I'm probably wrong here, but, as with trademarks don't you have to take out a patent for your idea in every country in which you're intending to use the idea?
I think it unlikely that the US government will pony-up US tax dollars to register an "Open Source" patent in the EU.
More importantly, this kind of product revision has always happened with consoles. Even Nintendo did it, way back with the NES.
Console revisions predate even the NES. Atari 2600 boards were grossly divided into "Type A" and "Type B" (which included a chanel switch on the board) and were manufactured under license by a number of companies including: Atari, Inc. CA; Atari Ireland, Ltd., Ireland; Atari Taiwan Manufacturing Corp, Taiwan; Atari-Wong Ltd., Hong Kong; Dimerco Electronics, Taiwan; and TRU Electronics Company, Taiwan;
Store the photos in a lossless Jpeg, RAW, or my preference in TIF.
If you're keen to use compression to save disk space, just be aware that TIFF encapsulates several different compression engines including the lossy JFIF used in JPEG. If you're given the option then go for TIFF-LZW, or maybe just use PNG.
LCD screens for in-car DVD systems are available in the 6- to 10-inch range, in 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, and are getting cheaper all the time.
Although they tend to have composite or S-video inputs (you're not really after high resolution, are you?) there are some now getting VGA inputs and touch screens for in-car computer applications. You can just register that the screen has been touched and ignore the actual location.
I know it's hard to moderate the thousands of user submitted articles we get here, but these are concepts taught in English classes at the elementary school level.
What the hell is elementary school? I'm not American you insenstive clod!
My Mac... doesn't properly display our Intranet..., my Mac cannot connect to Exchange Servers... and here is the big one, my Mac cannot connect to many internal sites as I am not authorized unless I use the old Mac version of IE because of the way we authenticate.
Use two monitors, and do your real work on the secondary screen.... But I've found two monitors do the trick.
I think you speaketh s**t, my friend. I have two monitors on my XP workstation at work (complete with Tweak UI). Logging in when I arrive I'll be in the midst of typing my Outlook password on one screen while RDP windows pop-up on the other (so far, so good: focus stays where it should), but the first RDP window to get a login prompt from a remote server steals focus from the Outlook login prompt. Works every time, 100% guaranteed. And very annoying.
Currently there is no recognized technology solution that could make these aircraft capable of meeting regulatory requirements for 'see and avoid,' and 'command and control,'" said Nick Sabatini, associate FAA administrator for aviation safety.
Obviously this character has never heard of TCAS (Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System) - no wonder there's so many prangs in US air space. Oh but hang on, TCAS was allegedly developed by the FAA!
What additional rules should affect pilotless UAV's (ie: not remote controlled planes, often termed SUAV's):
UAV's should be fitted with self-illumination including beacons. This allows them to be seen by other aircraft.
UAV's should be fitted with TCAS. This means that their collision-avoidance procedures will be consistent with those of GA aircraft - no mid-airs because the UAV went up (instead of down) when the other aircraft was supposed to go up. It also means this will place a minimum size limitation on UAV's (which can only help to make them more visible to other aircraft operators).
UAV's should be fitted with altitude-transmitting transponder ID tags. This allows them to be detected and monitored by ATC. Further, the transmitted ID should contain the current (programmable obviously) telephone number of the reponsible operator - allowing ATC to contact the operator to remove the UAV from conflicting airspace.
(Waypoint) UAV's tend to navigate via GPS or beacon telemetry, so laser pointers will do squat to them navigation-wise. You'd still have the FAA on your ass for lasing an aircraft, though.
Also, Exchange can be configured to serve email via IMAP if you don't want to get everyone Outlook (except they already have it according to your question).
Yeah, don't use too many IMAP clients with Exchange.
Besides losing Contacts, Calendar and all the cool stuff^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^huseful collaboration-oriented features you get with Outlook (even using it with RPC over HTTPS) and OWA, Exchange's IMAP implementation loads-up very poorly after just a few IMAP client connections.
It's per-seat licensing on the mailboxes at the Exchange server you're paying for: OWA's free, just use that.
