Jeez, you in the USA have a very backwards country:) In Europe the gross price is shown on the labels (sometimes along with net price, esp. in wholesale stores).
Yeah, here in Hungary (which is very far from being a "technology trendsetter":) ) I can pay via SMS for parking, movie downloads and probably a million other things I am not aware of:) It is just a logical step ahead (which I was expecting) to build a more flexible infrastructure for paying with a mobile phone.
Ink jet replacing matrix printer?... What are they smoking?! Matrix printers are usually used in situations when you have to print a LOT of text/numbers (e.g. accounting sheets). It is exactly the area where ink jets suck (just compare the price of an inkjet cartridge and a matrix printer ribbon and how long they last) Also, I would guess that the A3 matrix printers are still much cheaper than laser printers of the same size.
And WLANs replacing modems? I have always had the impression that modems were used for connecting to places that are far away (i.e. out of the reach of your WLAN card), not to the server on the other floor.
That's what's in the low-end of Nokia's line-up, like the Nokia 1100. It has friendly big buttons, weighs 86 g and the battery lasts a week with normal usage.
Well, I haven't seen much of a review on the site, but you can get the specs here: Nokia 7600 specs
Aside from the WCDMA support it does noto seem to offer much more than the 7650 or the 7250i (oh, 7250i doesn't have Bluetooth, and there's no radio in the 7600), so I don't get the bit about "Nokia's first attempt", it's just the next phone in Nokia's high-end line - nothing to get too excited about.
"I don't think he was saying that Britney Spears videos ARE child porn, but many of them do depict a minor in a sexual manner."
Bullshit. Pedofilia is about having sexual desires for pre-puberty children and it does not have anything to do with some legal age bounderies. Now, Britney Spears does not really looks like a 10 year old girl, does she? (In fact, when I first saw her I thought she's over 20)
Why? I would like to remind everyone that RIAA complains about / sues for distribution (read: uploading) of their stuff, not downloading. Downloading RIAA stuff is legal. And of course there's the non-RIAA stuff, see mp3.com.
"rechargeable batteries--particularly when you leave them plugged in all of the time, which most people would with their mouse when they weren't using it--tend to lose their ability to hold a charge so they go for less and less time"
I have a Memorex wireless optical mouse for more than a year, it has 2 rechargable AAA batteries in it and when not in use, it's in its recharging craddle. The batteries are still fine and I am not concerned with the fact that it has batteries in it.
I also have a wireless keyboard/trackball combo which does not have a recharging craddle. Although its batteries last for months, they eventually die and I have to interrupt whatever I do because you can't do much without having a keyboard or mouse - you have to replace or recharge the batteries (it takes something like an hour even with these ultra-fast chargers). It's a nasty thing, really - esp. if you had a close deadline or something.
Well, it seems that Canada has the same rules as most of the Europen countries. This means, that you can copy any music/video for yourself, so downloading them off the internet is OK. However, distribution of these is still considered to be copyright infringement, so uploading stuff for which you do not the rights to publish to P2P networks is still not OK and you can be sued for it.
As I understand, things work the same way in the USA, too.
My 500MHz Celeron plays anything without getting anywhere near 100% CPU load. I guess it's mostly a matter of the video card - my Matrox G400 handles some of the stuff (scaling, maybe colorspace conversion). And of course you DON'T do Xvid encoding on a thin client just as much as you don't do it on an X terminal (what a thin client basically is)
It should be noted, that more people were killed by the absolutely unnecessary bombing of Dresden (done with conventional bombs)than in Hiroshima.
As for nuclear power stations: people like to forget how much damaging are the conventional coal power plants (and they DO emit much more radioactivity) - and nuclear ones replace mostly these, not solar cell farms.
And finally, it should be noted, that his name is Teller Ede, since he was Hungarian.
Well, it reminds me LyX, a WYSI-more-or-less-WYG TeX editor: it does not let the user enter multiple spaces or line-breaks. There is no obvious way to change the font or the font size or to do any other evil thing. You gotta love when sw authors take up the job to educate the users:)
Well, mplayer is mostly usable without any win32 lib and that means there are no copyright problems. All you really need is libavcodec: and there are no problems with that aside from the patents, and, as of this time, these are not enforcable in Europe and I hope that it stays so.
