... Linux and BSD are not Unix...Mac OS X is Unix.
Mac OS is based on NeXTSTEP, which is based on BSD. Unlike things under FSF license, BSD can be copied and used as a base for a proprietary system, which Steve did.
Whatever. There are so many sources of Android phones that surely some of them won't bother with the lockdown. When others see the market advantage thereby obtained that will be the end of ROM lockdown attempts.
Wishful thinking! The carrier (T-mobile, Verizon) execs pressure their suppliers to lock down the device. Once all the major manufactures cave in, the rest of them will be asked to follow the suit or take a hike.
There maybe many android manufacturers, but only a few major carriers, and you are limited to the ones that work in your area.
...and now that the landline is drying out, FCC is looking for greener meadows to attach to. Prepare to pony up for FCC services -- they will monitor all your net traffic to ensure net neutrality, among other things.
It's funny, but I also use Hotmail for "commercial" emails, because it is notoriously bad at filtering spam, so I keep it as a potential throw-away account. Google did come up with temporary email aliases, but only for stuff bought on Google Shopping. Well, guess it's back to Hotmail for all my shopping needs.
What if I am a user of some GPL'd piece of software, and the GPL license was the reason for adoption. Let's say switching to an alternative is costly. Can it really be yanked from public domain at any time if say, contributors got paid off to give up their rights?
What about rights of users who adopted it counting on it being open-sourced and around in the future?
When it is -30C, Russians take their towels and beach umbrellas, drill a hole in the ice and go swimming.
When it becomes -65C they cannot find any water in liquid state, so someone came up with this bright idea to drill a hole to an ancient lake, just so they can have a pool in winter.
There are two sides to this equation. Since there are fewer blind people than there are cars, same effect could be achieved at a lesser expense and city noise pollution.
Omitted is the fact that they forgot to inform Assange that they were "trying persuade him", before going to court. The facts are easily twisted. These women clearly have an angle at this, something beyond revenge, and what they say is a part of the show.
In a similarly revolutionary breakthrough, an Australian inventor patented a "circular transportation facilitation device". This invention alone will rocket our civilization into the bronze age and beyond.
Now thanks to Microsoft's ingenuity, we can finally embrace the technological advances of the 80's. Patent royalty is a small price to pay for such a breakthrough. I just wish they invent computer soon, so we don't have to mess with these "clicker devices"...
Throughout the 100 year history of CRT TVs, engineers and scientists worked on bringing the flattest screen to the market. This endeavor succeeded around 1998, with the release of Sony Trinitron WEGA.
Today, only twelve years later, we get a curved screen again, signaling the start of a new 100 year race: curve it all the way back to 1897!!!
PS: What I said above applied to the president's quote only, the article body is written in normal, comprehensible Russian, which is, as usual, is too much for the Google translator to chew.
As a native Russian speaker, I must report that to my astonishment, the translation is very precise and professional. More than that, the quote is actually EASIER to read and comprehend in English. Many of the words are actually borrowed from English, which is common in computer technical jargon.
The speech was obviously prepared in advance. It sounds almost like the original of the speech was written in English, possibly at Microsoft headquarters in US, then translated to Russian. Another explanation would be that the speech writers read too many translated documents and learned to think in similar patterns. I am just speculating, but honestly, who needs to know Russian with translations like this?:)
Stalin: Let's execute all dissidents and paint the Mausoleum green!
Minister: Why green, comrade Stalin?
Stalin: I knew there would be no objections about the first part.
Scientists from Academy report that they have researched Stimpack. The Research lasted 80 time units and required funding of 100 minerals and 100 gas. Scientific community hopes that this discovery will help keep Mutalisks and Zerglings in check.
No clue how it works, but the search results seem to be skewed towards Ubuntu. I try not to use it for that exact reason: not understanding the mechanism of altering.
If you read the thread on that forum, you will notice that the reason they went after single-player hacks was because it ruins online achievement system, which Blizzard is actively trying to promote.
I actually own the game, and my biggest problem with their restrictions is that I can only play single-player missions when the computer is online and has been validated by the battle.net server. It is fine and dandy that Blizzard is trying to combat piracy, but it should not do that at my expense! I honestly shelled out for my copy, and their "war on piracy" should be kept between them and the pirates, leave me out of it please.
He created us last Tuesday and then implanted false memories, so we would imagine have existed for the past 6000 years!
I think you are onto something here.
"Many people think that pushing hard on the brakes is the answer to neutralize a stuck gas pedal or to re-gain control of renegade acceleration. This is not the case. While standing on the brakes at very low speeds may work without brake burnout...at road speeds (especially out-of-control acceleration), this would not only NOT stall or stop the racing engine, it would likely overheat brakes & render them totally useless."
A pressed accelerator overpowers breaks, even more so of "the car in front". The pickup could get the minivan shoved out of the way and then roll it. Very dangerous, definitely not something I would want to do with my family and friends in the car.
Then again, if his minivan was actually bigger than the pickup he was breaking, then it's ok. The story is silent about that part, and also fails to mention other possible outcome scenarios so other kids don't try to do it at home.
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The gaming industry has always been a niche market, and PC gaming is even a smaller niche.
A total of $35 billion revenue generated by gaming market, of them PC gaming "smaller niche" is 62% and projected to grow: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2010/04/19/hear-that-knocking-sound-its-pc-gaming/
... Linux and BSD are not Unix...Mac OS X is Unix.
