But take my situation right now, for several weeks I'm at a clients remote location, several 100s. of kilometres from the land line or cell tower and we not only want but need and are specifically allowed to do some online banking etc. through their network, would I find out a password had been breached I'd not hesitate a split second to sue the company for being a partner in such an event.
Yes I know I'm under EU jurisdiction where consumers come before companies but non the less...
Here in The Netherlands the dentists are in real competition with each other and they have to publish their prices on the net.
I just checked an average one, a three-canal root canal costs € 373,80, (single canal € 288,95) and the crown is between € 593,15 (plastic) and € 817,40 (ceramic).
It's possible to find one 25% cheaper.
Linus being a joint Grand Winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize is a well deserved award to him.
His original idea has brought together a large group of very smart people and his no-nonsense stile has kept this herd of cats working for a joint goal.
My congratulations with the prize and thanks for making my computer a useful tool!
Microsoft, a commercial enterprise if there ever was one, has something new to sell and the market needs to guess the price.
But then it's purely B2B and has nothing to do with the consumer...
When certain services are explicitly given for free it implies there must be other services that are not to be had for free.
(Remember we're talking about the bandwidth from your ISP, not content!)
Such is not the business your ISP should be in, it's not up to them to decide whether I get my news for 'free' from Fox News or pay additional charges when I get it from CNN. And it makes NO difference who does the paying, CNN the provider or me the consumer.
The consumer wants a working network connection without restrictions.
It is obvious some ISP's will not be able to resist the temptation to raise artificial (speed) barriers on certain services if they feel it would make them an extra dime.
Such barriers could be based on certain ports, protocols, IP addresses or most likely deep packet inspection, all things a free internet can do without.
This would be an extremely slippery slope towards effective censorship and possible a multi-tiered internet, the cheap with limited access and the expensive with all the good stuff.
Here in The Netherlands we see no danger of a lack of development due to enforced net neutrality, as a matter of fact the new legislation is partially based on a fear of stagnation due to artificial barriers by greedy ISP's.
In several European countries there is evidence certain services are getting throttled so as to give way for others, an example are the UK where torrents are at times of the day really slow. However much I understand that in a situation with limited bandwidth the torrent might be in the way of an important VOIP call, the solution is to improve the infrastructure, not throttle the torrent.
Or the real fear combined telco/ISP's rather have you use their own phone solution than a cheap VOIP provider.
Heh funny, when I introduce someone to Linux it's always by means of KDE.
When they have previous Windows experience they usually don't need much time to feel at ease using the Classic menu.
When they are computer novices, usually elder people, they generally grasp the concept without much trouble, after all it's so easy to set up a simple system with just the few icons they need.
You talk about KDE needing a powerful computer, then why does it run fine on netbooks of a few years ago with 1GB RAM?
The strong point of KDE is excellent integration between applications and a sane default combined with maximum reconfigurability.
True, Sabayon with KDE is very pretty and stable.
But sometimes it's hard to find a particular application, the Debian and Ubuntu repositories are unbeatable.
OK I now appreciate your point but going off on a tangent is rather the Slashdot way, considering the regular discussions here about ID vs. Science I don't think it was so very OT.
Is it not reasonable that when they become successful, they too should pay into the system in order to pay for the education and health of the current generation just as others paid into the system to provide these services to them, providing an educated and healthy workforce for the benefit of among others their own company?
That's only reasonable when your view of the future reaches beyond the quarterly results your bonuses depend on.
Caring for the educating your future employees and consumers is not part of the Anglo-Saxon company moral.
Regulation is generally of benefit in situations where parties engaged in an activity are not of comparable strength.
In this case it's to protect the individual consumer against the few rather powerful ISP's.
EU regulation is generally written with the consumer in mind.
Commissioner Kroes is a member of the Dutch Liberal party called VVD, in the Dutch political context liberal means pro-Free Trade and in the case of the VVD Anti-Socialist but not necessarily against social.
There are no exceptions to NN.
But it will be possible for ISP's to sell additional services like religious or child safe filters.
These will have to be charged for separately and can not be included in the basic offering.
The blocking of a Pirate Bay is an entirely different matter, it is ordered by a court, not written in the (NN) law.
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But take my situation right now, for several weeks I'm at a clients remote location, several 100s. of kilometres from the land line or cell tower and we not only want but need and are specifically allowed to do some online banking etc. through their network, would I find out a password had been breached I'd not hesitate a split second to sue the company for being a partner in such an event.
Yes I know I'm under EU jurisdiction where consumers come before companies but non the less...
