I'm not rewriting history at all, I remember the massive pressure from the US to give it to Japan and the scramble to find "compensation" so both the US and Japan would back down. I also remember an implicit threat that the US would back out if it didn't go to Japan.
Why do I get the feeling this wouldn't be on the cards if Japan had got ITER, as the US essentially demanded in the first place... Once France got it, US interest took a massive nose dive, with multiple calls for investment in a home grown alternative instead.
I love how very single court decision that groupthink on slashdot doesn't agree with simply *must* be the result of corruption, bought judges or juries...
I don't believe you followed the case any closer than the media reported it.
In my day, I used a touch screen interface for hours at a time - we called them white boards.
No real issues with fatigue tho. That argument sounds like the same sort of ones we heard back when the first touch screen iPod was mooted (well before the iPhone and Touch hit - the rumours were based off a fake leak) about how no one would ever want to deal with finger prints on the same screen they viewed the content on. That worked out well...
And what do *any* of that have to do with the rant that I replied to? Sure, the jury found 11-1 in favour, but I struggle to find the link between that and ranting about supposed Microsoft fanboyism and shilling with posts and moderations here on Slashdot.
Im not unclear about any of the facts, I am unclear as to how the fuck they support his pathetic, childish rant against Microsoft fanboyism.
Sorry, Microsoft Fanbois, time to man up and quit modding everything you don't like down. The truth is out there, and it will be set free. The Internet views censorship as damage and routes around it (--Gilmore). The same is true for biased modding and shil posting.
Ehud Tucson AZ US
I'm sure the "Microsoft Fanbois" will stop doing it when the Linux shills and Apple cultists stop it as well - or are you seriously of the opinion that the only fanboyism that goes on here is in favour of Microsoft?
McDonalds keeps a *very* tight leash on its franchised restaurants - someone else may own them, but they are absorbed directly into the management structure of the overall company and higher tier regional managers have all the same abilities that they would in normal restaurants. Franchise owners get a cut of the profits.
Unless the notes he took were as detailed as this:
Record of proceedings As recorded by David House Grand Jury, Alexandria VA 15 June 2011, 4:10pm to 5pm
Inside the Grand Jury: DOJ Counterespionage Section: Attorney Patrick Murphy * DOJ Counterespionage Section: Attorney Deborah Curtis * Eastern District of Virginia: AUSA Bob Wiechering Eastern District of Virginia: AUSA Tracy McCormick Eastern District of Virginia: AUSA Karen Dunn Unspecified number of Grand Jurors Court Steganographer David House
Directly outside the Grand Jury: Mike Condon, FBI Agent from Washington, D.C. field office James Farmer, Chief of Anti-Terrorism and National Security Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D. Mass Peter Krupp, David House’s attorney
Record begins: 4:10pm [David House is sworn in and informed of his rights]...
(The first couple dozen lines from the transcription pointed to in the article).
Then he transcribed from his notes into the more official transcription above.
The transcription does not have to be from an audio, mechanical or visual recording, it can apply to expanding handwritten notes into a proper transcription.
One set of shares were for the TV channel, and the other more recent set of shares were for the MSNBC.com website - two separate independent transactions for two separate entities.
If the electricity goes out and food spoils, then you claim on your home contents insurance - thats exactly what I did in those circumstances, and thats what its there for.
And an SLA is an entirely different thing - you *pay* for an SLA, most of the time through the nose, for the terms under to be onerous for the provider.
Fool? Sorry, but no service provider is on the hook for anything other than provision of service - your gas or electricity going out does not alter the value of the food you were going to cook, but it also doesn't put the gas or electricity provider on the hook for that value either.
What you are suggesting is *very* close to the anti-piracy arguments made time after time - possible activity does not equal activity lost...
The demand for compensation is amusing, as most people don't pay more than £30 a month for service - so a 3 day outage corresponds to £3 of service fees, and yet I've seen people demanding O2 pay them £50 or more for their inconvenience. Today's compensation culture is laughable and more than a little disgusting.
Well, the 4G license purchaser will indeed bear the costs for the units, but aside from that being part of the spectrum auctions terms and conditions, why the fuck should they? Its the Government that has decided "we shall sell these ranges of spectrums to two incompatible user bases, and we know there will be interference between them" - why shouldnt the government bear the costs of that decision?
Except the OpenBsd back door claim was never proven and dismissed by basically everyone - subsequent audits of code and checkins haven't revealed anything suspicious.
It was basically someone who wanted to get their name in the papers, that's all.
The difference is that people buying XP in 2010 were buying it in full public knowledge of a termination date for support, a date which had been released three years previously. That's not the same situation as suddenly finding your Apple kit isn't supported by the latest OSX release.
No, an iPhone isn't a computer, it's a smartphone. Just because it has a CPU in it doesn't make it equivalent to what I have on my desktop - my washing machine has an M68000 processor, doesn't make it a computer.
And I provided all the context in my post needed to show I wasn't talking about phones.
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Interesting that you left Israel out of your first bullet point...
