Obviously, they didn't get a proper sample of people because I would imagine more people would disagree with traffic-shaping if they understood it's true purpose was to undermine net-neutrality and keep most of the bandwidth in the hands of the old big-boys club using every Canadian taxpayers' money to build their monopoly infrastructure. There is real injustice going on. That's O.K. though. Given time, all this abuse of power(in this case internet bandwidth controllers) will come to light. When the ISP big boys club put up resistance to the natural flow of information, the BIG BAD ISP CLUB will be smacked right down eventually.
BIG ISP CLUB BOYS...get ready for a global smacking down because I suspect you won't have to wait for long.
They can say "I promise to be open-source friendly." until they are blue in the face. It won't change my perspective that in the long-term, Microsoft's only aim is to undercut any of the advances GNU/Linux has made in reducing their "Operating System" product market share and "Applications" product market share and Microsoft is especially focused in regaining the revenue stream from U.S. gov contracts. Linux is making huge advances in that gov contract market share these days. Recently when discussing Linux versus Windows with some windows users over supper, the argument the applications are free in Linux was brought up. The gentleman I was talking to gave the the on-the-level answer to me: "Well Windows and all the Windows applications are free for me, too!" Then he started laughing. I'll tell you when I used MS products, I paid for them. This man doesn't understand that he is taking away the ability for future generations to learn from experience of "looking under-the-hood" and seeing how everything works in the windows operating system and all of the applications he uses. He doesn't understand Microsoft's long-term strategy is to reduce the importance of open-source in order to regain the government tax dollars that fuelled them in the first place.
It's important to continue gaining the momentum of open-source without confusion/dependence on Microsoft source-code. From what I understand Microsoft only promise to not sue anyone for using c#/cli, but as soon as someone starts using other MS stuff, I'm sure hook/line&sinker MS will take those people to court. This in turn will take away all of the momentum open-source will have gained if people thought using MS code was ok. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE. USING MICROSOFT SPECS AND CODE FOR ANYTHING IN OPEN-SOURCE LINUX LAND IS NOT OK. MICROSOFT IS UP TO SOMETHING. BE WARY OF MICROSOFT. For as long as Microsoft is in business, individual digital freedoms will be at risk of being compromised in order for corporations to be given the upper hand in terms of DRM(Digital Rights Management).
I also tried the Gemei x760 which mentioned that it was an ebook reader but it was a bit misleading. It reads text files, but even that is a bit of a stretch considering I threw a 1MB text file at it and it said it was too big to read. Considering it was the english/chinese mdbg.net dictionary text file I wanted to read, I can actually not recommend the gemei x760 as an ebook reader, but it's an awesome gba game console/mp4 player.
Take your machines that are running AD, and then follow the example of the Office Space staff when they brought the Fax Machine/Printer to the park. Don't forget the rap music too.
After that, use the already existing open-source solutions on a Linux box.
It's called the Dingo A320. Also known as the Gemei A320.
Display: 16,000,000 color 2.8-inch LTPS-TFT true color high-definition screen , broadcast effect 320 * 240, the true and clear picture quality, unique DVD Optimization technology .
Games: play games in (8 bit/16bit/32bit) GBA/3D GBA/NDS/PSP formats and play more by upgrading the software AV-out:AV-out technology gives DVD output quality, can be a portable DVD player and game console.
Video player: Video function supports in various format such as RMVB, RM, AVI, WMV, FLV, MPEG, DAT, MP4, ASF and help users encold video files in an easy and convenient way.
MP3 player: Audio function supports MP3,WMA APE, FLAC audio format, synchronous lyrics display function, multiple EQ options,3D virtual sound field, surround sound effect and play mode options. Music can keep playing while using other application.
Digital recorder:Voice recording and supports MP3/WAV formats.
Image Browser: Image browsing format includes JPG, BMP GIF, PNG, with zoom, rotate and image slide show function.
E-book: Feather function includes bookmark, auto browsing, font sizing, TTS oral reading and can open with music player application.
U-disk virus protection: Build in anti-virus software protect and keep the system at its best performance.
USB2.0 Transmission Interface: Support WIN2000/XP?VISTA/MAC Operation System.
Capacity: 4GB memory, supports inserted MINI SD card to expand capacity. up to 16GB.
Here are some reasons why computer users should not buy computers using this thin-client next-generation dumb terminal hardware:
Number one: This really is a way for manufacturers to force all computer users to pay for every occurrence that computer users actually use it. This argument is reaching a point where they want to convince us that everything we do cannot be done on a standalone PC. Don't believe this. This seems to be a ploy to take away our Digital Freedoms and it seems to be a great way to stop computer users from "DIY"(do-it-yourself) changes to the hardware. Not everything is a web-browser plugin. Not everything should be either. Media-content providers love the web-browser Flash plugin because it is their best effort to enforce DRM. By default, FLASH does not permit downloading and saving media content for DRM's sake. The safer "digital-freedom"-friendlier way would be to allow for saving downloads and then have the user OPEN ANY APPLICATION locally and open the downloaded file to with as they wish. Wikipedia media standards use ogg/vorbis/theora NOT FLASH. Wikipedia allows users to download and save the media. Wikipedia are the role model to follow.
Number two: to be on the network all the time for every use is not justified. Flooding the network with unnecessary traffic is actually irresponsible engineering. The "Network is the computer" philosophy is actually the worst case scenario for personal privacy. For every action you make with the computer another computer is logging your actions because that's part of the agreement to using the "network as a computer" cloud. If you don't agree to this, odds are the cloud network providers won't let you use the network. You're better off not using it. You're better off using peer-to-peer standalone applications WHEN YOU WANT TO USE A "CLOUD".
Most important of all, we currently CHOOSE WHEN to use the network. Why by hardware that takes away what we already have a choice for? There is no justification.
Thin-clients might have a place somewhere, but they certainly won't have a place in my life and I won't encourage the use of thin-clients to anyone I know.
I ran Ubuntu Jaunty/Ibex on over 20 different kinds of PC's/Laptops and had the basic Desktop with sound running in less than 5 minutes using a USB-flash disk.
All the scanners and printers connected to the computers were detected and useable without issues. Canon, Benq, Epson and HP all worked.
For your information, the USB-flash disk has built-in support for any language you can imagine.
With regards to fonts, not only does Linux X/Server support any font that windows has, but also all the MAC fonts. Is this critic even aware there is a Linux fonteditor capable of editing any of these kinds of fonts? It's called fonteditor.
