This is why we need cap and trade, not a carbon tax. If I can produce energy that's carbon neutral, I'll get paid to be fat
The problem with that is that generally speaking the fatter you are, the more you fart. Since there's carbon dioxide and quite frequently methane in the resulting... expulsion... you're contributing to global warming that way.
I'd have to agree with you, but I also find it very interesting to note that there is no reference to their loss in this case in their media releases.
Victoria (Australia) has a rather nice little provision on the books which would aid in dealing with companies such as this. Pity they've only applied it to 14 people.
Someone really ought to let Microsoft know about this... after all, despite three service packs, Windows XP and Server 2003 still requires a floppy drive in order to load drivers for non-standard hardware (including SATA drives not in emulation mode) that will need to be accessed as part of installation.
Changing money size would mean that every machine that vends any type of bus/train/transit ticket here would have to be swapped out.
Again, I'll ask if you think that we didn't go through this when we changed currency - of course we did!
Not to mention cash registers - I'm sure all of the mom-and-pop stores would be happy to toss their old single-size machines in favor of something new...
Not necessarily. This would only be the case if any note were larger than the existing notes.
Well that's nice. I presume CSIRO has given the US royalty free use of the patent. What's that? They haven't? Ahh well there you go then.
Why should we? It was an Australian invention and Australians should benefit from it. This particular issue hasn't been of concern to countries such as China, Brazil or Mexico (to name just a few)
Please understand that for various reasons, not the least of which being the vast amount of US currency in use, the distance to Australia, and so on it would not at all work for the US to contract to Australia to print their notes.
It works fine for Romania and Kuwait, both of whom are a similar distance from Australia. Besides, as has already been pointed out, countries such as Brazil print their own.
Also understand that a radical change in the materials of the notes could lead to problems in compatibility with various automated systems that deal with them. So while the longer life of the notes is nice, it isn't the only concern.
So do you think that (a) we didn't go through that in Australia or (b) that we don't have vending machines in Australia? You haven't mentioned a single real reason why it couldn't be done.
Frankly, the only real reason it hasn't (and probably won't) happen is that the US have to do everything their own way, even if they end up with an inferior technology as a result.
The AI received a major upgrade recently, which allows for different AIs that each behave differently. Personally, I prefer playing without AIs and simply enjoy building a transport network as complete as possible. Everyone who plays the game enjoys it for their own reason, but when you consider that the game that OpenTTD is based on was released in 1994 and that (a) people are still playing it and (b) that a 6 year old project to update it is still going strong - well, that alone should tell you that there's something about this game that's pretty damn good.
You really can't call it a package manager because it doesn't do dependency and it doesn't do upgrades. It just does patches - which is why it is not called a package manager.
Actually, WSUS does do dependences, even if it does them badly. I do agree that calling it a package manager is an overstatement though.
No, obviously Pi day is January 3rd. Though to be completely accurate, Pi day won't occur until January 3rd, 4159. A Wednesday, for anyone who's interested.
If the game industry as a whole spends a few hundred million dollars to prevent tens of billions of dollars of used game sales, that is profitable and not stupid.
Besides p...ing your customers off.
What a lot of these companies either don't realise or don't care about (my bet is mostly on the latter) is that it is perfectly legitimate for someone to sell a game they purchased to someone else, provided they don't retain a copy for themselves.
This isn't a trend that's limited to games either - the remote access program used by both the company I work for now and a company I used to work for a few years ago have now started requiring activation of each copy of the program that is installed. That is inconvenient, but in itself isn't a massive problem. Unfortunately you can no longer buy an "unlimited" pack for this software either That's a bigger problem, but not yet a deal-breaker. Where the big problem comes in is that there is no facility at all to *recover* a license from an old PC. Even if you uninstall the program and re-install it on the same machine again, it will consume a second licence. *THAT* is unacceptable and sufficient for us to be looking for another suitable remote access program.
Microsoft's first OS for smartphones (Pocket PC 2002) was release in October 2001, that's over 5 years before Apple and a full 7 years before Google's foray into the mobile platform. You can say a lot, mostly bad, about it, but MS has been at this longer than those two companies put together.
You'd have thought in that time that they might actually have made some progress.
