Picking up your life and your family's life and moving involves, for many or most people, selling their house, which is insanely difficult or involves selling at a very low price in the current economic crisis.
If you work for Intel then surely this is something you should plan for? I'm a dyed in the wool Socialist (and so obviously think Intel should have some sort of relocation allowance scheme) but am still OK with this. Even though I don't work there I know about how they shut down / retool fabs etc (as Chabo mentions below), I'd imagine they make the effort to tell prospective employees directly before they join.
If they don't need the capacity then they're gonna end up with lots of useless Atoms. I remember a game company here in the UK bought up all the tape copying duplication facilities they could in the run-up to Christmas back in the 80s just to mess with their competitors; it was one of the decisions that lead to their eventual bankruptcy (not piracy as one of the former directors still likes to claim).
Actually, I'm always quite mystified by comments like that. In what way, other than perhaps a slightly wider form factor, does the iPhone "require" a second hand to use effectively? It's certainly speedier to have two thumbs available for typing, the ability to use multi-finger gestures like pinching... But if you're just quickly using it, in what way is it difficult?
The ability to touch-text is common here in the UK and I'd expect even more-so in Japan. I'd never buy a phone without a proper input pad for that very reason - touch-texting whilst pissed in a club and having a conversation is essential!
what do you hope to prove by trying to get into a fight with them?
That they're wrong, stupid and in for a whole world of hurt; harassment due to sexual orientation is a criminal offence here in the UK. Discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation is also illegal here in the UK and I thought it was in the USA too tbh.
No, GP is positing the existence of a prosecutor who thinks TPB may be committing a crime. He's arguing that the prosecutor can always come back with future examples of making available of copyrighted works with better evidence.
It seems there's at least a valid question as to whether what TPB is doing is illegal under Swedish law otherwise they wouldn't be in court. That they've already had half the case dropped is good but they still have to defend against the other charges.
I'm running NV SATA RAID and I wish I weren't. Performance is worse than just using dmraid plus it's less flexible. It'd be a massive pain for me to backup and reformat atm so I'm just waiting until I need to upgrade my storage solution again which will probably be about 2yrs away at this rate.
SATA RAID is one of those things mobos only have because everyone else has it too. Even if you're running Windows you're better off depending on the built-in volume manager (whatever it's called) and getting RAID that way. Onboard SATA RAID offloads all the processing onto the CPU anyway so you may as well use the tested & optimised software RAID that comes with your OS.
IIRC the Data Protection Act doesn't allow you to demand removal of personal data by someone that you have previously provided it to.
Yes, it does. I remember a teacher telling us in college that we could demand removal of all our data from their computers, it would just mean we'd have to leave as it would be impossible for them to keep track of our details.
There are exceptions for things like credit ratings and criminal records but in general you can ask private organisations to delete all data on you.
Right, so my mother is somehow to blame for having narcolepsy and needing roughly £100/mo drugs to stay awake during the day (hooray for Modafinil!)? I work for a private firm doing work for the DWP Disability and Carers Service so even in my day job I'm aware that there are a lot of disabled people out there who's lives are made better because of drugs.
The fact is that drugs exist; once the formula is known and they've been tested they can be manufactured cheaply. Whilst it's important to make sure that new drugs are funded it's just as important to get drugs to the people who need them now. It's criminal to restrict access to a few milligrams of some chemical that could change a persons life simply over worry about how the next generation of research will be funded.
A user from B3ta pulled this off ages ago. In that instance it was made up facts about a football teams' supporters getting printed in the Daily Mirror.
Indeed. I remember hearing about a Nigerian 419 scammer who got hold of a lad with learning difficulties in America. After he fleeced him for all he could get he gave him a job funneling money from other marks. He had a lot more success because people thought he had a genuine presence in the USA. The poor kid thought he had an honest job and was going to get paid "any day now"...
It's more like Ford selling a sedan car and only offering cup-holders in the back for extra megabucks. They know that high flying executives always on the move need that feature and are prepared to pay whilst everyone else can just find cheap after-market cup-holders and install themselves.
Seriously, in virtually all cases where you see instructions to "apt-get" you really want to use aptitude instead. Aptitude manages package selections far better including remembering that you installed library x simply to make package y happy. It'll automatically uninstall x when y gets removed!
Suppose someone creates a very minimalist linux distro which includes a very good package management system. Suppose this package management system includes nearly all popular linux software packages.
Now suppose it were rather easy for anyone to install any number of those packages, bundle them together into one meta-package keyword, and call that a distro.
That's pretty much the stated goal of Debian, it aims to be the universal operating system. You can do just that with APT.
I have (briefly) and yes, its interface is amazing. I'm just not prepared to sacrifice basic functionality for a well designed package and snazzy interface.
I'm speaking from a UK perspective. The things I've mentioned are standard in the UK, video calling isn't that widely used but data plans aren't prohibitive over here. MMS is standard, enough people use it that you have to be able to support it to at least receive pictures of random kittens from friends.
