Note: this only affects ISPs which resell bandwidth. Those with their own equipment can still circumvent this. That's not exactly correct. CRTC forced Bell to open up access to the last mile. Some ISPs (like Teksavvy) have their own network equipments and bandwidth not from Bell, they only rent the last mile from Bell. Bell is actually messing with the data in the last mile.
Apple didn't release a SDK, and people were not happy. Now Apple released a SDK, people are still not happy.
Without Firefox, without Java, without VoIP on cell network, there are still tons of things you can program on to iPhone/iPod Touch. It's a business, pure and simple. I can imagine somewhere in the contract with AT&T it specifically rule out VoIP on cell network, and anyway to get around that.
Besides, Firefox is bloated (look how slow microb run on Nokia 770). And you want to use Azureus on iPhone/iPod? I don't see any big deal they have some restrictions. If you don't like them, don't develop applications for them. Or you can just go the old jailbreaking route.
It does, however, go along with the Chinese cultural desire to control the elements, which heretofore has been embodied mostly with the rivers--the legendary "Yellow Emperor" was the first to stop the flooding of the Yang Tze; the current government has thrown massive resources into the Three Gorges dam. Controlling the rivers has been traditionally (as far as I recall, anyway) seen as evidence of controlling the land, and thus of being a legitimate government.
Using that ancient example to imply Chinese's cultural desire is a stretch. There were no advance warning system to evacuate people living by the river. Even if they know that half day in advance, it was extremely difficult to evacuate. Flood prevention was more cost effective and practical. But that's the ancient time.
xxx can be:- having sex with a spouse: tell these "nothing to hide" supporters letting others to watch them fucking! pooing: tell these "nothing to hide" supporters letting others to watch them pooing!.....
I have a hard time finding comprehensible details from the big report. So much for blaming engineers and scientists for using so many "jargons" in discussions of total cost of anything, the report is just not clear on ANYTHING.
Look at the recycling cost. How do they calculate it? Besides a more sophisticated car would cost exponentially more to recycle, I found nothing that can explain clearly about it. Recycled 5 times in average? Shouldn't a better designed car last longer and less likely to be recycled?
Toyota sells well to the older generation too (relatively), and it doesn't seem to have new customers who were attracted by Pontiac when they were younger.
There's not much different. When people grow older, they have better things to do, and they just want something that works. Mac seems to fit that description.
I know some guys are going to mod me down. But here it goes.
Don't blame your industry. Don't blame your life. If you two don't want to get divorced, nothing can make you two divorced. It's completely you two's choice. The life in IT hard on marriage? It's just because you don't have the ability to make it work. There are so many others working in IT and have a happy marriage. You choose your work over your marriage. It can happen in any job and any industry. It's just your priority.
You may say the IT industry attracts more people who got your priority. Any industry that is well paid with long working hours attracts people who choose work over family. If you don't want your marriage fails, choose another industry that is suitable to you.
It isn't free to connect to the local POTS. Skype has no choice but paying Etisalat, considered as the monopoly of telecommunication in UAE. Dailaround market is quite competitive, yet SkypeOut's price to UAE is lower than many of the dailaround offering. Price gouging?
That's not price gouging by Skype. If it's anything, it's Etisalat exercising it's monopoly power. Skype is in no position to level the playing field, other than letting you have free Skype-Skype calls (if the local ISP monopoly has not block Skype traffic yet.) What, you want Skype to do money losing business, such to kill the government established monopoly for you?
It seems to be everyone's knee-jerk reaction that McVoy is against all reverse-engineering in general.
But if he's okay with competition, reverse engineering is always a part of competition and he should be fine with it.
After RTFA, what I get is, if you reverse engineer BK, learn how it works, and implement something that's not plugged into BK's network, and compete with McVoy, he's fine with it. The "riding on his coat-tails" is when you reimplement his solution using BK's network, and compete with BK directly.
Before you jump into conclusion the network is open so everyone can use it, consider this: you are not just reading information from BK's network, but also changing the information, and possibly corrupting the network data. You can say it's a flaw.
