You do not own the work you do for your employer. Patenting their stuff in your name is probably an easier way to get fired than having a chat with your boss and discussing your objections to the idea of patenting software.
Actually that's part of the problem - the BBC don't pay for their bandwidth. They pay for some bandwidth and they pay quite a lot overall for bandwidth but the bulk of BBC content is provided to ISPs through peering arrangements.
The BBC peer at 11 different peering exchanges across the UK, Europe and USA with two different AS Numbers - one for BBC European ops and one for BBC American Ops. Details are available at http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/peering/
The upshot of this is that the ISPs are peering with the BBC so they don't get complaints from customers that one of the biggest sites in the world is slow or have to pay over the odds to an upstream provider and the BBC is peering with ISPs to make sure that they don't get hit with a bill for the 10s of Gbps of bandwidth they have available to them.
Now that the bandwidth is likely to increase and the ISPs aren't going to get any more money from anyone for this they want the BBC to stump up. Personally I say tough - you decided to peer with the BBC, now you get to carry their traffic. It must have seemed beneficial once, surely those benefits haven't dissipated completely.
Because there isn't an iPod with 3.5" touchscreen?
It's a great looking iPod and I'd be tempted if it were a little cheaper even with just 8Gb. But I live in the UK so we're not going to see it until Christmas anyway.
Tell that to T-Mobile. They're pushing their Web'n'Walk internet service at the moment - for just a few pounds extra you can get downloads at over 1Mbps on a compatible device and a 1Gb data transfer limit - way more than rival networks are offering.
3G is not a flop but has not taken off in as fast a fashion as the huge license fees hinted - as users demand access to online content from any location it's becoming more and more a requested feature.
Because you're not running a hosting business if the only costs you'll mention is the $10pcm difference between an upstream provider's Windows hosting or virtual server package and the same spec linux package.
And as a member of the Portman Building Society you will be provided with a vote to decide wether the MERGER or Portman and Nationwide should take place.
Roam in France with a US T-Mobile account $0.99 per minute.
Roam in France with a UK one at 1:1.90 (0.5*1.9) $0.95 Roam in France with a UK one at 1:1.80 (0.5*1.8) $0.90 Roam in France with a UK one at 1:1.70 (0.5*1.7) $0.85
In fact with T-Mobile's rates the only way for the US carrier to be cheaper is for the US to loose even more against the pound and hit the magical 1:2 ratio!
Roam in France with a UK one at 1:2 (0.5*2.0) $1
That's right - to save a penny on your roaming rates your currency has to devalue by another 10cents
Sorry but it still costs more to make calls in Europe than the US with an American plan.
T-Mobile USA charge $0.99, $1.99 or $2.99 per minute for calls made whilst overseas. T-Mobile UK charge £0.50 to £1.40 ($0.95 to $2.66) per minute for calls made whilst overseas.
My my maths (With an exchange rate of 1.9 USD to GBP) it's cheaper to roam from the UK than it is to roam from the US.
As each node is an indicidually powered unit you'd not have to power down the entire array.
As for hot swap PATA - I have a hot swap PATA system - works perfectly. I've had drive failures and been able to throw new drives in, access the admin console and start the re-build without powering down.
They had to "mess about" because older Apple users expect a certain number of files to be located in a certain number of places.
Personally I love that ability to drag and drop a full Office Suite from the install CD to the Applications folder and it just work.
I also like that I can type ls -l into a terminal session and see/dev/bin/etc etc and find half of the core of the system waiting for me.
Let's face it - would you want Mom or Grandma trying to work out what all these files in/opt are for or do you want her to open hte Applications folder on the Machintosh HD?
I remember boo.com - I knew one of it's technical guys. I thought it was a dumb idea then and I still do.
However if you visit http://www.boo.com/ you'll see that the boo is apparently back. But not, as it's just a placeholder for a new service which seems to be extremely slow in arriving.
This is part of the issue - there's TV over Internet and TVoIP - I have the latter.
The big TV cos still don't want you accessing content in areas where you're not meant to be accessing them and because of that TVoIP is pretty much limited to those people who can directly get you bandwidth.
I know that for many TV over the Internet sounds like a great idea but I get about one glitch per day with Homechoice - watching the same bandwidth TV streams over the internet would be far worse. Buffering, dropping down to lower bandwidths, codec issues etc - None of thse exist on TVoIP platforms because the platform is partially closed and can offer total QoS.
For me I have a garunteed 5Mbs (or thereabouts) into Homechoice's network and my STB decides what amount of that is used for what. When the TV is on I can't exceed about 2Mbps downloads, when it's off the speed is instanly up to 5Mbps.
I get Video on Demand, Radio, Broadcast TV and Internet over the ADSL with 2Mbps Internet while watching TV and 5Mbp while it's off (8Mbps is possible on the best lines right now)
But it's not that popular yet - the monopolistic Murdoch satellite provider we're stuck with wont flog the channels people want to Homechoice so the channels we can get are fairly limited. The only reason I have it is because I'd have to pay £220 for the first year and £80 a year after that for the priviledge of renting a satellite feed as I'm in a condo and cable haven't gone down our road yet.
