There are ways of dealing with this scenario. The simplest being, don't keep the information on the laptop. After entering the country, use VPN or some other secure means of downloading the data.
Admittedly there are likely scenarios where this would be problematic (classified info?), but for most business related cases I would think this would be an acceptable workaround.
Umm, what if my car doesn't have a key. Kinda hard to turn a non-existent key. Lots of manufacturers are shifting to push button start/stop with an RF based fob for authentication
Except that Pandora doesn't exactly stream live radio. They generate content streams customized to the listener (or in the case of the genre "stations" specific to that genre). So yeah the closest Pandora could get would be a few million cds and some sort of switching mechanism for the stream.
They pay for access to the content, plus a per play fee. Really don't see how the ruling could be in any way applied to Pandora
The code base I'm currently working with mixes the hairiest aspects of C and C++ in a single file. And this isn't old code either, its maybe a year old and causing me nothing but grief.
It'll happen on a random Saturday afternoon on SyFy, and will star Randy Quaid, or maybe one of the Baldwin brothers. After the Evil CEO (or maybe the Evil Govt. Official) ignores his scientific advisers and uses a nuke, the leak will erupt into a monstrous CGI oil-geyser and send a hundred-foot high tsunami of flaming petro-death towards Florida.
You realize of course that somebody somewhere is writing exactly that script right? And SyFy would be the one to show it assuming they haven't been taken over by some wrestling league by then... All wrestling all the time
I think municpal run WiFi is a great idea, at least when you can't get a company to do it.
If there are professional companies willing to invest in the infrustructure great, use them. On the other hand when you have a small town in the middle of nowhere, it could be rather difficult to find that company. In that case a network run by the town looks like the best and only option
Besides, occasionally a community run network does do better job than the big guys
Most PDAs I've used just don't have the battery life that a dedicated device has. I know mine doesn't (HP iPAQ 1945), although that is the low end of PDAs anymore.
I don't think we should be able to patent business processes or software processes at all. However manufacturing processes should be patentable.
I'll clarify that a little bit too. The process that should be patentable would be the process for say creating a specific alloy or chemical where it is not simple. Along the lines of non-obvious to someone in the field.
What shouldn't be patentable is the how do I assemble product X
While this doesn't help at the moment, there are plans to setup an "enterprise" gentoo where packages won't change so frequently. It was mentioned in the weekly news letter here
A quote from the letter:
The meeting held on the 26th was opened with Kurt Lieber announcing a plan to develop an enterprise-friendly version of Gentoo. Gentoo Enterprise would be extremely stable, with quarterly sets of release ebuilds guaranteed to persist for at least a year. There was then some discussion on whether to have a separate Gentoo Enterprise tree or to have a Portage keyword; Kurt will be writing a GLEP to tackle these and other issues soon. Once the floor was opened, developers brouhgt up several ideas. First, Brian Jackson suggested "server metapackages" - these would be like the KDE and GNOME metapackages - "emerge vmail", for example, would create an already-configured virtual mail system. Next, more discussion about a separate tree for Gentoo Server, including ideas about using webrsync to get past paranoid corporate firewalls, using xdelta, and implementing a kickstart-like installation tool, took place.
It may very well go up to a terabyte but Microsoft in there infinite wisdom will not allow you to format a partition FAT32 if it is beyond a certain size ( I believe the size was like 32GB ).
Note that this is true at least on WinXP, don't know about 2000, etc.
The only reason I know this is because I ran into this very problem at home where I needed WinXP as well as Linux.
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On the other hand the article says 10x the density of conventional memory. Not sure how that compares to NAND density
Isn't NAND approaching its theoretical limit on density? From the article it sounds like the biggest benefit will be the increased density
I'd call it more a case of "work in progress". They both still exist, but more and more settings are moving into the new "modern UI" settings.
No way they'll have this completely transitioned by RTM (not even sure if they are planning to transition everything)
There are ways of dealing with this scenario. The simplest being, don't keep the information on the laptop. After entering the country, use VPN or some other secure means of downloading the data.
Admittedly there are likely scenarios where this would be problematic (classified info?), but for most business related cases I would think this would be an acceptable workaround.
