Also, I guess this is becoming a philosophical problem.
RSS feeds are an integral part of my Web "experience," now. As they gain more popularity with the general public, people are going to expect an RSS reader within their browser.
Every serious geek wants his/her browser lean and mean, and loves the personalization extensions give you. But if Firefox is to become popular, I think RSS functionality will have to be integrated.
The appearance of "live bookmarks" in 1.0+ versions seems also to go in that direction. To bad the menus are too narrow to display full titles most of the times.
Despite my handsomely elaborate defense, I end up in jail for [crime] with a definitive sentence.
At that point, the zealous cop shows up and tells me he's also going to charge me with obstruction of justice, because he kindly asked me a question the first time around, and I lied or said nothing?
You got it backwards, I guess. The suspect is never required to collaborate with his/her prosecutors. They may strike a deal if they choose to do so. Obstruction of justice is a felony witnesses and persons who haven't been charged commit.
One instance where you could be right might be if a suspect tampers with something that already has been "identified" as evidence, or falsifies something as evidence in their defense. Your linked citation doesn't mention a single instance where a suspect is actually committing obstruction of justice. RTFC.
I'm Italian... Actually I hadn't thought of that... Scoria (SCO-ree-ah) means something similar: waste (as in "nuclear waste," "toxic waste") or byproduct.
Interestingly, it would sound like something in Sicilian dialect ("sco-REE-aah".) As for the meaning, I imagine it would be something along "BEWAAAARE!"
SCORIAA would have Silicon Valley's most recognizable cafeteria, eclipsing Google's: checkered tablecloths, embroidery, pictures of Naples on walls, and the best fuckin' mozzarella in town.
-While not Tiger-specific, Quicksilver doesn't have a calculator plugin.
It does, although it's really basic. Interestingly, it's called "Calculator Module," and serves as a Quicksilver-style frontend for UNIX (or POSIX?) commands bc or dc - you get to choose. It runs in the bezel. Press "." (dot) to enter input mode, write your math, tab to the right quadrant and get your result.
Of course, it uses command line-style syntax, and it outputs to the very basic stdout();.
Er... Why pay extra money for Konfabulator when I have Dashboard that could easily do the same thing? Actually, persistent widgets seemed obvious to me, I'm surprised you need to 'hack' Dashboard to have them...
Please note that I don't want in no way to start a flame but...
My (pretty good) experience with Konfabulator taught me that many well-designed widgets are well worth a few cycles (iCal-related ones come to mind.)
I'll be upgrading to Tiger, soon, but if there's something that disappoints me is the inability to have widgets always on screen at "topmost" level -- well, at least until 30 seconds ago when I read that I can have that via the debug options! Thanks for sharing...
At the risk of being offtopic, I'll shoot a question here right from the Ars Technica article: why no user-defined arbitrary metadata manipulation (e.g. [username]_project: 'ACME presentation' or kMyUserDefinedProperty: 'ACME presentation')? I guess that may come with third-party apps, but it seems a basic ability you'd expect from the OS...
I'm biting, too, since I also submitted the story.
I did so mainly because I believe that in order to avoid such moronic mishaps it's best if you ring a few bells. Not to mention the fact that the trick has been extensively exposed all over the country.
I do agree that publicly exposing names of soldiers or intelligence agents can be dangerous, as can be revealing detailed assets locations and checkpoints procedures. But I'd be careful here: someone might argue that publishing the Abu Ghraib photos has hurt the security of American soldiers in Iraq by publicly detailing the "security practices" in place at detention facilities in the country.
What I think should not tolerated, though, is keeping the truth from the officials investigating the matter - the Italian prosecutors, in this case. They, too, had to resort to the censored version of the report in order to ascertain facts. That is not acceptable, but it's what the US Army has done (or tried to do), in their moronic way.
I wonder how human filtering can be effectively implemented at this level - an automated system being useless in these circumstances.
The human filter for this case would have had to know all about the company's policy regarding communications with its client, plus a good deal about the application being developed. Multiply this by N times in large companies with multiple projects and clients. Throw in cases where a client's liaisons can/need to know about problems in development...
