This whole lawsuit thing started around 2000, when most Internet connections were still dial-up and broadband was only starting to be rolled out (ADSL/DSL). EU probes Microsoft.
At this time, the web browser was the only convenient way of accessing data and was believed to be the "desktop of the future".
As the commissioner Mario Monti commented:
"Whoever gains dominance in the software service market gains dominance in electronic commerce too,"
If Microsoft can specify the standards of information exchange between servers and browsers, they then have control over the content creation applications speed of innovation, and thus can file patents and charge fees for the use of this technology.
If it were on sale in the UK, I would definitely buy it - I used to read it when in the US - we do have "Private Eye", but Mad magazine had a far wider area of focus.
Animals learn from watching each other. Perhaps these parrots were able to determine that eating seeds that had fallen in this layer of clay were more edible that seeds from other areas. Then when they went to other areas, they found out that they could eat the seeds there.
Maybe they have a sense of taste/smell that can detect alkaloids and suitable antidotes. Mammals can smell salt/humidity and know instinctively that if they eat something salty, they should drink water.
Embedded devices and netbooks are going with Linux due to its ability to run lean.
It has been known for at least 20 years that systems-on-a-chip or embedded systems were going to take off - although it has not been until wireless communication and true-color displays have become affordable that this has happened.
For many years, Microsoft could specify the standard of hardware required to run their OS, and the hardware vendors had to obey in order to get compatibility certification.
Linux distro developers did not have that level of influence over the hardware developers and so had to modularize their software in order to adapt to hardware with limited memory and resources.
By not having this evolutionary pressure, Microsoft have really pushed themselves into a very restricted evolution path, and just hope that memory increases enough to run the embedded versions of their OS.
I went to my local supermarket to buy a RJ-45 cable. The longest length they sold was 1-metre long. Any distance longer than that and you are being effectively encouraged to use wireless.
Which is why conspiracy theorists think that the Scottish banks were forced to merge with the London based banks - to stop Scotland seeking independence from the esto of the UK. That would have pulled the tartun rug from under Brown's feet.
I am using Fedora Core 8 on a laptop with a Atheros AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor. The drivers wrk perfectly.
First of all, the broadband router was not configured to enable wifi - that required some grokking of the installation manual to get the IP address, username and password to access the configuration menu, all on the same channel/frequency.
Then there was the configuration to follow various Security Tips. Regardless of my location, six or seven different wi-fi networks will show up on the configuration manager.
The default setting for the wifi configuration menu was "ad-hoc", but nothing would happen until "managed" mode was selected.
Then there was the problem of getting the wifi driver to be automatically seleted upon startup (there are two possible communications modes: Ethernet RJ45 vs. wi-fi).
Until thes security key was set using iwconfig, nothing would work.
In all probability, the need for all of this has probably gone away with more recent distro's - I had similar problems in the past with various other drivers.
I'd say setting up wi-fi is fairly fiddly even if the drivers are working correctly. Visiting the correct IP address to enable "wireless", setting up security options including encryption keys, WPA passphrase, creating a wlan0 entry, and editing/etc/rc.d/rc.local to make sbin/iwconfig set up the channel, essid, key and "managed mode".
The HowStuffWorks article Why do CRT monitors contain lead? has an explanation The thick glass of the vacuum tube of CRT contains the lead in order to improve optical properties and shielding from the radiation of the electron gun. The lead amounts to 25% of the volume of the glass.
Animals such as cats and dogs (and even albinohumans) have reflective surfaces in their eyes, the tapetum lucidum.
For any creature that hunts at night, any modification that increase the amount of photons that reaches the rods and cones of the retina are going to be of benefit. Having this reflective in front of the retina would also be to an advantage. For a creature living underwater, having a reflective surface that concentrates light from above into the retina would also be an advantage, but it would not be an advantage to reflect light from below.
Also, when fish reproduce they are going to have hundreds of offspring, where the odds of survival are very low for the first year, so anything that improves the chances of survival, even if by a small amount is going to be of benfit. Consequently, the eyeball is one of the first organs to be fully formed. Since there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of couples breeding every year, that is a vast number of random combinations of genetr to be tried out each year.
Not sure how the programming interface for graphics cards has changed, but the SVGA graphics cards used a 64K 'memory window' to make the contents of the video framebuffer available to the CPU. You could write a value into the page register which would indicate which bank of video memory the CPU should read and write to.
And the next generation version will replace the two-dimension wheel with a little sphere that can be rotated through the use of a finger - it will be called te MacBall.
Many company directors seem to think the solution to any problem is to throw more chairs (or bodies) at that problem. The side effect of the hiring etra staff is to actually slow down communication or to actually increase the rate that bugs are created.
All very true. In the past, the blame seems to have put on the demolition of the old tenement buildings after World War II (the street level was all shops, with four or five floors of flats above - tenants could work part-time at the shops, and only required a commute of walking up and down the stairs) and the relocation of people into tower blocks or housing estates on the outskirts of the cities.
