I remember the very first DVD writer which was from Pioneer. It only did 3.95GB disks, the laser was stuffed after writting 1000 drives and the cost was 21,000GBP or over 40,000USD. Give it a few years and they will be as cheap as chips.
Perhaps, but a bog standard Audi A2 diesel makes a Prius look ordinary and the special 3L version makes it look completely rubbish. Yep that is 94mpg Imperial, or 78mpg US. What is the point in spending all that money on a hybrid, when you could just drive an ordinary car?
Not true, banks operating within the Euro zone must operate without discrimination on the basis of the country you happen to be in, provided the country is within the Euro zone. So for example I can write a cheque (or check for you americans) draw on an Irish bank say, post it to Italy and the person in Italy can pay it in to an Italian bank just as they would a cheque from an Italian bank. The banks may not impose additional charges.
It would be pointless to have common currency zone otherwise.
The storage costs are immaterial. Apple could put the whole iTunes catalogue in Apple Lossless format and not notice the cost increase, in terms of storing it on hard drives. Bandwidth is the only cost for higher bitrates of any consequence.
As congress has refused to ratify the US-UK extradition treaty, the US still refuses to extradite people to the UK. During the troubles in Northern Ireland, the US where noted for refusing to extradite people accused of terrorism offences including murder.
In the UK we have been sold down the river by Blair, who refuses to even consider suspending the treaty till it is ratified by the US.
Very slim indeed I would have thought. Given that for a murder conviction in California you must have a unanimous decision of the jury, and the jury must be convinced beyond all reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty then they don't have a hope in hells chance of securing a conviction.
You only need to look at the OJ Simpson case to see how this plays out. There the prosecution spent a day and half going on about a glove that they said was worn by the murder, brought all sorts of expert witnesses and when OJ tried it on, it clearly didn't fit. In an instant the case fell apart because there was now reasonable doubt (clearly OJ didn't wear the glove that the prosecution have just spent 1.5 days proving was worn by the murder).
You might have thought prosecutors in California had improved since the OJ case. Clearly they have not.
And how do you propose the police check that she is in Russia? Check flight records? What if she drove out the USA and then took a flight. The first flight could have been anywhere, and a couple of flights later she could have driven into Russia, with everything paid for in cash. Once there she could easily slip under the radar with an assumed name.
Nope Pinocchio the Disney film came out exactly 50 years after Carlo Collodi the Italian author of "Le avventure di Pinocchio" died. Which means that it was in production when it was in copyright, and Disney released it as soon as they no longer needed to pay copyrights.
Or for something more recent you might try reading the Curious Clownfish by Eric Maddern published 1987 and compare it to the Disney film Finding Nemo and ask why Eric Maddern has not received one penny from Disney.
Disney like copyright when it suites them, and at no other time. What I would like is for Disney to be forced to pay back compensation to the holders of the Pinocchio and other copyrights with interest for the time they infringed on their copyrights based on the new exteneded copyright periods. If the mouse deservers 90 years in the eyes of Disney, then so does Pinocchio. Perhaps then they would not be so keen on extending copyrights.
They changed the processor from a Geode GX1 which uses SDRAM to a faster Geode LX700 which uses less power and DDR memory. I would hazard a guess that the difference between 128MB of SDRAM and 256MB of DDR RAM is minimal, and it will make a difference to Linux.
640 Calories is a rapid starvation diet. An adult could not survive very long on that. As a benchmark they got something like 1300 Calories a day in Auswitz, 1700 Calories is doing hard labour.
They have voted to pass it on it's first reading. It still has some way to go yet before it becomes an actual directive, and there is still plenty of opportunity for it to be rejected or heavily ammended.
I would point out that most member states of the EU already crimialize "comercial" copyright infringment, and thus this could be seen as an attempt to "harmonizing" EU wide law. I would also point out the proposed directive would require member states to ensure fair use rights, something several member states don't do, starting with the U.K.
