Crippleware is a kind of shareware where the unlicensed demo version has too many restrictions on its functionality. So many in fact, that it makes it impossible to use enough to find out if it's really worth paying for a license.
Or did I miss a meeting?
The 2002-era iMac G4 I still use is a much older, slower machine than any Mac Mini and while it shows its age when pushed too hard, it's fine for browsing, iTunes and email.
The clip just shows the power meter reading increasing to a bit over a kW. No smoke, no explosion, not even a PSU in shot. Not sure why they bothered really - it's a waste of bandwidth they don't seem to have spare.
I thought the US were supposed to be the laissez-faire free marketeers of the world?
If China was blocking US participation in their markets on these grounds, I've little doubt the US would be taking the matter to the WTO (and winning).
It's a bloody final year project for chrissakes. The ideas are all there but the thing isn't really meant to be as refined as anything you'd find in production.
Parent is pointing out that in most other developed nations, we're viewed as highly sexually immature.
The perception in most of Europe is that the US has a good appetite for on-screen violence, but gets upset at the slightest bit of sexy flesh.
Case in point? There's a war on, lots of bad shit going down right there on the TV and no-one bats an eyelid. Then Janet Jackson flashes a bit of tit and hysteria prevails.
Although that stretch of water is called (if you speak English) the Strait of Gibraltar, the embarrassing colonial leftover that is the rock of Gibraltar itself isn't the nearest point to morocco.
Have a look at the map here and you'll see what I mean.
You go into a little booth with a ballot paper, where you will find a pencil. Mark an X in the box next to the candidate you want, fold up the paper and post it in the ballot box.
It's more auditable and even if the paper, pencils and boxes are manufactured by a company who make no secret of their support for one particular political party, it's difficult to see how it could make any difference.
I'm not trolling - if someone could explain, please do.
If there's anything that California, and the U.S. in general, needs, it's more nuclear plants. Or perhaps you don't remember the rolling blackouts of 2002 or whenever caused by a lack of power partially due to the fatally flawed, so-called "environmentally friendly" philosophy of California.
Weren't you all pretty-much blackout-free before California's energy industry was deregulated?
Didn't areas where deregulation isn't fully implemented yet (Los Angeles, I read) go pretty much without blackouts in the 'energy crisis' of 2002?
It's a new method of generating electricity, not a new way of storing energy or an energy source. The energy would have to come from somewhere else, and since the idea is pretty new, I doubt that anyone knows in much detail how (or if) it will work out in practice.
I suppose you could either recharge a normal battery by pumping the handle your handy, portable water-generator for a few minutes, a bit like a baygen radio.
Or, you could store the water under pressure and let it out through the device to get the energy back out.
Basically it's illegal to sell infringing equipment to people who don't have the proper licences, and they would go after defiant suppliers.
The authorities could go after an end user, but enforcement of that kind of thing tends to be complaint-led over here; trouble would only ensue if someone managed to cause enough interference in their locality to piss off enough of their neighbours into making proper complaints. Realistically it's not going to happen.
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Crippleware is a kind of shareware where the unlicensed demo version has too many restrictions on its functionality. So many in fact, that it makes it impossible to use enough to find out if it's really worth paying for a license. Or did I miss a meeting?
The 2002-era iMac G4 I still use is a much older, slower machine than any Mac Mini and while it shows its age when pushed too hard, it's fine for browsing, iTunes and email.
However, they're probably not 'hip' enough for todays corporate interior designers
I think the problem is they're a bit too 'permanent' for today's corporate building managers.
They're a large clothing discount chain here in the UK. See here for more info.
The clip just shows the power meter reading increasing to a bit over a kW. No smoke, no explosion, not even a PSU in shot. Not sure why they bothered really - it's a waste of bandwidth they don't seem to have spare.
The iMac G3 did have a fan - it was deep inside, between the monitor section and the motherboard bit.
