I still have the flashlight app. It isn't much use to me as I have an iPod touch and a Wifi iPad, but should I ever get an iPhone, then I could copy it across from iTunes.
Metro is their touch friendly interface, similar to Windows Phone 7, but for a larger screen. I guess the closest analogy is switching between Unity / KDE / Gnome etc on your current desktop.
Printing and shipping dead tree books is not that expensive. Setting up a data centre and all the associated payment and fulfilment stuff to run an e-book store doesn't come free. Us slashdotters do like to be paid for our efforts.
Amazon aren't one of the companies being investigated. I guess they are the ones who reported it to the EU and being the first to report it means you get off any fines that are levied.
It is probably staff rather than students, but if I see an email on my phone that requires a lengthy reply, I go to my desktop/laptop, fire up Oulook, and type the reply there.
Exchange activesync doesn't sync every half an hour. The client opens up a connection to the server, waits either half an hour or until the next email arrives for a response, then opens up a new connection. So that means that at any one time the server has 2000 open http connections that it may need to respond to.
If they have email available on their phones and fondleslabs, there is a good chance that they will send more emails, so more storage will be required.
You can create a bash/powershell script to re-encode all the stuff and leave it to get on with it. Feeding a computer with plastic discs every few hours is a pain.
They are a GSM carrier, the vast majority of the phones sold in the world, though not in the USA, work with T-Mobile. They have a spectrum licence in the largest economy in the world. The other stuff can be sorted out. Someone will buy them.
The EU takes the view that homoeopathics are a danger to the public because they discourage people from seeking proper medical advice for their illness, and by taking the homoeopathic remedy rather than a proper treatment, it could allow their illness to get worse. See for example Steve Jobs for an extreme example of what can happen here.
Unless there are future developments in getting things to move faster than the speed of light (0.3mm/ps), Or we can miniaturise a computer to considerably less than 1mm^3, I don't think we are going to see tera-herz processors any time soon.
The civil servants may be good, but I'm not so sure about the actual commissioners who make the decisions. Previous British commissioners include Neil Kinnock, who was Vice President, and Peter Mandelslime. Both of them were failed politicians at Westminster.
It originated in the city state of Athens, which is now part of Greece.
Presumably you are not familiar with the recent developments in EU politics, but Germany is effectively controlling things by virtue of the fact that they are the only country with any money. The German Bundestag has to approve any addition money paid to the EU, so they can set the terms by which they are prepared to give it to them. There are for example rumours that the Irish government's draft budget was found in offices in the Bundestag before it was presented to their own TDs for consideration.
Well there is this thing called TVA (en_GB VAT, en_US Sales Tax, en_CA GST) which is 19.6% on top of the fee you pay to your ISP. So the claim that ISPs don't pay any tax to the French is false.
That deals with hardware failures, but most of the time I need to restore something from backup, it is because someone deleted or changed something accidentally. Does your system deal with that, or do the changes get mirrored in the cloud?
As far as voice calls go, it is mostly down to competition from the mobile networks. Does anyone actually use their home landline for voice calls any more?
A sample of just over 1000 people is good enough to very accurately predict how people plan to vote at the next election, so 432 people is a big enough sample size to get a reasonable feeling about what people think. The fact that it is a self-selecting sample is of course a different matter. I suspect the vast majority would go for the "don't care as long as my tv/pvr work" option, but it does show that very few people actively support the idea.
The law itself, that broadcasters are required to use DRM for HD transmissions, is freely available from legislation.gov.uk . What is secret is the reasons the BBC gave to parliament as to why it should be implemented.
Most people would prefer to have the work performed by the original artist rather than a tribute band, and concert tickets are selling better than they ever have done in the past, so I don't agree with your assertion.
Slashdot Mirror
I still have the flashlight app. It isn't much use to me as I have an iPod touch and a Wifi iPad, but should I ever get an iPhone, then I could copy it across from iTunes.
Metro is their touch friendly interface, similar to Windows Phone 7, but for a larger screen. I guess the closest analogy is switching between Unity / KDE / Gnome etc on your current desktop.
