The low temperature manufacturing was for the CIGS panels you numpty. In theory that should lead to lower manufacturing costs. The Chinese where able to lower the price (mostly through polluting the planet) of silicon ingots enough to offset this advantage.
Is it worth it in the case of the vFAT/FAT32 patents? They must be due for expiry any time now. Windows 95 is nearly 20 years old. On the other hand I would want to try and get any patents on exFAT invalidated because they still have a long time to run.
Even the MP3 patents are expiring real soon now, if they are not already expired in your jurisdiction.
No person in the United Kingdom has ever been prosecuted for selling in pounds and ounces. If you believe that then I have a bridge to sell you.
If you knew your facts you would know that people have been prosecuted for selling goods using scales that don't have an official calibration certificate; which is something completely different.
Now it might be the case that you can only get scales calibrated using the metric system these days. However there is nothing stopping you going up to a trader asking for a pound of apples and the trader selling weighing out 454g of apples and selling you those.
Personally I have no recollection of ever being taught British Imperial units at school and I was born in 1970. I some times revert to inches and feet when measuring something that was clearly built using these measurements (like my house for example) but otherwise good riddance. The idea that they need teaching in schools in 2014 is complete nonsense.
Especially given that in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election the SNP only polled 45% of the popular vote, which interestingly is pretty much the same proportion of the vote they got in the referendum. They didn't have a democratic mandate for the referendum in 2011 and giving them one was stupid. Even stupider was allowing to drag on for years, should have been quick and in say 2012.
May be but the per capita COâ for China has now surpassed that of the E.U. so at least those of us in Europe can sit point fingers and demand action from both the USA and China. Australia's per capita COâ is also bad but there not many of them to begin with.
Actually you would be wrong on that account. There a a couple of viruses that are vulnerable to antibiotics. It is however the exception that proves the rule, and they are not disease causing viruses anyway from memory.
Right so those 1000kg war head V2 rockets with a 320km/200mile range that he was lobbing all over the place (Wikipedia tells me 3172 where fired in anger) could not possibly have been used to deliver the nerve gas that the Nazi's had.
Point of note, a retroreflector does not have to be oriented at the earth. Any incident light is reflected back down the path it came. The Soviet reflectors have a noticeably weaker signal because they are physically smaller. This is important because the laser beam by the time it gets to the moons surface is no longer a thin pencil beam, so the physically smaller retoreflectors of the Soviet Lunokhod rovers reflect less light than the Apollo ones. It is also possible that the Apollo retroreflectors are better than the Soviet ones, aka they reflect more of the incident radiation, but I am speculating on the that point.
Stick a couple of port multipliers on it. It is a home setup so max out is going to be a couple of 1GbE bonded so about 220MB/s, which is way less than the bandwidth of two SATA2 ports, so with port multipliers that is at least 10 disks, run a RAID6 of 8D+2P with 4TB disk and bingo 32TB of storage. Plenty of Atom boards will take 8GB of RAM which is more than enough for a NAS and the Linux software RAID is all SSE accelerated code so even an Atom has way more grunt than is required.
Bulking agents generally maltodextrin because it is cheap, colourless and tasteless. Even looks a bit like sugar. If you did not bulk them out you would have to add them in impractically small quantities that they would be useless for end users. A big soft drinks manufacturer on the other hand can add them neat to their products.
E.U. laws require financial institutions to be headquartered in the country with the most customers. Over the centuries of union those Scottish banks such as RBS, Bank of Scotland etc. all now have more customers in England than in Scotland. To continue to legally operate in the remainder of the U.K. those banks will have to shift their headquarters. The end result is no banks that are headquartered in Scotland, and no local banks.
All the banks have announced/leaked plans to relocate their headquarters to England in the event of a Yes vote.
Actually it is, because in the U.K. at least (and probably the rest of the E.U.) doctoring photos like this and then using them in advertising is highly illegal. Apple are likely to be hit hard in short order.
