They must be referring only to the Windsor county area? That's an odd way of putting it... my wikipedia statistics (which match with many I've heard on other media) indicate that the surplus cannot apply to the whole state...
One of the issues with shutting down Vermont Yankee is that it provides over a third of the electricity to the state. I feel like a lot of the reason it has been treated so leniently is because of the massive increase in price Vermonters face in getting power elsewhere in that kind of volume.
Hydro-Quebec provides a good portion of the rest, perhaps they have the capacity, but there's nothing quite like homegrown cheap power.
And yet Apple is working hard and spending money implementing HTML5 and pushing for it to be more fully featured, more capable, able to replace Flash.
Its not that they don't want to allow people to run apps that they didn't buy on the App store, its that the number of tradeoffs in doing a "good" (for Flash) implementation of Flash take directly away from the experience Apple wants to deliver, and so, they don't do it.
On the Verizon map, it looks like they have 3G coverage over nearly the entire state of Vermont.
That'll be the day. They don't even have coverage over main streets in major towns. (though, oftentimes AT&T does). I call BS on that map.
While Flash on 64bit windows still is nonexistent.
Well, perhaps 64-bit Flash on 64-bit Windows is nonexistent, but Flash is working just fine, thank you. And you don't need to do anything wonky to make full screen work.
Well, it's *out there* pretty much in the same sense that newsgroups were out there...
Or, like IMAP email is out there...
Given that the Google client supports gears, it doesn't even go down if your internet goes out, so, I think we're all good.
As long as it _really_ works both ways, of course, when *non-commercial* works also pass into the public domain after five years, then fair is fair.
When originally GNU GPL-licensed code can be used without adhering to the license because it's moved into public domain.
That'd be truly fair.
Well, I think you might have it a little off too...
The GPL protects the rights of the *code* to always be open-source and freely distributable.
If I want to modify the software and distribute those modifications, but not release the source to my modifications, the GPL takes control, and denies me that privilege.
GPL protects the freedom of code, BSD protects the freedom of coders.
How much of that $0.29 per song is _profit_? The article you've linked to is *extremely* vague about the whole thing, and isn't even a primary source, so I feel that a bit of hyperbole might be involved.
If Apple keeps $0.29 per song, they still need to pay for _massive_ CDN bills, maintenance of the iTunes Store application and all the people needed to run the business operations, change the homepage, come up with "iTunes Essentials", market, etc.
I'm thinking that $570,000,000 should be tipping off your RidiculousRadar and telling you to read between the lines.
The HP "Mobile Internet Experience" Distro, designed to be only used on their netbooks, but _excellent_ on others, including my Lenovo S10 is my recommendation. You install it by using HP's "recovery usb key" tool:)
Get it at http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2020&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3860346#
It's very usuable, and fits right into the idea of a personal device as a resource to you. Plus, it's Ubuntu underneath, so you can add whatever you want:)
Honestly, I would understand if people were looking on CRTs, that could display all video at native resolution, but I really cannot abide anything displayed at non-native resolution.
Like, I seriously cannot understand how you could stand to watch video at even 720p on a 1080i display. I can't stand it when people at work have 1280x1024 LCDs at 800x600. I can't stand video wrong either.
Indeed. Openmindedness is a two-way street.
At my high-school, John Negroponte was a graduation speaker, and people who didn't have any relation to the graduating class or the school snuck in and shouted out during the speech. Not that the speech had *anything* to do with politics.
Heaven forbid that the enlightened people of educational institutions might learn something from people who's beliefs they largely disagree with.
Not really; pork is more like the 'bridge to nowhere' built in Alaska; projects that really only benefit the people in the home district of Senators and Representatives are usually what is called pork. At the very least, pork is something that the congresspeople can claim as a victory of their own come election time.
This isn't pork, since it doesn't produce something that benefits any areas or politicians specifically. This is pretty much just an example of regular spending for defense research.
Anyhow, Congress certainly wouldn't have had any say in whether or not the project is a go; the money comes out of the coffers of the DoD.
And people wonder why there is opposition to the GPL?
I remember recently someone saying that the GNU GPL is far less restrictive than corporate EULAs; I think examples like this show that it *can* be more restrictive in some cases. It doesn't *always* help the users (especially when the end users are people who don't give a flying... anything about the source code).
Slashdot Mirror
Or not, since MIT doesn't have a "Computer Science" program.
So, it's a group of national-level ISPs? The links says that two of them are Comcast and Time-Warner.
Comcast being the future owners of NBC, and a "content" company regardless.
Time-Warner being a content company too.
Why do we think it's not the normal content-publishers trying to screw people over?
They must be referring only to the Windsor county area? That's an odd way of putting it... my wikipedia statistics (which match with many I've heard on other media) indicate that the surplus cannot apply to the whole state...
