Unless Microsoft start producing their own reader software and somehow get millions of people to upgrade to this new Microsoft reader software and it is multiplatform then this is entirely unlikely. I don't see this as a likely scenario and the betas of Microsoft Office don't include any new reader software that I am aware of.
More likely to me is that Microsoft might have wanted to negociate a license to distribute Acrobat Reader with Office, possibly having Office install it where necessary.
However given other Office software does exactly what Microsoft want to do in Office, and remember 30,000 people a day do a search on the Office website asking how to create a PDF, then Adobe are in a very weak position when in front of any anti-trust regulators. Besides you still need Acrobat for the other none Office products you need to produce PDF's from (assuming the free alternatives won't do), as well as make forms, save filled in forms and a range of other features.
How about a DLT-S4 tape then. They hold 800GB of data native. At no time to the best of my knowledge in the last 10 years has the largest hard drive ever held more than the largest tape. Before that I don't know.
Yes they are expensive, but that is because people don't backup so the volumes are to small. Chicken and egg situtuation really. Only something like two million DLT drives of all types have ever shipped. In the same period it is probably more like two billion hard drives that have shipped. Hard drives are so cheap because the volumes are there to make it so.
Indeed, 20 years ago I wrote a program for a ZX Spectrum that displayed on screen every possible ASCII screen. I never ran the program right through, and got tired of seeing just random junk. However I here by claim that since this time every book, song, computer program, you name it is mearly a copy of the output of my program. Therefore I cannot possibly be infringing on anyone interlectual property. Indeed they have mearly stolen the output of my program.
The minimum legal requirement in the E.U. is 20 days payed leave starting on the first day of your employment for full time workers. For part time it is prorater. There is (or was) some question in the U.K. at least as to whether this includes or excludes public holdays, and was the subject of an industrial tribunal. I don't off hand know the outcome of this.
However you have to ask for it, and the employer can turn you down if they have a good reason. So if you work in a store and ask for a fortnight just before Christmas you could be turned down. Though always having a good reason is not permissible.
I have in the past taken a weeks holiday after being in a new job for only a few weeks (it was booked prior to changing jobs and I was not about to cancel it).
Oh, how about viral pneumonia, encephalitis with all the associated side effects of that (basically any type of brain damage you can think of) and finally death.
Anyone who thinks any of these sorts of childhood diseases are all right to catch and only have minor none serious effects is a uninformed fool. They *all* have serious complications and can kill.
Because what other system lets me store 800GB native on a 125 USD removable device. Let's see there is none. So if I want secure offline backup of a significant amount of data my cheapest option is a tape library. Consequently the vast majority of backup software is targeted at tapes as they offer the best option for backup.
No you would be wrong, the RSA algorithm was first described by Clifford Cocks, a British mathematician working for GCHQ in 1973, four years before the description in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman.
It is a classic example of a bad patent. There was prior art (though admittedly this was kept top secret till 1997) and it also failed the obviousness test. Clearly if someone else came up with the same algorithm four years earlier it was clearly obvious to someone skilled in the art of cryptography. In fact Cocks invented the algorithm "over night" after being told about James H. Ellis (another GCHQ worker) concept of none secret encryption, which occurred to Ellis after reading a paper from World War II by someone at Bell Labs describing a way to protect voice communications by the receiver adding (and then later subtracting) random noise.
Why should it matter if there are dependant children etc? Everyone else has to take out life assurance. What so special about artists that they deserve free life assurance from society? Straight 50 years from date of creation is fair and equiatable.
And a right pain in the neck on a corporate (or lets just say large) network. Ever tried to set up a printer using "Bonjour" on a Mac when it finds a dozen printers of the same model!!! So which one is the one sitting on the desk next to me then? Never mind that the DHCP servers are giving it a static IP address and it has a hostname that resolves correctly. Oh no you cannot possibly just stick that it, you have to guess which one it is, or realize that the the string of seemingly random numbers after it is the MAC address of the printer!!!
