Except that article is incorrect - because its registered within the European Economic Area, it is still FSA registered and falls under the FSAs regulatory umbrella.
PayPal (Europe) Sarl et Cie SCA is registered with the FSA under the registration number 226056.
The fact that it moved to Luxembourg doesn't change the fact that it is regulated within the UK.
If PayPal isn't regulated like a bank in your country, then thats a failing of your country - in the UK, PayPal is regulated by the Financial Services Authority, and is registered as a bank within the European Economic Area.
A right to distribute does not equate to a right to be distributed. No Hugo Awards copyrights were infringed here, because under copyright law no such legal basis for "right to be distributed" exists.
With that approach, you wouldn't be getting 5% of what is currently available on iPlayer and the BBC website - regardless of their charter, they do not have a carte blanche ability to release content they simply do not own into the wild, and they do not own most of the stuff that they broadcast.
I'd certainly accept that Windows Phone 7 owners might legitimately feel screwed, but Windows Mobile owners certainly were not - they had a long run prior to WP7 coming on the scene.
Also, while Apple does tend to release iOS for older iPhones, its a hugely mixed bag - my iPhone 3G was basically unusable after the iOS 4 upgrade, so much so that I looked elsewhere. So yes, Apple might "cater" for older phones, but you had better be seriously careful what you wish for, because theres a difference between something being available and something being nice to use.
You need to read the direct quote as "the FAA won't pre-approve an aircraft kit or kit manufacturer, as the quality of the build is paramount in the certification process - the FAA will approve built aircraft".
There's no point in approving a kit or a kit manufacturer if the kit is being built by someone who has no idea what they are doing.
Agreed - I read the summary and article more along the lines of "Company makes internal product design choice, ARM fan disappointed."
Why is it news worthy what processor EMC choose? Are we missing something here? Did someone accidentally delete the paragraph which offered up something juicy, like "Gelsinger went on to shout the virtues of Intel, while his own personal Intel sales representative gave him a blow job and stuffed hundred dollar bills into his pants" ?
Whoopdi-fucking-do that 25% of all servers could be based around ARM - does that immediately mean everyone that isn't using ARM should flock to it? Or does it mean that companies should continue to go on making internal decisions about their own products?
The tanks leaking was not the reason for taking off with a low fuel load - see my post above.
In service, Concorde made plenty of profit for British Airways (no idea about Air France) and the clientele that flew on it loved it - it had a smooth, quiet ride and engine noise was not an issue for those in the cabin (the engines are set back toward the very end of the cabin and some distance from the fuselage, not to mention underneath a wing).
Urgh - "it doesn't on many mission profiles because..." that was supposed to be. It's standard mission profile was to take off with low fuel in the tanks and tank in the air, because it solved both the engine out issues and it was easier than setting up the fuel tank inerting system on the ground.
It can take off with full tanks, it just doesn't because it's single engine performance (needed to be considered incase you lose one on takeoff) is poor - they used to fly with full tanks from Kadena regularly, depending on the mission profile.
Also, there is plenty of room for weapons bays in the payload bays aft of the cockpit - that's where the YF-12A had its Aim-47A missiles stowed. Yup, there was an interceptor variant of the A-12/SR-71 tested.
It's still the wrong aircraft for the job, because it's been out of service for nearly two decades, and the jigs and tool sets have been destroyed for nearly twice that long.
The patent on the refrigerator has long time been expired.
This is a prime example why reading any discussion about patents on Slashdot is just a pointless task - the parent post proves most Slashdot commenters have no fucking clue about what they are discussing...
I posted this elsewhere, but its entirely relevant to most discussions on here -
In 2010 (year picked because figures are unlikely to be revised), the UK spent £118.2Billion on the NHS, for a population of about 63Million persons.
Thats a per population head equivalent of £1906 or $2954.
In that same year, the US spent about $381Billion on Medicaid and about $509Billion on Medicare - both of which highly intersect with what the NHS provides, for a population of about 311.5Million persons.
Thats a per population head equivalent of $2858.
Except the US Medicare and Medicaid programmes don't cover 311.5Million persons - Medicaid covers roughly 50Million persons, and Medicare covers roughly the same number - theres about a 6Million person intersection between the two (persons that are enrolled in both), so, again roughly, the total number of beneficiaries for these federal and state programmes is around 94Million.
That makes it a per eligible head equivilent of $9469.
And you know which system I would rather have? The one I currently use - the NHS at $2954.
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Its not a reduced service, its a dramatic reduction in service levels - the two are not the same, as noted by the abundance of people willing to decry "cattle class".
The reduction in ticket prices have also slashed airline profit margins, to the point where in the past decade all major US airlines have declared bankruptcy at least once - consider that also in the wake of deregulation, the US has lost pretty much half of its major carriers, and the remaining carriers are still struggling to survive...
