An interesting idea but surely this is kind of backwards ?
During busy times there are lots of vehicles on the road with their lights on so it is easy to see other road users and it is less likely that you will find unexpected obstacles in the road such as animals and people straying into the road. However during quiet times only your lights are illuminating the road and you are far more likely to encounter unseen obstacles.
Simple, copyright the keys and deny permission for any MAFIAA employe to use or share the keys. Then any attempt by them to start a legal case would require them to admit to having infringed the key copyright in order to obtain their information.
Well in the UK at least there are no charges for medical treatment and people who are retired or unemployed get free drugs where as the rest pay a flat fee for a prescription that could be $1000's worth of drugs for the equivalent of $10.
Arrgh, what is it with slashdot posters, there is no such thing as Logo's, just like you don't say multiple USB's, you say multiple USB Ports. Lego is the brand name for the construction system and the components are called bricks or components, so the correct way to say this would be 'multiple Lego bricks' or 'multiple Lego components'.
Apple have for a long time now been heading down the mass market road, professional tools where people use a computer for serious work with complex applications is not what Apple is interested in any more. Such markets require a lot of investment to provide features for a relatively small market, many of the features missing from final cut pro X for example are probably only really used by a few thousand serious professionals worldwide. Apple has clearly decided that selling to a wider audience is more profitable. The more mass market tools they can get on their platforms the more hardware they will sell. So if Final Cut X is seen as an almost professional video editing system for a cheap price they could sell a million more macs, where as the perfect pro suite might net them a few thousand top end systems. A million more consumer level mac sales are far more valuable to them as their economies of scale go up, they can push the component prices down and make higher profits on every mac sold.
OSX Lion has been dumbing down with features like versions and local snapshots that can't be turned off, I have stayed with snow leopard because Lion spends to much time trying to force me to do something its way rather then letting me choose how I want to work.
Finally Apple stumbled across the app store model after the release of the iPhone, consumers pushed to install their own apps on the device and Apple reluctantly created the walled garden that requires you to pay to play and takes a cut from every app sold. What use is selling 1000 copies of Autocad via the app store even with a $300 commission when you can push out 5 million copies of some silly game that will get forgotten about in 6 months time and the next craze comes along and sells another 5 million copies.
Apple is all about increasing market share, get as much hardware out here as possible to fuel the app store model and get as many mass market titles in the app store as they can to further extend the captive market for even more apps from the app store.
Apart from their core search Google are beginning to loose face, far to many projects started and thrown out. Who is going to invest time and effort using a google service when there is a good chance that it is going to be pulled?
Unlike software installed on a computer you are forced to migrate when google decides to shut things down. It's not as though you can just carry on using the service until it no longer meets your needs. Not just a google problem but a wider problem for the whole software as a service concept.
No, they don't even get any commission from the Bletchley Trust when they run an event that brings in lots of PAYING visitors. The National Museum of Computing essentially just rents the space as a tenant, despite their efforts being responsible for increasing visitor numbers they get no special recognition from Betchley.
meh, who cares sony is irrelevant thee days to me anyway. I stopped buying games when they pulled the Linux support and now the PS3 is nothing more than a blu-ray player. Sony have already done plenty enough to turn me away so like many I imagine I simply won't be buying in to any future Sony systems.
Part of it has been, the site was bigger than it is now but a few years ago part of it was sold to developers, fortunately it was just some open ground, not any of the buildings.
It would be better to say that because the government is paying for dead rats that an industry has developed around it. Now rather than just taking in urban rats that are causing a nuisance rat catchers are breaking into peoples homes to steal pet rats and taking trips in to the country with dogs to flush or rats in the wild.
This is just someones excuse to get free gadgets.
How will the politicians send letters to their constituents without a printer ? oh wait thy will still have a printer to run and maintain and as soon as they realise that reading on an iPad screen is uncomfortable they will start printing their documents again and the iPad will just get used to play Angry Birds on the tax payers dime.
While I like the idea of long term storage only half the problem is solved as when the hardware goes obsolete there will be nothing to read them on. The BBC 1986 Domesday project stored data on laserdisc, while the laserdiscs survived very few players capable of reading them survived. Now this was a high profile project that people made the effort to recover, but what about all the stuff that is not considered valuable until it is to late. Who is going to find something that can read a DVD in 100 years time ? And even if you did, will the file formats be readable by anything or will the 1000 year copyright laws that we will have by then prevent someone writing software to read a long since defunct file format ?
People are not leaving BT completely but rather switching call providers. BT are a monopoly in the UK, they are the only national provider of landlines. Due to regulation they are forced to allow third party telecoms providers to lease the lines at a wholesale rate. As a result there are hundreds of so called providers that do nothing more than lease the lines at wholesale prices and then sell them on to the consumer at a lower rate than the BT retail price. BT have been continually increasing their retail prices for both line rental and call charges so consumers are naturally switching their call traffic to the cheaper resellers.
As others have said Virgin are useless and their prices are not competitive so people are switching to DSL either to get a better deal or better service.