Wrong you can statically link a comercial none free application with an LGPL library, all you must do is provide a.o file of the application so that someone else can statically link your application with a different version of the library (say one with a bug fixed). Consequently the rest of your argument is uninformed twaddle.
If you go to Brazil they call it Brazillian Portugese, if you go to Canada it is Canadian French etc. etc. Only the Americans feel they are above all this and they are justified in stealing the cultural heritage of others. There is English as spoken in England, and there is American English as spoken in the USA, there is Australian English as spoken in Australia etc. It is what the rest of the world describes as American Cultural Imperialism and is the root cause of most of the dislike of the USA by the rest of the world.
The irony is that Sony Electronics, purchased what became Sony Pictures because they had just spent a shed load of money developing DAT and MiniDISC for the media companies to refuse to release content on the new formats killing them dead. The idea was if they owned content then this would never again be a problem. Unfortunately they allowed the tail to wag the dog and it has all but ruined Sony electronics.
Thing is they want to be able to go from 2TB to hundreds of TB and they cannot afford a SAN!!!
They need to accept that this ain't going to happen, and what they need to do is put in a solution for now and plan for a different solution when they go into production and presumably have the money.
However one has to wonder if there current storage requirements are a messily 2TB why the heck do they need more than one server, unless it is a second for failover.
I would add to all that the fact that most of the EM noise inside a PC is not in the audible spectrum. Does the 20MHz ethernet clock matter one jot to audio? Does the 533/667/1033MHz FSB noise matter to audio? Does the GHz clock for the CPU matter? Does the PCI clock at 33MHz matter?
On top of that you can and do get those tin plated metal screening boxes to shield any sensitive areas.
In fact it occurred to me recently that high end audio power supplies are done all wrong anyway. They all use linear power supplies, and all as a consequence have 50/100Hz or 60/120Hz mains hum problems.
Far more sensible to rectify and smooth the mains and then whack it through a 500kHz SMPS. Then any residual noise getting through at the output stage does not matter, because not even the daftest audiophile can claim to hear 500kHz, yet everyone can hear mains hum. The only reason they mess about with linear PSU's is that this is what is conventionally what is done. Also possibly the fact that it is only in recent years that SMPS's have moved well out the audible range. However the point is that doing a linear PSU in audio equipment in 2007 is just plain daft.
The problem with bringing any new display technology to the market is that you have to hit the ground running. Let's say the current production of 20" LCD panels is 10 million a year (which seems reasonable to me and is possibly more). Therefore if you are bringing a 20" OLED to the market you need to be able to make at least 1 million a year. That is a very high entry barrier.
There are issues with the blue, however these have now been solved with 20,000 hours lifetime (five years at 10 hours a day). Other issues revolve around a set of patents held by Eastman Kodak that need licensing, manufactures might well be holding off till they expire. Finally LCD displays have got where they are today over 30 years of incremental improvements in manufacturing techniques, a luxury not afforded to new display technologies.
No it's copyright infringement not theft. That requires an intention to "permanently deprive", which given that the copyright holder still holds the copyright (the "property" that is owned) when an unauthorized copy is made, has not happened. The law in the U.K. is quite clear on the subject and I suspect that it will be in most other jurisdictions. Copyright infringement is not legally theft so don't refer to is as being so.
While Evolution is great, at the moment it still relies upon OWA being installed. I guess this could change if they replace the MS-RPC over WebDAV with the OpenChange MAILOOK libmapi instead.
However I still cannot see a way to open a shared mailbox/calander with Evolution. So all the features are not there yet. However if they add this feature and switch to MAILOOK then it is.
Well the EU is arguing it as a fine for breaking the law, that is designed to rectify the problems in the market that the illegal behaviour of Microsoft has caused. Other people can argue it anyway they want.
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I remember the very first DVD writer which was from Pioneer. It only did 3.95GB disks, the laser was stuffed after writting 1000 drives and the cost was 21,000GBP or over 40,000USD. Give it a few years and they will be as cheap as chips.
