Reverse engineering is legally protected within the E.U. courtesy of directive 92/250/EEC on the legal protection of computer programs. In the UK this is implemented in the Copyright (Computer Programs) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992 No.3233). Basically I get to reverse engineer any hardware/hardware, hardware/software or software/software interface.
Apart from EMCA bits to do with circumventing *effective* copyright protection, I am aware of nothing that overrides this directive.
How are they going to do that without breaking the millions of clients in their existing install base? Besides Microsoft are simple not that agile in software releases. It took five years to ship Vista, and there is a similar gap between Server 2003 and 2008.
If they did somehow manage to suddenly become agile and do these releases then it would bring squeals of protest from their clients. Sorry you cannot update your machine over the network to the new networking standards as we have already upgrade the server to make the clients incompatible.
Apart from fedorated directories what extra does Sever 2008 bring in the fileserver/domain controller space? As far as I am aware nothing.
Except you are presuming that the human ear perceives a 20kHz sine wave, and a 20kHz sine wave plus a whole series of harmonics identically.
The problem with that notion is that the standard test for hearing perception is to play pure sine waves of varying frequencies and ask the listener if they can hear them. However over the millions of years of human evolution, it was not until the invention of the tuning fork in 1711 that any human ear had heared a pure sine wave. Up until that point it had evolved to distinguish multiple frequencies at once.
I am not aware of any scientific studies into whether the human ear is able to perceive the existence of harmonics in sound waves above what is considered the normal hearing limit. Surprising really because if it is, it would explain a lot when it comes to sound.
Right so in this context please explain the utter change to Aragon's and Faramir. The wobbly column incident, the expanded role of Arwen, the presence of the Elves at Helms Deep, need I go on? How about little details, why did Sauron have two fingers cut off instead of one? Heck the Fellowship film rambles on way into the Two Towers.
Jackson is like any other Hollywood or producing type person, they change things because they feel they know better than the original author. I suggest you get the extended edition DVD's and listen to his commentary.
Want to represent your tape drive using AoE? Sorry you are out of luck. FCoE offers all the benefits of AoE (i.e. using cheap Ethernet, with no TCP/IP overhead) but the flexibity to do stuff other than SATA drives.
Please explain how fuel duty goes to "Big Oil". It will go of course to government but that is a separate issue.
However there are somethings to note about having significant fuel duty. Firstly the absolute level of fuel prices are less important than the fluctuations in the price. Long term the economy will structurally adjust to accommodate the price of fuel. People buy more fuel efficient cars, they live closer to work etc. The UK economy has grown much better over the last 10 years than the USA, despite the fact that when I filled up last night I paid the equivalent of 7.66USD a U.S. gallon, but then the car I drive already exceeds the 35mpg 2020 target in 2007.
As a consequence of fuel duty making up a significant proportion of the price you pay at the pump fluctuations in the price of crude oil have far less impact on the price at the pump. So in the UK, since the fuel protests of 2000, when the price per litre of petroleum was 81p, to today when it has risen to around 100p, marks a 23% increase or 3% per annum. This is largely in line with general inflation.
I am not entirely sure what the situation is in the USA, but my understanding is that the price in the same period has at least doubled. The shock to the economy of the USA by doubling fuel prices is much worse than the problem of rises in the UK.
Further more as the price of crude oil continues to rise due to peak oil, the government in the UK has the opportunity to promote public transport by doing things like cutting the fuel duty that bus companies have to pay, say through a tax allowance. This would make taking a bus ride The US government has no such room for promoting such changes through tax policy.
The idea that high fuel duty is a "bad thing" is a naive notion at best. The UK and the EU in general is in much better shape to deal with a 100USD a barrel oil than the USA. If the US wants to be the dirty man of the world then expect to pay the price.
I thought we already did, just not a price point, size or power consumption that is anywhere remotely practical for everyday electronic items.
Sure if you have a couple million dollars to blow on your next particle detector that you are going to stick in front of your billion dollar accelerator, and can take a couple of U's up in a rack that is not going to be a problem. Back in the everyday world it is still a pipe dream.
There has been a flash version of the Portage R500 out for several months now, with twice the capacity (64GB) of hard drive and even as the dollar turns into monopoly money it costs less. Personally I don't like the fact they took the DVD drive out of the flash version, but I am being a bit picky.
Thing is there are a growing number of vehicles that actually need gas, whether it be LPG or hydrogen. Consequently it is increasingly unclear in context what is actually meant by referring to a liquid product as a gas.
It's a "Very Bad Thing" because it restricts overall economic activity, which prevents development which keeps Africa dirt poor. Endemic bribery might be the norm in large parts of Africa, however that does not make it a good idea.
That's the point of the relay. The relay turns the power to the brick off, hard at the mains. Now personally I would favour using a tiny amount of parasitic power from the mains supply to enable the thing to come out of standby rather than a high Farad capacitor, which takes energy to charge and energy to make. I reckon that you can have a standby that consumes less than 10mW, which is next to nothing.
