The PC (windows at least, linux too i think) edition is free yes. I suspect they realised there was little money to be made in the saturated PC browser market and therefore they may as well make it free to try and get more web developer mindshare (which is good for the value of thier embedded versions).
the embedded versions are operas main products nowadays. They have a good browser core that they can sell customised versions of to either the manufacturers or the users of other platforms (like phones, pdas and games consoles).
doesn't steam have mandatory updates during first install, at least here in the uk unless you have broadband or an unmetered dialup subscription your going to be paying by the minuite to download those updates over dialup.
fine idea but that means if you wan't to play the old version of the game you have to maintain an old windows install indefinately and image that windows install to any machines you wan't to play it on (and your even more screwed if your using a legit copy of XP with product activation on it)
and of course your idea assumes that you realised about the undesirable update BEFORE it auto downloaded.
Orbit is a carefully calculated and obsessively maintained state of teetering on escape from gravity and orbital collapse into the atmosphere; thus, the orbit is a stressful, chaotic, dangerous and relatively unpredictable state for a floating flophouse. orbit is a pretty predictable state without too much sudden change. There is quite a big difference between the velocity needed to enter orbit and that actually needed to escape earth (iirc the former is arround 5 miles per second and the latter arround 7 miles per second).
yes the ISS is in such a low orbit that it degrades and needs boosting but they have some time (months i belive) between when a boost is normally scheduled and when there would be significant risk of losing the station. They even have a soyuz serving as a form of escape capsule for the long term residents.
the big risks in space travel are going up and coming down, actually being in orbit is comparatively safe (have they EVER lost a person while in orbit?).
here are the university of manchester they are still using them for thier main login system and many shared file areas (homedirs have been moved to a new san which i belive is samba based but moving shared file areas has been abandoned at least in our department due to very different permissions handling).
they is also zenworks application deployment which is very very usefull if you have lots of users using lots of different software and moving arround a lot (read: students)
afaict netware makes thier money through selling more licenses (client and server) to existing customers and pressuring customers into upgrades by refusing to sell more cals for older versions, at least thats the impression i get from some people i've spoken too.
i belive for in print books even google are cutting off the spines and shoving them through a sheet feeder, far less labor that way.
yes if you are archiving rare books there isn't much choice but for most applications sheet feeding or flatbed is fine (yes flatbed without sheet feeding is laborious but i'm not convinced theese "planetery scanners" are any less so)
so your saying that to vandalise wikipedia someone should locate the title of a book thats respected but hard to obtain and then cite it and those who don't have the time/money/access to check it should just accept that vandals contribution?
references that can't be checked out by a substantial portion of the articles regular editor base are of little use in maintaining the articles integrity.
with some exceptions lead is no longer allowed in electronic products sold in the EU (the solder itself can still be sold for use in repair work of existing products with lead solder in and for use in stuff that is exempt)
in japan while there is no ban on lead waste responsibility rules make using it a decidedly bad idea. the US is really the only first world country that still doesn't give a fuck on the issue of lead and other hazourdous substances ending up in the general waste system from consumer electronics.
Most of the industry has responded to this by switching entirely to lead free, while lead free does have some disadvantages they just aren't big enough for it to be worth having two seperate process setups.
doesn't the dvd consortiums licensing forbid region free players making them gray market only (at least in countries that consider this licensing valid)?
though i have heared some really cheap chineese players that get sold in supermarkets etc end up as region free (and sometimes free of other annoying crippling that the dvd consorium requires like button lockout during sequences the dvd vendor wants to force you to watch like adverts and copyright scare notices) because the manufacturers in question just don't care.
i agree "for article creation only" is overstating it but still i belive they run as very seperate projects with only a small proportion of new info ever getting translated.
yes if someone notices thier language has a stub (or possiblly a section stub if they find the headings in the foriegn wikipedia readable) and another language has a long article they may request a translation, but the impression i get is that once every language has a significant article on a subject they tend to go thier seperate ways.
is lack of references that are both dependable and free (as in readable by anyone at no cost). Its all very well to reference stuff but if the other editors can't read your references then it doesn't help much.
i'm a university student, i have access to lots of journal archives online through the university (the university pays subscriptions which let all thier members acess them). However if i reference one then
the same applies to national standards, as an example the best reference for large parts of the BS1363 article is BS1363 itself but at most one or two of the editors have easy acess to it without going out to buy a copy themselves.
1: the new project will die off or only see edits in a very specific area (most likely imo), maintaining a knowlage base as big as wikipedia is a LOT of work. (most likely outcome imo) 2: the old project will die off (unlikely) 3:the new project will steal a lot of talent and either 2a: there will be a lot of work merging but most stuff will get into both or 2b: the projects will go thier seperate ways 4: the new project will attract mostly new talent.
yes rivalry can be a big improvement driver but it can also be a big rescource waster.
which, of course, IT relies-on as its lifeblood you can make up for that with backup generators, i'd imagine communication is actually far more of an issue since there is little equivilent of the backup generator for it (there is satalite but thats expensive and very high latency).
