A TV license is a payment against royalties on content, not royalties on TV technology.
This may be true now; but during the 1980s it certainly wasn't. I needed a TV License to use a portable TV with no tuner, that I used solely used for my "micro-computer"[1]. No tuner in the house, still needed a TV License. The reason given was that the license was a license "to use the technology" - what use I put the technology to was my business.
20 years ago, etc, YMMV.
[1] A ZX-81, a Spectrum and (finally!) a BBC Micro B. Ah, the good old days!
but it ain't gonna take off in the same way throughout the rest of the World without a similar rock-bottom outlet doing the same. (/me mourns living in rip-off UK)
Well, Asda [UK supermarket] is owned by Wal*mart. I'm still trying to decide whether that's good news, bad news or terrible news - but at least you might one day be able to buy a cheap PC with your groceries.
I'm embarrased now - I've just re-read Candide (on holiday in Mallorca - coincidence, honest!) and I failed to make the connection. When I made the quip I was thinking about Carthage, and the occupation of Europe in the last century. I stand by my desire for SCO to die horribly, but I'm not convinced "pour encourager les autres" is in particularly good taste...
the original expletive-laced version was sanitized early yesterday
You've got to be kidding me. I read the (newly cleansed) article and needed to wash my eyes with bleach afterwards. I had to check the URL and make sure that it wasn't a bizarre "sco-phish" site, mocked up by a mis-guided good guy.
I can not believe SCO posted that transcript. If I were Darl and Co. I'd be denying all knowledge, right now.
Lying, cheating, stealing, and then cooking the books to cover it has been a suicide business model for years yet it doesn't stop companies from continuing to do it.
I can't argue with that, but... no, dammit, I can't argue with that.
I do feel that there's an element of IBM "proving" that's it really is the biggest, baddest kid on the block, even if it plays nice with those Linux-Hippy Children next door, but you're quite right - there were sound legal reasons IBM & co should not have settled earlier.
Mods, do not be mislead by the title (lifted wholesale from the original Enderle Troll article at www.sco.com) - this is an informative post, that links to Rob Enderle's now (in)famous speech at SCO Forum last Tuesday. I've been looking for this transcript for a few days now - kudos to Bad Move for posting this.
"Pour encourager les autres". It would send a clear message to every Self-serving Cynical Organisation that playing fast-and-loose with the law against legitimate businesses is an acceptable and profitable activity.
Best result here is for SCO to die horribly - and publically[1].
([1] OK, my best result is Darl et al serving time, but I'll settle for Joe Q WallStreet knowing that SCO's business model was suicide)
To be fair, science isn't exactly sexy news in the UK, either. The BBC covers stuff like this because (a) it's mandated to, and (b) there's no profit motive keeping the unsexy news off the (metaphorical) frontpages. Which is nice[1].
[1]...provided there remain alternative broadcasters to keep the Beeb on its toes.
When people remove themselves from the electoral roll its harder to get credit...
Virtually impossible, I've been led to understand. In fairness, however, the Electoral Commission recently established *two* Electoral Roles: one full list that can be used by mailing list companies, and a restricted list for voters with privacy concerns. The second list probably won't help voters concerned about their disappearance from the list during the Poll Tax debacle...;)
Why do people read these things, anyways? PC World is nothing but a catalog of buzzwords and hype. Always was.
Interesting - I've only read a few PC Worlds (I'm UK-based so my magazine consumption tends towards the UK and US) but it struck me as relatively practical, and mercifully buzz-word free. Was I just lucky with those issues?
(Off-topic: any other NZ/Australian/Asia-Pacific magazines anyone would recommend?)
Why do we need licenses at all for light sport planes? There have been light sport planes on the market for years.
Until now, light sport plane pilots were fully licensed. The new license is easier to obtain, meaning that "casual" pilots won't need to demonstrate that they're medically capable of flying a passenger- or commercial-aircraft.
She's like, totally, this, you know, girl, who had, like, a Windows PC that totally went BANG! and so she, like, became - get this! - like totally the poster-child for the Mac Switch campaign, like.
