The shop personnel will show only a small part of the actual Nokia portfolio. Nokia has no problem as long as people walk into phone company stores or warehouses with limited choice, mostly decided by which phones the phone companies offer the best subsidies on.
Go to the Nokia site and try to find e.g. the cheapest quad band GSM phone. For extra points, find the cheapest quad band phone which works on 3G frequencies at least in Europe.
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Nevertheless it IS impossible to pick a Nokia phone unless you happen to be a Nokia phone expert. Now that people are starting to buy handsets instead of just being grateful for whatever crap the phone company threw at them, this is becoming a problem.
Getting down to two models is a challenge though; there is still a large market for "in-between" phones which have decent battery life and small size but still a reasonable amount of features. The Slashdot market may be divided between "I don't need no stinking texting" and "no can-opener? lame!", but the rest of the world is less black and white.
Its amazing to think that once upon a time Debian was considered behind the times.
The fact that you can find a system even further behind the times is not proof that Debian isn't...
CentOS is a lost cause; Red Hat Enterprise Linux itself is moving at glacial speeds (or rather, while the bandwidth is quite ok, the 5+ year latency is unbearable.) When CentOS is months behind RHEL even for security updates, it gets a bit ridiculous.
cisco small business products are excellent for friends and family, support everything under the sun,
Alas, they do not have feature parity between IPv4 and IPv6. Among other things, no dynamic routing protocols are supported for IPv6. This is still better than the Linksys range which does not support any routing protocols even for IPv4, but it means that you can be stuck without IPv4 if you depend on one of those features.
Right now the only IPv6 dynamic routing device I know of below $400 or so is RouterBoard, and the RouterOS dynamic IPv6 routing is not entirely stable in the "stable" release. The next cheapest seem to be Juniper SRX-100 and FortiGate 50B. You can of course build something yourself with a WRT54GL + OpenWRT + Quagga if you prefer.
What's even more interesting is that if these artificial neurons can exist easily outside of the human cranial "Wet-Space", then you brain can be augmented, duplicated, backed-up, transmitted over distance, and visualized.
This depends on whether the brain state can be defined entirely by classical state. If the brain makes use of or is influenced by quantum state, you cannot duplicate it and a visualization will lack some information. You can still transmit the state over distance.
It is wrong to take something and pretend you made it, when you did not.
Copyright in many parts of Europe has the concept of "moral rights" which are separate from the commercial rights, and often do not expire. The US copyright law concerns only commercial rights, so copyright debates in the US rarely discuss moral rights. Yet the moral rights seem rather more important than the commercial rights.
Oh crap, my comments apply to the iPhone App Store, not the Mac App Store. I have no idea whether there are any GPL-related problems with the Mac App Store.
When you get an app from the App Store, you agree to terms such as "must only install on 5 devices". That term is an additional restriction beyond what the GPL contains. You are not allowed to add additional restrictions when redistributing software under the GPL. Since the developer cannot remove these extra terms, the App Store is not allowed to distribute software under the GPL.
Now, this is not a problem in the case of Lugaru HD, because the only person with standing to sue is the original developer (assuming he did not distribute any GPL'd code which he did not write himself), and he is the one who put the app into the App Store in the first place, so he is unlikely to sue Apple for illegal distribution of the software.
The person who copied the app is not following the terms of the GPL license (or colluding with Apple to distribute without a valid license), so he can be sued for copyright infringement -- even if he had not copied the proprietary content but only the game itself.
It is equivalent to a sales tax, VAT. VAT is a tax on top of the sale price. In Denmark VAT is 25%, which means that 20% of the final price on the product is VAT.
The problem is that if one undertakes a huge project to build a big ass ship and it launches, one hundred years later the technology will have advanced so much that we will be able to build another one which is bigger and faster.
Yet here we are, 40 years after the moon landings, and repeating them seems about as expensive as the original effort. We certainly are not going to travel significantly FASTER to the moon this time. Perhaps the next 60 years will bring progress and you will be right.
