Section:5 Sub-Section:2 Act:Criminal Law Act 1967 Subject:Wasting Police Time Or Giving False Report It is an offence to waste Police Time or to give a false report.
Fixed Penalty Amount:80.00 Method of Trial:Summarily
the PP is correct, before anyone jumps off and gets on his case, as has happened before.
From Dictionary.com
Effect tr.v. effected, effecting, effects
1. To bring into existence.
2. To produce as a result.
3. To bring about. See Usage Note at affect1.
(e.g. "The Senator was afraid that the new policy would effect higher oil prices.")
Also, effect is often seen as a noun, meaning (among other things) a result. For example: "The Senator was afraid that the new policy would have detrimental effects on the oil industry."
On the other hand:
Affect tr.v. affected, affecting, affects
1. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
2. To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
3. To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.
(e.g. "The Senator was afraid that the new policy would adversely affect the oil prices, dragging them higher.")
Affect is rarely used as a noun, although it is much more commonly seen as a verb. Affect as a verb: "The man had a strange brand of body language that lent him an odd affect."
If you don't believe me:
Usage note from dictionary.com:
"Usage Note: Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect is most commonly used in the sense of "to influence" (how smoking affects health). Effect means "to bring about or execute": layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about."
Usage note from wikipedia.com:
"Do not confuse affect with effect. The former is used to convey the influence over existing ideas, emotions and entities; the latter indicates the manifestation of new or original ideas or entities. For example, "...new governing coalitions during these realigning periods have EFFECTED major changes in governmental institutions" indicates that major changes were made as a result of new governing coalitions, while "...new governing coalitions during these realigning periods have AFFECTED major changes in governmental institutions" indicates that before new governing coalitions, major changes were in place, and that the new governing coalitions had some influence over these existing changes."
Usage note from Write101.com:
"The easiest way to distinguish the two is to remember that affect is a verb (well, nearly always a verb) and effect is a noun... well, nearly always! [...] When affect is pronounced [uh FEKT] and accented on the final syllable, it's a verb meaning "to have an influence on." eg Nothing they did, could affect my decision to go to the beach. Occasionally, very occasionally, the word is used as a noun (it means a feeling or emotion, as distinguished from thought or action, or a strong feeling having active consequences) and the accent is on the first syllable [AFF ekt]. This is a term that is reserved for psychiatry and psychology: eg In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea. Effect is most usually a noun and it means the result of some action or the power to produce a result. The noun is pronounced [uh FEKT] : eg The effect of the bushfire was clearly visible. eg The soothing music had an immediate effect on the wild beast. This can also be a verb and it means to bring into existence, to produce a result (pronounced [ee FEKT]}"
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It didn't "Melt Down".
It underwent a resonance cascade reducing the server into its Dark-Matter counterpart.
The thing with PowerPoint style presentation software is that people are so damn FAMILIAR with it. Even if another design doesn't look as familiar, there's a fine line that one has to draw between interesting the viewers and shutting away their attention because they're unfamiliar with the design.
However, methinks that the GPP was more benefited by the crazy animations, anyway.
First of all, I hope to GOD you're being sarcastic.
If you're not, however, I'd like to point out that the GPP is, indeed, correct.
From Dictionary.com
Effect tr.v. effected, effecting, effects
1. To bring into existence.
2. To produce as a result.
3. To bring about. See Usage Note at affect1.
(e.g. "The Senator was afraid that the new policy would effect higher oil prices.")
Also, effect is often seen as a noun, meaning (among other things) a result. For example: "The Senator was afraid that the new policy would have detrimental effects on the oil industry."
On the other hand:
Affect tr.v. affected, affecting, affects
1. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
2. To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
3. To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.
(e.g. "The Senator was afraid that the new policy would adversely affect the oil prices, dragging them higher.")
Affect is rarely used as a noun, although it is much more commonly seen as a verb. Affect as a verb: "The man had a strange brand of body language that lent him an odd affect."
If you don't believe me:
Usage note from dictionary.com:
"Usage Note: Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect is most commonly used in the sense of "to influence" (how smoking affects health). Effect means "to bring about or execute": layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about."
