Ah, consumer rights laws are a wonderful thing. I know if i buy a game, DVD or whatever i can take it back, DRM'd or not DRM'd.
It still doesn't change the fact that the DRM should've been made clear on the packaging. If you have to install software, then it should be made clear.
I tried to go to google.com just now, and it automatically loads google.co.uk instead. When did they start doing this? It also seems to lack the fancy new auto-complete search function.
Yes, i agree with you, you shouldn't believe any such high rates of success (It may even have been 10%, but the numbers are enough).
The problem is, i don't think they've made it clear how they're going to use the ID card scheme (No an ID Car as i said in the first post;). They brought it in under the whole tightening of security, yet admit it won't prevent terrorism. They say it can help track immigration, but thousands (unknown numbers even) of illegal immigrants get into the country and aren't tracked.
A good point they brought up on Question Time last week, they mentioned the "foolproofness" of ID cards, i think they were as optimistic as assuming a 1% failure rate.
They then went on to totally demolish this relatively high level of success by simply using numbers. There's about 60 million people in the UK, so that's 600,000 people that can be rejected. That sort of failure is just not acceptable for something such as a national ID car scheme.
I'm wondering what the BBC makes of this. A while ago i read they were planning to put parts of their archive online for [free] download for UK viewers only (Although i presume foreigners would be able to obtain copies eventually). We pay the licence fee, they show the programs ad-free. If we want to watch again, we either have to have recorded it or buy it on DVD/Video. Well, i'd rather download a decent quality copy and treat it as recording. It's just easier to find shows online and i can try out new series', see things i missed (and won't be on DVD, like one-off documentaries) and it is much easier to store.
Currently i watch the News online through the BBC website, and often their documentaries and other shows that they put online (Panorama, Question Time). These are very poor quality, although with these shows i'm interested in the content and not the picture.
Connex [South Eastern] lost the rail franchise for the South East of England, they were a shoddy company and their service was pretty poor. I remember a whole winter of cancelled trains to school. It was so bad, our school just stopped their "4 lates" punishments, as it was just impratical over this period.
Once their franchise was lost, the Government took over running of the South East railways setting up South Eastern Trains. The service is pretty good, there's a new fleet of trains on the way, the stations are being updated, new ticket services are being introduced and more checks are carried out on tickets. However, as i happened to read in the Private Eye (Today as it happens), the Government seem set to hand over control to another private franchise. Oh well, i'll have stopped going to college by then i hope!
Yes, because there's nothing i like better then a HDD full of CD and DVD images, often over several gigs of images per game. Sure, Hard-Drive space isn't expensive, but it's a waste when you've got a HDD full of images.
And PC users can image stuff too, but often games don't like the fact they've been imaged and so just refuse to accept that what is imaged is the game.
Well, apparently we get the "wrong type of rain" (as opposed to the wrong types of snow and sunshine that our rail companies use as excuses), which results in it not feeding into the reservoirs or something and eventually ends up with us getting hosepipe bans in the Summer. So no, we don't get enough [of the right type of] rain!
Well, actually i get a problem when i click the link. I get a "Net Timeout Error" from Firefox when i click it, and i've never been able to access and of those coral links before.
Wasn't the original CD marketed as lasting forever? If so, then we'd better send it back for false advertising, poor craftsmanship and all those laws that i don't know the names of that mean that if it's sold as lasting for X years, then it lasts X years.
What are you talking about licencing lighbulbs? You buy the lightbulb, there are no EULAs, TOCs or anything, no licencing-laws exist for lightbulbs. There's no form of lightbulb-licence!
Too bad [in the UK] lawyers were told not to use terms such as "Common Sense" as this may vary from person to person, background to background and culture to culture. Yes, "Common Sense" is non-existant in the UK legal system!
Therefore we should make all these races longer. If you double the length of the race, it stands to reason that the difference between the winner and loser will be twice as large; then maybe you can say with some confidence that the race was decided by athleticism and not pure luck. Sure it's a different sport, but at least you'd be measuring something meaningful.
Yea, great idea! Lets make the 100m the 200m, the 200m the 400m... You know they're all pretty damned close.