So it comes to this: should reverse-engineering, on the third party's property, that could cause harm to the third party be allowed?
I'm not sure letting an implementation that potentially render the whole network useless should be protected as valid reverse-engineering.
The article is ~ 5 minutes old, and there's 10+ anti-china/america sold out posts already. Well, that's why they should keep the commoditised industry here. Otherwise where will these posters work then?
A lot of these net cafe are poorly constructed without proper safety facilities. A fire swept through an illegal net bar killing 24 and sending another 13 to hospital in 2002.
http://www.edu.cn/20020618/3059163.shtml
Not many businesses in China respect the safety standards that the western world take for granted. There are many ways, including bridery, to get around the safety inspections. So occasionally the government has to do some massive crack down. For one, to try to control the internet to please the critics in the communist party. Also, nobody would bride the safety inspectors if the government does not show that they are serious about the safety standards. A few weeks later these net cafe would be re-opened. And everything goes back to business as usual.
Content censoring is always there. But that's not the only reason they close down these net cafe. Money is the reason.
Or else do you think Microsoft would jump into a market that has no profit or no strategic connection?
Does it mean Microsoft benefits consumers? Initially yes, but we don't know in the longer time frame. Once MS dominates the market and using it's market power, they do not have incentive to innovate and to improve their products' quality.
So the symdromes are just illustion. It could be originated from back/neck minor injury due to improper posture by sitting in front of the computer all the time.
Check with a chiropractor.
Disclaimer: I know completely nothing about medicine.
No, you still haven't addressed the real issue, which is, those who are informed should have tried their best to inform those who ain't. That's how to prevent corruption. You are just blaming the wrong in politics on people who make did not educate themselves to be informed.
The real problem is, the most informed just do nothing and let politicians manipulate the media, political system and uninformed citizens. Then turning your back to blame people being manipulated?
Luckily I'm in Canada and our media are doing their jobs satisfactory. If they don't, at least I do my job to complain loud to my government and other media. So far it is still working, so I don't have to go the route to blame uninformed of being manipulated.
Shouldn't the informed help informing the ignorants? Shouldn't the informed condemn the lies of politicians?
Instead you suggest that ignorant voters shouldn't vote. Something is wrong here. You suggest that workers who work 14 hours a day and miss the biased news, who know not much on politics shouldn't vote. How about only professors in universities are allowed to vote?
This is just another form of eliticism.
If you are informed, at least you have the responsibility to inform others how the facts are twisted in the media. Not everyone is as lucky as you are who can spend time to read and be informed.
I have the impression that SPF is going to create a lot of problems to universities.
A couple universities I've been to do not allow external SMTP connections. Users need to use their ISPs' SMTP server to send email. I couldn't find how the SPF can accomodate this practice without significant change: either the university allows authenticated external SMTP connections or ISP provides another authenticated SMTP server for these users (to user whatever address they want).
There's nothing wrong Wal*Mart cares about profit only. People seems to think that they expliot their employees, force their suppliers to lower their supplied prices to bare minimal, or treat customers as criminals.
If you think they underpay you, go work somewhere else. If you think they take away your labour rights, go work somewhere else. If you don't have any skill and couldn't find a job somewhere else, acquire some skills. If you have skills and simply don't like Wal*Mart, how about you start your own store and compete with them? They are not charity. No business really give a damn to you, unless it's favorable to them too. Wal*Mart is no different from any business.
If you are the suppliers and think that Wal*Mart expliot you and force you to accept unreasonable low prices, don't do the business. If you accept the business, you believe you have a long term benefits from it. Otherwise, either you are not as competitive as your competitors who can supply Wal*Mart with lower prices, or you are the monopoly of your goods but you don't have the knowledge to sell your goods to other retail stores/your own stores. Nobody put a gun on your head to do business to Wal*Mart.
If you are small stores and couldn't compete with Wal*Mart's ridiculous low prices, there are two things you can do: 1. understand why your suppliers don't supply you with the same prices, and go bargain 2. your time is up, plan to move onto something else/somewhere else. It's a tough and sad truth, but most of us who work have the same chance got displaced.
