I applaud the positive stance shown by the EU here but doesn't the VUZE layer in the latest version of azureus do this already ? there are probably lots more similar bits of tech that do this , its not rocket science after all.
The problem here is the licences not the technology , most video content is released with licences that restrict sharing in this way.
I think this money might be better spent creating , documenting and maintaining a legal framework for releasing p2p content rather that creating yet more tech that will be hamstrung by not having the content people are most familiar with so not being able to gather enough peers to get decent speeds.
The other big hurdle with P2P is its reliance on filenames , i like to rename most of my downloaded files to something that is more meaningful to me and adheres to my local filenaming convention. This prevents me sharing stuff in my archive. A simple name mapping layer would increase the amount of seeding dramatically.
I'm still having trouble thinking of a legitimate reason for a goverment to have secrets from its constiuents , if you can't do your job with out full public disclosure then you shouldn't be in office. The press would be far less hysterical if it had more information and most importantly the public would be empowered to make meaningful decisions about which politicians to support.
Nobody in government should be doing things that need to be kept secret from other countries because we are all supposed to be working together these days. Or are the treaties just for show ?
If people want secrecy when they are in public office it should be allowed only if a referendum gives them a mandate to do so for that specific situation.
I realise that this may seem naive to some people but anything else is just playing in to the hands of people who should not be trusted with power.
As you said the checksums give you some measure of authenticity , the other bonus with the peer to peer distribution method used by the pirates is that the good stuff spreads and the bad stuff dies out. Yes you do still get some trojans and malware but only usually if out of desperation you download a less popular link , this situation would be mitigated if companies where officially release software via torrents.
The key point here is that the content is free and is evaluated on its suitability/quality which gives the whole operation evolution style filters which will always trounce the farmed monoculture of commercial distribution that chokes under its restrictive licencing practises. With more open licences ISP could operate local mirrors and caches thus saving bandwidth for more fun things.
Anyone care to guess how much of the total bandwidth of the internet is taken up downloading O/S updates ?
denounce the pope as an affront to Human morality .
As an atheist i find his pronuncements on the world irrelevant and out of touch.
He cant talk about morality untill he does something to prevent the rampant child abuse in the catholic church instead of encouraging people to bury it as he advised earlier on in his career. Thousands have suffered inhuman treatment because of that.
Don't get me started on his pronouncements against contraception in Africa that have been the biggest catalyst to the explosion of AIDS cases. Future generations will see that as the biggest genocide of our age.
Oh well there goes my karma but it needed to be said.
Firefox is good way of making a windows machine more secure.
I've persuaded quite a few of my clients to move to firefox for security , which has involved me installing it for them . Others must be doing the same and its starting to show in the usage stats.
For support purposes linux is Linux Standard Base which is a joint effort to standardise the operation central parts of the system , if it the porters keep an eye on fitting in with LSB then more portability should happen.
As much as Lotus Notes is a bit of bogeyman its still good to see it being supported on linux. well done IBM.
This will only ever be Astroturfing until they stop their massive political lobbying efforts that are going the other way. Expect to see lots of deleted or amended posts and unusually eloquent supporters of GM's corporate goals.
I'd like to see full disclosure of the sites web logs so that third parties can verify that comments are not just from gm funded lobbyists.
so if someone searches on google for 'photoshop crack' does that mean that all of googles kit gets auctioned off ? could be a nice little earner that might help the U.S. economy survive O.P.E.C's transition to the Euro , for a day or two .
I have a hemp clothes that are lovely and soft , not quite as soft as cotton. You can treat it and process it to make it very soft if you want to. The most important thing about hemp is that it grows so much better than most plants it doesn't need fertilizers and pesticides , or at least nowhere near as many.
If you think thats not a problem i suggest you talk to an argentianian about what happens if all the banks go bankrupt . Heres a hint , having a fat salary and swanky car won't mean sh*t anymore . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_debt_restructuring
All the chinese need do is start to sell a few trillion dollars of their reserve to start a slide in the value of dollars , then more oil producing nations will switch to selling oil in euros instead of dollars and you can kiss goodbye to the american economy. http://www.energybulletin.net/7707.html
Sure they would loose lots of money but its got to be less than the cost of having a war against the USA and without all that messy killing , you also get to tell the next generation it was americas fault and they wont care because , well , it is really isn't it ?
I presume you mean the ability to specify different stylesheets for different media , If so then no , its only for adjusting the layout and will in most cases result in the same stuff being downloaded. A clever client could try to avoid downloading things that weren't going to be dispayed but most don't ( this is also a way to pre-cache things).
personally i would do a simple standards compliant page that works on both , its hardly rocket science . Convincing the marketing people not to fill it with crap is far far harder tho.
try Ctrl+Alt+minus to cycle the resolution to a lower one , then press Alt+F2 for a run box , then type gnome-display-properties to get a gui to adjust your screen res. ok so thats not so intuative but if you had googled or asked in the ubuntu irc channel on freenode you would probably have got the same answer.
