what is stopping them filing a john doe lawsuit against one of the users on say insanelymac and then using that lawsuit to subponea the information they need to get the user in court?
They were buying retail copies of OS-X. Afaict these do not explicitly state upgrade on the package but the EULA limits them to being installed on apple hardware which effectively makes them upgrade copies
Indeed it is, a single pst file means that with every incremental backup (IIRC outlook changes the file even if you don't change anything inside it) the whole file (which can potentially get pretty big, hitting the 2GB limit of older PST versions was a common source of corrupt PST files) needs to be backed up again. This can quickly get very unweildly.
In my experiance the "fixed" pst files while just about readable have a lot of problems. Things like lots of mail being dumped in one folder and being able to view mails but not copy them out of the bad pst files.
Has this improved since outlook 2K (the last version I used)?
one big use I can see is a PST rebuilder, MS tells you to copy anything you want to keep out after repairing a corrupt PST with scanpst but i've found out the hard way that sometimes outlook can read a mail in a PST but when it tries to copy it to another PST it will fail.
Brains, not braun are the main reason the human species has thrived. The point is that in current western societies very few people die or otherwise get rendered unable to breed before reaching childbearing age. So what determines out evoloutionary performance is how many kids we chose to have. Bright people in general choose have less kids.
One thing to bear in mind is the full price for us europeans is quite a bit more than what you you see on the product page (the figures below are based on the UK but things should be pretty similar elsewhere in europe)
The site tells me (it's obviously figured out i'm in the UK) the base price is £62 and the shipping is £62.19 and the shipping estimate is £29.43 IF it gets noticed by customs (sometimes small but high value packages slip through when they shouldn't and sometimes sellers lie about the value which is illegal but rarely enforced) then they will be asking for VAT (about £15) and a VAT handling charge (ranges from about £10 to about £30 afaict not sure what fedex charge)
There are several on ebay ending in the next 1/2 hour for under $200. bear in mind that a LOT of ebay buyers (myself included) snipe so price half an hour before the auction ends is not a very good indication of actual selling price. To get an indication of that you have to look at items that have actually ended (if you are logged into ebay you can search completed listings to find this out).
I see powerpc minis selling for around $200-300 (with the odd one a little above or below that range) with Intel minis ranging from $300 upwards depending on specs. There was one ppc that didn't sell that would have been a real bargain (the seller had a relatively small number of transactions made which may have put buyers off)
The bottom lne is you probably can get one for under $200 if you are persistent but it will probably require quite a bit of effort reading up on lots of listings to check there is nothing undesirable about them and then hoping they don't go out of your price range. being prepared to snipe (either manually or with software assistance) in the middle of the night will probably also help..
I still think getting a secondhand mini is a good idea though.
no the one sometimes (though rarely nowadays, most kettles are "cordless" with the cord permanently attatched to a manufacturer specific base) found on kettles etc is the "hot condition" 10A variant (note: the above is the situation in the UK, I can't comment on kettles in other countries). It is like the regular IEC but with a notch cut out of the connector on the lead and a corresponding peice of plastic on the inlet (so you can use a hot condition lead with a regular inlet but you can't use a regular lead with a hot condition inlet).
the 16A variant seen on high end workstations has a larger rectangular profile and has the pins turned through 90 degrees relative to the regular 10A connector..
The fact that EU fisheries policy is fucked up does not mean that fisheries do not need to be regulated. There are plenty of people out there who will happilly play a part in stripping a commons bare in the name of a quick buck.
Microsoft has an accepted two letter moniker of a uppercase 'M' followed by a '$' Really? A lot of/. trolls use it but I don't think i've ever seen it outside that context.
Most short acronyms have different meanings in different contexts. Heck according to wikipedia ms has two different meanings even within the medical field.
Wait is micro usb different from the "mini" usb that's on my camcorder, extnl hard drive, and several other things i've got lying around? Yes
P.S. it's only mini A (pretty rare) and mini AB (combination socket for both mini A and mini B used on a USB OTG device) that is deprecated, mini B is still current.
