With all the privitization of electricity going on around the world, I can't imagine the corporations that stand to make a mint from it are going to happy with an idea that cuts into profits and lowers revenue.
Sure there is market for it. Problem is the big networks aren't interested in higher quality lower audience productions. Their just like McDonalds, producing the lowest quality product to the widest audience possible. TV is not art, it's advertising.
A guy I used to work with recovered (almost entirely) data from a 8 year old micropolis 1.5gb SCSI. And it ran Interactive Unix. Now those are serious mcguiver skills
Everyone seems to have a solution to avoid being sued by them. The reality is they have presented no evidence to backup their claims. We need to calm down, and simply wait for them to give it. Otherwise we feed their FUD machine.
I'm sorry but what planet are you on? No software comes with any warrenty either expresssed or implied. That's a pretty basic foundation for software in general, otherwise MS would be liable for damages caused by their shittying programming. As well as the geek who wrote the kernel patch that borked the file system.
There's a million and one examples of closed source companies ignoring user complaints about bugs to outright denial that there is anything even wrong.
Even before this, DSL/Cable is pretty cheap. Basic 128kbps services run about 25cdn/month 1.5mb DSL/Cable runs about 40cdn 3.0mb DSL (no 3mb cable yet) runs about 65cdn
The problem is we have almost no local phone company competition in Canada. If I *were* to use sprint instead of Bell, I would not be able to have ADSL, I would need to have a bell local line. That seems unfair does it not? And their not deciding how they will compete, their forcing them to do so.
Like many, Slackware was my first distro. Oh what hell it was to get it installed, being that I knew very little about hardware. Many years later, I laugh at how trivial the setup is now. But had I not had the slackware experience all those years ago, I would probably be a MS monkey, instead of a Linux Geek.
So you believe the US has the right to police the world?
I mean why not have mandatory miltary service, then the US would be able to take out everyone they need to, so as to save the world from itself.
And since you seem to know so much about american foreign policy, could you tell me why it is that the US seems to fight so many of the monsters they create?
btw, it's Kim Chong-il, who was the son of Kim Il-song, that rules North Korea.
Yes, we're obviously pretending that they don't exist. Because the American military that's been looking for them, have found them, made announcements, and we're ignoring them.
Oh wait, that has not happened. In fact, it's been found that some of the intelligence is gathered on Iraq, and used as justifcation for the war was either false or doctored.
Again I go back to "Your either with us, or against us.". This is a clear example of extremisim. You've got "Good" (Those with "us") and Evil (against "us").
You've picked your side of the coin of extermism, don't be supprised that the rest of world looks at both sides with contempt.
Your original point was about the US only attacking where there was oil. I missed the part where I said only.
Oil can be replaced with any number of things that serve US interests.
Attacking Iraq was the right thing to do - just like standing up to the Nazis in France or the North Koreans was the right thing to do. So you compare invading Iraq to freeing France? And just where the Hell does North Korea fit in? They're using diplomatic preasures to convince them to stop building WMD. There's a list a mile long of oppressive regiemes, where's the US' hit list? They get to choose who's good and who's evil? Might makes right?
The fact that he had weapons of mass destruction was just one of the many reason why he had to go. By this, I assume your refering to the ones that don't exist.
I see like most of the American public your views are those dictated by your media outlets. Conversions regarding the world outside of the US are, at best, tiresome. Please get a clue as to what is going on before you assume that the US is doing the right thing at all times. Sending troops on peace keeping missions where the world deems necessary (i.e. Liberia) is a noble thing. Sending troops to a country based on falsified information, even if the decsion makers believed it to be true, is scarry.
The US does what serves it the best, don't think for a second that it always does "the right thing"
If they succeed in getting a patent on this, it's only valid in the US, correct. I believe Canada does *not* recognize software patents. Would this then mean someone could develop identical software up here, as well as distribute it from here, and be free from litigation?
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With all the privitization of electricity going on around the world, I can't imagine the corporations that stand to make a mint from it are going to happy with an idea that cuts into profits and lowers revenue.
It's Cheque damn it!
using up their cash reserves would hardly put them out of business. :)
somehow I don't think everything would die off...
The ability to travel space for 500 years doesn't sound interesting enough?
Could I get your number please?
Sure there is market for it. Problem is the big networks aren't interested in higher quality lower audience productions. Their just like McDonalds, producing the lowest quality product to the widest audience possible. TV is not art, it's advertising.
