According to Wikipedia, 28 countries tax libraries on their books and pay the money to the authors to compensate for supposedly "lost" sales. The details vary from country to country.
Countries that do this include Canada, Australia, New Zealand and much of Europe. The scheme is called "Public Lending Right" and is quite expensive to administer.
If you thought that libraries were just allowed to buy a book and lend it out, well that freedom exists in the US but not in most other developed countries.
This is a very negative statement, and from a Nokia vice president no less. It seems a very strange thing to say at the time of launching a new device.
I hope Nokia is not buttering us up for DRM and lockdown in "Step 5 of 5"...
Meanwhile, the N900 will succeed wildly if Nokia's marketeers allow it to. We tech people like the device because of its specs, but where are the simple statements of the benefits for its other market sectors?
"Open source Linux with a root shell" is good enough for me, but what about "A phone with a real Mozilla-based browser", or "A music player with stereo speakers built-in", or even "N900 - comes with apps".
...With 512k RAM you won't be able to boot any kernel, no matter how old...
And to think, at University in 1977 we were running Unix on a PDP-11 with 64kB RAM. Sixteen concurrent users too, on hardcopy DECwriter terminals (although we couldn't all compile at the same instant). I kid you not!
Transflectives are readable in direct sunlight. You can check your email or navigate a map. But the color is terrible when they're transflecting, and you wouldn't want to watch a movie on one in direct sunshine. (based on my experience with the Nokia N810)
We regularly get homework questions asked (for payment) at uclue.com. Most of the researchers don't like to answer homework questions, so we developed the following policy:
"We are delighted to assist customers with their homework. We can provide information, explanations, links and resources. We do not provide homework answers in finished form, such as essays or answers to tests."
Additionally, we have a clarification process so that we can discuss the homework with the customer and help to educate them. If we were to provide raw answers we would feel very... empty.
Take a look at this video of the Panasonic P905i. At first it looks like it has a similar form factor to the Android G1, until they morph it from a slider to a flip-phone and pull out the digital TV aerial. Seriously cool!
You could start with O'Reilly's "Web Security, Privacy & Commerce" by Simson Garfinkel. It's a good high-level holistic view. Then you can drill down to specific books or websites about PHP and MySQL security.
The IWF is the only authorised organisation in the UK operating an internet âhotlineâ(TM) for the public and IT professionals to report their exposure to potentially illegal content online... The IWF work in partnership with UK Government departments such as the Home Office and the Department of Trade and Industry... The IWF is funded by the EU [i.e. the European Govt] and the UK internet industry
The parent's claim that the IWF is not affiliated with the UK Government might be true on some level, but in practice they're in bed together.
The design of the Kogan Agora and Kogan Agora Pro, when dispatched, will be materially similar to the images set out on this website. Despite this, Kogan Technologies reserves the right to make non-material modifications to the design of the phones in its sole discretion.
Also, I won't be surprised if the shipping date slips.
The "market prices" are certainly higher, and the minimum price at uclue.com is $10 compared with $2 at Google Answers.
The problem with $2 questions is that they are not quite cheap enough to satisfy the "free" crowd, who are best served by something like Yahoo Answers, yet $2 doesn't cover the extra costs of organizing and running a paid research service even before paying the researchers anything.
The "unlimited" is a lie, that's for sure. But T-Mobile is the only UK operator who won't charge you more if you exceed your cap.
It's no fun to pay £10 for your first gigabyte, only to find that you've been charged £1000 for the second gigabyte (e.g. with Three mobile broadband).
I've also got an N800 running the Mozilla-based browser. It's fabulous!
The N800 also runs Opera, which is slightly faster than the Mozilla browser, but Mozilla is running all the JavaScript that Opera is discarding. The Mozilla browser supports Flash 9 too. All in all it's a nice piece of work.
The N800 is 800x480 pixels on a 4.1 inch screen, which is just enough to browse "real" websites in the way they were designed to be browsed. With some phones now approaching this (e.g. the HTC Touch HD is 800x480 on a 3.8 inch screen), it would be great to see Mozilla on the phone itself.
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According to Wikipedia, 28 countries tax libraries on their books and pay the money to the authors to compensate for supposedly "lost" sales. The details vary from country to country.
Countries that do this include Canada, Australia, New Zealand and much of Europe. The scheme is called "Public Lending Right" and is quite expensive to administer.
If you thought that libraries were just allowed to buy a book and lend it out, well that freedom exists in the US but not in most other developed countries.
