While the interlectual property is theirs, and legally constituted court has decided that as punishment for breaking the law they have to hand it over possibly for no cost. When you break the law you don't get to decided what your punishment is, and the courts are empowered to seize your assets as part of the punishement.
No, it's not for free, it's part of the punishment for breaking the law. The protocols have a monetory value, and the EU has determined as it is entitled that rather than fine Microsoft the dollar value of the protocols, it is fining them the protocols themselves.
Remember it is "Interlectual Property", and when you break the law the goverment is entitled to confiscate what parts of your property it sees as reasonable.
That would be the whole of Europe, where Europe does not include the United Kingdom then? Funny because last time I looked at a map the United Kingdom was part of Europe.
Problem is, is that an Imperial Gallon at 4.54609 litres or an U.S. liquid Gallon at 3.785411784 liters or a U.S. dry gallon at 4.40488377086 liters? Specifying something as a gallon is really rather imprecise as it could mean onw of several things.
There was also the Audi A2 1.2L TDI Diesel, which did 94MPG (that's Imperial gallons), and had a 0-60 of 12.6s, so not really that far out the envelope of the competition. Frankly it looks to be based on a mindset of Americans who have no idea what is currently possible outside the gas guzzelers they drive.
While a Mac mini is power efficient, the point is that something like a Via C7 mini-ITX is more power efficient still. I recently built an always on device, used a EPIA EN12000G fanless motherboard, with a picoPSU 60W power supply, 512MB of RAM, a 60GB 7200RPM always on rated Hitachi 2.5" drive (you can get up to 160GB 7200RPM laptop drives now), and fitted it in a Pack-BOX enclosure, complete with a PCI Unicorn based ADSL card. They do a slightly bigger version of the case that takes a 3.5" drive or two 2.5" if you want to run RAID1.
This combination is drawing under 20W, and is fanless to boot for added reliability. The whole lot is mounted on the wall under the stairs. While the processor is slower than a Mac mini, it has a faster hard drive and no fans. The next step is to add in a battery backed PSU as an UPS. As the picoPSU can operate on 6-26V, so I don't need a traditional UPS which will be a lot less energy efficient.
The U.S.A. is the richest country on earth, yet the state of much of New Orleans is an absolute disgrace. Much of what happened in terms of immediate relief at the time was a total and utter shambles. The long term distribution of aid to those effected has also been little short of corrupt. It really is a shameful episode in the history of the U.S.A.
Thing is the current administration bears much of the responsibility, and I am sure they would like to have it covered up as much as possible. One way would be to pressure Google to remove the post Katrina imagery so Joe Public has no easy way to find out the extent of the damage, and the extent to which so little has been done to fix it.
Did they do it? I don't know but it is worth investigating because if they did it is a massive deal.
Why the heck do you need more than one voltage anyway? Why do you even need a different plug as well? If it where me I would have the devices negotiate extra power and if both say good to go, stick it as a DC offset of 48V on the data lines. The device on the other end can easily do DC/DC conversion to get whatever voltage it really needs with very high efficiency.
Oh that's was Power over Ethernet does how very clever of them.
It's back to Economics 101 for Negroponte then. If there is no legitimate market then a black market *will* appear to fill the void. It is as simple as that.
That's fine there is a massive market for these devices for kids in rich first world countries. In fact the only reason I want one is so that I can give one to my nice/godaughter for a present. She's four and half and very intrested in computers. This is the idea gift for her (specially if they do a pink model.
That is still $500 more expensive that a $200 computer. My four and half year old neice does not need to play Doom 3, but a $200 style XO machine would be fanstastic for her, especially in pink. Also the battery life on a XO is much better than on your Dell. Twelve years ago I spend nearly $5000 for a Pentium 75 laptop with 16MB of RAM, 810MB of harddisk and a 640x480 screen. An XO has a 433MHz processor 256MB of RAM, 1GB of flash instead of a hard disk, wireless networking and a 800x600 screen. I'll have one.
