Interesting point, but the bill points out that this only applies to violent crimes. All of the examples you provided are not even crimes, and some of which are not crimes at all (depending on country and circumstances, of course).
Given the example from the article, the girl was raped by 10 people while 20 or so watched. You mean to tell me that of those 20 or so people, nobody would notice with 1/3 of the crowd participating? The idea here is that if you see another human being in trouble, you must do what you can to help them (while maintaining your own safety, of course). I don't see anything wrong with that, since it helps promote public safety, giving people a moral obligation to assist those who are in trouble. How hard is it to dial 911 on your cell, or a payphone even, and report a crime, and give a location? I don't think it is too much to ask.
There is a big difference between reporting a violent crime, and reporting misdemeanors such as speeding. This law only applies to reporting violent crimes, and I believe would be ultimately good for everyone.
Right, but now, with this set-up, you would need IR LED's on the device to track them. It is now not as simple as just "putting it on the table", I need to put something on it.
Oh, and how would it distinguish the IR LEDs from your fingers, as opposed to those of the device? I guess since the ones on the device are fixed, that could be tracked.
The point is, sure, it could be done, but it wouldn't be nearly as slick. What it comes down to, is you are manipulating an object on the screen, and want to interact with another object off the screen.
Actually, I just got an idea as I typed this. When the object pairs via Bluetooth, it places an image on screen of it. What it comes down to is, yes, we can work around something LIKE what the surface does - but none of which are perfect.
It seems to me that the Microsoft Surface also let you place devices on it, and via a bluetooth connection, you could throw objects on, or pull them off. Example, place a portable hard drive and a digital camera on it, pull the photos off, sort them, and throw the ones you like onto the hard drive. That's what really impressed me with the Microsoft product, and lacking that feature, it isn't a Microsoft surface, just another multi-touch display.
We can examine a previous case, between Chrysler and General Motors. When GM released the H2, Chrysler claimed that the slotted grill on the H2 was too similar to that of the Wrangler. This link is all I could find on it
From what I read, since Chrysler used to own the Hummer, but transferred the rights of the Hummer to GM, they had no case, as the H1 contained a similar grill as well. So, it is not unusual for an automaker to defend the look of their car as a trademark, as we have established. This can be extended to the calendar, in that people are now making a profit from the image of the car, which is Ford's trademark. They are not licensed, and are therefore infringing. If we look at your example of a car for sale, they are not selling the image of the car, but rather the car itself. They are not making money off of the image, and are therefore not infringing. Again, I re-iterate, IANAL
The killing feature for HD-DVD for me is the triple-layer ones, in which one or two of the layers are a standard DVD, playable in a standard def player, and the other 1 or 2 layers are HD-DVD. This means that I can go buy a movie in HD-DVD without the HD player, and watch it in standard def. When I get my HD player, then all my movies are HD....I don't have to buy them a second time.
I have seen a few which have been released with this feature as well, so it is being used.
If I post it on YouTube, will you watch? (I'm crazy enough to do this.....)
on a serious note - what do you propose as a solution to the problem? We have same names for different things, how else can we solve it? It's easy to point out the faults with an issue, but it's hard when you have to solve it. a kilobyte, as we know it, uses the SI prefix, but it truly isn't. a SI kilobyte, by definition, would be 1000 bytes, not 1024. We make engineers cry when we use these prefixes improperly. We need different terms for different things is the real problem, and maybe you are right, the binary prefixes are terrible. but if that's the case, we need a better solution.
We really need to change our conventions, little b for bit and big B for byte are too similar, and cause confusion. As well, the fact that kilo/mega/giga/etc...byte mean different things to different people is just terrible. the GiB solution proposed (Gebibyte, or binary gigabyte) solves the problem, and I believe is accepted by IEEE.
My office uses this extensively, any word on how OO.o is doing with this? This one feature is what will keep Microsoft Office around in the corporate world.
See, by shuffling the shows, that fills 1/3 more time. This way, the networks have to pay Jamie, Adam, et. al. less. therefore maximizing profits. Let me put it in a way for/. readers to understand better:)
1. play myths "shuffled" 2. Spend more time on recaps, decreasing amount of actual content. 3. ??? 4. PROFIT!
