Personally I think he's done a lot for the UK which is overshadowed by his recent Iraq war decisions.
What you call 'overshadowed', I call 'sullied'. A bouncing economy (for which thanks go to Gordon Brown) is not a good excuse to assist in an illegal invasion of another country.
If we all started at the same point 15 billion years ago then I don't see why automatically another civilisation will be ahead of us. Maybe Earth was the first planet upon which amino acids combined in a particular way. Not to say that it didn't happen on other planets, but maybe they're a bit behind us.
In the UK I think there is something in law which states that the customer must expect to pay a reasonable price for an item, and they don't get all the rights if the retailer messes up the price. Can't find an exact citation but this has come up before in similar on-line foul-ups - Argos offered TVs for a pound or something like that, and they were legally entitled to cancel all completed orders as the price was not a reasonable price for a TV.
Here's some detail on the Argos case, and on other examples in the UK including Amazon. It would seem that the retailer was able to cancel the contract by admitting a mistake - a mistake that should have been obvious to customers as the price was not reasonable.
Seems fair to me - mistakes can happen both ways. Imagine you were writing a cheque for a big item in a hurry, and put down too many zeroes (or maybe you have trouble with writing). Would it be reasonable for the retailer to keep the extra money from the mistake? After all, the transaction is completed, and it's not the retailer's fault if the customer has difficulty writing cheques. to me, that sounds wrong.
Just as in all walks of life, there ain't such a thing as a free lunch.
Well by reading these comments I learned that a DVD came out soon after airing and they appeared in other places before Youtube. One gets the impression that this was really a standard scene job, yet FOX seemingly has no desire (or capability) to go after the real leaker. Unless they're not cracking on. But if the above is correct, I don't know what would be worse - FOX going after Usenet and what have you, or FOX going after some teenage kid who stumbled on the eps like many others did, but decided he wanted a bit of kudos by putting it on YT. I suppose all this would teach people is to stick to the right networks (and not the TV type)
Imagine if a writer for a soap opera saw a plot twist on a pre-release version of 24, then wrote that same twist into his or her soap to air before the 24 air date.
Yeah, imagine... 'Susan turns to Karl and tells him that their marriage is over... because she's about to prime the nuclear bomb'
But then imagine for a second that it's some 14-year-old nerd who picked up the first four eps from Usenet. Then what should happen? Should they seek millions in damages?
Yeah, I remember that - the EasyCinema launched by Stelios the tycoon with the impossible surname. Here it's claimed that it closed down last year. But they were getting the big releases in good time before the end.
In the Easy tradition it was cheaper the earlier you booked, so an impulse decision to go to the cinema wouldn't have secured a cheap berth. And it was £1, making it about $1.96...
Just what does this story have to do with Americans, as such? Are you guys the only ones who consume digital music in the world? And are you including Canadians, Brazilians & Mexicans in your tub-thumping 'American' grouping?
RTFA and you see that the only basis for supposing this unconfirmed service will support Powerpoint and OO is the author's opinion. It probably will. Be silly if it didn't. But hey.
Of course, by the time the story has crossed the million miles to Slashdot HQ, it has become "Google Docs to support Powerpoint". Here's a free sub-edit: "Google Docs Preparing Powerpoint Rival?"
I really don't have the time to fuck around with semi-corrupt files and the arduous process of assembling multiple files from different sources, just to get a cracked copy of a computer game or a movie file.
Hmm, not sure which p2p programs you use, but I'd recommend switching. I've never had to assemble multiple files from anywhere. Corrupt files also seem to pass me by, one of the strengths of BitTorrent's mass download nature I guess.
Surely the last thing a company sitting on a pile of hot products would do is tell its customer base that there's none left. How many people thinking of getting a box will now read this and think "forget it"?
I guess the answer would be, attack all of them. The spammer problem seems to me to be the antithesis of the 'whack-a-mole' online pirate. They'll always be there. Maybe I'll put up with the evil spammer if it means the continued good of free stuff.
there are few if any ISOs to be had there, and no Linux distros.
Well no, the Linux ISOs are already tracked by other people, and it seems pointless to seed copies of already-existing torrent downloads, as the torrent network benefits when more people join. Splitting the user base across several trackers would be to everyone's detriment.
Why is everyone surprised that a well-known, heavily-marketed brand leads the way against other brands, even if the product that the well-known brand provides is inferior?
But if you mention the word Lego - even in internal company documents
Have to call this assertion into question (Yes, I used to work for them, at the old UK office in Wrexham). Sure, you might've got a light roasting if you didn't use the preferred LEGO capitalisation, but to suggest that staff could not mention the company's name in documents is absurd. Alternatively if you're telling the truth, it's a recent development and the company sounds in a sorry state.
