It's all fine and dandy, but as long as KDE won't run smooth above it, I don't see a reason to care. I do dislike X11R6, but I belive X12 would be a better solution in the long run...
First of all, does anyone here think that this would in some way stop different kinds of attacks? Second of all, what is really an attack (I didn't like the word virus, since it doesn't include a DDos nor a worm)? Now we get into more of a gray zone. Someone finding a weakness, would that person also be a criminal, or only those who does anything with the intent to cause trouble?
Let's face it, it's time for Microsoft to clean up this part of their act, and I am certain they will. These actions that are described above will not give us a more secure world, and shouldn't be compared to terrorism.
Is it just me that thinks this has gone straight into the sandbox? I find this mentality, quite frankly, scary. Is this the only thing they can come up with? Why is pissing people off the only way for them to make money? This is, as I've said before, the industrialisation all over again, combined with a "then we will bomb you" mentality.
Why can't they speak with their customer instead of haressing them? I will sit back and smile when the DDoS starts to disrupt large parts of the internet, and a very large bunch of companies will want to sue RIAA;)
Not sure what "our" means here, but if we speak about all the democracies around the world, no I don't have a better one that isn't utopian in some way. But that isn't a reason to not try to improve the system while searching for a better one.
Depotism hasn't really worked out, simply because the despot/dictator has a tendency to be a very dangerous person. But imagine a fair dictator, that would probably be pretty good. Again, the problem is that you won't find a person like that.
I was hoping that the end of my reply would initiate some responses to give examples of how to speak to our representatives whereever we live.
Those who want to govern are those least fit to do so. There is your problem. Democracy is mearly a large number of dictators spread all around your country.
If anyone has success stories of how you hade been able to get through to these old men, since they are mostly old men, do share it to encourage more to do the same.
I didn't see any diagrams or anything. I would have loved to see some pictures and such. I dislike the fact that non of our goverments are pushing research into working solutions that doesn't pollute, and doesn't give money to the big oil companies (then the US can stop care about the middle east as well;)). Let those giants die, as there surely will step up new giants to take their place.
But I am rambling... I am just interested if there is anything you can read that would be more scientific and had more proofs. If the design is so simple, I can't see how it couldn't be hard to explain. Take an electrical engine for instance, that is a way easy aparatus to explain.
Hence the "again";) Yes, and there are just more and more of them comming out all the time. There are tons of ways to get the money in, but I fear that most that will happen will be a royal pain in the rear. Anything that needs to be enforced is bad, and at least I am VERY tired of all these fucked up enforcements. I was _really_ happy about the idea of DVDs you can't copy, and then the whole zone thing showed up, and with that me caring about copyright. Be fair with me and I am fair with you.
Again (Tata!) a device that makes it real easy to copy and spread digital media. Add BT to the mix and it gets even funkier. This, again, spells doom on the "buy our CDs, we want money" kind of music producers. It's time for them to think of new ways of emptying our pockets, or use old ones in a new way. I'd still like to be able to buy a CD, but then preferably with a very nice booklet, with extra stuff and in really high quality.
Why does "buying the CD" have to be the only way for an artist to get money? Get creative. Look at the boy bands for example, they must be making *TONS* of money from concerts, posters, DVDs, commercials and just about everything. They don't really need those extra dollars from the CDs, and the kids will use just as much money as before.
Having lawyers battle teenagers just sounds like a stupid idea to me, and there are far worse things you can do than copy a piece of music. Reality check people.
Jedi, plumming and building your belifs on the firm idea that there will always be cheese in the fridge is still more sane and mentally healthy than any of the major religions around today...
We have a lot for free because if there is a railway, there is also fibre. As I see it, the state should have the fibre for the backbone, and then whomever wants to use it should. Benefits us all.
And it's cool to hear about Norway as well, I would imagine Finland has a cool net as well (funet is cool anyways), and I hope Denmark has one as well. In fact, Europe is doing very well as far as internet infrastructure goes. Something for you americans to aspire to;) This is what the world need, creative competition in civilian areas, not more terrorists, cold wars and bombs.
