The days of the graphics card mapping all it's memory into PCI address space at once are over and have been for some time. IIRC modern cards use a movable window of 256MB or so for access to graphics card ram from the rest of the system.
Just how much is the real income tax and sales tax rate in most parts of the US? From what I could gather it varies a lot but in many places it is pretty close to britan once you add all the levels at which tax is taken off.
It's hard to tell from the article but my understanding was this HIV treatment relied on destroying the immune system and then replacing it with one that was HIV immune.
Since the cancer treatment required that anyway they got this aids cure essentially for free but I wonder if in cases with just aids and no cancer this will be a case of the cure being worse than the desiese.
Turn a profit relative to what is the big question.
In a monopoly situation to make it worth the monopolies while to upgrade infrastucture means the cost of the new infrastructure has to be covered by the difference between profits with the old infrastructure and profits with the new. Of course this is unlikely since people won't generally pay that much more for higher speeds.
The city putting in thier own network changes the game completely. The telco then are put in a situation where if they don't manage to get thier network upgraded before the city puts it's new one in they will lose much of thier buisness to the new city network.
Yea, it could. But they currently get $32 for XP on a netbook and as much as $80 for a basic Vista. Where are those figures from, I thought MS direct OEM (not system builder) pricing was negotiated on a case by case basis.
I was also under the impression that if you already had some very pure stock you could mix that in to get past the azeotrope and then continue distilling (and keep some of your product for use in the same way on the next batch, is there something impractical about that method).
Screen is handy but it requires learning obscure keystroke combinations and for many uses is IMO nowhere near as convinant as being able to pop
Also as well as popping up another termainal the official non-free ( back when I last used it there was a freely downloadable version for non-commerical use but I can't seem to find that anymore ) windows ssh client can open a file transfer window just as easilly.
One thing i've always thought would be nice would be a ssh client with a built in text editor. It should be able to be far more responsive on laggy connections than editing on the server since it won't have to resend everything each time it redraws the screen and would allow the full comfort of a gui editor.
BTW does anyone else find it annoying that none of the free software ssh clients seem to be able to open a new terminal without opening a complete new ssh connection and re-authenticating.
The same as any other small buisness that deals mainly in cash I imagine.
The law abiding ones will pay thier taxes. The smart lawbreakers will declare enough of thier income to look reasonable but not all of it. The idiots will declare none of thier income and end up getting an IRS investigation and possiblly sent to club fed.
Unfortunately linux penatration is very difficult to measure, you can't use sales figures because linux is free (yeah there are companies like redhat that try and get users to pay and some suckers who do so but afaict they are a very small proportion of the desktop linux userbase)
Yes and no, your TV and DVD player will work for any movie released over the last decade and probably the next decade.
In contrast if you want to continue following a game series you will have to buy a new console every 5-10 years (and then sometimes to piss you off even further they go and make one of the games exclusive to a portable console with maybe a re-release on a normal console a year or so later if you are lucky).
In any case you need the TV for gaming as well and DVD players are dirt cheap now so I doubt it significant impacts the comparison.
Does amazon even offer downloadable music sales in the UK? If they do i've never been able to find the option.
We have itunes but unless all your players are ipods or you use drm cracks you have to be very careful to only buy itunes plus tracks (and there is little to no advertising of itunes plus) and you still may have to do a format convertion.
Delivery is not too bad here in the UK. even the free delivery options tend to get it to you in well under a week and amazon will do you next day delivery for a small extra charge if you are feeling desperate.
Maybe so but I think that is in spite of the actions of hardware manufacturers not because of them.
My experiance is that linux is generally very good with hardware that is both reasonablly old (at least 6 months older than the distro release) and reasonablly common but it sucks for newer or more specialist stuff.
*Euro symbol won't display consistenly... weird. Since they introduce the ajax based commenting system/. has been fucked up for anything non ascii. Afaict it is getting UTF-8 data from the submitter but putting it in an ISO-8859-1 page without doing any conversion.