Its worth noting that one of the biggest changes between then and now is... deregulation!
Up until 1978, airlines in the US were heavily regulated due to competition issues - routes were controlled, prices were controlled, even the level of service an airline can give was controlled. The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 removed these controls, allowing freer competition between airlines in the US.
What effect did deregulation have? Catastrophic - ticket prices have fallen by 40% since 1978, but at the same time service levels have also fallen dramatically, resulting in todays airlines.
There have been ANPR cameras in the UK that do that for a decade already - they do tax, insurance and MOT (certificate of road worthiness), and issue automatic fixed penalty notices.
I use AppHarbor, and they do a lot of things right, but they also don't have a lot of the flexibility of Azure or AWS - for most of the addons, it's either a free offering, a small offering for some money 10GB SQL DB for $10 a month) or a dedicated offering for a lot of money. Very little granularity.
Google is trying to sneak WebM in through the back door by making it a mandatory codec for WebRTC - which would, coincidentally, make it the *only* mandatory codec for the next generation of web technologies (HTML5, WebRTC et al)...
Thats why you haven't heard anything from Google - they've switched to stealth mode and are trying to do an end run around the opposition.
The Crown is a separate entity to that of the countries - there is a Queen of New Zealand, who happens to also be the Queen of England (and several other places, such as Australia and Canada), and the Crown is united, while the parliament of Great Britain has no say or power in the other countries. So no, New Zealand isn't British.
Interesting - looks like Google is trying to get VP8 in as the default available codec for the web, one way or another. They lost the HTML5 codec battle, but are now sneaking it in as a mandatory requirement for another standard...
Not being mentioned is not the same as dropping - and the situation was clarified in the days after the story was "broken", so why are people still posting bullshit about it a year later? FUD, thats why.
Microsofts effort on C++ is not replacing.Net - it's being brought up to the same level of development effort so it can stand beside.Net as a development environment rather than staying as the step child that it had become in recent years. They were bringing it up to scratch because people wanted it, not because its replacing.Net.
Both are intended to be your first-class development platforms on Windows.
Where does this bullshit continue to come from?.Net isn't going anywhere -.Net 4.5 is due for RTM in a couple weeks,.Net 5.0 is under development and.Net (5.5/6.0) is being talked about..Net is a first class environment in Windows 8 - this bullshit about it being dumped only came about because an MS rep refused to talk about.Net in any depth at a conference based around something completely different. Somehow that got misconstrued (perhaps deliberately, if some people are continuing to propagate the myth) by people on Ars and here on Slashdot to mean MS was dropping.Net - they aren't. Suck it up.
When I took my GCSEs in 1995, there was one single paper - and my GCSE certificate (having just checked) only has "English" on it.
I was in the upper bounds of the year, so I certainly wouldn't have been left out of any exams (if you could even be left out of a core subject!)
After a bit of investigating to jog my memory I've remembered what English and English Literature GCSEs were about:
English: - reading lots of newspaper articles from different newspapers (e.g. Mirror and Telegraph), and explaining the bias, bad arguments, irrelevancies etc. (My main memory of my English teacher is him reading something from the Daily Mail, then reading it again and shouting out every "may", as in "it's is thought that immigrants MAY have...") - reading a few poems - "speaking and listening" -- a presentation, and listening to everyone else's presentation
Didn't have any of that - poems were covered in lower years, but nothing at GCSE exam level.
English Lit: - what you said
I don't remember where the Shakespeare and novels went -- probably some in both.
This was the only subject of any English lessons I had, and the only exam I took on the topic was orientated toward what I commented on earlier.
I think both this story, the dismissal and the original claim are all bollocks, especially due to the slanted language El Reg put on matters - "derived", "derivative work", "a rip-off".
Tim Paterson and Microsoft are essentially "guilty" of the same thing Google just won a court case against Oracle/Sun for - reimplementing an API. And yet Microsoft somehow comes off worse than Google for it...
Kildall lost out, Gates prospered - that's about the sum of it. Anything else is just farting in the wind. It doesn't really matter whether QDOS was a completely brand new OS or whether it just cloned an existing one, just so long as it wasn't infringing on the copyright of CP/M (and no one other than this Zeidman has ever mentioned copyright issues).
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Except that article is incorrect - because its registered within the European Economic Area, it is still FSA registered and falls under the FSAs regulatory umbrella.
PayPal (Europe) Sarl et Cie SCA is registered with the FSA under the registration number 226056.
The fact that it moved to Luxembourg doesn't change the fact that it is regulated within the UK.