In fact, many of you would cry if you came back after a semester with Sunet's backbone. Places like Ronneby, Stockholm, Linköping, and Lund are well connected, and I am sure that I have missed a whole bunch of them (fill me in fellow countrymen).
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if a few of you tech students "over there" will start thinking about a semester in Sweden. Well, you should;)
And for all others, check up what 100Mbit/s equipment costs, ask companies to sponsor you, ask your schools for feed, and you too can have a useful connection to the internet. No more modem, ISDN, cable, or whatever. Sweet sweet ethernet. Can't live without it, can't, ehm, well, you want to live with it;)
The next iNTEL CPU is kind of the next HP PA-RISC anyways. HP and iNTEL were doing IA64 together so it's just a way to make sure they didn't have to work over company boundries. I would have been happy if that happened to me.
Whether or not mobile phones are dangerous is a hot topic in many ways, and I won't take a stand here on that (except that if you are afraid of mobile phones and are using wireless homephone (or whatever they are called) you should rethink. Why? That I leave up to the reader to figure out;)). But let's say that it is dangerous, then it can only be dangerous while there is some activity, like the one you hear through your speakers when you get a call or SMS for instance. Most of the time the phone is just lying there, doing NOP. If tons of information should be sent through it all the time, it would be used a lot more, hence radiating a lot more.
Further more it would totally kill battery time. From the good part of a week on my 8210 to a mere few hours. And what about the bandwidth? 3G already has problems with getting the lousy extra bandwidth, and how much wouldn't be needed by this?
If we are talking extreme situations such as the WTC going up in smoke, I would think that keeping a few base stations for emergency situations would be a better idea, could be up really quick if you used choppers to lift them to the correct position.
Not to sound like a pessimistic but this doesn't sound especially thought through.
You very much voiced my concerns. But I still belive that there are markets out there. I don't know how they would look or how they would work. I would have a gold mine if I knew;)
Besides, there are already ways of making money on music besides charging for it. You have concerts, fan clubs, commercials (use pinko pads, N*Sync does!) and what else they can print a picture of Britney or on.
We might even take it one step further. Maybe the concept of charging for music has to die (open score? Sorry, just had to) since the medium has become too easy to replicate.
They are just doing what is in their own interest. Just as when people rip mp3s. The question is who are going to rid us of them and their likes (MPAA for instance)? What is the US goverment/courts doing about this? What is the goverments in Europe doing? Complain with them to get something happening...
The music/movie industry has a problem, their products are easily copied. You all know that drill. And how do they react? Slamming laws on us. "yeah, fuck the man!", is probably a reaction from a bunch of you, but ripping other off isn't cool. It's a new form of mass accepted theft.
The software industry has survived despite the warez scene, though I must confess that I don't think we can draw as many parallells here. There are a lot of software that is not made for the general public, and then the software in itself could even be useless without the connection to the company which makes it, or it wouldn't even have been made unless it was ordered.
So what is the point of my rant? Well, the industry can either go on and be a royal pain in the ass and hated by soon everyone, or they can start thinking about their existence. This is what happened to people with the industrial revolution, and now it's reversed itself as large companies are on the loosing end instead. If they want to survive, they should find new markets, and they will prevail. There are brand new markets out there just ready to be exploited!
Causing their submission? I can hardly be called anti-american, considering I have an american girlfriend, but I have always been anti-uninformed. I seriously doubt you know anything about the events that led up to the dropping of two nuclear armaments on Japan, nor anything about the state of the japanese warmachine at the time.
It's fine to have opinions, so do I. It's fine to have different opinions, I'm known for it, but if you don't have any facts to back up claims with, I don't see how anyone could take a person like that serious.
Jupp, he did. But what can you expect when we had a top team (though several of us has quit now). Don't waste moderator points on small harmless comments...
