, IE bgmusic tag, or embed. ooh.
It is hard to believe that both Trailer Part Boys, and The Osbornes (both air around 10pm various days) are censored in the US and not in Canada. But Canada and the US use drasticaly different models for operation.
Several points of interest is the Canadian legal system. It is not in any means like that of the US. Canadian laws are divided into the morphing commonlaws of the provinces, and the more or less static federal chartered rights. It is up to the judge at hand to decide whether to honour a commonlaw or not, or to decide the case entirely on chartered rights (like freedom of speech) if they are wary of contradictory laws in place depending on province [canadian laws are pseudo-laws, and often come and go, or are ignored by courts]. Because of this any prior judge ruling at any court level is an isolated case which ideally is not to be taken into account in the proceding of any other case. The American mindset that a court ruling will set precidence for use in future cases just doesn't apply as it does in American courts.
If the fact that the website has not set up its own access rights to block the US based on the IP numbers assigned to the US (easily done to provide region control), and then under traditional Canadian legal practice, that will be considered an international case where only proper International Law will be considered, and Canadian Law at the discretion of the court.
Another big blow for the Canadian legal system is that there are no high payouts. The most you can usually get are the associated fines for the charge at hand, and even then, courts often limit that. [General practise for courts to limit any liability to less than CDN$10,000 from individuals, $100,000 from businesses] In short, our courts are for putting criminals away, and not for making money (in small claims, and other levels, if you sue, and lose, you must pay the legal fees that were incurred by the defendant for arguing a false claim, and depending on the person, expect to see a defament[sic?] of character case right back at them (CDN$150000))
If this were entirely a Canadian matter, there would be nothing against it. Decryption is not illegal. You can take classes at University to learn how to decrypt various signals. In the Canadian legal mindset, the fault is your own for not encrypting it well enough, and to be openly broadcasting it to people you don't want peering in. DirecTV licensed use of a particular frequency in the US - the use of this frequency is unregulated in Canada and they have no more claim to it than someone in their garage, provided they follow the CRTC provisions on frequency usage and range. DirecTV cannot even market to Canadians unless they conform to 60% Canadian content on all channels they offer, and black out commercials selling or depicting various items which are illegal in Canada as well (Love watching those little music montages for 30 seconds over a blanked US commercial)
As far as current Canadian politics go (gotta love Cretien), I can see no reason for the Canadian government to even cooperate with DTV's wishes and force him to appear in an American court. They would probably say that this is a Canadian citizen, freely speaking via equipment operating on Canadian soil. This will be a difficult case for DTV.
Speaking on the many points as to why pirateden.com didn't just get a.ca address, it was purchased for the term from 1998-2005. Prior to November 2000, there would have been no way for him to obtain a.ca address, for the University of British Columbia's policy for assigning.xx.ca (where xx is the provincial abbreviation) were quite strict, and only for educational institutes (elementary, secondary, and post-secondary), and for firmly established Canadian businesses. (November was a great month for those who wanted to finally purchase a.ca address (or more to re-sell))
As for the for freedom of speech, Canada does value its citizens personal libe
Well, in Canada, Software Engineering is considered an offical branch of Engineering. But this does not apply to simple programming. From what I was able to read from the reccomendation (which was too long and dry to actually read in detail), was that they are merely proposing a structurized method for software creation. And this wouldn't make in Canada as this appears to fall under Computer Science.
The provincial Engineering boards here are (more or less) clear on the fact that Computer Science is not Software Engineering. The Engineering designation implys that you are competent in the foundations of general Engineering disaplines -- the foundatations of Mechanics, Physics (including mixed system behaviour) Chemistry, Statistics and Calculus, Safety protocols, Electric Circuits and systems. To be an engineer means that you have specialized in a particular field, but have basic knowledge in each of the other fields.
