speaking from AU, I'm glad that the UK folks made it available (Battlestar Galactica) - I never would have been able to see such an excellent series otherwise.
Actually, i've been watching Ten Digital (Free To Air) and theyre about to begin showing the series at 9:30pm Wednesday 2nd March in AUS.
That said ive already seen the entire series from rips done from Sky One in the UK, but I'll no doubt watch it again each week anyhow just to refresh how the series started.
Checks the bullshit-o-meter [......./] - Yep, its maxed out.
A Cowboy Neal Post from an Anonymous submittion, it just reaks of the truth eh?!:)
Ok, I do feel like I should buy one of these, to put with my collection of tin foil hats, get rich quick schemes, lose weight now offers, penis extension offers, umm oh yeah and all my free iPod and Playstation 2's!:)
Feeeck.. Maybe the things claims are just a fancy shmancy way of saying "Reversing the polarity of the neutron flow!"
I must leave you all now, aparently my ride on the Hale Bopp comet has arrived.
Here in Australia we have our own competition overlord called Telstra, they own the copper network, and theyre part govenment owned part private owned (although the Government wants to sell it all, copper network and all)
So yeah we know what its like to have competition swayed in Australia, the way Telstra protects itself in terms of looking after its private interests by using the power of its government interests.
But what large corporate jugganaught wouldnt eh? And remember, competition isnt in the interest of the directors, the share holders or the people getting the golden handshakes..
Its only a matter of time before Telstra becomes alot like the so called 'broken up' Baby Bells..
Regular bug spray wont work, Some sort of low level nuke is in order.. EMP in a can anyone? The moment they make some sorta mechanical killer spider to swallow these flies I'm getting off this rock.
*Looks around the room with great paranoia, theyre here - with their wee robot brains and their beedie robot eyes!!!*
I cant help but think that using some software like this product will be against alot of people's Acceptable Usage Policys that they signed with their Network Provider, using it could result in a warning or worse yet account cancellation.
I think spamming is evil E-V-I-L but this behavior of Lycos is like trying to put out a fire with buckets of Petrol/Gas.
I wanna see SCO fall big time for this effort, we still havent seen solid evidence of what theyre claiming to be true, Come on SCO - show your hand, we're tired of this bluffing game!
I wish they'd just get it over and done with and give SCO a good arse kicking when they show a hand full of Jokers..
I know if something goes down, my blackberry will vibrate, and I will immediatly make my way to a computer. Its all about minimizing downtime.
I know this is kinda offtopic and all but dude, when yer blackberry's start to vibrate and recieve outage notifications, its time to clean out the fridge!
Looks like Google sent a server Gaga and it went down the Gurgler..
Now if they were TRUELY smart, they'd have used those hits, IP addresses and timestamps as random seed for some internet fractal art! Oops, shouldnt have suggested that - somebody will probably get rich off it.. *shrug*
Should be interesting to see what happens when the next large barrage of solar winds and large EM fields hit, as everyone may recall a few years ago with one storm a large number of pager satellites and base stations were disrupted, something bigger could certainly bring down large amounts of sattelite based internet infastructure and play havoc with ground based equipment (most notibly WiFi networks.)
Should we be testing equipment now to minimise the unknown impact of such a natural event?
Weather SCO will back down out of this or weather they will keep claiming unprooved facts to avoid admitting they "might be wrong".
Also, I wonder if (are they any?!) linux users that have paid for these so called licences will get refunds when this case falls apart.
The longer this drags on, the more arguments between the OSS community, relivant organisations that have IP rights in the Unix field - the more tangled this legal mess will become.
Right but do you have a Gas pump in your garage, so that you have a full tank every morning?
Now for long trips yes stopping to refuel is more of a hassle, but for daily commutes and going shopping it works very well.
This is all good and well until you leave your lights on and your batteries go flat, yer out in the middle of nowhere - you better make sure you have a 110 or 220 volt inverter cause I havent seen too many cars that can jump lead ya with a mains socket built in:)
I mean the RIAA has only the reach in the US it seems, its up to individual countries appointed authorities to persue foreign traders.
The problem will come for the RIAA when the trading goes underground to private FTP servers and the like, it wasnt that long ago when it was the only way to find music online..
Napster changed things, it was probably the most significant 'killer app' next to Yahoo when Yahoo first started as somebodys bookmark page and grew to something thats been copied over and over and over (And which Google has perfected *grin*):)
Why dont Microsoft just concenrate on making their product work and be more inter-operable with other OS's, they have the oppertunity to stay at the top but this sort of "Its all mine or else" attitude is going to cause them to lose ground over time.
