Drink water. LOTS of water. Any time I feel the need to kick my Coke (of the Cola variety) habit, I just carry around a 1-liter nalgene bottle and make a point of finishing it at least once per hour. The more water you drink, the less of a headache you'll have.
We don't rue the loss of the welder's job, the steelworker's job, the woodworker's job, the craftsman's job, the accountants job, when a machine makes it unnecessary.
That's just plain not true. Groups like the ones you mentioned have unions to protect their jobs, even if they may seem superfluous to you. The truth is that the RIAA is (more-or-less) a union for artists, etc. While I may not agree with most of what they do, I can see where they're coming from--unions are supposed to protect their members, even if that means ignoring modern technology, and that's exactly what the RIAA thinks its doing.
Your analogy doesn't make any sense here. Sure, you aren't getting free internet access, but you are getting free internet content. Look at Slashdot, for instance. You can pay slashdot to turn the ads off for you, but that's because you're paying slashdot, the one providing the content. Surprisingly enough, it costs money to run a website, and the only way that websites have of making money is by either charging users for access (which none of us want) or by having advertisers pay them for some ad space (which we all hate, but have learned to live with).
Personally, I have a big moral problem with you trying to start an ISP that doesn't allow ads unless you plan on sending a monthly check to EVERY single website your users visited that would have normally contained an ad.
As much as we all hate it, advertising is a necessary evil if you want internet content to remain more-or-less free.
Nah, thats the LGPL. The GPL doesn't let you link against non-GPL libs IIR.
Not true. The LGPL is for if you want to write a library and allow people to link to it in non-free programs. For example, if I wrote a new math library, but wanted to let anyone use it, regardless of whether the software they were using it in was free or not, I would use the LGPL.
As for linking with non-free libraries in a GPL'd program, it is perfectly acceptable as long as the original copyright holder is the one that makes the exception. See the GPL faq for the full details.
"I can't wait for the distributed Palladium cracking project!"
You're going to be waiting for a while. With M$'s army of lawyers, any attempt to organize such a project will quickly be shot down by any one of a number of current laws. Let's see how many we can name....
No, it's not. My first access to the internet came from AOL way back in 1995 at the age of 10. AOL's internet access, while shoddy at best back in the days of 3.0, gave me access to all sorts of information/tutorials/documents/etc on everything from C++ to info for research papers, chatting with people from countries I had never heard of, and the ability to communicate with anyone almost instantly. If you want to compare AOL to something, compare it to giving a library card to millions of Americans that have never set foot in a library. Yes, it does clog up what was traditionally "your" library, but in the end, the world is a better place.
While we're at it, let's sue ISPs for spreading virii through email, Cisco for building routers that forward packets used by P2P apps, and ATT for providing the backbones that transport these packets. I just don't see where the NetOps are responsible for this.
The supercomputer lab I worked at for a while actually used the "waste" heat to heat the building in the winter. Sure, it was just vented during the summer, but for eight months of the year (MN has long winters) they don't have to pay for heating!
If that happened, I think Our Fearless Leader would step in and set things straight. After all, you can't have "subliminable" messages that work at both speeds!
"How this mad, psychedelic fantasy of color can continue to sit on the desktops of businesses everywhere is beyond me."
Most places that I've seen (including all the labs at my school, etc) got rid of the default XP theme long, long ago for exactly that reason. In fact, one of the first things I do after a fresh XP install (aside from cursing since it didn't recognize my vid card properly) is to tell Windows to use the look and feel of 9x. That single option is the only thing standing between my XP CD and an industrial incinerator.
I'm personally a fan of this one since most people don't even know they're being insulted. Plus, you can quickly find the geeks in the room as they'll be the ones giving you an understanding grin...
While it is true your server would be unable to send 52Mbps to a single client, chances are that your traffic goes over multiple different links once it leaves your ISP (possibly even within your ISP). If you pay for a good service, their internal structure should be able to handle your 90Mbps. It's the same reason that people invest in gigabit ethernet. The internet can't handle anywhere NEAR that bandwith end-to-end, but split among multiple clients, it's not so unrealistic.
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Drink water. LOTS of water. Any time I feel the need to kick my Coke (of the Cola variety) habit, I just carry around a 1-liter nalgene bottle and make a point of finishing it at least once per hour. The more water you drink, the less of a headache you'll have.