I have recently been to the USA for the first time. One thing is that struck me is that you cannot get a cup of *hot* coffee anywhere (that and the concept of no ice seems entirely alien). It is all luke warm at best. I have done some personal research into the matter, and in the UK a cup of freshly brewed tea is hotter than even the cup of coffee McDonalds served to the idiot woman, who deserved nothing in my opinion. Such cups of tea are served routinely and drunk all the time in the UK.
Well the best I could find was the chart first aired on the first ever (now defunct) Top of the Pops on the 1st January 1964 in the U.K.
I Want To Hold Your Hand: Beatles
Glad All Over: Dave Clark 5
She Loves You: Beatles
You Were Made For Me: Freddie & The Dreamers
Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa: Gene Pitney
I Only Want To Be With You:Dusty Springfield
Dominique: Singing Nun
Maria Elena: Los Indios Tabajaras
Secret Love: Kathy Kirby
Don't Talk To Him: Cliff Richard
At this point I was not to be born for just short of another seven years. Of the top ten I recognize the titles and know the songs of seven of them, own several of them and I am not a big music fan. I had a look at the chart for five years ago this week, and I recognized one song, 12 months ago I recognized the names of some of the artists, the songs I have no idea. Not exactly exactly scientific, but does sort of illustrate the point that modern music is rubbish. In fact to call much of it music is a bad joke.
Well Evolution does a good job of interacting with an Exchange server on Linux as does Entourage on a Mac. Use them every working day. For replacing the server there is always PostPath which is five times faster than Exchange on the same hardware. Not free but you did claim that this was not important.
Typesetting of mathematical formulas is piss easy, and the bunch that produces them most (mathematicians and physicists) all use TeX/LaTeX anyway. In the department where I work the print on paper is *not* the media of record. Once the initial article has been read that is it. From then on it will be kept on file as a PDF. Software like Endnote will even kept this all together for you in a nice searchable database, or you can just use something like Google Desktop search.
Our institution (a large UK university) as lots of site licenses for journals. If you want to access them off campus you either setup a VPN connection or use the Citrix Metaframe servers. It's hardly rocket science.
The biggest tape on the market at the moment is DLT-S4, at 800GB native per tape. If you looked at 40GB tape technology you are looking at technology that is about 10 years old. Something like a Quantum PX720 will store just over 500TB in a single frame (the same size as a 42U 19" rack) and five of these frames can be linked, for over 3600 slots or 2.5PB of storage. Other manufactures do similar products. 100TB is small change I am afraid.
For long term archival you just need to have two and ideally three of these located in physically separate locations. Front it with a fairly large file server and use something like IBM's TSM Space Management. When the libraries are at end of life, you slide in new libraries and tell the software to migrate the data over. It's not rocket science, and in the scheme of things not hugely expensive if you have that sort volume of data.
Except in the U.K. and I suspect the rest of the E.U. by law any vendor of goods *must* take back faulty goods and offer a *full* refund. They may try and play hard ball, but in the end they will have to give way because it is the law. There is no exception in the law for CD's or DVD's because the user might have copied them.
Yeah, and I take it you have never been in a real data centre then. There are no servers plugged into sockets for cleaners to pull out. The racks are hard wired into the mains for this among other things. In fact each rack should have two independent mains feeds to each rack, ideally being feed from different substations.
If there is critical hardware plugged into ordinary sockets someone needs to go back and resit Data Centre design 101.
Either you brought Dimensions or some other consumer line, rather than the Optiplex line, in which case you only have yourself to blame or you are talking rubbish. I buy Dell's all the time at work and if you buy from the Optiplex line what you get is the same months later, let alone from the same batch.
Then you fail miserably, because it clearly states from 2009 you will need to attend an interview when renewing your passport. Hum, I will need to renew mine end of 2008 so lucky me I don't need attend and interview for nearly 12 years.
