Why would FTDI have to ensure their driver doesn't break chips that aren't theirs? There's no agreement, licensing, or goodwill.
The cloners took their chances with the FTDI PID:VID because they were too lazy to buy their own and make their own drivers, or license. Simply trying to make more money because they could con people into thinking their chips were genuine when they were not, *OR* simply getting out of making their own drivers and submitting to microsoft for windows update (all of which costs).
Basically, it's theft from the cloners. FTDI put a stop to it as trying to raise copyright infringement in china is laughable and next to impossible as no-one over there cares.
I'm probably being a bit ignorant, but how much would this affect CO2 emissions? I know we're trying to reduce it where possible, however, where the population increases (by this much) I imagine that there's a lot more CO2 being produced simply by new people living.
Or does it get offset by increased agriculture (or something like this)?
Before people blow up:-)
- This usually means that the department wasn't permitted to use 'un-vetted/approved/etc' software at that time (it may have been that they actually/wanted/ to use something open source 2 years ago, but various bits of bureaucracy didn't allow for it)
This is government after all:-)
I had 3 out of 3 OCZ Petrol SSD's fail on me (looks like a controller burn-out issue that's present in pretty much all of the Petrol series SSD's from my personal experience). However, on the flipside of that I've never had one of their Agility Series or Vertex 4 series SSD drives die on me. (we have 4 Agilities (another 3 at home for me) and around 8 Vertex 4's. All those ones have worked fine.
It sucks to have an SSD fail, believe me each time I had an OCZ petrol fail, it makes me sad. I've learnt my lesson though - avoid that series like the plague. Same vendor and I only get Agility or Vertex now (and touch-wood, I've been fine so far for half a year on those (and we use the vertex4's on our DB servers which get *hammered* on reads and writes)
This is my personal experience with SSD's. They're a godsend for DB stuff (and anything else that does lots of small writes/reads). OCZ are good and we still get our SSD's from them,.... just not the petrol series.
Seems the BBCs spin on this is that Apple and Microsoft are the 'good guys' where Samsung and Motorola are the 'not so good guys' due to their defensive measures with their FRAND patents.
It mentions nothing of the abuse that Apple is giving regarding to block android phone sales due to patent disputes.
Shame the BBC didn't do more in-depth research and give a fuller-laid-out article covering all sides. Not what I expected as a taxpayer to be honest.
The Govt siezed the domain, thereby preventing access to users data.
Even if it could be switched to another domain easily enough, it was still forbidden to do so. Are valid users also entitled to sue for loss of earnings due to being unable to access their data or the inability to make it accessible to others?
So, cable companies failed to innovate, and depsite seeing this coming, didn't change.
Now their entire world is threatened by the internet, and the FCC are attempting to apply a band-aid to help keep their business model going. This will also be to the detriment of the consumer, and ultimately progress.
Sorry, but his application of the 'band-aid' is fundamentally wrong. In business, if you fail to innovate and keep ahead, you will eventually be surpassed by someone else/another business whereby they are ahead of the curve or willing to change. This is happening, and frankly, the cable industry has no-one to blame but themselves for failing to innovate.
They didn't innovate, and now they are realising that they are fast becoming obsolete.
They may be network accessible for monitoring or remote fault reporting purposes - Building Management Systems (commonly known as BEMS) can link to all kinds of things (Heating/cooling/etc, lighting, door security)
If this is beng provided for free via google(and it works), I wouldn't be complaining, especially if it saves “hundreds of thousands of dollars,” which could go better spent on other things
I hope they included some type of offset/tarrif scheme to the charging stations (or at least suggested it, unfortunately the news article didn't really illude) - as we get more and more EVs and charging points, you're eventually going to get to the point where everyone comes home from work and plugs their EV in. That's going to place a tremendous strain on the local electricity grid as EV's suck up a lot of power, especially if you're doing fast charges!
IANAL, so can someone explain to me why a US court thinks it has any effect in Germany? Or is this some kind of 'threat'/'international business' thing that has some legal basis for multinational companies?
... Because Microsoft haven't written a plugin/support so other browsers can support active directory.
Let's not forget here that Microsoft will extend something outside of the standards. If they wanted to support active directory in chrome, firefox, etc, then there is a plugin system to let them do *exactly* that. Funnily enough, they don't seem to have written any plugins to support their proprietary stuff for 3rd party browsers.
