They have changed their advertising in that case and a new advertisment has been made. If you manage to buy something while the current ad is in place you get it, otherwise they are guilty of false advertising.
IBM were caught out by that a few when they had some Thinkpads listed as $200 instead of $2000.
In Australia the retailer is obliged to honour any published price, even if the price is a mistake or a typo in the printing of a catalogue. Failure to do so will leave the retailer liable to legal action if enough people raise complaints to the ACCC.
He's a contractor.... probably in the Finance sector. GBP 500 or more per day is not unusual in the London. I've seen contracts advertised for GBP 700 per day recently. I'd hate to see what the rates would be in the un-advertised positions.
In Australia, advertised prices are binding. If you make a typo in your advertisement then you should have had better proofing before you published the ad. IBM got burned with that a couple of years ago. They had a price of 400AUD instead of 4000AUD for a thinkpad advertised on their on-line catalogue. 200 people managed to get an order in before the price got pulled. IBM did try to get the consumer to pay the 'correct' price, however the ACCC had something to say about that.
The paper says on page five, or in section section 2.2:
Possible applications include cracking encryptions in a matter of hours or days, running nuclear simulations, and illegally executing a wide range of otherwise regulated computations.
Just what are the regulated computations that are being talked about?
Are there no entrapment laws in the United States.
I for one have never gone out to buy drugs of any illegal nature, however if someone offered me a look-in I might likely wouldn't pass up the chance at the 'Forbidden Fruit', so to speak.
If it's the police are actively 'selling' the merchandise, surely its the police that are wrong in that case.
In most places it is illegal to induce people to break the law.
Trying to simplify publishing until it is nonexistent. If you compare TeX to Word you will see that TeX implements desktop publishing whereas Word implements something which the average user can only write letters with.
That's fine with me. Word, after all, is really only a wordprocesser (on steroids though). TeX, as you point out, has nothing to do with word precessing.
I thought MySQL started all this. I've been to many a conference where MySQL developers have said "Use the Beta, it's good enough for most production uses" and "Our Alpha releases are as good as everyone elses Beta".
True, true... But what I SHOULD have said was that they were once an english colony or prison thingie. Not really sure how they are now...
Australia has never in its history been an English Colony. Australia didn't exist before 1st January 1901, at which point a new country was born, and it was - and still is for the moment - a 'Constitutional Monachy'.
Before 1st Jan, 1901, there were a bunch of Colonies that maintained their own army, navy, customns service, etc. Essentially, they were countries by themselves.
True, those colonies where where penal colonies, with the exception of South Australia, which was freely settled
If you feel interested, you can look up some of the letters by Mark Twain and find out what his views of....err.... Australia was before Federation.
The last 'great popuatiion dwindling event' that I'm aware of (not counting all the wars) was the 'flu pandemic of 1918. (http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/) . Not quite400-600 hundred years.
Congratulations! You'll be able to do the same stuff as you do now but faster. That's not exactly anything earth-shatteringly revolutionary. And guess what... you'll still be waiting the same time for "very large" attachments to arrive in your email. It's just that you'll be able to zoom in see the cells in Cameron Diaz's nipple and the phishing mails will include the entire website.
In threads from this article I've seen all sorts of stuff about HDTV over the Internet, Internet TV stations and all sorts of video related technology. Quite frankly, a crap story presented in high resolution video, even over the Internet, is still a crap story; and if Internet Video is anything like the Internet Radio I've experienced then I'll take current version where I don't have to pay for the bandwidth, thank-you very much.
I guess what I'm saying is that most of the ideas I've seen presented here are just more of what we've got now, either on the current Internet or other media.
Are games these days really that much better than 10-15 years ago for all the extra computing power that we have now?
IMHO, desktops (GNOME, KDE) are crossing the line and even X itself has some "features" that may lead to exploits if developers aren't careful - remember the window manager is just a program that can actually control other programs on the machine.
