Posts by andreas koch 842 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jun 2008
Just like British MP Claire Perry wants to take the porn off the 'net:
Say that you want it done ---> {some magic happens} ---> it's done.
Government people live in a 'Veruca Salt universe', they don't understand that some things couldn't possibly go their way.
You mistake my intention, I think.
It's not about the SUN taking my photograph without remuneration, it's about them taking it at all.
Think along this: The Sun takes your pic from facebook, where you proudly change your first-born's nappy and use it in a headline like "[insert your home-town here] CHILD ABUSER CAUGHT BROWN-HANDED! (!!). The damage is done, you can't show your face any more, whatever they may pay you later, or whatever statement to the effect that "they picked the wrong pic" they print on the aforementioned DogMessBagHolder page.
Still worried about money?
And they have more lawyers than I have; which is admittedly quite easy.
Watermarking is all very fine; I'm thinking of the likes of the "SUN".
If they want to use your photo, they'll just print it and run it through a crappy scanner. The quality will be enough for a newspaper and they won't care if they have to acknowledge something a week later on the bottom right of page 23, below the DogMessBagHolder advert.
I don't really want to rain on your parade there, but watermarking is getting better just as much de-watermarking is (I think).
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The IPO admitted that what constitutes a diligent search in one creative sector may not meet the standards for conducting a diligent search in another. This is because of the complexity involved in identifying who rights holders of certain material are, it said.
The new orphan works law will contain scope for the Government to omit certain categories of works from inclusion in the new orphan works scheme, such as digital photographs, it added.
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A new Lawyer Opportunity Zone has been created.
If it had had an Apple on the back. Then it would have been:
>Revolutionary
>Indispensable
>Trendy
>a bargain at $499/ €479/ £549
Mind you, there's still a chance that Apple will have had invented this earlier on in the future*.
*This reverse temporal pre-inventing business shakes up all the grammar (which isn't much to start with) that I have control over...
While, if you want to fork out this amount of money, it is a wonderful piece of kit*, it has the drawback that it's missing an Apple logo.
So no one will know just how hip you are. A proper iPad will have a higher status.
*some people might even need it: Artists that can't work indoors for lack of "inspirational vibes" and such, for example.
to his employer that Dr S. Parthasarathy might have too much time on his hands?
Even if replacing Alice, Bob and Eve makes sense from his point of view: They're freaking placeholders!
It's like me proposing to replace the names of directories bin, sys and usr with Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (a hill in New Zealand), Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (a town in Wales) and Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (a lake in Mass./USA)
Someone will probably find a story to incorporate these three without the need of forest-incarcerated deities and fornicating fiends.
Next proposal will be to replace the NATO phonetic alphabet with Amato (for A), Bemato (for B), Cemato (for C) and so on past Omato (for O) and Paradeiser (Austrian for Tomato [so that you don't confuse it with the actual fruit]) all the way to Zeemato (guess what*...).
Zeemato is for X, Y, Z, ß, and ø. Got you there. Hah!
for Apple in the USA. Ban all Android phones because they allow you to hack free rides. Only Apple phones are legal and safe! And have the bestestest* iMaps ever to show you where the airports for the trains are, erm those bus stops, I mean, them wot the phones show.
*Sorry, got a bit carried away there, I'll be all right a soon as the saliva dries . . .
"And I do excuse me for daring to consider that in the 21st century slavery and indentured servitude should be a thing of the past."
It should, but it isn't.
"Ah, I see the point has sailed right past you. I wasn't only commenting about the poster, I was rebutting your misogynistic viewpoint."
And again, you assume.
But nevertheless, have another thumbs-up for being such a good, righteous person. The world would be a better place if you would be a chinese factory owner.
Well, no, not an orgy at all, sorry to disappoint you there.
They probably found that every guy they hired couldn't keep his thingy out of his fellow workers, even though he said so before (Your idea of hiring chaste men is, maybe, a bit blue eyed?).
A solely female workforce is easier to control (in China), and, most likely, cheaper as well. And not as likely to tribadise about.
I'm not endorsing this attitude, but from a chinese sweatshop point of view this makes economic sense.
Please don't be so very upset about the bad world, Diddums.
molehill/mountain-conversion
The reason for this ad is probably that in the past when they had a mixed workforce they lost 50 sick hours per week due to shagging behind the waste containers and resulting wild spread of Clamydia and yeast infections.
It might also just be some poo-throwing because the brand is in the papares alot lately.
Is 19 y/o with very small breasts allowed?
No offence, but she doesn't look hot to me anyway.
But I'm sure that some government lackey will have that filtered.
Spying on communication allowed (even for indifferent offences, when the your local council decides to check if you're bragging on facebook about how you dropped a pizza box into the wrong bin), Indecent porn censored (laudable, no doubt; but the people who decide what is indecent porn have a few weird ideas. Actors who might not look over 25? Flat chested actresses? [allegedly banned in Australia, can someone confirm?] Drawings and paintings that could have an erotic nature in someone's mind and display 'aberrant practices'? ). Downloading stuff. Yep, stuff: it's obviously OK to bulk-spy on people to catch the odd not-for-profit-pirate (ignoring the traders in counterfeit goods on Blackbushe market, coughcough), because the invasion of privacy will only be revealed if something is found sooner or later. . . .
