Actually, it never failed. Once British Airways purchased the aircraft from the British - French consortium (for the grand sum of £1 per plane:), they started making profit on the flights. Interesting anecdote: When British Airways took over the planes, they looked for ways to make them profitable. They threw a party for all the most frequent fliers of Concorde, and at that party, they had people go around the fliers and ask them how they valued their seats on the plane. THey found out that 90% of these people didnt know the cost, they were the type of people to just tell their secretaries to book them on Concorde in a weeks time, and when asked to guess the cost, most put the fare at twice the actual price. So British Airways just doubled the price, and didnt loose a single one of the party members.
You may be referring to the fact that it never recouped its development costs, but for the duration that British Airways and Air France flew them, they were profitable aircraft. The reason they were removed from service was that they were about to become a lot more costly to maintain, due in part to Rolls-Royce refusing to extend a contract to manufacture spare parts and replacements for the Olympus engines the Concorde used. This mean that the two fleets would have to contract another supplier to make spare parts, which is a lot more costly due to the small number of aircraft this would be done for. The market for the aircraft was there, very few Concordes had empty seats when doing the daily crossing to New York and back - interestingly enough, no other airline has had more of its fleet of a particular type of aircraft in the air at any one time other than the Concorde, 4 flew across the atlantic every morning - 25% of the entire fleet of concorde.
Now there in lies the issue. What this game rates at should matter not to someone who cant play it, regardless if they have a better game. People seem to think that this 98% its received is somehow mystically applied across the board, it isnt. Its a score, for Halo2, on the Xbox. Thats it. It cant be compared to something its owners can never play.
Nope, its a 6 month old 17" TFT screen. As I said, very wierd, it goes away the instant i hit auto adjust on the screen, but returns on next boot. Nothing wrong in any other system I put on that screen, just OSX when it reaches the desktop (when its booting, that gray screen is rock solid)
I actually refuse to adblock any site, purely on the grounds that Im willing to pay the price to view the website, rather than taking it for free. If enough people block ads, it becomes an unviable income source, and then what? Slashdot goes subscription only? Goes under? What?
I actually meant to mention Expose, it works, its fantastic, I want to marry it:) Seriously tho, its fine on this system, slightly juddery but hey, cant have everything:)
because Im a potential switcher. I purchased a B&W 350mhzx PowerMac last week to see if MacOSX was really as good as its made out to be here on slashdot. The system is intended to let me try out OSX and a few other apps, so the speed isnt really an issue, adn Ive chucked a GB of ram in there anyway.
Coming from a WindowsXP background, some things Ive noticed so far:
Clicking the 'X' doesnt actually close the application. This annoyed me to start with, but ive slowly gotton used to it.
Having to select the application window before I can quit it using the application menu. Or I have to right click on the dock icon to quit. Annoying still.
Love the dock. Its just..... right.
Most of the file system is hidden from you, which I like. Put my data where I want it and ignore the rest.
The ability to access the underlying BSD OS easily. Love it.
Everything looks and feels 'polished'. THats what I always hated about KDE/Gnome when I tried them, the features were there, but noone had taken the time to step back and polish the entire thing off so it all looks and feels together.
Every time I boot the Mac, my TFT display is 'wavey' until i have the monitor do an autoadjust. Dont really know whoes fault this is, tho its fine under windows and linux.
So, final conclusion? I love it, so much that I have already placed an order for a G5 Imac. And in the meantime, Ive purchased a G4 upgrade for this little baby, just to help it along:) If you are wondering what OSX is like, go grab a cheap Mac off of Ebay and try it out. 233 Imac for £99?, 333 imac for £110? (both the same person, which isnt me, I have no affiliation with this person at all. - notice added for the pedantic slashdotters who hate to see someone else profit)
China signed on 29/05/98 and approved the treaty (legally the same as retifying the treaty) on 30/08/02. India never signed the treaty but placed themselves under it by accepting the treaty on 26/08/02. The total signings needed to place the treaty into force is 55. The total currently signed is 84. The total currently having ratified the treaty stands at 126, covering 44.2% of the worlds CO2 emissions. The 'World Leader' USA is distinctly lacking in having signed but never ratified, pure arrogance in my opinion.
You cant have it both ways, China and India are still classed by the UN as developing nations, and thus are subject to lesser restrictions. The fact of the matter is that the developed nations are the ones that have already done the damage, and that is one of the big reasons they can call themselves developed. Since Russia, by your very own words, already meets the targets laid down for it, regardless of how it accomplishes that, I dont think you can demand further restrictions on them. Since their economy is shagged currently, you think having output restrictions placed on them is going to have a positive effect when they attempt a recovery?
Ive never come across this 'EU rule' that says there must be a 2 year warranty. Infact, Id be very surprised, since most things Ive purchased in the EU has only come with a 1 year manufacturers warrenty.
