Well, some companies still buy Windows 2000 workstation with their new PC's. They haven't switched to XP yet. And a lot of companies is thinking about switching to thin clients.
The problem with sanctions is that they don't work. The US can sanction some countries but that doesn't mean that other countries also put sanctions in place. During the cold war Europe and the US prohibited the export of 32 bits processors to the USSR and East block countries. Japan did not. So, if they needed 32 bits processors they bought them in Japan. To make matters worse : Tesla had a license to make 80486 processors from Intel. And the Atari ST sold quitte well in Poland during the eighties. The same goes with Cuba. Most countries including most EU countries trade with Cuba. No problem at all.
Prior art. Around 1996 Apple had a geoport express modem with software. You could connect this modem (which in fact only contained a ring detector and a D/A A/D convertor) to a quadra 660av or 840av.
I have a far better solution to save energy... don't buy a computer. But thats not the solution. I've seen calculations about switching a thousand computers from Intel based machines with CRT to PC's with a VIA C3 processor and a LCD monitor. The saving was around 60% in energy use. Also switching from Windows server 2000 to Linux could save a lot of energy. They found out that they only needed 2 servers instead of 10. Thats a saving of 80%.
True, but to get royalties from an american company, one only needs to sue in america yes?
Not completely. This patent isn't valid outside the US. Which means that this firm only get the money for devices sold in the US. Most companies have offices outside the US which are registered locally. Say a company named X has an office in for instance Germany. They register that office as X gmbh. From this office they sell all their devices outside the US then they can claim that another company registered in Germany which sells those devices and that that company isn't an US company and don't have to pay to use the US patent. Simple. Thats why for instance Cisco, Asus and Apple have headoffices in The Netherlands, Germany and France. They don't have to comply with US patent law.
Not long ago I was wondering, "whatever happened to the ozone hole?" It seemed that Global Warming had taken over as the looming apocalypse. So the obsoleting of Freon hasn't helped?
No, NASA needs more money. Everytime they run out of money there is another hole in the ozone layer. Some years ago they also announced an ozone layer hole above eastern Europe. They didn't count on the the Belgian KMI (Koninklijk Meteorologisch Instituut) which announced that the hole in question wasn't as big as NASA said it was and second that it was always there around that time of year. In fact, that it was smaller than the year before. Go figure. So, everytime NASA announces a hole in the ozone layer it seems that they ran out of cash and needs more money.
The only problem is that 256MB is not enough to do much of anything. I mean, you can websurf or read email, but you need minimum 512MB to make a credible desktop system.
Well, you aren't right. 256 mb is enough to run a lot of apps on it. Most home servers run perfectly with linux and 128 mb. So, 256 mb should be enough for most tasks. Second, there is a rumor that sony will be installing linux on the HD with a lot of development tools so you can build your own games. Third, with linux on it it will also be possible to run MOL on it. And fourth, if there is enough demand for more memory in the PS3 sony will come with a system with more memory. It's all market driven. Maybe, there is a DIMM slot for extra memory onboard (who knows). What i've heard is that there will be a PS3 version with a multinorm tv-tuner and a larger harddrive on which you can store video (PVR function) and burn the video on blueray recordables. What sony knows is that the PS3 as a mediahub is the future, something microsoft completely missed with their xbox 360. And if sony offers this PS3 with larger harddrive, more memory, multinorm tv-tuner (and support for DVB-T, DVB-C and DVB-S) and a blueray recorder I will gladly pay up to 899 euro for it. To replace my PVR, DVD player and even my CD player.
What a load of BS. Like everybody knows almost all of the ISS is build in Russia. And most of the parts went up with Russian rockets. Why not send the other modules up with Russian rockets? It's cheaper and the Russians have a better launch record than the US. They have the experience to get the modules there. And secondly, they build the modules.
Ok dude, you now run the IT center. You have 25000 remote-enabled users with different levels of skill, patience, etc. How would you propose to support them?
