There's also a Japanese cargo vessel. A Japanese cargo ship is planned to fly to the ISS in the next couple of months, although it doesn't automatically dock, and needs to be grappled within 90 seconds by the ISS arm, or presumably it floats away.
Where I live (Scotland), they can charge you with "breach of the peace", which is a remarkably elastic law that allows the Police to charge you for doing just about anything. Basically they approach you and tell you to stop doing whatever you are doing, and if you disagree, then you are breaching the peace, and they arrest you.
I don't have the benefit of being entirely clear in my thinking on this issue.
The law could be interpreted as an effort to starve paedophiles of any stimulus, a form of cultural castration. It's the cultural side I'm particularly nervous about.
So far, many have asked "who does it hurt?" Who does it hurt to suppress such images? Are they essential to a free society.
It infringes upon an individual's right to view a depiction of child abuse. Why would anyone want to view children being abused? I don't think this is about naked babies in christening cards, or cherubs.
However, I can think of one problem. Artistic depictions of child abuse. Films, novels and dramas in which child abuse is central to the story. Courts will have considerable problems separating gratuitous depictions of child abuse from legitimate dramatic representations.
Perhaps it would be better (if there is a pressing need for this) to limit the law to those already convicted of offences relating to children. If viewing depictions of child abuse is part of a larger pattern of behaviour, then it should only be an offence when there is evidence of a wider pattern of behaviour.
Returning windows does so many good things: increases the cost of selling Windows. Reduces the cost of buying a machine for Linux. Ensures MS don't get their MSTax, exercises the consumer laws, teaches companies to accept returns. Just because the vendor gives you a refund, it doesn't mean it affects the Microsoft tax.
From the linked article:
"I've cost Dell £50, not Microsoft, which is a slightly annoying" I suppose if the vendors get enough refunds they might pass on the message.
Here's a quote from the filing.
The EPO [European Patent Office] considers such claims [software patent claims] allowable if the program has the potential to bring about, when running on a computer [?], a further technical effect which goes beyond the normal physical interactions between the program and the computer.
I don't see how MP3s radically alters post production values. Record producers have always sought to compensate for low-fi playback systems, such as radio, by listening to the mix on small, mono speakers, as well as using bespoke studio monitors. All that has happened is MP3 has replaced small transistor radios, as the medium which dictates record sales.
so we should have waited until slavery was 'naturally' socially unacceptable, or nobody needed cotton & tobacco anymore.
Or until an industrial alternative to slave labour was discovered . . . wait a minute . . . this sentence started out as a joke.
The A/C was pretty clearly intelligent and quite frustrated with all of this. Intelligent or not, he doesn't know how to remove the network tray icon (right click -> remove from panel). I'd say he needs to use that intelligence a little before saying 'it just doesn't work.' Ubuntu forums will happily help him out.
there is some danger in proliferating knowledge of destructive explosions to people not old enough to drive
On Saturday, only a few miles from here, a SUV was driven into the airport, thankfully the propane canisters inside never exploded as intended. Maybe limiting the proliferation of knowledge of destructive explosions to people not old enough to drive, would be a better solution.
Your unwillingness or inability to give OpenOffice.org an outline view that works just like Microsoft Word's outline is all that is keeping me from turning my Microsoft Windows partition into blank oxide.
Hate to prove myself correct, but I found this at the foot of the patent:
In conclusion, the present invention enables users to select elements in a GUI quickly, with minimal processor computations, using an element selection perimeter or "lasso."
IANAL, but it sounds like an icon selection lasso:
creating an element selection perimeter comprising a plurality of points [ . . . ] determining if any of the area contributions of the points are less than a predetermined area value.
Plenty of prior art for that, unless they think wording the patent differently creates a retrospective patent.
That's an amazing letter Linspire have concocted. Since when has capitulation to extortion been a matter of choice? The aim of extortion is to subvert choice. Appeasing Microsoft won't make them go away. Hitler didn't go away when Chamberlain came back from Munich waving a piece of paper. Pretty soon Microsoft will claim that all computer programs infringe "their" patents. You'll have to pay a tax just to write a while loop. Utterly uninspiring work, Linspire.
Cd Audio is sampled at 44100 Hz, at 16 bits per sample. While sampling at a higher rate and bit depth than that will improve on the quality, the average pair of 25 year old ears will not be able to hear the difference.
Most recording studios these days use, at the very least, 24bit audio at between 96-196+ khz. While I agree with you that most people won't hear a difference, audiophiles will hear a difference. My mother can't tell the difference between a hissy cassette tape and a CD, but that doesn't mean there isn't one.
