The second Intel issues a new matching-dollars marketing campaign where the specs for the system include HD-DVD, or Microsoft adds HD-DVD to the "Made for Windows Vista" logo requirements, you'd see Dell and HP leave the Blu-Ray camp. With them would go everyone making optical drives for PCs, and the new DVD standard for computers will be locked into HD-DVD-compatible drives.
I set GMail to automatically archive my mailing-list email at the same time it labels it, to keep mailing list mail out of the Inbox. If I want to view all unread, I search for "is:unread".
There is no option to search for email without labels except -label: for every single label you've set up.
I'd be happy to use 'z' more widely if, in return, Americans would agree to spell 'colour' correctly.
We can't; we don't have the extra vowels. Unlike the British Empire, we didn't participate in imperialist vowel-looting of Balkan places like Krk and Vrbnik in the 19th Century.
Google reads in copyrighted works, and then keeps the electronic copy in a database that no humans ever see. When somebody does a Google search, it pops up a small excerpt that is well within Fair Use guidelines, with information as to how the reader can get the full work on his own. Those who don't want their works indexed can tell Google so, and it will exclude their works from the database.
Now, did I just describe Google Print, Google News, or the original Google web search?
I don't need to hack my browser, because Firefox has enough sense to resize even fixed-pixel text when I tell it to resize the text. It correctly privileges what the end user tells it to do over what the web developer told it to do, whatever the W3C commanded.
I am the browser's user, the browser exists to serve me. The page designer's specifications should be ignored whenever I tell the browswer to ignore them. I specifically tell my browser to make the font size bigger, it should make things bigger. Period.
Does that mean that if you move from one calling area to another, you have to change your mobile number?
Nope; if you move from New York City to Los Angeles, you can keep your New York Clity mobile number if you like, and calls to that number will still be local calls for NYC residents and not for LA residents. (Which, of course, makes it even stupider to hand out the numbers by physical locality.)
Yeah, it seems backwards to some of us here, too. The trouble is that the regulators decided back in the early '80s to hand out numbers in existing calling areas to mobiles instead of setting aside a distinct set of mobile numbers, so a caller wouldn't be able to tell a landline number from a mobile number.
Throw in the fact that local landline calls are virtually free, and there isn't much choice about how to structure the fees. If people call a "local" number expecting to pay ~5p for a ten-minute call, and instead get charged ~£5, they will make noise.
The result is that the marginal cost of switching to a mobile is much higher in North America than in Europe. Lower population denistiy means network coverage and reception is in general poorer because fewer cells get used enough to justify their maintenence, which means mobiles are less useful than in Europe (which further discourages mobile use, which lowers the average subscriber density, feeding on itself), so the premium is less worth it.
So, landline PSTN is a lot more competitive with mobiles in North America than in Europe, with the result mobile use per person is a lot lower. Which itself discourages changes that would move more cost to the landline-user, since there are more landline users to be disgruntled by them and fewer mobile users to be pleased.
A perfectly useful method if you, first, have a mobile, and second, live in a place that allows companies to charge half a pound a minute to call mobiles.
Here in North America, it costs per-minute charges to recieve calls on your mobile, but costs nothing per minute to call a mobile from a landline, so calling a mobile isn't a deterrent to making a call, and it's much cheaper to take calls on a landline
If I call someone up on their mobile from my landline and talk to them for ten straight hours, I'm charged $0.07 total, that being the per-call flat fee on my current landline plan. They get charged 600 mobile minutes. If instead they'd answered my call on their landline, the ten hours of talk would have cost them nothing and me seven cents.
The alternative to complicating the universe with dark mattter, dark energy, and multiple dimensions is replacing General Relativity with a more complicated theory. Which we know needs to be done on the quantum scale at least, but which hasn't been successfully done yet.
So, right now, we have GR. Which needs undiscovered "dark" matter to explain why galaxies are rotating faster than expected. And extra dimensions to solve the problem of different-sized galaxies. And "dark" energy to explain why these galaxies are separating from each other than they should given our estimates of their mass.