The more complex the OS, the more chance for exploits.
The simpler the OS, the less chance for things to go wrong, and if they do, the less chance for whatever is doing it to get anything useful. Granted there are some really awful 'simple' phones out there, but in terms of running trojans you're not going to get much going on your very basic cheap and nasty non-smart phone in the way of malware if all it does is make phone calls and send text messages (and doesn't have MIDP).
That's almost as bad as '640K will be enough for anyone';)..... Murphy's law will prevail and someone will end up writing something that exploits it in a controlled fashion in the next 20 minutes. Unfortunately with bugs like this, the only safe approach is to take the most pessimistic one, that someone somewhere already has an exploit for it that takes control.
Freenet's not really something you can just start up like eMule or BitTorrent (exeem, azureus(spelt) etc), but it is designed from an 'always on' perspective...
If you left it on for at least a couple of days and allowed it to get to know other (reliable) nodes, you would notice it is considerably faster when the network is in a working state..... Even though it does have a sort of 'load and go non-permanenet' mode, it does take ages to get it to do sod all.
Have patience, and if you've not got any of that;) then join the mailing list and complain!:)
I can't help thinking that PCs (even VIA based/EPIA boards) draw one heck of a lot of power, and solar cells aren't that efficient. So you now have a nice big solar farm needing to be upkept, and also maintenance on the computers (which, tbh I'm *hoping* will not be windows based;))
There are lower power based solutions that have been specifically designed (and built!) to address the power and maintenance (an OS entirely based in ROM) problems on the computer side of things, and are briefly touched on here, and would probably be more appropriate than a power hungry PC:
I suspect if Microsoft is able to bully Lindows into changing its name to Linspire, that this woman will be able to extract some sort of payoff from Google just to shut the **ck up.:(
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Why would FTDI have to ensure their driver doesn't break chips that aren't theirs? There's no agreement, licensing, or goodwill.
The cloners took their chances with the FTDI PID:VID because they were too lazy to buy their own and make their own drivers, or license. Simply trying to make more money because they could con people into thinking their chips were genuine when they were not, *OR* simply getting out of making their own drivers and submitting to microsoft for windows update (all of which costs).
Basically, it's theft from the cloners. FTDI put a stop to it as trying to raise copyright infringement in china is laughable and next to impossible as no-one over there cares.
I'm probably being a bit ignorant, but how much would this affect CO2 emissions? I know we're trying to reduce it where possible, however, where the population increases (by this much) I imagine that there's a lot more CO2 being produced simply by new people living. Or does it get offset by increased agriculture (or something like this)?
So, does this mean that the 'third party apps' that are used to save images are circumventing the (wonderful) DMCA?
And to that, fuck beta.
Before people blow up :-)
- This usually means that the department wasn't permitted to use 'un-vetted/approved/etc' software at that time (it may have been that they actually /wanted/ to use something open source 2 years ago, but various bits of bureaucracy didn't allow for it)
This is government after all :-)
I had 3 out of 3 OCZ Petrol SSD's fail on me (looks like a controller burn-out issue that's present in pretty much all of the Petrol series SSD's from my personal experience). However, on the flipside of that I've never had one of their Agility Series or Vertex 4 series SSD drives die on me. (we have 4 Agilities (another 3 at home for me) and around 8 Vertex 4's. All those ones have worked fine.
It sucks to have an SSD fail, believe me each time I had an OCZ petrol fail, it makes me sad. I've learnt my lesson though - avoid that series like the plague. Same vendor and I only get Agility or Vertex now (and touch-wood, I've been fine so far for half a year on those (and we use the vertex4's on our DB servers which get *hammered* on reads and writes)
This is my personal experience with SSD's. They're a godsend for DB stuff (and anything else that does lots of small writes/reads). OCZ are good and we still get our SSD's from them,.... just not the petrol series.
What a load of Bollocks.
The end.
What a good advert for a chromebook! :)
At least that should work in the event of disaster recovery and you have 'no network' to get any documents from.
Seems the BBCs spin on this is that Apple and Microsoft are the 'good guys' where Samsung and Motorola are the 'not so good guys' due to their defensive measures with their FRAND patents.
It mentions nothing of the abuse that Apple is giving regarding to block android phone sales due to patent disputes.
Shame the BBC didn't do more in-depth research and give a fuller-laid-out article covering all sides. Not what I expected as a taxpayer to be honest.
