It is more than a cooling off period. With mail order and online sales the customer can't inspect the item before purchase. He/she has to take the vendor's information about the item at face value or not buy it. The customer has 7-14 days to return the item if it is not what he thought he purchased.
I believe it should also apply to digital goods. What if, for instance, you buy Starwars IV online, but get the "augmented" version rather than the expected original.
I have actually been trying to renew my Wired subscription for the last 3 months. But on the international subscription webpage, the credit card expiration year only goes to 2011, and my card expires in 2012:-(
Also, the notification letter they send to international customers is a lot more friendly, with phrases like "We hope you still wish to subscribe". But then again, over here by law when you stop payment, that ends the subscription agreement. It is the magazine's responsibility to not send you stuff you haven't yet paid for.
Actually, you have to give the input form an ID, as in:
<label for="textboxfield" accesskey="t">Input text here</label> <input type="text" name="textbox" id="textboxfield"/>
and your example can be shortened to:
<label accesskey="t">Input text here <input type="text" name="textbox"/></label>
I have mixed experiences with access keys in real life. IE uses the ALT key for both pulldown menus and access keys, hence ALT-F is useless (in english-language browsers, other key-combinations are used in other languages). Then there are issues with semantics. For example, if a submit button has an accesskey attribute, should we assume that using the access key submits the form, instead of just focusing on submit button?
If the US (as an example) imports more than it exports, then the other nations are going to have a surplus of US dollars usable only in the US (or the currency markets).
Yes, and what is happening is that the US is borrowing dollars from China to import even more products from China. It is a nice little tight loop with the effect that US's debt (and interest payments) increases and increases.
I don't know what the exact architecture is. Possibly some hybrid between MPP and SMP. As you can see in http://www.att.com/news/0593/930517.ncd.html, AT&T calls it SMP, but I remember they claimed scalability to 1024 processors.
...The NCR 3555, NCR 3525, NCR 3455, and NCR 3430 servers support NCR UNIX SVR4 MP-RAS and are based on NCR's industry-leading symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) architecture...
What I do know is that you didn't need to write any special code to take advantage of the CPUs, but I don't remember if a proces stayed on the same CPU once it had been assigned.
One could hypothesize that the reason SCO doesn't want to show the source is that they don't want to teach the world how to go from the 32 processors Linux can do today to 1024 processors.
I don't know if you have considered this. AT&T bought NCR in 1991 and sold it again in 1997. It's on NCR's history page: http://www.ncr.com/history/history.htm
As far as I can gather, NCR started production of the 3000 series from Sep 1990 using 80386/80486 chips:
Model [#CPUs] Manufactured from NCR3320 [1] Sep 1990 NCR3450 [1-4] Sep 1990 NCR3550 [2-8 ] Sep 1990 NCR3600 [8-288] May 1991
Later Pentium-based servers were released as this news release shows: http://www.att.com/news/0593/930517.ncd.html
All these systems run System V.4 in what NCR calls Massive Parallel configuration. So evidently AT&T had the knowledge of how to build multiprocessor systems back in 1991. However, some proprietary hardware was used to to keep the processors in sync. The question is how much of this was made available to SCO in 1995. If they had full access to this information, they would not have been able to use it, as they don't produce hardware, but maybe they now think they can tweak it to run on modern Pentium chips and seize the highend of SMP solutions.
It could also explain how SCO can assert they have experience in 8+ CPU multiprocessing even though this capability doesn't show up in SCO's products.
What's this thing about 500 peak minutes? Who talks on their mobile phone for over 8 hours a month?
I have a mobile phone. I hardly ever use it, so my phone bill is about $5 a month everything included. I pay 20 cents a minute when I use it.
In Europe you only pay for the mobile phone calls you initiate - not the ones you receive. There is one execption though. If you are outside your own country you pay the difference between the local call and the long distance for the caller, as the caller doesn't know that his call is going to another country.
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The card doesn't have a battery, so you can't add a LED. The processor in the chip only runs when you stick it in the vending machine slot.
However, when vending machines that accept coin cards become ubiquitous you are never too far away from a way to verify your wealth. No PIN codes, the value on the card is shown immediately when you stick it in.
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Coin cards don't have a magnetic strip. They have a chip the size of 2x2 mm. They will survive laundry - unlike paper cach, and if you need more than $107 you just carry more than one card - or use your VISA card,
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It is not meant for person to person transactions. We've had it for years in Denmark, though not refillable. You buy a new card whenever you ran out (no extra fee). It has the weakness that you are sometimes stuck with a small amount on the card you can't do anything useful with.
You use it whereever you need to pay small fees. Such as payphones, vending machines, parking fees, bridge tolls etc.
I used it quite a bit to pay parking fees in the city centre, but recently they have changed the system, so you pay but SMSing the parking meter's number from your cell phone. - Yes cell phones are ubiquitous over here.
...but it seems like everyone already knows the truth anyways, so what difference would it make?
