...and furthermore, how would this guy know where specific illegal copies of his 'work' existed if there were no search engines? They're just shooting the messenger (which never solved the problem).
Funny that. In 'Communist' France, the GDP/hour is higher than that in the US [International Comparisons of Productivity, US 122.5, France 125.2]. France is the number 1 tourist destination in the world, rare for a 'Communist' country.
5th world? My wife is Bulgarian, I know Bulgaria. I have also lived and worked in India. The last time I was there, Bulgaria had no hordes of mutilated beggars on the streets; families sleeping on the pavements; people travelling on the roofs of trains; and will probably be in the EU in 2007/2008. Not 5th world as I see it.
And, from what I understand, it is not the clocks on the satellites that are being considered but the ground-based "correcting" clocks which measure the difference between signals (which increases the distance accuracy).
When laws against heroin were enacted, 1/4million people were made instant criminals, not because they were shooting up but because heroin was an ingredient in a lot of 'medical tinctures'. When prohibition was enacted, a majority of the population were affected. When anti-dope laws were enacted (as a tax initially) again, a majority were affected because, previously, farmers, clothes manufacturers, etc.etc. had been encouraged to grow hemp as it is an extremely versatile plant. It grew as a 'weed' and anybody with the weed on their land could have been arrested. It took a long time to eradicate.
In all cases, citizens were going about their legal business only to be criminalised practically overnight. This process is not new.
And indeed, the same effect is supposed to happen whilst running (and exercise generally makes you 'feel good'). And what about sitting in a restaurant with an excellent dinner washed down with a perfect wine, or lounging on your beach-side deck shaded by palm trees supping a tasty evening sundowner? (Yeah, yeah, dream on...)
What, you're not supposed to enjoy the effects on your brain of these either? 1984 indeed.
Why is it assumed that homosexuals only ever perform homosexual and not heterosexual acts? One argument for homosexuality (amongst men at least) being successful is that they tend to have sexual relations earlier and are more sexually mature at a younger age. This means that on the odd occasion, they get women (and sometimes women who are fascinated by homosexual men ['fag hags']) pregnant and (if homosexuality is genetic) can easily perpetuate. Women homosexuals can also, of course, get pregnant whenever they wish.
Evolution does not necessarily rely on only one strategy for success (how many different ways did the eye evolve: from nine to forty depending upon who you read), and perpetuating your genetic line can rely on a large list of different sexual strategies (stick with one partner, have lots etc.). Homosexuality is a strategy that claerly works otherwise it would have expired by now.
Your first link returns: You are probably not using Internet Information Server 5 and this is a requirment for Low Level application to function. Please install IIS 5 and try again.
Correct, I am not using IIS5. If it is a requirment, then I'm not sure what to do. The whole sentence is bad English anyway - and this is delivered by the British Library? Tut, tut, what is the world coming to?
It's not EU regs, it's the British interpretation of regs. Not that the British process would stop any determined launderer from setting up someome in an apartment, getting a utility bill, some false ID and you can rotate names and open a hundred bank accounts.
I've opened bank accounts in Holland, Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland with far less grief.
The proper way to do it is to get decent Anti-Money Laundering software and use it.
'Blind Man' Blunkett comes from the authoritarian school of do as I say not do as I do. Hence his cards are far better than any (optional) loyalty card. Even if you point out to him that you can get loyalty cards in Holland for buying dope (buy 9 bags, get one free) - which seems a far better use of id cards than Blunkett has in mind, he'll still tell you, "You are wrong, that is illegal, do as I say."
I would have no objection to using ID cards if the privacy laws in the UK were as strong as in, say, Germany. It would have made the nightmare of opening a UK bank account disappear. As it is, I had to provide proof of a paid utility bill (in my name), which required getting an apartment which required references and (usually) proof of a bank account...
But with BMB cracking the whip, you can be absolutely certain that national ID cards will be used to track far more than just proof of identity. The UK is the most secretive country in the Western world. Be afraid if this proposal (for which you pay 5 times as much as in Germany, Switzerland etc.) happens. Be very afraid.
But what if it's well-known that MegaCorp Inc. has a range of patents on, say, databases? Couldn't the prosecution point out the huge amount of publicity, the articles, the tekky sites that mention various details of MegaCorp's patents and that you (who wrote a piece of flashy database s/w) MUST have known that you were likely to infringe on their patents?
I have the experience of specifically avoiding coding a certain way precisely because we might have infringed on an IBM patent. This involved arithmetic coding to be able to squeeze 'multi-dimensional' index IDs (possibly very sparsely populated) into 32 bits on a database. The company, although worth a few hundred million US$, did not have sufficient resources (nor the appetite) to check all the possible relevant patents worldwide. So we ended up limiting the range of index IDs (which was not ideal).
It might have been possible to code it without infringement, it might never have been noticed by IBM (or whoever might own any relvant patent) but the legal department was never going to take the risk.
So we end up with a sub-optimal design. Just having the possibility of future (and expensive) lawsuits means that innovation is being stifled anyway. Software patents (and business processes) are plain dumb. And for small and medium companies, they could be a disaster waiting to happen.
