Older houses and apartments were built to older building codes - you know the ones that let you have single-paned windows, asbestos insulation, lead-based paints?
Modern building codes require that there be an outlet no more than 6' away from every corner and on long walls there be an outlet within 6' of every point on the wall. They also specify a much higher amperage on every circuit.
Older houses/buildings/dorms were built to the requirements of their day. New ones are being built to newer standards and some older ones are being updated to newer standards (more outlets, double-paned glass, etc.) Nothing new here.
Umm, I don't get that first link. Was it supposed to be funny? There was nothing said that should have been misinterpreted. If someone in a parking lot asked me "for a jump," I would know exactly what there were talking about. In fact, that's probably the exact phrase I would expect to hear from someone. Same thing if someone was to tell me they would "give me a ring tomorrow." What's hard about that? I've probably said that myself. And I live in 'the South' which is pretty notorious for is horrendous butchering of the English language (as evident by my post, perhaps.)
You forget that those words are not said the same way you would expect an American speaker to say them (I don't say native, because this applies even if you are speaking to a native speaker from a different country). There is an entirely different cadence, body language and tone of voice when a foreign speaker says the same words which have a tendency to throw you off balance and take a completely different meaning from an ambiguous sentence.
If you have spent much time speaking with someone using a completely unfamiliar accent, you will notice that your brain takes a little longer to process everything - there seems to be a lag of about a couple of seconds between the person saying something and you understanding it.
No. No. No. You are WRONG. How the hell that blatant crap like this get modded up?
Most often, he is giving software, and the value is the "full retail price", i.e., it's a fake price. And he only gives out the first version; you have to pay for upgrades and transfers to new machines. So it's really just a dealer's first sample to get you hooked.
You are confusing Bill Gates with Microsoft. They both large amounts to charity. Many of Microsofts charitable donations are in the form of software. However, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are completely separate from that and have no business connection to Microsoft.
In the highly-publicised cases of "gifts" to Africa to fight diseases, the fine print informs us that these are actually loans a full market-price interest rates. And the money can only be spent for drugs from the companies that Bill has stock in.
Even if AT&T wanted to use this for good and somehow had a way of enforcing this against spammers, it won't stop any existing spam you are getting since either a) it does not infringe upon this patent or b) is an example of prior art that defeats this patent.
You only think you've never heard of Fox. It's just the American face of News Corporation, which owns BSkyB (and Sky-everything-else) and a hefty chunk of your newspapers.
Over here they own a few papers, a few dozen cable/satellite channels with Fox branding, the Fox broadcast TV network (whither the Simpsons), and DirecTV, the leading satellite broadcaster.
For a second there I thought you knew what you were talking about. Unfortunately, you don't.
Same scenario, same right-wing bias, different names.
Rupert Murdoch also owns Star TV in Asia which is happily leftist.
I didn't notice you and the other Slashdotters getting their panties in a bunch when CNN admitted that there were several stories of Saddam's cruelty that they intentionally did not publish and that they tried to project a picture of Iraqis being happy with Saddam.
Yep, that's why CNN did the smart thing and never published all the stories about the inhumanity of Saddam's Iraq. If you never publish it, you don't have to retract it.
The pop-up ad companies suing Microsoft for killing their business model...
OR
THe pop-up-blocker companies accusing Microsoft of using their monopoly powers(tm) to kill competition by including features in Windows designed to drive them out of business?
Remember - that's what the Netscape case was about.
Console don't get viruses because it's (virtually) impossible by design to make any permanent effects. All Nintendo systems are immune because the system doesn't depend on writable media. Worst that could happen is that your memory card gets fried. But that doesn't affect any of your games or the system itself.
I believe that's not true for the XBox which actually has a HD and I believe you can update your XBox via XBox Live.
And I bet most people on this website didn't either - mainly because we were in that niche of people who didn't have $50,000 to spend.
The article isn't saying the iPod is a terrible product - just pointing out that just because it is a great product for most people, it may not be the best one for YOU if you fall within certain niches.
Actually, if you do some research, Ferraris are pretty crappy cars - horrible reliability. There are better cars that can be bought for the kind of money they cost.
You seem to be missing the point completely. You don't have to deal with DRM and encryption, unless you want to. It is the document publishers choice of whether they want to use DRM or not and it certainly won't increase your "level of frustration" if that's what you want to use.
