You're confusing "Britain" with "The Netherlands" here:
Britain is
~800 miles long and up to 500 miles wide or so
has hills all over the place, cycling considered to be a sport anywhere outside major towns
climate varying from subtropical (palm trees) to near-arctic
larger than California
has twice as much inhabitants as California
average person uses 5218.2W of energy[1]
The Netherlands is
~200 miles long and wide
flat as your mum's chest (there's only 2 significant hills), cycling main mode of transportation
a climate so moderate and predictable you can guarantee ride your bicycle every day and get wet.
about the size of New Jersey
has about 40% the inhabitants compared to California, or 20% compared to Britain.
average person uses 6675.2W of energy[1]
So, to get to your point: WRONG
The UK is a lot _larger_ and has major geological obstacles (hills, rocks, climate variation) that make it harder to use less energy than the netherlands. However the British use 15-20% _less_ energy per inhabitant than the postage sized dutch who live in a fricken flat country where laying a pipe or road or canal is trivial due to the soft soil, flatness and year-round beneficial climate.
negative, read groklaw for instance and the commissions statements:
roughly: "we want the users to have more choice, not less"
Microsoft does the ONE thing that will hurt innovation in the long run and increases the chance that users will end up getting IE instead of an alternative browser, by not providing any method at all to chose an alternative browser easily. You can bet your ass that "Microsoft Windows without IE" will have big fat "INSTALL IE NOW" icons on the desktop and popups appearing randomly.
The European commission is 100% correct for condemning this move.
Frankly, I couldn't care less if IE is integrated in the OS but able to be disabled, which is far less harmful than this move of Microsoft.
- funding (the launch phase costs the most because everything has to be tested & proven before it even goes up). - other projects going up first (short-term projects slip in first etc), occupying launch events. - feasibility (sometimes a great idea just is too risky)
conventional bombs would have worked, the US was more than capable of using them. There was no reason other than total destruction of Japanese moral to use the a-bombs. 220.000 people lost their lives, just because someone had to prove their point.
Japan had already lost at the point the bombs were dropped. conventional bombing might have taken the war a few more weeks longer, but not change the outcome.
No, I'm not very young. I have kids, I grew up in Europe and had years of direct contact with elder people who were still distressed about the war. My grandfathers had to hide in order not to get deported to Germany. One of them wrote a 250-page book about it. The other repeated the same horror stories over and over again before passing out.
I draw a direct line with the bombings of Rotterdam with the bombings of Nagasaki/Hiroshima. They were intended for the exact same reason: To coerce the other party to surrender (which in both cases is what happened).
Are you suggesting that it is OK to think like Nazi's if it suits you? The allies didn't obliterate Berlin from the world map to get Germany to surrender either. Nor was it needed to make Saddam fall.
220.000 people lost their lives in Hiroshima/Nagasaki. That's wrong by any standard.
A crime is a crime. Killing innocent people as part of a deliberate attempt to xripple an enemy (even to end war) is still killing innocent people. There is no doubt that the people who decided to toss the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki knew that thousands of innocent people would die. They deliberately killed innocent people. Mass-murdered.
The Nazi's thought that Jews brought the holocaust on to themselves too. Don't you see how stupid your perspective is!?!
One crime does not justify another. I'm not saying we should never go to war, but randomly (or worse, deliberately) killing innocent people is a crime.
still a media hype. Everyone know beforehand that the EU *could* impose fines. The article is repeating the obvious speculation, not creating any new news.
Can someone please show me where Intel sold _below cost_ ? I fail to see how this is all relevant until someone actually comes up with numbers showing this. Discounts are given in every store and business in the world. Unless it's _below cost_ it's not illegal.
This will never fly because of simple mathmatics: 95% of the internet users pay too much for their connection anyway and use maybe 5% of their fair share or allotment.
If your plan would come into place those people would see their monthly bills drop like a rock.
Guess who won't be allowing any of that? Not to mention that anyone who's in the top 5% range of usage will drastically flee to cheaper operators or even adjust their download behavior.
All that metered access would accomplish is a gigantic drop in revenue for ISPs.
we have to remain careful of competition - being cheaper doesn't help if someone is selling hardware or software under market price in order to maintain market share.
nobody can deny that Microsoft is basically giving Windows XP away for free on netbooks. While they are totally able to do this, Linux can't make up for this loss by stashing vast amounts of money from other overpriced software.
what we need to do is beat microsoft on usability on every aspect, not just price. Including marketability, liability and everything you can imagine.
lots of nerfage, including people not being able to download the patch (look at the forum spam lol) and things like the new instance being totally hung, trade chat completely not working etc etc...
Looks like it's pretty bad. I'm not even complaining about the mana regen nerf for priests which effectively cuts off a big part of their potential.
which eee? the 701 is a lot slower than the 901. a eee without solid state disk is also terribly slow (ssds are much faster, and moblin is optimized for ssds).
note that moblin should boot faster on subsequent boots as well due to the sreadahead program as well. first boot after install is usually slow due to all sorts of initialization stuff.
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some people would pay MORE for this type of transport...!
gtkpod or various other implementations all work great. me and my wife use them with various ipods.
insightful? maybe after you get your facts right:
You're confusing "Britain" with "The Netherlands" here:
Britain is
~800 miles long and up to 500 miles wide or so
has hills all over the place, cycling considered to be a sport anywhere outside major towns
climate varying from subtropical (palm trees) to near-arctic
larger than California
has twice as much inhabitants as California
average person uses 5218.2W of energy[1]
The Netherlands is
~200 miles long and wide
flat as your mum's chest (there's only 2 significant hills), cycling main mode of transportation
a climate so moderate and predictable you can guarantee ride your bicycle every day and get wet.
about the size of New Jersey
has about 40% the inhabitants compared to California, or 20% compared to Britain.
average person uses 6675.2W of energy[1]
So, to get to your point: WRONG
The UK is a lot _larger_ and has major geological obstacles (hills, rocks, climate variation) that make it harder to use less energy than the netherlands. However the British use 15-20% _less_ energy per inhabitant than the postage sized dutch who live in a fricken flat country where laying a pipe or road or canal is trivial due to the soft soil, flatness and year-round beneficial climate.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita
nothing different from celsius. Over 100 Celsius is way too damn hot, and under 0 is way too damn cold.
