One thing to point out - the European Space Agency is not the EU. The 15 Member States of ESA are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Norway and Switzerland are not members of the EU. Greece and Luxembourg, which are EU members. are not in ESA.
A further logical consequence of this approach is that although a valid claim may comprise both
technical and non-technical features, it is not possible to monopolise the purely non-technical
features in isolation from the technical features.
The question is, how generic can they make this? Would they have been able to patent a routine that works with webcams under this proposal, thereby preventing any other operating system from using a webcam?
Because although this proposal does appear to have the capability of creating too many loopholes to prevent large companies obstructing small/medium size developers and the open source community, it does state that the exercise of a patent covering a computer-implemented invention should not interfere with the freedoms granted
under copyright law to software developers by the provisions of the Directive 91/250/EEC - i.e. that making of a back-up copy by a lawful user cannot be prevented.
Does that mean we Euros *can* legally break 'copyright protection' then?
Only if all the major security flaws are spotted before M$ stop supporting it - which is unlikely. So you'd have software with known vulnerabilities, and the only people who have the source code can't be bothered to fix it.
What the story is, is that carbonates should have formed abundantly if Mars had large seas. The amounts they have found with this mission are tiny.
This means either that Mars didn't have large seas, or that any carbonates that did form were in basins that have since been covered up, and hence weren't detectable by this mission.
The fate of a law is once again more influenced by what lobbyists want than what is in the interests of the people.
It may be one man, one vote, but that man is the picture of a dead president printed on green paper, and the more of them you have, the more votes you have.
A lot of which is due to bogus measurements and urban warming:
That's quite a claim. Any reason why you declare these results to be 'bogus'? If it is your urbanisation claim, I'd like to note that since 1979, trends in worldwide land-surface air temperature derived from weather stations in the Northern Hemisphere, in regions where urbanisation is likely to have been strong, agree closely with satellite derived temperature trends in the lower troposphere above the same regions. This suggests that urban heat island biases have not significantly affected surface temperature over the period.
> Britain, particularly the south-east, is so densely populated
Although some residents of London may not notice the existence of anything outside their city, the south-east of Britain is not the entire Northern Hemisphere.
> and they're designed to handle most airliners crashing straight into them.
So was the World Trade Center when it was built.
And you also declare costs - well, if you have such a guaranteed way to build profitable nuclear power plants, please contact British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. I'm sure they'd love to know how to avoid making another billion pound loss...
But - I don't have an Apple, and I'm not in the US.
It doesn't matter a fig how wonderful Apple's service and morality is, if I can't use them without moving to a different country. I'd use Apple's service, but I can't until they offer it to me. So, any firm dates for iTunes Europe, or is it still 'By the end of the year'?
> How can you (on the same web page) talk about your fiscal dicipline and introduce an idea for universal health care?
Universal health care and fiscal discipline exist simultaneously in a number of countries in the world. Britain's health service has an internal market of sorts, so there is some form of competition in place. So in response, I'd ask you - if other countries can do it, why can't the US?
Not that the British NHS works well these days. But it's still better than the US system.
The letter 'thorn', which looks like a deformed 'p' was pronounced 'th'. In HTML you can get it by using & thorn; or & #254; in the code (but not in Slashdot comments). As it fell out of use, it was sometimes replaced by a 'y' hence 'Ye Olde Shoppe' on signs.
The US does not use the 'original' forms - It merely uses one of the early forms. The English language was not homogenous until fairly recently.
If you look at the OED, you can find not just 'colour' and 'color' but 'colur' as in 'colurs o sun-dri heu' (from 1300). Besides, if you were going to start using the oldest spellings because they were 'right', you'd have to put the 'thorn' key back on the computer - and it doesn't appear to even be a valid symbol on Slashdot...
Well I am paying for one site I use a lot, until I either leave the UK or get rid of my television - the BBC online pages are funded out of the UK TV licence fee.
Whatever the Chinese Communist Party is, it isn't communist. They don't appear to have any problems with capitalists, as long as they steer clear of political comment. It'd be better to describe them as an authoritarian party.
Not that a democratic governments making money guarantees that *all* the people will get their fair share. If you believe yours does, you live in cloud cuckoo land.
In Great Britain the Constitution is the whole body of public law, customary as well as statutory, which is continually being modified by custom, judgement in the courts as well as by the elected representatives of the country.
The British Constitution developed from the Magna Carta and whilst it is not written down in one place, it is considered to be a strong constitution.
Just because the UK version isn't all in one place doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just because the US one is all down in one place, it doesn't mean the US government will uphold all of it if it things it can get away with ignoring bits it finds inconvenient.
>...politicians; those guys should be English majors
Or philosophers. Consider -
They argue over what the meaning of 'is' is.
