By caps, I meant that there is limit on the amount of data that one can upload or download per month, not the capital letters. I don't live in the UK, so I apologize if there is confusion over specific terms because of that.
The monthly bandwidth cap matters much more than the bandwidth per second. I'd rather have a 200 kbit/s connection with a 100 gb monthly cap, than a 2 mbit/s connection with a 10 gb monthly cap.
That being said, does anyone know what the monthly cap is going to be? I don't live in UK but I still hope there isn't going to be one.
I'm not entirely sure about that. Trade secret laws might cause that to be illegal. Then again, we could imagine a world with neither copyrights nor trade secret laws, in which case you would be right.
even in the early morning that just a 10 minute walk will put you at work quite unprofessionally sweaty
This is probably more important than laziness. Americans have an extreme phobia of sweatiness or smelliness; coming to work with body odor is perhaps worse than coming to work unshaven in stained clothes. Would you drive or walk, if it was heavily raining outside and cars driving by the sidewalk constantly sprayed water as they drove over puddles?
Wrong - in a copyrightless world, companies could avoid releasing the source code, and it would require reverse engineering to "steal" their work. With GPL, companies are forced to release the source. This is less (or more) "free" than GPL, depending on your definition of "free". I think it would be more like a BSD world than a GPL world.
Awareness doesn't always help. Think of all the people getting jailed for smoking weed. Everyone knows that they're getting jailed, but nothing seems to happen anyways.
It's not about getting around the website, it's about the videos. I'm willing to bet that the average American Joe isn't going to post his home videos to Nico. If it's original content, a lot of it is going to be Japanese. YouTube, on the other hand, is more international in terms of video content.
They so desperately want some crime to deal with, but there just isn't much other than the odd frat house kegger that gets out of control or the occasional parking ticket.
Over here, we get an email about someone getting mugged every couple weeks.
Anyways, "real" crime is dangerous. If you're up against murderers, you can get shot or stabbed. On the other hand, giving out parking tickets usually isn't life-threatening. Some cops might prefer not being in danger if they don't have to, since they're human after all.
Veoh, for instance, started putting unskippable ads at the beginning of some videos. Megavideo went farther and put a 72-minute limit on watching video before you have to take a 54-minute break, unless you pay.
We can see that YouTube's competitors are starting to put in more ads and restrictions, so YouTube has an opportunity to follow suit and scrape in some more cash.
However, perhaps Google is thinking long-term and values visitors over revenue. It might be a sort of investment - keep the videos free-to-watch and their beginnings unskippable-ad-free, then try to rake in cash with more ads once YouTube becomes popular enough and other sites become restrictive enough in comparison.
I've canceled cable television and Internet service
Cable television may not be terribly important, but I don't know how you can "live better" without internet service. Either way, you're posting here, aren't you?
Eventually, it's going to be impractical for most businesses to work with 3GB RAM per machine. This might take longer than Microsoft hopes, but it will eventually happen.
When 3GB is no longer enough, businesses will be forced to upgrade to a 64 bit OS. I'm guessing that the x64 edition of Windows XP isn't going to be supported any better than the x64 edition of Windows 7, Vista, or any newer OSes, in terms of drivers.
Thus, most people will eventually have to move away from 32-bit Windows XP even without pressure from Microsoft.
The battlefield isn't a court room. Soldiers having to pause and think about the legal consequences of their actions causes them to hesitate and greatly reduces the effectiveness of the army. You think the average person knows much as much as a lawyer in the first place?
Yes. They were judged with laws that didn't apply at the time they committed their crimes. They were bastards, but pretending like their punishment is an act of law is hypocrisy. It would have been less hypocritical to just execute them as enemies during a war, instead of pretending like there's some kind of law that is being upheld by executing them.
Right, and how do we determine someone is unworthy of a trial? This sounds extremely abusable.
If it's because he's a defeated enemy, then fine, let's make that clear. But what was done was just a farce and a kangaroo court, just like the Nuremberg trials.
So why did we invade at all? Moral relativism is despicable on any day, but there's a special hell for people who use it only to advance their own goals.
Who's we? The soldiers invaded because their commanding officers told them to, and the commanding officers invaded because officers higher up told them to. Only the people who actually made the decision at the top were really responsible for this.
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By caps, I meant that there is limit on the amount of data that one can upload or download per month, not the capital letters. I don't live in the UK, so I apologize if there is confusion over specific terms because of that.
The monthly bandwidth cap matters much more than the bandwidth per second. I'd rather have a 200 kbit/s connection with a 100 gb monthly cap, than a 2 mbit/s connection with a 10 gb monthly cap.
That being said, does anyone know what the monthly cap is going to be? I don't live in UK but I still hope there isn't going to be one.