The politicians of the time thought this was a wonderful idea, as the people now had access to fresh air and green landscapes. The slight disadvantages were there was no financial input into the local economy and also having all sorts of side alleys, multiple level side-walks allowed burglars to see when people were leaving their homes.
The schools were also only geared to sending 10% of the population to universities. In some parts of the country, you had exams, which would decide whether you could get additional years of secondary education, or would have to leave school at 16.
There were trade schools to each people trade skills like plumbing, construction, but these were encouraged to teach technology skills and become universities instead.
Schools here seem to be larger than in Europe - 1200 students for a secondary school seems to be the average now. Specialist schools to deal with deal with special needs students have been closed down and sold off to property developers to build luxury apartments. This was actually done at the request of the parents who felt stigmatized by having to tell everyone that their kids were at "special schools". And the tax cutters liked the ideas because the money could be spent elsewhere.
Anyone who has specialist skills like Mathematics, Physics or Biology skills is going to avoid teaching in these areas for fear of being falseley accused of a crime by another student. (There was a teacher who has just been awardedd 250K pounds after being suffocated by a 12 year old pupil - no other teacher would help him for fear of being accused of assualt).
In order to reduce the culture of binge-drinking in the UK, closing-time at pubs was eliminated, so that pubs could remain open 16 hours or even 24-hours. The has just led to 24-hour binge drinking.
Children's TV in the USA/Canada and Europe always seems to have a "Go for it" message in terms of achievement doing articles on all the different activies and clubs that you can do. There doesn't seem to be anything similar in the UK.
As far as sience goes, there doesn't seem to be anyone who can earn the same salary or lifestyle that the professional football players earn.
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So here's what you do. Go buy ten 200GB drives. RAID them together.
Which may not be a good thing if your office/apartment is hit by a flood/fire/earthquake or other disaster.
If the information is that important that you need ten drives, you would want at least two locations.
This whole lawsuit thing started around 2000, when most Internet connections were still dial-up and broadband was only starting to be rolled out (ADSL/DSL).
EU probes Microsoft.
At this time, the web browser was the only convenient way of accessing data and was believed to be the "desktop of the future".
As the commissioner Mario Monti commented:
"Whoever gains dominance in the software service market gains dominance in electronic commerce too,"
If Microsoft can specify the standards of information exchange between servers and browsers, they then have control over the content creation applications speed of innovation, and thus can file patents and charge fees for the use of this technology.
If it were on sale in the UK, I would definitely buy it - I used to read it when in the US - we do have "Private Eye", but Mad magazine had a far wider area of focus.
Whatever happened to Mad TV?
From the Merrim-Webster dictionary definition of wowser:
chiefly Australian : an obtrusively puritanical person
Animals learn from watching each other. Perhaps these parrots were able to determine that eating seeds that had fallen in this layer of clay were more edible that seeds from other areas. Then when they went to other areas, they found out that they could eat the seeds there.
Maybe they have a sense of taste/smell that can detect alkaloids and suitable antidotes. Mammals can smell salt/humidity and know instinctively that if they eat something salty, they should drink water.
According to the natives of many tropical jungle tribes, they watch what the animals eat, and adjust their diets accordingly.
Embedded devices and netbooks are going with Linux due to its ability to run lean.
It has been known for at least 20 years that systems-on-a-chip or embedded systems were going to take off - although it has not been until wireless communication and true-color displays have become affordable that this has happened.
For many years, Microsoft could specify the standard of hardware required to run their OS, and the hardware vendors had to obey in order to get compatibility certification.
Linux distro developers did not have that level of influence over the hardware developers and so had to modularize their software in order to adapt to hardware with limited memory and resources.
By not having this evolutionary pressure, Microsoft have really pushed themselves into a very restricted evolution path, and just hope that memory increases enough to run the embedded versions of their OS.
We need smart-cameras that will refuse to take such pictures and display a warning when such a picture is about to be taken or sent.
I went to my local supermarket to buy a RJ-45 cable. The longest length they sold was 1-metre long. Any distance longer than that and you are being effectively encouraged to use wireless.
How many "extra strong Espresso coffee to go" is that?
Well, things are a lot different now, especially with the recession and the constant debate over ID cards, property prices, and education standards.
Also, the SNP are in charge in Scotland now, not the Labour party.
2007 election statistics
Which is why conspiracy theorists think that the Scottish banks were forced to merge with the London based banks - to stop Scotland seeking independence from the esto of the UK. That would have pulled the tartun rug from under Brown's feet.
dd -if=/dev/brain of=/backups/brain`date +%y%m%d%H%M%S`.dd
On a bannser seen outside a Silicon Valley conference center:
"Objective objectives objectify objectivity".
I am using Fedora Core 8 on a laptop with a Atheros AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor. The drivers wrk perfectly.
First of all, the broadband router was not configured to enable wifi - that required some grokking of the installation manual to get the IP address, username and password to access the configuration menu, all on the same channel/frequency.
Then there was the configuration to follow various Security Tips.
Regardless of my location, six or seven different wi-fi networks will show up on the configuration manager.
The default setting for the wifi configuration menu was "ad-hoc", but nothing would happen until "managed" mode was selected.
Ad-hoc vs Managed mode
Then there was the problem of getting the wifi driver to be automatically seleted upon startup (there are two possible communications modes: Ethernet RJ45 vs. wi-fi).
Until thes security key was set using iwconfig, nothing would work.
Setting up a WPA pass phrase
And cracking a WPA passphrase, which makes the above seem a bit pointless.
In all probability, the need for all of this has probably gone away with more recent distro's - I had similar problems in the past with various other drivers.
What happens if the patch contains some other vulnerability, a back-door, root-kit or just breaks some other miscellaneous feature.
I'd say setting up wi-fi is fairly fiddly even if the drivers are working correctly. Visiting the correct IP address to enable "wireless", setting up security options including encryption keys, WPA passphrase, creating a wlan0 entry, and editing /etc/rc.d/rc.local to make sbin/iwconfig set up the channel, essid, key and "managed mode".
The HowStuffWorks article Why do CRT monitors contain lead? has an explanation The thick glass of the vacuum tube of CRT contains the lead in order to improve optical properties and shielding from the radiation of the electron gun. The lead amounts to 25% of the volume of the glass.
Animals such as cats and dogs (and even albinohumans) have reflective surfaces in their eyes, the tapetum lucidum.
For any creature that hunts at night, any modification that increase the amount of photons that reaches the rods and cones of the retina are going to be of benefit. Having this reflective in front of the retina would also be to an advantage. For a creature living underwater, having a reflective surface that concentrates light from above into the retina would also be an advantage, but it would not be an advantage to reflect light from below.
Also, when fish reproduce they are going to have hundreds of offspring, where the odds of survival are very low for the first year, so anything that improves the chances of survival, even if by a small amount is going to be of benfit. Consequently, the eyeball is one of the first organs to be fully formed. Since there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of couples breeding every year, that is a vast number of random combinations of genetr to be tried out each year.
Maybe the cross-hair could be drawn as two sem-transparent planes of different colours ( red/blue)?
There is also a type of fish that have telescopic eyes:
The telescope fish
Telescopefish
I wonder if human bred species should get a mention:
Celestial Eye Goldfish
Bubble Eye Goldfish
Not sure how the programming interface for graphics cards has changed, but the SVGA graphics cards used a 64K 'memory window' to make the contents of the video framebuffer available to the CPU. You could write a value into the page register which would indicate which bank of video memory the CPU should read and write to.
And the next generation version will replace the two-dimension wheel with a little sphere that can be rotated through the use of a finger - it will be called te MacBall.
Many company directors seem to think the solution to any problem is to throw more chairs (or bodies) at that problem. The side effect of the hiring etra staff is to actually slow down communication or to actually increase the rate that bugs are created.
All very true. In the past, the blame seems to have put on the demolition of the old tenement buildings after World War II (the street level was all shops, with four or five floors of flats above - tenants could work part-time at the shops, and only required a commute of walking up and down the stairs) and the relocation of people into tower blocks or housing estates on the outskirts of the cities.
The politicians of the time thought this was a wonderful idea, as the people now had access to fresh air and green landscapes. The slight disadvantages were there was no financial input into the local economy and also having all sorts of side alleys, multiple level side-walks allowed burglars to see when people were leaving their homes.
The schools were also only geared to sending 10% of the population to universities. In some parts of the country, you had exams, which would decide whether you could get additional years of secondary education, or would have to leave school at 16.
There were trade schools to each people trade skills like plumbing, construction, but these were encouraged to teach technology skills and become universities instead.
Schools here seem to be larger than in Europe - 1200 students for a secondary school seems to be the average now. Specialist schools to deal with deal with special needs students have been closed down and sold off to property developers to build luxury apartments. This was actually done at the request of the parents who felt stigmatized by having to tell everyone that their kids were at "special schools". And the tax cutters liked the ideas because the money could be spent elsewhere.
Anyone who has specialist skills like Mathematics, Physics or Biology skills is going to avoid teaching in these areas for fear of being falseley accused of a crime by another student. (There was a teacher who has just been awardedd 250K pounds after being suffocated by a 12 year old pupil - no other teacher would help him for fear of being accused of assualt).
In order to reduce the culture of binge-drinking in the UK, closing-time at pubs was eliminated, so that pubs could remain open 16 hours or even 24-hours. The has just led to 24-hour binge drinking.
Children's TV in the USA/Canada and Europe always seems to have a "Go for it" message in terms of achievement doing articles on all the different activies and clubs that you can do. There doesn't seem to be anything similar in the UK.
As far as sience goes, there doesn't seem to be anyone who can earn the same salary or lifestyle that the professional football players earn.
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