It depends on the details of the cap, I dunno what things are typically like in the US but here in the uk I've seen limits based on total transfer, limits based on the maximum out of upload or download and limits on download only (download only limits make sense for ISPs using BT wholesale ADSL since the customer connections are very asymetric but the connections from BT to the ISP which are the really expensive bit are symetric)
Even people in the boonies have options (albeit not ideal ones): dial-up, satellite, etc. dial-up and satelite are so bad that things will have to get a hell of a lot worse before they become real competition to the local communications provider(s).
I still say that it is up to the ISP to decide the packages they offer, and the consumer to decide what packages they want. This is what is called a free market Well it's far from a free market in that the telcos at least are running off infrastucture built by government subsidies and they often get a government granted monopoly on laying cables in a particular are.
but even if it was a free market the fact is like most utilities it is a natual monopoly. The only reason many areas have a duopoly rather than a monopoly is because modern digital technology allows both legacy phone infrasture and legacy cable TV infrastructure to be used as general purpose communication infrastructure.
can you really get a 12 megabit connection or is that just the advertised maximum? Afaict most faster DSL packages are rate adaptive so the further you are from the DSLAM the slower your connection gets.
Look at the UK where almost everyone with a phone line can pick from dozens of DSL providers They can BUT most of them use BT wholesale and the backhaul links from BT wholesale to the ISP are not cheap.
What that means is that you tend to get at least one of the following * horrible congestion * bandwidth caps far worse than those being mentioned here * anti P2P "traffic shaping" * very high prices.
Some of the local loop unbundling providers are better but there are far fewer of those and many don't have nationwide coverage.
They won't have transit providers. There are two possible solutions: You said near transit free not transit free, if they are only near transit free then they clearly have at least one transit provider and that provider will almost certainly be a tier 1.
I was under the impression that the screw shut battery compartments on toys for younger children were a safety feature to stop them removing the battery and swallowing it.
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IIRC they expect carbon dioxide to freeze onto the solar panels and break them off.
The days of the graphics card mapping all it's memory into PCI address space at once are over and have been for some time. IIRC modern cards use a movable window of 256MB or so for access to graphics card ram from the rest of the system.
Just how much is the real income tax and sales tax rate in most parts of the US? From what I could gather it varies a lot but in many places it is pretty close to britan once you add all the levels at which tax is taken off.
It's hard to tell from the article but my understanding was this HIV treatment relied on destroying the immune system and then replacing it with one that was HIV immune.
Since the cancer treatment required that anyway they got this aids cure essentially for free but I wonder if in cases with just aids and no cancer this will be a case of the cure being worse than the desiese.
Turn a profit relative to what is the big question.
In a monopoly situation to make it worth the monopolies while to upgrade infrastucture means the cost of the new infrastructure has to be covered by the difference between profits with the old infrastructure and profits with the new. Of course this is unlikely since people won't generally pay that much more for higher speeds.
The city putting in thier own network changes the game completely. The telco then are put in a situation where if they don't manage to get thier network upgraded before the city puts it's new one in they will lose much of thier buisness to the new city network.
Yea, it could. But they currently get $32 for XP on a netbook and as much as $80 for a basic Vista.
Where are those figures from, I thought MS direct OEM (not system builder) pricing was negotiated on a case by case basis.
looks like there are some tricks for breaking the azeotrope and getting purer alcholol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azeotrope#Separation_of_azeotrope_constituents
I was also under the impression that if you already had some very pure stock you could mix that in to get past the azeotrope and then continue distilling (and keep some of your product for use in the same way on the next batch, is there something impractical about that method).
Screen is handy but it requires learning obscure keystroke combinations and for many uses is IMO nowhere near as convinant as being able to pop
Also as well as popping up another termainal the official non-free ( back when I last used it there was a freely downloadable version for non-commerical use but I can't seem to find that anymore ) windows ssh client can open a file transfer window just as easilly.
One thing i've always thought would be nice would be a ssh client with a built in text editor. It should be able to be far more responsive on laggy connections than editing on the server since it won't have to resend everything each time it redraws the screen and would allow the full comfort of a gui editor.
BTW does anyone else find it annoying that none of the free software ssh clients seem to be able to open a new terminal without opening a complete new ssh connection and re-authenticating.
The same as any other small buisness that deals mainly in cash I imagine.