I'm not rewriting history at all, I remember the massive pressure from the US to give it to Japan and the scramble to find "compensation" so both the US and Japan would back down. I also remember an implicit threat that the US would back out if it didn't go to Japan.
Why do I get the feeling this wouldn't be on the cards if Japan had got ITER, as the US essentially demanded in the first place... Once France got it, US interest took a massive nose dive, with multiple calls for investment in a home grown alternative instead.
A bought jury? That's just hilarious.
I love how very single court decision that groupthink on slashdot doesn't agree with simply *must* be the result of corruption, bought judges or juries...
I don't believe you followed the case any closer than the media reported it.
In my day, I used a touch screen interface for hours at a time - we called them white boards.
No real issues with fatigue tho. That argument sounds like the same sort of ones we heard back when the first touch screen iPod was mooted (well before the iPhone and Touch hit - the rumours were based off a fake leak) about how no one would ever want to deal with finger prints on the same screen they viewed the content on. That worked out well...
It didn't need to mention them, thats the wonder of having a discussion - you aren't restricted to just the content of the parent post.
Every side has fanboys, especially here on Slashdot. Its fucking obvious - so why just rant about the Microsoft ones?
And what do *any* of that have to do with the rant that I replied to? Sure, the jury found 11-1 in favour, but I struggle to find the link between that and ranting about supposed Microsoft fanboyism and shilling with posts and moderations here on Slashdot.
Im not unclear about any of the facts, I am unclear as to how the fuck they support his pathetic, childish rant against Microsoft fanboyism.
Sorry, Microsoft Fanbois, time to man up and quit modding everything you don't like
down. The truth is out there, and it will be set free. The Internet views censorship
as damage and routes around it (--Gilmore). The same is true for biased modding
and shil posting.
Ehud
Tucson AZ US
I'm sure the "Microsoft Fanbois" will stop doing it when the Linux shills and Apple cultists stop it as well - or are you seriously of the opinion that the only fanboyism that goes on here is in favour of Microsoft?
McDonalds keeps a *very* tight leash on its franchised restaurants - someone else may own them, but they are absorbed directly into the management structure of the overall company and higher tier regional managers have all the same abilities that they would in normal restaurants. Franchise owners get a cut of the profits.
I take it you have that opinion about everything? No JavaScript in web pages? No images?
Unless the notes he took were as detailed as this:
(The first couple dozen lines from the transcription pointed to in the article).
Then he transcribed from his notes into the more official transcription above.
The transcription does not have to be from an audio, mechanical or visual recording, it can apply to expanding handwritten notes into a proper transcription.
One set of shares were for the TV channel, and the other more recent set of shares were for the MSNBC.com website - two separate independent transactions for two separate entities.
When source code exists in the same manner as air, then your argument holds weight. Until then, it's just laughable.
Access to source code would have to be a 'right' for that to be the case, and it isn't. Nor should it be.
In the absence of copyright, and thus the absence of a GPL with any teeth, how would you force me to hand over source code when you get a binary?
If the electricity goes out and food spoils, then you claim on your home contents insurance - thats exactly what I did in those circumstances, and thats what its there for.
And an SLA is an entirely different thing - you *pay* for an SLA, most of the time through the nose, for the terms under to be onerous for the provider.
Fool? Sorry, but no service provider is on the hook for anything other than provision of service - your gas or electricity going out does not alter the value of the food you were going to cook, but it also doesn't put the gas or electricity provider on the hook for that value either.
What you are suggesting is *very* close to the anti-piracy arguments made time after time - possible activity does not equal activity lost...
The demand for compensation is amusing, as most people don't pay more than £30 a month for service - so a 3 day outage corresponds to £3 of service fees, and yet I've seen people demanding O2 pay them £50 or more for their inconvenience. Today's compensation culture is laughable and more than a little disgusting.
Well, the 4G license purchaser will indeed bear the costs for the units, but aside from that being part of the spectrum auctions terms and conditions, why the fuck should they? Its the Government that has decided "we shall sell these ranges of spectrums to two incompatible user bases, and we know there will be interference between them" - why shouldnt the government bear the costs of that decision?
Except the OpenBsd back door claim was never proven and dismissed by basically everyone - subsequent audits of code and checkins haven't revealed anything suspicious.
It was basically someone who wanted to get their name in the papers, that's all.
The difference is that people buying XP in 2010 were buying it in full public knowledge of a termination date for support, a date which had been released three years previously. That's not the same situation as suddenly finding your Apple kit isn't supported by the latest OSX release.
And yet he's replying to someone that seems to want to use C++ for the sake of using C++...
No, an iPhone isn't a computer, it's a smartphone. Just because it has a CPU in it doesn't make it equivalent to what I have on my desktop - my washing machine has an M68000 processor, doesn't make it a computer.
And I provided all the context in my post needed to show I wasn't talking about phones.
Also anecdotal data suggests Apple computers are used for longer than PC counterparts...
Do you offer any proof of your claims? Or are we just going on accusations these days?