> With Windows, there's a support number you can call
They will either send the police round to bust you , tell you someone has already activated your copy and you need a new one or just tell you to wait for a patch which will come out at some point cost you more money . Microsoft phone support is a myth but you can buy support for ubuntu from canonical.
> Or you can take it to a local computer store
Have you actually asked your local computer store about linux ? i bet they are just itching to start supporting linux.
I haven't found the ubuntu forums to be snobbish to polite users, i have however found some users to be down right rude and they understandably don't get answers or only get negative responses. If you have a problem with this then you should probably avoid human contact in future.
If you feel you are genuinely being victimised then i believe you can complain about the invdividual user in question , if you have a case then you will be listened too , i suspect however you just like a good whinge because you do not include the facts of your situation.
Given that most devices are built with to run with windows its not suprising that lots more devices work with it , most of the devices that don't work with linux use hybrid hard/soft designs that are built into the windows subsystem or custom driver structures. I would be more inclined to say that you have some ropey hardware but if you won't mention what it is then you will have to forgive me for ignoring your request for help.
For me the real problem here is that microsoft and apple are creating the expectation that computers are easy to use and simple to grasp , they are not , it takes time to learn anything , if you don't put in the time dont expect the rewards.
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I applaud the positive stance shown by the EU here but doesn't the VUZE layer in the latest version of azureus do this already ?
there are probably lots more similar bits of tech that do this , its not rocket science after all.
The problem here is the licences not the technology , most video content is released with licences that restrict sharing in this way.
I think this money might be better spent creating , documenting and maintaining a legal framework for releasing p2p content rather
that creating yet more tech that will be hamstrung by not having the content people are most familiar with so not being able to
gather enough peers to get decent speeds.
The other big hurdle with P2P is its reliance on filenames , i like to rename most of my downloaded files to something that is
more meaningful to me and adheres to my local filenaming convention. This prevents me sharing stuff in my archive.
A simple name mapping layer would increase the amount of seeding dramatically.
Toodle-pip
Amias
I'm still having trouble thinking of a legitimate reason for a goverment to have secrets from its constiuents ,
if you can't do your job with out full public disclosure then you shouldn't be in office. The press would be
far less hysterical if it had more information and most importantly the public would be empowered to make
meaningful decisions about which politicians to support.
Nobody in government should be doing things that need to be kept secret from other countries because
we are all supposed to be working together these days. Or are the treaties just for show ?
If people want secrecy when they are in public office it should be allowed only if a referendum gives them
a mandate to do so for that specific situation.
I realise that this may seem naive to some people but anything else is just playing in to the hands of people
who should not be trusted with power.
As you said the checksums give you some measure of authenticity , the other bonus with the peer to peer distribution method used by the pirates is that the good stuff spreads and the bad stuff dies out.
Yes you do still get some trojans and malware but only usually if out of desperation you download a less popular link , this situation would be mitigated if companies where officially release software via torrents.
The key point here is that the content is free and is evaluated on its suitability/quality which gives the whole operation evolution style filters which will always trounce the farmed monoculture of
commercial distribution that chokes under its restrictive licencing practises. With more open licences ISP could operate local mirrors and caches thus saving bandwidth for more fun things.
Anyone care to guess how much of the total bandwidth of the internet is taken up downloading O/S updates ?
Viva la bittorrent !
Toodle-pip
Amias
denounce the pope as an affront to Human morality .
As an atheist i find his pronuncements on the world irrelevant and out of touch.
He cant talk about morality untill he does something to prevent the rampant child
abuse in the catholic church instead of encouraging people to bury it as he advised
earlier on in his career. Thousands have suffered inhuman treatment because of that.
Don't get me started on his pronouncements against contraception in
Africa that have been the biggest catalyst to the explosion of AIDS cases.
Future generations will see that as the biggest genocide of our age.
Oh well there goes my karma but it needed to be said.
Toodle-pip
Amias
Firefox is good way of making a windows machine more secure.
I've persuaded quite a few of my clients to move to firefox for security , which has
involved me installing it for them . Others must be doing the same and its starting
to show in the usage stats.
Toodle-pip
Amias
For support purposes linux is Linux Standard Base which is a joint effort to standardise the operation central parts of the system , if it the porters keep an eye on fitting in with LSB then more portability should happen.
As much as Lotus Notes is a bit of bogeyman its still good to see it being supported on linux. well done IBM.
Toodle-pip
Amias
If corporations want to pay for support then why not provide it ?
Sourceforge services looks like a good way to provide it .
This will only ever be Astroturfing until they stop their massive political lobbying efforts that are going the other way.
Expect to see lots of deleted or amended posts and unusually eloquent supporters of GM's corporate goals.
I'd like to see full disclosure of the sites web logs so that third parties can verify that comments are not just from gm funded lobbyists.