I hear this, and then think of the province of Ontario - where I live. If you get caught DUI here, first offense, your car needs to be outfitted with a breathalyser monitoring system. Basically, you need to blow a clean air sample to start your car, and then every 15 minutes or so, it beeps, and you have to blow again. You have 2 minutes to do so, otherwise, the car's horn goes nuts, and the lights flash, etc...
Here's the thing - it needs to be calibrated every few months, and at your expense. This is only done in major cities. So, if you live in Northern Ontario, you have to drive down to Toronto,. about 7.5H, to calibrate it. So, you have to pay in order to keep your PRIVILEGE of driving. This calibration cost is similar to the Windows licensing cost you refer to.
Besides, they aren't saying they can't use his equipment (his right), they are saying he can't use the internet without being monitored (his privilege). He can use Linux on his PC all he wants, he just has to use Windows to access the internet.
I do believe www.cia.com sells just about anywhere in Canada - not sure about a static IP - but with a dynamic I pay $32.95/month. Better than the $60 Rogers wants. And again - there is no throttling going on - my torrents get wicked speed.
When it comes to DSL though, Acanac is dirt cheap. If you pay for a solid year up front - $18.95 for dynamic IP, $29.95 for static. These prices include tax as well. They don't throttle or impose bandwidth limits, either, whereas the cable resellers have no choice.
I'm sure there are other resellers as well - these are just the cheapest 2 I could find.
Some good providers to check out include: www.acanac.ca - My buddy lives in KW as well and uses this - the downstream isn't very good but the upstream is great. He runs servers and such - no monthly bandwidth cap.
www.cia.com - I am in the GTA, but a DSL blackhole. These guys re-sell Rogers cable (and DSL) - but without all the throttling. I get some nice 400kB/s torrents, and 6900kbps speedtests on the downstream side from www.speedtest.net. They do, however, have to impose the monthly bandwidth limit from Rogers, but I believe it is 100GB now. No cap if you get DSL from them.
The downside to resellers, however, is you have to pay an install fee - but the monthly rate undercuts Rogers by over $20/month.
Most people can't be bothered to switch up their service, but if you are really having that many issues, it may be worth checking out.
If you go through the disk management utility, you can actually mount an NTFS drive to an empty NTFS folder. A little known feature in XP. Go through the administrative tools, component management, storage, disk management. If you right click on a partition, and go to "change drive letter and paths" or something, you can put it in an empty folder.
That's like saying you expect your computer to comply with the internet.
If you truly want to use a car analogy, it's like buying a new car and expecting your after market stereo to work on it. Will it? probably, but you will likely need an install kit as automakers often use the same deck size. You will likely need a wiring harness as well, as the auto maker's don't seem to comply there, either. Then there is some really wild stuff, a friend of mine had to get a $150 data adapter for his car stereo, otherwise, his interior lights/dinging when you leave keys ignition or lights on/etc...would all cease to work.
Or, you could buy a new sub-compact car and expect the off-road bumpers from your pickup truck, or your 35" tall tires to fit. It's not gonna happen, unless you are one heck of a hillbilly.
You hate when websites resize your browser too? Who doesn't? I'm not sure how to accomplish this through any other browser, but through Firefox, you can go into about:config, type dom.disable_window in the filter, and set all of those to true. doesn't change the fact that the site is evil for trying to resize my window, and in some cases, remove my address bar etc...
see, people like to argue that. I like to argue that creation week wasn't really a week. it was a period over some unknown period of time, longer than we can comprehend, as specified in another post on this article. Since our intuition can not comprehend this, it becomes a week. it is understandable by us, it makes sense. For all we know, "creation week" could have been thousands, millions, or trillions of years! or even at the opposite end of the scale, a few seconds. In the context of the Bible, it doesn't really affect how we are closer or further from God, whether it be 1 second or 5 petayears. A week....just makes sense to us, so that is what is written.
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Interesting point, but the bill points out that this only applies to violent crimes. All of the examples you provided are not even crimes, and some of which are not crimes at all (depending on country and circumstances, of course). Given the example from the article, the girl was raped by 10 people while 20 or so watched. You mean to tell me that of those 20 or so people, nobody would notice with 1/3 of the crowd participating? The idea here is that if you see another human being in trouble, you must do what you can to help them (while maintaining your own safety, of course). I don't see anything wrong with that, since it helps promote public safety, giving people a moral obligation to assist those who are in trouble. How hard is it to dial 911 on your cell, or a payphone even, and report a crime, and give a location? I don't think it is too much to ask. There is a big difference between reporting a violent crime, and reporting misdemeanors such as speeding. This law only applies to reporting violent crimes, and I believe would be ultimately good for everyone.
