This is specifically addressed in the PDF at the site you link to, at 3.39:
Do downloads of electronic books or music from a website,
or the purchase of ring tones and screen savers for mobile
phones fall within the cancellation exceptions referred
to above?
3.39 We consider that these examples are likely to constitute services,
rather than goods as the consumer does not receive physical goods.
The right to cancel are therefore those that apply to services.
Earlier they state that services that start before the end of the cancellation period are exempt in general, so it does in fact seem that there is an exemption for download-only software sales.
3. As per UK contract legislation all T-mob customers who are affected now have 30 days to terminate the contract if they do not like it. Very few will do though - most phones on T-mob are subsidised so to terminate the contract one has to pay the balance on it (at the outrageously inflated "not-locked-in price).
What's the point of this legislation then if it doesn't protect you from inflated termination fees? Can't you always just cancel the contract and pay up?
If Microsoft fought patent trolls they would be in effect fighting the entire patent system, and could end up accidentally overthrowing all software patents. That wouldn't be good for Microsoft.
Not only did you not get the joke, you also have some misconceptions about how the Java GC works. There is no counter, instead the program state is analysed for unreachable objects. Also, memory is not freed immediately, but some unspecified time later (i.e. during the next GC cycle)
Why is everyone using "intellectual property", a catch-all phrase for trademarks, copyrights etc instead of just saying "ideas", "stories" or "settings"? I don't want to sound like RMS but it's really a dumb use of the term. The LoTR game is not based on IP, it's based on a story that happens to be protected by copyright.
You must have been reading a somewhat strange selection of books on economy if you didn't find a theoretical explanation of why free markets are not always great for competition.
It may all be fine and dandy with software or some manufacturing business, but you might have noticed that for instance the telecom market has this barrier of entry thing that prevents any meaningful competition *unless* regulated.
Are you suggesting we mount gun turrets on trains so they would be able to blast their way through stalled cars and suicidees? Should cut down on delays, that's for sure.
Yeah, the ISP usually has a meter, but like Plasmacutter said, you trust it based on what?
I'd wager it's based on observing that after downloading a linux ISO and some web surfing the meter showed 700-some MB more the day after. I had usage caps, and was not trusting them implicitly, but, well, they seemed honest enough.
And a few months later the monopolist ISP was forced to drop the caps and offer real unlimited services. Forced by government-induced free market situation (mandatory copper sharing for a set price) and customers flocking to competitors' services en masse. That was over a year ago and the broadband situation here, while still somewhat overpriced and on the slow side (1Mbit being the norm) is quite alright. Seeing how things are playing out in the US, I'm quite astonished bloody Poland managed to get it right.
Maybe you're thinking about a student license, as in MSDNAA. I think VS Pro from there has the no-commercial-use restriction, but the freely available EE does not.
Why on earth should I have to learn all this bull just to get a sort-of approximation of the old behaviour?
And yeah, there's probably a way of disabling this new great feature, that probably involves invocations of about:config or finding an obscure extension that works half of the time and will never quite work with the latest version because a fucking checkbox in the options dialog is just too much to ask for.
The signatures do NOT have to match.. This is WRONG. The "rules for visa merchants" official pdf someone posted above confirm that, but they do say that the signature doesn't have to match the name printed on the card. Maybe that was where GP got the idea.
Parts of these rules are somewhat wishful thinkig. In some areas the fees for a single transaction are significant enough that the merchant would be making a loss if he allowed credit card transactions below a certain amount.
And Amazon seems to be happily ingnoring the "don't store credit card info" part.
There have been cases of lithium bateries igniting or even exploding. It doesn't matter that it's very rare -- it can happen with consumer-grade li-something batteries, so they are not allowed. The worst that can happen with an alkaline battery is a small corrosive leak, and then again it doesn't really happen with new batteries, and would not endanger the entire station anyway.
Gravity has little do do with the batteries, but the a possible fire in space is a huge no-no.
You must be talking public trackers... I find some private trackers are great bandwidth testing tools. A not-so-fresh but recently popular torrent with a couple hundred seed (many of them sitting 24/7 on many-megabits-of-upload shells) will saturate pretty much any consumer dsl, and is better than a website-based test since there are many sources from many strange places all over the Net.
You mean like in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_desecration? Sure, the picture isn't animated, but it's still there, and you can clearly see that it's an American flag, on fire.
-1, Wrong. In the general case, you'd be right. However, in many Blizzard games, including Starcraft and Broodwar, install.exe is also a large archive of all the game files, taking up nearly the entire CD. There is no separate data file.
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They publish the source .tex files at http://github.com/lydiapintscher/Open-Advice , so it's rather open.
Do downloads of electronic books or music from a website, or the purchase of ring tones and screen savers for mobile phones fall within the cancellation exceptions referred to above?