"You also understand and agree that the Service may include advertisements and that these advertisements are necessary for Yahoo! to provide the Service."
Nowhere do I see the words "you agree to sit there and take in the advertising message" or even "you must download the bits representing the ads". Yes they're necessary, but it's not necessary for me to view them. This silly stuff is unenforceable.
The independent 'invention' of echolocation by bats and humans is evidence that life-forms could arrive at the same point technologically without influence from each other. The only caveat would be that the two inventions took place in the same environment.
Get in now while it's cheap - it suffered a large fire last year. "Michael Bates, a member of the family which owns the fort, said damage to living accommodation was extensive".
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If we all started at the same point 15 billion years ago then I don't see why automatically another civilisation will be ahead of us. Maybe Earth was the first planet upon which amino acids combined in a particular way. Not to say that it didn't happen on other planets, but maybe they're a bit behind us.
In the UK I think there is something in law which states that the customer must expect to pay a reasonable price for an item, and they don't get all the rights if the retailer messes up the price. Can't find an exact citation but this has come up before in similar on-line foul-ups - Argos offered TVs for a pound or something like that, and they were legally entitled to cancel all completed orders as the price was not a reasonable price for a TV.
Here's some detail on the Argos case, and on other examples in the UK including Amazon. It would seem that the retailer was able to cancel the contract by admitting a mistake - a mistake that should have been obvious to customers as the price was not reasonable.
Seems fair to me - mistakes can happen both ways. Imagine you were writing a cheque for a big item in a hurry, and put down too many zeroes (or maybe you have trouble with writing). Would it be reasonable for the retailer to keep the extra money from the mistake? After all, the transaction is completed, and it's not the retailer's fault if the customer has difficulty writing cheques. to me, that sounds wrong.
Just as in all walks of life, there ain't such a thing as a free lunch.
Well by reading these comments I learned that a DVD came out soon after airing and they appeared in other places before Youtube. One gets the impression that this was really a standard scene job, yet FOX seemingly has no desire (or capability) to go after the real leaker. Unless they're not cracking on. But if the above is correct, I don't know what would be worse - FOX going after Usenet and what have you, or FOX going after some teenage kid who stumbled on the eps like many others did, but decided he wanted a bit of kudos by putting it on YT. I suppose all this would teach people is to stick to the right networks (and not the TV type)
Knocking Slashdot posters on the head with a log, is that theft? Definitely immoral, in most cases.
But then imagine for a second that it's some 14-year-old nerd who picked up the first four eps from Usenet. Then what should happen? Should they seek millions in damages?
Yeah, I remember that - the EasyCinema launched by Stelios the tycoon with the impossible surname. Here it's claimed that it closed down last year. But they were getting the big releases in good time before the end.
In the Easy tradition it was cheaper the earlier you booked, so an impulse decision to go to the cinema wouldn't have secured a cheap berth. And it was £1, making it about $1.96...
Just what does this story have to do with Americans, as such? Are you guys the only ones who consume digital music in the world? And are you including Canadians, Brazilians & Mexicans in your tub-thumping 'American' grouping?
RTFA and you see that the only basis for supposing this unconfirmed service will support Powerpoint and OO is the author's opinion. It probably will. Be silly if it didn't. But hey.
Of course, by the time the story has crossed the million miles to Slashdot HQ, it has become "Google Docs to support Powerpoint". Here's a free sub-edit: "Google Docs Preparing Powerpoint Rival?"
It would seem so. This article (dated 2003) even mentions concerns in the banking sector. But it all seemed to blow over.
Something to do with a chair.
Surely the last thing a company sitting on a pile of hot products would do is tell its customer base that there's none left. How many people thinking of getting a box will now read this and think "forget it"?
I guess the answer would be, attack all of them. The spammer problem seems to me to be the antithesis of the 'whack-a-mole' online pirate. They'll always be there. Maybe I'll put up with the evil spammer if it means the continued good of free stuff.
Why is everyone surprised that a well-known, heavily-marketed brand leads the way against other brands, even if the product that the well-known brand provides is inferior?
Oooh, I wish I knew what all that meant.
Yeah but this is more like attempted illegal parking
The independent 'invention' of echolocation by bats and humans is evidence that life-forms could arrive at the same point technologically without influence from each other. The only caveat would be that the two inventions took place in the same environment.
Get in now while it's cheap - it suffered a large fire last year. "Michael Bates, a member of the family which owns the fort, said damage to living accommodation was extensive".
The goal is to make real money off those who waste their time.