... total and absolute write off, particularly for small countries.
What all the published articles fail to mention is that there is a third fibre running from one end of the country to the other. It is owned by Telstra, the competition. It would not be too much of an exaggeration to say that Telstra and Telecom have such a level of psychotic hatred for one another, that they cannot talk to each other except in a Court room. Thus the very idea of setting up the routers so that all three of the fibres are shared is such an anathema that it just won't happen without Government regulation and intervention. Needless to say the Government is essentially a bunch of ignorent wimps who can no more understand the technicalities of the situation than fly. So it won't happen and we will have to suffer the consequencies of serious telecom infrastructure failure from time to time.
It's time for the little peoples of the world to take back ownership of their infrastructures by whatever means necessary. Fighting talk may be, but many of us in the rest of the world are sick of being fleeced by the avaricious in the powerful countries. Oh shit! - I forgot - big countries make up excuses to invade little ones so they can steal their natural resources.
... and have the customers write letters to the company in the good old fashioned way.... Oh? Doh! That means customers have to be literate! That means we need schools that actually teach! That means paying more for teachers! OH DOH! That means upping taxes. And THAT my friends means that the Minister of Education won't get re-elected!
Banking. Safe, yet interesting and well paid work for the honest and hardworking. Young friend of mine has just been invited to interview for a permanent job in Zurich at 110,000 Swiss Francs about 4 years after batchelor's graduation. ( He's a near genius though )
The tour is of the place where the separation of the uranium isotopes took place exactly 60 years ago. The Calutron technology has long since been replaced by other more efficient methods, so it's no longer a military secret. It may seem odd to you to expose one of your nation's major industro-military complexes to the public view, but I do not see it as strange for a nation to display any history changing facility on it's significant anniversary. The bomb itself was built at Los Alamos and finally assembled on the Pacific island called Tinian, btw.
Just what do they think they are doing, because ..
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According to WordNet:-
oxytocin
n : hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade
name Pitocin); stimulates contractions of the uterus and
ejection of milk [syn: Pitocin]
This will have the exact reverse of the intended result simply because people of all ages need to experience the trust of others to learn the full meaning of being trustworthy. In my experience those who cannot themselves trust are not trustworthy, and that speaks volumes about the people who procured this abomination.
You must remember that this solution searching for a use has come out of the country which has turned the business of dumbing-down TV into a supreme art form. This is animation is just one of the symptoms of pandering to the supposed needs of that sector of the population which is thought to be unable to differentiate an isobar from an icecream.
I think the MPAA shafts a single downloader $2000 to $4000, and that compares to the $10 cost of a single seat in the cinema. At that rate of multiplication, I'd say that the movie industry would be lacking in its duty to its shareholders if it did not use the legal system as a source of revenue. A case could be made out to that effect, not withstanding that the corollary to "and lead us not into temptation" is "Thou shalt not temp". Corporate America at it again, please move along now.
Scoria \Sco"ri*a\, n.; pl. Scoriae. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ?
dung, ordure.]
1. The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected
after the reduction of metallic ores; dross.
[1913 Webster]
So basically you're saying the manufacturer should be liable for user failures?
No, what I am saying is that a manufacturer should be liable for design or manufacturing faults. In my country he is. If I buy an item for domestic use and it fails to do what it was sold to do, I can demand an instant 100% refund.
I, and many other people, think that manufacturing an o/s for a computer which if put on the 'Net as supplied 'out of the box', will get 0wn3d within minutes is indeed a design fault. The abject refusal of the manufacturer to correct this error is, imho, a felony for which the company directors should be held financially & legally responsible.
... protecting against this nonsense could be sheeted back to the manufacturer of the insecure operating system on the 'bots, then he'd pretty quickly mend his insecure o/s. Technical problem solved. The real problem however is the absence of police and legal systems equipped with sufficient backbone to be able to adjudicate on and enforce a ruling against a huge international corporation.
ThinkPads run Linux beautifully. Look what 'uname -r' on my TP says:- Linux imogen 2.6.11 #3 SMP Fri Apr 29 14:57:42 NZST 2005 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
It takes a bit of knowledge and effort to get the ACPI and wireless systems to go, but that's all. I'm happy.
They have an agreement with the "DevilIncarnate" to pre-install his O/S for small batches. Order 500 units or more and you can have whatever O/S you like.
