Note that Nintendo was smacked for using their market position to rig the prices.
Any reseller wanting to sell Nintendo games in Sweden must buy them from Nintendo's swedish distributor.
When resellers tried to lower the prices by importing the same games from England, where the games was much cheaper, Nintendo threatened to block any business with the swedish reseller and the brittish one who sold the games.
So the EU bureaucrats nailed them for trying to minimize the competetion, not because som silly rule told them so.
There's no real difference between OSS and FS from the perspective of this study (which the author points out).
The study focus on the restrictions set by the licenses. Stating that non-FOSS (like MS-EULA) is the most restrictive, followed by GPL as a very very distant second.
So distant that the real difference is between FOSS (FS or OSS) and non-FOSS.
It also states that freeware, no cost but no rigths, isn't FOSS.
Note that the author doesn't say that GPL means more secure than other FOSS.
He states that GPL is overall the totally dominant FOSS license.
He therefore uses GPL as a generic FOSS license example.
So, you want us to send our soldiers as mercenaries to wipe your behind for you, and then you expect us to turn our soldiers over to whatever butcher is running the world court this year? We are not amused. Don't forget, the UN is filled with nations that want to destroy us (and you, too, if you're in Europe).
Actually, US soldiers show up where they can contribute to US foreign policy.
Not where some 'others' want them to show up.
No country, including the US, is required to send military troops to assist the UN.
The UN Security Council (where the US is a permanent member and has full right of veto) can ask the member countries to assist in an ongoing conflict.
If the member country is going to act on this request is a purely national decision.
No significant change in any UN organisation, including the ICC, can occur unless the security council agrees.
And as stated, the US is a permanent member and has full rigth of veto.
So, no one has forced the US to send troops.
They have been asked to do so, just like all other members of the UN.
But the difference is that all other troops that are sent to assist the UN are also bound by UN legislation, including the ICC, except US troops.
Then a serbian commander who committed a war crime should not be held accountable by the ICC but instead be court marshalled in Serbia, as long as his war crimes weren't consistent with Serbian policy at that time?
Then why are the US pressing Serbia to hand 'known war criminals' to the ICC?
1) Will it be OK if the internation red crescent (yes there is such a thing - it's a muslim organisation) says they're being treated OK ?
The International Red Crescent isn't a muslim organisation, just as the International Red Cross isn't a christian one.
To quote the American Red Cross FAQ: Why are symbols other than a red cross used by other National Societies within the Movement?
Although the red cross is not a religious symbol, some societies view it as such. The symbol of the red crescent is used instead of the red cross by societies in most Islamic countries; and the Magen David Adom, or Red Shield of David, is used in Israel.
The discussion about the single do-it-all combo thingy and the component based, best-of-breed thingies is the same all over.
Check the kitchen of a golden eared audiophile, it's not a heavy duty component hifi, it's a cd/tape/radio boombox.
Then check the living room (or "music room"), it's not a ghetto-blaster in there, it's a compilation of individual devices choosen to be the best he (rarely she) can afford (and then some).
Does anyone build a serious gaming rig using a mobo with integrated graphics and audio?
Does this mean that it's not wise to build a gaming rig for your 6 year old using a mobo with integrated graphics and audio (and use the $ you save to upgrade daddy's graphics;)).
I have a custom build gaming rig.
a custom built video/DVD/DTS rig.
a custom video server rig
a corporate IT standard "work" laptop
three cheap combo rigs for the kids
and a corporate IT standard office rig
And I still find my Treo being almost priceless.
Can't I wait 20 minutes until I get home before I check my mail?
No, because I've got 20 minutes now, here on the tube, when I get home I've got the collect the kids, hack up some food, eat, help 'em with homework, play with 'em and finally get 'em to bed.
My next chance of reading my mail isn't 20 minutes away, it's 4 hours away.
And by then it's almost bedtime for Bonzo.
It's not the perfect cell phone, it's not the perfect SMS pager, it's not the perfect calender nor the perfect surf platform.