Something.com always delivered something.
Right, but now, with this set-up, you would need IR LED's on the device to track them. It is now not as simple as just "putting it on the table", I need to put something on it.
Oh, and how would it distinguish the IR LEDs from your fingers, as opposed to those of the device? I guess since the ones on the device are fixed, that could be tracked.
The point is, sure, it could be done, but it wouldn't be nearly as slick. What it comes down to, is you are manipulating an object on the screen, and want to interact with another object off the screen.
Actually, I just got an idea as I typed this. When the object pairs via Bluetooth, it places an image on screen of it. What it comes down to is, yes, we can work around something LIKE what the surface does - but none of which are perfect.
It seems to me that the Microsoft Surface also let you place devices on it, and via a bluetooth connection, you could throw objects on, or pull them off. Example, place a portable hard drive and a digital camera on it, pull the photos off, sort them, and throw the ones you like onto the hard drive. That's what really impressed me with the Microsoft product, and lacking that feature, it isn't a Microsoft surface, just another multi-touch display.
Disclaimer: IANAL
We can examine a previous case, between Chrysler and General Motors. When GM released the H2, Chrysler claimed that the slotted grill on the H2 was too similar to that of the Wrangler. This link is all I could find on it
From what I read, since Chrysler used to own the Hummer, but transferred the rights of the Hummer to GM, they had no case, as the H1 contained a similar grill as well. So, it is not unusual for an automaker to defend the look of their car as a trademark, as we have established. This can be extended to the calendar, in that people are now making a profit from the image of the car, which is Ford's trademark. They are not licensed, and are therefore infringing. If we look at your example of a car for sale, they are not selling the image of the car, but rather the car itself. They are not making money off of the image, and are therefore not infringing. Again, I re-iterate, IANAL
The killing feature for HD-DVD for me is the triple-layer ones, in which one or two of the layers are a standard DVD, playable in a standard def player, and the other 1 or 2 layers are HD-DVD. This means that I can go buy a movie in HD-DVD without the HD player, and watch it in standard def. When I get my HD player, then all my movies are HD....I don't have to buy them a second time.
I have seen a few which have been released with this feature as well, so it is being used.
If I post it on YouTube, will you watch? (I'm crazy enough to do this.....)
on a serious note - what do you propose as a solution to the problem? We have same names for different things, how else can we solve it? It's easy to point out the faults with an issue, but it's hard when you have to solve it. a kilobyte, as we know it, uses the SI prefix, but it truly isn't. a SI kilobyte, by definition, would be 1000 bytes, not 1024. We make engineers cry when we use these prefixes improperly. We need different terms for different things is the real problem, and maybe you are right, the binary prefixes are terrible. but if that's the case, we need a better solution.
Ok, here's the deal.
it's Gb/s, not GB/s, that's gigabit, not gigabyte.
If he is referring to a disc manufacturer terabyte, then the answer lies here:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=900000000000+bytes+%2F+4.8Gbps&btnG=Search&meta=
(about 1 397 seconds)
If he is referring to an actual terabyte, then the answer lies here:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=.9TB+%2F+4.8Gbps&btnG=Search&meta=
(about 1 536 seconds)
We really need to change our conventions, little b for bit and big B for byte are too similar, and cause confusion. As well, the fact that kilo/mega/giga/etc...byte mean different things to different people is just terrible. the GiB solution proposed (Gebibyte, or binary gigabyte) solves the problem, and I believe is accepted by IEEE.
My office uses this extensively, any word on how OO.o is doing with this? This one feature is what will keep Microsoft Office around in the corporate world.