I personally disagree with the article posted in that it is indeed implying that if you can program, and organize a project, that you should be called an Engineer, when indeed you merely have a background in Computer Science. There is a reason why the two programs co-exist -- computer scientists have a more in depth knowledge at what they do, they focus even more on the project and realization of that. Software Engineers (supposedly) have a large amount of knowledge about software design and realization in various languages, but also in hardware and custom aspects that may vary how the software should be devloped. In my opinion: I think that the heirarchical structure of having the Engineering team initially model and study the problem at hand, and using the techniques learnt, begin to form a solution to the task at hand, how to lay it out, acknowledging possible coding problems and/or other complications that may arise, and initiating , delegating the tasks and keeping them on schedule -- but leaving most of the indepth coding and realization work to those in Computer Science, since that is what they have went out and learnt to do.
This seems to have turned out slightly more rant-y than I had anticipated, but the exhaultation of Computer Science into Engineering shouldn't be done mearly because they are creating. And that because people in the US are calling themselves "Software Engineers" (which in Canada would be illegal unless they are actually a P.Eng) that shouldn't mean that their Computer Science background should qualify them as an Engineer nor that the Engineering society should embrace this fad and officially recognize those individuals as Engineers.
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But, they make toilets in japan that play the sound of running water, in the vain hope that it will stop japanese women from continually flushing the toilet while they urinate becasue they think the sound of them urinating sdhouldn't be heard by others.... even if it means htat they have to waste many many gallons of water.
Never saw the text before, and it was still quite legible. This was my first time reading those words, and I did have to do a google search to figure out why people were saying it was a familiar text.
It's quite legible on this laptop (15" screen, 1920x1200 native resolution)
not familiar with the text, but I read the entire thing through with no real hassle.
What is your first-langage, and what portion can't you read?
Currenty Symbol Rupee Sign: U+20A8
It's already encoded, all people have to do is change the symbol on the character from looking like "Rs" to look like the new symbol.
Which is what Microsoft is pushing for.
You do realise, that you could have already registered domains with IDN names for years. .com portion. So, countries without latin scripts don't have to settle for .cn, or .jp.
All this new update is extending it to the
UTF-8 at the very least is ASCII-safe. if bit 8 is set, then it is part of a multi-byte character (all bytes of a multibyte character have bit-8 set). But if bit 8 is not set, then it's a plain ascii character, no matter it's position. It was this self-correcting portion of UTF-8 that maraks whether you are on a initial byte, or single byte that makes it good for syncronising in stream.
Encodings like S-JIS where the lead byte changes the meaning of all bytes ahead of it, does have the issue you mentioned. But, that's the reason everyone switched to UTF-8.
Buy a cheap wacom tablet, and use Microsoft's Math Panel Input Editor on Windows 7. Amazing recognition of handritten scrawl to MathML equations with preview and quick-fix for any element.
No, the serial number on the dreamcast, as well as the serial number on the WII are encoded in a scannable bar-code for cashiers to record the serial number of the unit (barcode and text are printed on both the box, and the unit for most consoles)
I say that they should really just up the gas tax. It's very low among modern countries that actually pay for their transportation.
For example:
Canada: $1.10/Gal + Sales Tax (5% GST)
Australia: $1.44/Gal + Sales Tax (10% GST)
Germany: â2.47/Gal + Sales Tax (19% VAT)
Netherlands â3.58/Gal + Sales Tax (19% VAT)
England: £2.12/Gal + Sales Tax (15% VAT)
And then you have the US: $0.18/Gal + State (Avg 0.28) = $0.46
The US is severely lagging behind in taxing the gasoline to fund transportation projects.
They won't bring it up to European Levels of $4/Gal in taxes.
But Canadian levels of increasing the gas tax 250% certainly is doable, and will help to fund transit, rail, roads.
The main issue I would imagine would be for anyone in the northern states who vacation/visit Canada.
Can't be collecting taxes for driving on roads not in this country
But prices for CDs are still cheaper than other countries.
Japan: 3100yen ($31) http://www.amazon.co.jp/CANT-BUY-MY-LOVE-%E9%80%9A%E5%B8%B8%E7%9B%A4/dp/B000MZHT7U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1206475131&sr=1-2
Germany: 13.95 EUR
http://www.amazon.de/Spirit-Leona-Lewis/dp/B000ZNW6VS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1206475335&sr=8-1
UK: 8.99 BRP
It's just the way it is. Get a better job if you can't afford it.
