I am sure that to you a crime scene is where a crime like murder/rape/theft has occured, but one of the problems is that crime include copyright infringement, speeding, jaywalking or conducting a political protest within a kilometer of parliament!
Or in a neat catch 22 failing to identify yourself to a policeman!
But how do you define "IT" (the work), in the Mickey M case they stop any use of mm AT ALL, but would "it" be the first mm cartoon (steamboat willy?), or the entire MM franchise, or what?
Um, if a space elevator is built, then space is likely to open up, this would tend to cause a significant number of people heading to the space elevator, probably by plane.
What makes you think they should have a system that "protects you from illegal redistribution of the material"? I don't recall any anti-photcopier mechanism in books! Yet where is the rampant market in pirate books?
But they are merging (so they say) office update into windows update. For the good reason of not requiring people to go to 2 places to update their PC.
The EULAs for Office 95,97,2000,XP and 2003 don't even mention what you run the software under, let alone forbid or require anything. Since they don't promise support the only mention of support is that any software provided by their support is also covered by the eula.
The System Requirements on the box for 2000 (pro) say:-
MS Windows 95 or later OS, or MS Windows NT Workstation 4.0+SP3 or later.
This is only the system requirements, not the support or license terms. Also is Wine later than Win95?
As to "No-one, and I repeat NO-ONE has ever died for a flag."
I would say that that is incorrect, until armies stopped carrying their battle standards (usually flags, one of which would normally be the nations flag) into battle, they often died to protect or capture those flags.
It could however be argued that they were dying for the pride of their regiment, or perhaps if they were intellectual for the morale effects, but I suspect at least some would have quantified it as "for the flag".
The sites of the "Others" you mention are (IMO) not very good themselves
http://www.zeldman.com/ - Darkish Green on Light Green poorly readable colours. No sitemap. Search box filled with a junk phrase that needs deleting before starting, and as filled not much space to click after this existing contents when about to delete it. Unclear section titles, alt text no better.
http://www.joeclark.org/ - Bigger than users chosen size text (as every thing is in lists) makes page too long. Use of non-standard 8-bit characters. No Sitemap.
http://www.alistapart.com/ - No sitemap. No contents or short titles list in each section, you have to "More articles->" 10 at a time instead. Instead of link "Home" it is "Up Front" (Never heard of standard practices?)
The ALA site publishers include Zeldman, the Zeldman site contributors includes Joe Clark, the web standards site former major people includes Zeldman. The AC probably just likes this circle of styles, but on the other had maybe he is Zeldman himself?;-)
No, real programmers have 8 fingers, plus 1 start and 1 stop
My granny likes it...
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I was talking to my grandmother sunday, they are getting a new TV and she mentioned that she made sure that it will have ceefax as she missed its absence on the tv that just died!
This applies in the UK as well, I have had to work backwards from the published info to the actual rules that they obviously used (for an in-house accounts package). They do seem to be getting better here though.
Actually the fanatics/critics (well some of them) were around before the books in the case of Hithhikers as the books were created after the radio series had gained fans.
About the replacement for REPLACE(), that function only existed from 2000(9.0) onwards, if the db is/was written in 97 or earlier then you have to write your own. (I just checked because I have my own VBA ReplaceInString function!)
I can think of a possible case that it a lot less fantastic:
There is a hijacking; the sky marshal and the hijacker kill each other.
One of the passengers panics and tries to escape by opening an outside door whilst you are still at 30000 feet.
You see this panicked person and yell "stop him" pointing at him but no one near him hears you. You are too far away to get to him to stop him.
But you are next to the body of the sky marshal or hijacker. And their gun.
Leaving it to the last possible minute, yelling all the time, you pick up the gun and shoot the panickee (you are a good shot so know you will hit him and not puncture the wall of th airplane).
It might not qualify as self defense as you could survive just by strapping yourself down and using the emergency oxygen (and you thought of that).
It should be argued that you were stopping a manslaughter. What if the panickee opening the door was a 40 year old that has a mental age of 5 and had no possible conception of the results of his actions (and you know this person well)?
I went to these guidelines, looked at the first page as I was going to browse them. Went to go to the next page...No Next->
The navigation page needs:-
Include Previous and Next links to facilitate browsing between sections. We have deliberately left them off this site to demonstate how inconvenient their absence is.
No it is not a coincidence, it is an indication that dictictorial types have considered the tracking of people in the distant past. And that the writer of that part of the bible did not like the idea.
N.B. I consider the bible to be basically an attempt to persuade people to act in a manner that produces a decent society.
IANAL but are you refering to "The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999". I believe this is the UK implementation of the EU directive.
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1999/19992083.htm
Which specifies:-
SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 5(5)
INDICATIVE AND NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF TERMS WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS UNFAIR
1. Terms which have the object or effect of-...
(i) irrevocably binding the consumer to terms with which he had no real opportunity of becoming acquainted before the conclusion of the contract;
and in this case maybe:-
(k) enabling the seller or supplier to alter unilaterally without a valid reason any characteristics of the product or service to be provided;
As I read this, this should make the term providing permission to MS to alter the xbox invalid, making their actions subject to the anti-hacking laws. It is possible that the term would have needed to already been struck down for their actions to be illegal at the time.
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Wouldn't Battlestar Galactica be another example of a good remake?
Or in a neat catch 22 failing to identify yourself to a policeman!