It doesn't really control other programs. A Window Manager controls the Windows on the current display.
No application should ever tell another what to do based on untrusted data, that's reserved for the user (clicking a link doesn't count as approval - the link may not do what it claims).
So does launching a program that is found in the current PATH count as doing something based on untrusted data?
When you add a feature, consider what a criminal might use it for and who the burden will land on to prevent it. With shell: the burden lands on any application you might possibly launch and that's just unacceptable. With a window manager, consider that I may want to offer my display server to some untrusted application (airline reservation system) running on a remote machine - great possibilities and a great security risk. Because so much is accessible through X we don't use it that way.
Speak for yourself! Every X11 application I run is executing on a machine remote from my X-Server --including the Window Manager. Often I'm running applications on 5 remote machines simultaneously. It is not a security risk... or at least no more a risk than executing any piece of code in the first place. X11 has had security mechanisms in place to prevent nasty people playing with you X-Server for a very long time now. (I'm trying to figure out why an Airline Reservation System would be un-trust worthy, but maybe that's just my naivety show up)
"Good" security is always a balance between safety and utility.
Bluetooth is an important add-on to cellular technology because as hearing aid users clearly realized right from the start, there's a lot of RF coming out of that little thing! We hear about all of these questionable health risks... why are we even taking the chances?
Hmm what's better... having 900Mhz or 2.4Ghz RF near your ear? I know several people who refuse to use bluetooth headsets because it makes their ear hot with extended use.
I find it intersting that this story has been published at all. And with such a wide varity of direct quotes. They basically tell any would-be naughty person using a mobile phone to change the SIM card and the phone everytime they make a phone call.
I'm reminded of a satelite photo from the mid '80s the showed a radar picture of the Nile Delta. Why would you publicly show a picture that told everyone that you could see 30 metres underground durring the Cold War?
Just what can 'they' really monitor if 'they' know that you know that your moble phone is monitored?
The reason for doing this isn't because time cards get damaged or to streamline the process. It's a fool-proof method for making sure people get paid for the hours they actually work.
Fool proof.... yeah right!
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In the end it's more fair for everybody. I'd hate to be the honest guy reporting hte hours I actually work, while my coworker cheets and claims to work far more hours then he actually. Cheaters liket this cause wages/ravernue portions to be biased towards cheaters. This, IMHO, is a step in the right direction. The only better alternative is jobs which are salary and thus performance based, and not hourly-payed.
The last bit I can agre with. I was sacked from my University job 'cos I got the work done too fast.
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Besides, the closest competition that the article mentions, RealPlayer, has constantly been flamed as bloated spyware. What's the difference between WMP and RP? Choice? I can choose to load up IE (or Opera, or Firebird, or Lynx W32) and download a different media player.
You talk about choice here. Strangely enough, I cannot choose to not run IE. I don't want to be left in the position where I cannot choose to not run Windows Media Player either.
Bands don't get salaries from the big labels -- just as the parent post stated, the usual arrangement is for the label to advance the band a certain amount on signing, and then deduct royalties that would be owed them from that initial amount. In order to start collecting any money after that first payment, a band usually has to go gold within their first two albums released on the contract.
Even worse, most of the promotional and support services you talk about are actaully paid for by the band, again out of their future royalties. Many groups actually end up *owing* the label money after their first album and tour, which only further binds them to the label's "artistic direction" for them.
The last paragraph struck a bit of a chord with me (pun unintended)
Perhaps the Australian music scene isn't quite quite like the American musice scene, but bands tend to make a name for themselves from playing local pubs/clubs and then releasing albums. A number of current high profile popular stars (not 'pop' stars) have made their name this way over here.
Surely in a population of 300 odd million American bands could do a similar thing before approaching labels?
So all the old notes suddenly loose their status as legal tender? I'm sure having 3 types of twenty dollar bill in circulation will make it much easier easier for a shop assistant to spot a fake one.