(Damn, I wish I could find some of my old parody links. I deleted them once I realised how sad I was keeping them cluttering up Firefox. Sad, but they were funny. Funnier than me, at any rate...)
I suppose I meant to say "any organisation... should have an obligation"
I assumed that's what you meant; and I agree whole-heartedly. I'd never made the comparison between corporate Data Protection Officers and Arthur Dent's Planning Office before - that little idea's going to take a lot of weekend beer to push aside;)
Any organisation that performs this wide-scale CCTV surveillance has an obligation to provide access to anybody who has legitimate business on the premises who wants to see what is being filmed.
However...in the UK that obligation is in the form of: "Must respond with 40 days to a request for data". ie. if you are recorded by CCTV, and you make a Data Protection Request, then (and only then) is the organisation performing surveillance obligated to show you what was filmed. And only if what was being filmed was you.
The point that the author makes here is really that without electricity we will lose great parts of recent history.
When I was at secondary school, in Britain during the 1980s, we participated in a UK-wide project to create a modern version of the "Domesday Book", the 11th-century record of people and property.
The project we worked on was recorded onto a (state-of-the-art) laserdisc so it would "last through the generations".
Last year I read an article saying that dedicated enthusiasts were desperately trying to assemble a working laserdisc system, in order to archive all the data collected just 20 years earlier.
Moral: it's not just electricity we need to worry about - media and the equipment necessary to access specific media is vital, too.
I don't see how that CD-ROM system leaves the secret ballot intact.
In Britain ballot papers come in two sections, both numbered. In theory, there is no secret ballot. Just a system that's better than the old one (employer watches you vote for "his" party, rewards you by not sacking you). I'd be interested to know how many other nations really operate secret ballots...and how they manage it (and, more importantly, why Britain apparently can't manage it).
Well Actionscript is a modified ECMAScript. Does jEdit handle the latest, or is it an earlier versions? If so, how easy is it to extend as Macromedia changes it?
I believe - not used it for a while - that it handles the latest version (certainly it did when I was playing around with ActionScript, before I started my current job a year or so ago). jEdit is built around extensibility, so, yes, it is easy to extend as needed.
Nope, I could only find Scite/Flash and SE|PY which are Windows only.
Take a look on freshmeat and sourceforge. To be honest, I rarely look anywhere else - too much closed-source, proprietary crud.
It's [WinNT] also much more reliable, and on higher end systems, seems much faster than Win9x, unless you are badly starved for memory (say, less than 256MB.)
I hate Windows as much as the next geek, but I'm running XP on 128MB at work, and on 64MB at home. It ain't fun, but it's not that slow. And I certainly wouldn't consider moving to Win9x;)
Whoa! If this was a Mozilla exploit, does that mean I have to patch my Linux version?
Nope! It's a Windows-only exploit (if you can believe that - crazy, eh?)
I believe that other apps are also affected - MS Word for example:/. article. Here's hoping MS fix Word as quickly as the Mozilla Foundation fixed Firefox;)
how many of these people are actually using a legally licensed version of windows, and how many people "pirated" it?
...but, does it matter? People using pirated copies of Windows are prime candidates for purchasing Windows once their local laws on copyright are toughened-up/enforced. I'm sure Bill Gates et al would prefer folk to pirate Windows than download Linux, say.
A free Actionscript-2 Linux editor, with code highliting, and folding
jEdit (30 seconds on Freshmeat. YMMV) Remember, ActionScript is just ECMAScript (JavaScript), so searching for JavaScript editors, then narrowing down to ones that offer syntax highlighting and code folding should yield plenty of results.
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A TV license is a payment against royalties on content, not royalties on TV technology.
This may be true now; but during the 1980s it certainly wasn't. I needed a TV License to use a portable TV with no tuner, that I used solely used for my "micro-computer"[1]. No tuner in the house, still needed a TV License. The reason given was that the license was a license "to use the technology" - what use I put the technology to was my business.
20 years ago, etc, YMMV.