They conclude the existence of objects from nothing more than argument, without the requirement of physical proof
They debate and challenge every single day the major question 'What is Truth?'
They have mastered the art of believing two completely contradictory ideas at the same time
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One thing to point out - the European Space Agency is not the EU. The 15 Member States of ESA are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Norway and Switzerland are not members of the EU. Greece and Luxembourg, which are EU members. are not in ESA.
A further logical consequence of this approach is that although a valid claim may comprise both technical and non-technical features, it is not possible to monopolise the purely non-technical features in isolation from the technical features.
The question is, how generic can they make this? Would they have been able to patent a routine that works with webcams under this proposal, thereby preventing any other operating system from using a webcam?
Does that mean we Euros *can* legally break 'copyright protection' then?
Only if all the major security flaws are spotted before M$ stop supporting it - which is unlikely. So you'd have software with known vulnerabilities, and the only people who have the source code can't be bothered to fix it.
This means either that Mars didn't have large seas, or that any carbonates that did form were in basins that have since been covered up, and hence weren't detectable by this mission.
Another article here
Not with worm vs worm. I have more an image of them firing wildly at each other with bazookas, grenades, sheep and exploding old women.
You're not Alastair Campbell, are you?
The fate of a law is once again more influenced by what lobbyists want than what is in the interests of the people.
It may be one man, one vote, but that man is the picture of a dead president printed on green paper, and the more of them you have, the more votes you have.
The French ministry of health now reckons it has killed 3,000!
That's quite a claim. Any reason why you declare these results to be 'bogus'? If it is your urbanisation claim, I'd like to note that since 1979, trends in worldwide land-surface air temperature derived from weather stations in the Northern Hemisphere, in regions where urbanisation is likely to have been strong, agree closely with satellite derived temperature trends in the lower troposphere above the same regions. This suggests that urban heat island biases have not significantly affected surface temperature over the period.
> Britain, particularly the south-east, is so densely populated
Although some residents of London may not notice the existence of anything outside their city, the south-east of Britain is not the entire Northern Hemisphere.
So was the World Trade Center when it was built.
And you also declare costs - well, if you have such a guaranteed way to build profitable nuclear power plants, please contact British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. I'm sure they'd love to know how to avoid making another billion pound loss...
But - I don't have an Apple, and I'm not in the US.
It doesn't matter a fig how wonderful Apple's service and morality is, if I can't use them without moving to a different country. I'd use Apple's service, but I can't until they offer it to me. So, any firm dates for iTunes Europe, or is it still 'By the end of the year'?
You want to see New Orleans underwater instead then?
Nah, it'll never catch on.
Universal health care and fiscal discipline exist simultaneously in a number of countries in the world. Britain's health service has an internal market of sorts, so there is some form of competition in place. So in response, I'd ask you - if other countries can do it, why can't the US?
Not that the British NHS works well these days. But it's still better than the US system.
Oh come on, you're not seriously advocating that you should pay the same amount of tax as Bill Gates are you?
The letter 'thorn', which looks like a deformed 'p' was pronounced 'th'. In HTML you can get it by using & thorn; or & #254; in the code (but not in Slashdot comments). As it fell out of use, it was sometimes replaced by a 'y' hence 'Ye Olde Shoppe' on signs.
The US does not use the 'original' forms - It merely uses one of the early forms. The English language was not homogenous until fairly recently. If you look at the OED, you can find not just 'colour' and 'color' but 'colur' as in 'colurs o sun-dri heu' (from 1300). Besides, if you were going to start using the oldest spellings because they were 'right', you'd have to put the 'thorn' key back on the computer - and it doesn't appear to even be a valid symbol on Slashdot...
Well I am paying for one site I use a lot, until I either leave the UK or get rid of my television - the BBC online pages are funded out of the UK TV licence fee.
Right, and if only they'd have left Standard Oil alone, they'd have been no Great depression!
Yes, I am being sarcastic.
Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Not that a democratic governments making money guarantees that *all* the people will get their fair share. If you believe yours does, you live in cloud cuckoo land.
Note that series 7 only had half of the Grant Naylor gestalt writing it - Rob Grant had left.
The British Constitution developed from the Magna Carta and whilst it is not written down in one place, it is considered to be a strong constitution.
Just because the UK version isn't all in one place doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just because the US one is all down in one place, it doesn't mean the US government will uphold all of it if it things it can get away with ignoring bits it finds inconvenient.
Or philosophers. Consider -
They argue over what the meaning of 'is' is.
They conclude the existence of objects from nothing more than argument, without the requirement of physical proof
They debate and challenge every single day the major question 'What is Truth?'
They have mastered the art of believing two completely contradictory ideas at the same time