Printing and shipping dead tree books is not that expensive. Setting up a data centre and all the associated payment and fulfilment stuff to run an e-book store doesn't come free. Us slashdotters do like to be paid for our efforts.
Amazon aren't one of the companies being investigated. I guess they are the ones who reported it to the EU and being the first to report it means you get off any fines that are levied.
Where I work, the pay run takes place once a month, on the Monday before the last Thursday of the month, and during working hours.
It is probably staff rather than students, but if I see an email on my phone that requires a lengthy reply, I go to my desktop/laptop, fire up Oulook, and type the reply there.
Exchange activesync doesn't sync every half an hour. The client opens up a connection to the server, waits either half an hour or until the next email arrives for a response, then opens up a new connection. So that means that at any one time the server has 2000 open http connections that it may need to respond to.
If they have email available on their phones and fondleslabs, there is a good chance that they will send more emails, so more storage will be required.
You can create a bash/powershell script to re-encode all the stuff and leave it to get on with it. Feeding a computer with plastic discs every few hours is a pain.
They are a GSM carrier, the vast majority of the phones sold in the world, though not in the USA, work with T-Mobile. They have a spectrum licence in the largest economy in the world. The other stuff can be sorted out. Someone will buy them.
Or maybe they think people will want their printer to tweet or post a facebook status update every time they print something.
In the EU, people tend not to buy bottled tap water. Coca Cola was laughed out of the country when they tried to sell Dasani in the UK.
The EU takes the view that homoeopathics are a danger to the public because they discourage people from seeking proper medical advice for their illness, and by taking the homoeopathic remedy rather than a proper treatment, it could allow their illness to get worse. See for example Steve Jobs for an extreme example of what can happen here.
Unless there are future developments in getting things to move faster than the speed of light (0.3mm/ps), Or we can miniaturise a computer to considerably less than 1mm^3, I don't think we are going to see tera-herz processors any time soon.
I think the idea is that the browser could run itself inside a window.
The civil servants may be good, but I'm not so sure about the actual commissioners who make the decisions. Previous British commissioners include Neil Kinnock, who was Vice President, and Peter Mandelslime. Both of them were failed politicians at Westminster.
It originated in the city state of Athens, which is now part of Greece.
Presumably you are not familiar with the recent developments in EU politics, but Germany is effectively controlling things by virtue of the fact that they are the only country with any money. The German Bundestag has to approve any addition money paid to the EU, so they can set the terms by which they are prepared to give it to them. There are for example rumours that the Irish government's draft budget was found in offices in the Bundestag before it was presented to their own TDs for consideration.
Well there is this thing called TVA (en_GB VAT, en_US Sales Tax, en_CA GST) which is 19.6% on top of the fee you pay to your ISP. So the claim that ISPs don't pay any tax to the French is false.
That deals with hardware failures, but most of the time I need to restore something from backup, it is because someone deleted or changed something accidentally. Does your system deal with that, or do the changes get mirrored in the cloud?
You don't have to use O2's router. Any router that lets you change the MAC address to the same one as on the O2 router you were issued with will work.
As far as voice calls go, it is mostly down to competition from the mobile networks. Does anyone actually use their home landline for voice calls any more?
A sample of just over 1000 people is good enough to very accurately predict how people plan to vote at the next election, so 432 people is a big enough sample size to get a reasonable feeling about what people think. The fact that it is a self-selecting sample is of course a different matter. I suspect the vast majority would go for the "don't care as long as my tv/pvr work" option, but it does show that very few people actively support the idea.
The law itself, that broadcasters are required to use DRM for HD transmissions, is freely available from legislation.gov.uk . What is secret is the reasons the BBC gave to parliament as to why it should be implemented.
Probably less than a penny per litre. The vast majority of your water is used for cleaning rather than drinking.
Most people would prefer to have the work performed by the original artist rather than a tribute band, and concert tickets are selling better than they ever have done in the past, so I don't agree with your assertion.