Although you can get a lot (but not all - you'd be surprised at what people call "open") of FOSS software for free legally. The developer was not referring to law, he was referring to ethics.
I wonder how ethical it is to use FOSS software and not give a little in terms of support to the developers (be it financial or time)
seriously iinet is currently the best residential aussie isp in terms of price and service (btw they have some linux mirrors - a lot of linux iso images and fedora and ubuntu update/package mirrors + others) .
Telstra is really just running on it's own momentum at this stage. It's a mammoth uncompetitive organization that relies on it's own size and slowly eroding monopoly as a substitute for quality services. It's lack of vision and fear of progress is a huge weight on Australia's internet services.
It's mind-boggling just how much telstra steals from their customers, they don't even pretend to have a good service anymore. Even bigpond customers know they are getting fucked. They have to resort to stupid animal cartoons to sell anything.
BTW the telstra ad at the top of the page is hilariously ironic
For those of you who have a reason to avoid torrents. Shareaza is an excellent (clean and superior) alternative. ( http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/ ). It supports eDonkey2000, Gnutella, Gnutella2 and handles bitTorrent acceptably. It is free software (GPL).
It appears that EB Games (a popular game retailer) and the pro-R18+ organisation Grow Up Australia were responsible for the 86% of the 59,678 submissions.
I don't know what that means, does that mean that EB and "Grow up Austrlia" employees managed to pull out 51323 submissions? Or does it mean that EB was able to motivate it's customers to actually do something and the government freaked out that anybody other than the church priest and the "elderly gentlemen who thinks a remote control is a sign of the apocalypse" bothered to submit anything. The gaming community can be very vocal (10 minutes of Xbox live will prove this!)
Either way member of these organizations are very likely to the gamers anyway and are definitely entitled to their own submission
The article says that 34 community, church, and "other groups" lodged submission against the rating. Is that all the "do gooders" managed to accumate?
I just find it ironic that the organizations that systematically covers up child-rape allegations has anything to do with judging what is morally acceptable behavior.
The head of EB is arguing that they had to voice their opinion "en masse" or they would have faced the "risk of interpreting the issue as a niche problem that didn't deserve the full attention of the government." I guess that's a valid point, given the choice, politicians would rather do nothing about this and let things stay the same, it doesn't really effect them. This isn't a vote-deciding issue (with the lackluster opposition to the AU Internet filtering I'm beginning to think nothing is a vote-deciding issue for us, nothing like that great Australian apathy eh?)
I actually thought the ad was decent compared to MSs usual crap. Remember the abysmally shameful win7 party ads?
A bunch of late teens - early 20s dancing to catchy carefree music...actually that sounds very familar...suddenly i want to fondle my ipod, can't think why.
NoScript blocks nearly all the ads i would have seen. I really only use Ablock for the "elements hiding helper" (does anyone else remove the google chat bar on igoogle?) There is nothing i am willing to do about this.
There is no way in hell i am allowing the likes of doubleclick.com to get through.
If you've put some effort and thought into integrating the ads on your site in a way that doesn't piss everyone off (I.E. not just copy-paste snippets of html/javascript everywere ) adblock will be largely ineffecive. I can think of several sites that render at least some ads even through adblock and NoScript.
These technical sites suffer the most because the readers are geeky enough to bother to install adblock/NoScript. The best bet would be for them to self-host ads that are obfuscated enough to get past adblock. From my experience most adblock users have a respect for ads that manage to circumvent the filter and leave them displayed (and maybe even pity-click it). Pity Click probably account for the vast majority of the revenues of all the geeky/nerdy sites
It seems much better than the ipad but i don't think that matters. Everyone knows the new zune (and the old zune for that matter) is much better than the ipods but they don't sell well.
MS has a real image problem that it can probably never fix. MS is seen as the company that makes boring operating systems for boring computers (the lols that the "windows 7 party" promotion caused is proof of that).
These type of imbedded devices are MSs Achilles' heel. they are largely independant and immune to MSs tradtional vendor lock-in.