Note, BT retail are in fact gaining broadband customers despite loosing landline customers as they offer the most competitive Fibre To The Cabinet DSL service and many of the other DSL providers are either not offering FTTC or are far more expensive than the BT Infiniti option.
Well to be accurate the data is stored on the part of the disc that would normally be used for audio. The text data is Digital but the images are analouge a lot more info here http://www.microcomputer.org.uk/projects/domesday.html
To see who the real people are who should be credited with this project, see the official BBC Acknowledgements page. You will see from the official Acknowledgements on the BBC site http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/story that there is no mention of the Centre for Computing History. BBC Employees part of George Auckland's Innovations Team deserve the credit for the work done here.
The truth of the story is that the BBC have had the Community data and pictures available for a long time but legal issues prevented them from publishing it, this Centre for Computing History is just trying to free ride on the publicity generated by the BBC.
What they really mean is that they don't need expensive phase converters so that the AC supply produced is in phase with the mains electricity. Much easier and cheaper to put the output into a rectifier.
Currently the new app store is just one of many ways to get apps for your Mac.
It has some good points and bad points, but the good one being that it will be easier for developers to get exposure as people will be all looking in one place for apps. The down side is that Apple has realised that taking a cut from other peoples work is by far the best way to make significant profits with minimum investment. The iOS app store has shown Apple that instead having to hire lots of highly skilled staff to build hardware and software it can simply act as a distribution chanel where it has to hold no inventory itself. Just like eBay they are taking a percentage of avery sale without having to make any investment in building the software themselves.
Apple has no interest in locking down the MacOS just because of some control freaky, it is purely a profit motive. This is just the first step toward pushing all software sales via apple in order to raise profits. Clearly future editions of MacOS will gradually become more integrated with the App store, so new libraries will only be available to apps that come via the App store, then anything you launch that is not downloaded from the App store will stat displaying dire warnings about "this software has not been approved by apple your computer is at risk'. Untill eventually Apple stop providing development tools for development outside the App store environment until it is only possible to run unsigned apps in some sort of low performance protected sandbox. The more software purchases they can push through their store the more profit they make. Dont make the mistake of thinking that Apple haven't seen that opportunity and will milk it for all it is worth.
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An interesting idea but surely this is kind of backwards ? During busy times there are lots of vehicles on the road with their lights on so it is easy to see other road users and it is less likely that you will find unexpected obstacles in the road such as animals and people straying into the road. However during quiet times only your lights are illuminating the road and you are far more likely to encounter unseen obstacles.
Yes that one is really stupid, can you not see the L in solder ? Sodder sounds like something gay men should be doing.
Simple, copyright the keys and deny permission for any MAFIAA employe to use or share the keys. Then any attempt by them to start a legal case would require them to admit to having infringed the key copyright in order to obtain their information.
Surely God will have the answer not a bunch of heathen nerds on slashdot ? Perhaps you need to pray harder for the answer.
Well in the UK at least there are no charges for medical treatment and people who are retired or unemployed get free drugs where as the rest pay a flat fee for a prescription that could be $1000's worth of drugs for the equivalent of $10.
Arrgh, what is it with slashdot posters, there is no such thing as Logo's, just like you don't say multiple USB's, you say multiple USB Ports. Lego is the brand name for the construction system and the components are called bricks or components, so the correct way to say this would be 'multiple Lego bricks' or 'multiple Lego components'.
Apple have for a long time now been heading down the mass market road, professional tools where people use a computer for serious work with complex applications is not what Apple is interested in any more. Such markets require a lot of investment to provide features for a relatively small market, many of the features missing from final cut pro X for example are probably only really used by a few thousand serious professionals worldwide. Apple has clearly decided that selling to a wider audience is more profitable. The more mass market tools they can get on their platforms the more hardware they will sell. So if Final Cut X is seen as an almost professional video editing system for a cheap price they could sell a million more macs, where as the perfect pro suite might net them a few thousand top end systems. A million more consumer level mac sales are far more valuable to them as their economies of scale go up, they can push the component prices down and make higher profits on every mac sold. OSX Lion has been dumbing down with features like versions and local snapshots that can't be turned off, I have stayed with snow leopard because Lion spends to much time trying to force me to do something its way rather then letting me choose how I want to work. Finally Apple stumbled across the app store model after the release of the iPhone, consumers pushed to install their own apps on the device and Apple reluctantly created the walled garden that requires you to pay to play and takes a cut from every app sold. What use is selling 1000 copies of Autocad via the app store even with a $300 commission when you can push out 5 million copies of some silly game that will get forgotten about in 6 months time and the next craze comes along and sells another 5 million copies. Apple is all about increasing market share, get as much hardware out here as possible to fuel the app store model and get as many mass market titles in the app store as they can to further extend the captive market for even more apps from the app store.
Apart from their core search Google are beginning to loose face, far to many projects started and thrown out. Who is going to invest time and effort using a google service when there is a good chance that it is going to be pulled? Unlike software installed on a computer you are forced to migrate when google decides to shut things down. It's not as though you can just carry on using the service until it no longer meets your needs. Not just a google problem but a wider problem for the whole software as a service concept.