They could be oggling, probably not the best reaction though.
oggle. v. To shudder or tremble in fear.
They need to use the Library argument of putting a photocopier in a library.
Just because the means to commit copyright infringement is in place, doesn't mean that it is happenning.
As one of the contract negotiators for a software development house, there is a big difference between permanent exclusive, and transfer.
A permanent exclusive license states that you have the right to use the code indefinitely. And (in our contracts anyhow) state that you also have the right to modify, and reuse the code in other internal projects. This is the cheaper option for the client, as it means the development house can also do the same -- create derivatives, alter and reuse the components in other projects to other clients -- we just cannot resell the software as a whole to someone else.
On the other hand, transferring the copyright means that the client now owns the code. Period. We are unable to reuse the code, nor create derivatives. This costs the client a hell of a lot more, as any R&D, and modules can not be used in future projects for the development house to improve efficiency in future projects.
In the end, the poster really should have a lawyer, or just have an experienced (meaning burned) persons look over the contract, and ask the questions that need to be asked before anything is signed.
Because god forbid you get an XBOX360 or PS3 where just idling in the console uses 160-170W. As opposed to the Wii's 13W
And if you don't want to spend that money, turn off your computer and monitor overnight, and while you're at work. That'll save more money than the WiiConnect24 after only 400 hrs (assuming 200W consumpton, which isn't that much) for an hour and save the 200Wh.
Or, wouldn't it be better for them to follow Canada and Europe and just ditch the valuable metals and start using steel cored coins? It also has the benefit of making the coins lighter. And it's a lot cheaper to do than to make them entirely out of a valuable metal.
Canadian Penny Composition:
94% steel
1.5% nickel
4.5% copper plating
Well, google has been used for hundreds of years. ...
Google is listed in the OED as a
n. one who goggles, a goggling look; the white of the eyes (slang);
and first sited 1616
adj: of the eye
used since the 1500s
1540 T. RAYNALDE Byrth Mankynde II. 78b, Yf the chylde haue google eyes [L. strabos oculos]. 1544 T. PHAER Regim. Lyfe (1546) Ccijb, Of gogle eyes.
verb:
since the 1300s
c1380 WYCLIF Wks. (1880) 341 Pharesees alargen her browes & gogelen fer fro goddis lawe.
So, with trademark law as it is, I would surely say that the word "google" has been part of the English language for at least 600 years, and that must surely predate the invention of the word "googol"
You do need a US Transfer VISA, and yes, they will ask for ID, Passports, VISAs, and fingerprinting for connecting flights from an international location to an international location (canada/korea via LAX)
Well, the difference is the laws in place. This ruling is specifically for copyright infringement claims under current Canadian copyright law. In addition, the text of the Copyright Act limits the freedom of creating personal copies solely to sound recordings of or containing musical works, or performances of musical works, from one medium to another for personal use.
As software is a not a sound recording, it does not fall under the private copying section (and the levy collected on all mediums capable of holding sound recordings does not go out to non-music companies)
Japanese: "If you are not an experienced at Bush Walking, do not go past this point"
They probably use Outlook Express as well, send them a text email with the tag to start it off, OE will autodetect html and begin processing and crash their program.
Or send a dangerous MIDI through the dangerous, IE bgmusic tag, or embed. ooh.
It is hard to believe that both Trailer Part Boys, and The Osbornes (both air around 10pm various days) are censored in the US and not in Canada. But Canada and the US use drasticaly different models for operation.