It is a good thing they didn't try to calculate the amount of power used...
An informed estimate of the power consumption of the internet was 868 billion kWh per year in 2007.
Gopher is not installed by default, kiddie...
Gopher is installed by default on most builds of Firefox. Try this in your address bar: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world
This is a very negative statement, and from a Nokia vice president no less. It seems a very strange thing to say at the time of launching a new device.
I hope Nokia is not buttering us up for DRM and lockdown in "Step 5 of 5"...
Meanwhile, the N900 will succeed wildly if Nokia's marketeers allow it to. We tech people like the device because of its specs, but where are the simple statements of the benefits for its other market sectors?
"Open source Linux with a root shell" is good enough for me, but what about "A phone with a real Mozilla-based browser", or "A music player with stereo speakers built-in", or even "N900 - comes with apps".
This could have been handled much better via a private message (or phone call) than in a public forum.
No I disagree. Doing this in public means everyone understands exactly what's going on. No room for misunderstandings.
And thanks Alan for all your hard work for Linux over the years.
...With 512k RAM you won't be able to boot any kernel, no matter how old...
And to think, at University in 1977 we were running Unix on a PDP-11 with 64kB RAM. Sixteen concurrent users too, on hardcopy DECwriter terminals (although we couldn't all compile at the same instant). I kid you not!
The meaning of the black swan is simply that we can't always expect to predict the future by extrapolating from known trends.
See: What does the black swan have to do with predicting the future?
Transflectives are readable in direct sunlight. You can check your email or navigate a map. But the color is terrible when they're transflecting, and you wouldn't want to watch a movie on one in direct sunshine. (based on my experience with the Nokia N810)
Additionally, we have a clarification process so that we can discuss the homework with the customer and help to educate them. If we were to provide raw answers we would feel very ... empty.
There's one battery in the screen, and one in the keyboard.
Take a look at this video of the Panasonic P905i. At first it looks like it has a similar form factor to the Android G1, until they morph it from a slider to a flip-phone and pull out the digital TV aerial. Seriously cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6J5EtiQ1ps
You could start with O'Reilly's "Web Security, Privacy & Commerce" by Simson Garfinkel. It's a good high-level holistic view. Then you can drill down to specific books or websites about PHP and MySQL security.
The parent's claim that the IWF is not affiliated with the UK Government might be true on some level, but in practice they're in bed together.
people have been arrested (I don't know if convicted) over family photos of kids at bathtime etc.
The newsreader Julia Somerville was arrested over pictures of her 7-year-old daughter in the bath.
She was interrogated for three days, I think I recall, before she was released. I wondered at the time if she would have got off so easily if she wasn't a public figure.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19951105/ai_n14016171
Also, I won't be surprised if the shipping date slips.
The filament inside an incandescent light bulb is also approximately the surface temperature of the sun.
Here is a real Richard Rohl for you: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/636/81a
The "market prices" are certainly higher, and the minimum price at uclue.com is $10 compared with $2 at Google Answers.
The problem with $2 questions is that they are not quite cheap enough to satisfy the "free" crowd, who are best served by something like Yahoo Answers, yet $2 doesn't cover the extra costs of organizing and running a paid research service even before paying the researchers anything.
Fifty of the former Google Answers Researchers now operate Uclue, which is a paid Q&A/Research service that operates much as Google Answers used to.
No more pantomimes in Australia - well, not "Dick Whittington" anyway.
Yep. And, as usual, xkcd said it best.
The "unlimited" is a lie, that's for sure. But T-Mobile is the only UK operator who won't charge you more if you exceed your cap.
It's no fun to pay £10 for your first gigabyte, only to find that you've been charged £1000 for the second gigabyte (e.g. with Three mobile broadband).
GAR! GAR! I mean, former GAR!
I've also got an N800 running the Mozilla-based browser. It's fabulous!
The N800 also runs Opera, which is slightly faster than the Mozilla browser, but Mozilla is running all the JavaScript that Opera is discarding. The Mozilla browser supports Flash 9 too. All in all it's a nice piece of work.
The N800 is 800x480 pixels on a 4.1 inch screen, which is just enough to browse "real" websites in the way they were designed to be browsed. With some phones now approaching this (e.g. the HTC Touch HD is 800x480 on a 3.8 inch screen), it would be great to see Mozilla on the phone itself.
Unfortunately, two years is too long to wait.
I am not going to spend 25 minutes witting a post
If only everyone here spent even 5 minutes witting their posts, the quality of humor here would be much improved.