Well, it could be. I mean, if they could get away with making it a violation of the EULA to sell your Windows, then there's nothing to stop MS from prohibiting deletion of extra junk.
"More importantly what are the implications for our society as we move out of an age of scarcity to an age of plenty?"
Why would it be the age of plenty? Probably it will be the "age of more-power-to-the-DIYers", but you will still need the raw materials (which are scarce) and the design (which is scarce, too). Of course, it has the potential to cut down on costs, but there are lots of things that has cut the costs of manufacturing but we still live in the age of scarcity - and frankly, I don't see how it could change anytime with any technological advance: people will always find something that is scarce.
"The BitTorrent protocol apparently relies on a single "tracker" to keep track of hosts currently in the "torrent". Therefore, all the *AA has to do is shut down that tracker."
But, I guess, BT was not designed as a warez tool, so in its design avoiding a single server was not a goal.
"If only they combined the decentralization tracking of other p2p protocols with BitTorrent's distributed and simultaneous upload and download"
Then we would have eDonkey... d'oh, we DO have eDonkey:)
Why do they need a program for this? Of course, it automatically unpacks stuff from the email, etc, but that's not something that you absolutely need.
I mean, there are already http-over-email services, that do not need any special program, you just send a mail to the service's address with the links to the stuff you want and it sends it back and you could use it perfectly this way: just send a mail with a line like 'hedgehog asia' to mail@search.com and it would send you back a reply with all the pages relating to asian hedgehogs. The hassle with sending the CDs seems somewhat unnecessary (and it would require a CD drive and most probably MS Windows).
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I guess PDAs are not that big in Europe, esp. PDAs with WiFi.
Jeez, you in the USA have a very backwards country :)
In Europe the gross price is shown on the labels (sometimes along with net price, esp. in wholesale stores).
Yeah, here in Hungary (which is very far from being a "technology trendsetter" :) ) I can pay via SMS for parking, movie downloads and probably a million other things I am not aware of :)
It is just a logical step ahead (which I was expecting) to build a more flexible infrastructure for paying with a mobile phone.
Ink jet replacing matrix printer?... What are they smoking?! Matrix printers are usually used in situations when you have to print a LOT of text/numbers (e.g. accounting sheets). It is exactly the area where ink jets suck (just compare the price of an inkjet cartridge and a matrix printer ribbon and how long they last)
Also, I would guess that the A3 matrix printers are still much cheaper than laser printers of the same size.
And WLANs replacing modems?
I have always had the impression that modems were used for connecting to places that are far away (i.e. out of the reach of your WLAN card), not to the server on the other floor.
Bah.
Well, actually, I DO remember the times when "virus propagating via e-mail" was an April Fools' joke :)
Handing out pamphlets at the concert is a common practice - they just try to replace the dead wood thing tiwh some electronics.
That's what's in the low-end of Nokia's line-up, like the Nokia 1100. It has friendly big buttons, weighs 86 g and the battery lasts a week with normal usage.
Well, I haven't seen much of a review on the site, but you can get the specs here: Nokia 7600 specs
Aside from the WCDMA support it does noto seem to offer much more than the 7650 or the 7250i (oh, 7250i doesn't have Bluetooth, and there's no radio in the 7600), so I don't get the bit about "Nokia's first attempt", it's just the next phone in Nokia's high-end line - nothing to get too excited about.
"I don't think he was saying that Britney Spears videos ARE child porn, but many of them do depict a minor in a sexual manner."
Bullshit.
Pedofilia is about having sexual desires for pre-puberty children and it does not have anything to do with some legal age bounderies.
Now, Britney Spears does not really looks like a 10 year old girl, does she? (In fact, when I first saw her I thought she's over 20)
Why? I would like to remind everyone that RIAA complains about / sues for distribution (read: uploading) of their stuff, not downloading.
Downloading RIAA stuff is legal.
And of course there's the non-RIAA stuff, see mp3.com.
"rechargeable batteries--particularly when you leave them plugged in all of the time, which most people would with their mouse when they weren't using it--tend to lose their ability to hold a charge so they go for less and less time"
I have a Memorex wireless optical mouse for more than a year, it has 2 rechargable AAA batteries in it and when not in use, it's in its recharging craddle. The batteries are still fine and I am not concerned with the fact that it has batteries in it.