The critic has gripes with sound. He should buy another sound card that supports Linux.
I'm not a gamer, but the kids I know love Ceferino, Ri-Li, Lbreakout, pyracerz, pydance and tuxpuck. They all have sound. There's a Linux guitar hero out there, but the machines I test this on are all older and have no 3D cards. That said the glut 3d emulation api did allow me to check it out but it was dead slow. The sound was working though.
With regards to openoffice being slow, he's talking about the startup time. Once it's up, the openoffice gui is responsive. Please disregard any criticism he may have with this.
With regards to networking, this guy is off-base. Linux networking capability is second-to-none. That's why it's in most of the world's phones and routers.
Hard-core Linux advocates don't want "Proprietary Windows Applications" running on Linux. They want "Open-Source Applications" running on Windows and Linux. Wine is a niche market for hard-core Windows Users. SMB/Samba is for hard-core Windows Users. I am not a hard-core Windows user/Microserf like this critic. Why use SAMBA, when you can use scp/mount/nfs? I'm a Linux Advocate. If it isn't open-source, I'm not using it. That includes FLASH.
Nothing constructive from this guy. Move on.
One other mention. This guy places more emphasis on what Linux doesn't do. He should rather have mentioned the potential of what Linux will give all of its users: Real "Digital Freedom" to do whatever you want with the hardware that you buy. This essentially is part of the "Do-it(whatever-you-can-imagine-"it"-to-be)-yourself" trend. For better descriptions, please see http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/
I tried to find tools for translating Chinese to English and translating Chinese to English. I found none. I mean none. There no results displayed. It's as if there is nothing relevant to my request on the entire planet. I'm sure many other eager learners of the Chinese language will find this so-called "knowledge search engine" useless.
I tried to search the keyword "Baidu" to see if I had any hits. None. Considering the only thing on the planet that competes with google is baidu, it is safe to say wolfram has not done their homework to understand what people want in a search engine.
I tried to find hits on the word "pinyin". There were none.
The only thing it had interesting was the Chinese Character Frequency percentage list which is highly biased considering they didn't even name the source they based their list on.
The other annoyance was seeing dialogs returning "server is busy. please try again later." This never happens to me with google.
I was hoping for more intelligence regarding linguistics and all I got was a kick in the head. I'm not going to use it. At least with google I get some hits with relevant stuff. At least with google there are never any annoying "server busy try again later" messages.
The mesh networks exists. Take a bunch of wifi routers, mesh their ssid's together. I imagine this to be a mesh network. No surprises.
The current WIFI users are slow-moving at home and only using WIFI at home.
The "TWIST" in Ms. Chase's opinion is to design WIFI for FAST-MOVING-WIFI users. Design wifi for moving quickly in and moving quickly out of a particular user's range of acceptable signal strength for reliable connecting/sending/receiving data.
The popular network apps like firefox/bittorrent still assume wired networks. That will change with time however. I'm sure a kind of wififox or wiftorrent designed for "UDP protocol" already exist for 3G/2G phones using proprietary source code. That's Ms. Chase's point. If that code were made to be open-source code, the world would greatly benefit. She didn't say anything about making the node-hardware easy to adapt to an owner's needs, but I think she was implying it by bringing up the open-source approach. Open-source implies "DIGITAL FREEDOM" as www.fsf.org/campaigns would express it. Every FAST-MOVING-WIFI-USER should have the ability to modify one's FAST-MOVING-WIFI-HARDWARE as one's sees fit.
I'm absolutely sure the guys that built UDP a long time ago already did everything necessary for mesh networks.
For as long as your computer is connected to two networks simultaneously. If the first try fails then you can retry the second packet on a second/third/fourth... network simultaneously. The first response back wins. All these wifi devices already have a unique ssid manufactured into them. Right now the ip version 4 address and ip version 6 address needs to be changed if we moved from one wifi router to another. Reliable TCP/IP v4/v6 communication assumes your IP address doesn't change under your feet every second. I.e. SSL assumes the same constant source IP address and the same constant destination IP address for the connection to stay up.
But there's UDP...When using this protocol, it is understood and implied that the connection will not always be up. It is understood the protocol needs to be prepared for unreliable packet communication. This makes UDP more suitable for for wifi. The source ip address needs to be acquired from the wifi router. ok. the source ip can send a UDP request packet to the router and pray that the router will be quick enough give him a response UDP packet back. If he doesn't then it's time to send out another dhclient client request to get a new IP address from another router. Then reconnect to whatever other node you're talking to and continue to send/receive whatever. The routers know UDP by the way so it's just a matter building the applications with more wifi context.
Are there such api functions as: getIpAddressForSSID(SSID as string) returns IpAddress as string
getIpAddressForMAC(MAC as string) returns IpAddress as string ?
They would be useful for the UDP/FAST-MOVING-WIFI. My guess is that they exist, but I've never had a requirement to use them myself.
Long-term solution: -------------------- 1)Add plug-ins for idiots to disable saving files ending with ".desktop" from thunderbird and firefox. 2)Also, don't make the default saving directory ~/Desktop. 3)Never double click item icons. Always right-mouse button click and choose the "Open with..." item when opening. In fact, this has been the default behaviour in Microsoft IE for unrecognized formats. Well, let's just make it our default even for the recognized formats. It's a little work for the user, but it prevents from opening a virus.
Interim Solution: ----------------- Never double-click items on the Desktop. Always right-mouse click desktop items or nautilus file items and choose the "Open with..." menu item.
This man elaborates on how Wikipedia has come to become a problem for Britannica because Wikipedia users are growing and are coming to having a sense of ownership in Wikipedia and start to maintain/update it themselves. Wikipedia has more URL links than Britannica which speaks tremendously about wikipedia's "social currency" as Mr. Pesce coined it. In fact it was clear that every human has a certain "social currency" value.
The combination of Google, Wikipedia and Britannica already do give us a good start to what Mr. Pesce calls the "Encyclopedia Humanica". Google Translate ROCKS!!!! I look at different web links in different languages and have them translate into English regularly. It's not perfect, but it works adequately in my opinion. A good book for bringing these companies to compliment each other's services would be:
CO-OPETITION by Adam Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff: http://mayet.som.yale.edu/coopetition/Foreward-to-paperback.html
Co-opetion emphasizes working "complementors." A complementor is the opposite of a competitor. It's someone who makes your products and services more, rather than less, valuable. Not surprisingly, the complementor concept is especially relevant to the builders of the Information Economy. Hardware needs software, and the internet needs high-speed phone lines. No one, alone, can, build the infrastructure for the new economy. It's a whole new system made up of many complementary parts.
