Well spoken. News is one thing, but copying part of a press release and submitting it as a story is just tasteless.
And let us not forget that the GeForce2Go is an absolute piece of junk that hardly anyone uses. Compare it to a Radeon Mobility and there is no comparison...
An article about Dataplay seems to show up on slashdot very 3 months, whipping everyone up into a massive frenzy. Of course, Dataplay has over the past 1.5 years or so never released ANYTHING other than press releases, but I guess that does not stop people discussing how great or terrible their non-existant technology is.
There are several phones that are either tri-band, or dual-band (900 and 1900). In fact, these have been available for a few years but were in the past not popular. Bosch once sold a model but does not anymore. Ericsson previously had the I888, now the T28, the wonderful T39, and the just-announced also wonderful T66. Nokia has also had one model for at least the past year (8890 I believe?). We should also not forget the Motorola 7089 and 7389. Siemens was also supposed to release a model recently. So, there are many handsets available to allow interoperation...you just have to look for them and be prepared to pay a little extra.
Your Verizon CDMA phone may get service everywhere, but it is not digital service everywhere. GSM phones with analog roaming also exist. Microcell in Canada sells (or at least used to sell) Nokia phones with that capability.
Lastly, UMTS is going to be WCDMA. There are of course patent issues as Qualcomm is claiming to own "relevant" IP.
From the pictures on the news, the second plane was not a 727. It was more likely a 737, Airbus 319/320, or something similar (two engines under the wings, none at the tail).
I have a bit of an issue with your comments, and with very similar comments from many other people.
On the one hand one there is the myth that the GF2 trounced the Radeon. This is simply not true. The GF2 was better in many respects, but the Radeon also beat the GF2 in certain benchmarks, particularily those that were bandwidth-intensive. However, the review sites decided that people did not want to play their games in nice resolution and colour depth, instead prefering to go with bad quality and frame rates far above what they are actually capable of processing and therefore the GF2 kicked butt.
Now the preview release of the 8500 beats the GF3 by a bit and we hear that a marginal increase in performace is not enough to beat nVidia. Funny since an apparent marginal performance advantage was apparently enough for nVidia to eat ATI's lunch...
The ruling would be pretty much irrelevant since the US does not recognise the jurisdiction of the International Court. It has furthermore recently opposed the creation of an international criminal court while hypocritically continuing to push ahead with the illegal so-called UN War Crimes Tribunal.
Everything done in Canada has the SOCAN label stamped on the liner notes, because the artists benefitted from and/or paid into the whole Canadian artist funding scheme. It is about who publishes the songs, not the recordings themselves.
That being said, the original poster was partly correct. The vast majority of artists sign with labels that have "Canada" in their names but are in fact subsidiaries of US (or other multinational) companies. This is however happening all over the world and is certainly not a strictly Canadian phenomenon.
Natural Law is based on SO MUCH MORE than just yogic flying. In fact, their policy is not so much that everyone should learn yogic flying (not levitation!), but that by all participating in it we can channel our positive energy much more efficiently.
The real advantage of voting Natural Law is that every vote made a difference. For example, in my riding last election we broke through the 30 vote plateau, and I was able to witness my role in the democractic process directly at work. No one who voted Liberal could say that.
According to the article, the author proposed a name change last week and the lawyers rejected such a solution. What is not know of course is whether the lawyers were acting overzealously or whether Adobe had told the lawyers to reject such an offer.
One thing that was not mentioned was the cost of this trick - how does it compare with
germanium or gallium arsnide? (Ok, projected to compare?).
Neither Ge nor GaAs (or any other III-V compound for that matter) can be used to produce ICs using "standard" Si fabrication techniques. The most important reason is the lack of a suitable native oxide for use as the gate dielectric. GeO2 is water soluble, and oxide on GaAs cannot be grown uniformly or with good quality.
