The EU can revoke the legal fiction of MS's intellectual property rights and put MS products in the public domain if MS tries to pull out of the market.
Eh, no. The EU has signed a few too many WIPO documents for that to ever happen, much as I'd personally like it to.
A government "jump starting" a free market is a contradiction in terms.
I contend it is not. A government or other regulatory body can and must be responsible for setting up the confines and laws within which the free market as we know it operates. It is not possible for a totally free free market to exist since it will always be bound by external limitations be it legal, physical or simply human behaviour.
RTFA, it's about interface documentation, not about code. It's about standards and interoperability. Keys to promoting a dynamic and free market with true innovation. Mainly, MS needs to stop hindering the Samba project and the other little Embrace & Extend stunts they pull all the time. Their code is not interesting except as a showcase of "what not to do" in programming class. This is a leash. A noose would be "let's split you up into separate companies".
If the market wants MS to open up, the market should decide it.
The market does want that, but when there's an 800lbs gorilla in the market, the market no longer works as intended. That's what being a monopoly is all about - shutting down the forces that makes a free market work. Something needs to negate that influence to jump-start an active and free market again. In this case, the European Commission is doing that.
I'm really wondering how a foreign power can enforce that?
Because Microsoft has large offices in all European countries, subsidiaries with thousands of employees that pay taxes in those countries. The Union could go after those, or simply impose a 120000% import tax on all Microsoft software. Or invade Redmond with the French Foreign Legion. There are ways.
Microsoft never said (that I know of) that they were required to use Windows.
You're just not getting it. The EU never said that Microsoft is required to sell Windows in Europe. If MS don't like the rules, they are perfectly free to take their ball and go home. In fact, I hope they do.
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"Bear hunters" seems like too limited a market for something like this.
Possibly, but there are over 100 000 elk hunters in Sweden alone, most of them with one or more dogs. I know of several with this kind of product already and many more with the old style . A good hunting dog can easily cost a few thousand USD, not to mention the emotional ties to it that you get after a while, so a few hundred is a very reasonable price for something like this.
a barking dog could likewise scare away the quarry
Elk hunting dogs specifically are trained to bark at the elk to make it stand still and look at the dog to distract it from noticing the hunter. After a while, the hunter learns to recognize the type of bark, if the dog has found an elk or is in distress, for example.
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It's bought and used by hunters. They get the dog's position sent to them via SMS and can call the dog up to hear what he's up to (barking at a bear), but the main reason for the phone is the SMS capability. The alternative up to now has been a transmitter and triangulation gear, but that's slow and cumbersome. How else do you propose the owner would get the GPS info, if not from some kind of transmitter on the dog?
ANYWHERE Muslims and peoples of other faiths interface there is friction which eventually turns to violence.
Yep, just like in Northern Ireland where those towelhead "protestant" Mohammedans were harassing the god-fearing catholics. Oh, wait... Religious friction occurs between ALL religions, except possibly when buddhism is one of them.
I forgot about that one, good call. There are a few other 479 mobos too, another AOpen and a MSI AFAIK.
A RAID 5 array with 3 more expensive drives is obviously superior to the 4 smaller, cheaper drives I normally advocate.
Exactly. The sweet spot for most space per buck seems to be around 200 gigs right now, but that would mean at least six drives for his terabyte (assuming a RAID-5 configuration) and when power drain is the limiting factor, that's not an option.
When you mentioned spin-up power, I thought of something else: He'd have to consider when to spin them down, if at all. That's mostly up to his use-cases -- if they're gonna sit idle all night, every night, he might want to shut down the entire server and let it's BIOS re-start it in the morning or use the Wake-on-LAN feature.
Because they say they will SELL 3 million consoles, they have not said anything about DELIVERING them. Like the poor Windows Defender guy, you assume that you are dealing with an honest vendor of good repute and fail to realize you're talking about Microsoft. They will happily take your money and only if you're really, really lucky, they'll spare the time to bend you over for a quickie.
In fact, that's the main difference between Microsoft and a pick-pocket; the pick-pocket will bump into you when he steals your wallet, giving you a bit of human touch.
Case
Get a big-ass generic tower case with a good PSU.
Mobo/CPU Get a Socket 478 ATX motherboard and find a Northwood Mobile Pentium on eBay for it. Some mobos support down-volting. I have one of these in an ASUS Pundit for home theater PC, it runs on 1.2V and is cool to the touch without fans. OR, get a supported ASUS mobo, the Socket 478-479 adapter and a Dothan Pentium-M. Get a mobo with built-in graphics or run headless. Clock it down, the fileserver won't need much CPU anyway - but it will be on and draw power 247 so any savings here will be helpful in the long run.
