This started back in November 2010, when customs blocked import due to a request from Apple. An official notice was sent to the spanish company from Apple requesting they destroy the tablets. (Funny how they expected this to be done if they were blocked by customs...).
On the 9th of December Apple officially fully took the case to court as they'd warned they would unless the action (destroying the blocked import) was taken.
The spanish company is now seeking compensation as they've had their import blocked for a full year, and have actually apparently been added to a blacklist of importers. They're a small company, and deeply troubled by the fact Apple has been able to manage to do this.
Notice they aren't the manufacturer, but a small distributor. They've probably incurred a great loss on this. One full year of market value at least, plus missing delivery dates on their customers.
Not exactly. I personally didn't update because Debian Stable didn't.
Mail service on Debian Stable servers using clamav broke early this morning.
There's "stable" for you...
1-Use a manual gearbox (clutch)
2-Use the handbrake (not as good, as most handbrakes are electrically operated now so just on-off)
3-Many cars (Audi for example) come with Hold Assist
4-Many cars (Audi for example) don't completely kill the accelerator when both pedals are pressed at the same time, but rather limit it to 1800 revs or thereabouts after a short lag period.
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What if you are not requesting a user to input their password again ("save password" checkbox)?
Many clients can reconnect to a saved profile without requiring you to type your password again. They are obviously saving it somewhere and it is arguable that this password store can be cracked.
Maybe I've misunderstood what all this is about, but would it help you avoid roaming charges?
If inbound and outbound voice calls are broadband-routed up to your local "femtocell", then it might not matter if you are in another country.
You get a new meter installed and all. Your traditional one measures "coming in", and your new one measures "coming out".
As you'd expect, electricity companies don't make this easy for you. Months of paperwork and delays.
In some countries which are actually interested in the Kyoto Protocol there are strong subsidies for solar power generation. The electicity companies are required by law to buy off from you the electricity you generate (from solar power) at over 500% of the current selling price at which you can buy from them.
In fact, due to this, it is never a good idea to power your home from your own generated electricity. It is always more efficient (economically) to buy your electricity at rate 1x, and sell the one you generate at rate 5x.
"battery recall pissed me off"...You talk in past tense! Lucky you.
Here I am, months later, still waiting for 3 of the 4 batteries I requested.
I wonder how they've managed that. The 4 were ordered at exactly the same time. Only one made it here.
I'm sorry for all those slashdot readers feeling safe in their parents' basement. If the word gets out on the media they're going to be bumping their way in to claim it back.
I'd say I'd rather be safe when _in_ my house. You really don't want to come back from your kitchen to meet a group of guys carrying your TV away.
The alarm system will take care of the house when I'm away. Who cares about locks anyway; they'll just break a window.
Anyone heard of the Sony MSX? I guess it must have been contemporary to the C64, etc...
It booted straight to a BASIC prompt.
You could load up programs through an external tape machine or with ROM cartridges, which cost a fortune.
Good times those...
Tapes played up at 1x, so you might have to wait for about an hour for a game to load up. (And no guarantee at all that it would actually work the first time around).
One of the things that come to mind now is that it actually had a functional (printing-wise) parallel port.
From TFA I checked the numbers, and just under half of the overall requests came from the United States. About ten percent came from the United Kingdom. Why could that be? Well, it could be because the survey is in English. Or, it could be because most of the people who want to switch to Linux live in those countries.
Well, why could that be?...Language issues aside, any chance of it being that this stupid top 10 country list by number of requests is pretty much based on their population?! (note...population _with_ internet access).
I bet they're also having quite a higher number of right-handed readers than left-handed. Now why could that be...?
Wikipedia: US 300million, UK 60million, Germany 82million...
Agreed, but self-control works in some countries under some circumstances. German autobahns. You can see everyone speeding like there's no tomorrow...then they come up to a 50 sign and you can see everyone slam on the brakes, because they acknowledge the risk.
In any case, if someone cannot judge when they're speeding too much, they shouldn't be driving. There's so many other factors which can't be law-limited. Isn't it up to a driver to consider if they're too tired to drive, if they are too ill to drive, if they are to emotionally affected to drive...? Those seem closer examples to me than that of speeding.
Not the same...alcohol impairs your judgement before you get in the car. You cannot decide if you can or can't drive. On the other hand, you are perfectly capable of deciding whether driving conditions match the importance of the call before you pick it up.
