I would like to pass a similar law with regards to people who quit online games when they start to lose. We must financially cripple those who would be unsporting.
Often EULAs are legally unenforcable because the restrictions they attempt to create are superceded by statute. That's not to say that it's true of all EULAs, and all bets are off in a corporate environment (where the customer-protection statute doesn't hold so much and there's more honest-to-god actual licencing involved) but they're often not worth the paper they're printed on, from a consumer's perspective. By analogy one might wonder if the GPL is rendered impotent by some existing IP law, but fortunately the article does not conclude so.
The article essentially says that the terminology used needs more rigorous definition, and needs to match more closely with the existing legal terminology. For example, their use of "derivative work" might have legal connotations that don't completely follow from the terms of the licence. It's not like they've determined there's some fundimental legal principle which brings the whole thing crashing down, as you see in EULAs for example.
Pirates do make money, not only through piracy, but drug dealing, selling babies, and holding the Earth itself to ransom with their deadly Asteroid Ray. I'm apalled that you would even question this.
Most countries actually use periods to separate groups of digits and commas to mark the decimal point. It's the English-speaking world which is the oddity. It's just a convention in either case.
Don't even hard-wire it. Engineer it so that operating in the high-dose regime requires physical intervention, a "Kill Handle" with a lock and key. The machine should be physically incapable of generating an above-standard dose when the "Kill Handle" is not being held. Limit the power, or something. (The aformentioned Therac incident happened, in part, because such a hardware interlock did not exist.)
That post's a diatribe against the entire product category as vapourware. Which is laughably untrue given that the first devices went on sale years ago.
You don't HAVE to charge it in sunlight. It'll be fastest that way, but if they're not sourcing solar cells from the early 1990s, it'll work in artificial light. Given that these devices last a couple of weeks on charge, even with a mere 8 hours of crappy fluorescent light sitting on your desk, the battery will probably never run down. And THAT is what I want all my portable electronics to do, especially wireless stuff like Kindles.
Where do you get OLED from? The press release doesn't include such a notion. In fact, the press release actually only discusses the solar panel itself, which is sensible given that it's the only part of the device that LG makes. The reader itself is a hacked Sony unit that's only there to demonstrate what the solar panel can power.
The device pictured is built into a Sony Reader housing. It is, in fact, a Sony Reader. The solar cell is the real LG product, aimed at other manufacturers.
I'm not sure why that came across as snarky, mind you. I meant that someone else has come up with an ingenious solution that he's just not seen, not that he's somehow mentally deficient for overlooking Dr. Beardy McMathface.
Yes, I meant leave the solar collectors and laser behind near the bloody star. Otherwise the acceleration drop-off with distance isn't going to get any better, is it?
That's not how it works. There's the square root of bugger-all oxygen in space, so the odds of an O atom finding an H atom are beyond astronomical. Luckily they're not molecular gases, or there'd be an insurmountable activation barrier to deal with too. However there are aggregates of carbon or silicon atoms in space (grains) which O or H atoms can adhere to for long periods of time and diffuse around on. That greatly increases the chances of a reaction to form an OH, and in the very long term, water. The same's true of all molecules in space, essentially.
They're private cameras. A businessman in Stratford upon Avon is selling the service to local businesses for a subscription. It's nothing to do with the government.
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I would like to pass a similar law with regards to people who quit online games when they start to lose. We must financially cripple those who would be unsporting.
Often EULAs are legally unenforcable because the restrictions they attempt to create are superceded by statute. That's not to say that it's true of all EULAs, and all bets are off in a corporate environment (where the customer-protection statute doesn't hold so much and there's more honest-to-god actual licencing involved) but they're often not worth the paper they're printed on, from a consumer's perspective. By analogy one might wonder if the GPL is rendered impotent by some existing IP law, but fortunately the article does not conclude so.
The article essentially says that the terminology used needs more rigorous definition, and needs to match more closely with the existing legal terminology. For example, their use of "derivative work" might have legal connotations that don't completely follow from the terms of the licence. It's not like they've determined there's some fundimental legal principle which brings the whole thing crashing down, as you see in EULAs for example.
So this is the phone to beat, the phone to beat.
Pirates do make money, not only through piracy, but drug dealing, selling babies, and holding the Earth itself to ransom with their deadly Asteroid Ray. I'm apalled that you would even question this.
Most countries actually use periods to separate groups of digits and commas to mark the decimal point. It's the English-speaking world which is the oddity. It's just a convention in either case.
Important caveat, neatly snipped from the start of the post.
Don't even hard-wire it. Engineer it so that operating in the high-dose regime requires physical intervention, a "Kill Handle" with a lock and key. The machine should be physically incapable of generating an above-standard dose when the "Kill Handle" is not being held. Limit the power, or something. (The aformentioned Therac incident happened, in part, because such a hardware interlock did not exist.)
That post's a diatribe against the entire product category as vapourware. Which is laughably untrue given that the first devices went on sale years ago.
You didn't what my verb.
"A few percent" would still be more than adequate for a device which normally goes about a thousand hours between charges. Half a percent would do.
I thought the same thing about "Microsoft".
Okay guys, that joke's done, let's get on with our lives.
Don't me, I my sentences have subjects. I don't verbs though.
"BS Alliance" doesn't sound right to you?
I didn't realise the definition of "vaporware" had deteriorated to the stage where actual released products could fit.
You don't HAVE to charge it in sunlight. It'll be fastest that way, but if they're not sourcing solar cells from the early 1990s, it'll work in artificial light. Given that these devices last a couple of weeks on charge, even with a mere 8 hours of crappy fluorescent light sitting on your desk, the battery will probably never run down. And THAT is what I want all my portable electronics to do, especially wireless stuff like Kindles.
Modern solar cells don't need "full sunlight" to charge, artificial light would do. Even $1 calculators haven't needed UV in years.
That's what the product actually is.
It's a demo of what their solar tech can do. They're not making a reader themselves.
Where do you get OLED from? The press release doesn't include such a notion. In fact, the press release actually only discusses the solar panel itself, which is sensible given that it's the only part of the device that LG makes. The reader itself is a hacked Sony unit that's only there to demonstrate what the solar panel can power.
The device pictured is built into a Sony Reader housing. It is, in fact, a Sony Reader. The solar cell is the real LG product, aimed at other manufacturers.
I'm not sure why that came across as snarky, mind you. I meant that someone else has come up with an ingenious solution that he's just not seen, not that he's somehow mentally deficient for overlooking Dr. Beardy McMathface.
Yes, I meant leave the solar collectors and laser behind near the bloody star. Otherwise the acceleration drop-off with distance isn't going to get any better, is it?
That's not how it works. There's the square root of bugger-all oxygen in space, so the odds of an O atom finding an H atom are beyond astronomical. Luckily they're not molecular gases, or there'd be an insurmountable activation barrier to deal with too. However there are aggregates of carbon or silicon atoms in space (grains) which O or H atoms can adhere to for long periods of time and diffuse around on. That greatly increases the chances of a reaction to form an OH, and in the very long term, water. The same's true of all molecules in space, essentially.
They're private cameras. A businessman in Stratford upon Avon is selling the service to local businesses for a subscription. It's nothing to do with the government.