In this country, EULAs are not legally binding.
I completely disregard any EULA, as I do not have to abide by anything in there - consumer law already does the job of my protection and already gives me the rights that I want.
Anyway, my cat walked across my keyboard during the install and 'agreed' to the EULA, or my neighbour's kids of a non-majority age did it...
I wish Alan the best in his new position. Redhat have lost a great developer, and Intel have gained a fantastic resource. It's also great to see that the leaving was very amicable as well.
This should be a win-win for Linux as a whole.
Disclaimer: I used to be the lead tech support for 3 years for a small satellite-only ISP (25 employees) up to 18 months ago, which resold bandwidth from SES-Astra using both Gilat-360e satmodems for SOHO and BBI satmodems for the enterprise products, and later on EMS (now Advantech) DVB-RCS terminals for the enterprise.
Latency is usually considered the biggest issue with IP over satellite.
The best latency you can possibly get is 550 msec round-trip. If you are working with 2 satellite-enabled sites, your best will be 1100 msec, as there isn't any method of routing packets on the satellite. Packets will have to be sent to the groundstation and be rerouted, re-encrypted and repackaged for transmission to the other endpoint.
The other big killer for satellite IP is the issue of jitter. If you are close to noise floor for receiving or transmitting, you will get a *lot* of jitter as you miss your timing slots or the SIT requests retransmission of the packets. You will also get jitter if you are close to the throttling limits that the provider has enforced in the background that will delay the transmission of frames as a crude QOS system.
Latency kills applications that use lots of small packets for data transmission, e.g. RPC, older implementations of remote desktop, certain VPN solutions. Jitter on the other hand kills things like VOIP that function best with an expected and consistent timing of packet arrival.
The usual method of IP over satellite that I saw in practice was the DVB-RCS protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-RCS which in essence packages an encrypted datastream in the mjpeg frames that would be handled as part of a television feed. Knowing the limitations of exactly how the data is transported can go a long way towards explaining the reasons why some apps work great for some people and other apps plainly suck.
There is not a huge amount of bandwidth available on the transponders, and the cost of the use of a transponder and the associated equipment at a groundstation can be frightening.
The issue of pointing accuracy and available power is also critical with satellite IP. The receive strength is important, but not as critical as the pointing required for the transmission side of things. The usual method that we had for pointing was to contact teh upstream provider that had the oscilloscopes on the feed, setting a carrier wave on the satmodem, and changing the point until there was a power peak. Then the antenna was tightened up and comissioning was completed once the routing was set up.
Satellite is good if you work within its limitations. It'll give you good service if your equipment is correctly specified and performs to its spec. It's unfortunate that the cost is so high, but that's the cost of using a transponder on a commercial satellite.
In one of my previous employments, I took over the role of Technical Guy from a certain Mr. D. Rocheford, and had theratening letters from the BSA very shortly afterwards.
Background:
The company was formed with this Mr. Rocheford's idea, and his dad's friend's money. Mismanagement and overspending ensued, and very few sales went ahead. The cash started to run out. Mr. Rocheford left the company under dubious circumstances after requests for more funding were turned down by the owner of the company.
The firewall/ISDN was sabotaged.
The desktops were corrupted.
The company laptop was stol^h^h^h^hmisappropriated by Mr. Rocheford.
The owner's company email was used to send threatening mails to various local persons.
The laptop was returned with the bios password locked and no method for resetting it (dell inspiron) so was unuseable. No password ever provided.
Within a week I got a phonecall from the BSA saying that they were coming to audit the office for software licenses. I told them to go and stuff themselves, and get back to me with a court-issued warrant before they would be let set foot inside the office doors. Thankfully in this country (Ireland) the BSA has zero legal standing for attempting entry and search. To get a warrant, there has to be probable cause and a sympathetic judge. Add to that, a civil group cannot serve the warrant anyway as it is only the gardai (police) that can effect such a warrant.
I got a further call from a supervisor later that day requesting that I self-audit and issue them with the proofs of purchase and licenses for them to decide whether or not to prosecute.
I told him to go away (much less politely), and that if I received any further communications from them I would have them sued for harrassment. I said to him that if they wanted to pursue the company for auditing, thet they were free to make a complaint to the Gardai, and I would happily facilitate the Gardai at that stage.
