That's how it works in every UK university I've heard of, too -- you own the rights to your work as a student. They own the rights to the work of staff, though, and any kind of staff-student collaboration could be a bit difficult to sort out, but student-only stuff, even if you use their stuff to do it, is in the clear.
You speak in military (24 hour) time unnecessarily.
Alternatively, they could come from the parts of the world which aren't the US, where 24 hour time isn't considered 'military', but normal.
Just sayin'.
Many people seem to get rather uptight about this. KHTML (an open-source project) was forked to produce WebKit, since KHTML didn't fit someone's (Apple's) needs. That fork is also open-source, and has since overtaken KHTML in popularity. What exactly is the problem with this sequence of events? Isn't the ability to fork one of the tenets of OSS?
Re. comments in the code, see the comments excised when Netscape 4 was open-sourced. Swear words, 'Mac OS/Unix/Windows sucks!' comments, and other stuff that was taken out before Netscape would dare release the source.
The worst thing, IMO, is that that kind of place tends to rip off mostly Mac shareware developers, the people who sell their apps for about €/£/$10–30. Hardly expensive stuff, and these guys are probably the ones hurt most by piracy.
I believe it. One of the best ways to breathe new life into an old computer is to put Opera on it. I've seen it running acceptably (not wonderfully, but better than Firefox and IE 5.5) on a Windows 95/98 box (not sure which) old enough to have a 'turbo' button on the case. I'm betting that if all it's going to be used for is surfing, you could set it as the Windows shell app to clear explorer.exe out of memory, and have a nice little kiosk-type thing.
And this is the reason why many laws leave much of the detail of the sentence up to the judges. The law dictates a maximum fine, a maximum prison sentence, and the judge can decide to impose any fine/prison sentence up to but not over those maxima, and can decide to impose one but not the other. I think it's unlikely that a judge would sentence someone to prison time for unauthorised wi-fi access.
All the online banking systems I've used in the UK are also (X)HTML and JS over SSH. Methinks the Australian banks might have over-thought this one a little too much...
I'll agree with most of that, but the cmd-N = new window, not new folder is just the Finder fitting in with the rest of the OS, where it almost universally performs this action. I admit that it doesn't make much sense in the pseudo-spatial mode, but then, what does?
(Hint: Open Apple Menu > System Preferences...; Click Keyboard & Mouse; Switch to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab; click the + button below the list; choose Finder for the application, type 'New Folder' in the Menu Title box, and press cmd-N in Keyboard Shortcut. Lather, rinse and repeat for 'New Window' (note lack of the word 'Finder', the only difficult thing about this) and shift-cmd-N.
That article says that Switzerland (not an EU member) has laws criminalising the denial of genocide. I agree that these laws are unproductive, but that's nowhere near a prohibition on discussion of the Armenian genocide in the west.
There's one key difference between every item on that list and the Armenian genocide: we in the west are free to say that they happened or are happening. Since we are free to discuss them and their consequences, we can come to a consensus as to whether or not they are/were good things. See the prohibition on slavery, for example. That would never have been brought about if Wilberforce et al. hadn't been free to go around and tell people why he thought it was wrong.
If you take a look on Intel's press materials pages, you can find a fair few. Take a look at their Pentium 4 pictures (scroll down) or this Penryn press release, for example.
Helium has a tendency to travel at velocities exceeding the earth's escape velocity, so it does dissipate out of the atmosphere somewhat. Same for hydrogen, actually.
There is another way in which radioactive particles can emit light. As I understand it, they decay by whatever means they can (alpha or beta plus/minus) to get rid of mass/energy until they reach a more stable state (less mass/energy = more stable). They are then close to, but not at, an optimal state: the arrangement of their nucleons (protons and neutrons) is not the best it can be. So they reconfigure themselves, and emit the excess energy as (you guessed it) light! Admittedly, it's usually far out of the visible spectrum (gamma-rays and X-rays) but it's all light.
My only problem with speed cameras is that on a dual carriageway near my home, the morons in other cars see the speed camera signs and immediately drop their speed to less than 50 mi/h (80 km/h) - ignoring totally that they are still allowed to go at the statutory dual carriageway speed of 70 mi/h (110 km/h). Though I suppose this is more of a problem with people not knowing the highway code than the cameras themselves.
Wikipedia is your friend. To sum up: QWERTZ is the type of keyboard used primarily in German-speaking regions. The Z and Y are swapped because the former is much more common in the German language than the latter, and the digraph 'TZ' is also common. The manufacturer is German, hence the keyboard.
10 PRINT "WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OLD-SCHOOL BASIC PROGRAMMERS?" 20 GOTO 10
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he should definitely get the death penalty for this.
Good job we don't have the death penalty in the UK, eh? Buuut, this is just the kind of thing I can see the BPI and others lobbying for--'We believe that it would be only fair if heinous villains, such as XBox mod-chip installers and ten-year-olds who downloaded a Gareth Gates album, were put to death.'
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That's how it works in every UK university I've heard of, too -- you own the rights to your work as a student. They own the rights to the work of staff, though, and any kind of staff-student collaboration could be a bit difficult to sort out, but student-only stuff, even if you use their stuff to do it, is in the clear.