So then what do you do when you pass the heilopause and you no longer have a solar "wind"?
Solar sails don't run on the solar wind, they run on photon pressure. Not that it helps much; it will be difficult to get much thrust from solar sails when you are at the heliopause, simply because the Sun will be awfully dim from that distance.
Any of the things you listed are trivially easy even for mildly technically competent people.
I can assure you that it isn't easy for most people to record a movie using one TV onto a USB stick (many new TVs have this ability) and then play it on a different TV. If the TV doing the recording is a well-known brand, you need to fix the firmware to not encrypt the recording -- the equivalent of modding a game console.
DRM is not a response to people who CAN'T rip a CD, it is a response to those who CAN. It is primarily a way to stop the traditional legal ways of using media -- moving to portable devices, time shifting, selling second hand, and making mix tapes.
Saudi Arabian royalty does not support Al Qaeda. It would be a bit of a daft move on their part, one of Al Qaeda's primary aims is to topple the Saudi Arabian regime.
It is not about losing, it is about having your vote wasted. With proportional representation, much fewer votes are wasted. Obviously this will not work for inherently single-person jobs like president. This is by the way a good argument for why you should limit the power of people who may only be supported by a slight majority.
You could make votes matter a bit more with a more open qualification process and a multi-round or preferential voting system. As it is, there really is no point voting for a third party, except for the "wasn't my fault" thing you mention.
we have to remove the profit motive in order to get more 'pure' applicants. simple as that.
If you do that, you also remove the chance for anyone not rich to be able to afford taking the job. This isn't really a problem for US presidents who have to be affluent anyway to have a chance, but for lesser seats it is a problem.
There is a very insightful speech by Vaclav Havel about such things. "Politics, therefore, ought to be carried on by people who are vigilant, sensitive to the ambiguous promise of self-affirmation that comes with it."
Alas, even in Vaclav Havel's own country, it is not only such people who are politicians.
Piracy is the reason the rest of us have to put up with DRM.
Only if you consider it piracy to copy your CD's to your MP3 player, or using a TV to record a show to a USB stick and then moving it to your other TV to watch. Piracy limits how draconian DRM can be; eventually too many people go for the cracked unlimited content.
Paying for content affiliated with the big players means supporting this threat to our rights. The moral choices are either pirating, not watching such content at all, or buying second hand. The last option is a bit dubious because the existence of a second hand market increases what people are willing to pay for first-hand items. "Luckily" this temptation will soon be gone, when everything is distributed online you cannot sell anything second hand.
A president only has so much political capital to spend before his supporters abandon him and he is unable to get any laws through. Obama chose to focus on health care reform which seems to have turned out much costlier for him than he expected. What little political capital was left was spent on keeping the economy alive.
The companies/organizations specializing in Imaginary Property tend to be primarily aligned with the Democrats (although they are by no means strangers to the Republicans). Even if Obama disagrees with stronger IP laws and so on (and I have no evidence that he does disagree), he could not afford to piss off his traditional supporters.
Anyway, I may be wrong about all this, it's just how it looks like to me. I'm not American.
Self-immolation is not all that uncommon, it just rarely makes the world news. I do not think self-immolation by Palestinians would make anything significant happen, unless it happened in large numbers.
You aren't reading what I wrote. Saudi Arabia would not be able to conquer anyone if they weren't propped up by US "aid" and the oil money. If that dries up, the regime will collapse and the military will be powerless.
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The shop personnel will show only a small part of the actual Nokia portfolio. Nokia has no problem as long as people walk into phone company stores or warehouses with limited choice, mostly decided by which phones the phone companies offer the best subsidies on.
Go to the Nokia site and try to find e.g. the cheapest quad band GSM phone. For extra points, find the cheapest quad band phone which works on 3G frequencies at least in Europe.