The GNOME theme isn't ugly. It's the default wallpaper Ubuntu goes with it that makes it look hideous.
The 9.10 release has some nice BGs that go well with the Ubuntu GNOME colour scheme, but for some reason they chose a gradient brown one as the default.
The sceenshots in the article makes the new Ubuntu theme look like a non-trademark-infringing superficial copy of OSX. Those are the worst kind of themes for any linux distro, everyone just thinks "half baked crabby Apple Mac for tight-arsed losers"
What do i care.... the way GNOME 3 (and the entire GNOME community) is panning out, it's only a matter of time until KDE (rightfully) takes the reigns and we can wash our hands of the "worst of osx + windows with less functionality" monstrosity GNOME as become.
They say they'll be back "within the hour". They also thank a bunch of websites for the "excellent" coverage (LoL).
It's non-profit
This type of service would be an excellent sponsorship candidate for google.org . Maybe they can get access to Meedan's translation service and incorparate it into google (if it's any good).
yep. I also found SpeedCrunch to be a top notch desktop calculator. It has the best UI for those of us with butterfingers as the history is always visible
find a similar piece of software and be helpful in their forums/IRC chanel.
When a user wants to do something that you feel your project can handle better or do easier, give yourself a free advertisement.
well I'm 20 and for most of the people i know thats a underestimation.
Everyone has FB/twitter on their phones with basic www access. I don't buy a newspaper unless they are giving away a free shirt or something, I check the news on my phone and sometimes pay the 15c an article during the break/commute (honestly, the headings are enough most of the time).
My job description involves the internet mainly email, a voIP setup we use for phoning people and an online database. My phone has an ebook that i use sometimes (but i find it difficult to deditate a decent amount of time to just reading a book, especially with my phone buzzing status updates and messages). I only go to my local libary to leech the free wireless access (like everyone else there).
I go home and turn on my laptop and stream TV shows onto my plasma while reading slashdot/BBC/forums, shows very often not on local TV (curb your enthusiasm, for one). There is not a moment i am not the internet. It's always in my pocket.
This site needs to include UBB code or WYSIWYG, i spend 10 minutes trying to get the formatting right with HTML.
I search my name in Bing and get irrelevant results. (right first name wrong surname or the other way around).
Searching my name in quotation marks finds people who are long dead or listed as award recipients and have never been on the internet since.
It thinks i live in the UK (I live in Australia).
I search in google and i get my facebook twitter and linkedin account as the first three results with or without quotation marks plus other relevent stuff. google wins.
I realized that girls love to personalize their stationary with characters, sqiggles and poems. It was a school break and i was tired of her playing stupid flash games.
so i showed her the real basics in making a website and gave her a "HTML for dummies" book. Of course, the first page she created was to slander some of her schoolmates.
I enticed her into javascript with the standard "hello the day is Monday". I was suprised at the stuff she could do with dialog boxes.
Anybody who cant see this happening world-wide must be living on another planet. What reason does any government have for not supporting this? Do you donate to election campaigns and political parties as much as the "entertainment" industry and celebrities?
sure the average slashdotter and a few loud-mouth civil-libertarians don't want it, but most people are apathetic and the general public have a short memory. A few weeks after it become enforced it'll transform itself into "the natural order of things" and we'll move onto complaining about politician travel expenses again.
Governments don't make laws for you. They make laws for the elite. If it happens to benefit you, they say they did it for you. The leader of the opposition and the PM are both multi-millionaires and have done well in buiness (nothing wrong with that) but one has to ask: What are they doing in politics? Do they give a damn about the "average joe"? Are they just "hobby positions" for the too-rich-to-work?
This will get through and everybody will say: "Isn't Kevin Rudd nice? He gave me $900 stimulus money and said sorry to the Aborigines. A true blue!"
Slashdot Mirror
Although you can get a lot (but not all - you'd be surprised at what people call "open") of FOSS software for free legally. The developer was not referring to law, he was referring to ethics.