Perhaps there's something peculiar to the American psyche regarding frontiers but I don't think everyone on earth thinks that way.
Humanity thrives on having problems to work on, perhaps, but I don't think they necessarily involve moving population into new places.
Sorry to be pedantic and all, but it's just "Concorde", not "The Concorde"; like it's an idea more than a thing.
We are doing this for free and for fun, all we really want is appreciation for our effort.
So are they doing it for fun, or because they want appreciation for their effort?
Edison may have been quite an inventor, but he was rather a ruthless man not above gross distortions and character assassination.
...and electrocuting horses for kicks. Jeebus!
I thought the US were supposed to be the laissez-faire free marketeers of the world?
If China was blocking US participation in their markets on these grounds, I've little doubt the US would be taking the matter to the WTO (and winning).
It's a bloody final year project for chrissakes. The ideas are all there but the thing isn't really meant to be as refined as anything you'd find in production.
Give the guy a break! Sheesh!
The perception in most of Europe is that the US has a good appetite for on-screen violence, but gets upset at the slightest bit of sexy flesh.
Case in point? There's a war on, lots of bad shit going down right there on the TV and no-one bats an eyelid. Then Janet Jackson flashes a bit of tit and hysteria prevails.
Still, that's puritans for you. :-p
Not quite.
We have where they have #, I believe. In fact # isn't marked on a UK-English Mac keyboard at all.
Sorry, that was really dull, wasn't it?
I just noticed that the production team is Hammer and Tongs who have an interesting track record in advertising and music video.
They strike me as the kind of people who are going to have some kind of sympathy with H2G2's pedigree.
Although that stretch of water is called (if you speak English) the Strait of Gibraltar, the embarrassing colonial leftover that is the rock of Gibraltar itself isn't the nearest point to morocco.
Have a look at the map here and you'll see what I mean.
Applied Digital Solutions are marketing the VeriChip as the world's only implantable ID technology.
... and it's different from the ones already inside my dogs, how?
The patent system works quite well wherever tangible things are concerned.
It's only when we start trying to patent abstract things like algorithms or business practices that it starts to look like a bit of a mess.
he Fab Four's label, and - according to legend - the appleinspiration for the name Jobs and Woz gave their kit computer
I heard the apple of Apple came from the story of Alan Turing's suicide.
It's what we use here in the UK.
You go into a little booth with a ballot paper, where you will find a pencil. Mark an X in the box next to the candidate you want, fold up the paper and post it in the ballot box.
It's more auditable and even if the paper, pencils and boxes are manufactured by a company who make no secret of their support for one particular political party, it's difficult to see how it could make any difference.
I'm not trolling - if someone could explain, please do.
Weren't you all pretty-much blackout-free before California's energy industry was deregulated?
Didn't areas where deregulation isn't fully implemented yet (Los Angeles, I read) go pretty much without blackouts in the 'energy crisis' of 2002?
It's a new method of generating electricity, not a new way of storing energy or an energy source. The energy would have to come from somewhere else, and since the idea is pretty new, I doubt that anyone knows in much detail how (or if) it will work out in practice.
I suppose you could either recharge a normal battery by pumping the handle your handy, portable water-generator for a few minutes, a bit like a baygen radio.
Or, you could store the water under pressure and let it out through the device to get the energy back out.
There are still unlicensed frequency bands over here, just not in the range that FM radio uses.
Basically it's illegal to sell infringing equipment to people who don't have the proper licences, and they would go after defiant suppliers.
The authorities could go after an end user, but enforcement of that kind of thing tends to be complaint-led over here; trouble would only ensue if someone managed to cause enough interference in their locality to piss off enough of their neighbours into making proper complaints. Realistically it's not going to happen.
The article states that the instrument's response is based on a pollution database, http://www.scorecard.org/ and a corporate ethics database http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/research/corporate_ researcher.html
I think it's more of a (witty, IMO) satirical stunt item than anything that the guy thinks would actually be useful.