That being said, ICs are produced on GaAs, but using different types of transistors. However, the amount of experience that would have to be acquired to produce, for example, a pentium on GaAs is staggering. In other words, it will not happen any time soon.
Why do you say that Clik is dead? They are coming out with the 100MB versions in the Fall. The Hipzip is a great player, and being able to carry around a few $10 disks while exercising or working in the lab is really excellent. The alternatives such as flash are just too ridiculously expensive to even consider!
You have masterfully proven the point: the people working in Kathy Lee's sweatshops and weaving rugs in Pakistan so that the latest.com millionaire may furnish his latest posh loft meet almost all if not all of your criteria for being a slave.
Oh but perhaps you are going to tell me that it is not the Western capitalist companies that are responsible for that exploitation, it is the non-capitalist local governments... yeah right.
How do you explain the whole problem with the QT Public License. Yes they consider it to be a free software license, but they also consider it to be INCOMPATIBLE with the GPL.
The fact of the matter is that just about everything other than the GPL and LGPL is incompatible with the GPL...except BSD, but if you use code under that license in your GPL project then it becomes GPL hence the reason it is compatible.
I am currently temporarily working in Germany, and I find it very annoying that I pay full pension and unemployment insurance every month but have no right to take advantage of these "benefits". If it were simply included in "tax" then I would not really be complaining, but since it is detailed on my pay slip on separate lines I can see exactly how much money I am throwing away.
GSM 1800 is NOT a new technology. It wasn't introduced because of any technical coolness, but
because the GSM usage in Europe is so high that the 900 band is pretty much saturated in most of
the bigger cities. Hence 1800 was introduced to boost capacity.
Yes, that is why I put "newer" in quotes. The 900 band was rolled out first, but like you said the technological differences are insignificant. This was more in reply to the original post where it was stated that Europe use one standard (900) while Africa and Asia use another (1800).
1) Europe uses both 900 and 1800 MHz, the latter being the "newer" technology.
2) GSM is available in the US (for example from Voicestream) in addition to CDMA and TDMA, but as other people have already stated operates at 1900 MHz. You can buy dual-band (900/1900 MHz) phones in the US for use at "home" and away.
I think a court ABSOLUTELY must not allow a revote. It would be unfair for one
county or one state to have the power to elect the president knowing the status of the
rest of the vote before walking into the booth.
Hogwash, since people voting in California have the benefit (?) of knowing what has happened in the Eastern States, exactly the same as would happen here. Therefore either this argument is invalid or a NATIONAL revote is required where districts whose voting stations have not yet closed do not receive information from other time zones.
If there isn't a decisive winner, I think the ONLY fair thing to do, and this may rise to the
level of a decision by the Supreme Court, would be to throw out the ENTIRE 25
electoral votes in Florida as if they had gone to a different candidate. Because neither
man received a majority of the electoral votes(270), the Constitution says it is up to the
newly elected House of Representatives to select the President. It seems the only way to
ensure the rule of law is obeyed.
That may ensure that the LETTER of the law is respected, but it also prescribes who the new president will be. If the stories of confusing ballots, people not being able to get new ballots after realising they were confused, ballots going missing, etc., are even partly true then having the republicans vote in their man clearly flies in the face of the "will" of the public.
Research Assistants...in other words graduate students? That is not significantly (i.e. more than 10%) different than graduate student pay in the US, at least in my experience.
The clone makers were not expanding the overall Mac market, just cutting into Apple's own share of the market. In that sense cutting them off made sense as Apple could make more money with a 100% market share than a non-100% share of a not necessarily larger market. Competition which would also have required additional marketing costs, cutting further into profits.
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Well spoken. News is one thing, but copying part of a press release and submitting it as a story is just tasteless.
And let us not forget that the GeForce2Go is an absolute piece of junk that hardly anyone uses. Compare it to a Radeon Mobility and there is no comparison...
