Well, in most civilized countries that would result in the (former) employee and/or the union he/she was a member of suing the employer for wrongful termination since it generally isn't legal to just randomly fire employees for what they do in their own time.
Now, I may have not lived in "most civilized countries", since there is quite a lot of them, but I have lived in quite a lot of them in Europe (UK, Germany, Denmark, Sweden etc..), in every country I've been in, an employer could easily fire someone for something they did on their own time that badly represents the company. My anecdotal personal experience seems to conflict with this claim and as such, I need something more than a random comment on the internet without sources showing this does not happen in "most civilized" because it "would result in the (former) employee and/or the union he/she was a member of suing the employer for wrongful termination".
The ink will be adversely affected by air... especially if the cartridge was never removed from the box, with airtight sticker on the printer head preventing air access.
Uhm, isn't the printer head separate from those particular ink cartridges and particularly why they have expiry, to prevent you messing up the entire printer instead of just the ink cartridge - which doesn't happen on most modern ink jets because they have the head built into the cartridge now - those cartridges don't have expiration.
Many of these 'expiry' cartridges have a built in timer from the moment you first use it rather than a 'best before' date.
The crappy thing about HP ink cartridges is that they encode an expiration date in the cartridge.
From the website you referenced:
The simple fact of the matter, however, is that most HP ink supplies do not have ink expiration dates, so few users are affected. Of the small percentage of HP ink supplies that do have ink expiration dates, some will, indeed, stop working on those dates, while others have dates that can be overridden--causing minimal impact to the overall printing experience.
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Basically ink expiration is a built-in date on which certain HP ink cartridges will stop working. Air ingestion and water evaporation can cause ink to change over time. In printing systems where the printhead and ink supply are separate, older ink can adversely impact the printhead and the ink delivery components within the printer. With ink expiration, however, HP can prevent this from happening.
1) Cost. Amigas cost a whole lot more than other computers.
Rubbish.
2) Failure to keep pace. The Amiga just didn't keep up with developments in the rest of the computer industry well.
Amiga was often ahead actually.
What killed Amiga was XOR patent lawyers preventing the sales of the CD32 in the USA because they didn't get paid for XOR licensing, Commodore couldn't afford the storage for the already produced CD32 units and went bankrupt.
What I'm saying is, you can't claim they support html5 when the html5 spec isn't finalized and due to HTML5 not being very specific on matters, we've got a stupid war on what codecs, containers the video tag should support now.
Unless you've changed your mind recently, you're very anti-OOXML for all the same reasons I'm very anti-Flash.
I wrote an exporter for the flash format, I found the documentation very adequate. Now trying to generate files in Microsoft's OOXML, you will find the specs they released extremely inadequate. Especially because the behaviour of how Microsoft Office treats the documents is not the same as the documentation. I can generate valid spreadsheets, but because I don't stick a bunch of binary goop (which is not required by the documentation) - excel completely ignores it.
Let's face it. You don't like Microsoft or Apple.
I like a lot of things about Microsoft. One of the things I have recently come to love is their new hardware accelerated RDP support, which I have found really nice for running some intensive graphical applications remotely over my wireless network while using it on my not so powerful laptop. With regards to Apple, I actually like the concept of an iPad and if I hadn't already allocated a bunch of funds to other things, I would have got one.
And it shouldn't, that would be the job of Sonsoren Media who have licensed the technologies to both Apple and Adobe. Same thing goes for On2, since it's a On2 Technologies technology and not Adobe. This is not Adobe's fault, it's not like there was "better" technologies at the time they licensed these technologies.
Moreover, Adobe controls the format, not an open standards body
True. On the other hand, your original post did not care about that, only "open up the Flash spec", which Adobe did. However, now I just consider you to be purposely changing your argument because it's convenient for you to keep your stance rather than legitimate reasons.
If Flash were completely open, why isn't there a 100% compliant open-source player out there?
For the same reason new PDF specs aren't supported in most applications - Developers haven't simply done it yet or have no interest in doing so.
With FFMPEG working with these codecs which is essentially part of almost every FOSS media player out there, do you really think projects like Gnash couldn't use it?
Explain why the UKIP, Conservatives and other "democrats" are constantly opposing granting more co-desicion rights to the ELECTED European parliament.
I can only think right now of how UKIP refuses to allow more control given to the European Union due to the fact there is promises that there will be democratic voting, but then the EU turns around and just makes the decisions regardless when people oppose the decisions.
If that isn't what you were referring to, could you provide links to the specific parliament talks you're referencing?
Currently, getting a patent in all of europe depends on first finding a patent office that WILL grant you the patent (which can be hard because most of 'em sit on their arse saying
Please stop talking bullshit, I own patents myself and never had to do that, see http://www.epo.org/
certain groups who often complain that the EU is undemocratic refuse to let it become more democratic i.e. Eurosceptics such as the British Conservative party or the UKIP
That is bullshit. How they are stopping it from being democratic to begin with? Hell, look at ukip, the majority of the time they are standing their opposing any decisions that was made undemocratically and if they are unable to stop those decisions, how are they stop democracy from occurring?
