In a free country, a business is public and you can't deny service to people unless you have very good reasons.
Actually, I think you'll find that is incorrect. As I understand it, a business in the US can decide who they can do business with / offer service to provided that they don't discriminate on the basis of specifically legislated criteria; e.g. race, religion, (dis-)ability, etc. Even then there are limits. For instance you won't be able to hire a car if you are blind, or get life insurance if you have AIDs.
Coffee shops are not legally or morally obliged to let you use Kindles, any more than they are obliged to let you eat Big Macs, or dance on the table with your underpants on your head. Or a nightclub or restaurant can legally refuse to let you in because they disagree with your choice of clothing. Ultimately, it is a business decision.
Provide me the evidence. Just because you and a bunch of other people believe it is true, doesn't make it true. If it was really happening to any great extent, there would be evidence. Someone, somewhere would be blowing the whistle. (And I don't believe that all cops are corrupt, any more than I believe that all Americans are god fearing.)
Read this article: http://www.safemotorist.com/articles/traffic_ticket_quotas.aspx Among other things, it says that traffic fine quotas are explicitly forbidden in most jurisdictions (USA). Of course, you may be in a jurisdiction that doesn't forbid quotas, or where the local police ignore the rules.
My second point, is that individual police officers and the police force typically does not get any direct financial benefit for traffic fines. The collected fines generally goes into general government revenue. (In Australia, it is state or territory revenue.) So unless there is a quota system in place, the typically police have no particular incentive to act as revenue raisers.
My third point is that while traffic fines do raise revenue, appropriate use of speed traps, red light cameras and so on does reduce traffic accidents.
Finally, a long time ago (when speed cameras were new), I worked in the IT department of an Australian state police force. One of the systems that we ran for the police was a radar trap location planner. One of the inputs into that system was localized road accident statistics from the State's department of main roads.
I think the point that "by" was trying to make is that orbiting junk is not in the atmosphere. But in fact, according to wikipedia, the atmosphere includes the thermosphere where most orbiting junk is found.
Yes... but you still need to get the power to somewhere where there are people to use it. The point is that there are plenty of sites for generating wind, solar, etc power in North America. Besides... do you envisage Russia building lots of wind farms in Kamchatka?
(That's insightful?? There's a few people here who don't understand high school chemistry...)
The only plausible way to build an intercontinental power grid would be to use superconducting cables. Until they figure out how to build semiconductor cables that operate at room temperature, I don't think it would be economical.
Here's an excerpt from the current Evaluation License, copied from the SugarCRM website.
Licensee shall not bifurcate the source code for any SugarCRM open source licensed products into a separately maintained source code repository so that development done on the original code requires manual work to be transferred to the forked software or so that the forked software starts to have features not present in the original software.
Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never worked for a company that took that attitude. Personally, I think that approach is counter-productive because it leads to staff dissatisfaction, disloyalty and increased staff turnover rates. All of these hurt the employer in the long run.
In fact, it is the Outer Space Treaty, and it bans nuclear weapons installed in Earth orbit or on the Moon, but it does not ban nuclear weapons in space entirely.
I think that the treaty in question bans Nuclear WEAPONS in space. Both the US and USSR have launched satellites, etc that have used nuclear power sources.
Some others might see some practical value in suggesting, "Maybe lock your door at night."
The problem is there is no simple laymans advice like that that would solve his problem. He needs someone to fit new locks to his doors, etc not just turn the key in the door.
I would call those conspiracy theories rather than rumors. Either way, they have about as much factual foundation as "rumors" that the Apollo moon landings were faked.
The comparison is not with massively over-spec'ed gaming machines or CAD monsters. It is with the bottom end desktop boxes, etcetera that millions of office workers use.
Two of the factors that drive price in the PC marketplace are competition and scale. On the one hand, if WYSE (or whoever) are the only people selling thin client machines, then they don't need to worry about competitors undercutting them. On the other hand is WYSE is only selling low volumes of thin client machines (because most customers are buying regular desktops/laptops/notebooks/whatever), then they have to sell them at a higher price to recoup development costs, costs of setting up production lines, costs of buying components in smaller volumes, marketing costs and so on.
Strictly speaking, the Livermore gun used a chemical explosion to compress hydrogen to a few thousand atmospheres. The projectile was then propelled by the expansion of the hydrogen in the main barrel.
Maybe, maybe not. Amazon may have enough buying power to extract a refund from ASUS. But that could backfire on them... or it could work in their favour.
A lot depends on how many more people ask Amazon for a refund for an unwanted Windows license!!
I'm aware that GMail etc (currently) store your data on Google's servers. If that concerns you, don't use these webapps. My point was that if the Chrome OS is open source, people will be able to avoid using "nasty" Google webapps.
95% of users don't care whether stuff on their computer is applications, web applications or blue cheese. The just want the computer to be cheap, fast and easy to use for looking at websites, reading their email, writing documents and things like that. The way I read it, Chrome OS is aimed this 95%.
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wow 9.5699 ZB of Porn, porn, porn
Nah. Porn is measured in jigajigabytes.