That said, in the UK you are extremely well protected. Forget warranties, quote the Sale Of Goods Act 1979. Just a few protections given under that act:
Goods are of satisfactory quality if they reach the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory, taking into account the price and any description.
It is the seller, not the manufacturer, who is responsible if goods do not conform to contract. This covers the "go speak to the manufacturer" copout that many retailers give you
For up to six years after purchase (five years from discovery in Scotland) purchasers can demand damages (which a court would equate to the cost of a repair or replacement). Protection for 6 years under this act. Better than a warranty IMHO.
linky
This act covers inherent faults, EG your new DVD player not lasting a reasonable period of time (5 years?), or your PC developing a hardware fault 18 months down the line. It does not cover changing your mind or wearing out of goods.
Uhm, no. Firstly you dont have to allow Bittorrent to upload, it may cause issues if you dont, but theres no requirement. Secondly, just because the legal copyright owner is distributing the item, it doesnt legitimise the distribution by other people, as the copyright owner (or whoever the copyright owner has given distribution permission to), can distribute it as they see fit and that does not grant permission to others to distribute it. The people who connect to the copyright owners torrent peer may be getting a partially legal file, but this infers no legal rights on them to allow distribution, which they would be doing if they then uploaded it through bittorrent. The DMCA does not come into play, because the peers do not have rights to distribute the items in the first place, AND they are publically allowing access.
Whoa, are you saying they shouldnt have a monopoly on their own individual product? Anyone can grab a film camera, go shoot 120minutes of film and audio, open their own cinema and show the film theyve made for whatever price they want to, the MPAA are not stopping you doing this. What you are claiming is like saying "Hey, that Icecream parlor is selling its own brand icecream, and noone else is. They have a monopoly." when theres nothing stopping you setting up a competing parlor, with your own brand icecream.
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You are actually using more rules than you really need to, as you can combine the rdr and the pass rules:
## Webserver (http/https)
rdr pass on $ext_if proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port http -> 10.0.0.8 port http
rdr pass on $ext_if proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port https -> 10.0.0.8 port https
I like this better than having two seperate rules, as you know youve included both!
You seem to be certain that Iran has a WMD program. And indeed, the signs are all there -- but the signs were there for Iraq too. What if we invaded Iran and nothing was found?
The only indications that Iran has anything approaching a WMD program is the dual use Uranium enriching going on, and the US saying "why does an oil rich country need nuclear power?".
The informed answer is thus:
Iran is moving to sign and ratify the Kyoto accord, something the US has backed out of. With this treaty in place, Iran cant just step up burning of fossil fuels every time it needs some more power, and its CO2 quotas will be a profitable source of income, as it can sell unused quota amounts to other countries.
Iran knows its oil reserves are going to run out in the future, and its investigating alternative sources of energy for when that happens. If it forwent nuclear power now, then it will be left dependant on other countries. Looking at the current state of oil dependancy, that isnt a position you would want to be left in.
To be perfectly honest, I dont see WHY Iran should give in. If they go with the European option of having reactors supplied to them, they will still be dependant on another country, if they go with US proposals of fuel being supplied, again that leaves them dependant. Developing their own reactors and fuel enrichment is pretty much the only real option open to them that doesnt leave them dependant on other nations.
Then why do nearly all countries have age limits on purchasing cigarettes, alcohol and DVDs? Parents cannot control their children 100% of the time, so Governments must place limits on what retailers can sell this demographic, and the Government must also punish those retailers that do not follow the rules, or go against their spirit.
If this was about food or drugs or housing, Id agree with you. But this is about entertainment, which is a luxury, not a need. Robin Hood provided for the "needy", not the "wanty".
It always makes me laugh when someone shouts about "information freedom", because privacy is one of the most protected things in a civilised nation, and yet all it essentially is is information. Information doesnt want to be free - its not sentient, some people want certain information to be free.
If you wouldnt have bought it, what entitles to download it? You are enjoying the product, therefor you place some value on it and the product is offered to you at a price, so you have three legal options: Buy it, dont buy it, or listen to it on the radio. Heres a thought: take a laptop and a scanner to a bookstore and copy a book. See if the manager of that store will accept the "Im not going to buy it, so you arent loosing a sale" arguement.
Can you guarentee the integrity of every single file on that burned cd of WinXPPro? Can you trust every sets of hands its been through to get to you? Tell me now that there isnt a deeply buried trojan in there. With the Genuine CD I can say with 99% reliability and trust it, with a burned CD, I cant really give an answer. Theres no way for me to check.