I knew for a fact that the licenses for the O/S and office suites were legit, I was just so pissed off at the insistence of the BSA's representative in Ireland that I was a criminal in was can only be a civil matter.
I heard nothing more from them after that....
Apparently it was said to me later that year after being made redundant that Mr. Rocheford admitted to the owner that he had made a complaint to the BSA about the company.
At first reading I thought you were writing about MSWindows - self-signed, unaudited code running your computer, installing updates with or without your input..
Very true. Would it not make sense though if all of the currently available energy reduction technologies were applied, that it would make a difference however small? Anything that makes a difference should be utilised. The greater efficiencies that can be realised, the better for us all irrespective of climate change or other environmental issues. More efficiency, cheaper energy, a win-win situation.
The last time I looked, MS Office didn't support ODF. Sun produced a plugin to enable this.
MS deliberately didn't include ODF support out of the box, as that would open an avenue to the loss of the monopoly on the formats. That's never in the best interests of Microsoft according to MS heirarchy.
One of the strange things about sundials is the necessity to have a calendar to be able to tell the time properly and accurately.
Due to the eccentricity of the earth's orbit, the actual position of the sun in the sky can be up to 15 minutes ahead or behind the expected position of the sun for the time. You need the calendar to get the 'Equation of Time' modifier, which is applied to the time as measured on the sundial.
FYI:
(1) and (2) are as close to identical as to make no difference.
A system like a pc will dissipate the vast majority of its drawn power as heat. Some tiny fraction will be in the form of noise, some single-digit number of watts as light, but the overwhelming majority of its power is eventually dumped as heat. Other tiny losses would be the power used to transmit over the network cable or over 802.11 wireless.
(3) will usually be a function of the power density of the box and its thermal limitations. Small box, high power, needing high air throughput to keep the temperatures down will usually be noisy. Large box, low power useage, low air throughput, more serviceable by large slow fans with low noise output.
There's no getting away from the fact that any otto-cycle based engine/generator combination will not be better than an equivalent diesel-electric when using any of the following metrics:
power output per volume of fuel used
volume of fuel used per distance
CO2 emissions per distance travelled
Even factoring in the extra weight of the diesel engine, it is still more efficient in every way than an otto cycle engine.
Of course a gasoline hybrid car is more efficient that a purely gasoline-fueled car, but a gasoline hybrid isn't as efficient as a purely diesel-fueled engine, and comes nowhere near the efficiency possiblities of a diesel hybrid. There's no escaping these facts.
Why do you think that the car companies have devoted time and money to the gasoline hybrid, when there are better options out there? Marketing choices? Poor diesel fuel or high-sulphur diesel in the US? Poor experiences in the past with poor-quality diesel engines in the US?
He may have broken a law, but I think that you are confused as to the actual crime committed.
Nowhere did he deprive another of an object. He did assist in the illegal duplication and distribution of copyrighted material, and that is the offence. Not stealing. He didn't steal anything!
Something that I have not seen at all is any real-world implementation of a diesel-electric hybrid car.
Simple thermodynamics states that a Diesel cycle engine is significantly more efficient than the Otto cycle engine in mose standard gasoline cars. Combine this with the higher energy density of diesel fuel, and you have the main reason why diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline engines.
If you replace the gasoline engine in a hybrid car with a correctly specified diesel engine, the increase in efficiency should be very noticable.
(off-the-cuff figures, taken from European context, mpg figures are Imperial)
Regular gasoline engine, 1.6L 4 cylinder 90bhp, average family hatchback would give c.40mpg.
Regular diesel engine 1.9l 4-cylinder 90bhp average family 4-door saloon would give c.55mpg in the same useage pattern.
If a hybrid of similar size and power was using gasoline and gave 55mpg, then a diesel hybrid should give 68 in the same useage pattern. The diesel engine would be more suitable to recharge the batteries with the better torque curve.
I know that there are fuel supply quality issues for diesel in the States, and it is taking time for the real diesel cars to be allowed entry to the markets, but there should be no reason to supply a gasoline hybrid in a market where low sulphur diesel is available.
Is the gasoline hybrid just a marketing phenomenon, or is it a step to a better design of hybrid with better fuels?
In the ad, it's an automatic gearbox!
And I could drive stick at about 6 years old. One of the advantages of having a countryside upbringing and well-supervised driving of tractors around a field.
Thing is, I don't want to work for them anymore, they have had the chance to improve conditions and all that stuff. If he comes back with a counteroffer, it's 18 months too late, and 10 sets of late wages too late...