Furthermore, there's always the chance of misreading or misinterpreting a message, or pressing the wrong button, or not noticing that a client's address is in the Cc: header, as I guess was the case here...
In other words, they'd have to be at least 12 miles from shore, and possibly (depending on who's doing the interpretation) over 200.
Well, either that, or 12 nm off the coast of a country which can't afford "economical exclusivity" on 200 miles around itself...
I'm not sure what the exact implications of an "exclusive economic zone" are (you know, it's 7:11 am here), but sure enough the area seems quite large to me. Not everyone can afford to claim that, I guess.
As i try to think back to my physiology 210 class, i think she might need to take something for digestion (much of the digestive enzymes are produced by the spleen, for breakdown in your small intestine).
Mmmh... Not exactly. The stomach produces a few enzymes helping with protein breakdown, but the pancreas does the most: fat-, sugar- and protein-digesting enzymes are all secreted by it. The spleen is mostly an immunological and hemopoietic organ (contributes to recycling old blood cells.) Surely you got confused with the gallbladder, which is a tank for substances secreted by the liver which help emulsifying fat in the intestine.
As for parent questions, no, the pancreas does not grow back. However, it has good redundant functionality, so you don't actually need all of it to have a normal metabolic function. In cases where there's a major failure, as in alcoholic chronic pancreatitis, pancreas-derived enzymes can be supplemented in the diet.
A theory behind the immune attack to one's own beta-cells says that in predisposed patients (those with particular MHC types), certain usually (nearly) harmless viruses may trigger a response to one's own cells.
If that were confirmed, it would be pretty tough to change all MHC genes in an organism. However, one may hypothesize selective immunosuppressive therapy precisely aimed at those lymphocytes targeting islet cells -- yet this demands very early recognition of the problem, which seems unlikely.
I'd stick with "my" idea of implantable, servo insulin pumps, at least until the time comes for both selective immunosuppression and implantation of stem cell-derived cloned islet cells from oneself. I think the risks of generic immunosuppressive therapy far outweigh the benefits of endogenous insulin secretion, although we'll need a much longer follow-up of many patients to know this.
Finally, as others have mentioned, the "couch potato" diabetes is Type II DM.
I think the best advancement in quality of life will be when when we have truly effective automated insulin pumps.
I'm not an expert in the field, but AFAIK you can have infusion pumps implanted under your skin which continuously administrate the drug. Such pumps do not have effective feedback systems, yet, so a patient has both to "adjust" to his/her pump (i.e. take in appropriate amounts of sugar) and to supplement it with injections.
In the very near future, I imagine there will be servo pumps that will be capable of checking blood sugar levels and administrate the appropriate insulin. Actually, I suspect there may be such pumps already but I never heard about one being actually implanted.
The advantages would be many: need for just a once-monthly injection to refill the tank; the ability to get continuous, real-time info on glucose levels, even from a distance; no need for immunosuppressive therapy; ability to also infuse "emergency" drugs such as glucagone when risking hypoglicemia.
It's too early to call for success of this transplant. The complications of immunosuppressive therapy are many and dangerous (kidney toxicity, for one, hasn't been mentioned yet.)
In Italy, both approaches are active. Consenting heterosexual sex is allowed from the age of 14, with a partner no older than 16, and the 2 years difference is maintained through to 18 years. At 18, anything goes of course.
Religiously enough, though, homosexual practices are only allowed at 18.
The rule seems to be in accordance with the average age of a girl first having sex, which according to surveys is 14.something years.
Of course this doesn't change parents' mentality and denial at all. As a doctor, when taking a patient's history, I need to ask parents out of the room in order to ask an underage girl if she's taking contraceptives. This isn't actually in complete accordance with the law, but you can't expect a true answer if you don't do this.
Mmmh... Forgive the metricness, but assuming that: the supporting structure weighs as much as its payload (not sure about this estimate); it has the same drag coefficient as a Boeing 747; its cross-sectional area is a 44.20*26.52 meter rectangle (probably overestimated?); a constant air density of 1.2 kg/m^3 (sea-level, conservative); a gravitational acceleration of 9.72 m/s^2 (troposphere level, conservative)...
