thing is you are now getting theese specilist patent firms that have the financial backing to see a patent case through and can't be forced to cross license because they don't actually produce anything.
Selling shares of a company is equity financing, not debt financing. exactly most companies run in debt because they don't wan't to sell more shares than they have to. sorry if my wording wasn't too clearSelling bonds is debt financing. yep thats one type of debt not the only one though
A private company most certianly can sell stock. i was under the impression that having your stock availible to the general public was what made a company a public company.
A company does not need to "IPO" to go public. There are other ways. such as?
whereas here in the uk they tend to use PPPoA which gives a slightly lower overhead and more importantly allows a higher MTU meaning you run into less problems caused by that horrible combination known of as path mtu discovery and badly configured firewalls.
afaict most buisnesses run themselves in debt. Selling more shares means diluting the control of existing owners possiblly reduces the share price etc and obviously isn't possible for private companies without the huge complexity that is an IPO.
However when your buisness goes downhill you have fixed commitments to creditors (unlike to shareholders) and theese commitments can drive even the largest corparations to bankrupcy.
Every ISP that is NOT a Tier 1, gets their access from a Tier 1.
true in a sense but highly misleading. A large tier 2 isp is likely to have uplinks to MULTIPLE tier 1 providers as well as many peering links of thier own.
trouble is once you start actually buying stuff for windows interoperability one of the main advatages of linux (its availibility legally at close to zero cost) RAPIDLY starts to evaportate.
how much does an OEM copy of winXP cost to white box vendors nowadays anyway?
also some care is needed with computer setups and in places where theese things are done by hand its rarely done right.
generally your computer works in either local time (windows) or UTC (unix) and converts to the other one as needed. The problems start when a user sets things up such that local time is shown right but the time bias is wrong so the computers idea of UTC is wrong.
the problem i suspect is the server cost in building isos on demand. a client side tool would be more feasible but then you get the old OS support issues.
try that png again if it crashes it in a repeatable fasion then see if you can find out if the png is in some way malformed or just strange then submit a bug report.
p.s. does this png contain private information or is it something you could post here for us geeks to have a look at?
i presume you mean text that has been converted to outlines not rasterized (converted to bitmaps)
the likely reason it looks bad is because what did those conversions didn't know it was going to be displayed on screen and didn't hint it accordingly.
sure you replieds and i clarified its not always possible to think of everything relavent when you make your initial post.
btw while discussion of a few of our favourites is nice i think my original point still stands, most home routers can't be upgraded to support ipv6 without the manufacturers cooperation.
yes fully implementing unicode is extremely hard (very few if any systems cand handle every single valid unicode code point correctly)
however i seriously dispute the idea that using a unciode encoding as the on-disk format would have made png much harder to implement utf-816 bit unicode (i suspect 1995 way pre supplementry planes) is pretty trivial and mapping a subset of those unicode characters to whatever your native platform can handle isn't exactly difficult either. ofc they may have done it to try and push the use of western languages and used the compleixty argument as a cover story.
btw at least one major platform (winnt) was i'm pretty sure already natively unicode in 1995.
hell yeah/. is a discussion board which is a totally different thing from working on an encyclopedia article./. is casual enough that i only use the minimum of punctuation needed to get my point accoross and virutally no caps at all.
from what i remember its big advantage was it was designed to avoid the need for special filters between the phone line and any phones. Its big disadvantage is in the maximum possible speed.
here in the u.k. all our adsl is g.dmt and most people use plug in filters and fit a seperate one for every phone (this isn't always the neatest method of installation but its simple enough that any moron can do it).
mind you the original standard for embedding text in pngs screwed that one up too (there is a new later chunk type for unicode text but the original chunks were for ISO-8859-1 text)
ofc you could make the argument that if you wan't a standard way of tagging files you wan't to encourage people to use a standard language so the tags can be as widely understood as possible but i won't go there;).
because you can go higher and therefore cover a larger area with one base station, great if your aim is to cover the lower density areas.
the market for broadband in urban and suburban areas is largely saturated (at least here in the uk) by dsl and cable. but rural areas that are too far from a phone exchange (5km iirc) or whose phone exchanges are too small to be worth upgrading are still up for grabs.
Slashdot Mirror
surely that would made ff LESS likely to produce hits on the homepage as people would be getting the stories fed to them directly by RSS.
i'm pretty damn sure that venus has a higher surface temperature than murcury
for transportation don't many of the oil alternatives (oil shale tar sands coal liquification etc) create a lot more polloution than normal oil?
and for leccy afaict coal and natural gas are generally used (the USA has quite a shortage of natural gas so they tend to use coal afaict)
thing is you are now getting theese specilist patent firms that have the financial backing to see a patent case through and can't be forced to cross license because they don't actually produce anything.