Usage note from wikipedia.com:
"Do not confuse affect with effect. The former is used to convey the influence over existing ideas, emotions and entities; the latter indicates the manifestation of new or original ideas or entities. For example, "...new governing coalitions during these realigning periods have EFFECTED major changes in governmental institutions" indicates that major changes were made as a result of new governing coalitions, while "...new governing coalitions during these realigning periods have AFFECTED major changes in governmental institutions" indicates that before new governing coalitions, major changes were in place, and that the new governing coalitions had some influence over these existing changes."
Usage note from Write101.com:
"The easiest way to distinguish the two is to remember that affect is a verb (well, nearly always a verb) and effect is a noun... well, nearly always! [...] When affect is pronounced [uh FEKT] and accented on the final syllable, it's a verb meaning "to have an influence on." eg Nothing they did, could affect my decision to go to the beach. Occasionally, very occasionally, the word is used as a noun (it means a feeling or emotion, as distinguished from thought or action, or a strong feeling having active consequences) and the accent is on the first syllable [AFF ekt]. This is a term that is reserved for psychiatry and psychology: eg In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea. Effect is most usually a noun and it means the result of some action or the power to produce a result. The noun is pronounced [uh FEKT] : eg The effect of the bushfire was clearly visible. eg The soothing music had an immediate effect on the wild beast. This can also be a verb and it means to bring into existence, to produce a result (pronounced [ee FEKT]}"
Merely HAVING personally identifiable information does NOT make a company evil. I need two hands to count the number of entities that have my personally identifiable information, and even then, I have to use binary!
What DOES make a company/entity evil is selling out your personal information for raw profit, without your consent. If they're using my information to give me a better google experience, so much the better... but the moment someone else gets their hands on that information, you can bet I'm pissed.
Basically, you're using a slippery slope argument, without providing evidence that google will change company policy or get a court order forcing them to turn over their records when they retain their information. You yourself admit that they've refused to divulge any information, so (at present), what's the problem?
It's impossible. As posted above, 1 in 10 is something like 2.3 million. You think the public can remember and ostracize TWO MILLION PEOPLE, even the course of, say, ten years (which definitely isn't possible)?
This article definitely goes overboard in implying that 1 in 10 people has had it this bad.
Java Language? Excel Spreadsheet? Google search rank?
These, although IMPLEMENTED through software, are not in and of themselves software - they're merely concepts (or in the case of Java, a language).
I like the list, but it's comparing apples and oranges. Surely, if the Java language makes the cut, other languages should make the cut too - C? BASIC? Don't try to tell me that Excel, or even Google search rank, is more important than C has been. And what about markup languages? No HTML?
And, if they're going to include OSes, WINDOWS doesn't make the cut? I'm sure I'll get shot around here for making this comment, but Windows has done wonders for bringing the computer to the masses. What about the software for the computer that INVENTED the modern GUI, the Xerox Alto, which also invented the WYSIWYG Text Editor? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto)
I'm sorry, this list doesn't quite make the cut, and it definitely isn't the "Witness the definitive, irrefutable, immutable ranking of the most brilliant software programs ever hacked."
No wonder they don't want you taking these things on airplanes anymore...
Actually, more importantly, people HAVE been taking these things on airplanes. If the same components could be used to make a bomb, WHY THE HELL were they ever allowed on airplanes in the first place?
Actually, Apple is involved just as much as Dell is. The same division of Sony that manufactured these batteries for Dell also produced many batteries for Apple laptops. Although the issue has already been brought up to Apple, they haven't said whether or not they're going to recall as well, merely saying that they would "look into" the issue.
Ah, but a leadership by committee approach is quite different than a strict vote-based or thumbsup/thumbsdown approach. Wheras a committee has to argue about everything to no end, a simple vote or approval poll is just that, and can be conducted quite quickly, especially in a company.
Of course, the big downsides of democracy (uniformed voters, mostly) obviously wouldn't exist in a company, where (presumably) every employee is intelligent, educated about the company, and has a personal and very material stake in the company.
Remember everyone, when everyone takes an equal part in something, it can be Democracy just as much as it can be communism.
In fact, communism (in theory) makes everyone equal, wheras democracy gives everyone an equal say.
This seems much more like democratic business, to me. The communism equivalent would probably be something like paying people less and less depending on how wealthy they are...
