If you can milk old stuff without end, why should you create new stuff?
Perhaps, because artists create for the joy of creating?
Also, the assumption that just because we "force" an artist to produce more, we will be better off, is faulty. Some authors can write books almost as fast as they can type them. Others are notorious for missing deadlines. Should we really value the churn-em-out author more?
I cancelled months ago, and was still hit by the problem. Luckily, since I always sign up with unique addresses, the one in question is now forwarded to abuse@plus.net , and they can deal with the damage.
No, I am not endorsing patents on algorithms. RSA shouldn't have been patentable. It's just shortened patent periods is not a reasonable compromise, and far from 'Insightful'
The GP specifically stated they weren't making a case for the patentability of algorithms. Seems you're the one that's a moron.
Waitrose are open about their limits: 5Gb included, and £2 per Gb over that. I don't mind the over charges too much, as the profits go to charity anyway.
There is the ITV network, but that doesn't cover all non-BBC terrestrial broadcasters. Channel Four and Five are separate entities from ITV, and each other. If you count the channels on Freeview, you also have the Flextech* content (e.g. ftn), the uktv channels (which is a Flextech / BBC Worldwide venture), the EMAP channels, abc1, TMF (part of Viacom via MTV Networks), and so on.
I don't know of any organisation that binds any of these broadcasters together at all, and can find no reference to one under the name "Independent Television Network", which sometimes comes up as a description of the ITV network.
Other posters have picked at other points, but you also seem to be confusing ITN (who produce news programmes) and ITV (the TV network, and one of ITN's customers). It's also not true that ITV has any special control over the "non-BBC broadcasters", other than being the biggest one themself. If ITV told Channel 4, Five, Flextech, and the rest to jump, the response would be closer to "you first" than "how high?".
In some tests, the Dyson models cleaned well enough to get a Which? Best Buy, except they didn't award it, because they also took into account the reliability figures (where Dyson have not had a good historical record).
I think they gained a reputation because of the initial PR win of being British, and the charming James Dyson taking on the big boys, which persuaded enough people to try a cleaner other than the cheapest one Currys had that the display model was still in one piece, and people were suddenly so surprised with a vacuum cleaner that actually worked, they told all their friends, and didn't even consider the BSH/AEG/Miele models.
At the other end of the scale, I once had a DeLonghi cleaner that all the plastic parts snapped with the force of being pushed over a carpet. For once, the shop didn't even bother arguing over a refund (I got the impression I wasn't the first to bring back that model).
You do realise that the rollout of the previous upgrades in mailbox size didn't all happen in one go as well, right? I seemed to be one of the last people to get them, maybe due to my infrequent usage (mostly news from sites I signed up to five years ago). Anyway, I hope you could console me by placing me at the head of the queue for some money. Thanks.
Well, I have one myspace user that hasn't yet noticed how much I improved(flashing image warning) their background - any image leeched from that folder also doubles as a page widener for the benefit of forum readers. Elsewhere, I had one image hotlinked from so many forums, I changed the filenames, and added a note to the page specifically asking people to host elsewhere. That didn't work, so I made a custom job which nicely fits with the style of most forums. Next, it seems game screenshots were being borrowed, so another switch (scroll down to EMMA-LATION) was required. Finally, a picture of Maggie Thatcher was hotlinked, so it was swapped(flashing image again) a bit as well.
Umm... Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth oppose nuclear power, and support renewables instead. I wouldn't call either of them NIMBY groups. I'd put this one down to different people making different conclusions based on uncertain risks.