Only early Dell monitors had bricks. Anything in the last three years and more has had the PSU integrated right into the display. Got dozens of Dell LCD's here at work to prove the point.
One of the Asus EEE machines? Though they don't have the same physical robustness that the XO has. I would like to get one for my five year old niece, except being in the UK I cannot even get one on a buy one donate one option.
You must my joking. Here in the UK I can get dual layer media for 82p each in a cake box of 25. I know my brother uses them to knock of Disney DVD's so that when my niece has scratched it to pieces he can just bang out another copy from the original. A lot cheaper than a new Disney DVD at upwards of 15GBP each.
Not true, the wireless card has a processor on it, that runs a program that no source is provided for. However the specification to interact with the card is open. If Marvel provided the chipset with the firmware set in ROM on the chipset mask would that offend you as well.
In the same way my laser printer has a processor that takes PCL and turns it into dots on the page. I don't have or need the source code for that, and my printer is just as open.
I really don't understand the obsession with demanding that firmware be open sourced now device drivers download it to the device. 10 years ago it all came in flash/eprom etc. on the device and nobody cared.
Sorry but I beg to correct, no analog system in existence or could be devised has an infinite amount of precision, we live in a quantum world. In the case of a vinyl grove the physical size of the vinyl molecules would be the ultimate limiting factor. Therefore at some point a digital system can have more precision than a vinyl grove.
As far as Entourage goes in Office 2008 it is my understanding that it will do *native* binary MAPI. Even if it does not there is nothing to stop them using Exchange Web Services instead in the future. The WebDAV interface to Exchange is to go.
Er, WebDAV access to Exchange is deemphasized in Exchange 2007, and is replaced with Exchange Web Services and MAPI remains the primary method for access data stores on Exchange servers.
Thing is that curtesy of the Openchange project which is building on top of the IDL stuff from Samba the Exchange MAPI protocols are being fairly rapidly reverse engineered. At which point the prescence or absence of any documentation from Microsoft will be irrelevant. In fact the OpenChange documentation is probably useful in that it won't cost 10,000 Euro and come with strings attached.
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You can always run your own webmail server, because a webbrowser is much more likely to be available than a ssh client.
Reverse engineering is legally protected within the E.U. courtesy of directive 92/250/EEC on the legal protection of computer programs. In the UK this is implemented in the Copyright (Computer Programs) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992 No.3233). Basically I get to reverse engineer any hardware/hardware, hardware/software or software/software interface.
Apart from EMCA bits to do with circumventing *effective* copyright protection, I am aware of nothing that overrides this directive.
How are they going to do that without breaking the millions of clients in their existing install base? Besides Microsoft are simple not that agile in software releases. It took five years to ship Vista, and there is a similar gap between Server 2003 and 2008.
If they did somehow manage to suddenly become agile and do these releases then it would bring squeals of protest from their clients. Sorry you cannot update your machine over the network to the new networking standards as we have already upgrade the server to make the clients incompatible.
Apart from fedorated directories what extra does Sever 2008 bring in the fileserver/domain controller space? As far as I am aware nothing.
I bet the PostPath guys would...
Except you are presuming that the human ear perceives a 20kHz sine wave, and a 20kHz sine wave plus a whole series of harmonics identically.
The problem with that notion is that the standard test for hearing perception is to play pure sine waves of varying frequencies and ask the listener if they can hear them. However over the millions of years of human evolution, it was not until the invention of the tuning fork in 1711 that any human ear had heared a pure sine wave. Up until that point it had evolved to distinguish multiple frequencies at once.
I am not aware of any scientific studies into whether the human ear is able to perceive the existence of harmonics in sound waves above what is considered the normal hearing limit. Surprising really because if it is, it would explain a lot when it comes to sound.
Right so in this context please explain the utter change to Aragon's and Faramir. The wobbly column incident, the expanded role of Arwen, the presence of the Elves at Helms Deep, need I go on? How about little details, why did Sauron have two fingers cut off instead of one? Heck the Fellowship film rambles on way into the Two Towers.
Jackson is like any other Hollywood or producing type person, they change things because they feel they know better than the original author. I suggest you get the extended edition DVD's and listen to his commentary.
Want to represent your tape drive using AoE? Sorry you are out of luck. FCoE offers all the benefits of AoE (i.e. using cheap Ethernet, with no TCP/IP overhead) but the flexibity to do stuff other than SATA drives.
Please explain how fuel duty goes to "Big Oil". It will go of course to government but that is a separate issue.
However there are somethings to note about having significant fuel duty. Firstly the absolute level of fuel prices are less important than the fluctuations in the price. Long term the economy will structurally adjust to accommodate the price of fuel. People buy more fuel efficient cars, they live closer to work etc. The UK economy has grown much better over the last 10 years than the USA, despite the fact that when I filled up last night I paid the equivalent of 7.66USD a U.S. gallon, but then the car I drive already exceeds the 35mpg 2020 target in 2007.