A guy I used to work with recovered (almost entirely) data from a 8 year old micropolis 1.5gb SCSI. And it ran Interactive Unix. Now those are serious mcguiver skills
Everyone seems to have a solution to avoid being sued by them.
The reality is they have presented no evidence to backup their claims.
We need to calm down, and simply wait for them to give it.
Otherwise we feed their FUD machine.
Sending royal marines into a "sovereign" nation would be a violation international law, oh wait never mind.
Smells like a FUD factory to me..
it will be interesting to see.
AFAIK, this about Copyright not patents. Two totally seperate things.
I'm sorry but what planet are you on?
No software comes with any warrenty either expresssed or implied.
That's a pretty basic foundation for software in general, otherwise MS would be liable for damages caused by their shittying programming. As well as the geek who wrote the kernel patch that borked the file system.
There's a million and one examples of closed source
companies ignoring user complaints about bugs to outright denial that there is anything even wrong.
Just a little one, but large enough to calm the nerves and drown out background thoughts and noise.
;)
If your in the USA, be careful I think they still chop off hands for posession.
Even before this, DSL/Cable is pretty cheap.
:)
Basic 128kbps services run about 25cdn/month
1.5mb DSL/Cable runs about 40cdn
3.0mb DSL (no 3mb cable yet) runs about 65cdn
We must be doing something right up here
Well in many (if not most) ways, Canada is a socialist state.
The problem is we have almost no local phone company competition in Canada.
If I *were* to use sprint instead of Bell, I would not be able to have ADSL, I would need to have a bell local line.
That seems unfair does it not?
And their not deciding how they will compete, their forcing them to do so.
Like many, Slackware was my first distro.
Oh what hell it was to get it installed, being that I knew very little about hardware.
Many years later, I laugh at how trivial the setup is now. But had I not had the slackware experience all those years ago, I would probably be a MS monkey, instead of a Linux Geek.
Thank you Slackware (Patrick and all).
So you believe the US has the right to police the world?
I mean why not have mandatory miltary service, then the US would be able to take out everyone they need to, so as to save the world from itself.
And since you seem to know so much about american foreign policy, could you tell me why it is that the US seems to fight so many of the monsters they create?
btw, it's Kim Chong-il, who was the son of Kim Il-song, that rules North Korea.
Yes, we're obviously pretending that they don't exist. Because the American military that's been looking for them, have found them, made announcements, and we're ignoring them.
Oh wait, that has not happened.
In fact, it's been found that some of the intelligence is gathered on Iraq, and used as justifcation for the war was either false or doctored.
Again I go back to "Your either with us, or against us.". This is a clear example of extremisim.
You've got "Good" (Those with "us") and Evil (against "us").
You've picked your side of the coin of extermism, don't be supprised that the rest of world looks at both sides with contempt.
So why has the US not gone into every country that has a Killer for a dictator?
So everyone should be forced into enjoying American style freedom (poverty), wheather they want it or not?
So the choices are with us or against us.
And who said extermism was bad thing...
Bah.
Your original point was about the US only attacking where there was oil.
I missed the part where I said only.
Oil can be replaced with any number of things that serve US interests.
Attacking Iraq was the right thing to do - just like standing up to the Nazis in France or the North Koreans was the right thing to do.
So you compare invading Iraq to freeing France?
And just where the Hell does North Korea fit in? They're using diplomatic preasures to convince them to stop building WMD.
There's a list a mile long of oppressive regiemes, where's the US' hit list? They get to choose who's good and who's evil? Might makes right?
The fact that he had weapons of mass destruction was just one of the many reason why he had to go.
By this, I assume your refering to the ones that don't exist.
I see like most of the American public your views are those dictated by your media outlets. Conversions regarding the world outside of the US are, at best, tiresome.
Please get a clue as to what is going on before you assume that the US is doing the right thing at all times.
Sending troops on peace keeping missions where the world deems necessary (i.e. Liberia) is a noble thing.
Sending troops to a country based on falsified information, even if the decsion makers believed it to be true, is scarry.
The US does what serves it the best, don't think for a second that it always does "the right thing"
Given our Military policy (!= foreign policy) of being able to project force quickly, anywhere in the world, A fair number of carriers makes sense.
it's just to bad it always seems to get projected where's there's oil, and not where there's genocide.
If they succeed in getting a patent on this, it's only valid in the US, correct. I believe Canada does *not* recognize software patents.
Would this then mean someone could develop identical software up here, as well as distribute it from here, and be free from litigation?