This should never happen, as it is totally against the concept of a modern constitutional state.
Which, er, Britain isn't. No constitution, or at least not one that's written down. Secondly, the lynch mobs (as you call them) weren't actually trying to kill said child molesters - they were trying to drive them out of town. Which you can argue is equally reprehensible, and I would agree that it is, but that's a long way from lynch mobs trying to kill people.
But then I remembered we've got Blair and no limitation on how often he can be re-elected...
No country has a limit, in the sense that you mean - even the US can change that if they want to, albeit via a protracted legal process. Until the 1940s, the US didn't even have such a limit, and then it was only because Roosevelt got elected once too often. Second point; why do you assume a written constitution is automatically better than an unwritten one? For example, you can change/adapt an unwritten constitution much, much faster than a written one. My point is, things are a lot less black and white than your statement assumes...
Er...it kind of undermines your argument to mention this example, since both nVidia and ATI release Mac graphics cards. And swapping one for the other is just a matter of opening up the case and doing the exchange.
We're talking G4/G5 desktops here, of course, but then you can't upgrade Windows laptops either. And while you're quite right that you can't upgrade an iMac, you can't exactly upgrade many of the Media Center set-top type. So your argument kind of falls over when you realise that both platforms come in non-upgradeable and upgradeable flavours. No real difference between them.
And actually, as far as e-government work in the UK is concerned, they are standards, because adherence to those "specifications" is mandatory for anything you do as a result of central government publications and things like the Disability Discrimination Act. The ISO doesn't necessarily have a monopoly on making something a standard.
Also, there are a lot of countries that won't extradite to countries that have the death penalty. There was even an episode of The West Wing about it, once.
To be precise, to follow the development of Linux kernel code you have to use proprietary software. There are literally hundreds of sources out there for following the development of Linux, so I think the grandfather post was quite right. I have absolutely no interest in the kernel code but plenty of interest in the OS's development (if only because sooner or later us OS X users who have fink get most of those developed packages wrapped up in a sweet GUI:-)).
Those elements point toward some form of intent to reach a market beyond Russia.
Which doesn't necessarily include the US. Putting the pages in English is a logical thing to do if you want to sell software to the UK, Australia, New Zealand....and English is an international language anyway. The prices being in dollars and the credit card company being in the US is a bit more suspicious, I agree, though you could suggest that once they'd chosen that company they had to put the prices in dollars or the company wouldn't process the payment. If the sale was legal under Russian law, then all they're doing is sending money to the US for processing.
Although the US attorney general would probably then arrest them for money laundering instead:-)
Seriously, who uses all the special hot keys on recent keyboards?
Actually, I use the volume control/mute and CD drawer ejection buttons on my Macs' keyboards all the time. Particularly on the G4 and the G5, since you can't actually open their drawers by reaching for the box as they don't have eject buttons on the front (though the iBook does). Some special hot keys are incredibly useful, even essential.
India was worthless with Gandhi agitating Indians, so the Brits left.
No, we didn't, or not totally. India is still part of the Commonwealth. They wanted the right to make independent decisions, not to break with Britain totally.
Except Terry Nation didn't design the Daleks and the only thing he thought about was the lack of legs, based on a viewing of the Georgian State Ballet where the dancers appeared to glide due to their floor-length dresses. Raymond Cusick designed the rest, and he was the one inspired by a pepperpot.
Are you being serious? You do realise where the concept of a "black box" first got started? They've been in aeroplanes for years.
Another question is what happens with cars shipped overseas. If a car is made in America for use in England, what happens to the black box? What if a car is made in the UK, where it doesn't have to have a black box, only for the owner to emigrate to the States taking his car with him? What if a car is made in Canada and the owner regularly commutes across the border? How does the black box stop him/her from causing an accident?
It's a nice idea in theory, but enforcing it would be virtually impossible. You'd never be certain that a car had a black box. Unless, of course, the US closes its borders and forces all drivers to use American vehicles only (not impossible in a sufficiently protectionist world!).
No it doesn't. An EULA is a licence for you, the end user, which tells you what you can do once you've got the software. It doesn't place restrictions on whether or not you can acquire the software; in fact, it can't, because you haven't yet agreed to the EULA in the first place.
DRM-capable. I have plenty of AACs ripped from CD that are wide open. It's important to make the distinction, because AAC the file format has nothing to do with DRM per se; that's a commercial decision by the iTMS. You can happily distribute your AACs free of all DRM and fees if you want to, so don't blame the file format.
Also, who's to say that this is the source code that will be compiled on the voting terminals?
You can take paranoia too far, you know. Who's to say the people counting the votes at the polling stations are counting the same pieces of paper you filled in there? If you're going to take that extreme a view, then all voting is irrelevant and utterly without any means of proof. Linux is as unreliable as Windows, the OVC as Diebold, because anyone could have compiled your nice open source software and turned it into something evil....all over ze world...
