The difference is.. the telcos bill you for each call.
And usually at different rates for peak and off-peak calls...
Do you want the ISPs to start billing per-megabyte? It's like any business - you advertise a maximum usage that is financially tenable for the business at a given price, with various usage assumptions factored in (time of day, contention ratio etc.), and offer that to the consumer.
That is currently happening here in South-Africa (sort of, you choose your ISP package by the data volume) on ADSL connections... It is probably a lot fairer than charging someone with constant torrents downloading and someone just checking email and doing a bit of surfing the same.... It gets unfair when someone else starts flooding your IP with lots of unrequested data, thereby using your data with no way to stop it...
(The fairness of the current pricing of internet data here is a different debate... Typical prices currently is ussually about R70 (about UD$9) per gigabyte, which is a LOT more than the US (hosting plans seem to typically charge $0.50/GB IIRC...). South-Africa do have some connectivity issues at the moment by being connected mostly by a single undersea cable system (SAT-3/SAFE))
Someone could run a service where sites can list themselves to be verified... That way bank sites can still give the big scary warning if the certificate does not check out AND smaller sites can use self-signed certificates...
The real problem would be to get a neutral and secure way to host this site... (The current SSL method of verifying a site's identity might work in most cases...) In addition, administrators that add domains need to prove that they own the domain... Verification of this site is VERY important to protect against DNS based attacks...
The LGPL still has conditions to use of the code. You may, for example, not forbid disassembly of code linked to LGPL code... The "GPL with linking exception" is better if you want no restrictions on code linking to your code.
fglrx has seen massive improvement lately. It is supposed to be mostly in sync with the Windows Catalyst drivers these days. It's still a bit off perfect of course, but a lot better than it was.
Yes, with version 8.455.2 it only hangs my system after 30 minutes of using Google Earth not immediately... Quake III seems to run stable at least, just without working brightness controls...
I even had compiz-fusion running on a recent version and it was reasonably stable, with the complete lockups being totally predictable (After logging off for the second time...)
It might just have been bad luck, and I did not really have time to look up all the possible settings to try to stabilize the system, but one would think that such measures should not be necessary to use hardware you bought.
If anyone is wondering: I'm running a Radeon 9600 under Gentoo...
I'm shocked at the price of SMS messages in the US.
Here in South Africa a typical SMS costs at most R0,80 (About US$0,10) and no network charge for incoming SMS messages. (I can just see how spamming someone with e-mail / web originating SMS messages can drive their phone bill to insane amount with no control over it) You can even get SMS prices as low as R0,25 (~US$0,04) if you go for a bundle.
....If they came to the conclusion that parents should govern what games their children should play, then they'd be willing to market adult oriented media.... And here in South Africa it is illegal to sell a game to someone aged under the game's age restriction. This should make it harder for children to (directly) obtain such games.
From the site: 'Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.'
I do almost all of my holiday and gift shopping on-line. This "data" might be caused by Firefox users using Adblock to block tracking websites that generate the statistics.....
My campus network will be accessible only on login, so theoretically there will be way to identifi person using address. But only inside network, because it is behind nat, so anyone using internet (some 3k people) will have same ip. However, I'm sure not everyone l;ogs out when they leave their computers and that they might have installed software that redirects connections... (Such as proxy server, tor, port forwarding, etc...)
Not all RoboCup robots are humanoid though.... Some are small wheeled robots with colored blobs on the top to ease their detection....
Another league exists: FIRA... FIRA's "RoboWorld Cup 2007" takes place between 14 and 17 July.... I'm actually doing a team's vision system... (not for the RoboWorld Cup though....)
If it doesn't have substantial non-infringing uses, then it is still a circumvention device. Theres no loopholes here (like selling the modkit in parts). Like my DVD writer?
Maybe you missed the news for quite a while now, but it's illegal to circumvent copyright here now. The chip itself is not illegal, but once you install it, you've broken the law, even if it's not actually ever used.
Yes, it's a stupid law. But it's still the law, and if you break the law (and get caught!) you get arrested. What if you used your modchip to run Linux on the console?
....Certainly most of the geeks I know that run Apple only switched because they could use virtualization to run those apps that they could not live without, as well as for testing in other OSs. I switched because I was curious about OS X and the Intel Macs at least gave me a backup plan if OS X was not sufficient for my needs. On PowerPC you had no real option of running Windows, with Intel you at least have that option if OS X does not work out.
I know Linux was an option for the PowerPC, but if you need applications that does not run under OS X (such as certain Matlab toolboxes, which I run on my desktop), they are unlikely to work under Linux.
Why would anyone want to protect another country's copyright? It is to the nation own disadvantage to protect the copyright.
If your country has nothing that is used in the US (that needs copyright protection) it makes no sense to let money flow out of your country to further enrich one of the richest countries in the world when the money could have been used locally to improve conditions.
AFAIK Telkom South Africa uses corDECT for some rural installations... However I do not know if corDECT is mobile enough for the poster's requirements...
You might try it under Wine (see someone else's reply below...) if you have an Intel Mac. You need the latest Wine source code and the latest XCode. Simply extract it, open a Terminal window and follow the README / INSTALL instructions. Wine compiles go pretty fast on a Core Duo processor (A few (not more than 30) minutes...)
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Is Solaris one of those Unix OS's that has the "lp0 on fire" error still in its code, just in case it is necessary?
I was thinking about trying it out, but I demand five star safety ratings in all of my operating systems. Fire alarms are a must of course :).
