Karl Marx said, the capitalist sells us the rope with which we will hang him. US companies aren't stupid, this is capitalism, hence the risk of IP getting stolen by the Chinese is already counted in. Obviously, it is still more profitable compared to producing domestically, where one has to deal with unions, layoffs, politicians, TV cameras etc.
Wouldn't it be more technologically advanced to focus research more on power-saving, or generally speaking, efficiency, instead of building more and more reactors, even if they are smaller?
The Twitter revolutions started off in totalitarian countries and are now slowly progressing towards more open countries. It's just a matter of time until so called 'democratic' countries like the US or Europe are affected.
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I wouldn't underestimate the userbase, because nowadays bills are often attached to an e-mail as PDF, and the mail reads something like to view the attached PDF file you have to install Adobe Reader. The mandatory sound made a not-so-computer-savvy friend of mine install AR on her Mac until I explained to her that Preview would work fine.
Why do we need support for 3D files, embedded file attachments, JavaScript and all that crap in a file format that was originally intended to print documents? I'm glad that there are alternativs to Adobe Reader that just support the old idea of a printable document file format and nothing more, for example Preview on OS X, for other OS see this list. The crazy thing is that Adobe Reader is promoted by a lot of companies that use PDFs to send out bills electronically, i.e. to open the attachment, you need to download Acrobat Reader. Which is not only a wrong statement, but also a suggestion to install an application that has been plagued with security faults.
Anyone remember ECHELON. The US spying on its own allies is not an issue since 9/11 and the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act and 9/11 just gave them a new ground to put political pressure on the EU (see also airline passenger data and SWIFT) after the cold war was over. Is there anything similar to Room 641A in the EU? The US demanding all kinds of intelligence data from the EU would maybe Ok provided that the deal would be mutual. But does the EU get US airline passenger data? No. Does the EU get US bank transfer information? No.
I agree that the odds for an encounter that would propel the probe to galactic exit velocity or more, are very low. However, the time and space scales we're talking about are so big that agentgonzo's seemingly conclusive statement shouldn't be left uncommented.
Not true. While its current velocity is too low to escape our galaxy, this can change quickly (in terms of the cosmic time scale) should the probe have a close encounter with a planet or star. This is known as swing-by and was actually used to accelarate the Voyager probes out of the solar system.
I find the recent discussions in the US about distributing wealth equally rather funny. The US was the country to advocate capitalism and free markets, so much that communists were pursued (Hollywood blacklist, McCarthy). 50 years later, Russia has an Oligarchy and the US has the occupy movement.
Obviously, both extremes didn't work out in terms of spreading the wealth equally.
Wasn't there a Windows95 bug that would 100% crash the OS after 46 days? And it took years to find this bug because usually the OS would crash much much earlier...
Whether you buy AMD products or not, you can't ignore the fact that AMD is an important counter-balance to Intel. Without AMD, Intel would have a monopoly in CPUs which would bring prices up and innovation down until other competitors, like ARM, would fill in the gap, which could take some time.
The patents seem to originate from the 90's, one explicitly mentions Windows 95.
Here is what they have patented:
1) While loading a web page, the browser displays a placeholder before an image has been completely downloaded
2) When loading a web page, the browser prioritizes the download of images
3) The OS supplies applications with a system-wide API (DLL in Microsoft speak) to display icons and keyboard shortcuts in application windows
4) Annotating a read-only file by writing the annotations into a new file
5) Putting handles on a selected text area to allow for editing
I'm not surprised that B&N calls those patents trivial. By today's standards they certainly are. Not sure however what the situation was back in 1996.
Given how late they were in the browser wars, I would be surprised if 1) and 2) wouldn't be prior art. 3) sounds like they patented to have Motif in the OS rather than just the display manager. I'm pretty sure that 4) is also prior art. And lacking an Android device, I have only seen 5) in iOS so far.
On UNIX, if Python would come bundled with GIMP, it would be installed in/usr/bin and thus available to all applications, whereas on ingenious Windows, the default install location would be somewhere in \Program Files\ where it never gets picked up by anything.
I don't think that Splashtop and similiar solutions qualify as an OS in terms of Microsoft OEM contracts, because it is part of the BIOS and is not installed on the hard disk.
