The voltage between phases in Japan is about 175V, not 220. Unlike the US, it is extremely uncommon to find three phase power sockets in Japanese homes. So 100V is all most people ever encounter.
When foreign companies "try to do business" with the US, they end up being accused of dumping, leading to trade barriers against a whole nations industry. Look at what happened to the Japanese supercomputer industry when NEC tried to get a foot in the US supercomputer market a few years ago.
I don't know quite why you've been modded informative.
1) Japan is not in Europe, so the mobile phone system in Europe has nothing whatsoever to do with this.
2) Like the US, Japanese mobile providers picked different, incompatible technologies. Like the US, noone else uses the technologies that Japanese mobile phone providers picked.
3) Japan has only NTSC TV systems and 100 volt power. It does use both 50Hz and 60Hz for power depending on where in the country you are though.
are you saying that Indians just aren't cut out for programming?
My take on his comment was that a lot of underqualified Indians are starting to flood the labour market because of a high demand there. The same thing happened in the US and Europe in the 1990s.
No doubt they'll go through the same cycle, and once there are no countries left that haven't been through an IT bubble we'll all settle down to normal and forget this outsourcing debarcle.
The cause of that when I tried (2 weeks ago) was a Content-type of text/plain for xpi files on the server they are distributing it from. Apparently the xpi file will only install on browsers that ignore Content-type headers, like, ahem, IE.
Save the file and put it on your own server if you want it to install.
AT&T don't have a UK research division, they closed it last year. I don't know if the employees were allowed to take this project with them (as they were with VNC due to its being released under the GPL), or if AT&T canned it.
Now, SCO's argument is that even if they did distribute Linux, they weren't aware of their code allegedly being in Linux. However, and this is important, they continued to distribute it afterward - and not a day or two, but a full month after disclosure.
They are still distributing GPLed code which they beleive to contain their IP, even now. From http://www.sco.com/scosource/linuxqanda.html:
Q: What Linux activities at SCO are specifically being suspended?
A: SCO will suspend all new customer sales of Linux products. SCO will continue to honor all contractual obligations with existing customers including product updates, service, and support
Perhaps you could team up with someone with Korean Telecom contacts, and deal to this (warning - disable Javascript if you don't want to be tracked) gang of spammers from Russia with website hosted in Korea.
Hmmmm. . . whose copyright disclaimers, exactly? Like, say "Copyright (c) 1985, 1986 The Regents of the University of California."
That is not a Copyright Disclaimer, it is a Copyright Declaration. A copyright disclaimer would be something like "HP offers the following for use in the public domain."
So the issue of whose copyright disclaimer is a straw man that SCO would love us to spend hours chasing. If the alledged copied lines of code includes copyright disclaimers, then SCO does not have a case.
Why on earth would I install GNU cat, ls, sed, awk, etc. on top of the Solaris or BSD userland?
I can't speak for BSD, as its about 10 years since I used it, but the Solaris versions of those tools suck majorly, even if you do put/usr/ucb before/usr/bin in your PATH.
There's a good chance that that keychain usb drive used the usb-storage protocol. In that case it should work out of the box on any modern OS (though with previous versions of Windows, I've had to install drivers to use usb-storage devices, while Linux has had usb-storage built-in for as long as it's had USB support).
"But Lindows has drawbacks, notably poor support for USB peripherals such as digital cameras and scanners."
I've never used Lindows, so maybe its not up to the standard of other distros, but two years ago, I installed Mandrake on my PC, and out of the box it supported every peripheral device I have, including my cheap USB scanner and digital camera, and my 4 year old printer which is completely unsupported under Windows XP.
I don't remember the last time I was able to plug any new hardware into a Windows machine and use it without needing to install proprietary drivers, which usually come with crappy software you don't want and take over your file associations so you spend hours getting your system back to normal.
The rendering code obviously assumes that >256 color images are rare. While the other GIFs render instantly (once cached), the 32k color one at the top takes 20 seconds. I have never seen performance this bad with a PNG of the same dimensions.
On what basis would you sue someone over code which you hold no rights over? How would you know they don't have a separate license with the copyright holder that allows them to do what they're doing?
The FSF can't sue SCO, they don't hold copyright over any of the code in the Linux kernel (if FSF held copyright over Linux, RMS would probably want distributions to just call themselves GNU, not GNU/Linux).
Maybe one day you'll graduate from University and discover the real world, where if an implementation of the JVM does not initialise variables properly, then java variables cannot be relied on to be initialised.
The taxi industry is so over-regulated in London that there is a shortage of taxi drivers. Most other cities have the opposite problem. It is almost impossible to find a genuine cab anywhere in London after 10pm. There are plenty of minicabs, but they are forbidden from picking up passengers without being ordered by phone first. There are also plenty of dodgy guys with cars hanging around outside late night bars and clubs, but every now and then the police clamp down on them, leaving thousands of people to spend the night on the streets of Brixton.
