It's not that long. If some stealth mode start-up anounced their product tomorrow morning, how long would it take them to build up a significant market share?
And cellphone penetration in that part of the world is much higher than in the US. For example, 88% of the population of the US has a cellphone, compared with 95% of the population of the EU (source CIA World Fact Book).
You can't just put the scores in front of them and expect a perfect performance first time. Even the best and most experienced musicians need rehersal time, and anyway, every conductor has their own opinion about how the music should be interpreted. No two recordings are ever the same.
The ongoing deficit has nothing to do with the bankers. We spent a few trillion pounds bailing out the banks a couple of years ago, but nothing this year. This year 25p out of every £ our government spends is borrowed, and none of that is going to the banks. It is going on other things.
I'm pretty sure Hertforshire, Surrey, Lancashire, Hampshire, Essex, Kent and the Greater London Authority are larger than Birmingham, and that's before I start looking across the Channel.
The risk with your argument, and your example is that you leave the possibility that some software patents could be valid. What about public key cryptography for example? That was a totally novel, inventive idea that a PHOSITA at that time couldn't have possibly come up with. I still believe that patent shouldn't have been granted.
The argument against software patents isn't that software can't be inventive, or that most of the software patents that are granted shouldn't have been, even though that is probably true.
The reason I am against software patents is because it doesn't promote the progress of science and useful arts. People and companies are not more likely to write software because they can get a patent on it. Copyright gives them all the protection they need. If anything, they are less likely to do so because of the risk of patent trolls and more established competitors taking them to court.
The answer to your offtopic question is that they include one browser from each vendor, and firefox is the offering they include form the Mozilla Foundation.
The A74(M) or the M6 toll are good choices if you want to drive fast.
On the A74(M) you need to watch out for revenue camera vans on the bridges and slow down for them. The average speed there is 79mph, against a speed limit of 70mph, and the average includes lorries that are speed limited to 56mph, one or two other people who observe the speed limit.
No. This is a demand increase, and the laws of supply and demand say that price will rise to the point where it becomes attractive for more people to supply bandwidth to the market.
A lot of our current bandwidth comes from cables laid by companies that went bankrupt during the.com bubble, and the current owners got them from the liquidator for much less than it cost to lay them. If we were to increase bandwidth capacity, we would have to pay full price for those cables and that would mean a massive increase in bandwidth costs.
They could have just as easily lost $2.6bn, or even more than that given that Skype is a loss making company.
My view is, if ebay shareholders want to make money out of viop companies, they can do so by buying shares in them. For ebay to justify buying them, they need to show why they can make more money out of it than skype on their own could. They said it was because they could integrate the skype service into their auctions so bidders could talk to the people selling the stuff. That didn't really happen, and anyway, they could provide the facilities for people to put their skype id on the auction listings without them needing to own the company.
I can better understand what Cisco could do with Skype that might not be so easy otherwise. Cisco sell VOIP phones and other networking kit, which currently isn't designed to work with Skype, and Skype is the most popular VOIP service, so Cisco could do things like have a Skype line coming into the company switchboard so that consumers who generally use Skype can communicate with corporations who generally use SIP lines.
And if you read Beowulf, not the cluster, the c1000 year old English poem it was named after, then you see that English has evolved so much in that time that it may as well be another language. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/19.html
If you ask people to switch from Windows XP to Windows 7, or from Windows XP to the default Ubuntu set up. Which would they find easier? I guess it would be a tie between the two.
I've not tried this particular one, but for me it needs to be either precisely the same in every way, or completely different. If it is almost the same, it confuses me.
Once you consider the inefficiencies of generating the electricity used to power it, it doesn't compare that favourably with the most efficient gas or wood boilers.
I live in South East England as well, and yes, I get a cellphone signal almost anywhere in this region. However, while there are lots of green places, it is the 2nd most densely populated part of England after the North West and England is near the top of the population density tables for Europe. If you exclude the city states and micronations, only Holland has a higher population density than England. If you bring in the rest of the UK, then it falls below Belgium in the table.
If you go to for example the Scottish highlands, you don't get a phone signal outside the towns and larger villages, and I suspect if you go to rural Scandinavia especially in the North, you won't find many cell towers. For comparison with China, Tibet is like northern Scandinavia, Beijing is like the South East of England.
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It's not that long. If some stealth mode start-up anounced their product tomorrow morning, how long would it take them to build up a significant market share?
And cellphone penetration in that part of the world is much higher than in the US. For example, 88% of the population of the US has a cellphone, compared with 95% of the population of the EU (source CIA World Fact Book).
You can't just put the scores in front of them and expect a perfect performance first time. Even the best and most experienced musicians need rehersal time, and anyway, every conductor has their own opinion about how the music should be interpreted. No two recordings are ever the same.
