Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
It needs to broadcast a correction signal - typically either over the GSM phone network or a pager band - which needs a license from the hosting government.
Since you need these systems to get high accuracy a lot of next-gen GNSS systems are just using a single geostationary satelite and a bunch of ground stations - to give cheap higher accuracy coverage over their own territory.
It was officially permanently disabled in 2000 (although the civilian signal can be blocked in regions of conflict) because the FAA wanted to use it to replace navigation beacons and landing aids.
It struck even the US govt has ridiculous to have one branch of govt spending $Bn to overcome a restriction put in by another branch that had spent $Bn to do the same thing.
>. The problem with this theory is that those licenses (to my understanding) aren’t transferable in the event of an acquisition.
I'm sure Apple have enough lawyers to make sure that "Apple Holding Holding Holding Inc" of Grand Cayman's doesn't actually acquire "Beats Holding Holding ltd" of the Dutch Antiles.
Carry a monitor, car battery and inverter around do you?
In a lot of ways it's better than a chromebook - especially if it can print to an actual printer, not a cloudy imaginary one. A chromebook with a touchscreen and a wider range of apps sounds like a winner. Needs a couple of hundred more rows of screen though
>the whole solar PV thing across Europe has been a disaster
It has not been a disaster - it has been a great success, ask Ms Merkel's election team.
It's the best way of keeping both middle class home owners (or at least those with a south facing roof), farmers and greens happy. While getting the poor to pay for it, without seeming to raise taxes.
Sun published Java specs, they published Java manuals, they encouraged people to learn Java - now it turns out that all that was proprietry secret information. If that had been mentioned at the time do you think we would have learned Java?
Nobody is saying Google have the right to copy Oracle's code - just to write their own implementation of a published language manual. If this isn't true then Intel or ARM could decide that their instruction set is copyright and tomorrow almost every computer in the world is illegal.
>Not to mention IMEI blacklisting is not worldwide, sold to China
And the remote kill switch is?
This isn't a separate radio controlled bit of plastic explosive. It's requiring the OS to be sent a message over the cell network.
There is no reason for China State Telecom to route US kill messages any more than US carriers would accept requests from the Chinese govt. And any phone that is reflashed with a custom image is safe even at home.
Remember back in the 90s when cell phones caught on with non-yuppies.
It was so expensive to call anyone on another network that you had to be on the same network as all your friends - this was the main marketing tactic of most operators.
So now you don't only have to be on Facebook because all your friends are - you have to be on Facebook because your ISP doesn't carry Google+
(note to Americans and other aliens - in europe you pay more to call a cell phone and each network used to have it's own area code so you knew how much it would cost to call)
To download free software from a european supplier you have to promise you aren't Cuban - because they have to comply with US rules to do business there.
Yet the US government is allowed to bankroll the development of Russian ICBMs and compensate the Russian minister in charge of invading his neighbours
Apple isn't a product development company - they are a music download company.
They are buying the good doctor because of the company's download deals.
Expect them to start buying record labels and music studios next.
They are doing what Sony should have done in the 90s. Own the content, instead they bought studios to supply their low margin hw business.
That's why I left Netflix. It's cheaper than buying boxsets - until the series you want to watch disappears. They had a big cull of almost all their British comedies at the end of last year. They also get a bit annoying pushing their latest home made product to the top of all your searches.
Their selection has got better. I signed up when it first came here and you would get search results like: "Star Wars isn't available - we recommend, Star Spangled Banner: a history of beauty pageants"
>And even when an alarm goes off, it'll take some time for whoever's on-call to get their arse out of bed,
When the alarm goes off, an accountant will be alerted to begin the process of collecting bids from service companies who migth deal with it - before accepting the cheapest one in 6-8 weeks
The SR71 also added the feature of never overflying enemy territory - at least not of any enemy with an airforce.
Over-fligths were banned after the U2 and because of a danger that somebody with an itchy button finger might mistake the SR71 for something a little more explosive
> Radiation is more than foreseeable.
Yes you could have bought rad hard chips for 10x the price, assuming you could get export permission, and you could only have launched 1/10 as many satellites because the rad hard chips are bigger, lower performance and higher power requirement.
Then you should build 5 backup systems and a voting controller, and large enough solar panels to power them, and make them deployable, and by the time you've done this you migtt as well just put a crew onboard - so your $25 nano-say becomes the ISS
Yes, anything you learn while working for ZeniMax means you can never work in that field/language/technology for anyone else. Good luck recruiting now guys.
The state of Ma was notorious for taking a very broad view of non-competes, even when they weren't in the contract. With the result that nobody ever wanted to hire anyone that had ever worked for a computer company in Ma - so nobody leaving the couple of famous local universities would ever work for a local software company - and instead got the first flight to Santa Cruz.
But Sony goes one better and introduces technology that isn't even compatible with themselves.
They refused to release minidisk as a computer data format ( 78Mb on a disk 1/4 the size of a floppy ) because of concerns from their movie studio that it would lead to piracy.