Of course, that's ignoring the total change of tatics, stamina and everything else that means people compete in different length races.
Well, if you check your Address Book, there is a link to "Import Contacts" near the top, which if you've been checking the help section and feedback sections, has been listed for ages. They even have a whole guide to importing if you have trouble.
And, looking at the Help section, they're looking at implementing a plain HTML version too.
Well, as far as i can tell with the current version of Adblock (and the one i use), it doesn't actually prevent the images being downloaded and the adverts being registered as viewed, but they prevent them from showing up on the webpage when the browser displays it. Therefore i don't get the annoying adverts, the website still gets the registered hit and the advertiser still pays out their 0.01p per impression.
Seeing as their policy is "Archive, not delete", sounds like the perfect thing for Gmail.
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An amusing idea, but i wouldn't do it unless she isn't going to try and sue/take some form of legal action or has already failed her case. Otherwise it may harm her defence if she fought-back like that. I mean, if she forwards to goatse or something and then claims that she had to remove pictures of her baby (like she says she had to) she's kinda ruining her defence.
Yes, but they're mostly the people that don't download pre 1.0 release browsers. Once this hits the 1.0 release, i can see it being far more likely to be using updates rather then re-installs.
I think he was talking about an online service which you send your photos by email or something, they print and post back to you. Therefore the 3 days is just postage. If you're not in a rush for your photos or you don't have somewhere that does digital photos near you, it's a good compromise.
Whereas Sainsburys just shoves a little printed off label with "Reduced to 10p" on. These labels are easily removed for when you get home, they even have a little tag to peel it off and they don't tear. I can easily remove the label for a reduced to 5p pint of milk and stick it onto any product, just make sure you don't reduce something by too much though.
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Ah, consumer rights laws are a wonderful thing. I know if i buy a game, DVD or whatever i can take it back, DRM'd or not DRM'd.
It still doesn't change the fact that the DRM should've been made clear on the packaging. If you have to install software, then it should be made clear.
In the UK the Data Protection Act would have him down for that.
I tried to go to google.com just now, and it automatically loads google.co.uk instead. When did they start doing this? It also seems to lack the fancy new auto-complete search function.
Yes, i agree with you, you shouldn't believe any such high rates of success (It may even have been 10%, but the numbers are enough).
;). They brought it in under the whole tightening of security, yet admit it won't prevent terrorism. They say it can help track immigration, but thousands (unknown numbers even) of illegal immigrants get into the country and aren't tracked.
The problem is, i don't think they've made it clear how they're going to use the ID card scheme (No an ID Car as i said in the first post
A good point they brought up on Question Time last week, they mentioned the "foolproofness" of ID cards, i think they were as optimistic as assuming a 1% failure rate.
They then went on to totally demolish this relatively high level of success by simply using numbers. There's about 60 million people in the UK, so that's 600,000 people that can be rejected. That sort of failure is just not acceptable for something such as a national ID car scheme.
I'm wondering what the BBC makes of this. A while ago i read they were planning to put parts of their archive online for [free] download for UK viewers only (Although i presume foreigners would be able to obtain copies eventually). We pay the licence fee, they show the programs ad-free. If we want to watch again, we either have to have recorded it or buy it on DVD/Video. Well, i'd rather download a decent quality copy and treat it as recording. It's just easier to find shows online and i can try out new series', see things i missed (and won't be on DVD, like one-off documentaries) and it is much easier to store.
Currently i watch the News online through the BBC website, and often their documentaries and other shows that they put online (Panorama, Question Time). These are very poor quality, although with these shows i'm interested in the content and not the picture.
Connex [South Eastern] lost the rail franchise for the South East of England, they were a shoddy company and their service was pretty poor. I remember a whole winter of cancelled trains to school. It was so bad, our school just stopped their "4 lates" punishments, as it was just impratical over this period.
Once their franchise was lost, the Government took over running of the South East railways setting up South Eastern Trains. The service is pretty good, there's a new fleet of trains on the way, the stations are being updated, new ticket services are being introduced and more checks are carried out on tickets. However, as i happened to read in the Private Eye (Today as it happens), the Government seem set to hand over control to another private franchise. Oh well, i'll have stopped going to college by then i hope!
