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Bandwidth = 9251.7 Kbps
Let's see your 56k modem get those kind of numbers!
This is an example of what the internet isn't supposed to be. What is happening to the original premise...the free exchange of information? Here's a news flash for those so called content providers (Does this "constitute content"? I won't even charge you): The net wasn't built to facilitate restricted access! Example: Why do think your music is being shared freely and there's nothing you can do?
Another thing: Who decides what constitutes "content"? RIAA? MPAA? Time/Warner? Disney? And how do we even know that their "special content" is even worth anything? I'm going to be mad as hell if I have to pay for "content" sight unseen and find out it's some sucky pseudoarticle "informing" me aboutBritney Spears' first zit!
Here's another twist: Haven't these guys heard of mirrors? What's to stop someone from gaining access to their precious content and mirroring it in a jurisdiction where they can't be touched?
This is an idea that needs to be stomped to death before it even gets off the ground.
I take it you never saw Ice Pirates... really cheezy Sci Fi flick (spoof?) starring Robert Urich in which, you guessed it, water was so rare and expensive a commodity that there were "pirates" flying around in spaceships, stealing water...liquid or frozen (hence the name).
"satellites are no different from other movable personal property that he has authority to tax."
Uhhhh guys...they're in geostationary. That means they aren't moving.
...for the "booming economy" of greater LA to consume more energy, much of it in the form of fossil fuels (with it's attendant greenhouse gas emissions) than the entire Indian subcontinent?
So I wonder when the time comes will this info be able to be used to track "media-unfriendly" (read RIAA unfriendly) devices such as RIAA-unencrypted CD burners and hard drives, DVD's etc (don't think for a second they won't try to shove these down our throats either!)... worse still if it's taking a snapshot of my system, what about software or media (especially with upgrades)?
I can see a lot of frustrated sys admins using this instead of calling M$ each and every time they deploy XP, though that being said my first defense against XP activation frustration is going to be "don't" when asked about upgrading/deploying.
Some jurisdictions (such as British Columbia) already have a law on the books where if you can prove that you didn't understand the terms of a contract and no effort was made to clarify them to you, then the contract is void. Easy to see how this would apply to those software "agreements" nobody reads...
Once, I asked one of my instructors about their policy regarding programmable calculators and exams. He said if one understands a concept well enough to program it into a calculator, then one's grasp of that concept is such that the presence or absence of a programmable calculator isn't going to make a great deal of difference. I thought that was a cool attitude.
Somewhere buried away I have a circular slide rule. Pretty neat design actually: concentric freewheeling disks and a transparent pointer so you don't lose your place. The pieces all stay together nicely, rather than having a slider shoot off one end or the other and get lost.
Get a stick and beat yourself with it...
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One O/S to rule them all...
one O/S to find them.
One O/S to bring them all...
And in the darkness bind them.
In the land of Redmond where the shadows lie.
...of course you could become a minion of BorgBill and SauronSteve and make money sorting out this licensing mess for various sundry enterprises. Or you could spend an equal amount of time bashing your head against the wall in an effort to teach them to use open source. Unless they leave open the option to buy the software outright, then of course, you'll only have to deal with the activation nightmare.
One O/S to rule them all...
One O/S to find them.
One O/S to bring them all...
and in the darkness bind them.
In the land of Redmond where the shadows lie.
P.S. Maybe it's time to change the BillBorg icon to SauronSteve...
Slashdot Mirror
N Sync??? yeah right!
...namely the "Beowulf Cluster" and "All your base" bitches.
Welcome to the 2Wire Bandwidth Meter. This meter will determine your maximum throughput to our Web site.
Status:
Test completed...
Bandwidth = 9251.7 Kbps
Let's see your 56k modem get those kind of numbers!
Better be able to backcharge spammers. I ain't spending $50 for the privledge of having X10 popups or viagra e-mails in my wireless device.
Got an old 4 head top-loader for just that very purpose.
Not where I live. In fact, there's parts of Texas that get more snow than we do on the West Coast (about 1/2" last year).
Another thing: Who decides what constitutes "content"? RIAA? MPAA? Time/Warner? Disney? And how do we even know that their "special content" is even worth anything? I'm going to be mad as hell if I have to pay for "content" sight unseen and find out it's some sucky pseudoarticle "informing" me aboutBritney Spears' first zit!
Here's another twist: Haven't these guys heard of mirrors? What's to stop someone from gaining access to their precious content and mirroring it in a jurisdiction where they can't be touched?
This is an idea that needs to be stomped to death before it even gets off the ground.
Waddya think my coffee cup is sitting on right now!
I take it you never saw Ice Pirates... really cheezy Sci Fi flick (spoof?) starring Robert Urich in which, you guessed it, water was so rare and expensive a commodity that there were "pirates" flying around in spaceships, stealing water...liquid or frozen (hence the name).
"satellites are no different from other movable personal property that he has authority to tax." Uhhhh guys...they're in geostationary. That means they aren't moving.
...and they tax you everytime you take a shit??
According to this article, does that mean the death of sites such as Whitehouse.com?
...for the "booming economy" of greater LA to consume more energy, much of it in the form of fossil fuels (with it's attendant greenhouse gas emissions) than the entire Indian subcontinent?
...by the time those couple of centuries elapse, it may be too late to fix the damage.
So I wonder when the time comes will this info be able to be used to track "media-unfriendly" (read RIAA unfriendly) devices such as RIAA-unencrypted CD burners and hard drives, DVD's etc (don't think for a second they won't try to shove these down our throats either!) ... worse still if it's taking a snapshot of my system, what about software or media (especially with upgrades)?
I can see a lot of frustrated sys admins using this instead of calling M$ each and every time they deploy XP, though that being said my first defense against XP activation frustration is going to be "don't" when asked about upgrading/deploying.
Some jurisdictions (such as British Columbia) already have a law on the books where if you can prove that you didn't understand the terms of a contract and no effort was made to clarify them to you, then the contract is void. Easy to see how this would apply to those software "agreements" nobody reads...
Once, I asked one of my instructors about their policy regarding programmable calculators and exams. He said if one understands a concept well enough to program it into a calculator, then one's grasp of that concept is such that the presence or absence of a programmable calculator isn't going to make a great deal of difference. I thought that was a cool attitude.
Somewhere buried away I have a circular slide rule. Pretty neat design actually: concentric freewheeling disks and a transparent pointer so you don't lose your place. The pieces all stay together nicely, rather than having a slider shoot off one end or the other and get lost.
...before I bitchslap you.
one O/S to find them.
One O/S to bring them all...
And in the darkness bind them.
In the land of Redmond where the shadows lie.
In any event it's going to get ug-ly...
Must...buy...X10...camera!
Ready
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One O/S to find them.
One O/S to bring them all...
and in the darkness bind them.
In the land of Redmond where the shadows lie.
P.S. Maybe it's time to change the BillBorg icon to SauronSteve...