The terrorist guy wasnt elected 'only by a group of prisoners' - each colony elected a representative, and his home colony chose him. Same goes for Baltar and the rest of the council.
For the same reason we got the first season before North America - Sky funded half of it with the agreement that they got to screen it first. Nothing has changed for the second season with regard to that agreement.
that they allowed you to lower the MAXIMUM bid you put on an item, so long as you kept the maximum bid amount above your current bid. I dont really see what effect this would have on the auction.
The song has plenty of content, 1 minute 3 seconds of it infact. Content is what someone makes of it, there isnt some universal boolean value that says 'this is content' and 'this isnt'. Oh, and the 'thiefs' actions would have been a crime - breaking and entering.
Dunno if you know this, but the UK has already had the ENTIRE first season aired - it finished 3 or 4 weeks ago over here (wanna know the cliffhanger?:). Chances are we will also get the second season before North America also.
Welcome to how it usually works out for everyone not in the US:) What happened with BSG is pretty much unheard of - it airing outside North America first, but I really hope Season 2 is aired in the same way.
Generally the first season is shorter, but heres a list of recent shows that had 24 or more episodes per season - I was surprised to see it wasnt as large as I initially thought.
TV Show - Episodes per season
Voyager - 26
Deepspace 9 - 26
Enterprise - 26
24 - 24
West Wing - 24
Friends - Hovered between 23 and 25
It was a teaser season - noone knew how well a BSG remake would do as a series, and since Scifi shows tend to be highcost per episode (as high as $1million an ep) they did a half season to test the viewing figures. Note how the second season is only 20 eps long, while most other show seasons tend to be 24 eps?
Possibly the best scifantasy show thats been on TV in a long time, thankyou for giving it a 'full' season run this time round, and kudos to the creators for giving people the ability to download an episode legitimately - lets hope this leads to more!
From experience, it restricted itself to the first two CPUs it comes across, so logical CPU 1, and HT CPU 1. Discovered this with Windows XP Pro and a Dual Xeon w/HT enabled. To use both physical CPUs, we disabled HT on the motherboard - Microsoft is supposed to have released a patch which removes this limitation tho, it will only count the physical CPUs under licenses, but I havent tested this in the pat 18months or so.
Also the picture that says 'Demonic American soldier
humiliating an Iraqi man held prisoner' is a BRITISH soldier, hes holding an SA-80 and wearing British issue desert combats. Doesnt add a lot of credence to the claims of that site.
Already happens. I recently had a warranty replacement drive returned to me from Western Digital - it was marked as a 80GB disk, it looked identical to an 80GB disk, it *was* an 80GB disk, but it only showed 40GB to the system and OS (which was the size of the disk it replaced). I couldnt see any way to get it to open up the 'missing' space.
Before iTunesMS came along, the desired price point most often touted by posters in P2P related stories on slashdot was $0.99c a song, with the option of purchasing specific songs. I see in no way how that is 'expensive' or 'exorbitant'.
The reason it isnt this easy for everyone to offer a similiarly effective and useful service is because when you do it within the law, with proper permission from the copyright owners, you dont get to have the freedom and complete lack of overheads that AllOfMp3 enjoys, entirely because theres a huge chance that what it does isnt legal.
1. You arent paying the copyright owners the same amount of money per song as iTunes is.
2. You easily get a certificate from the 'copyright holder' allowing you do do what you want with their stuff.
Basically they can afford to provide the service they do because they dont have the overheads that iTunes does - namely proper permission and everything that comes with it:) Do you really think that the same copyright owners that forced iTMS to come with DRM would allow this company to do what they wanted with the same material? Oh and the Movie Studios and Recording Studios that started out by operating illegally generally produced their own products rather than taking someone elses wholesale and selling it on, it was other areas in which they broke the law, like patents.
Im not turning things around at all, regardless of the fact that breaking the GPL means not distributing the source (or distributing it under a different license), if I distributed the Linux kernel without giving you the sourcecode for that particular version then I have broken the terms of the GPL. This person also had terms to abide by, which he didnt, and Apple is well within its rights to call for punishment.
Anything else is pure semantics, and tantamount to saying 'Laws should protect one aspect of a populace and not another'. Not everyone subscribes to Stallmans views, but to say that closed source software is 'evil' and opensource software 'isnt evil', which the grandparent was, is ludicrous and has absolutely no basis in fact at all.
If you were to say that one was about fear and the other was about love, then that would be your opinion, but it wouldnt make it any closer to reality - both are methods of licensing software according to that software creators desires and end goals. Why should Apple say 'mend your ways' - its up to a Judge in a court of law to say that, or do you not realise that the whole point of a central judicial system was to stop arbitrary and unjust punishments by victims?
Calling closed source software evil is like saying the brick wall around your neighbours garden is evil, because you let anyone into your garden and he wants to control access to his. Just because Apple doesnt want to let you play with their ball under your terms doesnt make their software license evil.