You are underestimating the appalling conditions in these sweatshops. We're talking about young girls working 14 hours a day, sleeping in dorms, without the right to discuss working conditions in groups. If the truth became more widely known, everyone with a shred of empathy would boycott Gap and Liz Claiborne
Ah, yes, but what I've heard is that it is not the global warming itself that is a problem, it is the speed by which it is occuring.
Trees grow in certain comfort zones. For instance, birch grow in the colder regions. If the environment warms, then birch will disappear from the region, and other types of trees will only slowly occupy the area. Thus desertification and erosion occurs.
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I remember seing a demonstration of such a filesystem a few years ago. The researchers built it to be sure they were not taking backups of changing files.
Essentially you made a timestamp tag on the filesystem. The applications would continue to work and modify the files, but you could then put the files on backup as they were in exactly the instant you set that timestamp. You could have several timestamp tags working at the same time. Roughly same principle as CVS.
What was cool, was that you could mount the filesystem (readonly) again as it would look like at the given timestamp and then grab individual files as you wished. Not only could you recover deleted files, but you could also recover overwritten files. Having seen this demonstrated makes me think that the trash can concept is very crude. It only offers one level of recovery and doesn't protect against accidential overwrite. Haven't we all accidentally redirected output to that very important file we didn't have a backup of?
Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the filesystem, except it was demonstrated on Solaris.
MS can't Open Source SQL Server, Access, Outlook Express, Netmeeting etc. because as soon as they do, someone will port these applications to Linux and that will make it much more difficult for Windows to compete with Linux.
Now, we will see that they were right to do so. IF the EU actually impliments this thing, not just symbolically, we will get to see how right or wrong it is for economic development.
The US auto industry got into serious trouble in the early seventies, because the energy crisis made people buy smaller cars, and Detroit didn't have the production facilities to produce energy efficient cars. Therefore people bought Japanese and European cars.
I believe, that one day the US congress/senate will wake up, institute some tougher pollution laws, and we Europeans will be happy to sell you these CO2 filters, windmills etc., and Europe will make a very nice profit.
I believe, that the American citizen will some day decide to buy washing machines that use less water, cars that have better mileage and refrigerators that are produced with less pollution.
And yes, I believe, that because Europe in five years has lived with the Kyoto Protocol for a long time, our products will be better, the US industry won't be able to compete and we'll make a tidy profit.
And in the meantime, Europeans already want small cars, more efficient washing machines, GMO-free grain, so the only product US can sell is software and Hollywood movies.
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It is more than a cooling off period. With mail order and online sales the customer can't inspect the item before purchase. He/she has to take the vendor's information about the item at face value or not buy it. The customer has 7-14 days to return the item if it is not what he thought he purchased.
I believe it should also apply to digital goods. What if, for instance, you buy Starwars IV online, but get the "augmented" version rather than the expected original.
I have actually been trying to renew my Wired subscription for the last 3 months. But on the international subscription webpage, the credit card expiration year only goes to 2011, and my card expires in 2012 :-(
Also, the notification letter they send to international customers is a lot more friendly, with phrases like "We hope you still wish to subscribe". But then again, over here by law when you stop payment, that ends the subscription agreement. It is the magazine's responsibility to not send you stuff you haven't yet paid for.
Yes, some do. For instance the former soviet republic Estonia has wifi everywhere.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3603943.s
(My Internet connection is a bit slow right now. I'm downloading a movie)
Actually, you have to give the input form an ID, as in:
<label for="textboxfield" accesskey="t">Input text here</label>
<input type="text" name="textbox" id="textboxfield"/>
and your example can be shortened to:
<label accesskey="t">Input text here
<input type="text" name="textbox"/></label>
I have mixed experiences with access keys in real life. IE uses the ALT key for both pulldown menus and access keys, hence ALT-F is useless (in english-language browsers, other key-combinations are used in other languages). Then there are issues with semantics. For example, if a submit button has an accesskey attribute, should we assume that using the access key submits the form, instead of just focusing on submit button?
Yes, and what is happening is that the US is borrowing dollars from China to import even more products from China. It is a nice little tight loop with the effect that US's debt (and interest payments) increases and increases.
1. If I like it, it's mine.
2. If it's in my hand, it's mine.
3. If I can take it from you, it's mine.
4. If I had it a little while ago, it's mine.
5. If it's mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way.
6. If I'm doing or building something, all the pieces are mine.
7. If it looks just like mine, it is mine.
8. If I saw it first, it's mine.
9. If you are developing something and you release it as GPL, it automatically becomes mine.
10. If it's useless, it's yours!
What I do know is that you didn't need to write any special code to take advantage of the CPUs, but I don't remember if a proces stayed on the same CPU once it had been assigned.
One could hypothesize that the reason SCO doesn't want to show the source is that they don't want to teach the world how to go from the 32 processors Linux can do today to 1024 processors.