3.39 We consider that these examples are likely to constitute services, rather than goods as the consumer does not receive physical goods. The right to cancel are therefore those that apply to services.
Earlier they state that services that start before the end of the cancellation period are exempt in general, so it does in fact seem that there is an exemption for download-only software sales.
3. As per UK contract legislation all T-mob customers who are affected now have 30 days to terminate the contract if they do not like it. Very few will do though - most phones on T-mob are subsidised so to terminate the contract one has to pay the balance on it (at the outrageously inflated "not-locked-in price).
What's the point of this legislation then if it doesn't protect you from inflated termination fees? Can't you always just cancel the contract and pay up?
Obligatory David A. Wheeler's "Fully Countering Trusting Trust" piece link: http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
WTF wants to WATCH something like this?
If Microsoft fought patent trolls they would be in effect fighting the entire patent system, and could end up accidentally overthrowing all software patents. That wouldn't be good for Microsoft.
Why don't they put this stuff on bittorrent then?
If speed matters it's cheaper, easier, and faster to buy more processing power.
Yeah, especially if you're developing software that's supposed to run on netbooks.
Not only did you not get the joke, you also have some misconceptions about how the Java GC works. There is no counter, instead the program state is analysed for unreachable objects. Also, memory is not freed immediately, but some unspecified time later (i.e. during the next GC cycle)
Because the output is used as evidence in court?
Why is everyone using "intellectual property", a catch-all phrase for trademarks, copyrights etc instead of just saying "ideas", "stories" or "settings"? I don't want to sound like RMS but it's really a dumb use of the term. The LoTR game is not based on IP, it's based on a story that happens to be protected by copyright.
Perhaps surprisingly, for some people suspend/hibernation actually works on linux so you can boot rarely while not keeping the machine on 24/7.
I'm one of the less lucky ones that only have half of hibernation working, the "resume" part fails.
You must have been reading a somewhat strange selection of books on economy if you didn't find a theoretical explanation of why free markets are not always great for competition.
It may all be fine and dandy with software or some manufacturing business, but you might have noticed that for instance the telecom market has this barrier of entry thing that prevents any meaningful competition *unless* regulated.
Are you suggesting we mount gun turrets on trains so they would be able to blast their way through stalled cars and suicidees? Should cut down on delays, that's for sure.
Yeah, the ISP usually has a meter, but like Plasmacutter said, you trust it based on what?
I'd wager it's based on observing that after downloading a linux ISO and some web surfing the meter showed 700-some MB more the day after. I had usage caps, and was not trusting them implicitly, but, well, they seemed honest enough.
And a few months later the monopolist ISP was forced to drop the caps and offer real unlimited services. Forced by government-induced free market situation (mandatory copper sharing for a set price) and customers flocking to competitors' services en masse. That was over a year ago and the broadband situation here, while still somewhat overpriced and on the slow side (1Mbit being the norm) is quite alright. Seeing how things are playing out in the US, I'm quite astonished bloody Poland managed to get it right.
Maybe you're thinking about a student license, as in MSDNAA. I think VS Pro from there has the no-commercial-use restriction, but the freely available EE does not.
Why on earth should I have to learn all this bull just to get a sort-of approximation of the old behaviour?
And yeah, there's probably a way of disabling this new great feature, that probably involves invocations of about:config or finding an obscure extension that works half of the time and will never quite work with the latest version because a fucking checkbox in the options dialog is just too much to ask for.
Parts of these rules are somewhat wishful thinkig. In some areas the fees for a single transaction are significant enough that the merchant would be making a loss if he allowed credit card transactions below a certain amount. And Amazon seems to be happily ingnoring the "don't store credit card info" part.
There have been cases of lithium bateries igniting or even exploding. It doesn't matter that it's very rare -- it can happen with consumer-grade li-something batteries, so they are not allowed. The worst that can happen with an alkaline battery is a small corrosive leak, and then again it doesn't really happen with new batteries, and would not endanger the entire station anyway.
Gravity has little do do with the batteries, but the a possible fire in space is a huge no-no.
Are they looking for Lucy too?
You must be talking public trackers... I find some private trackers are great bandwidth testing tools. A not-so-fresh but recently popular torrent with a couple hundred seed (many of them sitting 24/7 on many-megabits-of-upload shells) will saturate pretty much any consumer dsl, and is better than a website-based test since there are many sources from many strange places all over the Net.
You mean like in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_desecration? Sure, the picture isn't animated, but it's still there, and you can clearly see that it's an American flag, on fire.
-1, Wrong. In the general case, you'd be right. However, in many Blizzard games, including Starcraft and Broodwar, install.exe is also a large archive of all the game files, taking up nearly the entire CD. There is no separate data file.