P.P.S. A connectors are for connecting to hosts B connectors are for connecting to devices.
You're lucky, not all power supplies have the same input socket. There are three common ones afaict
the figure eight connector (2 pin 2.5A, seen on laptop PSUs and quite a bit of AV gear) the "IEC" connector (3 pin 10A, seen on most desktop PCs, monitors, HDTVs etc) the cloverleaf connector (3 pin 2.5A, seen on laptop PSUs)
In my experiance most stuff that has a detatchable mains lead uses one of the above three connectors
The figure eight and the IEC are very common and I'd think you'd have very little trouble borrowing a lead. Cloverleaf leads don't tend to be seen hanging around so much since they are mostly associated with newer laptops.
There is also a 16A variant of the IEC connector seen on some high end servers and workstations but not many people are likely to be traveling with those.
Devices like modem routers though will always have a wall wart, unless you want them to be obscenely large and heavy. I don't see any real gain from the users point of view in having that bulk and weight in an extra box.
The real reason so much stuff uses wall warts is because it makes the regulatory compliance issues much easier/cheaper to deal with.
However, SSDs are already replacing HDDs on netbooks Funny i've noticed things the other way round, all the early netbooks were SSD based but now lots of them have moved to a slightly larger form factor accomodating a hard drive.
Not at the rate at which storage capacity per $ is increasing though. Which is the key, I remember the time when even storing 128K MP3s ate up your hard drive in a hurry if you had a nontrivial music collection (hell at one stage I transcoded most of my MP3s to 64K mono and got rid of the originals). Nowadays even in uncompressed CD quality (the highest quality format most people bother to use) music takes up very little space relative to the size of hard drives.
The same applies to the output from digicams, even high res ones in raw mode (and I doubt anyone except photography geeks uses raw mode).
Video is the one common thing left that really clogs up hard drives so unless some big new application comes along I see hard drive space becoming less and less of an issue.
many of the warlords and pirates were keen on having cell phone access to speak with people internationally so they had some high bankroll early adopters. warlords are a form of government right?
What I wonder is how do they handle backhaul between cities and out of the country? do they push everything over sat? do they have armed gaurds along thier cable runs? Have the warlords managed to stablise things enough to stop cables getting looted?
Apparently when there is no corrupt government (or any government worth mentioning) or regulatory body (FCC) then people just put up their own cell phone towers and wireless networks with little regard to the previous system. Which works up to a point but sooner or later if usage increases to anything like western levels you will reach a situation where the networks start stepping on each other.
Big 3D games (particularly HD ones) are much like blockbuster moves. They take huge teams of people to make (most of which aren't coders BTW) and those people have to be paid.
This means you to develop such a game requires a backer with two things 1: the money to advance the development costs 2: the marketing clout to get sufficient customers to recover those development costs.
Thinnet didn't really change anything significant from thicknet, it just loosened up the specs a little and used lower spec cable to make the install a bit cheaper.
My understanding is that debris in LEO isn't so much of an issue because it's orbit will decay relatively quickly and it will then burn up on reentry. It is also much easier to track.
If we get a major debris problem in GEO though then afaict that would be a huge problem.
Pardon me for being horribly American here, but... there the EU has a a tax on books? The EU has a tax on almost all products sold called VAT. It's similar to a sales tax though the details differ.
VAT rates are allowed to vary across the EU within certain limits and some product categories in some countries attract rates lower than the standard rate for that country.
Books generally get a reduced or sometimes even zero rate but this then requires a definition of what counts as a book. IIRC the rules on that vary by country.
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what is stopping them filing a john doe lawsuit against one of the users on say insanelymac and then using that lawsuit to subponea the information they need to get the user in court?
They were buying retail copies of OS-X. Afaict these do not explicitly state upgrade on the package but the EULA limits them to being installed on apple hardware which effectively makes them upgrade copies
Indeed it is, a single pst file means that with every incremental backup (IIRC outlook changes the file even if you don't change anything inside it) the whole file (which can potentially get pretty big, hitting the 2GB limit of older PST versions was a common source of corrupt PST files) needs to be backed up again. This can quickly get very unweildly.
