Likewise, i do consider it to be a great moral story to show that you do not necessarily need to fix everything, or have a solution for everything - but that every little bit of effort matters, and you can make a difference regardless how small it might seem on the greater scheme of things...
This is the original story...
An old man walked up a shore littered with thousands of starfish, beached and dying after a storm. A young man was picking them up
and flinging them back into the ocean. "Why do you bother?" the old man scoffed. "You're not saving enough to make a difference." The
young man picked up another starfish and sent it spinning back to the water. "Made a difference to that one," he said.
"After a three-hour meeting in London, the Featured Artists Coalition, which emerged as a breakaway lobby group in the summer, backed the government's proposed introduction of "technical measures" to combat the rising tide of copyright theft. If they ignore two warning letters, persistent illegal filesharers should have their broadband connections throttled "to a level which would render filesharing of media files impractical while leaving basic email and web access", according to a statement after the meeting."
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R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008
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If you read the article you'd realize the writer was speaking "metaphorically"
it's hard to completely kill off something as totally decentralized as Usenet; as long as two servers agree to share the NNTP protocol, it'll continue on in some fashion. But the Usenet I mourn is long gone, anyway, or long-transformed into interlocking comments on LiveJournals and the forums boards on tech-support Web sites.
Even since that, guess what is next to die? Microsoft. Why? OSS people need only make the 90% solution, because that "90% @ free" is better than "100% @ big_money" according to many many people. When people realize that one doent need a 200$ operating system to take care of most tasks, they will switch. Acer, Dell, IBM, Asus, and the rest of the gang will make sure of that.
You must understand that for business it isn't strictly the one off cost of a product that is an issue.
A bigger issue that companies pay for is the support and the management of their software. Also the case of buying in large amounts especially for government allows for even cheaper cost per unit.
The trouble with being stuck with a nix style system is the lack of support and the excessive technical knowladge required to support who ever has purchased the system. Where as windows and microsoft products are supported by many and it is considerably cheaper than nix support.
They do, in the UK you can purchase the new iphone on the pay as you go deal, which means no contract you pay the full price for the phone and you can do as you wish with it.
Here is some info from the O2 deal.
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Anyone know what to put in the message? Just for research purposes....
Likewise, i do consider it to be a great moral story to show that you do not necessarily need to fix everything, or have a solution for everything - but that every little bit of effort matters, and you can make a difference regardless how small it might seem on the greater scheme of things...
This is the original story... An old man walked up a shore littered with thousands of starfish, beached and dying after a storm. A young man was picking them up and flinging them back into the ocean. "Why do you bother?" the old man scoffed. "You're not saving enough to make a difference." The young man picked up another starfish and sent it spinning back to the water. "Made a difference to that one," he said.
You really shouldn't be talking on the phone and driving, and no your not the type with a hands free kit...
Facebook has been blocking the pirate bay for a long long time now...
You don't go to jail...
"After a three-hour meeting in London, the Featured Artists Coalition, which emerged as a breakaway lobby group in the summer, backed the government's proposed introduction of "technical measures" to combat the rising tide of copyright theft. If they ignore two warning letters, persistent illegal filesharers should have their broadband connections throttled "to a level which would render filesharing of media files impractical while leaving basic email and web access", according to a statement after the meeting."
Source The guardian
If you read the article you'd realize the writer was speaking "metaphorically"
it's hard to completely kill off something as totally decentralized as Usenet; as long as two servers agree to share the NNTP protocol, it'll continue on in some fashion. But the Usenet I mourn is long gone, anyway, or long-transformed into interlocking comments on LiveJournals and the forums boards on tech-support Web sites.
You must understand that for business it isn't strictly the one off cost of a product that is an issue.
A bigger issue that companies pay for is the support and the management of their software. Also the case of buying in large amounts especially for government allows for even cheaper cost per unit.
The trouble with being stuck with a nix style system is the lack of support and the excessive technical knowladge required to support who ever has purchased the system. Where as windows and microsoft products are supported by many and it is considerably cheaper than nix support.
They do, in the UK you can purchase the new iphone on the pay as you go deal, which means no contract you pay the full price for the phone and you can do as you wish with it. Here is some info from the O2 deal.
They are probably using a Google API key which allows them to carry out searches without using the front end of the google site .
Go here for more information!