So, I suppose that would mean we might all end up paying for the right to print to a printer since it will one day be a service on a Windows XP machine. Do you think they would charge the consumer or the manufacturer of the printer?
No brainer - the manufacturer of the printer. Customers are cheap - we want the most we can get for as little money as possible. If we had to pay some fee each year for printing to a freaking printer we bought - hell no. The customers would revolt and switch to other software hands down.
However, extorting the manufacturer is MUCH easier. They (Micro$oft) develop the printer install app to make thigns easier for 'certain' companies who pay for the privledge of hassle free printing and installing - and threaten anyone who doesn't sign teh agreements to pay Microsoft for each page printed that their printers will be difficult to install and use. What would you do? If your stuff is a hassle ot us - customers go elsewhere and you go out of business - unless of course you're Micro$oft:) So you agree to pay the extortion, boost your prices to cover it since everyone else is and the customers unwittingly pay Micro$oft more and more money through back end agreements like this.
2 years from now, after WIN XP has been out for a while you ask ANY average user if they realize that part of their photo printing charges went to Microsoft just because they used WIndows and they'll give you deer in headlights looks.
Which is why I love ACID which does stuff like this on teh fly with Snort & SQL. Of course it can get dicey if you log tens of thousands of hits each day, but that just means your ruleset is too broad.
It sure makes monitoring my Snort logs a lot easier.
Hm... do you perchance have a beeper, likes the ones on trucks for when they reverse? Does it come on when your sense of humour and your intellect drops out for awhile? It should.
ROFLMAO! Between this and the endless loop of mutual fingering - I'm still in shock that a/. story about identd would have me rolling on the floor laughing - of course its 3AM and I'm posting to/. so go figure
I agree about the power issue. That and heat. Install these babies in a closed cabinet and make sure you've got a jet engine pulling air form teh subfloor. I managed a data center for a large R&D lab - about 600 servers, mostly HP's. Our standard cabinet had TWO 20 Amp feeds, one on each side. Stack a bunch of HP C Class workstations as a server farm and it'll dry your hair in 2 minutes with all teh heat coming out. And they loaded those two circuits too.
I mean lets see - 180 servers in a rack. 40 Amps @ 120V means you'd have.222 Amps per server, That's about 26 Watts! (DOn't bother replying abotu RMS - this is just an estimate) I'd LOVE to find a Pent_III 600 that could run on
So I'd LOVE to know how much power they pack into a rack full of these things. Without power specs on teh site - well you can't tell. They also don't include BTU load. Any data center manager needs those specs to know the added load on the environemnt.
Remember, its not JUST rack space. The reasons a server costs so much in real estate are:
Rack space (your average well built rack runs about a grand or two)
Network Port (may or may not include bandwidth costs)
Load on electrical PDUs
Load on cooling systems
SO just because you can squeeze them into such a small space doesn't mean they are worth teh extra money. Unless they draw 1/4 less power and generate 1/4 less heat, the benefit is reduced.
But that said - they are pretty cool. But my other fear is they probably use more custom or on board parts than off the shelf (memory, NIC, etc) meaning fixing one probably means replaceing it, not just a board inside. I know 1U racks have lots on board too... But at least the memory isa replaceable. With this - its had to tell (no internal shots that I could find)
I've used Mozilla on and off since the M1x days. It was a challenge, but having never been happy with Outlook or Netscape mail, I found Mozilla's mail client to be very well thought out IMHO. It did everything I needed it to do in a simple easy to follow interface.
BUt it was REALY unstable - corrupted attachments - hey its beta.
Well, After I installed Moz 0.9.1 (I think I had.8 before) all I could say was WOW> 0.9.1 has been ultra stable (crashed twice since it came out and I installed it - once on Win 2K and once on Linux) Sites render properly most of the time, the only problem was some gif artifacts when scroling a page. The mail client rocks - I have multiple POP and IMAP accounts going without a glitch.
Needless to say I switched over to using Mozilla full time for browsing and email with 0.9.1 and have never looked back - something I could not do before due to instability and other bugs.
