On my monitor there's a definite difference between the grey of Africa (and many countries in South America, Asia and other parts of the world) and the blue (cyan?) of "Consistently upholds etc".
So I think they do have a "we don't have a clue" colour, it's grey, and it's being used.
Given that devices with higher hardware specifications can be bought for under $700 even at inflated UK prices, if Apple charges $1500 for unlocked iPhones they're merely profiteering and not specifically attempting to cover costs.
That an officially unlocked phone can be purchased at such a premium merely accentuates Apple's desire to limit consumer choice and gouge their customer base.
Again, I fail to see how customers are benefiting here. I guess the answer is to buy Apple stock.
See the other response to me for a summary of the current law that sounds very accurate to me.
The 'fair use' laws in the UK to not apply to copying CDs and doing that is currently illegal. I'm actually not sure that it is illegal to circumvent copy protection; certainly a year or two ago it wasn't and although a law to make it so was mooted I don't recall one being passed.
Please, explain to me as a consumer and user of mobile telephony how locking a phone to prevent me using it with another carrier benefits me?
I'd appreciate you illustrating your answer with specific reference to the iPhone as that's a device you pay for entirely up-front, with the initial purchase price fully compensating the manufacturer and distributor.
It may be a different matter, and a very different issue, but I fail to see the arguments for it, unless you're a user unfriendly hardware manufacturer seeking to screw over your actual customers.
(when a string snapped on a compound near me i thought it was louder than a gun shot) Have you heard the sound of a 150lb longbow breaking at full draw?
Actually, the sound is nothing - your ears recover - it's the wooden splinters flying past your eyes and the knowledge that no amount of superglue is putting that baby back together..
There are several "shipwrecks" in that story. The guy with the laser pointer appears not to be one of them.
Red laser on your chest means sniper? Oh please. A sniper would have to be even more stupid than the OOD to use something that so blatantly advertises his position, warns his target and doesn't add much to his accuracy.
Sure, tell the guy off. Give him a real bollocking, put him on toilet duty for a week. But don't even mention it in his record. Certainly don't give him a bad conduct discharge. Shit, that'd make me want to come back and shoot the fucking OOD just to get my money's worth.
It demonstrates that you were using the interweb thingy way back then, and finding geeky websites all that time ago, and still coming back to them.
This obviously doesn't correlate to IT expertise. It does provide a reasonable level of evidence that the poster is not a 12yo that just browsed over from Digg and knows all about the Internet because his sister showed him how to install Firefox.
Many experienced IT professionals have no Slashdot UID at all, and a few have registered and have high UIDs. This in no way discredits those individuals or their comments; they merely lack the implied continuity of interest in technical matters suggested by a low UID.
What the fuck does SOAP over http have to do with SOA?
Well, ok - obviously quite a lot. After all, it's an option as a message wrapper and transport protocol. But nobody says you have to use it. And you can get significant SOA benefits without touching SOAP or HTTP.
Out of curiousity, was it the operating system preventing the save, or Adobe Reader?
PDFs can be marked as 'no save'. Random gmail attachments can not. Opening your Gmail attachment in Adobe Reader then expecting it to ignore the PDF settings would be foolish.
This looks like user error to me. Then again, I haven't ever used Vista. Maybe it does suck that hard.
So, based on the proposed bill - how much of Sony would have been auctioned of I wonder... None.
However, we do have a job lot of 300,000 home PCs in excellent condition waiting for one lucky bidder - just uninstall the Sony rootkit and they're a bargain!
Since nobody RTFA to get the complete picture, numerous atheists feel obligated to flamebait creationists I think you'll finding reading TFA is entirely orthogonal to that particular obligation.
Once you've refused to leave peaceably, any necessary threat or use of force would be justified. You think it's appropriate to kill peaceful protesters? Personally I'd call the police and let them escalate the level of force in use.
Killing people because you don't like where they're standing strikes me as entirely unnecessary.
It's quite possible to use force without electrocuting someone.
If you attempt to manhandle me from the premises, I may resist, but I can't complain about a few bruises. If you taser me then expect a severe and violent reaction at the time, and expect legal action afterwards.
There's force, and there's appropriate force. Tasers are seldom appropriate force, for policemen or for private security guards.
