We've had a similar thing here in Australia for a while, for the simple reason that most people don't have access to cable or ADSL.. I'm in a city with about 3 million people but Telstra's satellite is the only viable option if I want broadband downloads. A friend of mine is paying Telstra about US$42/month for (I think) 384Mbps with a 3 gig/month download cap.. you can get higher download caps in exchange for lower speeds, and can always opt to pay the outrageous (about US10c/meg) excess volume charges.
In addition to that, he pays about US$24/month for permanent dialup through another (not Telstra) ISP.. no dialup for uplink would make the satellite downlink is kinda useless. Plus of course the cost of a dedicated phoneline etc... damn pricey, but since he has the cash, compared to the rest of us crawling on 56k, he's happy.
But with time the meaning of term "OS" has changed a lot and a good OS needs a lot more than it needed years ago.... you mean like preemptive multitasking, decent virtual memory management and stability? Heh.. don't tell all the Mac users until OSX hits the desktops, they might get a little upset:)
This is a perfect example of what happens when a few large corporations gain so much influence across such a large range of markets. I'm sure enough people here have read some of Gibson's fiction; somehow his vision of a future dominated by fascist, greedy entrepreneurial entities doesn't seem so fantastic anymore.
These days, when a corporation becomes large enough, it can gain influence in two ways - the exploitation of horizontal expansion, and the legislature. These days money will buy you enough lobbyists, lawyers, and politicians that don't know or don't care, that industries get to set a lot of the rules that they're 'governed' by - especially when the 'experts' that governments turn to for advice often have something to gain from pushing a particular standpoint (remember the Y2K scare?)
As for horizontal expansion.. well, for some reason the antitrust laws that are meant to prevent that are levered in a case where the market expanded into is rather similar (browser software, as opposed to systems software), but not exerted when a company manufactures games consoles, screens, cameras, televisions, stereos, games, music, etc...
This an example of the kind of attitudes that can start to form and have an impact when a company manufactures the content (music), and the player, and competing products (read: computers). It's unfairly leveraging a position in one market to influence another. In this case, it's going as far as to define the market.. I'm sure we'll see the MPAA make a similar move when they phase out tapes in favour of DVDs.
If there's one thing that schools teach wrong these days, it's economics. Consumer sovereignty is dead. A common perception is that modern markets are free and genuinely competitive.. oh, how wrong some people are.
Fleecy Moss has seen a graphics card inclusive os work before and it will work again
So could you now please explain to me exactly how Amiga running on top of Linux will exploit the video card in this way? Given that the Amiga will be portable across different processors and different graphics chipsets? Somehow, do something magical with the hardware that the graphics card manufacturer's themselves haven't been able to do with their own drivers?
Vapour, vapour, vapour. When whoever is bastardising the Amiga name now can reveal benchmarks showing a real application running faster on the Amiga VM than the native system, it might start to be worthy of attention.
You never signed the security documents that I did, and never agreed to keep this information to yourself. You have nothing binding you to keep "secret" information secret other than patriotism or loyalty to your friend.
I used to say that with certainty, but I'm not so sure since Apple's lawyers started throwing letters at rumour sites and the sites were scared enough of Apple having a case that they took the information down.
Somehow I think that Java popup is there purely so people can bitch about how their browser is implemented, and more to the point how much their browser sucks because it can't view sites correctly. (Hint: upgrade)
It looks like almost valid CSS to me - just a few missing units that any sane browser would assume anyway.
By today's standards, it's a reasonable page. How long is the Web supposed to wait for Netscape to catch up? Hell, just grab Mozilla - don't blame other people if their webpage isn't accessible to you just because you're using a browser that's two years old, that can't fully handle a standard that's four years old.
Who's the dick that moderated this to -1? (And yes, I'm Australian)
The government took away as many guns as they could without prompting farmers to turn revolutionary. Content regulation over here is, to put it mildly, rather extreme. The pollies over here are just as bad as the dicks running America, except the people don't really have any constitutional protection over here.
I just saw on the news that the Prime Minister's pushing for compulsory military service for the unemployed. I guess turning someone that doesn't pay any taxes into a reservist holding a gun for them serves the government's purpose. And the only possible use for those guns, an invasion into Australia aside, would be to control the population - under Australia's laws only full servicemen (not the Reserve) can serve overseas, the rest are limited to fighting on Australian soil.