Sorry but setting up network printers on a corporate style network is way easier without any "Bonjour" rubbish getting in the way.
I would describe five years as a bit more than quite some time. The standard Dell practice is to duct air from a large case fan over the processor. Of course if they keep this arrangement with the new processors (and they have just introduce a new BTX caseline up in the Optiplex range) it should mean nice quite machines.
They don't. I believe they only take CMYK TIFF's, in common with most other journals. That is unless I have got it mixed up with other cell biology journal. Which is common practice for electronic submission for journals. That's why most of my users have to use Photoshop as there are very few 16bit CMYK capable image manipulation packages in existance.
Having previously studied the regulations as part of bring our I.T. disposal practice at work in line with the WEEE regulations I don't think copper wire does count as electrical equipment.
That said what I do want is some way of specifying that I *don't* want a new IEC mains lead with every new item. I have a huge pile of perfectly good ones that just seem to get added to.
What's your point. WGS84 is a global datum, in fact your handy GPS device works on WGS84 since it is a global positioning device. That the routines to convert to whatever local datum that might exist where you are in the GPS device are less than perfect has nothing to do with Google, the GPS system or anything else.
It makes perfect sense for a global map system to use a global datum. Note also that the USA has a series of local datums that suffer exactly the same problem as other systems. It might be nice if it also did local datums but really it is the same for everyone.
Except it is now known that there is prior art on the RSA algorithm from Clifford Cocks working at GCHQ. The fact that two independent groups came up with the same alogrithm would strongly suggest that the algorithm was obvious to those skilled in the art, and should not have been granted a patent in any case, even if you ignore the prior art.
While on the surface the RSA patent looks like an indicator of a good software patent, if you dig a little, it quickly becomes obvious that it is not.
Though that would be fairly silly. XFS is the only one of these filesystems to support freezing which along with LVM snapshots is the reaons I use XFS.
Indeed miniSD are rather expensive. More sensible to compare a 1" drive to either a CF or regular SD. You can already get a 4GB SD card in the UK for the equivalent of about 350 USD. If past market trends follow through to 2009, then a 8GB SD card will cost less than 100 USD. You can already get an 8GB CF for the equivalent of about 700 USD.
Who the hell is going to buy a more expensive 10GB hard drive over the lower power more reliable flash laternative? If they don't come up with significantly more capacity then they are going out of business quickly.
Wrong over 50% of all internet connections in the U.K. are broadband, and I have yet to notice one (with the exception of AOL) that produces a branded version of IE. In fact you generally don't get a CD for that matter either, beyond drivers for a USB or PCI ADSL card. Though increasingly people opt for NAT based ethernet routers, if only for the added protection it provides.
Just make sure you have a library that can be expanded to meet your capacity requirements. I am sure any storage company would be more than happy to sell you a system that will scale from one drive and maybe 20~30 slots, all the way through to a dozen or so drives and hundreds of tapes.
It is something of a headache to keep a modern multiple drive tape library streaming. Say you have just four LTO3 drives, with a native speed each of at least 40MB/s, then you need to stream data at a speed of at least 160MB/s, and if you can achieve 2:1 compression then you need to get it off the hard disks at 320MB/s. However the tape drives can do 80MB/s, which pushes the transfer rate of the hard drives to 640MB/s.
However as you suggest it is the seek time from the filesystem that really kills if you want to do a file level backup. The restore times suck even worse than the backup.
Easy drive into garage, full up and then drive off. If the plates are fake, or duplicated then it is very hard for the garage to track you down. On the other hand if they are real, then you will shortly get a call from a police man at the registered address of the car.
Except the equipment to make plates has been heavily regulated for several years now. Long gone are the days when you could just walk into a shop and ask for a random license plate to be made. Now you need to produce the vehicle license documentation, and a drivers license at least.
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Unless Microsoft start producing their own reader software and somehow get millions of people to upgrade to this new Microsoft reader software and it is multiplatform then this is entirely unlikely. I don't see this as a likely scenario and the betas of Microsoft Office don't include any new reader software that I am aware of.