73% of the state's electrical generation capacity which is 35% of the state's electrical needs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_yankee
Entergy is a power-production company
http://www.entergy.com/
One of the issues with shutting down Vermont Yankee is that it provides over a third of the electricity to the state. I feel like a lot of the reason it has been treated so leniently is because of the massive increase in price Vermonters face in getting power elsewhere in that kind of volume. Hydro-Quebec provides a good portion of the rest, perhaps they have the capacity, but there's nothing quite like homegrown cheap power.
And yet Apple is working hard and spending money implementing HTML5 and pushing for it to be more fully featured, more capable, able to replace Flash.
Its not that they don't want to allow people to run apps that they didn't buy on the App store, its that the number of tradeoffs in doing a "good" (for Flash) implementation of Flash take directly away from the experience Apple wants to deliver, and so, they don't do it.
Your bank fingerprints you? My banks (and they're two of the top 10 largest banks in the USA) most certainly do not.
On the Verizon map, it looks like they have 3G coverage over nearly the entire state of Vermont. That'll be the day. They don't even have coverage over main streets in major towns. (though, oftentimes AT&T does). I call BS on that map.
While Flash on 64bit windows still is nonexistent.
Well, perhaps 64-bit Flash on 64-bit Windows is nonexistent, but Flash is working just fine, thank you. And you don't need to do anything wonky to make full screen work.
Wow, does this mean ASCII art too? Then I must admit I'm a sex offender! I have sometimes used the expression if (C==8) in my programs...
Well, see there's you're problem: the government HATES when people use magic numbers in their programs. You should have done something more like:
static final int BALLS = 8;
if(C==BALLS)
Obviously
Well, it's *out there* pretty much in the same sense that newsgroups were out there... Or, like IMAP email is out there... Given that the Google client supports gears, it doesn't even go down if your internet goes out, so, I think we're all good.
As long as it _really_ works both ways, of course, when *non-commercial* works also pass into the public domain after five years, then fair is fair. When originally GNU GPL-licensed code can be used without adhering to the license because it's moved into public domain. That'd be truly fair.
Well, I think you might have it a little off too... The GPL protects the rights of the *code* to always be open-source and freely distributable. If I want to modify the software and distribute those modifications, but not release the source to my modifications, the GPL takes control, and denies me that privilege. GPL protects the freedom of code, BSD protects the freedom of coders.
How much of that $0.29 per song is _profit_? The article you've linked to is *extremely* vague about the whole thing, and isn't even a primary source, so I feel that a bit of hyperbole might be involved. If Apple keeps $0.29 per song, they still need to pay for _massive_ CDN bills, maintenance of the iTunes Store application and all the people needed to run the business operations, change the homepage, come up with "iTunes Essentials", market, etc. I'm thinking that $570,000,000 should be tipping off your RidiculousRadar and telling you to read between the lines.
The HP "Mobile Internet Experience" Distro, designed to be only used on their netbooks, but _excellent_ on others, including my Lenovo S10 is my recommendation. You install it by using HP's "recovery usb key" tool :)
Get it at http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2020&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3860346#
It's very usuable, and fits right into the idea of a personal device as a resource to you. Plus, it's Ubuntu underneath, so you can add whatever you want :)
Honestly, I would understand if people were looking on CRTs, that could display all video at native resolution, but I really cannot abide anything displayed at non-native resolution. Like, I seriously cannot understand how you could stand to watch video at even 720p on a 1080i display. I can't stand it when people at work have 1280x1024 LCDs at 800x600. I can't stand video wrong either.
...Aaaaaand Godwin's Law! That didn't take long.
Indeed. Openmindedness is a two-way street. At my high-school, John Negroponte was a graduation speaker, and people who didn't have any relation to the graduating class or the school snuck in and shouted out during the speech. Not that the speech had *anything* to do with politics.
Heaven forbid that the enlightened people of educational institutions might learn something from people who's beliefs they largely disagree with.
Not really; pork is more like the 'bridge to nowhere' built in Alaska; projects that really only benefit the people in the home district of Senators and Representatives are usually what is called pork. At the very least, pork is something that the congresspeople can claim as a victory of their own come election time. This isn't pork, since it doesn't produce something that benefits any areas or politicians specifically. This is pretty much just an example of regular spending for defense research. Anyhow, Congress certainly wouldn't have had any say in whether or not the project is a go; the money comes out of the coffers of the DoD.
And people wonder why there is opposition to the GPL? I remember recently someone saying that the GNU GPL is far less restrictive than corporate EULAs; I think examples like this show that it *can* be more restrictive in some cases. It doesn't *always* help the users (especially when the end users are people who don't give a flying ... anything about the source code).