This means that that there is full QOS when on their network. You are guaranteed that you will have the bandwidth for the telephone call. This cannot be said when you are using Vonage.
So, you work for an equipment vendor that's busy setting up "QOS" equipment that will bump off competing VOIP traffic for "downloads" but not Comcasts? Would you say that Comcast is setting up equipment that's currently against the law? That's exactly the sort of anti-competitive behavior everyone worried about net neutrality is talking about.
you can make Free software just as good by requiring specific builds with authorizations keys and what not to install on voting machines, but I am under the impression that would violate the GPL v3. Thanks Richard Stallman!
GPL V3 does not keep people from checking the version of their packages. It's only a GPL violation if you keep the user from modifying or changing their own software.
Yes, anyone can analyze the official source code, but not one can see the source code that was compiled and installed on any given machine by a [random] technician.
That's what package checks, like those used by Debian, are good for. A state or county can set up a package repository and be sure that any qualified technician can get and install it without trouble. Indeed, the process is fool proof enough that the local election commission can do it themselves. This is much better than having a single company do everything, especially a company with a shady record like Dibold.
Maybe we should just GET RID OF ELECTRONIC VOTING until somebody can make uncrackable DRM software.
DRM has no place in an election. DRM is about restricting the rights of a computer owner. WiMP, for example, has DRM but the OS that uses it is still unfit for network use. DRM is not what the local election commission needs to keep elections honest.
What they need is free and secure software. If the software is free, it can be inspected by anyone with any doubt. If it's secure, inspections won't harm the vote. The problem is that Dibold and M$ own the software used in voting machines and anyone using them has to take the machine's honesty as a mater of faith rather than knowledge. That kind of centralized power is easy to abuse. When election commissions use free software, they own the equipment and can verify it's honesty. This increases the number of people overseeing the process, which makes it exponentially more difficult to rig. The public should accept nothing less.
[Patches] encourage Microsoft to continue to work as they are.... encourage people to use their software... And therefore it actually lowers the global security of the Internet
That's true, and the reward is a M$ attack. M$ has shown no willingness to change, is hostile alternatives and claims that alternatives are impossible. "Third party patches" are just another competition for them to destroy.
The arrogance is amazing. How can anyone cling to "official" patches for an OS that needs a new one every month? From a user perspective, it's kind of like saying, "I use the worst brand possible and only the worst is good enough for my organization." The defensive position M$ is taking needs no further analysis.
any architect worth their fee will be able to do everything that you've mentioned here.
Sure they will.
Sounds like you've been reading one too many new-age-hippy interior magazines.
No, I'm married to a second generation ASID member who used to draw up office plans for Exxon, Bell South and others. If they were not making a new building, those companies turned to the local distributor and their Interior Designers.
As an architect in training... But "interior designer" is just a newer word for interior decorator. Basically, an architect tells them to put a couch in the lobby, and the interior designer will suggest a brand and color.
You need some more training before you make a fool of yourself when it counts. I suggest talking to SteelCase, or HermanMiller or any other major office furniture company. Just about every Fortune 500 office is laid out by an Interior Designer working for a distributor for one of those companies. Say something like the above in front of an ASID or IIDA member and you'll promptly regret it.
I hope so, but I'm not that lucky. When I see more of your insults and bullshit, I'll just post the above. It looks like you need another account to fuck with Twitter and I'm sure you have a dozen of them. It's too bad you squandered such a low user id like that. It must have cost a lot of money, one way or another.
But before you go, does someone pay you to spend half of your time harassing Twitter and the rest Slashdot in general, or are you just a fuck head with nothing better to do?
Yes, jb.hl.com, you have already admitted to being a stalker. I'll catalog now how dedicated a stalker your account is. Of the 20 posts visible in your history an astounding 13 are dedicated to bashing Twitter. The rest are the usual "I hate Slashdot" troll talk. Do you have a life outside hating a single Slashdot user?
Sometimes it is and sometimes it's not. If you are building from scratch, by all means get an architect. If you are refitting an existing space you might want an Interior Designer. Architects are great for making buildings and they should be up to speed with basic layout, fire codes and all that. The devil being dealt with here is interior details.
