Archive for January, 2005
Just in case you didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas, and tried to use the lame excuse that it was physically imposible for Santa Claus to actually deliver all those gifts you might want to take a look at PhysOrg.com’s The Physics of Santa Claus. It would appear that Santa makes use of an [...]
Germany extorts royalty payments from Fujitsu-Siemens
2 Comments Published by Jim January 4th, 2005 in UncategorizedCNet is reporting that Fujitsu-Siemens to pay per-machine fee for piracy. Jake thinks they should move to the US.
Actually similar fees exist in the US for VCR’s, tape recorders, blank tapes and audio CD recorders and blank audio CD’s (CD-R’s that are marked as Audio CD-R’s). When you buy one of those items a [...]