Kudos to the Mozilla team - I just installed 0.9.2 and look forward to the improvements! Mozill ahas easily become my browser/email combo of choice!
If you have EVER installed Mozilla before - erase anythign related to it - the executable directory AND the preferences file.
I have found old pref files cna cause crashes on new versions - this is known since the syntax can change.
The BEST way to tell if its an old profile blowing up in your face, start Mozilla in profile manager mode (varys on platform I think but usuall something like -Profile or -ProfileManager) Windows should create an icon for it in Start.
If it starts, delete any existing profiles and create a new one - your life should be much simpler then.
IANAL, but the letter is pretty clear that it is a MARK and the mark is all caps (AIM). Seems ot me, you just start marking your product GAim or Gaim and go from there. Since the name is no longer caps - it is not nearly as close to teh AIM mark that AOL owns.
FWIW - When Northern Telecom became NORTEL, some telcom company in CA called Ortel sued for TM infringment. The judge finally declared that NORTEL could keep the name as long as they included NORTEL Networks under the logo.
Hmm - maybe theres the possibliy of either tweaking the case (which the lawyers seemd to intent on maintaining) or include something like Gnome IM underneath it.
You can't blame Caldera for trying - but you can hate them for being parasites and they are. RedHat and many other distro companies have put in massive amounts of effort to improve Linux. Both from a coding standpoint to developing automated ways to install the software. Caldera has done... what?
So we have a right to be angry with them for charging when they are violating the spirit of Open Source in that they aren't giving back. But don't waste your energy - instead support your favorite distro that DOES support Linux and the community. Instead of downloading that favorite distro - buy it. Tell your boss you need to buy RedHat/Debian/whatever version X.Y to experiement with it before deployment and buy the box set. If he balks remind him that you're deploying 20 servers and you only want one license (the deluxe or course) to get he Manuals, etc, etc. Spend your companies money and support Open Source at the same time! If your company is ready to take a leap with Linux and doesn't have the support staff in house - buy a support contract if you can.
Lets be realistic. Linux would not be where it is today without the influx of capital and resources from various distro companies. For things to CONTINUE to improve, we've got to support the distros we like with MONEY.
Be honest - for those of you who love PostgreSQL, once it became clear RedHat planned to move it forward and apprently return the improvements (ie no forking) you can't deny you were a little excited. I know I was. It just means there will be MORE help for the product AND it'll gain teh acceptance it deserves. And if you convince your company that PostgreSQL is the way to go, buy some support for RHDB if you can afford it and it doesn't throw your case for PostgreSQL in a loop. Lord knows the prices ORacle and IBM charge and even Microsoft will make it easy enough to buy a littel support from RedHat even if you can support it better yourself. Besides, IT managers want to know the vendor will be available right away to fix a problem with teh mission critical DB - well if you go with RHDB, they'll probably spring for the support contract and I assure you it'll be cheaper than whats out there today meaning it'll still be an easy sell.
So yes, it bites Caldera is making money of the backs of everyone else without contributing anything, but that's the nature of the beast. We just live with it and support the companies WE want to survive the best we can. Remember, deploying Linux in your business or personally can be done for free, but to help assure continued development at today's breathtaking rate, we have to throw some cash the dsitro way - otherwise it MAY blow up in our face and thigns will slow down to where Micro$oft pulls away. Shudder the thought.
There is no doubt that there is enough backbone fibre in teh ground (once lit up of course) to handle magnitudes more traffic. Remember, while fibre was getting cheaper to put in the ground, companies like NORTEL were fitting up to 160 (yes one hundred and sixty) channels of data on a single fibre by splitting and recombinign different frequencies of light.
This tended to make the dark fibre problem worse in that less fibre was needed to carry more data.
The whole problme is the last mile to the house. Until there is an economical way to get high speed data to the home, its never going to happen. Cable modems stink bacuse of shared bandwidth (once you approach saturation - look out) but they rock now because they go EVERYWHERE. DSL rocks if you're near a central office - and with speeds in development approaching 4MBps and higher - sweet!