An Interior Designer is what you really want for most office layout. Interior Design focuses on how to use interior spaces, and there's a large subspecialty dedicated to office space. They deal with color, lighting, workflow, power and communication details. Every major furniture maker has a network of distributors and each of those distributors has several Interior Designers on staff. They also work for Architects and themselves.
Other than the nice wiring and lounge, I'm unimpressed by this slightly modified cubicle layout. The floor plan is essentially a cube farm with 45 degree walls. That tilt wastes space in the window corner and keeps the window light from reaching the common space. The same reflections that waste window light might improve audio privacy, but that's a high price to pay for the floor space. Actual line of site privacy is provided by the partition which divides the desk in two, creating two... cubicles.
If it's got a partition the average person can't see over, it's a cubicle. If it's got a floor to ceiling partition and no door, it's a cubicle. If you don't want a cube farm, you are left with half partitioned open spaces and real offices with ventilation and doors that close.
I was going to do a point-by-point rebuttal... TRUTH. I'm through trying to be nice, or polite, or rational in an attempt to counterbalance your insanity.
All you need to do is explain why half of your posting time is devoted to harassing Twitter, but you can't. You stalk high and low scoring posts, so random chance encounters are impossible. Kieth Russel is a stalker account, representing a good portion of someone's life, devoted to harassing Twitter.
There is nothing truthful, nice, polite or rational in your posts. They are baseless, insulting, rude and intentionally stupid. Every attempt is made at misdirection and insult. It is only rational in it's deliberate attempt to disrupt honest conversation.
Was there anything really different or insightful in any of that,
Well, yes, I made a well cited argument that 200,000,000 Vista users in two years is bullshit. It was based, mostly, on XP uptake and current usage.
or are you trying to set a new record for "Number of words wasted to say 'Windoze is teh suXX0r!!11'"? Same shit, different CID.
No, it's easy to say every version of Windows has sucked. Above I say that users have noticed that no "upgrade" has ever made things much better and that bodes poorly of Vista sales. It's part of my overall argument against insane Vista sales predictions.
As for the same shit different CID, I'm afraid I've only heard one tune from you Kieth. Of the 24 posts currently on display on your user page, 10 are devoted to M$ defense and trolling Twitter directly. One or two of the others are crap fillers in the same treads, which basically say nothing.
Theres about 200 million computers sold each year nowadays (http://www.pegasus3d.com/total_share.html)
So what? How many years did it take XP to cross the 50% line? Five years on it's barely crossed 80% of the Windoze market share. IDC estimates there are only 400,000,000 XP users today. Each new version of Windoze has taken longer to penetrate because each has been that much more outrageously bloated than it's predecessor. If nothing else has changed, it will be shocking to see so many Vista users in two years.
Changes make their target even less likely. M$'s established users have had enough of the upgrade train. 95 to 98 was bad, 98 to XP was worse and XP to Vista is freaking impossible. You can only fool people so many times and they have plenty of options now. Free alternatives are not only good enough, they are better in many ways. Even if you don't want to go free, you can go Mac and not spend as much as Vista will require. Worse for M$, a large portion of the new computer market is going to come from Europe and the developing world and free software enjoys tremendous advantages there. M$'s language support can't hold a candle to free software even where people have the money to be owned by a US company. Where people don't really have money to waste on basic operating software, free software rules. M$'s growth potential is strictly limited and their user base will collapse soon after Vista flops. The monopoly is based on lies which will vanish in two years.
It's all downhill for M$ now. Most people realize the M$ monopoly is in trouble. It's supposed strength is not going to sell Zune, which will be yet another failure of theirs to own the entertainment market. That failure is another punch to the M$ monopoly myth. It can't happen soon enough.
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Notice the term "limited"? DRM is forever and therefore unconstitutional.
