A US gallon is the volume of eight pounds of water. An imperial gallon (i.e. the UK gallon) is the volume of ten pounds of water.
One of these statements is wrong. While a UK gallon is 160 fluid ounces and a US gallon is 128 fluid ounces, the measurement of a fluid ounce differs between the systems.
I live in California and my property tax runs about $6k-$7k per year...... You REALLY think that the taxes generated by my property can cover even one single child?
Er... yes. Perhaps you should look up how much CA spends on education per child -- It's less than you pay in property taxes.
Heh, you kinda defeated your own reply there. The point was entirely about optical drives. Also your example is laptops, which of course, are portable by definition
My point was that you proposed an irrelevant test. Essentially, you asked me for members of the set of non-portable devices that are portable -- so what if this set is empty -- people are used to reorienting devices that contain spinning disks without damage ensuing.
You also totally ignored my second point which is that other manufacturers don't seem to have this problem, so why should Microsoft be able to blame users when the users do things with the device that don't cause problems for other similar devices (eg. PS3)?
Let me ask this: What other non-portable devices allow you to reorient them while the disc is spinning?
How about every laptop in the world (apart from those with SSDs) -- especially tablet PCs? The hard drive is spinning, people routinely move them about while powered on. Yes, I know that this is different to an optical drive, but does Joe Public?
The fact of the matter is that other manufacturers manage to build systems that don't wreck the disks. Why should Microsoft be held to a lower standard?
A warning was also included in the product manual, telling customers to "remove discs before moving the console or tilting it between the horizontal and vertical positions."
This is a completely reasonable expectation. This is a case where a warning is appropriate.
Yeah, it's not like people are used to having appliances that spin similar disks and can be carried aournd like a portable device, is it? What's that you say about portable CD players? You meant that we have been able to buy a device that can play an optical disk and can be carried, moved around, reoriented, without damage? For over a decade?
Yes, probably every person reading/. realizes that reading a CD in a CD player is different to reading a DVD at a much higher rotational speed, but does Joe Public?
Secondly, it is not even reasonable to expect people to read the manual. Manufacturers have made manuals unreadable. 90% of a modern manual is safety instructions that no one reads.
NFS has a nasty tendancy of tying itself in knots when a server goes offline.
I've found that running NFS over TCP does not have this issue. With this configuration, the fileserver can go down and come back up again and all the clients will resume whatever they were doing that depended on the fileserver.
Mine too. After the OCR machine acknowledged my ballot was readable, they gave me a sticker that said "I voted".
It may well have been readable, but the first articles I saw on this make it clear that being readable is not a guarantee of your vote actually being included in the result.
The first articles make it clear that votes were counted and then, in some circumstances,
From that article:
The ballots even showed up in preliminary tallies counted on election night on November 4 and in a report printed out on November 23. But some time after this point, the tabulation software inexplicably deleted the ballots without election officials ever knowing.
Too late - in Britain, it is a crime to refuse to turn-over your encryption key to the police when requested (no 5th amendment rights).
Has anyone challenged that law at the European Court of Human Rights? The same court that found that using statements made to the DTI under duress (threat of prosecution for not talking) at their trials breached the rights of the Guinness defendents?
No. Perhaps you don't understand. The "scan" is totally bogus -- it "ran" in my SeaMonkey browser under Linux and "detected" various infected DLLs. Since I don't have any DLLs on my system, the "scan" is obviously a scam.
Now, I just wanted to qualify the "I don't have any DLLs" by making a throaway remark that there are actually some on my system as part of WINE. This does not mean I ran the malware under WINE.
Part of the problem is that these users have administrator privileges. I have seen many posts here on/. and elsewhere that claim it is quite possible to run as a non-administrator under Windows. In a corporate environment it should be possible to remove admin privileges (unless those who posted such claims were lying).