Mac OS is based on NeXTSTEP, which is based on BSD. Unlike things under FSF license, BSD can be copied and used as a base for a proprietary system, which Steve did.
The military is reaching out to commercial companies for the latest technologies and technical experts to safeguard the Pentagon’s computer networks
Whatever. There are so many sources of Android phones that surely some of them won't bother with the lockdown. When others see the market advantage thereby obtained that will be the end of ROM lockdown attempts.
Wishful thinking! The carrier (T-mobile, Verizon) execs pressure their suppliers to lock down the device. Once all the major manufactures cave in, the rest of them will be asked to follow the suit or take a hike.
There maybe many android manufacturers, but only a few major carriers, and you are limited to the ones that work in your area.
...and now that the landline is drying out, FCC is looking for greener meadows to attach to. Prepare to pony up for FCC services -- they will monitor all your net traffic to ensure net neutrality, among other things.
It's funny, but I also use Hotmail for "commercial" emails, because it is notoriously bad at filtering spam, so I keep it as a potential throw-away account. Google did come up with temporary email aliases, but only for stuff bought on Google Shopping. Well, guess it's back to Hotmail for all my shopping needs.
Problem?
| yes
1. Fire top TWO space agency officials
2. Promote new officials
3. Make another satellite
4. Launch
|
Problem again? Go to step 1.
What if I am a user of some GPL'd piece of software, and the GPL license was the reason for adoption. Let's say switching to an alternative is costly. Can it really be yanked from public domain at any time if say, contributors got paid off to give up their rights?
What about rights of users who adopted it counting on it being open-sourced and around in the future?
When it is -30C, Russians take their towels and beach umbrellas, drill a hole in the ice and go swimming.
When it becomes -65C they cannot find any water in liquid state, so someone came up with this bright idea to drill a hole to an ancient lake, just so they can have a pool in winter.
There are two sides to this equation. Since there are fewer blind people than there are cars, same effect could be achieved at a lesser expense and city noise pollution.
Omitted is the fact that they forgot to inform Assange that they were "trying persuade him", before going to court. The facts are easily twisted. These women clearly have an angle at this, something beyond revenge, and what they say is a part of the show.
Now thanks to Microsoft's ingenuity, we can finally embrace the technological advances of the 80's. Patent royalty is a small price to pay for such a breakthrough. I just wish they invent computer soon, so we don't have to mess with these "clicker devices"...
Throughout the 100 year history of CRT TVs, engineers and scientists worked on bringing the flattest screen to the market. This endeavor succeeded around 1998, with the release of Sony Trinitron WEGA.
Today, only twelve years later, we get a curved screen again, signaling the start of a new 100 year race: curve it all the way back to 1897!!!
PS: What I said above applied to the president's quote only, the article body is written in normal, comprehensible Russian, which is, as usual, is too much for the Google translator to chew.
As a native Russian speaker, I must report that to my astonishment, the translation is very precise and professional. More than that, the quote is actually EASIER to read and comprehend in English. Many of the words are actually borrowed from English, which is common in computer technical jargon. :)
The speech was obviously prepared in advance. It sounds almost like the original of the speech was written in English, possibly at Microsoft headquarters in US, then translated to Russian. Another explanation would be that the speech writers read too many translated documents and learned to think in similar patterns. I am just speculating, but honestly, who needs to know Russian with translations like this?
Earlier texts were much worse.
Stalin: Let's execute all dissidents and paint the Mausoleum green!
Minister: Why green, comrade Stalin?
Stalin: I knew there would be no objections about the first part.
Marines double their rate of fire and increase their movement rate for a limited period of time.
Scientists from Academy report that they have researched Stimpack. The Research lasted 80 time units and required funding of 100 minerals and 100 gas. Scientific community hopes that this discovery will help keep Mutalisks and Zerglings in check.
If we were to encounter an alien race...
Think American Indians, you are 99.9% right
The next logical step should be adding smell, not 3D.
http://start.ubuntu.com/10.10/Google/
No clue how it works, but the search results seem to be skewed towards Ubuntu. I try not to use it for that exact reason: not understanding the mechanism of altering.
If you read the thread on that forum, you will notice that the reason they went after single-player hacks was because it ruins online achievement system, which Blizzard is actively trying to promote.
I actually own the game, and my biggest problem with their restrictions is that I can only play single-player missions when the computer is online and has been validated by the battle.net server. It is fine and dandy that Blizzard is trying to combat piracy, but it should not do that at my expense! I honestly shelled out for my copy, and their "war on piracy" should be kept between them and the pirates, leave me out of it please.
He created us last Tuesday and then implanted false memories, so we would imagine have existed for the past 6000 years!
I think you are onto something here.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1834538&cid=34013058
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/automotive-expert-bobby-likis-demonstrates-how-to-safely-stop-a-toyota-83627467.html
"Many people think that pushing hard on the brakes is the answer to neutralize a stuck gas pedal or to re-gain control of renegade acceleration. This is not the case. While standing on the brakes at very low speeds may work without brake burnout...at road speeds (especially out-of-control acceleration), this would not only NOT stall or stop the racing engine, it would likely overheat brakes & render them totally useless."
A pressed accelerator overpowers breaks, even more so of "the car in front". The pickup could get the minivan shoved out of the way and then roll it. Very dangerous, definitely not something I would want to do with my family and friends in the car.
Then again, if his minivan was actually bigger than the pickup he was breaking, then it's ok. The story is silent about that part, and also fails to mention other possible outcome scenarios so other kids don't try to do it at home.