If PayPal isn't regulated like a bank in your country, then thats a failing of your country - in the UK, PayPal is regulated by the Financial Services Authority, and is registered as a bank within the European Economic Area.
A right to distribute does not equate to a right to be distributed. No Hugo Awards copyrights were infringed here, because under copyright law no such legal basis for "right to be distributed" exists.
The most you can claim is breach of contract.
With that approach, you wouldn't be getting 5% of what is currently available on iPlayer and the BBC website - regardless of their charter, they do not have a carte blanche ability to release content they simply do not own into the wild, and they do not own most of the stuff that they broadcast.
I'd certainly accept that Windows Phone 7 owners might legitimately feel screwed, but Windows Mobile owners certainly were not - they had a long run prior to WP7 coming on the scene.
Also, while Apple does tend to release iOS for older iPhones, its a hugely mixed bag - my iPhone 3G was basically unusable after the iOS 4 upgrade, so much so that I looked elsewhere. So yes, Apple might "cater" for older phones, but you had better be seriously careful what you wish for, because theres a difference between something being available and something being nice to use.
You need to read the direct quote as "the FAA won't pre-approve an aircraft kit or kit manufacturer, as the quality of the build is paramount in the certification process - the FAA will approve built aircraft".
There's no point in approving a kit or a kit manufacturer if the kit is being built by someone who has no idea what they are doing.
Agreed - I read the summary and article more along the lines of "Company makes internal product design choice, ARM fan disappointed."
Why is it news worthy what processor EMC choose? Are we missing something here? Did someone accidentally delete the paragraph which offered up something juicy, like "Gelsinger went on to shout the virtues of Intel, while his own personal Intel sales representative gave him a blow job and stuffed hundred dollar bills into his pants" ?
Whoopdi-fucking-do that 25% of all servers could be based around ARM - does that immediately mean everyone that isn't using ARM should flock to it? Or does it mean that companies should continue to go on making internal decisions about their own products?
The tanks leaking was not the reason for taking off with a low fuel load - see my post above.
In service, Concorde made plenty of profit for British Airways (no idea about Air France) and the clientele that flew on it loved it - it had a smooth, quiet ride and engine noise was not an issue for those in the cabin (the engines are set back toward the very end of the cabin and some distance from the fuselage, not to mention underneath a wing).
Urgh - "it doesn't on many mission profiles because..." that was supposed to be. It's standard mission profile was to take off with low fuel in the tanks and tank in the air, because it solved both the engine out issues and it was easier than setting up the fuel tank inerting system on the ground.
It can take off with full tanks, it just doesn't because it's single engine performance (needed to be considered incase you lose one on takeoff) is poor - they used to fly with full tanks from Kadena regularly, depending on the mission profile.
Also, there is plenty of room for weapons bays in the payload bays aft of the cockpit - that's where the YF-12A had its Aim-47A missiles stowed. Yup, there was an interceptor variant of the A-12/SR-71 tested.
It's still the wrong aircraft for the job, because it's been out of service for nearly two decades, and the jigs and tool sets have been destroyed for nearly twice that long.
The patent on the refrigerator has long time been expired.
This is a prime example why reading any discussion about patents on Slashdot is just a pointless task - the parent post proves most Slashdot commenters have no fucking clue about what they are discussing...
Ahh yes, "we" are the reason other people have no morals or ethics.
Some people always try to find a way to blame the "fanboys"...
The only people to blame here are those engaging in the acts mentioned.
I posted this elsewhere, but its entirely relevant to most discussions on here -
In 2010 (year picked because figures are unlikely to be revised), the UK spent £118.2Billion on the NHS, for a population of about 63Million persons.
Thats a per population head equivalent of £1906 or $2954.
In that same year, the US spent about $381Billion on Medicaid and about $509Billion on Medicare - both of which highly intersect with what the NHS provides, for a population of about 311.5Million persons.
Thats a per population head equivalent of $2858.
Except the US Medicare and Medicaid programmes don't cover 311.5Million persons - Medicaid covers roughly 50Million persons, and Medicare covers roughly the same number - theres about a 6Million person intersection between the two (persons that are enrolled in both), so, again roughly, the total number of beneficiaries for these federal and state programmes is around 94Million.
That makes it a per eligible head equivilent of $9469.
And you know which system I would rather have? The one I currently use - the NHS at $2954.
The US system is just very very badly run.
Sources:
http://www.gao.gov/highrisk/risks/insurance/medicaid_program.php
http://www.gao.gov/highrisk/agency/hhs/reforming-medicare-payments.php
http://www.kff.org/medicare/upload/7305-05.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)
Its not a reduced service, its a dramatic reduction in service levels - the two are not the same, as noted by the abundance of people willing to decry "cattle class".
