In Switzerland, you pay an "Anticipated Recyling Tax" on all electric and electronic equipment at the time of purchase, about 5% of the price of the item. I don't believe that you get that money back; it probably goes to subsidize the cost of recycling.
Considering that all electronics will eventually be disposed of at some time, it's smarter to collect the fee up front. It reminds the consumer of the eventual environmental impact that the item will have by factoring it into the price. Collecting the fee at the time of the sale is also more logistically workable than trying to collect it when the item is being thrown away.
Don't forget, the sender has to pay for the upload data volume, and the receiver has to pay for the download data volume. So overall, using the Internet is even more expensive than your estimate. Whereas with mail, the sender generally bears all the costs.
FYI: The orbit of the ISS is inclined at 51.6 degrees. The inclination is in large part determined by the latitude of the launch site. (Source: Ed Lu's Space Blog, recently mentioned on Slashdot.)
Each person who works with us chooses part of a chapter (about 5 pages) and mails its translation back to the Harry-auf-Deutsch community 1-4 weeks later. If the translation is fine, then we'll mail you the successive translations from other members as they come in, as a thank-you.
The project is absolutely non-commercial and shall above all be for fun.
If you proceed to their download page, you'll see a bunch of samples. It says you should register to get more.
IANAL but don't they have to include a copy of the Apache License given that they publish fragments of the source code in their defect report?
Free software licenses work in because of copyright law. Copyright law says that you cannot copy the code, but the authors grant you exceptions under contract law if you obey the terms of the license.
However, quoting excerpts is considered fair use under copyright law, so they can ignore the license.
3. Navigational AI. No, I'm not kidding. I see my students hit a new-to-them web site and then have no clue what to do. A browser "idiot mode" and "idiot tags" would be helpful, as would a browser with enough smarts to say "This looks like the link to product support" or "Click here to view cart".
Be careful what you wish for. Microsoft has done this in the Microsoft way, with Smart Tags.
For example the first ammendment declares that the government may not limit speech. However, a person may very well do so. If you do swear, I can then kick you out. I am limiting your free speech in my house, but that's fine.
Yes, you can kick someone out as you please. But no judge should be able to enforce that, since judges are part of the government.
If I had carpal-tunnel syndrome, I would wear wrist-immobilizing braces, move my whole forearm, and peck with my index fingers. I bet I could still type faster that way than using an OrbiTouch. I bet that using a Dvorak layout would help a bit, since it's designed to alternate consecutive keystrokes between the left and right hands. It seems like the author of the review was too ashamed to publish his WPM on the OrbiTouch even after one month of use.
As a beneficial side effect, it might even give my biceps a workout.
Just because some lines of code are similar (or even the same) in two different pieces of software, it doesn't mean that the code for one was taken from the other!
The next time you write a kernel, write it in Perl. There's More Than One Way To Do It, so chances are that you won't happen to write the code like someone else did. Hopefully, the stupid SCO people won't even know how to read the code.
I did read the article. That was no hot air -- just a factual account of my experience with wireless Internet access so far. It hardly matters that the US military has been doing this, since hardly anyone is able to comment on the performance of military systems.
There's really nothing new here except the idea of using balloons. Wireless Internet has been available for a while now. The biggest flops so far have been Metricom (the original incarnation of the Ricochet Internet service) and Sprint Broadband Direct.
I had Metricom/Ricochet while I was in college. The Metricom radios, about the size of shoeboxes (1/1000 of a VW Beetle), were mounted on utility poles every kilometer or so. It was a great technology that was mostly killed by incompetent management, high deployment cost, and irrelevance as the rest of the world went from dial-up to DSL/cable. The bandwidth was pretty good for its day, but its latency sucked (typically 400ms minimum).
My dad got Sprint Broadband Direct after ditching DSL. Our DSL was unreliable since our house was too far from Pac Bell's switch box. Also, there is no cable modem service available in our area. So we turned to Sprint, which serves the San Francisco Bay Area through a tower in the Fremont Hills, about 50 km away. A Sprint technician came and installed a small dish antenna on our roof, and permanently aimed it at the tower.
We have been dissatisfied with Sprint Broadband Direct because:
The latency sucks (400ms average)
Lots of dropped packets, which I believe are due to the wireless link (10% typical, and worse when foggy)
The combination of those two factors make SSH use unbearable. We were stuck with it because Sprint requires a 1-year committment to offset the cost of installation.
The Sprint service isn't for everyone, since it requires a clear line of sight to the tower on the hill, and the right to mount an antenna on the roof. Combined with the high cost of deployment, these drawbacks have forced Sprint to deprecate the service.
The SkyLinc system seems to be most like Sprint's. The elevation of the balloons will be an advantage (probably negated by the fact that the antennas are not exactly stationary), but they'll have to overcome the same difficulties that have plagued previous systems.
As the review says, the VIA mini-ITX motherboard crams in lots of built-in devices, like Ethernet, IEEE 1394, audio, MPEG2 decoder, and NTSC/PAL output. If you want to run Linux on it, you might want to check out the device driver issues on the VIA Arena Forum on the subject.
It is nice, however, that Hush Technologies sells Microsoft Windows as a separate line item.
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In Switzerland, you pay an "Anticipated Recyling Tax" on all electric and electronic equipment at the time of purchase, about 5% of the price of the item. I don't believe that you get that money back; it probably goes to subsidize the cost of recycling.
