I guess my main point is that the laws of thermodynamics still apply, and the cost of this water to hydrogen split will cost at minimum (but actually more than) the same as the current market value of the energy market.
The catalyst I have seen quotes is aluminum which is used up in the reaction to produce aluminum oxide and the byproduct is hydrogen. In a circumstance like this, the aluminum is used up and turned into a different chemical compound which cannot be converted back into aluminum without expending the same amount of energy at minimum which was transferred to the water compound that was originally split up.
so in actuality, the water is not the only fuel. As long as you have water you still don't get hydrogen. You have to have water plus some other compound which is splitting the water into hydrogen and oxygen. and that chemical (whether aluminum, or otherwise) will have to be produced in a factory which will cost the same amount of energy the car uses driving down the road.
So call that a catalyst or call it something else, the energy cost will still come from a coal or fission burning factory, which have arguably worse cost and environmental impact then direct burning of gasoline.
any catalyst (reactant chemical which splits the water molecule up) they use will require at minimum the amount of 'extra' energy it puts into the system to product.
in other words, you aren't actually running on water, but instead running on the catalyst, which must be replaced over time, and does have a minimum cost which is equal to the cost of the energy used in the car over that same period.
In other words, at some point, you are going to have to product this catalyst at the same cost as the current market price of energy (coal, gasoline, natural gas, fission)
Except that they aren't. Whatever you heard is wrong. the cellular wireless internet out there is maybe 2x faster than dialup bandwidth wise, and about 2x slower than dialup latency wise. So really, it is worse for most things requiring user interaction (internet, email)
Not only this, but get hotel style (or euro style) on demand hot water heaters (either grid tied, or natural gas) to boost the heat on your solar powered heater tank. This way you have all the convenience of grid tied heat with the cost of solar. The grid tied heater will only use the amount of energy it needs to heat the passing water to the requested temperature.
I think this is a better and less expensive method than to daisy chain solar heat and a traditional hot water heating tank. Also, on demand hot water is less expensive than heating tanks because they only heat when needed.
(disclaimer, if you like long showers, and don't know when to call it quits, you might cost yourself MORE money unintentionally!)
Legally, your wrong. If you buy software, you bought a license to that COPY, not a license to use it. Nobody can sell a license to USE a product without a legal contract in place. So that means you must sign an agreement, and both parties must participate. There are other conditions that make a legal contract and you can ask a lawyer what those conditions are if you desire.
There is a distinction you are missing here. The distinction is the difference between COPYING (copyright law) and USE (contract law). A copyright does not and cannot restrict USE, but it can restrict copying. Unless you sign your use rights away, then you have all fair use rights when buying a COPY of the software. This is why it is called COPY-RIGHT, and not USE-RIGHT.
the "copyright license" that comes with the software only gives you a list of conditions that allow you to copy the software above and beyond your initial copy (ex: some say you can install it on up to 1 desktop and 1 laptop.) The "End User License Agreement" on the other hand is not a contract (nothing is signed, physically or digitally, and no verbal agreement was given, so there is no contract) and its not a copyright license either. Instead, it is an electronic document displaying information the manufacturer hopes will scare the end user into obeying.
So long as the end user doesn't make an additional copy of the software, then he/she does not have to follow any EULA. And this is the difference between the GPL and a EULA. Because the GPL only restricts the COPYING of software, not the USE of the software.
I call bullshit on you. Why would you make that idiotic argument? Microsoft offered IE7 on me, and I turned THEM down. Nobody is forcing you to install IE7 on windows. If you go through the updates you can always un-check any of the updates you do not want to be installed. I did this for IE7 and still have IE6. (not that I would use either one even if I did have IE7 installed).
You won't find out. I work with POS professionally and you just won't.
All chain grocery store POS systems are in-house written and typically don't even TOUCH the inventory. They all work on what we call a "dump" Where you scan the barcode and it does a lookup on the SKU, but doesn't subtrace the quantity from inventory, it just changes the price of the general ledger.
