I'm innocent, but you can bet your last £ that something somewhere in your home or in your computer could be construed as being terrorism related...
That is so true. Today, a person arrested in 2003 was convicted in the UK on two terrorism offences. What were these two offences? Well, possessing instructions to use a motar, which is fairly understandable and.... possessing 'a secret code on a bit of paper'. Wtf?
Dont worry, the environmentalists will find *someway* to pin it on us oil consumers. Seriously tho, noone doubts the fact that a planets climate changes naturally, its the extent to which man made emissions effect the natural rate of change that has people worried.
How do we know its more bureaucracy? These could be three new positions that incorporate 10 or 20 other peoples positions, relegating them out of the chain of command and streamlining the reporting process? Just because new positions are created, doesnt instantly mean another step on the corporate hierachy.
Seriously, how many pirated copies of TOP movies actually make their way into the world via cameras?
Well, looking at a current bittorrent swarm for Batman Begins, which is more than a few months old, gives you a good impression. Around 40 different telesync and telecine torrents available, the top one has 11,830 seeds and 22,779 downloaders with the rest not that far behind. Quite a few copies of cammed films make it into the wild, it would seem.
What inherent rights would those be? Sorry, but *all* your rights are protected by human laws and not nature - you have no inherent right to life in nature, beyond you protecting yourself, you have no inherent right to property in nature, again beyond what you can protect yourself. All of your rights are created through use of law and those are just two examples. Theres no such thing as inherent rights, basic or not.
As far as I can tell, the Mobile versions of Opera are still either limited or payfor, so I guess Opera realised the way the wind was blowing, and has stuck with the niche market where it is actually somewhat of a market leader. The free desktop versions are all about brand building and goodwill.
IM saying that the internal workings of.Net are... interesting, or that McAffees BOP is broken. Our programs dont rely on buffer overruns, its all bog standard vb.net and the problem can be reproduced using small apps.
Found an interesting thing at work recently, during trials of VB.net and the.Net framework. Our VB.net programmers applications worked right up until one day, when suddenly, they stopped working. Simple things like messages in Message Boxes stopped appearing, or labels on buttons went astray, mouse cursor changes on mouseover events showing black boxes instead of the image. Very wierd we thought. He reinstalled the.Net framework, VS.Net, everything he could think of but nothing rectified the problems. We eventually found out what the problem was - McAffee Virus protection now includes buffer overrun protection. Turn that off, and everything worked fine. Wierd, just wierd.
Equally not meaning to be rude, but some people are interested in more than Linux and OpenOffice. This is supposed to be News for Nerds, and news about version 3 of a language fits right in.
Returned item from Ebuyer.com, got a iPaq RX3715 for roughly 25% of new, all that was wrong with it was the power adapter was missing and that was replaceable for £20.
One thing to add to this, my iPod allowed me to take my entire music collection on holiday without having to guess at what I would want to listen to before I went. My iPaq and ebooks have allowed me to do exactly the same with my reading material, so I dont have to limit myself to a preselected range, I can decide when I finish a book. When I go on holiday I take my entire music and reading collections - THAT is what technology is about.
1. Use a PDA, the screen is much better on the eyes than a CRT and you can take it outside, on holiday etc.
2. Ereader.com has fairly 'loose' DRM, in that you unlock the book in their reader and thats it. You can download it to as many systems as you want.
3. Most ebooks are actually pretty cheap if you shop around - most of hte ones Ive bought have been at 50% or less than their paper brethrens.
Remember, not all solutions are best for everyone. If you dont like ebooks, fine.
I thought this - why do we need them? Im a huge reader, buying 6 or 7 new books from amazon every month and a huge library at home anyway. Then I discovered ebooks - 90% of my library was available in ebook format, the vast majority of what I wanted was on sale at ereader.com so I switched what I read most frequently over to ebooks, bought new stuff as ebooks, got a cheap ipaq as the reader and never looked back. I save roughly 30% on each new purchase, save loads of space on my shelves, and have instant delivery of the product.
I recently went on holiday, and usually I take 5 or 6 books for a 2 week period, and thats rarely enough. This way I was able to take 200 or 300 books, and save on my airline baggage allowance.
Will ebooks replace books? Maybe not for the vast majority of the public, but for me, tehy pretty much already have.
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Explain the fact that I cant buy a Pepsi at any McDonalds anywhere, but I can get Coke. Exclusivity is not illegal, predatory pricing that leads to exclusivity is.
No you dont, but its a hell of a lot cheaper to hire a Boeing Business Jet or an Airbus Executive Jet or even something smaller as and when you need it, rather than paying for the fulltime upkeep of two aircraft, which cost money even when they are sat in a hanger somewhere doing nothing. Unless you fly that aircraft every day on paying routes, its simply bad business to maintain a fleet of any size.
Why should you be automatically entitled to something that the owner doesnt want to currently sell or give you? Just because you want it doesnt justify removing choice of distribution from the owner.
If the sites dont allow for the accused to reply in full on the same page as the complaint, then there is no way to refute the complaints with the truth to the same audience. Since a lot of these sites are single people setting up 'hit' sites, they arent about to allow their accused to represent their own point of view and ruin the concept of the site.
