Role of the gov's should be to maintain even playing field, not to help any single competitor (and what about Via?)
Besides, one could argue that the ones most harmed by those intel practices were consumers, so the fine has a chance to benefit them in one way or another (yeah, yeah, "that will never trickle down from gov's" - but actually, EU is rather good in this regard; I can see tangible improvements around me after joining (quite recent member state))
Also, if intel will have to somewhat raise prices to recoup the fine, AMD benefits (yeah, yeah, "where's the gain for consumers you were talking about?" - in reality, healhy prices are better than too low, unsastainable ones that would allow killing off competition...at which point intel would get back to pricing practices from the 90's)
Buran might have very similar layout, but that's like with current commercial airliners - they too look virtually the same (can you distinguish easily every Boeing from Airbus in the sky?).
It just so happens that there aren't many sensible aerodynamic arrangements, especially given very precise (if pointless, in the case of both shuttles) requirements and extreme flight conditions. And if, while contructing you shuttle, you see that the other team has settled on one layout which seems best also to you - why would you try to be different?
You would be different only where it makes sense - Buran doesn't share with the Shuttle internal construction or engine layout, and has quite a bit different/better heat shield for example.
Now, sure, there might have been some stolen blueprints. But Buran wasn't built as a copy.
PS. Or you could argue that what NASA is currently doing with Ares V is a copy of Energia rocket;p
Anyway, I have to wonder to what degree greater usage of touchpads is simply because of smaller, now, inertia of people against this change - after all, everybody now has a laptop, usually with touchpad, so "it must be good"; in other words there might be social factor at play here. Trackpoint suffers mostly from this IMHO (since it's not very common, it ends up beeing "this weird thing on this one laptop").
And now, with ultraportables readily (cheaply) available, carrying a mouse has become somewhat bigger burden than with "standard" 15' laptop.
I'm not denying of course that touchpads have become better, it's just that, IMHO, there's this one pointing device that doesn't get given a chance, that is significantly closer to mouse (really, try UT or D2 with a touchpad;p )...ESPECIALLY in context of ultraportables, where touchpads almost end up beeing letter-stamp sized.
There is no sensible ultraportable with trackpoint though.
Yeah, there's X-series...but they're borderline size-wise and much too powerfull (both in "I don't actually need that much cpu power on the go" and "it lowers battery life and contributes to paying much more for something I consider useless, even detrimental")
Also, from what I see, most people hate touchpads - I've NEVER seen touchpad-only laptop without a mouse attached when on its desk/etc. I even witnessed somebody trying to use a mouse on a flat area next to touchpad while sitting on a park bench...ridiculous!
Accidentally...the only laptops I regularly see on their desk without any mouse attached are Thinkpads. So perhaps it's better than you give it credit, close enough to mouse for many people while beeing truly portable, not just luggable.
I was even able to enjoyably play in UT and Diablo2 after a day of trying trackpoint on somebodys Thinkpad... (ok, I play as necromancer usually so there's less clicking...still, try it with touchpad)
For some reason I have difficulties visualising it in a way that agrees with my (silly?) notion of event horizon which isn't really that special, it's mostly about the singularity.
And while in many/most such collisions getting close would be enough, I would intuitively guess that in some cases (two black holes almost head-on, both almost at c) one of the singularities would actually have to get inside the other event horizon to not be able to escape.
If you have a way to explain this in a short and moderatelly easy way I'd be thankfull. Note: I was postponing for a few years the moment when I will truly dig into books about those issues, so not need to bother if it becomes clear only much further. Right now I just suspect it might have something to do with changing/exchanging natures of space and time components of spacetime after crossing event horizon.
By looking at what you get in typical game package...that's not really the case; at least when it comes to the experience of gaming (yes, the fact that it was a copy for which you didn't pay might influence that also...but doesn't have to).
On top of that...DRM is too often over the top, so the pirate version might be even "better"... Though that doesn't have to be the case - I'm perfectly fine with pure Steam DRM, and I love the convenience Steam gives.
BTW Steam - that's also lately a case of frustrating pricing, once we were moved to Euro. No, taxes/etc. can't explain the difference, not even close. Besides, the games are usualy cheaper in boxed versions in stores (if they're available...)
