Personally I buy organic food from local markets for the taste. Being organic probably has less to do with this than other factors: locally produced, bred primarily for taste, picked when ripe vs. produced wherever production is cheapest, bred for shelf life and appearance on supermarket shelves, picked early to lengthen shelf life.
Someone claiming to be Philip Roth contacted a random Wikipedia editor (ie. anyone with a pulse). This is still not anywhere near the level of verification that Wikipedia needs. An opinion piece in the New Yorker involves editorial control, which presumably involves enough background checking on the author to ensure that he is the real Philip Roth, and the author's opinion is now public record, not hearsay based on what one Wikipedia editor claims to have heard from the author himself.
The article in the NYT, directly from the author in question, is a primary source. Wikipedia has no problems using primary sources. What Wikipedia isn't is a primary source itself, nor should it be.
As the NYT (or The New Yorker) is an independent publication with editorial control, it is in fact a secondary source, even if the article was written by the author himself. The reason for Wikipedia preferring secondary sources rather than primary sources is to establish notability, and prevent individuals from pushing a point-of-view by using their own blog etc as a reference.
1024 was selected because this will not affect any US corporations, who always used 1024 bit certificates. Lower bit lengths were only ever offered because US export law would not allow high strength encryption products to be exported from the US, so MS and others shipped a lot of crippled copies of Windows NT, 95, 98 and maybe even Windows 2000 to customers outside the US.
Sharp pretends to put all its eggs in the "made in Japan" basket, by highlighting their factories in Japan on the webpage, but if you dig deep enough, you'll find the page where they list all their global factories (Poland, Mexico, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines) just like any other major Japanese electronics company.
Yes, I'm serious. However, as DeathFromSomewhere noted in reply to my post, they have apparently restored SD support in WP8 back to normal and are touting it as a new innovative feature (no-one remembers Windows Mobile 5 do they?).
I think your SGS2 actually has 20GB of internal storage: 4GB shows up as "internal", 16GB shows up as "USB storage". At least that's how mine appears. The USB storage portion should also survive a factory reset.
I have been using mobile phones for around a decade and have not once had to replace a battery before the phone broke or became outdated, i have had to replace broken battery COVERS many times however.
Perhaps if you were more careful not to drop your phone, it would last long enough for the battery to become an issue. I personally have replaced batteries on two phones (admittedly one was an NiMH battery, and the other a very early LiPo), and considering now replacing a third, but have never had a battery cover break.
Given that Windows Phone basically formats your SD as part of a RAID-0 array together with the internal storage, an SD Card on a Windows Phone is not really useful - you can't use it for data transfer, because it isn't formatted in a way any other device can use, and replacing it involves reformatting not just the SD card but the internal storage as well.
No, the low end model (820) is defiled with a microSD slot, but its not really defiled because its under the battery cover. The high end phone (920) is free of such burdens, and the user is stuck with its 8GB built in memory because the Cloud is the future man, nevermind that you can't get a phone plan without limited data caps any more.
Sweden has to agree to take him. You can't deport someone to a country that isn't willing to take the person you are deporting (though if he is a Swedish citizen, I don't think Sweden has any grounds for refusal, so this is probably just a formality).
It may be useful to have such a law to apply to people other than the owner, or even to the owner in the case where they are leasing the robot to someone who needs it. This would simplify cases where someone deliberately harmed the robot in order to cause distress to the user or owner, without the victim having to go through the trauma of proving in court that the harm was to them, not just to their property.
The problem is that noone wants to develop apps for GNOME, because they keep changing the fundamental design of the desktop to things that nobody wants (GNOME 3, mono,...). Miguel blames this on Linus, because they "were just copying his refusal to settle on a stable kernel ABI".
You are doing a good job of demonstrating why consumers get some benefit from this stockpile, but this has no bearing on whether this is good for producers.
Microsoft owns essential patents on exFAT, which is mandated by the SD card consortium for SDXC cards. Microsoft has also been quietly reducing the size of FAT filesystems that can be supported on USB thumb drives with Windows 8, in order to force exFAT on the industry. Samsung really don't have much of a choice here - unless they go the Apple route of unexpandable devices that interface to PCs through proprietary software.
Except the courts didn't decide that Samsung copied Apple too closely to make the Galaxy S3. Apple carefully kept that phone away from the jury so as not to harm their case, now they expect to suddenly extend the case to cover it, after the case is over? If they pull this one off, my faith in the US legal system will be completely gone.
In what way do small (or even large) producers benefit by having a stockpile to prevent natural price rises during times of limited supply? They have less production to sell, but they cannot get more money for it to compensate. The only people this protects are the traders who are selling futures.
Claim 1 says there is a base station and a client device, and describes a number of software modules that control settings on the device, without specifying where those modules reside.
Claim 2 states: The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the client wireless device comprises a cellular-enabled mobile device having a wireless LAN (WLAN) interface, and the apparatus is contained substantially within the cellular-enabled mobile device.
This is exactly what Locale is. It is not until claim 15 that the base station is described to contain any of the modules that are required to implement the invention.
You can get "a spacious and naturally light two bedroomed seventeenth floor flat offering impressive views from a private balcony and excellent location for easy access to the City, Canary Wharf and the vibrant Shoreditch" within 25 minutes WALK of central London for 165k GBP. It's just that most people won't consider living in an ex council flat in inner East London.
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I don't know about that. Consumer IR remotes are fairly successful (though not really steady light, due to the low frequencies involved).