I wonder how ethical it is to use FOSS software and not give a little in terms of support to the developers (be it financial or time)
Gates will always be the face of MS, just as Colonel Sanders is the face of KFC.
albeit - Sanders keeps getting younger every corporate image respin.
hello Mr.Obama, president SIR!
The Dell Streak is an example.
seriously iinet is currently the best residential aussie isp in terms of price and service (btw they have some linux mirrors - a lot of linux iso images and fedora and ubuntu update/package mirrors + others) .
Telstra is really just running on it's own momentum at this stage. It's a mammoth uncompetitive organization that relies on it's own size and slowly eroding monopoly as a substitute for quality services. It's lack of vision and fear of progress is a huge weight on Australia's internet services.
It's mind-boggling just how much telstra steals from their customers, they don't even pretend to have a good service anymore. Even bigpond customers know they are getting fucked. They have to resort to stupid animal cartoons to sell anything.
BTW the telstra ad at the top of the page is hilariously ironic
For those of you who have a reason to avoid torrents. Shareaza is an excellent (clean and superior) alternative. ( http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/ ). It supports eDonkey2000, Gnutella, Gnutella2 and handles bitTorrent acceptably. It is free software (GPL).
windows only (kinda works on wine)
It appears that EB Games (a popular game retailer) and the pro-R18+ organisation Grow Up Australia were responsible for the 86% of the 59,678 submissions.
I don't know what that means, does that mean that EB and "Grow up Austrlia" employees managed to pull out 51323 submissions? Or does it mean that EB was able to motivate it's customers to actually do something and the government freaked out that anybody other than the church priest and the "elderly gentlemen who thinks a remote control is a sign of the apocalypse" bothered to submit anything. The gaming community can be very vocal (10 minutes of Xbox live will prove this!)
Either way member of these organizations are very likely to the gamers anyway and are definitely entitled to their own submission
The article says that 34 community, church, and "other groups" lodged submission against the rating. Is that all the "do gooders" managed to accumate?
I just find it ironic that the organizations that systematically covers up child-rape allegations has anything to do with judging what is morally acceptable behavior.
The head of EB is arguing that they had to voice their opinion "en masse" or they would have faced the "risk of interpreting the issue as a niche problem that didn't deserve the full attention of the government." I guess that's a valid point, given the choice, politicians would rather do nothing about this and let things stay the same, it doesn't really effect them. This isn't a vote-deciding issue (with the lackluster opposition to the AU Internet filtering I'm beginning to think nothing is a vote-deciding issue for us, nothing like that great Australian apathy eh?)
Those of use with chipped consoles find this whole debate moot. we've had a discless world for a while now.
I actually thought the ad was decent compared to MSs usual crap. Remember the abysmally shameful win7 party ads?
A bunch of late teens - early 20s dancing to catchy carefree music...actually that sounds very familar...suddenly i want to fondle my ipod, can't think why.
so will his peerage still be valid on the moon?
or will he discard the lowly earth titles and declare himself "King Moon"?
I always thought "4chan" was an alternative spelling of "fortune".
NoScript blocks nearly all the ads i would have seen. I really only use Ablock for the "elements hiding helper" (does anyone else remove the google chat bar on igoogle?) There is nothing i am willing to do about this.
There is no way in hell i am allowing the likes of doubleclick.com to get through.
If you've put some effort and thought into integrating the ads on your site in a way that doesn't piss everyone off (I.E. not just copy-paste snippets of html/javascript everywere ) adblock will be largely ineffecive. I can think of several sites that render at least some ads even through adblock and NoScript.
These technical sites suffer the most because the readers are geeky enough to bother to install adblock/NoScript. The best bet would be for them to self-host ads that are obfuscated enough to get past adblock. From my experience most adblock users have a respect for ads that manage to circumvent the filter and leave them displayed (and maybe even pity-click it). Pity Click probably account for the vast majority of the revenues of all the geeky/nerdy sites
embedded devices not "imbedded devices"....English *rolls eyes*
It seems much better than the ipad but i don't think that matters. Everyone knows the new zune (and the old zune for that matter) is much better than the ipods but they don't sell well.