But DSLs problem is the need to be close to a CO. TO serve neghiborhoods, the telcos have to run fibre to each neighbor hood and concentrate the DSL connections there - cable has to do something similar - concentrate and backhaul to the data center. But runnign fibre to neighborhoods is EXPENSIVE!
I have to admit though the whole dark fibre phenom is encouraging. I watched AT&T drop new fibre along a right of way that runs through my nextdoor neighbors pasture. They dropped SIX fibre conduit in the ground - each capable of holding a LOT of fibre. Sticking it int eh ground is the labor intensive part - now that the conduit is there, if their fibre needs GROW beyond whats already IN the ground, they just snake mroe fibre through the unused conduit.
Even better - once they main fibre run was in teh ground, two more conduit were run alogn our road straight to - the local telco. Very encouraging:) Provides them with MAJOR bandwidth connectivity in teh near future (which believe it or not, they already have - they're a SMALL telco with an auxillary fibre backbone busienss go figure)
But the bottom line is, until teh last mile problem is solved in a fashion that can make the telcos/cable comanies/whoever some decent money that we're willing to pay - the bulk of that fibre will stay dark for some time.
So, um, well the x86-64.org website talks about an experimental GCC being available in CVS. My question out of curiosity is did they use that compiler or is there a more advanced GCC that is um well, more complete. I guess it boils down to how experiemntal is this version?
It'll be interesting to see how fast x86-64 GCC takes to be stable enough for production use.
But this is REALLY cool stuff - don't take the above as criticism, its not - just curious.
Well considering the simulator CAME from AMD, I'd say they're off to a heck of a start - of course there will be some bugs when teh actual chip comes out, but they are WAY ahead of the pack right now - most excellent.
Absolutely - getting the simulator out when they did and embracing the open source community was a brilliant move. I think efforts like this will help AMD later on in a big way when they try to crack the server market - though I expect the 760MP is gonna get those cracks started.
Must resist.. Imagine a Beow.. no.. no.. clust.. not gonna... say....it!
every person in the US sound like exactly the same asshole whenever a discussion like this takes place.
I think we don't concentrate on our constitution in schools enough! I fear my kids won't realize that their rights are being taken away by some European who wants some global utopia where nobody is differnet.
Screw that! We 'Americans' bellow about free speech and the Bill of RIghts because these are core values at the core of our society, whether you were born here or immigrated here. We care deeply about the rights set out for us by very wise men hundreds of years ago because they STILL apply today.
And we'll prat about it all we want! I don't want to live in a country so afraid of the past they ban web pages FROM OTHER COUNTRIES about certain topics they don't approve of. I don't want to live in a country where my national identity and soul is sold out to the global corporations in some 'union' that's sold as the solution to all your problems.
So pardon me if get concerned about some foreign body proposing to take away the rights which I deeply care about. It has nothing to do with school indoctrination - it has to do with BELIEVING in it. And when you believe in something as deeply as we Americans believe in the core of our government and society, then you prat about it when those rights are threatened.
We as a country have been through a lot. Its not perfect but we fight for what we believe in and work to fix whats broken. So call us assholes if you like, we could care less. But we for damn sure aren't gonna sell out our core values and rights in the name of some global 'society'. We're dealing with enough of our own issues as it is!:)
Where were you when the legal bodies were dispensing with your fourth amendment rights?
Funny, my person, house, papers and effects are still secure and can't be searched without probable cause. The Supreme Court just extended further into the technical advances of searches saying they can't thermally image my home without a warrant either.
As was stated many times, its not perfect but its the best we've got and we depend on the courts to keep things in line, recent elections aside:)
I get sick of conspiracy-freak, one-world-government types in the U.S., and I hate it when something helps prove them right.
