EU : citizen elect politicians. Depending on that choice : politicians (usually left) favors national companies, ev. buy some shares,... or, if opposite position, privatize, liberalize, and so on. state give (tax) money to parties and politician for campaings/...
US : citizen elects politicians. companies give money to politicians. then, honestly, what will they favor ?
Add to that the factor that you'll need (proportionaly) much more money to get elected in US...
Btw, to correct a few details - Airbus : As if boeing wasn't paying contributions to US politicians which accidently rose army's budgets ??? - VW had to pay a few hundred billions euro fines a few years ago due to some fraud charge with the EU - Peugeot : it's a trademark law, not a patent. and it's based on international agreements. and this law (as the patent laws) do not favor specifically some companies over others.
And btw, if you really want to dig up that and makes your final statement worth it, look at how things are going in Switzerland vs western europe for those points.
For CDMA2000 family and GSM, I think all can be deduced from this page. Apparently everyone (ETSI for GSM, TIA for CDMA2000) trie to get together for having a 3G which would have enabled compatibility between the two. But apparently due to lengthy process, they decided to fork a 3GPP2 focused on cdma2000. But they are using on their slides, some GSM terms (HLR, VLR), so they are somehow compatible at the end.
For the EU:
GSM : A little bit more complex. It started in 'ad-hoc groups' (CEPT create GSM, then Groupe Speciale Mobile), then the operators (which were state monopolies at that time) pressured the commission (see here).
3G : License attribution method was the decision of the state members. UK, DE had awful auction while BE,FR,CH didn't and sold license for 'normal' prices (well high, but not astronomical).
In fact, that's just the opposite (at least in Europe and from direct experience in.be and.ch).
If you go to the website of suisa.ch (our local RIAA), they expressively state that downloading copyrighted songs from internet is not illegal and that sharing (= allowing uploads) is totally illegal.
Same in Belgium, IFPI (some kind of int'l RIAA) was only sending threatening letters to 'uploaders' when it was all about napster.
If you manage to read some stuff, you'll learn that CDMA is the coding technique use of the air interface of a mobile network.
While GSM is a whole big standard family (framework) which also encompass things such as content billing, roaming methods, interfaces between providers,...
And UMTS (aka 3G) will enable use of CDMA-like techniques.
BTW, CDMA is crippled with lot of patents from Qualcomm (I may be uncorrect on this one), but GSM is a open standard that anybody can download for free and implement.
Another thing : EU gov. didn't mandate anything in this case, except that telecom networks should be liberalised. The 3GPP organistion which works on GSM/UMTS is from ITU, which is worldwide.
For the deployment of UMTS, that was operators which asked for air license for it. Then the various states decided (bla bla, rest of the story). All that in the cellular boom last years.
Which also has tux doing a Nazi salute and saying "Ya Vol". So, Communism==Nazism? Eh? And misspelt German is not the way to look clever. What a bunch of dumb fucks."
That means they just lost the case thanks to Godwin's law !!! (now bring that to a court)
"Europaen laws didn't apply to yahoo when they had some politically incorrect memorabilia for sale?
Yes, they did apply to Yahoo! France, which happened to be a subsidy of Yahoo! (US).
You know that US laws also applies to european (and other businesses) when they are selling services/goods in the US ?
(and I'm not even flaming on all extra-territorial US laws applying to extra-US companies making businesses with other non-US countries ooop, too late)
" If anything, this just goes to show that Europe does not endorse the right of free speech."
Don't forget that, ultimately, this is the europeans which choose that their freedom has to be limited. Even Switzerland, with its direct democray, has undisputed* speech restriction law.
(* meaning undisputed by a vast majority of the people)
There's a (wide, IMHO) gap from censoring communications and having laws with allow the justice to sanction people promoting race discrimination.
IPv6 doesn't bring anything intrinsecly for QoS or security.
For security, it mandates the ability of IPsec.
For QoS, maybe if all are implementing and using the flow label, but the may problems for QoS in the global internet is on how to make it profitable ? For internal QoS, less problems, but no major advantage of using ipv6.
Apart that all (at least I suppose) european traffic laws requires that you must be able to control your vehicle at all time. And, if you're not able to do so while messaging, then choose.
