Because if it didn't have wings then a USAF couldn't use it.
Yes, that is one of the overwelming reasons the orbiter has wings. The USAF paid for part of it and as a result of the Key West Accords with the Army the USAF could only command things that fly with wings. So as such the #1 priority for the USAF in the design is that it have wings.
You cannot be convicted of dumping if you charge more than the marginal cost of a product. In this case, the marginal cost to make another copy of the software is effectively $0.00. "Selling" it for free is a perfectly rational and legal thing to do.
Due to the nature of limited liability there is no way to prosecute the owners. In addition most corporate law, especially for those companies incorporated in Delaware, the actual owners and shareholders have almost no say in how the company is actually run.
The issue with not getting phone service through FiOS is that the FiOS account is referenced by the phone provided by the FiOS service. You cannot put your regular phone number in it's place. So when you have an issue it takes either billing or tech support something on the order of an hour to find your account. And you need to redo it on every single contact with them.
I don't know why they designed the system this way, and more importantly why they just don't give everyone phone service for free so they don't have these issues. So yes it's broken.
It's cheap until you ignore dismantling, cleanup costs, and insurance for if something goes wrong (think 100's of billions of dollars). This is what the US made the Nuclear operators consider in the 1970's for their proposals and why they became uneconomical.
When you change the incentives of engineers to be the compensate them the same as you would a sales person. The engineers become sales people pretty quickly. It's just human nature.
The opposite is also true by the way, if you change a sales person's salary to the same as engineers they're change into engineers pretty quickly. Incentives matter.
Actually it's sort of worse with datacenters in the fact they're large facilities but they produce very, very few local jobs. Most of the work is being done offsite over the internet or is completely automated.
No. GSM just specifies the protocol and security stacks, it does not specify the frequencies. As such, GSM supports a number of different frequencies bands and it's up the phone manufacture on how many of those bands are actually implemented in the phone. Most phones nowadays are quad-band so they can roam, but you can implement a perfectly fine GSM phone that only connects to one band or two bands
You will sometimes see phones implement just the domainant ones in your area (850MHz/1900MHz for North America and parts of South America, 1700MHz/2100MHz for Japan, and 900 MHz/1800 MHz for everywhere else) in order to save money on the cost of creating the phone.
While this is true today (and there is even moreso since the advent of Steam), back in the late 90's and early 2000's launch titles tended to be a little more rare.
Because their main customers are academic test producers who mandate TI calculators for use with the scan tron tests because they're less "hackable". This causes every student in high school to be forced to go out and buy one for use on the exams.
The enthusiast crowd isn't even a rounding error in that market, so it makes sense for TI not to care about them.
There is Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanuim (IA-64). Granted the installed is so small it'll be the last one for the architecture. But it's not all x86 and x64 even now.
He was trying to counterfeit currency. Granted it was in a smartass sort of way instead of a more undectabled way that is usually employed, but it's still coutnerfeitting.
They likely paid for every square inch of shelf space they have so having two seperate brands doesn't actually get them anything extra. It's the second item in that they seem like seperate companies, with Compaq at the low end to make the higher end HP machines seem better is more probable.
You know how competition works, right? If there are multiple competitors with roughly similar products the cost drops as the compete against each other for customers. It usually pushes the prices to somewhere near the marginal cost for each unit (depending on the barriers to entry and such). Competition in any market is usually seen as a good thing because of that fact.
In human terms, even a hundred years might as well be forever.
Think about it, in 1911, there were very view cars. We'd only been flying for about 4 years. Television wouldn't be invented for another 10 years. Computers wouldn't be invented for another 50 years. Hell, the first nuclear reactor was still 31 years from being invented. If you were sitting in 1911 you'd have no idea what the next 100 years would bring you and even less capiblitiy to predict it.
We can barely figure out what we're doing five years from now, one hundred years is no different than fifty-thousand or a million when you think about it.
Why is the assumption that the way to deal with rolling blackouts is to build more power plants? Couldn't the answer is to build a lifestyle that you know doesn't require so much power?
The Person\Org award is a relatively new invention. In the olden days they just straight up gave it to the "International Societies of the Red Cross and Red Crescent".
You'd have to build something fundamentally different from FidoNet. It used a very heirarchial structure thatcould be taken down by taking out just a few core nodes. In addition, each node is required to contain a list of ever other system in the network which would give the authorities a list of thier next targets.
While it might be possible to build a phone network from scratch in all likelyhood it would be difficult to figure out who your neighbors are and how to contact them without raising informing the authorities on who they are (remember all the phone calls are logged in the central office). You really need something like the Internet with a one-to-many connection for at least plausable deniablity and neighbor hiding.
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If the computer won't boot into Windows there is no way for the user to see the "About Windows" dialog box.
Because if it didn't have wings then a USAF couldn't use it.
Yes, that is one of the overwelming reasons the orbiter has wings. The USAF paid for part of it and as a result of the Key West Accords with the Army the USAF could only command things that fly with wings. So as such the #1 priority for the USAF in the design is that it have wings.
Yes it is silly.
