I paid for WinZip. For the entirely reasonable price they give you free upgrades and you can use it on all your home personal computers. This is how commercial software licenses should be:-). I use 7zip for reading RAR files though.
OK but we have had someone ruling that CDs are indestructible, and that Sony and all other games publishers will be around forever anyway to provide replacement CDs (hah!). Free no doubt.
and Judge Jacob who ruled that:
"it did not matter one way or the other whether there were uses of the messiah which did not involve such infringement of copyright. The relevant factor was that there were uses of the messiah which did involve infringement of [Sony's] copyright." which seems to put the kaibosh on the legality of video recorders, PCs, pen and paper... but maybe I need to see the whole judgement in context.
Dang. It seems it bounced between the English and EU courts.
"The decision of the European Court of Justice is now binding for a final rule to be made by British courts... With the ruling, the court finally declared that retailers in the European Union need the approval of the trademark owner to buy merchandise outside the EEA "[e.g. a cheap country like the USA]" and sell them at prices below the suggested prices of the manufacturer or its authorised agents." which sucks for consumers, but is good for trademark holders, since it means that even if they sell goods (such as jeans) they can control what other people do with them, e.g. stop them from being sold too cheaply.
It seems the UK has been more on the consumer/retailer side that the manufacturers side over time "The golden age of supermarkets began in 1964, with the abolition of Retail Price Maintenance - the mechanism that had allowed manufacturers and suppliers to dictate their prices."
So it looks like creeping IP law has reverted a conscious decision by the elected government that had stood for 40 years.
So there have been many many dodgy decisions (and many good ones) by English courts over the centuries, but it seems this one was not their fault.
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There are plenty of examples where the BBC calls its television output "programs". For example this page where it refers to "program co-productions" and "program listings" but "PROGRAMME INFO". I would think that your versions are the official ones, but I think "program" will become more popular, like we use the US spellings "music/magic/physics" instead of "musick/magick/physicks" these days.
I think Patrick Moore in his heart of hearts thinks that a billion is a million million but he doesn't say that word any more, since politicians have been using that word so often to refer to budgets being a thousand million.
Bummer, your rate must have been really bad. All I can suggest is that next time you get one,
you go to an independant shop that lists all the tarrifs from all the operators on its walls
and have a good read, gaze into a crystal ball:-( and try to work out the best option.
Well here is an example of calls from one side of the planet to the complete opposite side.
The rate today (Christmas 2004) is 100 pence = 192 US cents so you can double these prices for comparison.
UK to New Zealand phone bills (per minute offpeak probably not including tax).
(Landline)
BT Landline 5p
TalkTalk 5p
(Mobile)
O2 14p
Virgin 20p
Three 20p
Vodafone 25.5p
T-mobile 30p
Orange 30p
Fresh - appears to be a made-up company by Carphone Warehouse
BT Mobile - pisspoor site design hides their services
So your $400 bill would be 9.85 hours a month of international phone calls on the most expensive
network to the most distant (albeit not most expensive) location on the planet (taking 17.5% tax into account but not the monthly rental).
And "local" calls (to the same country) here would nearly always fall within the inclusive minutes
monthly package. So I guess I did exaggerate a little, but not that much. I do yabber away every now and then
but haven't racked up a bill like that for a long long time (before the internet was popular).
Take for example one to two year contracts to talk on the phone.
I have no problem with that. If I promise to be with a company for one year they pay me £100 off the price of a phone or I can take the money (as credit) or I can choose not to be contracted and pay full-price for the phone. It's a simple bargain and at the phone-shop I compared all the tarrifs from all the operators to see I was getting a fair deal. God knows how you got a phone bill like that unless you spent hours each day on international phone calls - If I spend an hour or so each month ringing the other side of the world it is still only 10% of what you were saying.
So exactly what does region control do other than piss consumers off in one of the largest markets (the European Union) in the world?
Perpetuates VHS! You can share VHS tapes between the UK, Australia and New Zealand, but the powers that be have split them up into two DVD regions (2 and 4) so british people can't view DVDs of "The Topp Twins" (NZ television program) but have to try to find VHS tapes instead... God knows why TVNZ etc. want to limit their market.