Large scale raids with lots of PCs are only ONE component of an epic feel. In many ways, the aspects of the large raids that give the game an epic feel don't make up for the aspects of the large raids that don't (The waiting, the gear-mongering, etc).
The devs could create an equally epic feel by implementing more epic LOOKING dungeons (although MC and BWL and Onyxia are definitely epic looking enough), speeding up the gameplay, and adding (instead of one IMPOSSIBLE to kill giant turtle, for example) hordes of evil mobs instead of just one giant stupid one - and while they're at it, they could improve the AI of the mobs in question. I realize that many of these things can't practically be implemented due to the technical limitations of the game, but some of them can.
Or, to give you an analogy that everyone's familiar with (on/., anyway), sure, Helm's Deep is pretty epic, but so are the mines of Moria.
Actually, BOTH companies copied a GUI design that Xerox implemented a full NINE years before the Mac was even concieved.
"Xerox PARC was the incubator of many elements of modern computing. Most were included in the Alto, which introduced and unified most aspects of now-standard personal computer usage model: the mouse1, computer generated color graphics, a graphical user interface featuring windows and icons, the WYSIWYG text editor, InterPress (a resolution-independent graphical page description language and the precursor to PostScript), Ethernet, and fully formed object-oriented programming in the Smalltalk programming language and integrated development environment. The laser printer was developed at the same time, as an integral part of the overall environment."
Slashdot Mirror
Hell, last time I checked, Harvard wasn't even considered a good engineering school...
Just to clarify, that 80.00 is 80 pounds. The icon on the other site wasn't the ASCII code, rather a little gif.
Yes, there is a law called just that -
:5 :2 :Criminal Law Act 1967 :Wasting Police Time Or Giving False Report
:80.00 :Summarily
9 e8496940e5e380256ba8006061d3/b14a0b225311b86e80256 db300697bbc!OpenDocument
Section
Sub-Section
Act
Subject
It is an offence to waste Police Time or to give a false report.
Fixed Penalty Amount
Method of Trial
http://www.police-law.co.uk/law/policelaw.nsf/164
Link to lossless torrent?
the PP is correct, before anyone jumps off and gets on his case, as has happened before.
... well, nearly always! [...]
From Dictionary.com
Effect
tr.v. effected, effecting, effects
1. To bring into existence.
2. To produce as a result.
3. To bring about. See Usage Note at affect1.
(e.g. "The Senator was afraid that the new policy would effect higher oil prices.")
Also, effect is often seen as a noun, meaning (among other things) a result. For example: "The Senator was afraid that the new policy would have detrimental effects on the oil industry."
On the other hand:
Affect
tr.v. affected, affecting, affects
1. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
2. To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
3. To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.
(e.g. "The Senator was afraid that the new policy would adversely affect the oil prices, dragging them higher.")
Affect is rarely used as a noun, although it is much more commonly seen as a verb. Affect as a verb: "The man had a strange brand of body language that lent him an odd affect."
If you don't believe me:
Usage note from dictionary.com:
"Usage Note: Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect is most commonly used in the sense of "to influence" (how smoking affects health). Effect means "to bring about or execute": layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about."
Usage note from wikipedia.com:
"Do not confuse affect with effect. The former is used to convey the influence over existing ideas, emotions and entities; the latter indicates the manifestation of new or original ideas or entities. For example, "...new governing coalitions during these realigning periods have EFFECTED major changes in governmental institutions" indicates that major changes were made as a result of new governing coalitions, while "...new governing coalitions during these realigning periods have AFFECTED major changes in governmental institutions" indicates that before new governing coalitions, major changes were in place, and that the new governing coalitions had some influence over these existing changes."
Usage note from Write101.com:
"The easiest way to distinguish the two is to remember that affect is a verb (well, nearly always a verb) and effect is a noun
When affect is pronounced [uh FEKT] and accented on the final syllable, it's a verb meaning "to have an influence on."
eg Nothing they did, could affect my decision to go to the beach.
Occasionally, very occasionally, the word is used as a noun (it means a feeling or emotion, as distinguished from thought or action, or a strong feeling having active consequences) and the accent is on the first syllable [AFF ekt]. This is a term that is reserved for psychiatry and psychology:
eg In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea.