A lot easier than 25000 users on stand-alone PC's scattered around the country. You don't have to upgrade 25000 individual pc's anymore. Second, due to the fact that the applications aren't running localy you have only a couple of machines doing all the work. So, upgrading and fixing things is a lot easier. There are a lot of good examples of companies who have thin clients on the work floor and doing client/server stuff. They have lower downtimes and when a thin client is down you just replace it with another machine. No on location support anymore. Everything can be done from one location.
Well, i'm paying 210,50 a month for my traintravel and public transport. I get 50,60 a week for travel to and from my work. This is almost equal to 18% of my net income. Working for a telephone helldesk doesn't pay that much (near minimum wage which is 1267 a month before tax).
Well, most subways like the one in Amsterdam, Paris and London are equipped with repeaters for GSM. Nothing new. And most cartunnels in the Netherlands also have GSM repeaters.
Well, they actually developed their own rockets. And they bought some sojoez capsules from the Russians. That really saves them a lot of money. The reason why one of the largest countries in the World want to go into space is because it is not only a prestige object but also necessary. Like the Russians they also launch their own communication and weather monitoring sattelites. That's also important for a large country. Even India is launching their own sattelites. You need those to monitor the weather. Something which can save thousands of lives.
Why use bluetooth? In Europe siemens and some other companies sell a DECT adapter so you can use your DECT phone to call with skype. This is already 2 years on the market. Second, using a GSM phone with bluetooth as a mobile handset in combination with your computer isn't new either. About two or three years ago locustworld had an option to connect your GSM phone to their meshap box.
Of COURSE the EULA doesnt intend to exclude laptops. That would be, very simply put, utterly idiotic. As instinct and facts [com.com] suggest that laptops outsell desktops, it would be beyond foolish to interpret the EULA in this manner; it would exclude a fast growing majority of computer users. Surely some poor paper pushing paralegal just wasnt thinking.
I expect that this EULA is not valid in the EU again. So, no problem.
Wasn't the one of the points of the switch to make more efficient use of electricity? Then why are they going to continue to use PPCs in their portable devices?
Yeah, and that's precisely the reason why Apple stocked up PPC chips. At the moment Intel has one of the worst processing power/power useage figures on the market. Their 2,4 Ghz. Pentium 4M uses around 28 watts peak. That is almost the same as a PPC 970fx uses at 2,7 Ghz.. The new mobile G5 uses almost the same as the current G4 processors. Around 15 watt peak. So, intel must come with a processor which has the same processing power as a PPC970 1,5 Ghz and uses around 15 watt peak before Apple is going to use it in a Powerbook. Second, a G4 1,5 Ghz is around 2 or 3 times cheaper than the current Pentium 4m.
in the UK, Mobiles are already stupidly expensive, so much so to get a top of the range phone you have to get it on a contract to cut 90% of the cost of it. Having a contract is like a loan these days... pay for your phone over 12 or 18 months.
In the Netherlands we have a provider called t-mobile which has sim only contracts. These are half the price of a normal contract and don't include a phone. A 300 minutes a month contract is 17,50 for sim only and 35 a month for a normal contract.
Actually they were ahead of their time. That is not always good, though. In Europe the GSM system is gradually going to be replaced by a CDMA system as well. Only they call it UMTS
Well, we have 2 UMTS providers here in the Netherlands and compared with GSM they are very expensive. So, i don't think that GSM will be replaced by UMTS.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that this grand invention for Texas Instruments was done in India.
Well, that's logical. There are some good reasons why it's developed in India. Due to the fact that India doesn't have things like the DMCA. Second, almost all chip production nowadays is outside the US.
":) this will be good for some of us who just use cell phones as phones nothing else."
Why not use a land line, then?:):):)
Because in most parts of the world there aren't any landlines (at least, not enough). One reason why GSM is adopted at such a rate is that in some countries there wasn't a working telephone system before. And a GSM net is cheaper than putting a wired telephone system in place.
