YouTube sits there for years without any major lawsuits that I remember and then a large multi million dollar company buys it and suddenly companies are suing it...makes you wonder if they're really that disturbed about their content or if they simply want a quick buck...
<snip>I mean, is there really any person with internet access for the last couple years, or who simply watches the news, who doesn't know about YouTube?
It takes time for new cultural trends to filter up the generations. Slashdot readers may have known about Youtube for years; teenagers may have known about Youtube for years; but newspapers have only started mentioning it regularly in the past few months, and business executives such as the directors of the FA will only have cottoned on to it recently. It seems to me to be perfectly possible that Google's purchase and the rise in lawsuits are related by a common cause: namely widening brand recognition.
We don't use a GPA system in the UK. The fix within our system is for universities to require a certain grade in maths, which they can do. In fact the top universities will require additional, harder, exams for some subjects (taking into account school background). See STEP Paper; there used to be an S-level as well, but it may no longer exist.
(budgeting, building a fence in the back yard, painting the house, yes, all need math)
Budgeting and painting a house require simple arithmetic and trivial geometry of which any 11 year-old should be capable. Building a fence might require slightly more advanced geometry, as taught to 13 year-olds. The level that's at issue here is the maths that's taught to 17 and 18 year-olds: from calculus to elementary group theory. I'm not saying that people shouldn't study maths - I took two A-levels and an A/S in it - but could you think up slightly more involved examples?
Generics is one of the best features of added to Java lately. It really helps. How I miss it when I'm programming for J2ME...
Are you aware that javac 1.5 supports -target cldc1.0 ? If you're writing for CDC then you can strip the pre-verification attributes with any good class file optimiser. Strangely javac 1.6 doesn't have that option; I'm not sure whether something replaced it.
If we assume that a typical bin (that's garbage can for American readers) is about 100 litres (~26.4 US gallons), and that a laden bin is 95% full, then a bin laden is about 95 litres / 25 US gallons. To pick a football (that's soccer for American readers) stadium whose volume I can easily find on the Web, the new Wembley stadium has a bowl volume of 1,139,100 cubic metres. Therefore a bin laden is about 1/12,000,000 of a football stadium. HTH.
It might take all of 2 seconds when you have a short whitelist, but I've found that when the list gets long changing it becomes amazingly slow. It feels as though it's storing the entries in a dense array and uses linear algorithms for everything.
To pre-empt queries as to why I have a long whitelist: work computer, and I imported a whitelist as I was told.
The JVM isn't 100MB, but about 3. It's the SE 1.6 standard libraries that are 100MB (or 50MB, anyway - rt.jar is 46). If you just want to run the emulator and don't care about your port being called Java then you only need to port the libraries which it uses, which could be quite small. The Personal Profile of J2ME is a cut-down version of SE 1.3 and can be implemented in under 10MB.
I actually prefer a sales or VAT tax over any income tax at all.
Do you, perchance, have a high income? In a situation where VAT is the only tax, the poor spend a greater proportion of their income on tax than the rich, because they spend all their income.
If you think that's odd, take a look at "Math". "EEG" and "epileptic" appear to occur more often in mathematical papers about nonlinear analysis than in medical papers.
Why should anyone suggest a new political party? There's a well-established one called the Liberal Democrats opposing these policies, and they had their best electoral performance for a good while in the last election.
As to arms, how many of those suggesting that route are Brits?
I agree with everything you say in that last paragraph. I didn't say that it's not worth trying to do anything. Going onto the streets won't help, but writing letters to MPs and newspapers, influencing popular opinions where possible, and ultimately civil disobedience or court challenges will be more effective in our current society than marching in the streets.
No, passports are for getting into other countries. A British citizen doesn't require a passport to enter Britain: it merely expedites the process. However, few countries will admit a British citizen without a passport or (hypothetically for the time being) a national ID card.
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Por alguna razón parece que Slashdot no permite ni ¿ ni ¡ .
Sólo "un poquito"? Cierto que es más respetuoso que muchos ingleses!
The word "pornography" predates photos - and etymologically it's about text rather than images.
Surely everyone who's ever seen it wants to improve MySpace?
It's up to the discretion of the judge as to what proportion - from 0% to 100% - of the winner's costs should be paid by the loser.
Why should certificates be tied to business licences? You don't have to be a business to want to use SSL with your website.
We don't use a GPA system in the UK. The fix within our system is for universities to require a certain grade in maths, which they can do. In fact the top universities will require additional, harder, exams for some subjects (taking into account school background). See STEP Paper; there used to be an S-level as well, but it may no longer exist.
Even there, question 6 on your sample paper is something which could quite reasonably go in a GCSE (age 16) paper.
Still in my mother's basement. You see, I got the drive mounted after a couple of seconds, and discovered that it only had drivers for Windows!
That's not as bad as the USB drive I bought which came with its drivers on the drive.
Not really, because I know they'll stay in their basements and I'll stay in mine, so we'll never meet in RL.
If we assume that a typical bin (that's garbage can for American readers) is about 100 litres (~26.4 US gallons), and that a laden bin is 95% full, then a bin laden is about 95 litres / 25 US gallons. To pick a football (that's soccer for American readers) stadium whose volume I can easily find on the Web, the new Wembley stadium has a bowl volume of 1,139,100 cubic metres. Therefore a bin laden is about 1/12,000,000 of a football stadium. HTH.
To pre-empt queries as to why I have a long whitelist: work computer, and I imported a whitelist as I was told.
The JVM isn't 100MB, but about 3. It's the SE 1.6 standard libraries that are 100MB (or 50MB, anyway - rt.jar is 46). If you just want to run the emulator and don't care about your port being called Java then you only need to port the libraries which it uses, which could be quite small. The Personal Profile of J2ME is a cut-down version of SE 1.3 and can be implemented in under 10MB.
Java ME isn't a single configuration or profile. It's probably not too hard to port to CDC/PP, but CLDC1.0/MIDP may be trickier.
If you think that's odd, take a look at "Math". "EEG" and "epileptic" appear to occur more often in mathematical papers about nonlinear analysis than in medical papers.
As to arms, how many of those suggesting that route are Brits?
I agree with everything you say in that last paragraph. I didn't say that it's not worth trying to do anything. Going onto the streets won't help, but writing letters to MPs and newspapers, influencing popular opinions where possible, and ultimately civil disobedience or court challenges will be more effective in our current society than marching in the streets.
No, passports are for getting into other countries. A British citizen doesn't require a passport to enter Britain: it merely expedites the process. However, few countries will admit a British citizen without a passport or (hypothetically for the time being) a national ID card.