'â' would be a better impression, if /. worked with Unicode. Oh well.
Actually, XP *does* tell you how many emails you have on its lock screen.
You speak in military (24 hour) time unnecessarily.
Alternatively, they could come from the parts of the world which aren't the US, where 24 hour time isn't considered 'military', but normal. Just sayin'.
Many people seem to get rather uptight about this. KHTML (an open-source project) was forked to produce WebKit, since KHTML didn't fit someone's (Apple's) needs. That fork is also open-source, and has since overtaken KHTML in popularity. What exactly is the problem with this sequence of events? Isn't the ability to fork one of the tenets of OSS?
Re. comments in the code, see the comments excised when Netscape 4 was open-sourced. Swear words, 'Mac OS/Unix/Windows sucks!' comments, and other stuff that was taken out before Netscape would dare release the source.
The worst thing, IMO, is that that kind of place tends to rip off mostly Mac shareware developers, the people who sell their apps for about €/£/$10–30. Hardly expensive stuff, and these guys are probably the ones hurt most by piracy.
I've always wondered why US traffic lights tend have yellow cases, while UK ones are always black. Guess this might be (part of?) the reason.
I believe it. One of the best ways to breathe new life into an old computer is to put Opera on it. I've seen it running acceptably (not wonderfully, but better than Firefox and IE 5.5) on a Windows 95/98 box (not sure which) old enough to have a 'turbo' button on the case. I'm betting that if all it's going to be used for is surfing, you could set it as the Windows shell app to clear explorer.exe out of memory, and have a nice little kiosk-type thing.
And this is the reason why many laws leave much of the detail of the sentence up to the judges. The law dictates a maximum fine, a maximum prison sentence, and the judge can decide to impose any fine/prison sentence up to but not over those maxima, and can decide to impose one but not the other. I think it's unlikely that a judge would sentence someone to prison time for unauthorised wi-fi access.
Oops, my bad. They'd never do anything as stupid as giving customers SSH access.
They use telnet instead.
All the online banking systems I've used in the UK are also (X)HTML and JS over SSH. Methinks the Australian banks might have over-thought this one a little too much...
I'll agree with most of that, but the cmd-N = new window, not new folder is just the Finder fitting in with the rest of the OS, where it almost universally performs this action. I admit that it doesn't make much sense in the pseudo-spatial mode, but then, what does?
(Hint: Open Apple Menu > System Preferences...; Click Keyboard & Mouse; Switch to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab; click the + button below the list; choose Finder for the application, type 'New Folder' in the Menu Title box, and press cmd-N in Keyboard Shortcut. Lather, rinse and repeat for 'New Window' (note lack of the word 'Finder', the only difficult thing about this) and shift-cmd-N.
That article says that Switzerland (not an EU member) has laws criminalising the denial of genocide. I agree that these laws are unproductive, but that's nowhere near a prohibition on discussion of the Armenian genocide in the west.
There's one key difference between every item on that list and the Armenian genocide: we in the west are free to say that they happened or are happening. Since we are free to discuss them and their consequences, we can come to a consensus as to whether or not they are/were good things. See the prohibition on slavery, for example. That would never have been brought about if Wilberforce et al. hadn't been free to go around and tell people why he thought it was wrong.
If you take a look on Intel's press materials pages, you can find a fair few. Take a look at their Pentium 4 pictures (scroll down) or this Penryn press release, for example.
Helium has a tendency to travel at velocities exceeding the earth's escape velocity, so it does dissipate out of the atmosphere somewhat. Same for hydrogen, actually.
There is another way in which radioactive particles can emit light. As I understand it, they decay by whatever means they can (alpha or beta plus/minus) to get rid of mass/energy until they reach a more stable state (less mass/energy = more stable). They are then close to, but not at, an optimal state: the arrangement of their nucleons (protons and neutrons) is not the best it can be. So they reconfigure themselves, and emit the excess energy as (you guessed it) light! Admittedly, it's usually far out of the visible spectrum (gamma-rays and X-rays) but it's all light.
Mmm, custard.
Not just PCs, either. Some of the older Macs could take a guy's arm right off!
My only problem with speed cameras is that on a dual carriageway near my home, the morons in other cars see the speed camera signs and immediately drop their speed to less than 50 mi/h (80 km/h) - ignoring totally that they are still allowed to go at the statutory dual carriageway speed of 70 mi/h (110 km/h). Though I suppose this is more of a problem with people not knowing the highway code than the cameras themselves.
Wikipedia is your friend. To sum up: QWERTZ is the type of keyboard used primarily in German-speaking regions. The Z and Y are swapped because the former is much more common in the German language than the latter, and the digraph 'TZ' is also common. The manufacturer is German, hence the keyboard.
10 PRINT "WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OLD-SCHOOL BASIC PROGRAMMERS?"
20 GOTO 10
Now avoiding the lameness filter. Or attempting to. Really, they should disable the filter for this particular story, it's getting in the way of many insightful, measured, well-thought-out and worthwhile posts, not at all like this one.
Ick, BIOS. I *really* hope Apple don't saddle themselves with that... that THING!