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OMG! Phulshof is absolutely right. According to the site he linked to the Netherlands has a Author/Copyright Law 1912 in which article 16b states that you can indeed *legally* make copies of someone elses CD/DVD collection, as long as you have paid the tax on the CDR/DVDR you use!!! The only exception is computer software, where you do need to be the owner to legitimately make a copy for your own use.
To make it even worse.. it's also legal if you didn't pay the tax on the DVD/CD because you bought it in Luxemburg or bought it from a shop who bought those in Luxemburg. Because you paid the levy of 0% on DVD- and CD recordables in Luxemburg. God, I love this free market in the EU thingy.
Frankly, I believe the proposal is going to tank. At least the tax will have to be lowered a lot to be realistic. But the idea is not new. The levy system was introduced with the introduction of audio casette tapes. The basic idea is: '95% of these tapes are going to be used for copies anyway. So let's tax them for a little bit.' Basically it relieves the government of the burden of prosecuting pirating and the artists get compensated.
If this levy is an importtax like the levy on DVD- and CD recordables then in notime you'll be able to buy those MP3 players without this levy. That's one of the problems with the free market we have inside the EU. Nowadays I buy DVD's which are bought in Luxembourg. In Luxembourg the levy on DVD- and CD recordables is 0%. Which means that if a trader buys DVD- and CD recordables he can sell them in the Netherlands without the import tax due to the free market in the EU.
The smallest paper note we have now is £5, which is about $9.50
With the introduction of the euro the smallest banknote is 5. Under 5 you have the 2 and 1 coin. There is a very strange thing with the euro notes.
5, 10, 20 and 50 are common, but i haven't seen any 100, 200 and 500 notes yet. Most shops won't accept notes bigger than 50. But on the other hand, why pay something above 10 with cash if you can pay with a bank card and pin?
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Well, some companies still buy Windows 2000 workstation with their new PC's.
They haven't switched to XP yet.
And a lot of companies is thinking about switching to thin clients.
The problem with sanctions is that they don't work.
The US can sanction some countries but that doesn't mean that other countries also put sanctions in place.
During the cold war Europe and the US prohibited the export of 32 bits processors to the USSR and East block countries.
Japan did not.
So, if they needed 32 bits processors they bought them in Japan.
To make matters worse : Tesla had a license to make 80486 processors from Intel.
And the Atari ST sold quitte well in Poland during the eighties.
The same goes with Cuba.
Most countries including most EU countries trade with Cuba.
No problem at all.
Prior art.
Around 1996 Apple had a geoport express modem with software.
You could connect this modem (which in fact only contained a ring detector and a D/A A/D convertor) to a quadra 660av or 840av.
I have a far better solution to save energy... don't buy a computer.
But thats not the solution.
I've seen calculations about switching a thousand computers from Intel based machines with CRT to PC's with a VIA C3 processor and a LCD monitor.
The saving was around 60% in energy use.
Also switching from Windows server 2000 to Linux could save a lot of energy.
They found out that they only needed 2 servers instead of 10.
Thats a saving of 80%.
True, but to get royalties from an american company, one only needs to sue in america yes?
Not completely.
This patent isn't valid outside the US.
Which means that this firm only get the money for devices sold in the US.
Most companies have offices outside the US which are registered locally.
Say a company named X has an office in for instance Germany.
They register that office as X gmbh.
From this office they sell all their devices outside the US then they can claim that another company registered in Germany which sells those devices and that that company isn't an US company and don't have to pay to use the US patent.
Simple.
Thats why for instance Cisco, Asus and Apple have headoffices in The Netherlands, Germany and France.
They don't have to comply with US patent law.
Not long ago I was wondering, "whatever happened to the ozone hole?" It seemed that Global Warming had taken over as the looming apocalypse. So the obsoleting of Freon hasn't helped?
No, NASA needs more money.
Everytime they run out of money there is another hole in the ozone layer.
Some years ago they also announced an ozone layer hole above eastern Europe.
