Rackspace is more expensive, for sure. But We're talking a few extra cents, not $20 , for a game.
Largely the costs in hosting in australia are not bandwidth related (although some colos do charge stupidly for that) but power related. Because of the ridiculous price in power lately due to all the grid updates (no its not carbon price, that hasnt been introduced yet!) power is just stupidly expensive and that translates to expensiveness in rack hosting since a 1U rack can chew up quite a good few amperes of power and then some more for air conditioning (which is a huge part of rack hosting costs).
So generally when your getting your stuff priced in rack hosting , at least in supply-your-own-box stuff the biggest component of the billing has a tendency to be power related.
I cant wait for the NBN to be fully cranking so I can just host my box at home on my own 100m/b fibre with some grey-box diy server.
Either way though, I dont think that really is what the costs are. CDs + DVDs are also ridiculously priced despite usually being manufactured overseas in cheap asian pressing plants, and bandwidth/hosting has nothing to contribute to THAT cost.
At least australia wont send you to gitmo or send some fake FBI to arrest you with false warrants.
You really haven't been following the anti-association law stuff recently havent you?
In numerous states now, if you so much as talk to an outlaw biker you can get done for serious time, and in most the cases what designates an outlaw organization is not decided by judicial review but the whims of the police minister. Theres nothing in the language of the laws that says they cant declare an unpoular political group, like socialists, or activist group, like the sea shephards (Ok granted sea shephard is very popular in australia, just not with the government) to be an illegal organization and thus imprison people simply because they want to organize around their beliefs.
Our political masters have been taking notes from abroad, and its not looking good.
Thats not necessarily even counting on the monkeys behalf. A lot of neuroscientists reckon we can process about 4 separate things in our mind simultaneously , and then use a variety of clever tricks to work around it (Ie counting!) and if that stretches across species. So conciably the monkeys are just at their limit of how many dudes they can track at once, rather than an inability to count beyond 4.
You do in quite a few states, and it should be no surprise that its those states with the worst judicial corruption or plain out "wtf" judgement making.
And the fact that a very large majority of the non-trivial portions of the code clearly do what they do in different ways to Oracle's implementation. And the fact that the developers of the code (in this case Apache, not Google) have stated several times that it is clean room. And that it was an open source project where the practice was to obtain a signed statement from developers providing complete details of exposure to Sun's IP prior to accepting patches from them (see http://harmony.apache.org/auth_cont_quest.html ), so it seems to be pretty clear that either it was clean room, or there is a developer who lied to them in a written warranty and therefore *that developer should be liable*, not Google.
Your basically right, however if a developer hired by google cheated and snuck a look, then it would be google itself who is liable. Companies can't really push liability down to employees like that. *GOOGLE* could sue the employee for breaching contract, but it can't clean its hands of the act. When you work for a company, you represent the company. Thats why if a low level chump makes an insane deal with a third party he's not authorized to make on behalf of the company he's working for , the company is still liable to the third party , the chump is liable to his employer, but the chump is not liable to the third party.
Well nothing exept the utterly absurd price tag that is..... With the returns of app stores for the average developer, its a pretty hard cost to justify.
Reminder that there are still Americans who believe Iran and/or sadam-era Iraq are/where in bed with Al quaida.
I mean, forget that Sadam was a secular authoritarian who used the fight against islamism as the pretext for his purges (Baath are arabic socialist, and like most socialists dont have a lot of time for theocracy) and Iran are Shiia, whom Al Quaida consider to be heretical.
Of course the US administration suffer this same sort of blindness as well. The fact that Iraq will fall into the hands of Iran, almost innevitably should have been obvious to anyone who understood the implications of shifting the power balance from the Suni to the Shiia in Iraq.
Of course when your in the business of *creating* enemies, sometimes you do get to dictate terms. Once you piss off enough people, chances are they might put aside their differences and hang together in mutual defence.
Honestly if the US gets involved in many more wars I can honestly see a day when a lot of these powers put their heads together to create an Anti-NATO that should scare the hell out of anyone in the west.