.ca address, it was purchased for the term from 1998-2005. Prior to November 2000, there would have been no way for him to obtain a .ca address, for the University of British Columbia's policy for assigning .xx.ca (where xx is the provincial abbreviation) were quite strict, and only for educational institutes (elementary, secondary, and post-secondary), and for firmly established Canadian businesses. (November was a great month for those who wanted to finally purchase a .ca address (or more to re-sell))
Several points of interest is the Canadian legal system. It is not in any means like that of the US. Canadian laws are divided into the morphing commonlaws of the provinces, and the more or less static federal chartered rights. It is up to the judge at hand to decide whether to honour a commonlaw or not, or to decide the case entirely on chartered rights (like freedom of speech) if they are wary of contradictory laws in place depending on province [canadian laws are pseudo-laws, and often come and go, or are ignored by courts]. Because of this any prior judge ruling at any court level is an isolated case which ideally is not to be taken into account in the proceding of any other case. The American mindset that a court ruling will set precidence for use in future cases just doesn't apply as it does in American courts.
If the fact that the website has not set up its own access rights to block the US based on the IP numbers assigned to the US (easily done to provide region control), and then under traditional Canadian legal practice, that will be considered an international case where only proper International Law will be considered, and Canadian Law at the discretion of the court.
Another big blow for the Canadian legal system is that there are no high payouts. The most you can usually get are the associated fines for the charge at hand, and even then, courts often limit that. [General practise for courts to limit any liability to less than CDN$10,000 from individuals, $100,000 from businesses] In short, our courts are for putting criminals away, and not for making money (in small claims, and other levels, if you sue, and lose, you must pay the legal fees that were incurred by the defendant for arguing a false claim, and depending on the person, expect to see a defament[sic?] of character case right back at them (CDN$150000))
If this were entirely a Canadian matter, there would be nothing against it. Decryption is not illegal. You can take classes at University to learn how to decrypt various signals. In the Canadian legal mindset, the fault is your own for not encrypting it well enough, and to be openly broadcasting it to people you don't want peering in. DirecTV licensed use of a particular frequency in the US - the use of this frequency is unregulated in Canada and they have no more claim to it than someone in their garage, provided they follow the CRTC provisions on frequency usage and range. DirecTV cannot even market to Canadians unless they conform to 60% Canadian content on all channels they offer, and black out commercials selling or depicting various items which are illegal in Canada as well (Love watching those little music montages for 30 seconds over a blanked US commercial)
As far as current Canadian politics go (gotta love Cretien), I can see no reason for the Canadian government to even cooperate with DTV's wishes and force him to appear in an American court. They would probably say that this is a Canadian citizen, freely speaking via equipment operating on Canadian soil. This will be a difficult case for DTV.
Speaking on the many points as to why pirateden.com didn't just get a
As for the for freedom of speech, Canada does value its citizens personal libe
The provincial Engineering boards here are (more or less) clear on the fact that Computer Science is not Software Engineering. The Engineering designation implys that you are competent in the foundations of general Engineering disaplines -- the foundatations of Mechanics, Physics (including mixed system behaviour) Chemistry, Statistics and Calculus, Safety protocols, Electric Circuits and systems. To be an engineer means that you have specialized in a particular field, but have basic knowledge in each of the other fields.
I personally disagree with the article posted in that it is indeed implying that if you can program, and organize a project, that you should be called an Engineer, when indeed you merely have a background in Computer Science. There is a reason why the two programs co-exist -- computer scientists have a more in depth knowledge at what they do, they focus even more on the project and realization of that. Software Engineers (supposedly) have a large amount of knowledge about software design and realization in various languages, but also in hardware and custom aspects that may vary how the software should be devloped. In my opinion: I think that the heirarchical structure of having the Engineering team initially model and study the problem at hand, and using the techniques learnt, begin to form a solution to the task at hand, how to lay it out, acknowledging possible coding problems and/or other complications that may arise, and initiating , delegating the tasks and keeping them on schedule -- but leaving most of the indepth coding and realization work to those in Computer Science, since that is what they have went out and learnt to do.
This seems to have turned out slightly more rant-y than I had anticipated, but the exhaultation of Computer Science into Engineering shouldn't be done mearly because they are creating. And that because people in the US are calling themselves "Software Engineers" (which in Canada would be illegal unless they are actually a P.Eng) that shouldn't mean that their Computer Science background should qualify them as an Engineer nor that the Engineering society should embrace this fad and officially recognize those individuals as Engineers.