All the bank sites I use work in Konqueror. On of them (Natwest) requires user agent spoofing, either to a recent version of Safari, or Mozilla Firefox.
Correct. Selling price is usually higher than market cap. The takeover premium is typically about 10%-15%, which would put it way above what Apple could afford.
My energy supplier - http://www.hydro.co.uk./, charges me 9.21p for electricity and 2.36p for gas. That is a pretty typical differential between electricity and gas round here.
It's not surprising that electricity is a lot more expensive than gas. Gas is the raw material for most of the electricity generated in this country. To sell me gas, they just need to pipe it to my home. To turn it into electricity, there is a lot more work to do.
In this case, a 70% efficient device runs at about 77% efficiency in the winter, and a lot less than 70% efficiency in the summer, as I have to pay for even more electricity to cool the place down.
The founders of Skype previously set up Kazaa, and ran it until they sold it to Sharman Networks.
Streamcast started life as the largest alternative Napster network. When that was shut down by the courts, they launched a rebranded version of Kazaa.
Kazaa a bit later on released a non-compatible version of their software which had the effect of kicking them off the network. Apparently they hadn't paid their bills for the use of the software, but Streamcast deny this.
They then relaunched as a spyware infested version of Gnucleus, a Gnutella client, and subsequently as some other gnutella client which now supports other p2p networks as well.
They have always denied that the advertising features in their software are spyware, but most people disagree with that.
This is partly because scientists read these books, then decide it would be cool to implement it for real, and partly because science fiction authors are good at thinking about what inventions would be useful.
And these people are asking the courts to rule that Google aren't allowed to recommend other people in favour of them, which IMO is a law restricting free speech.
The difference is that you can't copy someone else's copyrighted work without either getting a licence from them, or restricting your activities to those the law permits without a licence. So getting the CC licence ruled invalid doesn't help you win a copyright infringement case.
But increasingly, software dictates how you run your life.
You may be perfectly happy with the decisions Microsoft has made for you about how you should type your letters and so on, but if you are not, you should want the freedom to change it, or to receive a copy of the software from a like minded person who has made the changes for you.
Alternatively, you might modify the ipod shuffle firmware to enable it to play.ogg files, or some other audio format.
There is no technical reason why the shuffle couldn't do this, other than perhaps lack of cpu power, but apple for various reasons chose only to support a limited number of formats. It isn't feasible for them to support all of them, but if you disagree with their choice, you might want to change it.
By using DRM, Tivo have prevented you from doing things with your hardware which it is perfectly capable of doing, and prevented you from modifying the code to enable you to change this.
It will work anywhere where there are cell towers to do triangulation on. The only places I've been that don't have mobile signals recently are the London underground and central Oxford, but I'm sure there are others.
Before I got broadband, I used to buy CDs from people like that. Mainly from www.linuxemporium.co.uk at £2 per CD.
It would have cost me more than what they were charging in telephone charges, it would have taken longer to download it than for them to send it by first class post, and it would have tied up my telephone line for days, preventing me from using it for other purposes.
These people do provide a useful service, and that is why the GPL specifically allows it. Competition from lots of different business will prevent them from overcharging for the service they provide.
Attention All Web Surfers This wiki page is not for finger pocking and hand grabbing. It is is easy to piss off the blog police and start libel and slander lawsuits. It is not for editing by dump people. The rubbernecked court judge must keep his cotton picking hands in his pockets. Relax and watch the flamefest.
You usually have to be root to install software in linux. If you are root and installing software, that software could include nasties that hose your linux system just as easily as your windows system.
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All the bank sites I use work in Konqueror. On of them (Natwest) requires user agent spoofing, either to a recent version of Safari, or Mozilla Firefox.
Correct. Selling price is usually higher than market cap. The takeover premium is typically about 10%-15%, which would put it way above what Apple could afford.
It is pence per kWh. Gas and electricity are both billed by kWh in the UK, so you can make direct comparisons between the two.
My energy supplier - http://www.hydro.co.uk./, charges me 9.21p for electricity and 2.36p for gas. That is a pretty typical differential between electricity and gas round here.
It's not surprising that electricity is a lot more expensive than gas. Gas is the raw material for most of the electricity generated in this country. To sell me gas, they just need to pipe it to my home. To turn it into electricity, there is a lot more work to do.