I'm not entirely sure about that. Trade secret laws might cause that to be illegal. Then again, we could imagine a world with neither copyrights nor trade secret laws, in which case you would be right.
Russia's larger and more open, and it seems to be fine with relying more on trains than cars....
I love walking, but my college is 30 miles from home. :(
even in the early morning that just a 10 minute walk will put you at work quite unprofessionally sweaty
This is probably more important than laziness. Americans have an extreme phobia of sweatiness or smelliness; coming to work with body odor is perhaps worse than coming to work unshaven in stained clothes. Would you drive or walk, if it was heavily raining outside and cars driving by the sidewalk constantly sprayed water as they drove over puddles?
So if TPB actively removes offending material like Google and YouTube does (but only when asked), it would be less of a target?
Wrong - in a copyrightless world, companies could avoid releasing the source code, and it would require reverse engineering to "steal" their work. With GPL, companies are forced to release the source. This is less (or more) "free" than GPL, depending on your definition of "free". I think it would be more like a BSD world than a GPL world.
This is like comparing an out of control leaf fire in someone's backyard to the carpet bombing of a city.
Similarly, when a US politician orders a carpet bombing of a city, he gets more than a few citizens angry at him but no jail time.
Awareness doesn't always help. Think of all the people getting jailed for smoking weed. Everyone knows that they're getting jailed, but nothing seems to happen anyways.
and the BBC has some thoughts on what happens next.
This was always about awareness and education.
More like attempted brainwashing. If people become truly aware of what's going on then I doubt the MAFIAA will be too happy.
It's not about getting around the website, it's about the videos. I'm willing to bet that the average American Joe isn't going to post his home videos to Nico. If it's original content, a lot of it is going to be Japanese. YouTube, on the other hand, is more international in terms of video content.
That's nice - if you know Japanese.
Most of here probably don't, so we end up sticking with YouTube. It's a matter of target audience....
They so desperately want some crime to deal with, but there just isn't much other than the odd frat house kegger that gets out of control or the occasional parking ticket.
Over here, we get an email about someone getting mugged every couple weeks.
Anyways, "real" crime is dangerous. If you're up against murderers, you can get shot or stabbed. On the other hand, giving out parking tickets usually isn't life-threatening. Some cops might prefer not being in danger if they don't have to, since they're human after all.
Not as a leader, but maybe as an anti-terrorist operation consultant, if we can get him to change sides.
Also, former hackers should be named as security experts. Oh, wait..
They had experience with "justice", much how security experts who were previously hackers had experience with "security".
And what would you use?
Veoh, for instance, started putting unskippable ads at the beginning of some videos. Megavideo went farther and put a 72-minute limit on watching video before you have to take a 54-minute break, unless you pay.
We can see that YouTube's competitors are starting to put in more ads and restrictions, so YouTube has an opportunity to follow suit and scrape in some more cash.
However, perhaps Google is thinking long-term and values visitors over revenue. It might be a sort of investment - keep the videos free-to-watch and their beginnings unskippable-ad-free, then try to rake in cash with more ads once YouTube becomes popular enough and other sites become restrictive enough in comparison.
Yes, I'm enjoying internet with caps, as it's still better than no internet.
I've canceled cable television and Internet service
Cable television may not be terribly important, but I don't know how you can "live better" without internet service. Either way, you're posting here, aren't you?
Eventually, it's going to be impractical for most businesses to work with 3GB RAM per machine. This might take longer than Microsoft hopes, but it will eventually happen.
When 3GB is no longer enough, businesses will be forced to upgrade to a 64 bit OS. I'm guessing that the x64 edition of Windows XP isn't going to be supported any better than the x64 edition of Windows 7, Vista, or any newer OSes, in terms of drivers.
Thus, most people will eventually have to move away from 32-bit Windows XP even without pressure from Microsoft.
News flash: reality can be harsh. Don't shoot the messenger!
The battlefield isn't a court room. Soldiers having to pause and think about the legal consequences of their actions causes them to hesitate and greatly reduces the effectiveness of the army. You think the average person knows much as much as a lawyer in the first place?
Yes. They were judged with laws that didn't apply at the time they committed their crimes. They were bastards, but pretending like their punishment is an act of law is hypocrisy. It would have been less hypocritical to just execute them as enemies during a war, instead of pretending like there's some kind of law that is being upheld by executing them.
Right, and how do we determine someone is unworthy of a trial? This sounds extremely abusable. If it's because he's a defeated enemy, then fine, let's make that clear. But what was done was just a farce and a kangaroo court, just like the Nuremberg trials.
So why did we invade at all? Moral relativism is despicable on any day, but there's a special hell for people who use it only to advance their own goals.
Who's we? The soldiers invaded because their commanding officers told them to, and the commanding officers invaded because officers higher up told them to. Only the people who actually made the decision at the top were really responsible for this.