I don't know if you have considered this. AT&T bought NCR in 1991 and sold it again in 1997. It's on NCR's history page: http://www.ncr.com/history/history.htm
As far as I can gather, NCR started production of the 3000 series from Sep 1990 using 80386/80486 chips:
Model [#CPUs] Manufactured from
NCR3320 [1] Sep 1990
NCR3450 [1-4] Sep 1990
NCR3550 [2-8 ] Sep 1990
NCR3600 [8-288] May 1991
Later Pentium-based servers were released as this news release shows: http://www.att.com/news/0593/930517.ncd.html
All these systems run System V.4 in what NCR calls Massive Parallel configuration. So evidently AT&T had the knowledge of how to build multiprocessor systems back in 1991. However, some proprietary hardware was used to to keep the processors in sync. The question is how much of this was made available to SCO in 1995. If they had full access to this information, they would not have been able to use it, as they don't produce hardware, but maybe they now think they can tweak it to run on modern Pentium chips and seize the highend of SMP solutions.
It could also explain how SCO can assert they have experience in 8+ CPU multiprocessing even though this capability doesn't show up in SCO's products.
What's this thing about 500 peak minutes? Who talks on their mobile phone for over 8 hours a month?
I have a mobile phone. I hardly ever use it, so my phone bill is about $5 a month everything included. I pay 20 cents a minute when I use it.
In Europe you only pay for the mobile phone calls you initiate - not the ones you receive. There is one execption though. If you are outside your own country you pay the difference between the local call and the long distance for the caller, as the caller doesn't know that his call is going to another country.
The card doesn't have a battery, so you can't add a LED. The processor in the chip only runs when you stick it in the vending machine slot.
However, when vending machines that accept coin cards become ubiquitous you are never too far away from a way to verify your wealth. No PIN codes, the value on the card is shown immediately when you stick it in.
Coin cards don't have a magnetic strip. They have a chip the size of 2x2 mm. They will survive laundry - unlike paper cach, and if you need more than $107 you just carry more than one card - or use your VISA card,
It is not meant for person to person transactions. We've had it for years in Denmark, though not refillable. You buy a new card whenever you ran out (no extra fee). It has the weakness that you are sometimes stuck with a small amount on the card you can't do anything useful with.
You use it whereever you need to pay small fees. Such as payphones, vending machines, parking fees, bridge tolls etc.
I used it quite a bit to pay parking fees in the city centre, but recently they have changed the system, so you pay but SMSing the parking meter's number from your cell phone. - Yes cell phones are ubiquitous over here.
You are underestimating the appalling conditions in these sweatshops. We're talking about young girls working 14 hours a day, sleeping in dorms, without the right to discuss working conditions in groups. If the truth became more widely known, everyone with a shred of empathy would boycott Gap and Liz Claiborne
See this link for a sweatshop related deatch.
Ah, yes, but what I've heard is that it is not the global warming itself that is a problem, it is the speed by which it is occuring.
Trees grow in certain comfort zones. For instance, birch grow in the colder regions. If the environment warms, then birch will disappear from the region, and other types of trees will only slowly occupy the area. Thus desertification and erosion occurs.
I remember seing a demonstration of such a filesystem a few years ago. The researchers built it to be sure they were not taking backups of changing files.
Essentially you made a timestamp tag on the filesystem. The applications would continue to work and modify the files, but you could then put the files on backup as they were in exactly the instant you set that timestamp. You could have several timestamp tags working at the same time. Roughly same principle as CVS.
What was cool, was that you could mount the filesystem (readonly) again as it would look like at the given timestamp and then grab individual files as you wished. Not only could you recover deleted files, but you could also recover overwritten files. Having seen this demonstrated makes me think that the trash can concept is very crude. It only offers one level of recovery and doesn't protect against accidential overwrite. Haven't we all accidentally redirected output to that very important file we didn't have a backup of?
Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the filesystem, except it was demonstrated on Solaris.
MS can't Open Source SQL Server, Access, Outlook Express, Netmeeting etc. because as soon as they do, someone will port these applications to Linux and that will make it much more difficult for Windows to compete with Linux.
The US auto industry got into serious trouble in the early seventies, because the energy crisis made people buy smaller cars, and Detroit didn't have the production facilities to produce energy efficient cars. Therefore people bought Japanese and European cars.
I believe, that one day the US congress/senate will wake up, institute some tougher pollution laws, and we Europeans will be happy to sell you these CO2 filters, windmills etc., and Europe will make a very nice profit.
I believe, that the American citizen will some day decide to buy washing machines that use less water, cars that have better mileage and refrigerators that are produced with less pollution.
And yes, I believe, that because Europe in five years has lived with the Kyoto Protocol for a long time, our products will be better, the US industry won't be able to compete and we'll make a tidy profit.
And in the meantime, Europeans already want small cars, more efficient washing machines, GMO-free grain, so the only product US can sell is software and Hollywood movies.
I can add