As for assimilation by China - did you know that the Australian government cemented a deal with the boys behind Tianamen that makes Australia the only country in the world where Chinese can come on a casual vacation? Hint: if your brother said something bad about Chairman Mao, don't come here for asylum I guess.
think everything on the Web should be free of charge to the end consumer
What if somebody only uses USENET and email, and doesn't go anywhere near HTTP? And before you say "well, they're using email and news for free" I'll point out that news and mail servers are generally provided by an ISP which you do pay for the service.
[...] the fee users are prepared to pay might not be sufficient to keep them going [...]
Not my problem. It's the nature of capitalism that some businesses will fail. If your local corner store needs $500 to survive, is it okay for them to steal it from your house?
I saw the opposite situation take place. A small theatre company came in and took over the premises of a small cinema that used to be operated by a large cinema group. I really love the atmosphere and the shows there now (including a screening of Blade Runner just days before Ridley Scott spilt the beans:).
By the way, to anyone in Perth (including, I suspect, the above poster) I'm talking about the Luna on Essex Street, which used to be run by Coastal Cinemas (ala Millenium Cinemas, Queensgate)
To jump on a conversation from a couple of weeks go, who's the villain in Blade Runner?:P (Oh, and saying "replicants are the villians" will twist everything around and you'll have to ask, "who are the good guys?")
So I guess that the zit on Worf's nose, the "flight column" on the Enterprise-E and Riker's return to the Commander Babyface look in Star Trek: Insurrection didn't appeal to you either?:)
Of course, Data's "Oh shit!" in Generations would have flown completely over your head.
A few posts have pointed out that MAPS best defense is that they haven't slandered at any point - they've simply pointed out that YesMail conforms to certain criteria, and people are able to use that information as they see fit (eg not allow mail from YesMail to reach their mailboxes).
On the other hand, CyberPatrol has claimed that student homepages and negative reviews of CyberPatrol are pornographic, militant and contain material relating to Satanism and/or cults. I'd say that counts as slander.
Hehehe. Getting your hands on a gun is practically impossible in Australia unless you're a range shooter or a farmer, in which case you're serverly restricted in what you can get your hands on. Nobody carries handguns except the police.
We have the highest youth suicide rate in the world.
.CX is not a national TLD..CX is assigned to Christmas Island, which is actually a territory of Australia.
Of course, the governing body of Christmas Island gave it away (I wonder how much they were paid?:) to another agency which were "appointed to administer the TLD", which is why.CX is so widespread.
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In addition to that, he pays about US$24/month for permanent dialup through another (not Telstra) ISP.. no dialup for uplink would make the satellite downlink is kinda useless. Plus of course the cost of a dedicated phoneline etc... damn pricey, but since he has the cash, compared to the rest of us crawling on 56k, he's happy.
But with time the meaning of term "OS" has changed a lot and a good OS needs a lot more than it needed years ago.... you mean like preemptive multitasking, decent virtual memory management and stability? Heh.. don't tell all the Mac users until OSX hits the desktops, they might get a little upset :)
However, despite this, a browser is not and can not be an essential part of an operating system?
These days, when a corporation becomes large enough, it can gain influence in two ways - the exploitation of horizontal expansion, and the legislature. These days money will buy you enough lobbyists, lawyers, and politicians that don't know or don't care, that industries get to set a lot of the rules that they're 'governed' by - especially when the 'experts' that governments turn to for advice often have something to gain from pushing a particular standpoint (remember the Y2K scare?)
As for horizontal expansion.. well, for some reason the antitrust laws that are meant to prevent that are levered in a case where the market expanded into is rather similar (browser software, as opposed to systems software), but not exerted when a company manufactures games consoles, screens, cameras, televisions, stereos, games, music, etc...
This an example of the kind of attitudes that can start to form and have an impact when a company manufactures the content (music), and the player, and competing products (read: computers). It's unfairly leveraging a position in one market to influence another. In this case, it's going as far as to define the market.. I'm sure we'll see the MPAA make a similar move when they phase out tapes in favour of DVDs.