Just as an example of the way that the owner of the company thinks:
The company had an account set up with a local safety equipment provider for hi-vis jackets and boots for the ladder-monkeys. The MD comes bounding in when he found out saying something along the lines of 'Oh great. I need a few fire extinguishers and things, for the house and the boat'. Nice.
Example 2:
Anytime the MD goes to Dublin (the company is Irish based), no matter what time the meeting or whatever, he'll drive up the evening before, stay in a E100 hotel near the city centre availing of whatever services he can from the hotel. It would be reasonable to stay a E10 taxi ride out a bit farther in a hotel for E50 a night (same standard of place - I was in both).
I do understand the importance of being fresh for meeting people to invest in the company, but he is taking the p*ss when the rest of us are being pinched.
His brother is managing the office and the general operations, and has made noises about getting me certified and changing my role to that of a network specialist to justify the increase to 33-35k euro, but that increase in wages just won't be a help when the wages are irregular.
Onwards to my next job interview on Thursday, keep the fingers crossed!
I have a fair idea of what kind of person the article is talking about...
I am the lead technician/engineer/problem-solver in a company of 18 that provides satellite-based internet access. I was brought on 2 years ago as a dish and hardware installer at a rate of 19k euros. Within 3 months, the office admin left, the other office tech left, and I was drafted in to the role of office admin.
Responsibilities increase to the point where I am customer facing with regards to putting out the fires, planning the future of the office network, introducing nagios and sugarcrm to the company and streamlining the office network.
As for the expected salary increase from going from ladder monkey to top-of-tree technical person, no, that hasn't happened. Only after much cajoling and threatening to leave was my salary increased to 23k euro, last january.
The funny thing is that the major client of the company (major telecomms provider in the country) regards me as 'the guy that fixes things' to quote the relevant product manager, and has come to rely on my services in customer management and problem solving.
I's going to be a big shock to the company when I give them 2 weeks notice of my leaving next week, because they won't get anyone to fill the same role for anything close to the same salary. I am just at the end of my patience with the company, as my wages are consistently late (3 times late in the past 5 months, and something similar last year) and I know that the 2 brothers that own the company are taking about 8-9k euro out of the company a month in wages and expenses. Not a nice thing to find out when your bank gives you letters for late bills and you have no chance of getting a mortgage for 5 years because of the irregular payment schedule.
Yes there are mitigating circumstances in why the company is in such dire straights (mostly incompetent management that bleed the spare cash off..) but I have given them 2 years to get the act together and start paying me what I am supposed to be earning (around 33-35k euro). What sucks for the other workers in the company is that the product is great, and is selling well, just no money there for anything useful..
To cut a longer story short, I know that I am valued in the company, but there isn't anything tangible to show that, coming from the company.
I'll be wishing them the best of luck, and advising those that are left to jump before the whole thing sinks.
When I leave it'll all go to crap, but I don't feel bad about that.
When you go through the signup procedure to order the beta/evaluation version, you get a link to an iso of a previous version.
The latest publicly available.iso of winxp-64 is build 1218. Build version 1289 is the latest of windows server 2003-64bit, and that uses the same code as reviewed.
Build version 1289 of XP professional is MSDN only at the moment, and is supposed to be released to CPP towards the end of the month.
I am running 64-bit 2003 server at the moment on a 3000+ amd64 and it just flies along. No real issues so far, apart from dvd layback and some motherboard incompatibility with some graphics cards, but that is a seperate issue.
I'd suggest trying it for a while. Some of the default security makes sense now, compared to that in vanilla XP.
If I buy HL2, and *do* install it, then Valve (and other companies) argue that I've entered into a contract with them. As part of that contract, I have *lost* something - my ability to resell the product. I cannot sell my copy of HL2 to someone else without Valve's permission. Well, I guess I can still sell it - but because of the issue of registration, that particular copy of HL2 is worthless now, to anyone but me.
I disagree. Installing it is not entering into a contract of any type. You have not signed anything, and neither has an agent of Valve. Unless the software printed out a contract that you signed and had witnessed, and sent both copies to Valve to be countersigned by an authorised agent of theirs and to have them return one copy for your records, there is no contract present.
As an aside, Valve could be sued in the EU for offenses against goods fit for their purpose if there is no method present to allow a piece of software to be sold. All Valve have to do is send the new purchaser a new key, and to disable the original key.