That'd be a neat trick, since software isn't patentable in the EU (not yet anyway). And Microsoft has been able to file patents in the US for years on CIFS, so this case makes not one iota of difference to the situation either way - same as it's always been.
Also, IBM, Sun and Apple would likely all cry foul simultaneously, and they have much more clout than Samba itself in such matters.
Photoshop has been around on the Mac for a long, long time (longer than on the PC). The only "porting" was the OS 9 to X transition and Photoshop is a Carbon app, so even that wasn't much work because of Apple's non-Unix APIs. It's not the same thing as shifting to Linux, which really is a port.
having the possibility to script a mail client is not the best of ideas if you ask me.
Perhaps having a mail client that supports scripting which someone else can trigger is the problem, not scripting per se. Apple's Mail, for example, fully supports AppleScript but it won't trigger a script on receipt of a mail message. AppleScripts have to be activated by a user.
Of course, there are dumb users who trigger their own infections by clicking on attachments without checking, but the same goes for a file loaded on a floppy disk, CD or any other source - not the fault of the mail client.
Having a scriptable mail client can be very useful if you get a lot of spam or need to do a lot of fancy filtering.
Why wouldn't they spot this? It uses the Notes feature. Your iPod doesn't have Notes. Ergo, you can't play the game. It's akin to saying "this game uses sound for a lot of stuff"; if you don't have speakers, you don't need to be remotely techie to figure out that you can't get the experience.
It would be different if it said "this uses a version of Feature X", but if you don't have Feature X at all then ninety-nine per cent of people will twig they can't use the thing.
Shares are troublesome on my iBook if stored in favourites as "smb://sharename/" but work perfectly as "cifs://sharename/" - have you tried using both variants?
For those in the UK or with a Fortean Times subscription, there was a lengthy article on the alternative claims to the Wright Brothers in last month's issue, including some more on Richard Pearce and several other claimants. It's an extremely thorough article, including photographs and sketches, and well worth a read if you're interested in the topic.
Fortean Times is here if you've never heard of it before...
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Which, er, Britain isn't. No constitution, or at least not one that's written down. Secondly, the lynch mobs (as you call them) weren't actually trying to kill said child molesters - they were trying to drive them out of town. Which you can argue is equally reprehensible, and I would agree that it is, but that's a long way from lynch mobs trying to kill people.
No country has a limit, in the sense that you mean - even the US can change that if they want to, albeit via a protracted legal process. Until the 1940s, the US didn't even have such a limit, and then it was only because Roosevelt got elected once too often. Second point; why do you assume a written constitution is automatically better than an unwritten one? For example, you can change/adapt an unwritten constitution much, much faster than a written one. My point is, things are a lot less black and white than your statement assumes...
Er...it kind of undermines your argument to mention this example, since both nVidia and ATI release Mac graphics cards. And swapping one for the other is just a matter of opening up the case and doing the exchange.
We're talking G4/G5 desktops here, of course, but then you can't upgrade Windows laptops either. And while you're quite right that you can't upgrade an iMac, you can't exactly upgrade many of the Media Center set-top type. So your argument kind of falls over when you realise that both platforms come in non-upgradeable and upgradeable flavours. No real difference between them.
Secondly, AAC can either be lossy or lossless, depending on which format you choose. AAC Lossless is, by definition, lossless (er...hence the name).
So apart from getting both of those facts wrong, you were almost right :-)
And actually, as far as e-government work in the UK is concerned, they are standards, because adherence to those "specifications" is mandatory for anything you do as a result of central government publications and things like the Disability Discrimination Act. The ISO doesn't necessarily have a monopoly on making something a standard.
I figure by about noon tomorrow I'll download a patch that "officially" makes me a 16 year old girl.
Well, everyone needs a hobby.
Also, there are a lot of countries that won't extradite to countries that have the death penalty. There was even an episode of The West Wing about it, once.
Doesn't work with my copy of IE. Oh...wait...I'm a Mac person.
I'll get my coat now.
To be precise, to follow the development of Linux kernel code you have to use proprietary software. There are literally hundreds of sources out there for following the development of Linux, so I think the grandfather post was quite right. I have absolutely no interest in the kernel code but plenty of interest in the OS's development (if only because sooner or later us OS X users who have fink get most of those developed packages wrapped up in a sweet GUI :-)).
Those elements point toward some form of intent to reach a market beyond Russia.
:-)
Which doesn't necessarily include the US. Putting the pages in English is a logical thing to do if you want to sell software to the UK, Australia, New Zealand....and English is an international language anyway. The prices being in dollars and the credit card company being in the US is a bit more suspicious, I agree, though you could suggest that once they'd chosen that company they had to put the prices in dollars or the company wouldn't process the payment. If the sale was legal under Russian law, then all they're doing is sending money to the US for processing.