Contrast with a couple of broadband fixed line ISPs in Australia and the UK, that are howling in outrage that people are actually using their bandwidth, and have introduced daily and monthy usage caps.
This is both a real and a serious problem. The problem is that the ISPs couldn't get it in their heads that people will use all the resources they can, i.e. hog as much bandwidth as they can. Why shouldn't they? The problem as I see it, is that the ISPs want to go in late and try to "fix" the problem, only causing even more problems. The phone companies are not quite as fresh when it comes to these things, hence the per unit charge.
As I suggested in my original post, I would prefer a payment plan for a QoS (Quality of Service). In other words, I buy a bandwidth. Let's say I buy 256kbit/s. If the system doesn't use the capacity, I will get the full speed, but if a user with 1Mbit/s needs the bandwidth, I have to live with my 256kbit/s. The same would be a piece of cake (actually easier) with GPRS and the likes. I recommend anyone who wants to know to read up on GPRS (I am sure any other system would be fairly similar).
The worst part will be the sob stories in the media about people with huge bills. Why can't the phone companies stop peoples services before they ruin themselves?
The reason mobile phones are doing so well in europe is the price and the flexibility. Sweden are for instance way ahead of the states, way better standard (GSM all the way), better deals and SIM cards instead of locking the consumers in.
So what does this got to do with GPRS? Well, charging per packets will be expensive, even more so as you will pay for everything in and out (I guess). WAP push will not be fun for example. And it could very very easily become extremly expensive for the cosumer, and hard to check up on how expensive it has become before it is too late. Charge me a monthly sum according to the QoS I get and I would think about it, like it is now I can not recommend anyone to use it, unless they are very rich.
Why not grab gecko and make a native MacOS X application around it? It's been done before, I even think there is a QT version (or was that a Mozilla hack?). But the point is, be creative instead of complaining.
Besides, let Apple have their Aqua (which I like), and let Microsoft have their XP theme (which I really do like, XP has definitly grown on me since I installed it). Now, define a theme for KDE that 99% don't want to change for a "black and black" theme. Then the Gnome people, do your thing. All of you, be artistic and not just another boy band with one cute guy, one bad guy, one latino lover, etc.
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It's all fine and dandy, but as long as KDE won't run smooth above it, I don't see a reason to care. I do dislike X11R6, but I belive X12 would be a better solution in the long run...
First of all, does anyone here think that this would in some way stop different kinds of attacks? Second of all, what is really an attack (I didn't like the word virus, since it doesn't include a DDos nor a worm)? Now we get into more of a gray zone. Someone finding a weakness, would that person also be a criminal, or only those who does anything with the intent to cause trouble?
Let's face it, it's time for Microsoft to clean up this part of their act, and I am certain they will. These actions that are described above will not give us a more secure world, and shouldn't be compared to terrorism.
Is it just me that thinks this has gone straight into the sandbox? I find this mentality, quite frankly, scary. Is this the only thing they can come up with? Why is pissing people off the only way for them to make money? This is, as I've said before, the industrialisation all over again, combined with a "then we will bomb you" mentality.
Why can't they speak with their customer instead of haressing them? I will sit back and smile when the DDoS starts to disrupt large parts of the internet, and a very large bunch of companies will want to sue RIAA;)
Not sure what "our" means here, but if we speak about all the democracies around the world, no I don't have a better one that isn't utopian in some way. But that isn't a reason to not try to improve the system while searching for a better one.
Depotism hasn't really worked out, simply because the despot/dictator has a tendency to be a very dangerous person. But imagine a fair dictator, that would probably be pretty good. Again, the problem is that you won't find a person like that.
I was hoping that the end of my reply would initiate some responses to give examples of how to speak to our representatives whereever we live.
Those who want to govern are those least fit to do so. There is your problem. Democracy is mearly a large number of dictators spread all around your country.
If anyone has success stories of how you hade been able to get through to these old men, since they are mostly old men, do share it to encourage more to do the same.