All this bull about EULA being contracts really needs to be stopped before people start believing them to be contracts./rant.
The direction is implicit in the statement "a relative velocity of 49 km/s".
Relative velocity implies in the line-of-sight to object, though to be pedantically accurate the speed component should be -49km/sec, the distance between meteor and observer being lessened.
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In this country, EULAs are not legally binding.
I completely disregard any EULA, as I do not have to abide by anything in there - consumer law already does the job of my protection and already gives me the rights that I want. Anyway, my cat walked across my keyboard during the install and 'agreed' to the EULA, or my neighbour's kids of a non-majority age did it...
I wish Alan the best in his new position. Redhat have lost a great developer, and Intel have gained a fantastic resource. It's also great to see that the leaving was very amicable as well. This should be a win-win for Linux as a whole.
Anyone that frequents http://thedailywtf.com/ will tell you of "Irish girl" http://www.bustedtees.com/irish#female
Latency is usually considered the biggest issue with IP over satellite. The best latency you can possibly get is 550 msec round-trip. If you are working with 2 satellite-enabled sites, your best will be 1100 msec, as there isn't any method of routing packets on the satellite. Packets will have to be sent to the groundstation and be rerouted, re-encrypted and repackaged for transmission to the other endpoint.
The other big killer for satellite IP is the issue of jitter. If you are close to noise floor for receiving or transmitting, you will get a *lot* of jitter as you miss your timing slots or the SIT requests retransmission of the packets. You will also get jitter if you are close to the throttling limits that the provider has enforced in the background that will delay the transmission of frames as a crude QOS system.
Latency kills applications that use lots of small packets for data transmission, e.g. RPC, older implementations of remote desktop, certain VPN solutions. Jitter on the other hand kills things like VOIP that function best with an expected and consistent timing of packet arrival.
The usual method of IP over satellite that I saw in practice was the DVB-RCS protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-RCS which in essence packages an encrypted datastream in the mjpeg frames that would be handled as part of a television feed. Knowing the limitations of exactly how the data is transported can go a long way towards explaining the reasons why some apps work great for some people and other apps plainly suck.
There is not a huge amount of bandwidth available on the transponders, and the cost of the use of a transponder and the associated equipment at a groundstation can be frightening.
The issue of pointing accuracy and available power is also critical with satellite IP. The receive strength is important, but not as critical as the pointing required for the transmission side of things. The usual method that we had for pointing was to contact teh upstream provider that had the oscilloscopes on the feed, setting a carrier wave on the satmodem, and changing the point until there was a power peak. Then the antenna was tightened up and comissioning was completed once the routing was set up.
Satellite is good if you work within its limitations. It'll give you good service if your equipment is correctly specified and performs to its spec. It's unfortunate that the cost is so high, but that's the cost of using a transponder on a commercial satellite.
I'd like a closet that can run a VNC server...
Background:
The company was formed with this Mr. Rocheford's idea, and his dad's friend's money. Mismanagement and overspending ensued, and very few sales went ahead. The cash started to run out. Mr. Rocheford left the company under dubious circumstances after requests for more funding were turned down by the owner of the company.
- The firewall/ISDN was sabotaged.
- The desktops were corrupted.
- The company laptop was stol^h^h^h^hmisappropriated by Mr. Rocheford.
- The owner's company email was used to send threatening mails to various local persons.
- The laptop was returned with the bios password locked and no method for resetting it (dell inspiron) so was unuseable. No password ever provided.
Within a week I got a phonecall from the BSA saying that they were coming to audit the office for software licenses. I told them to go and stuff themselves, and get back to me with a court-issued warrant before they would be let set foot inside the office doors. Thankfully in this country (Ireland) the BSA has zero legal standing for attempting entry and search. To get a warrant, there has to be probable cause and a sympathetic judge. Add to that, a civil group cannot serve the warrant anyway as it is only the gardai (police) that can effect such a warrant.I got a further call from a supervisor later that day requesting that I self-audit and issue them with the proofs of purchase and licenses for them to decide whether or not to prosecute.
I told him to go away (much less politely), and that if I received any further communications from them I would have them sued for harrassment. I said to him that if they wanted to pursue the company for auditing, thet they were free to make a complaint to the Gardai, and I would happily facilitate the Gardai at that stage.
