You're confusing two different things. Pointer off screen != wiimote can't see the sensor bar.
The field of view of the IR exceeds the dimensions of your TV. That's how the little arrow moves around the edges. But don't feel bad. Most of these people have no clue of what they're talking about.
Wiimote sends very little information to the console, but that small amout of info can be used in pretty smart ways. Different games might have their own ways of interpreting the data from wiimote to make the game more playable. And same goes for the opposite: Many games don't use the data that well, which leads to bad gameplay. Wii and wiimote get the blame for bad coding.
I'm not commenting on the afore mentioned petition, but in general they are a poor way of getting changes done. Especially it is about a very technical or otherwise difficult subject. One can never be sure how well the petitioners understand the subject in question.
I seldom favor decision making by popular vote. Decisions should be made by those who have the understanding about not just the immediate effects but secondary and tertiary also. Hence the representative democracy and specialization withing the parlamentary system.
The problem arises when the size of the governed entity grows too large and only the truly wealthy can afford, or have the possivility for a professional representation in influencing the decision making. For example, there are only few qualified experts in the whole of EU to guide the processes of chemical legislation and they all work for the industry. Or how the WIPO treaty was mostly drafted by the owners of intellectual property - the foundations of a monopoly created by the monopolist!
It also doesn't take into account how local laws affect prices.
Finnish consumer protection laws are quite demanding, which causes higher prices.
Example: My iBook display stopped working after 18 months of use. I took the display apart and found that the display hinge had eaten into the cable. Because the cause of the problem was an incorrect design of the hinge, Apple had to replace the cable, with no cost to the consumer what so ever.
In the United States, you would propably have voided the warranty just by opening the display case. Here, the manufacturer has to show that problem was caused by incorrect use of the product to avoid paying for the repairs during the "expected lifetime" of the product. ("Expected lifetime" depends on the type of the product. With computers it's somewhere between 2 and 3 years.)
So, Americans get cheaper products, but have to pay for "Extended Apple Care" and such.
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The Code of Ethics outlines the key principles and policies that define our business practices and formalizes these standards. The rules set out in the Code serve as a complement to the corporate by-laws, policies and other corporate requirements and directives governing the conduct of ATI and its employees. In its application, the Code applies to all ATI directors, officers, and employees, whether full-time or part-time, and to all other service providers including, contractors and consultants.
ATI's Code of Ethics extends to wherever business is carried out on ATI's behalf including ATI offices, business travel and any other work-related functions such as meetings with third parties, seminars, conferences and training programs. As everyone lives up to the expectations in all places of business, in this regard ATI's reputation as an excellent company with high ethical standards will be upheld.
a type of legislation issued by the European Union which is binding on Member States in terms of the results to be achieved but which leaves to Member States the choice of methods.
And, at the moment, European Union legislation, meaning directives, regulations, binding decisions and recommendations do not mention such thing as fare use in any way. Thus, the Court of Justice of the European Communities, witch interprets the Union legislation, does not have such thing as fare use to base it's decisions on.
"Publishers from Europe are complaining that Internet search engines are making money off their copyright-protected material. 'This is unlikely to be sustainable for publishers in the longer term.', says Francisco Pinto Balsemao, head of the European Publishers Council."
I want to reject the notion that Google is somehow accountable to the publishers for making profit, even if they would place adds on Google News.
Example, a bookstore would find it hard sell books if the store was empty. So just by putting books on selves increases the value of the bookstore, helping it make profit. Thus, should the bookstore now pay authors, not only a comission for a sale, but for increasing the value of the store?
This is exactly the same as with Google Book Search. Authors and copyright holders reaching too far.
As Lawrence Lessig has pointed out many times, the European Union Copyright laws are all screwed up.
At the moment they have no fare use, or right to make a copy in any way. That's why Google Book Search had to withdraw from France. More outrageous claims like this are needed to turn peoples attention to the flawed system. That is the only way to get momentum to change the directives.
As of Jan 1. I will be a criminal in Finland for making a copy of a DVD I own because I'm braking the strong encryption it has.
I don't know how the search functions work in Kazaa etc. but can't you just send match to all querys with a fake client? Is there real data integrity check built into Kazaa clients?
The Register has been completely biased about the matter so I wouldn't take their word on anything. Linus is pissed off at Tridge because he messed up the deal with McVoy and wasn't even trying to produce anything functional to replace BK. "He
just wanted to see what the protocols and data was,
without actually producing any replacement for the
(inevitable) problems he caused and knew about."
