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The UK needs fast fibre to copy over the corporate data centre over to the new premises in France.
"A lot of people. Many people. Imagination's lawyers! I don't know folks, but when there's Imagination's lawyers involved and they've said Imagination is in dispute with Apple, and they've started an... official... dispute... resolution... process, official process, well, some people would say there's no smoke without fire. And if they said that, they'd be right to say that. And the smart lawyer people are saying that too."
The six-core CPU A11 is now complemented, for the first time, by an Apple-designed GPU.
Apple can now support 4K at 60 frames per second (fps) and 1080p video at 240fps. Top consumer camcorders costing around $1,000 from Sony and Panasonic can't match either frame rate. They don't even come close.
While the Californian juggernaut carries on regardless, yet another supplier ended up as roadkill. GT took two years to come out of bankruptcy, the remains of Imagination got picked up off the tarmac by Chinese investors after MIPS was offloaded.
There has never been an independence referendum in Catalonia because Article 2.
There have been referendums held by town councils with no legal standing, a region-wide referendum which was rebadged a consultation after it was declared illegal, and elections where the parties said that if they're elected they'll carry on the independence process.
This is the first one where Catalonia has said it's a referendum on independence, it's going ahead, and they'll declare independence if there is a majority vote for it.
Well, they're already arresting regional politicians for sedition and fining them €12,000 per day.
The local police run by town councils and regional police are loyal to Catalonia, the national police and civil guard are loyal to central government. If the referendum does go ahead, I'm guessing there's going to be lots of videos of what's happening at polling stations floating round social networks.
That was a privately owned domain registrar not wanring to having anything to do with propogating hate speech.
.cat is publically owned by the region and is being ordered to drop content because central government doesn't like it.
What would you think if there was Scottish referendum information published under a .scot domain and UK ISPs DNS blocked it under orders from central government via a friendly judge? Then later on of it was republished under other domains like .eu and .com and they were blocked too?
The Constitutional Court says that there has to be a constitutional change to Article 2 (Spain is indivisible) before there can be any independence referendum and that a constitutional change also requires a referendum... a nationwide one.
The king has to convene the constitutional referendum, he can only do that if the president propose that he do it, and that can only happen after a majority vote in parliament.
Because there are the two big nationwide parties in parliament, that's never going to happen. Even if parliament did propose a constituional referendum, it wouldn't pass anyway as people elsewhere in Spain would vote no. They don't particularly like Catalonia, but they don't hate them enough to kick them out either. Or maybe they do hate them a lot and the worst thing to do to them would be to not let them leave. Who knows.
So, whenever this comes to a head, the President always pops up and says an independence referendum is illegal because Article 2.
What I don't quite understand is there was a constitutional change in 2011 during the economic crisis after pressure from the EU which said that Spain must prioritize paying its debts over spending. There was no constitutional referendum about this.
The a website on the .cat domain has to have some link to Catalonia or the Catalan language or culture, which is probably why you've never heard of it.
Not sure how fluffy.cat qualifies. Perhaps they let it scrape in because it says "more Catalan content shortly" in Catalan at the start.
Not much separation of powers. The police or interior ministry spot a domain, gets on the blower to a judge, judge issues a court order to all the ISPs to block the DNS.
This is abusing a law designed for copyright theft or hate speech.
They'd have better luck distributing short URLs, e.g. TinyURL or goo.gl, via Twitter and having those redirect to an Amazon or Akamai address so they can reach everyone who doesn't use OpenDNS or Google DNS.
The two regions are separate.
The problem is central government doesn't want greater autonomy for either region because the other one will want it too.
In that respect the Basque Country has a little more fiscal autonomy, it collects and passes the money to Madrid whereas Catalonia gets the money collected by Madrid and is then given its share. Catalonia has been trying to get the same deal for years but is told they can't have it.
If Catalonia does actually get independence (doubtful this time aroubd), that immediately will cause a problem with Basque Country because some there will want independence too.
If not, um, what's the point.
The advantage is it's granny proof.
But for everyone else, we just need the software, instead of having yet another device kicking round taking up space and eventually landfill.
Perhaps they could bundle the device with a year or two's service and access by software only from x other devices. Someone could pay a subscription after that to keep the devices going. Grannies with Loops would always have access, they just couldn't talk to anyone else with their own devices if they don't keep the subscription going... how's that for corporate emotional blackmail.
Oh, so it is.
Real mode, eh? Jumpers for goalposts.
Windows 3.11 was usable, if you stuck to running one program at a time just in case. Using any browser to view a page with too many images or messing round with Word/Excel/Powerpoint too much could make it run out of memory, freeze other programs, or crash.
I learnt to save after every couple of paragraphs the hard way.
Practically any other comparable system of the time did things better.
Ctrl-Alt-Del is detected by the BIOS and generates an interrupt. That's IBM's fault.
It was billg's decision about what to do with that interrupt, if anything, so he is responsible for that. In DOS he chose a reboot. In Win9x he chose a task manager. In WinNT-based Windows he chose to use it to progress through the log-on screen and go to the lock/log off/change password/start task manager screen once logged in.
Yes. You do understand the kext doesn't work in Sierra but Apple could have easily supplied a working kext but decided not to.
That's why people have to change some hardware in a 2007-2009 iMac, so it works with Sierra's more limited range of drivers.
Perhaps Andrew could look into this too (search for that word and you'll find enough info about it).
Really sketchy stuff uploaded under the guise of children's videos that even finds its way into the YouTube Kids app. They appear in the suggestion list and get autoplayed.
How difficult is it to for Google to clobber an entire channel dedicated to Spiderman Getting Elsa Pregnant or Bad Baby Gets His Fingers Cut Off or Ritual Sacrifice in Minecraft or worse?
I guess Google have worked out anything is acceptable for monetisation.
The markets have decided that Brexit in March 2019 is a bad thing. They want clarity from the government and assurance that in future international trade will work similar to how things are done now and they're not getting it. The pound has plummeted accordingly now in anticipation of that event.
Thanking you.
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