The main reason that Pearl Harbour was a failure for the Japanese was because they neglected to target the fuel depots and supply chains on hte island - if they had left the ships alone and gone for the supply chain on the island, they would have had the entire theatre to themselves for the next 5 years. You can easily replace ships, you cant easily replace supply chains.
Yes, they are. THe law that you quoted backs me up as the device in question is a Class II TFT screen - you cannot expect perfection on a device that is already presented as not guaranteed to be perfect, so the screen would conform to contract and meet the rest of the criteria under the Sales of Goods act so long as the dead pixel count conforms to the Class II criteria. This is what a reasonable person would consider satisfactory. You cannot expect goods to conform to higher standards than they are sold to. Under this case a minor defect DOES NOT include dead pixels as the panel conforms to a certain specification and that specification is the extent to which the law will protect you, not some arbitrary criteria that you demand.
But, they are allowed to sell them with a certain amount of dead pixels by law. The Sales of Goods Act has no bearing on this matter, if the type of TFT display used is Class II (and most consumer items are), then you are allowed a certain number of dead pixels per inch of screen space as that is what is laid down in the TFT standards and that standard is the level of quality that the law will extend to. One or two dead pixels do not render the unit unusable.
Why would it be affected? OpenSSH would just be linked against a *specific* version of the GPLed software that is affected, and not hte newer versions. If a feature is needed, its implemented into what is essentially a fork. Its the same with any software, if the new license proves to be disliked, you will see forks appearing and projects split into a GPL2 codebase and a GPL3 codebase, essentially independant of each other.
Nothing that RMS or the FSF does will take away older versions of the software, and so long as those versions are under the GPL 2 you can continue using them as you do today.
Now the New GPL comes along and tells me I can't use Linux, Apache, Tomcat, etc.
None of those applications will be affected - Linux is specifically under version 2 of the GPL, Apache and Tomcat are under the Apache License. Even so, If any major opensource project were affected, you would see forks of the codebase happen at the last viably licensed point, just like what happeend with Xfree.
Why should Sun GPL their implementation. Seriously, why? The damand for Sun to do so seems to stem from slashdotters, and I havent yet seen a good reason *WHY* they should give away their Java implementation under the GPL. The specification I agree with - put it under the control of a independant standards body, but Sun should keep their implementation and everyone can still implement their own. Why is it that theres a rather vocal number of slashdotters who seem to demand that companies (not just Sun) give away their code? Write your goddamn own.
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I'm innocent, but you can bet your last £ that something somewhere in your home or in your computer could be construed as being terrorism related...
That is so true. Today, a person arrested in 2003 was convicted in the UK on two terrorism offences. What were these two offences? Well, possessing instructions to use a motar, which is fairly understandable and .... possessing 'a secret code on a bit of paper'. Wtf?
Put the ball on a bed of ball bearings or rollers - now you still have 360 degree movement but you arent actually going anywhere. Problem solved.
Dont worry, the environmentalists will find *someway* to pin it on us oil consumers. Seriously tho, noone doubts the fact that a planets climate changes naturally, its the extent to which man made emissions effect the natural rate of change that has people worried.
How do we know its more bureaucracy? These could be three new positions that incorporate 10 or 20 other peoples positions, relegating them out of the chain of command and streamlining the reporting process? Just because new positions are created, doesnt instantly mean another step on the corporate hierachy.
Seriously, how many pirated copies of TOP movies actually make their way into the world via cameras?
Well, looking at a current bittorrent swarm for Batman Begins, which is more than a few months old, gives you a good impression. Around 40 different telesync and telecine torrents available, the top one has 11,830 seeds and 22,779 downloaders with the rest not that far behind. Quite a few copies of cammed films make it into the wild, it would seem.
What inherent rights would those be? Sorry, but *all* your rights are protected by human laws and not nature - you have no inherent right to life in nature, beyond you protecting yourself, you have no inherent right to property in nature, again beyond what you can protect yourself. All of your rights are created through use of law and those are just two examples. Theres no such thing as inherent rights, basic or not.
As far as I can tell, the Mobile versions of Opera are still either limited or payfor, so I guess Opera realised the way the wind was blowing, and has stuck with the niche market where it is actually somewhat of a market leader. The free desktop versions are all about brand building and goodwill.
IM saying that the internal workings of .Net are ... interesting, or that McAffees BOP is broken. Our programs dont rely on buffer overruns, its all bog standard vb.net and the problem can be reproduced using small apps.
Found an interesting thing at work recently, during trials of VB.net and the .Net framework. Our VB.net programmers applications worked right up until one day, when suddenly, they stopped working. Simple things like messages in Message Boxes stopped appearing, or labels on buttons went astray, mouse cursor changes on mouseover events showing black boxes instead of the image. Very wierd we thought. He reinstalled the .Net framework, VS.Net, everything he could think of but nothing rectified the problems. We eventually found out what the problem was - McAffee Virus protection now includes buffer overrun protection. Turn that off, and everything worked fine. Wierd, just wierd.
Equally not meaning to be rude, but some people are interested in more than Linux and OpenOffice. This is supposed to be News for Nerds, and news about version 3 of a language fits right in.
