NY Times
"WASHINGTON â" President Obamaâ(TM)s top antitrust official this week plans to restore an aggressive enforcement policy against corporations that use their market dominance to elbow out competitors or to keep them from gaining market share."
"The new enforcement policy would reverse the Bush administrationâ(TM)s approach, which strongly favored defendants against antitrust claims. It would restore a policy that led to the landmark antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft and Intel in the 1990s."
Why do you think you're entitled to get a free upgrade to a totally new OS (Win7)?
I think the point is that Win7 is not a 'totally new OS' but just rather a bunch of badly needed fixes (service pack) to Vista. I would be pissed, too, but I switched to Ubuntu a while ago for all of my machines so I am just laughing now.
I don't know where you are but in Switzerland a first class letter is 1.00 SFR (about USD 0.90)... twice the US rate... very small country... the rates are expensive and the service is good.
When you send something to somebody in the mail, you are giving it to them. They can do anything they want with it. It is no longer your property.
This is firmly established in the US because companies used to send unsolicited merchandise to people and then demand payment. They sent it to you, you can keep it.
Linux comes with approximately a zillion different keyboard layouts so you should be able to find what you need there. If you're stuck with Windows, sorry...
If you would RTFA (or had actually used iTunes movies), you would know about the very limited selection and restrictions on use from iTunes (and other 'services') due to the Byzantine industry contracts.
It sounds like a hopeless situation and it looks like the best option is to use the ubiquitous peer to peer sources which offer free convenient downloads of just about anything you could want.
This is typical of a situation, where a dinosaur on top of the food chain tries to defend its position.
I am pretty sure that MPAA/RIAA/Big Publishers would like to put the whole filesharing technology back to the bottle until they find a way to monetize it.
I think the big problem here is that they have missed the opportunity to monetize it. If they had set up a system to offer cheap non-drm copies from the start instead of trying to hold back the rising tide, they would be in good shape now. However, now people are used to having free non-drm copies and it will be hard to compete with that.
I've set up RefBase (www.refbase.net) for several sites. It works great and will do just what he needs. It also has the ability to generate standard format citations.
I can see that Microsoft is concerned that some people might be getting an imitation worm. They are warning that there is only one real conficker worm.
They will shortly be releasing a tool to test your system to make sure you have the real worm and not some impostor/pirate copy of the worm. This will be an extension of the WGA program.
I started programming in assembly on the Intel 8008 which featured 7 registers (2 for memory address and one accumulator leaving 4 as general purpose). We had an assembler but no compiler. The processor ran at a blistering 0.5 MHz and instructions took from 3 to 11 cycles to complete.
This will slow down the rotation of the earth due to friction.
At first you may not notice much except that water in your bathtub will tend to pile up on the East end of the tub. You may also find that things will slide of the East end of tables (it will help to raise this end of the tables to counteract this effect.)
Eventually, the days will get longer but this is a gradual effect so our internal clocks can adapt. There will be some new extremes of temperature with longer days (more heating) and nights (more cooling) but the averages should stay the same (other than the usual global warming stuff).
The moon will continue in its usual orbit so will will also have higher (and lower) tides.
Some plants may have problems adapting to very long days and nights but overall, they should do fine.
I think the main problem would be when the earths rotation gets to be very slow. Then the windmills will slow down (and could even stop) and all the lights would go out... but this should take a long time.
So your logic seems to be that slavery is OK if you pay someone of the same race/location to help you round up slaves. By this logic, if you pay a white person to capture another local white person, it fine to sell them on into slavery.
This is actually a more complex story. The Royal Navy first started by supporting and defending the slave trade in 1562. The Royal Navy was very 'entrepreneurial' in those days.
In 1632 King Charles of England gave out charters to support the slave trade. Up to three million Africans had been transported in British ships since 1650, and at the end of the 18th century Britain was dominating the trade, with an average of more than 150 slave ships leaving Liverpool, Bristol, and London each year. This made Britain very rich.
There were people who realized that the slave trade was an abomination against human rights and they started a campaign against it. By 1807, Britain was forced to outlaw the practice and the Royal Navy had to enforce the new law but this was difficult because of the huge profits. The slave trade continued through 1880.