I have no idea if the USA allows such deceptive practices in advertising but it would not surprise me.
No originally a cube 1cm square at 4 degrees Celsius was one gram. That translates to 1 litre which being a 10cm cube comes in at 1kg.
That it was all later redefined in terms of a standard prototype kilogram is not really relevant to the point about the consistency of the metric unit system.
Why would I prefer ZFS over DIF on FC and now SAS2 which does the checksumming in a far more comprehensive manner for me and is agnositic to the file system it is on?
The phantom transactions is because you end up paying for the same thing twice, once via standard chip and pin (well standard if you are not in the backwater that is the USA) and again via contactless NFC.
From memory it was down to till operator error at one particular shop (M&S to be precise) when they introduced contactless payment.
Actually compared to Channel 4 that had John Snow using extremely offensive and inflammatory sexist language while interviewing Israeli officials the BBC coverage was far more even handed.
If you think that 18Pb of data is a massive storage problem then I have news for you it is not, and can be done in a handful of racks these days. Of course you would probably archive anything over six months old to tape so you could easily store a few decades worth.
Clearly you have never heard of proteomics then. The idea that GMO is completely blind as to the possible effects is uneducated nonsense. Given that traditional selective breading requires no proteomic testing for unintended side effects, any sane rational person looking at the facts would conclude that GMO is in fact safer.
The problem with detergents is that they *ARE* biodegradable. The phosphate in the detergent encourages algae to grow which causes problems in the rivers.
That is anywhere outside the backwards North America and their rubbish NTSC colour television system and all that component rubbish. It ends up as an RGB on the screen cut the crap and send the RGB to the display device.
One concludes that you have not heard of RemoteFX and multimedia redirection then because the basic premiss of your comments is factually incorrect. Now VMwares solution might be better than Microsoft's but both do the same thing.
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The low temperature manufacturing was for the CIGS panels you numpty. In theory that should lead to lower manufacturing costs. The Chinese where able to lower the price (mostly through polluting the planet) of silicon ingots enough to offset this advantage.
Is it worth it in the case of the vFAT/FAT32 patents? They must be due for expiry any time now. Windows 95 is nearly 20 years old. On the other hand I would want to try and get any patents on exFAT invalidated because they still have a long time to run.
Even the MP3 patents are expiring real soon now, if they are not already expired in your jurisdiction.
No person in the United Kingdom has ever been prosecuted for selling in pounds and ounces. If you believe that then I have a bridge to sell you.
If you knew your facts you would know that people have been prosecuted for selling goods using scales that don't have an official calibration certificate; which is something completely different.
Now it might be the case that you can only get scales calibrated using the metric system these days. However there is nothing stopping you going up to a trader asking for a pound of apples and the trader selling weighing out 454g of apples and selling you those.
Personally I have no recollection of ever being taught British Imperial units at school and I was born in 1970. I some times revert to inches and feet when measuring something that was clearly built using these measurements (like my house for example) but otherwise good riddance. The idea that they need teaching in schools in 2014 is complete nonsense.
Especially given that in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election the SNP only polled 45% of the popular vote, which interestingly is pretty much the same proportion of the vote they got in the referendum. They didn't have a democratic mandate for the referendum in 2011 and giving them one was stupid. Even stupider was allowing to drag on for years, should have been quick and in say 2012.
May be but the per capita COâ for China has now surpassed that of the E.U. so at least those of us in Europe can sit point fingers and demand action from both the USA and China. Australia's per capita COâ is also bad but there not many of them to begin with.
Actually you would be wrong on that account. There a a couple of viruses that are vulnerable to antibiotics. It is however the exception that proves the rule, and they are not disease causing viruses anyway from memory.
Right so those 1000kg war head V2 rockets with a 320km/200mile range that he was lobbing all over the place (Wikipedia tells me 3172 where fired in anger) could not possibly have been used to deliver the nerve gas that the Nazi's had.
Try a CentOS 7 minimal install, does not even have ifconfig, lspci or a bunch of other what I would consider basic stuff.