The thing should come down at a terminal velocity of 35.12 m/s, corresponding to a kinetic energy of roughly 1,678,399.48 J or 4.11e-10 megatons. For comparison, a.45 bullet has 779.59 J at muzzle level. Too tired to look up grenades and other amenities.
Not much of a WMD even if it weighs ten times as much as I've supposed, anyhow, but still I wouldn't like it to fall on my home... Especially because that 3,000 lbs. payload should be pretty dense.
I hope someone can check this since I'm tired and I haven't been playing armchair physics for a long time...
Well, if the employee is allowed to distribute the document to anyone outside the company, we're not talking about internal docs any longer!
I agree, though, that a company might want to distribute a document to some companies, while keeping it secret from others. That could cause problems, yet I'm not sure whether selectively sending stuff to some persons actually falls under legal definitions for "distribution." For one, circulating a music CD within your family members doesn't, AFAIK.
Interestingly, I've been longing to be able to use the Gotham font for a while now (I like my presentations stylish and trendy, heh.)
Anyways, take a look at Hoefler & Frère-Jones EULA for their fonts. It clearly mentions "copyright notices as contained in the Typefaces," and all the stuff you usually see when dealing with plain ol' copyrighted stuff. In a paragraph unoriginally titled "Copyright," they say they retain full title and ownership of their Typefaces.
This looks to me as totally opposing the page you quoted and its snippets from the US law. Does it mean I can take advantage of their unsustainable EULA? Yay!
More to your point, it doesn't mention font usage in documents, either. They limit the number of machines a font can be installed on, they restrict font embedding in documents (PDFs, Flash...) and they don't want you to place more than 50% of the character set in a rasterized image. But they don't say anything about documents using (yet not embedding) their fonts, so I'd say this is another confirmation to your comment.
I can use GCC to compile non-GPL code, I can use GIMP to create non-GPL (or CC, in this case?) artwork, and I can use OO to produce non-GFDL documents.
Indeed, but no parts of GCC, GIMP or OO would be included in those documents.
On the other hand, when you write a document in a font and then distribute it in the form of an image or printed copy, you are giving away copies of those fonts: the A's, B's, C's...
Granted, people receiving the document will not be necessarily be able to use it, so it's not like distributing source code. It's more like embedding GPL'ed, compiled libraries within a larger application.
However, it's important to remember that GPL doesn't force free distribution on the owner's side. Companies will never be forced to release their internal docs just because they were accidentally GPL'ed, as the/. blurb might imply.
I think the point of the secure erasing feature is overwriting the (presumably sensitive) data with useless gibberish which looks like malformed/broken data and/or can't even be construed as a file. Thus, the (misspelled) "erroneous" adjective to make it clear that stuff is overwritten with garbage.
Not the greatest choice of wording (and spelling), in any case. Maybe "meaningless" would have been clearer?
It is indeed in the firmware or somewhere else in the mother/logic board, as SlamMan mentioned. There's even a System Preferences scheduler (in "Energy Saver") to turn on the Mac, in addition to wake up from sleep... But again, it's not scriptable at present, if not by simulation of user interaction.
Also, I could be mistaken but I seem to recall it wouldn't work on my PowerBook when I last tried.
One thing sorely missing from Panther was the ability to AppleScript power management features. It would come in handy for putting your Mac to sleep after a long task, or to wake it up upon certain conditions.
In order to do that, IIRC, you had to buy a third party extension/dictionary/API. A workaround was also to script at the UI level and simulate clicks in the menus - very inelegant, prone to failure and useless for waking up the machine.
The new features list in TFA doesn't cite this addition. Does it mean users will still have to resort to third-party software for this basic ability? Automator might help, but still it's not the same as a full-fledged AppleScript dictionary...
Best journals, with highest sientific standards, tough referees, are those charging publications costs.
Medical journals do charge for publication, and I can confirm that this field practically all journals are (at least officially) linked to non-profit organizations.
However, they are often published and distributed by private companies which do like to make a dime here and there.