DRM is an option. The default is to store your documents and send your mail in a non DRM format. However, you have the option to use DRM on those documents if you want to control who sees the documents you publish and what they can do with them.
They mean smart as in built-in anti-competitive DRM designed to squeeze others out of the marketplace and stopping me doing what I want to do with my e-mail?
Why don't you simply say that you don't understand what the DRM in Outlook 2003 is or how it works and haven't bothered to educate yourself about it?
can their behaviour (as a company) be treated as an assault, then?
No. I used the word "assault" as shorthand for the technical definition of the word. The actual laws have a much more specific definition of the term essentially to imply physical assault only.
it is too bad that the CEO of the company that's been found guilty of anti-trust violations isn't somehow on the hook. they would obviously have to know what they're doing, and even if they claim ignorance, it's still at least negligence.
That's because antitrust violations are NOT considered criminal violations. Criminal violations include theft, fraud, assault, contempt of court, etc. If a company committed one of those violations, the CEO would be held personally responsible for it.
The lawmakers expressly decided that antitrust violations are not in the same ballpark for various reasons.
I hope you're kidding because the thought of someone being so stupid that they don't understand that pardons only apply to criminals and that antitrust violations are not considered a criminal act is unfathomable to me.
The judge said it was unclear whether Microsoft's competitors were unhappy with terms of the offers or simply not interested, "and there's not much we can do about that."
Doesn't sound like the judge is "starting to realize" anything. Next time try reading the article before posting a summary.
Where do you think that $60 you pay for the cable goes? It does not cost $60 to make a silly little cable. That money goes to the cellphone manufacturer and the service provider. When the companies feel a cheaper way to connect will result in them making more money, the price of the cable will drop.
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Older houses and apartments were built to older building codes - you know the ones that let you have single-paned windows, asbestos insulation, lead-based paints?
Modern building codes require that there be an outlet no more than 6' away from every corner and on long walls there be an outlet within 6' of every point on the wall. They also specify a much higher amperage on every circuit.
Older houses/buildings/dorms were built to the requirements of their day. New ones are being built to newer standards and some older ones are being updated to newer standards (more outlets, double-paned glass, etc.) Nothing new here.
Umm, I don't get that first link. Was it supposed to be funny? There was nothing said that should have been misinterpreted. If someone in a parking lot asked me "for a jump," I would know exactly what there were talking about. In fact, that's probably the exact phrase I would expect to hear from someone. Same thing if someone was to tell me they would "give me a ring tomorrow." What's hard about that? I've probably said that myself. And I live in 'the South' which is pretty notorious for is horrendous butchering of the English language (as evident by my post, perhaps.)
You forget that those words are not said the same way you would expect an American speaker to say them (I don't say native, because this applies even if you are speaking to a native speaker from a different country). There is an entirely different cadence, body language and tone of voice when a foreign speaker says the same words which have a tendency to throw you off balance and take a completely different meaning from an ambiguous sentence.
If you have spent much time speaking with someone using a completely unfamiliar accent, you will notice that your brain takes a little longer to process everything - there seems to be a lag of about a couple of seconds between the person saying something and you understanding it.
Ones/zeroes - please use numerically-advantaged/disadvantaged
Shouldn't that be: "Capitalist white male scum who have obtained wealth by exploiting the poor" and "Poor, disadvantaged folks"?
No. No. No. You are WRONG. How the hell that blatant crap like this get modded up?
Most often, he is giving software, and the value is the "full retail price", i.e., it's a fake price. And he only gives out the first version; you have to pay for upgrades and transfers to new machines. So it's really just a dealer's first sample to get you hooked.
You are confusing Bill Gates with Microsoft. They both large amounts to charity. Many of Microsofts charitable donations are in the form of software. However, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are completely separate from that and have no business connection to Microsoft.
In the highly-publicised cases of "gifts" to Africa to fight diseases, the fine print informs us that these are actually loans a full market-price interest rates. And the money can only be spent for drugs from the companies that Bill has stock in.
Yeah, right. Got a link for that?
Sheesh. It's still in Beta and is currently targeted at the UK.
If your server has been compromised and you don't take adequate steps to clean it up after that there is the potential that it is still vulnerable.