As a consequence of fuel duty making up a significant proportion of the price you pay at the pump fluctuations in the price of crude oil have far less impact on the price at the pump. So in the UK, since the fuel protests of 2000, when the price per litre of petroleum was 81p, to today when it has risen to around 100p, marks a 23% increase or 3% per annum. This is largely in line with general inflation.
I am not entirely sure what the situation is in the USA, but my understanding is that the price in the same period has at least doubled. The shock to the economy of the USA by doubling fuel prices is much worse than the problem of rises in the UK.
Further more as the price of crude oil continues to rise due to peak oil, the government in the UK has the opportunity to promote public transport by doing things like cutting the fuel duty that bus companies have to pay, say through a tax allowance. This would make taking a bus ride The US government has no such room for promoting such changes through tax policy.
The idea that high fuel duty is a "bad thing" is a naive notion at best. The UK and the EU in general is in much better shape to deal with a 100USD a barrel oil than the USA. If the US wants to be the dirty man of the world then expect to pay the price.
I thought we already did, just not a price point, size or power consumption that is anywhere remotely practical for everyday electronic items.
Sure if you have a couple million dollars to blow on your next particle detector that you are going to stick in front of your billion dollar accelerator, and can take a couple of U's up in a rack that is not going to be a problem. Back in the everyday world it is still a pipe dream.
Nope, PDF's are an ideal format for eBooks, the problem is lack of readers with a suitable (aka A4/Letter) sized screen.
I'll see your ZX Spectrum and raise you a ZX80, that's 27 years right there.
There has been a flash version of the Portage R500 out for several months now, with twice the capacity (64GB) of hard drive and even as the dollar turns into monopoly money it costs less. Personally I don't like the fact they took the DVD drive out of the flash version, but I am being a bit picky.
Thing is there are a growing number of vehicles that actually need gas, whether it be LPG or hydrogen. Consequently it is increasingly unclear in context what is actually meant by referring to a liquid product as a gas.
It's a "Very Bad Thing" because it restricts overall economic activity, which prevents development which keeps Africa dirt poor. Endemic bribery might be the norm in large parts of Africa, however that does not make it a good idea.
That's the point of the relay. The relay turns the power to the brick off, hard at the mains. Now personally I would favour using a tiny amount of parasitic power from the mains supply to enable the thing to come out of standby rather than a high Farad capacitor, which takes energy to charge and energy to make. I reckon that you can have a standby that consumes less than 10mW, which is next to nothing.
Only early Dell monitors had bricks. Anything in the last three years and more has had the PSU integrated right into the display. Got dozens of Dell LCD's here at work to prove the point.
One of the Asus EEE machines? Though they don't have the same physical robustness that the XO has. I would like to get one for my five year old niece, except being in the UK I cannot even get one on a buy one donate one option.
Though milk is still commonly sold by the pint, except it is more like 2.2l for a 4 pinter.
It's not remotely picky, because the standard for computers has always been to use an upper case K to differentiate it from the S.I. prefixes.
You must my joking. Here in the UK I can get dual layer media for 82p each in a cake box of 25. I know my brother uses them to knock of Disney DVD's so that when my niece has scratched it to pieces he can just bang out another copy from the original. A lot cheaper than a new Disney DVD at upwards of 15GBP each.
Not true, the wireless card has a processor on it, that runs a program that no source is provided for. However the specification to interact with the card is open. If Marvel provided the chipset with the firmware set in ROM on the chipset mask would that offend you as well.
In the same way my laser printer has a processor that takes PCL and turns it into dots on the page. I don't have or need the source code for that, and my printer is just as open.
I really don't understand the obsession with demanding that firmware be open sourced now device drivers download it to the device. 10 years ago it all came in flash/eprom etc. on the device and nobody cared.
These things cost, but not 3000USD per GB, even the US dollar has not been devalued that much.
Sorry but I beg to correct, no analog system in existence or could be devised has an infinite amount of precision, we live in a quantum world. In the case of a vinyl grove the physical size of the vinyl molecules would be the ultimate limiting factor. Therefore at some point a digital system can have more precision than a vinyl grove.
It has been replaced with something different Exchange Web Services which rather than being some Microsoft concocted protocol is compliant SOAP.
As far as Entourage goes in Office 2008 it is my understanding that it will do *native* binary MAPI. Even if it does not there is nothing to stop them using Exchange Web Services instead in the future. The WebDAV interface to Exchange is to go.
Er, WebDAV access to Exchange is deemphasized in Exchange 2007, and is replaced with Exchange Web Services and MAPI remains the primary method for access data stores on Exchange servers.
Thing is that curtesy of the Openchange project which is building on top of the IDL stuff from Samba the Exchange MAPI protocols are being fairly rapidly reverse engineered. At which point the prescence or absence of any documentation from Microsoft will be irrelevant. In fact the OpenChange documentation is probably useful in that it won't cost 10,000 Euro and come with strings attached.