I just have. The first one I listened
http://www.musopen.com/music.php?type=piece&id=107
is pretty awful. There may be one or two notes in tune, but I didn't spot them.
The ongoing deficit has nothing to do with the bankers. We spent a few trillion pounds bailing out the banks a couple of years ago, but nothing this year. This year 25p out of every £ our government spends is borrowed, and none of that is going to the banks. It is going on other things.
That would be the equivalent of just the "Council and Democracy" section of the Birmingham City Council website.
I'm pretty sure Hertforshire, Surrey, Lancashire, Hampshire, Essex, Kent and the Greater London Authority are larger than Birmingham, and that's before I start looking across the Channel.
The risk with your argument, and your example is that you leave the possibility that some software patents could be valid. What about public key cryptography for example? That was a totally novel, inventive idea that a PHOSITA at that time couldn't have possibly come up with. I still believe that patent shouldn't have been granted.
The argument against software patents isn't that software can't be inventive, or that most of the software patents that are granted shouldn't have been, even though that is probably true.
The reason I am against software patents is because it doesn't promote the progress of science and useful arts. People and companies are not more likely to write software because they can get a patent on it. Copyright gives them all the protection they need. If anything, they are less likely to do so because of the risk of patent trolls and more established competitors taking them to court.
The answer to your offtopic question is that they include one browser from each vendor, and firefox is the offering they include form the Mozilla Foundation.
You send the updates through the itunes store like you are supposed to.
I don't agree with Apple's position on this, but your argument isn't a valid argument against it.
The A74(M) or the M6 toll are good choices if you want to drive fast.
On the A74(M) you need to watch out for revenue camera vans on the bridges and slow down for them. The average speed there is 79mph, against a speed limit of 70mph, and the average includes lorries that are speed limited to 56mph, one or two other people who observe the speed limit.
BTW your domain name has expired.
In Britain, and I believe the rest of Europe, everyone has to get their car inspected once a year after it reaches 3 years old.
No. This is a demand increase, and the laws of supply and demand say that price will rise to the point where it becomes attractive for more people to supply bandwidth to the market.
A lot of our current bandwidth comes from cables laid by companies that went bankrupt during the .com bubble, and the current owners got them from the liquidator for much less than it cost to lay them. If we were to increase bandwidth capacity, we would have to pay full price for those cables and that would mean a massive increase in bandwidth costs.
They could have just as easily lost $2.6bn, or even more than that given that Skype is a loss making company.
My view is, if ebay shareholders want to make money out of viop companies, they can do so by buying shares in them. For ebay to justify buying them, they need to show why they can make more money out of it than skype on their own could. They said it was because they could integrate the skype service into their auctions so bidders could talk to the people selling the stuff. That didn't really happen, and anyway, they could provide the facilities for people to put their skype id on the auction listings without them needing to own the company.
I can better understand what Cisco could do with Skype that might not be so easy otherwise. Cisco sell VOIP phones and other networking kit, which currently isn't designed to work with Skype, and Skype is the most popular VOIP service, so Cisco could do things like have a Skype line coming into the company switchboard so that consumers who generally use Skype can communicate with corporations who generally use SIP lines.
There's a much bigger sticker saying something like "Sony" or "Dell", and that's the one most normal people look at.
According to Wikipedia, Apple wrote TrueType.
Good enough at that time was better than Netscape 4 or the very early unstable builds of Mozilla.
And if you read Beowulf, not the cluster, the c1000 year old English poem it was named after, then you see that English has evolved so much in that time that it may as well be another language.
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/19.html
If you ask people to switch from Windows XP to Windows 7, or from Windows XP to the default Ubuntu set up. Which would they find easier? I guess it would be a tie between the two.
I've not tried this particular one, but for me it needs to be either precisely the same in every way, or completely different. If it is almost the same, it confuses me.
Once you consider the inefficiencies of generating the electricity used to power it, it doesn't compare that favourably with the most efficient gas or wood boilers.
It used to be that, but the problem is that every day is a different length so it isn't an accurate enough definition for some things.
I live in South East England as well, and yes, I get a cellphone signal almost anywhere in this region. However, while there are lots of green places, it is the 2nd most densely populated part of England after the North West and England is near the top of the population density tables for Europe. If you exclude the city states and micronations, only Holland has a higher population density than England. If you bring in the rest of the UK, then it falls below Belgium in the table.
If you go to for example the Scottish highlands, you don't get a phone signal outside the towns and larger villages, and I suspect if you go to rural Scandinavia especially in the North, you won't find many cell towers. For comparison with China, Tibet is like northern Scandinavia, Beijing is like the South East of England.
For the 3620km inter-province highway, probably not. Cell phones tend not to work outside cities, and Tibet is a very rural area.