IPTV is frightening Sky so they're buying into it big time right now.
Nothing is stopping you from making an intel based computer that can run the macintosh software. It'll just be illegal to run the OS on it. You're quite welcome to run Linux, BSD, Windows, DOS etc on your iMac clone.
Apple are telling you that you may only run the OS on an Apple manufactured Macintosh. This is stipulated in the software license and they're attempting to prevent you from doing so with technology.
They have the same argument regarding running Mac OS on PowerPC based computers.
So why is this suddenly a big issue? Just because the Apple hardware is now much close in compatability to the cheap POS you've got on your desktop and you want a nicer looking OS which you can run a pirated copy of Office and Photoshop on?
And remember that some 40Gb drives are not the same size as other 40Gb drives. And the drive sizes aren't fixed in my example.
We recently had a requirement to replace a drive in a RAID 5 set but the 160Gb drive we bought to replace it from the same manufacturer as the original was a different generation and actually smaller.
We ended up having to purchase a larger drive to put in there.
This is something slightly different. All networks can triangulate signals to a degree - based on the antenna array that most networks use, signal strength, location of transmitter etc they don't need the phone to support anything.
The E911 service is, I believe, an implementation of AGPS where the phone assists in tracking to get an even closer match.
This just looks like it's a method to track how people got to your page.
Google and MSN use q=search+terms+here in the referer, aol query=me+too, yahoo p=small+green+vegetable
This is no more than Google/Urchin (UCTM Urchin Capaign Tracking Module - We're Urchin software users at work) looking into the referer in the same way that your log analyser would.
Of course it means that they now have the ability to see what other people are searching for on other search engines and track people's search engine usage.
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What a dumb idea.
You do not own the work you do for your employer. Patenting their stuff in your name is probably an easier way to get fired than having a chat with your boss and discussing your objections to the idea of patenting software.
Actually that's part of the problem - the BBC don't pay for their bandwidth. They pay for some bandwidth and they pay quite a lot overall for bandwidth but the bulk of BBC content is provided to ISPs through peering arrangements.
The BBC peer at 11 different peering exchanges across the UK, Europe and USA with two different AS Numbers - one for BBC European ops and one for BBC American Ops. Details are available at http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/peering/
The upshot of this is that the ISPs are peering with the BBC so they don't get complaints from customers that one of the biggest sites in the world is slow or have to pay over the odds to an upstream provider and the BBC is peering with ISPs to make sure that they don't get hit with a bill for the 10s of Gbps of bandwidth they have available to them.
Now that the bandwidth is likely to increase and the ISPs aren't going to get any more money from anyone for this they want the BBC to stump up. Personally I say tough - you decided to peer with the BBC, now you get to carry their traffic. It must have seemed beneficial once, surely those benefits haven't dissipated completely.
Because there isn't an iPod with 3.5" touchscreen?
It's a great looking iPod and I'd be tempted if it were a little cheaper even with just 8Gb. But I live in the UK so we're not going to see it until Christmas anyway.
Tell that to T-Mobile. They're pushing their Web'n'Walk internet service at the moment - for just a few pounds extra you can get downloads at over 1Mbps on a compatible device and a 1Gb data transfer limit - way more than rival networks are offering.
3G is not a flop but has not taken off in as fast a fashion as the huge license fees hinted - as users demand access to online content from any location it's becoming more and more a requested feature.
Don't worry.
Google didn't either http://www.google.com/search?q=define:+instate
I'm all for making up words in private with friends and cow orkers but on the front page of a busy web sites is just play dumb.
Because you're not running a hosting business if the only costs you'll mention is the $10pcm difference between an upstream provider's Windows hosting or virtual server package and the same spec linux package.
And as a member of the Portman Building Society you will be provided with a vote to decide wether the MERGER or Portman and Nationwide should take place.
Fuelling it?
No - It is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The Falkland Islands is a territory of but not part of the United Kingdom.
No you have it the wrong way roung.
Roam in France with a US T-Mobile account $0.99 per minute.
Roam in France with a UK one at 1:1.90 (0.5*1.9) $0.95
Roam in France with a UK one at 1:1.80 (0.5*1.8) $0.90
Roam in France with a UK one at 1:1.70 (0.5*1.7) $0.85
In fact with T-Mobile's rates the only way for the US carrier to be cheaper is for the US to loose even more against the pound and hit the magical 1:2 ratio!
Roam in France with a UK one at 1:2 (0.5*2.0) $1
That's right - to save a penny on your roaming rates your currency has to devalue by another 10cents
Sorry but it still costs more to make calls in Europe than the US with an American plan.
T-Mobile USA charge $0.99, $1.99 or $2.99 per minute for calls made whilst overseas.
T-Mobile UK charge £0.50 to £1.40 ($0.95 to $2.66) per minute for calls made whilst overseas.