If someone distributed the Linux kernel under conditions that do not meet the GPL, what would you be saying then? The code was licensed under an agreement, whatever agreement that happens to be, and this person broke the terms of that agreement.
Why is that evil? Infact, why is ANY of it considered evil? It isnt - you want credit, then you need either a credit score or a really trusting creditor.
The one glaring hole I've found with UK data protection legislation is that you can't forcibly remove information somebody has about you as long as the information is correct.
Its not a hole, its there deliberately and its there in part to protect companies. Imagine for a second you could force a company to remove valid data about you - business relationship or not. Youve just gained the right as an individual to always have a perfect credit rating, as you can always get Experian etc to remove bad entries from your credit record.
A company also needs to know if it wants to deal with you or not - maybe youve been a bad customer in the past, IE returning a lot of products. Yes, you have the right to do that, but a company also has the right not to deal with you. If they couldnt store that information, you can continue on being a 'bad' customer because they can never know beyond that transaction.
Some companies do store more information than necessary, and this should be looked at, but I do not support the wholesale removal of information upon request.
They arent supposed to help the consumers that take part in them, they are supposed to punish the offending company. You are by all means welcome to start your own private suit against the company yourself, but be prepared for all the legal bills and such.
It took Valve 3 years to do Half-life 2. (I'm guessing at the 3 years, I can't play FPS, motion-sickness). They rushed this, KOTOR 2 should have had atleast a 2 year Dev cycle. They stuffed it into 1.
For what its worth, HalfLife2 has a totally meaningless, wtf type ending, with a definate feeling that someone got bored writing the storyline at that point or something. It just... ended. Crap.
Russia put together several fairly major space stations over the past 30 years, without the Shuttle. Im sure that if they wanted to go it alone, they wouldnt have any trouble coming up with a way to resume construction with what they do have.
A US appeals court has ruled that two reporters must testify about their sources in an investigation into the leaking of a CIA officer's name.
and
"There is no First Amendment privilege protecting the evidence sought," Judge David Sentelle wrote in his decision.
Previously, US District Judge Thomas F Hogan had ruled that Cooper must testify "regarding alleged conversations they had with a specified executive branch official".
It seems quite plain to me that there is no court backed protection of sources.
That and the very real possibility that a competitor can act on the information to bring a competing product to market before the leaked product. That causes very real damage.
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The terrorist guy wasnt elected 'only by a group of prisoners' - each colony elected a representative, and his home colony chose him. Same goes for Baltar and the rest of the council.
For the same reason we got the first season before North America - Sky funded half of it with the agreement that they got to screen it first. Nothing has changed for the second season with regard to that agreement.
that they allowed you to lower the MAXIMUM bid you put on an item, so long as you kept the maximum bid amount above your current bid. I dont really see what effect this would have on the auction.
The song has plenty of content, 1 minute 3 seconds of it infact. Content is what someone makes of it, there isnt some universal boolean value that says 'this is content' and 'this isnt'. Oh, and the 'thiefs' actions would have been a crime - breaking and entering.
The new DrWho is being filmed at the moment in the UK, expect to see it mid 2005!
Dunno if you know this, but the UK has already had the ENTIRE first season aired - it finished 3 or 4 weeks ago over here (wanna know the cliffhanger? :). Chances are we will also get the second season before North America also.
Welcome to how it usually works out for everyone not in the US :) What happened with BSG is pretty much unheard of - it airing outside North America first, but I really hope Season 2 is aired in the same way.
Generally the first season is shorter, but heres a list of recent shows that had 24 or more episodes per season - I was surprised to see it wasnt as large as I initially thought.
TV Show - Episodes per seasonVoyager - 26
Deepspace 9 - 26
Enterprise - 26
24 - 24
West Wing - 24
Friends - Hovered between 23 and 25
It was a teaser season - noone knew how well a BSG remake would do as a series, and since Scifi shows tend to be highcost per episode (as high as $1million an ep) they did a half season to test the viewing figures. Note how the second season is only 20 eps long, while most other show seasons tend to be 24 eps?
Possibly the best scifantasy show thats been on TV in a long time, thankyou for giving it a 'full' season run this time round, and kudos to the creators for giving people the ability to download an episode legitimately - lets hope this leads to more!
From experience, it restricted itself to the first two CPUs it comes across, so logical CPU 1, and HT CPU 1. Discovered this with Windows XP Pro and a Dual Xeon w/HT enabled. To use both physical CPUs, we disabled HT on the motherboard - Microsoft is supposed to have released a patch which removes this limitation tho, it will only count the physical CPUs under licenses, but I havent tested this in the pat 18months or so.
Also the picture that says 'Demonic American soldier humiliating an Iraqi man held prisoner' is a BRITISH soldier, hes holding an SA-80 and wearing British issue desert combats. Doesnt add a lot of credence to the claims of that site.
