I just found that myself having remembered about the iMacs... was going to post in reply to my own but thought the point was irrelavent because iiNet still predates the iMac which was introduced into Apples desktop offerings in 1998 - five years after iiNet was formed.
Sure and I agree (with both the above posts) however I think to take aim at lawyers and say thay they smelt money is not correct.
Lawyers aren't trawling the streets looking for new cases to make themselves money, they don't need to! In the UK they make upwards of £500 an hour! It's the government and private companies that are making and forcing these changes that subsequently result in law firms getting money - not the other way around.
Makes you wonder why you didn't skip those classes in high school and get better grades so you could have become a lawyer in a top law firm!;) Now I'm stuck behind a desk as a systems analyst dammit.
Cut and paste!? They're far more efficient than that - time is money (literally) in a law firm, they have speadsheets and mail merges for that! They'll even charge you for the printing!;)
I work for a law firm and I assure you this stuff is small fry for lawyers - the big money is in other fields of litigation, not sueing individuals for file sharing.
It's the government and it's affiliated agencies that are at fault, as always they are persuing the filesharing community to try to stop and prevent further illegal filesharing. As always they have failed time and time again to provide filesharers with a legal and cost effective solution.
Sueing the average Joe is never going to work in the long term, they'll catch a few major players and maybe make the example of the odd teenager to show that "no-one's" safe from the big bad wolf and then they will push it underground. The technology will get smarter as will filesharers and the Government will once again be behind in the fight.
I agree, though the last two (of the new revolution) contain considerably fewer gadgets and of those that are found, they're far from the "creative" gagets that came before...
I often wonder how ISPs will go in future marketing these types of deals... there is increasing pressure on ISPs and internet users to prevent and stop P2P traffic and illegal filesharing respectively.
Personally I see little benifit (at this point in time) in paying for a unlimited/high bandwidth connection when it's nearly impossible to find legally (and ethical) available multimedia content. I don't need 24 Mbps unlimited download limits to read the BBC news and check my email, even more so with 3G mobile data...
Bring on the internet media revolution.
There is a 10 Downing Street petition setup against this bill, if you're from the UK and feel strongly against the bill you can sign http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/no-to-1984/
I'll say. Search for "Cuil search engine" in Cuil and you don't get the Cuil search engine in the results, even if you search for Cuil. However simply search for Cuil in Google and it's the second result. Hm.
Slashdot Mirror
Bush could have done with this a few years back or what?
I just found that myself having remembered about the iMacs... was going to post in reply to my own but thought the point was irrelavent because iiNet still predates the iMac which was introduced into Apples desktop offerings in 1998 - five years after iiNet was formed.
Actually iiNet was formed (and named as such) in 1993, which was eight years before the first iPod release. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IiNet#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#History_and_design
Sure and I agree (with both the above posts) however I think to take aim at lawyers and say thay they smelt money is not correct. Lawyers aren't trawling the streets looking for new cases to make themselves money, they don't need to! In the UK they make upwards of £500 an hour! It's the government and private companies that are making and forcing these changes that subsequently result in law firms getting money - not the other way around. Makes you wonder why you didn't skip those classes in high school and get better grades so you could have become a lawyer in a top law firm! ;) Now I'm stuck behind a desk as a systems analyst dammit.
Cut and paste!? They're far more efficient than that - time is money (literally) in a law firm, they have speadsheets and mail merges for that! They'll even charge you for the printing! ;)
I work for a law firm and I assure you this stuff is small fry for lawyers - the big money is in other fields of litigation, not sueing individuals for file sharing. It's the government and it's affiliated agencies that are at fault, as always they are persuing the filesharing community to try to stop and prevent further illegal filesharing. As always they have failed time and time again to provide filesharers with a legal and cost effective solution. Sueing the average Joe is never going to work in the long term, they'll catch a few major players and maybe make the example of the odd teenager to show that "no-one's" safe from the big bad wolf and then they will push it underground. The technology will get smarter as will filesharers and the Government will once again be behind in the fight.
I agree, though the last two (of the new revolution) contain considerably fewer gadgets and of those that are found, they're far from the "creative" gagets that came before...
... there is a more (er, very!) comprehensive list on Wikipedia (of course, where else!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_gadgets
I often wonder how ISPs will go in future marketing these types of deals... there is increasing pressure on ISPs and internet users to prevent and stop P2P traffic and illegal filesharing respectively. Personally I see little benifit (at this point in time) in paying for a unlimited/high bandwidth connection when it's nearly impossible to find legally (and ethical) available multimedia content. I don't need 24 Mbps unlimited download limits to read the BBC news and check my email, even more so with 3G mobile data... Bring on the internet media revolution.
Maybe researches at Washington University should spend more time reading tech news than wasting research time and funds on proving the proven eh.
There is a 10 Downing Street petition setup against this bill, if you're from the UK and feel strongly against the bill you can sign http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/no-to-1984/
I'll say. Search for "Cuil search engine" in Cuil and you don't get the Cuil search engine in the results, even if you search for Cuil. However simply search for Cuil in Google and it's the second result. Hm.