Interesting how quick you are to jump to conclusions. In actual fact, I live in Japan (and no, I'm not American). Bluetooth is included in quite a few products here, but I have yet to meet anyone who actually uses it.
I'd just like to point out that you can get a 24Mbps ADSL link in Japan for around $US40 a month, and a full 100Mbps fiber connection for around $US70 a month.
No, it's not because adoption rates have been slow - it's because Yahoo Japan is in the hole because of its massive infrastructure investment. Yahoo has effectively spent themselves into a corner - they need a subscriber to stay with them for several months to make back what it's cost them to gain that subscriber.
Not really. If cars were like Free Software, you could take your car to your local mechanic and get him to fix it for you, or possibly add some modifications to it.
Well gee, I guess I can do that right now.
Let's look at it the other way - if cars were like proprietary software, you'd have to take your car to the manufacturer to be repaired. Sometimes they'd make modifications without telling you, and sometimes those modifications would break your car, but the manufacturer would just say "Wait until the next time we decide to do modifications".
Let's see exactly how much a Porsche Carerra GT would cost Bill Gates (relatively speaking).
His net worth is currently $US34,234,884,352.40 (according to the Bill gates Net Worth Page). A brand-new Porsche Carerra GT costs an estimated $US400,000. That means that the cost to Bill Gates is approximately 0.0012% of his total worth. According to the US Census Bureau, the median net worth of a US household in 1995 was $US40,200. Let's adjust that upward by, say, 10% to take into account the past eight years - the amount is now $US44220. 0.0012% of 44220 is 53 cents.
Conclusion: A Porsche Carerra GT for Bill Gates is equivalent to a couple of cans of Coke for the average American.
because of the expertise they have built up on the Unix (news - web sites) platform, Sun's proprietary operating systems used to run computer server networks.
So UNIX belongs to Sun now? Hmmm... I think Darl's gonna have something to say about this...
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Can you say "astroturfing to ruin the release of Athlon64 coming up next week"?
I knew you could!
Interesting how quick you are to jump to conclusions. In actual fact, I live in Japan (and no, I'm not American). Bluetooth is included in quite a few products here, but I have yet to meet anyone who actually uses it.
How can you replace a technology that nobody actually *uses*?
PBKAC.
Following that logic, in a hundred years they'll be Nabiscococo.
Can you imagine the trouble they'd have if they reinstated the scenes with the Jewish Nazis?
In Japan you're not allowed to drive a car that's more than 3 years old or something ridiculous.
Bollocks. It used to be that the road tax on cars over ten years old was higher, but these days the difference is much less.
There's no requirement that your connection be voice+ADSL. You should be fine with your line.
OK, perhaps you can ask someone to bomb you so that you too can enjoy rebuilding your country.
I'd just like to point out that you can get a 24Mbps ADSL link in Japan for around $US40 a month, and a full 100Mbps fiber connection for around $US70 a month.
No, it's not because adoption rates have been slow - it's because Yahoo Japan is in the hole because of its massive infrastructure investment.
Yahoo has effectively spent themselves into a corner - they need a subscriber to stay with them for several months to make back what it's cost them to gain that subscriber.
Now all you have to do is figure out exactly what he meant by "his" operating system. He's laid claim to so many of them...
Not really. If cars were like Free Software, you could take your car to your local mechanic and get him to fix it for you, or possibly add some modifications to it.
Well gee, I guess I can do that right now.
Let's look at it the other way - if cars were like proprietary software, you'd have to take your car to the manufacturer to be repaired. Sometimes they'd make modifications without telling you, and sometimes those modifications would break your car, but the manufacturer would just say "Wait until the next time we decide to do modifications".
Let's see exactly how much a Porsche Carerra GT would cost Bill Gates (relatively speaking).
His net worth is currently $US34,234,884,352.40 (according to the Bill gates Net Worth Page).
A brand-new Porsche Carerra GT costs an estimated $US400,000.
That means that the cost to Bill Gates is approximately 0.0012% of his total worth.
According to the US Census Bureau, the median net worth of a US household in 1995 was $US40,200. Let's adjust that upward by, say, 10% to take into account the past eight years - the amount is now $US44220.
0.0012% of 44220 is 53 cents.
Conclusion: A Porsche Carerra GT for Bill Gates is equivalent to a couple of cans of Coke for the average American.
Perfect!
Whee, this is fun! (Check out the bottom line of the page.)
Anybody want to take bets on how long it takes for this site to be cracked?
If you can read Japanese, here's Sharp's explanation of how it works.
If you can't, look at the pretty diagrams and the stupid faked 3D photo.
I believe the PowerMacs came with 7.5 (at least, my 7100/80 did).
No, it's "ringo". "Ingo" is a word that means undergound slang or jargon.
It most definitely is baling wire. Do a Google search for it if you don't believe me.
because of the expertise they have built up on the Unix (news - web sites) platform, Sun's proprietary operating systems used to run computer server networks.
So UNIX belongs to Sun now? Hmmm... I think Darl's gonna have something to say about this...
No. There are patches out there that allow it to be done over the network block driver (nbd) - for example, this one.
Never heard of M-x vi-mode, I see ;)
Well, I was using Yahoo when it was still hosted on akebono. So there!
Of course, I dumped it when decent search engines became available... my favorite BG (Before Google) was Hotbot.
1,000,000 : Million (US) / Million (UK)
1,000,000,000 : Billion (US) / Milliard (UK)
1,000,000,000,000 : Trillion (US) / Billion (UK)
Of course, vocabulary infection from the US now means that a lot of people in the UK use the US terms anyway...