No, the problem is that now that making the batteries here could actually be profitable, all the experienced workers, materials, manufacturing plants are elsewhere. Without the government stimulus, the as-yet unborn US battery industry would never become profitable simply because it wouldn't exist.
The idea that private industry could survive without ever receiving help from the government is ridiculous.
What's to stop a larger service company from buying a smaller one just to tear it apart for less competition ? Less competition, more money for larger company, which grows even larger. So they buy yet another company... and so on and so forth until you have a monopoly.
The *only* way to avoid a persistent, deleterious monopoly is to pass and enforce laws that require it. (see ATT, MS, standard oil, etc... )
True, but I have seen many setups with automatic updates turned on, but IE6 being used. You have to explicitly select IE7 to install. So even if their system is updated, they are still exposed to many more problems.
I don't think it's fair to compare with a food or beverage company, or with things that typically cost much less. The output will obviously be much higher for those.
On the other hand, I'm sure there's plenty of things of similar price that ship in similar quantities... like tires for example.
This has got to be one of the worst tests I have ever seen. Their 'real world' tests were made on operations that take mostly processor power. Without getting into the completely retarded game testing, they looked at encoding, compression, and file encryption. Sorry but for me this tells practically nothing of the speed of a file system.
I would have like to see:
creating 4gb of large files
deleting 4gb of large files
copying 4gb of large files
creating 4gb of small files
deleting 4gb of small files
copying 4gb of small files
what happens if you yank the power plug during a FS operation ?
Start up times for OpenOffice, Eclipse, and GIMP
And then, sure do the tests they ran, but not just
well it is free porn with no ads, no evil JS... so I would say that's pretty informative in a way, though the current moderation of offtopic is much more appropriate.
No, it wouldn't. Under the hood, winCE is a completely different OS, with different APIs and libraries. OS X on iphone is derived from 'regular' OS X. Sure they stripped out a bunch of stuff, but fundamentaly it's the same OS, using the same libraries where applicable.
Russell went on to defend Vista, specifically its ability to "run on a very wide-ranging set of systems from the minimally capable to the incredibly capable," he said. "Apple doesn't do that."
Riiiiight. Apple was able to slim down OS X to run on an ARM smartphone, can MS do the same with Vista ? Oh yeah that's right, they had to extend the life of XP just for the netbook market, cause there's no way Vista could run on that hardware, and they were afraid of Linux taking over.
I can't see how this guy could think that, did he not ever use Vista ?
I would say that for 80-90 % of people out there, ( 6 ) is not an issue anymore. I haven't had an issue with poor driver support in Linux in a few years now, and this includes home & professional use. Even with getting 'el cheapo' hardware at times, or old hardware, or even brand new graphic cards. I've set up a bunch of Linux boxes for friends/relatives with never a hardware problem.
But ( 1 ), yeah that's the big problem. Hopefully Wine will help out there, as some people (like me) refuse to give up their PC games - consoles just don't feel right...
Depends where you are... in Florida you don't even leave the parking lot to pass the driving test, in France they can ask you to change a tire on the side of the highway.
In old cities there are streets sometimes still named for the trade it used to have : jewelers, tanners, hat makers, carpenters, etc each had their own street. The more things change...
I limited to 18-20 because in the application I'm using it in there can be no dates older than that (US real estate). For sure you could change that if needed.
Time is almost as fun as character encodings;-)
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Troll mod huh ? I guess that the one redeeming quality of the British - their humor - can't even be counted on anymore.
No, the problem is that now that making the batteries here could actually be profitable, all the experienced workers, materials, manufacturing plants are elsewhere. Without the government stimulus, the as-yet unborn US battery industry would never become profitable simply because it wouldn't exist.
The idea that private industry could survive without ever receiving help from the government is ridiculous.
What's to stop a larger service company from buying a smaller one just to tear it apart for less competition ? Less competition, more money for larger company, which grows even larger. So they buy yet another company ... and so on and so forth until you have a monopoly.
... )
The *only* way to avoid a persistent, deleterious monopoly is to pass and enforce laws that require it.
(see ATT, MS, standard oil, etc
One set by the user not to.
True, but I have seen many setups with automatic updates turned on, but IE6 being used. You have to explicitly select IE7 to install. So even if their system is updated, they are still exposed to many more problems.
That would be IE 9
That's because 'WebKit' sounds better than 'KHTML'.
it's unlocked, so any service that accepts :
GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), 3G
should work.
The Agora will cost AU$299, and the Agora Pro will be AU$399.
$299 AUD ~= $195 USD
$399 AUD ~= $260 USD
I don't think it's fair to compare with a food or beverage company, or with things that typically cost much less. The output will obviously be much higher for those. ... like tires for example.
On the other hand, I'm sure there's plenty of things of similar price that ship in similar quantities
This has got to be one of the worst tests I have ever seen. Their 'real world' tests were made on operations that take mostly processor power. Without getting into the completely retarded game testing, they looked at encoding, compression, and file encryption. Sorry but for me this tells practically nothing of the speed of a file system. :
I would have like to see
creating 4gb of large files
deleting 4gb of large files
copying 4gb of large files
creating 4gb of small files
deleting 4gb of small files
copying 4gb of small files
what happens if you yank the power plug during a FS operation ?
Start up times for OpenOffice, Eclipse, and GIMP
And then, sure do the tests they ran, but not just
select `id` from `table` where `blob_field` is not null
all tables should have an 'id' column (that's just standard practice), the above query will tell you which rows contain data.
well it is free porn with no ads, no evil JS ... so I would say that's pretty informative in a way, though the current moderation of offtopic is much more appropriate.
Didn't you get the memo ? All FCC programming must now be done in Python.
No, it wouldn't. Under the hood, winCE is a completely different OS, with different APIs and libraries. OS X on iphone is derived from 'regular' OS X. Sure they stripped out a bunch of stuff, but fundamentaly it's the same OS, using the same libraries where applicable.
Russell went on to defend Vista, specifically its ability to "run on a very wide-ranging set of systems from the minimally capable to the incredibly capable," he said. "Apple doesn't do that."
Riiiiight. Apple was able to slim down OS X to run on an ARM smartphone, can MS do the same with Vista ? Oh yeah that's right, they had to extend the life of XP just for the netbook market, cause there's no way Vista could run on that hardware, and they were afraid of Linux taking over.
I can't see how this guy could think that, did he not ever use Vista ?
I would say that for 80-90 % of people out there, ( 6 ) is not an issue anymore. I haven't had an issue with poor driver support in Linux in a few years now, and this includes home & professional use. Even with getting 'el cheapo' hardware at times, or old hardware, or even brand new graphic cards. I've set up a bunch of Linux boxes for friends/relatives with never a hardware problem.
...
But ( 1 ), yeah that's the big problem. Hopefully Wine will help out there, as some people (like me) refuse to give up their PC games - consoles just don't feel right
I had no problems getting openSuSE to play DVDs, mp3s, etc ... no compiling needed, just needed to enable some repos.
I agree though, Ubuntu makes it so much easier - the first time you atempt to play one it asks you to download the proper codec.
Depends where you are ... in Florida you don't even leave the parking lot to pass the driving test, in France they can ask you to change a tire on the side of the highway.
In old cities there are streets sometimes still named for the trade it used to have : jewelers, tanners, hat makers, carpenters, etc each had their own street. The more things change ...
If you are not a US citizen you are required to have valid state or federal ID.
I limited to 18-20 because in the application I'm using it in there can be no dates older than that (US real estate). For sure you could change that if needed. ;-)
Time is almost as fun as character encodings
Thanks for the corrections. I knew someone would find something to improve on ;-)
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