I suppose if want to support MSIE users, and use a lot of Javascript or CSS, then you probably need to detect MSIE to work around some of its problems.
But the user agent string is probably the worst way to do it.
Derivatives are born closed, not open. As long as I haven't given my code to anybody else, it's in no sense open, regardless of whether it's derived from GPL.
Once I distribute it, the GPL requires opening the source code. But the GPL is only a licence and if the copyright holder isn't willing to sue over it then it's meaningless.
If you don't have any intention of suing anybody, or if you don't care what they do, or if you respect their right to free speech, including in binary form, or are opposed to copyright in general, then use BSD instead of GPL.
The New Testament was written to promote the religion, and is hardly likely to be true. It's spam and propaganda written by unknown madmen, criminals or idealists.
I would follow a proven god, for a while, until I found out the secret of how to become a god myself.
However it's perfectly obvious looking at the ungodlike state of the religious that they haven't obtained any genuine insight, and most likely all current human religions are fraudulent, or at least nothing better than wishful thinking.
The democratic system is based on the typical reality that a majority of the population can overthrow the government through one means or another if it's sufficently unpopular, as seen in various contries recently. An election provides an institutionalised method to the same end, without giving any guarantee about the quality of the government that the people want.
A non-democratic government must have either popularity and support, or a docile population, or a willingness to use extreme violence.
A marginal case is sham democracy, where the degree of sham varies, where people get to vote but it's restricted in some way. E.g., one candidate for president in Egypt, or the first-past-the-post countries where only two or three parties can hold power. Here, the government must resort to the dictatorial techniques to some degree, since it's not likely to have the support of a majority of the population.
When the CSIRO operates in this way it isn't doing anything at all for the Aussie public. It's simply making a product and selling it like any private business would do.
While it costs the public nothing, it also gives them no benefit.
I know how you feel, here in London there are millions (so it seems) of Aussies and no matter how many are accidently involved in train crashes and unrelated bombings in exotic holiday locations, the supply never seems to dry up.
There have been a few aircraft hijackings in the last few years where the hijackers just forced the plane to fly somewhere, as usual, the passengers apparently did nothing and didn't die. See Ariana hijack and Eritrean hijack
The hijackings in the USA in 2001 were unusual, and so far a one-off event, not necessarily a "whole new paradigm".
It's rented from Cuba, but the US has "complete jurisdiction and control" of the area. US law applies there and apparently it's specified in the treaties that Cuba will return fugitives for offences committed in Guantanomo Bay to the US.
Yes, I've heard of this and it sounds very odd. The best bet for the boss in this situation may be to accuse the secretary first.
The other one I heard of is that you can be refused entry to an aircraft, on the grounds that the authorities suspect you of drug trafficing, and that when this happens you don't have much chance of getting your air fare refunded.
Not true, these days. They can search anybody, in designated areas, regardless of whether they suspect them of a crime. This concept is "preventief fouilleren".
Open RAW is just a website, it hasn't actually achieved anything yet. But as long as you have software that can read your raw files today, you can at least convert to jpeg on the computer and throw away the raw. Then you can ignore obsolescence issues. The question that the article raises is whether this is worth the effort, and that your time (and money on larger memory cards) may be better spent doing something else.
I suppose in theory it's possible, if the NEF file contains Nikon copyright material. Then every photo would be a derived work. But this could also apply to other file formats, such as used by wordprocessors and spreadsheets.
In practice it would be suicide for any camera or software manufacturer to start trying to enforce such copyright, surely?
I never saw or heard of a camera that required accepting an EULA before it could be used. Perhaps this could apply to software supplied with a camera, but as a Linux user I've never installed any.
As far as I know, this is typical for "consumer grade" connections anywhere in the world, with the possible execption of a few places like South Korea.
384kbit is probably better than average for this type of connection.
In the UK, there is an explicit statement in the copyright act that photos of sculptures on permanent display in a public place don't infringe the copyright of the sculpture.