Disks
2.5" laptop drives won't get you to the terabyte range so get three 500 gig 3.5" drives and RAID-5 them. Linux software RAID won't expand easily so either invest in real RAID hardware, build the array large enough to not need expansion in the foreseeable future or use another scheme, like LVM + RAID. Keep copies of current and recent projects on your client computers - that's cheap and easy backup.
Network Filesystem
Samba. Only thing that will work fine with both Wintel and Mac laptops and other clients. For server-server communications I use NFS but in your case it would just be an extra thing to setup with no benefits.
NAS
OR, just get a big-ass NAS box with enough room in it. More money and less flexibility but much less hassle setting it up and less power consumption compared to the home-made linux server box.
BUT, if you also need mailserver, webserver, ftpserver, whateverserver down the line you might as well go with the full server or you'll need both the NAS and the server side-by-side.
It's "her Internet" because her daddy pays for it. It's simple sorority logic.
Other than that it's the dumbing-down and fuzzy cuddliness that phrases like "My Computer" and "My Documents" are meant to convey to the unwitting victims of software licensing schemes.
Free bonus $1500-saving tip of the day: Think of it as shorthand for "My Internet connection".
I work at internal support at Microsoft and just the other day we got a call from upper management and since the real BOFH was off on one of his paid vacations, I had to take the call. Turns out that Steve Ballmer had been surfing some gay cross-dressing animal porn website (yeah I know, it was dudes dressed up as women who had it on with male gorillas, or possibly people in gorilla suits, I didn't check that close) and had attracted a few nasty viruses to his beta of Vista that he wanted cleaned out. While I was doing that, he kept yelling at me that he was going to kill whoever ran that website, he was going to kill me if I ever said anything about this to anyone and he worked up quite a froth.
Finally, to get some peace and quiet, I went over, picked him up by his love handles and threw him against the wall. That shut him up good, but I think I threw my back in the process. I tried to see the company doctor yesterday, but he couldn't find my personnel records, so I had to leave. Or actually, security escorted me out and took my badge. That's strange, come to think of it... I can't recall they ever did that before. Oh well, it's probably all sorted out today. Off to work I go!
Microsoft: "Freedom to fuck you over in new and innovative ways." and the follow-up ad campaign: "No, we're just kidding. We'll just fuck you over in the same old way. Again."
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Eh, no. The EU has signed a few too many WIPO documents for that to ever happen, much as I'd personally like it to.
I contend it is not. A government or other regulatory body can and must be responsible for setting up the confines and laws within which the free market as we know it operates. It is not possible for a totally free free market to exist since it will always be bound by external limitations be it legal, physical or simply human behaviour.
RTFA, it's about interface documentation, not about code. It's about standards and interoperability. Keys to promoting a dynamic and free market with true innovation. Mainly, MS needs to stop hindering the Samba project and the other little Embrace & Extend stunts they pull all the time. Their code is not interesting except as a showcase of "what not to do" in programming class. This is a leash. A noose would be "let's split you up into separate companies".
The market does want that, but when there's an 800lbs gorilla in the market, the market no longer works as intended. That's what being a monopoly is all about - shutting down the forces that makes a free market work. Something needs to negate that influence to jump-start an active and free market again. In this case, the European Commission is doing that.
The Commission's fines are generally set with the size of the infringer's purse in mind.
Because Microsoft has large offices in all European countries, subsidiaries with thousands of employees that pay taxes in those countries. The Union could go after those, or simply impose a 120000% import tax on all Microsoft software. Or invade Redmond with the French Foreign Legion. There are ways.
You're just not getting it. The EU never said that Microsoft is required to sell Windows in Europe. If MS don't like the rules, they are perfectly free to take their ball and go home. In fact, I hope they do.
"No penis" is just a special case of "small penis".
Old news
Possibly, but there are over 100 000 elk hunters in Sweden alone, most of them with one or more dogs. I know of several with this kind of product already and many more with the old style . A good hunting dog can easily cost a few thousand USD, not to mention the emotional ties to it that you get after a while, so a few hundred is a very reasonable price for something like this.
a barking dog could likewise scare away the quarry
Elk hunting dogs specifically are trained to bark at the elk to make it stand still and look at the dog to distract it from noticing the hunter. After a while, the hunter learns to recognize the type of bark, if the dog has found an elk or is in distress, for example.