The most serious alternative to that is Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), which assumes that at very low accelerations (lower than any body in the Solar System experiences, because of solar gravitational acceleration), F=ma is wrong. This explains away dark mattter easily, and there's even been a suggestion that the TeVeS version of MOND can explain away dark energy, too.
Now, if somebody can come up with a successful model of quantum gravity that also reduces to MOND on a galactic scale . . . well, he'll get a Nobel, and probably replace "Einstein" as a synonym for "genius".
The Germans, as with most other European countries adopted life+50 decades ago, back when the U.S. term was still a fixed 28 plus renewal for 28.
And the EU as a whole, including Germany, adopted life+70 several years before the U.S.
Further, the EU adoption (unlike the U.S.) was fully retroactive, not just extending the terms of books under copyright, but pulling books back out of the public domain and under copyright.
The sorry fact is, compared to the EU, the U.S. has a large and healthy public domain.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is an evil abomination! All hail Lord Antipasto, who righteously rebelled against the Noodly One, and had continued his guerilla war despite his exile from Heaven!
Nothing in common? What about the specifically-forbidden tablets?
1) Many machines running XP Tablet Edition are dual-form-factor laptop/tablet machines. So at least some types of laptops seem to be explicitly forbidden.
2) There were pre-XP tablet machines that ran full desktop versions of Windows 2000. So at least some machines that run desktop OSes are apparently specifically banned. Of course, with this EULA, who can be sure?
The EULA has large fuzzy areas and internal contradictions. Which means there's no telling how a judge or a jury would interpret it, which is a reason to avoid it.
Only the stupid rely on what they assume is the other party's intent, rather than the wording, when dealing with a legal document that explicitly invokes liability for noncompliance.
That goes double when the other party is a corporation, because there is no guarantee of continuity in management personnel, much less their intent.
And that certainly goes triple when the other party is a company that is currently being acquired by a different one, and thus absolutely certain the people in charge even in the short term future won't be the same ones as there are when the agreement was entered into.
To give you an analogy -- Caldera, in 1999, was a perfectly nice Linux company. Imagine the kind of case one could face from its current incarnation, the SCO Group, if you'd licensed something from Caldera with the belief that the intent behind the license wasn't exactly what the wording said, and used it based on your belief of the intent instead of in compliance with the wording.
So, looking at this EULA, I see it clearly and specifically authorizes use only on a "desktop computer". A laptop is not a desktop computer; thus, the EULA does not appear to allow me to put it on a laptop. It goes on to ban a number of specific devices, but with the phrasing "including, but not limited to", so the absence of the word "laptops" from the list does not serve to mean they are permitted.
Now, I am perfectly certain today's Macromedia management is not going to come after me for installing on a laptop. But I cannot be certain, and no one can guarantee me, that the future managers of Adobe won't be Darl McBride-alikes. That being the case, the potential liability more than swamps the incremental benefit of using the latest version of the Flash player.
First, the FTC doesn't do trust-breaking, the Department of Justice antitrust division does that.
Second, it was "voluntary" in the sense that it agreed to settle the DoJ antitrust case launched in 1974 with a breakup, rather than fight it through to a court verdict. It was not voluntary on the level of deciding to spin off on its own; it was broken up on a plan that had to get approved by the DoJ and the presiding judge, and was monitored for years afterward by the judge for compliance, with legal consequences hanging over the heads of the sucessor companies.
z/OS is the 64-bit extension of OS/390; OS/390 was MVS plus a POSIX subsystem; MVS was the 1974 successor to the MVT (1967) version of OS/360 (1964). Programs for MVS run on z/OS without alteration.
Now, you can't get the modern z/OS or z/VM without convincing IBM to sell you them for your emulator. But you can get their ancestors MVS and VM/370 for free, as well as others (including Linux/390, of course).
It's not quite as good as the real thing, but it's much more practical for an individual.
As the article points out, you could use this same basic design for x86 or Itanium instructions. If this were true, then Apple wouldn't be switching to x86; it would be easy to use this as part of a PPC instruction set processor, with no ISV transition effort necessary.
