The UK health system is not free, it's free at the point of use. It actually costs the British people a huge amount of money which is raised through taxation.
I was taught from a young age that it is a really bad idea to jump into water to try to save another person because of the chance that you might get into difficulties yourself. As the poor boy tragically demonstrates, jumping in is not necessarily the right answer.
When you first got the laptop, it had a copy of the CD ISO on it and a utility for burning it onto a real CD. If you have since wiped and reinstalled, you are buggered but if not, you may still be able to make some instal media.
Ah, but some of that $50 goes on fixed costs such as the cost of buying and installing the cabling and switches and routers and some of it goes on monthly costs not based on bytes transferred such as paying their sys admins and maintenance staff, renting their office space. Only a small proportion of the $50 is directly paying for the data transferred.
By the way, if your cable company is not already passing all of its costs onto its customers, it will go bust. What you really meant is that they are trying to find ways of improving their margins by taking on more customers without the equivalent upgrade to the infrastructure.
Mac OS X is not BSD. It uses a modified Mach3 kernel, the BSD network stack, the BSD virtual file system and the BSD interface into userland and BSD command line tools. The device driver system was written from the ground up by Apple (or possibly Next). Thwe various versions of OS X do not leave the kernel untouched. I know for a fact that, between 10.3 and 10.4 they made major improvements to kernel level locking and mutexes and also did a major rewrite to the VFS in order to abstract a cleaner interface and I think they did something similar to the network stack. There isn't much BSD left in the current incarnation of the Mac OS X kernel.
To be honest, I don't care about your need to buy second hand hardware on eBay cheaply, but I do care about my bank's incompetence at keeping its data secure (I'm a customer of Nat West, possibly soon to be ex customer). If this man had tried either of your suggestions, I would never have known about their stupidity.
Free fall speed was not achieved. If you look at a video of either of the two towers collapsing, you'll see that the debris ejected during the collapse falls faster than the building itself. The debris is in free fall, unless the CIA attached little rocket packs to each and every piece.
I haven't seen a video of WTC 7 collapsing, but I'm sure it'll turn out to be the same.
The guy whose PSU caught fire was carrying a spare. What does that tell you about his previous experience with PSU's?
I'm led to believe that gamers like to have high end equipment which suggests to me that the guy loaded his PC up with a ton of goodies that made his PSU marginal. Failures are probably a regular occurence for him, hence the spare PSU. If the circuit breaker did trip, it was probably caused by the PSU meltdown, not the other way around.
What's the cut off uid for being classified as a "grey beard"? I only want to know because I reckon I'm marginal and I need to know if I have to stop shaving.
Actually, it was your doing (our doing really, since for some unaccountable reason, my country followed yours into the Iraq fiasco). We went into Iraq and dismantled the machinery of government without an adequate plan for replacing it. The situation there now is the direct responsibility of the USA and the UK.
I like the way "narrow range" is defined to include almost the entire northern half of the continent of Africa. Even worse, your map doesn't tell you what you think it does. Although my country, the UK, is shown in the lightest colour green there are still about two million Muslims here. You're not gong to improve their attitude to the USA by nuking the Middle East and Africa, nor the sizeable quantity of Muslims (in absolute terms) in any of the other surviving countries, including yours.
We could solve the problem of ignorant dumbasses with a narrow range nuclear strike that takes out only the continental USA. What do you mean, most people in the USA aren't dumbasses? What do you mean there are dumbasses in other countries too?
"Out of 45 million iPod-years there have been 14 fires"
There's 45 million in Japan? Cuz it has happened elsewhere as well, so is def more than 14. Anyway, surely the maths should be more along the lines of - what's the chance that one of the people with a defective battery will board a plane with it? Across all the flights for all the planes, it happening once is enough to cause problems.
If you had bothered to read the parent poster's calculation properly, you'll see that your criticisms are already factored in. He talks about 45 million iPod years not 45 million iPods. He comes up with the answer that there will be one iPod fire per 5.5 million flights. I actually think that's a high estimate because with the number of flights there are, we'd have had an iPod fire on a plane reported by now.
If there is an iPod fire on a plane, what does that mean? Will it lead to the loss of the plane? I doubt it. Not so long ago it was legal to smoke cigarettes on planes. Nearly half the passengers used to deliberately light their own little fires and guess what: planes were not regularly plummeting from the skies in blazing fireballs.
If you are worried about the risks of self detonating iPods, here's another way to look at it. There are many times more iPods in the world than aeroplanes and we have only 14 reported cases of them catching fire. A lot more than 14 planes have crashed with fatalities, so why are you even thinking about getting on a plane in the first place. It's far too dangerous.
It may surprise you to know that airlines regularly transport large quantities of flammable kerosene on their aircraft. Not only that, but they often deliberately set fire to it during the flight. That sounds really dangerous to me and I think it should be stopped.
an object that is attracted to magnets in a magnetic field has potential energy much like an object suspended above the ground has potential energy by virtue of being in a gravitational field. In both cases, the energy of the object just before hitting the magnet/ground is the same as the work required to separate it from the magnet/ground and restore it to its starting position (assuming all energy conversions are 100% efficient).