More likely to me is that Microsoft might have wanted to negociate a license to distribute Acrobat Reader with Office, possibly having Office install it where necessary.
However given other Office software does exactly what Microsoft want to do in Office, and remember 30,000 people a day do a search on the Office website asking how to create a PDF, then Adobe are in a very weak position when in front of any anti-trust regulators. Besides you still need Acrobat for the other none Office products you need to produce PDF's from (assuming the free alternatives won't do), as well as make forms, save filled in forms and a range of other features.
How about a DLT-S4 tape then. They hold 800GB of data native. At no time to the best of my knowledge in the last 10 years has the largest hard drive ever held more than the largest tape. Before that I don't know.
Yes they are expensive, but that is because people don't backup so the volumes are to small. Chicken and egg situtuation really. Only something like two million DLT drives of all types have ever shipped. In the same period it is probably more like two billion hard drives that have shipped. Hard drives are so cheap because the volumes are there to make it so.
Indeed, 20 years ago I wrote a program for a ZX Spectrum that displayed on screen every possible ASCII screen. I never ran the program right through, and got tired of seeing just random junk. However I here by claim that since this time every book, song, computer program, you name it is mearly a copy of the output of my program. Therefore I cannot possibly be infringing on anyone interlectual property. Indeed they have mearly stolen the output of my program.
Actually it will be photons (it's all fibre optics or satellite links) so yes they *did* cross the border :-)
The minimum legal requirement in the E.U. is 20 days payed leave starting on the first day of your employment for full time workers. For part time it is prorater. There is (or was) some question in the U.K. at least as to whether this includes or excludes public holdays, and was the subject of an industrial tribunal. I don't off hand know the outcome of this.
However you have to ask for it, and the employer can turn you down if they have a good reason. So if you work in a store and ask for a fortnight just before Christmas you could be turned down. Though always having a good reason is not permissible.
I have in the past taken a weeks holiday after being in a new job for only a few weeks (it was booked prior to changing jobs and I was not about to cancel it).
Oh, how about viral pneumonia, encephalitis with all the associated side effects of that (basically any type of brain damage you can think of) and finally death.
Anyone who thinks any of these sorts of childhood diseases are all right to catch and only have minor none serious effects is a uninformed fool. They *all* have serious complications and can kill.
Because what other system lets me store 800GB native on a 125 USD removable device. Let's see there is none. So if I want secure offline backup of a significant amount of data my cheapest option is a tape library. Consequently the vast majority of backup software is targeted at tapes as they offer the best option for backup.
No you would be wrong, the RSA algorithm was first described by Clifford Cocks, a British mathematician working for GCHQ in 1973, four years before the description in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman.
It is a classic example of a bad patent. There was prior art (though admittedly this was kept top secret till 1997) and it also failed the obviousness test. Clearly if someone else came up with the same algorithm four years earlier it was clearly obvious to someone skilled in the art of cryptography. In fact Cocks invented the algorithm "over night" after being told about James H. Ellis (another GCHQ worker) concept of none secret encryption, which occurred to Ellis after reading a paper from World War II by someone at Bell Labs describing a way to protect voice communications by the receiver adding (and then later subtracting) random noise.
Why should it matter if there are dependant children etc? Everyone else has to take out life assurance. What so special about artists that they deserve free life assurance from society? Straight 50 years from date of creation is fair and equiatable.
And a right pain in the neck on a corporate (or lets just say large) network. Ever tried to set up a printer using "Bonjour" on a Mac when it finds a dozen printers of the same model!!! So which one is the one sitting on the desk next to me then? Never mind that the DHCP servers are giving it a static IP address and it has a hostname that resolves correctly. Oh no you cannot possibly just stick that it, you have to guess which one it is, or realize that the the string of seemingly random numbers after it is the MAC address of the printer!!!
Sorry but setting up network printers on a corporate style network is way easier without any "Bonjour" rubbish getting in the way.