The reason why we haven't seen this on Windows PCs so far are probably the tight restrictions that Microsoft puts on OEMs in order to be applicable for a rebate, which probably exclude any other OS on the same machine. In other words, if the big PC hardware manufacturers like Dell, HP etc. would put Windows and Linux on the same PC, they'd have to pay the retail price for Windows rather than the monopoly-supported OEM price, which obviously would cut deep into their margins.
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Karl Marx said, the capitalist sells us the rope with which we will hang him. US companies aren't stupid, this is capitalism, hence the risk of IP getting stolen by the Chinese is already counted in. Obviously, it is still more profitable compared to producing domestically, where one has to deal with unions, layoffs, politicians, TV cameras etc.
Wouldn't it be more technologically advanced to focus research more on power-saving, or generally speaking, efficiency, instead of building more and more reactors, even if they are smaller?
reactor outlives you!
Deutsche Sprache schwere Sprache!
In Soviet Russia, Florida is everywhere!
I didn't mod your comment up. For obvious reasons.
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I don't.
I wouldn't underestimate the userbase, because nowadays bills are often attached to an e-mail as PDF, and the mail reads something like to view the attached PDF file you have to install Adobe Reader. The mandatory sound made a not-so-computer-savvy friend of mine install AR on her Mac until I explained to her that Preview would work fine.
Why do we need support for 3D files, embedded file attachments, JavaScript and all that crap in a file format that was originally intended to print documents? I'm glad that there are alternativs to Adobe Reader that just support the old idea of a printable document file format and nothing more, for example Preview on OS X, for other OS see this list. The crazy thing is that Adobe Reader is promoted by a lot of companies that use PDFs to send out bills electronically, i.e. to open the attachment, you need to download Acrobat Reader. Which is not only a wrong statement, but also a suggestion to install an application that has been plagued with security faults.
So why should we trust the US?
I agree that the odds for an encounter that would propel the probe to galactic exit velocity or more, are very low. However, the time and space scales we're talking about are so big that agentgonzo's seemingly conclusive statement shouldn't be left uncommented.
Not true. While its current velocity is too low to escape our galaxy, this can change quickly (in terms of the cosmic time scale) should the probe have a close encounter with a planet or star. This is known as swing-by and was actually used to accelarate the Voyager probes out of the solar system.
Obviously, both extremes didn't work out in terms of spreading the wealth equally.
Last time I got a Kernel Panic was with 0.99.11.
Wasn't there a Windows95 bug that would 100% crash the OS after 46 days? And it took years to find this bug because usually the OS would crash much much earlier...
Whether you buy AMD products or not, you can't ignore the fact that AMD is an important counter-balance to Intel. Without AMD, Intel would have a monopoly in CPUs which would bring prices up and innovation down until other competitors, like ARM, would fill in the gap, which could take some time.
1) While loading a web page, the browser displays a placeholder before an image has been completely downloaded
2) When loading a web page, the browser prioritizes the download of images
3) The OS supplies applications with a system-wide API (DLL in Microsoft speak) to display icons and keyboard shortcuts in application windows
4) Annotating a read-only file by writing the annotations into a new file
5) Putting handles on a selected text area to allow for editing
I'm not surprised that B&N calls those patents trivial. By today's standards they certainly are. Not sure however what the situation was back in 1996. Given how late they were in the browser wars, I would be surprised if 1) and 2) wouldn't be prior art. 3) sounds like they patented to have Motif in the OS rather than just the display manager. I'm pretty sure that 4) is also prior art. And lacking an Android device, I have only seen 5) in iOS so far.
On UNIX, if Python would come bundled with GIMP, it would be installed in /usr/bin and thus available to all applications, whereas on ingenious Windows, the default install location would be somewhere in \Program Files\ where it never gets picked up by anything.
So as I terrorist I switch to a Mac and I'm safe? Nice.....
I don't think that Splashtop and similiar solutions qualify as an OS in terms of Microsoft OEM contracts, because it is part of the BIOS and is not installed on the hard disk.
The reason why we haven't seen this on Windows PCs so far are probably the tight restrictions that Microsoft puts on OEMs in order to be applicable for a rebate, which probably exclude any other OS on the same machine. In other words, if the big PC hardware manufacturers like Dell, HP etc. would put Windows and Linux on the same PC, they'd have to pay the retail price for Windows rather than the monopoly-supported OEM price, which obviously would cut deep into their margins.
There's no way for one app to "force share" with another app behind user's back.
Wait until the malware authors find one. This is a huge entry door and I bet my ass it will be exploitet ad nauseum.