Nevertheless it IS impossible to pick a Nokia phone unless you happen to be a Nokia phone expert. Now that people are starting to buy handsets instead of just being grateful for whatever crap the phone company threw at them, this is becoming a problem.
Getting down to two models is a challenge though; there is still a large market for "in-between" phones which have decent battery life and small size but still a reasonable amount of features. The Slashdot market may be divided between "I don't need no stinking texting" and "no can-opener? lame!", but the rest of the world is less black and white.
The handset part of Ericsson died and their soul went to Sony.
The provider side is doing quite fine, AFAIK, with some interesting LTE/4G products in the pipeline.
Its amazing to think that once upon a time Debian was considered behind the times.
The fact that you can find a system even further behind the times is not proof that Debian isn't...
CentOS is a lost cause; Red Hat Enterprise Linux itself is moving at glacial speeds (or rather, while the bandwidth is quite ok, the 5+ year latency is unbearable.) When CentOS is months behind RHEL even for security updates, it gets a bit ridiculous.
cisco small business products are excellent for friends and family, support everything under the sun,
Alas, they do not have feature parity between IPv4 and IPv6. Among other things, no dynamic routing protocols are supported for IPv6. This is still better than the Linksys range which does not support any routing protocols even for IPv4, but it means that you can be stuck without IPv4 if you depend on one of those features.
Right now the only IPv6 dynamic routing device I know of below $400 or so is RouterBoard, and the RouterOS dynamic IPv6 routing is not entirely stable in the "stable" release. The next cheapest seem to be Juniper SRX-100 and FortiGate 50B. You can of course build something yourself with a WRT54GL + OpenWRT + Quagga if you prefer.
The ISP is supposed to hand you at least a /56 so you can subnet.
6to4 must die, it is inherently unreliable and it breaks when the ISP does NAT for IPv4. If an ISP wants to go that route, the correct choice is 6rd.
What's even more interesting is that if these artificial neurons can exist easily outside of the human cranial "Wet-Space", then you brain can be augmented, duplicated, backed-up, transmitted over distance, and visualized.
This depends on whether the brain state can be defined entirely by classical state. If the brain makes use of or is influenced by quantum state, you cannot duplicate it and a visualization will lack some information. You can still transmit the state over distance.
It is wrong to take something and pretend you made it, when you did not.
Copyright in many parts of Europe has the concept of "moral rights" which are separate from the commercial rights, and often do not expire. The US copyright law concerns only commercial rights, so copyright debates in the US rarely discuss moral rights. Yet the moral rights seem rather more important than the commercial rights.
Oh crap, my comments apply to the iPhone App Store, not the Mac App Store. I have no idea whether there are any GPL-related problems with the Mac App Store.
In short, forget I said anything.
When you get an app from the App Store, you agree to terms such as "must only install on 5 devices". That term is an additional restriction beyond what the GPL contains. You are not allowed to add additional restrictions when redistributing software under the GPL. Since the developer cannot remove these extra terms, the App Store is not allowed to distribute software under the GPL.
Now, this is not a problem in the case of Lugaru HD, because the only person with standing to sue is the original developer (assuming he did not distribute any GPL'd code which he did not write himself), and he is the one who put the app into the App Store in the first place, so he is unlikely to sue Apple for illegal distribution of the software.
The person who copied the app is not following the terms of the GPL license (or colluding with Apple to distribute without a valid license), so he can be sued for copyright infringement -- even if he had not copied the proprietary content but only the game itself.
It is equivalent to a sales tax, VAT. VAT is a tax on top of the sale price. In Denmark VAT is 25%, which means that 20% of the final price on the product is VAT.
I may be wrong, but it sounds to me like even in-app purchases must pay the 43% Apple Sales Tax.
The problem is that if one undertakes a huge project to build a big ass ship and it launches, one hundred years later the technology will have advanced so much that we will be able to build another one which is bigger and faster.
Yet here we are, 40 years after the moon landings, and repeating them seems about as expensive as the original effort. We certainly are not going to travel significantly FASTER to the moon this time. Perhaps the next 60 years will bring progress and you will be right.