Coincidently, I've just (about 1 hour ago) finished reading the New Scientist edition from the 10th May. It had a nice article about the solar cell industry titled "Sun Block" that quite a bit about this process.
The article mentions that the current downturn in the microprocessor industry means that solar cell manufacturer's are able to source high grade silicon relatively cheaply, but that an expected upturn in the computer industry in 2004 or so will starve solar cell manufacturer's of their silicon supply, hence stopping wide-spread adoption of solar panels.
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And they are genuine "Farkarie Rugs" ...
(Someone will be old enough to get it)
They have changed their advertising in that case and a new advertisment has been made. If you manage to buy something while the current ad is in place you get it, otherwise they are guilty of false advertising.
IBM were caught out by that a few when they had some Thinkpads listed as $200 instead of $2000.
In Australia the retailer is obliged to honour any published price, even if the price is a mistake or a typo in the printing of a catalogue. Failure to do so will leave the retailer liable to legal action if enough people raise complaints to the ACCC.
He's a contractor .... probably in the Finance sector. GBP 500 or more per day is not unusual in the London. I've seen contracts advertised for GBP 700 per day recently. I'd hate to see what the rates would be in the un-advertised positions.
Cheers
No-one is going to question a price that is low.
In Australia, advertised prices are binding. If you make a typo in your advertisement then you should have had better proofing before you published the ad. IBM got burned with that a couple of years ago. They had a price of 400AUD instead of 4000AUD for a thinkpad advertised on their on-line catalogue. 200 people managed to get an order in before the price got pulled. IBM did try to get the consumer to pay the 'correct' price, however the ACCC had something to say about that.
Just what are the regulated computations that are being talked about?
Are there no entrapment laws in the United States.
I for one have never gone out to buy drugs of any illegal nature, however if someone offered me a look-in I might likely wouldn't pass up the chance at the 'Forbidden Fruit', so to speak.
If it's the police are actively 'selling' the merchandise, surely its the police that are wrong in that case.
In most places it is illegal to induce people to break the law.
Oracle's License explicitly forbids publishing benchmarks.
That's fine with me. Word, after all, is really only a wordprocesser (on steroids though). TeX, as you point out, has nothing to do with word precessing.
I didn't think it was that much of on OpEd. It sounded more like an advertisment to me. Specifically an advertisment for TheOpenCD
The article may have some truth to it, but then, so do the best advert's
I thought MySQL started all this. I've been to many a conference where MySQL developers have said "Use the Beta, it's good enough for most production uses" and "Our Alpha releases are as good as everyone elses Beta".
Australia has never in its history been an English Colony. Australia didn't exist before 1st January 1901, at which point a new country was born, and it was - and still is for the moment - a 'Constitutional Monachy'.
Before 1st Jan, 1901, there were a bunch of Colonies that maintained their own army, navy, customns service, etc. Essentially, they were countries by themselves.
True, those colonies where where penal colonies, with the exception of South Australia, which was freely settled
If you feel interested, you can look up some of the letters by Mark Twain and find out what his views of ....err.... Australia was before Federation.
The last 'great popuatiion dwindling event' that I'm aware of (not counting all the wars) was the 'flu pandemic of 1918. (http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/) . Not quite400-600 hundred years.
This is easy to avoid. ... get someone else to look for you. It might be expensive though.
It's just that you'll be able to zoom in see the cells in Cameron Diaz's nipple and the phishing mails will include the entire website.
In threads from this article I've seen all sorts of stuff about HDTV over the Internet, Internet TV stations and all sorts of video related technology.
Quite frankly, a crap story presented in high resolution video, even over the Internet, is still a crap story; and if Internet Video is anything like the Internet Radio I've experienced then I'll take current version where I don't have to pay for the bandwidth, thank-you very much.
I guess what I'm saying is that most of the ideas I've seen presented here are just more of what we've got now, either on the current Internet or other media.