Personally I buy organic food from local markets for the taste. Being organic probably has less to do with this than other factors: locally produced, bred primarily for taste, picked when ripe vs. produced wherever production is cheapest, bred for shelf life and appearance on supermarket shelves, picked early to lengthen shelf life.
Someone claiming to be Philip Roth contacted a random Wikipedia editor (ie. anyone with a pulse). This is still not anywhere near the level of verification that Wikipedia needs. An opinion piece in the New Yorker involves editorial control, which presumably involves enough background checking on the author to ensure that he is the real Philip Roth, and the author's opinion is now public record, not hearsay based on what one Wikipedia editor claims to have heard from the author himself.
Who runs Wikipedia is completely irrelevant when they delegate editing to the general public.
As the NYT (or The New Yorker) is an independent publication with editorial control, it is in fact a secondary source, even if the article was written by the author himself. The reason for Wikipedia preferring secondary sources rather than primary sources is to establish notability, and prevent individuals from pushing a point-of-view by using their own blog etc as a reference.
I'm sure there's a story about contaminated illegal immigrants forcing child cancer patients to wait longer on NHS waiting lists in there somewhere.
1024 was selected because this will not affect any US corporations, who always used 1024 bit certificates. Lower bit lengths were only ever offered because US export law would not allow high strength encryption products to be exported from the US, so MS and others shipped a lot of crippled copies of Windows NT, 95, 98 and maybe even Windows 2000 to customers outside the US.
Sharp pretends to put all its eggs in the "made in Japan" basket, by highlighting their factories in Japan on the webpage, but if you dig deep enough, you'll find the page where they list all their global factories (Poland, Mexico, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines) just like any other major Japanese electronics company.
Would be less grammatically correct than the current title. Sharp is the name of the company, you don't have "A Sharp", cash-poor or not.
Yes, I'm serious. However, as DeathFromSomewhere noted in reply to my post, they have apparently restored SD support in WP8 back to normal and are touting it as a new innovative feature (no-one remembers Windows Mobile 5 do they?).
I think your SGS2 actually has 20GB of internal storage: 4GB shows up as "internal", 16GB shows up as "USB storage". At least that's how mine appears. The USB storage portion should also survive a factory reset.
Perhaps if you were more careful not to drop your phone, it would last long enough for the battery to become an issue. I personally have replaced batteries on two phones (admittedly one was an NiMH battery, and the other a very early LiPo), and considering now replacing a third, but have never had a battery cover break.
Given that Windows Phone basically formats your SD as part of a RAID-0 array together with the internal storage, an SD Card on a Windows Phone is not really useful - you can't use it for data transfer, because it isn't formatted in a way any other device can use, and replacing it involves reformatting not just the SD card but the internal storage as well.
No, the low end model (820) is defiled with a microSD slot, but its not really defiled because its under the battery cover. The high end phone (920) is free of such burdens, and the user is stuck with its 8GB built in memory because the Cloud is the future man, nevermind that you can't get a phone plan without limited data caps any more.
They're worth that much now? Wow, time to cash in that 100 billion dollar note in my drawer.
Sweden has to agree to take him. You can't deport someone to a country that isn't willing to take the person you are deporting (though if he is a Swedish citizen, I don't think Sweden has any grounds for refusal, so this is probably just a formality).
It may be useful to have such a law to apply to people other than the owner, or even to the owner in the case where they are leasing the robot to someone who needs it. This would simplify cases where someone deliberately harmed the robot in order to cause distress to the user or owner, without the victim having to go through the trauma of proving in court that the harm was to them, not just to their property.
The problem is that noone wants to develop apps for GNOME, because they keep changing the fundamental design of the desktop to things that nobody wants (GNOME 3, mono, ...). Miguel blames this on Linus, because they "were just copying his refusal to settle on a stable kernel ABI".
tldr; Miguel attention seeking again
You are doing a good job of demonstrating why consumers get some benefit from this stockpile, but this has no bearing on whether this is good for producers.
Or French, Catalan or Galician. Most likely French, as he spent most of his adult life in Paris.
Microsoft owns essential patents on exFAT, which is mandated by the SD card consortium for SDXC cards. Microsoft has also been quietly reducing the size of FAT filesystems that can be supported on USB thumb drives with Windows 8, in order to force exFAT on the industry. Samsung really don't have much of a choice here - unless they go the Apple route of unexpandable devices that interface to PCs through proprietary software.
Except the courts didn't decide that Samsung copied Apple too closely to make the Galaxy S3. Apple carefully kept that phone away from the jury so as not to harm their case, now they expect to suddenly extend the case to cover it, after the case is over? If they pull this one off, my faith in the US legal system will be completely gone.
In what way do small (or even large) producers benefit by having a stockpile to prevent natural price rises during times of limited supply? They have less production to sell, but they cannot get more money for it to compensate. The only people this protects are the traders who are selling futures.
Claim 1 says there is a base station and a client device, and describes a number of software modules that control settings on the device, without specifying where those modules reside.
Claim 2 states: The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the client wireless device comprises a cellular-enabled mobile device having a wireless LAN (WLAN) interface, and the apparatus is contained substantially within the cellular-enabled mobile device.
This is exactly what Locale is. It is not until claim 15 that the base station is described to contain any of the modules that are required to implement the invention.
You can get "a spacious and naturally light two bedroomed seventeenth floor flat offering impressive views from a private balcony and excellent location for easy access to the City, Canary Wharf and the vibrant Shoreditch" within 25 minutes WALK of central London for 165k GBP. It's just that most people won't consider living in an ex council flat in inner East London.