No doubt. I was thinking the same damn thing posting to other threads in this story. Sure they were nutso sayin gthe barcodes on street signs were UN codes for troop directions or whatever, but this stuff is super scary. And its all to realistic for our congressmen to be bought out by the global megacorps to accept this for all its flaws (hell they got DCMA through that way)
they're going to have to do so on the basis that legislative imperialism is bad, not simply on the basis that US law or UK law is perfect
Maybe in the UK, but not here. We Americans are rather proud of the freedoms we've fought for. No our legal system is not perfect. But if you want to stir up American sentiment - tell them their right to free speech is going to be subject to some foreign judicial body. I'll pickup an M16 myself and overthrow any legal body that sells my First Amendment rights out from under me.
The whole EU concept has some good ideas and some bad ones. But I personally feel it'll be a massive failure beyond just a trade association. Europe is a bit too diverse to fit under one political umbrella. Trade wise its fairly easy - even with teh Euro. But beyond that, there will be too much infighting in a political sense to align laws across EU nations in any meaningful manner.
I'm proud of my country and accept it for what it is, good things and bad. But I sure as hell am not gonna give up my freedoms to some greater world body in teh name of free trade, globalization, whatever. Our ancestors fought like hell for the freedoms we now enjoy and no world court is gonna change that.
I'm all for Free Trade, etc. But when it comes to fundamental rights, things get a bit more dicey. SO to me, simply saying that a treaty like this will infringe on my right to say China sucks and so does the EU is good enough for me to hate it. You may say that's xenophobic, but its not. Its nationalistic and unfortunately we've lost some of that in the US lately.
I never have understood why you can't be nationalistic and proud of your country without being an isolationist. It happens everyday - Countries agree to do things that will improve their country (free trade, whatever) while sayin gthat you'll just have to live with teh rest and if not, too bad.
Of course what really drives me nuts is my governments tendancy to try and prove to teh world we're right about everything which is stupid. WE're not. I personally think China can do whatever it wants to but don't expect us to lay down and let them run over us if there aren't concessions made in areas we care about.
The EU was formed to counter the US economically. That's it. The rest is jsut window dressing. But anyoen who thinks the US is going to give in and accept outside judgement on what it does within its borders is smoking dope.
In other words, who in there right minds believes that ANY US congressman from ANY party is going to accept an international court ruling to tell an American web site to take something down?
It was my understanding that Yahoo et all did this to prevent being kicked out of countries like France, etc. But for the vast majority of websites in teh US that DON'T have an international presence, I can't imagine the Hauge sending troops in to turn down my website on US soil and any attempt to do so will surely bring in teh Supreme Court on constitutional free speech issues. What am I missing?
Heck get real - if you don't like whats on a US site, block it like China does but leave me the hell alone. The who pull the network cable out of my PC over my dead body thing;)
No because I never said anyone Gate's statement was stupid because it was generalized. My point was the majority of users at home and in small businesses hardly tax their computers with what they USE, its the bloated OS usign most of the CPU time. The average person using AOL to surf the web and pay bills is like a 90 year old man driving a Porsche 30 MPH on the freeway. Since when did AIM require a massive CPU that could design a nuclear missle?
And I was shooting more from a point that if Micro$oft spent more time trying to streamline their OS vs bloat it with more Justice Dept attracting 'features' the user's experience might be better and they might be able to get cheaper PCs more to their NEEDS 5 years down the road.
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No brainer - the manufacturer of the printer. Customers are cheap - we want the most we can get for as little money as possible. If we had to pay some fee each year for printing to a freaking printer we bought - hell no. The customers would revolt and switch to other software hands down.
However, extorting the manufacturer is MUCH easier. They (Micro$oft) develop the printer install app to make thigns easier for 'certain' companies who pay for the privledge of hassle free printing and installing - and threaten anyone who doesn't sign teh agreements to pay Microsoft for each page printed that their printers will be difficult to install and use. What would you do? If your stuff is a hassle ot us - customers go elsewhere and you go out of business - unless of course you're Micro$oft :) So you agree to pay the extortion, boost your prices to cover it since everyone else is and the customers unwittingly pay Micro$oft more and more money through back end agreements like this.
2 years from now, after WIN XP has been out for a while you ask ANY average user if they realize that part of their photo printing charges went to Microsoft just because they used WIndows and they'll give you deer in headlights looks.