I think the major reasons the Asia market is looking to its own OS solution is that they dont like Microsofts attitude or their seemingly inflexible stance.
It'll be interesting to see what kind of feedback this generates, I mean, if the cantidates dont like their outcome in future elections they can say "Well, a hacker musta changed my tally"
While i'm sure the intentions are good, i'm just a little unsure about what kind of picture this paints, especially with the DMCA in the US, legally shaky? maybe..
I know that in the case of Playstation discs, Sony won a case recently that basically has made modding Playstations in Australia for playing any kind of disc (pirate or import) illegal.
But the DVD Region code issue has been in the press here alot, IANAL but I believe due to the actions of the ACCC, Multi region DVD players here are quite common in the retail market to give consumers choice, I guess its up to the DVD Player manifacturer weather they include the feature or not.
Personally my PHILIPS DVD-707 is modded All region from the remote and I own a number of Region 1 titles that just arent available locally here.
I'm all for import CD's too, alot of Japanese releases come with extra tracks and collectors packaging that if imports were banned, we'd never get to see (legally).
To a point as a consumer, I dont mind if the disc costs me the same as here or even a bit extra, but we should get the choice to buy the product we want, expecially if the product offers features not included on the domestic release.
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speaking from AU, I'm glad that the UK folks made it available (Battlestar Galactica) - I never would have been able to see such an excellent series otherwise.
Actually, i've been watching Ten Digital (Free To Air) and theyre about to begin showing the series at 9:30pm Wednesday 2nd March in AUS.
That said ive already seen the entire series from rips done from Sky One in the UK, but I'll no doubt watch it again each week anyhow just to refresh how the series started.
Regards, Jim.
Checks the bullshit-o-meter [......./] - Yep, its maxed out.
A Cowboy Neal Post from an Anonymous submittion, it just reaks of the truth eh?!
Ok, I do feel like I should buy one of these, to put with my collection of tin foil hats, get rich quick schemes, lose weight now offers, penis extension offers, umm oh yeah and all my free iPod and Playstation 2's!
Feeeck.. Maybe the things claims are just a fancy shmancy way of saying "Reversing the polarity of the neutron flow!"
I must leave you all now, aparently my ride on the Hale Bopp comet has arrived.
-- Jim.
Here in Australia we have our own competition overlord called Telstra, they own the copper network, and theyre part govenment owned part private owned (although the Government wants to sell it all, copper network and all)
So yeah we know what its like to have competition swayed in Australia, the way Telstra protects itself in terms of looking after its private interests by using the power of its government interests.
But what large corporate jugganaught wouldnt eh?
And remember, competition isnt in the interest of the directors, the share holders or the people getting the golden handshakes..
Its only a matter of time before Telstra becomes alot like the so called 'broken up' Baby Bells..
heh..
-- Jim.
Regular bug spray wont work, Some sort of low level nuke is in order.. EMP in a can anyone?
The moment they make some sorta mechanical killer spider to swallow these flies I'm getting off this rock.
*Looks around the room with great paranoia, theyre here - with their wee robot brains and their beedie robot eyes!!!*
-- Jim.
I cant help but think that using some software like this product will be against alot of people's Acceptable Usage Policys that they signed with their Network Provider, using it could result in a warning or worse yet account cancellation.
I think spamming is evil E-V-I-L but this behavior of Lycos is like trying to put out a fire with buckets of Petrol/Gas.
-- Jim
Finally they got something right and theyre cut down in their prime :(
:)
Hopefully the programmers will leave and start some free Winamp like project in the Firefox vein..
Open Amp, here we come
-- Jim.
I wanna see SCO fall big time for this effort, we still havent seen solid evidence of what theyre claiming to be true, Come on SCO - show your hand, we're tired of this bluffing game!
I wish they'd just get it over and done with and give SCO a good arse kicking when they show a hand full of Jokers..
-- Jim.
I know if something goes down, my blackberry will vibrate, and I will immediatly make my way to a computer. Its all about minimizing downtime.
I know this is kinda offtopic and all but dude, when yer blackberry's start to vibrate and recieve outage notifications, its time to clean out the fridge!
--Jim
And I thought CSS was dead..
I mean how many times do they have to crack it before they realise that the cats already out of the bag?
Its been circumvented so many times, how can they hold a straight face while that file for legal action against 321studios?
*shakes head*
-- Jim.
Umm.. SCO Management anyone?
-- Jim.
Looks like Google sent a server Gaga and it went down the Gurgler..
