Well, as this article proves, that may work in Greece too. Except the journalist who tried by publishing page one of the Greek edition now finds himself in jail, How is that for irony...
Several countries still offer this service under various names. In The Netherlands it is called "Teletekst" and besides being available on the TV set, you can also find it online: http://teletekst.nos.nl/
From the article: ===
The group's next action was a march Mr Alam hoped would be "a million strong" would take place in Hyde Park "in the next few weeks", he said.
"Until it is banned we will keep protesting," he added. ===
So, let me get this right. They are trying to get their protests banned, right? In that case, I'm all fore it.. If they mean placing censorship on silly little pictures and movies, just because their toes are too large and their d*cks are too small, I have a different opinion.
Not sure why Mozilla is forcing this on their users. I have ran FF for a long time, and one of the additions I really like is the Google Toolbar. It has not been maintained for a while, and it takes a tweak to convince FF12 and up to load it, but it does what I want. Losing this ability will be time to move on to another browser. Chrome, Opera, or heavens forbid, Internet Exploder...
No, he is not over-exaggerating. It is an ongoing process, and we see the results every day. Killing because of a silly drawing, a stupid picture, you name it. Rules and exceptions put in place just for Muslims. It makes me sick to the stomach to see what we let these people get away with.
I'm in The Netherlands where there's a natural level of tolerance. But tolerance is not unidirectional and it is not unlimited. Muslims are stretching the boundaries and people are not going to take it much longer. The economic crisis takes a front seat today, but intolerance based on Islam beliefs is a strong second.
I find the most revealing part of the interview that he publicly acknowledges his customers working on secret designs for space. I'm sure those customers will deny any such project exists.
Not sure why you got no 'insightful' on this yet. I couldn't agree more with you. Not only in Russia, but also when you have a great reputations, customers find YOU!
I have mod points and I could have modded you down. Having 100+ similar sites isn't going to work. The strength of the concept is to have all owners join one, or perhaps a few, of these sites. 100 sites with 1.000 members is a lot less effective than 1 site with 100.000 members.
My TRS-80 was actually a clone, the Video Genie EG3003. With built-in cassette recorder no less. Got mine defective from a friend who had a lightning strike nearby. I clipped all TTL chips and replaced them. To my luck, the ROM, RAM and CPU were still intact! I later expanded the system with a floppy controller, ran NewDOS-80, LDOS and TRS-DOS on it.
There were two ways to expand the memory. You could piggy-back 4116 DRAM chips on top of the original ones, or you could clip the original ones and insert 4164 DRAM chips for those. I believe if you went the second route, you had to remove capacitors and cut some traces, as one of the 4116 power pins had changed to an address line on the 4164..
My TRS-80 was actually a clone, the Video Genie EG3003. With built-in cassette recorder no less. Got mine defective from a friend who had a lightning strike nearby. I clipped all TTL chips and replaced them. To my luck, the ROM, RAM and CPU were still intact!
There were two ways to expand the memory. You could piggy-back 4116 DRAM chips on top of the original ones, or you could clip the original ones and insert 4164 DRAM chips for those. I believe if you went the second route, you had to remove capacitors and cut some traces, as one of the 4116 power pins had changed to an address line on the 4164..
Before MS-DOS, I owned a Grundy 8200 CP/M system. It had a two-board harddisk controller. After fixing the TTL logic I had to write my own formatting routines in Z80 assembly to get to use the 4 MB harddisk going. (Rotating Memory RMS-504)
This whole patent mess reminds me of the animation movie "Finding Nemo". Somewhere a flock of seagulls attacks, mindlessly screaming "Mine! Mine! Mine!"
This is what the industry is like today. Lawyer driven madness, where everyone is trying to put a claim on any thought that might be remotely original. It is a huge drag on innovation and leads to destruction. I can only hope the ITU will be able to put up a sail between these gullible seagulls and real innovation. Just like in the movie.
Although you are being ridiculed, I think you are right. It is damn near impossible to have an accident and not having ten or more witnesses. The cost is prohibitive and the privacy impact possibilities are scary. I for one will be happy to give the GPS antenna required for this system a tin foil hat.
The claims of 'up to' 2500 lives means that in reality it will be half of that at best. The EU has 500.000.000 inhabitants. "Possibly" saving 1000 is 0.00002% change in mortality rate. That means the money would be a lot better spent on fighting cancer, obesity or other life-threatening diseases.