People over here expect those features; when I'm asked about the iPhone I always point out how amazing it is to use but also that it lacks certain basic features. Most people over here aren't prepared to accept loss of such basic functionality.
Seven years and they still can't match the current average phones? The only thing the iPhone has over other smartphones is multi-touch. It lacks basic functionality found in other phones (not even smartphones) such as a decent camera, MMS support, a decent radio that doesn't drop calls and as TFA points out they're only planning video call support.
Apple should have come out with something that had at least feature parity compared with other phones and then slapped multi-touch on it. The things I've mentioned aren't features, they're standard.
What limitations exactly? You pick a contact you want to speak to. You decide whether you want to voice call, text, video call (iPhone can't do) or MMS (iPhone can't do).
In the case of video calling, you just speak to them. Most decent smartphones (read: anything by Nokia) will let you choose the forward high-res camera of the rear-facing VGA camera. The iPhone only has a forward facing low-res camera.
But no, I'm sure Apple will figure out something compelling to work around the limitations of current video call implementations, just like they did with voice call.
Have Apple invented this yet? Last I checked the iPhone 3G didn't have it which is frankly ridiculous.
At this rate the iPhone should be a pretty decent phone in about three or four revisions. As it stands it's just a very fancy PDA (killer interface, as usual for Apple) with some phone features and even its functionality as a PDA is limited by being locked into the Apple store.
OK, I didn't want to get flamed by Apple fanbois for being ignorant so I Googled for iPhone 3G MMS and got this page where some fanboi is raving about how awesome the App store is for letting people pay extra for functionality included as standard in every other phone you can buy. The iPhone is such a joke!
The firmward microcode is released under a closed-source license
That'd be because it contains the code to physically setup the device and any variation to it would cause it to break its FCC certification.
There's a fuzzy line between device level firmware which nobody ever wants to change (because it could cause your machine to literally blow up) and the driver code which, of course, we want to be free. Apparently it's because hardware manufacturers have shifted away from having firmware on a ROM and instead started distributing the microcode with the driver instead. It cuts manufacturing costs and makes microcode updates less dangerous.
I can't be arsed finding a link but even RMS accepts that it's OK for such microcode to stay as a blob.
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Picking up your life and your family's life and moving involves, for many or most people, selling their house, which is insanely difficult or involves selling at a very low price in the current economic crisis.
If you work for Intel then surely this is something you should plan for? I'm a dyed in the wool Socialist (and so obviously think Intel should have some sort of relocation allowance scheme) but am still OK with this. Even though I don't work there I know about how they shut down / retool fabs etc (as Chabo mentions below), I'd imagine they make the effort to tell prospective employees directly before they join.
If they don't need the capacity then they're gonna end up with lots of useless Atoms. I remember a game company here in the UK bought up all the tape copying duplication facilities they could in the run-up to Christmas back in the 80s just to mess with their competitors; it was one of the decisions that lead to their eventual bankruptcy (not piracy as one of the former directors still likes to claim).
Actually, I'm always quite mystified by comments like that. In what way, other than perhaps a slightly wider form factor, does the iPhone "require" a second hand to use effectively? It's certainly speedier to have two thumbs available for typing, the ability to use multi-finger gestures like pinching... But if you're just quickly using it, in what way is it difficult?
The ability to touch-text is common here in the UK and I'd expect even more-so in Japan. I'd never buy a phone without a proper input pad for that very reason - touch-texting whilst pissed in a club and having a conversation is essential!
what do you hope to prove by trying to get into a fight with them?
That they're wrong, stupid and in for a whole world of hurt; harassment due to sexual orientation is a criminal offence here in the UK. Discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation is also illegal here in the UK and I thought it was in the USA too tbh.
They aren't searching. They are performing experiments for which current theory predicts certain results.
This should be attached to every single science "search" fluff piece in popular journalism.
No, GP is positing the existence of a prosecutor who thinks TPB may be committing a crime. He's arguing that the prosecutor can always come back with future examples of making available of copyrighted works with better evidence.
It seems there's at least a valid question as to whether what TPB is doing is illegal under Swedish law otherwise they wouldn't be in court. That they've already had half the case dropped is good but they still have to defend against the other charges.
I'm running NV SATA RAID and I wish I weren't. Performance is worse than just using dmraid plus it's less flexible. It'd be a massive pain for me to backup and reformat atm so I'm just waiting until I need to upgrade my storage solution again which will probably be about 2yrs away at this rate.
SATA RAID is one of those things mobos only have because everyone else has it too. Even if you're running Windows you're better off depending on the built-in volume manager (whatever it's called) and getting RAID that way. Onboard SATA RAID offloads all the processing onto the CPU anyway so you may as well use the tested & optimised software RAID that comes with your OS.
Torrents, web browser, reads my old NTFS files, runs QEmu and VMWare if I get to that point, I'm making the switch.
Linux has been there for at least the past three or four years. Rest of your comment is tl;dr.
IIRC the Data Protection Act doesn't allow you to demand removal of personal data by someone that you have previously provided it to.