As part of work, I was given a Windows Mobile 18 months ago - first a WM 6.0 which was subsequently upgraded to 6.1 and finally 6.5. Almost every review I saw of the two upgrades to WM that I've used have said "it's less crap than the old version" - which I might add, has been exactly my experience. Whilst they don't tend to bluescreen, they do run slow, are unresponsive, Exchange mail randomly stops updating until I do a send/receive - just to name a few of the irritations I have with the phone.
I've seen Android in action - work has started to switch to Android phones - and there's no comparison.
What I would find interesting is to know what events occurred during the valleys and rapid climb moments indicated in the graph. Specifically, what happened in Dec '06 and Sep '09?
December 2006 was the release of Vista. (Well, November 30th, but close enough)
September 2009 was the release of Windows 7.
I'd ask the question "when will these guys ever learn" except that if I got a reply of anything other than "never" I'd be totally shocked.
Unfortunately, I'd have to say that this "proposal" is most certainly not dead - as the article clearly stated, the ruling was against the FCC's authority to impose this measure, rather than against the measure itself.
Possibly it shouldn't worry me all that much, living in Australia. However with the FTA in force - and one of the provisions in the FTA relating to the respect of copyright protection, maybe it should. In the end though, I keep thinking of the quote I used to see when opening up MythWeb every now and again - consumers just won't buy devices that won't let them do what they want to.
Except at a movie theater you're not "buying" a movie, you are renting a seat in a building, and in return they entertain you.
But they sure as hell don't give you a refund if the movie is crap...:)
That being said, I would accept DRM in almost any rental arrangement, provided there was a guarentee of playability. (no sense in getting home and discovering that your machine won't play the video because their DRM specs are two months out of date) I would be loathe to accept any DRM for anything I bought.
You've got a better chance of getting struck by a winning lottery ticket.
Better check again...:)
On the subject of lotteries, I wonder how long it will be before the lottery companies declare the use of this box illegal and start trying to weasel out of paying winnings...
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This is why we need cap and trade, not a carbon tax. If I can produce energy that's carbon neutral, I'll get paid to be fat
The problem with that is that generally speaking the fatter you are, the more you fart. Since there's carbon dioxide and quite frequently methane in the resulting... expulsion... you're contributing to global warming that way.
Let me guess: cosmic ray. Is it really that hard? What else causes a single bit-flip error in space?
Pick one. Any one.
Do what works.
Don't get caught.
Not a particularly helpful suggestion since the poster was asking where they can find out what works properly and how it interacts with local laws.
I'd have to agree with you, but I also find it very interesting to note that there is no reference to their loss in this case in their media releases.
Victoria (Australia) has a rather nice little provision on the books which would aid in dealing with companies such as this. Pity they've only applied it to 14 people.
Someone really ought to let Microsoft know about this... after all, despite three service packs, Windows XP and Server 2003 still requires a floppy drive in order to load drivers for non-standard hardware (including SATA drives not in emulation mode) that will need to be accessed as part of installation.
Here's one that has to do with vending machines:
Changing money size would mean that every machine that vends any type of bus/train/transit ticket here would have to be swapped out.
Again, I'll ask if you think that we didn't go through this when we changed currency - of course we did!
Not to mention cash registers - I'm sure all of the mom-and-pop stores would be happy to toss their old single-size machines in favor of something new...
Not necessarily. This would only be the case if any note were larger than the existing notes.
You can't tip strippers with dollar coins.
Yeah, that pesky thong is in the way of the coin slot.
Oh god, if only I had some mod points! Classic!
Well that's nice. I presume CSIRO has given the US royalty free use of the patent. What's that? They haven't? Ahh well there you go then.
Why should we? It was an Australian invention and Australians should benefit from it. This particular issue hasn't been of concern to countries such as China, Brazil or Mexico (to name just a few)
Please understand that for various reasons, not the least of which being the vast amount of US currency in use, the distance to Australia, and so on it would not at all work for the US to contract to Australia to print their notes.
It works fine for Romania and Kuwait, both of whom are a similar distance from Australia. Besides, as has already been pointed out, countries such as Brazil print their own.
Also understand that a radical change in the materials of the notes could lead to problems in compatibility with various automated systems that deal with them. So while the longer life of the notes is nice, it isn't the only concern.
So do you think that (a) we didn't go through that in Australia or (b) that we don't have vending machines in Australia? You haven't mentioned a single real reason why it couldn't be done.