But it's there, in my belt, whenever I need it.
It has all meetings and schedules, from the office pc, from my home pc and what I enter directly in the Treo when I agree something.
It keeps all three calanders in sync.
It's keeps all contact lists (job ones, my own ones, list of parents to my kids friends and so on) sync and available, in my belt, when I need them.
The 'component' side of the discussion is always stating "use the right tool for the job".
And I agree 100%.
But sometimes the swiss army knife is the rigth tool.
It all depends on your requirements and situation.
Depends on what you use it for.
I've got a server with a TV-card in it, to record shows and put them on the intra.
Then I've got a pc with DVD, 5.1 audio and good quality TV out connected to the TV.
The recorded stuff ends up on the intra, if I want to see it on the 'real' TV I can do that, if I want to see on my workstation, or if the kids want to see it on theirs, no problem.
This also means that I have a live 'library' of cartoons and stuff for the kids, and they can choose between running it 'for all' on the main TV or for them self on their pc's.
- No juggling with worn out VHS tapes.
- No fights about what show to see.
- No stressed out dinners to get done before Cubix starts.
- Not being dogged down in front of the TV for something that I might want to see, but can't decide. Stream it from the server to a window on my workstation. Then I can continue to work, play or surf while partly looking at the show.
(Actually, there's a Discovery Channel documentary running in the top left on my monitor while I'm writing this, streamed from the server.)
- Early Warning System that tells me when the server is about to delete shows, so I can burn them on CD if I wanna keep 'em or remove fluff from the server.
- All pc's (the TV one included) can play any material from the VHS player, the DVD, the DVB box, homeburn CD's or live from the server.
- And still not forced to to it all on a pc monitor, sometimes I want to see that recorded show on the widescreen TV with full 5.1 audio, and with this setup I can choose.
It simply gives me the flexibility I (and my kids)want.
Just a minor point.
You don't have to flip the Treo open to use it as a phone. If you use the headset you can dial any of the 50 numbers in quickdial or pick any number from the phonebook.
I don't have any problem dailing any of those numbers, even if I only use one hand.
And you can of course answer any incoming calls without even taking the Treo out of your pocket or beltclip. Just push the button on the mic.
Except for some irritating delays (it stops reacting to any user input for some seconds while it recieves an SMS for instance) it's given almost everything I need from either phone or PDA.
And with GPRS (got it working yesterday, in Sweden) it's really a bliss.
No connection delays or being forced to disconnect to make a call or missing calls because I'm online.
And some of the other features in the upgrade is really nice.
For example:
You get an SMS from a co-worker with a URL for their new site.
Click on the url in the SMS and click GO
The pages load in Blazer, scaled down so it makes sense.
Tap the SMS button, select the message and click on dial to call back.
While on the phone you can go back to the browser and move around the loaded page. You can not load any new page while on the phone, but you can go between the pages in your cache.
When your call is finished you can go back to browse more pages without waiting for your data connection to come back.
Using SSH to twiddle my OpenBSD boxes while at the pub, PalmVNC to reschedule recordings on my PVR while in a meeting at the office, or monitoring my firewalls using a custom X11 application (displayed with PalmVNC) or clearing spam from my mailbox while waiting for the metro.
I can't say that I'm willing to replace it with anything currently available. And that's with a Treo 180g, greyscale/graffiti
Hello?
MsDos has never been limited to 640k.
I ran stock MsDos on several different x86 boxes
(Sirius/Victor and Apricots) without ever hitting that limit.
A standard Apricot with 1M fitted only lost 64k at the top (32k proms and 32k video). And MsDos (ar least up to 3.xx) reported 960k free.
Actually, some program refused (StarIndex and some others) due to lack of memory.
They checked free ram before starting and ended up with more that 512kb free. And the poor old former cp/m software couldn't count that far, so it wrapped. Ending up believing that I had some -400kb free.
So, bottom line, Billy Goat may or may not have said the famous line.