They do manual ordering and receiving which means that the POS doesn't tell them how much quantity they have on hand, but what dollar value they have instead.
With these methods, if you want to handle lottery tickets, deposits, splitting a 6pack to 6x 1 packs, etc.. you will just need to create a couple procedures for the cashiers to do things like.. Maybe put cheat sheets at each cashier station, and make it part of the training. You will then just have them type in the price of the lottery ticket charge, or credit, the price of the deposit charge or credit, etc. etc... Then you can use the automated system to do all the stuff that is "normal" and for all the special stuff you do it on a dump. (type in generic part and price).
You will never find a POS system that will track your inventory on the specialty items unless it was created for that type of system and has years of support already behind it. It just won't happen. And even regional grocery chains don't have each little special case done yet. They all use barcodes for standard stuff, but they all do manual stuff with all the special stuff. Walmart is probably the only ones doing a complete management system and its only because they have about 15 years and millions invested in a home brewed system.
But that's the thing, the data rates are all optional and are not part of the contract. This means the only thing they are obligated to honor is that you get 450 minutes for 39.99 per month. If text goes to 30 cents each and I don't want to add 5.99 to my bill to get 20 text a month then I can't cancel my contract. Except the iPhone I think it might have a contract for data and voice... (but not positive as I don't own an iPhone).
Yes they can raise rates. AT&T recently raised text messaging rates to 15cents (in and out) from 10 cents. Previous to the Cingular buyout, text messaging was only 10cents for outgoing, and 0cents for incoming. All while still under contract.
Don't give me this "can't raise rates" bullshit. Rates don't go up on cellphones, they go down. Any carrier raising rates is not doing it because their costs are going up.
This is actually quite true for me too. You were labeled "Funny +5" but it should be "Interesting".
After seeing students and other joe average users switch to a mac and the only thing allowing them to do it with a piece of mind is parallels+XP on the new macbook, I know this is the case with Linux. I haven't converted anyone to linux since 1998 until this year, when we installed ubuntu+compiz+virtualbox+xp on it with the cube. one face is linux, the other is windows. Everyone has been trained by Steve Jobbs a thousand times over that you no longer have to worry about switching to the mac, because you can ALWAYS switch back at any time you want! Just a click of a button. Well, once showing off the cube with windows on it, I have already switched 2 people over and its dirt simple.
Now, these are people at a place of work where they won't be doing any 3d gaming. For the gamers, I am not really sure where to start other than having them install windows on a second partition and reboot all the time (not that fun really) so I haven't figured out the solution for gamers yet.
But to the non-gamer, there is really nothing holding them back from going to ubuntu + compiz + virtualbox. Its just too easy to pass up. And for the people who are uneasy about it, tell them the linux layer is just like a more advanced OS layer underneath windows that is 100x more secure than windows, and only use windows when you need a specific program. for the people who are interested in linux but scared, tell them to go for it and use windows as a backup if they get in a bind.
I'm sure there are other personality types you could account for with this method as well. The key here is that joe average ALREADY understands this type of setup because steve jobs has been selling it to joe average all over TV and through word of mouth on every street corner you can't go by a day without hearing about how mac runs windows better than a pc runs windows. Well. now that the users all know this, its easy to use the same rationale for Linux. And since they can do it on their PC without buying a new mac, they are more likely to try it than someone who is going to spend 1300+ on a new mac.
In fact, many executives from the RAM companies were convicted criminally and served time in federal pound me in the ass prison. And yes, no amount of "market force from competitors" was going to stop the antitrust that was going on in the RAM price fixing fiasco.
If I had meant "Bill of parts" I would have said it. You should have known that by the fact I gave you two separate points of reference to the cost of a player, both that Sandisk sells 2GB players on the retail market for around 50$, and that ipod nanos are speculated to cost about 50$ to manufacture (not to buy the parts for).
