My TV also has one, it is eight years old flat CRT
I too had one till a little while ago, and I didn't replace it because LCDs were comparatively crap for viewing angle and contrast. Then I bought a plasma, full HD 42" one. It cost the same price as the 10 year old Sony Wega 32" it replaced in absolute terms, 33% less factoring in inflation. And the picture was stunningly better, I wished I'd done it much earlier, but OTOH the price had fallen so much on the plasma in recent times that it had become an easy decision.
here in The Netherlands, the usual contract contains a clause that entitles your employer to the copyright to anything work-related that you produce in your spare time.
I wrote (or rather, hacked up) some plugins for munin which allow people to monitor my employer's products. I did them in my own time and licensed them as GPL. Only after I did it, and mentioned it to a colleague, was I told that in theory anything work related I do, whether in my spare time or not, is usually owned by the company and I should have sought permission. Fortunately me for me, the work was relatively trivial so noone cared to do anything about it, although IMHO it actually benefits the company.
I did have more ideas for more plugins, and again I'd have written them in my spare time if I could have GPL'd them. However, I'm not going to do so because I'd get no benefit, and in fact it'd snarl me up in company politics. When I leave, I might get round to writing and releasing the new plugins, purely for the satisfaction.
I used to have an ipod touch on loan, and to help it finds its location, I entered all the wifi access points I could find into skyhookwireless's database.
So, just because your access points appear in a database doesn't mean that the operators of that DB went snooping, it could be an independent third party providing the data for innocuous reasons.
I recall someone once saying that a key part of schooling was teaching kids how to cope with boredom whilst doing assigned tasks. I would reckon that is a key skill for many jobs.
A small proportion of children are bright enough to climb out of the rut of mediocre schooling, because their intelligence drives their curiosity, and they can rise above the lowest-common-denominator. These are the ones who need to be put into separate classes early and be given a chance to excel.
A good analogy would be escape velocity I suppose, they need intellect and drive to get out of the gravity well of mediocrity.
I used to travel to the USA four times a year for ten days or more per trip. I've reduced that to once or twice; cost to the US economy at least $2500 per trip (internal flights, hotels, car rental, restaurants, entertainment), because I hate being treated as a criminal. I am almost certainly not the only one, overall cost to the US economy must be in the many millions.
create a bookmark called "goognoreviews" with the following:
javascript:sURL='http://www.google.co.uk';sTerm=prompt('Enter%20a%20Google%20search%20term','');if(sTerm!=null){void(document.location=sURL+'/search?q='+encodeURIComponent(sTerm)+"+-inurl:(kelkoo|bizrate|pixmania|dealtime|pricerunner|dooyoo|pricegrabber|pricewatch|resellerratings|ebay|shopbot|comparestoreprices|ciao|unbeatable|shopping|epinions|nextag|buy|bestwebbuys)")}else{void(document.location)}
let me fix that for you:
If you trust Vodafone (or any other commercial provider) to create an accurate and reliable map that they publish
the carriers use topo maps to predict coverage, and they also have signal surveyors (which have to stick to roads and paths), so its actually quite hard for them to have accurate maps anyway. Add some marketing people with their spin, some dodgy signal strength calculations by one of the mobile phone vendors, and it's no wonder noone trusts them at all!
Luxury! Back in MY day, we had to make our punch cards from the images printed in magazines, and if you so much as had one hanging chad, the game would crash!!
the net effect will be to convince people they really ought to try to xbox
and what makes you think Microsoft won't adopt this model too?
face it, we're moving to an economy where we rent everything... rent music through monthly subs, rent games through one-time activation keys, rent computer software through one-time-activation keys, rent mobile phones through monthly service charges which subsidise the handset...
the lawyers would argue that, effectively, we already did, we simply paid a one-off licensing fee to rent the item indefinitely and never owned the item only the physical "container".
I would have to take care of someone else's kids, financially
we all do that already, but indirectly, through taxation payments which end up in welfare/social security payments to parents unable/unwilling to provide for their own children.
You are confabulating the current situation where making perfect copies is so cheap as to be effectively free with the historic situation where copies were expensive due to being labour intensive and where perfection came at a higher price. This discussion is about the latter and how copyright law came to be. Sure, it's out of date, and needs changing, but the vested interest is in maintaining the status quo.
+1
Here in the East of England, South Cambs District Council boasted in their magazine a while back that the new town Cambourne had an even higher housing density than planned and higher than ever before in the region.I thought they should be apologising, not boasting.
the users are simply bait to bring the advertisers. their purpose is to bring eyeballs to see adverts.
whenever you use a free service online, ask yourself this: who is paying for this service, and what obligation do they have to me to continue to provide this service until *I* don't want or need it any more, rather than being able to close the service on a whim.
You mean iOS devices don't have an unrestricted web browser?
Until Apple decide that all websites should pay them a royalty for being accessible to an iDevice; or, they decide a website might have adult material and therefore offend His Jobsness and be blocked as porn.
in others words you didn't do anything. However, you did the sensible thing in buying phone off contract and unlocked, to avoid the double-prison of a locked phone on a 24 month carrier prison term!
unfortunately there's software she needs to run which isn't available on linux.
for my mother, who's decided to get online, I set up my old laptop with ubuntu, and it connects to my home server over openvpn so I can log in to manage it as necessary.
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My TV also has one, it is eight years old flat CRT
I too had one till a little while ago, and I didn't replace it because LCDs were comparatively crap for viewing angle and contrast. Then I bought a plasma, full HD 42" one. It cost the same price as the 10 year old Sony Wega 32" it replaced in absolute terms, 33% less factoring in inflation. And the picture was stunningly better, I wished I'd done it much earlier, but OTOH the price had fallen so much on the plasma in recent times that it had become an easy decision.
here in The Netherlands, the usual contract contains a clause that entitles your employer to the copyright to anything work-related that you produce in your spare time.