You couldn't use the GPL, but you could construct an open source licence that allows redistribution provided you also pay the licence fee(s) to cover the patent(s).
For instance, I can write an AAC player and I can distribute it to you provided I pay whoever owns the patent the licence fee they request. That's not a problem, lots of people do it already. I might even charge you to cover the cost of the patent licence as well as my development costs plus a nice profit. This is the model used by proprietary software.
As well as the above I could also give you the source code. If I do this, you can look at the code, but that's pretty much it. You cannot redistribute the player in source or binary formats because copyright law would allow me to sue your ass off. However, I could grant you a licence to redistribute the player in source or binary format provided you meet certain conditions. One of the conditions might be that you licence the patent from the patent holder. Another condition might be that if you do redistriburte the software, you do so under the same terms as I gave it to you. Once you have done all that, you are free to do what you like with the code.
Of course, the patent holder might refuse to grant you a licence or might want more money than you are willing to pay, in which case you are buggered, but that's tough luck and there's no point in whining.
Yes they could but they don't have to, so why bother? Nobody in the BBC iPlayer team gives a rat's arse that people in the US of A etc cannot view iPlayer material because it's not in their mandate to provide it to anybody who is not in the UK.
Unfortunately, they (and I) missed the proclamation that said it is mandatory to provide everything to everybody on the Internet for free. There is no automatic right to view BBC material (unless you are a UK TV licence payer). Get over it.
1. They lock in the customer to proprietary applications and file formats
Neither Microsoft nor Apple do this. You are perfectly free to use open source applications and open file formats on their operating systems.
2. They are a big supporter of DRM.
Both Microsoft and Apple only do this to keep in with the content providers.
3. They do not fix bugs in their software quickly enough.
Nobody does that from the perspective of the person who can't get his work done because of the bug. It's a fact of life in any software that is developed according to a proper methodology.
4. Their products are overpriced.
What do you mean by "overpriced"? The fact that neither Apple nor Microsoft seem to have any problems finding buyers for their products tells us that they are not overpriced.
And, to be honest, why should I care how big a company is when I've never for one moment given even the slightest consideration to buying one of their products?
I have no idea why you should care. The fact is that you obviously do care because you have bothered to read this thread and bothered to make a post on it.
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The UK health system is not free, it's free at the point of use. It actually costs the British people a huge amount of money which is raised through taxation.
I was taught from a young age that it is a really bad idea to jump into water to try to save another person because of the chance that you might get into difficulties yourself. As the poor boy tragically demonstrates, jumping in is not necessarily the right answer.
When you first got the laptop, it had a copy of the CD ISO on it and a utility for burning it onto a real CD. If you have since wiped and reinstalled, you are buggered but if not, you may still be able to make some instal media.
Ah, but some of that $50 goes on fixed costs such as the cost of buying and installing the cabling and switches and routers and some of it goes on monthly costs not based on bytes transferred such as paying their sys admins and maintenance staff, renting their office space. Only a small proportion of the $50 is directly paying for the data transferred.
By the way, if your cable company is not already passing all of its costs onto its customers, it will go bust. What you really meant is that they are trying to find ways of improving their margins by taking on more customers without the equivalent upgrade to the infrastructure.
Slightly pedantic note:
Mac OS X is not BSD. It uses a modified Mach3 kernel, the BSD network stack, the BSD virtual file system and the BSD interface into userland and BSD command line tools. The device driver system was written from the ground up by Apple (or possibly Next). Thwe various versions of OS X do not leave the kernel untouched. I know for a fact that, between 10.3 and 10.4 they made major improvements to kernel level locking and mutexes and also did a major rewrite to the VFS in order to abstract a cleaner interface and I think they did something similar to the network stack. There isn't much BSD left in the current incarnation of the Mac OS X kernel.
To be honest, I don't care about your need to buy second hand hardware on eBay cheaply, but I do care about my bank's incompetence at keeping its data secure (I'm a customer of Nat West, possibly soon to be ex customer). If this man had tried either of your suggestions, I would never have known about their stupidity.
You really do need to get a sense of perspective.
Free fall speed was not achieved. If you look at a video of either of the two towers collapsing, you'll see that the debris ejected during the collapse falls faster than the building itself. The debris is in free fall, unless the CIA attached little rocket packs to each and every piece.
I haven't seen a video of WTC 7 collapsing, but I'm sure it'll turn out to be the same.
C+=2
C++++
++C++
Take your pick.
Stamp on everyone's hands. Nobody is going to steal heavy monitors or computers with broken fingers.
The guy whose PSU caught fire was carrying a spare. What does that tell you about his previous experience with PSU's?
I'm led to believe that gamers like to have high end equipment which suggests to me that the guy loaded his PC up with a ton of goodies that made his PSU marginal. Failures are probably a regular occurence for him, hence the spare PSU. If the circuit breaker did trip, it was probably caused by the PSU meltdown, not the other way around.