Here are a bunch of youtube videos I found without even trying, proving my point:
Slashdot Mirror
Now, I may have not lived in "most civilized countries", since there is quite a lot of them, but I have lived in quite a lot of them in Europe (UK, Germany, Denmark, Sweden etc..), in every country I've been in, an employer could easily fire someone for something they did on their own time that badly represents the company. My anecdotal personal experience seems to conflict with this claim and as such, I need something more than a random comment on the internet without sources showing this does not happen in "most civilized" because it "would result in the (former) employee and/or the union he/she was a member of suing the employer for wrongful termination".
Uhm, isn't the printer head separate from those particular ink cartridges and particularly why they have expiry, to prevent you messing up the entire printer instead of just the ink cartridge - which doesn't happen on most modern ink jets because they have the head built into the cartridge now - those cartridges don't have expiration.
Many of these 'expiry' cartridges have a built in timer from the moment you first use it rather than a 'best before' date.
I don't see why he couldn't?
From the website you referenced:
From that information, looks like it to me.
Your first clue is: An orange ball.
*face palm*
Out of curiosity, what ground breaking unique UIs and such were invented there and where is 'here'?
Rubbish.
Amiga was often ahead actually.
What killed Amiga was XOR patent lawyers preventing the sales of the CD32 in the USA because they didn't get paid for XOR licensing, Commodore couldn't afford the storage for the already produced CD32 units and went bankrupt.
So in other words they weren't. Thanks!
I don't see how RIM was blocking Adobe from implementing Flash on their platform like Apple is?
Perhaps you could clarify this for me?
I doubt anything will happen since you're purchasing these licenses under the condition you understand it's not an supported product anymore.
What I'm saying is, you can't claim they support html5 when the html5 spec isn't finalized and due to HTML5 not being very specific on matters, we've got a stupid war on what codecs, containers the video tag should support now.
The only flaw in your plan, is that you can still buy Microsoft Windows 1.1 from Microsoft. You just can't get support for it.
Windows XP is still sold, just no support is offered, just like all the other previously expired Microsoft OS products.
Sorry, that was the wrong link, I meant to link http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/
No, I haven't.
I wrote an exporter for the flash format, I found the documentation very adequate. Now trying to generate files in Microsoft's OOXML, you will find the specs they released extremely inadequate. Especially because the behaviour of how Microsoft Office treats the documents is not the same as the documentation. I can generate valid spreadsheets, but because I don't stick a bunch of binary goop (which is not required by the documentation) - excel completely ignores it.
I like a lot of things about Microsoft. One of the things I have recently come to love is their new hardware accelerated RDP support, which I have found really nice for running some intensive graphical applications remotely over my wireless network while using it on my not so powerful laptop. With regards to Apple, I actually like the concept of an iPad and if I hadn't already allocated a bunch of funds to other things, I would have got one.
I disagree with your assessment.
Nope, there is plenty of undocumented features in the documents that is entirely from Microsoft's design.
HTML5 is not finalized.
Could you explain this then, please?
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4148785/adobe-ceo-on-creative-suite-5-and-apple
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/resources/adobe.jsp
http://www.blackberrycool.com/2010/04/18/adobe-ceo-confirms-flash-10-1-on-blackberry-in-2nd-half-2010/
And it shouldn't, that would be the job of Sonsoren Media who have licensed the technologies to both Apple and Adobe. Same thing goes for On2, since it's a On2 Technologies technology and not Adobe. This is not Adobe's fault, it's not like there was "better" technologies at the time they licensed these technologies.
True. On the other hand, your original post did not care about that, only "open up the Flash spec", which Adobe did. However, now I just consider you to be purposely changing your argument because it's convenient for you to keep your stance rather than legitimate reasons.
For the same reason new PDF specs aren't supported in most applications - Developers haven't simply done it yet or have no interest in doing so.
With FFMPEG working with these codecs which is essentially part of almost every FOSS media player out there, do you really think projects like Gnash couldn't use it?
Opera on the Wii implements it, I believe Flash is also built in, in some of the latest Chrome builds now.
Flash spec
There you go. I guess they do have a right now, right?
UTF-8 isn't really important in English language.
I can only think right now of how UKIP refuses to allow more control given to the European Union due to the fact there is promises that there will be democratic voting, but then the EU turns around and just makes the decisions regardless when people oppose the decisions.
If that isn't what you were referring to, could you provide links to the specific parliament talks you're referencing?
Please stop talking bullshit, I own patents myself and never had to do that, see http://www.epo.org/
That is bullshit. How they are stopping it from being democratic to begin with? Hell, look at ukip, the majority of the time they are standing their opposing any decisions that was made undemocratically and if they are unable to stop those decisions, how are they stop democracy from occurring?
Here are a bunch of youtube videos I found without even trying, proving my point:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_QPkRArPUk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvKqnVBxqe4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpYC_D7VupI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvWbINw3RZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxtcnmy8ctk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13xb2QP3moM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFRFA4wlVj
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFRFA4wlVj8
I look forward to your reply.