HP sell a smartphone without a simlock in Europe for about £400 ($800). It isn't as popular as HTC or Blackberry, but presumably they do sell enough to make it worthwhile.
Well look at it this way. How much slower would your computer be if you had the absolute bear minimum ram needed to boot the machine, and used swap for everything else. That's how much complying with this request would slow things down.
First, why should my tax £££ be wasted on expensive software from Microsoft, when a free download from openoffice.org will do the job just as well.
Secondly, most of the measures are not about using free or open source software, they are about using open formats. Microsoft could if they wanted to, make their software use these formats as an option. The reason for this is to promote competition, so people can chose which software they want to use and open their documents on any of them.
If you receive free software which is released as GPL2 or later, you have a choice. You can use it under the terms of GPL2, or you can use it under the terms of a later version of the GPL, such as GPL3.
SuSE, or anyone else for that matter, can make the choice to use it only under the terms of GPL2, one of the options they have, and release their modifications under GPL2 only.
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It's quite simple really.
You buy a Tivo, which contains free software.
You decide there is a feature in the Tivo which you don't particularly like - maybe not being able to skip ads or something, and you decide you want to change it. Free software gives you the right to change things you don't like.
Tivo give you the source code, and a licence which allows you to modify it, but if you try to actually do so, your tivo box won't run it, because the binary code isn't signed by Tivo. In other words, you have received free software where in reality you aren't allowed to change it.
Only if it is released as "GPL 2 or later". SuSE could release all their stuff as GPL 2 only, then it can't be put in the GPL 3 version of the product.
There are various things they can do. They can do money transfers using Western Union or similar. That is pretty untraceable if you are careful about where you go to pick it up.
They can find a derelict house house somewhere, or rent one using false ID, and get loads of stuff delivered to it.
They can recruit "delivery forwarding agents", you will see the ads for them in your spam folder, get the stuff delivered there, and get them to pass it on.
Certainly BBC Basic, which is what I learned first, relied to heavily on GOTO statements, and not enough on functions and procedures. When I moved on to Delphi, I had to pretty much completely relearn programming.
Probably you had different fonts on the two computers. If you want to guarantee it looks the same, you should save it in pdf format. Ooo lets you do that, and I'm sure your wife's windows computer has Adobe Reader on it.
Don't you have a Disability Discrimination Act or similar? In Europe, discriminating on the basis of disability falls into the same category as discrimination on the basis of sex, race or religion.
I don't think Vista automagically runs things from the web either. I tried installing Adobe Flash player on a friend's laptop that had the 64 bit version of Vista. It wasn't easy, and certainly not something you would do accidentally.
The difference is that governments can potentially put people in jail. Whether or not they actually do is another matter. Local police forces tend to think that catching murderers is a bigger priority, and I suppose it probably is.
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HP sell a smartphone without a simlock in Europe for about £400 ($800). It isn't as popular as HTC or Blackberry, but presumably they do sell enough to make it worthwhile.
UK gallons are bigger than US gallons, so you get more miles out of them. That could be where your confusion is.
The Aygo diesel gets 68.9mpg. The Prius hybrid gets 65.7 mpg. Both figures in UK gallons taken from http://www.vcacarfueldata.org.uk/
She's specifically not asking for that, as that would be requesting the creation of a new document, and they can't do that.
She is saying that the contents of the RAM are an already existing document, and therefore it must be produced to court.
I guess we have more experience of making extremely pure silicon than any other substance.
TFA says the sphere is the most difficult shape to damage, so that's why it is chosen.
Well look at it this way. How much slower would your computer be if you had the absolute bear minimum ram needed to boot the machine, and used swap for everything else. That's how much complying with this request would slow things down.
Take the chips out of the machine and send them to the other side.
There's two things.
First, why should my tax £££ be wasted on expensive software from Microsoft, when a free download from openoffice.org will do the job just as well.
Secondly, most of the measures are not about using free or open source software, they are about using open formats. Microsoft could if they wanted to, make their software use these formats as an option. The reason for this is to promote competition, so people can chose which software they want to use and open their documents on any of them.
Real Networks. There are other internet radio services around which are equally affected by this.
If you receive free software which is released as GPL2 or later, you have a choice. You can use it under the terms of GPL2, or you can use it under the terms of a later version of the GPL, such as GPL3.
SuSE, or anyone else for that matter, can make the choice to use it only under the terms of GPL2, one of the options they have, and release their modifications under GPL2 only.
It's quite simple really.
You buy a Tivo, which contains free software.
You decide there is a feature in the Tivo which you don't particularly like - maybe not being able to skip ads or something, and you decide you want to change it. Free software gives you the right to change things you don't like.
Tivo give you the source code, and a licence which allows you to modify it, but if you try to actually do so, your tivo box won't run it, because the binary code isn't signed by Tivo. In other words, you have received free software where in reality you aren't allowed to change it.
Only if it is released as "GPL 2 or later". SuSE could release all their stuff as GPL 2 only, then it can't be put in the GPL 3 version of the product.
I think it is about 6 years old now. Office 2004 is the latest for Mac. I expect Office 2008 will be on its way soon.
Do you have private companies like Mailboxes Etc which provide PO Boxes?
There are various things they can do. They can do money transfers using Western Union or similar. That is pretty untraceable if you are careful about where you go to pick it up.
They can find a derelict house house somewhere, or rent one using false ID, and get loads of stuff delivered to it.
They can recruit "delivery forwarding agents", you will see the ads for them in your spam folder, get the stuff delivered there, and get them to pass it on.
Certainly BBC Basic, which is what I learned first, relied to heavily on GOTO statements, and not enough on functions and procedures. When I moved on to Delphi, I had to pretty much completely relearn programming.
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Probably you had different fonts on the two computers. If you want to guarantee it looks the same, you should save it in pdf format. Ooo lets you do that, and I'm sure your wife's windows computer has Adobe Reader on it.
Don't you have a Disability Discrimination Act or similar? In Europe, discriminating on the basis of disability falls into the same category as discrimination on the basis of sex, race or religion.
I don't think Vista automagically runs things from the web either. I tried installing Adobe Flash player on a friend's laptop that had the 64 bit version of Vista. It wasn't easy, and certainly not something you would do accidentally.
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The difference is that governments can potentially put people in jail. Whether or not they actually do is another matter. Local police forces tend to think that catching murderers is a bigger priority, and I suppose it probably is.
The private sector has a strong motivation to simultaneously make money out of sending spam, and make even more money detecting it.
It is not in the interests of the malware detection companies to eliminate the problem, because then they would eliminate their own business.
There is competition between free software programs.
Things like gnome/kde, mozilla/konqueror, emacs/vi linux/various bsds
Pretty much none of the plastic music disks in HMV/Virgin had them last time I looked.