Anyway, this kind of beeping welcome message is usually encountered near borders where, in most case, there's some kind of speed limit at 10-30 km/h to cross the old custom post (at least for the 10-20 that I know)
Seems that before sueing someone else, you may eventually try to respect the actual traffic laws.
quick details update, in case somebody reads the previous paragraph:
- the problem before the beginning of the SI (International System) was that every basic measure came from a local source. While, for the meter, everybody has access to water or carbon (well, apart from some hundreds of million of people but that's another topic)
- base10 the only natural system : no. But it appears that this is the one the most people are using. Moreover, this is base10 across everything not any arbitrary number to convert from one length unit to another, fo example.
- you apparently missed a big point of those units, which is the consistency across different measures. If you start from the basic units, you can deduce every other ones.
For example : force : F = ma, hence Newton = kg * m / s^2.
So, when you finish with a formula containing many different units, you can just throw the numbers without any conversion needed and, for the unit, simplify them like normal fractions and find the resulting one.
Well, if they are some commercial unix solution, remember that there isn't any open source solution (yet) which does what exchange+outlook does (e.g. shared calendaring,...)
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as it is planned to end on 14th july !
Er, you somehow messed up :
... or, if opposite position, privatize, liberalize, and so on. state give (tax) money to parties and politician for campaings/...
...
EU : citizen elect politicians. Depending on that choice : politicians (usually left) favors national companies, ev. buy some shares,
US : citizen elects politicians. companies give money to politicians. then, honestly, what will they favor ?
Add to that the factor that you'll need (proportionaly) much more money to get elected in US
Btw, to correct a few details
- Airbus : As if boeing wasn't paying contributions to US politicians which accidently rose army's budgets ???
- VW had to pay a few hundred billions euro fines a few years ago due to some fraud charge with the EU
- Peugeot : it's a trademark law, not a patent. and it's based on international agreements. and this law (as the patent laws) do not favor specifically some companies over others.
And btw, if you really want to dig up that and makes your final statement worth it, look at how things are going in Switzerland vs western europe for those points.
no problem, I didn't take it 1st degree anyway.
;)
There are good point to heatwaves, yesterday the Aare (the river which flows here in Bern) was at 21C. Definetely refreshing during the lunch break
Hey, I know from the beginning the difference between a kernel and an OS, even if it's pretty blurry.
I just stated that linux kernel could be considered as 'finished' (in sense of productive) while the GNU operating system isn't.
"Linus started the kernel roughly a decade ago."
"GNU started the OS itself about two decades ago."
and who finished (first) ?
For CDMA2000 family and GSM, I think all can be deduced from this page.
Apparently everyone (ETSI for GSM, TIA for CDMA2000) trie to get together for having a 3G which would have enabled compatibility between the two. But apparently due to lengthy process, they decided to fork a 3GPP2 focused on cdma2000. But they are using on their slides, some GSM terms (HLR, VLR), so they are somehow compatible at the end.
For the EU :
GSM : A little bit more complex. It started in 'ad-hoc groups' (CEPT create GSM, then Groupe Speciale Mobile), then the operators (which were state monopolies at that time) pressured the commission (see here).
3G : License attribution method was the decision of the state members. UK, DE had awful auction while BE,FR,CH didn't and sold license for 'normal' prices (well high, but not astronomical).
I know you're trolling, but
:
Just quickly
- there are no tivo available in countries other than US and UK (canada ?).
- and the other PVR are currently at prices more in the 1000â range.
Maybe for people technically savvy enough to build their own PVR with some customized software,
- they don't need the ease of use of tivo
- they don't want to buy features and prefer instead more customized/eable solutions
I was also thinking that, but fed up of waiting for it and now that my mythtv system is build, guess I'll probably never buy a tivo.
"Is there a reason not to use BitTorrent technology to offset (some of) the bandwidth requirements for Gentoo?
CVS, bug tracking, mailing lists, ...
In fact, that's just the opposite (at least in Europe and from direct experience in .be and .ch).
If you go to the website of suisa.ch (our local RIAA), they expressively state that downloading copyrighted songs from internet is not illegal and that sharing (= allowing uploads) is totally illegal.
Same in Belgium, IFPI (some kind of int'l RIAA) was only sending threatening letters to 'uploaders' when it was all about napster.
If you manage to read some stuff, you'll learn that CDMA is the coding technique use of the air interface of a mobile network.
...
While GSM is a whole big standard family (framework) which also encompass things such as content billing, roaming methods, interfaces between providers,
And UMTS (aka 3G) will enable use of CDMA-like techniques.
BTW, CDMA is crippled with lot of patents from Qualcomm (I may be uncorrect on this one), but GSM is a open standard that anybody can download for free and implement.
