slashdot should have a mod -1 racist.
Seriously, where the fuck did the Muslims come from? There could be any number of reasons, valid or not, why a group of people would oppose funding this project, both from an international and a domestic standpoint. "Blame it on the Muslims"? jeez...
actually, in the city i live near (Birmingham UK) I've actually visited the control room for the city's cctv system. it's connected up to the police radio system so that the camera controllers (the room is staffed 24/7 iirc) can direct the nearest officers to any problems. so to answer your point, cops can respond immediately (or near enough) even if they're not in direct line-of-sight of the event.
... I love how the people who say that they don't want police cameras watching and listening for trouble are often the same people complaining that there aren't enough police officers on the streets watching and listening for trouble.
IANAL (but I do have a law degree in the UK) and assault is defined as causing the victim to legitimately "fear for their immediate public safety" - no physical contact is necessary.
Therefore, in the right circumstances agressive tones could constitute assault.
used its army of lawyers to trademark, patent, copyright, and protect every aspect of the "ribbon"
IANAL (but I do have a Law degree), but good luck trademarking or copyrighting an interface. I'm also pretty sure you can't patent it either - it's still just a customisable series of buttons. So it isn't MS "protecting" their IP, it's another MS attempt at a protection racket (a la the Novell deal).
Microsoft isn't giving you a new toy. It's licensing the right to use patents/other IP to people who don't compete with Office.
you can't licence rights that you legally don't have (see above), and it's totally a new toy. OO.o (or anyone else, "competing" or not) have absolutely no need to use the ribbon.
You apparently don't read the same reviews that I do. Maybe you just don't read reviews.
Well I didn't RTFA, or any of your links, so take a guess. You must be new around here. (That was a joke, seeing as you seem to have had a sense of humour bypass). But I have read the other comments, and plenty of people have linked to or referenced bad reviews of the Ribbon.
There is a reason why I don't read/. very often, and your +4 insightful reply is neither +4 nor insightful.
By replying to this, I know I'm giving up my moderating/meta-moderating power, so people who do meta moderate... please do your job and remove this gibberish...
Yeah, because it's far more constructive to complain about the moderation instead of working to fix the moderation... Or perhaps you just wanted to have a moan. Feel good to get that off your chest, kiddo?
Of course I didn't RTFA, but considering that OO.o is a) multiplatform, b) open source, and c) doing fine as it is, I'd imagine the folks at OO.o will be filing this under D for Don't Give A Shit.
Seriously - would you lose any sleep because MS won't give you a new toy? Even if OO.o wanted it, and even if MS gave them it, they probably couldn't use it because it'll probably be Vista- (or at least Windows-)only.
And seeing as most critics have slammed the new MS Office UI as being generally awful, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that OO.o's similarity to the "old" MS Office UI might pick them up a few users.
Four years, a couple of trips to hospital, and more than a handful of GP appointments and this is the first I've heard of it. Way to go, NHS(!).
Perhaps a better way to spend $24m (or whatever that is in £real money) would have been to keep my local emergency department open, rather than sending me on a half-hour trip to the next nearest hospital...
Now, get yourself a good spam filter because no matter what you do... you will be assimilated.
This is totally it. In many ways, no matter what you do, you're only delaying the inevitable. If the spammers don't get it from your site, they'll get it from somewhere else sooner or later.
From a security standpoint, I'd prefer to have my ipod stashed away in the dash.
The benefit of the "established" car audio manufacturers making ipod interfaces for their products is that when I jump out of the car to buy petrol/food/whatever, the local thugs walking past the car don't see the ipod and decide to "liberate" it.
Woe betide anyone who buys the inevitable "iCar" player (yes, you know it's coming one day). It'll be shiny white plastic, it'll stand out like a sore thumb, and you might as well get a "STEAL ME" windscreen strip made up.
We suggested to Borchers that Apple should allow drivers to use their car steering wheel as a giant Clickwheel interface, so that you can change tracks by changing lanes. Borchers foresaw certain safety problems with such a device and rejected the concept.""
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"Burmin'am" (as us locals pronounce it) also has a "G" in it, but that seems to have fallen from use too...
...where's the foot icon?
slashdot should have a mod -1 racist. Seriously, where the fuck did the Muslims come from? There could be any number of reasons, valid or not, why a group of people would oppose funding this project, both from an international and a domestic standpoint. "Blame it on the Muslims"? jeez...
the power cell isn't why cellphones are called cellphones. it says that right in the summary. :|
... says the guy browsing slashdot? :)
actually, in the city i live near (Birmingham UK) I've actually visited the control room for the city's cctv system. it's connected up to the police radio system so that the camera controllers (the room is staffed 24/7 iirc) can direct the nearest officers to any problems. so to answer your point, cops can respond immediately (or near enough) even if they're not in direct line-of-sight of the event.
ugh, it's too early. "immediate personal safety". i'm going back to bed......