I know perfectly well how much the supply chain costs to a company like apple once it leaves the factory in china. And I can tell you that it is not one of the factors that increases the price of the product in any way on the scale of the discounts that are being offered.
What makes you think they are selling at a loss? Are you aware that iPod nano's are speculated to cost less than 50$ each to manufacture? Sandisk currently sells 2GB players for about 50$ each and makes plenty of profit on them. 4GB and 8GB players are only marginally more expensive to manufacture.
If you think there is less than a 50% gross margin on the "premium" players you are sadly mistaken. Their R&D dollars have already been spent. MS is simply cutting their gross margin on the player to maintain competitiveness.
Well, Gateway did just open a manufacturing/staging plant/warehouse in Tennessee. Here they warehouse the laptop chassis and insert the RAM, miniPCI card, and hard drives for quick shipment to US consumers. The cost savings are supposed to be huge and also being located on a major shipping hub in Tennessee gives them a really good distribution channel in the US market.
Now, it just opened up this month into full production, but still, that is a good asset to have. You have to remember, they are also buying their customers and the brand name, which is a distribution channel in itself. They already have agreements with big box retailers like Best Buy, and are successful in them. Plus, more than Gateway, Acer is buying eMachines (don't laff), which is actually a larger division within the company than Gateway. In fact, the "traditional" gateway business is next to nothing right now when compared to the Gateway branded eMachines business.
As if ZDNet is any more trustworthy than the vendor's own benchmarks in the first place?
Get back to me when you start hearing this from scientists criticizing AMD who are actually doing their own real world benchmarks. ZDNet is to computers as Faux News is to politics.
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Actually, you can credibly argue it.
The halo series is not a series FPS game, only for casual users. Gears of war? not even close to the competition you can get in PC gaming.
Counterstrike Quake Series Unreal Series Battlefield Series
You have to admit that the only REAL competition of online gamers is going on in these games. Nobody is competing on the xbox hahahah That would just be plain silly. You can't even aim the damn gun accurately with a little thumb joystick.
Maybe when the wii controllers and wii consol is refined with better and faster hardware, you MIGHT find a good FPS game on the nintendo. But probably never on the xbox or ps2.
I would like to point out a couple innaccuracies in your post.
First of all, corporate customers on the volume license agreement pay per full time equivilent employee, not per machine, for their licenses. This license allows them to install any office or windows pro products on all systems the company owns, provided they originally came with any version of windows from the OEM.
The license does NOT cover, however, the installation of windows XP pro, or vista business, on a computer that originally came wihth Linux (Dell's Ubuntu laptops), freeDOS, or MacOS (all apple computers). The corporate license of the OS is for the UPGRADE only to the professional version of the latest or previous release. In this case, XP or Vista.
The problems for businesses are many: - businesses or government institutions who are on the license and don't re-image all their systems end up licensing XP pro/vista business TWICE for each employee. - In order to not double pay, you must buy the system with a home version of windows, then image it using the corporate license to XP Pro or Vista Business. In this way, you pay minimally for the home version, then upgrade the system to pro using the corporate license. - Many places do a hybrid method, and only double pay in some instances: they deploy large quantities of desktops or laptops at a time and order with home edition, then since they are managing them all with altiris they just stick the corporate image on them when they arrive. But they also some employees to choose which system they want to order for example, customize one specifically for them from dell.com. Then, those people always end up ordering xp pro because they don't want to have to re-load the system when they receive it from the factory. Since these people are ordering one at a time, its difficult to manage them with an automated deployment system like altiras because of increased down time and technician time.
So, its not a clear cut argument. It is definately a problem, and this complexity is 100% due to microsoft's stubbornness on the "upgrade" license (fact: you cannot purchase a MS OS volume license that is not upgrade only). MS should be more kind to their large customers and allow them to install on ALL systems, not just all MS systems. But they specifically do it on purpose as the loophole way around the DOJ lawsuit which prohibited microsoft from banning OEM's from selling non-microsoft computers. So this way, they get to have their cake, and still follow the letter of the judgement.
