For a 75cm cable. My desk is 72cm off the floor, so I guess the 2m cable would be a more reasonable length. That will set you back $11,000, or alternatively about £1.40 from my local DIY store.
It isn't illegal per se. However there are at least two issues that need to be considered.
One is "transfer pricing". Is Monster IP Bermuda Ltd charging Monster Cables Inc too much for the patent licenses? If so, they will be in trouble with the IRS. That what he talks about when he refers to "bona fide arms-length transactions". It has to be the same as what, for example, Belkin would be willing to pay to license the patents.
Secondly, the Bermuda company may be resident in the US for tax purposes. I'm not familiar with the US rules on residence, but in the UK, an offshore company is resident in the UK for tax purposes if it is controlled by persons who are resident in the UK.
Red Hat 4 came with FVWM. I tried it as my first linux distro in 1996. It was an interesting geek toy, but not much use for a functional home computer. Linux has improved massively since then.
Don't think so. The Amstrad 1512 had 512k, and that was considerably more than the IBMs of the time. 640k was the maximum amount of memory MS DOS could address without resorting to hacks like extended memory.
*nix can allow normal users to escalate privileges using sudo. UAC is basically a poor re-implementation of sudo.
In Vista you can stop users from escalating privileges by not making them a member of the administrators group, which is much the same as not making them a member of the wheel group in *nix. In this case, Vista will ask for a username/password of an administrator group member before it will "allow".
Also, remember that a few years back, people would have been paying $3000 or so for something of that spec, and they would have been perfectly happy with what it did then.
Someone finds a security hole in IE7 or Firefox. At the same time, they find a security hole in IIS or Apache. Using both these holes, they attack some well known and trusted site, maybe a newspaper, and use it to do drive-by attacks on visitors.
Are there any bank sites that don't work with Firefox on Linux these days? Even Natwest works now, and they are the most fussy about what browsers they allow.
I live in Britain which claims to provide mostly universal healthcare.
I don't have a problem with the fact that I pay money in taxes for a healthcare service. I do, however have a problem with the fact that I pay money in taxes for a healthcare service which is so completely useless that I have to pay again to a private provider to get anything done. That for example there is a single NHS dentist in my county or any of the neighbouring counties that is currently accepting new patients.
I also have a problem with the fact that this useless English NHS which manages to do very little is the fourth largest employer in the world (after the Chinese Army, the Indian Railways and Wallmart). The Scottish NHS, Welsh NHS and Northern Irish HSC are in addition to that.
Of course other european counties, particularly France, Germany and the ex communist counties manage a lot better.
About 20 years ago, the first mobile phone service in Britain was something called Hutchison Rabbit, which only worked from hotspots. That dissapeared rapidly when the cell phone companies started offering city-wide coverage on 1st generation analogue networks.
It means that you can have a program that logs into multiple networks and lets you use all your accounts from the same program, but you have a program that lets you IM from an AIM account to an MSN account.
To compare it with the cell phone world, you would be allowed to have a phone that takes SIM cards for O2, Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile and Three, and you could have five different phone numbers - one for each of the networks. What you can't do is have something that lets people phone an Orange telephone number from an O2 account.
Of course the idea of needing separate phones to speak to people on different networks seems silly, and it should seem silly for IM networks as well.
Does implementing SecureIM need that much knowledge of protocals? Surely you just encrypt the message and IM it over the network like any other message?
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There is technology that does this. It is called variable speed limits, and is used on all the busiest motorways in England and Scotland. (Wales only has three motorways, and at least two of them don't have it. I don't know about Northern Ireland.)
Maybe you should visit the M42 in Birmingham, England, where a trial of allowing people to use the hard shoulder at peak times was considered a success, and it is going to be rolled out across the rest of the country.
What happens if there is a break down? You are back to three lanes of traffic, just like there would have been if you had never allowed driving on the hard shoulder in the first place. The rest of the time, you get an extra lane.
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For a 75cm cable. My desk is 72cm off the floor, so I guess the 2m cable would be a more reasonable length. That will set you back $11,000, or alternatively about £1.40 from my local DIY store.
It isn't illegal per se. However there are at least two issues that need to be considered.
One is "transfer pricing". Is Monster IP Bermuda Ltd charging Monster Cables Inc too much for the patent licenses? If so, they will be in trouble with the IRS. That what he talks about when he refers to "bona fide arms-length transactions". It has to be the same as what, for example, Belkin would be willing to pay to license the patents.
