Because you find an app that you wish you had it on your desktop? Duh!
Case in point, the Tango app became very popular in my friends circle. Even when I was in front my laptop, I had to use my phone to video chat with someone. Until recently they did not have a desktop application. I would have definitely used this tool, if I could have.
Nepal? Not at all! Nepal is more aligned with India than China. India and nepal have pretty much the same culture, and since India's independence Nepal and India have been pretty close. Nepal even pegged its rupee to the Indian rupee.
China always seems to claiming some border territory as its own. They have had plenty of issues with Nepal, some of which are still in dispute.
Talk about bad analogy. I dont run my light bulbs on battery, and dont really care about the power consumption. My processor, though, I definitely care about it. If I can get an Intel processor that consumes half the power for same workloads, I would really prefer it over AMD's
What if I dont like Win8 itself, and I want Windows 7? Would microsoft provide a way to switch to Windows 7? If not, there is no FUD (BTW who do you think is sponsoring the FUD, just curious).
US does not recognize the jurisdiction of International Court. So US would never submit Bush and Obama to Hague. Besides only countries recognized by the UN can start proceedings at the International Court. I dont think the Afghanistan/Iraq govt will want Bush/Obama prosecuted, so I dont expect anything at all to happen.
No everyone has compatibility packs installed. Even if one of my customers does not have it (or one of the key people in the organization do not have it), I have to stick with older formats.
Hell, there is even a compatibility pack available for ODF file formats. Do you go ahead and assume everybody has it installed?
I can't speak for The Netherlands, but in the United States, there are certain things that "International Law" cannot do in the United States.
As a basic rule (there are no doubt exceptions), if Congress can't do it by law, the President and the Senate can't do it by treaty.
As an obvious and trivial example, no treaty in the world nor any international body who, by existing treaty, has the power to make "International law," can raise the voting age in America higher than 18. Any treaty with such a stipulation or any treaty which required honoring any international rule-making body's rule that 18 year olds could not vote until they were older would be un-constitutional and legally unenforceable inside the USA. If some other country wanted to enforce it, they could impose sanctions or declare war if they wished, but no US court would uphold such a rule or allow it to be enforced by judicial or domestic executive action.
If the US voluntarily amends its constitution to specifically allow an international body to take precedence over the US laws, then yes it can. The EU countries have voluntarily allowed EU law to take precedence, and are now bound by it.
Simple, create fictional ones at home. Talk about sleeper terrorist cells right at home. You will literally have unlimited funding to defend the US from its own people. Security theater is still pretty small in the US, it can easily be a 100 billion dollar per year industry. If the security theater industry joins forces with the private prison industry, it can be even larger.
So what you are saying is fiber laying should be done state by state, and should not be attempted to be done country wide at the same time? Why didnt the ISPs think of this?
But anyway, it's difficult to understand how actually using energy is better for anybody than paying as if you used that energy (and not a cent more) while not actually using it. The only thing I can imagine is if there's some stress on the energy company to dissipate the excess power. I doubt very much that comes close to $140k to dissipate $70k worth of power, though.
It helps recoup some of the investment the power company made specifically for this data center (I dont see why Microsoft would have agreed to a minimum usage level if they did not want something back from the power company).
I always though people complaining about lower population density, were complaining about the last mile. Do you mean to say fiber between major interconnects is very very expensive too? Do you have any sources for this claim? And how does Japan avoid these interconnect issues (I assume they interconnect with a lot of countries to help support their last mile)
As someone else said, the power generation is hydro, so no pollution. They promised the power company a minimum usage level (most likely to get the power company to invest in infrastructure to support the data center well), they might as well keep up the promise.
Mod Up! Carriers have no motivation to send ROM upgrades. Even if samsung makes them available, I am pretty sure the carriers would never find it worth the airtime to send you the upgrade.
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BluuuueeStaaaacks kind of works.
Because you find an app that you wish you had it on your desktop? Duh!
Case in point, the Tango app became very popular in my friends circle. Even when I was in front my laptop, I had to use my phone to video chat with someone. Until recently they did not have a desktop application. I would have definitely used this tool, if I could have.
Nepal? Not at all! Nepal is more aligned with India than China. India and nepal have pretty much the same culture, and since India's independence Nepal and India have been pretty close. Nepal even pegged its rupee to the Indian rupee.