I knew for a fact that the licenses for the O/S and office suites were legit, I was just so pissed off at the insistence of the BSA's representative in Ireland that I was a criminal in was can only be a civil matter.
I heard nothing more from them after that....
Apparently it was said to me later that year after being made redundant that Mr. Rocheford admitted to the owner that he had made a complaint to the BSA about the company.
At first reading I thought you were writing about MSWindows - self-signed, unaudited code running your computer, installing updates with or without your input..
Also true.
What would the longest return on investment that people will accept in general? 10 years to get back the initial costs? 30 years?
One for the psychologists and economists!
Very true. Would it not make sense though if all of the currently available energy reduction technologies were applied, that it would make a difference however small? Anything that makes a difference should be utilised. The greater efficiencies that can be realised, the better for us all irrespective of climate change or other environmental issues. More efficiency, cheaper energy, a win-win situation.
MS deliberately didn't include ODF support out of the box, as that would open an avenue to the loss of the monopoly on the formats. That's never in the best interests of Microsoft according to MS heirarchy.
Due to the eccentricity of the earth's orbit, the actual position of the sun in the sky can be up to 15 minutes ahead or behind the expected position of the sun for the time. You need the calendar to get the 'Equation of Time' modifier, which is applied to the time as measured on the sundial.
Useful links to explain better:
Sundial primer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial
Equation of Time: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.351
A particularly accurate sundial, to
A system like a pc will dissipate the vast majority of its drawn power as heat. Some tiny fraction will be in the form of noise, some single-digit number of watts as light, but the overwhelming majority of its power is eventually dumped as heat. Other tiny losses would be the power used to transmit over the network cable or over 802.11 wireless.
(3) will usually be a function of the power density of the box and its thermal limitations. Small box, high power, needing high air throughput to keep the temperatures down will usually be noisy. Large box, low power useage, low air throughput, more serviceable by large slow fans with low noise output.
- power output per volume of fuel used
- volume of fuel used per distance
- CO2 emissions per distance travelled
Even factoring in the extra weight of the diesel engine, it is still more efficient in every way than an otto cycle engine.Of course a gasoline hybrid car is more efficient that a purely gasoline-fueled car, but a gasoline hybrid isn't as efficient as a purely diesel-fueled engine, and comes nowhere near the efficiency possiblities of a diesel hybrid. There's no escaping these facts.
Why do you think that the car companies have devoted time and money to the gasoline hybrid, when there are better options out there? Marketing choices? Poor diesel fuel or high-sulphur diesel in the US? Poor experiences in the past with poor-quality diesel engines in the US?
He may have broken a law, but I think that you are confused as to the actual crime committed.
Nowhere did he deprive another of an object. He did assist in the illegal duplication and distribution of copyrighted material, and that is the offence. Not stealing. He didn't steal anything!
Simple thermodynamics states that a Diesel cycle engine is significantly more efficient than the Otto cycle engine in mose standard gasoline cars. Combine this with the higher energy density of diesel fuel, and you have the main reason why diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline engines.
If you replace the gasoline engine in a hybrid car with a correctly specified diesel engine, the increase in efficiency should be very noticable.
(off-the-cuff figures, taken from European context, mpg figures are Imperial)
Regular gasoline engine, 1.6L 4 cylinder 90bhp, average family hatchback would give c.40mpg.
Regular diesel engine 1.9l 4-cylinder 90bhp average family 4-door saloon would give c.55mpg in the same useage pattern.
If a hybrid of similar size and power was using gasoline and gave 55mpg, then a diesel hybrid should give 68 in the same useage pattern. The diesel engine would be more suitable to recharge the batteries with the better torque curve.
I know that there are fuel supply quality issues for diesel in the States, and it is taking time for the real diesel cars to be allowed entry to the markets, but there should be no reason to supply a gasoline hybrid in a market where low sulphur diesel is available.
Is the gasoline hybrid just a marketing phenomenon, or is it a step to a better design of hybrid with better fuels?
Sounds very like a place that designs and fabs lots of analogue devices...
In the ad, it's an automatic gearbox! And I could drive stick at about 6 years old. One of the advantages of having a countryside upbringing and well-supervised driving of tractors around a field.
There are really some evil people in the world... why do a disproportionate amount of them have MBA's and law degrees?!
There are also a disproportionate amountb of idiots and incompetents amongst that particular group too..