But fact remains, 640k isn't a limit in MsDos, and it has never been, it's a hardware design issue and nothing else.
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Note that Nintendo was smacked for using their market position to rig the prices.
Any reseller wanting to sell Nintendo games in Sweden must buy them from Nintendo's swedish distributor.
When resellers tried to lower the prices by importing the same games from England, where the games was much cheaper, Nintendo threatened to block any business with the swedish reseller and the brittish one who sold the games.
So the EU bureaucrats nailed them for trying to minimize the competetion, not because som silly rule told them so.
There's no real difference between OSS and FS from the perspective of this study (which the author points out).
The study focus on the restrictions set by the licenses. Stating that non-FOSS (like MS-EULA) is the most restrictive, followed by GPL as a very very distant second.
So distant that the real difference is between FOSS (FS or OSS) and non-FOSS.
It also states that freeware, no cost but no rigths, isn't FOSS.
Note that the author doesn't say that GPL means more secure than other FOSS.
He states that GPL is overall the totally dominant FOSS license.
He therefore uses GPL as a generic FOSS license example.
Actually, US soldiers show up where they can contribute to US foreign policy.
Not where some 'others' want them to show up.
No country, including the US, is required to send military troops to assist the UN.
The UN Security Council (where the US is a permanent member and has full right of veto) can ask the member countries to assist in an ongoing conflict.
If the member country is going to act on this request is a purely national decision.
No significant change in any UN organisation, including the ICC, can occur unless the security council agrees.
And as stated, the US is a permanent member and has full rigth of veto.
So, no one has forced the US to send troops.
They have been asked to do so, just like all other members of the UN.
But the difference is that all other troops that are sent to assist the UN are also bound by UN legislation, including the ICC, except US troops.
Then a serbian commander who committed a war crime should not be held accountable by the ICC but instead be court marshalled in Serbia, as long as his war crimes weren't consistent with Serbian policy at that time?
Then why are the US pressing Serbia to hand 'known war criminals' to the ICC?
Or is there a difference?
To quote the American Red Cross FAQ:
Why are symbols other than a red cross used by other National Societies within the Movement?
Although the red cross is not a religious symbol, some societies view it as such. The symbol of the red crescent is used instead of the red cross by societies in most Islamic countries; and the Magen David Adom, or Red Shield of David, is used in Israel.
The discussion about the single do-it-all combo thingy and the component based, best-of-breed thingies is the same all over.
;)).
Check the kitchen of a golden eared audiophile, it's not a heavy duty component hifi, it's a cd/tape/radio boombox.
Then check the living room (or "music room"), it's not a ghetto-blaster in there, it's a compilation of individual devices choosen to be the best he (rarely she) can afford (and then some).
Does anyone build a serious gaming rig using a mobo with integrated graphics and audio?
Does this mean that it's not wise to build a gaming rig for your 6 year old using a mobo with integrated graphics and audio (and use the $ you save to upgrade daddy's graphics
I have a custom build gaming rig.
a custom built video/DVD/DTS rig.
a custom video server rig
a corporate IT standard "work" laptop
three cheap combo rigs for the kids
and a corporate IT standard office rig
And I still find my Treo being almost priceless.
Can't I wait 20 minutes until I get home before I check my mail?
No, because I've got 20 minutes now, here on the tube, when I get home I've got the collect the kids, hack up some food, eat, help 'em with homework, play with 'em and finally get 'em to bed.
My next chance of reading my mail isn't 20 minutes away, it's 4 hours away.
And by then it's almost bedtime for Bonzo.
It's not the perfect cell phone, it's not the perfect SMS pager, it's not the perfect calender nor the perfect surf platform.
But it's there, in my belt, whenever I need it.
It has all meetings and schedules, from the office pc, from my home pc and what I enter directly in the Treo when I agree something.
It keeps all three calanders in sync.
It's keeps all contact lists (job ones, my own ones, list of parents to my kids friends and so on) sync and available, in my belt, when I need them.