Considering that all electronics will eventually be disposed of at some time, it's smarter to collect the fee up front. It reminds the consumer of the eventual environmental impact that the item will have by factoring it into the price. Collecting the fee at the time of the sale is also more logistically workable than trying to collect it when the item is being thrown away.
No, it just means that the exploit doesn't work correctly on Windows ME. =)
Don't forget, the sender has to pay for the upload data volume, and the receiver has to pay for the download data volume. So overall, using the Internet is even more expensive than your estimate. Whereas with mail, the sender generally bears all the costs.
FYI: The orbit of the ISS is inclined at 51.6 degrees. The inclination is in large part determined by the latitude of the launch site. (Source: Ed Lu's Space Blog, recently mentioned on Slashdot.)
British people wouldn't know how much a Library of Congress is, so how would they ever understand our explanations of how much a gigabyte is?
From their front page, roughly translated:
If you proceed to their download page, you'll see a bunch of samples. It says you should register to get more.
Free software licenses work in because of copyright law. Copyright law says that you cannot copy the code, but the authors grant you exceptions under contract law if you obey the terms of the license.
However, quoting excerpts is considered fair use under copyright law, so they can ignore the license.
I'm not a lawyer either.
Be careful what you wish for. Microsoft has done this in the Microsoft way, with Smart Tags.
Yes, you can kick someone out as you please. But no judge should be able to enforce that, since judges are part of the government.
If I had carpal-tunnel syndrome, I would wear wrist-immobilizing braces, move my whole forearm, and peck with my index fingers. I bet I could still type faster that way than using an OrbiTouch. I bet that using a Dvorak layout would help a bit, since it's designed to alternate consecutive keystrokes between the left and right hands. It seems like the author of the review was too ashamed to publish his WPM on the OrbiTouch even after one month of use.
As a beneficial side effect, it might even give my biceps a workout.
The next time you write a kernel, write it in Perl. There's More Than One Way To Do It, so chances are that you won't happen to write the code like someone else did. Hopefully, the stupid SCO people won't even know how to read the code.
Problem solved!
Reading a BastardCard comment on Slashdot: Free
Legal fees for suing the poster of that parody: $25000
Being yet another pain-in-the-butt corporate citizen: Priceless
For amateurish lawsuits, there's SCO. For everything else, there's BastardCard.
I did read the article. That was no hot air -- just a factual account of my experience with wireless Internet access so far. It hardly matters that the US military has been doing this, since hardly anyone is able to comment on the performance of military systems.
There's really nothing new here except the idea of using balloons. Wireless Internet has been available for a while now. The biggest flops so far have been Metricom (the original incarnation of the Ricochet Internet service) and Sprint Broadband Direct.
I had Metricom/Ricochet while I was in college. The Metricom radios, about the size of shoeboxes (1/1000 of a VW Beetle), were mounted on utility poles every kilometer or so. It was a great technology that was mostly killed by incompetent management, high deployment cost, and irrelevance as the rest of the world went from dial-up to DSL/cable. The bandwidth was pretty good for its day, but its latency sucked (typically 400ms minimum).
My dad got Sprint Broadband Direct after ditching DSL. Our DSL was unreliable since our house was too far from Pac Bell's switch box. Also, there is no cable modem service available in our area. So we turned to Sprint, which serves the San Francisco Bay Area through a tower in the Fremont Hills, about 50 km away. A Sprint technician came and installed a small dish antenna on our roof, and permanently aimed it at the tower.
We have been dissatisfied with Sprint Broadband Direct because:
- The latency sucks (400ms average)
- Lots of dropped packets, which I believe are due to the wireless link (10% typical, and worse when foggy)
The combination of those two factors make SSH use unbearable. We were stuck with it because Sprint requires a 1-year committment to offset the cost of installation.The Sprint service isn't for everyone, since it requires a clear line of sight to the tower on the hill, and the right to mount an antenna on the roof. Combined with the high cost of deployment, these drawbacks have forced Sprint to deprecate the service.
The SkyLinc system seems to be most like Sprint's. The elevation of the balloons will be an advantage (probably negated by the fact that the antennas are not exactly stationary), but they'll have to overcome the same difficulties that have plagued previous systems.
It seems like that in the short history of the cyber-czar position, there has been a great track record. (Insert joke about Microsoft reliability here.)
Best of luck to the new guy.
So the paranoid people will start hoarding two-euro coins, and kidnappers will demand suitcases of coins.
So how would you wash this thing? Is it even dry cleanable?
I was referring to the key signature, not chords.
If your program contains both F# and C# code, then you can call it D Major. Detractors can call it b minor.
That means you are full of antidisestablishmentarianism, dude! (Yay, I finally found an occasion to use that word!)
I think he's bluffing.
Check out Optimoz. It's very easy to install an XPI add-on to Mozilla or Phoenix (Mozilla Firebird) to provide mouse gestures or pie menus.
Pie menus are like mouse gestures, but pie menus are better because the user gets visual feedback, which helps the learning process.
That reminds me of the process used by PGP to circumvent the U.S. cryptography export regulations: they printed out the source code, and scanned it in Europe.
A terabyte is 1000 gigabytes. The prediction is a 1000-fold increase over 9 years.
As the review says, the VIA mini-ITX motherboard crams in lots of built-in devices, like Ethernet, IEEE 1394, audio, MPEG2 decoder, and NTSC/PAL output. If you want to run Linux on it, you might want to check out the device driver issues on the VIA Arena Forum on the subject.
It is nice, however, that Hush Technologies sells Microsoft Windows as a separate line item.