In light of the wealth that Britain received from the slave trade, it probably would have been more appropriate for Gordon Brown to give Obama a gift made from a slave trade ship (this gift would be less hypocritical but probably would not be appropriate). Britain has yet to seriously discuss reparations for the damage done to Africa from the profits they made in the slave trade.
Skype will only use the WiFi network, not the 'unlimited' ATT data plan so you will only be able to use it while tethered to a local hotspot, not out roaming in the wild. ATT and Apple protect their revenue and force you to use your paid minutes instead of the 'unlimited' data plan that you are paying big bucks for...
I understand that some people don't like the default desktop theme.
What I don't understand is why they don't just change it. There are 10 different themes in the default distribution and more are available. You can even make it look like Windows.
Hint: right click on desktop and choose 'Change desktop'... it's not really very hard.
Bonus! You can also change the desktop wallpaper to ANYTHING you want.
Changing the desktop takes much less time than whinging about it on/.
My older Dell laptop with Ubuntu 8.10 wakes up from sleep in just a few seconds. When I leave Firefox open, it opens also with all of the tabs. I didn't have to fiddle with anything to get this working. I just set the power button to enter 'sleep' mode to make it easy to start and stop.
Most personal bankruptcies in the US are caused by medical bills. Doctors, hospitals, pharma, and device makers all have monopolies of various types that prevent the 'free market' from working.
I'd love to be eligible for Medicare. Free medical care! Choose any doctor. No arbitrary denials of care by greedy insurance companies. What's not to like?
A large percentage of power generated by big power generators (dams, nuclear, coal, etc.) is lost in transmission over long distances... this is not efficient.
It's much more efficient to generate power close to where it is used with small scale power plants (solar, wind, etc. are good for this).
This gives you a distributed grid of generators and consumers. The grid only has to shift power small distances (with correspondingly low loses) to cover local variations in power consumption and generation. It's very efficient... kind of like the Internet with wires instead of tubes:),
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You must not realize that it costs you $100 to drive that distance if you include all of the costs of owning and maintaining your car.
NY Times "WASHINGTON â" President Obamaâ(TM)s top antitrust official this week plans to restore an aggressive enforcement policy against corporations that use their market dominance to elbow out competitors or to keep them from gaining market share."
"The new enforcement policy would reverse the Bush administrationâ(TM)s approach, which strongly favored defendants against antitrust claims. It would restore a policy that led to the landmark antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft and Intel in the 1990s."
Why do you think you're entitled to get a free upgrade to a totally new OS (Win7)?
I think the point is that Win7 is not a 'totally new OS' but just rather a bunch of badly needed fixes (service pack) to Vista. I would be pissed, too, but I switched to Ubuntu a while ago for all of my machines so I am just laughing now.
There are hundreds of millions of potential names for a business (and that's assuming you use existing, English words)
Just a few points:
The OED lists 171,471 words in the English language... somewhat short of 'hundreds of millions' (most trademarks are single words).
It is best not to use a known word as your trademark. It will be stronger and easier to defend if you make up a new word.
It may be that USB is hard to virtualize but VirtualBox (virtualbox.org) does it and it works well...
I don't know where you are but in Switzerland a first class letter is 1.00 SFR (about USD 0.90)... twice the US rate... very small country... the rates are expensive and the service is good.
Germany $ 1,530,000,000,000 2008 est.
China $ 1,465,000,000,000 2008 est.
United States $ 1,377,000,000,000 2008 est.
Japan $ 776,800,000,000 2008 est.
France $ 761,000,000,000 2008 est.
Italy $ 566,100,000,000 2008 est.
This is firmly established in the US because companies used to send unsolicited merchandise to people and then demand payment. They sent it to you, you can keep it.
PHB sighting...
Linux comes with approximately a zillion different keyboard layouts so you should be able to find what you need there. If you're stuck with Windows, sorry...
It sounds like a hopeless situation and it looks like the best option is to use the ubiquitous peer to peer sources which offer free convenient downloads of just about anything you could want.