It sure makes monitoring my Snort logs a lot easier.
ROFLMAO! Between this and the endless loop of mutual fingering - I'm still in shock that a /. story about identd would have me rolling on the floor laughing - of course its 3AM and I'm posting to /. so go figure
I mean lets see - 180 servers in a rack. 40 Amps @ 120V means you'd have .222 Amps per server, That's about 26 Watts! (DOn't bother replying abotu RMS - this is just an estimate) I'd LOVE to find a Pent_III 600 that could run on
So I'd LOVE to know how much power they pack into a rack full of these things. Without power specs on teh site - well you can't tell. They also don't include BTU load. Any data center manager needs those specs to know the added load on the environemnt.
Remember, its not JUST rack space. The reasons a server costs so much in real estate are:
SO just because you can squeeze them into such a small space doesn't mean they are worth teh extra money. Unless they draw 1/4 less power and generate 1/4 less heat, the benefit is reduced.
But that said - they are pretty cool. But my other fear is they probably use more custom or on board parts than off the shelf (memory, NIC, etc) meaning fixing one probably means replaceing it, not just a board inside. I know 1U racks have lots on board too... But at least the memory isa replaceable. With this - its had to tell (no internal shots that I could find)
Laptops are NOT designed for 24x7 operation
My guess is that is it. You can find it at:
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.1_P R1/unix/linux22/xpi
Well, if you hate it - Check Bugzilla and if one doesn't exist, create a bug asking that that capability/option be maintained from 4.7x.
BUt it was REALY unstable - corrupted attachments - hey its beta.
Well, After I installed Moz 0.9.1 (I think I had .8 before) all I could say was WOW> 0.9.1 has been ultra stable (crashed twice since it came out and I installed it - once on Win 2K and once on Linux) Sites render properly most of the time, the only problem was some gif artifacts when scroling a page. The mail client rocks - I have multiple POP and IMAP accounts going without a glitch.
Needless to say I switched over to using Mozilla full time for browsing and email with 0.9.1 and have never looked back - something I could not do before due to instability and other bugs.
Kudos to the Mozilla team - I just installed 0.9.2 and look forward to the improvements! Mozill ahas easily become my browser/email combo of choice!
I have found old pref files cna cause crashes on new versions - this is known since the syntax can change.
The BEST way to tell if its an old profile blowing up in your face, start Mozilla in profile manager mode (varys on platform I think but usuall something like -Profile or -ProfileManager) Windows should create an icon for it in Start.
If it starts, delete any existing profiles and create a new one - your life should be much simpler then.
FWIW - When Northern Telecom became NORTEL, some telcom company in CA called Ortel sued for TM infringment. The judge finally declared that NORTEL could keep the name as long as they included NORTEL Networks under the logo.
Hmm - maybe theres the possibliy of either tweaking the case (which the lawyers seemd to intent on maintaining) or include something like Gnome IM underneath it.
So we have a right to be angry with them for charging when they are violating the spirit of Open Source in that they aren't giving back. But don't waste your energy - instead support your favorite distro that DOES support Linux and the community. Instead of downloading that favorite distro - buy it. Tell your boss you need to buy RedHat/Debian/whatever version X.Y to experiement with it before deployment and buy the box set. If he balks remind him that you're deploying 20 servers and you only want one license (the deluxe or course) to get he Manuals, etc, etc. Spend your companies money and support Open Source at the same time! If your company is ready to take a leap with Linux and doesn't have the support staff in house - buy a support contract if you can.
Lets be realistic. Linux would not be where it is today without the influx of capital and resources from various distro companies. For things to CONTINUE to improve, we've got to support the distros we like with MONEY.
Be honest - for those of you who love PostgreSQL, once it became clear RedHat planned to move it forward and apprently return the improvements (ie no forking) you can't deny you were a little excited. I know I was. It just means there will be MORE help for the product AND it'll gain teh acceptance it deserves. And if you convince your company that PostgreSQL is the way to go, buy some support for RHDB if you can afford it and it doesn't throw your case for PostgreSQL in a loop. Lord knows the prices ORacle and IBM charge and even Microsoft will make it easy enough to buy a littel support from RedHat even if you can support it better yourself. Besides, IT managers want to know the vendor will be available right away to fix a problem with teh mission critical DB - well if you go with RHDB, they'll probably spring for the support contract and I assure you it'll be cheaper than whats out there today meaning it'll still be an easy sell.