Now think of the children, they are so frustrated with their GCSE results (mainly because the teachers are too frustrated by their limited authority to teach the slightly lazier ones) that they hang themselves in the park. They must have got that idea from the web (inherently evil) as well. Let's ban websites that might be related.
Next week: Herpes spread by bird poo: Government decides to ban websites of pigeon breeders.
...and so on. If that goes on like this, the internet will be broken for most people within the next 10 years.
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thousands of illegal immigrants
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You're apparently right, it mentions them here:
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poles and wires festooning their streets
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Question is: where do wires come from? Wirland?
Disclaimer: I haven't installed a single broadband box since I immigrated. Does that make me OK, or do I need my coat . . .
;-)
The downvote, sniff sniff. Yes you are right, it nearly made me cry.
Not. Couldn't care less. It's one of around 150. But if it makes toadwarrior feel better . . .
@ Toadwarrior:
What was was trying to say is:
No-one forces Samsung to build a phone that has round corners.
No-one forces Apple to build a phone at all.
Samsung does not have to copy Apple.
Apple does not have to make 'phones.
Every company has a choice. If Samsung thinks that it is a good business idea to use similar icons to a successful competitor and can't get away with it: Well, bully for them. Now they have to pay up (if they want to continue to make phones) and think of something else.
And the same goes for Apple: If Apple thinks that it is a good business idea to make phones that rely on a certain technology and can't get away with it: bully for them. So they will either have to pay up or think of something else.
Samsung can make the corners sharp and the icons hexagonal. (The phones and tablets never looked deceivingly similar anyway.) Apple is happy.
Apple can decide not to use any of Samsung's technology (I'm oblivious as to the extent of it, but that's beside the point). They can base their iPhone interconnect on a new technology, which they in return can then patent and make money with it. For all I care it can be by use analogue modulated laser beams or clairvoyant pigeons or the digitised smell of Tim Cooks underwear. As long as it works, fine.
It would be new, patentable and could be a valuable part of their portfolio.
Everybody can use proprietary solutions. When Edison built his (first commercial) light bulb, it wasn't compatible to gas lights. Stevenson didn't build a train that could run on roads like horse carriages.
Apples creative minds should easily be capable of thinking up similarly important inventions, bite the bit and be the big daddy if it catches on. But no, they brag about the shape of little pictures that you tap on to make something happen as if it's the cure for sneezes! A 1991 built Xerox DocuTech 6135 Laser printer had a freaking touch screen* with icons on it!
They want to play with all the other kids, in the same sandpit.
If they think that this sandpit isn't worth the penny entrance fee, they can easily set up their own sandpit and charge 2 pennies for joining. Maybe they would get rich and have a lot of mates to play with. And maybe not.
I don't really know why I explain my personal opinion again. Maybe I had the feeling that your snottiness was caused by incomprehension, although Occam's razor says that it's just the reaction of a disappointed fan.
No hard feelings, though: You're totally entitled to your own opinion.
*But, I give you that, no multitouch.
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Apple cannot work around that and will eventually have to pay Samsung.
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This is not true.
Apple could very well build a device that does not use any of Samsung's patents; just as Samsung could build phones that are triangular with sharp corners and oval icons (This is impractical and wouldn't sell, but what the heck.), Apple could build lawnmowers, baby bottle sterilisers or washing machines (for which there is actually a market).
From my point of view no-one forces them to ask Samsung for anything. It's their own decision to build mobile phones. Just as it's Samsung's decision to use a similar body for their phones.
No "cannot" here. All free will.
Beg differ.
Apple customers will not need any adapter. They will buy new appliances with the new, licensed* connector.
As one guy further up said: Move on.
And think about it: as an Apple user, who is always living on the bleeding edge of technology, would you want to be seen with something that uses the outdated old connector? That would be almost as bad as not having the latest iPhone at all!
*probably at £20 a pop, but which manufacturer can afford not to have iPhone compatibility?
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That's what happens when you give consumers a choice.
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I agree. And that is exactly why Apple is fighting so hard to keep this choice from the consumer.
As I don't like their "almost fascist" attitude either, nothing I buy will have an apple on it.
We can only hope that the market will be saturated before the iPhone5 hits the high street.
But then, as I rate it as a fashion article: has any lady ever stopped buying handbags?
If you can afford an YSL one, you will buy another, however hideous it is.
In this class of people Veblen Goods are important.
I totally agree, being one of the "slightly paranoid type" grumpy old gits myself.
But then: The people who are on the bleeding edge of modern technology (the ones that usually ask you if you would like an Organic Macadamia Toffee Crust Slice with your Skinny Decaf Latte) wouldn't switch NFC off.
They would buy an App that automatically blogs every purchase on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
Which could have amusing results:
2012-09-04 0945h
Tracey bought "Clearblue Pregnancy Test" at Boots Pharmacy for £ 6.98
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2012-09-06 1412h
Tracey bought "Tampax Super" at ASDA for £ 3.49
Dave and 45 others like this.
that up to this point New York Jewish wannabe blackmailer journalists were made fun of about 4 times, yet no-one spotted that Mr. Clarkes use of [sic]* is somehow wrong. You don't correct the original when you use it, that's the whole point: To show up the loser who couldn't spell. And that it wasn't your own typo.
I think your automatic australian analcucumber autocorrect shot you in your own foot. ;-)
*Compare the correct spelling (albeit wrong use) of the "sic"-ed "lecture" to the original post on the RP site.
Apart from that, I agree.
Steve's a bum.
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