The Govt siezed the domain, thereby preventing access to users data.
Even if it could be switched to another domain easily enough, it was still forbidden to do so. Are valid users also entitled to sue for loss of earnings due to being unable to access their data or the inability to make it accessible to others?
Thankyou for your very detailed and informative response!
So, cable companies failed to innovate, and depsite seeing this coming, didn't change.
Now their entire world is threatened by the internet, and the FCC are attempting to apply a band-aid to help keep their business model going. This will also be to the detriment of the consumer, and ultimately progress.
Sorry, but his application of the 'band-aid' is fundamentally wrong. In business, if you fail to innovate and keep ahead, you will eventually be surpassed by someone else/another business whereby they are ahead of the curve or willing to change. This is happening, and frankly, the cable industry has no-one to blame but themselves for failing to innovate.
They didn't innovate, and now they are realising that they are fast becoming obsolete.
They may be network accessible for monitoring or remote fault reporting purposes - Building Management Systems (commonly known as BEMS) can link to all kinds of things (Heating/cooling/etc, lighting, door security)
If this is beng provided for free via google(and it works), I wouldn't be complaining, especially if it saves “hundreds of thousands of dollars,” which could go better spent on other things
I hope they included some type of offset/tarrif scheme to the charging stations (or at least suggested it, unfortunately the news article didn't really illude) - as we get more and more EVs and charging points, you're eventually going to get to the point where everyone comes home from work and plugs their EV in. That's going to place a tremendous strain on the local electricity grid as EV's suck up a lot of power, especially if you're doing fast charges!
IANAL, so can someone explain to me why a US court thinks it has any effect in Germany? Or is this some kind of 'threat'/'international business' thing that has some legal basis for multinational companies?
... Because Microsoft haven't written a plugin/support so other browsers can support active directory.
Let's not forget here that Microsoft will extend something outside of the standards. If they wanted to support active directory in chrome, firefox, etc, then there is a plugin system to let them do *exactly* that. Funnily enough, they don't seem to have written any plugins to support their proprietary stuff for 3rd party browsers.
The more complex the OS, the more chance for exploits. The simpler the OS, the less chance for things to go wrong, and if they do, the less chance for whatever is doing it to get anything useful. Granted there are some really awful 'simple' phones out there, but in terms of running trojans you're not going to get much going on your very basic cheap and nasty non-smart phone in the way of malware if all it does is make phone calls and send text messages (and doesn't have MIDP).
That's almost as bad as '640K will be enough for anyone' ;) ..... Murphy's law will prevail and someone will end up writing something that exploits it in a controlled fashion in the next 20 minutes. Unfortunately with bugs like this, the only safe approach is to take the most pessimistic one, that someone somewhere already has an exploit for it that takes control.
Freenet's not really something you can just start up like eMule or BitTorrent (exeem, azureus(spelt) etc), but it is designed from an 'always on' perspective... If you left it on for at least a couple of days and allowed it to get to know other (reliable) nodes, you would notice it is considerably faster when the network is in a working state..... Even though it does have a sort of 'load and go non-permanenet' mode, it does take ages to get it to do sod all. Have patience, and if you've not got any of that ;) then join the mailing list and complain! :)
I can't help thinking that PCs (even VIA based/EPIA boards) draw one heck of a lot of power, and solar cells aren't that efficient. So you now have a nice big solar farm needing to be upkept, and also maintenance on the computers (which, tbh I'm *hoping* will not be windows based ;))
There are lower power based solutions that have been specifically designed (and built!) to address the power and maintenance (an OS entirely based in ROM) problems on the computer side of things, and are briefly touched on here, and would probably be more appropriate than a power hungry PC:
http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1160.html
"Liftoff a Success... but giant sky-pen fails to leave it's mark." It does look like a giant wooden pencil though!
I suspect if Microsoft is able to bully Lindows into changing its name to Linspire, that this woman will be able to extract some sort of payoff from Google just to shut the **ck up. :(
All I need is to marry those specs to one of those webcams that were slightly too sensitive in the infra-red spectrum (they became famous for being able to see through things like blouses ;)), some mini-lcds in the lenses and I'm sorted
Cheap, fun, x-ray specs :)
No! I wasnt looking at you! I was looking at your funky decorative resistors! soooo sexy! :-p