I imagine you could...just not with Gecko (my old dual pII 266MHz 192MB that I still boot up sometimes does fine with lighter engines; as a matter of fact it was hardly ever fine with Gecko...)
I've also read somewhere that we get our first batch of bacteria during birth...which of course won't work in the same way for people after ceaseran section.
Perhaps I fit into this...definatelly somewhat different taste in foods than nearest family, not susceptible to obesity/etc. in the same way. It seems to have also changed after becoming sexualy active... (it's practically inevitable to get some of the bacterial flora during some practices after all; and since I didn't have many partners/all from distant parts of my area of origin, perhaps I could able to more readily notice the difference...)
No, that's not a good idea - better promote some lighter/more properly written software for such slow machines. Abiword/Gnumeric or KOffice and Webkit-based browser (nice new market for Linux version of Google Chrome?) or Opera (Opera Software does work on version of Opera that has Opera Mini-style acceleration/compression, mostly for OEMs...seems they're thinking about netbook market too). The latter definatelly runs fine on my old p2 dual 266MHz machine with 192 MiB of RAM that I still boot up sometimes.
ARM chips aren't simply CPUs, they're usually system-on-a-chip. And when there's some external chip necessary...what, do you really think its power consumption is a big problem in mobile phones? Practially all run on ARM chips nowadays...
PixelQi LCD screens will be just as cheap, and allowing lower power usage (plus much more readable in sunlight/etc.)
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Role of the gov's should be to maintain even playing field, not to help any single competitor (and what about Via?)
Besides, one could argue that the ones most harmed by those intel practices were consumers, so the fine has a chance to benefit them in one way or another (yeah, yeah, "that will never trickle down from gov's" - but actually, EU is rather good in this regard; I can see tangible improvements around me after joining (quite recent member state))
Also, if intel will have to somewhat raise prices to recoup the fine, AMD benefits (yeah, yeah, "where's the gain for consumers you were talking about?" - in reality, healhy prices are better than too low, unsastainable ones that would allow killing off competition...at which point intel would get back to pricing practices from the 90's)
Buran might have very similar layout, but that's like with current commercial airliners - they too look virtually the same (can you distinguish easily every Boeing from Airbus in the sky?).
It just so happens that there aren't many sensible aerodynamic arrangements, especially given very precise (if pointless, in the case of both shuttles) requirements and extreme flight conditions. And if, while contructing you shuttle, you see that the other team has settled on one layout which seems best also to you - why would you try to be different?
You would be different only where it makes sense - Buran doesn't share with the Shuttle internal construction or engine layout, and has quite a bit different/better heat shield for example.
Now, sure, there might have been some stolen blueprints. But Buran wasn't built as a copy.
PS. Or you could argue that what NASA is currently doing with Ares V is a copy of Energia rocket ;p
Something gives me the feeling E-ELT will give us the ultimate answer about our universe.
Touchpad in Thinkpads is also from Synaptic... http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/UltraNav
Anyway, I have to wonder to what degree greater usage of touchpads is simply because of smaller, now, inertia of people against this change - after all, everybody now has a laptop, usually with touchpad, so "it must be good"; in other words there might be social factor at play here. Trackpoint suffers mostly from this IMHO (since it's not very common, it ends up beeing "this weird thing on this one laptop").
And now, with ultraportables readily (cheaply) available, carrying a mouse has become somewhat bigger burden than with "standard" 15' laptop.
I'm not denying of course that touchpads have become better, it's just that, IMHO, there's this one pointing device that doesn't get given a chance, that is significantly closer to mouse (really, try UT or D2 with a touchpad ;p )...ESPECIALLY in context of ultraportables, where touchpads almost end up beeing letter-stamp sized.
There is no sensible ultraportable with trackpoint though.
Yeah, there's X-series...but they're borderline size-wise and much too powerfull (both in "I don't actually need that much cpu power on the go" and "it lowers battery life and contributes to paying much more for something I consider useless, even detrimental")
Hardly anybody bothers to try the trackpoint...
Also, from what I see, most people hate touchpads - I've NEVER seen touchpad-only laptop without a mouse attached when on its desk/etc. I even witnessed somebody trying to use a mouse on a flat area next to touchpad while sitting on a park bench...ridiculous!