Perhaps, but a bog standard Audi A2 diesel makes a Prius look ordinary and the special 3L version makes it look completely rubbish. Yep that is 94mpg Imperial, or 78mpg US. What is the point in spending all that money on a hybrid, when you could just drive an ordinary car?
Not true, banks operating within the Euro zone must operate without discrimination on the basis of the country you happen to be in, provided the country is within the Euro zone. So for example I can write a cheque (or check for you americans) draw on an Irish bank say, post it to Italy and the person in Italy can pay it in to an Italian bank just as they would a cheque from an Italian bank. The banks may not impose additional charges.
It would be pointless to have common currency zone otherwise.
The storage costs are immaterial. Apple could put the whole iTunes catalogue in Apple Lossless format and not notice the cost increase, in terms of storing it on hard drives. Bandwidth is the only cost for higher bitrates of any consequence.
As congress has refused to ratify the US-UK extradition treaty, the US still refuses to extradite people to the UK. During the troubles in Northern Ireland, the US where noted for refusing to extradite people accused of terrorism offences including murder.
In the UK we have been sold down the river by Blair, who refuses to even consider suspending the treaty till it is ratified by the US.
Very slim indeed I would have thought. Given that for a murder conviction in California you must have a unanimous decision of the jury, and the jury must be convinced beyond all reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty then they don't have a hope in hells chance of securing a conviction.
You only need to look at the OJ Simpson case to see how this plays out. There the prosecution spent a day and half going on about a glove that they said was worn by the murder, brought all sorts of expert witnesses and when OJ tried it on, it clearly didn't fit. In an instant the case fell apart because there was now reasonable doubt (clearly OJ didn't wear the glove that the prosecution have just spent 1.5 days proving was worn by the murder).
You might have thought prosecutors in California had improved since the OJ case. Clearly they have not.
And how do you propose the police check that she is in Russia? Check flight records? What if she drove out the USA and then took a flight. The first flight could have been anywhere, and a couple of flights later she could have driven into Russia, with everything paid for in cash. Once there she could easily slip under the radar with an assumed name.
The British East India Company had it's own army
Nope Pinocchio the Disney film came out exactly 50 years after Carlo Collodi the Italian author of "Le avventure di Pinocchio" died. Which means that it was in production when it was in copyright, and Disney released it as soon as they no longer needed to pay copyrights.
Or for something more recent you might try reading the Curious Clownfish by Eric Maddern published 1987 and compare it to the Disney film Finding Nemo and ask why Eric Maddern has not received one penny from Disney.
Disney like copyright when it suites them, and at no other time. What I would like is for Disney to be forced to pay back compensation to the holders of the Pinocchio and other copyrights with interest for the time they infringed on their copyrights based on the new exteneded copyright periods. If the mouse deservers 90 years in the eyes of Disney, then so does Pinocchio. Perhaps then they would not be so keen on extending copyrights.
They changed the processor from a Geode GX1 which uses SDRAM to a faster Geode LX700 which uses less power and DDR memory. I would hazard a guess that the difference between 128MB of SDRAM and 256MB of DDR RAM is minimal, and it will make a difference to Linux.
640 Calories is a rapid starvation diet. An adult could not survive very long on that. As a benchmark they got something like 1300 Calories a day in Auswitz, 1700 Calories is doing hard labour.
Yes they are made from Gallium Nitride :-)
They have voted to pass it on it's first reading. It still has some way to go yet before it becomes an actual directive, and there is still plenty of opportunity for it to be rejected or heavily ammended.
I would point out that most member states of the EU already crimialize "comercial" copyright infringment, and thus this could be seen as an attempt to "harmonizing" EU wide law. I would also point out the proposed directive would require member states to ensure fair use rights, something several member states don't do, starting with the U.K.
Wrong you can statically link a comercial none free application with an LGPL library, all you must do is provide a .o file of the application so that someone else can statically link your application with a different version of the library (say one with a bug fixed). Consequently the rest of your argument is uninformed twaddle.