Already happens. I recently had a warranty replacement drive returned to me from Western Digital - it was marked as a 80GB disk, it looked identical to an 80GB disk, it *was* an 80GB disk, but it only showed 40GB to the system and OS (which was the size of the disk it replaced). I couldnt see any way to get it to open up the 'missing' space.
Before iTunesMS came along, the desired price point most often touted by posters in P2P related stories on slashdot was $0.99c a song, with the option of purchasing specific songs. I see in no way how that is 'expensive' or 'exorbitant'.
The reason it isnt this easy for everyone to offer a similiarly effective and useful service is because when you do it within the law, with proper permission from the copyright owners, you dont get to have the freedom and complete lack of overheads that AllOfMp3 enjoys, entirely because theres a huge chance that what it does isnt legal.
Its easy to provide a kickass service when:
:) Do you really think that the same copyright owners that forced iTMS to come with DRM would allow this company to do what they wanted with the same material? Oh and the Movie Studios and Recording Studios that started out by operating illegally generally produced their own products rather than taking someone elses wholesale and selling it on, it was other areas in which they broke the law, like patents.
1. You arent paying the copyright owners the same amount of money per song as iTunes is.
2. You easily get a certificate from the 'copyright holder' allowing you do do what you want with their stuff.
Basically they can afford to provide the service they do because they dont have the overheads that iTunes does - namely proper permission and everything that comes with it
Im not turning things around at all, regardless of the fact that breaking the GPL means not distributing the source (or distributing it under a different license), if I distributed the Linux kernel without giving you the sourcecode for that particular version then I have broken the terms of the GPL. This person also had terms to abide by, which he didnt, and Apple is well within its rights to call for punishment.
Anything else is pure semantics, and tantamount to saying 'Laws should protect one aspect of a populace and not another'. Not everyone subscribes to Stallmans views, but to say that closed source software is 'evil' and opensource software 'isnt evil', which the grandparent was, is ludicrous and has absolutely no basis in fact at all.
If you were to say that one was about fear and the other was about love, then that would be your opinion, but it wouldnt make it any closer to reality - both are methods of licensing software according to that software creators desires and end goals. Why should Apple say 'mend your ways' - its up to a Judge in a court of law to say that, or do you not realise that the whole point of a central judicial system was to stop arbitrary and unjust punishments by victims?
Calling closed source software evil is like saying the brick wall around your neighbours garden is evil, because you let anyone into your garden and he wants to control access to his. Just because Apple doesnt want to let you play with their ball under your terms doesnt make their software license evil.
If someone distributed the Linux kernel under conditions that do not meet the GPL, what would you be saying then? The code was licensed under an agreement, whatever agreement that happens to be, and this person broke the terms of that agreement.
Why is that evil? Infact, why is ANY of it considered evil? It isnt - you want credit, then you need either a credit score or a really trusting creditor.
The one glaring hole I've found with UK data protection legislation is that you can't forcibly remove information somebody has about you as long as the information is correct.
Its not a hole, its there deliberately and its there in part to protect companies. Imagine for a second you could force a company to remove valid data about you - business relationship or not. Youve just gained the right as an individual to always have a perfect credit rating, as you can always get Experian etc to remove bad entries from your credit record.
A company also needs to know if it wants to deal with you or not - maybe youve been a bad customer in the past, IE returning a lot of products. Yes, you have the right to do that, but a company also has the right not to deal with you. If they couldnt store that information, you can continue on being a 'bad' customer because they can never know beyond that transaction.
Some companies do store more information than necessary, and this should be looked at, but I do not support the wholesale removal of information upon request.
They arent supposed to help the consumers that take part in them, they are supposed to punish the offending company. You are by all means welcome to start your own private suit against the company yourself, but be prepared for all the legal bills and such.
It took Valve 3 years to do Half-life 2. (I'm guessing at the 3 years, I can't play FPS, motion-sickness). They rushed this, KOTOR 2 should have had atleast a 2 year Dev cycle. They stuffed it into 1.
For what its worth, HalfLife2 has a totally meaningless, wtf type ending, with a definate feeling that someone got bored writing the storyline at that point or something. It just ... ended. Crap.
Russia put together several fairly major space stations over the past 30 years, without the Shuttle. Im sure that if they wanted to go it alone, they wouldnt have any trouble coming up with a way to resume construction with what they do have.
A US appeals court has ruled that two reporters must testify about their sources in an investigation into the leaking of a CIA officer's name.
and
"There is no First Amendment privilege protecting the evidence sought," Judge David Sentelle wrote in his decision.
Previously, US District Judge Thomas F Hogan had ruled that Cooper must testify "regarding alleged conversations they had with a specified executive branch official".
It seems quite plain to me that there is no court backed protection of sources.
That and the very real possibility that a competitor can act on the information to bring a competing product to market before the leaked product. That causes very real damage.