Yes, it does. I remember a teacher telling us in college that we could demand removal of all our data from their computers, it would just mean we'd have to leave as it would be impossible for them to keep track of our details.
There are exceptions for things like credit ratings and criminal records but in general you can ask private organisations to delete all data on you.
Right, so my mother is somehow to blame for having narcolepsy and needing roughly £100/mo drugs to stay awake during the day (hooray for Modafinil!)? I work for a private firm doing work for the DWP Disability and Carers Service so even in my day job I'm aware that there are a lot of disabled people out there who's lives are made better because of drugs.
The fact is that drugs exist; once the formula is known and they've been tested they can be manufactured cheaply. Whilst it's important to make sure that new drugs are funded it's just as important to get drugs to the people who need them now. It's criminal to restrict access to a few milligrams of some chemical that could change a persons life simply over worry about how the next generation of research will be funded.
A user from B3ta pulled this off ages ago. In that instance it was made up facts about a football teams' supporters getting printed in the Daily Mirror.
Indeed. I remember hearing about a Nigerian 419 scammer who got hold of a lad with learning difficulties in America. After he fleeced him for all he could get he gave him a job funneling money from other marks. He had a lot more success because people thought he had a genuine presence in the USA. The poor kid thought he had an honest job and was going to get paid "any day now"...
Bit late reply but...
The official Debian FAQ recommends the use of aptitude over apt-get for package installations and system upgrades.
It's more like Ford selling a sedan car and only offering cup-holders in the back for extra megabucks. They know that high flying executives always on the move need that feature and are prepared to pay whilst everyone else can just find cheap after-market cup-holders and install themselves.
Bit late now you've already started investigating though.
Seriously, in virtually all cases where you see instructions to "apt-get" you really want to use aptitude instead. Aptitude manages package selections far better including remembering that you installed library x simply to make package y happy. It'll automatically uninstall x when y gets removed!
Suppose someone creates a very minimalist linux distro which includes a very good package management system. Suppose this package management system includes nearly all popular linux software packages.
Now suppose it were rather easy for anyone to install any number of those packages, bundle them together into one meta-package keyword, and call that a distro.
That's pretty much the stated goal of Debian, it aims to be the universal operating system. You can do just that with APT.
I thought Sony released titles on PSN store every Thursday? The RE5 demo this week was exceptional for coming out on a Tuesday.
I have (briefly) and yes, its interface is amazing. I'm just not prepared to sacrifice basic functionality for a well designed package and snazzy interface.
Because it's what everyone else uses. Few people have email on their phone whilst everyone has MMS, at least here in the UK.
I'm speaking from a UK perspective. The things I've mentioned are standard in the UK, video calling isn't that widely used but data plans aren't prohibitive over here. MMS is standard, enough people use it that you have to be able to support it to at least receive pictures of random kittens from friends.
People over here expect those features; when I'm asked about the iPhone I always point out how amazing it is to use but also that it lacks certain basic features. Most people over here aren't prepared to accept loss of such basic functionality.
Seven years and they still can't match the current average phones? The only thing the iPhone has over other smartphones is multi-touch. It lacks basic functionality found in other phones (not even smartphones) such as a decent camera, MMS support, a decent radio that doesn't drop calls and as TFA points out they're only planning video call support.
Apple should have come out with something that had at least feature parity compared with other phones and then slapped multi-touch on it. The things I've mentioned aren't features, they're standard.
What limitations exactly? You pick a contact you want to speak to. You decide whether you want to voice call, text, video call (iPhone can't do) or MMS (iPhone can't do).
In the case of video calling, you just speak to them. Most decent smartphones (read: anything by Nokia) will let you choose the forward high-res camera of the rear-facing VGA camera. The iPhone only has a forward facing low-res camera.
But no, I'm sure Apple will figure out something compelling to work around the limitations of current video call implementations, just like they did with voice call.
Have Apple invented this yet? Last I checked the iPhone 3G didn't have it which is frankly ridiculous.
At this rate the iPhone should be a pretty decent phone in about three or four revisions. As it stands it's just a very fancy PDA (killer interface, as usual for Apple) with some phone features and even its functionality as a PDA is limited by being locked into the Apple store.
OK, I didn't want to get flamed by Apple fanbois for being ignorant so I Googled for iPhone 3G MMS and got this page where some fanboi is raving about how awesome the App store is for letting people pay extra for functionality included as standard in every other phone you can buy. The iPhone is such a joke!
The firmward microcode is released under a closed-source license
That'd be because it contains the code to physically setup the device and any variation to it would cause it to break its FCC certification.
There's a fuzzy line between device level firmware which nobody ever wants to change (because it could cause your machine to literally blow up) and the driver code which, of course, we want to be free. Apparently it's because hardware manufacturers have shifted away from having firmware on a ROM and instead started distributing the microcode with the driver instead. It cuts manufacturing costs and makes microcode updates less dangerous.
I can't be arsed finding a link but even RMS accepts that it's OK for such microcode to stay as a blob.