Returned item from Ebuyer.com, got a iPaq RX3715 for roughly 25% of new, all that was wrong with it was the power adapter was missing and that was replaceable for £20.
One thing to add to this, my iPod allowed me to take my entire music collection on holiday without having to guess at what I would want to listen to before I went. My iPaq and ebooks have allowed me to do exactly the same with my reading material, so I dont have to limit myself to a preselected range, I can decide when I finish a book. When I go on holiday I take my entire music and reading collections - THAT is what technology is about.
1. Use a PDA, the screen is much better on the eyes than a CRT and you can take it outside, on holiday etc.
2. Ereader.com has fairly 'loose' DRM, in that you unlock the book in their reader and thats it. You can download it to as many systems as you want.
3. Most ebooks are actually pretty cheap if you shop around - most of hte ones Ive bought have been at 50% or less than their paper brethrens.
Remember, not all solutions are best for everyone. If you dont like ebooks, fine.
I thought this - why do we need them? Im a huge reader, buying 6 or 7 new books from amazon every month and a huge library at home anyway. Then I discovered ebooks - 90% of my library was available in ebook format, the vast majority of what I wanted was on sale at ereader.com so I switched what I read most frequently over to ebooks, bought new stuff as ebooks, got a cheap ipaq as the reader and never looked back. I save roughly 30% on each new purchase, save loads of space on my shelves, and have instant delivery of the product.
I recently went on holiday, and usually I take 5 or 6 books for a 2 week period, and thats rarely enough. This way I was able to take 200 or 300 books, and save on my airline baggage allowance.
Will ebooks replace books? Maybe not for the vast majority of the public, but for me, tehy pretty much already have.
Explain the fact that I cant buy a Pepsi at any McDonalds anywhere, but I can get Coke. Exclusivity is not illegal, predatory pricing that leads to exclusivity is.
No you dont, but its a hell of a lot cheaper to hire a Boeing Business Jet or an Airbus Executive Jet or even something smaller as and when you need it, rather than paying for the fulltime upkeep of two aircraft, which cost money even when they are sat in a hanger somewhere doing nothing. Unless you fly that aircraft every day on paying routes, its simply bad business to maintain a fleet of any size.
Why should you be automatically entitled to something that the owner doesnt want to currently sell or give you? Just because you want it doesnt justify removing choice of distribution from the owner.
If the sites dont allow for the accused to reply in full on the same page as the complaint, then there is no way to refute the complaints with the truth to the same audience. Since a lot of these sites are single people setting up 'hit' sites, they arent about to allow their accused to represent their own point of view and ruin the concept of the site.
The main reason that Pearl Harbour was a failure for the Japanese was because they neglected to target the fuel depots and supply chains on hte island - if they had left the ships alone and gone for the supply chain on the island, they would have had the entire theatre to themselves for the next 5 years. You can easily replace ships, you cant easily replace supply chains.
I think its amusing that that article has 'Email to a Friend' at the bottom :)
Yes, they are. THe law that you quoted backs me up as the device in question is a Class II TFT screen - you cannot expect perfection on a device that is already presented as not guaranteed to be perfect, so the screen would conform to contract and meet the rest of the criteria under the Sales of Goods act so long as the dead pixel count conforms to the Class II criteria. This is what a reasonable person would consider satisfactory. You cannot expect goods to conform to higher standards than they are sold to. Under this case a minor defect DOES NOT include dead pixels as the panel conforms to a certain specification and that specification is the extent to which the law will protect you, not some arbitrary criteria that you demand.
But, they are allowed to sell them with a certain amount of dead pixels by law. The Sales of Goods Act has no bearing on this matter, if the type of TFT display used is Class II (and most consumer items are), then you are allowed a certain number of dead pixels per inch of screen space as that is what is laid down in the TFT standards and that standard is the level of quality that the law will extend to. One or two dead pixels do not render the unit unusable.
Why would it be affected? OpenSSH would just be linked against a *specific* version of the GPLed software that is affected, and not hte newer versions. If a feature is needed, its implemented into what is essentially a fork. Its the same with any software, if the new license proves to be disliked, you will see forks appearing and projects split into a GPL2 codebase and a GPL3 codebase, essentially independant of each other.
Nothing that RMS or the FSF does will take away older versions of the software, and so long as those versions are under the GPL 2 you can continue using them as you do today.
Now the New GPL comes along and tells me I can't use Linux, Apache, Tomcat, etc.
None of those applications will be affected - Linux is specifically under version 2 of the GPL, Apache and Tomcat are under the Apache License. Even so, If any major opensource project were affected, you would see forks of the codebase happen at the last viably licensed point, just like what happeend with Xfree.
Why should Sun GPL their implementation. Seriously, why? The damand for Sun to do so seems to stem from slashdotters, and I havent yet seen a good reason *WHY* they should give away their Java implementation under the GPL. The specification I agree with - put it under the control of a independant standards body, but Sun should keep their implementation and everyone can still implement their own. Why is it that theres a rather vocal number of slashdotters who seem to demand that companies (not just Sun) give away their code? Write your goddamn own.