But how do you define "IT" (the work), in the Mickey M case they stop any use of mm AT ALL, but would "it" be the first mm cartoon (steamboat willy?), or the entire MM franchise, or what?
Um, if a space elevator is built, then space is likely to open up, this would tend to cause a significant number of people heading to the space elevator, probably by plane.
But you can probably drive it that fast on private land (e.g. a race track) The IP laws effectively don't allow that.
You poor, poor people... You can however get them in Canada:- http://www.cadburyschweppes.com/EN/Brands/FindBran d/findabrand_results.htm?brand=48
And in my case wrote my own software to talk to it! (Hand complied assembly language on an Osbourne 1)
This rather ruins the phrase "About as much use as a fart in a spacesuit" doesn't it?
What makes you think they should have a system that "protects you from illegal redistribution of the material"? I don't recall any anti-photcopier mechanism in books! Yet where is the rampant market in pirate books?
But they are merging (so they say) office update into windows update. For the good reason of not requiring people to go to 2 places to update their PC.
The System Requirements on the box for 2000 (pro) say :-
MS Windows 95 or later OS, or MS Windows NT Workstation 4.0+SP3 or later.
This is only the system requirements, not the support or license terms. Also is Wine later than Win95?
As to "No-one, and I repeat NO-ONE has ever died for a flag."
I would say that that is incorrect, until armies stopped carrying their battle standards (usually flags, one of which would normally be the nations flag) into battle, they often died to protect or capture those flags.
It could however be argued that they were dying for the pride of their regiment, or perhaps if they were intellectual for the morale effects, but I suspect at least some would have quantified it as "for the flag".
The sites of the "Others" you mention are (IMO) not very good themselves
http://www.zeldman.com/ - Darkish Green on Light Green poorly readable colours. No sitemap. Search box filled with a junk phrase that needs deleting before starting, and as filled not much space to click after this existing contents when about to delete it. Unclear section titles, alt text no better.
http://www.joeclark.org/ - Bigger than users chosen size text (as every thing is in lists) makes page too long. Use of non-standard 8-bit characters. No Sitemap.
http://www.webstandards.org/ - No search. No sitemap. Otherwise OK.
http://www.alistapart.com/ - No sitemap. No contents or short titles list in each section, you have to "More articles->" 10 at a time instead. Instead of link "Home" it is "Up Front" (Never heard of standard practices?)
The ALA site publishers include Zeldman, the Zeldman site contributors includes Joe Clark, the web standards site former major people includes Zeldman. The AC probably just likes this circle of styles, but on the other had maybe he is Zeldman himself? ;-)
No, real programmers have 8 fingers, plus 1 start and 1 stop
I was talking to my grandmother sunday, they are getting a new TV and she mentioned that she made sure that it will have ceefax as she missed its absence on the tv that just died!
> Every single person on the planet. Does that mean couples can forget about it? ;)
Well he was talking to a /. audience....
This applies in the UK as well, I have had to work backwards from the published info to the actual rules that they obviously used (for an in-house accounts package). They do seem to be getting better here though.
Actually the fanatics/critics (well some of them) were around before the books in the case of Hithhikers as the books were created after the radio series had gained fans.
About the replacement for REPLACE(), that function only existed from 2000(9.0) onwards, if the db is/was written in 97 or earlier then you have to write your own. (I just checked because I have my own VBA ReplaceInString function!)
I can think of a possible case that it a lot less fantastic: There is a hijacking; the sky marshal and the hijacker kill each other. One of the passengers panics and tries to escape by opening an outside door whilst you are still at 30000 feet. You see this panicked person and yell "stop him" pointing at him but no one near him hears you. You are too far away to get to him to stop him. But you are next to the body of the sky marshal or hijacker. And their gun. Leaving it to the last possible minute, yelling all the time, you pick up the gun and shoot the panickee (you are a good shot so know you will hit him and not puncture the wall of th airplane). It might not qualify as self defense as you could survive just by strapping yourself down and using the emergency oxygen (and you thought of that). It should be argued that you were stopping a manslaughter. What if the panickee opening the door was a 40 year old that has a mental age of 5 and had no possible conception of the results of his actions (and you know this person well)?
Uh, for the cylons wouldn't firing intelligent missiles be like shooting their children at the enemy?
I went to these guidelines, looked at the first page as I was going to browse them. Went to go to the next page...No Next-> The navigation page needs :-
Include Previous and Next links to facilitate browsing between sections. We have deliberately left them off this site to demonstate how inconvenient their absence is.
Oh, You don't watch Red Dwarf then... http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/
No it is not a coincidence, it is an indication that dictictorial types have considered the tracking of people in the distant past. And that the writer of that part of the bible did not like the idea. N.B. I consider the bible to be basically an attempt to persuade people to act in a manner that produces a decent society.
IANAL but are you refering to "The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999". I believe this is the UK implementation of the EU directive. http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1999/19992083.htm Which specifies :-
SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 5(5)
INDICATIVE AND NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF TERMS WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS UNFAIR
1. Terms which have the object or effect of- ...
(i) irrevocably binding the consumer to terms with which he had no real opportunity of becoming acquainted before the conclusion of the contract;
and in this case maybe :-
(k) enabling the seller or supplier to alter unilaterally without a valid reason any characteristics of the product or service to be provided;
As I read this, this should make the term providing permission to MS to alter the xbox invalid, making their actions subject to the anti-hacking laws. It is possible that the term would have needed to already been struck down for their actions to be illegal at the time.