Everybody seems to forget that McVoy contributed more than $500 000 worth of software to the osdl. Without the contribution, Tridge would have never been able to even try to reverse engineer the program.
Linus lost the use of the best SCM there is. Why shouldn't he be pissed?
I haven't seen analysis this poor since the Win v. Linux TCO stuff. It is utterly idiotic to claim the ruling to be wrong just because it doesn't fit in with ones view of justice.
The French courts have ruled that Adword goes against their trademark and/or copyright laws and by the same account the US courts says that it doesn't violate US laws. And until appeals courts say otherwise, that's that.
You also can't reflect the French decision on other European countries. The ruling wasn't based on EU-directives but rather on the French law. Just follow the P2P-trial rulings around Europe and you see how different the laws (hence rulings) are.
Wether the trademark/copyright laws are out of date (duh!), is a question worth discussing,
Changing your browser was FICORA's last option when dealing with BOFRA. Before were upgrading to SP2, updateing virus scanning and so on.
"#5 Erityisesti jos käytössäsi ei ole Windows XP -käyttöjärjestelmää tai XP:n Service Pack 2 -päivityksen asentaminen ei ole mahdollista, yhtenä tietoturvahaavoittuvuuden rajoitusmahdollisuutena on vaihtoehtoisen selainohjelman käyttäminen, kunnes haavoittuvuuteen on olemassa korjaava ohjelmistopäivitys."
Loosely translated: "If you are not using Windows XP, or installing SP2 is not possible, you can also use a different Internet-browser, until the vulnerability is patched."
This is still far from saying "DON'T USE IE, YOU MORONS!"
My own family was an example of how these suddle ways of trying to make people to care about computer security don't work.
Dad in the morning while reading the paper: "
'FICORA issues statement...' Why don't they stop rambling about the Internet and those viruses!"
Dad in the evening: "What the fu*k is wrong with the computer?"
Xutopia has it right. When your beliefs aren't build on solid ground, you tend to see anti-[insert country/religion/race/sexuality] sentiment everywhere.
During the times of the great Soviet Russia, a Finnish car magazine reviewed a Russian made car, Lada. The magazine said that the car is a piece of junk. For that, Russian officials publicly blamed the magazine and the Finnish government for criticizing U.S.S.R, communism, Russian way of life, etc.
All your opinions are belong to Soviet Russia...
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You're confusing two different things. Pointer off screen != wiimote can't see the sensor bar.
The field of view of the IR exceeds the dimensions of your TV. That's how the little arrow moves around the edges. But don't feel bad. Most of these people have no clue of what they're talking about.
Wiimote sends very little information to the console, but that small amout of info can be used in pretty smart ways. Different games might have their own ways of interpreting the data from wiimote to make the game more playable. And same goes for the opposite: Many games don't use the data that well, which leads to bad gameplay. Wii and wiimote get the blame for bad coding.
I'm not commenting on the afore mentioned petition, but in general they are a poor way of getting changes done. Especially it is about a very technical or otherwise difficult subject. One can never be sure how well the petitioners understand the subject in question.
I seldom favor decision making by popular vote. Decisions should be made by those who have the understanding about not just the immediate effects but secondary and tertiary also. Hence the representative democracy and specialization withing the parlamentary system.
The problem arises when the size of the governed entity grows too large and only the truly wealthy can afford, or have the possivility for a professional representation in influencing the decision making. For example, there are only few qualified experts in the whole of EU to guide the processes of chemical legislation and they all work for the industry. Or how the WIPO treaty was mostly drafted by the owners of intellectual property - the foundations of a monopoly created by the monopolist!
It also doesn't take into account how local laws affect prices.
Finnish consumer protection laws are quite demanding, which causes higher prices.
Example: My iBook display stopped working after 18 months of use. I took the display apart and found that the display hinge had eaten into the cable. Because the cause of the problem was an incorrect design of the hinge, Apple had to replace the cable, with no cost to the consumer what so ever.
In the United States, you would propably have voided the warranty just by opening the display case. Here, the manufacturer has to show that problem was caused by incorrect use of the product to avoid paying for the repairs during the "expected lifetime" of the product. ("Expected lifetime" depends on the type of the product. With computers it's somewhere between 2 and 3 years.)
So, Americans get cheaper products, but have to pay for "Extended Apple Care" and such.
My sweet cell phone now has sweet scratches and the logo's still there.
So use only the most fragile sugar you can find.