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What mobile phone supports Javascript? Even most PDA webbrowsers don't.
The voltage between phases in Japan is about 175V, not 220. Unlike the US, it is extremely uncommon to find three phase power sockets in Japanese homes. So 100V is all most people ever encounter.
When foreign companies "try to do business" with the US, they end up being accused of dumping, leading to trade barriers against a whole nations industry. Look at what happened to the Japanese supercomputer industry when NEC tried to get a foot in the US supercomputer market a few years ago.
I don't know quite why you've been modded informative. 1) Japan is not in Europe, so the mobile phone system in Europe has nothing whatsoever to do with this. 2) Like the US, Japanese mobile providers picked different, incompatible technologies. Like the US, noone else uses the technologies that Japanese mobile phone providers picked. 3) Japan has only NTSC TV systems and 100 volt power. It does use both 50Hz and 60Hz for power depending on where in the country you are though.
My take on his comment was that a lot of underqualified Indians are starting to flood the labour market because of a high demand there. The same thing happened in the US and Europe in the 1990s.
No doubt they'll go through the same cycle, and once there are no countries left that haven't been through an IT bubble we'll all settle down to normal and forget this outsourcing debarcle.
The cause of that when I tried (2 weeks ago) was a Content-type of text/plain for xpi files on the server they are distributing it from. Apparently the xpi file will only install on browsers that ignore Content-type headers, like, ahem, IE. Save the file and put it on your own server if you want it to install.
AT&T don't have a UK research division, they closed it last year. I don't know if the employees were allowed to take this project with them (as they were with VNC due to its being released under the GPL), or if AT&T canned it.
They are still distributing GPLed code which they beleive to contain their IP, even now. From http://www.sco.com/scosource/linuxqanda.html:
Perhaps you could team up with someone with Korean Telecom contacts, and deal to this (warning - disable Javascript if you don't want to be tracked) gang of spammers from Russia with website hosted in Korea.
That is not a Copyright Disclaimer, it is a Copyright Declaration. A copyright disclaimer would be something like "HP offers the following for use in the public domain."
So the issue of whose copyright disclaimer is a straw man that SCO would love us to spend hours chasing. If the alledged copied lines of code includes copyright disclaimers, then SCO does not have a case.
There's a good chance that that keychain usb drive used the usb-storage protocol. In that case it should work out of the box on any modern OS (though with previous versions of Windows, I've had to install drivers to use usb-storage devices, while Linux has had usb-storage built-in for as long as it's had USB support).
I've never used Lindows, so maybe its not up to the standard of other distros, but two years ago, I installed Mandrake on my PC, and out of the box it supported every peripheral device I have, including my cheap USB scanner and digital camera, and my 4 year old printer which is completely unsupported under Windows XP.
I don't remember the last time I was able to plug any new hardware into a Windows machine and use it without needing to install proprietary drivers, which usually come with crappy software you don't want and take over your file associations so you spend hours getting your system back to normal.
The rendering code obviously assumes that >256 color images are rare. While the other GIFs render instantly (once cached), the 32k color one at the top takes 20 seconds. I have never seen performance this bad with a PNG of the same dimensions.
You mean that glass that says "560ml" on the bottom, to comply with the Weights and Measures Act?
Because only dressmakers measure in centimetres. Real men use millimetres.
If each tape measure weighs 11 ounces, how long is a piece of string?
Great, so BT are now going to start going after people infringing on their patent for hashtables?
On what basis would you sue someone over code which you hold no rights over? How would you know they don't have a separate license with the copyright holder that allows them to do what they're doing?
The FSF can't sue SCO, they don't hold copyright over any of the code in the Linux kernel (if FSF held copyright over Linux, RMS would probably want distributions to just call themselves GNU, not GNU/Linux).
Maybe one day you'll graduate from University and discover the real world, where if an implementation of the JVM does not initialise variables properly, then java variables cannot be relied on to be initialised.
The taxi industry is so over-regulated in London that there is a shortage of taxi drivers. Most other cities have the opposite problem. It is almost impossible to find a genuine cab anywhere in London after 10pm. There are plenty of minicabs, but they are forbidden from picking up passengers without being ordered by phone first. There are also plenty of dodgy guys with cars hanging around outside late night bars and clubs, but every now and then the police clamp down on them, leaving thousands of people to spend the night on the streets of Brixton.
Though it may be a JVM bug, I need my code to work, so working around it does make sense.
In reality, not every JVM follows that part of the spec. I have come across at least one that didn't, and IIRC it was even one of Sun's ones.