We don't rue the loss of the welder's job, the steelworker's job, the woodworker's job, the craftsman's job, the accountants job, when a machine makes it unnecessary.
That's just plain not true. Groups like the ones you mentioned have unions to protect their jobs, even if they may seem superfluous to you. The truth is that the RIAA is (more-or-less) a union for artists, etc. While I may not agree with most of what they do, I can see where they're coming from--unions are supposed to protect their members, even if that means ignoring modern technology, and that's exactly what the RIAA thinks its doing.
Your analogy doesn't make any sense here. Sure, you aren't getting free internet access, but you are getting free internet content. Look at Slashdot, for instance. You can pay slashdot to turn the ads off for you, but that's because you're paying slashdot, the one providing the content. Surprisingly enough, it costs money to run a website, and the only way that websites have of making money is by either charging users for access (which none of us want) or by having advertisers pay them for some ad space (which we all hate, but have learned to live with).
Personally, I have a big moral problem with you trying to start an ISP that doesn't allow ads unless you plan on sending a monthly check to EVERY single website your users visited that would have normally contained an ad.
As much as we all hate it, advertising is a necessary evil if you want internet content to remain more-or-less free.
Nah, thats the LGPL. The GPL doesn't let you link against non-GPL libs IIR.
Not true. The LGPL is for if you want to write a library and allow people to link to it in non-free programs. For example, if I wrote a new math library, but wanted to let anyone use it, regardless of whether the software they were using it in was free or not, I would use the LGPL.
As for linking with non-free libraries in a GPL'd program, it is perfectly acceptable as long as the original copyright holder is the one that makes the exception. See the GPL faq for the full details.
now I don't even have to be a 7337 AI hAx0r to win RoboCup? Sweet!
"I can't wait for the distributed Palladium cracking project!"
You're going to be waiting for a while. With M$'s army of lawyers, any attempt to organize such a project will quickly be shot down by any one of a number of current laws. Let's see how many we can name....
No, it's not. My first access to the internet came from AOL way back in 1995 at the age of 10. AOL's internet access, while shoddy at best back in the days of 3.0, gave me access to all sorts of information/tutorials/documents/etc on everything from C++ to info for research papers, chatting with people from countries I had never heard of, and the ability to communicate with anyone almost instantly. If you want to compare AOL to something, compare it to giving a library card to millions of Americans that have never set foot in a library. Yes, it does clog up what was traditionally "your" library, but in the end, the world is a better place.
With a direct link to a 100MB file, how long before AOL's servers fail under the load?
While we're at it, let's sue ISPs for spreading virii through email, Cisco for building routers that forward packets used by P2P apps, and ATT for providing the backbones that transport these packets. I just don't see where the NetOps are responsible for this.
The supercomputer lab I worked at for a while actually used the "waste" heat to heat the building in the winter. Sure, it was just vented during the summer, but for eight months of the year (MN has long winters) they don't have to pay for heating!
If that happened, I think Our Fearless Leader would step in and set things straight. After all, you can't have "subliminable" messages that work at both speeds!
"Could it be that XP won because MS dumps millions into research and development of interfaces?"
By that logic, shouldn't Rambus have taken over the world years ago?
"How this mad, psychedelic fantasy of color can continue to sit on the desktops of businesses everywhere is beyond me."
Most places that I've seen (including all the labs at my school, etc) got rid of the default XP theme long, long ago for exactly that reason. In fact, one of the first things I do after a fresh XP install (aside from cursing since it didn't recognize my vid card properly) is to tell Windows to use the look and feel of 9x.
That single option is the only thing standing between my XP CD and an industrial incinerator.
You mean this one?
I'm personally a fan of this one since most people don't even know they're being insulted. Plus, you can quickly find the geeks in the room as they'll be the ones giving you an understanding grin...
While it is true your server would be unable to send 52Mbps to a single client, chances are that your traffic goes over multiple different links once it leaves your ISP (possibly even within your ISP). If you pay for a good service, their internal structure should be able to handle your 90Mbps. It's the same reason that people invest in gigabit ethernet. The internet can't handle anywhere NEAR that bandwith end-to-end, but split among multiple clients, it's not so unrealistic.