The result is a bastardized system in which you pay a significant amount of money for publication, in the form of a reimbursement (for example, color pictures will usually cost you more.)
Then, when you get published you lose pretty much any (copy)right over what you submitted. Readers will then get to pay serious money for yearly subscriptions: they usually start from $100 for online-only; over $200 when they decide you have to sign up for paper copies over snail mail as well.
Moreover, the cost for access to a single article is usually outrageous: $20 to $50 for one article.
As stated in the blurb, things are a-changin': OpenAccess is gaining ground, but we're still far from an ethical system. BioMed Central has been a serious promoter of open access in research articles. The real problem is that a journal's prestige is still significantly more likely to host the most important advancements in medicine, and BioMed's stuff is still far from, say, JAMA or Anesthesiology.
I can't really see the ethics in a non-profit society publishing its journal with, say, Elsevier, robbing you of your rights over your own work while asking you money for that, and then proceeding to charge $250 for a year's subscription to their journal.
Never seen it in Italy. If it has been bought, there's no news whatsoever about it. Maybe pay channels on sat? Not a chance in the world it's having "record ratings" in Italy, though.
By the way, I wonder how they would adapt/translate it. The original "who" is rather unpronounceable in Italian... Too awkward to be the most spoken name in a series. One more reason to download shows in their original language, if you ask me...
It would seem so as you're conception of "Europe" is curiously wrong.
Most European countries and members of the EU now enjoy the beauties of the Schengen treaty, allowing free border-crossing without ID (air travel still requires ID, but it's not a matter of borders as much as a security issue, of course.)
The UK, needless to say, doesn't mingle.
Moreover, many European countries have national ID cards in addition to passports. You don't need a passport to go to your bank, nor to go to many non-EU/non-Schengen countries such as the Czech Republic, Croatia or Egypt.
Signed,
a European who only needs his passport to go to the US.
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Also, I guess this is becoming a philosophical problem.
RSS feeds are an integral part of my Web "experience," now. As they gain more popularity with the general public, people are going to expect an RSS reader within their browser.
Every serious geek wants his/her browser lean and mean, and loves the personalization extensions give you. But if Firefox is to become popular, I think RSS functionality will have to be integrated.
The appearance of "live bookmarks" in 1.0+ versions seems also to go in that direction. To bad the menus are too narrow to display full titles most of the times.
Let me get this straight with another example:
Cop: "Are you guilty of [crime]?"
Me: "No!" or
Me: "..."
Despite my handsomely elaborate defense, I end up in jail for [crime] with a definitive sentence.
At that point, the zealous cop shows up and tells me he's also going to charge me with obstruction of justice, because he kindly asked me a question the first time around, and I lied or said nothing?
You got it backwards, I guess. The suspect is never required to collaborate with his/her prosecutors. They may strike a deal if they choose to do so. Obstruction of justice is a felony witnesses and persons who haven't been charged commit.
One instance where you could be right might be if a suspect tampers with something that already has been "identified" as evidence, or falsifies something as evidence in their defense. Your linked citation doesn't mention a single instance where a suspect is actually committing obstruction of justice. RTFC.
I'm Italian... Actually I hadn't thought of that... Scoria (SCO-ree-ah) means something similar: waste (as in "nuclear waste," "toxic waste") or byproduct.
Interestingly, it would sound like something in Sicilian dialect ("sco-REE-aah".) As for the meaning, I imagine it would be something along "BEWAAAARE!"
SCORIAA would have Silicon Valley's most recognizable cafeteria, eclipsing Google's: checkered tablecloths, embroidery, pictures of Naples on walls, and the best fuckin' mozzarella in town.
-While not Tiger-specific, Quicksilver doesn't have a calculator plugin.
It does, although it's really basic. Interestingly, it's called "Calculator Module," and serves as a Quicksilver-style frontend for UNIX (or POSIX?) commands bc or dc - you get to choose. It runs in the bezel. Press "." (dot) to enter input mode, write your math, tab to the right quadrant and get your result.
Of course, it uses command line-style syntax, and it outputs to the very basic stdout();.