Although the US attorney general would probably then arrest them for money laundering instead
Seriously, who uses all the special hot keys on recent keyboards?
Actually, I use the volume control/mute and CD drawer ejection buttons on my Macs' keyboards all the time. Particularly on the G4 and the G5, since you can't actually open their drawers by reaching for the box as they don't have eject buttons on the front (though the iBook does). Some special hot keys are incredibly useful, even essential.
India was worthless with Gandhi agitating Indians, so the Brits left. No, we didn't, or not totally. India is still part of the Commonwealth. They wanted the right to make independent decisions, not to break with Britain totally.
Except Terry Nation didn't design the Daleks and the only thing he thought about was the lack of legs, based on a viewing of the Georgian State Ballet where the dancers appeared to glide due to their floor-length dresses. Raymond Cusick designed the rest, and he was the one inspired by a pepperpot.
Imagine what use this could be in aeroplanes
Are you being serious? You do realise where the concept of a "black box" first got started? They've been in aeroplanes for years.
Another question is what happens with cars shipped overseas. If a car is made in America for use in England, what happens to the black box? What if a car is made in the UK, where it doesn't have to have a black box, only for the owner to emigrate to the States taking his car with him? What if a car is made in Canada and the owner regularly commutes across the border? How does the black box stop him/her from causing an accident?
It's a nice idea in theory, but enforcing it would be virtually impossible. You'd never be certain that a car had a black box. Unless, of course, the US closes its borders and forces all drivers to use American vehicles only (not impossible in a sufficiently protectionist world!).
Cmd-L works in Safari too (as you might expect, since it and Konqueror are practically identical at times).
No it doesn't. An EULA is a licence for you, the end user, which tells you what you can do once you've got the software. It doesn't place restrictions on whether or not you can acquire the software; in fact, it can't, because you haven't yet agreed to the EULA in the first place.
They mean the DRMed AAC format by apple
DRM-capable. I have plenty of AACs ripped from CD that are wide open. It's important to make the distinction, because AAC the file format has nothing to do with DRM per se; that's a commercial decision by the iTMS. You can happily distribute your AACs free of all DRM and fees if you want to, so don't blame the file format.
Except (s)he was talking about the UK and not the US approach. If not for getting the country wrong, you'd be correct :-)
Also, who's to say that this is the source code that will be compiled on the voting terminals?
:-)
You can take paranoia too far, you know. Who's to say the people counting the votes at the polling stations are counting the same pieces of paper you filled in there? If you're going to take that extreme a view, then all voting is irrelevant and utterly without any means of proof. Linux is as unreliable as Windows, the OVC as Diebold, because anyone could have compiled your nice open source software and turned it into something evil....all over ze world...
I do like your tinfoil hat.
That'd be a neat trick, since software isn't patentable in the EU (not yet anyway). And Microsoft has been able to file patents in the US for years on CIFS, so this case makes not one iota of difference to the situation either way - same as it's always been.
Also, IBM, Sun and Apple would likely all cry foul simultaneously, and they have much more clout than Samba itself in such matters.
Photoshop has been around on the Mac for a long, long time (longer than on the PC). The only "porting" was the OS 9 to X transition and Photoshop is a Carbon app, so even that wasn't much work because of Apple's non-Unix APIs. It's not the same thing as shifting to Linux, which really is a port.
having the possibility to script a mail client is not the best of ideas if you ask me.
Perhaps having a mail client that supports scripting which someone else can trigger is the problem, not scripting per se. Apple's Mail, for example, fully supports AppleScript but it won't trigger a script on receipt of a mail message. AppleScripts have to be activated by a user.
Of course, there are dumb users who trigger their own infections by clicking on attachments without checking, but the same goes for a file loaded on a floppy disk, CD or any other source - not the fault of the mail client.
Having a scriptable mail client can be very useful if you get a lot of spam or need to do a lot of fancy filtering.
Why wouldn't they spot this? It uses the Notes feature. Your iPod doesn't have Notes. Ergo, you can't play the game. It's akin to saying "this game uses sound for a lot of stuff"; if you don't have speakers, you don't need to be remotely techie to figure out that you can't get the experience.
It would be different if it said "this uses a version of Feature X", but if you don't have Feature X at all then ninety-nine per cent of people will twig they can't use the thing.
Shares are troublesome on my iBook if stored in favourites as "smb://sharename/" but work perfectly as "cifs://sharename/" - have you tried using both variants?
For those in the UK or with a Fortean Times subscription, there was a lengthy article on the alternative claims to the Wright Brothers in last month's issue, including some more on Richard Pearce and several other claimants. It's an extremely thorough article, including photographs and sketches, and well worth a read if you're interested in the topic.
Fortean Times is here if you've never heard of it before...