It's bought and used by hunters. They get the dog's position sent to them via SMS and can call the dog up to hear what he's up to (barking at a bear), but the main reason for the phone is the SMS capability. The alternative up to now has been a transmitter and triangulation gear, but that's slow and cumbersome. How else do you propose the owner would get the GPS info, if not from some kind of transmitter on the dog?
Aw, on my birthday. They shouldn't have... Thanks, guys! :-)
Yep, just like in Northern Ireland where those towelhead "protestant" Mohammedans were harassing the god-fearing catholics. Oh, wait... Religious friction occurs between ALL religions, except possibly when buddhism is one of them.
The truth is Islam is the religion of Fascism!
No more paint stripper for YOU!
Well, like this and like this.
The ones who get to be ancestors are the winners, as are the ancestors themselves.
Life does not end with death. Life ends with the inability to create new life. The winners get to spread their genes, the losers' die off.
Therefore, Slashdot really is full of losers. QED.
I forgot about that one, good call. There are a few other 479 mobos too, another AOpen and a MSI AFAIK.
A RAID 5 array with 3 more expensive drives is obviously superior to the 4 smaller, cheaper drives I normally advocate.
Exactly. The sweet spot for most space per buck seems to be around 200 gigs right now, but that would mean at least six drives for his terabyte (assuming a RAID-5 configuration) and when power drain is the limiting factor, that's not an option.
When you mentioned spin-up power, I thought of something else: He'd have to consider when to spin them down, if at all. That's mostly up to his use-cases -- if they're gonna sit idle all night, every night, he might want to shut down the entire server and let it's BIOS re-start it in the morning or use the Wake-on-LAN feature.
In fact, that's the main difference between Microsoft and a pick-pocket; the pick-pocket will bump into you when he steals your wallet, giving you a bit of human touch.
Get a big-ass generic tower case with a good PSU.
Mobo/CPU
Get a Socket 478 ATX motherboard and find a Northwood Mobile Pentium on eBay for it. Some mobos support down-volting. I have one of these in an ASUS Pundit for home theater PC, it runs on 1.2V and is cool to the touch without fans. OR, get a supported ASUS mobo, the Socket 478-479 adapter and a Dothan Pentium-M. Get a mobo with built-in graphics or run headless. Clock it down, the fileserver won't need much CPU anyway - but it will be on and draw power 247 so any savings here will be helpful in the long run.
Disks
2.5" laptop drives won't get you to the terabyte range so get three 500 gig 3.5" drives and RAID-5 them. Linux software RAID won't expand easily so either invest in real RAID hardware, build the array large enough to not need expansion in the foreseeable future or use another scheme, like LVM + RAID. Keep copies of current and recent projects on your client computers - that's cheap and easy backup.
Network Filesystem
Samba. Only thing that will work fine with both Wintel and Mac laptops and other clients. For server-server communications I use NFS but in your case it would just be an extra thing to setup with no benefits.
NAS
OR, just get a big-ass NAS box with enough room in it. More money and less flexibility but much less hassle setting it up and less power consumption compared to the home-made linux server box.
BUT, if you also need mailserver, webserver, ftpserver, whateverserver down the line you might as well go with the full server or you'll need both the NAS and the server side-by-side.
Other than that it's the dumbing-down and fuzzy cuddliness that phrases like "My Computer" and "My Documents" are meant to convey to the unwitting victims of software licensing schemes.
Free bonus $1500-saving tip of the day: Think of it as shorthand for "My Internet connection".
Finally, to get some peace and quiet, I went over, picked him up by his love handles and threw him against the wall. That shut him up good, but I think I threw my back in the process. I tried to see the company doctor yesterday, but he couldn't find my personnel records, so I had to leave. Or actually, security escorted me out and took my badge. That's strange, come to think of it... I can't recall they ever did that before. Oh well, it's probably all sorted out today. Off to work I go!
That's filed under the heading of "percussive maintenance".
Oh, and the newspaper is called "Dagens Nyheter", literally "Daily News".
Microsoft: "Freedom to fuck you over in new and innovative ways." and the follow-up ad campaign: "No, we're just kidding. We'll just fuck you over in the same old way. Again."
Stop using the slogan "Freedom to innovate". Seriously. They have no right to use it -- they are against freedom and they do not innovate.
It uses the LEDs as backlighting for the LCD display.