The interesting point here is that online music sales could potentially supply consumers with higher quality audio than currently is available with CD. Changing the way CD's play audio would take years. Whereas many people already have good quality sound cards capable of delivering higher quality audio.
The obstacle is obviously file sharing. People sharing sub-CD quality audio is one thing, having them sharing studio-master audio is a completely different thing.
Jobs is playing the PR game, trying to unalign Apple from DRM. That said, any move away from DRM, PR motivated or not, is to be lauded.
Speaking of Glasgow and map software, my mother had Map software for her Psion PDA. For the shortest route into Glasgow from my flat, her PDA Map suggested walking along the railway track into town, then jumping off the railway bridge over the clyde and onto Jamaica bridge. Shortest way to die maybe.
Every time someone says "X hardware doesn't work under Linux" we get a dozen comments explaining how that's not Linux's fault, which completely misses the point.
The point is hardware manufacturers are getting away scot free, while misguided frustrations are deflected onto linux distributors, and linux hardware programmers. If the hardware manufacturers feel the heat, they'll do something about it. At present they sit on their rear ends while people whinge about Linux hardware compatibility issues.
TFA article doesn't give HP's response to why they supply Windows with drivers and not Linux. In the interest of balance, it would have been nice to hear HP's reasoning. The old market share argument doesn't really fly here. Its not as if HP has to supply a separate printer solely for Linux. In other words, providing linux drivers would only increase HP's market share. All for the little effort of porting a driver.
I was using the HP LaserJet 1000, which uses a non-standard protocol that had to be reverse-engineered by Linux users to make it useable in that OS. [ . . . ] I had to dig around in the Ubuntu wiki for information, then download and compile a properly-updated set of drivers before I could print. Vista, by contrast, simply used the existing XP drivers provided by Hewlett-Packard (since no Vista drivers are available). [ . . . ] I give the Ubuntu (and Linux) people points for completeness, but I have to retract them for the sheer aggravation required to get it working.
Damn those linux people for not reverse engineering HP drivers into a more user-friendly package.
it's possible that changing your homepage theme might cause the problem. SO, if you still have your homepage intact, please avoid changing your theme until further notice.
Simply not true. I never even knew there was themes. My personalised homepage reset itself while I was reading groklaw on another tab. One minute it was fine (Groklaw is a link on the homepage) then a minute later it was gone.
Only once I'd mucked-about trying to retrieve my settings did I realise themes existed. So it has nothing to do with themes. The settings just undid themselves, horay for ajax.
If you strip your kernel down by a sizeable amount, say less than 50% of the size of the one that came with your distro, you'll only notice a small amount of performance increase, suggesting that all the added modules aren't really bloating the system by all that much. There's an improvement, but on most modern machines it's a minimal. The only time I optimise a kernel these days, is when I'm trying to use an old machine for some ancilliary purpose.
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There's also a Japanese cargo vessel. A Japanese cargo ship is planned to fly to the ISS in the next couple of months, although it doesn't automatically dock, and needs to be grappled within 90 seconds by the ISS arm, or presumably it floats away.
Where I live (Scotland), they can charge you with "breach of the peace", which is a remarkably elastic law that allows the Police to charge you for doing just about anything. Basically they approach you and tell you to stop doing whatever you are doing, and if you disagree, then you are breaching the peace, and they arrest you.
Google Sky also exists, although I don't know if it's new or old (I had trouble finding it).
I don't have the benefit of being entirely clear in my thinking on this issue.
The law could be interpreted as an effort to starve paedophiles of any stimulus, a form of cultural castration. It's the cultural side I'm particularly nervous about.
So far, many have asked "who does it hurt?" Who does it hurt to suppress such images? Are they essential to a free society. It infringes upon an individual's right to view a depiction of child abuse. Why would anyone want to view children being abused? I don't think this is about naked babies in christening cards, or cherubs. However, I can think of one problem. Artistic depictions of child abuse. Films, novels and dramas in which child abuse is central to the story. Courts will have considerable problems separating gratuitous depictions of child abuse from legitimate dramatic representations. Perhaps it would be better (if there is a pressing need for this) to limit the law to those already convicted of offences relating to children. If viewing depictions of child abuse is part of a larger pattern of behaviour, then it should only be an offence when there is evidence of a wider pattern of behaviour.
