The point made was that Taiwanese licensees might produce certain components, if not the whole thing, in China. Extrapolating from there: this would probably mean that the specs would cross the Chinese border. Therefore, the Chinese government could easily get hold of them and thus have all the specs they needed.
You can get around 5 hours out of these things, compared to around 2.5 for my Dell. This means that I can use the portable for most of my cross-Atlantic flight;-)
If you have plenty of $$ to fly Concorde, why not buy a PowerBook instead of an iBook:)
- indeed, the UK must be about the only western European country where "the professions" is commonly understood to refer only to the lawyer/ docter/ bank manager/ teacher class of white-collar activities
It likely is the only European country that still has 'classes'. That's why you lads have such a term at all (French, Spanish, Portugese, Italians, Hungarians, Chechs, Germans, Greeks, Poles, etc, etc: please correct me if I'm wrong).
I have read elsewhere that the US has infact spent more money than any of the countries effected by Kyoto on the Greenhouse Effect.
And that is exactly the problem. I'd say that investing in _countering_ the Greenhouse Effect were a far better thing to do:)
Ok, let's suppose you meant to say that. Think about this: the US is by far the largest Kyoto country- some 270 million inhabitants IIRC. Japan is 2nd with 120M and Germany 3rd: 100 million. I could be off 10 million here or there, but those are roughly the numbers. Also, the per capita US contribution to the Greenhouse Effect is higher than that of any country. Now don't you think it is only right that the US spent more money on anti- Greenhouse Effect measures than any other country?
But then again, why babble about money - it's the reduction of many kinds of exhaust that counts, not the amount of money thrown at it. I remember the Italian government threw millions of $$ toward the south of the country for development -mafia made it practically 3rd world - only resulting in mafia getting richer. Now you can see half- finished bridges Italy's south that cost the government more than three finished bridges should have cost. Only to say the amount of money thrown towards things isn't exactly the best way to measure the effect of certain measures.
Wow, only 15 years after the introduction of Edison- type fluorescent lights in Europe, they finally have seen the light (pun intended) in the US! An all it took was regular power outages in California. Way to go dudes!
I think the barrier here is the astronomical start-up cost of laying new cable. That's one of the reasons why DSL companies have to rent space from Verizon et al instead of running their own loops.
Moreover, it's the reason there is such a thing as *DSL at all. That goes for 10Base-T ethernet and ISDN as well. All designed to avoid having to lay out an awful lot of new cable.
Hmm.. ok, so the roads are in there and all, but does it include maximum speeds reliably enough not just to plan a trip but to fine people?
I mean, in an earlier reply there was the example of speed limits varying from 50 to 30 to 70 and back to 30 over a pretty short distance. Now, if I were to enter data for planning purposes I might decide to just tag that part of the road as having a maximum speed of 50 or so. If ACME uses such data, they'll "fine" people for legally driving 70 were ACME's database says the speed limit is 50!
Had this not come from M$ it might have been a Good Thing(tm). Reminds me of this story the other day about wearable computers. Folks at MIT were fantasizing about software that would help people remembering things: they could for instance attatch virtual notes to people's heads and have the computer display info on people that it recognized on it's own accord. Seems pretty cool to me. This whole thing is a highly sophisticated version of Smart Tags(tm). Nah, probably it's the other way around - Smart Tags(tm) are a very low-tech version of the MIT idea.
But obviously, in the hands of M$ it sure to be the supreme censorware utility - one that no doubt only M$ controls:(
Also there's the ever-recurring "da*n that doesn't work out" and the "whoops that isn't specified in the blueprints - so let's get creative" and the "sheesh, did I overlook that?" Got all of those in my house:(
*grunt* *grunt* *mumble* *mumble*
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Just hope there's a printer there too
it is time to open the heavens for private agencies to explore.
No need for that - it's already happening. Check http://www.arianespace.com/
The point made was that Taiwanese licensees might produce certain components, if not the whole thing, in China. Extrapolating from there: this would probably mean that the specs would cross the Chinese border. Therefore, the Chinese government could easily get hold of them and thus have all the specs they needed.