I have not looked at the solaris code, but Linux has the "lp0 on fire" error even for USB printers...
The difference is.. the telcos bill you for each call.
And usually at different rates for peak and off-peak calls...
Do you want the ISPs to start billing per-megabyte? It's like any business - you advertise a maximum usage that is financially tenable for the business at a given price, with various usage assumptions factored in (time of day, contention ratio etc.), and offer that to the consumer.
That is currently happening here in South-Africa (sort of, you choose your ISP package by the data volume) on ADSL connections... It is probably a lot fairer than charging someone with constant torrents downloading and someone just checking email and doing a bit of surfing the same.... It gets unfair when someone else starts flooding your IP with lots of unrequested data, thereby using your data with no way to stop it...
(The fairness of the current pricing of internet data here is a different debate... Typical prices currently is ussually about R70 (about UD$9) per gigabyte, which is a LOT more than the US (hosting plans seem to typically charge $0.50/GB IIRC...). South-Africa do have some connectivity issues at the moment by being connected mostly by a single undersea cable system (SAT-3/SAFE))
J2ME runs basically anywhere....
Around here it would probably have been Crimen Injuria
And in some countries it is mentioned in law.
Someone could run a service where sites can list themselves to be verified... That way bank sites can still give the big scary warning if the certificate does not check out AND smaller sites can use self-signed certificates...
The real problem would be to get a neutral and secure way to host this site... (The current SSL method of verifying a site's identity might work in most cases...) In addition, administrators that add domains need to prove that they own the domain... Verification of this site is VERY important to protect against DNS based attacks...
The LGPL still has conditions to use of the code. You may, for example, not forbid disassembly of code linked to LGPL code... The "GPL with linking exception" is better if you want no restrictions on code linking to your code.
Cool, so I no longer need to give my family's medical history...
Surely discrimination based on hereditary medical conditions such as heart disease is genetic discrimination? Even though not directly?
Yes, with version 8.455.2 it only hangs my system after 30 minutes of using Google Earth not immediately... Quake III seems to run stable at least, just without working brightness controls...
I even had compiz-fusion running on a recent version and it was reasonably stable, with the complete lockups being totally predictable (After logging off for the second time...)
It might just have been bad luck, and I did not really have time to look up all the possible settings to try to stabilize the system, but one would think that such measures should not be necessary to use hardware you bought.
If anyone is wondering: I'm running a Radeon 9600 under Gentoo...
I'm shocked at the price of SMS messages in the US.
Here in South Africa a typical SMS costs at most R0,80 (About US$0,10) and no network charge for incoming SMS messages. (I can just see how spamming someone with e-mail / web originating SMS messages can drive their phone bill to insane amount with no control over it) You can even get SMS prices as low as R0,25 (~US$0,04) if you go for a bundle.
Why don't they just enter Robocup?
....If they came to the conclusion that parents should govern what games their children should play, then they'd be willing to market adult oriented media.... And here in South Africa it is illegal to sell a game to someone aged under the game's age restriction. This should make it harder for children to (directly) obtain such games.I do almost all of my holiday and gift shopping on-line.
This "data" might be caused by Firefox users using Adblock to block tracking websites that generate the statistics.....
I remember that this kind of thing used to be done with VRML...
You can already buy 300GB disks made by InPhase technologies and HVD disks should have been released somewhere near the end of last year....
InPhase claims that they should be able to fit up to 1.6TB on a slightly larger than DVD disk...
Patents, however might be the reason that the technology would be unlikely to reach reasonable prices soon...
Not all RoboCup robots are humanoid though.... Some are small wheeled robots with colored blobs on the top to ease their detection....
Another league exists: FIRA... FIRA's "RoboWorld Cup 2007" takes place between 14 and 17 July.... I'm actually doing a team's vision system... (not for the RoboWorld Cup though....)
Yes, it's a stupid law. But it's still the law, and if you break the law (and get caught!) you get arrested. What if you used your modchip to run Linux on the console?
And I thought South-Afica was expensive. SMSs cost max ZAR0.75 (+-US$0.11) here and as low as ZAR0.25 (US$0.04) without any SMS bundles...
They run these ads in South-Africa....
They try to tell pirates that theft is not really any different than piracy and that they should start stealing....
....Certainly most of the geeks I know that run Apple only switched because they could use virtualization to run those apps that they could not live without, as well as for testing in other OSs. I switched because I was curious about OS X and the Intel Macs at least gave me a backup plan if OS X was not sufficient for my needs. On PowerPC you had no real option of running Windows, with Intel you at least have that option if OS X does not work out.I know Linux was an option for the PowerPC, but if you need applications that does not run under OS X (such as certain Matlab toolboxes, which I run on my desktop), they are unlikely to work under Linux.
Why would anyone want to protect another country's copyright? It is to the nation own disadvantage to protect the copyright.
If your country has nothing that is used in the US (that needs copyright protection) it makes no sense to let money flow out of your country to further enrich one of the richest countries in the world when the money could have been used locally to improve conditions.
AFAIK Telkom South Africa uses corDECT for some rural installations... However I do not know if corDECT is mobile enough for the poster's requirements...
You might try it under Wine (see someone else's reply below...) if you have an Intel Mac. You need the latest Wine source code and the latest XCode. Simply extract it, open a Terminal window and follow the README / INSTALL instructions. Wine compiles go pretty fast on a Core Duo processor (A few (not more than 30) minutes...)
I used to play it until became shareware....
They used real drug dealer sales techniques: Get you hooked on th nice freeware game, then change it to shareware...