You cannot be convicted of dumping if you charge more than the marginal cost of a product. In this case, the marginal cost to make another copy of the software is effectively $0.00. "Selling" it for free is a perfectly rational and legal thing to do.
Too bad it's more like the laws of thermodyanmics:
You cannot win
You cannot break even
And most importantly you cannot even get out of the game
Most patent fights are caused by others dragging you into them, not you choosing to enter them. Well at least for the folks who actually make things.
Due to the nature of limited liability there is no way to prosecute the owners. In addition most corporate law, especially for those companies incorporated in Delaware, the actual owners and shareholders have almost no say in how the company is actually run.
We have 100 years of designing lightweight electrically powered computer cars? Well, no we don't.
Well we do, it's just that we didn't really do anything after year 1 till year 95 or so.
The issue with not getting phone service through FiOS is that the FiOS account is referenced by the phone provided by the FiOS service. You cannot put your regular phone number in it's place. So when you have an issue it takes either billing or tech support something on the order of an hour to find your account. And you need to redo it on every single contact with them.
I don't know why they designed the system this way, and more importantly why they just don't give everyone phone service for free so they don't have these issues. So yes it's broken.
It's cheap until you ignore dismantling, cleanup costs, and insurance for if something goes wrong (think 100's of billions of dollars). This is what the US made the Nuclear operators consider in the 1970's for their proposals and why they became uneconomical.
When you change the incentives of engineers to be the compensate them the same as you would a sales person. The engineers become sales people pretty quickly. It's just human nature.
The opposite is also true by the way, if you change a sales person's salary to the same as engineers they're change into engineers pretty quickly. Incentives matter.
Actually it's sort of worse with datacenters in the fact they're large facilities but they produce very, very few local jobs. Most of the work is being done offsite over the internet or is completely automated.
No. GSM just specifies the protocol and security stacks, it does not specify the frequencies. As such, GSM supports a number of different frequencies bands and it's up the phone manufacture on how many of those bands are actually implemented in the phone. Most phones nowadays are quad-band so they can roam, but you can implement a perfectly fine GSM phone that only connects to one band or two bands
You will sometimes see phones implement just the domainant ones in your area (850MHz/1900MHz for North America and parts of South America, 1700MHz/2100MHz for Japan, and 900 MHz/1800 MHz for everywhere else) in order to save money on the cost of creating the phone.
While this is true today (and there is even moreso since the advent of Steam), back in the late 90's and early 2000's launch titles tended to be a little more rare.
Because their main customers are academic test producers who mandate TI calculators for use with the scan tron tests because they're less "hackable". This causes every student in high school to be forced to go out and buy one for use on the exams.
The enthusiast crowd isn't even a rounding error in that market, so it makes sense for TI not to care about them.
You had an odd definition of trivial.
There is Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanuim (IA-64). Granted the installed is so small it'll be the last one for the architecture. But it's not all x86 and x64 even now.
He was trying to counterfeit currency. Granted it was in a smartass sort of way instead of a more undectabled way that is usually employed, but it's still coutnerfeitting.
They likely paid for every square inch of shelf space they have so having two seperate brands doesn't actually get them anything extra. It's the second item in that they seem like seperate companies, with Compaq at the low end to make the higher end HP machines seem better is more probable.
You know how competition works, right? If there are multiple competitors with roughly similar products the cost drops as the compete against each other for customers. It usually pushes the prices to somewhere near the marginal cost for each unit (depending on the barriers to entry and such). Competition in any market is usually seen as a good thing because of that fact.
I think McCoy had the good decency to grow old and die. I never remember him being resurrected.
In human terms, even a hundred years might as well be forever.
Think about it, in 1911, there were very view cars. We'd only been flying for about 4 years. Television wouldn't be invented for another 10 years. Computers wouldn't be invented for another 50 years. Hell, the first nuclear reactor was still 31 years from being invented. If you were sitting in 1911 you'd have no idea what the next 100 years would bring you and even less capiblitiy to predict it.
We can barely figure out what we're doing five years from now, one hundred years is no different than fifty-thousand or a million when you think about it.
Why is the assumption that the way to deal with rolling blackouts is to build more power plants? Couldn't the answer is to build a lifestyle that you know doesn't require so much power?
He actually means "latest" or "newest". Why he didn't say latest or newest I have no idea.
Or Solaris version numbers. The current version of Solaris is actually 5.11, but since they're not incrementing the major any more it's just 11.
For some reason dropping the major numbers seems to be a Sun thing, I have no idea if it will contine now that they are owned by Oracle.
The Person\Org award is a relatively new invention. In the olden days they just straight up gave it to the "International Societies of the Red Cross and Red Crescent".
You'd have to build something fundamentally different from FidoNet. It used a very heirarchial structure thatcould be taken down by taking out just a few core nodes. In addition, each node is required to contain a list of ever other system in the network which would give the authorities a list of thier next targets.
While it might be possible to build a phone network from scratch in all likelyhood it would be difficult to figure out who your neighbors are and how to contact them without raising informing the authorities on who they are (remember all the phone calls are logged in the central office). You really need something like the Internet with a one-to-many connection for at least plausable deniablity and neighbor hiding.