In this case, a 70% efficient device runs at about 77% efficiency in the winter, and a lot less than 70% efficiency in the summer, as I have to pay for even more electricity to cool the place down.
It is actually the Manchester Guardian, not the London Guardian.
It is a public right of way, so they aren't allowed to put notices up saying people aren't allowed on it.
I suppose they could put a notice up saying "unsuitable for anything other than tractors and chelsea tractors".
Simply putting them behind a Mac isn't going to stop all malware.
Very little of the internet infrastructure runs on Windows, but nevertheless, unix routers will route malware packets just like any other packet.
The founders of Skype previously set up Kazaa, and ran it until they sold it to Sharman Networks.
Streamcast started life as the largest alternative Napster network. When that was shut down by the courts, they launched a rebranded version of Kazaa.
Kazaa a bit later on released a non-compatible version of their software which had the effect of kicking them off the network. Apparently they hadn't paid their bills for the use of the software, but Streamcast deny this.
They then relaunched as a spyware infested version of Gnucleus, a Gnutella client, and subsequently as some other gnutella client which now supports other p2p networks as well.
They have always denied that the advertising features in their software are spyware, but most people disagree with that.
This is partly because scientists read these books, then decide it would be cool to implement it for real, and partly because science fiction authors are good at thinking about what inventions would be useful.
Asda (Walmart UK) doesn't have one as far as I'm aware, but Tesco and Sainsburys do.
The intention is to allow access to your copyrighted materials only to humans and not to spambots, so yes I think it could work.
And these people are asking the courts to rule that Google aren't allowed to recommend other people in favour of them, which IMO is a law restricting free speech.
The difference is that you can't copy someone else's copyrighted work without either getting a licence from them, or restricting your activities to those the law permits without a licence. So getting the CC licence ruled invalid doesn't help you win a copyright infringement case.
But increasingly, software dictates how you run your life.
You may be perfectly happy with the decisions Microsoft has made for you about how you should type your letters and so on, but if you are not, you should want the freedom to change it, or to receive a copy of the software from a like minded person who has made the changes for you.
Alternatively, you might modify the ipod shuffle firmware to enable it to play .ogg files, or some other audio format.
There is no technical reason why the shuffle couldn't do this, other than perhaps lack of cpu power, but apple for various reasons chose only to support a limited number of formats. It isn't feasible for them to support all of them, but if you disagree with their choice, you might want to change it.
By using DRM, Tivo have prevented you from doing things with your hardware which it is perfectly capable of doing, and prevented you from modifying the code to enable you to change this.
The average joe probably isn't going to recognise that it is the telephone number of the white house.
And outside the cell phone sector, how many people actually have call display features on their phone?
It will work anywhere where there are cell towers to do triangulation on. The only places I've been that don't have mobile signals recently are the London underground and central Oxford, but I'm sure there are others.
No it's not wrong.
Before I got broadband, I used to buy CDs from people like that. Mainly from www.linuxemporium.co.uk at £2 per CD.
It would have cost me more than what they were charging in telephone charges, it would have taken longer to download it than for them to send it by first class post, and it would have tied up my telephone line for days, preventing me from using it for other purposes.
These people do provide a useful service, and that is why the GPL specifically allows it. Competition from lots of different business will prevent them from overcharging for the service they provide.
Usually it is the pedestrian or cyclist that suffers the worst damage, not the car driver.
And do the Chinese really care?
If they do, then it is because it would be good news for local companies.
Yes they did.
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It doesn't seem to be working very well though.
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1707190,0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4700190.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/artic
In fact, Royal Mail is now so bad, that I now pay a private courier to deliver my letters for me rather than pay Royal Mail to lose them for me.
You could boycot the companies that advertise on their software, if they are the sort of mainstream companies you might buy from otherwise.
Maybe, but they didn't pay for the war. Your tax dollars paid for the war. OK they pay taxes as well, but that is only a small part of the total cost.
They however, will get all the profits.
Something along the lines of
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All Web Surfers
This wiki page is not for finger pocking and hand grabbing. It is is easy to piss off the blog police and start libel and slander lawsuits. It is not for editing by dump people. The rubbernecked court judge must keep his cotton picking hands in his pockets. Relax and watch the flamefest.
It isn't proper German
You usually have to be root to install software in linux. If you are root and installing software, that software could include nasties that hose your linux system just as easily as your windows system.