More fundamentally, the reason for copyright has nothing to do with publishers, or publishers making money. The motivator is the public good. The whole purpose of the limited exclusive franchies granted for works of art and inventions is to grow the public domain. The founding fathers wanted people to share instead of keeping things to themselves. They knew that education only comes from sharing and that no one can advance the state of the art unless they are familiar with that state to begin with. At the time, they thought it would help to encourage artists and inventors by creating an exclusive use right at the cost of free speech and action. The term they thought fair, two hundred and twenty years ago, when paper and publishing was fiercely expensive? Fourteen years.
So, the fundamental assumptions of the copyright warriors are totally bogus:
Ideas and works of art are not the natural property of the creator and should not have owners.
Copyright was not established for the benefit of creators, mush less publishers.
Lower costs of duplication do not require harsher copyright laws, they mandate the end of copyright as we know it.
The public good will be served much better when patents are issued for real inventions and other works of art are once more made public domain while relevant, that is within the life span of the author. Things are so bad right now that no laws at all would be an improvement. Yes, this will bring more art and more money for more people. Education makes art and people will always pay for both.
they can drop on any library. Having the content is nice, but most libraries also like an index. Google, in case you have not noticed, is a search engine others don't seem to be able to match.
An agreement between the UK and the forces of Evil (M$)? Oh yeah, "Peace for our time." That should keep everyone happy.
All jokes aside, I don't see a need for co-operation with M$ on this one. The goal from the FA is:
The BBC is working on several digital broadcasting projects, including a scheme to make its programming archive available online.
Why don't they just allow and encourage libraries to mirror the content as is? That's the direction publications should be moving. Hopefully, they are not going for some kind of M$ DRM snake oil. Their current lack of such nonsense is why it's the most read English language news in the world. Mirrors would ensure their continued influence now and into the future. With mirrors everywhere, the historians can cross check and trust what they see. The natural partner for that kind of effort is Google.
Awww, is my favorite stalker out of mod points? It does not look like anyone has taken up your pathetic plea over the last four days either. Better get busy or M$ is going to think they are wasting their money on you.
As for the foundation, styrofoam sure can look like concrete blocks with a nice coat of gray paint.
And then the besotted M$ home user noticed the vast Internet, and tried to set sail. Woe be to them, the sea was made of gasoline! Gasoline + styrofoam = napalm. It took about 12 minutes, on average, for each of those brave would be navigators of the world wide web to drown if a sticky flaming mess. So failed the system which was never made to be attached to a network.
Welcome to the American Taleban. They are essentially calling people terrorists who oppose them. Replace "terrorist" with "the devil" and you start to see how ridiculous the charge is. Consider the unAmerican things they are pushing and it's no longer funny. Their program is so out of line it makes you wonder what they are really fighting for. Look at what they are pushing with their new found powers:
Religion pushed as science in "Creationism".
Government intrusion into private sexual matters.
Bidless spending programs, and lots of money for their buddies.
"Preemptive" war, reprisals and all the costs that go with them. Compare the the US backed invasion of Lebanon to Katrina and you start to understand those costs. Nothing could be less moral than torture.
They have come a long, long way from the party of smaller, less intrusive government and meaningful morals. Instead of competition, they have given us "duopoly". Yes, only government intervention can stifle competition like that. Instead of education, they are buying religion and bombs. Instead of enjoying freedom, people have to worry about Big Brother. There's a whole new agency in charge of strip searches at airports and schools are being given similar abilities. Black lists are derived from phone and email snooping. Our abuse of foreign citizens is starkly immoral. The result is domestic fear and international hatred.
this won't catch on until we have HUDs with simulated 40" displays.... i can't see using a 1.5" screen to watch...
You don't need some kind of 3D or other unobtainable tech to make this work. My $200 digital camera from Walmart has composite video out and plays movies fullscreen. They look as good as broadcast ever did. There is no reason you can't fit the same stuff in a cell phone. Using this existing technology you could, you know, SHARE the game with your friends.
Battery life might be a problem, so you can ship it with a good wall wart.
Viola, ESPN in your pocket. Anywere there's a TV and a wall outlet, you have the game. The night watchman, people who spend all of their time on the road and any sports fan who does not have a satelite TV equipped mobile home would like such a service.