[1] A ZX-81, a Spectrum and (finally!) a BBC Micro B. Ah, the good old days!
but it ain't gonna take off in the same way throughout the rest of the World without a similar rock-bottom outlet doing the same. ( /me mourns living in rip-off UK)
Well, Asda [UK supermarket] is owned by Wal*mart. I'm still trying to decide whether that's good news, bad news or terrible news - but at least you might one day be able to buy a cheap PC with your groceries.
I'm embarrased now - I've just re-read Candide (on holiday in Mallorca - coincidence, honest!) and I failed to make the connection. When I made the quip I was thinking about Carthage, and the occupation of Europe in the last century. I stand by my desire for SCO to die horribly, but I'm not convinced "pour encourager les autres" is in particularly good taste...
Thanks for the context: appreciated.
the original expletive-laced version was sanitized early yesterday
You've got to be kidding me. I read the (newly cleansed) article and needed to wash my eyes with bleach afterwards. I had to check the URL and make sure that it wasn't a bizarre "sco-phish" site, mocked up by a mis-guided good guy.
I can not believe SCO posted that transcript. If I were Darl and Co. I'd be denying all knowledge, right now.
Lying, cheating, stealing, and then cooking the books to cover it has been a suicide business model for years yet it doesn't stop companies from continuing to do it.
I can't argue with that, but... no, dammit, I can't argue with that.
I do feel that there's an element of IBM "proving" that's it really is the biggest, baddest kid on the block, even if it plays nice with those Linux-Hippy Children next door, but you're quite right - there were sound legal reasons IBM & co should not have settled earlier.
Mods, do not be mislead by the title (lifted wholesale from the original Enderle Troll article at www.sco.com) - this is an informative post, that links to Rob Enderle's now (in)famous speech at SCO Forum last Tuesday. I've been looking for this transcript for a few days now - kudos to Bad Move for posting this.
Why can't IBM ... just buy these clowns?
"Pour encourager les autres". It would send a clear message to every Self-serving Cynical Organisation that playing fast-and-loose with the law against legitimate businesses is an acceptable and profitable activity.
Best result here is for SCO to die horribly - and publically[1].
([1] OK, my best result is Darl et al serving time, but I'll settle for Joe Q WallStreet knowing that SCO's business model was suicide)
<pedant>
> 1st they laugh at you
> 2nd they fight you
> then you win
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
</pedant>
Science isn't sexy news in America.
To be fair, science isn't exactly sexy news in the UK, either. The BBC covers stuff like this because (a) it's mandated to, and (b) there's no profit motive keeping the unsexy news off the (metaphorical) frontpages. Which is nice[1].
[1] ...provided there remain alternative broadcasters to keep the Beeb on its toes.
>> "Virtually impossible, I've been led to understand."
> Only if you don't already appear in Experian's database and you've changed address in the past 3 years.
Daft me; when I discussed this with a credit reference geek it was in the context of having moved house more times than I care to remember ;)
When people remove themselves from the electoral roll its harder to get credit...
Virtually impossible, I've been led to understand. In fairness, however, the Electoral Commission recently established *two* Electoral Roles: one full list that can be used by mailing list companies, and a restricted list for voters with privacy concerns. The second list probably won't help voters concerned about their disappearance from the list during the Poll Tax debacle... ;)
Why do people read these things, anyways? PC World is nothing but a catalog of buzzwords and hype. Always was.
Interesting - I've only read a few PC Worlds (I'm UK-based so my magazine consumption tends towards the UK and US) but it struck me as relatively practical, and mercifully buzz-word free. Was I just lucky with those issues?
(Off-topic: any other NZ/Australian/Asia-Pacific magazines anyone would recommend?)
Why do we need licenses at all for light sport planes? There have been light sport planes on the market for years.
Until now, light sport plane pilots were fully licensed. The new license is easier to obtain, meaning that "casual" pilots won't need to demonstrate that they're medically capable of flying a passenger- or commercial-aircraft.
Who she [Ellen Feiss]?