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Actually, it never failed. Once British Airways purchased the aircraft from the British - French consortium (for the grand sum of £1 per plane :), they started making profit on the flights. Interesting anecdote: When British Airways took over the planes, they looked for ways to make them profitable. They threw a party for all the most frequent fliers of Concorde, and at that party, they had people go around the fliers and ask them how they valued their seats on the plane. THey found out that 90% of these people didnt know the cost, they were the type of people to just tell their secretaries to book them on Concorde in a weeks time, and when asked to guess the cost, most put the fare at twice the actual price. So British Airways just doubled the price, and didnt loose a single one of the party members.
You may be referring to the fact that it never recouped its development costs, but for the duration that British Airways and Air France flew them, they were profitable aircraft. The reason they were removed from service was that they were about to become a lot more costly to maintain, due in part to Rolls-Royce refusing to extend a contract to manufacture spare parts and replacements for the Olympus engines the Concorde used. This mean that the two fleets would have to contract another supplier to make spare parts, which is a lot more costly due to the small number of aircraft this would be done for. The market for the aircraft was there, very few Concordes had empty seats when doing the daily crossing to New York and back - interestingly enough, no other airline has had more of its fleet of a particular type of aircraft in the air at any one time other than the Concorde, 4 flew across the atlantic every morning - 25% of the entire fleet of concorde.
which many gamers outside of Xbox circles
Now there in lies the issue. What this game rates at should matter not to someone who cant play it, regardless if they have a better game. People seem to think that this 98% its received is somehow mystically applied across the board, it isnt. Its a score, for Halo2, on the Xbox. Thats it. It cant be compared to something its owners can never play.
sorry, "cost less than £100".
No, bog standard off the shelf VGA display. You dont think Im going to splash out on a display when the system itself cost £100? :)
Nope, its a 6 month old 17" TFT screen. As I said, very wierd, it goes away the instant i hit auto adjust on the screen, but returns on next boot. Nothing wrong in any other system I put on that screen, just OSX when it reaches the desktop (when its booting, that gray screen is rock solid)
I actually refuse to adblock any site, purely on the grounds that Im willing to pay the price to view the website, rather than taking it for free. If enough people block ads, it becomes an unviable income source, and then what? Slashdot goes subscription only? Goes under? What?
I actually meant to mention Expose, it works, its fantastic, I want to marry it :) Seriously tho, its fine on this system, slightly juddery but hey, cant have everything :)
Coming from a WindowsXP background, some things Ive noticed so far:
- Clicking the 'X' doesnt actually close the application. This annoyed me to start with, but ive slowly gotton used to it.
- Having to select the application window before I can quit it using the application menu. Or I have to right click on the dock icon to quit. Annoying still.
- Love the dock. Its just
..... right.
- Most of the file system is hidden from you, which I like. Put my data where I want it and ignore the rest.
- The ability to access the underlying BSD OS easily. Love it.
- Everything looks and feels 'polished'. THats what I always hated about KDE/Gnome when I tried them, the features were there, but noone had taken the time to step back and polish the entire thing off so it all looks and feels together.
- Every time I boot the Mac, my TFT display is 'wavey' until i have the monitor do an autoadjust. Dont really know whoes fault this is, tho its fine under windows and linux.
So, final conclusion? I love it, so much that I have already placed an order for a G5 Imac. And in the meantime, Ive purchased a G4 upgrade for this little baby, just to help it alongAnd the reason I havent heard of it is because it HASNT COME INTO FORCE YET IN MOST MEMBER NATIONS. THanks for the link tho.
China signed on 29/05/98 and approved the treaty (legally the same as retifying the treaty) on 30/08/02. India never signed the treaty but placed themselves under it by accepting the treaty on 26/08/02. The total signings needed to place the treaty into force is 55. The total currently signed is 84. The total currently having ratified the treaty stands at 126, covering 44.2% of the worlds CO2 emissions. The 'World Leader' USA is distinctly lacking in having signed but never ratified, pure arrogance in my opinion.
You cant have it both ways, China and India are still classed by the UN as developing nations, and thus are subject to lesser restrictions. The fact of the matter is that the developed nations are the ones that have already done the damage, and that is one of the big reasons they can call themselves developed. Since Russia, by your very own words, already meets the targets laid down for it, regardless of how it accomplishes that, I dont think you can demand further restrictions on them. Since their economy is shagged currently, you think having output restrictions placed on them is going to have a positive effect when they attempt a recovery?
They are on the list. They have restrictions. Balls in your court. Again.
That said, in the UK you are extremely well protected. Forget warranties, quote the Sale Of Goods Act 1979. Just a few protections given under that act:
- Goods are of satisfactory quality if they reach the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory, taking into account the price and any description.