We used to have censorship of all sorts of things in the UK as a result of WWII and other legislation. Plays, books, radio broadcasts were all restricted until some sense prevailed in the 60s. It was easy to get round; if you couldn't mention certain people or countries on the radio during the Suez crisis, you'd simply say: 'Good Egg', 'Bad Egg' and 'Elbonia'. Everyone knew what you were talking about. As for swearing, write 'fcuk' (you might have to superscript that with TM) or 'f**k' or 'feck' (Father Ted says it, so it must be ok).
A few months ago, we tendered for some work in the region of US$2m to be outsourced. The best prices came from Poland and Bulgaria. Then Ukraine, then India. We did site visits to all but India (their quote was off the radar) to determine their capabilities. We were not impressed with the infrastructure or general atmosphere in the Ukraine although their guys seemed good - it was too much of a risk and we could see it costing us money. Poland looked good but Bulgaria was cheaper. What to do?
And then, of course, the inevitable happened - the project got cancelled...
From my experience of running teams in India and Poland, labour laws in India and Eastern Europe are generally quite strict, you have to compensate developers for overtime. In the EU (which includes Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic etc.etc.), you cannot force people to work more than 48 hours per week (well, excluding the poodle state of the UK) and you cannot discriminate against against those that refuse to work more than 48 hours.
You can get away with just about anything in China but, given the crap quality of stuff that comes out of the country, I can't see EA being tempted to outsource there...
It was posted elsewhere on/. that CNN regularly leans towards the Republicans. But, hey, thanks for using sober fact to reply to the parent instead of right-wing polemic...
Agreed, the KISS principle rules. A paramedic recently pointed out in New Scientist magazine, that there was a move to use a special machine to determine pupil (as in eye) response from an accident victim whereas a pen torch was almost as effective. He ironically pointed out that to read the machine output in the dark required... a torch.
And what is a fact? Is it something that can be shown to be true (or not)? Such as, for example, "The average weight of the average American has risen by 20% in the last fifteen years". Surely this would not be a 'fact' until shown to be true?
And a further 30 papers on the subject find the research inconclusive. And WRT your link: "...the study was relatively small, lacked objective measures for establishing pregnancy duration, and was susceptible to reporting bias..."
So they'll only use minority opinions by a 'doctor'. ["I'm a doctor, trust me,..." etc.etc.]. If I saw these studies referenced in the Lancet or Nature, they might be more believeable.
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...and furthermore, how would this guy know where specific illegal copies of his 'work' existed if there were no search engines? They're just shooting the messenger (which never solved the problem).
Funny that. In 'Communist' France, the GDP/hour is higher than that in the US [International Comparisons of Productivity, US 122.5, France 125.2]. France is the number 1 tourist destination in the world, rare for a 'Communist' country.
5th world? My wife is Bulgarian, I know Bulgaria. I have also lived and worked in India. The last time I was there, Bulgaria had no hordes of mutilated beggars on the streets; families sleeping on the pavements; people travelling on the roofs of trains; and will probably be in the EU in 2007/2008. Not 5th world as I see it.
And, from what I understand, it is not the clocks on the satellites that are being considered but the ground-based "correcting" clocks which measure the difference between signals (which increases the distance accuracy).
When laws against heroin were enacted, 1/4million people were made instant criminals, not because they were shooting up but because heroin was an ingredient in a lot of 'medical tinctures'. When prohibition was enacted, a majority of the population were affected. When anti-dope laws were enacted (as a tax initially) again, a majority were affected because, previously, farmers, clothes manufacturers, etc.etc. had been encouraged to grow hemp as it is an extremely versatile plant. It grew as a 'weed' and anybody with the weed on their land could have been arrested. It took a long time to eradicate.
In all cases, citizens were going about their legal business only to be criminalised practically overnight. This process is not new.
And indeed, the same effect is supposed to happen whilst running (and exercise generally makes you 'feel good'). And what about sitting in a restaurant with an excellent dinner washed down with a perfect wine, or lounging on your beach-side deck shaded by palm trees supping a tasty evening sundowner? (Yeah, yeah, dream on...)
What, you're not supposed to enjoy the effects on your brain of these either? 1984 indeed.
Why is it assumed that homosexuals only ever perform homosexual and not heterosexual acts? One argument for homosexuality (amongst men at least) being successful is that they tend to have sexual relations earlier and are more sexually mature at a younger age. This means that on the odd occasion, they get women (and sometimes women who are fascinated by homosexual men ['fag hags']) pregnant and (if homosexuality is genetic) can easily perpetuate. Women homosexuals can also, of course, get pregnant whenever they wish.
Evolution does not necessarily rely on only one strategy for success (how many different ways did the eye evolve: from nine to forty depending upon who you read), and perpetuating your genetic line can rely on a large list of different sexual strategies (stick with one partner, have lots etc.). Homosexuality is a strategy that claerly works otherwise it would have expired by now.
Your first link returns: You are probably not using Internet Information Server 5 and this is a requirment for Low Level application to function. Please install IIS 5 and try again.
Correct, I am not using IIS5. If it is a requirment, then I'm not sure what to do. The whole sentence is bad English anyway - and this is delivered by the British Library? Tut, tut, what is the world coming to?
