Unless the legal owners (the BBC) gave permission for limited distribution i.e. back to themselves. Sharing is only illegal if you don't have the original owner's permission.
In the UK there is HS2 which is a rail link that runs North to South. Part of the project included a fund for compensation for those affected by property price decrease and for those who are subject to compulsory purchase orders.
So, it is possible to plan such a project - even in the UK with higher population density. I'm not sure how crossing the state line would effect a similar project in the US - presumably as long as each state sees a benefit it shouldn't be too much trouble?
The whole point about mortgages is that they're long-term. The rates are lower than those associated with unsecured loans as the interest for loans over 10 years is substantial.
However, if you were to use a mortgage product as a short-term loan facility you are benefiting from a lower rate. In order to prevent abuse of the system there is an early repayment penalty. It's fairly straight forward.
Before anybody gets on their high horse and says that early redemption penalties are wrong/immoral etc, the loan companies have difference products for different purposes. There is no logic in taking the risk of loaning you 50k for two weeks unless the payoff (the interest) is sufficient. Bridging/caveat/swing loans are intended for such a purpose and have much higher interest rates.
However, lending money over a long period of time with the security of the property against which the money is loaned allows the lender to offer lower rates.
The usual use of an early redemption penalty is where there is a fixed low rate for a couple of years and the early redemption penalty will apply during this period or will run on for a couple of years afterwards.
How many of those will be Pi users and how many of those users will take offence to the point that they will complain about their free software or refuse to use it?
I couldn't give a cow's twat what they call it - why should anybody care?
Steam has been reported to work offline for weeks at a time. If the Xbox One really can't stay in offline mode for more than 24 hours, it just makes the Steam Box that much more likely to succeed.
...The XBox One also makes the XBox 360 look like open source.
I'm pleased that I won't have to replace my 360 any time soon - there are too many uncertainties to jump in feet first into a new platform with new games and no backwards compatibility.
It is arguable whether Windows was inferior or not. It had 'something' that gave it mass appeal. Take Windows out of the picture and something would have taken its place but would it have been so successful and would it have appeared/developed in the same relatively short timescale? I doubt it.
Lots of inferior (by comparison) products succeed but this is not a bad thing. Ultimately the dominance of a product makes competition really hone its own product in order to steal a market share. I'm not an Apple fan but you cannot help admire their products and the niche that has been carved. And the open source community has produced viable alternatives which, by some miracle, are free and fairly easy to use.
Windows is easy to use and easy to get hold of. It is feature rich and despite the annoying difficulties with it, it works most of the time and does a pretty good job.
As for 'pushing an inferior product on the masses' I cannot recall a user-friendly GUI based alternative to Windows, Outlook and Word when I started working in an office in 1993. Perhaps I was just blind, ignorant or representative of Joe Public which I suspect is the case.
However, you cannot expect those users to 'just drop' Windows when a semi-viable alternative arrives particularly when the software industry has been slow to build releases for platforms other than Windows. People are reactionary - they don't like change.
Think about a tablet with a flexible screen. One that you can roll up.
One that you can roll up? Now you're talking. You could have your morning paper delivered by a paperboy and take yesterday's tablet back to the newsagent. Brilliant!
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline. The laptop is being owned by the tablet.
The tablet and the phone bear no comparison until you blur the edges of what can and cannot fit into your pocket. If a phone is too big, it's a clunky wannabe tablet. If a tablet is too small, it's not fit for purpose and is too big to be a phone.
The laptop, IMHO, is now a portable desktop computer. As a direct desktop replacement it needs to have a 17" screen and dedicated graphics - any less and you may as well have a tablet.
BB has lost the plot - unless the statement was meant to say "I don't think there'll be a reason to have a [BB] tablet anymore", in which case it is bang on the money.
I've seen Shrek 4D and from memory there were warnings of the effects to be expected which should appease your litigious mind. There were seats available that did not move which I assume is for those who chose not to partake or were medically unable to cope with the effects.
'4D' is definitely suited to certain types of films. Shrek fits the bill perfectly, Schindler's List less so..
That's just confusing. 'Right-hand drive' is usually the term used for the position of controls on the car whereas 'driving on the right' is the preferred term.
Right-hand drive cars drive on the left and left-hand drive cars drive on the right. Motorcycles drive in the middle (obviously).