Working Document on the patentability of the inventions controlled by computer (2002/0047 (COD))
Rapporteur:
Michel Rocard
The Council of Ministers finally adopted a joint position on the patentability of the inventions implemented by computer to allow that the debate in second reading is held. Five Member States voted while letting know in writing that they voted to resolve the procedure, but which they wished to see the text modified by the Parliament. Our dissension of the first turn was heard.
This text is essential as well economically (a few tens of billion annual euros are concerned) that politically or philosophically: it acts of the statute of the diffusion of the knowledge and the ideas in the company.
It is a short, but bearing text on an extremely complex matter. For two years that it is in debate, it has clearly appeared that in the difficulty of finding solutions consensual, the dissensions on the definitions and the misunderstandings are much more important than the dissensions on the bottom.
I made draw up a note of precise and detailed analysis of the subject. It is long. At the time when I write this letter to you, I am not sure of being able to translate it into English.
I however hope to give it to you to all in French and English. But in fact, for the debate without text from April 21 in Brussels, I prefer, before depositing my proposals for an amendment officially, to propose to you to think together on the problem which is posed to us, and of his intellectual treatment.
Because in this short text, we have in fact only two problems serious, likely to nourish a conflict with the Commission and the Council: that of the delimitation of what is patentable and of what is not it, and interworking. If the Parliament and finally the Council follow the orientations that we propose to them, the problem of interworking will be regulated of this fact.
It is thus necessary to start by being occupied of the delimitation. Which is the question? It results from contradiction between the legal system and the inherited tradition on the one hand, and the needs for remuneration for the investments and safety for the large-scale industry supported by the recent drifts for the patentability in the United States, and to a lesser extent with the European Patent Office, on the other hand. All our legal systems, and especially Convention on the European patent signed in 1973 in Munich establish clearly that the software is not patentable (art 52.2. CBE). However there exists more than 150000 patents of this type in the United States, without legal base and about 50000 with the European Patent Office, at dubious legal base and unequally valid in front of our national laws.
The striking down development of data processing has extended for twenty years with all the branches from our industries and our services. Beyond the professional uses, there is no more one object of everyday consumption which does not comprise integrated softwares: portable cars, telephones, televisions, video tape recorders, washing machines, orders of elevators, etc.
All that is expensive to develop. It is normal, and desirable, that industry can patent the results of its investments to ensure remuneration and to protect them from it from the counterfeit and the unfair competition. The regulation of the physical processes implemented within the inventions is a very old problem: it took innumerable forms, mechanics or tires in particular. To develop of such regulations, patentable when they were themselves innovating in their realization, was extremely expensive. To replace by software, whose production and development cost is much weaker, an enormous economy represents. That pushed with their multiplication. But a software is of another nature. It is about the immaterial one.
In fact, a software is the combination in an original work of one or more algorithms, i.e. a whole of mathematical formulas. However like said it Albert Einstein, a math
what it really means to watch television....
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...is that you have difficulty exercising your third brain cell.
... and give the users 2 labled live CDs instead.
Typewriter.
Runs Open Office. Used to print the letter to relative. Put letter in envelope and send using Post Office.
Banking.
Runs Firebird with home page set to the bank's login page, and built-in firewall to only allow connections to and from the bank's server.
That would satisfy the needs of a huge number of people who have had these new-fangled computer gadgets forced on them, yet avoid all the hazards. Scores:- Insightful:5; Funny:5 -- Take your pick.
Perhaps this is a first step towards unbundling the o/s from the hardware. I look foreward to the day when I can go into a shop and choose whatever o/s I want, or none at all, without having to pay a tax to a private company.
I just say: "To get rid of your computer problems get rid of Windows"
Some people just look at me as if I'm quite mad, & end the conversation. That's fine. I don't have to bother with them any more.
Some say: "What do you suggest"?
I say: "Linux, would you like to have a demo?"
So I pop a Knoppix LiveCD in the slot and let them have a play.
For people who only need a bit of Web and Email and a typewriter simulation that's the answer in 5 minutes. If their modem is not supported by Knoppix sell them one that is. An external modem is far cheaper than having someone skilled at the IT support craft footle around for hours trying to rid a Windows hard drive of every item of malware spew.
If the customer is interested in going further I explain that they will have to expend either time or money to install and set up a custom Linux distribution.
All this nonsense simply because flippin Microsoft make every user an administrator by default. The're irresposible nutters who should either be thrown in the slammer, or commited to an asylum. Don't consort with them, or you'll get corrupted.