And, while Intel is at it, do a POWER decoder, a V9 SPARC decoder, an Alpha decoder, and a PA-RISC decoder. Any doubt HP would love to be able to sell one machine that could serve as an upgrade for all its legacy lines and compete with Sun and IBM for legacy SPARC and POWER upgrades?
The last four major new Intel x86 core architectures, in reverse-chronologogical order, were the Pentium 4, Pentium Pro, Pentium, and 486.
The Pentium M is a fairly serious revision of the Pentium Pro-Pentium II-Pentium III core series, but is clearly a revision of that series, not a truly new architecture.
At a random guess, Intel may be having difficulty with multiple multicore Pentium Ms because the original PPro was only made to work in quad-processor machines.
Do you really want pure mechanical-switch keyboards, or do you want the IBM clicky/Model M/capacitive switch/buckling spring keyboards? Because new IBM-style clicky keyboards, made in the same facilities as the old IBM ones, are available for a lot cheaper than $200.
The original-style 101-key keyboard is $49.00. The 104-key version is $59.00. The 104-key version with an integrated IBM-laptop-style pointer stick is $99.00 Oh, and you can get a 101-key with pointer stick, too, also $99.00
Right. Just like he made sure to have all his ducks in a row with Apple Records before launching the iPod, iTunes, and and ad campaign that said "brought to you by Apple Music".
They should retroactively shift the numbers one place to the left. So Firefox 0.9.1 would be (retroactlvely have been) Firefox 9.1.0, the current release would be 10.6.0 . . . .
Farming qua farming doesn't work so well with elephants, but South Africa already has a program where limited culls for ivory are allowed to those who set aside part of their land for elephants and other wildlife. Zimbabwe had a similar program, but with the recent wave of land seizures the system there has broken down. Kenya is strongly opposed, arguing that poached ivory would be laundered through legal ivory stocks.
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Depends on how serious Microsoft and Intel are.
The second Intel issues a new matching-dollars marketing campaign where the specs for the system include HD-DVD, or Microsoft adds HD-DVD to the "Made for Windows Vista" logo requirements, you'd see Dell and HP leave the Blu-Ray camp. With them would go everyone making optical drives for PCs, and the new DVD standard for computers will be locked into HD-DVD-compatible drives.
I set GMail to automatically archive my mailing-list email at the same time it labels it, to keep mailing list mail out of the Inbox. If I want to view all unread, I search for "is:unread".
There is no option to search for email without labels except -label: for every single label you've set up.
I'd be happy to use 'z' more widely if, in return, Americans would agree to spell 'colour' correctly.
We can't; we don't have the extra vowels. Unlike the British Empire, we didn't participate in imperialist vowel-looting of Balkan places like Krk and Vrbnik in the 19th Century.
Google reads in copyrighted works, and then keeps the electronic copy in a database that no humans ever see. When somebody does a Google search, it pops up a small excerpt that is well within Fair Use guidelines, with information as to how the reader can get the full work on his own. Those who don't want their works indexed can tell Google so, and it will exclude their works from the database.
Now, did I just describe Google Print, Google News, or the original Google web search?
I don't need to hack my browser, because Firefox has enough sense to resize even fixed-pixel text when I tell it to resize the text. It correctly privileges what the end user tells it to do over what the web developer told it to do, whatever the W3C commanded.
I am the browser's user, the browser exists to serve me. The page designer's specifications should be ignored whenever I tell the browswer to ignore them. I specifically tell my browser to make the font size bigger, it should make things bigger. Period.
Note, Alt-Home will take you to your home page directly.
But yeah, if you have a habit ingrained, it's a bitch to switch.
Does that mean that if you move from one calling area to another, you have to change your mobile number?
Nope; if you move from New York City to Los Angeles, you can keep your New York Clity mobile number if you like, and calls to that number will still be local calls for NYC residents and not for LA residents. (Which, of course, makes it even stupider to hand out the numbers by physical locality.)
Yeah, it seems backwards to some of us here, too. The trouble is that the regulators decided back in the early '80s to hand out numbers in existing calling areas to mobiles instead of setting aside a distinct set of mobile numbers, so a caller wouldn't be able to tell a landline number from a mobile number.
