>How will we ever preserve things for future >generations with our current technologies? >(assuming that at some point in the future the >internet gets wiped out)
If anything the net will increase the rate of erasure. Maybe in one or two areas it'll make preservation easier, but with paper copies it takes a certain number of years for them to deteriorate or a conscious effort to destroy them. With a web page it takes an effort to keep it going. Consider the fate of dejanews' archives.
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A more comprehensive website about the RIP Bill is at Stand's site
Er, making music does cost the companies. At the very least it costs recording studio time plus whatever they manage to con the band/artist in accepting as recompense.
>Ditto to the smaller country players who whine >about paying for bandwidth to US peering points. >If they had content that the US providers though >it was more vital to have, then they might split >the cost.
Problem is, it's a vicious circle. Because of the jump the US got on everyone else they have the most content that people want to link to. Thus other countries' ISPs end up paying for international connectivity whilst the US ones don't. This makes hosting in the US cheaper than elsewhere, which makes more people from abroad locate their content in the US, which makes the international traffic even more one-sided etc.
According to Bob Cringely Microsoft might have deliberately messed up the original trial (they weren't exactly s**t-hot) in order to crush the thing on appeal (they're holding things back). Why? So that the US DOJ thinks they've dealt with MS once and for all, thereby ignoring all the other things that MS get up to. Cringely mentions the Hardware Design Guide as a method of enforcing PC obsolescence.
I'm from London. I hate it when Americans refer to me as British. I am not British. The only pople I've met that call themselves British are 1) Irish Prostestants 2) members of the British National Party. I'm English.
Strange that, I'm English but routinely refer to myself as British and I'm not in either of the two groups you mentioned. I only really refer to myself as English when I'm talking to non-English British. One can have a number of overlapping identities and refer to them according to the context (in global usenet groups I tend to see myself as "European"), rigidly sticking to one identity is, IMHO, close to the nationalism that you seem to deride.
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>How will we ever preserve things for future
>generations with our current technologies?
>(assuming that at some point in the future the
>internet gets wiped out)
If anything the net will increase the rate of erasure. Maybe in one or two areas it'll make preservation easier, but with paper copies it takes a certain number of years for them to deteriorate or a conscious effort to destroy them. With a web page it takes an effort to keep it going. Consider the fate of dejanews' archives.
A more comprehensive website about the RIP Bill is at Stand's site
Er, making music does cost the companies. At the very least it costs recording studio time plus whatever they manage to con the band/artist in accepting as recompense.
>Ditto to the smaller country players who whine
>about paying for bandwidth to US peering points.
>If they had content that the US providers though
>it was more vital to have, then they might split
>the cost.
Problem is, it's a vicious circle. Because of the jump the US got on everyone else they have the most content that people want to link to. Thus other countries' ISPs end up paying for international connectivity whilst the US ones don't. This makes hosting in the US cheaper than elsewhere, which makes more people from abroad locate their content in the US, which makes the international traffic even more one-sided etc.
According to Bob Cringely Microsoft might have deliberately messed up the original trial (they weren't exactly s**t-hot) in order to crush the thing on appeal (they're holding things back). Why? So that the US DOJ thinks they've dealt with MS once and for all, thereby ignoring all the other things that MS get up to. Cringely mentions the Hardware Design Guide as a method of enforcing PC obsolescence.
Strange that, I'm English but routinely refer to myself as British and I'm not in either of the two groups you mentioned. I only really refer to myself as English when I'm talking to non-English British. One can have a number of overlapping identities and refer to them according to the context (in global usenet groups I tend to see myself as "European"), rigidly sticking to one identity is, IMHO, close to the nationalism that you seem to deride.