At ATI, we are committed to conducting our business with the highest level of integrity, honesty and professionalism. Maintaining high standards are also critical for maintaining investor confidence and shareholder value as a publicly traded and world-leading high-tech company.
The Code of Ethics outlines the key principles and policies that define our business practices and formalizes these standards. The rules set out in the Code serve as a complement to the corporate by-laws, policies and other corporate requirements and directives governing the conduct of ATI and its employees. In its application, the Code applies to all ATI directors, officers, and employees, whether full-time or part-time, and to all other service providers including, contractors and consultants.
ATI's Code of Ethics extends to wherever business is carried out on ATI's behalf including ATI offices, business travel and any other work-related functions such as meetings with third parties, seminars, conferences and training programs. As everyone lives up to the expectations in all places of business, in this regard ATI's reputation as an excellent company with high ethical standards will be upheld.
a type of legislation issued by the European Union which is binding on Member States in terms of the results to be achieved but which leaves to Member States the choice of methods.
And, at the moment, European Union legislation, meaning directives, regulations, binding decisions and recommendations do not mention such thing as fare use in any way. Thus, the Court of Justice of the European Communities, witch interprets the Union legislation, does not have such thing as fare use to base it's decisions on.
I want to reject the notion that Google is somehow accountable to the publishers for making profit, even if they would place adds on Google News.
Example, a bookstore would find it hard sell books if the store was empty. So just by putting books on selves increases the value of the bookstore, helping it make profit. Thus, should the bookstore now pay authors, not only a comission for a sale, but for increasing the value of the store?
This is exactly the same as with Google Book Search. Authors and copyright holders reaching too far.
As Lawrence Lessig has pointed out many times, the European Union Copyright laws are all screwed up.
At the moment they have no fare use, or right to make a copy in any way. That's why Google Book Search had to withdraw from France. More outrageous claims like this are needed to turn peoples attention to the flawed system. That is the only way to get momentum to change the directives.
As of Jan 1. I will be a criminal in Finland for making a copy of a DVD I own because I'm braking the strong encryption it has.
Ask Linus. Proprietary is the way to go.
And you all knew this was coming.
I don't know how the search functions work in Kazaa etc. but can't you just send match to all querys with a fake client? Is there real data integrity check built into Kazaa clients?
That's MPAA/RIAA/BSA math and you know it.
According to McVoy, it cost his company $500 000 a year in staff costs to maintain the OSDL-version of BitKeeper.
So no MPAA math here, and I know it.
The Register has been completely biased about the matter so I wouldn't take their word on anything. Linus is pissed off at Tridge because he messed up the deal with McVoy and wasn't even trying to produce anything functional to replace BK. "He just wanted to see what the protocols and data was, without actually producing any replacement for the (inevitable) problems he caused and knew about."
Everybody seems to forget that McVoy contributed more than $500 000 worth of software to the osdl. Without the contribution, Tridge would have never been able to even try to reverse engineer the program.
Linus lost the use of the best SCM there is. Why shouldn't he be pissed?
Proprietary isn't (always) evil!
.. in affiliation with Slashdot. Looks like a real editor still has a place in this world.
Screenshot from Google News
I haven't seen analysis this poor since the Win v. Linux TCO stuff. It is utterly idiotic to claim the ruling to be wrong just because it doesn't fit in with ones view of justice.
The French courts have ruled that Adword goes against their trademark and/or copyright laws and by the same account the US courts says that it doesn't violate US laws. And until appeals courts say otherwise, that's that.
You also can't reflect the French decision on other European countries. The ruling wasn't based on EU-directives but rather on the French law. Just follow the P2P-trial rulings around Europe and you see how different the laws (hence rulings) are.
Wether the trademark/copyright laws are out of date (duh!), is a question worth discussing,
Loosely translated: "If you are not using Windows XP, or installing SP2 is not possible, you can also use a different Internet-browser, until the vulnerability is patched."
This is still far from saying "DON'T USE IE, YOU MORONS!"
My own family was an example of how these suddle ways of trying to make people to care about computer security don't work.
Xutopia has it right. When your beliefs aren't build on solid ground, you tend to see anti-[insert country/religion/race/sexuality] sentiment everywhere. During the times of the great Soviet Russia, a Finnish car magazine reviewed a Russian made car, Lada. The magazine said that the car is a piece of junk. For that, Russian officials publicly blamed the magazine and the Finnish government for criticizing U.S.S.R, communism, Russian way of life, etc. All your opinions are belong to Soviet Russia...