A survey is just that, a survey. They ask you a set of questions regarding a topic for the purpose of information gathering. As soon as they then turn around and try to sell you something, it stops being a survey.
It amazes me how clueless some people can be. OK, so they may lose their jobs, but it's not entirely bad. Telemarketing costs money. Just because people aren't given the "opportunity" to spend their money on a telemarketer, doesn't mean they'll never spend that money on something else.
The money that is normally spent on telemarketing won't just disappear, it'll be routed into other, (more worthy IMHO) things.
OK. Now suppose that every time you do that, another set of kids come along and do it. It happens all day, every day. As soon as one lot goes, another arrives. There will never be a moment of peace for you. Ever.
Eh? The US government is passing a law which amounts to a list of people saying "do not call me". What's wrong with that? They don't have to go on the list.
It's even more black and white with spam. After all, spam costs me in time, resources and even money. Your right to free speech ends with spending my private money to express it.
Thanks for that, it made for some informative reading. So, the next question becomes, how to fix it:)
To be honest, if such a thing were to occur, I imagine there'd be some sort of trust system placed in Freenet. While it would go against some of the ideals of Freenet, the only other solution I can see is making the network big enough that taking out enough of the network to matter would become impractical. Not an easy task.
There are a fair number of bad coders able to bullshit their way into a job. My boss at my internship for this summer mentioned a guy who sounded quite intelligent, but because he had the foresight to bring a software engineer to the interviews, who could tell the interviewee was bullshitting.
Eh? You seem to be implying the UK is running into the arms of America, yet I'm only seeing the opposite. Yes, the UK backed America with the Iraq war, but the backlash from it seems to have shown the government that we won't tollerate another disaster like that. We've already sided with Europe wrt the latest bee in Bush's bonet (Iran), ruling out military action. We've gone against the US and have condemed Isreal over their attempts to kick out Arafat.
If it were 2000, I'd possibly agree with you. There was a very anti-Europe and pro-US vibe, but that's been more or less turned on its head now. While I wouldn't say we're pro-Europe now, we're growing more and more anti-US and anti-what-the-US-stands-for as the days go by. While Blair may still have his head up Bush's arse, the British public is growing more and more pissed off with it and Labour are certainly beginning to feel the pressure of it.
BTOpenworld, I imagine, cap their connections. However, I think they just cut you off and send you nasty e-mails if you go over the limit.
One ADSL provider I know of, Metronet (.co.uk), offers ADSL that's metered but the price is capped rather than the bandwidth. Therefore, no matter how much bandwidth you use, you know it won't cost over a certain amount.
I think I will correct you. I'm on 512Kb ADSL, about to go to 1MBit. The 512 connection costs 23 quid a month. That's around twice the cost of dial-up. Now, considering I get around 55KB/sec download rates, I'd say 10 times the speed of modem for twice the cost. The 1Mb will be 20 times the speed for 3 times the cost.
NVIDIA's 3D drivers are at least as good as the Windows ones now. ATI's are getting better, Kyro drivers are decent but hampered by the now very obscolete hardware.
The 3D driver situation in Linux is hardly bogus any more.
And what about those of us who can't set up a VPN? I have a server at home I have root on but I don't have root at the computers at my university so I can't set up a VPN.
WordPerfect for Linux used Wine. It was slow, buggy and behaved like a Windows application. It felt out of place whether you were running KDE or GNOME. It was awful. That's why it didn't sell.
Every decision ever made has a moral aspect to it. If, say, MS chose to use a company that was known to be poluting the sea with shit-loads of chemicals over a company that's slightly more expensive but costs a little more, I'd complain about their moral choice.
Just because it's a business decision, doesn't mean morals no longer come into it. Microsoft are out to take away my freedoms, that seems pretty evil to me.
That's a rather baseless statement unless you say what the product was. For all we know, your product could have been crap and had a better open source or even proprietry alternative.
After all, it's not like Sun isn't selling anyaopies of StarOffice for Linux.
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Their money would be even better if they didn't get it by pissing people off.
Perhaps Ohio should build up some more socially acceptable industries then...
A survey is just that, a survey. They ask you a set of questions regarding a topic for the purpose of information gathering. As soon as they then turn around and try to sell you something, it stops being a survey.
I doubt it, since then it's not a survey.
