Because the signal strength drops off with distance, by an inverse square law. So when you double the distance, the signal strength drops to 1/4 of what it started at.
The relevent bit of RU law, regulation 384/96 states that "an anti-dumping duty may be applied to any dumped product whose release for free circulation in the Community causes injury." (article 1(1))
And injury is defined as meaning "material injury to the Community industry, threat of material injury to the Community industry or material retardation of the establishment of such an industry." (article 3(1))
And dumping is "A product is to be considered as being dumped if its export price to the Community is less than a comparable price for the like product, in the ordinary course of trade, as established for the exporting country." (article 1(2))
So, one way or another, the price drop is probably OK. Now, 299 is not much below the US price of $299 (according to this it's $266.17 as I write this) so whether dumping is happening is questionable. And also, given that selling below cost price is standard practice in the console industry, I would be doubtful as to whether the price drop causes injury, as defined above. And of course, there would need to be some EU console manufacturers (or at least, a fledgling industry) to hurt before anything could be done.
One second is "the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom." (http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/current.html)
So basically, you messed up.us, so you want.com and that lot for yourselves?
Why should the usa have any more right to the generic tld's than anyone else?
You would need at least 2 units of energy to create 1 unit of energy's worth of antimatter, because you must also create an equal ammount of matter (1 unit of energy's worth.) If we could get out more energy than we put, we would have a perpetual motion machine, and we all know about perpetual mtion machines. (Ok, so it's a perpetual antimatter creation machine, for the pedants out there, but it's the same idea.)
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if they found a way to generate it with >50% efficiency, then there's no problem. I start with 1 gram of antimatter, combine it with another gram of normal matter and thus get 2 grams of energy. As long as I can use that to generate more than one new gram of antimatter, then I have a loop that takes in any kind of normal matter and gives out energy.
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Surely you must create equal ammounts of matter and anitmatter, as, for each particle you create, you must also make one of it's anti-particle, and vice-versa. Otherwise, how can properties like charge, up-ness, strangeness, etc. be conserved, as they must be. Thus the 2g of energy must (if we have 100% convertion) create 1g of matter and 1g of anitmatter. So you can't just magic energy out of nothingness
(btw, ianan(uclear)p(hysicist), so feel free to correct me if you are one:-) )
If I'm reading it right, it doesn't say anything about giving violent games away (including demos.)
What it says is "A person commits an offense if the person sells, rents, or otherwise provides for use for a charge any video game to a minor which contains scenes or depictions of graphic violence as determined by the Entertainment Software Rating Board."
If you're giving it away, you only need to tell people about the violence.
The difference is that the GPL is granting you extra rights, above those you have in law. So, if the GPL didn't apply, you would not have the author's permission to make a derivative work, and so any code you wrote that included GPL'ed code would be a breach of copyright. Just as if you were to use GPL'ed code any not GPL the resulting code.
(You know what 5 letters are coming, don't you?, Yep, it's the old favourite, IANAL)
Tell me, what part of that page is a copy of yours? All I have done is what alecto was advocating, and you were agreeing with. Where is the copyright violation?
So you have no objection to people putting images into their pages like this page does, giving no indication that it comes from someone elses page?
Fine:-)
(Go on, mod this down as flamebait or a troll, or something...)
Probably, they'd get baffled (come on, how many cops know octal?:-) ) They would look at your DoB (july 1985) and say that you're 16 or 17 (depending on when it happened, and how good they are at maths.) eanwhile, I would sit here laughing at the silly drinking laws you have over there in the USA:-)
Whereas the American government reads a lot (some say 90%) of internet traffic with it's "it doesn't exist, honest" system, Echelon. And then there's the one it does admit, Carnivore. And there the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.
I'm at Bristol, and this is how our firewall does things: http & ftp are pretty fast, but capped. ftp.mirror.ac.uk and ftp.sunsite.org.uk are unlimited. Everything else goes very slowly, but gets there eventually, but between 1am and 6am, bandwidth is unlimited, as there aren't any bandwidth charges then:-)
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Those would be the precision weapons that did this?
Because the signal strength drops off with distance, by an inverse square law. So when you double the distance, the signal strength drops to 1/4 of what it started at.
As an Australian I'll reciprocate - let me have a guess for the UK population ... erm...(picks random figure) 50 million? Ish?
:-)
For a random figure, that's pretty good - we're about 60 million.
Personally I wonder how the hell you manage to fit everybody into the place - no wonder you all smell (ducks for cover).