Effect is most usually a noun and it means the result of some action or the power to produce a result. The noun is pronounced [uh FEKT] :
eg The effect of the bushfire was clearly visible.
eg The soothing music had an immediate effect on the wild beast.
This can also be a verb and it means to bring into existence, to produce a result (pronounced [ee FEKT]}"
It didn't "Melt Down".
It underwent a resonance cascade reducing the server into its Dark-Matter counterpart.
Sheesh, get with the program here!
The thing with PowerPoint style presentation software is that people are so damn FAMILIAR with it. Even if another design doesn't look as familiar, there's a fine line that one has to draw between interesting the viewers and shutting away their attention because they're unfamiliar with the design.
However, methinks that the GPP was more benefited by the crazy animations, anyway.
First of all, I hope to GOD you're being sarcastic.
... well, nearly always! [...]
If you're not, however, I'd like to point out that the GPP is, indeed, correct.
From Dictionary.com
Effect
tr.v. effected, effecting, effects
1. To bring into existence.
2. To produce as a result.
3. To bring about. See Usage Note at affect1.
(e.g. "The Senator was afraid that the new policy would effect higher oil prices.")
Also, effect is often seen as a noun, meaning (among other things) a result. For example: "The Senator was afraid that the new policy would have detrimental effects on the oil industry."
On the other hand:
Affect
tr.v. affected, affecting, affects
1. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
2. To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
3. To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.
(e.g. "The Senator was afraid that the new policy would adversely affect the oil prices, dragging them higher.")
Affect is rarely used as a noun, although it is much more commonly seen as a verb. Affect as a verb: "The man had a strange brand of body language that lent him an odd affect."
If you don't believe me:
Usage note from dictionary.com:
"Usage Note: Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect is most commonly used in the sense of "to influence" (how smoking affects health). Effect means "to bring about or execute": layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about."
Usage note from wikipedia.com:
"Do not confuse affect with effect. The former is used to convey the influence over existing ideas, emotions and entities; the latter indicates the manifestation of new or original ideas or entities. For example, "...new governing coalitions during these realigning periods have EFFECTED major changes in governmental institutions" indicates that major changes were made as a result of new governing coalitions, while "...new governing coalitions during these realigning periods have AFFECTED major changes in governmental institutions" indicates that before new governing coalitions, major changes were in place, and that the new governing coalitions had some influence over these existing changes."
Usage note from Write101.com:
"The easiest way to distinguish the two is to remember that affect is a verb (well, nearly always a verb) and effect is a noun
When affect is pronounced [uh FEKT] and accented on the final syllable, it's a verb meaning "to have an influence on."
eg Nothing they did, could affect my decision to go to the beach.
Occasionally, very occasionally, the word is used as a noun (it means a feeling or emotion, as distinguished from thought or action, or a strong feeling having active consequences) and the accent is on the first syllable [AFF ekt]. This is a term that is reserved for psychiatry and psychology:
eg In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea.
Effect is most usually a noun and it means the result of some action or the power to produce a result. The noun is pronounced [uh FEKT] :
eg The effect of the bushfire was clearly visible.
eg The soothing music had an immediate effect on the wild beast.
This can also be a verb and it means to bring into existence, to produce a result (pronounced [ee FEKT]}"
Hopefully, that should convince you.
Sad, but true... On the flip side, if everyone were like /., I would lose a lot of stock in MS :P
Merely HAVING personally identifiable information does NOT make a company evil. I need two hands to count the number of entities that have my personally identifiable information, and even then, I have to use binary!
What DOES make a company/entity evil is selling out your personal information for raw profit, without your consent. If they're using my information to give me a better google experience, so much the better... but the moment someone else gets their hands on that information, you can bet I'm pissed.
Basically, you're using a slippery slope argument, without providing evidence that google will change company policy or get a court order forcing them to turn over their records when they retain their information. You yourself admit that they've refused to divulge any information, so (at present), what's the problem?
It's impossible. As posted above, 1 in 10 is something like 2.3 million. You think the public can remember and ostracize TWO MILLION PEOPLE, even the course of, say, ten years (which definitely isn't possible)?
This article definitely goes overboard in implying that 1 in 10 people has had it this bad.
Yes, well /. users are hardly a representative sample of the US population.
They're just claiming "Open Source"
Last time I checked, that doesn't necessarily mean GLPv3draft2, and it doesn't seem like they've declared GPL in the article.