The documentation is horrible and there is literally nothing on that website that explains how the system works, only the feature set. But absolutely NONE of the featureset is explained in detail.
Short of setting up your own server with the software and spending a ton of time, you probably will not get any answers on what works with that system. Also, after lots of research, the synCML plugin for lightning is no longer supported because the mozilla calendar application was re-written and renamed lightning, meaning that the plugin no longer works and as far as I can tell hasn't had activity on it for over a year.
This is just what I can see from my research on that website, so if you find anything useful that can fill in the gaps I would like to hear it. Hope you can get more info than I did.
According to the site, you can even sync nokia phones with the thing, though there is nothing anywhere showing you how it works and details of supported features. All the stuff on the site looks awesome, but unfortunately, unless your an insider it seems quite difficult to get anything actually working.
Join the KDE Project. Just monkey around in some smaller projects inside there. They have IRC Chat discussions, forums, mailing lists, the works. And I don't know a single person in there who doesn't have their arms open to new motivated developers.
You won't find all the anger and aggression in the KDE project like you do in other projects like the Kernel, or others.
Bill Gates also heavilly donates to the RNC and to republican candidates
How do you think the political appointment of Ashcroft went through so smoothly and what was the first thing on Ashcroft's agenda? Dissolve the push for a harder MS settlement.
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thanks for the clarification. Your right..
I guess my main point is that the laws of thermodynamics still apply, and the cost of this water to hydrogen split will cost at minimum (but actually more than) the same as the current market value of the energy market.
The catalyst I have seen quotes is aluminum which is used up in the reaction to produce aluminum oxide and the byproduct is hydrogen. In a circumstance like this, the aluminum is used up and turned into a different chemical compound which cannot be converted back into aluminum without expending the same amount of energy at minimum which was transferred to the water compound that was originally split up.
so in actuality, the water is not the only fuel. As long as you have water you still don't get hydrogen. You have to have water plus some other compound which is splitting the water into hydrogen and oxygen. and that chemical (whether aluminum, or otherwise) will have to be produced in a factory which will cost the same amount of energy the car uses driving down the road.
So call that a catalyst or call it something else, the energy cost will still come from a coal or fission burning factory, which have arguably worse cost and environmental impact then direct burning of gasoline.
any catalyst (reactant chemical which splits the water molecule up) they use will require at minimum the amount of 'extra' energy it puts into the system to product.
in other words, you aren't actually running on water, but instead running on the catalyst, which must be replaced over time, and does have a minimum cost which is equal to the cost of the energy used in the car over that same period.
In other words, at some point, you are going to have to product this catalyst at the same cost as the current market price of energy (coal, gasoline, natural gas, fission)
Except that they aren't. Whatever you heard is wrong. the cellular wireless internet out there is maybe 2x faster than dialup bandwidth wise, and about 2x slower than dialup latency wise. So really, it is worse for most things requiring user interaction (internet, email)
Not only this, but get hotel style (or euro style) on demand hot water heaters (either grid tied, or natural gas) to boost the heat on your solar powered heater tank. This way you have all the convenience of grid tied heat with the cost of solar. The grid tied heater will only use the amount of energy it needs to heat the passing water to the requested temperature.
I think this is a better and less expensive method than to daisy chain solar heat and a traditional hot water heating tank. Also, on demand hot water is less expensive than heating tanks because they only heat when needed.
(disclaimer, if you like long showers, and don't know when to call it quits, you might cost yourself MORE money unintentionally!)
Legally, your wrong. If you buy software, you bought a license to that COPY, not a license to use it. Nobody can sell a license to USE a product without a legal contract in place. So that means you must sign an agreement, and both parties must participate. There are other conditions that make a legal contract and you can ask a lawyer what those conditions are if you desire.