Er... Why pay extra money for Konfabulator when I have Dashboard that could easily do the same thing? Actually, persistent widgets seemed obvious to me, I'm surprised you need to 'hack' Dashboard to have them...
(no "who copied whom" flames please!)"
Please note that I don't want in no way to start a flame but...
My (pretty good) experience with Konfabulator taught me that many well-designed widgets are well worth a few cycles (iCal-related ones come to mind.)
I'll be upgrading to Tiger, soon, but if there's something that disappoints me is the inability to have widgets always on screen at "topmost" level -- well, at least until 30 seconds ago when I read that I can have that via the debug options! Thanks for sharing...
At the risk of being offtopic, I'll shoot a question here right from the Ars Technica article: why no user-defined arbitrary metadata manipulation (e.g. [username]_project: 'ACME presentation' or kMyUserDefinedProperty: 'ACME presentation')? I guess that may come with third-party apps, but it seems a basic ability you'd expect from the OS...
I'm biting, too, since I also submitted the story.
I did so mainly because I believe that in order to avoid such moronic mishaps it's best if you ring a few bells. Not to mention the fact that the trick has been extensively exposed all over the country.
I do agree that publicly exposing names of soldiers or intelligence agents can be dangerous, as can be revealing detailed assets locations and checkpoints procedures. But I'd be careful here: someone might argue that publishing the Abu Ghraib photos has hurt the security of American soldiers in Iraq by publicly detailing the "security practices" in place at detention facilities in the country.
What I think should not tolerated, though, is keeping the truth from the officials investigating the matter - the Italian prosecutors, in this case. They, too, had to resort to the censored version of the report in order to ascertain facts. That is not acceptable, but it's what the US Army has done (or tried to do), in their moronic way.
I wonder how human filtering can be effectively implemented at this level - an automated system being useless in these circumstances.
The human filter for this case would have had to know all about the company's policy regarding communications with its client, plus a good deal about the application being developed. Multiply this by N times in large companies with multiple projects and clients. Throw in cases where a client's liaisons can/need to know about problems in development...
Furthermore, there's always the chance of misreading or misinterpreting a message, or pressing the wrong button, or not noticing that a client's address is in the Cc: header, as I guess was the case here...
My living room is only 0.5e-2 nm long, you insensitive clod.
In other words, they'd have to be at least 12 miles from shore, and possibly (depending on who's doing the interpretation) over 200.
Well, either that, or 12 nm off the coast of a country which can't afford "economical exclusivity" on 200 miles around itself...
I'm not sure what the exact implications of an "exclusive economic zone" are (you know, it's 7:11 am here), but sure enough the area seems quite large to me. Not everyone can afford to claim that, I guess.
To brother-post by the AC:
As i try to think back to my physiology 210 class, i think she might need to take something for digestion (much of the digestive enzymes are produced by the spleen, for breakdown in your small intestine).
Mmmh... Not exactly. The stomach produces a few enzymes helping with protein breakdown, but the pancreas does the most: fat-, sugar- and protein-digesting enzymes are all secreted by it. The spleen is mostly an immunological and hemopoietic organ (contributes to recycling old blood cells.) Surely you got confused with the gallbladder, which is a tank for substances secreted by the liver which help emulsifying fat in the intestine.
As for parent questions, no, the pancreas does not grow back. However, it has good redundant functionality, so you don't actually need all of it to have a normal metabolic function. In cases where there's a major failure, as in alcoholic chronic pancreatitis, pancreas-derived enzymes can be supplemented in the diet.
A theory behind the immune attack to one's own beta-cells says that in predisposed patients (those with particular MHC types), certain usually (nearly) harmless viruses may trigger a response to one's own cells.
If that were confirmed, it would be pretty tough to change all MHC genes in an organism. However, one may hypothesize selective immunosuppressive therapy precisely aimed at those lymphocytes targeting islet cells -- yet this demands very early recognition of the problem, which seems unlikely.