You can get around 5 hours out of these things, compared to around 2.5 for my Dell. This means that I can use the portable for most of my cross-Atlantic flight ;-)
:)
If you have plenty of $$ to fly Concorde, why not buy a PowerBook instead of an iBook
http://ah-thuisservice.ah.nl/hss/shop is still up.
- indeed, the UK must be about the only western European country where "the professions" is commonly understood to refer only to the lawyer/ docter/ bank manager/ teacher class of white-collar activities
It likely is the only European country that still has 'classes'. That's why you lads have such a term at all (French, Spanish, Portugese, Italians, Hungarians, Chechs, Germans, Greeks, Poles, etc, etc: please correct me if I'm wrong).
Even M$ can't outmarket where they can't sell
I have read elsewhere that the US has infact spent more money than any of the countries effected by Kyoto on the Greenhouse Effect.
:)
And that is exactly the problem. I'd say that investing in _countering_ the Greenhouse Effect were a far better thing to do
Ok, let's suppose you meant to say that. Think about this: the US is by far the largest Kyoto country- some 270 million inhabitants IIRC. Japan is 2nd with 120M and Germany 3rd: 100 million. I could be off 10 million here or there, but those are roughly the numbers. Also, the per capita US contribution to the Greenhouse Effect is higher than that of any country. Now don't you think it is only right that the US spent more money on anti- Greenhouse Effect measures than any other country?
But then again, why babble about money - it's the reduction of many kinds of exhaust that counts, not the amount of money thrown at it. I remember the Italian government threw millions of $$ toward the south of the country for development -mafia made it practically 3rd world - only resulting in mafia getting richer. Now you can see half- finished bridges Italy's south that cost the government more than three finished bridges should have cost. Only to say the amount of money thrown towards things isn't exactly the best way to measure the effect of certain measures.
Wow, only 15 years after the introduction of Edison- type fluorescent lights in Europe, they finally have seen the light (pun intended) in the US! An all it took was regular power outages in California. Way to go dudes!
I think the barrier here is the astronomical start-up cost of laying new cable. That's one of the reasons why DSL companies have to rent space from Verizon et al instead of running their own loops.
Moreover, it's the reason there is such a thing as *DSL at all. That goes for 10Base-T ethernet and ISDN as well. All designed to avoid having to lay out an awful lot of new cable.
That depends on whether you are a US citizen or not - and if not, whether you want to go to the US (be it for holiday or for work) or not.
Hmm.. ok, so the roads are in there and all, but does it include maximum speeds reliably enough not just to plan a trip but to fine people?
I mean, in an earlier reply there was the example of speed limits varying from 50 to 30 to 70 and back to 30 over a pretty short distance. Now, if I were to enter data for planning purposes I might decide to just tag that part of the road as having a maximum speed of 50 or so. If ACME uses such data, they'll "fine" people for legally driving 70 were ACME's database says the speed limit is 50!
how many people they have employed to enter and validate the speed limits for every kilometer of each and every little (and big) road in the US?
Had this not come from M$ it might have been a Good Thing(tm). Reminds me of this story the other day about wearable computers. Folks at MIT were fantasizing about software that would help people remembering things: they could for instance attatch virtual notes to people's heads and have the computer display info on people that it recognized on it's own accord. Seems pretty cool to me. This whole thing is a highly sophisticated version of Smart Tags(tm). Nah, probably it's the other way around - Smart Tags(tm) are a very low-tech version of the MIT idea.
:(
But obviously, in the hands of M$ it sure to be the supreme censorware utility - one that no doubt only M$ controls
And have you ever heard about hieroglyphs displaying ramps?
you could count it as 1 server serving N (reasonable), 8 servers serving N/8 (reasonable)
Ahem... I've been taught that 8 * N/8 = N * 8/8 = N * 1, which makes your first way of counting servers equal to the second.
Also there's the ever-recurring "da*n that doesn't work out" and the "whoops that isn't specified in the blueprints - so let's get creative" and the "sheesh, did I overlook that?" Got all of those in my house :(
*grunt* *grunt* *mumble* *mumble*
Might be that once you get past a certain stage in embryo development, parts of the genetic code aren't needed any more.
The article says this:
(...)fetal hemoglobin genes turn off a few months after birth and the adult hemoglobin genes take over(...)
So I'd say yes it does. But these genes are likeley not to be counted as trash DNA.