There is a distinction you are missing here. The distinction is the difference between COPYING (copyright law) and USE (contract law). A copyright does not and cannot restrict USE, but it can restrict copying. Unless you sign your use rights away, then you have all fair use rights when buying a COPY of the software. This is why it is called COPY-RIGHT, and not USE-RIGHT.
the "copyright license" that comes with the software only gives you a list of conditions that allow you to copy the software above and beyond your initial copy (ex: some say you can install it on up to 1 desktop and 1 laptop.) The "End User License Agreement" on the other hand is not a contract (nothing is signed, physically or digitally, and no verbal agreement was given, so there is no contract) and its not a copyright license either. Instead, it is an electronic document displaying information the manufacturer hopes will scare the end user into obeying.
So long as the end user doesn't make an additional copy of the software, then he/she does not have to follow any EULA. And this is the difference between the GPL and a EULA. Because the GPL only restricts the COPYING of software, not the USE of the software.
I call bullshit on you. Why would you make that idiotic argument? Microsoft offered IE7 on me, and I turned THEM down. Nobody is forcing you to install IE7 on windows. If you go through the updates you can always un-check any of the updates you do not want to be installed. I did this for IE7 and still have IE6. (not that I would use either one even if I did have IE7 installed).
You won't find out. I work with POS professionally and you just won't.
All chain grocery store POS systems are in-house written and typically don't even TOUCH the inventory. They all work on what we call a "dump" Where you scan the barcode and it does a lookup on the SKU, but doesn't subtrace the quantity from inventory, it just changes the price of the general ledger.
They do manual ordering and receiving which means that the POS doesn't tell them how much quantity they have on hand, but what dollar value they have instead.
With these methods, if you want to handle lottery tickets, deposits, splitting a 6pack to 6x 1 packs, etc.. you will just need to create a couple procedures for the cashiers to do things like.. Maybe put cheat sheets at each cashier station, and make it part of the training. You will then just have them type in the price of the lottery ticket charge, or credit, the price of the deposit charge or credit, etc. etc... Then you can use the automated system to do all the stuff that is "normal" and for all the special stuff you do it on a dump. (type in generic part and price).
You will never find a POS system that will track your inventory on the specialty items unless it was created for that type of system and has years of support already behind it. It just won't happen. And even regional grocery chains don't have each little special case done yet. They all use barcodes for standard stuff, but they all do manual stuff with all the special stuff. Walmart is probably the only ones doing a complete management system and its only because they have about 15 years and millions invested in a home brewed system.
But that's the thing, the data rates are all optional and are not part of the contract. This means the only thing they are obligated to honor is that you get 450 minutes for 39.99 per month. If text goes to 30 cents each and I don't want to add 5.99 to my bill to get 20 text a month then I can't cancel my contract. Except the iPhone I think it might have a contract for data and voice... (but not positive as I don't own an iPhone).
Yes they can raise rates. AT&T recently raised text messaging rates to 15cents (in and out) from 10 cents. Previous to the Cingular buyout, text messaging was only 10cents for outgoing, and 0cents for incoming. All while still under contract.
Don't give me this "can't raise rates" bullshit. Rates don't go up on cellphones, they go down. Any carrier raising rates is not doing it because their costs are going up.
And yes, two year contracts Are That Bad.
This is actually quite true for me too. You were labeled "Funny +5" but it should be "Interesting".
After seeing students and other joe average users switch to a mac and the only thing allowing them to do it with a piece of mind is parallels+XP on the new macbook, I know this is the case with Linux. I haven't converted anyone to linux since 1998 until this year, when we installed ubuntu+compiz+virtualbox+xp on it with the cube. one face is linux, the other is windows. Everyone has been trained by Steve Jobbs a thousand times over that you no longer have to worry about switching to the mac, because you can ALWAYS switch back at any time you want! Just a click of a button. Well, once showing off the cube with windows on it, I have already switched 2 people over and its dirt simple.
