Posts by Olof P

To those suggesting alternate release mechanisms

One of the stated objectives was that the release mechanism be as purely mechanical as possible.

@ AC Re: 3

I doubt 3 will get much from this, considering that they don't have any GSM frequencies.

@ Craig 28

Yes, although the requirement is only for males, for now. The issue has been raised that laws should apply equally to men and women, but since it's now less than 10% of the guys who do military service there's not much point to keeping it a legal requirement.

@ Giles Jones: It's not the design, it's the name

So not on trademark grounds, no.

@ AC 13:55

Anything that doesn't incur an extra cost on the customer that's not advertised on the first page is fine. It's only if a retailer includes a checked box that you want to purchase anti-virus in addition to the computer you just bought that they'd be in trouble from this. If it's bundled, it's fine.

@ How come...

Other manufacturers also have screen with 720p or more. Examples include the Acer Aspire One D250 (Atom N270 and 10.1" screen) and models from both Asus, Acer and Packard Bell with Atom Z520 and 11.6" display.

As a Swede, what they did was get many of the "apathetic" people to vote

That's why a) they got into the EU parliament and b) several groups there wanted to associate with them because they had massive numbers among young voters.

@ AC Re: The core

No, there *has been* only 4 atoms of it so far. Now there are none, again, since the last one decayed.

Re: Which court is next

Actually this'll go to a Court of Appeal (hovrätt) before it possibly makes it to the Supreme Court (which is not guaranteed to take up every case that's appealed from the appeal court level). I believe the defendants have also declared that they'll appeal to the European Court of Human Rights if they'd lose on all levels in Sweden.

Eau de rodent

Brilliant, simply brilliant.

@ Matt Devney

UTC is almost what used to be called GMT with some small differences. However, using UK time gets troublesome when you consider that like the rest of Europe, that changes by an hour twice a year.

@ Dan Gray (yes, one more)

It's true that immigration officers won't see your checked luggage, however customs you have to pass after you've picked it up. It'd be pretty hard to stop smuggling otherwise...

Re: Math problem

64 x 16 gigabit / (8 bits/byte) = 128 gigabyte

@ my critics:

I think a lot of people missed the fact that I said I disagreed with the law. That doesn't mean everything said against it is true.

To Svein Skogen, the writing limits it to "organised crime that could threaten the stability of the state", one example was that if they figured out someone was smuggling drugs they wouldn't be able to use that, unless they were doing it to finance a terror attack on Sweden.

@ Dex

Trademarks only apply in a certain domain, like, say, comics or computer accessories. Even though Pentium is an Intel trademark for computer processors, you could well get away with selling food under the same name, because the risk of confusion would be small.

In this case a look at the US PTO trademark database shows 6 live trademarks for "mighty mouse". CBS has most of them, but the older of those relate to toys, clothing, vitamin supplements, candy etc. Looking at the ones relating to computer control devices, CBS seems to have filed (not actually required) last summer, and then M&M in december last year. Remember that if CBS/Apple could get it, they could force M&M to rename their product, which has been around longer than Apple's version.

@ AC

"USA is no longer a net exporter of oil since 2006."

The last time US was a net exporter of crude oil was in July 1944, according to the website. If you're talking about finished gasoline, it was in 1966. So the position of (net) oil importer is far from new.

@ Simple solution

The way the ice cream van gets known is by repeating their jingle many times over. I'd assume google only drives once or twice through each city, which doesn't really allow people to get used to and recognise it.

@ "Icepack mounting frame"?

No, the main purpose is to adapt it to 3.5" drive bays. They'll sell a pure 2.5" version without the adapter as well.

Obviously they do have other suppliers

or else they wouldn't be able to sell the 60-70% of normal that they will in the next quarter.

But what should they do? Have six months worth of batteries in storage? Hard to do in a business where the products are old after that time, and also Li-Ion batteries don't take very well to storage. Have contracts for 30% more batteries than they sell? Say bye-bye to even remotely competitive pricing.

Good for blind people?

They're supposed to have sensitive fingers. I know for sure I don't even get close to reading Braille.

@ Further investigation

I'm not surprised, if they're expanding somewhere it doesn't make sense to kick people there. If they hire fewer people, it might have the same effect on sales/employee or some similar number.

@ "Gave the land to the Israelis"

If you read up on the partition plan, (which was made by the UN and not the British, btw), you'll see that Israel of today is plenty bigger than the Jewish state suggested in there. And that is not because of someone's generosity, but rather the Jews having a better organised militia in 1948, and then winning a couple of wars after that.

@ Andrew Thomas

A couple of months to get from the edges of the solar system to near Earth?

Let's assume they saw it no further out than Saturn, that's 10 AU or 1.5*10^12 m. If that'd take 100 days = 8.6*10^6 seconds to get from there to here, it'd have a speed of 1.73*10^5 m/s, or roughly 600 000 km/h. It'd move from the moon to here in 40 minutes. Do you really think they'd have any chance of hitting that?