I'd stick with "my" idea of implantable, servo insulin pumps, at least until the time comes for both selective immunosuppression and implantation of stem cell-derived cloned islet cells from oneself. I think the risks of generic immunosuppressive therapy far outweigh the benefits of endogenous insulin secretion, although we'll need a much longer follow-up of many patients to know this.
Finally, as others have mentioned, the "couch potato" diabetes is Type II DM.
I think the best advancement in quality of life will be when when we have truly effective automated insulin pumps.
I'm not an expert in the field, but AFAIK you can have infusion pumps implanted under your skin which continuously administrate the drug. Such pumps do not have effective feedback systems, yet, so a patient has both to "adjust" to his/her pump (i.e. take in appropriate amounts of sugar) and to supplement it with injections.
In the very near future, I imagine there will be servo pumps that will be capable of checking blood sugar levels and administrate the appropriate insulin. Actually, I suspect there may be such pumps already but I never heard about one being actually implanted.
The advantages would be many: need for just a once-monthly injection to refill the tank; the ability to get continuous, real-time info on glucose levels, even from a distance; no need for immunosuppressive therapy; ability to also infuse "emergency" drugs such as glucagone when risking hypoglicemia.
It's too early to call for success of this transplant. The complications of immunosuppressive therapy are many and dangerous (kidney toxicity, for one, hasn't been mentioned yet.)
In Italy, both approaches are active. Consenting heterosexual sex is allowed from the age of 14, with a partner no older than 16, and the 2 years difference is maintained through to 18 years. At 18, anything goes of course.
Religiously enough, though, homosexual practices are only allowed at 18.
The rule seems to be in accordance with the average age of a girl first having sex, which according to surveys is 14.something years.
Of course this doesn't change parents' mentality and denial at all. As a doctor, when taking a patient's history, I need to ask parents out of the room in order to ask an underage girl if she's taking contraceptives. This isn't actually in complete accordance with the law, but you can't expect a true answer if you don't do this.
Mmmh... Forgive the metricness, but assuming that: the supporting structure weighs as much as its payload (not sure about this estimate); it has the same drag coefficient as a Boeing 747; its cross-sectional area is a 44.20*26.52 meter rectangle (probably overestimated?); a constant air density of 1.2 kg/m^3 (sea-level, conservative); a gravitational acceleration of 9.72 m/s^2 (troposphere level, conservative)...
The thing should come down at a terminal velocity of 35.12 m/s, corresponding to a kinetic energy of roughly 1,678,399.48 J or 4.11e-10 megatons. For comparison, a .45 bullet has 779.59 J at muzzle level. Too tired to look up grenades and other amenities.
Not much of a WMD even if it weighs ten times as much as I've supposed, anyhow, but still I wouldn't like it to fall on my home... Especially because that 3,000 lbs. payload should be pretty dense.
I hope someone can check this since I'm tired and I haven't been playing armchair physics for a long time...
Well, if the employee is allowed to distribute the document to anyone outside the company, we're not talking about internal docs any longer!
I agree, though, that a company might want to distribute a document to some companies, while keeping it secret from others. That could cause problems, yet I'm not sure whether selectively sending stuff to some persons actually falls under legal definitions for "distribution." For one, circulating a music CD within your family members doesn't, AFAIK.
Interestingly, I've been longing to be able to use the Gotham font for a while now (I like my presentations stylish and trendy, heh.)
Anyways, take a look at Hoefler & Frère-Jones EULA for their fonts. It clearly mentions "copyright notices as contained in the Typefaces," and all the stuff you usually see when dealing with plain ol' copyrighted stuff. In a paragraph unoriginally titled "Copyright," they say they retain full title and ownership of their Typefaces.
This looks to me as totally opposing the page you quoted and its snippets from the US law. Does it mean I can take advantage of their unsustainable EULA? Yay!
More to your point, it doesn't mention font usage in documents, either. They limit the number of machines a font can be installed on, they restrict font embedding in documents (PDFs, Flash...) and they don't want you to place more than 50% of the character set in a rasterized image. But they don't say anything about documents using (yet not embedding) their fonts, so I'd say this is another confirmation to your comment.