Selling shares of a company is equity financing, not debt financing.
exactly most companies run in debt because they don't wan't to sell more shares than they have to. sorry if my wording wasn't too clearSelling bonds is debt financing.
yep thats one type of debt not the only one though
A private company most certianly can sell stock.
i was under the impression that having your stock availible to the general public was what made a company a public company.
A company does not need to "IPO" to go public. There are other ways.
such as?
i would question why there are either so few cuircuits or so many breakers getting blown that this is a huge issue.
shares are NOT debt they are part ownership of the company.
saying a company is in debt to shareholders is like saying a company you own is in debt to you.
whereas here in the uk they tend to use PPPoA which gives a slightly lower overhead and more importantly allows a higher MTU meaning you run into less problems caused by that horrible combination known of as path mtu discovery and badly configured firewalls.
afaict most buisnesses run themselves in debt. Selling more shares means diluting the control of existing owners possiblly reduces the share price etc and obviously isn't possible for private companies without the huge complexity that is an IPO.
However when your buisness goes downhill you have fixed commitments to creditors (unlike to shareholders) and theese commitments can drive even the largest corparations to bankrupcy.
not surprising, the major search engines are afaict EXTREMELY well connected.
btw what happened about the cognet/L3 issue in the end?
did they re-peer (possiblly under different terms to before)?
did cognet start buying transit to L3?
are they still disconnected?
Every ISP that is NOT a Tier 1, gets their access from a Tier 1.
true in a sense but highly misleading. A large tier 2 isp is likely to have uplinks to MULTIPLE tier 1 providers as well as many peering links of thier own.
couple of things:
1: many tier 1 isps are involved at the retail end as well to some degree
2: many isps that could be considered bandwidth wholesalers are not tier 1.
trouble is once you start actually buying stuff for windows interoperability one of the main advatages of linux (its availibility legally at close to zero cost) RAPIDLY starts to evaportate.
how much does an OEM copy of winXP cost to white box vendors nowadays anyway?
also some care is needed with computer setups and in places where theese things are done by hand its rarely done right.
generally your computer works in either local time (windows) or UTC (unix) and converts to the other one as needed. The problems start when a user sets things up such that local time is shown right but the time bias is wrong so the computers idea of UTC is wrong.
i suspect none YET ;)
doesn't mean that none will though.
the problem i suspect is the server cost in building isos on demand. a client side tool would be more feasible but then you get the old OS support issues.
try that png again if it crashes it in a repeatable fasion then see if you can find out if the png is in some way malformed or just strange then submit a bug report.
p.s. does this png contain private information or is it something you could post here for us geeks to have a look at?
i presume you mean text that has been converted to outlines not rasterized (converted to bitmaps)
the likely reason it looks bad is because what did those conversions didn't know it was going to be displayed on screen and didn't hint it accordingly.
sure you replieds and i clarified its not always possible to think of everything relavent when you make your initial post.
btw while discussion of a few of our favourites is nice i think my original point still stands, most home routers can't be upgraded to support ipv6 without the manufacturers cooperation.
yes fully implementing unicode is extremely hard (very few if any systems cand handle every single valid unicode code point correctly)
however i seriously dispute the idea that using a unciode encoding as the on-disk format would have made png much harder to implement utf-816 bit unicode (i suspect 1995 way pre supplementry planes) is pretty trivial and mapping a subset of those unicode characters to whatever your native platform can handle isn't exactly difficult either. ofc they may have done it to try and push the use of western languages and used the compleixty argument as a cover story.
btw at least one major platform (winnt) was i'm pretty sure already natively unicode in 1995.
hell yeah /. is a discussion board which is a totally different thing from working on an encyclopedia article. /. is casual enough that i only use the minimum of punctuation needed to get my point accoross and virutally no caps at all.
according to wikipedia G.lite is the standard they use for adsl in australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU_G.992.2
from what i remember its big advantage was it was designed to avoid the need for special filters between the phone line and any phones. Its big disadvantage is in the maximum possible speed.
here in the u.k. all our adsl is g.dmt and most people use plug in filters and fit a seperate one for every phone (this isn't always the neatest method of installation but its simple enough that any moron can do it).
mind you the original standard for embedding text in pngs screwed that one up too (there is a new later chunk type for unicode text but the original chunks were for ISO-8859-1 text)
;).
ofc you could make the argument that if you wan't a standard way of tagging files you wan't to encourage people to use a standard language so the tags can be as widely understood as possible but i won't go there
because you can go higher and therefore cover a larger area with one base station, great if your aim is to cover the lower density areas.
the market for broadband in urban and suburban areas is largely saturated (at least here in the uk) by dsl and cable. but rural areas that are too far from a phone exchange (5km iirc) or whose phone exchanges are too small to be worth upgrading are still up for grabs.