My my maths (With an exchange rate of 1.9 USD to GBP) it's cheaper to roam from the UK than it is to roam from the US.
Hey, guess what - the rest of Europe is "abroad", in much the same was as the US or any other country.
The roaming charges stem from increased competition in the domestic markets pruning the monies raised from a finite number of local subscribers.
In the beginning (I'm talking about 10 years ago here) I could roam abroad for just 120% of the local charge for a call. Now it can be 1000%.
The easiest way of getting reliable connectivity is to use someone like T-Mobile's hotspots. THey bill consistently and cheaply.
As each node is an indicidually powered unit you'd not have to power down the entire array.
As for hot swap PATA - I have a hot swap PATA system - works perfectly. I've had drive failures and been able to throw new drives in, access the admin console and start the re-build without powering down.
Well given that the web site states * EZ-Latch disk mounting system I'm guessing that Capricorn Tech have thought this one through.
They had to "mess about" because older Apple users expect a certain number of files to be located in a certain number of places.
/dev /bin /etc etc and find half of the core of the system waiting for me.
/opt are for or do you want her to open hte Applications folder on the Machintosh HD?
Personally I love that ability to drag and drop a full Office Suite from the install CD to the Applications folder and it just work.
I also like that I can type ls -l into a terminal session and see
Let's face it - would you want Mom or Grandma trying to work out what all these files in
I remember boo.com - I knew one of it's technical guys. I thought it was a dumb idea then and I still do.
However if you visit http://www.boo.com/ you'll see that the boo is apparently back. But not, as it's just a placeholder for a new service which seems to be extremely slow in arriving.
This is part of the issue - there's TV over Internet and TVoIP - I have the latter.
The big TV cos still don't want you accessing content in areas where you're not meant to be accessing them and because of that TVoIP is pretty much limited to those people who can directly get you bandwidth.
I know that for many TV over the Internet sounds like a great idea but I get about one glitch per day with Homechoice - watching the same bandwidth TV streams over the internet would be far worse. Buffering, dropping down to lower bandwidths, codec issues etc - None of thse exist on TVoIP platforms because the platform is partially closed and can offer total QoS.
For me I have a garunteed 5Mbs (or thereabouts) into Homechoice's network and my STB decides what amount of that is used for what. When the TV is on I can't exceed about 2Mbps downloads, when it's off the speed is instanly up to 5Mbps.
I've been using TVoIP for a year an a half now.
I get Video on Demand, Radio, Broadcast TV and Internet over the ADSL with 2Mbps Internet while watching TV and 5Mbp while it's off (8Mbps is possible on the best lines right now)
All this and free off-peak and weekend calls and lower line rental from http://www.homechoice.co.uk/
But it's not that popular yet - the monopolistic Murdoch satellite provider we're stuck with wont flog the channels people want to Homechoice so the channels we can get are fairly limited. The only reason I have it is because I'd have to pay £220 for the first year and £80 a year after that for the priviledge of renting a satellite feed as I'm in a condo and cable haven't gone down our road yet.
IPTV is frightening Sky so they're buying into it big time right now.
Sorry - this is a bit arse about face here.
Nothing is stopping you from making an intel based computer that can run the macintosh software. It'll just be illegal to run the OS on it. You're quite welcome to run Linux, BSD, Windows, DOS etc on your iMac clone.
Apple are telling you that you may only run the OS on an Apple manufactured Macintosh. This is stipulated in the software license and they're attempting to prevent you from doing so with technology.
They have the same argument regarding running Mac OS on PowerPC based computers.
So why is this suddenly a big issue? Just because the Apple hardware is now much close in compatability to the cheap POS you've got on your desktop and you want a nicer looking OS which you can run a pirated copy of Office and Photoshop on?
But first, a look at what's still to come.
Home Storage - what should I do, where should I go?
Followed by
Home Storage - where should I go and what should I do?
Coming up a review of the past hours' news.
And remember that some 40Gb drives are not the same size as other 40Gb drives. And the drive sizes aren't fixed in my example.
We recently had a requirement to replace a drive in a RAID 5 set but the 160Gb drive we bought to replace it from the same manufacturer as the original was a different generation and actually smaller.
We ended up having to purchase a larger drive to put in there.
This is something slightly different. All networks can triangulate signals to a degree - based on the antenna array that most networks use, signal strength, location of transmitter etc they don't need the phone to support anything.
The E911 service is, I believe, an implementation of AGPS where the phone assists in tracking to get an even closer match.
This just looks like it's a method to track how people got to your page.
Google and MSN use q=search+terms+here in the referer, aol query=me+too, yahoo p=small+green+vegetable
This is no more than Google/Urchin (UCTM Urchin Capaign Tracking Module - We're Urchin software users at work) looking into the referer in the same way that your log analyser would.
Of course it means that they now have the ability to see what other people are searching for on other search engines and track people's search engine usage.
The specs claim that the lens is autofocus-able. SE have ben carping on about autofocus phones for quite a few months now.
Is anyone else just getting the google homepage when they go to www.fuddruckers.com ?