It's no use hiding. We caught (insert however many greats here) grandad (or granny) for something and transported 'em to Oz, and we'll get you too
The relevent bit of RU law, regulation 384/96 states that "an anti-dumping duty may be applied to any dumped product whose release for free circulation in the Community causes injury." (article 1(1))
And injury is defined as meaning "material injury to the Community industry, threat of material injury to the Community industry or material retardation of the establishment of such an industry." (article 3(1))
And dumping is "A product is to be considered as being dumped if its export price to the Community is less than a comparable price for the like product, in the ordinary course of trade, as established for the exporting country." (article 1(2))
So, one way or another, the price drop is probably OK. Now, 299 is not much below the US price of $299 (according to this it's $266.17 as I write this) so whether dumping is happening is questionable. And also, given that selling below cost price is standard practice in the console industry, I would be doubtful as to whether the price drop causes injury, as defined above. And of course, there would need to be some EU console manufacturers (or at least, a fledgling industry) to hurt before anything could be done.
And I though origami was just for making fleets of boats when you're bored during lectures :-)
Whoever wrote this law is a moron.
Well, they are politicians. What else would you expect?
Sorry, a cheap shot, I know...
One second is "the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom." (http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/current.html)
So basically, you messed up .us, so you want .com and that lot for yourselves?
Why should the usa have any more right to the generic tld's than anyone else?
This seems patently absurd
Most of the patent system is absurd.
BTW, was that pun intentional?
As I understand it, you can't create antimatter without creating matter. Of couse, if any /. reading nuclear physisists want to correct me, feel free.
You would need at least 2 units of energy to create 1 unit of energy's worth of antimatter, because you must also create an equal ammount of matter (1 unit of energy's worth.) If we could get out more energy than we put, we would have a perpetual motion machine, and we all know about perpetual mtion machines. (Ok, so it's a perpetual antimatter creation machine, for the pedants out there, but it's the same idea.)
--- if they found a way to generate it with >50% efficiency, then there's no problem. I start with 1 gram of antimatter, combine it with another gram of normal matter and thus get 2 grams of energy. As long as I can use that to generate more than one new gram of antimatter, then I have a loop that takes in any kind of normal matter and gives out energy. ---
:-) )
Surely you must create equal ammounts of matter and anitmatter, as, for each particle you create, you must also make one of it's anti-particle, and vice-versa. Otherwise, how can properties like charge, up-ness, strangeness, etc. be conserved, as they must be. Thus the 2g of energy must (if we have 100% convertion) create 1g of matter and 1g of anitmatter. So you can't just magic energy out of nothingness
(btw, ianan(uclear)p(hysicist), so feel free to correct me if you are one
If I'm reading it right, it doesn't say anything about giving violent games away (including demos.)
What it says is "A person commits an offense if the person sells, rents, or otherwise provides for use for a charge any video game to a minor which contains scenes or depictions of graphic violence as determined by the Entertainment Software Rating Board."
If you're giving it away, you only need to tell people about the violence.
The difference is that the GPL is granting you extra rights, above those you have in law. So, if the GPL didn't apply, you would not have the author's permission to make a derivative work, and so any code you wrote that included GPL'ed code would be a breach of copyright. Just as if you were to use GPL'ed code any not GPL the resulting code. (You know what 5 letters are coming, don't you?, Yep, it's the old favourite, IANAL)
No, we would come second. After all, we need something to whinge about :-)
Tell me, what part of that page is a copy of yours? All I have done is what alecto was advocating, and you were agreeing with. Where is the copyright violation?
So you have no objection to people putting images into their pages like this page does, giving no indication that it comes from someone elses page? Fine :-)
(Go on, mod this down as flamebait or a troll, or something...)
And how many people do you think will be willing to pay for eight swarms of probes? afterall, someone has to.
That key has ¦, not |
Probably, they'd get baffled (come on, how many cops know octal? :-) ) They would look at your DoB (july 1985) and say that you're 16 or 17 (depending on when it happened, and how good they are at maths.) eanwhile, I would sit here laughing at the silly drinking laws you have over there in the USA :-)
"After March 15, any mail sent to a mediaone.net address will be rejected."
Have they never heard of forwarding?
Whereas the American government reads a lot (some say 90%) of internet traffic with it's "it doesn't exist, honest" system, Echelon. And then there's the one it does admit, Carnivore. And there the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.
Err... Please feel free to ignore that, I was wrong. It is 3800km. Opsies :-)
3.8cm/yr is 0.038m/yr, which, over a billion (1,000,000,000) years gives 380km, which is even less of a difference :-)
I'm at Bristol, and this is how our firewall does things: http & ftp are pretty fast, but capped. ftp.mirror.ac.uk and ftp.sunsite.org.uk are unlimited. Everything else goes very slowly, but gets there eventually, but between 1am and 6am, bandwidth is unlimited, as there aren't any bandwidth charges then :-)