MS has a real image problem that it can probably never fix. MS is seen as the company that makes boring operating systems for boring computers (the lols that the "windows 7 party" promotion caused is proof of that).
These type of imbedded devices are MSs Achilles' heel. they are largely independant and immune to MSs tradtional vendor lock-in.
The GNOME theme isn't ugly. It's the default wallpaper Ubuntu goes with it that makes it look hideous.
The 9.10 release has some nice BGs that go well with the Ubuntu GNOME colour scheme, but for some reason they chose a gradient brown one as the default.
The sceenshots in the article makes the new Ubuntu theme look like a non-trademark-infringing superficial copy of OSX. Those are the worst kind of themes for any linux distro, everyone just thinks "half baked crabby Apple Mac for tight-arsed losers"
What do i care.... the way GNOME 3 (and the entire GNOME community) is panning out, it's only a matter of time until KDE (rightfully) takes the reigns and we can wash our hands of the "worst of osx + windows with less functionality" monstrosity GNOME as become.
They say they'll be back "within the hour". They also thank a bunch of websites for the "excellent" coverage (LoL).
It's non-profit
This type of service would be an excellent sponsorship candidate for google.org . Maybe they can get access to Meedan's translation service and incorparate it into google (if it's any good).
yep. I also found SpeedCrunch to be a top notch desktop calculator.
It has the best UI for those of us with butterfingers as the history is always visible
find a similar piece of software and be helpful in their forums/IRC chanel.
When a user wants to do something that you feel your project can handle better or do easier, give yourself a free advertisement.
well I'm 20 and for most of the people i know thats a underestimation.
Everyone has FB/twitter on their phones with basic www access. I don't buy a newspaper unless they are giving away a free shirt or something, I check the news on my phone and sometimes pay the 15c an article during the break/commute (honestly, the headings are enough most of the time).
My job description involves the internet mainly email, a voIP setup we use for phoning people and an online database. My phone has an ebook that i use sometimes (but i find it difficult to deditate a decent amount of time to just reading a book, especially with my phone buzzing status updates and messages). I only go to my local libary to leech the free wireless access (like everyone else there).
I go home and turn on my laptop and stream TV shows onto my plasma while reading slashdot/BBC/forums, shows very often not on local TV (curb your enthusiasm, for one). There is not a moment i am not the internet. It's always in my pocket.
This site needs to include UBB code or WYSIWYG, i spend 10 minutes trying to get the formatting right with HTML.
How about the BIOS? That's never considered software by the FOSS crowd for some reason.
I search my name in Bing and get irrelevant results. (right first name wrong surname or the other way around).
Searching my name in quotation marks finds people who are long dead or listed as award recipients and have never been on the internet since.
It thinks i live in the UK (I live in Australia).
I search in google and i get my facebook twitter and linkedin account as the first three results with or without quotation marks plus other relevent stuff. google wins.
I realized that girls love to personalize their stationary with characters, sqiggles and poems.
It was a school break and i was tired of her playing stupid flash games. so i showed her the real basics in making a website and gave her a "HTML for dummies" book. Of course, the first page she created was to slander some of her schoolmates.
I enticed her into javascript with the standard "hello the day is Monday". I was suprised at the stuff she could do with dialog boxes.
sure the average slashdotter and a few loud-mouth civil-libertarians don't want it, but most people are apathetic and the general public have a short memory. A few weeks after it become enforced it'll transform itself into "the natural order of things" and we'll move onto complaining about politician travel expenses again.
Governments don't make laws for you. They make laws for the elite. If it happens to benefit you, they say they did it for you. The leader of the opposition and the PM are both multi-millionaires and have done well in buiness (nothing wrong with that) but one has to ask: What are they doing in politics? Do they give a damn about the "average joe"? Are they just "hobby positions" for the too-rich-to-work?
This will get through and everybody will say: "Isn't Kevin Rudd nice? He gave me $900 stimulus money and said sorry to the Aborigines. A true blue!"
In soviet Russia, satellites launch YOU!
I admit, I am no patent lawyer and only have basic knowledge on the 1-click dispute. Tell me what you think.