For tactical use, something small enough and cheap enough to have in a box in the back of the truck for immediate recce purposes might be of interest. A platoon commander would love to be able to answer "What's happening half a mile over there" at will.
Even with breaks, the athletes over-exert themselves and break down. The team I support won but even watching it left me stressed and tense, the pain of the players was so apparent.
I've been boycotting visiting the US since they implemented that program. It's even damaged me professionally, and cost me job opportunities (which require occasional travel to the US).
I now get to boycott visiting Japan too. It's a terrible shame.
Of course, it's only a few years until DNA samples are required to leave the UK, and at that point I cease international travel. There will be fallout from all this eventually, but sadly it could take a decade or more.
The law was changed; they can hold you pretty much incommunicado for 28 days, and yesm they are trying to extend that (despite admitteding outright that there's no actual justification for doing so).
My mother's a magistrate. She's confirmed a few of my prejudices about them:(
Personally I resent game mechanics that require me to either spend a significant amount of time 'farming' or going out and supporting insidious profiteerers that degrade the gaming experience for the rest of us.
That is Blizzard's fault.
Gold on my server isn't even that expensive. An epic flying mount would cost me around 5 hours pay. Personally I waited a few months and gathered the cash myself, but I can very easily understand someone else in my position choosing to spend the cash.
Since the change I'm spending significant cash each time I do damage to something - I play a hunter and 80s/stack ammunition adds up fast on raids. Plus pet food, repair costs (FD rarely saves you these days), pots, oils, etc. For the next couple of weeks I have enough time to run daily quests to generate the cash to keep raiding, but it is pretty much a 1:1 ratio of time spent doing mundane repetitive tasks against time spent actually trying to progress in the game.
This is becoming less fun. Blizzard really need to sort it out. This is alone one of the biggest reasons people use gold sellers.
Of course, the alternative is to not play. This may well happen soon.
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On my monitor there's a definite difference between the grey of Africa (and many countries in South America, Asia and other parts of the world) and the blue (cyan?) of "Consistently upholds etc".
So I think they do have a "we don't have a clue" colour, it's grey, and it's being used.
Given that devices with higher hardware specifications can be bought for under $700 even at inflated UK prices, if Apple charges $1500 for unlocked iPhones they're merely profiteering and not specifically attempting to cover costs.
That an officially unlocked phone can be purchased at such a premium merely accentuates Apple's desire to limit consumer choice and gouge their customer base.
Again, I fail to see how customers are benefiting here. I guess the answer is to buy Apple stock.
See the other response to me for a summary of the current law that sounds very accurate to me.
The 'fair use' laws in the UK to not apply to copying CDs and doing that is currently illegal. I'm actually not sure that it is illegal to circumvent copy protection; certainly a year or two ago it wasn't and although a law to make it so was mooted I don't recall one being passed.
How the EUCD applies in the UK I'm less certain.
I believe it actually _is_ illegal to copy a CD for personal use in the UK.
Fortunately it's a law that generally gets disregarded by pretty much everybody.
Please, explain to me as a consumer and user of mobile telephony how locking a phone to prevent me using it with another carrier benefits me?
I'd appreciate you illustrating your answer with specific reference to the iPhone as that's a device you pay for entirely up-front, with the initial purchase price fully compensating the manufacturer and distributor.
It may be a different matter, and a very different issue, but I fail to see the arguments for it, unless you're a user unfriendly hardware manufacturer seeking to screw over your actual customers.
Yes. No two-person loveseat, no long leatherbound 'lie down to watch' couches.. it's a bit sterile and unimaginative really.
Actually, the sound is nothing - your ears recover - it's the wooden splinters flying past your eyes and the knowledge that no amount of superglue is putting that baby back together..
My boss has in the past mentioned certain members of the business and requested me to bring in my bow and 'sort them out'.
I _think_ he was joking. The bow's in the car all the time anyway, just in case..
There are several "shipwrecks" in that story. The guy with the laser pointer appears not to be one of them.
Red laser on your chest means sniper? Oh please. A sniper would have to be even more stupid than the OOD to use something that so blatantly advertises his position, warns his target and doesn't add much to his accuracy.
