I don't see why ISPs don't just measure the possible speed to your location, then put you in the highest price-band tarriff that your connection will allow.
So as an example if you sign up for 20 Mbps at £10.99 but your connection only allows 14Mbps, you get the 12-16Mbps tarriff at 9.49 or whatever.
So essentially Darl McBride took over a failing company, employed his brother as counsel. Then proceeded to embark on a huge programme of litigation until the company was dead. Thus transferring assets from SCO to his family.
it doesnt change the mindset - he used to pirate stuff when he couldnt afford it. Now he can afford it he doesn't. In what way has his mindset been changed by piracy?
essentially the patent office is liable for contributory violation of patent law because by publishing the patent they are encouraging someone somewhere in the world to violate the patent.
Blackberry popular in the US as a niche market because they cottoned on to text messages rather late....
Symbian is 30%+ world wide, most of nokia's recent phones are on it for example. Although the one correct thing you and that article said(as it didn't state that it was talking about the US market) is that Symbian is falling.
Its not the first time its been said on this website but US != The World
Price controls is a red herring - the choice is already reduced. In many cases you don't have access to interface documentation etc at all. What they are now saying is that in the majority of cases you will have access to interface documentation. And BTW the company won't be able to circumvent the law by charging you 400million per API.
Price controls are an irrelevant to the real issue - no more expensive proprietary lock-ins, reducing choice, stifling business, with the ultimate result of the consumer losing.
Non-interopability is holding back mankind's progress and preventing a free market in the provision of IT services. Creating a free market, by preventing artificial barriers to entry or competition, should enable more innovation and cheaper prices.
on my pc I expect never to have to piss about with the disc once i've installed the game (so unlike on consoles, drm that expects a disc to be in the drive really pisses me off)
tbh i've been playing pc games that have been released for 1-2 years, and I;ve found that I can typically pick them up for between £5 and £15. Steam has also got in on the act by typically dropping the price of XXX 1, just before XXX 2 is released. Because I'm playing games that are slightly older than cutting edge, it means the graphics card/pc i need doesn't have to be cutting edge.
Whereas console games are £30-40 and the graphics probably aren't even as good
how many people didn't bother with mindstorms and designed their own control circuit to interface to a computer and then went and wrote a printer driver?
how many people on slashdot have built a printer driver? in fact, how many people have built a printer?
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"In Microsoft's vision, slates will run a derivative of Windows 7."
and therein lies the problem.
I don't see why ISPs don't just measure the possible speed to your location, then put you in the highest price-band tarriff that your connection will allow.
So as an example if you sign up for 20 Mbps at £10.99 but your connection only allows 14Mbps, you get the 12-16Mbps tarriff at 9.49 or whatever.
The joke was that microsoft's software is so bug-ridden that people will find so many unreported bugs that microsoft will go bankrupt.
So essentially Darl McBride took over a failing company, employed his brother as counsel. Then proceeded to embark on a huge programme of litigation until the company was dead. Thus transferring assets from SCO to his family.
To what extent is this legitimate?
it doesnt change the mindset - he used to pirate stuff when he couldnt afford it. Now he can afford it he doesn't. In what way has his mindset been changed by piracy?
The fact is, toxic isn't a bad song no matter how much you dislike britney
essentially the patent office is liable for contributory violation of patent law because by publishing the patent they are encouraging someone somewhere in the world to violate the patent.
either he is in the wrong or patents are in the wrong or the use of patents to stifle discussion on related but not identical techniques is wrong
also the american (and eu) people for demanding oil knowing full well that a certain percentage of the oil will leak into the environment.
boohoo there was a big well that blew up. boohoo you got to drive to work every day for the last YOUR WHOLE LIFE?
Couldn't the limited liability of a corporation be insurance sold by banks, instead of as a cost implicitly underwritten by society?
err no.
Blackberry in the UK at 35%? LOL!
Blackberry in the world at 35%? LOL!
Blackberry popular in the US as a niche market because they cottoned on to text messages rather late....
Symbian is 30%+ world wide, most of nokia's recent phones are on it for example. Although the one correct thing you and that article said(as it didn't state that it was talking about the US market) is that Symbian is falling.
Its not the first time its been said on this website but US != The World
l2polite cuntfag
actually the western agriculture markets are some of the most subsidised in the world!
Price controls is a red herring - the choice is already reduced. In many cases you don't have access to interface documentation etc at all.
What they are now saying is that in the majority of cases you will have access to interface documentation. And BTW the company won't be able to circumvent the law by charging you 400million per API.
Price controls are an irrelevant to the real issue - no more expensive proprietary lock-ins, reducing choice, stifling business, with the ultimate result of the consumer losing.
Non-interopability is holding back mankind's progress and preventing a free market in the provision of IT services. Creating a free market, by preventing artificial barriers to entry or competition, should enable more innovation and cheaper prices.
Because this is definitely what she's suggesting.
if you don't know what it means, its probably something that you don't know much about?
Apart from when the consumer wins.
osborne also said that he did not have to increase vat to balance the budget.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2010/04/george-osborne-aims-to-strangle-labours-vat-attack-at-birth.html
We have a national debt and an annual deficit.
Its impossible not to be getting further into debt with this combination.
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well osborne suggested during the election that the tories would not increase VAT.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2010/04/george-osborne-aims-to-strangle-labours-vat-attack-at-birth.html
on my pc I expect never to have to piss about with the disc once i've installed the game (so unlike on consoles, drm that expects a disc to be in the drive really pisses me off)
tbh i've been playing pc games that have been released for 1-2 years, and I;ve found that I can typically pick them up for between £5 and £15. Steam has also got in on the act by typically dropping the price of XXX 1, just before XXX 2 is released. Because I'm playing games that are slightly older than cutting edge, it means the graphics card/pc i need doesn't have to be cutting edge.
Whereas console games are £30-40 and the graphics probably aren't even as good
you think gcc is slow? try the sun or aix compilers!
how many people didn't bother with mindstorms and designed their own control circuit to interface to a computer and then went and wrote a printer driver?
how many people on slashdot have built a printer driver? in fact, how many people have built a printer?