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There are no angel investors in Europe
If you intend to include the U.K. in that then I know you're wrong, because I've met one or two Cambridge-based business angels. It may be that such as there are are clustered in places like capital cities and towns with universities with good reputations for engineering and the sciences.
As regards floppy vs USB - it's because I was upgrading my kernel to 2.4 to get support for my USB drive that I recently found myself digging through my old floppies to find one I could reformat as a boot disk to repair my lilo config.
... the inspectors seem utterly convinced that television is a necessity.
Indeed. I recall the time I opened the front door to a TV licencing inspector. The conversation went something like
Inspector: You don't appear to have a TV licence at this address. Me: Right. Inspector: Would you like help in applying for one? Me: No. Inspector: May I ask why you don't have a TV licence? Me: (brief pause, then in a puzzled voice) Because we don't have a TV.
I'm still not sure whether or not she believed me, because the check-up squad might have come when my flatmate was in. I'd really like to know what answer she expected to that last question, though. Was I supposed to exclaim dramatically, "Okay, it's a fair cop! Bring on the thousand quid fine"?
I wouldn't buy one of these things solely based on how it looks.
I'd go further than that. I wouldn't buy one of these things until they make one which looks a lot better than that. Give me a beige box over something produced by a fashion designer any day.
Java already has iterators. Did you mean foreach loops? As to autoboxing - IMAO that's the pain in the arse. It breaks some of the sanity properties Java's always had, for no real benefit. If people want to use primitives in collections, PCJ has been around for years. Generics and foreach are the main benefits of 1.5, although annotations may also turn out to be quite handy.
Define "get things done". I need one reference: the API. I can usually find what I want in there by working out what I would have called it and looking there. If there's a similar reference on Perl, I'd like to know the URL: I use the O'Reilly book, but when I run into problems I generally have to ask a Perl guru what I need to look up in the index.
As to the "online" aspect - since the other sections aren't entitled e.g. "Books Online", "Games Online", "IT Online" one assumes that "online" qualifies "your rights".
For the record, I also dispute your claim that the article is clearly about the rights of American citizens. I've never heard of the right to have a metal key for a locker.
You expect a story in YRO to be about your rights online? In my judgement two of the past 10 YRO stories fit the bill. ("Forgent Squeezing Money Out Of JPEG, Other Patents" and "Net Phone Customers Brace For 'VoIP Spam'". An argument could be made for "Jerry Falwell Wins Dispute Over Fallwell.com" as a third).
At the risk of being modded flamebait, my immediate reaction to the line you quote was to wonder whether the surprise was at the fact that there are people outside the USA.
It alwasys (sic) seems to me like the unauthorized clients are a generation behind the real ones.
Of course they are. You can't write the support until you've got a spec to write to, and you don't get that until the authorised client is published. OTOH this is/. - a lot of us share files using scp, for example. I know I don't care whether or not my IM client supports file transfers, or anything beyond text messages for that matter.
I'm not sure, but I believe that this is limited by the inverse square law, which means that every time you double the distance between you and the source of the radiation, you decrease it's power 4 times. AKA it's power decreases exponentially as you travel away from it
Nonono. A.k.a its power decreases quadratically. Exponential decay would mean that the power decreased by a fixed ratio (e.g. 4 times) every time it travelled a fixed distance (e.g. 1 million km).
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You're thinking paints, not lights.
As regards floppy vs USB - it's because I was upgrading my kernel to 2.4 to get support for my USB drive that I recently found myself digging through my old floppies to find one I could reformat as a boot disk to repair my lilo config.
Inspector: You don't appear to have a TV licence at this address.
Me: Right.
Inspector: Would you like help in applying for one?
Me: No.
Inspector: May I ask why you don't have a TV licence?
Me: (brief pause, then in a puzzled voice) Because we don't have a TV.
I'm still not sure whether or not she believed me, because the check-up squad might have come when my flatmate was in. I'd really like to know what answer she expected to that last question, though. Was I supposed to exclaim dramatically, "Okay, it's a fair cop! Bring on the thousand quid fine"?
I thought it was pretty funny. Mind you, I'm a ballroom dancer, so I'd love Strictly Ballroom simply for the soundtrack.
It's standing up very well, actually. I just downloaded the PDF in about 3 seconds.
Or how about getting people who talk on their phone while driving off the road?
200lb? My bike weighs more like 20lb.
Can't you?
In addition to nets as trapping implements, consider the common "sentence"
Java already has iterators. Did you mean foreach loops? As to autoboxing - IMAO that's the pain in the arse. It breaks some of the sanity properties Java's always had, for no real benefit. If people want to use primitives in collections, PCJ has been around for years. Generics and foreach are the main benefits of 1.5, although annotations may also turn out to be quite handy.
Was this meant to be in reply to the SCO/Groklaw article? If so, you might want to file a bug report.
Define "get things done". I need one reference: the API. I can usually find what I want in there by working out what I would have called it and looking there. If there's a similar reference on Perl, I'd like to know the URL: I use the O'Reilly book, but when I run into problems I generally have to ask a Perl guru what I need to look up in the index.
As to the "online" aspect - since the other sections aren't entitled e.g. "Books Online", "Games Online", "IT Online" one assumes that "online" qualifies "your rights".
For the record, I also dispute your claim that the article is clearly about the rights of American citizens. I've never heard of the right to have a metal key for a locker.
You expect a story in YRO to be about your rights online? In my judgement two of the past 10 YRO stories fit the bill. ("Forgent Squeezing Money Out Of JPEG, Other Patents" and "Net Phone Customers Brace For 'VoIP Spam'". An argument could be made for "Jerry Falwell Wins Dispute Over Fallwell.com" as a third).
I thought it was to get rid of "taxation without representation". Not that that changes your point.
Yep. Greetings from the U.K. (Surely you remember us - or have all Americans forgotten the reason for celebrating Independence Day?)
At the risk of being modded flamebait, my immediate reaction to the line you quote was to wonder whether the surprise was at the fact that there are people outside the USA.
I don't know what definition of "computer" you're using, but under most definitions the first computer was invented either in Germany or in the UK.
"Microsofties" talk about customer satisfaction? *blinks* My worldview's falling to pieces.
When everyone uses Java or OCAML rather than C(++).