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This means that that there is full QOS when on their network. You are guaranteed that you will have the bandwidth for the telephone call. This cannot be said when you are using Vonage.
So, you work for an equipment vendor that's busy setting up "QOS" equipment that will bump off competing VOIP traffic for "downloads" but not Comcasts? Would you say that Comcast is setting up equipment that's currently against the law? That's exactly the sort of anti-competitive behavior everyone worried about net neutrality is talking about.
you can make Free software just as good by requiring specific builds with authorizations keys and what not to install on voting machines, but I am under the impression that would violate the GPL v3. Thanks Richard Stallman!
GPL V3 does not keep people from checking the version of their packages. It's only a GPL violation if you keep the user from modifying or changing their own software.
Yes, anyone can analyze the official source code, but not one can see the source code that was compiled and installed on any given machine by a [random] technician.
That's what package checks, like those used by Debian, are good for. A state or county can set up a package repository and be sure that any qualified technician can get and install it without trouble. Indeed, the process is fool proof enough that the local election commission can do it themselves. This is much better than having a single company do everything, especially a company with a shady record like Dibold.
Maybe we should just GET RID OF ELECTRONIC VOTING until somebody can make uncrackable DRM software.
DRM has no place in an election. DRM is about restricting the rights of a computer owner. WiMP, for example, has DRM but the OS that uses it is still unfit for network use. DRM is not what the local election commission needs to keep elections honest.
What they need is free and secure software. If the software is free, it can be inspected by anyone with any doubt. If it's secure, inspections won't harm the vote. The problem is that Dibold and M$ own the software used in voting machines and anyone using them has to take the machine's honesty as a mater of faith rather than knowledge. That kind of centralized power is easy to abuse. When election commissions use free software, they own the equipment and can verify it's honesty. This increases the number of people overseeing the process, which makes it exponentially more difficult to rig. The public should accept nothing less.
Only a free election will be an honest election.
fuck off.
[Patches] encourage Microsoft to continue to work as they are. ... encourage people to use their software ... And therefore it actually lowers the global security of the Internet
That's true, and the reward is a M$ attack. M$ has shown no willingness to change, is hostile alternatives and claims that alternatives are impossible. "Third party patches" are just another competition for them to destroy.
The arrogance is amazing. How can anyone cling to "official" patches for an OS that needs a new one every month? From a user perspective, it's kind of like saying, "I use the worst brand possible and only the worst is good enough for my organization." The defensive position M$ is taking needs no further analysis.
Real alternatives are the answer.
any architect worth their fee will be able to do everything that you've mentioned here.
Sure they will.
Sounds like you've been reading one too many new-age-hippy interior magazines.
No, I'm married to a second generation ASID member who used to draw up office plans for Exxon, Bell South and others. If they were not making a new building, those companies turned to the local distributor and their Interior Designers.
As an architect in training ... But "interior designer" is just a newer word for interior decorator. Basically, an architect tells them to put a couch in the lobby, and the interior designer will suggest a brand and color.
You need some more training before you make a fool of yourself when it counts. I suggest talking to SteelCase, or HermanMiller or any other major office furniture company. Just about every Fortune 500 office is laid out by an Interior Designer working for a distributor for one of those companies. Say something like the above in front of an ASID or IIDA member and you'll promptly regret it.
I'm through arguing
I hope so, but I'm not that lucky. When I see more of your insults and bullshit, I'll just post the above. It looks like you need another account to fuck with Twitter and I'm sure you have a dozen of them. It's too bad you squandered such a low user id like that. It must have cost a lot of money, one way or another.
But before you go, does someone pay you to spend half of your time harassing Twitter and the rest Slashdot in general, or are you just a fuck head with nothing better to do?
Yes, jb.hl.com, you have already admitted to being a stalker. I'll catalog now how dedicated a stalker your account is. Of the 20 posts visible in your history an astounding 13 are dedicated to bashing Twitter. The rest are the usual "I hate Slashdot" troll talk. Do you have a life outside hating a single Slashdot user?
It goes on and on. If you don't work for Microsoft, you waste a lot of time hating without compensation. How pathetic.