There is, of course, the little matter of ever returning home... and the matter of old age, poor countries don't exactly tend to have good free medical care (the US wrings out your savings first but i belive in the ultimate they do give it free to those with nothing left).
tbh we will probablly never really know, we know that if they have any affect it is rare and/or only built up after long term usage.
and its difficult to study because 1: most people won't itemise thier cell use for a researcher (even if they could) and the cell companies are hardly going to hand the info over. 2: controlling for other factors would be a bitch given that cellphone usage tends to go with social status.
With stats you can prove to a certain degree of confidence that its less than a certain level of affect but proving it is no affect at all is basically impossible.
also most studies performed by interest groups are flawed studies from tiny samples that ultimately prove nothing.
global telephone numbers can be up to 15 digits (plus any prefix to dial out of the country you are calling from) and can't start with 0, that makes a possibility of 900,000,000,000,000 telephone numbers.
however in reality most numbers are shorter than this, e.g. a british number in international form is 2 digit country 10 digit (usually) national significant number. for 12 digits total.
the bottom line is some countries may need to renumber thier domestic plans to longer numbers but the global standards still leave plenty of room for them to do so.
You would have to expect that the same thing will happen in these new markets. Explosive development in e.g Mumbai followed by a much, much slower growth over the country as a whole. I'd love to see a distribution map of this stuff. they key difference in the new markets is that cellphones are coming from a different starting point.
here in britan landlines are a regulated monopoly that can be obtained anywhere without spending insane sums of money.
in the emerging markets the cellphones afaict have virtually no comertition outside the main cities.
hmm, does he carry a gun too or travel with bigass bodygaurds? it would seem to me that renting cellphones on the street like that was almost asking to be robbed.
Next summer, the first standards-compliant firmware will arrive. A year later, that firmware will have been debugged and protected. you just have to hope to hell that 1: your device can actually handle the final spec and 2: they actually bother to do so.
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not really, magnetic core memory was well developed by that point
The US is clamping down on thier branch of paypal, those who provide bank like services should be treated like banks.
The PC (windows at least, linux too i think) edition is free yes. I suspect they realised there was little money to be made in the saturated PC browser market and therefore they may as well make it free to try and get more web developer mindshare (which is good for the value of thier embedded versions).
the embedded versions are operas main products nowadays. They have a good browser core that they can sell customised versions of to either the manufacturers or the users of other platforms (like phones, pdas and games consoles).
doesn't steam have mandatory updates during first install, at least here in the uk unless you have broadband or an unmetered dialup subscription your going to be paying by the minuite to download those updates over dialup.
fine idea but that means if you wan't to play the old version of the game you have to maintain an old windows install indefinately and image that windows install to any machines you wan't to play it on (and your even more screwed if your using a legit copy of XP with product activation on it)
and of course your idea assumes that you realised about the undesirable update BEFORE it auto downloaded.
Orbit is a carefully calculated and obsessively maintained state of teetering on escape from gravity and orbital collapse into the atmosphere; thus, the orbit is a stressful, chaotic, dangerous and relatively unpredictable state for a floating flophouse.
orbit is a pretty predictable state without too much sudden change. There is quite a big difference between the velocity needed to enter orbit and that actually needed to escape earth (iirc the former is arround 5 miles per second and the latter arround 7 miles per second).
yes the ISS is in such a low orbit that it degrades and needs boosting but they have some time (months i belive) between when a boost is normally scheduled and when there would be significant risk of losing the station. They even have a soyuz serving as a form of escape capsule for the long term residents.
the big risks in space travel are going up and coming down, actually being in orbit is comparatively safe (have they EVER lost a person while in orbit?).
here are the university of manchester they are still using them for thier main login system and many shared file areas (homedirs have been moved to a new san which i belive is samba based but moving shared file areas has been abandoned at least in our department due to very different permissions handling).
they is also zenworks application deployment which is very very usefull if you have lots of users using lots of different software and moving arround a lot (read: students)
afaict netware makes thier money through selling more licenses (client and server) to existing customers and pressuring customers into upgrades by refusing to sell more cals for older versions, at least thats the impression i get from some people i've spoken too.
i belive for in print books even google are cutting off the spines and shoving them through a sheet feeder, far less labor that way.
yes if you are archiving rare books there isn't much choice but for most applications sheet feeding or flatbed is fine (yes flatbed without sheet feeding is laborious but i'm not convinced theese "planetery scanners" are any less so)
so your saying that to vandalise wikipedia someone should locate the title of a book thats respected but hard to obtain and then cite it and those who don't have the time/money/access to check it should just accept that vandals contribution?
references that can't be checked out by a substantial portion of the articles regular editor base are of little use in maintaining the articles integrity.
with some exceptions lead is no longer allowed in electronic products sold in the EU (the solder itself can still be sold for use in repair work of existing products with lead solder in and for use in stuff that is exempt)
in japan while there is no ban on lead waste responsibility rules make using it a decidedly bad idea. the US is really the only first world country that still doesn't give a fuck on the issue of lead and other hazourdous substances ending up in the general waste system from consumer electronics.