This is typical of a situation, where a dinosaur on top of the food chain tries to defend its position.
I am pretty sure that MPAA/RIAA/Big Publishers would like to put the whole filesharing technology back to the bottle until they find a way to monetize it.
I think the big problem here is that they have missed the opportunity to monetize it. If they had set up a system to offer cheap non-drm copies from the start instead of trying to hold back the rising tide, they would be in good shape now. However, now people are used to having free non-drm copies and it will be hard to compete with that.
I've set up RefBase (www.refbase.net) for several sites. It works great and will do just what he needs. It also has the ability to generate standard format citations.
They will shortly be releasing a tool to test your system to make sure you have the real worm and not some impostor/pirate copy of the worm. This will be an extension of the WGA program.
... and a cat ...
I started programming in assembly on the Intel 8008 which featured 7 registers (2 for memory address and one accumulator leaving 4 as general purpose). We had an assembler but no compiler. The processor ran at a blistering 0.5 MHz and instructions took from 3 to 11 cycles to complete.
At first you may not notice much except that water in your bathtub will tend to pile up on the East end of the tub. You may also find that things will slide of the East end of tables (it will help to raise this end of the tables to counteract this effect.)
Eventually, the days will get longer but this is a gradual effect so our internal clocks can adapt. There will be some new extremes of temperature with longer days (more heating) and nights (more cooling) but the averages should stay the same (other than the usual global warming stuff).
The moon will continue in its usual orbit so will will also have higher (and lower) tides.
Some plants may have problems adapting to very long days and nights but overall, they should do fine.
I think the main problem would be when the earths rotation gets to be very slow. Then the windmills will slow down (and could even stop) and all the lights would go out... but this should take a long time.
So your logic seems to be that slavery is OK if you pay someone of the same race/location to help you round up slaves. By this logic, if you pay a white person to capture another local white person, it fine to sell them on into slavery.
In 1632 King Charles of England gave out charters to support the slave trade. Up to three million Africans had been transported in British ships since 1650, and at the end of the 18th century Britain was dominating the trade, with an average of more than 150 slave ships leaving Liverpool, Bristol, and London each year. This made Britain very rich.
There were people who realized that the slave trade was an abomination against human rights and they started a campaign against it. By 1807, Britain was forced to outlaw the practice and the Royal Navy had to enforce the new law but this was difficult because of the huge profits. The slave trade continued through 1880.
In light of the wealth that Britain received from the slave trade, it probably would have been more appropriate for Gordon Brown to give Obama a gift made from a slave trade ship (this gift would be less hypocritical but probably would not be appropriate). Britain has yet to seriously discuss reparations for the damage done to Africa from the profits they made in the slave trade.
Skype will only use the WiFi network, not the 'unlimited' ATT data plan so you will only be able to use it while tethered to a local hotspot, not out roaming in the wild. ATT and Apple protect their revenue and force you to use your paid minutes instead of the 'unlimited' data plan that you are paying big bucks for...
What I don't understand is why they don't just change it. There are 10 different themes in the default distribution and more are available. You can even make it look like Windows.
Hint: right click on desktop and choose 'Change desktop'... it's not really very hard.
Bonus! You can also change the desktop wallpaper to ANYTHING you want.
Changing the desktop takes much less time than whinging about it on /.
My older Dell laptop with Ubuntu 8.10 wakes up from sleep in just a few seconds. When I leave Firefox open, it opens also with all of the tabs. I didn't have to fiddle with anything to get this working. I just set the power button to enter 'sleep' mode to make it easy to start and stop.
Most personal bankruptcies in the US are caused by medical bills. Doctors, hospitals, pharma, and device makers all have monopolies of various types that prevent the 'free market' from working.
I'd love to be eligible for Medicare. Free medical care! Choose any doctor. No arbitrary denials of care by greedy insurance companies. What's not to like?
It's much more efficient to generate power close to where it is used with small scale power plants (solar, wind, etc. are good for this).
This gives you a distributed grid of generators and consumers. The grid only has to shift power small distances (with correspondingly low loses) to cover local variations in power consumption and generation. It's very efficient... kind of like the Internet with wires instead of tubes :),