The law abiding ones will pay thier taxes. The smart lawbreakers will declare enough of thier income to look reasonable but not all of it. The idiots will declare none of thier income and end up getting an IRS investigation and possiblly sent to club fed.
Unfortunately linux penatration is very difficult to measure, you can't use sales figures because linux is free (yeah there are companies like redhat that try and get users to pay and some suckers who do so but afaict they are a very small proportion of the desktop linux userbase)
Yes and no, your TV and DVD player will work for any movie released over the last decade and probably the next decade.
In contrast if you want to continue following a game series you will have to buy a new console every 5-10 years (and then sometimes to piss you off even further they go and make one of the games exclusive to a portable console with maybe a re-release on a normal console a year or so later if you are lucky).
In any case you need the TV for gaming as well and DVD players are dirt cheap now so I doubt it significant impacts the comparison.
Remember this is a UK story
Does amazon even offer downloadable music sales in the UK? If they do i've never been able to find the option.
We have itunes but unless all your players are ipods or you use drm cracks you have to be very careful to only buy itunes plus tracks (and there is little to no advertising of itunes plus) and you still may have to do a format convertion.
Delivery is not too bad here in the UK. even the free delivery options tend to get it to you in well under a week and amazon will do you next day delivery for a small extra charge if you are feeling desperate.
Maybe so but I think that is in spite of the actions of hardware manufacturers not because of them.
My experiance is that linux is generally very good with hardware that is both reasonablly old (at least 6 months older than the distro release) and reasonablly common but it sucks for newer or more specialist stuff.
The other option is to just stockpile licenses while they are still availible.
For info look into JEPG 2000 and why it failed so miserably.
Didn't JPEG 2000 fail because regular JPEG was good enough and supported everywhere?
Will theese improvements in 1.1 break compatibility with existing decoders?
*Euro symbol won't display consistenly... weird. /. has been fucked up for anything non ascii. Afaict it is getting UTF-8 data from the submitter but putting it in an ISO-8859-1 page without doing any conversion.
Since they introduce the ajax based commenting system
It depends on the details of the cap, I dunno what things are typically like in the US but here in the uk I've seen limits based on total transfer, limits based on the maximum out of upload or download and limits on download only (download only limits make sense for ISPs using BT wholesale ADSL since the customer connections are very asymetric but the connections from BT to the ISP which are the really expensive bit are symetric)
Even people in the boonies have options (albeit not ideal ones): dial-up, satellite, etc.
dial-up and satelite are so bad that things will have to get a hell of a lot worse before they become real competition to the local communications provider(s).
I still say that it is up to the ISP to decide the packages they offer, and the consumer to decide what packages they want. This is what is called a free market
Well it's far from a free market in that the telcos at least are running off infrastucture built by government subsidies and they often get a government granted monopoly on laying cables in a particular are.
but even if it was a free market the fact is like most utilities it is a natual monopoly. The only reason many areas have a duopoly rather than a monopoly is because modern digital technology allows both legacy phone infrasture and legacy cable TV infrastructure to be used as general purpose communication infrastructure.
can you really get a 12 megabit connection or is that just the advertised maximum? Afaict most faster DSL packages are rate adaptive so the further you are from the DSLAM the slower your connection gets.
Look at the UK where almost everyone with a phone line can pick from dozens of DSL providers
They can BUT most of them use BT wholesale and the backhaul links from BT wholesale to the ISP are not cheap.
What that means is that you tend to get at least one of the following
* horrible congestion
* bandwidth caps far worse than those being mentioned here
* anti P2P "traffic shaping"
* very high prices.
Some of the local loop unbundling providers are better but there are far fewer of those and many don't have nationwide coverage.
They won't have transit providers. There are two possible solutions:
You said near transit free not transit free, if they are only near transit free then they clearly have at least one transit provider and that provider will almost certainly be a tier 1.
I actually quite like DVD boxes, they are far more robust and go on and off shelves much smoother than CD cases.
I have seen a few different styles for the center hub but most I've seen recently seem to be designed so the disk pops off when you press them down.
I was under the impression that the screw shut battery compartments on toys for younger children were a safety feature to stop them removing the battery and swallowing it.