So yes, it bites Caldera is making money of the backs of everyone else without contributing anything, but that's the nature of the beast. We just live with it and support the companies WE want to survive the best we can. Remember, deploying Linux in your business or personally can be done for free, but to help assure continued development at today's breathtaking rate, we have to throw some cash the dsitro way - otherwise it MAY blow up in our face and thigns will slow down to where Micro$oft pulls away. Shudder the thought.
This tended to make the dark fibre problem worse in that less fibre was needed to carry more data.
The whole problme is the last mile to the house. Until there is an economical way to get high speed data to the home, its never going to happen. Cable modems stink bacuse of shared bandwidth (once you approach saturation - look out) but they rock now because they go EVERYWHERE. DSL rocks if you're near a central office - and with speeds in development approaching 4MBps and higher - sweet!
But DSLs problem is the need to be close to a CO. TO serve neghiborhoods, the telcos have to run fibre to each neighbor hood and concentrate the DSL connections there - cable has to do something similar - concentrate and backhaul to the data center. But runnign fibre to neighborhoods is EXPENSIVE!
I have to admit though the whole dark fibre phenom is encouraging. I watched AT&T drop new fibre along a right of way that runs through my nextdoor neighbors pasture. They dropped SIX fibre conduit in the ground - each capable of holding a LOT of fibre. Sticking it int eh ground is the labor intensive part - now that the conduit is there, if their fibre needs GROW beyond whats already IN the ground, they just snake mroe fibre through the unused conduit.
Even better - once they main fibre run was in teh ground, two more conduit were run alogn our road straight to - the local telco. Very encouraging :) Provides them with MAJOR bandwidth connectivity in teh near future (which believe it or not, they already have - they're a SMALL telco with an auxillary fibre backbone busienss go figure)
But the bottom line is, until teh last mile problem is solved in a fashion that can make the telcos/cable comanies/whoever some decent money that we're willing to pay - the bulk of that fibre will stay dark for some time.
Answers right from the author on /. no less! Great concept :) :) Thanks for the info and great work!
As a true green AMD fanatic I can't wait to get my hands on one of these processors - just gotta find the right job :) :)
It'll be interesting to see how fast x86-64 GCC takes to be stable enough for production use.
But this is REALLY cool stuff - don't take the above as criticism, its not - just curious.
Well considering the simulator CAME from AMD, I'd say they're off to a heck of a start - of course there will be some bugs when teh actual chip comes out, but they are WAY ahead of the pack right now - most excellent.
Must resist .. Imagine a Beow .. no .. no .. clust .. not gonna ... say ....it!
Whew - made it!
OK, I did ... and I'm still gonna flame you
every person in the US sound like exactly the same asshole whenever a discussion like this takes place.
I think we don't concentrate on our constitution in schools enough! I fear my kids won't realize that their rights are being taken away by some European who wants some global utopia where nobody is differnet.
Screw that! We 'Americans' bellow about free speech and the Bill of RIghts because these are core values at the core of our society, whether you were born here or immigrated here. We care deeply about the rights set out for us by very wise men hundreds of years ago because they STILL apply today.
And we'll prat about it all we want! I don't want to live in a country so afraid of the past they ban web pages FROM OTHER COUNTRIES about certain topics they don't approve of. I don't want to live in a country where my national identity and soul is sold out to the global corporations in some 'union' that's sold as the solution to all your problems.
So pardon me if get concerned about some foreign body proposing to take away the rights which I deeply care about. It has nothing to do with school indoctrination - it has to do with BELIEVING in it. And when you believe in something as deeply as we Americans believe in the core of our government and society, then you prat about it when those rights are threatened.