Thing is, I don't want to work for them anymore, they have had the chance to improve conditions and all that stuff. If he comes back with a counteroffer, it's 18 months too late, and 10 sets of late wages too late...
The company had an account set up with a local safety equipment provider for hi-vis jackets and boots for the ladder-monkeys. The MD comes bounding in when he found out saying something along the lines of 'Oh great. I need a few fire extinguishers and things, for the house and the boat'. Nice.
Example 2:
Anytime the MD goes to Dublin (the company is Irish based), no matter what time the meeting or whatever, he'll drive up the evening before, stay in a E100 hotel near the city centre availing of whatever services he can from the hotel. It would be reasonable to stay a E10 taxi ride out a bit farther in a hotel for E50 a night (same standard of place - I was in both).
I do understand the importance of being fresh for meeting people to invest in the company, but he is taking the p*ss when the rest of us are being pinched.
His brother is managing the office and the general operations, and has made noises about getting me certified and changing my role to that of a network specialist to justify the increase to 33-35k euro, but that increase in wages just won't be a help when the wages are irregular.
Onwards to my next job interview on Thursday, keep the fingers crossed!
I am the lead technician/engineer/problem-solver in a company of 18 that provides satellite-based internet access. I was brought on 2 years ago as a dish and hardware installer at a rate of 19k euros. Within 3 months, the office admin left, the other office tech left, and I was drafted in to the role of office admin.
Responsibilities increase to the point where I am customer facing with regards to putting out the fires, planning the future of the office network, introducing nagios and sugarcrm to the company and streamlining the office network.
As for the expected salary increase from going from ladder monkey to top-of-tree technical person, no, that hasn't happened. Only after much cajoling and threatening to leave was my salary increased to 23k euro, last january.
The funny thing is that the major client of the company (major telecomms provider in the country) regards me as 'the guy that fixes things' to quote the relevant product manager, and has come to rely on my services in customer management and problem solving.
I's going to be a big shock to the company when I give them 2 weeks notice of my leaving next week, because they won't get anyone to fill the same role for anything close to the same salary. I am just at the end of my patience with the company, as my wages are consistently late (3 times late in the past 5 months, and something similar last year) and I know that the 2 brothers that own the company are taking about 8-9k euro out of the company a month in wages and expenses. Not a nice thing to find out when your bank gives you letters for late bills and you have no chance of getting a mortgage for 5 years because of the irregular payment schedule.
Yes there are mitigating circumstances in why the company is in such dire straights (mostly incompetent management that bleed the spare cash off..) but I have given them 2 years to get the act together and start paying me what I am supposed to be earning (around 33-35k euro). What sucks for the other workers in the company is that the product is great, and is selling well, just no money there for anything useful..
To cut a longer story short, I know that I am valued in the company, but there isn't anything tangible to show that, coming from the company.
I'll be wishing them the best of luck, and advising those that are left to jump before the whole thing sinks.
When I leave it'll all go to crap, but I don't feel bad about that.
Build version 1289 of XP professional is MSDN only at the moment, and is supposed to be released to CPP towards the end of the month.
I am running 64-bit 2003 server at the moment on a 3000+ amd64 and it just flies along. No real issues so far, apart from dvd layback and some motherboard incompatibility with some graphics cards, but that is a seperate issue.
I'd suggest trying it for a while. Some of the default security makes sense now, compared to that in vanilla XP.
I disagree. Installing it is not entering into a contract of any type. You have not signed anything, and neither has an agent of Valve. Unless the software printed out a contract that you signed and had witnessed, and sent both copies to Valve to be countersigned by an authorised agent of theirs and to have them return one copy for your records, there is no contract present.
As an aside, Valve could be sued in the EU for offenses against goods fit for their purpose if there is no method present to allow a piece of software to be sold. All Valve have to do is send the new purchaser a new key, and to disable the original key.
All this bull about EULA being contracts really needs to be stopped before people start believing them to be contracts. /rant.
For me, Microsoft Windows is not a product of my country, so it is a foreign operating system!
/pedant
Yeah, I know there is a large place relatively nearby that localises MSWindows, but that doesn't really count.
The direction is implicit in the statement "a relative velocity of 49 km/s". Relative velocity implies in the line-of-sight to object, though to be pedantically accurate the speed component should be -49km/sec, the distance between meteor and observer being lessened.