The important thing to note is that this 1 ISP is the former government monopoly who still runs the last mile of copper upon which nearly all DSL in the country depends. I wonder if they will include the customers of their wholesale DSL customers who to many provide the only opportunity to escape from the clutches of Eircom? The only meaningful competition to them is UPC, mentioned in the article, who run the largest cable tv network in the country.
And also, who strayed from the duo- quad- naming methodology?! Are you insane!? Do you have any idea the marketing power that a sexa core chip could have?
The same people who decided to never release a Sexium after the Pentium.
You keep thinking that and I'll continue using my eee 701's wifi with ath5k with no non-free blob just fine. Or maybe you could search for openfwwf to discover that it is a Free firmware.
Unfortunately some or more mods are as misinformed as you and called your post insightful, any mods care to down-mod the parent to oblivion? Even/. carried the story about atheros publishing their firmware for their 802.11g chipsets under a free license.
No wireless chipset, of course. Because after 15 years of WiFi being in common usage worldwide, there still isn't a single chipset available with full support for 100% free software.
Except for all the atheros cards supported by ath5k and ath9k in the Linux kernel, or the bcm cards supported by openfwwf (though I prefer the atheros stuff as it's manufacturer not only helps out but even released their own code for reference). There may be others.
I've had no problem displaying BBC-HD (1080i h264) with an 780G and an X2 5050e (low power dual core) with the Free drivers from x.org (but non-free firmware required for video acceleration and 3d). I wouldn't touch the closed source drivers from Ati or NVidia with yours but I'd now regard the modern Intel or Ati solutions as just fine for undemanding users.
Yet you test your sites on IE6. Is the time not long past where you should just be displaying the same sort of message to IE6 users you would to $random_unsupported browser, or better yet the same one you give to $random_vulnerable browser. I'm afraid you are as much to blame as the governments, non-technical corporates and pro-MS shops for making yourself have to keep the VM around to test the insane browser.
Like most people on the planet I'm not American so no I did not vote for Nader or inflict W on anyone. However you and your ilk's blind determination to convince your fellow Americans that a vote for a non D/R candidate is a wasted vote is far more likely to have resulted in W ever being allowed to stand for President representing any party. Had the election before seen even 5% of votes going to a third party candidate perhaps one of your major parties may have found a worthwhile candidate, or maybe even a large percentage of the non-voters would have appeared the next time to vote for a 3rd party candidate.
Well then you can say goodbye to alot of creative endeavors. Why write a book when it will only sell a single copy before being copied all over the internet?
I've bought hundreds of books where I could as easily have borrowed them from a friend or a library, I also prefer to read from paper then a screen. Also you can't copy a performance so comedians, musicians and actors would all have their place (as would cinema's).
Think of it this way, you download and read a book from a current author (films and albums are just the same) and enjoy it, you can just hope they keep producing works or maybe you'll think that you'd like to encourage them so you send then a contribution in thanks (or buy some product they sell). Crowd-patronage for those who can inspire their audience to show their appreciation for them. Yes it changes the balance of power, but I think it's clear that the current system is horribly broken with corporations owning "moral rights", buying their legal perpetual extension and now trying to force extra legal protections in via secret treaties.
Come election year, if a candidate doesn't get laws passed dealing with this, chuck them out and have someone who is able to provide minimal safety in products put in office, regardless of "D" or "R" by their names.
If you only choose from the "D" or "R" options then would you really expect anything to change? I think it would be far more effective to vote for anyone else other then a "D" or "R" even if that candidate doesn't get elected as if any significant percentage of people did so it would not only scare the duopoly (and those lobbying them so effectively) but would encourage others in the future to try and provide a real alternative.
Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and The Netherlands introduced a Carbon tax in 1990-1991. France and Ireland have just introduced their own and it appears that even in the US this isn't a first as Boulder Colorado (2006) and the "Bay Area Air Quality Management District" (2008) had already introduced Carbon Taxes.
I wonder if a Debian Developer who has uploaded a new package version to unstable since Ubuntu first forked would be approved? Or upstream developers? I presume not and this is just about recognising contributions exclusively for the benefit of Ubuntu.