Copyright infringement has exactly the same relationship to BitTorrent as forgery has to writing, pens, and ink. To be consistent we're going to ban the use of the latter are we?
Slashdot Mirror
What all the published articles fail to mention is that there is a third fibre running from one end of the country to the other. It is owned by Telstra, the competition. It would not be too much of an exaggeration to say that Telstra and Telecom have such a level of psychotic hatred for one another, that they cannot talk to each other except in a Court room. Thus the very idea of setting up the routers so that all three of the fibres are shared is such an anathema that it just won't happen without Government regulation and intervention. Needless to say the Government is essentially a bunch of ignorent wimps who can no more understand the technicalities of the situation than fly. So it won't happen and we will have to suffer the consequencies of serious telecom infrastructure failure from time to time.
It's time for the little peoples of the world to take back ownership of their infrastructures by whatever means necessary. Fighting talk may be, but many of us in the rest of the world are sick of being fleeced by the avaricious in the powerful countries. Oh shit! - I forgot - big countries make up excuses to invade little ones so they can steal their natural resources.
Fat chance of fixing this 'little difficulty'.
Banking. Safe, yet interesting and well paid work for the honest and hardworking. Young friend of mine has just been invited to interview for a permanent job in Zurich at 110,000 Swiss Francs about 4 years after batchelor's graduation. ( He's a near genius though )
The tour is of the place where the separation of the uranium isotopes took place exactly 60 years ago. The Calutron technology has long since been replaced by other more efficient methods, so it's no longer a military secret. It may seem odd to you to expose one of your nation's major industro-military complexes to the public view, but I do not see it as strange for a nation to display any history changing facility on it's significant anniversary. The bomb itself was built at Los Alamos and finally assembled on the Pacific island called Tinian, btw.
oxytocin
n : hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitocin); stimulates contractions of the uterus and ejection of milk [syn: Pitocin]
This will have the exact reverse of the intended result simply because people of all ages need to experience the trust of others to learn the full meaning of being trustworthy. In my experience those who cannot themselves trust are not trustworthy, and that speaks volumes about the people who procured this abomination.
You must remember that this solution searching for a use has come out of the country which has turned the business of dumbing-down TV into a supreme art form. This is animation is just one of the symptoms of pandering to the supposed needs of that sector of the population which is thought to be unable to differentiate an isobar from an icecream.
I think the MPAA shafts a single downloader $2000 to $4000, and that compares to the $10 cost of a single seat in the cinema. At that rate of multiplication, I'd say that the movie industry would be lacking in its duty to its shareholders if it did not use the legal system as a source of revenue. A case could be made out to that effect, not withstanding that the corollary to "and lead us not into temptation" is "Thou shalt not temp". Corporate America at it again, please move along now.
WALK
Scoria \Sco"ri*a\, n.; pl. Scoriae. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ?
dung, ordure.]
1. The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected
after the reduction of metallic ores; dross.
[1913 Webster]
2. Cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]
scoria
n : the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
[syn: slag, dross]
[also: scoriae (pl)]
No, what I am saying is that a manufacturer should be liable for design or manufacturing faults. In my country he is. If I buy an item for domestic use and it fails to do what it was sold to do, I can demand an instant 100% refund.
I, and many other people, think that manufacturing an o/s for a computer which if put on the 'Net as supplied 'out of the box', will get 0wn3d within minutes is indeed a design fault. The abject refusal of the manufacturer to correct this error is, imho, a felony for which the company directors should be held financially & legally responsible.
... protecting against this nonsense could be sheeted back to the manufacturer of the insecure operating system on the 'bots, then he'd pretty quickly mend his insecure o/s. Technical problem solved. The real problem however is the absence of police and legal systems equipped with sufficient backbone to be able to adjudicate on and enforce a ruling against a huge international corporation.
ThinkPads run Linux beautifully. Look what 'uname -r' on my TP says:-
Linux imogen 2.6.11 #3 SMP Fri Apr 29 14:57:42 NZST 2005 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
It takes a bit of knowledge and effort to get the ACPI and wireless systems to go, but that's all. I'm happy.
They have an agreement with the "DevilIncarnate" to pre-install his O/S for small batches. Order 500 units or more and you can have whatever O/S you like.
Working Document
on the patentability of the inventions controlled by computer (2002/0047 (COD))
Rapporteur:
Michel Rocard
The Council of Ministers finally adopted a joint position on the patentability of the inventions implemented by computer to allow that the debate in second reading is held. Five Member States voted while letting know in writing that they voted to resolve the procedure, but which they wished to see the text modified by the Parliament. Our dissension of the first turn was heard.
