I agree that bandwidth should be ubiquitous, but the premise that the 'bad boys' are already so savvy that they can avoid being caught is incorrect. The large majority of the villains who download illegal content are just far too lazy to take precautions and instead just assume that nobody is watching. If your goal is to put these people behind bars before the patterns of 1's and 0's on their hard drive hurts someone, then basic forms of traceability continue to be an excellent tool for law enforcement.
Exactly. There are too many nay-sayers out there who are quick to go off on a rant about 'the problem with hydrogen today' but completely miss the bigger picture.
First of all, what is a fuel if not a 'energy carrier'. In this respect natural gas, wood kindling, ethanol, hydrogen, lithium ion batteries can all be compared. The question now becomes, which vessel has the least NET impact on the environment, most easily renewable, most compact, cheapest to produce, cheapest to consume.
Everyone can agree that to bring hydrogen to the pump requires a lot of energy and the consumption of fossil fuels in its (cheapest form of) production. As a result we can argue that the net CO2 emmision is higher with hydrogen then with ethanol or say, a higher efficiency combustion engine.
But the story doesn't end there. What manufacturers and advocates are trying to do here is build a foundation on which to build; one of the major advantages of which is it sequesters the pollution generating links in the energy distribution chain. Now the problem can be managed by focusing on the hydrogen production sites rather then trying to, say, get every Jack and Jill to bring their car in for a tuneup every 20k in order to reduce emissions. A government had tools at its disposal to encourage the use of renewable energy to produce hydrogen over natural gas, such as tax incentives and regulation. On the other hand a government has a very difficult time getting drivers to wear their seat belts, let alone guarantee every vehicle has a functioning catalytic converter.
And lets not forget (again thinking big picture here) that once the hydrogen infrastructure is in place, the market is made much more accessible to smaller entities to innovate and compete, to take advantage of the economies of scale, and in general explore the possibilities of the technology that we don't yet anticipate.
I think a lot of people forget that Winamp was one of the first programs to popularize the use of 'skins'. The/. crowd may not care much for eye candy but it has certainly been very influential and was quite a leap forward.
In an industry where projects frequently run over-budget and technical snags incur huge excess cost, people tend to stick with what they know. Look at how many new projects are using a 20 year old 8051 variant - it does the job.
There will always be a niche for crappy 8 bit micros.
It should be plainly obvious that this kind of commercial practice is extremely dangerous to our environment and sets a poor precedent. Who are we to say that this species is harmless? Please don't tell me that they understand the consequences of such a fish getting into the wild! Hell, it need be only slightly less pallatable to predators and (eventually) you can kiss the 'pure-bred' version goodbye.
Perhaps I am simply nostalgic, but I'd prefer leave the ecosystem to successive generations more or less how I found it. I don't want the ocean to look like a rave.
Is it really necessary to assume these kinds of risks and meddle with nature simply for people's amusement?
I'm with you on this one. The original C&C was great fun. It was truly innovative in its time - great graphics, exciting gameplay, and little men getting run over with tanks, how cool was that!
But for anyone contemplating this game, do yourself a favor and forget it. The ridiculous storyline will insult your intellect and the poorly designed UI and awkward gameplay will assault your senses.
Good riddance Westwood Studio, if only someone had put this dog down sooner.
Software patents that hinder progress or stunt innovation is one thing that annoys us all, but what Myriad is doing is pure evil.
High cost and access to treatment or drugs may not affect a lot of slashdot readers personally. However access and affordability to preventative treatment impacts us all whether you're concerned about your family, or the growing tax/HMO bill as the occurrence and cost of treating cancer patients increases.
Something has to be done about the patent system and not in 20 years, not in 10 years, but right now!
Someday Honda/Acura/Ford/GM may decide that there is BIG money in provided their own system perfomance upgrades, software extras etc.
That will be the day that they start cracking down on after-market upgrades that use their 'proprietary' pinouts or components that circumvent their copy protection.
And that will be the day the auto industry uses the DMCA in the same abusive way that Adobe,M$ and the others are using it. They'll back up their case with the claim that it is unsafe for unlicensed third parties to provide these products, or for anyone except a 'certified XYZ technician' to make modifications to your car.
I can see it now: "Excuse me sir, you'll have to sign this EULA before you drive off the lot with that car you just purchased".
So where does that leave the tinkerer or the small shop?
Maybe this is a good thing? Maybe this is the kind of controversy that will put enough pressure on congress to amend the DMCA.
gcc, and Voyager - an HTML 3.2 compliant browser are included in the base. You can download, browse and install additional software including a Mozilla based browser and AbiWord using the package installer.