You're not the only one. Putting on my conspiracy hat, FBI must be taking over blogs mentioning Google until Google's given over the search data the government asked for.;)
It's not backwards compatability which causes Windows to be so slow, it's the crappy Virtual Memory Manager. It is flawed by design causing large amounts of physical memory to be paged-out to the page file(s) on hard disk (which is massively slow by comparison) while there is still plenty of physical RAM available. You can see this in Task Manager on systems with >1GB RAM installed, using maybe only 100-200MB after startup, but with that much and more also in the page file. The system I'm typing this on has 534MB of RAM available but there's 356MB sitting in the page file! Why?
Whilst backwards compatability in the API doesn't help to inspire speed, this could easily be solved by running Virtual Machine environments which wrap the older apps and their older API's. Vista would represent an ideal opportunity for MS to implement this, especially now it has been delayed even further (why not scrap and start again - OSX was developed from scratch in less time). Since an out-of-the-box machine is slow running only "new" applications, though, I don't personally accept backwards compatability as the reason for the slow-down.
I guess that's why they call you bad analogy guy.:) R/W filesystems tend to abstract media into clusters, which are groups of sectors, so that they can take advantage of multi-sector read/write commands (which have been around since MFM hard disks with CHS addressing schemes, by the way) to get more than one sector's worth of data on/off the hard disk in a single command.
I thought cluster sizes were already 4KB for efficiency, and LBA for larger drive sizes.
Cluster sizes are variable on most file systems. On our NTFS web servers we tend to have 1k clusters because it's more efficient to do it that way with lots of small files, but the default NTFS cluster size is 4k. LBA is just a different addressing scheme at the media level to make a volume appear to be a flat array of sectors (as opposed to the old CHS or Cylinder Head Sector scheme).
For example, a person using Windows 2000 will be forced to buy a copy of Vista if he needs the added security and extra features like better search.
You've got to be kidding, right? The "Search" tool in Windows has been broken since Windows NT 4, being unable to find anything in Unicode text files just ANSI text files. If you want to search Unicode files you've got to open a command prompt and use "find" or "findstr" - I doubt they'll fix this in Vista.
Try this:
Start notepad and type in "hello world"
Use "Save as..." to save ANSI, Unicode, Unicode Big Endian and UTF-8 versions of the file in the same directory.
Use Windows Search to find files containing "hello" in that folder.
Which files did it find? Only the ANSI and UTF-8 ones.:( The UTF-8 only worked because you used ANSI characters to type "hello world".
You've never worked in a repair/servicing industry, have you?
Mobile phones and TV's are extremely throw-away nowadays. Have you ever tried to have one repaired? Particularly with "name brand" TV's like Somy (typo intended) the cost of spare parts is so high (read: whole boards/modules, not single components) that it is generally cheaper to throw the product away and replace it with a cheaper up-to-date version. Common thought seems to be that spare parts prices are artificially inflated to improve new sales turnover.
Funny as it seems, the cheaper TV's coming from Chinese manufacturers are much more repairable because (a) schematic diagrams are more available *and* cheaper, and (b) they use less proprietary components which are easier to obtain.
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I'm probably wrong here, but, as with trademarks don't you have to take out a patent for your idea in every country in which you're intending to use the idea?
I think it unlikely that the US government will pony-up US tax dollars to register an "Open Source" patent in the EU.
LCD screens for in-car DVD systems are available in the 6- to 10-inch range, in 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, and are getting cheaper all the time.
Although they tend to have composite or S-video inputs (you're not really after high resolution, are you?) there are some now getting VGA inputs and touch screens for in-car computer applications. You can just register that the screen has been touched and ignore the actual location.
There's more to Ekiga than its "Ekiga in a Call" screenshot. :)
What, the link to http://www.mobilegazette.com/april-fool-0604x01.ht m didn't give it away?
Sounds like your Mac is the problem! :)
(Just kidding, I'm typing this on a Mac Mini.)