Even if AT&T wanted to use this for good and somehow had a way of enforcing this against spammers, it won't stop any existing spam you are getting since either a) it does not infringe upon this patent or b) is an example of prior art that defeats this patent.
Yeah, until that big MF decides he has no use for you anymore. You always want your legal representation to represent you, not someone else.
You only think you've never heard of Fox. It's just the American face of News Corporation, which owns BSkyB (and Sky-everything-else) and a hefty chunk of your newspapers.
Over here they own a few papers, a few dozen cable/satellite channels with Fox branding, the Fox broadcast TV network (whither the Simpsons), and DirecTV, the leading satellite broadcaster.
For a second there I thought you knew what you were talking about. Unfortunately, you don't.
Same scenario, same right-wing bias, different names.
Rupert Murdoch also owns Star TV in Asia which is happily leftist.
Good luck getting FDA approval for the latest Britney Spears album.
I didn't notice you and the other Slashdotters getting their panties in a bunch when CNN admitted that there were several stories of Saddam's cruelty that they intentionally did not publish and that they tried to project a picture of Iraqis being happy with Saddam.
Yep, that's why CNN did the smart thing and never published all the stories about the inhumanity of Saddam's Iraq. If you never publish it, you don't have to retract it.
The pop-up ad companies suing Microsoft for killing their business model...
OR
THe pop-up-blocker companies accusing Microsoft of using their monopoly powers(tm) to kill competition by including features in Windows designed to drive them out of business?
Remember - that's what the Netscape case was about.
Sounds like the second-handers are once again trying to control something they did not create and did not contribute to.
Console don't get viruses because it's (virtually) impossible by design to make any permanent effects. All Nintendo systems are immune because the system doesn't depend on writable media. Worst that could happen is that your memory card gets fried. But that doesn't affect any of your games or the system itself.
I believe that's not true for the XBox which actually has a HD and I believe you can update your XBox via XBox Live.
And I bet most people on this website didn't either - mainly because we were in that niche of people who didn't have $50,000 to spend.
The article isn't saying the iPod is a terrible product - just pointing out that just because it is a great product for most people, it may not be the best one for YOU if you fall within certain niches.
Actually, if you do some research, Ferraris are pretty crappy cars - horrible reliability. There are better cars that can be bought for the kind of money they cost.
The Financial Times has the best summary of this that I've read so far.
You seem to be missing the point completely. You don't have to deal with DRM and encryption, unless you want to. It is the document publishers choice of whether they want to use DRM or not and it certainly won't increase your "level of frustration" if that's what you want to use.
DRM is an option. The default is to store your documents and send your mail in a non DRM format. However, you have the option to use DRM on those documents if you want to control who sees the documents you publish and what they can do with them.
They mean smart as in built-in anti-competitive DRM designed to squeeze others out of the marketplace and stopping me doing what I want to do with my e-mail?
Why don't you simply say that you don't understand what the DRM in Outlook 2003 is or how it works and haven't bothered to educate yourself about it?
can their behaviour (as a company) be treated as an assault, then?
No. I used the word "assault" as shorthand for the technical definition of the word. The actual laws have a much more specific definition of the term essentially to imply physical assault only.
it is too bad that the CEO of the company that's been found guilty of anti-trust violations isn't somehow on the hook. they would obviously have to know what they're doing, and even if they claim ignorance, it's still at least negligence.
That's because antitrust violations are NOT considered criminal violations. Criminal violations include theft, fraud, assault, contempt of court, etc. If a company committed one of those violations, the CEO would be held personally responsible for it.
The lawmakers expressly decided that antitrust violations are not in the same ballpark for various reasons.
I hope you're kidding because the thought of someone being so stupid that they don't understand that pardons only apply to criminals and that antitrust violations are not considered a criminal act is unfathomable to me.
The judge said it was unclear whether Microsoft's competitors were unhappy with terms of the offers or simply not interested, "and there's not much we can do about that."
Doesn't sound like the judge is "starting to realize" anything. Next time try reading the article before posting a summary.
Where do you think that $60 you pay for the cable goes? It does not cost $60 to make a silly little cable. That money goes to the cellphone manufacturer and the service provider. When the companies feel a cheaper way to connect will result in them making more money, the price of the cable will drop.