I wrote (or rather, hacked up) some plugins for munin which allow people to monitor my employer's products. I did them in my own time and licensed them as GPL. Only after I did it, and mentioned it to a colleague, was I told that in theory anything work related I do, whether in my spare time or not, is usually owned by the company and I should have sought permission. Fortunately me for me, the work was relatively trivial so noone cared to do anything about it, although IMHO it actually benefits the company.
I did have more ideas for more plugins, and again I'd have written them in my spare time if I could have GPL'd them. However, I'm not going to do so because I'd get no benefit, and in fact it'd snarl me up in company politics. When I leave, I might get round to writing and releasing the new plugins, purely for the satisfaction.
I used to have an ipod touch on loan, and to help it finds its location, I entered all the wifi access points I could find into skyhookwireless's database.
So, just because your access points appear in a database doesn't mean that the operators of that DB went snooping, it could be an independent third party providing the data for innocuous reasons.
I recall someone once saying that a key part of schooling was teaching kids how to cope with boredom whilst doing assigned tasks. I would reckon that is a key skill for many jobs.
A small proportion of children are bright enough to climb out of the rut of mediocre schooling, because their intelligence drives their curiosity, and they can rise above the lowest-common-denominator. These are the ones who need to be put into separate classes early and be given a chance to excel.
A good analogy would be escape velocity I suppose, they need intellect and drive to get out of the gravity well of mediocrity.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zillionly.PermissionsRequest&feature=also_installed
interesting, thanks. I installed this and discovered PermissionsRequest: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zillionly.PermissionsRequest&feature=also_installed
I used to travel to the USA four times a year for ten days or more per trip. I've reduced that to once or twice; cost to the US economy at least $2500 per trip (internal flights, hotels, car rental, restaurants, entertainment), because I hate being treated as a criminal. I am almost certainly not the only one, overall cost to the US economy must be in the many millions.
I saw a sign on a shop in Santa Fe, NM: "please remove ski mask and unload gun before entering shop". or something very close to that.
create a bookmark called "goognoreviews" with the following: javascript:sURL='http://www.google.co.uk';sTerm=prompt('Enter%20a%20Google%20search%20term','');if(sTerm!=null){void(document.location=sURL+'/search?q='+encodeURIComponent(sTerm)+"+-inurl:(kelkoo|bizrate|pixmania|dealtime|pricerunner|dooyoo|pricegrabber|pricewatch|resellerratings|ebay|shopbot|comparestoreprices|ciao|unbeatable|shopping|epinions|nextag|buy|bestwebbuys)")}else{void(document.location)}
let me fix that for you:
If you trust Vodafone (or any other commercial provider) to create an accurate and reliable map that they publish
the carriers use topo maps to predict coverage, and they also have signal surveyors (which have to stick to roads and paths), so its actually quite hard for them to have accurate maps anyway. Add some marketing people with their spin, some dodgy signal strength calculations by one of the mobile phone vendors, and it's no wonder noone trusts them at all!
my very old phone used baudot!
http://vodafoneuksignal.com/
have opensignalmaps actually released the data yet?
last time I looked there were promised to that effect, but nothing actually done about it.
try using google maps to request direction from San Francisco to Japan and see how it takes you through Hawaii
Luxury! Back in MY day, we had to make our punch cards from the images printed in magazines, and if you so much as had one hanging chad, the game would crash!!
the net effect will be to convince people they really ought to try to xbox
and what makes you think Microsoft won't adopt this model too?
face it, we're moving to an economy where we rent everything... rent music through monthly subs, rent games through one-time activation keys, rent computer software through one-time-activation keys, rent mobile phones through monthly service charges which subsidise the handset...
the lawyers would argue that, effectively, we already did, we simply paid a one-off licensing fee to rent the item indefinitely and never owned the item only the physical "container".
I would have to take care of someone else's kids, financially
we all do that already, but indirectly, through taxation payments which end up in welfare/social security payments to parents unable/unwilling to provide for their own children.
You are confabulating the current situation where making perfect copies is so cheap as to be effectively free with the historic situation where copies were expensive due to being labour intensive and where perfection came at a higher price. This discussion is about the latter and how copyright law came to be. Sure, it's out of date, and needs changing, but the vested interest is in maintaining the status quo.
+1
we spend more on our mobile phones and services than people in some countries have to live on, by a considerable margin.
+1 Here in the East of England, South Cambs District Council boasted in their magazine a while back that the new town Cambourne had an even higher housing density than planned and higher than ever before in the region.I thought they should be apologising, not boasting.
the customers are the advertisers.
the users are simply bait to bring the advertisers. their purpose is to bring eyeballs to see adverts.
whenever you use a free service online, ask yourself this: who is paying for this service, and what obligation do they have to me to continue to provide this service until *I* don't want or need it any more, rather than being able to close the service on a whim.
You mean iOS devices don't have an unrestricted web browser?
Until Apple decide that all websites should pay them a royalty for being accessible to an iDevice; or, they decide a website might have adult material and therefore offend His Jobsness and be blocked as porn.
in others words you didn't do anything. However, you did the sensible thing in buying phone off contract and unlocked, to avoid the double-prison of a locked phone on a 24 month carrier prison term!
http://www.gadling.com/2011/05/20/the-tsa-pokey-pokey
unfortunately there's software she needs to run which isn't available on linux. for my mother, who's decided to get online, I set up my old laptop with ubuntu, and it connects to my home server over openvpn so I can log in to manage it as necessary.