To be fair, a few BBC DVDs are region "2+4" to pacify the antipodeans.
Hah! I have a game called "Star Wars Knights of the old republic". It is labelled "PC CD-ROM". It has the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo on it.
It does not work on my Philips DVD/CD-ROM drive on my PC since it has some technology by Sony marked in fine print "NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying."
Which translates to "Ha ha you fool. You would be better off downloading a pirate copy off the internet, because that would have more chance of working on your bog-standard PC (with addition of popular graphics card) that you bought from the largest retailer in the entire country than you have of this store-bought game working. By the way we printed the quick reference guide in black on black so you'll want to download the instruction manual too."
So Philips lets Sony get away with murder on the computer games front, what makes you think they will do anything on the movies or audio front?
I think the weather prediction is quite good over here. It probably helps that the satellite can see a whacking great band of cloud over the atlantic headed our way, and can work out when it will hit. The computers tend to be less good at guessing about freak storms coming from france though I would think.
To show off late at night, the BBC shows weather forecasts for random other continents (especially if there are certain sports events there). Hmm, Riyadh - it's going to be hot and sunny tommorrow:-)
Hey, the racism situation in the USA must be improving... Since November 2000 people from different races are even allowed to get married to each other in any state in the union! OK, that vote only just passed 59% to 41% but it passed nonetheless!
That is by design. General Motors bought up the public transportation infrastructure in many US cities some decades ago (e.g. see the film "Framing Roger Rabbit") and deliberately ran it down, so that people would be forced to buy cars.
My personal theory is that one reason why Thatcher defended the falkland islanders (apart from pride, duty, potential oil, strategic location, political gain etc.) was that if she hadn't, Chinese tanks might have moved in onto Hong Kong (thinking britain would have done nothing) and that would have got very messy. As it was the colony was handed over peacefully.
Didn't argentina offer every person on the falkland islands US$1 million to leave at one stage? (they turned it down - should have tried *before* the war not after:-)
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Cool, thanks for that, now I can stalk that Ham I used to fancy...
Ah, but that is not so bad compared to the (one) person in the UK named by his parents "Peter File"... (say it aloud...)
I paid for WinZip. For the entirely reasonable price they give you free upgrades and you can use it on all your home personal computers. This is how commercial software licenses should be :-). I use 7zip for reading RAR files though.
and Judge Jacob who ruled that: "it did not matter one way or the other whether there were uses of the messiah which did not involve such infringement of copyright. The relevant factor was that there were uses of the messiah which did involve infringement of [Sony's] copyright." which seems to put the kaibosh on the legality of video recorders, PCs, pen and paper... but maybe I need to see the whole judgement in context.
Also we really could do with a working version of USC 17.1.117 (a) 1
"The decision of the European Court of Justice is now binding for a final rule to be made by British courts... With the ruling, the court finally declared that retailers in the European Union need the approval of the trademark owner to buy merchandise outside the EEA "[e.g. a cheap country like the USA]" and sell them at prices below the suggested prices of the manufacturer or its authorised agents." which sucks for consumers, but is good for trademark holders, since it means that even if they sell goods (such as jeans) they can control what other people do with them, e.g. stop them from being sold too cheaply.
It seems the UK has been more on the consumer/retailer side that the manufacturers side over time "The golden age of supermarkets began in 1964, with the abolition of Retail Price Maintenance - the mechanism that had allowed manufacturers and suppliers to dictate their prices."
So it looks like creeping IP law has reverted a conscious decision by the elected government that had stood for 40 years.
So there have been many many dodgy decisions (and many good ones) by English courts over the centuries, but it seems this one was not their fault.
I think Patrick Moore in his heart of hearts thinks that a billion is a million million but he doesn't say that word any more, since politicians have been using that word so often to refer to budgets being a thousand million.
OTOH if he is actually 17 and naturally blond, maybe the price will go higher...