I think qnxstart.com has GIMP and XPDF ported
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I agree that bandwidth should be ubiquitous, but the premise that the 'bad boys' are already so savvy that they can avoid being caught is incorrect. The large majority of the villains who download illegal content are just far too lazy to take precautions and instead just assume that nobody is watching. If your goal is to put these people behind bars before the patterns of 1's and 0's on their hard drive hurts someone, then basic forms of traceability continue to be an excellent tool for law enforcement.
Exactly. There are too many nay-sayers out there who are quick to go off on a rant about 'the problem with hydrogen today' but completely miss the bigger picture.
First of all, what is a fuel if not a 'energy carrier'. In this respect natural gas, wood kindling, ethanol, hydrogen, lithium ion batteries can all be compared. The question now becomes, which vessel has the least NET impact on the environment, most easily renewable, most compact, cheapest to produce, cheapest to consume.
Everyone can agree that to bring hydrogen to the pump requires a lot of energy and the consumption of fossil fuels in its (cheapest form of) production. As a result we can argue that the net CO2 emmision is higher with hydrogen then with ethanol or say, a higher efficiency combustion engine.
But the story doesn't end there. What manufacturers and advocates are trying to do here is build a foundation on which to build; one of the major advantages of which is it sequesters the pollution generating links in the energy distribution chain. Now the problem can be managed by focusing on the hydrogen production sites rather then trying to, say, get every Jack and Jill to bring their car in for a tuneup every 20k in order to reduce emissions. A government had tools at its disposal to encourage the use of renewable energy to produce hydrogen over natural gas, such as tax incentives and regulation. On the other hand a government has a very difficult time getting drivers to wear their seat belts, let alone guarantee every vehicle has a functioning catalytic converter.
And lets not forget (again thinking big picture here) that once the hydrogen infrastructure is in place, the market is made much more accessible to smaller entities to innovate and compete, to take advantage of the economies of scale, and in general explore the possibilities of the technology that we don't yet anticipate.
There'll be no dancing around this issue.
".. but the gap between OOo calc and excel is 1 order of magnitude more than between photoshop and the gimp..."
Perhaps for the casual user, but for the rest of us there is a huge gap between photoshop and the gimp.
I think a lot of people forget that Winamp was one of the first programs to popularize the use of 'skins'. The /. crowd may not care much for eye candy but it has certainly been very influential and was quite a leap forward.
In an industry where projects frequently run over-budget and technical snags incur huge excess cost, people tend to stick with what they know. Look at how many new projects are using a 20 year old 8051 variant - it does the job.
There will always be a niche for crappy 8 bit micros.
It should be plainly obvious that this kind of commercial practice is extremely dangerous to our environment and sets a poor precedent. Who are we to say that this species is harmless? Please don't tell me that they understand the consequences of such a fish getting into the wild! Hell, it need be only slightly less pallatable to predators and (eventually) you can kiss the 'pure-bred' version goodbye.
Perhaps I am simply nostalgic, but I'd prefer leave the ecosystem to successive generations more or less how I found it. I don't want the ocean to look like a rave.
Is it really necessary to assume these kinds of risks and meddle with nature simply for people's amusement?
I'm with you on this one. The original C&C was great fun. It was truly innovative in its time - great graphics, exciting gameplay, and little men getting run over with tanks, how cool was that!
But for anyone contemplating this game, do yourself a favor and forget it. The ridiculous storyline will insult your intellect and the poorly designed UI and awkward gameplay will assault your senses.
Good riddance Westwood Studio, if only someone had put this dog down sooner.
Software patents that hinder progress or stunt innovation is one thing that annoys us all, but what Myriad is doing is pure evil.
High cost and access to treatment or drugs may not affect a lot of slashdot readers personally. However access and affordability to preventative treatment impacts us all whether you're concerned about your family, or the growing tax/HMO bill as the occurrence and cost of treating cancer patients increases.
Something has to be done about the patent system and not in 20 years, not in 10 years, but right now!
Someday Honda/Acura/Ford/GM may decide that there is BIG money in provided their own system perfomance upgrades, software extras etc.
That will be the day that they start cracking down on after-market upgrades that use their 'proprietary' pinouts or components that circumvent their copy protection.
And that will be the day the auto industry uses the DMCA in the same abusive way that Adobe,M$ and the others are using it. They'll back up their case with the claim that it is unsafe for unlicensed third parties to provide these products, or for anyone except a 'certified XYZ technician' to make modifications to your car.
I can see it now: "Excuse me sir, you'll have to sign this EULA before you drive off the lot with that car you just purchased".
So where does that leave the tinkerer or the small shop?
Maybe this is a good thing? Maybe this is the kind of controversy that will put enough pressure on congress to amend the DMCA.
gcc, and Voyager - an HTML 3.2 compliant browser are included in the base. You can download, browse and install additional software including a Mozilla based browser and AbiWord using the package installer. I think qnxstart.com has GIMP and XPDF ported