You solution is this; If you don't like what they have offered you, design your own hardware and commission it to be built.
Only to end up in the history books, like BEOS did. What basically happened is MS approached the "commissioned party" and asked them to stop or lose the Windows business. Yes, leveraging a monopoly is sweet.
...looks like it is ad-supported or $9 a year -- pretty steep for an OpenStreetMap user. There is plenty of other projects out there The question is -- are any of the open source ones usable?
How am I supposed to know if I enjoy the work before having access to it? I once decided to get some music to listen and bought 12 CDs of groups whose names I could recognize -- all of them ended up as coasters, except a couple which I already had bootleg copies of and knew what it was beforehand. (This was before the Internet age)
Comparable quality and price, yet MLC wins on weight and compactness.
Should you decide to stick with MLC, I recommend Olympus or Panasonic, since their Micro Four Third standard is supported by both companies and has a better chance of becoming an industry standard. Stay away from copycats like Nikon and Kodak. For example, I am using a Panasonic lens with my Olympus PEN. As someone already mentioned, choose carefully as the lenses are an investment, and you get stuck with the camera type once the choice is made.
Arguments for MLC: Lightweight and compact, both the camera and lenses. Lack of internal mirror allows for better video recording, such as dynamic focus adjustment during video is not something a DSLR can do. Arguments for (half-frame) DSLR: Slightly better quality and low light performance. More lens variety on the market, at lower price, but the cheap ones are probably a "you get what you pay" deal. It is bigger and heavier but it is not like you can shove an MLC in a pocket either.
I agree that my history references are weak and do not prove that the two words are the same. However, as a native Russian speaker I know that it is.
Of course, even the natives are sometimes wrong, so here's an interesting article on the subject: http://www.patent.net.ua/home/news/2004/10/18/286/ru.html
It says that Peter the Great renamed the Moscow [Duchy?] to "Russia" because of rapid growth of the empire and close political ties to the "Kievskaya Rus'". The name was later changed to "Rossia", but "Rus'" as it's origin should not be questioned.
The Future is near: 3d printing promises "relatively cheap" exact replicas of everything, from buildings to motorcars. There is only one caveat: someone needs to design the damn things -- those are fixed costs. We can await for an "open source car", that will be free to modify and reproduce, but history tells that those of bearable quality will come much later. It is an interesting phenomenon of the copyright laws eventually spreading into the physical world. Something tells me we will have no copyright reform even then. Yes, someone has to pay for the blueprints, but for 100 years since the author's death???? FTW?
Why don't they? Approving everything in exchange for the application fee sounds like a posh way to make a living. And if anything is approved in error, that's what the courts are for, right?
...the measure, dubbed the America Invents Act, will transition the country to a "first-to-file" system, instead of the current "first-to-invent" approach.
Sun sued Microsoft over Java trademark, not a software patent. MS made their version of Java that was not compartible with Sun's Java, so Sun forced them to rename it to.Net.
When the plane always "pilots itself" for years, and then autopilot disengages in thunderstorm conditions, no less, it is only natural for the pilots to panic. Maybe don't rely on autopilot so much so the pilots don't forget how to drive the damn thing?
I am allowed to enter the intersection on yellow. I have not heard of a jurisdiction where this is not so. By making yellow extra-short my city rakes in some extra $
The systems are not fully automated - they get screened and marginal cases are thrown out
Red light cameras are fully automated, and earns most of the money on "missed yellow by 200 milliseconds". It takes a picture of your car entering intersection on red, and the case is no longer marginal. This is where the beer cooler would come handy to defeat this money-collection system, at least after dark.
...before tasers were supposed to replace firearms
You see, where police formerly used firearms, they still do. But should you object to being arrested/detained/questioned/beaten, that's when taser gets used on you, and hopefully you have a strong heart to survive it. You think cops give a flying fuck about your well-being? They will use the deadliest thing they can get away with, and sometimes what they cannot. Google "anthony bologna".
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You solution is this; If you don't like what they have offered you, design your own hardware and commission it to be built.
Only to end up in the history books, like BEOS did. What basically happened is MS approached the "commissioned party" and asked them to stop or lose the Windows business. Yes, leveraging a monopoly is sweet.
...looks like it is ad-supported or $9 a year -- pretty steep for an OpenStreetMap user. There is plenty of other projects out there The question is -- are any of the open source ones usable?
This is a free advertisement, no less! I did not know about Navfree before, thank you for the pointer.
http://xkcd.com/638/
How am I supposed to know if I enjoy the work before having access to it? I once decided to get some music to listen and bought 12 CDs of groups whose names I could recognize -- all of them ended up as coasters, except a couple which I already had bootleg copies of and knew what it was beforehand. (This was before the Internet age)
they could be completely self-sustaining with no exports at all
"Sustaining", just very very poor. Most of the modern time wealth comes from trade. Very few people realize it.