Hello. I would like to take the opportunity to karma whore. I have noticed this article covers a scientific study whereby the conclusions could be used to support policies that the majority of Slashdotters would oppose. I have therefore correctly concluded that the study is flawed. I am going to take the most simplistic possible interpretation of what the headline says the article says the study covered. I do not have time to read the summary or article, let alone the actual study. I therefore will first write in all caps a statement to the effect that not every correlation can be used to infer causality. My implication is that the scientists have not done any work to check for any other factors at work, and did not use experimental design in such a way as to make the cause and effect directly observable. In fact, I will point out an incredibly obvious possibility why the samples could have been related without the cause and effect. I have discounted the possibility that this occurred to the people conducting the study at any point; the fact that this version of events is more politically acceptable to me is all the evidence I need. I will also make a sarcastic comment to the effect of "how many times do I have to tell people this?". This is an insightful and useful comment, because all scientists read every comment on Slashdot, but due to their stupidity, they have not yet learned to come out with results acceptable to posters. Similarly, they are obsessed with the forwards flow of time. This can be seen by their arrogant announcement of inventions after they are working. Slashdotters are much smarter. Time could flow backwards tomorrow, so it's a good idea to post ways in which existing inventions will never be made to work. Anyway, back to the subject on hand. Since I have declared myself smarter than all scientists, and who are you to argue (as you can't post then moderate), you must clearly now mod me Insightful. Good day.
Actually, the boxes can update themselves automatically - see, for example this schedule of updates to Freeview boxes (the DVB-T service in the UK). On our box, the updates were as simple as pressing YES when it said it'd downloaded one (but no more updates for us, since SetPal went belly up).
I agree with your main point, though. Retailers aren't going to be happy if boxes are remotely nuked.
I don't see what that has to do with anything. The law is not there to say what is right and wrong. The interaction between the ad department and the news department will cause a credibility hit, as it now seems somebody in news owes the ad people a favour.
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Hitachi's Tiny RFID Chips
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Why would they bother RFIDing the crowd when they could just spray them with Smart Water? The patrols with their hi-tech scanners could be replaced with ones wielding UV lamps.
Given that Myspace and FOX are both owned by News Corp, wouldn't that save all the tedious business with lawyers and they'd just go look at the details you signed up with?
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I've never heard skint used as a noun before. "You're skint" seems correct to me vs "You're a skint"
( Disclaimer: All corrections contain at least one error. I await correction for whatever I just did wrong. )
Who's going to go watch a documentary about civil liberties when Big Brother's on TV?
Nope. "Ting Tong" is Thai slang for crazy.
Aww, they changed it. And I was about to do a joke about the submitter getting it all ting tong.
Perhaps, because artists create for the joy of creating?
Also, the assumption that just because we "force" an artist to produce more, we will be better off, is faulty. Some authors can write books almost as fast as they can type them. Others are notorious for missing deadlines. Should we really value the churn-em-out author more?
If you have an ipv6 connection, yes. Wait and see.
I cancelled months ago, and was still hit by the problem. Luckily, since I always sign up with unique addresses, the one in question is now forwarded to abuse@plus.net , and they can deal with the damage.
The GP specifically stated they weren't making a case for the patentability of algorithms. Seems you're the one that's a moron.
Waitrose are open about their limits: 5Gb included, and £2 per Gb over that. I don't mind the over charges too much, as the profits go to charity anyway.
There is the ITV network, but that doesn't cover all non-BBC terrestrial broadcasters. Channel Four and Five are separate entities from ITV, and each other. If you count the channels on Freeview, you also have the Flextech* content (e.g. ftn), the uktv channels (which is a Flextech / BBC Worldwide venture), the EMAP channels, abc1, TMF (part of Viacom via MTV Networks), and so on.
I don't know of any organisation that binds any of these broadcasters together at all, and can find no reference to one under the name "Independent Television Network", which sometimes comes up as a description of the ITV network.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Four
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_(TV)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flextech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKTV
* Now called Virgin Media Television, but I'm guessing on the name change being too recent for most places to have updated yet.
So, I'm confused as to what organisation is supposed to be controlling all these supposedly competing broadcasters. Reference?
Other posters have picked at other points, but you also seem to be confusing ITN (who produce news programmes) and ITV (the TV network, and one of ITN's customers). It's also not true that ITV has any special control over the "non-BBC broadcasters", other than being the biggest one themself. If ITV told Channel 4, Five, Flextech, and the rest to jump, the response would be closer to "you first" than "how high?".
In some tests, the Dyson models cleaned well enough to get a Which? Best Buy, except they didn't award it, because they also took into account the reliability figures (where Dyson have not had a good historical record).