Now if they were TRUELY smart, they'd have used those hits, IP addresses and timestamps as random seed for some internet fractal art! Oops, shouldnt have suggested that - somebody will probably get rich off it.. *shrug*
-- Jim (If it sounds crazy, it probably is!)
MikeRowSoft Lindohs?
-- Jim
I must save my pennies (sorry, in Australia - 5cent pieces) so I can grab a plane ticket to go to one of these Linux Conferences, maybe next year!
Would dearly love to see what goes on at one of these events! and maybe even get to meet the man himself, Linus heh..
-- Jim
Who says theyre witout a wireless setup?
What ive seen theyre wireless, roofless, treeless, homeless..
-- Jim.
Duke nukem forever announced for late '04?
-- Jim.
10Mbit ethernet on an Atari 800.. A single ping would almost DoS it..
We'll see a CERT alert on this for sure!
-- Jim.
Should be interesting to see what happens when the next large barrage of solar winds and large EM fields hit, as everyone may recall a few years ago with one storm a large number of pager satellites and base stations were disrupted, something bigger could certainly bring down large amounts of sattelite based internet infastructure and play havoc with ground based equipment (most notibly WiFi networks.)
Should we be testing equipment now to minimise the unknown impact of such a natural event?
-- Jim.
Weather SCO will back down out of this or weather they will keep claiming unprooved facts to avoid admitting they "might be wrong".
Also, I wonder if (are they any?!) linux users that have paid for these so called licences will get refunds when this case falls apart.
The longer this drags on, the more arguments between the OSS community, relivant organisations that have IP rights in the Unix field - the more tangled this legal mess will become.
When will it end?!
-- Jim
Right but do you have a Gas pump in your garage, so that you have a full tank every morning?
:)
Now for long trips yes stopping to refuel is more of a hassle, but for daily commutes and going shopping it works very well.
This is all good and well until you leave your lights on and your batteries go flat, yer out in the middle of nowhere - you better make sure you have a 110 or 220 volt inverter cause I havent seen too many cars that can jump lead ya with a mains socket built in
-- Jim.
What did they expect?
I mean the RIAA has only the reach in the US it seems, its up to individual countries appointed authorities to persue foreign traders.
The problem will come for the RIAA when the trading goes underground to private FTP servers and the like, it wasnt that long ago when it was the only way to find music online..
Napster changed things, it was probably the most significant 'killer app' next to Yahoo when Yahoo first started as somebodys bookmark page and grew to something thats been copied over and over and over (And which Google has perfected *grin*)
-- Jim.
Why dont Microsoft just concenrate on making their product work and be more inter-operable with other OS's, they have the oppertunity to stay at the top but this sort of "Its all mine or else" attitude is going to cause them to lose ground over time.
I think the major reasons the Asia market is looking to its own OS solution is that they dont like Microsofts attitude or their seemingly inflexible stance.
-- Jim
I'll be awaiting Microsoft High School Service Pack 2..
I believe its tentativly expected to fix a few bugs (Termites and Wasp infestations in the ceiling)..
Oh and it will replace a few corrupt bricks..
-- Jim.
I guess this is what happens when IBM tries to overclock humans.. halfs their lifetimes..
-- Jim
It'll be interesting to see what kind of feedback this generates, I mean, if the cantidates dont like their outcome in future elections they can say "Well, a hacker musta changed my tally"
While i'm sure the intentions are good, i'm just a little unsure about what kind of picture this paints, especially with the DMCA in the US, legally shaky? maybe..
-- Jim.
The ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Comission) http://www.accc.gov.au has been lobbying for the right of DVD and Sony Playstation owners to import discs from other regions, see: ACCC Defends the Rights of Playstation Owners
I know that in the case of Playstation discs, Sony won a case recently that basically has made modding Playstations in Australia for playing any kind of disc (pirate or import) illegal.
But the DVD Region code issue has been in the press here alot, IANAL but I believe due to the actions of the ACCC, Multi region DVD players here are quite common in the retail market to give consumers choice, I guess its up to the DVD Player manifacturer weather they include the feature or not.
Personally my PHILIPS DVD-707 is modded All region from the remote and I own a number of Region 1 titles that just arent available locally here.
I'm all for import CD's too, alot of Japanese releases come with extra tracks and collectors packaging that if imports were banned, we'd never get to see (legally).
To a point as a consumer, I dont mind if the disc costs me the same as here or even a bit extra, but we should get the choice to buy the product we want, expecially if the product offers features not included on the domestic release.
Jim.