Frankly, the only real reason it hasn't (and probably won't) happen is that the US have to do everything their own way, even if they end up with an inferior technology as a result.
Drawings of schoolgirls getting raped.
There's quite a difference. Unless you think they abduct actual schoolgirls, and octopuses, to use them as models.
Not in Australia there isn't.
This country seems to be determined to put itself on a fast track to eliminating common sense every bit as quickly as the United States.
The AI received a major upgrade recently, which allows for different AIs that each behave differently. Personally, I prefer playing without AIs and simply enjoy building a transport network as complete as possible. Everyone who plays the game enjoys it for their own reason, but when you consider that the game that OpenTTD is based on was released in 1994 and that (a) people are still playing it and (b) that a 6 year old project to update it is still going strong - well, that alone should tell you that there's something about this game that's pretty damn good.
You really can't call it a package manager because it doesn't do dependency and it doesn't do upgrades. It just does patches - which is why it is not called a package manager.
Actually, WSUS does do dependences, even if it does them badly. I do agree that calling it a package manager is an overstatement though.
Nah, more likely an Unending Poofume Source
No, obviously Pi day is January 3rd. Though to be completely accurate, Pi day won't occur until January 3rd, 4159. A Wednesday, for anyone who's interested.
Even the web site is quick as a flash... I got this in less than a second!
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...someone would have come up with a shoe phone!
Never mind the "technical protection measure". There's enough precedent alone for an appeal...
If the game industry as a whole spends a few hundred million dollars to prevent tens of billions of dollars of used game sales, that is profitable and not stupid.
Besides p...ing your customers off. What a lot of these companies either don't realise or don't care about (my bet is mostly on the latter) is that it is perfectly legitimate for someone to sell a game they purchased to someone else, provided they don't retain a copy for themselves. This isn't a trend that's limited to games either - the remote access program used by both the company I work for now and a company I used to work for a few years ago have now started requiring activation of each copy of the program that is installed. That is inconvenient, but in itself isn't a massive problem. Unfortunately you can no longer buy an "unlimited" pack for this software either That's a bigger problem, but not yet a deal-breaker. Where the big problem comes in is that there is no facility at all to *recover* a license from an old PC. Even if you uninstall the program and re-install it on the same machine again, it will consume a second licence. *THAT* is unacceptable and sufficient for us to be looking for another suitable remote access program.
Microsoft's first OS for smartphones (Pocket PC 2002) was release in October 2001, that's over 5 years before Apple and a full 7 years before Google's foray into the mobile platform. You can say a lot, mostly bad, about it, but MS has been at this longer than those two companies put together.
You'd have thought in that time that they might actually have made some progress. As part of work, I was given a Windows Mobile 18 months ago - first a WM 6.0 which was subsequently upgraded to 6.1 and finally 6.5. Almost every review I saw of the two upgrades to WM that I've used have said "it's less crap than the old version" - which I might add, has been exactly my experience. Whilst they don't tend to bluescreen, they do run slow, are unresponsive, Exchange mail randomly stops updating until I do a send/receive - just to name a few of the irritations I have with the phone. I've seen Android in action - work has started to switch to Android phones - and there's no comparison.
...I actually agree with him. Better kill me now.
A laptop.
Personally, I'd have said "a netbook", but maybe I'm just splitting hairs.
What I would find interesting is to know what events occurred during the valleys and rapid climb moments indicated in the graph. Specifically, what happened in Dec '06 and Sep '09?
December 2006 was the release of Vista. (Well, November 30th, but close enough) September 2009 was the release of Windows 7.
Unfortunately, I'd have to say that this "proposal" is most certainly not dead - as the article clearly stated, the ruling was against the FCC's authority to impose this measure, rather than against the measure itself.
Possibly it shouldn't worry me all that much, living in Australia. However with the FTA in force - and one of the provisions in the FTA relating to the respect of copyright protection, maybe it should. In the end though, I keep thinking of the quote I used to see when opening up MythWeb every now and again - consumers just won't buy devices that won't let them do what they want to.
That being said, I would accept DRM in almost any rental arrangement, provided there was a guarentee of playability. (no sense in getting home and discovering that your machine won't play the video because their DRM specs are two months out of date) I would be loathe to accept any DRM for anything I bought.
On the subject of lotteries, I wonder how long it will be before the lottery companies declare the use of this box illegal and start trying to weasel out of paying winnings...