I didn't see any diagrams or anything. I would have loved to see some pictures and such. I dislike the fact that non of our goverments are pushing research into working solutions that doesn't pollute, and doesn't give money to the big oil companies (then the US can stop care about the middle east as well;)). Let those giants die, as there surely will step up new giants to take their place.
But I am rambling... I am just interested if there is anything you can read that would be more scientific and had more proofs. If the design is so simple, I can't see how it couldn't be hard to explain. Take an electrical engine for instance, that is a way easy aparatus to explain.
Hence the "again";) Yes, and there are just more and more of them comming out all the time. There are tons of ways to get the money in, but I fear that most that will happen will be a royal pain in the rear. Anything that needs to be enforced is bad, and at least I am VERY tired of all these fucked up enforcements. I was _really_ happy about the idea of DVDs you can't copy, and then the whole zone thing showed up, and with that me caring about copyright. Be fair with me and I am fair with you.
Again (Tata!) a device that makes it real easy to copy and spread digital media. Add BT to the mix and it gets even funkier. This, again, spells doom on the "buy our CDs, we want money" kind of music producers. It's time for them to think of new ways of emptying our pockets, or use old ones in a new way. I'd still like to be able to buy a CD, but then preferably with a very nice booklet, with extra stuff and in really high quality.
Why does "buying the CD" have to be the only way for an artist to get money? Get creative. Look at the boy bands for example, they must be making *TONS* of money from concerts, posters, DVDs, commercials and just about everything. They don't really need those extra dollars from the CDs, and the kids will use just as much money as before.
Having lawyers battle teenagers just sounds like a stupid idea to me, and there are far worse things you can do than copy a piece of music. Reality check people.
Jedi, plumming and building your belifs on the firm idea that there will always be cheese in the fridge is still more sane and mentally healthy than any of the major religions around today...
We have a lot for free because if there is a railway, there is also fibre. As I see it, the state should have the fibre for the backbone, and then whomever wants to use it should. Benefits us all.
And it's cool to hear about Norway as well, I would imagine Finland has a cool net as well (funet is cool anyways), and I hope Denmark has one as well. In fact, Europe is doing very well as far as internet infrastructure goes. Something for you americans to aspire to;) This is what the world need, creative competition in civilian areas, not more terrorists, cold wars and bombs.
In fact, many of you would cry if you came back after a semester with Sunet's backbone. Places like Ronneby, Stockholm, Linköping, and Lund are well connected, and I am sure that I have missed a whole bunch of them (fill me in fellow countrymen).
;)
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if a few of you tech students "over there" will start thinking about a semester in Sweden. Well, you should
And for all others, check up what 100Mbit/s equipment costs, ask companies to sponsor you, ask your schools for feed, and you too can have a useful connection to the internet. No more modem, ISDN, cable, or whatever. Sweet sweet ethernet. Can't live without it, can't, ehm, well, you want to live with it;)
The next iNTEL CPU is kind of the next HP PA-RISC anyways. HP and iNTEL were doing IA64 together so it's just a way to make sure they didn't have to work over company boundries. I would have been happy if that happened to me.
Whether or not mobile phones are dangerous is a hot topic in many ways, and I won't take a stand here on that (except that if you are afraid of mobile phones and are using wireless homephone (or whatever they are called) you should rethink. Why? That I leave up to the reader to figure out;)). But let's say that it is dangerous, then it can only be dangerous while there is some activity, like the one you hear through your speakers when you get a call or SMS for instance. Most of the time the phone is just lying there, doing NOP. If tons of information should be sent through it all the time, it would be used a lot more, hence radiating a lot more.
Further more it would totally kill battery time. From the good part of a week on my 8210 to a mere few hours. And what about the bandwidth? 3G already has problems with getting the lousy extra bandwidth, and how much wouldn't be needed by this?
If we are talking extreme situations such as the WTC going up in smoke, I would think that keeping a few base stations for emergency situations would be a better idea, could be up really quick if you used choppers to lift them to the correct position.
Not to sound like a pessimistic but this doesn't sound especially thought through.