However, I don't think that global warming is likely to be a problem on the Moon :-)
In a free country, a business is public and you can't deny service to people unless you have very good reasons.
Actually, I think you'll find that is incorrect. As I understand it, a business in the US can decide who they can do business with / offer service to provided that they don't discriminate on the basis of specifically legislated criteria; e.g. race, religion, (dis-)ability, etc. Even then there are limits. For instance you won't be able to hire a car if you are blind, or get life insurance if you have AIDs.
Coffee shops are not legally or morally obliged to let you use Kindles, any more than they are obliged to let you eat Big Macs, or dance on the table with your underpants on your head. Or a nightclub or restaurant can legally refuse to let you in because they disagree with your choice of clothing. Ultimately, it is a business decision.
... for the spoken book edition.
They can just come by at 3am and replace the USB drive with something else ... with a little camera off to one side.
Provide me the evidence. Just because you and a bunch of other people believe it is true, doesn't make it true. If it was really happening to any great extent, there would be evidence. Someone, somewhere would be blowing the whistle. (And I don't believe that all cops are corrupt, any more than I believe that all Americans are god fearing.)
My second point, is that individual police officers and the police force typically does not get any direct financial benefit for traffic fines. The collected fines generally goes into general government revenue. (In Australia, it is state or territory revenue.) So unless there is a quota system in place, the typically police have no particular incentive to act as revenue raisers.
My third point is that while traffic fines do raise revenue, appropriate use of speed traps, red light cameras and so on does reduce traffic accidents.
Finally, a long time ago (when speed cameras were new), I worked in the IT department of an Australian state police force. One of the systems that we ran for the police was a radar trap location planner. One of the inputs into that system was localized road accident statistics from the State's department of main roads.
I think the point that "by" was trying to make is that orbiting junk is not in the atmosphere. But in fact, according to wikipedia, the atmosphere includes the thermosphere where most orbiting junk is found.
Yes ... but you still need to get the power to somewhere where there are people to use it. The point is that there are plenty of sites for generating wind, solar, etc power in North America. Besides ... do you envisage Russia building lots of wind farms in Kamchatka?
Well good for you! Now if we could just stop Windows users breeding ... ;-)
Microsoft already have more bugs than they know what to do with. They don't need people reporting more :-)
Maybe run DC through the water.
(That's insightful?? There's a few people here who don't understand high school chemistry ...)
The only plausible way to build an intercontinental power grid would be to use superconducting cables. Until they figure out how to build semiconductor cables that operate at room temperature, I don't think it would be economical.
It's a pity that you cannot pump sand efficiently :-)
Yea. Great novel. But the island was grown by an essentially biological process ... IIRC.
That smells of "not open source" to me.
Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never worked for a company that took that attitude. Personally, I think that approach is counter-productive because it leads to staff dissatisfaction, disloyalty and increased staff turnover rates. All of these hurt the employer in the long run.
In fact, it is the Outer Space Treaty, and it bans nuclear weapons installed in Earth orbit or on the Moon, but it does not ban nuclear weapons in space entirely.
I think that the treaty in question bans Nuclear WEAPONS in space. Both the US and USSR have launched satellites, etc that have used nuclear power sources.
Some others might see some practical value in suggesting, "Maybe lock your door at night."
The problem is there is no simple laymans advice like that that would solve his problem. He needs someone to fit new locks to his doors, etc not just turn the key in the door.
I would call those conspiracy theories rather than rumors. Either way, they have about as much factual foundation as "rumors" that the Apollo moon landings were faked.
I'm struggling to find the connection there ...
The comparison is not with massively over-spec'ed gaming machines or CAD monsters. It is with the bottom end desktop boxes, etcetera that millions of office workers use.
Two of the factors that drive price in the PC marketplace are competition and scale. On the one hand, if WYSE (or whoever) are the only people selling thin client machines, then they don't need to worry about competitors undercutting them. On the other hand is WYSE is only selling low volumes of thin client machines (because most customers are buying regular desktops/laptops/notebooks/whatever), then they have to sell them at a higher price to recoup development costs, costs of setting up production lines, costs of buying components in smaller volumes, marketing costs and so on.
Strictly speaking, the Livermore gun used a chemical explosion to compress hydrogen to a few thousand atmospheres. The projectile was then propelled by the expansion of the hydrogen in the main barrel.
Maybe, maybe not. Amazon may have enough buying power to extract a refund from ASUS. But that could backfire on them ... or it could work in their favour.
A lot depends on how many more people ask Amazon for a refund for an unwanted Windows license!!
I'm aware that GMail etc (currently) store your data on Google's servers. If that concerns you, don't use these webapps. My point was that if the Chrome OS is open source, people will be able to avoid using "nasty" Google webapps.
95% of users don't care whether stuff on their computer is applications, web applications or blue cheese. The just want the computer to be cheap, fast and easy to use for looking at websites, reading their email, writing documents and things like that. The way I read it, Chrome OS is aimed this 95%.