I'll resist a rant and simply offer a link to Greg Kroah-Hartman's speach at the 2008 linux plumbers conference to show why I for one value contributions to Ubuntu as next to worthless http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3385088017824733336
I would turn that around and ask why on earth you would buy anything with a dead-end OS, when you could buy a fully programmable Windows device that you can buy a lot more applications for.
Linux is nice to use but that's as far as it goes, overall it is not nearly as useful just based on application availability alone.
Do you realise what percentage of the net you may have to ignore to avoid goole? If not install something like noscript and notice how many sites try to load sub-documents (primarily javscript) from Google and then notice how many of them are inoperable without letting Google in.
I agree London is certainly not worthy of anything close to 2 weeks, if it was my first time out of the US I'd be thinking about trying to hit a few more countries with the most obvious candidates being Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Holland. Cheap flights, trains and even a ferry are all options, perhaps even just going through the Channel Tunnel would peak your interest. Worthy of special mention are Amsterdam, Paris, the North coast of France (think D-Day, would arriving on a ferry to the North coast of France send shivers down your spine) and really anywhere in Scotland, Wales or Ireland will expose you to changes in culture and scenery without worrying about any language barriers.
The GSM Pre has been out for about a month now, exclusive to O2 in Ireland and the UK at least and only available unlocked from Germany with a qwertz keyboard, however some reputable sites are pre-ordering and advertising an unlocked qwerty GSM Pre (while already selling the qwertz) so if you can't accept a qwertz keyboard and don't want to try and play unlocking games, a little more patience is required.
Lots of comments mentioning the lack of taking into account of the severity of the bugs, but what about the duration of the vulnerabilities. Or to extend that train of thought, if IE has a current known exploit (or collection of them) there's not as much incentive to go finding another one if you know the one you have won't be closed for another few weeks/months anyway. I suspect with firefox any hole found will be fixed with a released patch far more quickly (and as others mentioned, possibly before any exploits are known of) so you have to keep finding new ones if you want to use firefox as a way in to a machine.
* Locking phones is allowed; the operator has to unlock it free of charge when you leave their service, but not while you're still using them.
Got any links to back this up? I'd would love to buy a particular pre-pay phone only available from one provider, leave their service immediately and get it unlocked. The company with the exclusive phone have said that they will not unlock them at all while they have their "exclusive". I'm in Ireland btw.
This years Superbowl is being shown on BBC 1. Other (non-us) stations coverage of American Football is funny enough with the pundits having to cover up all the extra US ad time. It should be hilarious watching a new BBC team try and fill every second. I wonder if they will resort to showing, and commentating on, the ads that actually attract such a massive percentage of the viewing figures.
The best bit about supertux is the easy level editor. My nephews discovered it and all of them spend at least as much time making levels as playing the game which they invariably ask for when the come over (an eee with supertux makes for a quite life). They range in age from 4-11 and all love it.
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I don't know about your exact chip/card but my asus eeepc 701 is using ath5k for a while. I'm using a recent sidux 2.6.26 kernel which features some patches which have made it into 2.6.27 so I'm expecting it will continue to work as well or better with vanilla 2.6.27. The performance is poor at present but fine for browsing, email etc. Personally I'll take an improving Free in-kernel driver over the mess you described any day.
sidux is debian based (it adds it's own repository to debian and retains binary compatibility). It sticks to unstable (sid) and so no Kde 4.x release until it reaches it though.
This fragments the spectrum leaving you with a lot of fragments of two exact sizes perfectly interspersed. Down the road there you would have to take spectrum from both the "channel" and "space" allocations to make any block bigger then a single channel and dropping either spectrum would only give you back a sequence of broken spectrum.
If some of this spectrum really should be re-allocated to something else surely it would make a lot more sense to take one or more channels from either or both ends? While trying to claim the "white space" seems like an effort to be efficient, it's making a mess of the most well known high bandwidth broadcast spectrum we have leading to an eventual mess further down the road.
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Not any more, it is currently owned by Singapore Telecom. It's true though that they were still owned by B&B when this started.