An article about Dataplay seems to show up on slashdot very 3 months, whipping everyone up into a massive frenzy. Of course, Dataplay has over the past 1.5 years or so never released ANYTHING other than press releases, but I guess that does not stop people discussing how great or terrible their non-existant technology is.
There are several phones that are either tri-band, or dual-band (900 and 1900). In fact, these have been available for a few years but were in the past not popular. Bosch once sold a model but does not anymore. Ericsson previously had the I888, now the T28, the wonderful T39, and the just-announced also wonderful T66. Nokia has also had one model for at least the past year (8890 I believe?). We should also not forget the Motorola 7089 and 7389. Siemens was also supposed to release a model recently. So, there are many handsets available to allow interoperation...you just have to look for them and be prepared to pay a little extra.
Your Verizon CDMA phone may get service everywhere, but it is not digital service everywhere. GSM phones with analog roaming also exist. Microcell in Canada sells (or at least used to sell) Nokia phones with that capability.
Lastly, UMTS is going to be WCDMA. There are of course patent issues as Qualcomm is claiming to own "relevant" IP.
Doubtful since Apple already announced several weeks ago that there would be no new hardware announcements at the Expo
From the pictures on the news, the second plane was not a 727. It was more likely a 737, Airbus 319/320, or something similar (two engines under the wings, none at the tail).
I have a bit of an issue with your comments, and with very similar comments from many other people.
On the one hand one there is the myth that the GF2 trounced the Radeon. This is simply not true. The GF2 was better in many respects, but the Radeon also beat the GF2 in certain benchmarks, particularily those that were bandwidth-intensive. However, the review sites decided that people did not want to play their games in nice resolution and colour depth, instead prefering to go with bad quality and frame rates far above what they are actually capable of processing and therefore the GF2 kicked butt.
Now the preview release of the 8500 beats the GF3 by a bit and we hear that a marginal increase in performace is not enough to beat nVidia. Funny since an apparent marginal performance advantage was apparently enough for nVidia to eat ATI's lunch...
The ruling would be pretty much irrelevant since the US does not recognise the jurisdiction of the International Court. It has furthermore recently opposed the creation of an international criminal court while hypocritically continuing to push ahead with the illegal so-called UN War Crimes Tribunal.
Everything done in Canada has the SOCAN label stamped on the liner notes, because the artists benefitted from and/or paid into the whole Canadian artist funding scheme. It is about who publishes the songs, not the recordings themselves.
That being said, the original poster was partly correct. The vast majority of artists sign with labels that have "Canada" in their names but are in fact subsidiaries of US (or other multinational) companies. This is however happening all over the world and is certainly not a strictly Canadian phenomenon.
Natural Law is based on SO MUCH MORE than just yogic flying. In fact, their policy is not so much that everyone should learn yogic flying (not levitation!), but that by all participating in it we can channel our positive energy much more efficiently.
The real advantage of voting Natural Law is that every vote made a difference. For example, in my riding last election we broke through the 30 vote plateau, and I was able to witness my role in the democractic process directly at work. No one who voted Liberal could say that.
You have no idea what you are talking about. UMTS is 3G not 2.5G! Don't worry, Denmark will get 3G long before the US does...
According to the article, the author proposed a name change last week and the lawyers rejected such a solution. What is not know of course is whether the lawyers were acting overzealously or whether Adobe had told the lawyers to reject such an offer.
That is not true, AT&T lets you buy extra IP addresses. I know this as a fact because I am doing it.
One thing that was not mentioned was the cost of this trick - how does it compare with germanium or gallium arsnide? (Ok, projected to compare?).
Neither Ge nor GaAs (or any other III-V compound for that matter) can be used to produce ICs using "standard" Si fabrication techniques. The most important reason is the lack of a suitable native oxide for use as the gate dielectric. GeO2 is water soluble, and oxide on GaAs cannot be grown uniformly or with good quality.