Personally, I was amused by this scamware, seeing it scan my PC and find various infected DLLs -- the only problem being that my Linux PC doesn't have any DLLs (except for a few in my WINE installation).
Perhaps we need to highlight the actual artists in whose name these lawsuits are being filed. If the artist doesn't wn the copyright, then, perhaps we should say "....'s label sued xyz over sharing the track abc".
There is a reason that the labels are using a faceless organization such as the RIAA for these lawsuits -- we should make the labels' and artists' faces visible.
In contrast, Australia and especially the UK have always had pretty strict controls and there are fewer guns available to the criminal element as a result.
Nice theory, but gun crime has increased in the UK while controls on guns have got tighter (the total ban on handguns). In practice the additional controls on gun ownership have made not it more difficult for the criminal element to obtain guns.
According to multiple folks I consulted, I'm still a creditor, I'm just the VERY last in line to get anything.
Were these folks lawyers?
I believe that shareholders are entitled to documents resulting from the bankruptcy proceedings -- you did not have to file as a creditor to get them. As I suggested above, I don't think SCO owed or owes you any money, so I suspect (but IANAL) you are not a creditor. If the company or its assets are eventually sold, you may be entitled to some money, but as you noted above, only after all the creditors have been paid.
I always thought that in America, a jury was a jury of peers, by which I presume they mean peer to the defendant
I suspect this language is really a hangover from English law, where a peer of the realm (ie. someone with a seat in the House of Lords) was entitled to be tried by other peers of the realm, whilst commoners (ie, the rest of the population) were only entitled to be tried by other commoners. I have no idea if this right still exists for peers of the realm.
since I registered as a creditor. I'm getting bumped off, though, because they challenged and I don't have the time and energy to do all the hoops to stay on the list.
Perhaps you should try to understand the difference between a creditor and a shareholder? A little hint to you: does SCO owe you any money?
When at home, start a VNC session with display parameters that match your display, connect to that local VNC session and then make it full screen. When you leave your home PC, disconnect from the session and log off. When remote, you can connect to that same session. This provides the security and the flexibility that you want.
Everyone here seems to work under the assumption that heavy bittorrent users would be worse off in a world with download caps or metered bandwidth. I don't think so. It would force companies to compete
And there is the propblem in the USA. For most USAans, there is no real competiton amongst Internet Service providers -- there is a duopoly. It's either the "Big Phone Company" (with its history of bad customer service) or the "big Cable Company" (rapidly expanding the scope of its bad customer service).
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One of these statements is wrong. While a UK gallon is 160 fluid ounces and a US gallon is 128 fluid ounces, the measurement of a fluid ounce differs between the systems.
Er... yes. Perhaps you should look up how much CA spends on education per child -- It's less than you pay in property taxes.
My point was that you proposed an irrelevant test. Essentially, you asked me for members of the set of non-portable devices that are portable -- so what if this set is empty -- people are used to reorienting devices that contain spinning disks without damage ensuing.
You also totally ignored my second point which is that other manufacturers don't seem to have this problem, so why should Microsoft be able to blame users when the users do things with the device that don't cause problems for other similar devices (eg. PS3)?
How about every laptop in the world (apart from those with SSDs) -- especially tablet PCs? The hard drive is spinning, people routinely move them about while powered on. Yes, I know that this is different to an optical drive, but does Joe Public?
The fact of the matter is that other manufacturers manage to build systems that don't wreck the disks. Why should Microsoft be held to a lower standard?
Yeah, it's not like people are used to having appliances that spin similar disks and can be carried aournd like a portable device, is it? What's that you say about portable CD players? You meant that we have been able to buy a device that can play an optical disk and can be carried, moved around, reoriented, without damage? For over a decade?
/. realizes that reading a CD in a CD player is different to reading a DVD at a much higher rotational speed, but does Joe Public?
Yes, probably every person reading
Secondly, it is not even reasonable to expect people to read the manual. Manufacturers have made manuals unreadable. 90% of a modern manual is safety instructions that no one reads.
