The software is free, as in freedom. You are free to
0. Run the software 1. Study how the software works, and make changes to it 2. Give copies of the software to others 3. Improve the software, and release these improvements to the public
The Ford Fiesta looks like the most efficient at 76.3mpg or 305.2 miles per passenger gallon. The Smart is a two seater car and gets slightly more miles per gallon if you are driving alone or with one other person.
Surely the price you sell the electricity to the grid for is less than the price you pay to buy it back, and this margin should cover this maintenance charge?
If you are selling more units of electricity than you buy back, and as a result you don't pay anything, then the electric company is getting free electricity off you which they can sell to someone else to cover the cost.
My electricity bill has a daily standing charge + a charge for each unit of electricity I use. I thought that was a pretty common arrangement, and the standing charge covers the cost of grid maintenance, and the unit charge covers the cost of generating electricity.
There is the European Court of Justice which is the final court of appeal for matters relating to EU law, but I don't think it will get there as there doesn't seem to be any dispute about what the EU Copyright Directive says.
There is also the European Court of First Instance which hears cases specifically relating to the actions of EU officials, such as decisions from the EU Trademarks and Designs Registry and anti-trust decisions by the EU.
The main difference between the EU and the US is that the US creates federal laws which are enforced in federal courts and the states create state laws which are enforced in state courts. The EU creates directives which order the member states to implement the particular law into their own legal system, and these directives are enforced along with any laws created by the member states in their own courts.
If the Swedish court were to refuse to enforce the judgement from the Dutch court, then it would go to the ECJ, but I don't think that is likely to happen.
But the vast majority of people who don't visit Slashdot are "idiots", just like I'm an "idiot" when it comes to buying most non-computer related things. That doesn't mean that it is OK to remotely disable a product that someone has bought and paid for.
If you want decent graphics, you need to run it on a Mac for OK graphics performance, or run it natively. None of the other platforms offer anything like as good graphics performance, mainly because their target market isn't interested in it.
No, but you do get to choose between Windows Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional , Enterprise, Ultimate, Server Standard, Server Standard without Hyper-V, Enterprise Server, Enterprise Server without Hyper-v, Data Centre, Data Centre without Hyper-V, HPC Server, Foundation Server, Web Server, Small Business Server, Small Business Server Premium, Essential Business Server, Essential Business Server Premium, Embedded, Mobile or Smartphone.
Yes I know there is a Core i7 and it is much faster than the Core 2, but there are hardly any of them in the shops and very few people are buying them.
I bought a 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook two years ago as an ex-display model - so certainly not the latest and greatest available at the time. The currently shipping latest MacBook has a slightly slower 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo, but more RAM and a better graphics card.
As far as I can see, development of new faster hardware has pretty much stalled. There is the Core i7, but I see very little of them around despite the fact they were relased 9 months ago. Most of the new development seems to be based around reducing costs at the expense of pretty much everything else, which I guess is what you expect to see in a recession.
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Small Business Server certainly does. It comes with IIS, and is included in the price.
Or rather, it is one letter and six months. They had exactly the same thing happen at Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society.
They are quite common in Britain
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=economy+7+meter&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=2J11SqOKAca2jAfr7aS9Bw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4
However, I read this in England, and neither of those points are valid defences here.
The software is free, as in freedom. You are free to
0. Run the software
1. Study how the software works, and make changes to it
2. Give copies of the software to others
3. Improve the software, and release these improvements to the public
There is a spirit of the GPL, and it specifically says that selling Free Software is OK.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
The sort of thing Tivo does is against the spirit of the GPL.
Yes you can
http://www.vcacarfueldata.org.uk/information/how-to-use-the-data-tables.asp#petrol
The Ford Fiesta looks like the most efficient at 76.3mpg or 305.2 miles per passenger gallon. The Smart is a two seater car and gets slightly more miles per gallon if you are driving alone or with one other person.
The cars he is referring to are not road legal, and are generally driven by midget drivers, or robots, but they do exist.
WTF does this have to do with electricity bills?
Surely the price you sell the electricity to the grid for is less than the price you pay to buy it back, and this margin should cover this maintenance charge?
If you are selling more units of electricity than you buy back, and as a result you don't pay anything, then the electric company is getting free electricity off you which they can sell to someone else to cover the cost.
My electricity bill has a daily standing charge + a charge for each unit of electricity I use. I thought that was a pretty common arrangement, and the standing charge covers the cost of grid maintenance, and the unit charge covers the cost of generating electricity.
It is the new English supreme court the case is going to, the one that replaces the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords.
There is the European Court of Justice which is the final court of appeal for matters relating to EU law, but I don't think it will get there as there doesn't seem to be any dispute about what the EU Copyright Directive says.
There is also the European Court of First Instance which hears cases specifically relating to the actions of EU officials, such as decisions from the EU Trademarks and Designs Registry and anti-trust decisions by the EU.
The main difference between the EU and the US is that the US creates federal laws which are enforced in federal courts and the states create state laws which are enforced in state courts. The EU creates directives which order the member states to implement the particular law into their own legal system, and these directives are enforced along with any laws created by the member states in their own courts.
If the Swedish court were to refuse to enforce the judgement from the Dutch court, then it would go to the ECJ, but I don't think that is likely to happen.
Yes they do. They just ask the Swedish Courts to enforce the judgement, which they will do as both countries are in the EU.
But the vast majority of people who don't visit Slashdot are "idiots", just like I'm an "idiot" when it comes to buying most non-computer related things. That doesn't mean that it is OK to remotely disable a product that someone has bought and paid for.
XP mode runs a copy of XP in Virtual PC, so I would imagine so.
If you want decent graphics, you need to run it on a Mac for OK graphics performance, or run it natively. None of the other platforms offer anything like as good graphics performance, mainly because their target market isn't interested in it.
Messagelabs are in the mail-forwarding business, and they seem to manage to make money out of it.
In any case, you can get a free copy of 1984 and Animal Farm without any DRM from Gutenberg Australia
http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#orwell
You won't break any Australian laws by downloading it, but the laws where you are may be different.
No, but you do get to choose between Windows Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional , Enterprise, Ultimate, Server Standard, Server Standard without Hyper-V, Enterprise Server, Enterprise Server without Hyper-v, Data Centre, Data Centre without Hyper-V, HPC Server, Foundation Server, Web Server, Small Business Server, Small Business Server Premium, Essential Business Server, Essential Business Server Premium, Embedded, Mobile or Smartphone.
They also make good mice, and their keyboards aren't bad.
Yes I know there is a Core i7 and it is much faster than the Core 2, but there are hardly any of them in the shops and very few people are buying them.
I bought a 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook two years ago as an ex-display model - so certainly not the latest and greatest available at the time. The currently shipping latest MacBook has a slightly slower 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo, but more RAM and a better graphics card.
As far as I can see, development of new faster hardware has pretty much stalled. There is the Core i7, but I see very little of them around despite the fact they were relased 9 months ago. Most of the new development seems to be based around reducing costs at the expense of pretty much everything else, which I guess is what you expect to see in a recession.
I don't see any problem with a "remember these settings" check box on a web page which sends a cookie if ticked.
But if it is
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Opera
Google Chrome
A lot of people will go for the fourth option. They have heard of google.