They didn't count on the the Belgian KMI (Koninklijk Meteorologisch Instituut) which announced that the hole in question wasn't as big as NASA said it was and second that it was always there around that time of year.
In fact, that it was smaller than the year before.
Go figure.
So, everytime NASA announces a hole in the ozone layer it seems that they ran out of cash and needs more money.
The only problem is that 256MB is not enough to do much of anything. I mean, you can websurf or read email, but you need minimum 512MB to make a credible desktop system.
Well, you aren't right.
256 mb is enough to run a lot of apps on it.
Most home servers run perfectly with linux and 128 mb.
So, 256 mb should be enough for most tasks.
Second, there is a rumor that sony will be installing linux on the HD with a lot of development tools so you can build your own games.
Third, with linux on it it will also be possible to run MOL on it.
And fourth, if there is enough demand for more memory in the PS3 sony will come with a system with more memory.
It's all market driven.
Maybe, there is a DIMM slot for extra memory onboard (who knows).
What i've heard is that there will be a PS3 version with a multinorm tv-tuner and a larger harddrive on which you can store video (PVR function) and burn the video on blueray recordables.
What sony knows is that the PS3 as a mediahub is the future, something microsoft completely missed with their xbox 360.
And if sony offers this PS3 with larger harddrive, more memory, multinorm tv-tuner (and support for DVB-T, DVB-C and DVB-S) and a blueray recorder I will gladly pay up to 899 euro for it.
To replace my PVR, DVD player and even my CD player.
What a load of BS.
Like everybody knows almost all of the ISS is build in Russia.
And most of the parts went up with Russian rockets.
Why not send the other modules up with Russian rockets?
It's cheaper and the Russians have a better launch record than the US.
They have the experience to get the modules there.
And secondly, they build the modules.
Well, humans do evolve... but in case of the citizens of the United States it seems that they are the only humans who de-evolve.
Ok dude, you now run the IT center. You have 25000 remote-enabled users with different levels of skill, patience, etc. How would you propose to support them?
A lot easier than 25000 users on stand-alone PC's scattered around the country.
You don't have to upgrade 25000 individual pc's anymore.
Second, due to the fact that the applications aren't running localy you have only a couple of machines doing all the work.
So, upgrading and fixing things is a lot easier.
There are a lot of good examples of companies who have thin clients on the work floor and doing client/server stuff.
They have lower downtimes and when a thin client is down you just replace it with another machine.
No on location support anymore.
Everything can be done from one location.
Well, i'm paying 210,50 a month for my traintravel and public transport.
I get 50,60 a week for travel to and from my work.
This is almost equal to 18% of my net income.
Working for a telephone helldesk doesn't pay that much (near minimum wage which is 1267 a month before tax).
Well, most subways like the one in Amsterdam, Paris and London are equipped with repeaters for GSM.
Nothing new.
And most cartunnels in the Netherlands also have GSM repeaters.
Well, they actually developed their own rockets.
And they bought some sojoez capsules from the Russians.
That really saves them a lot of money.
The reason why one of the largest countries in the World want to go into space is because it is not only a prestige object but also necessary.
Like the Russians they also launch their own communication and weather monitoring sattelites.
That's also important for a large country.
Even India is launching their own sattelites.
You need those to monitor the weather.
Something which can save thousands of lives.
Why use bluetooth?
In Europe siemens and some other companies sell a DECT adapter so you can use your DECT phone to call with skype.
This is already 2 years on the market.
Second, using a GSM phone with bluetooth as a mobile handset in combination with your computer isn't new either.
About two or three years ago locustworld had an option to connect your GSM phone to their meshap box.
Of COURSE the EULA doesnt intend to exclude laptops. That would be, very simply put, utterly idiotic. As instinct and facts [com.com] suggest that laptops outsell desktops, it would be beyond foolish to interpret the EULA in this manner; it would exclude a fast growing majority of computer users. Surely some poor paper pushing paralegal just wasnt thinking.
I expect that this EULA is not valid in the EU again.