Accidentally...the only laptops I regularly see on their desk without any mouse attached are Thinkpads. So perhaps it's better than you give it credit, close enough to mouse for many people while beeing truly portable, not just luggable.
I was even able to enjoyably play in UT and Diablo2 after a day of trying trackpoint on somebodys Thinkpad... (ok, I play as necromancer usually so there's less clicking...still, try it with touchpad)
"An Introduction to the Meaning and Structure of Physics"
Granted, it's only half century old, but imho a classic. Definatelly a good read for anybody even vaguedly interested in physics or science generally.
For some reason I have difficulties visualising it in a way that agrees with my (silly?) notion of event horizon which isn't really that special, it's mostly about the singularity.
And while in many/most such collisions getting close would be enough, I would intuitively guess that in some cases (two black holes almost head-on, both almost at c) one of the singularities would actually have to get inside the other event horizon to not be able to escape.
If you have a way to explain this in a short and moderatelly easy way I'd be thankfull. Note: I was postponing for a few years the moment when I will truly dig into books about those issues, so not need to bother if it becomes clear only much further. Right now I just suspect it might have something to do with changing/exchanging natures of space and time components of spacetime after crossing event horizon.
By looking at what you get in typical game package...that's not really the case; at least when it comes to the experience of gaming (yes, the fact that it was a copy for which you didn't pay might influence that also...but doesn't have to).
On top of that...DRM is too often over the top, so the pirate version might be even "better"... Though that doesn't have to be the case - I'm perfectly fine with pure Steam DRM, and I love the convenience Steam gives.
BTW Steam - that's also lately a case of frustrating pricing, once we were moved to Euro. No, taxes/etc. can't explain the difference, not even close. Besides, the games are usualy cheaper in boxed versions in stores (if they're available...)
There's a picture in BBC article abiut the outcome of trial:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8003799.stm
I imagine you could...just not with Gecko (my old dual pII 266MHz 192MB that I still boot up sometimes does fine with lighter engines; as a matter of fact it was hardly ever fine with Gecko...)
I've also read somewhere that we get our first batch of bacteria during birth...which of course won't work in the same way for people after ceaseran section.
Perhaps I fit into this...definatelly somewhat different taste in foods than nearest family, not susceptible to obesity/etc. in the same way. It seems to have also changed after becoming sexualy active... (it's practically inevitable to get some of the bacterial flora during some practices after all; and since I didn't have many partners/all from distant parts of my area of origin, perhaps I could able to more readily notice the difference...)
Luckily, that's not at all universal. Just look at Opera; and I suspect Google will also be able to keep what's good with Chrome.
Oh, so that's why Opera is less feat.....wait.
Google: spain p2p downloading legal
Lightweight enough.
Regarding full software stack...yes and no.
Yes, Firefox or OO.o will _run_ on ARM netbooks.
No, that's not a good idea - better promote some lighter/more properly written software for such slow machines. Abiword/Gnumeric or KOffice and Webkit-based browser (nice new market for Linux version of Google Chrome?) or Opera (Opera Software does work on version of Opera that has Opera Mini-style acceleration/compression, mostly for OEMs...seems they're thinking about netbook market too). The latter definatelly runs fine on my old p2 dual 266MHz machine with 192 MiB of RAM that I still boot up sometimes.
Seems you haven't checked for a long time, Bills don't pay anymore for using For network. The status can be changed 2 times a year AFAI remember.
Though otoh Fon did get some cooperation with telcos going...I imagine it would be much harder with meshing capability.
Fon operates from Spain, where downloading movies from p2p for personal use is legal.
WHy...yes it does: http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/general/fon-pineapple.html
You can set bandwith cap for public WiFi in control panel of Fonera. Without checking I believe the lowest option is 128 kbps.
Fon is from Spain. And is Spain, downloading movies/music from p2p for your personal use was established to be COMPLETELLY LEGAL.
Better ask why do you have such and such legal situation at your place...
All iPods (with the certain exception of 1st gen Shuffle and possibly later ones too (though they changed the design, but I don't know to what))
ARM chips aren't simply CPUs, they're usually system-on-a-chip. And when there's some external chip necessary...what, do you really think its power consumption is a big problem in mobile phones? Practially all run on ARM chips nowadays...
PixelQi LCD screens will be just as cheap, and allowing lower power usage (plus much more readable in sunlight/etc.)