Its best if we just backed the fuck out of there and let nature take its course. When was the last time someone wanted to invade Switzerland?
To me the real tipping point seems to be as the "corporate dystopia" of which William Gibson and Cyberpunk was part.
I recently ran into someone I hadn't seen for years, who used to be heavily into cyberpunk back in those days. I asked him how that was going, and he doesn't read or cosplay any of that any more. I asked why, and he said, "It's not fun any more, it's coming true."
It reminds me of the old Judge Dredd comics (well I guess they still make em, I havent really read em for a decade). In the back there would always be a letters to the editor where fans would write in to say what they liked and didnt like in the various 2000AD strips. Regularly however you'd get kids writing in and drooling about how awesome Dredd is and how cool living in megacity 1 would be. The editors would absolutely flip it at them, because the kids where missing that whilst Dredd had redeeming qualitys he was still an authoritarian fascist and megacity 1 was a terrible distopia that no sane person would actually WANT to live in.
What scares me, is that is the diminishment of of the intellectual and structural independence of the judiciary (seriously america, you need to get rid of voting for your judges, it sounds like a good idea on paper, but its brought you the phenomena of conservative and liberal judges that would be mystifying anywhere else. remember if election funding can corrupt politicians it can corrupt judges too). This , combined with the growth of the surveilance state, and all the various technologies of discipline , we're actually turning , slowly, into that very distopia 2000AD warned us about.
Its quite scary, but worst of all, some people actually want it.
I think however, SCI-FI authors *should* write about distopias, because its one of the few ways we can really play out the various scenarios in our head and take control over whether technology is indeed going to be a liberating force, or instead our shiny new ball and chains.
Go would actually be an excellent option. Its a really clever language that solves a whole ton of C related pain-points, and compiles surprisingly snapilly.
I mean google might be concerned that not many people know it, but Apple took the exact same punt with objective C, but ultimately objective C's strengths as a rapid development platform won over a lot of coders who might otherwise be spooked away from it.
Seriously dude. Oracles remedy seems to involve killing davlik. That means no java on the android. Its a scorched earth aproach to IP litigation, and you better hope oracle fails on that.
I still have no god damn idea why Oracle is doing this other than amazing short sightedness.
Android is one of the few things left stopping coders fleeing to dot net , its literally a lifeline keeping java alive, and Oracle in their stupidity want to sever that.
*WHY* would they engage on a path so god damn harmful to the health of one of their most important intellectual properties. Its frigging bizare.
I mean ok, sure get a pound of flesh for licencing costs, whatever, billionaires suing billionaires is not my interest. But their "rememdy" seems to effectively involve killing davlik, which would be catastrophic to java coders who have had a huge new source of work from android.
Trouble is, no matter how hard you wish it, the majority of people don't believe homosexuality is "normal"....
Fact of life...deal with it...
It isn't like this is something new to you, is it?
Once upon a time th majority of people also thought mixed race marriages where not "normal". Now society views those who think that way as racist shitbags not worth pissing on if they where on fire.
This is how homophobes will look to us in a decade or so. History will be *merciless* to them and I couldn't be happy.
Its self filtering though. If your THAT guy who every week fronts the bosses with your new idea like "attach golf clubs to the water cooler with a robot arm so people could have their refreshments putted over to their cubical", you'll eventually just become a source of amusement to your co-workers , and that'll either shut you up, or you'll keep going knowing that its all just a bit of fun. Either way , win-win.
This isn't really true at all. Civil lawsuits are not about punishment, but resolving a dispute between two parties. Judges know this and don't always look kindly on a party that rushes to court without trying to negotiate with the other party an out of court solution to the problem.
Thus generally while you SHOULD call a lawyer before contacting the other party who will then contact the other party and try and negotiate a solution (like compensation, or whatever). If that fails, THEN the summons gets sent in the mail. This is how the legal system prefers it, and really its just a good idea to work that way too.
If you REALLY think political campaigning from an oposition party in a democracy (and yes, the democrats where not the incumbent party at the time) is a sign of fascism, I truly believe your an amazingly confused person.