I think they gained a reputation because of the initial PR win of being British, and the charming James Dyson taking on the big boys, which persuaded enough people to try a cleaner other than the cheapest one Currys had that the display model was still in one piece, and people were suddenly so surprised with a vacuum cleaner that actually worked, they told all their friends, and didn't even consider the BSH/AEG/Miele models.
At the other end of the scale, I once had a DeLonghi cleaner that all the plastic parts snapped with the force of being pushed over a carpet. For once, the shop didn't even bother arguing over a refund (I got the impression I wasn't the first to bring back that model).
You do realise that the rollout of the previous upgrades in mailbox size didn't all happen in one go as well, right? I seemed to be one of the last people to get them, maybe due to my infrequent usage (mostly news from sites I signed up to five years ago). Anyway, I hope you could console me by placing me at the head of the queue for some money. Thanks.
Well, I have one myspace user that hasn't yet noticed how much I improved(flashing image warning) their background - any image leeched from that folder also doubles as a page widener for the benefit of forum readers. Elsewhere, I had one image hotlinked from so many forums, I changed the filenames, and added a note to the page specifically asking people to host elsewhere. That didn't work, so I made a custom job which nicely fits with the style of most forums. Next, it seems game screenshots were being borrowed, so another switch (scroll down to EMMA-LATION) was required. Finally, a picture of Maggie Thatcher was hotlinked, so it was swapped(flashing image again) a bit as well.
Umm... Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth oppose nuclear power, and support renewables instead. I wouldn't call either of them NIMBY groups. I'd put this one down to different people making different conclusions based on uncertain risks.
Hello. I would like to take the opportunity to karma whore. I have noticed this article covers a scientific study whereby the conclusions could be used to support policies that the majority of Slashdotters would oppose. I have therefore correctly concluded that the study is flawed. I am going to take the most simplistic possible interpretation of what the headline says the article says the study covered. I do not have time to read the summary or article, let alone the actual study. I therefore will first write in all caps a statement to the effect that not every correlation can be used to infer causality. My implication is that the scientists have not done any work to check for any other factors at work, and did not use experimental design in such a way as to make the cause and effect directly observable. In fact, I will point out an incredibly obvious possibility why the samples could have been related without the cause and effect. I have discounted the possibility that this occurred to the people conducting the study at any point; the fact that this version of events is more politically acceptable to me is all the evidence I need. I will also make a sarcastic comment to the effect of "how many times do I have to tell people this?". This is an insightful and useful comment, because all scientists read every comment on Slashdot, but due to their stupidity, they have not yet learned to come out with results acceptable to posters. Similarly, they are obsessed with the forwards flow of time. This can be seen by their arrogant announcement of inventions after they are working. Slashdotters are much smarter. Time could flow backwards tomorrow, so it's a good idea to post ways in which existing inventions will never be made to work. Anyway, back to the subject on hand. Since I have declared myself smarter than all scientists, and who are you to argue (as you can't post then moderate), you must clearly now mod me Insightful. Good day.
You forgot the XKCD link.
Actually, the boxes can update themselves automatically - see, for example this schedule of updates to Freeview boxes (the DVB-T service in the UK). On our box, the updates were as simple as pressing YES when it said it'd downloaded one (but no more updates for us, since SetPal went belly up).
I agree with your main point, though. Retailers aren't going to be happy if boxes are remotely nuked.
I don't see what that has to do with anything. The law is not there to say what is right and wrong. The interaction between the ad department and the news department will cause a credibility hit, as it now seems somebody in news owes the ad people a favour.
Why would they bother RFIDing the crowd when they could just spray them with Smart Water? The patrols with their hi-tech scanners could be replaced with ones wielding UV lamps.
Given that Myspace and FOX are both owned by News Corp, wouldn't that save all the tedious business with lawyers and they'd just go look at the details you signed up with?
Most pre-recorded VHS tapes had Macrovision on them... so that's... um... Analogue Rights Management?
You're right, Yahoo have made this point in the past. In fact, there was a Slashdot story on it at the time.
Which leads to the obligatory SatireWire link for the three people that haven't seen it yet.