They will have to get rid of the car display in the stables then as those are not WW2 era vehicles.
No, they don't even get any commission from the Bletchley Trust when they run an event that brings in lots of PAYING visitors. The National Museum of Computing essentially just rents the space as a tenant, despite their efforts being responsible for increasing visitor numbers they get no special recognition from Betchley.
meh, who cares sony is irrelevant thee days to me anyway. I stopped buying games when they pulled the Linux support and now the PS3 is nothing more than a blu-ray player. Sony have already done plenty enough to turn me away so like many I imagine I simply won't be buying in to any future Sony systems.
Part of it has been, the site was bigger than it is now but a few years ago part of it was sold to developers, fortunately it was just some open ground, not any of the buildings.
It would be better to say that because the government is paying for dead rats that an industry has developed around it. Now rather than just taking in urban rats that are causing a nuisance rat catchers are breaking into peoples homes to steal pet rats and taking trips in to the country with dogs to flush or rats in the wild.
This is just someones excuse to get free gadgets. How will the politicians send letters to their constituents without a printer ? oh wait thy will still have a printer to run and maintain and as soon as they realise that reading on an iPad screen is uncomfortable they will start printing their documents again and the iPad will just get used to play Angry Birds on the tax payers dime.
While I like the idea of long term storage only half the problem is solved as when the hardware goes obsolete there will be nothing to read them on. The BBC 1986 Domesday project stored data on laserdisc, while the laserdiscs survived very few players capable of reading them survived. Now this was a high profile project that people made the effort to recover, but what about all the stuff that is not considered valuable until it is to late. Who is going to find something that can read a DVD in 100 years time ? And even if you did, will the file formats be readable by anything or will the 1000 year copyright laws that we will have by then prevent someone writing software to read a long since defunct file format ?
People are not leaving BT completely but rather switching call providers. BT are a monopoly in the UK, they are the only national provider of landlines. Due to regulation they are forced to allow third party telecoms providers to lease the lines at a wholesale rate. As a result there are hundreds of so called providers that do nothing more than lease the lines at wholesale prices and then sell them on to the consumer at a lower rate than the BT retail price. BT have been continually increasing their retail prices for both line rental and call charges so consumers are naturally switching their call traffic to the cheaper resellers. As others have said Virgin are useless and their prices are not competitive so people are switching to DSL either to get a better deal or better service. Note, BT retail are in fact gaining broadband customers despite loosing landline customers as they offer the most competitive Fibre To The Cabinet DSL service and many of the other DSL providers are either not offering FTTC or are far more expensive than the BT Infiniti option.
The video was purely a analogue composite video source just like VHS tape, the computer graphics were overlaid on to the video signal using a genlock.
Well to be accurate the data is stored on the part of the disc that would normally be used for audio. The text data is Digital but the images are analouge a lot more info here http://www.microcomputer.org.uk/projects/domesday.html
To see who the real people are who should be credited with this project, see the official BBC Acknowledgements page. You will see from the official Acknowledgements on the BBC site http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/story that there is no mention of the Centre for Computing History. BBC Employees part of George Auckland's Innovations Team deserve the credit for the work done here.
The truth of the story is that the BBC have had the Community data and pictures available for a long time but legal issues prevented them from publishing it, this Centre for Computing History is just trying to free ride on the publicity generated by the BBC.
The BBC already had the community data available the Centre for Computing History had nothing to do with it !
What they really mean is that they don't need expensive phase converters so that the AC supply produced is in phase with the mains electricity. Much easier and cheaper to put the output into a rectifier.
Currently the new app store is just one of many ways to get apps for your Mac. It has some good points and bad points, but the good one being that it will be easier for developers to get exposure as people will be all looking in one place for apps. The down side is that Apple has realised that taking a cut from other peoples work is by far the best way to make significant profits with minimum investment. The iOS app store has shown Apple that instead having to hire lots of highly skilled staff to build hardware and software it can simply act as a distribution chanel where it has to hold no inventory itself. Just like eBay they are taking a percentage of avery sale without having to make any investment in building the software themselves. Apple has no interest in locking down the MacOS just because of some control freaky, it is purely a profit motive. This is just the first step toward pushing all software sales via apple in order to raise profits. Clearly future editions of MacOS will gradually become more integrated with the App store, so new libraries will only be available to apps that come via the App store, then anything you launch that is not downloaded from the App store will stat displaying dire warnings about "this software has not been approved by apple your computer is at risk'. Untill eventually Apple stop providing development tools for development outside the App store environment until it is only possible to run unsigned apps in some sort of low performance protected sandbox. The more software purchases they can push through their store the more profit they make. Dont make the mistake of thinking that Apple haven't seen that opportunity and will milk it for all it is worth.
that'll learn em
Or teach them even.
Nokia phones now come in Home, small business, big business, magcorp, media and facebook editions.