If you go to Brazil they call it Brazillian Portugese, if you go to Canada it is Canadian French etc. etc. Only the Americans feel they are above all this and they are justified in stealing the cultural heritage of others. There is English as spoken in England, and there is American English as spoken in the USA, there is Australian English as spoken in Australia etc. It is what the rest of the world describes as American Cultural Imperialism and is the root cause of most of the dislike of the USA by the rest of the world.
Well the reports that I have read put Flash penetration at between 90% and 96% of all internet connected computers depending on region.
The irony is that Sony Electronics, purchased what became Sony Pictures because they had just spent a shed load of money developing DAT and MiniDISC for the media companies to refuse to release content on the new formats killing them dead. The idea was if they owned content then this would never again be a problem. Unfortunately they allowed the tail to wag the dog and it has all but ruined Sony electronics.
Thing is they want to be able to go from 2TB to hundreds of TB and they cannot afford a SAN!!!
They need to accept that this ain't going to happen, and what they need to do is put in a solution for now and plan for a different solution when they go into production and presumably have the money.
However one has to wonder if there current storage requirements are a messily 2TB why the heck do they need more than one server, unless it is a second for failover.
I would add to all that the fact that most of the EM noise inside a PC is not in the audible spectrum. Does the 20MHz ethernet clock matter one jot to audio? Does the 533/667/1033MHz FSB noise matter to audio? Does the GHz clock for the CPU matter? Does the PCI clock at 33MHz matter?
On top of that you can and do get those tin plated metal screening boxes to shield any sensitive areas.
In fact it occurred to me recently that high end audio power supplies are done all wrong anyway. They all use linear power supplies, and all as a consequence have 50/100Hz or 60/120Hz mains hum problems.
Far more sensible to rectify and smooth the mains and then whack it through a 500kHz SMPS. Then any residual noise getting through at the output stage does not matter, because not even the daftest audiophile can claim to hear 500kHz, yet everyone can hear mains hum. The only reason they mess about with linear PSU's is that this is what is conventionally what is done. Also possibly the fact that it is only in recent years that SMPS's have moved well out the audible range. However the point is that doing a linear PSU in audio equipment in 2007 is just plain daft.
Except according to the very article you are getting the 5000 hour figure, they now have 20,000 hour lifespan or five years at 10 hours a day.
The problem with bringing any new display technology to the market is that you have to hit the ground running. Let's say the current production of 20" LCD panels is 10 million a year (which seems reasonable to me and is possibly more). Therefore if you are bringing a 20" OLED to the market you need to be able to make at least 1 million a year. That is a very high entry barrier.
There are issues with the blue, however these have now been solved with 20,000 hours lifetime (five years at 10 hours a day). Other issues revolve around a set of patents held by Eastman Kodak that need licensing, manufactures might well be holding off till they expire. Finally LCD displays have got where they are today over 30 years of incremental improvements in manufacturing techniques, a luxury not afforded to new display technologies.
No it's copyright infringement not theft. That requires an intention to "permanently deprive", which given that the copyright holder still holds the copyright (the "property" that is owned) when an unauthorized copy is made, has not happened. The law in the U.K. is quite clear on the subject and I suspect that it will be in most other jurisdictions. Copyright infringement is not legally theft so don't refer to is as being so.
While Evolution is great, at the moment it still relies upon OWA being installed. I guess this could change if they replace the MS-RPC over WebDAV with the OpenChange MAILOOK libmapi instead.
However I still cannot see a way to open a shared mailbox/calander with Evolution. So all the features are not there yet. However if they add this feature and switch to MAILOOK then it is.
The best way to capture video is to get a analogue to DV bridge and put a Firewire card in the PC. Then you don't need to worry about drivers.
Well the EU is arguing it as a fine for breaking the law, that is designed to rectify the problems in the market that the illegal behaviour of Microsoft has caused. Other people can argue it anyway they want.