So, no problem.
Wasn't the one of the points of the switch to make more efficient use of electricity? Then why are they going to continue to use PPCs in their portable devices?
Yeah, and that's precisely the reason why Apple stocked up PPC chips.
At the moment Intel has one of the worst processing power/power useage figures on the market.
Their 2,4 Ghz. Pentium 4M uses around 28 watts peak.
That is almost the same as a PPC 970fx uses at 2,7 Ghz..
The new mobile G5 uses almost the same as the current G4 processors.
Around 15 watt peak.
So, intel must come with a processor which has the same processing power as a PPC970 1,5 Ghz and uses around 15 watt peak before Apple is going to use it in a Powerbook.
Second, a G4 1,5 Ghz is around 2 or 3 times cheaper than the current Pentium 4m.
in the UK, Mobiles are already stupidly expensive, so much so to get a top of the range phone you have to get it on a contract to cut 90% of the cost of it. Having a contract is like a loan these days... pay for your phone over 12 or 18 months.
In the Netherlands we have a provider called t-mobile which has sim only contracts.
These are half the price of a normal contract and don't include a phone.
A 300 minutes a month contract is 17,50 for sim only and 35 a month for a normal contract.
Actually they were ahead of their time. That is not always good, though.
In Europe the GSM system is gradually going to be replaced by a CDMA system as well. Only they call it UMTS
Well, we have 2 UMTS providers here in the Netherlands and compared with GSM they are very expensive.
So, i don't think that GSM will be replaced by UMTS.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that this grand invention for Texas Instruments was done in India.
Well, that's logical.
There are some good reasons why it's developed in India.
Due to the fact that India doesn't have things like the DMCA.
Second, almost all chip production nowadays is outside the US.
":) this will be good for some of us who just use cell phones as phones nothing else."
Why not use a land line, then?
Because in most parts of the world there aren't any landlines (at least, not enough).
One reason why GSM is adopted at such a rate is that in some countries there wasn't a working telephone system before.
And a GSM net is cheaper than putting a wired telephone system in place.
OMG! Phulshof is absolutely right. According to the site he linked to the Netherlands has a Author/Copyright Law 1912 in which article 16b states that you can indeed *legally* make copies of someone elses CD/DVD collection, as long as you have paid the tax on the CDR/DVDR you use!!! The only exception is computer software, where you do need to be the owner to legitimately make a copy for your own use.
To make it even worse.. it's also legal if you didn't pay the tax on the DVD/CD because you bought it in Luxemburg or bought it from a shop who bought those in Luxemburg.
Because you paid the levy of 0% on DVD- and CD recordables in Luxemburg.
God, I love this free market in the EU thingy.
Frankly, I believe the proposal is going to tank. At least the tax will have to be lowered a lot to be realistic. But the idea is not new. The levy system was introduced with the introduction of audio casette tapes. The basic idea is: '95% of these tapes are going to be used for copies anyway. So let's tax them for a little bit.' Basically it relieves the government of the burden of prosecuting pirating and the artists get compensated.
If this levy is an importtax like the levy on DVD- and CD recordables then in notime you'll be able to buy those MP3 players without this levy.
That's one of the problems with the free market we have inside the EU.
Nowadays I buy DVD's which are bought in Luxembourg.
In Luxembourg the levy on DVD- and CD recordables is 0%.
Which means that if a trader buys DVD- and CD recordables he can sell them in the Netherlands without the import tax due to the free market in the EU.
Oops, made a mistake.
www.spruitje.org/euro_vs_america.jpg
This should be enough (-;
The smallest paper note we have now is £5, which is about $9.50
With the introduction of the euro the smallest banknote is 5.
Under 5 you have the 2 and 1 coin.
There is a very strange thing with the euro notes.
5, 10, 20 and 50 are common, but i haven't seen any 100, 200 and 500 notes yet.
Most shops won't accept notes bigger than 50.
But on the other hand, why pay something above 10 with cash if you can pay with a bank card and pin?