The important thing to note is that this 1 ISP is the former government monopoly who still runs the last mile of copper upon which nearly all DSL in the country depends. I wonder if they will include the customers of their wholesale DSL customers who to many provide the only opportunity to escape from the clutches of Eircom? The only meaningful competition to them is UPC, mentioned in the article, who run the largest cable tv network in the country.
Is Paedogeddon a Malamanteau?
And also, who strayed from the duo- quad- naming methodology?! Are you insane!? Do you have any idea the marketing power that a sexa core chip could have?
The same people who decided to never release a Sexium after the Pentium.
You keep thinking that and I'll continue using my eee 701's wifi with ath5k with no non-free blob just fine. Or maybe you could search for openfwwf to discover that it is a Free firmware. Unfortunately some or more mods are as misinformed as you and called your post insightful, any mods care to down-mod the parent to oblivion? Even /. carried the story about atheros publishing their firmware for their 802.11g chipsets under a free license.
No wireless chipset, of course. Because after 15 years of WiFi being in common usage worldwide, there still isn't a single chipset available with full support for 100% free software.
Except for all the atheros cards supported by ath5k and ath9k in the Linux kernel, or the bcm cards supported by openfwwf (though I prefer the atheros stuff as it's manufacturer not only helps out but even released their own code for reference). There may be others.
I've had no problem displaying BBC-HD (1080i h264) with an 780G and an X2 5050e (low power dual core) with the Free drivers from x.org (but non-free firmware required for video acceleration and 3d). I wouldn't touch the closed source drivers from Ati or NVidia with yours but I'd now regard the modern Intel or Ati solutions as just fine for undemanding users.
Yet you test your sites on IE6. Is the time not long past where you should just be displaying the same sort of message to IE6 users you would to $random_unsupported browser, or better yet the same one you give to $random_vulnerable browser. I'm afraid you are as much to blame as the governments, non-technical corporates and pro-MS shops for making yourself have to keep the VM around to test the insane browser.
Like most people on the planet I'm not American so no I did not vote for Nader or inflict W on anyone. However you and your ilk's blind determination to convince your fellow Americans that a vote for a non D/R candidate is a wasted vote is far more likely to have resulted in W ever being allowed to stand for President representing any party. Had the election before seen even 5% of votes going to a third party candidate perhaps one of your major parties may have found a worthwhile candidate, or maybe even a large percentage of the non-voters would have appeared the next time to vote for a 3rd party candidate.
Well then you can say goodbye to alot of creative endeavors. Why write a book when it will only sell a single copy before being copied all over the internet?
I've bought hundreds of books where I could as easily have borrowed them from a friend or a library, I also prefer to read from paper then a screen. Also you can't copy a performance so comedians, musicians and actors would all have their place (as would cinema's).
Think of it this way, you download and read a book from a current author (films and albums are just the same) and enjoy it, you can just hope they keep producing works or maybe you'll think that you'd like to encourage them so you send then a contribution in thanks (or buy some product they sell). Crowd-patronage for those who can inspire their audience to show their appreciation for them. Yes it changes the balance of power, but I think it's clear that the current system is horribly broken with corporations owning "moral rights", buying their legal perpetual extension and now trying to force extra legal protections in via secret treaties.
Come election year, if a candidate doesn't get laws passed dealing with this, chuck them out and have someone who is able to provide minimal safety in products put in office, regardless of "D" or "R" by their names.
If you only choose from the "D" or "R" options then would you really expect anything to change? I think it would be far more effective to vote for anyone else other then a "D" or "R" even if that candidate doesn't get elected as if any significant percentage of people did so it would not only scare the duopoly (and those lobbying them so effectively) but would encourage others in the future to try and provide a real alternative.
Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and The Netherlands introduced a Carbon tax in 1990-1991. France and Ireland have just introduced their own and it appears that even in the US this isn't a first as Boulder Colorado (2006) and the "Bay Area Air Quality Management District" (2008) had already introduced Carbon Taxes.
I wonder if a Debian Developer who has uploaded a new package version to unstable since Ubuntu first forked would be approved? Or upstream developers? I presume not and this is just about recognising contributions exclusively for the benefit of Ubuntu.