Point of note, a retroreflector does not have to be oriented at the earth. Any incident light is reflected back down the path it came. The Soviet reflectors have a noticeably weaker signal because they are physically smaller. This is important because the laser beam by the time it gets to the moons surface is no longer a thin pencil beam, so the physically smaller retoreflectors of the Soviet Lunokhod rovers reflect less light than the Apollo ones. It is also possible that the Apollo retroreflectors are better than the Soviet ones, aka they reflect more of the incident radiation, but I am speculating on the that point.
And there was me thinking the Harrier jump jet was invented in the U.K.
Stick a couple of port multipliers on it. It is a home setup so max out is going to be a couple of 1GbE bonded so about 220MB/s, which is way less than the bandwidth of two SATA2 ports, so with port multipliers that is at least 10 disks, run a RAID6 of 8D+2P with 4TB disk and bingo 32TB of storage. Plenty of Atom boards will take 8GB of RAM which is more than enough for a NAS and the Linux software RAID is all SSE accelerated code so even an Atom has way more grunt than is required.
Bulking agents generally maltodextrin because it is cheap, colourless and tasteless. Even looks a bit like sugar. If you did not bulk them out you would have to add them in impractically small quantities that they would be useless for end users. A big soft drinks manufacturer on the other hand can add them neat to their products.
Bingo we have a winner. High pressure steam is extremely corrosive as well.
E.U. laws require financial institutions to be headquartered in the country with the most customers. Over the centuries of union those Scottish banks such as RBS, Bank of Scotland etc. all now have more customers in England than in Scotland. To continue to legally operate in the remainder of the U.K. those banks will have to shift their headquarters. The end result is no banks that are headquartered in Scotland, and no local banks.
All the banks have announced/leaked plans to relocate their headquarters to England in the event of a Yes vote.
Actually it is, because in the U.K. at least (and probably the rest of the E.U.) doctoring photos like this and then using them in advertising is highly illegal. Apple are likely to be hit hard in short order.
I have no idea if the USA allows such deceptive practices in advertising but it would not surprise me.
No originally a cube 1cm square at 4 degrees Celsius was one gram. That translates to 1 litre which being a 10cm cube comes in at 1kg.
That it was all later redefined in terms of a standard prototype kilogram is not really relevant to the point about the consistency of the metric unit system.
Why would I prefer ZFS over DIF on FC and now SAS2 which does the checksumming in a far more comprehensive manner for me and is agnositic to the file system it is on?
The phantom transactions is because you end up paying for the same thing twice, once via standard chip and pin (well standard if you are not in the backwater that is the USA) and again via contactless NFC.
From memory it was down to till operator error at one particular shop (M&S to be precise) when they introduced contactless payment.
Actually compared to Channel 4 that had John Snow using extremely offensive and inflammatory sexist language while interviewing Israeli officials the BBC coverage was far more even handed.
If you think that 18Pb of data is a massive storage problem then I have news for you it is not, and can be done in a handful of racks these days. Of course you would probably archive anything over six months old to tape so you could easily store a few decades worth.
Really 18Pb is small beer these days.
Clearly you have never heard of proteomics then. The idea that GMO is completely blind as to the possible effects is uneducated nonsense. Given that traditional selective breading requires no proteomic testing for unintended side effects, any sane rational person looking at the facts would conclude that GMO is in fact safer.
The problem with detergents is that they *ARE* biodegradable. The phosphate in the detergent encourages algae to grow which causes problems in the rivers.
Think again, only the government can infringe your "Human Rights", private individuals and companies cannot.
That is anywhere outside the backwards North America and their rubbish NTSC colour television system and all that component rubbish. It ends up as an RGB on the screen cut the crap and send the RGB to the display device.
One concludes that you have not heard of RemoteFX and multimedia redirection then because the basic premiss of your comments is factually incorrect. Now VMwares solution might be better than Microsoft's but both do the same thing.