Toodle-pip
Amias
at last stiff competition for AMD and Intel.
so if someone searches on google for 'photoshop crack' does that mean that all of googles kit gets auctioned off ?
could be a nice little earner that might help the U.S. economy survive O.P.E.C's transition to the Euro , for a day or two .
Toodle-pip
Amias
I have a hemp clothes that are lovely and soft , not quite as soft as cotton.
You can treat it and process it to make it very soft if you want to.
The most important thing about hemp is that it grows so much better
than most plants it doesn't need fertilizers and pesticides , or at least
nowhere near as many.
Thats why they call it weed.
Toodle-pip
Amias
Plato talked about the notion of philosopher kings but his republic chose the 'king' from a pool of candidates.
I think the term 'king' was a bad translation.
The main thing with the republic was to allow flux between different styles of government , so in that way
its not like china at all.
Toodle-pip
Amias
It looks cool and has some lovely features but it won't sell in spain .
moko is slang for bogies / buggers / snot
Toodle-pip
Amias
whoa there meat boy , you seem a little paranoid , an unhealthy diet does that too you.
ITYM geese
Turkeys are gentle silly creatures that can even get bullied
by chickens that are less than half their size.
Geese on the other hand are properly obnoxious and can
be used as very effective burglar alarms / attack creatures.
It amuses me , as a vegan , how little meat eaters know about
the animals they actually eat .
Toodle-pip
Amias
because it owes far more than it could ever payback and the the USA has been bankrupt since at least 1971
http://www.energybulletin.net/12125.html
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
If you think thats not a problem i suggest you talk to an argentianian about what happens if all the banks
go bankrupt . Heres a hint , having a fat salary and swanky car won't mean sh*t anymore .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_debt_restructuring
Toodle-pip
Amias
I thought it was common knowledge that china has more dollars than the USA ?
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=10&year=2007&base_name=how_many_dollars_will_china_ho
All the chinese need do is start to sell a few trillion dollars of their reserve to start a slide in the value of dollars ,
then more oil producing nations will switch to selling oil in euros instead of dollars and you can kiss goodbye to the american economy.
http://www.energybulletin.net/7707.html
Sure they would loose lots of money but its got to be less than the cost of having a war against the USA and without all
that messy killing , you also get to tell the next generation it was americas fault and they wont care because , well , it is really isn't it ?
Toodle-pip
Amias
Anyone care to comment on how this has effected marijuana prices on the caltech campus ?
...except nasa.
I presume you mean the ability to specify different stylesheets for different media ,
If so then no , its only for adjusting the layout and will in most cases result in the same stuff being downloaded.
A clever client could try to avoid downloading things that weren't going to be dispayed but most don't ( this is
also a way to pre-cache things).
personally i would do a simple standards compliant page that works on both , its hardly rocket science .
Convincing the marketing people not to fill it with crap is far far harder tho.
and i'm guessing you've never been a graduate
To continue to produce their product, any company has to make a profit. That is why _their_ music can't be free.
FIXED
except it wasn't really fullscreen , i could still see the menu bars which are positioned 'on-top' of all the other windows and could easily escape.
You'd have to be pretty dumb to get caught out by that .
and as someone who is rather obviously a linux user i'm supposed to care about this why ?
Toodle-pip
Amias
> sync out of range
try Ctrl+Alt+minus to cycle the resolution to a lower one , then press Alt+F2 for a run box , then type gnome-display-properties to get a gui to adjust your screen res.
ok so thats not so intuative but if you had googled or asked in the ubuntu irc channel on freenode you would probably have got the same answer.
> With Windows, there's a support number you can call
They will either send the police round to bust you , tell you someone has already activated your copy and you need a new one or just tell you to wait for a patch
which will come out at some point cost you more money . Microsoft phone support is a myth but you can buy support for ubuntu from canonical.
> Or you can take it to a local computer store
Have you actually asked your local computer store about linux ? i bet they are just itching to start supporting linux.
I haven't found the ubuntu forums to be snobbish to polite users, i have however found some users to be down right rude and they understandably don't get
answers or only get negative responses. If you have a problem with this then you should probably avoid human contact in future.
If you feel you are genuinely being victimised then i believe you can complain about the invdividual user in question , if you have a case then you will be listened
too , i suspect however you just like a good whinge because you do not include the facts of your situation.
Given that most devices are built with to run with windows its not suprising that lots more devices work with it , most of the devices that don't work with linux
use hybrid hard/soft designs that are built into the windows subsystem or custom driver structures. I would be more inclined to say that you have some ropey
hardware but if you won't mention what it is then you will have to forgive me for ignoring your request for help.
For me the real problem here is that microsoft and apple are creating the expectation that computers are easy to use and simple to grasp , they are not , it
takes time to learn anything , if you don't put in the time dont expect the rewards.
Toodle-pip
Amias