Now, these are people at a place of work where they won't be doing any 3d gaming. For the gamers, I am not really sure where to start other than having them install windows on a second partition and reboot all the time (not that fun really) so I haven't figured out the solution for gamers yet.
But to the non-gamer, there is really nothing holding them back from going to ubuntu + compiz + virtualbox. Its just too easy to pass up. And for the people who are uneasy about it, tell them the linux layer is just like a more advanced OS layer underneath windows that is 100x more secure than windows, and only use windows when you need a specific program. for the people who are interested in linux but scared, tell them to go for it and use windows as a backup if they get in a bind.
I'm sure there are other personality types you could account for with this method as well. The key here is that joe average ALREADY understands this type of setup because steve jobs has been selling it to joe average all over TV and through word of mouth on every street corner you can't go by a day without hearing about how mac runs windows better than a pc runs windows. Well. now that the users all know this, its easy to use the same rationale for Linux. And since they can do it on their PC without buying a new mac, they are more likely to try it than someone who is going to spend 1300+ on a new mac.
Ignorance: what happens when people blindly trust the free market.
In fact, many executives from the RAM companies were convicted criminally and served time in federal pound me in the ass prison. And yes, no amount of "market force from competitors" was going to stop the antitrust that was going on in the RAM price fixing fiasco.
If I had meant "Bill of parts" I would have said it. You should have known that by the fact I gave you two separate points of reference to the cost of a player, both that Sandisk sells 2GB players on the retail market for around 50$, and that ipod nanos are speculated to cost about 50$ to manufacture (not to buy the parts for).
I know perfectly well how much the supply chain costs to a company like apple once it leaves the factory in china. And I can tell you that it is not one of the factors that increases the price of the product in any way on the scale of the discounts that are being offered.
What makes you think they are selling at a loss? Are you aware that iPod nano's are speculated to cost less than 50$ each to manufacture? Sandisk currently sells 2GB players for about 50$ each and makes plenty of profit on them. 4GB and 8GB players are only marginally more expensive to manufacture.
If you think there is less than a 50% gross margin on the "premium" players you are sadly mistaken. Their R&D dollars have already been spent. MS is simply cutting their gross margin on the player to maintain competitiveness.
Re: distribution channels...
Well, Gateway did just open a manufacturing/staging plant/warehouse in Tennessee. Here they warehouse the laptop chassis and insert the RAM, miniPCI card, and hard drives for quick shipment to US consumers. The cost savings are supposed to be huge and also being located on a major shipping hub in Tennessee gives them a really good distribution channel in the US market.
Now, it just opened up this month into full production, but still, that is a good asset to have. You have to remember, they are also buying their customers and the brand name, which is a distribution channel in itself. They already have agreements with big box retailers like Best Buy, and are successful in them. Plus, more than Gateway, Acer is buying eMachines (don't laff), which is actually a larger division within the company than Gateway. In fact, the "traditional" gateway business is next to nothing right now when compared to the Gateway branded eMachines business.
Plus, they are buying the company for peanuts.
"That's extremely generous. Sales and clearance items do not apply. I'd put the price at $50, and that's generous."
not really, you can buy 4GB usb flash drives from crucial.com for around 40$, wholesale on those is about 30$. Mass produced much less
MOD PARENT UP.
He is right on the money with this statement. The grandparent is an asshole and at the end of the day just an ignorant drone.
"Go away troll."
Give me a break dude. Your entire post was a troll. Even if the article has flamebait in it your post was 10x worse.
Do you honestly think that "us americans" no longer want to use buttons? PLEASE DUDE. Snap back into reality for a second.
"Call it vendor lock in if you want, we don't really care, we just want to enjoy our media."
HAHAHAHHA, said like a true apple fanboy. My god where did you come from dude?
You are reading this from ZDNet?
As if ZDNet is any more trustworthy than the vendor's own benchmarks in the first place?
Get back to me when you start hearing this from scientists criticizing AMD who are actually doing their own real world benchmarks. ZDNet is to computers as Faux News is to politics.
