Just means you use the memory connected to your microcontroller instead of having memory in the drive. The music buffer in the iPOD is n't the one in the drive, it's in main memory too. They're just lowering the cost by utilizing the processing power in the host cpu instead of including it the drive.
Well even seek times of even 100ms would be more than acceptable for playing back compressed audio. Transfer rate would n't need to be high either, 0.5mb/sec would mean most songs could be cached to memory in a few seconds.
Well you cant have it both ways, you either have a free-floating, freely-tradable currency or you don't. Considering the size of China, $200 billion is not a large amount of money, like my previous post mentioned Japan purchased nearly that much US dollar in just last year and I'm sure they have at a lot more than that in their central bank. You have to hold foreign currency, gold, or some other commodity to have any viable currency.
You can't blame China if your administrators played a bad hand in the past they have their own national intrests as much as anyone else. If the US did n't import so much from China I doubt we would even be having this conversation.
This only relates to IMF loans, if the IMF thinks that China is breaking its rules it does n't have to lend it money and since the USA is the biggest stake holder in the IMF it would have done so by now. Besides China does n't rely on the IMF because it does n't require IMF type (bailout) loans.
Japan spent $126 billion last year in order to stop the Yen from rising against a weaking dollar because a stonger Yen would hurt exports.
There is no international "law" saying that currencies have to be free-floating. Infact many a IMF policy of the past dictated to poor countries having been a fixed currency peg to the US dollar, so China is more than free to do with what it wants with its own currency.
The US dollar has been kept strong in the past because of the fact that the world oil market is dollarised which means that there is a demand that is not really linked to the US economy.
Besides any country can weaken/strengthen it's own currency as long as it has enough reserves in its central bank, recently Japan as been intervening quite heavily in its own currency.
I had a look on the sourceforge page with regards to the BIOS code. I could n't find any, lots of ROMs but not code. I suspect that it is just being mainted by someone at SUN as a personal hobby but it has not in fact been released as OSS.
I think you're over estimating how much apple technology went into the PPC, nearly all of the technology came from IBMs POWER risc machines (Wikipedia entry). Apple probably had a hand in specifiying the bus interface for their chipsets and other interface level stuff but I doubt anything more than that.
It takes a lot of R&D whenever you move from one feature size to a smaller one and since chip fabrication R&D costs $$$ that's why unless AMD have some kind of technology sharing agreement I doubt they would just "give away" something they've put a lot of money into.
Why would AMD be talking to Apple? If anyone AMD would be talking to IBM but even then unless IBM will be manufacturing the chips or has some kind of partnership agreement with AMD they would n't be inclined to pass on that kind of valuable experience to AMD.
The enumerations are not a copyright issue, the only area of law it comes under is a "trade secret" however since early UNIX code had been published as a book it would be extremely difficult to infer that the loss of this trade secret whas Linuxs' fault.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidy.
Maybe 1) this is a smoke screen or 2) they really do not have a clue and this is all they have. I'm personally hoping for no 2.
In which case SCO could argue that they own the enumerations, ie 1 is EPERM, 2 is ENOENT, etc..
However the only area of law this could come under is "trade secrets" but if it a secret then it's not been a very well kept one for the last 30 years.
Generally all those C/Unix headers come under general umbrella of POSIX compliance. I think what they are saying is that the files are directly lifted from BSD and that the settlement with BSD forbode redistribution.
This is strange in that 1) the full outcome of the settlement was sealed AFAIK and 2) the headers in question are licensed under the BSD license which would have been known of in 1.
Like has been mentioned earlier by many people here, maybe SCO want to re-open the BSD case as this seems to be there only line of defense.
There is no option for "I prefer Linux over Windows", or "Linux suites my needs nicely and it's free". I don't know if its done on purpose or it's just arrogance but the question seems to assume that Linux is not very good and there must be some other reason for you using it home.
You may have problems with shelf life if either the rechargable battery had been used or it was n't rechargable (unless it was designed for long shelf life such as lithium batteries).
In addition all rechargables have different characteristics, for example Li-Ion batteries should never be allowed to dicharge below a certain voltage (2.6V i think) since they will not recharge again if you do.
99% of rechargable packs will use standard cells since it does n't make economic sense to develop a special cell for most products. Sure you may not be able to order them in small quantities but like your uncle found out the cells will still be available.
Actually the cells are a standard format, it's usually the packing and layout that is specific to the laptop. Since the packaging costs nothing as it's just plastic and metal it does n't effect their bottom line, plus there will always still be demand for even a 5 year old laptop battery.
By which time the goal posts would have moved, MS will be the de-facto standard and will be re-using their tried and tested methods on the latest competitive area.
Oh and MS will lose the court case eventually and pay out a few hundred million $ but hey atleast justice will be done, I think.
Download & configure kernel. Start compilation and go see Lotr with a smug "i'm more clever than thou" geek look knowing that you are actually multitasking. Come back from the film with the kernel and modules crisply compiled for you, install boot loader and enjoy.
I would it would be hyprocritical but for the fact those same nations (mainly France, Germany, Russia) are at the same time being asked by the US to forgive and restructure iraqs debt that runs at an estimated $120 billion. You have to hand it to the Bush administration it really know how to make a bad situation worse.
NT3/4 was always rock solid compared to Win95/98/SE/ME. Sure it was never the thing to run for games but you can't even compare the two when it came to stability.