In the UK, I can't help but wonder if the ice cream man actually breaks noise pollution laws...
It amazes me how clueless some people can be. OK, so they may lose their jobs, but it's not entirely bad. Telemarketing costs money. Just because people aren't given the "opportunity" to spend their money on a telemarketer, doesn't mean they'll never spend that money on something else.
The money that is normally spent on telemarketing won't just disappear, it'll be routed into other, (more worthy IMHO) things.
OK. Now suppose that every time you do that, another set of kids come along and do it. It happens all day, every day. As soon as one lot goes, another arrives. There will never be a moment of peace for you. Ever.
Eh? The US government is passing a law which amounts to a list of people saying "do not call me". What's wrong with that? They don't have to go on the list.
It's even more black and white with spam. After all, spam costs me in time, resources and even money. Your right to free speech ends with spending my private money to express it.
Thanks for that, it made for some informative reading. So, the next question becomes, how to fix it :)
To be honest, if such a thing were to occur, I imagine there'd be some sort of trust system placed in Freenet. While it would go against some of the ideals of Freenet, the only other solution I can see is making the network big enough that taking out enough of the network to matter would become impractical. Not an easy task.
There are a fair number of bad coders able to bullshit their way into a job. My boss at my internship for this summer mentioned a guy who sounded quite intelligent, but because he had the foresight to bring a software engineer to the interviews, who could tell the interviewee was bullshitting.
Err...care to demonstrate how one would DDOS Freenet? After all, there's no central node to attack and nobody knows where data is stored.
Yes, we can.
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Eh? You seem to be implying the UK is running into the arms of America, yet I'm only seeing the opposite. Yes, the UK backed America with the Iraq war, but the backlash from it seems to have shown the government that we won't tollerate another disaster like that. We've already sided with Europe wrt the latest bee in Bush's bonet (Iran), ruling out military action. We've gone against the US and have condemed Isreal over their attempts to kick out Arafat.
If it were 2000, I'd possibly agree with you. There was a very anti-Europe and pro-US vibe, but that's been more or less turned on its head now. While I wouldn't say we're pro-Europe now, we're growing more and more anti-US and anti-what-the-US-stands-for as the days go by. While Blair may still have his head up Bush's arse, the British public is growing more and more pissed off with it and Labour are certainly beginning to feel the pressure of it.
ADSL is broadband.
BTOpenworld, I imagine, cap their connections. However, I think they just cut you off and send you nasty e-mails if you go over the limit.
One ADSL provider I know of, Metronet (.co.uk), offers ADSL that's metered but the price is capped rather than the bandwidth. Therefore, no matter how much bandwidth you use, you know it won't cost over a certain amount.
I think I will correct you. I'm on 512Kb ADSL, about to go to 1MBit. The 512 connection costs 23 quid a month. That's around twice the cost of dial-up. Now, considering I get around 55KB/sec download rates, I'd say 10 times the speed of modem for twice the cost. The 1Mb will be 20 times the speed for 3 times the cost.
You can say that all you want, you're wrong.
And what happens when your new graphics card isn't supported by the drivers on the game CD?
NVIDIA's 3D drivers are at least as good as the Windows ones now. ATI's are getting better, Kyro drivers are decent but hampered by the now very obscolete hardware.
The 3D driver situation in Linux is hardly bogus any more.
And what about those of us who can't set up a VPN? I have a server at home I have root on but I don't have root at the computers at my university so I can't set up a VPN.
Out of interest, what is Linux's market penetration in that sector?
WordPerfect for Linux used Wine. It was slow, buggy and behaved like a Windows application. It felt out of place whether you were running KDE or GNOME. It was awful. That's why it didn't sell.
Every decision ever made has a moral aspect to it. If, say, MS chose to use a company that was known to be poluting the sea with shit-loads of chemicals over a company that's slightly more expensive but costs a little more, I'd complain about their moral choice.
Just because it's a business decision, doesn't mean morals no longer come into it. Microsoft are out to take away my freedoms, that seems pretty evil to me.
That's a rather baseless statement unless you say what the product was. For all we know, your product could have been crap and had a better open source or even proprietry alternative.
After all, it's not like Sun isn't selling anyaopies of StarOffice for Linux.
I could live without a phone, but it doesn't mean I don't want one.