You mean there really has been a functional "Make it fit" expert like WordPerfect has had since 6.1 in Office 95 and later.
I would describe five years as a bit more than quite some time. The standard Dell practice is to duct air from a large case fan over the processor. Of course if they keep this arrangement with the new processors (and they have just introduce a new BTX caseline up in the Optiplex range) it should mean nice quite machines.
They don't. I believe they only take CMYK TIFF's, in common with most other journals. That is unless I have got it mixed up with other cell biology journal. Which is common practice for electronic submission for journals. That's why most of my users have to use Photoshop as there are very few 16bit CMYK capable image manipulation packages in existance.
Having previously studied the regulations as part of bring our I.T. disposal practice at work in line with the WEEE regulations I don't think copper wire does count as electrical equipment.
That said what I do want is some way of specifying that I *don't* want a new IEC mains lead with every new item. I have a huge pile of perfectly good ones that just seem to get added to.
What's your point. WGS84 is a global datum, in fact your handy GPS device works on WGS84 since it is a global positioning device. That the routines to convert to whatever local datum that might exist where you are in the GPS device are less than perfect has nothing to do with Google, the GPS system or anything else.
It makes perfect sense for a global map system to use a global datum. Note also that the USA has a series of local datums that suffer exactly the same problem as other systems. It might be nice if it also did local datums but really it is the same for everyone.
Except it is now known that there is prior art on the RSA algorithm from Clifford Cocks working at GCHQ. The fact that two independent groups came up with the same alogrithm would strongly suggest that the algorithm was obvious to those skilled in the art, and should not have been granted a patent in any case, even if you ignore the prior art.
While on the surface the RSA patent looks like an indicator of a good software patent, if you dig a little, it quickly becomes obvious that it is not.
I get formating problems when I change the printer I am printing to under Windows.
Or make sure they cover their tracks properly :-)
Though that would be fairly silly. XFS is the only one of these filesystems to support freezing which along with LVM snapshots is the reaons I use XFS.
Indeed miniSD are rather expensive. More sensible to compare a 1" drive to either a CF or regular SD. You can already get a 4GB SD card in the UK for the equivalent of about 350 USD. If past market trends follow through to 2009, then a 8GB SD card will cost less than 100 USD. You can already get an 8GB CF for the equivalent of about 700 USD.
Who the hell is going to buy a more expensive 10GB hard drive over the lower power more reliable flash laternative? If they don't come up with significantly more capacity then they are going out of business quickly.
Wrong over 50% of all internet connections in the U.K. are broadband, and I have yet to notice one (with the exception of AOL) that produces a branded version of IE. In fact you generally don't get a CD for that matter either, beyond drivers for a USB or PCI ADSL card. Though increasingly people opt for NAT based ethernet routers, if only for the added protection it provides.
Just make sure you have a library that can be expanded to meet your capacity requirements. I am sure any storage company would be more than happy to sell you a system that will scale from one drive and maybe 20~30 slots, all the way through to a dozen or so drives and hundreds of tapes.
It is something of a headache to keep a modern multiple drive tape library streaming. Say you have just four LTO3 drives, with a native speed each of at least 40MB/s, then you need to stream data at a speed of at least 160MB/s, and if you can achieve 2:1 compression then you need to get it off the hard disks at 320MB/s. However the tape drives can do 80MB/s, which pushes the transfer rate of the hard drives to 640MB/s.
However as you suggest it is the seek time from the filesystem that really kills if you want to do a file level backup. The restore times suck even worse than the backup.
Easy drive into garage, full up and then drive off. If the plates are fake, or duplicated then it is very hard for the garage to track you down. On the other hand if they are real, then you will shortly get a call from a police man at the registered address of the car.
Except the equipment to make plates has been heavily regulated for several years now. Long gone are the days when you could just walk into a shop and ask for a random license plate to be made. Now you need to produce the vehicle license documentation, and a drivers license at least.
Whether it is contaminated or not depends on where you live. For large chunks of the worlds population this would be perfectly legal.