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Just means you use the memory connected to your microcontroller instead of having memory in the drive. The music buffer in the iPOD is n't the one in the drive, it's in main memory too. They're just lowering the cost by utilizing the processing power in the host cpu instead of including it the drive.
Well even seek times of even 100ms would be more than acceptable for playing back compressed audio. Transfer rate would n't need to be high either, 0.5mb/sec would mean most songs could be cached to memory in a few seconds.
Because most of the parallelisim is n't visible at compile time, this is the same problem that Itanium or any other VLIW processor has.
Well you cant have it both ways, you either have a free-floating, freely-tradable currency or you don't. Considering the size of China, $200 billion is not a large amount of money, like my previous post mentioned Japan purchased nearly that much US dollar in just last year and I'm sure they have at a lot more than that in their central bank. You have to hold foreign currency, gold, or some other commodity to have any viable currency.
You can't blame China if your administrators played a bad hand in the past they have their own national intrests as much as anyone else. If the US did n't import so much from China I doubt we would even be having this conversation.
This only relates to IMF loans, if the IMF thinks that China is breaking its rules it does n't have to lend it money and since the USA is the biggest stake holder in the IMF it would have done so by now. Besides China does n't rely on the IMF because it does n't require IMF type (bailout) loans.
Japan spent $126 billion last year in order to stop the Yen from rising against a weaking dollar because a stonger Yen would hurt exports.
There is no international "law" saying that currencies have to be free-floating. Infact many a IMF policy of the past dictated to poor countries having been a fixed currency peg to the US dollar, so China is more than free to do with what it wants with its own currency.
The US dollar has been kept strong in the past because of the fact that the world oil market is dollarised which means that there is a demand that is not really linked to the US economy.
Besides any country can weaken/strengthen it's own currency as long as it has enough reserves in its central bank, recently Japan as been intervening quite heavily in its own currency.
I had a look on the sourceforge page with regards to the BIOS code. I could n't find any, lots of ROMs but not code. I suspect that it is just being mainted by someone at SUN as a personal hobby but it has not in fact been released as OSS.
The light colouring and simple lines look nice, not an eyesore at all and makes a change to everything that has to be shiny and in your face.
If it sounds to good to be true it most probably is. period.
I dont know who came up with that line but it holds true time and again.
It takes a lot of R&D whenever you move from one feature size to a smaller one and since chip fabrication R&D costs $$$ that's why unless AMD have some kind of technology sharing agreement I doubt they would just "give away" something they've put a lot of money into.
Why would AMD be talking to Apple? If anyone AMD would be talking to IBM but even then unless IBM will be manufacturing the chips or has some kind of partnership agreement with AMD they would n't be inclined to pass on that kind of valuable experience to AMD.
The enumerations are not a copyright issue, the only area of law it comes under is a "trade secret" however since early UNIX code had been published as a book it would be extremely difficult to infer that the loss of this trade secret whas Linuxs' fault.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidy. Maybe 1) this is a smoke screen or 2) they really do not have a clue and this is all they have. I'm personally hoping for no 2.
In which case SCO could argue that they own the enumerations, ie 1 is EPERM, 2 is ENOENT, etc.. However the only area of law this could come under is "trade secrets" but if it a secret then it's not been a very well kept one for the last 30 years.
Generally all those C/Unix headers come under general umbrella of POSIX compliance. I think what they are saying is that the files are directly lifted from BSD and that the settlement with BSD forbode redistribution.
This is strange in that 1) the full outcome of the settlement was sealed AFAIK and 2) the headers in question are licensed under the BSD license which would have been known of in 1.
Like has been mentioned earlier by many people here, maybe SCO want to re-open the BSD case as this seems to be there only line of defense.
There is no option for "I prefer Linux over Windows", or "Linux suites my needs nicely and it's free". I don't know if its done on purpose or it's just arrogance but the question seems to assume that Linux is not very good and there must be some other reason for you using it home.
You may have problems with shelf life if either the rechargable battery had been used or it was n't rechargable (unless it was designed for long shelf life such as lithium batteries).
In addition all rechargables have different characteristics, for example Li-Ion batteries should never be allowed to dicharge below a certain voltage (2.6V i think) since they will not recharge again if you do.
99% of rechargable packs will use standard cells since it does n't make economic sense to develop a special cell for most products. Sure you may not be able to order them in small quantities but like your uncle found out the cells will still be available.
Actually the cells are a standard format, it's usually the packing and layout that is specific to the laptop. Since the packaging costs nothing as it's just plastic and metal it does n't effect their bottom line, plus there will always still be demand for even a 5 year old laptop battery.
By which time the goal posts would have moved, MS will be the de-facto standard and will be re-using their tried and tested methods on the latest competitive area.
Oh and MS will lose the court case eventually and pay out a few hundred million $ but hey atleast justice will be done, I think.
The answers is obvious:
Download & configure kernel.
Start compilation and go see Lotr with a smug "i'm more clever than thou" geek look knowing that you are actually multitasking.
Come back from the film with the kernel and modules crisply compiled for you, install boot loader and enjoy.
I would it would be hyprocritical but for the fact those same nations (mainly France, Germany, Russia) are at the same time being asked by the US to forgive and restructure iraqs debt that runs at an estimated $120 billion. You have to hand it to the Bush administration it really know how to make a bad situation worse.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway"
I dont think it will, since it's Finnish :-p
They also have patents on normal SDRAM so I guess it's neither here nor there.
NT3/4 was always rock solid compared to Win95/98/SE/ME. Sure it was never the thing to run for games but you can't even compare the two when it came to stability.