So if your passenger has his eyes closed (and cannot "see" road danger) it's just as dangerous to drive with him as talking on your phone!? Sorry...I don't agree. TFA makes the same point, and it sounds like a really superficial way to close lose ends of the investigation. I really don't thing _that_ is a valid explanation.
Maybe the big difference is that you can talk to anyone on the phone...people you are not used to talking to, or people you don't know. People you cannot quickly say "hold on for a second" to. If you're driving someone in your car, chances are you can ask them to do that. Sharing a laugh with a friend over the phone is not like holding a conference with a customer. It should be legal to use a phone while you drive. It should be up to you to decide how much of your concentration it is going to require. The same way as it is up to you to decide how much messing about on your radio or shuffling over cds you can do while you drive. But then again...there are so many people that simply should not be driving at all...it is hard to leave it to everyone's own judgement.
Don't trust me too much on this one, but I guess the difference is whereas the seek time used to be how long it takes to access the beginning of the file and start pumping out data, now you have to read the whole thing (the log) before you really get any valuable info out. Say you have a file containing the text "12345". Previously you just found where the file started and started outputting. With logging, after a hundred revisions, say it now may contain the text "012345" (but only as per the last log!). You have to read the whole log file before you find out the first character you pump out is a 0, not a 1. In summary, until you have read the whole log you don't have any valuable info as to what the present version of the file contains, so conceptually the "seek" time (not physical) is much greater. Can anyone confirm I'm actually not speaking rubbish here?
This has been offered in Spain for over a year now, and we'd been hearing about it for years before that. Not everywhere...I guess it's still semi-beta. You can just look up if your area is ready for it and sign up. They call it PLC.
Am I missing something? Is there something different with this BPL thing? Maybe just that this HAM radio is not an issue in Europe?
I never assumed that. Notice my "American" was not capitalized on purpose, it was only an adjective.
It was sarcasm mate...
Just found it interesting that the all-american egocentrism has now been exported.
Anyway, I'm dropping it here...!
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The company's blog actually contradicts this: http://www.nt-k.com/blog/
This started back in November 2010, when customs blocked import due to a request from Apple. An official notice was sent to the spanish company from Apple requesting they destroy the tablets. (Funny how they expected this to be done if they were blocked by customs...).
On the 9th of December Apple officially fully took the case to court as they'd warned they would unless the action (destroying the blocked import) was taken.
The spanish company is now seeking compensation as they've had their import blocked for a full year, and have actually apparently been added to a blacklist of importers. They're a small company, and deeply troubled by the fact Apple has been able to manage to do this.
Notice they aren't the manufacturer, but a small distributor. They've probably incurred a great loss on this. One full year of market value at least, plus missing delivery dates on their customers.
Not exactly. I personally didn't update because Debian Stable didn't. Mail service on Debian Stable servers using clamav broke early this morning. There's "stable" for you...
4 solutions:
1-Use a manual gearbox (clutch)
2-Use the handbrake (not as good, as most handbrakes are electrically operated now so just on-off)
3-Many cars (Audi for example) come with Hold Assist
4-Many cars (Audi for example) don't completely kill the accelerator when both pedals are pressed at the same time, but rather limit it to 1800 revs or thereabouts after a short lag period.
What if you are not requesting a user to input their password again ("save password" checkbox)? Many clients can reconnect to a saved profile without requiring you to type your password again. They are obviously saving it somewhere and it is arguable that this password store can be cracked.
Maybe I've misunderstood what all this is about, but would it help you avoid roaming charges? If inbound and outbound voice calls are broadband-routed up to your local "femtocell", then it might not matter if you are in another country.
...you surely mean Repiping.
I guess they missed the grammar tests...
You get a new meter installed and all. Your traditional one measures "coming in", and your new one measures "coming out".
As you'd expect, electricity companies don't make this easy for you. Months of paperwork and delays.
In some countries which are actually interested in the Kyoto Protocol there are strong subsidies for solar power generation. The electicity companies are required by law to buy off from you the electricity you generate (from solar power) at over 500% of the current selling price at which you can buy from them.
In fact, due to this, it is never a good idea to power your home from your own generated electricity. It is always more efficient (economically) to buy your electricity at rate 1x, and sell the one you generate at rate 5x.
"battery recall pissed me off"...You talk in past tense! Lucky you.
Here I am, months later, still waiting for 3 of the 4 batteries I requested.
I wonder how they've managed that. The 4 were ordered at exactly the same time. Only one made it here.
I'm sorry for all those slashdot readers feeling safe in their parents' basement. If the word gets out on the media they're going to be bumping their way in to claim it back.