The most stupid thing people can say is Wal*Mart is an evil monopoly if they can't compete with Wal*Mart because Wal*Mart can get better deals. At least, they are not lobbying the government to prevent other stores coming into the market. It's just like SCO saying Linux is evil when SCO couldn't compete with anything else.
If you feel offended when the clerk put a tag on your bag when you enter Wal*Mart, simply don't go there.
Indeed, what the article didn't mention: the working condition in electronic manufacturers is normally better than other manufacturering that's more labour intensive.
Think how a slave will screw up the $10 components into junk every other DVD player made. Even the greediest one would be willing to pay $1 per hour more to get someone who screw up less.
Want to help improve all labour conditions in China? Do more trade with them. When the demand is large enough, manufacturers need to compete for workers, that would automatically improve working condition.
It is situations like this where local governments (or even, gasp, the federal government) should provide infrastructure for its constituents
Labelling the internet access as infrastructure doesn't qualify government provision. The proper argument is: public provision is one of the solutions when the social benefit outweight the social cost but there is no private incentive for private provision. There was no private incentive to build interstate highway because it was difficult to charge users.
But is wireless broadband access to rural area that essential? The social cost of providing wireless broadband access to rural area does not neccessary to be lower than the social benefit?
Your argument is, to prevent the unsatisfied patrons who could not make it work because of their own problems, you simply stop circulating the CD-ROMs. This is an excuse for laziness.
Using your argument, libraries should just close their doors, to prevent less literated patrons complaining they cannot read the books available, because they have expectation they can read all books on the shelves. That's an excuse for not doing anything. What's worse, this is exactly doing a dis-service for the major objective of a public library.
Remember how a video rental company react if a customer come in and say the tape/DVD doesn't work? The clerks would try in their own vcr/DVD player in front of the customer. If it works, it's the customer's problem. You can do the same thing in the library. Set a computer that's for sure to be workable with the CD-ROMs you circulate. If they have problems, show them how it works properly. It's not that difficult. Most CD-ROMs work for a computer out of the box. Most patrons would accept that's their own problem if you show them it works on a standard machine, just like most video rental customers. Not to mention that the population who would visit a library are the people that can reason with.
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Next, sex toy manufacturers announced that Walmart rejected them as suppliers.
Verizon will charge as much as you are willing to pay. The cost is not a factor in price determination.
Apple didn't release a SDK, and people were not happy. Now Apple released a SDK, people are still not happy.
Without Firefox, without Java, without VoIP on cell network, there are still tons of things you can program on to iPhone/iPod Touch. It's a business, pure and simple. I can imagine somewhere in the contract with AT&T it specifically rule out VoIP on cell network, and anyway to get around that.
Besides, Firefox is bloated (look how slow microb run on Nokia 770). And you want to use Azureus on iPhone/iPod? I don't see any big deal they have some restrictions. If you don't like them, don't develop applications for them. Or you can just go the old jailbreaking route.
It is evil to give your tax money to a country whose government is able to manage the country with less tax revenue.
xxx can be:- .....
having sex with a spouse: tell these "nothing to hide" supporters letting others to watch them fucking!
pooing: tell these "nothing to hide" supporters letting others to watch them pooing!
Safari on Windows seems to use more memory than Firefox... I was hoping for a smaller footprint.
I have a hard time finding comprehensible details from the big report. So much for blaming engineers and scientists for using so many "jargons" in discussions of total cost of anything, the report is just not clear on ANYTHING.
Look at the recycling cost. How do they calculate it? Besides a more sophisticated car would cost exponentially more to recycle, I found nothing that can explain clearly about it. Recycled 5 times in average? Shouldn't a better designed car last longer and less likely to be recycled?
Toyota sells well to the older generation too (relatively), and it doesn't seem to have new customers who were attracted by Pontiac when they were younger.
There's not much different. When people grow older, they have better things to do, and they just want something that works. Mac seems to fit that description.
I know some guys are going to mod me down. But here it goes.