If the IT department in your enterprise is forcing you to use insecure software, make an apointment with the head of IT, punch him in the head, and fuck his wife. Its a win-win scenario.
Well I'm about 2 years shy of 40, and I can say pretty much every kid my age had commodore 64s, amstrads, sinclairs, Apple II, Pets, Ataris, Dick smitch wizzards (remember those?), and so on.
So from one australian to another, your either full of shit, or grew up sheltered.
Actually none of them have. They have been sentenced but only one is actually living in Sweden and his will be served in the community rather than behind bars
As a smaller, (presumably) independent band, the RIAA wouldn't mind killing you off. The RIAA isn't there for small artists; they're there for the few giant names they can push, and any competition is bad competition in their view.
Well neither the RIAA or ARIA have ever done a frigging thing for us, so I don't doubt that. Heck I even had a genine "no no" issue of piracy happen to us once where I found a site in the US selling our MP3s for about half the priace we where selling them. I dont care if you pirate-bay or whatever our songs, its not really about that for us. But don't sell our work without giving us a cut of it, is all we ask.
Well I contacted ARIA, and they said "Oh thats in the US, we cant help you". So I contacted the RIAA and they said "Your australians, we are not really interested sorry."
Well I bet if we where AC/DC or something they would be.
Frankly I'd rather kim dotcom got my money than RIAA or ARIA. At least I'm under know illusions as to who Kim represents.
Oh its above the radar. Heck its founders even did jail for it. But they are taking a solid stance and have basically told the MPAA/RIAA to fuck off and have deployed clever lawyers to keep it afloat.
This whole thing really is pissing me off. My band uses these services to facilitate distributing our album and what not, and since a lot of our followers really dont know how to drive bit-torrent, this is the easiest way to get them the goodies.
And because we are distributed across 2 countries (Members in the US and Australia) , we use it to send mixdowns and recording stems when we do stuff.. I mean I guess we probably should move to dropbox for that sort of thing, but the point still remains. These bloody lawyers are trying to ban ALL sharing, and seriously not all, in fact probably most, sharing is piracy.
Its bullshit, these people need to be called out as enemies of the internet and free speech.
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My best suggestion is to tell him on his Facebook page. He probably doesn't read slashdot!
The problem for yahoo though, is that google is the singleton.
Rackspace is more expensive, for sure. But We're talking a few extra cents, not $20 , for a game.
Largely the costs in hosting in australia are not bandwidth related (although some colos do charge stupidly for that) but power related. Because of the ridiculous price in power lately due to all the grid updates (no its not carbon price, that hasnt been introduced yet!) power is just stupidly expensive and that translates to expensiveness in rack hosting since a 1U rack can chew up quite a good few amperes of power and then some more for air conditioning (which is a huge part of rack hosting costs).
So generally when your getting your stuff priced in rack hosting , at least in supply-your-own-box stuff the biggest component of the billing has a tendency to be power related.
I cant wait for the NBN to be fully cranking so I can just host my box at home on my own 100m/b fibre with some grey-box diy server.
Either way though, I dont think that really is what the costs are. CDs + DVDs are also ridiculously priced despite usually being manufactured overseas in cheap asian pressing plants, and bandwidth/hosting has nothing to contribute to THAT cost.
You really haven't been following the anti-association law stuff recently havent you?
In numerous states now, if you so much as talk to an outlaw biker you can get done for serious time, and in most the cases what designates an outlaw organization is not decided by judicial review but the whims of the police minister. Theres nothing in the language of the laws that says they cant declare an unpoular political group, like socialists, or activist group, like the sea shephards (Ok granted sea shephard is very popular in australia, just not with the government) to be an illegal organization and thus imprison people simply because they want to organize around their beliefs.
Our political masters have been taking notes from abroad, and its not looking good.