So then what do you do when you pass the heilopause and you no longer have a solar "wind"?
Solar sails don't run on the solar wind, they run on photon pressure. Not that it helps much; it will be difficult to get much thrust from solar sails when you are at the heliopause, simply because the Sun will be awfully dim from that distance.
Any of the things you listed are trivially easy even for mildly technically competent people.
I can assure you that it isn't easy for most people to record a movie using one TV onto a USB stick (many new TVs have this ability) and then play it on a different TV. If the TV doing the recording is a well-known brand, you need to fix the firmware to not encrypt the recording -- the equivalent of modding a game console.
DRM is not a response to people who CAN'T rip a CD, it is a response to those who CAN. It is primarily a way to stop the traditional legal ways of using media -- moving to portable devices, time shifting, selling second hand, and making mix tapes.
Saudi Arabian royalty does not support Al Qaeda. It would be a bit of a daft move on their part, one of Al Qaeda's primary aims is to topple the Saudi Arabian regime.
It is not about losing, it is about having your vote wasted. With proportional representation, much fewer votes are wasted. Obviously this will not work for inherently single-person jobs like president. This is by the way a good argument for why you should limit the power of people who may only be supported by a slight majority.
You could make votes matter a bit more with a more open qualification process and a multi-round or preferential voting system. As it is, there really is no point voting for a third party, except for the "wasn't my fault" thing you mention.
we have to remove the profit motive in order to get more 'pure' applicants. simple as that.
If you do that, you also remove the chance for anyone not rich to be able to afford taking the job. This isn't really a problem for US presidents who have to be affluent anyway to have a chance, but for lesser seats it is a problem.
There is a very insightful speech by Vaclav Havel about such things. "Politics, therefore, ought to be carried on by people who are vigilant, sensitive to the ambiguous promise of self-affirmation that comes with it."
Alas, even in Vaclav Havel's own country, it is not only such people who are politicians.
Piracy is the reason the rest of us have to put up with DRM.
Only if you consider it piracy to copy your CD's to your MP3 player, or using a TV to record a show to a USB stick and then moving it to your other TV to watch. Piracy limits how draconian DRM can be; eventually too many people go for the cracked unlimited content.
Paying for content affiliated with the big players means supporting this threat to our rights. The moral choices are either pirating, not watching such content at all, or buying second hand. The last option is a bit dubious because the existence of a second hand market increases what people are willing to pay for first-hand items. "Luckily" this temptation will soon be gone, when everything is distributed online you cannot sell anything second hand.
than all those votes for McCain were wasted, because HE LOST and you voted for a loser!!! See the idiocy here?
Of course the votes for McCain were wasted. Why is it idiotic to say so?
If your vote does not change anything, it is wasted. Pretty much by definition.
A president only has so much political capital to spend before his supporters abandon him and he is unable to get any laws through. Obama chose to focus on health care reform which seems to have turned out much costlier for him than he expected. What little political capital was left was spent on keeping the economy alive.
The companies/organizations specializing in Imaginary Property tend to be primarily aligned with the Democrats (although they are by no means strangers to the Republicans). Even if Obama disagrees with stronger IP laws and so on (and I have no evidence that he does disagree), he could not afford to piss off his traditional supporters.
Anyway, I may be wrong about all this, it's just how it looks like to me. I'm not American.
Self-immolation is not all that uncommon, it just rarely makes the world news. I do not think self-immolation by Palestinians would make anything significant happen, unless it happened in large numbers.
You aren't reading what I wrote. Saudi Arabia would not be able to conquer anyone if they weren't propped up by US "aid" and the oil money. If that dries up, the regime will collapse and the military will be powerless.
How exactly is a Saudi Arabia with no money from oil and no subsidies/military aid from the US supposed to steamroll anyone?
You're worried that Saudi Arabia BECOMES extremist?