That being said, ICs are produced on GaAs, but using different types of transistors. However, the amount of experience that would have to be acquired to produce, for example, a pentium on GaAs is staggering. In other words, it will not happen any time soon.
Why do you say that Clik is dead? They are coming out with the 100MB versions in the Fall. The Hipzip is a great player, and being able to carry around a few $10 disks while exercising or working in the lab is really excellent. The alternatives such as flash are just too ridiculously expensive to even consider!
Of course, from reading the DARPA blurb it would appear that the only thing that bioSPICE will share with "normal" SPICE is the acronym...
nope wrong again... another post that could have been avoided with a quick glance in the atlas.
You have masterfully proven the point: the people working in Kathy Lee's sweatshops and weaving rugs in Pakistan so that the latest .com millionaire may furnish his latest posh loft meet almost all if not all of your criteria for being a slave.
Oh but perhaps you are going to tell me that it is not the Western capitalist companies that are responsible for that exploitation, it is the non-capitalist local governments... yeah right.
How do you explain the whole problem with the QT Public License. Yes they consider it to be a free software license, but they also consider it to be INCOMPATIBLE with the GPL.
The fact of the matter is that just about everything other than the GPL and LGPL is incompatible with the GPL...except BSD, but if you use code under that license in your GPL project then it becomes GPL hence the reason it is compatible.
As far as I remember, they did not assemble the WHOLE car and make it run, just the outer shell (with the cop car lights of course)
Which services wouldn't he be able to use?
I am currently temporarily working in Germany, and I find it very annoying that I pay full pension and unemployment insurance every month but have no right to take advantage of these "benefits". If it were simply included in "tax" then I would not really be complaining, but since it is detailed on my pay slip on separate lines I can see exactly how much money I am throwing away.
GSM 1800 is NOT a new technology. It wasn't introduced because of any technical coolness, but because the GSM usage in Europe is so high that the 900 band is pretty much saturated in most of the bigger cities. Hence 1800 was introduced to boost capacity.
Yes, that is why I put "newer" in quotes. The 900 band was rolled out first, but like you said the technological differences are insignificant. This was more in reply to the original post where it was stated that Europe use one standard (900) while Africa and Asia use another (1800).
That is not quite correct.
1) Europe uses both 900 and 1800 MHz, the latter being the "newer" technology.
2) GSM is available in the US (for example from Voicestream) in addition to CDMA and TDMA, but as other people have already stated operates at 1900 MHz. You can buy dual-band (900/1900 MHz) phones in the US for use at "home" and away.
I think a court ABSOLUTELY must not allow a revote. It would be unfair for one county or one state to have the power to elect the president knowing the status of the rest of the vote before walking into the booth.
Hogwash, since people voting in California have the benefit (?) of knowing what has happened in the Eastern States, exactly the same as would happen here. Therefore either this argument is invalid or a NATIONAL revote is required where districts whose voting stations have not yet closed do not receive information from other time zones.
If there isn't a decisive winner, I think the ONLY fair thing to do, and this may rise to the level of a decision by the Supreme Court, would be to throw out the ENTIRE 25 electoral votes in Florida as if they had gone to a different candidate. Because neither man received a majority of the electoral votes(270), the Constitution says it is up to the newly elected House of Representatives to select the President. It seems the only way to ensure the rule of law is obeyed.
That may ensure that the LETTER of the law is respected, but it also prescribes who the new president will be. If the stories of confusing ballots, people not being able to get new ballots after realising they were confused, ballots going missing, etc., are even partly true then having the republicans vote in their man clearly flies in the face of the "will" of the public.
Research Assistants...in other words graduate students? That is not significantly (i.e. more than 10%) different than graduate student pay in the US, at least in my experience.
The clone makers were not expanding the overall Mac market, just cutting into Apple's own share of the market. In that sense cutting them off made sense as Apple could make more money with a 100% market share than a non-100% share of a not necessarily larger market. Competition which would also have required additional marketing costs, cutting further into profits.