I'd say I'd rather be safe when _in_ my house. You really don't want to come back from your kitchen to meet a group of guys carrying your TV away.
The alarm system will take care of the house when I'm away. Who cares about locks anyway; they'll just break a window.
Sure.
They created the dellbatteryprogram.com domain on Nov 2005, obviously with a reclaim in mind already.
Expect my statement in 10 months
opening for HTML coder in...3...2...1...
I don't know what your company looks like, but your HTML code doesn't look all that nice
Anyone heard of the Sony MSX? I guess it must have been contemporary to the C64, etc... It booted straight to a BASIC prompt. You could load up programs through an external tape machine or with ROM cartridges, which cost a fortune.
Good times those...
Tapes played up at 1x, so you might have to wait for about an hour for a game to load up. (And no guarantee at all that it would actually work the first time around).
One of the things that come to mind now is that it actually had a functional (printing-wise) parallel port.
I saw some later models come with disk drives.
From TFA
I checked the numbers, and just under half of the overall requests came from the United States. About ten percent came from the United Kingdom. Why could that be? Well, it could be because the survey is in English. Or, it could be because most of the people who want to switch to Linux live in those countries.
Well, why could that be?...Language issues aside, any chance of it being that this stupid top 10 country list by number of requests is pretty much based on their population?! (note...population _with_ internet access).
I bet they're also having quite a higher number of right-handed readers than left-handed. Now why could that be...?
Wikipedia: US 300million, UK 60million, Germany 82million...
Agreed, but self-control works in some countries under some circumstances. German autobahns. You can see everyone speeding like there's no tomorrow...then they come up to a 50 sign and you can see everyone slam on the brakes, because they acknowledge the risk.
In any case, if someone cannot judge when they're speeding too much, they shouldn't be driving. There's so many other factors which can't be law-limited. Isn't it up to a driver to consider if they're too tired to drive, if they are too ill to drive, if they are to emotionally affected to drive...? Those seem closer examples to me than that of speeding.
Not the same...alcohol impairs your judgement before you get in the car. You cannot decide if you can or can't drive.
On the other hand, you are perfectly capable of deciding whether driving conditions match the importance of the call before you pick it up.
So if your passenger has his eyes closed (and cannot "see" road danger) it's just as dangerous to drive with him as talking on your phone!? Sorry...I don't agree. TFA makes the same point, and it sounds like a really superficial way to close lose ends of the investigation.
I really don't thing _that_ is a valid explanation.
Maybe the big difference is that you can talk to anyone on the phone...people you are not used to talking to, or people you don't know. People you cannot quickly say "hold on for a second" to. If you're driving someone in your car, chances are you can ask them to do that.
Sharing a laugh with a friend over the phone is not like holding a conference with a customer. It should be legal to use a phone while you drive. It should be up to you to decide how much of your concentration it is going to require. The same way as it is up to you to decide how much messing about on your radio or shuffling over cds you can do while you drive. But then again...there are so many people that simply should not be driving at all...it is hard to leave it to everyone's own judgement.
Don't trust me too much on this one, but I guess the difference is whereas the seek time used to be how long it takes to access the beginning of the file and start pumping out data, now you have to read the whole thing (the log) before you really get any valuable info out. Say you have a file containing the text "12345". Previously you just found where the file started and started outputting. With logging, after a hundred revisions, say it now may contain the text "012345" (but only as per the last log!). You have to read the whole log file before you find out the first character you pump out is a 0, not a 1.
In summary, until you have read the whole log you don't have any valuable info as to what the present version of the file contains, so conceptually the "seek" time (not physical) is much greater.
Can anyone confirm I'm actually not speaking rubbish here?
This has been offered in Spain for over a year now, and we'd been hearing about it for years before that. Not everywhere...I guess it's still semi-beta. You can just look up if your area is ready for it and sign up. They call it PLC.
Am I missing something? Is there something different with this BPL thing? Maybe just that this HAM radio is not an issue in Europe?
It says Australia right in the orignal submitted post.
Geoff writes with a story from Australia
Granted I'd have had no idea it was Australia otherwise!
I never assumed that. Notice my "American" was not capitalized on purpose, it was only an adjective.
It was sarcasm mate...
Just found it interesting that the all-american egocentrism has now been exported.
Anyway, I'm dropping it here...!
Cheers
Right on...
What can I say,..now they've exported it!
I can't believe it's not...USA!