XBMC on the RasPi is excellent if a little laggy on menus (playback, even at 1080p, is fine). If the Ouya can be as good with better hardware and more focus on sound processing (which the Raspi is not so good at) we should have a winner.
Sure, you can spend more money to get something that is better but then you have the energy, noise and thermal footprint to consider. A lot of us just want a LAN connected media centre with a really decent front-end. That front-end is currently XBMC. If you want to play games, do that on a 360/iDevice/Android device.
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...not to mention those that take themselves and their education to another country to earn a living. Would extraordinary rendition be appropriate?
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And who underwrites the losses for students who flunk out, die, refuse to work or only work for minimum wage (they need to be able to retain minimum wage to live), and those who are committed to prison for whatever offence?
I disagree with your interpretation. If the fundamental role of the project was to supply options to run legacy software - that would be the answer to my question.
Even the creator of rpix86 does not specify in his blog why the project was started so I thought I would ask the question. Some people on slashdot might even be able to put together a cogent response which would give further impetus to the creator.
As it is, the project is a hobby which has green credentials as the power footprint of the Pi is undoubtedly smaller than that of most other hardware used for an emulator. And you can run aged ray tracers which is absolutely smashing!
I would have thought that atheists pose no threat to national security or to any religious group. They simply go about their business or are there fundamentalist atheists who disrupt religious groups?
I propose that the same experiment be carried out with the word 'Muslim' replacing 'Atheist'. Discarding 'to be expected' security issues, I wonder how many parcels would go missing?
No judging going on - just curious to see how many people are interested in the project. Asking here at slashdot seems like a good idea although it is obviously open for others to misinterpret my curiosity as a venomous attack.... [sigh]
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Unless the legal owners (the BBC) gave permission for limited distribution i.e. back to themselves. Sharing is only illegal if you don't have the original owner's permission.
In the UK there is HS2 which is a rail link that runs North to South. Part of the project included a fund for compensation for those affected by property price decrease and for those who are subject to compulsory purchase orders.
So, it is possible to plan such a project - even in the UK with higher population density. I'm not sure how crossing the state line would effect a similar project in the US - presumably as long as each state sees a benefit it shouldn't be too much trouble?
They made a sequel? I'll file that one next to Highlander 2 and Escape from L.A.
They're just shooting from the tip..
Whichever may you look at it, being buried in a parking lot is wrong on so many levels.
The whole point about mortgages is that they're long-term. The rates are lower than those associated with unsecured loans as the interest for loans over 10 years is substantial.
However, if you were to use a mortgage product as a short-term loan facility you are benefiting from a lower rate. In order to prevent abuse of the system there is an early repayment penalty. It's fairly straight forward.
Before anybody gets on their high horse and says that early redemption penalties are wrong/immoral etc, the loan companies have difference products for different purposes. There is no logic in taking the risk of loaning you 50k for two weeks unless the payoff (the interest) is sufficient. Bridging/caveat/swing loans are intended for such a purpose and have much higher interest rates.
However, lending money over a long period of time with the security of the property against which the money is loaned allows the lender to offer lower rates.
The usual use of an early redemption penalty is where there is a fixed low rate for a couple of years and the early redemption penalty will apply during this period or will run on for a couple of years afterwards.
Pay your money and make your choice.
How many of those will be Pi users and how many of those users will take offence to the point that they will complain about their free software or refuse to use it?
I couldn't give a cow's twat what they call it - why should anybody care?
Steam has been reported to work offline for weeks at a time. If the Xbox One really can't stay in offline mode for more than 24 hours, it just makes the Steam Box that much more likely to succeed.
...The XBox One also makes the XBox 360 look like open source.
I'm pleased that I won't have to replace my 360 any time soon - there are too many uncertainties to jump in feet first into a new platform with new games and no backwards compatibility.
Also, You were not using outlook in 1993. It didn't exist back then
Quite so - we all called it "inbox" back then. But it was an early version of outlook whatever you might wish to call it.
It is arguable whether Windows was inferior or not. It had 'something' that gave it mass appeal. Take Windows out of the picture and something would have taken its place but would it have been so successful and would it have appeared/developed in the same relatively short timescale? I doubt it.
Lots of inferior (by comparison) products succeed but this is not a bad thing. Ultimately the dominance of a product makes competition really hone its own product in order to steal a market share. I'm not an Apple fan but you cannot help admire their products and the niche that has been carved. And the open source community has produced viable alternatives which, by some miracle, are free and fairly easy to use.