Another example of a complimentary service for these three companies would have been "Copernicus" which eliminates the redundant links on the different result pages. Google, Wikipedia, Britannica and Copernicus are all complimentary services sharing the same "information economy" pie. What they do in terms of co-operating with each other and their users will determine their future existence.
THE BOTTOM LINE --------------- When I want an answer to some question, I go online. I go to the internet and I "google" the keywords. I don't "wikipediate" the keywords. I don't "Britannicanate" the keywords. I don't go to a book source. It takes too much time to flip the pages. In less than 5-10 seconds I have more information than I can handle about whatever topic I am googling.
USUALLY I'm not stupid enough to just look at the first results page of google urls because I know damn well there are people who pay to be the first hits in terms of relevancy. I have found many gems deeply hidden on the 20th and sometimes 50th page for example.
In Beijing across the street from the train station, you'll find the International Youth Hostel. On the third floor there's the backpackers' club where they have six machines hooked up to the internet.
They charge 3RMB an hour. If you book it for the entire month, I'm sure it would cost much less than 7712.5RMB:)
For your information, a hostel room with two beds costs 180RMB and you share the shower/sinks/bathrooms. I stayed there for a couple of days. It was worth every penny and it was impeccably clean. I highly recommend it.
Whatever solution openoffice offers should consider some integration with the Global Computer users' most popular computer activities(i.e. in China QQ, movie watching, game playing, office productivity). Simply offering a document standard and tool to create those standard documents isn't enough.
There needs to be much more effort in presenting open-source solutions on the ground, in the schools, in the government. As it stands, from my standpoint as a Conversational English teacher, in the Chinese schools I see nothing but Windows and Office.
As an open-source fan, it is only natural for me to bring in a live cd of Ubuntu to show them open-office, eva, gcompris and other open-source educational software. The teachers were truly impressed with the Google English to Chinese/Chinese to English translation tools. It's a big hit for this since the browser response seems to run faster than in windows in their perspective and not mine which is good news for Ubuntu/Google/Firefox. The kids love gcompris and pydance. I even got the USB floor dance pad for them and they love to jump all over it.
On the downside, most of the computers around here only have 256MB on them and UBUNTU won't install on them, but some teacher PC's have 512MB RAM thank God.
We need more English teachers that are Linux fans in China. It would help to influence China's computer infrastructure by demonstrating what's available to them that truly competes with any other offerings out there.
Mr. Rothwell, you are incorrect. 1)You said:"As I understand this, the root partition is stored on the machine's internal ROM."
Everything, the operating system and the user files are on the USB Key. Nothing is actually on the computer.
2)You said:"This doesn't sound particularly promising - it would be very easy to lose the key."
If you lose a USB FLASH Storage, you lose everything, I will grant you that. On the postive note, If you are wise enough to place the G-Key with your wallet and not the laptop then when the unfortunate circumstance of having someone steal your cool laptop arises, you lose a data-less laptop. That is promising and quite valuable for those who have had their laptop stolen with sensitive data on them. An 8GB FLASH Storage is actually easier to backup than a 40GB Hard Drive with lots of noise.
3)You said:"Also, will the home folder on the key be accessible when plugging into another computer, say, a desktop running OS X, Windows or another Linux distro?"
That depends on two things: a)if your other computer is able to mount an ext3 file system. From what I understand the G-Key is an ext3-file system. Most Linux flavors mount ext3 with ease, but most Windows PC's can't. You will have to find other non-Microsoft software to do this. b)you won't be able to boot of the G-Key on an intel based computer because the GDium is running a non-intel-based CPU Loongson 2F. Odds are you can't boot of the G-Key from another computer unless you have a Loongson 2F based computer hanging around your house. Lemote.com actually sell another computer that runs with the same CPU and configuration, but running a Debian-based OS. I would bet you slip in the G-Key into this baby and it will run, and if not it will at least mount with no issues.
FYI The Loongson has its roots from MIPS. In fact this version is MIPS R4 compliant if I remember the specs correctly. This Loongsoon 2F runs with 5 Watts of power if I recall correctly.
4)You said:"Emtec would be entering the market very late"
Again you are mistaken, they are a pioneer in selling an affordable open-source geared-for-privacy "plug-key" solution. (not turn-key hahaha get it doh!)
36.1 (1) Network operators shall not engage in network management practices that favour, degrade or prioritize any content, application or service transmitted over a broadband network based on its source, ownership or destination.
>>This sounds ok to me.
Exceptions (2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed as limiting or restricting the right of a network operator to
>>>Loophole city. Keep your eyes wide open...
" (a) manage the flow of network traffic in a reasonable manner in order to relieve congestion; " >>>The internet providers mention congestion as an excuse to shape traffic. Government should instead enforce the ISP's to buy adequate hardware to guarantee everyone has the bandwidth the ISP promised in the first place and stop traffic shaping policies.
(b) provide reasonable security protection for a user's computer or the network;
>>>the ISP's have not really mentioned how they have been proactive on this front. The only thing I perceive are the packet long capabilities that log internet crimes after the fact. Apart from that I don't see how ISP's have anything to protect the user's computer. I don't perceive ISP's should have a right to control the security on a user's computer. This item may be interpreted as giving ISP's the right to control the user's computer for the ISP's network-security's sake. Obviously, this will lead to invasion of privacy.
>>>" (c) give priority to emergency communications; " >>>In my humble opinion, some of these exceptions indicate a poor separation of concerns. Emergency communications infrastructures should not be blended into the consumer internet infrastructure. Internet consumers should not be paying to build emergency infrastructures into consumer internet services. It will make the internet experience much slower and it gives government emergency officials carte-blanche VIP internet bandwidth even when it's not an emergency. I don't like it. It's smells like a potential abuse of power.
(d) offer directly to each user service at different prices based on defined levels of bandwidth or the actual quantity of data flow over a user's connection; >>>"or the actual quantity of data flow over a user's connection;" >>>This is a wonderful loophole for the ISP to vary bandwidth speeds. Their pricing is re-worded as number of Gigabytes transferred in a month instead of guaranteed bandwidth. I don't agree with this exception. They should remove it and guarantee pricing based solely on guaranteed upload bandwidth speeds and guaranteed download bandwidth speeds. They should also be enforced to be explicit about both of these. I have seen providers solely mention download speeds which is truly deceptive and in my opinion leads to false advertising and other business practices that should be mentioned to the better business bureau.