Another thing : EU gov. didn't mandate anything in this case, except that telecom networks should be liberalised. The 3GPP organistion which works on GSM/UMTS is from ITU, which is worldwide.
For the deployment of UMTS, that was operators which asked for air license for it. Then the various states decided (bla bla, rest of the story). All that in the cellular boom last years.
"If we had to wait for government approvals for technological changes, we'd all still be using AMPS."
Wow, event the EU bodies are more efficient than the US gov. Now, I understand better why USians are so relectant of gov. actions ;)
and, as a final flame, that's also a time when having choice forced by international bodies is better.
nu -> now also in dutch, for that matter
If you read some article about it, you see the minimum proposed requirement is effectively to put a link to the reply.
You won't be paying for the bandwith.
""Give Communism A Try - Free Linux"
Which also has tux doing a Nazi salute and saying "Ya Vol". So, Communism==Nazism? Eh? And misspelt German is not the way to look clever. What a bunch of dumb fucks."
That means they just lost the case thanks to Godwin's law !!! (now bring that to a court)
by ski (winter) or by foot (summer)
that's what (one of) the guy behind jackypc.com did.
This website is the reference french-speaking site for moding PC.
Here you can see it (it is a 600)
"Europaen laws didn't apply to yahoo when they had some politically incorrect memorabilia for sale?
Yes, they did apply to Yahoo! France, which happened to be a subsidy of Yahoo! (US).
You know that US laws also applies to european (and other businesses) when they are selling services/goods in the US ?
(and I'm not even flaming on all extra-territorial US laws applying to extra-US companies making businesses with other non-US countries ooop, too late)
As said by other poster, it's just on 2000, XP, 2003, NT. Not a generic fix.
And this bug (23679) is (was) the 3rd most voted one and the oldest one on the top 10 (most voted). Lot of things and temp workaround on the bug page.
Seems that, even with opensource, what the users wants is not met.
" If anything, this just goes to show that Europe does not endorse the right of free speech."
Don't forget that, ultimately, this is the europeans which choose that their freedom has to be limited. Even Switzerland, with its direct democray, has undisputed* speech restriction law.
(* meaning undisputed by a vast majority of the people)
There's a (wide, IMHO) gap from censoring communications and having laws with allow the justice to sanction people promoting race discrimination.
IPv6 doesn't bring anything intrinsecly for QoS or security.
For security, it mandates the ability of IPsec.
For QoS, maybe if all are implementing and using the flow label, but the may problems for QoS in the global internet is on how to make it profitable ? For internal QoS, less problems, but no major advantage of using ipv6.
Apart that all (at least I suppose) european traffic laws requires that you must be able to control your vehicle at all time. And, if you're not able to do so while messaging, then choose.
Anyway, this kind of beeping welcome message is usually encountered near borders where, in most case, there's some kind of speed limit at 10-30 km/h to cross the old custom post (at least for the 10-20 that I know)
Seems that before sueing someone else, you may eventually try to respect the actual traffic laws.
quick details update, in case somebody reads the previous paragraph :
- the problem before the beginning of the SI (International System) was that every basic measure came from a local source. While, for the meter, everybody has access to water or carbon (well, apart from some hundreds of million of people but that's another topic)
- base10 the only natural system : no. But it appears that this is the one the most people are using. Moreover, this is base10 across everything not any arbitrary number to convert from one length unit to another, fo example.
- you apparently missed a big point of those units, which is the consistency across different measures. If you start from the basic units, you can deduce every other ones.
For example : force : F = ma, hence Newton = kg * m / s^2.
So, when you finish with a formula containing many different units, you can just throw the numbers without any conversion needed and, for the unit, simplify them like normal fractions and find the resulting one.
Well, if they are some commercial unix solution, remember that there isn't any open source solution (yet) which does what exchange+outlook does (e.g. shared calendaring, ...)
in fact, according to IANA, which are responsible for the IP adress space,
/16 (161.114.0.0/16)
...
HP got space from Compaq which also got the ones from Digital
015/8 Jul 94 Hewlett-Packard Company
016/8 Nov 94 Digital Equipment Corporation
and from whois, compaq has a small
they may have other network ranges from acquisitions, so
as nobody replies to it, in Europe, for cable TV, it relies on electronic program guides usually published by national TVs, with the help of nxtvepg.
The main format used is xmltv (see other post) and some other grabbers exists.