Most of the industry has responded to this by switching entirely to lead free, while lead free does have some disadvantages they just aren't big enough for it to be worth having two seperate process setups.
doesn't the dvd consortiums licensing forbid region free players making them gray market only (at least in countries that consider this licensing valid)?
though i have heared some really cheap chineese players that get sold in supermarkets etc end up as region free (and sometimes free of other annoying crippling that the dvd consorium requires like button lockout during sequences the dvd vendor wants to force you to watch like adverts and copyright scare notices) because the manufacturers in question just don't care.
i agree "for article creation only" is overstating it but still i belive they run as very seperate projects with only a small proportion of new info ever getting translated.
yes if someone notices thier language has a stub (or possiblly a section stub if they find the headings in the foriegn wikipedia readable) and another language has a long article they may request a translation, but the impression i get is that once every language has a significant article on a subject they tend to go thier seperate ways.
is lack of references that are both dependable and free (as in readable by anyone at no cost). Its all very well to reference stuff but if the other editors can't read your references then it doesn't help much.
i'm a university student, i have access to lots of journal archives online through the university (the university pays subscriptions which let all thier members acess them). However if i reference one then
the same applies to national standards, as an example the best reference for large parts of the BS1363 article is BS1363 itself but at most one or two of the editors have easy acess to it without going out to buy a copy themselves.
one of five things will happen
1: the new project will die off or only see edits in a very specific area (most likely imo), maintaining a knowlage base as big as wikipedia is a LOT of work. (most likely outcome imo)
2: the old project will die off (unlikely)
3:the new project will steal a lot of talent and either
2a: there will be a lot of work merging but most stuff will get into both or
2b: the projects will go thier seperate ways
4: the new project will attract mostly new talent.
yes rivalry can be a big improvement driver but it can also be a big rescource waster.
I think I only used the blink tag once, to fake up a C: prompt with a flashing cursor for some help pages.
neat trick.
which, of course, IT relies-on as its lifeblood
you can make up for that with backup generators, i'd imagine communication is actually far more of an issue since there is little equivilent of the backup generator for it (there is satalite but thats expensive and very high latency).
There is, of course, the little matter of ever returning home...
and the matter of old age, poor countries don't exactly tend to have good free medical care (the US wrings out your savings first but i belive in the ultimate they do give it free to those with nothing left).
thats an average of arround 2 and a half hours per day.
or to put it another way when you wan't to fire off an e-mail to a friend or worse a buisness contact there is a 1 in 10 chance that you will fail.
sure but if you buy now there is no gaurantee that your devices will be upgradeable to meet the final spec.
tbh we will probablly never really know, we know that if they have any affect it is rare and/or only built up after long term usage.
and its difficult to study because
1: most people won't itemise thier cell use for a researcher (even if they could) and the cell companies are hardly going to hand the info over.
2: controlling for other factors would be a bitch given that cellphone usage tends to go with social status.
With stats you can prove to a certain degree of confidence that its less than a certain level of affect but proving it is no affect at all is basically impossible.
also most studies performed by interest groups are flawed studies from tiny samples that ultimately prove nothing.
the US isn't the whole world you know!
global telephone numbers can be up to 15 digits (plus any prefix to dial out of the country you are calling from) and can't start with 0, that makes a possibility of 900,000,000,000,000 telephone numbers.
however in reality most numbers are shorter than this, e.g. a british number in international form is 2 digit country 10 digit (usually) national significant number. for 12 digits total.
the bottom line is some countries may need to renumber thier domestic plans to longer numbers but the global standards still leave plenty of room for them to do so.
You would have to expect that the same thing will happen in these new markets. Explosive development in e.g Mumbai followed by a much, much slower growth over the country as a whole. I'd love to see a distribution map of this stuff.
they key difference in the new markets is that cellphones are coming from a different starting point.
here in britan landlines are a regulated monopoly that can be obtained anywhere without spending insane sums of money.
in the emerging markets the cellphones afaict have virtually no comertition outside the main cities.
hmm, does he carry a gun too or travel with bigass bodygaurds? it would seem to me that renting cellphones on the street like that was almost asking to be robbed.
i'd think a 3 phase motor that was wye connected with a neutral wire would still run though (assuming it wasn't on a common trip breaker)?
Next summer, the first standards-compliant firmware will arrive. A year later, that firmware will have been debugged and protected.
you just have to hope to hell that 1: your device can actually handle the final spec and 2: they actually bother to do so.