What's the cut off uid for being classified as a "grey beard"? I only want to know because I reckon I'm marginal and I need to know if I have to stop shaving.
Clueless, if the poster didn't realise that submitting the story anonymously would max out the irony meter.
The only reason he doesn't look like a jerk is that we don't know who he is.
Actually, it was your doing (our doing really, since for some unaccountable reason, my country followed yours into the Iraq fiasco). We went into Iraq and dismantled the machinery of government without an adequate plan for replacing it. The situation there now is the direct responsibility of the USA and the UK.
I like the way "narrow range" is defined to include almost the entire northern half of the continent of Africa. Even worse, your map doesn't tell you what you think it does. Although my country, the UK, is shown in the lightest colour green there are still about two million Muslims here. You're not gong to improve their attitude to the USA by nuking the Middle East and Africa, nor the sizeable quantity of Muslims (in absolute terms) in any of the other surviving countries, including yours.
We could solve the problem of ignorant dumbasses with a narrow range nuclear strike that takes out only the continental USA. What do you mean, most people in the USA aren't dumbasses? What do you mean there are dumbasses in other countries too?
iPod Nano
Chemical oxygen generator
Please stop trying to tell me that these two items have an equivalent risk of causing a fire in flight. I wasn't aware I looked that stupid.
If you had bothered to read the parent poster's calculation properly, you'll see that your criticisms are already factored in. He talks about 45 million iPod years not 45 million iPods. He comes up with the answer that there will be one iPod fire per 5.5 million flights. I actually think that's a high estimate because with the number of flights there are, we'd have had an iPod fire on a plane reported by now.
If there is an iPod fire on a plane, what does that mean? Will it lead to the loss of the plane? I doubt it. Not so long ago it was legal to smoke cigarettes on planes. Nearly half the passengers used to deliberately light their own little fires and guess what: planes were not regularly plummeting from the skies in blazing fireballs.
If you are worried about the risks of self detonating iPods, here's another way to look at it. There are many times more iPods in the world than aeroplanes and we have only 14 reported cases of them catching fire. A lot more than 14 planes have crashed with fatalities, so why are you even thinking about getting on a plane in the first place. It's far too dangerous.
It may surprise you to know that airlines regularly transport large quantities of flammable kerosene on their aircraft. Not only that, but they often deliberately set fire to it during the flight. That sounds really dangerous to me and I think it should be stopped.
I think you'll find that all of the affected iPods were right at the end of their lifetimes.
IANA physicist but,
an object that is attracted to magnets in a magnetic field has potential energy much like an object suspended above the ground has potential energy by virtue of being in a gravitational field. In both cases, the energy of the object just before hitting the magnet/ground is the same as the work required to separate it from the magnet/ground and restore it to its starting position (assuming all energy conversions are 100% efficient).
You work for a company that has a policy to which you are ethically opposed. Why don't you grow some balls and resign?
You couldn't use the GPL, but you could construct an open source licence that allows redistribution provided you also pay the licence fee(s) to cover the patent(s).
For instance, I can write an AAC player and I can distribute it to you provided I pay whoever owns the patent the licence fee they request. That's not a problem, lots of people do it already. I might even charge you to cover the cost of the patent licence as well as my development costs plus a nice profit. This is the model used by proprietary software.
As well as the above I could also give you the source code. If I do this, you can look at the code, but that's pretty much it. You cannot redistribute the player in source or binary formats because copyright law would allow me to sue your ass off. However, I could grant you a licence to redistribute the player in source or binary format provided you meet certain conditions. One of the conditions might be that you licence the patent from the patent holder. Another condition might be that if you do redistriburte the software, you do so under the same terms as I gave it to you. Once you have done all that, you are free to do what you like with the code.
Of course, the patent holder might refuse to grant you a licence or might want more money than you are willing to pay, in which case you are buggered, but that's tough luck and there's no point in whining.
Yes they could but they don't have to, so why bother? Nobody in the BBC iPlayer team gives a rat's arse that people in the US of A etc cannot view iPlayer material because it's not in their mandate to provide it to anybody who is not in the UK.
Unfortunately, they (and I) missed the proclamation that said it is mandatory to provide everything to everybody on the Internet for free. There is no automatic right to view BBC material (unless you are a UK TV licence payer). Get over it.
Neither Microsoft nor Apple do this. You are perfectly free to use open source applications and open file formats on their operating systems.
Both Microsoft and Apple only do this to keep in with the content providers.
Nobody does that from the perspective of the person who can't get his work done because of the bug. It's a fact of life in any software that is developed according to a proper methodology.
What do you mean by "overpriced"? The fact that neither Apple nor Microsoft seem to have any problems finding buyers for their products tells us that they are not overpriced.
I have no idea why you should care. The fact is that you obviously do care because you have bothered to read this thread and bothered to make a post on it.
As somebody who has written a bad device driver for Mac OSX I can confirm that a bad driver can and frequently has crashed my OS X kernel.
OS X is based on a microkernel, but in practice it is as monolithic as Linux or BSD.
OpenGL: interesting on all irrelevant platforms.