If there's one thing that schools teach wrong these days, it's economics. Consumer sovereignty is dead. A common perception is that modern markets are free and genuinely competitive .. oh, how wrong some people are.
void moveBack(recordset_t *r, int n) {
fseek(r->fp, (size_t)(-n * sizeof(record_t)), SEEK_CUR);
}
Why, oh why, keep on with the assumption that the Intel product will be 'superior' when the companies are pretty much neck-and-neck these days?
So could you now please explain to me exactly how Amiga running on top of Linux will exploit the video card in this way? Given that the Amiga will be portable across different processors and different graphics chipsets? Somehow, do something magical with the hardware that the graphics card manufacturer's themselves haven't been able to do with their own drivers?
Vapour, vapour, vapour. When whoever is bastardising the Amiga name now can reveal benchmarks showing a real application running faster on the Amiga VM than the native system, it might start to be worthy of attention.
I used to say that with certainty, but I'm not so sure since Apple's lawyers started throwing letters at rumour sites and the sites were scared enough of Apple having a case that they took the information down.
Would that make CmdrTaco a half cent whore?
Actually, the C compiler will parse and translate that code just fine. At which point you, the moron that wrote such broken code, have the problem.
lightweight text mode browser
heavyweight gui browser
Somehow I think that Java popup is there purely so people can bitch about how their browser is implemented, and more to the point how much their browser sucks because it can't view sites correctly. (Hint: upgrade)
By today's standards, it's a reasonable page. How long is the Web supposed to wait for Netscape to catch up? Hell, just grab Mozilla - don't blame other people if their webpage isn't accessible to you just because you're using a browser that's two years old, that can't fully handle a standard that's four years old.
The government took away as many guns as they could without prompting farmers to turn revolutionary. Content regulation over here is, to put it mildly, rather extreme. The pollies over here are just as bad as the dicks running America, except the people don't really have any constitutional protection over here.
I just saw on the news that the Prime Minister's pushing for compulsory military service for the unemployed. I guess turning someone that doesn't pay any taxes into a reservist holding a gun for them serves the government's purpose. And the only possible use for those guns, an invasion into Australia aside, would be to control the population - under Australia's laws only full servicemen (not the Reserve) can serve overseas, the rest are limited to fighting on Australian soil.
As for assimilation by China - did you know that the Australian government cemented a deal with the boys behind Tianamen that makes Australia the only country in the world where Chinese can come on a casual vacation? Hint: if your brother said something bad about Chairman Mao, don't come here for asylum I guess.
... when you can use it to play games instead?
What if somebody only uses USENET and email, and doesn't go anywhere near HTTP? And before you say "well, they're using email and news for free" I'll point out that news and mail servers are generally provided by an ISP which you do pay for the service.
Not my problem. It's the nature of capitalism that some businesses will fail. If your local corner store needs $500 to survive, is it okay for them to steal it from your house?
Quoting copyrighted material for the purpose of criticism or comment falls under the classification of fair use.
By the way, to anyone in Perth (including, I suspect, the above poster) I'm talking about the Luna on Essex Street, which used to be run by Coastal Cinemas (ala Millenium Cinemas, Queensgate)
To jump on a conversation from a couple of weeks go, who's the villain in Blade Runner? :P (Oh, and saying "replicants are the villians" will twist everything around and you'll have to ask, "who are the good guys?")
Of course, Data's "Oh shit!" in Generations would have flown completely over your head.
A few posts have pointed out that MAPS best defense is that they haven't slandered at any point - they've simply pointed out that YesMail conforms to certain criteria, and people are able to use that information as they see fit (eg not allow mail from YesMail to reach their mailboxes).
On the other hand, CyberPatrol has claimed that student homepages and negative reviews of CyberPatrol are pornographic, militant and contain material relating to Satanism and/or cults. I'd say that counts as slander.
We have the highest youth suicide rate in the world.
The Free Country's Developer City has links to an absolute crapload of free stuff, including a heap of free Pascal and Delphi compilers. The Borland abandonware stuff is here (free registration required).
Of course, the governing body of Christmas Island gave it away (I wonder how much they were paid? :) to another agency which were "appointed to administer the TLD", which is why .CX is so widespread.