This is a problem for an architect.
Sometimes it is and sometimes it's not. If you are building from scratch, by all means get an architect. If you are refitting an existing space you might want an Interior Designer. Architects are great for making buildings and they should be up to speed with basic layout, fire codes and all that. The devil being dealt with here is interior details.
An Interior Designer is what you really want for most office layout. Interior Design focuses on how to use interior spaces, and there's a large subspecialty dedicated to office space. They deal with color, lighting, workflow, power and communication details. Every major furniture maker has a network of distributors and each of those distributors has several Interior Designers on staff. They also work for Architects and themselves.
Other than the nice wiring and lounge, I'm unimpressed by this slightly modified cubicle layout. The floor plan is essentially a cube farm with 45 degree walls. That tilt wastes space in the window corner and keeps the window light from reaching the common space. The same reflections that waste window light might improve audio privacy, but that's a high price to pay for the floor space. Actual line of site privacy is provided by the partition which divides the desk in two, creating two ... cubicles.
If it's got a partition the average person can't see over, it's a cubicle. If it's got a floor to ceiling partition and no door, it's a cubicle. If you don't want a cube farm, you are left with half partitioned open spaces and real offices with ventilation and doors that close.
I was going to do a point-by-point rebuttal ... TRUTH. I'm through trying to be nice, or polite, or rational in an attempt to counterbalance your insanity.
All you need to do is explain why half of your posting time is devoted to harassing Twitter, but you can't. You stalk high and low scoring posts, so random chance encounters are impossible. Kieth Russel is a stalker account, representing a good portion of someone's life, devoted to harassing Twitter.
There is nothing truthful, nice, polite or rational in your posts. They are baseless, insulting, rude and intentionally stupid. Every attempt is made at misdirection and insult. It is only rational in it's deliberate attempt to disrupt honest conversation.
Oh yeah, fuck you.
Was there anything really different or insightful in any of that,
Well, yes, I made a well cited argument that 200,000,000 Vista users in two years is bullshit. It was based, mostly, on XP uptake and current usage.
or are you trying to set a new record for "Number of words wasted to say 'Windoze is teh suXX0r!!11'"? Same shit, different CID.
No, it's easy to say every version of Windows has sucked. Above I say that users have noticed that no "upgrade" has ever made things much better and that bodes poorly of Vista sales. It's part of my overall argument against insane Vista sales predictions.
As for the same shit different CID, I'm afraid I've only heard one tune from you Kieth. Of the 24 posts currently on display on your user page, 10 are devoted to M$ defense and trolling Twitter directly. One or two of the others are crap fillers in the same treads, which basically say nothing.
Such individual attention is flattering, but Kieth Russel, you are a Microsoft loving troll.
Theres about 200 million computers sold each year nowadays (http://www.pegasus3d.com/total_share.html)
So what? How many years did it take XP to cross the 50% line? Five years on it's barely crossed 80% of the Windoze market share. IDC estimates there are only 400,000,000 XP users today. Each new version of Windoze has taken longer to penetrate because each has been that much more outrageously bloated than it's predecessor. If nothing else has changed, it will be shocking to see so many Vista users in two years.
Changes make their target even less likely. M$'s established users have had enough of the upgrade train. 95 to 98 was bad, 98 to XP was worse and XP to Vista is freaking impossible. You can only fool people so many times and they have plenty of options now. Free alternatives are not only good enough, they are better in many ways. Even if you don't want to go free, you can go Mac and not spend as much as Vista will require. Worse for M$, a large portion of the new computer market is going to come from Europe and the developing world and free software enjoys tremendous advantages there. M$'s language support can't hold a candle to free software even where people have the money to be owned by a US company. Where people don't really have money to waste on basic operating software, free software rules. M$'s growth potential is strictly limited and their user base will collapse soon after Vista flops. The monopoly is based on lies which will vanish in two years.
It's all downhill for M$ now. Most people realize the M$ monopoly is in trouble. It's supposed strength is not going to sell Zune, which will be yet another failure of theirs to own the entertainment market. That failure is another punch to the M$ monopoly myth. It can't happen soon enough.