(e) offer directly to each user consumer protection services, including parental controls for indecency or unwanted content, software for the prevention of unsolicited commercial electronic messages, or other similar capabilities, provided that the user is given clear and accurate advance notice of their ability to refuse or subsequently disable each consumer protection service; >>>BIG LOOPHOLE: This is a mechanism for ISP's to sell extra services that have nothing to do with internet bandwidth and traffic-shaping. This has all to do with the ISP's unethical business practice of aggressively proposing extra sales a number of times on the same phone call for firewall/anti-virus/parental-control/games and music packages while closing the deal for the internet connection. I've seen this sales strategy at one ISP which will remain nameless. In my humble opinion, they should remove this item. It is irrelevant. The consumer can find these services on their own if they want them.
(f) handle breaches of the terms of service, provided the terms of service are not inconsistent with subsection (1); and >>>ok
(g) prevent any violation of federal or provincial law. >>>ok
BELL is not the only one failing in providing the average user's demands for more upload and download bandwidth.
To further add to this, most of the ISP's upload bandwidth do not satisfy what most customers WANT considering that we live in an era of sharing hi-def videos and hi-def photos. All of the ISP's can do much much better.
With regards to the throttling at BELL, the CRTC should focus on the following: -Enforce all ISP's to provide a much higher minimum upload bandwidth for everyone. If they don't, they lose their ISP status. The Minimum upload bandwidth should follow Moore's Law considering the hardware being manufactured certainly does. -Enforce net-neutrality and disallow DPI(Deep Packet Inspection) simply on the fact it is destroying user internet performance and driving up average user cost. -create name-branding/association guaranteeing the ISP & Network Hardware you buy is "Net-Neutral INSIDE".
DPI is analogous to Anti-Virus Software on computers. When a computer is running without a virus detector all the computer's performance speed is dedicated to the normal functioning of the computer. When an anti-virus software is running on a computer, it goes without saying the computer's normal functioning performance is chopped in half and possibly even more because the computer CPU time usually dedicated to user programs is now sucked up into ANTI-VIRUS activities inspecting all upcoming computer instructions for threatening actions like (unexpected file deletions, unexpected file-reading, unexpected network activity). The entire user experience is reduced and the typical user grows with impatience because of all of the time wasted with these ANTI-VIRUS activities.
In order to understand the negative impact on the average user's internet performance experience, I will give a scenario that the average user can do and relate to showing fast and slow internet speed.
Have the average user buy a cheap combination router/firewall box. Connect his computer to it and connect the router to the DSL socket in the wall. Once connected to the internet, the user goes to a website, a delay occurs and then the web page displays. It could be 3 seconds, 5 seconds or more. My experience has been around 5 seconds. I will name this delay DPI-DELAY.
Now ask the same user to remove the router/firewall box. Instead as the user to connect a DSL modem directly connects to the computer. The user will observe a faster internet performance experience because there is NO DPI-DELAY. The user will have a web page in 1 second instead of 3 to 5 seconds or more.
After trying these two different scenarios, the average user will have a better understanding about the time saved by not using any hardware/software that has inherent DPI-DELAY. HARDWARE doing DPI wastes everyone's time. You will have a greater appreciation in this difference if the user visits many different web sites and the measures the DPI-DELAY for each of these. There is a significant different in time saved when not using DPI HARDWARE.
BELL and the other ISP's have the same hardware other countries have concerning the mirroring of packets in order for governments to listen to everything. I don't have a problem with that. The truth of the matter is that the DPI/Traffic Shaping/Throttle hardware BELL is starting to use is not just for traffic shaping. That's why there is such a large DPI-DELAY now. BELL like every ISP in every country, have some obligations to the government who want the average user to pay for the government's real-time DPI sniffing hardware for "National Security's sake". I do have a problem with the fact they deliberately restrain our service until the government has that hardware that can sniff our packets to the point the government is blue in the face.
My point here is there are requirements for the average user and then there are requirements for the current governments in power. As it stands, these requirements are clashing because the DPI-DELAY is and wi
It's not that funny. I live in China. We will even have slower traffic now.
As it stands forget watching youtube. All I can get is about 30KB/s download/upload on a single connection which is barely enough to listen to internet radio. The good news is that I can have more than one connection open with other countries, but from what I understand no media players or streaming servers have this parallel 30KB/s connection capability to total the necessary 4Mbps/download for watching internet video. That's why China's "Golden Shield" works so well. In order to circumvent it, one must have tools to open multiple connections for the single purpose intended i.e. media player, web serving one large page through multiple data sending connections.
Oddly enough if I connect to websites inside China I can get 4Mb/s connections.
The world's internet is crippled with equipment like this in my perspective and experience already.
I'm grateful I can actually express my opinion about this here.
BTW for the last four to five months slashdot has had this quantserve in-your-face job ad when accessing the site. From China, it often slows down the page access and takes sometimes 5 to 10 minutes before I can read the main page. Is this normal?
"The Lone Gunmen" could be revived as a movie this way if they could talk to [place geeked-loved companies here].
IMDB: movie name: Lone Gunmen The Movie
sponsors: Coca Cola, Pepsi, Tide, Kraft, Monsanto, Proctor & Gamble, The Carlyle Group, Jilin Jaer Seed Company, Nestle, McDonald's, KFC, Tim Horton's, Au Tarot and Schwartz's.
actors:......
Summary: All this ad placement is so exciting that I don't want to give away the story or how it ends.
Rating: 20 stars out of 10 stars
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Obviously, they didn't get a proper sample of people because I would imagine more people would disagree with traffic-shaping if they understood it's true purpose was to undermine net-neutrality and keep most of the bandwidth in the hands of the old big-boys club using every Canadian taxpayers' money to build their monopoly infrastructure. There is real injustice going on. That's O.K. though. Given time, all this abuse of power(in this case internet bandwidth controllers) will come to light. When the ISP big boys club put up resistance to the natural flow of information, the BIG BAD ISP CLUB will be smacked right down eventually.
BIG ISP CLUB BOYS...get ready for a global smacking down because I suspect you won't have to wait for long.