... I love how the people who say that they don't want police cameras watching and listening for trouble are often the same people complaining that there aren't enough police officers on the streets watching and listening for trouble.
IANAL (but I do have a law degree in the UK) and assault is defined as causing the victim to legitimately "fear for their immediate public safety" - no physical contact is necessary.
Therefore, in the right circumstances agressive tones could constitute assault.
used its army of lawyers to trademark, patent, copyright, and protect every aspect of the "ribbon"
/. very often, and your +4 insightful reply is neither +4 nor insightful.
IANAL (but I do have a Law degree), but good luck trademarking or copyrighting an interface. I'm also pretty sure you can't patent it either - it's still just a customisable series of buttons. So it isn't MS "protecting" their IP, it's another MS attempt at a protection racket (a la the Novell deal).
Microsoft isn't giving you a new toy. It's licensing the right to use patents/other IP to people who don't compete with Office.
you can't licence rights that you legally don't have (see above), and it's totally a new toy. OO.o (or anyone else, "competing" or not) have absolutely no need to use the ribbon.
You apparently don't read the same reviews that I do. Maybe you just don't read reviews.
Well I didn't RTFA, or any of your links, so take a guess. You must be new around here. (That was a joke, seeing as you seem to have had a sense of humour bypass). But I have read the other comments, and plenty of people have linked to or referenced bad reviews of the Ribbon.
There is a reason why I don't read
By replying to this, I know I'm giving up my moderating/meta-moderating power, so people who do meta moderate... please do your job and remove this gibberish...
Yeah, because it's far more constructive to complain about the moderation instead of working to fix the moderation... Or perhaps you just wanted to have a moan. Feel good to get that off your chest, kiddo?
I only ever use MS Word at work, but cheers for the tip :)
What does this mean for OpenOffice?
Of course I didn't RTFA, but considering that OO.o is a) multiplatform, b) open source, and c) doing fine as it is, I'd imagine the folks at OO.o will be filing this under D for Don't Give A Shit.
Seriously - would you lose any sleep because MS won't give you a new toy? Even if OO.o wanted it, and even if MS gave them it, they probably couldn't use it because it'll probably be Vista- (or at least Windows-)only.
And seeing as most critics have slammed the new MS Office UI as being generally awful, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that OO.o's similarity to the "old" MS Office UI might pick them up a few users.
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whatever with a w :)
Four years, a couple of trips to hospital, and more than a handful of GP appointments and this is the first I've heard of it. Way to go, NHS(!). Perhaps a better way to spend $24m (or whatever that is in £real money) would have been to keep my local emergency department open, rather than sending me on a half-hour trip to the next nearest hospital...
no, man's preservation of animal life is second only to man's preservation of human life.
Now, get yourself a good spam filter because no matter what you do... you will be assimilated.
This is totally it. In many ways, no matter what you do, you're only delaying the inevitable. If the spammers don't get it from your site, they'll get it from somewhere else sooner or later.
Is it really so much about so-called "business practises"... or is it just because Real stuff JUST SUCKS?
there appear to be photos of people using the device at E3 on the Phantom Website, buried in the "media" section.
until you can't find the locator...
(or you could just tidy up)
your wallet is going to need at least three layers of tin foil now...
Counterstrike, Katmari, The Sims, Gran Turismo, Championship Manager... Nah, there's no good (or at least popular) games without a story...
I'd better stick to Slashdot from now on, then...
From a security standpoint, I'd prefer to have my ipod stashed away in the dash.
The benefit of the "established" car audio manufacturers making ipod interfaces for their products is that when I jump out of the car to buy petrol/food/whatever, the local thugs walking past the car don't see the ipod and decide to "liberate" it.
Woe betide anyone who buys the inevitable "iCar" player (yes, you know it's coming one day). It'll be shiny white plastic, it'll stand out like a sore thumb, and you might as well get a "STEAL ME" windscreen strip made up.
We suggested to Borchers that Apple should allow drivers to use their car steering wheel as a giant Clickwheel interface, so that you can change tracks by changing lanes. Borchers foresaw certain safety problems with such a device and rejected the concept.""
Jesus, is it April already?
Bah, humbug. Robots shouldn't be called robots unless they're hell-bent on world domination.
ps. Thanks for the extension tip, I never thought of anything like that. I'll check it out.