In my experiance the "fixed" pst files while just about readable have a lot of problems. Things like lots of mail being dumped in one folder and being able to view mails but not copy them out of the bad pst files.
Has this improved since outlook 2K (the last version I used)?
one big use I can see is a PST rebuilder, MS tells you to copy anything you want to keep out after repairing a corrupt PST with scanpst but i've found out the hard way that sometimes outlook can read a mail in a PST but when it tries to copy it to another PST it will fail.
Brains, not braun are the main reason the human species has thrived.
The point is that in current western societies very few people die or otherwise get rendered unable to breed before reaching childbearing age. So what determines out evoloutionary performance is how many kids we chose to have. Bright people in general choose have less kids.
One thing to bear in mind is the full price for us europeans is quite a bit more than what you you see on the product page (the figures below are based on the UK but things should be pretty similar elsewhere in europe)
The site tells me (it's obviously figured out i'm in the UK) the base price is £62 and the shipping is £62.19 and the shipping estimate is £29.43
IF it gets noticed by customs (sometimes small but high value packages slip through when they shouldn't and sometimes sellers lie about the value which is illegal but rarely enforced) then they will be asking for VAT (about £15) and a VAT handling charge (ranges from about £10 to about £30 afaict not sure what fedex charge)
So total cost arround £100-£145
There are several on ebay ending in the next 1/2 hour for under $200.
bear in mind that a LOT of ebay buyers (myself included) snipe so price half an hour before the auction ends is not a very good indication of actual selling price. To get an indication of that you have to look at items that have actually ended (if you are logged into ebay you can search completed listings to find this out).
I see powerpc minis selling for around $200-300 (with the odd one a little above or below that range) with Intel minis ranging from $300 upwards depending on specs. There was one ppc that didn't sell that would have been a real bargain (the seller had a relatively small number of transactions made which may have put buyers off)
The bottom lne is you probably can get one for under $200 if you are persistent but it will probably require quite a bit of effort reading up on lots of listings to check there is nothing undesirable about them and then hoping they don't go out of your price range. being prepared to snipe (either manually or with software assistance) in the middle of the night will probably also help..
I still think getting a secondhand mini is a good idea though.
no the one sometimes (though rarely nowadays, most kettles are "cordless" with the cord permanently attatched to a manufacturer specific base) found on kettles etc is the "hot condition" 10A variant (note: the above is the situation in the UK, I can't comment on kettles in other countries). It is like the regular IEC but with a notch cut out of the connector on the lead and a corresponding peice of plastic on the inlet (so you can use a hot condition lead with a regular inlet but you can't use a regular lead with a hot condition inlet).
the 16A variant seen on high end workstations has a larger rectangular profile and has the pins turned through 90 degrees relative to the regular 10A connector..
what I wonder is how will they enforce this? what if any identifying information will they ask for to ensure two accounts are not the same person?
The fact that EU fisheries policy is fucked up does not mean that fisheries do not need to be regulated. There are plenty of people out there who will happilly play a part in stripping a commons bare in the name of a quick buck.
Microsoft has an accepted two letter moniker of a uppercase 'M' followed by a '$' /. trolls use it but I don't think i've ever seen it outside that context.
Really? A lot of
Most short acronyms have different meanings in different contexts. Heck according to wikipedia ms has two different meanings even within the medical field.
It's perfectly feasible to design a device to meet all the regulatory regimes anyone cares about it's just expensive.
Wait is micro usb different from the "mini" usb that's on my camcorder, extnl hard drive, and several other things i've got lying around?
Yes
P.S. it's only mini A (pretty rare) and mini AB (combination socket for both mini A and mini B used on a USB OTG device) that is deprecated, mini B is still current.
P.P.S. A connectors are for connecting to hosts B connectors are for connecting to devices.