They can say "I promise to be open-source friendly." until they are blue in the face. It won't change my perspective that in the long-term, Microsoft's only aim is to undercut any of the advances GNU/Linux has made in reducing their "Operating System" product market share and "Applications" product market share and Microsoft is especially focused in regaining the revenue stream from U.S. gov contracts. Linux is making huge advances in that gov contract market share these days. Recently when discussing Linux versus Windows with some windows users over supper, the argument the applications are free in Linux was brought up. The gentleman I was talking to gave the the on-the-level answer to me: "Well Windows and all the Windows applications are free for me, too!" Then he started laughing. I'll tell you when I used MS products, I paid for them. This man doesn't understand that he is taking away the ability for future generations to learn from experience of "looking under-the-hood" and seeing how everything works in the windows operating system and all of the applications he uses. He doesn't understand Microsoft's long-term strategy is to reduce the importance of open-source in order to regain the government tax dollars that fuelled them in the first place.
It's important to continue gaining the momentum of open-source without confusion/dependence on Microsoft source-code. From what I understand Microsoft only promise to not sue anyone for using c#/cli, but as soon as someone starts using other MS stuff, I'm sure hook/line&sinker MS will take those people to court. This in turn will take away all of the momentum open-source will have gained if people thought using MS code was ok. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE. USING MICROSOFT SPECS AND CODE FOR ANYTHING IN OPEN-SOURCE LINUX LAND IS NOT OK. MICROSOFT IS UP TO SOMETHING. BE WARY OF MICROSOFT. For as long as Microsoft is in business, individual digital freedoms will be at risk of being compromised in order for corporations to be given the upper hand in terms of DRM(Digital Rights Management).
http://en.smartdevices.com.cn/index.html
http://detail.zol.com.cn/mp3_player/index191957.shtml
It looks very cool. 1100RMB == 200US$
It runs ubuntu linux.
I also tried the Gemei x760 which mentioned that it was an ebook reader but it was a bit misleading. It reads text files, but even that is a bit of a stretch considering I threw a 1MB text file at it and it said it was too big to read. Considering it was the english/chinese mdbg.net dictionary text file I wanted to read, I can actually not recommend the gemei x760 as an ebook reader, but it's an awesome gba game console/mp4 player.
Take your machines that are running AD, and then follow the example of the Office Space staff when they brought the Fax Machine/Printer to the park. Don't forget the rap music too.
After that, use the already existing open-source solutions on a Linux box.
It's the right thing to do.
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Linux Support:
http://www.dingoo-digital.com/faq/usage/how-large-memory-stick-can-i-use-with-my-dingoo
Current price on taobao and baidu: 490RMB to 510RMB roughly
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http://youa.baidu.com/item/3758aed4fb8e0a13b840dfc8
It's called the Dingo A320. Also known as the Gemei A320.
Display: 16,000,000 color 2.8-inch LTPS-TFT true color high-definition
screen , broadcast effect 320 * 240, the true and clear picture quality,
unique DVD Optimization technology .
Games: play games in (8 bit/16bit/32bit) GBA/3D GBA/NDS/PSP formats
and play more by upgrading the software
AV-out:AV-out technology gives DVD output quality, can be a portable DVD
player and game console.
Video player: Video function supports in various format such as RMVB,
RM, AVI, WMV, FLV, MPEG, DAT, MP4, ASF and help users encold video files
in an easy and convenient way.
MP3 player: Audio function supports MP3,WMA APE, FLAC audio format,
synchronous lyrics display function, multiple EQ options,3D virtual
sound field, surround sound effect and play mode options. Music can keep
playing while using other application.
Digital recorder:Voice recording and supports MP3/WAV formats.
Image Browser: Image browsing format includes JPG, BMP GIF, PNG, with
zoom, rotate and image slide show function.
E-book: Feather function includes bookmark, auto browsing, font sizing,
TTS oral reading and can open with music player application.
U-disk virus protection: Build in anti-virus software protect and keep
the system at its best performance.
USB2.0 Transmission Interface: Support WIN2000/XP?VISTA/MAC Operation
System.
Capacity: 4GB memory, supports inserted MINI SD card to expand capacity.
up to 16GB.
Here are some reasons why computer users should not buy computers using this thin-client next-generation dumb terminal hardware:
Number one: This really is a way for manufacturers to force all computer users to pay for every occurrence that computer users actually use it. This argument is reaching a point where they want to convince us that everything we do cannot be done on a standalone PC. Don't believe this. This seems to be a ploy to take away our Digital Freedoms and it seems to be a great way to stop computer users from "DIY"(do-it-yourself) changes to the hardware. Not everything is a web-browser plugin. Not everything should be either. Media-content providers love the web-browser Flash plugin because it is their best effort to enforce DRM. By default, FLASH does not permit downloading and saving media content for DRM's sake. The safer "digital-freedom"-friendlier way would be to allow for saving downloads and then have the user OPEN ANY APPLICATION locally and open the downloaded file to with as they wish. Wikipedia media standards use ogg/vorbis/theora NOT FLASH. Wikipedia allows users to download and save the media. Wikipedia are the role model to follow.
Number two: to be on the network all the time for every use is not justified. Flooding the network with unnecessary traffic is actually irresponsible engineering. The "Network is the computer" philosophy is actually the worst case scenario for personal privacy. For every action you make with the computer another computer is logging your actions because that's part of the agreement to using the "network as a computer" cloud. If you don't agree to this, odds are the cloud network providers won't let you use the network. You're better off not using it. You're better off using peer-to-peer standalone applications WHEN YOU WANT TO USE A "CLOUD".
Most important of all, we currently CHOOSE WHEN to use the network. Why by hardware that takes away what we already have a choice for? There is no justification.
Thin-clients might have a place somewhere, but they certainly won't have a place in my life and I won't encourage the use of thin-clients to anyone I know.
I ran Ubuntu Jaunty/Ibex on over 20 different kinds of PC's/Laptops and had the basic Desktop with sound running in less than 5 minutes using a USB-flash disk.
All the scanners and printers connected to the computers were detected and useable without issues. Canon, Benq, Epson and HP all worked.
For your information, the USB-flash disk has built-in support for any language you can imagine.
With regards to fonts, not only does Linux X/Server support any font that windows has, but also all the MAC fonts.
Is this critic even aware there is a Linux fonteditor capable of editing any of these kinds of fonts? It's called fonteditor.