That's basically what they told Christophorus Columbus and see what has come out of it...
I just checked an average one, a three-canal root canal costs € 373,80, (single canal € 288,95) and the crown is between € 593,15 (plastic) and € 817,40 (ceramic).
It's possible to find one 25% cheaper.
His original idea has brought together a large group of very smart people and his no-nonsense stile has kept this herd of cats working for a joint goal.
My congratulations with the prize and thanks for making my computer a useful tool!
They could not find anyone with better skills as they already knew the facts.
Microsoft, a commercial enterprise if there ever was one, has something new to sell and the market needs to guess the price.
But then it's purely B2B and has nothing to do with the consumer...
Or just heat it to red-hot and wait till it stops smoking.
Or is that avenue now closed as well?
(Remember we're talking about the bandwidth from your ISP, not content!)
Such is not the business your ISP should be in, it's not up to them to decide whether I get my news for 'free' from Fox News or pay additional charges when I get it from CNN. And it makes NO difference who does the paying, CNN the provider or me the consumer.
It is obvious some ISP's will not be able to resist the temptation to raise artificial (speed) barriers on certain services if they feel it would make them an extra dime.
Such barriers could be based on certain ports, protocols, IP addresses or most likely deep packet inspection, all things a free internet can do without.
This would be an extremely slippery slope towards effective censorship and possible a multi-tiered internet, the cheap with limited access and the expensive with all the good stuff.
Here in The Netherlands we see no danger of a lack of development due to enforced net neutrality, as a matter of fact the new legislation is partially based on a fear of stagnation due to artificial barriers by greedy ISP's.
In several European countries there is evidence certain services are getting throttled so as to give way for others, an example are the UK where torrents are at times of the day really slow. However much I understand that in a situation with limited bandwidth the torrent might be in the way of an important VOIP call, the solution is to improve the infrastructure, not throttle the torrent.
Or the real fear combined telco/ISP's rather have you use their own phone solution than a cheap VOIP provider.
In the mean time you could use the only Real KDE file manager Krusader, it can handle non ascii encodings
When they have previous Windows experience they usually don't need much time to feel at ease using the Classic menu.
When they are computer novices, usually elder people, they generally grasp the concept without much trouble, after all it's so easy to set up a simple system with just the few icons they need.
You talk about KDE needing a powerful computer, then why does it run fine on netbooks of a few years ago with 1GB RAM?
The strong point of KDE is excellent integration between applications and a sane default combined with maximum reconfigurability.
KDE does allow you to edit such trivialities.
Besides, why do you show a several years old (KDE4.3) example?
True, Sabayon with KDE is very pretty and stable. But sometimes it's hard to find a particular application, the Debian and Ubuntu repositories are unbeatable.
OK I now appreciate your point but going off on a tangent is rather the Slashdot way, considering the regular discussions here about ID vs. Science I don't think it was so very OT.
TFA is about growing an interest in science in a young kid by exposing it to the wonders a microscope can show.
It's virtually by definition such will involve teaching about evolution, ID is the antagonist to such.
Is it not reasonable that when they become successful, they too should pay into the system in order to pay for the education and health of the current generation just as others paid into the system to provide these services to them, providing an educated and healthy workforce for the benefit of among others their own company?
That's only reasonable when your view of the future reaches beyond the quarterly results your bonuses depend on.
Caring for the educating your future employees and consumers is not part of the Anglo-Saxon company moral.
Oops, I used company and moral in one sentence...
It is indeed time for the EU to further level the playing field and make countries like Ireland adjust their taxes to the expenditures they have.
Judging by your comment you are lacking some evolutionary development.
In this case it's to protect the individual consumer against the few rather powerful ISP's.
EU regulation is generally written with the consumer in mind.
Commissioner Kroes is a member of the Dutch Liberal party called VVD, in the Dutch political context liberal means pro-Free Trade and in the case of the VVD Anti-Socialist but not necessarily against social.
There are no exceptions to NN.
But it will be possible for ISP's to sell additional services like religious or child safe filters.
These will have to be charged for separately and can not be included in the basic offering.
The blocking of a Pirate Bay is an entirely different matter, it is ordered by a court, not written in the (NN) law.
What happened is you can no longer call "an alcoholic beverage containing fermented juice" wine unless it's made from 100% grapes.
Hmm, maybe I must keep a closer eye on that soulskill, he seems to have some previously hidden skills in obfuscating the science of the soul :)
They (FB) must have felt it was cheaper to buy the whole company then to litigate about stupid patents and copy rights.
It sounds like they want to copy KDE.