You're lucky, not all power supplies have the same input socket.
There are three common ones afaict
the figure eight connector (2 pin 2.5A, seen on laptop PSUs and quite a bit of AV gear)
the "IEC" connector (3 pin 10A, seen on most desktop PCs, monitors, HDTVs etc)
the cloverleaf connector (3 pin 2.5A, seen on laptop PSUs)
In my experiance most stuff that has a detatchable mains lead uses one of the above three connectors
The figure eight and the IEC are very common and I'd think you'd have very little trouble borrowing a lead. Cloverleaf leads don't tend to be seen hanging around so much since they are mostly associated with newer laptops.
There is also a 16A variant of the IEC connector seen on some high end servers and workstations but not many people are likely to be traveling with those.
Devices like modem routers though will always have a wall wart, unless you want them to be obscenely large and heavy.
I don't see any real gain from the users point of view in having that bulk and weight in an extra box.
The real reason so much stuff uses wall warts is because it makes the regulatory compliance issues much easier/cheaper to deal with.
However, SSDs are already replacing HDDs on netbooks
Funny i've noticed things the other way round, all the early netbooks were SSD based but now lots of them have moved to a slightly larger form factor accomodating a hard drive.
Not at the rate at which storage capacity per $ is increasing though.
Which is the key, I remember the time when even storing 128K MP3s ate up your hard drive in a hurry if you had a nontrivial music collection (hell at one stage I transcoded most of my MP3s to 64K mono and got rid of the originals). Nowadays even in uncompressed CD quality (the highest quality format most people bother to use) music takes up very little space relative to the size of hard drives.
The same applies to the output from digicams, even high res ones in raw mode (and I doubt anyone except photography geeks uses raw mode).
Video is the one common thing left that really clogs up hard drives so unless some big new application comes along I see hard drive space becoming less and less of an issue.
many of the warlords and pirates were keen on having cell phone access to speak with people internationally so they had some high bankroll early adopters.
warlords are a form of government right?
What I wonder is how do they handle backhaul between cities and out of the country? do they push everything over sat? do they have armed gaurds along thier cable runs? Have the warlords managed to stablise things enough to stop cables getting looted?
Apparently when there is no corrupt government (or any government worth mentioning) or regulatory body (FCC) then people just put up their own cell phone towers and wireless networks with little regard to the previous system.
Which works up to a point but sooner or later if usage increases to anything like western levels you will reach a situation where the networks start stepping on each other.
It all depends on the genre of game really.
Big 3D games (particularly HD ones) are much like blockbuster moves. They take huge teams of people to make (most of which aren't coders BTW) and those people have to be paid.
This means you to develop such a game requires a backer with two things
1: the money to advance the development costs
2: the marketing clout to get sufficient customers to recover those development costs.
Thinnet didn't really change anything significant from thicknet, it just loosened up the specs a little and used lower spec cable to make the install a bit cheaper.
A torrent contains two main things (there are a few other bits and pieces too but we can probablly ignore them here).
1: a pointer to a tracker that can give you sources for pieces of the file.
2: a table of hashes of pieces of the file.
Are there any laws or precedents on whether a table of hashes of peices of a work is a derivitive work of that work?
My understanding is that debris in LEO isn't so much of an issue because it's orbit will decay relatively quickly and it will then burn up on reentry. It is also much easier to track.
If we get a major debris problem in GEO though then afaict that would be a huge problem.
updates: Someone has torn down the new mini and apparently it's the same inside as the old one so ifixit's hack should still work
They have also torn down the new mini server and unsurprisingly apple did a far neater job than ifixit's hack.
Pardon me for being horribly American here, but... there the EU has a a tax on books?
The EU has a tax on almost all products sold called VAT. It's similar to a sales tax though the details differ.
VAT rates are allowed to vary across the EU within certain limits and some product categories in some countries attract rates lower than the standard rate for that country.
Books generally get a reduced or sometimes even zero rate but this then requires a definition of what counts as a book. IIRC the rules on that vary by country.