China always seems to claiming some border territory as its own. They have had plenty of issues with Nepal, some of which are still in dispute.
Talk about bad analogy. I dont run my light bulbs on battery, and dont really care about the power consumption. My processor, though, I definitely care about it. If I can get an Intel processor that consumes half the power for same workloads, I would really prefer it over AMD's
What if I dont like Win8 itself, and I want Windows 7? Would microsoft provide a way to switch to Windows 7? If not, there is no FUD (BTW who do you think is sponsoring the FUD, just curious).
FTFY
US does not recognize the jurisdiction of International Court. So US would never submit Bush and Obama to Hague. Besides only countries recognized by the UN can start proceedings at the International Court. I dont think the Afghanistan/Iraq govt will want Bush/Obama prosecuted, so I dont expect anything at all to happen.
May be he should add a footer to all his posts. "All opinions expressed are my own, and are not representative of the Linux/Open source community"
No everyone has compatibility packs installed. Even if one of my customers does not have it (or one of the key people in the organization do not have it), I have to stick with older formats.
Hell, there is even a compatibility pack available for ODF file formats. Do you go ahead and assume everybody has it installed?
Me too. Mandrake -> Debian Stable -> Ubuntu -> Linux Mint LXDE (always dual booted with the latest Windows version for gaming and IE).
If you are fighting a war against terrorists, and you play by the rules, and they don't, you are going to lose.
.... and if you dont play by the rules, you becoming the terrorist.
If you are playing percentages, the US can destroy the entire world and still the percentages would be better than 9/11.
I can't speak for The Netherlands, but in the United States, there are certain things that "International Law" cannot do in the United States.
As a basic rule (there are no doubt exceptions), if Congress can't do it by law, the President and the Senate can't do it by treaty.
As an obvious and trivial example, no treaty in the world nor any international body who, by existing treaty, has the power to make "International law," can raise the voting age in America higher than 18. Any treaty with such a stipulation or any treaty which required honoring any international rule-making body's rule that 18 year olds could not vote until they were older would be un-constitutional and legally unenforceable inside the USA. If some other country wanted to enforce it, they could impose sanctions or declare war if they wished, but no US court would uphold such a rule or allow it to be enforced by judicial or domestic executive action.
If the US voluntarily amends its constitution to specifically allow an international body to take precedence over the US laws, then yes it can. The EU countries have voluntarily allowed EU law to take precedence, and are now bound by it.
Simple, create fictional ones at home. Talk about sleeper terrorist cells right at home. You will literally have unlimited funding to defend the US from its own people. Security theater is still pretty small in the US, it can easily be a 100 billion dollar per year industry. If the security theater industry joins forces with the private prison industry, it can be even larger.
I have seen people claim Jesus was Aryan, some claim Jesus was of black African decent, but have never heard of a brown Jesus theory.
Ok I will rephrase the question. How many considered USA their enemy before the drone attacks?
So what you are saying is fiber laying should be done state by state, and should not be attempted to be done country wide at the same time? Why didnt the ISPs think of this?
It is still called the Slashdot effect though.
But anyway, it's difficult to understand how actually using energy is better for anybody than paying as if you used that energy (and not a cent more) while not actually using it. The only thing I can imagine is if there's some stress on the energy company to dissipate the excess power. I doubt very much that comes close to $140k to dissipate $70k worth of power, though.
It helps recoup some of the investment the power company made specifically for this data center (I dont see why Microsoft would have agreed to a minimum usage level if they did not want something back from the power company).
I always though people complaining about lower population density, were complaining about the last mile. Do you mean to say fiber between major interconnects is very very expensive too? Do you have any sources for this claim? And how does Japan avoid these interconnect issues (I assume they interconnect with a lot of countries to help support their last mile)
As someone else said, the power generation is hydro, so no pollution. They promised the power company a minimum usage level (most likely to get the power company to invest in infrastructure to support the data center well), they might as well keep up the promise.
Did you factor in locations in the US, where the population density is comparable to Japan's?
Not a bad strategy in my opinion. All names are lame in one way or the other.
TFA is about manufacturing cost. No outsider can really compare the design costs of iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S.
Mod Up! Carriers have no motivation to send ROM upgrades. Even if samsung makes them available, I am pretty sure the carriers would never find it worth the airtime to send you the upgrade.