Don't blame your industry. Don't blame your life. If you two don't want to get divorced, nothing can make you two divorced. It's completely you two's choice. The life in IT hard on marriage? It's just because you don't have the ability to make it work. There are so many others working in IT and have a happy marriage. You choose your work over your marriage. It can happen in any job and any industry. It's just your priority.
You may say the IT industry attracts more people who got your priority. Any industry that is well paid with long working hours attracts people who choose work over family. If you don't want your marriage fails, choose another industry that is suitable to you.
Price gouging? Who rated it informative?
It isn't free to connect to the local POTS. Skype has no choice but paying Etisalat, considered as the monopoly of telecommunication in UAE. Dailaround market is quite competitive, yet SkypeOut's price to UAE is lower than many of the dailaround offering. Price gouging?
That's not price gouging by Skype. If it's anything, it's Etisalat exercising it's monopoly power. Skype is in no position to level the playing field, other than letting you have free Skype-Skype calls (if the local ISP monopoly has not block Skype traffic yet.) What, you want Skype to do money losing business, such to kill the government established monopoly for you?
From CounterPath (formerly known as Xten).
http://www.xten.com/index.php?menu=eyeBeam
I suppose it's SIP based.
It seems to be everyone's knee-jerk reaction that McVoy is against all reverse-engineering in general.
But if he's okay with competition, reverse engineering is always a part of competition and he should be fine with it.
After RTFA, what I get is, if you reverse engineer BK, learn how it works, and implement something that's not plugged into BK's network, and compete with McVoy, he's fine with it. The "riding on his coat-tails" is when you reimplement his solution using BK's network, and compete with BK directly.
Before you jump into conclusion the network is open so everyone can use it, consider this: you are not just reading information from BK's network, but also changing the information, and possibly corrupting the network data. You can say it's a flaw.
So it comes to this: should reverse-engineering, on the third party's property, that could cause harm to the third party be allowed?
I'm not sure letting an implementation that potentially render the whole network useless should be protected as valid reverse-engineering.
The article is ~ 5 minutes old, and there's 10+ anti-china/america sold out posts already.
Well, that's why they should keep the commoditised industry here. Otherwise where will these posters work then?
A lot of these net cafe are poorly constructed without proper safety facilities. A fire swept through an illegal net bar killing 24 and sending another 13 to hospital in 2002.
http://www.edu.cn/20020618/3059163.shtml
Not many businesses in China respect the safety standards that the western world take for granted. There are many ways, including bridery, to get around the safety inspections. So occasionally the government has to do some massive crack down. For one, to try to control the internet to please the critics in the communist party. Also, nobody would bride the safety inspectors if the government does not show that they are serious about the safety standards. A few weeks later these net cafe would be re-opened. And everything goes back to business as usual.
Content censoring is always there. But that's not the only reason they close down these net cafe. Money is the reason.
Or else do you think Microsoft would jump into a market that has no profit or no strategic connection?
Does it mean Microsoft benefits consumers? Initially yes, but we don't know in the longer time frame. Once MS dominates the market and using it's market power, they do not have incentive to innovate and to improve their products' quality.
So the symdromes are just illustion. It could be originated from back/neck minor injury due to improper posture by sitting in front of the computer all the time.
Check with a chiropractor.
Disclaimer: I know completely nothing about medicine.
No, you still haven't addressed the real issue, which is, those who are informed should have tried their best to inform those who ain't. That's how to prevent corruption. You are just blaming the wrong in politics on people who make did not educate themselves to be informed.
The real problem is, the most informed just do nothing and let politicians manipulate the media, political system and uninformed citizens. Then turning your back to blame people being manipulated?
Luckily I'm in Canada and our media are doing their jobs satisfactory. If they don't, at least I do my job to complain loud to my government and other media. So far it is still working, so I don't have to go the route to blame uninformed of being manipulated.
Shouldn't the informed help informing the ignorants? Shouldn't the informed condemn the lies of politicians?
Instead you suggest that ignorant voters shouldn't vote. Something is wrong here. You suggest that workers who work 14 hours a day and miss the biased news, who know not much on politics shouldn't vote. How about only professors in universities are allowed to vote?