Show their assumptions & conclusions to be faulty.
I don't need to read their bullshit report to do that, the answer is right in the US constitution. Recall the copyright establishment clause of section eight with me:
Notice the term "limited"? DRM is forever and therefore unconstitutional.
More fundamentally, the reason for copyright has nothing to do with publishers, or publishers making money. The motivator is the public good. The whole purpose of the limited exclusive franchies granted for works of art and inventions is to grow the public domain. The founding fathers wanted people to share instead of keeping things to themselves. They knew that education only comes from sharing and that no one can advance the state of the art unless they are familiar with that state to begin with. At the time, they thought it would help to encourage artists and inventors by creating an exclusive use right at the cost of free speech and action. The term they thought fair, two hundred and twenty years ago, when paper and publishing was fiercely expensive? Fourteen years.
So, the fundamental assumptions of the copyright warriors are totally bogus:
The public good will be served much better when patents are issued for real inventions and other works of art are once more made public domain while relevant, that is within the life span of the author. Things are so bad right now that no laws at all would be an improvement. Yes, this will bring more art and more money for more people. Education makes art and people will always pay for both.
When did M$ make a bid?
Google has a package
they can drop on any library. Having the content is nice, but most libraries also like an index. Google, in case you have not noticed, is a search engine others don't seem to be able to match.An agreement between the UK and the forces of Evil (M$)? Oh yeah, "Peace for our time." That should keep everyone happy.
All jokes aside, I don't see a need for co-operation with M$ on this one. The goal from the FA is:
Why don't they just allow and encourage libraries to mirror the content as is? That's the direction publications should be moving. Hopefully, they are not going for some kind of M$ DRM snake oil. Their current lack of such nonsense is why it's the most read English language news in the world. Mirrors would ensure their continued influence now and into the future. With mirrors everywhere, the historians can cross check and trust what they see. The natural partner for that kind of effort is Google.
Awww, is my favorite stalker out of mod points? It does not look like anyone has taken up your pathetic plea over the last four days either. Better get busy or M$ is going to think they are wasting their money on you.
And then the besotted M$ home user noticed the vast Internet, and tried to set sail. Woe be to them, the sea was made of gasoline! Gasoline + styrofoam = napalm. It took about 12 minutes, on average, for each of those brave would be navigators of the world wide web to drown if a sticky flaming mess. So failed the system which was never made to be attached to a network.
Welcome to the American Taleban. They are essentially calling people terrorists who oppose them. Replace "terrorist" with "the devil" and you start to see how ridiculous the charge is. Consider the unAmerican things they are pushing and it's no longer funny. Their program is so out of line it makes you wonder what they are really fighting for. Look at what they are pushing with their new found powers:
They have come a long, long way from the party of smaller, less intrusive government and meaningful morals. Instead of competition, they have given us "duopoly". Yes, only government intervention can stifle competition like that. Instead of education, they are buying religion and bombs. Instead of enjoying freedom, people have to worry about Big Brother. There's a whole new agency in charge of strip searches at airports and schools are being given similar abilities. Black lists are derived from phone and email snooping. Our abuse of foreign citizens is starkly immoral. The result is domestic fear and international hatred.
I fail to see what classical musical instruments and ESPN in a pocket have to do with each other.
Try this.
It works for my digital camera why not your cellphone.
this won't catch on until we have HUDs with simulated 40" displays. ... i can't see using a 1.5" screen to watch...
You don't need some kind of 3D or other unobtainable tech to make this work. My $200 digital camera from Walmart has composite video out and plays movies fullscreen. They look as good as broadcast ever did. There is no reason you can't fit the same stuff in a cell phone. Using this existing technology you could, you know, SHARE the game with your friends.
Battery life might be a problem, so you can ship it with a good wall wart.
Viola, ESPN in your pocket. Anywere there's a TV and a wall outlet, you have the game. The night watchman, people who spend all of their time on the road and any sports fan who does not have a satelite TV equipped mobile home would like such a service.