Damn!
(that makes me think of Empire Records btw)
You very much voiced my concerns. But I still belive that there are markets out there. I don't know how they would look or how they would work. I would have a gold mine if I knew;)
Besides, there are already ways of making money on music besides charging for it. You have concerts, fan clubs, commercials (use pinko pads, N*Sync does!) and what else they can print a picture of Britney or on.
We might even take it one step further. Maybe the concept of charging for music has to die (open score? Sorry, just had to) since the medium has become too easy to replicate.
They are just doing what is in their own interest. Just as when people rip mp3s. The question is who are going to rid us of them and their likes (MPAA for instance)? What is the US goverment/courts doing about this? What is the goverments in Europe doing? Complain with them to get something happening...
The music/movie industry has a problem, their products are easily copied. You all know that drill. And how do they react? Slamming laws on us. "yeah, fuck the man!", is probably a reaction from a bunch of you, but ripping other off isn't cool. It's a new form of mass accepted theft.
The software industry has survived despite the warez scene, though I must confess that I don't think we can draw as many parallells here. There are a lot of software that is not made for the general public, and then the software in itself could even be useless without the connection to the company which makes it, or it wouldn't even have been made unless it was ordered.
So what is the point of my rant? Well, the industry can either go on and be a royal pain in the ass and hated by soon everyone, or they can start thinking about their existence. This is what happened to people with the industrial revolution, and now it's reversed itself as large companies are on the loosing end instead. If they want to survive, they should find new markets, and they will prevail. There are brand new markets out there just ready to be exploited!
//John
Causing their submission? I can hardly be called anti-american, considering I have an american girlfriend, but I have always been anti-uninformed. I seriously doubt you know anything about the events that led up to the dropping of two nuclear armaments on Japan, nor anything about the state of the japanese warmachine at the time.
It's fine to have opinions, so do I. It's fine to have different opinions, I'm known for it, but if you don't have any facts to back up claims with, I don't see how anyone could take a person like that serious.
Jupp, he did. But what can you expect when we had a top team (though several of us has quit now). Don't waste moderator points on small harmless comments...
Or would that be too easy?;)
As I suggested in my original post, I would prefer a payment plan for a QoS (Quality of Service). In other words, I buy a bandwidth. Let's say I buy 256kbit/s. If the system doesn't use the capacity, I will get the full speed, but if a user with 1Mbit/s needs the bandwidth, I have to live with my 256kbit/s. The same would be a piece of cake (actually easier) with GPRS and the likes. I recommend anyone who wants to know to read up on GPRS (I am sure any other system would be fairly similar).
The worst part will be the sob stories in the media about people with huge bills. Why can't the phone companies stop peoples services before they ruin themselves?
The reason mobile phones are doing so well in europe is the price and the flexibility. Sweden are for instance way ahead of the states, way better standard (GSM all the way), better deals and SIM cards instead of locking the consumers in.
So what does this got to do with GPRS? Well, charging per packets will be expensive, even more so as you will pay for everything in and out (I guess). WAP push will not be fun for example. And it could very very easily become extremly expensive for the cosumer, and hard to check up on how expensive it has become before it is too late. Charge me a monthly sum according to the QoS I get and I would think about it, like it is now I can not recommend anyone to use it, unless they are very rich.
I bet I can prove you wrong within two weeks, three days, six hours and 42 minutes!
^_^
Any chances this might improve the chances of local lans popping up all around cities?
Why not grab gecko and make a native MacOS X application around it? It's been done before, I even think there is a QT version (or was that a Mozilla hack?). But the point is, be creative instead of complaining.
Besides, let Apple have their Aqua (which I like), and let Microsoft have their XP theme (which I really do like, XP has definitly grown on me since I installed it). Now, define a theme for KDE that 99% don't want to change for a "black and black" theme. Then the Gnome people, do your thing. All of you, be artistic and not just another boy band with one cute guy, one bad guy, one latino lover, etc.