Thats not necessarily even counting on the monkeys behalf. A lot of neuroscientists reckon we can process about 4 separate things in our mind simultaneously , and then use a variety of clever tricks to work around it (Ie counting!) and if that stretches across species. So conciably the monkeys are just at their limit of how many dudes they can track at once, rather than an inability to count beyond 4.
You do in quite a few states, and it should be no surprise that its those states with the worst judicial corruption or plain out "wtf" judgement making.
Well nothing exept the utterly absurd price tag that is..... With the returns of app stores for the average developer, its a pretty hard cost to justify.
Reminder that there are still Americans who believe Iran and/or sadam-era Iraq are/where in bed with Al quaida.
I mean, forget that Sadam was a secular authoritarian who used the fight against islamism as the pretext for his purges (Baath are arabic socialist, and like most socialists dont have a lot of time for theocracy) and Iran are Shiia, whom Al Quaida consider to be heretical.
Of course the US administration suffer this same sort of blindness as well. The fact that Iraq will fall into the hands of Iran, almost innevitably should have been obvious to anyone who understood the implications of shifting the power balance from the Suni to the Shiia in Iraq.
Of course when your in the business of *creating* enemies, sometimes you do get to dictate terms. Once you piss off enough people, chances are they might put aside their differences and hang together in mutual defence.
Honestly if the US gets involved in many more wars I can honestly see a day when a lot of these powers put their heads together to create an Anti-NATO that should scare the hell out of anyone in the west.
Its best if we just backed the fuck out of there and let nature take its course. When was the last time someone wanted to invade Switzerland?
To me the real tipping point seems to be as the "corporate dystopia" of which William Gibson and Cyberpunk was part.
I recently ran into someone I hadn't seen for years, who used to be heavily into cyberpunk back in those days. I asked him how that was going, and he doesn't read or cosplay any of that any more. I asked why, and he said, "It's not fun any more, it's coming true."
It reminds me of the old Judge Dredd comics (well I guess they still make em, I havent really read em for a decade). In the back there would always be a letters to the editor where fans would write in to say what they liked and didnt like in the various 2000AD strips. Regularly however you'd get kids writing in and drooling about how awesome Dredd is and how cool living in megacity 1 would be. The editors would absolutely flip it at them, because the kids where missing that whilst Dredd had redeeming qualitys he was still an authoritarian fascist and megacity 1 was a terrible distopia that no sane person would actually WANT to live in.
What scares me, is that is the diminishment of of the intellectual and structural independence of the judiciary (seriously america, you need to get rid of voting for your judges, it sounds like a good idea on paper, but its brought you the phenomena of conservative and liberal judges that would be mystifying anywhere else. remember if election funding can corrupt politicians it can corrupt judges too). This , combined with the growth of the surveilance state, and all the various technologies of discipline , we're actually turning , slowly, into that very distopia 2000AD warned us about.
Its quite scary, but worst of all, some people actually want it.
I think however, SCI-FI authors *should* write about distopias, because its one of the few ways we can really play out the various scenarios in our head and take control over whether technology is indeed going to be a liberating force, or instead our shiny new ball and chains.
Go would actually be an excellent option. Its a really clever language that solves a whole ton of C related pain-points, and compiles surprisingly snapilly.
I mean google might be concerned that not many people know it, but Apple took the exact same punt with objective C, but ultimately objective C's strengths as a rapid development platform won over a lot of coders who might otherwise be spooked away from it.
Seriously dude. Oracles remedy seems to involve killing davlik. That means no java on the android. Its a scorched earth aproach to IP litigation, and you better hope oracle fails on that.
Only ron paul can save us now!
*floats away on a ron-paul blimp into happy lala land because after all who wouldn't want to live in a max max movie*
I still have no god damn idea why Oracle is doing this other than amazing short sightedness.
Android is one of the few things left stopping coders fleeing to dot net , its literally a lifeline keeping java alive, and Oracle in their stupidity want to sever that.
*WHY* would they engage on a path so god damn harmful to the health of one of their most important intellectual properties. Its frigging bizare.