The critic has gripes with sound. He should buy another sound card that supports Linux.
I'm not a gamer, but the kids I know love Ceferino, Ri-Li, Lbreakout, pyracerz, pydance and tuxpuck.
They all have sound. There's a Linux guitar hero out there, but the machines I test this on are all older and have no 3D cards. That said the glut 3d emulation api did allow me to check it out but it was dead slow. The sound was working though.
With regards to openoffice being slow, he's talking about the startup time. Once it's up, the openoffice gui is responsive. Please disregard any criticism he may have with this.
With regards to networking, this guy is off-base. Linux networking capability is second-to-none. That's why it's in most of the world's phones and routers.
Hard-core Linux advocates don't want "Proprietary Windows Applications" running on Linux. They want "Open-Source Applications" running on Windows and Linux. Wine is a niche market for hard-core Windows Users. SMB/Samba is for hard-core Windows Users. I am not a hard-core Windows user/Microserf like this critic. Why use SAMBA, when you can use scp/mount/nfs? I'm a Linux Advocate. If it isn't open-source, I'm not using it. That includes FLASH.
Nothing constructive from this guy. Move on.
One other mention. This guy places more emphasis on what Linux doesn't do. He should rather have mentioned the potential of what Linux will give all of its users: Real "Digital Freedom" to do whatever you want with the hardware that you buy. This essentially is part of the "Do-it(whatever-you-can-imagine-"it"-to-be)-yourself" trend. For better descriptions, please see http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/
I tried to find tools for translating Chinese to English and translating Chinese to English. I found none. I mean none. There no results displayed. It's as if there is nothing relevant to my request on the entire planet. I'm sure many other eager learners of the Chinese language will find this so-called "knowledge search engine" useless.
I tried to search the keyword "Baidu" to see if I had any hits. None. Considering the only thing on the planet that competes with google is baidu, it is safe to say wolfram has not done their homework to understand what people want in a search engine.
I tried to find hits on the word "pinyin". There were none.
The only thing it had interesting was the Chinese Character Frequency percentage list which is highly biased considering they didn't even name the source they based their list on.
The other annoyance was seeing dialogs returning "server is busy. please try again later." This never happens to me with google.
I was hoping for more intelligence regarding linguistics and all I got was a kick in the head. I'm not going to use it.
At least with google I get some hits with relevant stuff. At least with google there are never any annoying "server busy try again later" messages.
The mesh networks exists. Take a bunch of wifi routers, mesh their ssid's together. I imagine this to be a mesh network. No surprises.
The current WIFI users are slow-moving at home and only using WIFI at home.
The "TWIST" in Ms. Chase's opinion is to design WIFI for FAST-MOVING-WIFI users. Design wifi for moving quickly in and moving quickly out of a particular user's range of acceptable signal strength for reliable connecting/sending/receiving data.
The popular network apps like firefox/bittorrent still assume wired networks. That will change with time however. I'm sure a kind of wififox or wiftorrent designed for "UDP protocol" already exist for 3G/2G phones using proprietary source code. That's Ms. Chase's point. If that code were made to be open-source code, the world would greatly benefit. She didn't say anything about making the node-hardware easy to adapt to an owner's needs, but I think she was implying it by bringing up the open-source approach. Open-source implies "DIGITAL FREEDOM" as www.fsf.org/campaigns would express it. Every FAST-MOVING-WIFI-USER should have the ability to modify one's FAST-MOVING-WIFI-HARDWARE as one's sees fit.
I'm absolutely sure the guys that built UDP a long time ago already did everything necessary for mesh networks.
For as long as your computer is connected to two networks simultaneously. If the first try fails then you can retry the second packet on a second/third/fourth... network simultaneously. The first response back wins.
All these wifi devices already have a unique ssid manufactured into them. Right now the ip version 4 address and ip version 6 address needs to be changed if we moved from one wifi router to another. Reliable TCP/IP v4/v6 communication assumes your IP address doesn't change under your feet every second. I.e. SSL assumes the same constant source IP address and the same constant destination IP address for the connection to stay up.
But there's UDP...When using this protocol, it is understood and implied that the connection will not always be up. It is understood the protocol needs to be prepared for unreliable packet communication. This makes UDP more suitable for for wifi. The source ip address needs to be acquired from the wifi router. ok. the source ip can send a UDP request packet to the router and pray that the router will be quick enough give him a response UDP packet back. If he doesn't then it's time to send out another dhclient client request to get a new IP address from another router. Then reconnect to whatever other node you're talking to and continue to send/receive whatever. The routers know UDP by the way so it's just a matter building the applications with more wifi context.
Are there such api functions as:
getIpAddressForSSID(SSID as string)
returns IpAddress as string
getIpAddressForMAC(MAC as string)
returns IpAddress as string
?
They would be useful for the UDP/FAST-MOVING-WIFI.
My guess is that they exist, but I've never had a requirement to use them myself.
Long-term solution:
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1)Add plug-ins for idiots to disable saving files ending with ".desktop" from thunderbird and firefox.
2)Also, don't make the default saving directory ~/Desktop.
3)Never double click item icons. Always right-mouse button click and choose the "Open with..." item when opening. In fact, this has been the default behaviour in Microsoft IE for unrecognized formats. Well, let's just make it our default even for the recognized formats. It's a little work for the user, but it prevents from opening a virus.
Interim Solution:
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Never double-click items on the Desktop. Always right-mouse click desktop items or nautilus file items and choose the "Open with..." menu item.
Mr. Mark Pesce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pesce
This man elaborates on how Wikipedia has come to become a problem for Britannica because Wikipedia users are growing and are coming to having a sense of ownership in Wikipedia and start to maintain/update it themselves. Wikipedia has more URL links than Britannica which speaks tremendously about wikipedia's "social currency" as Mr. Pesce coined it. In fact it was clear that every human has a certain "social currency" value.
I suggest you to listen to his Hyperpeople audio book:
http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/734605/Hyperpeople:-Information-Knowledge-and-Power-in-the-21st-Century
If you prefer to read:
http://www.webearth.org/hyperpeople/hyperpeople-book.pdf
The combination of Google, Wikipedia and Britannica already do give us a good start to what Mr. Pesce calls the "Encyclopedia Humanica".