I also have a wireless keyboard/trackball combo which does not have a recharging craddle. Although its batteries last for months, they eventually die and I have to interrupt whatever I do because you can't do much without having a keyboard or mouse - you have to replace or recharge the batteries (it takes something like an hour even with these ultra-fast chargers). It's a nasty thing, really - esp. if you had a close deadline or something.
Well, it seems that Canada has the same rules as most of the Europen countries.
This means, that you can copy any music/video for yourself, so downloading them off the internet is OK.
However, distribution of these is still considered to be copyright infringement, so uploading stuff for which you do not the rights to publish to P2P networks is still not OK and you can be sued for it.
As I understand, things work the same way in the USA, too.
Would someone please mod the article -1, Troll?
Seems like now all root servers have the wildcards.
It will be interesting to see the EU's response to this mess.
"Even decoding xvid would strugle on a 733"
My 500MHz Celeron plays anything without getting anywhere near 100% CPU load. I guess it's mostly a matter of the video card - my Matrox G400 handles some of the stuff (scaling, maybe colorspace conversion).
And of course you DON'T do Xvid encoding on a thin client just as much as you don't do it on an X terminal (what a thin client basically is)
It should be noted, that more people were killed by the absolutely unnecessary bombing of Dresden (done with conventional bombs)than in Hiroshima.
As for nuclear power stations: people like to forget how much damaging are the conventional coal power plants (and they DO emit much more radioactivity) - and nuclear ones replace mostly these, not solar cell farms.
And finally, it should be noted, that his name is Teller Ede, since he was Hungarian.
"Integrated mime-types. No more relying on file extensions and other hacks. The mime-type (and subsequent viewer) is right there in the query"
:)
And how does that meta data gets to the db? Oh, right, it will rely on file extensions and other hacks
Well, it reminds me LyX, a WYSI-more-or-less-WYG TeX editor: it does not let the user enter multiple spaces or line-breaks. There is no obvious way to change the font or the font size or to do any other evil thing. You gotta love when sw authors take up the job to educate the users :)
And what would be the problem with libcss in Europe? I am not aware of any decision against it.
Well, mplayer is mostly usable without any win32 lib and that means there are no copyright problems. All you really need is libavcodec: and there are no problems with that aside from the patents, and, as of this time, these are not enforcable in Europe and I hope that it stays so.
Now, as a final step, could you point us to mics used in recording studios that are sensitive to anything above 20kHz?
I think they switched to Exim by Potato, the previous default was smail.
Well, it could be. I mean, if they could get away with making it a violation of the EULA to sell your Windows, then there's nothing to stop MS from prohibiting deletion of extra junk.
"More importantly what are the implications for our society as we move out of an age of scarcity to an age of plenty?"
Why would it be the age of plenty? Probably it will be the "age of more-power-to-the-DIYers", but you will still need the raw materials (which are scarce) and the design (which is scarce, too). Of course, it has the potential to cut down on costs, but there are lots of things that has cut the costs of manufacturing but we still live in the age of scarcity - and frankly, I don't see how it could change anytime with any technological advance: people will always find something that is scarce.
"The BitTorrent protocol apparently relies on a single "tracker" to keep track of hosts currently in the "torrent". Therefore, all the *AA has to do is shut down that tracker."
:)
But, I guess, BT was not designed as a warez tool, so in its design avoiding a single server was not a goal.
"If only they combined the decentralization tracking of other p2p protocols with BitTorrent's distributed and simultaneous upload and download"
Then we would have eDonkey... d'oh, we DO have eDonkey
Why do they need a program for this? Of course, it automatically unpacks stuff from the email, etc, but that's not something that you absolutely need.
I mean, there are already http-over-email services, that do not need any special program, you just send a mail to the service's address with the links to the stuff you want and it sends it back and you could use it perfectly this way: just send a mail with a line like 'hedgehog asia' to mail@search.com and it would send you back a reply with all the pages relating to asian hedgehogs.
The hassle with sending the CDs seems somewhat unnecessary (and it would require a CD drive and most probably MS Windows).