This is just another form of eliticism.
If you are informed, at least you have the responsibility to inform others how the facts are twisted in the media. Not everyone is as lucky as you are who can spend time to read and be informed.
I have the impression that SPF is going to create a lot of problems to universities.
A couple universities I've been to do not allow external SMTP connections. Users need to use their ISPs' SMTP server to send email. I couldn't find how the SPF can accomodate this practice without significant change: either the university allows authenticated external SMTP connections or ISP provides another authenticated SMTP server for these users (to user whatever address they want).
There's nothing wrong Wal*Mart cares about profit only. People seems to think that they expliot their employees, force their suppliers to lower their supplied prices to bare minimal, or treat customers as criminals.
If you think they underpay you, go work somewhere else. If you think they take away your labour rights, go work somewhere else. If you don't have any skill and couldn't find a job somewhere else, acquire some skills. If you have skills and simply don't like Wal*Mart, how about you start your own store and compete with them? They are not charity. No business really give a damn to you, unless it's favorable to them too. Wal*Mart is no different from any business.
If you are the suppliers and think that Wal*Mart expliot you and force you to accept unreasonable low prices, don't do the business. If you accept the business, you believe you have a long term benefits from it. Otherwise, either you are not as competitive as your competitors who can supply Wal*Mart with lower prices, or you are the monopoly of your goods but you don't have the knowledge to sell your goods to other retail stores/your own stores. Nobody put a gun on your head to do business to Wal*Mart.
If you are small stores and couldn't compete with Wal*Mart's ridiculous low prices, there are two things you can do: 1. understand why your suppliers don't supply you with the same prices, and go bargain 2. your time is up, plan to move onto something else/somewhere else. It's a tough and sad truth, but most of us who work have the same chance got displaced.
The most stupid thing people can say is Wal*Mart is an evil monopoly if they can't compete with Wal*Mart because Wal*Mart can get better deals. At least, they are not lobbying the government to prevent other stores coming into the market. It's just like SCO saying Linux is evil when SCO couldn't compete with anything else.
If you feel offended when the clerk put a tag on your bag when you enter Wal*Mart, simply don't go there.
Indeed, what the article didn't mention: the working condition in electronic manufacturers is normally better than other manufacturering that's more labour intensive.
Think how a slave will screw up the $10 components into junk every other DVD player made. Even the greediest one would be willing to pay $1 per hour more to get someone who screw up less.
Want to help improve all labour conditions in China? Do more trade with them. When the demand is large enough, manufacturers need to compete for workers, that would automatically improve working condition.
It is situations like this where local governments (or even, gasp, the federal government) should provide infrastructure for its constituents
Labelling the internet access as infrastructure doesn't qualify government provision. The proper argument is: public provision is one of the solutions when the social benefit outweight the social cost but there is no private incentive for private provision. There was no private incentive to build interstate highway because it was difficult to charge users.
But is wireless broadband access to rural area that essential? The social cost of providing wireless broadband access to rural area does not neccessary to be lower than the social benefit?
I could not disagree more.
Your argument is, to prevent the unsatisfied patrons who could not make it work because of their own problems, you simply stop circulating the CD-ROMs. This is an excuse for laziness.
Using your argument, libraries should just close their doors, to prevent less literated patrons complaining they cannot read the books available, because they have expectation they can read all books on the shelves. That's an excuse for not doing anything. What's worse, this is exactly doing a dis-service for the major objective of a public library.
Remember how a video rental company react if a customer come in and say the tape/DVD doesn't work? The clerks would try in their own vcr/DVD player in front of the customer. If it works, it's the customer's problem. You can do the same thing in the library. Set a computer that's for sure to be workable with the CD-ROMs you circulate. If they have problems, show them how it works properly. It's not that difficult. Most CD-ROMs work for a computer out of the box. Most patrons would accept that's their own problem if you show them it works on a standard machine, just like most video rental customers. Not to mention that the population who would visit a library are the people that can reason with.