I mean ok, sure get a pound of flesh for licencing costs, whatever, billionaires suing billionaires is not my interest. But their "rememdy" seems to effectively involve killing davlik, which would be catastrophic to java coders who have had a huge new source of work from android.
Once upon a time th majority of people also thought mixed race marriages where not "normal". Now society views those who think that way as racist shitbags not worth pissing on if they where on fire.
This is how homophobes will look to us in a decade or so. History will be *merciless* to them and I couldn't be happy.
Fuck hate.
Its self filtering though. If your THAT guy who every week fronts the bosses with your new idea like "attach golf clubs to the water cooler with a robot arm so people could have their refreshments putted over to their cubical", you'll eventually just become a source of amusement to your co-workers , and that'll either shut you up, or you'll keep going knowing that its all just a bit of fun. Either way , win-win.
This isn't really true at all. Civil lawsuits are not about punishment, but resolving a dispute between two parties. Judges know this and don't always look kindly on a party that rushes to court without trying to negotiate with the other party an out of court solution to the problem.
Thus generally while you SHOULD call a lawyer before contacting the other party who will then contact the other party and try and negotiate a solution (like compensation, or whatever). If that fails, THEN the summons gets sent in the mail. This is how the legal system prefers it, and really its just a good idea to work that way too.
If you REALLY think political campaigning from an oposition party in a democracy (and yes, the democrats where not the incumbent party at the time) is a sign of fascism, I truly believe your an amazingly confused person.
If the IT department in your enterprise is forcing you to use insecure software, make an apointment with the head of IT, punch him in the head, and fuck his wife. Its a win-win scenario.
And another in West Australia. The local street kids around here knew them. Apparently the girls where pretty fucked up puppies.
"Sick lesbian vampire killers"
Well I'm about 2 years shy of 40, and I can say pretty much every kid my age had commodore 64s, amstrads, sinclairs, Apple II, Pets, Ataris, Dick smitch wizzards (remember those?), and so on.
So from one australian to another, your either full of shit, or grew up sheltered.
Don't speak for me thanks.
My bad. I thought they did.
Are you sure you're in a band? You're missing an opportunity here.
As in, I've never met a band who doesn't take a shot at hawking their album, given the opportunity.
Got samples? Music video? Free tracks? I can't be the only curious one, but I guess I was the only one to ask.
If you insist. :)
http://www.myspace.com/theacceleratorsperth
Theres itunes and amazon links there (Go buy the MP3s, easier to torrent, it OK, I'm giving you permission)
As a smaller, (presumably) independent band, the RIAA wouldn't mind killing you off. The RIAA isn't there for small artists; they're there for the few giant names they can push, and any competition is bad competition in their view.
Well neither the RIAA or ARIA have ever done a frigging thing for us, so I don't doubt that. Heck I even had a genine "no no" issue of piracy happen to us once where I found a site in the US selling our MP3s for about half the priace we where selling them. I dont care if you pirate-bay or whatever our songs, its not really about that for us. But don't sell our work without giving us a cut of it, is all we ask.
Well I contacted ARIA, and they said "Oh thats in the US, we cant help you". So I contacted the RIAA and they said "Your australians, we are not really interested sorry."
Well I bet if we where AC/DC or something they would be.
Frankly I'd rather kim dotcom got my money than RIAA or ARIA. At least I'm under know illusions as to who Kim represents.
Oh its above the radar. Heck its founders even did jail for it. But they are taking a solid stance and have basically told the MPAA/RIAA to fuck off and have deployed clever lawyers to keep it afloat.
This whole thing really is pissing me off. My band uses these services to facilitate distributing our album and what not, and since a lot of our followers really dont know how to drive bit-torrent, this is the easiest way to get them the goodies.
And because we are distributed across 2 countries (Members in the US and Australia) , we use it to send mixdowns and recording stems when we do stuff.. I mean I guess we probably should move to dropbox for that sort of thing, but the point still remains. These bloody lawyers are trying to ban ALL sharing, and seriously not all, in fact probably most, sharing is piracy.
Its bullshit, these people need to be called out as enemies of the internet and free speech.