Are these the same courts that let Levis win against Tesco?
"is" is a verb.
"ice" is a noun.
"licensing policy", "licensing committee".
And the BBC can't make up its mind whether it is "programme" or "program".
Bummer, your rate must have been really bad. All I can suggest is that next time you get one, you go to an independant shop that lists all the tarrifs from all the operators on its walls and have a good read, gaze into a crystal ball :-( and try to work out the best option.
Well here is an example of calls from one side of the planet to the complete opposite side. The rate today (Christmas 2004) is 100 pence = 192 US cents so you can double these prices for comparison.
UK to New Zealand phone bills (per minute offpeak probably not including tax).
So your $400 bill would be 9.85 hours a month of international phone calls on the most expensive network to the most distant (albeit not most expensive) location on the planet (taking 17.5% tax into account but not the monthly rental).
And "local" calls (to the same country) here would nearly always fall within the inclusive minutes monthly package. So I guess I did exaggerate a little, but not that much. I do yabber away every now and then but haven't racked up a bill like that for a long long time (before the internet was popular).
Good luck next time...
The grandparent was referring to the movie U-571 where Hollywood rewrote history as being that the Americans captured an enigma machine from a sub.
I have no problem with that. If I promise to be with a company for one year they pay me £100 off the price of a phone or I can take the money (as credit) or I can choose not to be contracted and pay full-price for the phone. It's a simple bargain and at the phone-shop I compared all the tarrifs from all the operators to see I was getting a fair deal. God knows how you got a phone bill like that unless you spent hours each day on international phone calls - If I spend an hour or so each month ringing the other side of the world it is still only 10% of what you were saying.
Perpetuates VHS! You can share VHS tapes between the UK, Australia and New Zealand, but the powers that be have split them up into two DVD regions (2 and 4) so british people can't view DVDs of "The Topp Twins" (NZ television program) but have to try to find VHS tapes instead... God knows why TVNZ etc. want to limit their market.
To be fair, a few BBC DVDs are region "2+4" to pacify the antipodeans.
It does not work on my Philips DVD/CD-ROM drive on my PC since it has some technology by Sony marked in fine print "NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying."
Which translates to "Ha ha you fool. You would be better off downloading a pirate copy off the internet, because that would have more chance of working on your bog-standard PC (with addition of popular graphics card) that you bought from the largest retailer in the entire country than you have of this store-bought game working. By the way we printed the quick reference guide in black on black so you'll want to download the instruction manual too."
So Philips lets Sony get away with murder on the computer games front, what makes you think they will do anything on the movies or audio front?
Here is some more Bush for you :-)
While many programmers work for free, very few artists seem to, and most games from the SNES onwards have required more artists than programmers.
On that topic, all the wrestling games are not accurate sports sims either - since they are not predetermined and scripted :-)
Well, the little girl in Matrix Revolutions was called "Sati" which hardly seems cute and friendly!
Yes, that woman is trying to resuscitate that poor baby that must have fallen into the water...
To show off late at night, the BBC shows weather forecasts for random other continents (especially if there are certain sports events there). Hmm, Riyadh - it's going to be hot and sunny tommorrow :-)
Hey, the racism situation in the USA must be improving... Since November 2000 people from different races are even allowed to get married to each other in any state in the union! OK, that vote only just passed 59% to 41% but it passed nonetheless!
That is by design. General Motors bought up the public transportation infrastructure in many US cities some decades ago (e.g. see the film "Framing Roger Rabbit") and deliberately ran it down, so that people would be forced to buy cars.
I see you missed the coverage of the recent US election then...
I think you'll find that is .fr
So is Chile...
My personal theory is that one reason why Thatcher defended the falkland islanders (apart from pride, duty, potential oil, strategic location, political gain etc.) was that if she hadn't, Chinese tanks might have moved in onto Hong Kong (thinking britain would have done nothing) and that would have got very messy. As it was the colony was handed over peacefully.
Didn't argentina offer every person on the falkland islands US$1 million to leave at one stage? (they turned it down - should have tried *before* the war not after :-)