Gosh. Wow. Years ago all there was were tiny little screens and no-one could economically produce larger ones with sensible resolution and decent touch functionality. Now there are dozens of manufacturers capable of producing a 4" - 5" LCD with good touch functionality. Some of the technology making that possible will be covered by patents, and perhaps rightfully so.
Now give this 4" touch LCD to ten designers and ask them to design a phone around that screen. Do you really think they will all be very different? Sure, some will have a keyboard, some will have one or two buttons, and some will have none. How is that innovation?
If your view would be accepted then the first to come out with a 4-wheeled car owns the design and everyone else has to pick a different number of wheels, or a totally different wheel configuration (two on the side, one front, one back perhaps?). And we would all still be having bulky big TV's and monitors, because Sony or B&O or Philips happened to be the first to come out with a flat screen and they would own the design.
Apple: "Look! I made a rectangle with rounded corners!" Samsung: "So did I. And millions before you..." Apple: "But... But... That is MY rectangle!! We spent YEARS coming up with that idea!"
I tried to use OpenDNS and it works well as long as the kids know nothing about computers. If your kids become ever so much computer-savvy, they will find out how to set the DNS to something else real soon.
In my case (I have two boys, 12 and 14) I had my DHCP server set so the MAC hardware for their PC would get a fixed IP address with OpenDNS and also set my firewall to restrict certain traffic (games, chat) during night hours. Not for long they found out how to change their MAC address. Next step will be to use VLAN switches and block any non-registered MAC address on the ports to their computer. Wonder how long it will be before they start using tethering phone connections, NAT, whatever..
Technology will help for a while. Next to that, make sure you guide and educate your kids. They'll see stuff soon enough. If it isn't at home, it will be at some friend's place, an internet cafe, you name it. Prepare them and they will be fine.
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Well, as this article proves, that may work in Greece too.
Except the journalist who tried by publishing page one of the Greek edition now finds himself in jail, How is that for irony...
Several countries still offer this service under various names. In The Netherlands it is called "Teletekst" and besides being available on the TV set, you can also find it online: http://teletekst.nos.nl/
You can also build up a good reputation on Slashdot, and you'll get an offer from Slashdot to not receive ads.
The offer is on my homepage every day, but I think the little bit of Slashvertising is non-intrusive enough to keep it coming.
From the article:
===
The group's next action was a march Mr Alam hoped would be "a million strong" would take place in Hyde Park "in the next few weeks", he said.
"Until it is banned we will keep protesting," he added.
===
So, let me get this right. They are trying to get their protests banned, right? In that case, I'm all fore it..
If they mean placing censorship on silly little pictures and movies, just because their toes are too large and their d*cks are too small, I have a different opinion.
Not sure why Mozilla is forcing this on their users. I have ran FF for a long time, and one of the additions I really like is the Google Toolbar. It has not been maintained for a while, and it takes a tweak to convince FF12 and up to load it, but it does what I want. Losing this ability will be time to move on to another browser. Chrome, Opera, or heavens forbid, Internet Exploder...
No, he is not over-exaggerating. It is an ongoing process, and we see the results every day. Killing because of a silly drawing, a stupid picture, you name it. Rules and exceptions put in place just for Muslims. It makes me sick to the stomach to see what we let these people get away with.
I'm in The Netherlands where there's a natural level of tolerance. But tolerance is not unidirectional and it is not unlimited. Muslims are stretching the boundaries and people are not going to take it much longer. The economic crisis takes a front seat today, but intolerance based on Islam beliefs is a strong second.
I find the most revealing part of the interview that he publicly acknowledges his customers working on secret designs for space.
I'm sure those customers will deny any such project exists.
Interesting detail here.. In the world population there are hundreds of versions of "God". All of them proclaimed "Almighty".
Funny though, none of these almighty gods are mighty enough to have their guy dominate. Been like this forever.
So, tell me again, which version of God is true, and how are you going to prove all others are false??
About half of the American adult population is expected to vote for a guy who thinks just like this, next month.
I wish I had mod points, thanks for the details.
Agree, 500kg of mass converted to energy in one go is pretty hefty..
But nevertheless, can I donate my mother in law for a first try?
Why so? Do you speak or listen twice as fast now? Can you text twice as fast?
Stop calling it a phone when the main goal is general computing.
Not sure why you got no 'insightful' on this yet. I couldn't agree more with you.
Not only in Russia, but also when you have a great reputations, customers find YOU!
I have mod points and I could have modded you down. Having 100+ similar sites isn't going to work. The strength of the concept is to have all owners join one, or perhaps a few, of these sites. 100 sites with 1.000 members is a lot less effective than 1 site with 100.000 members.