Throw in the fact that local landline calls are virtually free, and there isn't much choice about how to structure the fees. If people call a "local" number expecting to pay ~5p for a ten-minute call, and instead get charged ~£5, they will make noise.
The result is that the marginal cost of switching to a mobile is much higher in North America than in Europe. Lower population denistiy means network coverage and reception is in general poorer because fewer cells get used enough to justify their maintenence, which means mobiles are less useful than in Europe (which further discourages mobile use, which lowers the average subscriber density, feeding on itself), so the premium is less worth it.
So, landline PSTN is a lot more competitive with mobiles in North America than in Europe, with the result mobile use per person is a lot lower. Which itself discourages changes that would move more cost to the landline-user, since there are more landline users to be disgruntled by them and fewer mobile users to be pleased.
A perfectly useful method if you, first, have a mobile, and second, live in a place that allows companies to charge half a pound a minute to call mobiles.
Here in North America, it costs per-minute charges to recieve calls on your mobile, but costs nothing per minute to call a mobile from a landline, so calling a mobile isn't a deterrent to making a call, and it's much cheaper to take calls on a landline
If I call someone up on their mobile from my landline and talk to them for ten straight hours, I'm charged $0.07 total, that being the per-call flat fee on my current landline plan. They get charged 600 mobile minutes. If instead they'd answered my call on their landline, the ten hours of talk would have cost them nothing and me seven cents.
I don't know how many times I've accidentally erased my latest diatribe by inadvertently paging backward on Slashdot.
Go downloaded yourself a real browser, instead of using Microsoft's hacked-up version of Spyglass's Windows port of NCSA Mosaic.
The alternative to complicating the universe with dark mattter, dark energy, and multiple dimensions is replacing General Relativity with a more complicated theory. Which we know needs to be done on the quantum scale at least, but which hasn't been successfully done yet.
So, right now, we have GR. Which needs undiscovered "dark" matter to explain why galaxies are rotating faster than expected. And extra dimensions to solve the problem of different-sized galaxies. And "dark" energy to explain why these galaxies are separating from each other than they should given our estimates of their mass.
The most serious alternative to that is Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), which assumes that at very low accelerations (lower than any body in the Solar System experiences, because of solar gravitational acceleration), F=ma is wrong. This explains away dark mattter easily, and there's even been a suggestion that the TeVeS version of MOND can explain away dark energy, too.
Now, if somebody can come up with a successful model of quantum gravity that also reduces to MOND on a galactic scale . . . well, he'll get a Nobel, and probably replace "Einstein" as a synonym for "genius".
The Germans, as with most other European countries adopted life+50 decades ago, back when the U.S. term was still a fixed 28 plus renewal for 28.
And the EU as a whole, including Germany, adopted life+70 several years before the U.S.
Further, the EU adoption (unlike the U.S.) was fully retroactive, not just extending the terms of books under copyright, but pulling books back out of the public domain and under copyright.
The sorry fact is, compared to the EU, the U.S. has a large and healthy public domain.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is an evil abomination! All hail Lord Antipasto, who righteously rebelled against the Noodly One, and had continued his guerilla war despite his exile from Heaven!
Nothing in common? What about the specifically-forbidden tablets?
1) Many machines running XP Tablet Edition are dual-form-factor laptop/tablet machines. So at least some types of laptops seem to be explicitly forbidden.
2) There were pre-XP tablet machines that ran full desktop versions of Windows 2000. So at least some machines that run desktop OSes are apparently specifically banned. Of course, with this EULA, who can be sure?
The EULA has large fuzzy areas and internal contradictions. Which means there's no telling how a judge or a jury would interpret it, which is a reason to avoid it.
Only the stupid rely on what they assume is the other party's intent, rather than the wording, when dealing with a legal document that explicitly invokes liability for noncompliance.
That goes double when the other party is a corporation, because there is no guarantee of continuity in management personnel, much less their intent.
And that certainly goes triple when the other party is a company that is currently being acquired by a different one, and thus absolutely certain the people in charge even in the short term future won't be the same ones as there are when the agreement was entered into.