Secondly, the Bermuda company may be resident in the US for tax purposes. I'm not familiar with the US rules on residence, but in the UK, an offshore company is resident in the UK for tax purposes if it is controlled by persons who are resident in the UK.
It didn't work last time Apple tried allowing MacOS on clones. Can't see how it would work this time.
Red Hat 4 came with FVWM. I tried it as my first linux distro in 1996. It was an interesting geek toy, but not much use for a functional home computer. Linux has improved massively since then.
Don't think so. The Amstrad 1512 had 512k, and that was considerably more than the IBMs of the time. 640k was the maximum amount of memory MS DOS could address without resorting to hacks like extended memory.
*nix can allow normal users to escalate privileges using sudo. UAC is basically a poor re-implementation of sudo.
In Vista you can stop users from escalating privileges by not making them a member of the administrators group, which is much the same as not making them a member of the wheel group in *nix. In this case, Vista will ask for a username/password of an administrator group member before it will "allow".
Also, remember that a few years back, people would have been paying $3000 or so for something of that spec, and they would have been perfectly happy with what it did then.
Someone finds a security hole in IE7 or Firefox. At the same time, they find a security hole in IIS or Apache. Using both these holes, they attack some well known and trusted site, maybe a newspaper, and use it to do drive-by attacks on visitors.
Yes, this does happen.
Windows Defender (formerly Giant Antispyware) is pretty popular, as it is from Microsoft, and it is free.
Most of the AV programs these days check for spyware as well.
Are there any bank sites that don't work with Firefox on Linux these days? Even Natwest works now, and they are the most fussy about what browsers they allow.
Most of the world has a first to file system, but that is not the case in the US, which has a first to invent system.
I live in Britain which claims to provide mostly universal healthcare.
I don't have a problem with the fact that I pay money in taxes for a healthcare service. I do, however have a problem with the fact that I pay money in taxes for a healthcare service which is so completely useless that I have to pay again to a private provider to get anything done. That for example there is a single NHS dentist in my county or any of the neighbouring counties that is currently accepting new patients.
I also have a problem with the fact that this useless English NHS which manages to do very little is the fourth largest employer in the world (after the Chinese Army, the Indian Railways and Wallmart). The Scottish NHS, Welsh NHS and Northern Irish HSC are in addition to that.
Of course other european counties, particularly France, Germany and the ex communist counties manage a lot better.
About 20 years ago, the first mobile phone service in Britain was something called Hutchison Rabbit, which only worked from hotspots. That dissapeared rapidly when the cell phone companies started offering city-wide coverage on 1st generation analogue networks.
I'd say it is more like the battle between democracy and communism.
British Tabloids not quite nearly as bad as American tabloids?
So there is something worse than the Daily Wail out there? That is a pretty scary thought.
Or what about keeping the charge for submission, but making the articles available for free on their website?
In Britain is is £10 per month from Three for the cheapest price plan - about 13.00 or $20.00.
How do I know it isn't another youtube, or another bbc iplayer?
Nobody has a legally assigned right to profit from anything. Some big corporations may behave like they do, but they don't.
It means that you can have a program that logs into multiple networks and lets you use all your accounts from the same program, but you have a program that lets you IM from an AIM account to an MSN account.
To compare it with the cell phone world, you would be allowed to have a phone that takes SIM cards for O2, Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile and Three, and you could have five different phone numbers - one for each of the networks. What you can't do is have something that lets people phone an Orange telephone number from an O2 account.
Of course the idea of needing separate phones to speak to people on different networks seems silly, and it should seem silly for IM networks as well.
Does implementing SecureIM need that much knowledge of protocals? Surely you just encrypt the message and IM it over the network like any other message?
Web 2.0 is an ajax powered, mash-up paradigim, leveraging user generated content, rich internet applications and software-as-a-service business models. Web 2.0 will transform the connected experience by providing a social networking experience together with a highly personalised content delivery platform.
As far as I'm aware, plasmas are a lot worse than CRTs for power consumption. LCDs are better.
There is technology that does this. It is called variable speed limits, and is used on all the busiest motorways in England and Scotland. (Wales only has three motorways, and at least two of them don't have it. I don't know about Northern Ireland.)
Maybe you should visit the M42 in Birmingham, England, where a trial of allowing people to use the hard shoulder at peak times was considered a success, and it is going to be rolled out across the rest of the country.
What happens if there is a break down? You are back to three lanes of traffic, just like there would have been if you had never allowed driving on the hard shoulder in the first place. The rest of the time, you get an extra lane.