This text is essential as well economically (a few tens of billion annual euros are concerned) that politically or philosophically: it acts of the statute of the diffusion of the knowledge and the ideas in the company.
It is a short, but bearing text on an extremely complex matter. For two years that it is in debate, it has clearly appeared that in the difficulty of finding solutions consensual, the dissensions on the definitions and the misunderstandings are much more important than the dissensions on the bottom.
I made draw up a note of precise and detailed analysis of the subject. It is long. At the time when I write this letter to you, I am not sure of being able to translate it into English.
I however hope to give it to you to all in French and English. But in fact, for the debate without text from April 21 in Brussels, I prefer, before depositing my proposals for an amendment officially, to propose to you to think together on the problem which is posed to us, and of his intellectual treatment.
Because in this short text, we have in fact only two problems serious, likely to nourish a conflict with the Commission and the Council: that of the delimitation of what is patentable and of what is not it, and interworking. If the Parliament and finally the Council follow the orientations that we propose to them, the problem of interworking will be regulated of this fact.
It is thus necessary to start by being occupied of the delimitation. Which is the question? It results from contradiction between the legal system and the inherited tradition on the one hand, and the needs for remuneration for the investments and safety for the large-scale industry supported by the recent drifts for the patentability in the United States, and to a lesser extent with the European Patent Office, on the other hand. All our legal systems, and especially Convention on the European patent signed in 1973 in Munich establish clearly that the software is not patentable (art 52.2. CBE). However there exists more than 150000 patents of this type in the United States, without legal base and about 50000 with the European Patent Office, at dubious legal base and unequally valid in front of our national laws.
The striking down development of data processing has extended for twenty years with all the branches from our industries and our services. Beyond the professional uses, there is no more one object of everyday consumption which does not comprise integrated softwares: portable cars, telephones, televisions, video tape recorders, washing machines, orders of elevators, etc.
All that is expensive to develop. It is normal, and desirable, that industry can patent the results of its investments to ensure remuneration and to protect them from it from the counterfeit and the unfair competition. The regulation of the physical processes implemented within the inventions is a very old problem: it took innumerable forms, mechanics or tires in particular. To develop of such regulations, patentable when they were themselves innovating in their realization, was extremely expensive.
To replace by software, whose production and development cost is much weaker, an enormous economy represents.
That pushed with their multiplication.
But a software is of another nature.
It is about the immaterial one.
In fact, a software is the combination in an original work of one or more algorithms, i.e. a whole of mathematical formulas.
However like said it Albert Einstein, a math
...is that you have difficulty exercising your third brain cell.
While Corporate America may have the image of being gratuitously avaricious, they are not all totally evil.
Scores:- Insightful:5; Funny:5 -- Take your pick.
Perhaps this is a first step towards unbundling the o/s from the hardware. I look foreward to the day when I can go into a shop and choose whatever o/s I want, or none at all, without having to pay a tax to a private company.
Some people just look at me as if I'm quite mad, & end the conversation. That's fine. I don't have to bother with them any more.
Some say: "What do you suggest"?
I say: "Linux, would you like to have a demo?"
So I pop a Knoppix LiveCD in the slot and let them have a play.
For people who only need a bit of Web and Email and a typewriter simulation that's the answer in 5 minutes. If their modem is not supported by Knoppix sell them one that is. An external modem is far cheaper than having someone skilled at the IT support craft footle around for hours trying to rid a Windows hard drive of every item of malware spew.
If the customer is interested in going further I explain that they will have to expend either time or money to install and set up a custom Linux distribution.
All this nonsense simply because flippin Microsoft make every user an administrator by default. The're irresposible nutters who should either be thrown in the slammer, or commited to an asylum. Don't consort with them, or you'll get corrupted.
Copyright infringement has exactly the same relationship to BitTorrent as forgery has to writing, pens, and ink. To be consistent we're going to ban the use of the latter are we?
Not until I put a 'Z' on the end of it.
Mike Rowe, of course!
No message sent until the spelling is correct.
That might just work to keep the half-witted perverts out of the kids' channels by making message reception subject to correct spelling.
Who's going to get that out first? Slashdot? :-)
Perfect for policing the neighbourhood though. Watch out downloaders, the *AA will have them before you can say "Jack Robinson"!