Umm, what if my car doesn't have a key. Kinda hard to turn a non-existent key. Lots of manufacturers are shifting to push button start/stop with an RF based fob for authentication
Except that Pandora doesn't exactly stream live radio. They generate content streams customized to the listener (or in the case of the genre "stations" specific to that genre). So yeah the closest Pandora could get would be a few million cds and some sort of switching mechanism for the stream.
They pay for access to the content, plus a per play fee. Really don't see how the ruling could be in any way applied to Pandora
Oh if only this were true!
The code base I'm currently working with mixes the hairiest aspects of C and C++ in a single file. And this isn't old code either, its maybe a year old and causing me nothing but grief.
Why Not? Nothing wrong with a dark house, and saves on the electric bill (even if only a little)
It'll happen on a random Saturday afternoon on SyFy, and will star Randy Quaid,
or maybe one of the Baldwin brothers. After the Evil CEO (or maybe the Evil Govt. Official)
ignores his scientific advisers and uses a nuke, the leak will erupt into a monstrous CGI
oil-geyser and send a hundred-foot high tsunami of flaming petro-death towards Florida.
You realize of course that somebody somewhere is writing exactly that script right? And SyFy would be the one to show it assuming they haven't been taken over by some wrestling league by then... All wrestling all the time
You mean to tell me that all this is a giant publicity stunt?!?!
If your using Windows XP without service pack 2 then what firewall????
I think municpal run WiFi is a great idea, at least when you can't get a company to do it.
If there are professional companies willing to invest in the infrustructure great, use them. On the other hand when you have a small town in the middle of nowhere, it could be rather difficult to find that company. In that case a network run by the town looks like the best and only option
Besides, occasionally a community run network does do better job than the big guys
I don't believe they need the shuttle to drop Hubble in the ocean unless they wait till the Hubble is completely out of fuel
I don't see a technical reason why GPLv3 can't be more restrictive than the GPLv2 version
Am I missing something?
Just becase a lot of code is v2 or later shouldn't affect this at all
For me I've found that I mostly use my PDA as a eBook reader. Occasionally I put appointments in it, but its still mostly an eBook reader
Two words... Battery Life
Most PDAs I've used just don't have the battery life that a dedicated device has. I know mine doesn't (HP iPAQ 1945), although that is the low end of PDAs anymore.
I'm talking about unique, hard to produce alloys. Not just mix element A with element B
I have to disagree somewhat.
I don't think we should be able to patent business processes or software processes at all. However manufacturing processes should be patentable.
I'll clarify that a little bit too. The process that should be patentable would be the process for say creating a specific alloy or chemical where it is not simple. Along the lines of non-obvious to someone in the field.
What shouldn't be patentable is the how do I assemble product X
I'm probably going to burn for this but....
what keeps hugh hefner hard?
Viagra?
Well the Register article did say Microsoft was only integrating it with MSN Messenger to make chatrooms more safe.
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ooohhhh that just makes Windows so much more secure
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Seems rather pointless to me
If you want to satisfy managment you'll probably have to go with one of the majors that have support contracts. I.E. Redhat, Suse, etc
For stability it's hard to be Debian. And from what I've heard (no experience myself) they do a pretty good job on security updates.
Myself, I prefer Gentoo. Although I'm not sure I would use it for production, though many do.
You mean we don't already?
Big business has more control over what happens in the United States then the populace does.
I can't say it is all underhanded, but it sure seems that way to me.
Yes but RedHat doesn't have the PR department that Microsoft has nor do they have the cash that Microsoft has.
Money makes the world go round, or in this case gets the government to buy from them.
Though one would think with all the bad PR that Microsoft get for their security problems, someone in the government would wake up and reconsider.
A quote from the letter:
It may very well go up to a terabyte but Microsoft in there infinite wisdom will not allow you to format a partition FAT32 if it is beyond a certain size ( I believe the size was like 32GB ).
Note that this is true at least on WinXP, don't know about 2000, etc.
The only reason I know this is because I ran into this very problem at home where I needed WinXP as well as Linux.