In Soviet Finland government controls commerce!!
Comparable quality and price, yet MLC wins on weight and compactness.
Should you decide to stick with MLC, I recommend Olympus or Panasonic, since their Micro Four Third standard is supported by both companies and has a better chance of becoming an industry standard. Stay away from copycats like Nikon and Kodak. For example, I am using a Panasonic lens with my Olympus PEN. As someone already mentioned, choose carefully as the lenses are an investment, and you get stuck with the camera type once the choice is made.
Arguments for MLC: Lightweight and compact, both the camera and lenses. Lack of internal mirror allows for better video recording, such as dynamic focus adjustment during video is not something a DSLR can do.
Arguments for (half-frame) DSLR: Slightly better quality and low light performance. More lens variety on the market, at lower price, but the cheap ones are probably a "you get what you pay" deal. It is bigger and heavier but it is not like you can shove an MLC in a pocket either.
I agree that my history references are weak and do not prove that the two words are the same. However, as a native Russian speaker I know that it is.
Of course, even the natives are sometimes wrong, so here's an interesting article on the subject: http://www.patent.net.ua/home/news/2004/10/18/286/ru.html
It says that Peter the Great renamed the Moscow [Duchy?] to "Russia" because of rapid growth of the empire and close political ties to the "Kievskaya Rus'". The name was later changed to "Rossia", but "Rus'" as it's origin should not be questioned.
What fishermen? Thou shalt pay to Microsoft for every fish and bread, or be sued into oblivion.
I would call this a shady hypothesis, at best. I know two Slavic languages but never heard of "swamp" and "white" having a common word. Your reasoning also breaks when it comes to explaining the name "Black Russia". In reality the name's origin has not been traced, all we have is the guesswork.
References:
http://old.pravoslavie.by/catal.asp?id=8641&Session=10
http://rus-bel.ru/Belarus-Interesnyie-faktyi/Proishozhdenie-nazvaniya-Belarus.html
Russia used to be known as Rus' (Kievskaya Rus'), the two words are the same.
Of course it does, they need to void your warranty, as outlined in TFA. This one is full of win for HTC, and the reason my phone is staying locked.
The Future is near: 3d printing promises "relatively cheap" exact replicas of everything, from buildings to motorcars. There is only one caveat: someone needs to design the damn things -- those are fixed costs. We can await for an "open source car", that will be free to modify and reproduce, but history tells that those of bearable quality will come much later. It is an interesting phenomenon of the copyright laws eventually spreading into the physical world. Something tells me we will have no copyright reform even then. Yes, someone has to pay for the blueprints, but for 100 years since the author's death???? FTW?
Why don't they? Approving everything in exchange for the application fee sounds like a posh way to make a living. And if anything is approved in error, that's what the courts are for, right?
Fermi Linux enjoyed limited adoption outside of Fermilab, until 2003, when Red Hat Linux ceased to be open source.
A typo?
For breaking their "no suing" provision
...the measure, dubbed the America Invents Act, will transition the country to a "first-to-file" system, instead of the current "first-to-invent" approach.
Sun sued Microsoft over Java trademark, not a software patent. MS made their version of Java that was not compartible with Sun's Java, so Sun forced them to rename it to .Net.
When the plane always "pilots itself" for years, and then autopilot disengages in thunderstorm conditions, no less, it is only natural for the pilots to panic. Maybe don't rely on autopilot so much so the pilots don't forget how to drive the damn thing?
I am allowed to enter the intersection on yellow. I have not heard of a jurisdiction where this is not so. By making yellow extra-short my city rakes in some extra $
The systems are not fully automated - they get screened and marginal cases are thrown out
Red light cameras are fully automated, and earns most of the money on "missed yellow by 200 milliseconds". It takes a picture of your car entering intersection on red, and the case is no longer marginal. This is where the beer cooler would come handy to defeat this money-collection system, at least after dark.
Muchas gracias, amigo!
True, cops in the US carry responsibility for their actions. Sometimes they even get sentenced for up to 4 months of paid leave.
...before tasers were supposed to replace firearms
You see, where police formerly used firearms, they still do. But should you object to being arrested/detained/questioned/beaten, that's when taser gets used on you, and hopefully you have a strong heart to survive it. You think cops give a flying fuck about your well-being? They will use the deadliest thing they can get away with, and sometimes what they cannot. Google "anthony bologna".