Are games these days really that much better than 10-15 years ago for all the extra computing power that we have now?
Oh yeah
It doesn't really control other programs. A Window Manager controls the Windows on the current display.
No application should ever tell another what to do based on untrusted data, that's reserved for the user (clicking a link doesn't count as approval - the link may not do what it claims).
So does launching a program that is found in the current PATH count as doing something based on untrusted data?
When you add a feature, consider what a criminal might use it for and who the burden will land on to prevent it. With shell: the burden lands on any application you might possibly launch and that's just unacceptable. With a window manager, consider that I may want to offer my display server to some untrusted application (airline reservation system) running on a remote machine - great possibilities and a great security risk. Because so much is accessible through X we don't use it that way.
Speak for yourself! Every X11 application I run is executing on a machine remote from my X-Server --including the Window Manager. Often I'm running applications on 5 remote machines simultaneously. It is not a security risk ... or at least no more a risk than executing any piece of code in the first place. X11 has had security mechanisms in place to prevent nasty people playing with you X-Server for a very long time now. (I'm trying to figure out why an Airline Reservation System would be un-trust worthy, but maybe that's just my naivety show up)
"Good" security is always a balance between safety and utility.
Bluetooth is an important add-on to cellular technology because as hearing aid users clearly realized right from the start, there's a lot of RF coming out of that little thing! We hear about all of these questionable health risks... why are we even taking the chances?
Hmm what's better... having 900Mhz or 2.4Ghz RF near your ear? I know several people who refuse to use
bluetooth headsets because it makes their ear hot with extended use.
I find it intersting that this story has been published at all. And with such a wide varity of direct quotes. They basically tell any would-be naughty person using a mobile phone to change the SIM card and the phone everytime they make a phone call.
I'm reminded of a satelite photo from the mid '80s the showed a radar picture of the Nile Delta. Why would you publicly show a picture that told everyone that you could see 30 metres underground durring the Cold War?
Just what can 'they' really monitor if 'they' know that you know that your moble phone is monitored?
The newspeak for Ministry of Rights would be "Might"
On the otherhand, Unix was designed by programmers for programmers.....
The reason for doing this isn't because time cards get damaged or to streamline the process. It's a fool-proof method for making sure people get paid for the hours they actually work.
.... yeah right!
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Fool proof
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=gummy+bear+bi
In the end it's more fair for everybody. I'd hate to be the honest guy reporting hte hours I actually work, while my coworker cheets and claims to work far more hours then he actually. Cheaters liket this cause wages/ravernue portions to be biased towards cheaters. This, IMHO, is a step in the right direction. The only better alternative is jobs which are salary and thus performance based, and not hourly-payed.
The last bit I can agre with. I was sacked from my University job 'cos I got the work done too fast.
You talk about choice here. Strangely enough, I cannot choose to not run IE.
I don't want to be left in the position where I cannot choose to not run Windows Media Player either.
The last paragraph struck a bit of a chord with me (pun unintended)
Perhaps the Australian music scene isn't quite quite like the American musice scene, but bands tend to make a name for themselves from playing local pubs/clubs and then releasing albums. A number of current high profile popular stars (not 'pop' stars) have made their name this way over here.
Surely in a population of 300 odd million American bands could do a similar thing before approaching labels?
So all the old notes suddenly loose their status as legal tender? I'm sure having 3 types of twenty dollar bill in circulation will make it much easier easier for a shop assistant to spot a fake one.
Coincidently, I've just (about 1 hour ago) finished reading the New Scientist edition from the 10th May. It had a nice article about the solar cell industry titled "Sun Block" that quite a bit about this process.
The article mentions that the current downturn in the microprocessor industry means that solar cell manufacturer's are able to source high grade silicon relatively cheaply, but that an expected upturn in the computer industry in 2004 or so will starve solar cell manufacturer's of their silicon supply, hence stopping wide-spread adoption of solar panels.