I can use GCC to compile non-GPL code, I can use GIMP to create non-GPL (or CC, in this case?) artwork, and I can use OO to produce non-GFDL documents.
Indeed, but no parts of GCC, GIMP or OO would be included in those documents.
On the other hand, when you write a document in a font and then distribute it in the form of an image or printed copy, you are giving away copies of those fonts: the A's, B's, C's...
Granted, people receiving the document will not be necessarily be able to use it, so it's not like distributing source code. It's more like embedding GPL'ed, compiled libraries within a larger application.
Yes, I concur.
However, it's important to remember that GPL doesn't force free distribution on the owner's side. Companies will never be forced to release their internal docs just because they were accidentally GPL'ed, as the /. blurb might imply.
I think the point of the secure erasing feature is overwriting the (presumably sensitive) data with useless gibberish which looks like malformed/broken data and/or can't even be construed as a file. Thus, the (misspelled) "erroneous" adjective to make it clear that stuff is overwritten with garbage.
Not the greatest choice of wording (and spelling), in any case. Maybe "meaningless" would have been clearer?
It is indeed in the firmware or somewhere else in the mother/logic board, as SlamMan mentioned. There's even a System Preferences scheduler (in "Energy Saver") to turn on the Mac, in addition to wake up from sleep... But again, it's not scriptable at present, if not by simulation of user interaction.
Also, I could be mistaken but I seem to recall it wouldn't work on my PowerBook when I last tried.
One thing sorely missing from Panther was the ability to AppleScript power management features. It would come in handy for putting your Mac to sleep after a long task, or to wake it up upon certain conditions.
In order to do that, IIRC, you had to buy a third party extension/dictionary/API. A workaround was also to script at the UI level and simulate clicks in the menus - very inelegant, prone to failure and useless for waking up the machine.
The new features list in TFA doesn't cite this addition. Does it mean users will still have to resort to third-party software for this basic ability? Automator might help, but still it's not the same as a full-fledged AppleScript dictionary...
Best journals, with highest sientific standards, tough referees, are those charging publications costs.
Medical journals do charge for publication, and I can confirm that this field practically all journals are (at least officially) linked to non-profit organizations.
However, they are often published and distributed by private companies which do like to make a dime here and there.
The result is a bastardized system in which you pay a significant amount of money for publication, in the form of a reimbursement (for example, color pictures will usually cost you more.)
Then, when you get published you lose pretty much any (copy)right over what you submitted. Readers will then get to pay serious money for yearly subscriptions: they usually start from $100 for online-only; over $200 when they decide you have to sign up for paper copies over snail mail as well.
Moreover, the cost for access to a single article is usually outrageous: $20 to $50 for one article.
As stated in the blurb, things are a-changin': OpenAccess is gaining ground, but we're still far from an ethical system. BioMed Central has been a serious promoter of open access in research articles. The real problem is that a journal's prestige is still significantly more likely to host the most important advancements in medicine, and BioMed's stuff is still far from, say, JAMA or Anesthesiology.
I can't really see the ethics in a non-profit society publishing its journal with, say, Elsevier, robbing you of your rights over your own work while asking you money for that, and then proceeding to charge $250 for a year's subscription to their journal.
Never seen it in Italy. If it has been bought, there's no news whatsoever about it. Maybe pay channels on sat? Not a chance in the world it's having "record ratings" in Italy, though.
By the way, I wonder how they would adapt/translate it. The original "who" is rather unpronounceable in Italian... Too awkward to be the most spoken name in a series. One more reason to download shows in their original language, if you ask me...
You're British, right?
It would seem so as you're conception of "Europe" is curiously wrong.
Most European countries and members of the EU now enjoy the beauties of the Schengen treaty, allowing free border-crossing without ID (air travel still requires ID, but it's not a matter of borders as much as a security issue, of course.)
The UK, needless to say, doesn't mingle.
Moreover, many European countries have national ID cards in addition to passports. You don't need a passport to go to your bank, nor to go to many non-EU/non-Schengen countries such as the Czech Republic, Croatia or Egypt.
Signed,
a European who only needs his passport to go to the US.