Google Translate ROCKS!!!! I look at different web links in different languages and have them translate into English regularly. It's not perfect, but it works adequately in my opinion. A good book for bringing these companies to compliment each other's services would be:
CO-OPETITION by Adam Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff:
http://mayet.som.yale.edu/coopetition/Foreward-to-paperback.html
Co-opetion emphasizes working "complementors." A complementor is the opposite of a competitor. It's someone who makes your products and services more, rather than less, valuable. Not surprisingly, the complementor concept is especially relevant to the builders of the Information Economy. Hardware needs software, and the internet needs high-speed phone lines. No one, alone, can, build the infrastructure for the new economy. It's a whole new system made up of many complementary parts.
Another example of a complimentary service for these three companies would have been
"Copernicus"
which eliminates the redundant links on the different result pages.
Google, Wikipedia, Britannica and Copernicus are all complimentary services sharing the same "information economy" pie. What they do in terms of co-operating with each other and their users will determine their future existence.
THE BOTTOM LINE
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When I want an answer to some question, I go online. I go to the internet and I "google" the keywords. I don't "wikipediate" the keywords. I don't "Britannicanate" the keywords. I don't go to a book source. It takes too much time to flip the pages. In less than 5-10 seconds I have more information than I can handle about whatever topic I am googling.
USUALLY I'm not stupid enough to just look at the first results page of google urls because I know damn well there are people who pay to be the first hits in terms of relevancy. I have found many gems deeply hidden on the 20th and sometimes 50th page for example.
In Beijing across the street from the train station, you'll find the International Youth Hostel. On the third floor there's the backpackers' club where they have six machines hooked up to the internet.
They charge 3RMB an hour. If you book it for the entire month, I'm sure it would cost much less than 7712.5RMB :)
For your information, a hostel room with two beds costs 180RMB and you share the shower/sinks/bathrooms. I stayed there for a couple of days. It was worth every penny and it was impeccably clean. I highly recommend it.
On a dual-CPU system, you will see 100% CPU usage on both when using dvdrip/transcode. I would love to see how it looks on a quad-core system.
Whatever solution openoffice offers should consider some integration with the Global Computer users' most popular computer activities(i.e. in China QQ, movie watching, game playing, office productivity). Simply offering a document standard and tool to create those standard documents isn't enough.
There needs to be much more effort in presenting open-source solutions on the ground, in the schools, in the government. As it stands, from my standpoint as a Conversational English teacher, in the Chinese schools I see nothing but Windows and Office.
As an open-source fan, it is only natural for me to bring in a live cd of Ubuntu to show them open-office, eva, gcompris and other open-source educational software. The teachers were truly impressed with the Google English to Chinese/Chinese to English translation tools. It's a big hit for this since the browser response seems to run faster than in windows in their perspective and not mine which is good news for Ubuntu/Google/Firefox. The kids love gcompris and pydance. I even got the USB floor dance pad for them and they love to jump all over it.
On the downside, most of the computers around here only have 256MB on them and UBUNTU won't install on them, but some teacher PC's have 512MB RAM thank God.
We need more English teachers that are Linux fans in China. It would help to influence China's computer infrastructure by demonstrating what's available to them that truly competes with any other offerings out there.
Cheers :)
Mr. Rothwell, you are incorrect.
1)You said:"As I understand this, the root partition is stored on the machine's internal ROM."
Everything, the operating system and the user files are on the USB Key. Nothing is actually on the computer.
2)You said:"This doesn't sound particularly promising - it would be very easy to lose the key."
If you lose a USB FLASH Storage, you lose everything, I will grant you that. On the postive note, If you are wise enough to place the G-Key with your wallet and not the laptop then when the unfortunate circumstance of having someone steal your cool laptop arises, you lose a data-less laptop. That is promising and quite valuable for those who have had their laptop stolen with sensitive data on them.
An 8GB FLASH Storage is actually easier to backup than a 40GB Hard Drive with lots of noise.
3)You said:"Also, will the home folder on the key be accessible when plugging into another computer, say, a desktop running OS X, Windows or another Linux distro?"
That depends on two things:
a)if your other computer is able to mount an ext3 file system. From what I understand the G-Key is an ext3-file system. Most Linux flavors mount ext3 with ease, but most Windows PC's can't. You will have to find other non-Microsoft software to do this.
b)you won't be able to boot of the G-Key on an intel based computer because the GDium is running a non-intel-based CPU Loongson 2F. Odds are you can't boot of the G-Key from another computer unless you have a Loongson 2F based computer hanging around your house. Lemote.com actually sell another computer that runs with the same CPU and configuration, but running a Debian-based OS.
I would bet you slip in the G-Key into this baby and it will run, and if not it will at least mount with no issues.
FYI The Loongson has its roots from MIPS. In fact this version is MIPS R4 compliant if I remember the specs correctly. This Loongsoon 2F runs with 5 Watts of power if I recall correctly.
4)You said:"Emtec would be entering the market very late"
Again you are mistaken, they are a pioneer in selling an affordable open-source geared-for-privacy "plug-key" solution.
(not turn-key hahaha get it doh!)
Traffic Shaping has been discussed to solve internet congestion problems all over the world.
Here's an easy solution: Kill...um...shape MediaDefender's upload bandwidth and split it to everyone else.
36.1 (1) Network operators shall not engage in network management practices that favour, degrade or prioritize any content, application or service transmitted over a broadband network based on its source, ownership or destination.
>>This sounds ok to me.
Exceptions
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed as limiting or restricting the right of a network operator to
>>>Loophole city. Keep your eyes wide open...
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(a) manage the flow of network traffic in a reasonable manner in order to relieve congestion;
"
>>>The internet providers mention congestion as an excuse to shape traffic. Government should instead enforce the ISP's to buy adequate hardware to guarantee everyone has the bandwidth the ISP promised in the first place and stop traffic shaping policies.
(b) provide reasonable security protection for a user's computer or the network;
>>>the ISP's have not really mentioned how they have been proactive on this front. The only thing I perceive are the packet long capabilities that log internet crimes after the fact. Apart from that I don't see how ISP's have anything to protect the user's computer. I don't perceive ISP's should have a right to control the security on a user's computer. This item may be interpreted as giving ISP's the right to control the user's computer for the ISP's network-security's sake. Obviously, this will lead to invasion of privacy.
>>>"
(c) give priority to emergency communications;
"
>>>In my humble opinion, some of these exceptions indicate a poor separation of concerns. Emergency communications infrastructures should not be blended into the consumer internet infrastructure.