Please explain to me how you do this if there is no web brower installed. Please make sure it confirms to the "easy" requirement. Thank you.
negative, read groklaw for instance and the commissions statements:
roughly: "we want the users to have more choice, not less"
Microsoft does the ONE thing that will hurt innovation in the long run and increases the chance that users will end up getting IE instead of an alternative browser, by not providing any method at all to chose an alternative browser easily. You can bet your ass that "Microsoft Windows without IE" will have big fat "INSTALL IE NOW" icons on the desktop and popups appearing randomly.
The European commission is 100% correct for condemning this move.
Frankly, I couldn't care less if IE is integrated in the OS but able to be disabled, which is far less harmful than this move of Microsoft.
don't be afraid to say no. Only give hot chicks access ;)
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Most likely due to:
- funding (the launch phase costs the most because everything has to be tested & proven before it even goes up).
- other projects going up first (short-term projects slip in first etc), occupying launch events.
- feasibility (sometimes a great idea just is too risky)
in that order. it's not rocket science :)
what makes you think this is any different than in a typical town in (insert state/country you live in)?
conventional bombs would have worked, the US was more than capable of using them. There was no reason other than total destruction of Japanese moral to use the a-bombs. 220.000 people lost their lives, just because someone had to prove their point.
Japan had already lost at the point the bombs were dropped. conventional bombing might have taken the war a few more weeks longer, but not change the outcome.
No, I'm not very young. I have kids, I grew up in Europe and had years of direct contact with elder people who were still distressed about the war. My grandfathers had to hide in order not to get deported to Germany. One of them wrote a 250-page book about it. The other repeated the same horror stories over and over again before passing out.
I draw a direct line with the bombings of Rotterdam with the bombings of Nagasaki/Hiroshima. They were intended for the exact same reason: To coerce the other party to surrender (which in both cases is what happened).
Are you suggesting that it is OK to think like Nazi's if it suits you? The allies didn't obliterate Berlin from the world map to get Germany to surrender either. Nor was it needed to make Saddam fall.
220.000 people lost their lives in Hiroshima/Nagasaki. That's wrong by any standard.
You are a moron.
A crime is a crime. Killing innocent people as part of a deliberate attempt to xripple an enemy (even to end war) is still killing innocent people. There is no doubt that the people who decided to toss the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki knew that thousands of innocent people would die. They deliberately killed innocent people. Mass-murdered.
The Nazi's thought that Jews brought the holocaust on to themselves too. Don't you see how stupid your perspective is!?!
One crime does not justify another. I'm not saying we should never go to war, but randomly (or worse, deliberately) killing innocent people is a crime.
such allegations are usually not enough to even start a court case, AMD must have some "real" evidence.
but until court papers turn up in public, it's all moot and speculation.
so it's a speculative fine with potential teeth.
still a media hype. Everyone know beforehand that the EU *could* impose fines. The article is repeating the obvious speculation, not creating any new news.
so far I have only seen "allegations" stating this. Have any of the court documents actually stated that this happened?
I wish groklaw would delve into this :(
Can someone please show me where Intel sold _below cost_ ? I fail to see how this is all relevant until someone actually comes up with numbers showing this. Discounts are given in every store and business in the world. Unless it's _below cost_ it's not illegal.
This will never fly because of simple mathmatics: 95% of the internet users pay too much for their connection anyway and use maybe 5% of their fair share or allotment.
If your plan would come into place those people would see their monthly bills drop like a rock.
Guess who won't be allowing any of that? Not to mention that anyone who's in the top 5% range of usage will drastically flee to cheaper operators or even adjust their download behavior.
All that metered access would accomplish is a gigantic drop in revenue for ISPs.
Giving discounts does not necessarily constitute "dumping.
Has anyone shown that hardware was sold below "production cost", whichever vague definition that might even possibly have?
There is no fine, this is just a media frenzy obviously to whip up the news a bit.
The fine could be 20 billion, or there could not be a fine at all. Just sit it out and wait.
we have to remain careful of competition - being cheaper doesn't help if someone is selling hardware or software under market price in order to maintain market share.
nobody can deny that Microsoft is basically giving Windows XP away for free on netbooks. While they are totally able to do this, Linux can't make up for this loss by stashing vast amounts of money from other overpriced software.
what we need to do is beat microsoft on usability on every aspect, not just price. Including marketability, liability and everything you can imagine.
lots of nerfage, including people not being able to download the patch (look at the forum spam lol) and things like the new instance being totally hung, trade chat completely not working etc etc...
Looks like it's pretty bad. I'm not even complaining about the mana regen nerf for priests which effectively cuts off a big part of their potential.
time to play something else for a bit.
I'm sure Microsoft can pay to have that done.
This story gets accepted but the xfce 4.6 release isn't? slashdot has lost it's purpose... oh wait, never had any :/
which eee? the 701 is a lot slower than the 901. a eee without solid state disk is also terribly slow (ssds are much faster, and moblin is optimized for ssds).
note that moblin should boot faster on subsequent boots as well due to the sreadahead program as well. first boot after install is usually slow due to all sorts of initialization stuff.