I think you speaketh s**t, my friend. I have two monitors on my XP workstation at work (complete with Tweak UI). Logging in when I arrive I'll be in the midst of typing my Outlook password on one screen while RDP windows pop-up on the other (so far, so good: focus stays where it should), but the first RDP window to get a login prompt from a remote server steals focus from the Outlook login prompt. Works every time, 100% guaranteed. And very annoying.
I don't believe that's relevant. I see no mention about aircraft registration requirements in FAA's Procedures for Handling Airspace Matters, Chapter 29, Outdoor Laser Operations, mainly laser operation restrictions within certain ranges of airports.
That's not strictly true. I know at least two Americans who aren't fat, and one of them might even be smart. :)
Obviously this character has never heard of TCAS (Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System) - no wonder there's so many prangs in US air space. Oh but hang on, TCAS was allegedly developed by the FAA!
What additional rules should affect pilotless UAV's (ie: not remote controlled planes, often termed SUAV's):
(Waypoint) UAV's tend to navigate via GPS or beacon telemetry, so laser pointers will do squat to them navigation-wise. You'd still have the FAA on your ass for lasing an aircraft, though.
Yeah, don't use too many IMAP clients with Exchange.
Besides losing Contacts, Calendar and all the cool stuff^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^huseful collaboration-oriented features you get with Outlook (even using it with RPC over HTTPS) and OWA, Exchange's IMAP implementation loads-up very poorly after just a few IMAP client connections.
It's per-seat licensing on the mailboxes at the Exchange server you're paying for: OWA's free, just use that.
You're not the only one. Putting on my conspiracy hat, FBI must be taking over blogs mentioning Google until Google's given over the search data the government asked for. ;)
It's not backwards compatability which causes Windows to be so slow, it's the crappy Virtual Memory Manager. It is flawed by design causing large amounts of physical memory to be paged-out to the page file(s) on hard disk (which is massively slow by comparison) while there is still plenty of physical RAM available. You can see this in Task Manager on systems with >1GB RAM installed, using maybe only 100-200MB after startup, but with that much and more also in the page file. The system I'm typing this on has 534MB of RAM available but there's 356MB sitting in the page file! Why?
Whilst backwards compatability in the API doesn't help to inspire speed, this could easily be solved by running Virtual Machine environments which wrap the older apps and their older API's. Vista would represent an ideal opportunity for MS to implement this, especially now it has been delayed even further (why not scrap and start again - OSX was developed from scratch in less time). Since an out-of-the-box machine is slow running only "new" applications, though, I don't personally accept backwards compatability as the reason for the slow-down.
Did you try putting fish in your dam to eat the mosquitos?
I guess that's why they call you bad analogy guy. :) R/W filesystems tend to abstract media into clusters, which are groups of sectors, so that they can take advantage of multi-sector read/write commands (which have been around since MFM hard disks with CHS addressing schemes, by the way) to get more than one sector's worth of data on/off the hard disk in a single command.
You've got to be kidding, right? The "Search" tool in Windows has been broken since Windows NT 4, being unable to find anything in Unicode text files just ANSI text files. If you want to search Unicode files you've got to open a command prompt and use "find" or "findstr" - I doubt they'll fix this in Vista.
Try this:
Which files did it find? Only the ANSI and UTF-8 ones. :( The UTF-8 only worked because you used ANSI characters to type "hello world".
You've never worked in a repair/servicing industry, have you?
Mobile phones and TV's are extremely throw-away nowadays. Have you ever tried to have one repaired? Particularly with "name brand" TV's like Somy (typo intended) the cost of spare parts is so high (read: whole boards/modules, not single components) that it is generally cheaper to throw the product away and replace it with a cheaper up-to-date version. Common thought seems to be that spare parts prices are artificially inflated to improve new sales turnover.
Funny as it seems, the cheaper TV's coming from Chinese manufacturers are much more repairable because (a) schematic diagrams are more available *and* cheaper, and (b) they use less proprietary components which are easier to obtain.
Umm, yeah right... "s1ashdot.org" resolves to 0.0.0.0, I can see how you could download a virus from that.
Try replacing the "1" (one) with "l" (El) and you'll get to the zooomr article. *shakes head*