I'll resist a rant and simply offer a link to Greg Kroah-Hartman's speach at the 2008 linux plumbers conference to show why I for one value contributions to Ubuntu as next to worthless http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3385088017824733336
I would turn that around and ask why on earth you would buy anything with a dead-end OS, when you could buy a fully programmable Windows device that you can buy a lot more applications for.
Linux is nice to use but that's as far as it goes, overall it is not nearly as useful just based on application availability alone.
Do you realise what percentage of the net you may have to ignore to avoid goole? If not install something like noscript and notice how many sites try to load sub-documents (primarily javscript) from Google and then notice how many of them are inoperable without letting Google in.
I agree London is certainly not worthy of anything close to 2 weeks, if it was my first time out of the US I'd be thinking about trying to hit a few more countries with the most obvious candidates being Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Holland. Cheap flights, trains and even a ferry are all options, perhaps even just going through the Channel Tunnel would peak your interest. Worthy of special mention are Amsterdam, Paris, the North coast of France (think D-Day, would arriving on a ferry to the North coast of France send shivers down your spine) and really anywhere in Scotland, Wales or Ireland will expose you to changes in culture and scenery without worrying about any language barriers.
The GSM Pre has been out for about a month now, exclusive to O2 in Ireland and the UK at least and only available unlocked from Germany with a qwertz keyboard, however some reputable sites are pre-ordering and advertising an unlocked qwerty GSM Pre (while already selling the qwertz) so if you can't accept a qwertz keyboard and don't want to try and play unlocking games, a little more patience is required.
Lots of comments mentioning the lack of taking into account of the severity of the bugs, but what about the duration of the vulnerabilities. Or to extend that train of thought, if IE has a current known exploit (or collection of them) there's not as much incentive to go finding another one if you know the one you have won't be closed for another few weeks/months anyway. I suspect with firefox any hole found will be fixed with a released patch far more quickly (and as others mentioned, possibly before any exploits are known of) so you have to keep finding new ones if you want to use firefox as a way in to a machine.
In summary, FUD off
Got any links to back this up? I'd would love to buy a particular pre-pay phone only available from one provider, leave their service immediately and get it unlocked. The company with the exclusive phone have said that they will not unlock them at all while they have their "exclusive". I'm in Ireland btw.
This years Superbowl is being shown on BBC 1. Other (non-us) stations coverage of American Football is funny enough with the pundits having to cover up all the extra US ad time. It should be hilarious watching a new BBC team try and fill every second. I wonder if they will resort to showing, and commentating on, the ads that actually attract such a massive percentage of the viewing figures.
The best bit about supertux is the easy level editor. My nephews discovered it and all of them spend at least as much time making levels as playing the game which they invariably ask for when the come over (an eee with supertux makes for a quite life). They range in age from 4-11 and all love it.
I don't know about your exact chip/card but my asus eeepc 701 is using ath5k for a while. I'm using a recent sidux 2.6.26 kernel which features some patches which have made it into 2.6.27 so I'm expecting it will continue to work as well or better with vanilla 2.6.27. The performance is poor at present but fine for browsing, email etc. Personally I'll take an improving Free in-kernel driver over the mess you described any day.
sidux is debian based (it adds it's own repository to debian and retains binary compatibility). It sticks to unstable (sid) and so no Kde 4.x release until it reaches it though.
I don't believe they use a 40GB SSD though, more like an 8GB SSD and a 32GB usb stick (I picked one of those up for STG70 a couple of months ago).
This fragments the spectrum leaving you with a lot of fragments of two exact sizes perfectly interspersed. Down the road there you would have to take spectrum from both the "channel" and "space" allocations to make any block bigger then a single channel and dropping either spectrum would only give you back a sequence of broken spectrum. If some of this spectrum really should be re-allocated to something else surely it would make a lot more sense to take one or more channels from either or both ends? While trying to claim the "white space" seems like an effort to be efficient, it's making a mess of the most well known high bandwidth broadcast spectrum we have leading to an eventual mess further down the road.