- It is the seller, not the manufacturer, who is responsible if goods do not conform to contract. This covers the "go speak to the manufacturer" copout that many retailers give you
- For up to six years after purchase (five years from discovery in Scotland) purchasers can demand damages (which a court would equate to the cost of a repair or replacement). Protection for 6 years under this act. Better than a warranty IMHO.
linky This act covers inherent faults, EG your new DVD player not lasting a reasonable period of time (5 years?), or your PC developing a hardware fault 18 months down the line. It does not cover changing your mind or wearing out of goods.Right, so it takes adequate training for you TO TREAT YOUR FELLOW MAN CORRECTLY? Its called morals, ethics and standards, and are fairly basic things.
The URL for Lulu has a trailing " on the end, can someone please amend?
Uhm, no. Firstly you dont have to allow Bittorrent to upload, it may cause issues if you dont, but theres no requirement. Secondly, just because the legal copyright owner is distributing the item, it doesnt legitimise the distribution by other people, as the copyright owner (or whoever the copyright owner has given distribution permission to), can distribute it as they see fit and that does not grant permission to others to distribute it. The people who connect to the copyright owners torrent peer may be getting a partially legal file, but this infers no legal rights on them to allow distribution, which they would be doing if they then uploaded it through bittorrent. The DMCA does not come into play, because the peers do not have rights to distribute the items in the first place, AND they are publically allowing access.
Whoa, are you saying they shouldnt have a monopoly on their own individual product? Anyone can grab a film camera, go shoot 120minutes of film and audio, open their own cinema and show the film theyve made for whatever price they want to, the MPAA are not stopping you doing this. What you are claiming is like saying "Hey, that Icecream parlor is selling its own brand icecream, and noone else is. They have a monopoly." when theres nothing stopping you setting up a competing parlor, with your own brand icecream.
You are actually using more rules than you really need to, as you can combine the rdr and the pass rules:
## Webserver (http/https)
rdr pass on $ext_if proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port http -> 10.0.0.8 port http
rdr pass on $ext_if proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port https -> 10.0.0.8 port https
I like this better than having two seperate rules, as you know youve included both!
You seem to be certain that Iran has a WMD program. And indeed, the signs are all there -- but the signs were there for Iraq too. What if we invaded Iran and nothing was found?
The only indications that Iran has anything approaching a WMD program is the dual use Uranium enriching going on, and the US saying "why does an oil rich country need nuclear power?".
The informed answer is thus:
- Iran is moving to sign and ratify the Kyoto accord, something the US has backed out of. With this treaty in place, Iran cant just step up burning of fossil fuels every time it needs some more power, and its CO2 quotas will be a profitable source of income, as it can sell unused quota amounts to other countries.
- Iran knows its oil reserves are going to run out in the future, and its investigating alternative sources of energy for when that happens. If it forwent nuclear power now, then it will be left dependant on other countries. Looking at the current state of oil dependancy, that isnt a position you would want to be left in.
To be perfectly honest, I dont see WHY Iran should give in. If they go with the European option of having reactors supplied to them, they will still be dependant on another country, if they go with US proposals of fuel being supplied, again that leaves them dependant. Developing their own reactors and fuel enrichment is pretty much the only real option open to them that doesnt leave them dependant on other nations.Of course, Tianamen Square could never happen in the US, now could it?
Kent State University - May 4 1970. National Guard opens fire on Students protesting the Vietnam War. 4 Dead, 9 Injured.
Jackson State University - May 15 1970. Police open fire on a protesting crowd. 2 Dead, 12 Injured.
Just because the number of dead is smaller, do not dismiss this. When threatened, Governments will fight back.
Then why do nearly all countries have age limits on purchasing cigarettes, alcohol and DVDs? Parents cannot control their children 100% of the time, so Governments must place limits on what retailers can sell this demographic, and the Government must also punish those retailers that do not follow the rules, or go against their spirit.
If this was about food or drugs or housing, Id agree with you. But this is about entertainment, which is a luxury, not a need. Robin Hood provided for the "needy", not the "wanty".
It always makes me laugh when someone shouts about "information freedom", because privacy is one of the most protected things in a civilised nation, and yet all it essentially is is information. Information doesnt want to be free - its not sentient, some people want certain information to be free.
If you wouldnt have bought it, what entitles to download it? You are enjoying the product, therefor you place some value on it and the product is offered to you at a price, so you have three legal options: Buy it, dont buy it, or listen to it on the radio. Heres a thought: take a laptop and a scanner to a bookstore and copy a book. See if the manager of that store will accept the "Im not going to buy it, so you arent loosing a sale" arguement.
Can you guarentee the integrity of every single file on that burned cd of WinXPPro? Can you trust every sets of hands its been through to get to you? Tell me now that there isnt a deeply buried trojan in there. With the Genuine CD I can say with 99% reliability and trust it, with a burned CD, I cant really give an answer. Theres no way for me to check.