Well, with a DVD [only] game such as Half-Life 2, there is 1 DVD that my PC says is 2.96GB...
Yes, because there's nothing i like better then a HDD full of CD and DVD images, often over several gigs of images per game. Sure, Hard-Drive space isn't expensive, but it's a waste when you've got a HDD full of images.
And PC users can image stuff too, but often games don't like the fact they've been imaged and so just refuse to accept that what is imaged is the game.
Well, apparently we get the "wrong type of rain" (as opposed to the wrong types of snow and sunshine that our rail companies use as excuses), which results in it not feeding into the reservoirs or something and eventually ends up with us getting hosepipe bans in the Summer. So no, we don't get enough [of the right type of] rain!
Well, actually i get a problem when i click the link. I get a "Net Timeout Error" from Firefox when i click it, and i've never been able to access and of those coral links before.
Wasn't the original CD marketed as lasting forever? If so, then we'd better send it back for false advertising, poor craftsmanship and all those laws that i don't know the names of that mean that if it's sold as lasting for X years, then it lasts X years.
What are you talking about licencing lighbulbs? You buy the lightbulb, there are no EULAs, TOCs or anything, no licencing-laws exist for lightbulbs. There's no form of lightbulb-licence!
Too bad [in the UK] lawyers were told not to use terms such as "Common Sense" as this may vary from person to person, background to background and culture to culture. Yes, "Common Sense" is non-existant in the UK legal system!
Therefore we should make all these races longer. If you double the length of the race, it stands to reason that the difference between the winner and loser will be twice as large; then maybe you can say with some confidence that the race was decided by athleticism and not pure luck. Sure it's a different sport, but at least you'd be measuring something meaningful.
Yea, great idea! Lets make the 100m the 200m, the 200m the 400m... You know they're all pretty damned close.
Of course, that's ignoring the total change of tatics, stamina and everything else that means people compete in different length races.
Well, if you check your Address Book, there is a link to "Import Contacts" near the top, which if you've been checking the help section and feedback sections, has been listed for ages. They even have a whole guide to importing if you have trouble.
And, looking at the Help section, they're looking at implementing a plain HTML version too.
How about a futurama one?
Leela: "The United States is part of the world"
Fry: "Man, i have been gone a long time!"
Well, as far as i can tell with the current version of Adblock (and the one i use), it doesn't actually prevent the images being downloaded and the adverts being registered as viewed, but they prevent them from showing up on the webpage when the browser displays it. Therefore i don't get the annoying adverts, the website still gets the registered hit and the advertiser still pays out their 0.01p per impression.
Hell will freeze over...
Fry: Actually, according to this brochure, it freezes over each year from November to March.
Seeing as their policy is "Archive, not delete", sounds like the perfect thing for Gmail.
An amusing idea, but i wouldn't do it unless she isn't going to try and sue/take some form of legal action or has already failed her case. Otherwise it may harm her defence if she fought-back like that. I mean, if she forwards to goatse or something and then claims that she had to remove pictures of her baby (like she says she had to) she's kinda ruining her defence.
Yes, but they're mostly the people that don't download pre 1.0 release browsers. Once this hits the 1.0 release, i can see it being far more likely to be using updates rather then re-installs.
I just went to update my copy of DVD Shrink to see this advert on the download site:
DVD X COPY.
The Best-Selling software for backing up your DVD movies.
More info here.
Oh, the irony.
I think he was talking about an online service which you send your photos by email or something, they print and post back to you. Therefore the 3 days is just postage. If you're not in a rush for your photos or you don't have somewhere that does digital photos near you, it's a good compromise.
Whereas Sainsburys just shoves a little printed off label with "Reduced to 10p" on. These labels are easily removed for when you get home, they even have a little tag to peel it off and they don't tear. I can easily remove the label for a reduced to 5p pint of milk and stick it onto any product, just make sure you don't reduce something by too much though.
Why can't they add this to the article? Surely it would save lots of "The server is /.ed" posts and people could actually get the file!