Actually, you can credibly argue it.
The halo series is not a series FPS game, only for casual users. Gears of war? not even close to the competition you can get in PC gaming.
Counterstrike
Quake Series
Unreal Series
Battlefield Series
You have to admit that the only REAL competition of online gamers is going on in these games. Nobody is competing on the xbox hahahah That would just be plain silly. You can't even aim the damn gun accurately with a little thumb joystick.
Maybe when the wii controllers and wii consol is refined with better and faster hardware, you MIGHT find a good FPS game on the nintendo. But probably never on the xbox or ps2.
I would like to point out a couple innaccuracies in your post.
First of all, corporate customers on the volume license agreement pay per full time equivilent employee, not per machine, for their licenses. This license allows them to install any office or windows pro products on all systems the company owns, provided they originally came with any version of windows from the OEM.
The license does NOT cover, however, the installation of windows XP pro, or vista business, on a computer that originally came wihth Linux (Dell's Ubuntu laptops), freeDOS, or MacOS (all apple computers). The corporate license of the OS is for the UPGRADE only to the professional version of the latest or previous release. In this case, XP or Vista.
The problems for businesses are many:
- businesses or government institutions who are on the license and don't re-image all their systems end up licensing XP pro/vista business TWICE for each employee.
- In order to not double pay, you must buy the system with a home version of windows, then image it using the corporate license to XP Pro or Vista Business. In this way, you pay minimally for the home version, then upgrade the system to pro using the corporate license.
- Many places do a hybrid method, and only double pay in some instances: they deploy large quantities of desktops or laptops at a time and order with home edition, then since they are managing them all with altiris they just stick the corporate image on them when they arrive. But they also some employees to choose which system they want to order for example, customize one specifically for them from dell.com. Then, those people always end up ordering xp pro because they don't want to have to re-load the system when they receive it from the factory. Since these people are ordering one at a time, its difficult to manage them with an automated deployment system like altiras because of increased down time and technician time.
So, its not a clear cut argument. It is definately a problem, and this complexity is 100% due to microsoft's stubbornness on the "upgrade" license (fact: you cannot purchase a MS OS volume license that is not upgrade only). MS should be more kind to their large customers and allow them to install on ALL systems, not just all MS systems. But they specifically do it on purpose as the loophole way around the DOJ lawsuit which prohibited microsoft from banning OEM's from selling non-microsoft computers. So this way, they get to have their cake, and still follow the letter of the judgement.
Unfortunately, you won't find much to read there.
The documentation is horrible and there is literally nothing on that website that explains how the system works, only the feature set. But absolutely NONE of the featureset is explained in detail.
Short of setting up your own server with the software and spending a ton of time, you probably will not get any answers on what works with that system. Also, after lots of research, the synCML plugin for lightning is no longer supported because the mozilla calendar application was re-written and renamed lightning, meaning that the plugin no longer works and as far as I can tell hasn't had activity on it for over a year.
This is just what I can see from my research on that website, so if you find anything useful that can fill in the gaps I would like to hear it. Hope you can get more info than I did.
According to the site, you can even sync nokia phones with the thing, though there is nothing anywhere showing you how it works and details of supported features. All the stuff on the site looks awesome, but unfortunately, unless your an insider it seems quite difficult to get anything actually working.
Add the University of Arkansas to that list. They are doing it here as well.
My suggestion?
Join the KDE Project. Just monkey around in some smaller projects inside there. They have IRC Chat discussions, forums, mailing lists, the works. And I don't know a single person in there who doesn't have their arms open to new motivated developers.
You won't find all the anger and aggression in the KDE project like you do in other projects like the Kernel, or others.
Bill Gates also heavilly donates to the RNC and to republican candidates
How do you think the political appointment of Ashcroft went through so smoothly and what was the first thing on Ashcroft's agenda? Dissolve the push for a harder MS settlement.