The 'component' side of the discussion is always stating "use the right tool for the job".
And I agree 100%.
But sometimes the swiss army knife is the rigth tool.
It all depends on your requirements and situation.
Depends on what you use it for.
I've got a server with a TV-card in it, to record shows and put them on the intra.
Then I've got a pc with DVD, 5.1 audio and good quality TV out connected to the TV.
The recorded stuff ends up on the intra, if I want to see it on the 'real' TV I can do that, if I want to see on my workstation, or if the kids want to see it on theirs, no problem.
This also means that I have a live 'library' of cartoons and stuff for the kids, and they can choose between running it 'for all' on the main TV or for them self on their pc's.
- No juggling with worn out VHS tapes.
- No fights about what show to see.
- No stressed out dinners to get done before Cubix starts.
- Not being dogged down in front of the TV for something that I might want to see, but can't decide. Stream it from the server to a window on my workstation. Then I can continue to work, play or surf while partly looking at the show.
(Actually, there's a Discovery Channel documentary running in the top left on my monitor while I'm writing this, streamed from the server.)
- Early Warning System that tells me when the server is about to delete shows, so I can burn them on CD if I wanna keep 'em or remove fluff from the server.
- All pc's (the TV one included) can play any material from the VHS player, the DVD, the DVB box, homeburn CD's or live from the server.
- And still not forced to to it all on a pc monitor, sometimes I want to see that recorded show on the widescreen TV with full 5.1 audio, and with this setup I can choose.
It simply gives me the flexibility I (and my kids)want.
Just a minor point.
// sligthly on love with his Treo
You don't have to flip the Treo open to use it as a phone. If you use the headset you can dial any of the 50 numbers in quickdial or pick any number from the phonebook.
I don't have any problem dailing any of those numbers, even if I only use one hand. And you can of course answer any incoming calls without even taking the Treo out of your pocket or beltclip. Just push the button on the mic.
Except for some irritating delays (it stops reacting to any user input for some seconds while it recieves an SMS for instance) it's given almost everything I need from either phone or PDA.
And with GPRS (got it working yesterday, in Sweden) it's really a bliss.
No connection delays or being forced to disconnect to make a call or missing calls because I'm online.
And some of the other features in the upgrade is really nice.
For example:
You get an SMS from a co-worker with a URL for their new site.
Click on the url in the SMS and click GO
The pages load in Blazer, scaled down so it makes sense.
Tap the SMS button, select the message and click on dial to call back.
While on the phone you can go back to the browser and move around the loaded page.
You can not load any new page while on the phone, but you can go between the pages in your cache.
When your call is finished you can go back to browse more pages without waiting for your data connection to come back.
Using SSH to twiddle my OpenBSD boxes while at the pub, PalmVNC to reschedule recordings on my PVR while in a meeting at the office, or monitoring my firewalls using a custom X11 application (displayed with PalmVNC) or clearing spam from my mailbox while waiting for the metro.
I can't say that I'm willing to replace it with anything currently available. And that's with a Treo 180g, greyscale/graffiti
hdw
Bzzt, test fails.
My Treo has a phone style numberpad when in dialpad mode, and a data style numberpad in keypad mode.
But I'd still say that the Treo is a PDA with phone tucked on.
// hdw
Hello? MsDos has never been limited to 640k.
I ran stock MsDos on several different x86 boxes (Sirius/Victor and Apricots) without ever hitting that limit.
A standard Apricot with 1M fitted only lost 64k at the top (32k proms and 32k video). And MsDos (ar least up to 3.xx) reported 960k free.
Actually, some program refused (StarIndex and some others) due to lack of memory. They checked free ram before starting and ended up with more that 512kb free. And the poor old former cp/m software couldn't count that far, so it wrapped. Ending up believing that I had some -400kb free.
So, bottom line, Billy Goat may or may not have said the famous line. But fact remains, 640k isn't a limit in MsDos, and it has never been, it's a hardware design issue and nothing else.