Yeah, mod me troll, MS fanbois. Apparently, MS and its fanbois can't face the truth!
How about if I quote MS's own Live Labs team? Or perhaps another source or yet another one? or one more?
Just because you may not want to hear the news does not mean that it does not exist.
Apparently pointing out that MS's first app to be released for the iPhone is broken is trolling. Well done MS fanbois!
According to several reports, Microsoft released a broken app called Seadragon. Apparently Microsoft achieved its expected quality goal.
I've found that running NFS over TCP does not have this issue. With this configuration, the fileserver can go down and come back up again and all the clients will resume whatever they were doing that depended on the fileserver.
For $139, I can buy a copy of XP. Why pay Dell $150?
It may well have been readable, but the first articles I saw on this make it clear that being readable is not a guarantee of your vote actually being included in the result.
The first articles make it clear that votes were counted and then, in some circumstances, From that article:
Still sure your vote counted?
Not true. The machine counted the ballots and then later, the software deleted them along with any record that they ever existed.
People still defragment hard drives? NTFS isn't resistant to fragmentation?
Has anyone challenged that law at the European Court of Human Rights? The same court that found that using statements made to the DTI under duress (threat of prosecution for not talking) at their trials breached the rights of the Guinness defendents?
No. Perhaps you don't understand. The "scan" is totally bogus -- it "ran" in my SeaMonkey browser under Linux and "detected" various infected DLLs. Since I don't have any DLLs on my system, the "scan" is obviously a scam.
Now, I just wanted to qualify the "I don't have any DLLs" by making a throaway remark that there are actually some on my system as part of WINE. This does not mean I ran the malware under WINE.
Part of the problem is that these users have administrator privileges. I have seen many posts here on /. and elsewhere that claim it is quite possible to run as a non-administrator under Windows. In a corporate environment it should be possible to remove admin privileges (unless those who posted such claims were lying).
Personally, I was amused by this scamware, seeing it scan my PC and find various infected DLLs -- the only problem being that my Linux PC doesn't have any DLLs (except for a few in my WINE installation).
Perhaps we need to highlight the actual artists in whose name these lawsuits are being filed. If the artist doesn't wn the copyright, then, perhaps we should say "....'s label sued xyz over sharing the track abc".
There is a reason that the labels are using a faceless organization such as the RIAA for these lawsuits -- we should make the labels' and artists' faces visible.
Nice theory, but gun crime has increased in the UK while controls on guns have got tighter (the total ban on handguns). In practice the additional controls on gun ownership have made not it more difficult for the criminal element to obtain guns.
In that case, I will defer to their expertise.
Were these folks lawyers?
I believe that shareholders are entitled to documents resulting from the bankruptcy proceedings -- you did not have to file as a creditor to get them. As I suggested above, I don't think SCO owed or owes you any money, so I suspect (but IANAL) you are not a creditor. If the company or its assets are eventually sold, you may be entitled to some money, but as you noted above, only after all the creditors have been paid.
I suspect this language is really a hangover from English law, where a peer of the realm (ie. someone with a seat in the House of Lords) was entitled to be tried by other peers of the realm, whilst commoners (ie, the rest of the population) were only entitled to be tried by other commoners. I have no idea if this right still exists for peers of the realm.
Perhaps you should try to understand the difference between a creditor and a shareholder? A little hint to you: does SCO owe you any money?
You are missing the obvious solution:
When at home, start a VNC session with display parameters that match your display, connect to that local VNC session and then make it full screen. When you leave your home PC, disconnect from the session and log off. When remote, you can connect to that same session. This provides the security and the flexibility that you want.
And there is the propblem in the USA. For most USAans, there is no real competiton amongst Internet Service providers -- there is a duopoly. It's either the "Big Phone Company" (with its history of bad customer service) or the "big Cable Company" (rapidly expanding the scope of its bad customer service).