My TRS-80 was actually a clone, the Video Genie EG3003. With built-in cassette recorder no less. Got mine defective from a friend who had a lightning strike nearby. I clipped all TTL chips and replaced them. To my luck, the ROM, RAM and CPU were still intact! I later expanded the system with a floppy controller, ran NewDOS-80, LDOS and TRS-DOS on it.
There were two ways to expand the memory. You could piggy-back 4116 DRAM chips on top of the original ones, or you could clip the original ones and insert 4164 DRAM chips for those. I believe if you went the second route, you had to remove capacitors and cut some traces, as one of the 4116 power pins had changed to an address line on the 4164..
Ohh the memories ;-)
My TRS-80 was actually a clone, the Video Genie EG3003. With built-in cassette recorder no less. Got mine defective from a friend who had a lightning strike nearby. I clipped all TTL chips and replaced them. To my luck, the ROM, RAM and CPU were still intact!
There were two ways to expand the memory. You could piggy-back 4116 DRAM chips on top of the original ones, or you could clip the original ones and insert 4164 DRAM chips for those. I believe if you went the second route, you had to remove capacitors and cut some traces, as one of the 4116 power pins had changed to an address line on the 4164..
Ohh the memories ;-)
C:\> DEBUG
- G=C800:5
How hard can it be?
Before MS-DOS, I owned a Grundy 8200 CP/M system. It had a two-board harddisk controller. After fixing the TTL logic I had to write my own formatting routines in Z80 assembly to get to use the 4 MB harddisk going. (Rotating Memory RMS-504)
Oh and don't forget, he didn't download stuff that are belongs to the **AA..
Looking at the numbers, I must assume you meant China, not Japan?? If you think those are one and the same, the inhabitants beg to differ..
This whole patent mess reminds me of the animation movie "Finding Nemo". Somewhere a flock of seagulls attacks, mindlessly screaming "Mine! Mine! Mine!"
This is what the industry is like today. Lawyer driven madness, where everyone is trying to put a claim on any thought that might be remotely original. It is a huge drag on innovation and leads to destruction. I can only hope the ITU will be able to put up a sail between these gullible seagulls and real innovation. Just like in the movie.
Although you are being ridiculed, I think you are right. It is damn near impossible to have an accident and not having ten or more witnesses. The cost is prohibitive and the privacy impact possibilities are scary. I for one will be happy to give the GPS antenna required for this system a tin foil hat.
The claims of 'up to' 2500 lives means that in reality it will be half of that at best. The EU has 500.000.000 inhabitants. "Possibly" saving 1000 is 0.00002% change in mortality rate. That means the money would be a lot better spent on fighting cancer, obesity or other life-threatening diseases.
Gosh. Wow. Years ago all there was were tiny little screens and no-one could economically produce larger ones with sensible resolution and decent touch functionality. Now there are dozens of manufacturers capable of producing a 4" - 5" LCD with good touch functionality. Some of the technology making that possible will be covered by patents, and perhaps rightfully so.
Now give this 4" touch LCD to ten designers and ask them to design a phone around that screen. Do you really think they will all be very different? Sure, some will have a keyboard, some will have one or two buttons, and some will have none. How is that innovation?
If your view would be accepted then the first to come out with a 4-wheeled car owns the design and everyone else has to pick a different number of wheels, or a totally different wheel configuration (two on the side, one front, one back perhaps?). And we would all still be having bulky big TV's and monitors, because Sony or B&O or Philips happened to be the first to come out with a flat screen and they would own the design.
Apple: "Look! I made a rectangle with rounded corners!"
Samsung: "So did I. And millions before you..."
Apple: "But... But... That is MY rectangle!! We spent YEARS coming up with that idea!"
Innovation my rect.....
I tried to use OpenDNS and it works well as long as the kids know nothing about computers. If your kids become ever so much computer-savvy, they will find out how to set the DNS to something else real soon.
In my case (I have two boys, 12 and 14) I had my DHCP server set so the MAC hardware for their PC would get a fixed IP address with OpenDNS and also set my firewall to restrict certain traffic (games, chat) during night hours. Not for long they found out how to change their MAC address. Next step will be to use VLAN switches and block any non-registered MAC address on the ports to their computer. Wonder how long it will be before they start using tethering phone connections, NAT, whatever..
Technology will help for a while. Next to that, make sure you guide and educate your kids. They'll see stuff soon enough. If it isn't at home, it will be at some friend's place, an internet cafe, you name it. Prepare them and they will be fine.
.. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!!