It's not EU regs, it's the British interpretation of regs. Not that the British process would stop any determined launderer from setting up someome in an apartment, getting a utility bill, some false ID and you can rotate names and open a hundred bank accounts.
I've opened bank accounts in Holland, Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland with far less grief.
The proper way to do it is to get decent Anti-Money Laundering software and use it.
'Blind Man' Blunkett comes from the authoritarian school of do as I say not do as I do. Hence his cards are far better than any (optional) loyalty card. Even if you point out to him that you can get loyalty cards in Holland for buying dope (buy 9 bags, get one free) - which seems a far better use of id cards than Blunkett has in mind, he'll still tell you, "You are wrong, that is illegal, do as I say."
I would have no objection to using ID cards if the privacy laws in the UK were as strong as in, say, Germany. It would have made the nightmare of opening a UK bank account disappear. As it is, I had to provide proof of a paid utility bill (in my name), which required getting an apartment which required references and (usually) proof of a bank account...
But with BMB cracking the whip, you can be absolutely certain that national ID cards will be used to track far more than just proof of identity. The UK is the most secretive country in the Western world. Be afraid if this proposal (for which you pay 5 times as much as in Germany, Switzerland etc.) happens. Be very afraid.
Stick one on Dubya. Make sure he turns up to the office now and again instead of cutting off on vacation...
But what if it's well-known that MegaCorp Inc. has a range of patents on, say, databases? Couldn't the prosecution point out the huge amount of publicity, the articles, the tekky sites that mention various details of MegaCorp's patents and that you (who wrote a piece of flashy database s/w) MUST have known that you were likely to infringe on their patents?
MS set the president
Ahah! So this explains how Dubya got back in.
I have the experience of specifically avoiding coding a certain way precisely because we might have infringed on an IBM patent. This involved arithmetic coding to be able to squeeze 'multi-dimensional' index IDs (possibly very sparsely populated) into 32 bits on a database. The company, although worth a few hundred million US$, did not have sufficient resources (nor the appetite) to check all the possible relevant patents worldwide. So we ended up limiting the range of index IDs (which was not ideal).
It might have been possible to code it without infringement, it might never have been noticed by IBM (or whoever might own any relvant patent) but the legal department was never going to take the risk.
So we end up with a sub-optimal design. Just having the possibility of future (and expensive) lawsuits means that innovation is being stifled anyway. Software patents (and business processes) are plain dumb. And for small and medium companies, they could be a disaster waiting to happen.
We used to have censorship of all sorts of things in the UK as a result of WWII and other legislation. Plays, books, radio broadcasts were all restricted until some sense prevailed in the 60s. It was easy to get round; if you couldn't mention certain people or countries on the radio during the Suez crisis, you'd simply say: 'Good Egg', 'Bad Egg' and 'Elbonia'. Everyone knew what you were talking about. As for swearing, write 'fcuk' (you might have to superscript that with TM) or 'f**k' or 'feck' (Father Ted says it, so it must be ok).
A few months ago, we tendered for some work in the region of US$2m to be outsourced. The best prices came from Poland and Bulgaria. Then Ukraine, then India. We did site visits to all but India (their quote was off the radar) to determine their capabilities. We were not impressed with the infrastructure or general atmosphere in the Ukraine although their guys seemed good - it was too much of a risk and we could see it costing us money. Poland looked good but Bulgaria was cheaper. What to do?
And then, of course, the inevitable happened - the project got cancelled...
From my experience of running teams in India and Poland, labour laws in India and Eastern Europe are generally quite strict, you have to compensate developers for overtime. In the EU (which includes Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic etc.etc.), you cannot force people to work more than 48 hours per week (well, excluding the poodle state of the UK) and you cannot discriminate against against those that refuse to work more than 48 hours.
You can get away with just about anything in China but, given the crap quality of stuff that comes out of the country, I can't see EA being tempted to outsource there...
If rumours are true, SkypeIn (which will allow Skype users to receive inbound PSTN calls) is being released July 2005.
And how is this 'evidence' shown to be true?
You can right now, just select an item on the right of the /. main page...
It was posted elsewhere on /. that CNN regularly leans towards the Republicans. But, hey, thanks for using sober fact to reply to the parent instead of right-wing polemic...
Agreed, the KISS principle rules. A paramedic recently pointed out in New Scientist magazine, that there was a move to use a special machine to determine pupil (as in eye) response from an accident victim whereas a pen torch was almost as effective. He ironically pointed out that to read the machine output in the dark required ... a torch.
And what is a fact? Is it something that can be shown to be true (or not)? Such as, for example, "The average weight of the average American has risen by 20% in the last fifteen years". Surely this would not be a 'fact' until shown to be true?
And a further 30 papers on the subject find the research inconclusive. And WRT your link: "...the study was relatively small, lacked objective measures for establishing pregnancy duration, and was susceptible to reporting bias..."
Perhaps the editorial was avoiding junk science?
So they'll only use minority opinions by a 'doctor'. ["I'm a doctor, trust me,..." etc.etc.]. If I saw these studies referenced in the Lancet or Nature, they might be more believeable.