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While the interlectual property is theirs, and legally constituted court has decided that as punishment for breaking the law they have to hand it over possibly for no cost. When you break the law you don't get to decided what your punishment is, and the courts are empowered to seize your assets as part of the punishement.
No, it's not for free, it's part of the punishment for breaking the law. The protocols have a monetory value, and the EU has determined as it is entitled that rather than fine Microsoft the dollar value of the protocols, it is fining them the protocols themselves.
Remember it is "Interlectual Property", and when you break the law the goverment is entitled to confiscate what parts of your property it sees as reasonable.
That would be the whole of Europe, where Europe does not include the United Kingdom then? Funny because last time I looked at a map the United Kingdom was part of Europe.
Problem is, is that an Imperial Gallon at 4.54609 litres or an U.S. liquid Gallon at 3.785411784 liters or a U.S. dry gallon at 4.40488377086 liters? Specifying something as a gallon is really rather imprecise as it could mean onw of several things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon
There was also the Audi A2 1.2L TDI Diesel, which did 94MPG (that's Imperial gallons), and had a 0-60 of 12.6s, so not really that far out the envelope of the competition. Frankly it looks to be based on a mindset of Americans who have no idea what is currently possible outside the gas guzzelers they drive.
While a Mac mini is power efficient, the point is that something like a Via C7 mini-ITX is more power efficient still. I recently built an always on device, used a EPIA EN12000G fanless motherboard, with a picoPSU 60W power supply, 512MB of RAM, a 60GB 7200RPM always on rated Hitachi 2.5" drive (you can get up to 160GB 7200RPM laptop drives now), and fitted it in a Pack-BOX enclosure, complete with a PCI Unicorn based ADSL card. They do a slightly bigger version of the case that takes a 3.5" drive or two 2.5" if you want to run RAID1.
This combination is drawing under 20W, and is fanless to boot for added reliability. The whole lot is mounted on the wall under the stairs. While the processor is slower than a Mac mini, it has a faster hard drive and no fans. The next step is to add in a battery backed PSU as an UPS. As the picoPSU can operate on 6-26V, so I don't need a traditional UPS which will be a lot less energy efficient.
The U.S.A. is the richest country on earth, yet the state of much of New Orleans is an absolute disgrace. Much of what happened in terms of immediate relief at the time was a total and utter shambles. The long term distribution of aid to those effected has also been little short of corrupt. It really is a shameful episode in the history of the U.S.A.
Thing is the current administration bears much of the responsibility, and I am sure they would like to have it covered up as much as possible. One way would be to pressure Google to remove the post Katrina imagery so Joe Public has no easy way to find out the extent of the damage, and the extent to which so little has been done to fix it.
Did they do it? I don't know but it is worth investigating because if they did it is a massive deal.
Why the heck do you need more than one voltage anyway? Why do you even need a different plug as well? If it where me I would have the devices negotiate extra power and if both say good to go, stick it as a DC offset of 48V on the data lines. The device on the other end can easily do DC/DC conversion to get whatever voltage it really needs with very high efficiency.
Oh that's was Power over Ethernet does how very clever of them.
As long as they have OWA running then use Evolution, much nicer than Outlook under Wine.
If the cost of living in Uruguay is much lower than the USA (and I guess it is) then the difference may well be much less than you think.
It's back to Economics 101 for Negroponte then. If there is no legitimate market then a black market *will* appear to fill the void. It is as simple as that.
That's fine there is a massive market for these devices for kids in rich first world countries. In fact the only reason I want one is so that I can give one to my nice/godaughter for a present. She's four and half and very intrested in computers. This is the idea gift for her (specially if they do a pink model.