Maybe there is something similar in the US copyright legislation.
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But the user agent string is probably the worst way to do it.
Once I distribute it, the GPL requires opening the source code. But the GPL is only a licence and if the copyright holder isn't willing to sue over it then it's meaningless.
If you don't have any intention of suing anybody, or if you don't care what they do, or if you respect their right to free speech, including in binary form, or are opposed to copyright in general, then use BSD instead of GPL.
The last London bomber, David Copeland, was caught through CCTV images.
God only makes 20 million per year? Well, I won't bother then, I can make five times that by posting on slashdot.
Whatever causes healing, it's not Jesus. In this, I have complete faith.
The New Testament was written to promote the religion, and is hardly likely to be true. It's spam and propaganda written by unknown madmen, criminals or idealists.
However it's perfectly obvious looking at the ungodlike state of the religious that they haven't obtained any genuine insight, and most likely all current human religions are fraudulent, or at least nothing better than wishful thinking.
The democratic system is based on the typical reality that a majority of the population can overthrow the government through one means or another if it's sufficently unpopular, as seen in various contries recently. An election provides an institutionalised method to the same end, without giving any guarantee about the quality of the government that the people want.
A non-democratic government must have either popularity and support, or a docile population, or a willingness to use extreme violence.
A marginal case is sham democracy, where the degree of sham varies, where people get to vote but it's restricted in some way. E.g., one candidate for president in Egypt, or the first-past-the-post countries where only two or three parties can hold power. Here, the government must resort to the dictatorial techniques to some degree, since it's not likely to have the support of a majority of the population.
It's probably related to the tendency of the religious to especially hate apostates.
While it costs the public nothing, it also gives them no benefit.
I know how you feel, here in London there are millions (so it seems) of Aussies and no matter how many are accidently involved in train crashes and unrelated bombings in exotic holiday locations, the supply never seems to dry up.
Once the humans were eliminated, the farm animals would run amok.
The hijackings in the USA in 2001 were unusual, and so far a one-off event, not necessarily a "whole new paradigm".
You can only be 40 years old for one year.
It's rented from Cuba, but the US has "complete jurisdiction and control" of the area. US law applies there and apparently it's specified in the treaties that Cuba will return fugitives for offences committed in Guantanomo Bay to the US.
Yes, I've heard of this and it sounds very odd. The best bet for the boss in this situation may be to accuse the secretary first.
The other one I heard of is that you can be refused entry to an aircraft, on the grounds that the authorities suspect you of drug trafficing, and that when this happens you don't have much chance of getting your air fare refunded.
Not true, these days. They can search anybody, in designated areas, regardless of whether they suspect them of a crime. This concept is "preventief fouilleren".
Open RAW is just a website, it hasn't actually achieved anything yet. But as long as you have software that can read your raw files today, you can at least convert to jpeg on the computer and throw away the raw. Then you can ignore obsolescence issues. The question that the article raises is whether this is worth the effort, and that your time (and money on larger memory cards) may be better spent doing something else.
I suppose in theory it's possible, if the NEF file contains Nikon copyright material. Then every photo would be a derived work. But this could also apply to other file formats, such as used by wordprocessors and spreadsheets.
In practice it would be suicide for any camera or software manufacturer to start trying to enforce such copyright, surely?
I never saw or heard of a camera that required accepting an EULA before it could be used. Perhaps this could apply to software supplied with a camera, but as a Linux user I've never installed any.
384kbit is probably better than average for this type of connection.
In the UK, there is an explicit statement in the copyright act that photos of sculptures on permanent display in a public place don't infringe the copyright of the sculpture.
Maybe there is something similar in the US copyright legislation.
In real life, she is the pet dragon.
The only way to win is to not play.
For every "level" you get in one of these games, you will lose one in real life.
More like a criminal record, actually.
But the death of Microsoft is often predicted and seldom coming to pass.