To give you an analogy -- Caldera, in 1999, was a perfectly nice Linux company. Imagine the kind of case one could face from its current incarnation, the SCO Group, if you'd licensed something from Caldera with the belief that the intent behind the license wasn't exactly what the wording said, and used it based on your belief of the intent instead of in compliance with the wording.
So, looking at this EULA, I see it clearly and specifically authorizes use only on a "desktop computer". A laptop is not a desktop computer; thus, the EULA does not appear to allow me to put it on a laptop. It goes on to ban a number of specific devices, but with the phrasing "including, but not limited to", so the absence of the word "laptops" from the list does not serve to mean they are permitted.
Now, I am perfectly certain today's Macromedia management is not going to come after me for installing on a laptop. But I cannot be certain, and no one can guarantee me, that the future managers of Adobe won't be Darl McBride-alikes. That being the case, the potential liability more than swamps the incremental benefit of using the latest version of the Flash player.
First, the FTC doesn't do trust-breaking, the Department of Justice antitrust division does that.
Second, it was "voluntary" in the sense that it agreed to settle the DoJ antitrust case launched in 1974 with a breakup, rather than fight it through to a court verdict. It was not voluntary on the level of deciding to spin off on its own; it was broken up on a plan that had to get approved by the DoJ and the presiding judge, and was monitored for years afterward by the judge for compliance, with legal consequences hanging over the heads of the sucessor companies.
z/OS is the 64-bit extension of OS/390; OS/390 was MVS plus a POSIX subsystem; MVS was the 1974 successor to the MVT (1967) version of OS/360 (1964). Programs for MVS run on z/OS without alteration.
I don't exactly have one lying around I can play with.
Ah, but you do have one you can play with. It's on your desktop.
Okay, not quite. But the Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator will give you something to experiment with.
Now, you can't get the modern z/OS or z/VM without convincing IBM to sell you them for your emulator. But you can get their ancestors MVS and VM/370 for free, as well as others (including Linux/390, of course).
It's not quite as good as the real thing, but it's much more practical for an individual.
As the article points out, you could use this same basic design for x86 or Itanium instructions. If this were true, then Apple wouldn't be switching to x86; it would be easy to use this as part of a PPC instruction set processor, with no ISV transition effort necessary.
And, while Intel is at it, do a POWER decoder, a V9 SPARC decoder, an Alpha decoder, and a PA-RISC decoder. Any doubt HP would love to be able to sell one machine that could serve as an upgrade for all its legacy lines and compete with Sun and IBM for legacy SPARC and POWER upgrades?
The last four major new Intel x86 core architectures, in reverse-chronologogical order, were the Pentium 4, Pentium Pro, Pentium, and 486.
The Pentium M is a fairly serious revision of the Pentium Pro-Pentium II-Pentium III core series, but is clearly a revision of that series, not a truly new architecture.
At a random guess, Intel may be having difficulty with multiple multicore Pentium Ms because the original PPro was only made to work in quad-processor machines.
Do you really want pure mechanical-switch keyboards, or do you want the IBM clicky/Model M/capacitive switch/buckling spring keyboards? Because new IBM-style clicky keyboards, made in the same facilities as the old IBM ones, are available for a lot cheaper than $200.
The original-style 101-key keyboard is $49.00.
The 104-key version is $59.00.
The 104-key version with an integrated IBM-laptop-style pointer stick is $99.00
Oh, and you can get a 101-key with pointer stick, too, also $99.00
Right. Just like he made sure to have all his ducks in a row with Apple Records before launching the iPod, iTunes, and and ad campaign that said "brought to you by Apple Music".
They should retroactively shift the numbers one place to the left. So Firefox 0.9.1 would be (retroactlvely have been) Firefox 9.1.0, the current release would be 10.6.0 . . . .
Farming qua farming doesn't work so well with elephants, but South Africa already has a program where limited culls for ivory are allowed to those who set aside part of their land for elephants and other wildlife. Zimbabwe had a similar program, but with the recent wave of land seizures the system there has broken down. Kenya is strongly opposed, arguing that poached ivory would be laundered through legal ivory stocks.