Dude, he has THREE KIDS!
_ life)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Personal
Java Language? Excel Spreadsheet? Google search rank?
These, although IMPLEMENTED through software, are not in and of themselves software - they're merely concepts (or in the case of Java, a language).
I like the list, but it's comparing apples and oranges. Surely, if the Java language makes the cut, other languages should make the cut too - C? BASIC? Don't try to tell me that Excel, or even Google search rank, is more important than C has been. And what about markup languages? No HTML?
And, if they're going to include OSes, WINDOWS doesn't make the cut? I'm sure I'll get shot around here for making this comment, but Windows has done wonders for bringing the computer to the masses. What about the software for the computer that INVENTED the modern GUI, the Xerox Alto, which also invented the WYSIWYG Text Editor? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto)
I'm sorry, this list doesn't quite make the cut, and it definitely isn't the "Witness the definitive, irrefutable, immutable ranking of the most brilliant software programs ever hacked."
No wonder they don't want you taking these things on airplanes anymore...
Actually, more importantly, people HAVE been taking these things on airplanes. If the same components could be used to make a bomb, WHY THE HELL were they ever allowed on airplanes in the first place?
You are correct about other vendors using these batteries, apple included.
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See the comment here:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1940
Actually, Apple is involved just as much as Dell is. The same division of Sony that manufactured these batteries for Dell also produced many batteries for Apple laptops. Although the issue has already been brought up to Apple, they haven't said whether or not they're going to recall as well, merely saying that they would "look into" the issue.
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(http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/corporate
Given Apple's many battery woes, a recall on their part also seems likely if this is indeed the same battery batch/design.
On the other hand, this is yet another one the conspiracy theorists can blame on Sony (/tinfoilhat on)
You're running norton?
With that much malware, man, your system is FUBAR... time to reformat.
But does Data run linux?
Ah, but a leadership by committee approach is quite different than a strict vote-based or thumbsup/thumbsdown approach. Wheras a committee has to argue about everything to no end, a simple vote or approval poll is just that, and can be conducted quite quickly, especially in a company.
Of course, the big downsides of democracy (uniformed voters, mostly) obviously wouldn't exist in a company, where (presumably) every employee is intelligent, educated about the company, and has a personal and very material stake in the company.
Or, perhaps, the Federalist papers...
Remember everyone, when everyone takes an equal part in something, it can be Democracy just as much as it can be communism.
In fact, communism (in theory) makes everyone equal, wheras democracy gives everyone an equal say.
This seems much more like democratic business, to me. The communism equivalent would probably be something like paying people less and less depending on how wealthy they are...
Not quite the same thing... Dvorak isn't libelous or hurtful, for the most part, wheras Coulter almost exclusively is.
In other words, Dvorak is occasionally useful and mostly harmless, wheras Coulter is occasionally harmles and mostly terrible.
Large scale raids with lots of PCs are only ONE component of an epic feel. In many ways, the aspects of the large raids that give the game an epic feel don't make up for the aspects of the large raids that don't (The waiting, the gear-mongering, etc).
/., anyway), sure, Helm's Deep is pretty epic, but so are the mines of Moria.
The devs could create an equally epic feel by implementing more epic LOOKING dungeons (although MC and BWL and Onyxia are definitely epic looking enough), speeding up the gameplay, and adding (instead of one IMPOSSIBLE to kill giant turtle, for example) hordes of evil mobs instead of just one giant stupid one - and while they're at it, they could improve the AI of the mobs in question. I realize that many of these things can't practically be implemented due to the technical limitations of the game, but some of them can.
Or, to give you an analogy that everyone's familiar with (on
Actually, BOTH companies copied a GUI design that Xerox implemented a full NINE years before the Mac was even concieved.
"Xerox PARC was the incubator of many elements of modern computing. Most were included in the Alto, which introduced and unified most aspects of now-standard personal computer usage model: the mouse1, computer generated color graphics, a graphical user interface featuring windows and icons, the WYSIWYG text editor, InterPress (a resolution-independent graphical page description language and the precursor to PostScript), Ethernet, and fully formed object-oriented programming in the Smalltalk programming language and integrated development environment. The laser printer was developed at the same time, as an integral part of the overall environment."