See, by shuffling the shows, that fills 1/3 more time. This way, the networks have to pay Jamie, Adam, et. al. less. therefore maximizing profits. Let me put it in a way for /. readers to understand better :)
1. play myths "shuffled"
2. Spend more time on recaps, decreasing amount of actual content.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!
I hear this, and then think of the province of Ontario - where I live. If you get caught DUI here, first offense, your car needs to be outfitted with a breathalyser monitoring system. Basically, you need to blow a clean air sample to start your car, and then every 15 minutes or so, it beeps, and you have to blow again. You have 2 minutes to do so, otherwise, the car's horn goes nuts, and the lights flash, etc...
Here's the thing - it needs to be calibrated every few months, and at your expense. This is only done in major cities. So, if you live in Northern Ontario, you have to drive down to Toronto,. about 7.5H, to calibrate it. So, you have to pay in order to keep your PRIVILEGE of driving. This calibration cost is similar to the Windows licensing cost you refer to.
Besides, they aren't saying they can't use his equipment (his right), they are saying he can't use the internet without being monitored (his privilege). He can use Linux on his PC all he wants, he just has to use Windows to access the internet.
I do believe www.cia.com sells just about anywhere in Canada - not sure about a static IP - but with a dynamic I pay $32.95/month. Better than the $60 Rogers wants. And again - there is no throttling going on - my torrents get wicked speed.
When it comes to DSL though, Acanac is dirt cheap. If you pay for a solid year up front - $18.95 for dynamic IP, $29.95 for static. These prices include tax as well. They don't throttle or impose bandwidth limits, either, whereas the cable resellers have no choice.
I'm sure there are other resellers as well - these are just the cheapest 2 I could find.
Some good providers to check out include:
www.acanac.ca - My buddy lives in KW as well and uses this - the downstream isn't very good but the upstream is great. He runs servers and such - no monthly bandwidth cap.
www.cia.com - I am in the GTA, but a DSL blackhole. These guys re-sell Rogers cable (and DSL) - but without all the throttling. I get some nice 400kB/s torrents, and 6900kbps speedtests on the downstream side from www.speedtest.net. They do, however, have to impose the monthly bandwidth limit from Rogers, but I believe it is 100GB now. No cap if you get DSL from them.
The downside to resellers, however, is you have to pay an install fee - but the monthly rate undercuts Rogers by over $20/month.
Most people can't be bothered to switch up their service, but if you are really having that many issues, it may be worth checking out.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Does it run linux?
1. launch space router
2. ???
3. PROFIT!
If you go through the disk management utility, you can actually mount an NTFS drive to an empty NTFS folder. A little known feature in XP. Go through the administrative tools, component management, storage, disk management. If you right click on a partition, and go to "change drive letter and paths" or something, you can put it in an empty folder.
Hope this helps!
That's like saying you expect your computer to comply with the internet. If you truly want to use a car analogy, it's like buying a new car and expecting your after market stereo to work on it. Will it? probably, but you will likely need an install kit as automakers often use the same deck size. You will likely need a wiring harness as well, as the auto maker's don't seem to comply there, either. Then there is some really wild stuff, a friend of mine had to get a $150 data adapter for his car stereo, otherwise, his interior lights/dinging when you leave keys ignition or lights on/etc...would all cease to work. Or, you could buy a new sub-compact car and expect the off-road bumpers from your pickup truck, or your 35" tall tires to fit. It's not gonna happen, unless you are one heck of a hillbilly.
Microsoft has a search?
I, for one, welcome our new dynamically balancing robot overlords
You hate when websites resize your browser too? Who doesn't? I'm not sure how to accomplish this through any other browser, but through Firefox, you can go into about:config, type dom.disable_window in the filter, and set all of those to true. doesn't change the fact that the site is evil for trying to resize my window, and in some cases, remove my address bar etc...
see, people like to argue that. I like to argue that creation week wasn't really a week. it was a period over some unknown period of time, longer than we can comprehend, as specified in another post on this article. Since our intuition can not comprehend this, it becomes a week. it is understandable by us, it makes sense. For all we know, "creation week" could have been thousands, millions, or trillions of years! or even at the opposite end of the scale, a few seconds. In the context of the Bible, it doesn't really affect how we are closer or further from God, whether it be 1 second or 5 petayears. A week....just makes sense to us, so that is what is written.
You have gotten in an accident and the airbag wants to deploy (allow/deny)
This isn't one of those crazy pyramid schemes...Our symbol, is the rhombus!
Did you mean viruses?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus