You seem to be forgetting that we are an island. So no-one (currently) can drive non-stop from a metric speed limit to the imperial based speed limit, all journeys to Britain involve trains, ferrys or planes. In continental countries (ie US, Canada, Portugal etc) this is an important issue about labelling, not so where you're an island.
Besides, it's probably worth sticking to pretending it's kph just so you don't get speeding fines. Unless you come across one of the rare minimum speed limit areas (blue circle, not red).
That used to be the case, but unfortunately the vole is getting a lot of ATM business with hardened variants of Windows (NT4 onwards I think). Although my idea of a hardened Windows is it switched off. I have seen BSOD's on several different major UK banks ATMs.
We need to remember the Japanese games playing demographic as compared to the US or the UK. Overall there is a much wider Japanese demographic, therefore there is a wider (not necessarily larger, don't know the figures on that) market within Japan which translates to a wider range of games available. There is a market for these "wierd" Japanese games in the rest of the world, but it's pretty small as a percentage of these home markets, compared to Japan.
Feel free to disagree or disabuse any of these notions.
Whilst I agree with you, I have a sneaking suspicion that the MPAA doesn't. It's still illegal to rip your own CD's to MP3 format in the UK, even though I consider it "fair use". Unfortunately, fair use doesn't mean what Joe Punter (you and I) think it means. It means whatever the copyright holder or pigopolists want it to mean. I think there's a direct comparison with ripping MP3's for personal use to be drawn here. If it is fair use to do this in the US, why isn't it for DVD's?
I think it's quite funny that the X-Box was sold to developers as effectively a standard PC, enabling quicker and easier development, yet they're going for a new architecture. You could interpret it as a admission that M$ got the X-Box wrong. And unveiling something that doesn't exist seems a bit strange too. Here's hoping they fail spectacularly.
Actually it's not really like vmware et al. Part of the reason for zones is to make life as an admin EASIER not harder. Say a sys admin has a single Solaris machine (SPARC or x86, it doesn't matter). They are running 10 zones, however the sys admin only has to maintain one OS. There are additional overheads, ie setting up resource controls, but they are there and relatively simple, building up on pre-existing but extended Solaris 9 concepts (Solaris Resource Manager), but much easier than maintaining 10 different servers. I might be wrong, but you would need 10 different OS installs, on top of the original vmware hosting server.
Very sure. The zones routines, just re-read the zone config and re-initialise it. From the outside it can appear as an OS, but from another perspective (and this is gross over simplification but works for this point) it's just like loading an instance of an application.
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You seem to be forgetting that we are an island. So no-one (currently) can drive non-stop from a metric speed limit to the imperial based speed limit, all journeys to Britain involve trains, ferrys or planes. In continental countries (ie US, Canada, Portugal etc) this is an important issue about labelling, not so where you're an island.
Besides, it's probably worth sticking to pretending it's kph just so you don't get speeding fines. Unless you come across one of the rare minimum speed limit areas (blue circle, not red).
That used to be the case, but unfortunately the vole is getting a lot of ATM business with hardened variants of Windows (NT4 onwards I think). Although my idea of a hardened Windows is it switched off. I have seen BSOD's on several different major UK banks ATMs.
We need to remember the Japanese games playing demographic as compared to the US or the UK. Overall there is a much wider Japanese demographic, therefore there is a wider (not necessarily larger, don't know the figures on that) market within Japan which translates to a wider range of games available. There is a market for these "wierd" Japanese games in the rest of the world, but it's pretty small as a percentage of these home markets, compared to Japan.
Feel free to disagree or disabuse any of these notions.
I work for a large competitor to Microsoft.
Whilst I agree with you, I have a sneaking suspicion that the MPAA doesn't. It's still illegal to rip your own CD's to MP3 format in the UK, even though I consider it "fair use". Unfortunately, fair use doesn't mean what Joe Punter (you and I) think it means. It means whatever the copyright holder or pigopolists want it to mean.
I think there's a direct comparison with ripping MP3's for personal use to be drawn here. If it is fair use to do this in the US, why isn't it for DVD's?
I think it's quite funny that the X-Box was sold to developers as effectively a standard PC, enabling quicker and easier development, yet they're going for a new architecture. You could interpret it as a admission that M$ got the X-Box wrong.
And unveiling something that doesn't exist seems a bit strange too. Here's hoping they fail spectacularly.
Actually it's not really like vmware et al. Part of the reason for zones is to make life as an admin EASIER not harder. Say a sys admin has a single Solaris machine (SPARC or x86, it doesn't matter). They are running 10 zones, however the sys admin only has to maintain one OS. There are additional overheads, ie setting up resource controls, but they are there and relatively simple, building up on pre-existing but extended Solaris 9 concepts (Solaris Resource Manager), but much easier than maintaining 10 different servers. I might be wrong, but you would need 10 different OS installs, on top of the original vmware hosting server.
Very sure.
The zones routines, just re-read the zone config and re-initialise it. From the outside it can appear as an OS, but from another perspective (and this is gross over simplification but works for this point) it's just like loading an instance of an application.
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