From the linked article: "I've cost Dell £50, not Microsoft, which is a slightly annoying" I suppose if the vendors get enough refunds they might pass on the message.
I don't see how MP3s radically alters post production values. Record producers have always sought to compensate for low-fi playback systems, such as radio, by listening to the mix on small, mono speakers, as well as using bespoke studio monitors. All that has happened is MP3 has replaced small transistor radios, as the medium which dictates record sales.
Or until an industrial alternative to slave labour was discovered . . . wait a minute . . . this sentence started out as a joke.
On Saturday, only a few miles from here, a SUV was driven into the airport, thankfully the propane canisters inside never exploded as intended. Maybe limiting the proliferation of knowledge of destructive explosions to people not old enough to drive, would be a better solution.
Microsoft is simultaneously going in all directions, which is identical to going nowhere fast.
Nice to see a politician who's right in touch with the electorate.
from the article, venting at OO developers:
Your unwillingness or inability to give OpenOffice.org an outline view that works just like Microsoft Word's outline is all that is keeping me from turning my Microsoft Windows partition into blank oxide.Don't you just love patents.
Hate to prove myself correct, but I found this at the foot of the patent:
In conclusion, the present invention enables users to select elements in a GUI quickly, with minimal processor computations, using an element selection perimeter or "lasso."IANAL, but it sounds like an icon selection lasso:
creating an element selection perimeter comprising a plurality of points [ . . . ] determining if any of the area contributions of the points are less than a predetermined area value.Plenty of prior art for that, unless they think wording the patent differently creates a retrospective patent.
That's an amazing letter Linspire have concocted. Since when has capitulation to extortion been a matter of choice? The aim of extortion is to subvert choice. Appeasing Microsoft won't make them go away. Hitler didn't go away when Chamberlain came back from Munich waving a piece of paper. Pretty soon Microsoft will claim that all computer programs infringe "their" patents. You'll have to pay a tax just to write a while loop. Utterly uninspiring work, Linspire.
Most recording studios these days use, at the very least, 24bit audio at between 96-196+ khz. While I agree with you that most people won't hear a difference, audiophiles will hear a difference. My mother can't tell the difference between a hissy cassette tape and a CD, but that doesn't mean there isn't one.
The interesting point here is that online music sales could potentially supply consumers with higher quality audio than currently is available with CD. Changing the way CD's play audio would take years. Whereas many people already have good quality sound cards capable of delivering higher quality audio.
The obstacle is obviously file sharing. People sharing sub-CD quality audio is one thing, having them sharing studio-master audio is a completely different thing.
Jobs is playing the PR game, trying to unalign Apple from DRM. That said, any move away from DRM, PR motivated or not, is to be lauded.
Speaking of Glasgow and map software, my mother had Map software for her Psion PDA. For the shortest route into Glasgow from my flat, her PDA Map suggested walking along the railway track into town, then jumping off the railway bridge over the clyde and onto Jamaica bridge. Shortest way to die maybe.
Forget Linux, my hand alone would have trouble with a ten-button mouse.
The point is hardware manufacturers are getting away scot free, while misguided frustrations are deflected onto linux distributors, and linux hardware programmers. If the hardware manufacturers feel the heat, they'll do something about it. At present they sit on their rear ends while people whinge about Linux hardware compatibility issues.
TFA article doesn't give HP's response to why they supply Windows with drivers and not Linux. In the interest of balance, it would have been nice to hear HP's reasoning. The old market share argument doesn't really fly here. Its not as if HP has to supply a separate printer solely for Linux. In other words, providing linux drivers would only increase HP's market share. All for the little effort of porting a driver.
Damn those linux people for not reverse engineering HP drivers into a more user-friendly package.
From the FTA, google say:
it's possible that changing your homepage theme might cause the problem. SO, if you still have your homepage intact, please avoid changing your theme until further notice.Simply not true. I never even knew there was themes. My personalised homepage reset itself while I was reading groklaw on another tab. One minute it was fine (Groklaw is a link on the homepage) then a minute later it was gone.
Only once I'd mucked-about trying to retrieve my settings did I realise themes existed. So it has nothing to do with themes. The settings just undid themselves, horay for ajax.
If you strip your kernel down by a sizeable amount, say less than 50% of the size of the one that came with your distro, you'll only notice a small amount of performance increase, suggesting that all the added modules aren't really bloating the system by all that much. There's an improvement, but on most modern machines it's a minimal. The only time I optimise a kernel these days, is when I'm trying to use an old machine for some ancilliary purpose.