We as a country have been through a lot. Its not perfect but we fight for what we believe in and work to fix whats broken. So call us assholes if you like, we could care less. But we for damn sure aren't gonna sell out our core values and rights in the name of some global 'society'. We're dealing with enough of our own issues as it is! :)
Funny, my person, house, papers and effects are still secure and can't be searched without probable cause. The Supreme Court just extended further into the technical advances of searches saying they can't thermally image my home without a warrant either.
As was stated many times, its not perfect but its the best we've got and we depend on the courts to keep things in line, recent elections aside :)
Yeah since NATO wouldn't be able to do the job :)
No doubt. I was thinking the same damn thing posting to other threads in this story. Sure they were nutso sayin gthe barcodes on street signs were UN codes for troop directions or whatever, but this stuff is super scary. And its all to realistic for our congressmen to be bought out by the global megacorps to accept this for all its flaws (hell they got DCMA through that way)
Great and I had hoped to sleep soundly tonight :)
Maybe in the UK, but not here. We Americans are rather proud of the freedoms we've fought for. No our legal system is not perfect. But if you want to stir up American sentiment - tell them their right to free speech is going to be subject to some foreign judicial body. I'll pickup an M16 myself and overthrow any legal body that sells my First Amendment rights out from under me.
The whole EU concept has some good ideas and some bad ones. But I personally feel it'll be a massive failure beyond just a trade association. Europe is a bit too diverse to fit under one political umbrella. Trade wise its fairly easy - even with teh Euro. But beyond that, there will be too much infighting in a political sense to align laws across EU nations in any meaningful manner.
I'm proud of my country and accept it for what it is, good things and bad. But I sure as hell am not gonna give up my freedoms to some greater world body in teh name of free trade, globalization, whatever. Our ancestors fought like hell for the freedoms we now enjoy and no world court is gonna change that.
I'm all for Free Trade, etc. But when it comes to fundamental rights, things get a bit more dicey. SO to me, simply saying that a treaty like this will infringe on my right to say China sucks and so does the EU is good enough for me to hate it. You may say that's xenophobic, but its not. Its nationalistic and unfortunately we've lost some of that in the US lately.
I never have understood why you can't be nationalistic and proud of your country without being an isolationist. It happens everyday - Countries agree to do things that will improve their country (free trade, whatever) while sayin gthat you'll just have to live with teh rest and if not, too bad.
Of course what really drives me nuts is my governments tendancy to try and prove to teh world we're right about everything which is stupid. WE're not. I personally think China can do whatever it wants to but don't expect us to lay down and let them run over us if there aren't concessions made in areas we care about.
The EU was formed to counter the US economically. That's it. The rest is jsut window dressing. But anyoen who thinks the US is going to give in and accept outside judgement on what it does within its borders is smoking dope.
Yes but you missed the first part where The constiution is ALSO the law of the land and I can assure you the Constitution will trump a treaty anytime
It was my understanding that Yahoo et all did this to prevent being kicked out of countries like France, etc. But for the vast majority of websites in teh US that DON'T have an international presence, I can't imagine the Hauge sending troops in to turn down my website on US soil and any attempt to do so will surely bring in teh Supreme Court on constitutional free speech issues. What am I missing?
Heck get real - if you don't like whats on a US site, block it like China does but leave me the hell alone. The who pull the network cable out of my PC over my dead body thing ;)
And I was shooting more from a point that if Micro$oft spent more time trying to streamline their OS vs bloat it with more Justice Dept attracting 'features' the user's experience might be better and they might be able to get cheaper PCs more to their NEEDS 5 years down the road.
But regarding $1300 or $1100 for a similar system, um, just look at their main page:
Today's Special (1): AMD Athlon 900 Mhz System: $459.00
includes: Athlon T-Bird 900Mhz CPU, 256MB PC133 RAM, 30GB UDMA-100 HDD, 32MB nVidia RIVA TNT2 Video, 12x DVD-ROM, 3D Stereo Sound, 120W Stereo Speakers and more
SO no, not all similarly priced systems in that horsepower range ARE $1300 or even $1100 :)