Sure, tell the guy off. Give him a real bollocking, put him on toilet duty for a week. But don't even mention it in his record. Certainly don't give him a bad conduct discharge. Shit, that'd make me want to come back and shoot the fucking OOD just to get my money's worth.
It demonstrates that you were using the interweb thingy way back then, and finding geeky websites all that time ago, and still coming back to them.
This obviously doesn't correlate to IT expertise. It does provide a reasonable level of evidence that the poster is not a 12yo that just browsed over from Digg and knows all about the Internet because his sister showed him how to install Firefox.
Many experienced IT professionals have no Slashdot UID at all, and a few have registered and have high UIDs. This in no way discredits those individuals or their comments; they merely lack the implied continuity of interest in technical matters suggested by a low UID.
What the fuck does SOAP over http have to do with SOA?
Well, ok - obviously quite a lot. After all, it's an option as a message wrapper and transport protocol. But nobody says you have to use it. And you can get significant SOA benefits without touching SOAP or HTTP.
Out of curiousity, was it the operating system preventing the save, or Adobe Reader?
PDFs can be marked as 'no save'. Random gmail attachments can not. Opening your Gmail attachment in Adobe Reader then expecting it to ignore the PDF settings would be foolish.
This looks like user error to me. Then again, I haven't ever used Vista. Maybe it does suck that hard.
However, we do have a job lot of 300,000 home PCs in excellent condition waiting for one lucky bidder - just uninstall the Sony rootkit and they're a bargain!
You mean the box-set that was delivered a week ago to my house?
Some people might think that's sad. The really sad thing is that I still haven't had the chance to watch the Final Cut
Buy a fucking clue.
Killing people because you don't like where they're standing strikes me as entirely unnecessary.
It's quite possible to use force without electrocuting someone.
If you attempt to manhandle me from the premises, I may resist, but I can't complain about a few bruises.
If you taser me then expect a severe and violent reaction at the time, and expect legal action afterwards.
There's force, and there's appropriate force. Tasers are seldom appropriate force, for policemen or for private security guards.
For tactical use, something small enough and cheap enough to have in a box in the back of the truck for immediate recce purposes might be of interest. A platoon commander would love to be able to answer "What's happening half a mile over there" at will.
Of course, I'm mostly just guessing.
Find footage of the 2006 FA Cup Final.
Even with breaks, the athletes over-exert themselves and break down. The team I support won but even watching it left me stressed and tense, the pain of the players was so apparent.
I've been boycotting visiting the US since they implemented that program. It's even damaged me professionally, and cost me job opportunities (which require occasional travel to the US).
I now get to boycott visiting Japan too. It's a terrible shame.
Of course, it's only a few years until DNA samples are required to leave the UK, and at that point I cease international travel. There will be fallout from all this eventually, but sadly it could take a decade or more.
The law was changed; they can hold you pretty much incommunicado for 28 days, and yesm they are trying to extend that (despite admitteding outright that there's no actual justification for doing so).
My mother's a magistrate. She's confirmed a few of my prejudices about them
Why would a bot find it any harder to track and locate nodes than a human player?
Nodes must be detectable. Bots have (at least) equal detection capabilities to human players. Even random spawn points wouldn't really help.
Personally I resent game mechanics that require me to either spend a significant amount of time 'farming' or going out and supporting insidious profiteerers that degrade the gaming experience for the rest of us.
That is Blizzard's fault.
Gold on my server isn't even that expensive. An epic flying mount would cost me around 5 hours pay. Personally I waited a few months and gathered the cash myself, but I can very easily understand someone else in my position choosing to spend the cash.
Since the change I'm spending significant cash each time I do damage to something - I play a hunter and 80s/stack ammunition adds up fast on raids. Plus pet food, repair costs (FD rarely saves you these days), pots, oils, etc. For the next couple of weeks I have enough time to run daily quests to generate the cash to keep raiding, but it is pretty much a 1:1 ratio of time spent doing mundane repetitive tasks against time spent actually trying to progress in the game.
This is becoming less fun. Blizzard really need to sort it out. This is alone one of the biggest reasons people use gold sellers.
Of course, the alternative is to not play. This may well happen soon.