She's like, totally, this, you know, girl, who had, like, a Windows PC that totally went BANG! and so she, like, became - get this! - like totally the poster-child for the Mac Switch campaign, like.
(Damn, I wish I could find some of my old parody links. I deleted them once I realised how sad I was keeping them cluttering up Firefox. Sad, but they were funny. Funnier than me, at any rate...)
I suppose I meant to say "any organisation ... should have an obligation"
I assumed that's what you meant; and I agree whole-heartedly. I'd never made the comparison between corporate Data Protection Officers and Arthur Dent's Planning Office before - that little idea's going to take a lot of weekend beer to push aside ;)
Any organisation that performs this wide-scale CCTV surveillance has an obligation to provide access to anybody who has legitimate business on the premises who wants to see what is being filmed.
However...in the UK that obligation is in the form of: "Must respond with 40 days to a request for data". ie. if you are recorded by CCTV, and you make a Data Protection Request, then (and only then) is the organisation performing surveillance obligated to show you what was filmed. And only if what was being filmed was you.
The point that the author makes here is really that without electricity we will lose great parts of recent history.
When I was at secondary school, in Britain during the 1980s, we participated in a UK-wide project to create a modern version of the "Domesday Book", the 11th-century record of people and property.
The project we worked on was recorded onto a (state-of-the-art) laserdisc so it would "last through the generations".
Last year I read an article saying that dedicated enthusiasts were desperately trying to assemble a working laserdisc system, in order to archive all the data collected just 20 years earlier.
Moral: it's not just electricity we need to worry about - media and the equipment necessary to access specific media is vital, too.
Also, does anyone really expect their STUPID!@!!@ .log TLD proposal to be accepted?!??!!
Totally. We've been waiting since 1990 - 1990! for this, which seemed so great for so long, but sadly never was adopted.
:)
Are the games in MAME yet?
Here you go!
I don't see how that CD-ROM system leaves the secret ballot intact.
In Britain ballot papers come in two sections, both numbered. In theory, there is no secret ballot. Just a system that's better than the old one (employer watches you vote for "his" party, rewards you by not sacking you). I'd be interested to know how many other nations really operate secret ballots...and how they manage it (and, more importantly, why Britain apparently can't manage it).
Well Actionscript is a modified ECMAScript. Does jEdit handle the latest, or is it an earlier versions? If so, how easy is it to extend as Macromedia changes it?
I believe - not used it for a while - that it handles the latest version (certainly it did when I was playing around with ActionScript, before I started my current job a year or so ago). jEdit is built around extensibility, so, yes, it is easy to extend as needed.
Nope, I could only find Scite/Flash and SE|PY which are Windows only.
Take a look on freshmeat and sourceforge. To be honest, I rarely look anywhere else - too much closed-source, proprietary crud.
It's [WinNT] also much more reliable, and on higher end systems, seems much faster than Win9x, unless you are badly starved for memory (say, less than 256MB.)
I hate Windows as much as the next geek, but I'm running XP on 128MB at work, and on 64MB at home. It ain't fun, but it's not that slow. And I certainly wouldn't consider moving to Win9x ;)
Whoa! If this was a Mozilla exploit, does that mean I have to patch my Linux version?
Nope! It's a Windows-only exploit (if you can believe that - crazy, eh?)
I believe that other apps are also affected - MS Word for example: /. article. Here's hoping MS fix Word as quickly as the Mozilla Foundation fixed Firefox ;)
how many of these people are actually using a legally licensed version of windows, and how many people "pirated" it?
...but, does it matter? People using pirated copies of Windows are prime candidates for purchasing Windows once their local laws on copyright are toughened-up/enforced. I'm sure Bill Gates et al would prefer folk to pirate Windows than download Linux, say.
A free Actionscript-2 Linux editor, with code highliting, and folding
jEdit (30 seconds on Freshmeat. YMMV) Remember, ActionScript is just ECMAScript (JavaScript), so searching for JavaScript editors, then narrowing down to ones that offer syntax highlighting and code folding should yield plenty of results.
Here's one that I think no one can answer.
You're not, by any chance, a troll?