That is still $500 more expensive that a $200 computer. My four and half year old neice does not need to play Doom 3, but a $200 style XO machine would be fanstastic for her, especially in pink. Also the battery life on a XO is much better than on your Dell. Twelve years ago I spend nearly $5000 for a Pentium 75 laptop with 16MB of RAM, 810MB of harddisk and a 640x480 screen. An XO has a 433MHz processor 256MB of RAM, 1GB of flash instead of a hard disk, wireless networking and a 800x600 screen. I'll have one.
I have recently been to the USA for the first time. One thing is that struck me is that you cannot get a cup of *hot* coffee anywhere (that and the concept of no ice seems entirely alien). It is all luke warm at best. I have done some personal research into the matter, and in the UK a cup of freshly brewed tea is hotter than even the cup of coffee McDonalds served to the idiot woman, who deserved nothing in my opinion. Such cups of tea are served routinely and drunk all the time in the UK.
At this point I was not to be born for just short of another seven years. Of the top ten I recognize the titles and know the songs of seven of them, own several of them and I am not a big music fan. I had a look at the chart for five years ago this week, and I recognized one song, 12 months ago I recognized the names of some of the artists, the songs I have no idea. Not exactly exactly scientific, but does sort of illustrate the point that modern music is rubbish. In fact to call much of it music is a bad joke.
The logical conclusion of which is that fewer larger planes are safer to transport a given number of people.
Shame your prediction is already wrong as PostPath is already a drop in on the wire binary compatible Exchange server replacement.
Well Evolution does a good job of interacting with an Exchange server on Linux as does Entourage on a Mac. Use them every working day. For replacing the server there is always PostPath which is five times faster than Exchange on the same hardware. Not free but you did claim that this was not important.
Typesetting of mathematical formulas is piss easy, and the bunch that produces them most (mathematicians and physicists) all use TeX/LaTeX anyway. In the department where I work the print on paper is *not* the media of record. Once the initial article has been read that is it. From then on it will be kept on file as a PDF. Software like Endnote will even kept this all together for you in a nice searchable database, or you can just use something like Google Desktop search.
Our institution (a large UK university) as lots of site licenses for journals. If you want to access them off campus you either setup a VPN connection or use the Citrix Metaframe servers. It's hardly rocket science.
The biggest tape on the market at the moment is DLT-S4, at 800GB native per tape. If you looked at 40GB tape technology you are looking at technology that is about 10 years old. Something like a Quantum PX720 will store just over 500TB in a single frame (the same size as a 42U 19" rack) and five of these frames can be linked, for over 3600 slots or 2.5PB of storage. Other manufactures do similar products. 100TB is small change I am afraid.
For long term archival you just need to have two and ideally three of these located in physically separate locations. Front it with a fairly large file server and use something like IBM's TSM Space Management. When the libraries are at end of life, you slide in new libraries and tell the software to migrate the data over. It's not rocket science, and in the scheme of things not hugely expensive if you have that sort volume of data.
Except in the U.K. and I suspect the rest of the E.U. by law any vendor of goods *must* take back faulty goods and offer a *full* refund. They may try and play hard ball, but in the end they will have to give way because it is the law. There is no exception in the law for CD's or DVD's because the user might have copied them.
Yeah, and I take it you have never been in a real data centre then. There are no servers plugged into sockets for cleaners to pull out. The racks are hard wired into the mains for this among other things. In fact each rack should have two independent mains feeds to each rack, ideally being feed from different substations.
If there is critical hardware plugged into ordinary sockets someone needs to go back and resit Data Centre design 101.
Either you brought Dimensions or some other consumer line, rather than the Optiplex line, in which case you only have yourself to blame or you are talking rubbish. I buy Dell's all the time at work and if you buy from the Optiplex line what you get is the same months later, let alone from the same batch.
The United Kingdom is famous for not having a written constitution.
Then you fail miserably, because it clearly states from 2009 you will need to attend an interview when renewing your passport. Hum, I will need to renew mine end of 2008 so lucky me I don't need attend and interview for nearly 12 years.