Internet consumers should not be paying to build emergency infrastructures into consumer internet services. It will make the internet experience much slower and it gives government emergency officials carte-blanche VIP internet bandwidth even when it's not an emergency. I don't like it.
It's smells like a potential abuse of power.
(d) offer directly to each user service at different prices based on defined levels of bandwidth or the actual quantity of data flow over a user's connection;
>>>"or the actual quantity of data flow over a user's connection;"
>>>This is a wonderful loophole for the ISP to vary bandwidth speeds. Their pricing is re-worded as number of Gigabytes transferred in a month instead of guaranteed bandwidth.
I don't agree with this exception. They should remove it and guarantee pricing based solely on guaranteed upload bandwidth speeds and guaranteed download bandwidth speeds. They should also be enforced to be explicit about both of these. I have seen providers solely mention download speeds which is truly deceptive and in my opinion leads to false advertising and other business practices that should be mentioned to the better business bureau.
(e) offer directly to each user consumer protection services, including parental controls for indecency or unwanted content, software for the prevention of unsolicited commercial electronic messages, or other similar capabilities, provided that the user is given clear and accurate advance notice of their ability to refuse or subsequently disable each consumer protection service;
>>>BIG LOOPHOLE: This is a mechanism for ISP's to sell extra services that have nothing to do with internet bandwidth and traffic-shaping. This has all to do with the ISP's unethical business practice of aggressively proposing extra sales a number of times on the same phone call for firewall/anti-virus/parental-control/games and music packages while closing the deal for the internet connection. I've seen this sales strategy at one ISP which will remain nameless. In my humble opinion, they should remove this item. It is irrelevant. The consumer can find these services on their own if they want them.
(f) handle breaches of the terms of service, provided the terms of service are not inconsistent with subsection (1); and
>>>ok
(g) prevent any violation of federal or provincial law.
>>>ok
BELL is not the only one failing in providing the average user's demands for more upload and download bandwidth.
To further add to this, most of the ISP's upload bandwidth do not satisfy what most customers WANT considering that we live in an era of sharing hi-def videos and hi-def photos. All of the ISP's can do much much better.
With regards to the throttling at BELL, the CRTC should focus on the following:
-Enforce all ISP's to provide a much higher minimum upload bandwidth for everyone. If they don't, they lose their ISP status. The Minimum upload bandwidth should follow Moore's Law considering the hardware being manufactured certainly does.
-Enforce net-neutrality and disallow DPI(Deep Packet Inspection) simply on the fact it is destroying user internet performance and driving up average user cost.
-create name-branding/association guaranteeing the ISP & Network Hardware you buy is "Net-Neutral INSIDE".
DPI is analogous to Anti-Virus Software on computers. When a computer is running without a virus detector all the computer's performance speed is dedicated to the normal functioning of the computer. When an anti-virus software is running on a computer, it goes without saying the computer's normal functioning performance is chopped in half and possibly even more because the computer CPU time usually dedicated to user programs is now sucked up into ANTI-VIRUS activities inspecting all upcoming computer instructions for threatening actions like (unexpected file deletions, unexpected file-reading, unexpected network activity). The entire user experience is reduced and the typical user grows with impatience because of all of the time wasted with these ANTI-VIRUS activities.
In order to understand the negative impact on the average user's internet performance experience,
I will give a scenario that the average user can do and relate to showing fast and slow internet speed.
Have the average user buy a cheap combination router/firewall box. Connect his computer to it and connect the router to the DSL socket in the wall. Once connected to the internet, the user goes to a website, a delay occurs and then the web page displays. It could be 3 seconds, 5 seconds or more. My experience has been around 5 seconds. I will name this delay DPI-DELAY.
Now ask the same user to remove the router/firewall box.
Instead as the user to connect a DSL modem directly connects to the computer. The user will observe a faster internet performance experience because there is NO DPI-DELAY. The user will have a web page in 1 second instead of 3 to 5 seconds or more.
After trying these two different scenarios, the average user will have a better understanding about the time saved by not using any hardware/software that has inherent DPI-DELAY. HARDWARE doing DPI wastes everyone's time.
You will have a greater appreciation in this difference if the user visits many different web sites and the measures the DPI-DELAY for each of these. There is a significant different in time saved when not using DPI HARDWARE.
BELL and the other ISP's have the same hardware other countries have concerning the mirroring of packets in order for governments to listen to everything. I don't have a problem with that.
The truth of the matter is that the DPI/Traffic Shaping/Throttle hardware BELL is starting to use is not just for traffic shaping. That's why there is such a large DPI-DELAY now. BELL like every ISP in every country, have some obligations to the government who want the average user to pay for the government's real-time DPI sniffing hardware for "National Security's sake". I do have a problem with the fact they deliberately restrain our service until the government has that hardware that can sniff our packets to the point the government is blue in the face.
My point here is there are requirements for the average user and then there are requirements for the current governments in power. As it stands, these requirements are clashing because the DPI-DELAY is and wi
It's not that funny. I live in China. We will even have slower traffic now. As it stands forget watching youtube. All I can get is about 30KB/s download/upload on a single connection which is barely enough to listen to internet radio. The good news is that I can have more than one connection open with other countries, but from what I understand no media players or streaming servers have this parallel 30KB/s connection capability to total the necessary 4Mbps/download for watching internet video. That's why China's "Golden Shield" works so well. In order to circumvent it, one must have tools to open multiple connections for the single purpose intended i.e. media player, web serving one large page through multiple data sending connections. Oddly enough if I connect to websites inside China I can get 4Mb/s connections. The world's internet is crippled with equipment like this in my perspective and experience already. I'm grateful I can actually express my opinion about this here. BTW for the last four to five months slashdot has had this quantserve in-your-face job ad when accessing the site. From China, it often slows down the page access and takes sometimes 5 to 10 minutes before I can read the main page. Is this normal?
"The Lone Gunmen" could be revived as a movie this way if they could talk to [place geeked-loved companies here]. IMDB: movie name: Lone Gunmen The Movie sponsors: Coca Cola, Pepsi, Tide, Kraft, Monsanto, Proctor & Gamble, The Carlyle Group, Jilin Jaer Seed Company, Nestle, McDonald's, KFC, Tim Horton's, Au Tarot and Schwartz's. actors:... ...
Summary: All this ad placement is so exciting that I don't want to give away the story or how it ends.
Rating: 20 stars out of 10 stars