The reduction in ticket prices have also slashed airline profit margins, to the point where in the past decade all major US airlines have declared bankruptcy at least once - consider that also in the wake of deregulation, the US has lost pretty much half of its major carriers, and the remaining carriers are still struggling to survive...
Hardly sustainable!
Its worth noting that one of the biggest changes between then and now is ... deregulation!
Up until 1978, airlines in the US were heavily regulated due to competition issues - routes were controlled, prices were controlled, even the level of service an airline can give was controlled. The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 removed these controls, allowing freer competition between airlines in the US.
What effect did deregulation have? Catastrophic - ticket prices have fallen by 40% since 1978, but at the same time service levels have also fallen dramatically, resulting in todays airlines.
Wait for the George Lucas remastered documentary, and the rock will have fired first.
There have been ANPR cameras in the UK that do that for a decade already - they do tax, insurance and MOT (certificate of road worthiness), and issue automatic fixed penalty notices.
I use AppHarbor, and they do a lot of things right, but they also don't have a lot of the flexibility of Azure or AWS - for most of the addons, it's either a free offering, a small offering for some money 10GB SQL DB for $10 a month) or a dedicated offering for a lot of money. Very little granularity.
Google is trying to sneak WebM in through the back door by making it a mandatory codec for WebRTC - which would, coincidentally, make it the *only* mandatory codec for the next generation of web technologies (HTML5, WebRTC et al)...
Thats why you haven't heard anything from Google - they've switched to stealth mode and are trying to do an end run around the opposition.
The Crown is a separate entity to that of the countries - there is a Queen of New Zealand, who happens to also be the Queen of England (and several other places, such as Australia and Canada), and the Crown is united, while the parliament of Great Britain has no say or power in the other countries. So no, New Zealand isn't British.
Interesting - looks like Google is trying to get VP8 in as the default available codec for the web, one way or another. They lost the HTML5 codec battle, but are now sneaking it in as a mandatory requirement for another standard...
Not being mentioned is not the same as dropping - and the situation was clarified in the days after the story was "broken", so why are people still posting bullshit about it a year later? FUD, thats why.
Microsofts effort on C++ is not replacing .Net - it's being brought up to the same level of development effort so it can stand beside .Net as a development environment rather than staying as the step child that it had become in recent years. They were bringing it up to scratch because people wanted it, not because its replacing .Net.
Both are intended to be your first-class development platforms on Windows.
Where does this bullshit continue to come from? .Net isn't going anywhere - .Net 4.5 is due for RTM in a couple weeks, .Net 5.0 is under development and .Net (5.5/6.0) is being talked about. .Net is a first class environment in Windows 8 - this bullshit about it being dumped only came about because an MS rep refused to talk about .Net in any depth at a conference based around something completely different. Somehow that got misconstrued (perhaps deliberately, if some people are continuing to propagate the myth) by people on Ars and here on Slashdot to mean MS was dropping .Net - they aren't. Suck it up.
http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/8938/1/6908_gcse_english_literature.pdfseems to think otherwise, but I'm not a teacher, and did mine in 2002.
When I took my GCSEs in 1995, there was one single paper - and my GCSE certificate (having just checked) only has "English" on it.
I was in the upper bounds of the year, so I certainly wouldn't have been left out of any exams (if you could even be left out of a core subject!)
After a bit of investigating to jog my memory I've remembered what English and English Literature GCSEs were about:
English: ...")
- reading lots of newspaper articles from different newspapers (e.g. Mirror and Telegraph), and explaining the bias, bad arguments, irrelevancies etc. (My main memory of my English teacher is him reading something from the Daily Mail, then reading it again and shouting out every "may", as in "it's is thought that immigrants MAY have
- reading a few poems
- "speaking and listening" -- a presentation, and listening to everyone else's presentation
Didn't have any of that - poems were covered in lower years, but nothing at GCSE exam level.
English Lit:
- what you said
I don't remember where the Shakespeare and novels went -- probably some in both.
This was the only subject of any English lessons I had, and the only exam I took on the topic was orientated toward what I commented on earlier.
I think both this story, the dismissal and the original claim are all bollocks, especially due to the slanted language El Reg put on matters - "derived", "derivative work", "a rip-off".
Tim Paterson and Microsoft are essentially "guilty" of the same thing Google just won a court case against Oracle/Sun for - reimplementing an API. And yet Microsoft somehow comes off worse than Google for it...
Kildall lost out, Gates prospered - that's about the sum of it. Anything else is just farting in the wind. It doesn't really matter whether QDOS was a completely brand new OS or whether it just cloned an existing one, just so long as it wasn't infringing on the copyright of CP/M (and no one other than this Zeidman has ever mentioned copyright issues).