Windows is easy to use and easy to get hold of. It is feature rich and despite the annoying difficulties with it, it works most of the time and does a pretty good job.
As for 'pushing an inferior product on the masses' I cannot recall a user-friendly GUI based alternative to Windows, Outlook and Word when I started working in an office in 1993. Perhaps I was just blind, ignorant or representative of Joe Public which I suspect is the case.
However, you cannot expect those users to 'just drop' Windows when a semi-viable alternative arrives particularly when the software industry has been slow to build releases for platforms other than Windows. People are reactionary - they don't like change.
which is, 300+20*36 = $1,010 for a $700 phone.
Only the phone is not worth anything without a service plan therefore your conclusion is incorrect. Go and check your figures and try again.
All you need is a switch to decide what light you want to trigger. You could place that switch near the door, so you can do it the moment you come in.
A ridiculous idea - it'll never catch on!
Think about a tablet with a flexible screen. One that you can roll up.
One that you can roll up? Now you're talking. You could have your morning paper delivered by a paperboy and take yesterday's tablet back to the newsagent. Brilliant!
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline. The laptop is being owned by the tablet.
The tablet and the phone bear no comparison until you blur the edges of what can and cannot fit into your pocket. If a phone is too big, it's a clunky wannabe tablet. If a tablet is too small, it's not fit for purpose and is too big to be a phone.
The laptop, IMHO, is now a portable desktop computer. As a direct desktop replacement it needs to have a 17" screen and dedicated graphics - any less and you may as well have a tablet.
BB has lost the plot - unless the statement was meant to say "I don't think there'll be a reason to have a [BB] tablet anymore", in which case it is bang on the money.
Not really an issue if you are wearing 3D glasses...
In an episode of 'Spaced' Tim says "Jar Jar Binks makes the Ewoks look like fucking Shaft!"
Can you imagine Disney making a film so bad that JJB actually looks play?
New films could potentially ruin those that came before it. Highlander 2 springs to mind..
I've seen Shrek 4D and from memory there were warnings of the effects to be expected which should appease your litigious mind. There were seats available that did not move which I assume is for those who chose not to partake or were medically unable to cope with the effects.
'4D' is definitely suited to certain types of films. Shrek fits the bill perfectly, Schindler's List less so..
ASCII is 7-bit.
That's why it didn't advance beyond prototype stage...
vast majority of Europe is right-hand drive
That's just confusing. 'Right-hand drive' is usually the term used for the position of controls on the car whereas 'driving on the right' is the preferred term.
Right-hand drive cars drive on the left and left-hand drive cars drive on the right. Motorcycles drive in the middle (obviously).
As XBMC is already behind the Ouya we should expect good things http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/08/07/xbmc-and-ouya-oh-yeah/
XBMC on the RasPi is excellent if a little laggy on menus (playback, even at 1080p, is fine). If the Ouya can be as good with better hardware and more focus on sound processing (which the Raspi is not so good at) we should have a winner.
Sure, you can spend more money to get something that is better but then you have the energy, noise and thermal footprint to consider. A lot of us just want a LAN connected media centre with a really decent front-end. That front-end is currently XBMC. If you want to play games, do that on a 360/iDevice/Android device.
...not to mention those that take themselves and their education to another country to earn a living. Would extraordinary rendition be appropriate?
And who underwrites the losses for students who flunk out, die, refuse to work or only work for minimum wage (they need to be able to retain minimum wage to live), and those who are committed to prison for whatever offence?
I disagree with your interpretation. If the fundamental role of the project was to supply options to run legacy software - that would be the answer to my question.
Even the creator of rpix86 does not specify in his blog why the project was started so I thought I would ask the question. Some people on slashdot might even be able to put together a cogent response which would give further impetus to the creator.
As it is, the project is a hobby which has green credentials as the power footprint of the Pi is undoubtedly smaller than that of most other hardware used for an emulator. And you can run aged ray tracers which is absolutely smashing!
I would have thought that atheists pose no threat to national security or to any religious group. They simply go about their business or are there fundamentalist atheists who disrupt religious groups?
I propose that the same experiment be carried out with the word 'Muslim' replacing 'Atheist'. Discarding 'to be expected' security issues, I wonder how many parcels would go missing?
No judging going on - just curious to see how many people are interested in the project. Asking here at slashdot seems like a good idea although it is obviously open for others to misinterpret my curiosity as a venomous attack.... [sigh]