Websites that are on the internet are free to the consumer, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Yeh, but they're free because they're supported by ads (and to a lesser extent, paying customers).
A lot of websites ARE adapting a different model - many sites that were previously free to access even the most basic content now require a user account to view them - in Australia a stack of news sites started doing this recently).
I'd rather have the ability to browse websites anonymously and freely than have to subscribe (even if its free) and/or pay to do so.
I don't block ads; I also encourage other users not to do it either.
Your country (and mine, Australia) should be rubber-gloving Americans when they come to visit. If American citizens realise what a pain in the ass it is to get treated like this, maybe they'll think more carefully about who they vote for in the future and what policies they'll support.
I read this one analysis of what would happen if the US stopped trading with China. Basically, it looked at what would happen if the US started looking at other slave mar- I mean, cheap markets from wwhere they could import their goods. China lost a huge percentage of their foreign income and had no choice but to attack Russia, who had just uncovered massive oil and gold reserves.
I think it was called 'The Bear and the Dragon', or "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down", or "Tom Clancy Reckons Our Country Can Kick Your Countrys Ass".
So, the higher up cops --there's actually many, many different levels of cops in Mainland China with only some actually having any authority-- came in and pulled the crowd apart and told us we were being bad and not to do it again.
I would like to think that, regardless of the country, if you had been doing mime you would have been arrested and whisked out of the public eye. I pay my taxes for a mime-free environment!
As an Australian, I agree - especially considering that our Prime Minister seems so keen to follow the lead of the US on so many huge issues, like deciding what countries we should invade.
It seems logical to me that if your campaign might put you in a position where you can dictate (haha, pun) foreign policy that affects the rest of the world, maybe the rest of the world should get some forewarning about it!
This article is based on a box shot of Half-Life 2 that shows an 18+ rating in the UK.
As others have posted, there is no comparable rating in Australia. However, this DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY IMPLY that Half-Life 2 will face any problems.
Searching the Euro classification database shows that a bunch of games got Euro 18+ ratings, but were released (unaltered) with an MA15+ (the highest.au rating). Soldier of Fortune 2 is a good example.
Most of the Australian concerns are because the OFLC (Office of Film and Literature Classification, the body responsible in Australia for ratings) have refused classification in the past for some titles - most notably, Grand Theft Auto titles and recently the new Leisure Suit Larry game. These titles had problems ONLY because of the sexual aspect (in particular with GTA the combination of sex and violence - specifically, the fact that you can nail a hooker, and then.. uh.. nail her).
It is _hugely_ unlikely that Half-Life 2 will suffer any classification problems unless it contains heaps of sexually explicit content (or messages of racial hatred, etc, etc) - which one can almost certainly safely assume is not going to happen.
I was just in Japan and went to the Sony Centre in Tokyo - basically exactly the same thing, a big Sony showroom.
I saw a lot of Japanese people with minidiscs, but Sony had just launched their hard-drive based player (that I assume doesn't play mp3s, only ATRAC-encoded stuff).
It was very gratifying, however, to see a lot of Japanese people with Ipods - the Ipon mini was launched while I was over there and according to a newspaper I read just after the launch, people lined up for ages to get them and they sold out quickly.
As far as I know, you can't stream via BitTorrent period - it doesn't download the content sequentially (ie, from the first byte to the last) - it downloads the least available chunks on the network first. So you'd have to make pretty major changes to the BitTorrent client to get it to work, which of course would completely defeat how BT works. All your peers would be competiting for the first chunks of data so they could start streaming.
(Note: I haven't RTFA'd so I don't know how releveant streaming is to the proposal, but I thought I'd point it out in response to parent.)
Step 1) Find established technology which is working more or less happily as-is Step 2) Add the word 'p2p' in front of it. Step 3) ??? Step 4) Profit
I assume Step 3) is now as simple as "show name of new product with 'p2p' in the subject and explain how its NOT related to pirating movies or music" (to increase investor confidence they're not going to get taken to town by the RIAA/MPAA), then its just sit back and watch the fat investment/grant dollars roll in!
There was a post above asking why gun deaths in Canada are so much lower than that of the US, and now finally I understand why - rampant garden gnome theft in Texas.
But then the question remains: WHERE is an internet crime committed?
According to a recent Australian judgement: "The landmark judgment means material on the internet is deemed to have been published in the place it is viewed, not the country of origin."
This is to do with 'content', but is still an interesting bit of law - I don't know how relevant it is to this case though.
As a 21 year old male who loves cars and driving, the future looks bleak.
As a 26 year old male who loves living, anything that stops 21 year old males who love cars and driving from driving too fast is fine by me. Sorry, but I remember being 21 - young drivers just don't have the same level of experience as older drivers, no matter how fast/smart/handsome you think you are.
I'm not trying to accuse you personally of speeding, but I know lots of 21 yo males that don't drive as responsibly as they should, thinking that they know better than the people who made the speeding laws and placed the speed limits.
Although Apple computers and Apple iPods do not support the PC standard WindowsMedia format for music...
Weird, I didn't realise it was the PC standard - surely if its anything, its just the 'Windows standard'.
I don't use WMA for my audio compression though, and honestly, don't know anyone that does either. My computer-literate friends and family use MP3; those that don't have now mostly switched to iTunes! I guess there must be a heap of people that just use WMP for everything though.
http://download.microsoft.com.nyud.net:8090/down lo ad/1/6/5/165b076b-aaa9-443d-84f0-73cf11fdcdf8/Wind owsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe
Here's something I've often wondered - what's the go here? Microsoft don't want anyone mirroring Windows XP Service Pack 2 (despite lots of places still having it mirrored), but what about proxies?
Slashdot Mirror
A lot of websites ARE adapting a different model - many sites that were previously free to access even the most basic content now require a user account to view them - in Australia a stack of news sites started doing this recently).
I'd rather have the ability to browse websites anonymously and freely than have to subscribe (even if its free) and/or pay to do so.
I don't block ads; I also encourage other users not to do it either.
Your country (and mine, Australia) should be rubber-gloving Americans when they come to visit. If American citizens realise what a pain in the ass it is to get treated like this, maybe they'll think more carefully about who they vote for in the future and what policies they'll support.
Baseball results, Diebold - take your pick.
I read this one analysis of what would happen if the US stopped trading with China. Basically, it looked at what would happen if the US started looking at other slave mar- I mean, cheap markets from wwhere they could import their goods. China lost a huge percentage of their foreign income and had no choice but to attack Russia, who had just uncovered massive oil and gold reserves.
I think it was called 'The Bear and the Dragon', or "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down", or "Tom Clancy Reckons Our Country Can Kick Your Countrys Ass".
As an Australian, I agree - especially considering that our Prime Minister seems so keen to follow the lead of the US on so many huge issues, like deciding what countries we should invade.
It seems logical to me that if your campaign might put you in a position where you can dictate (haha, pun) foreign policy that affects the rest of the world, maybe the rest of the world should get some forewarning about it!
This article is based on a box shot of Half-Life 2 that shows an 18+ rating in the UK.
.au rating). Soldier of Fortune 2 is a good example.
As others have posted, there is no comparable rating in Australia. However, this DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY IMPLY that Half-Life 2 will face any problems.
Searching the Euro classification database shows that a bunch of games got Euro 18+ ratings, but were released (unaltered) with an MA15+ (the highest
Most of the Australian concerns are because the OFLC (Office of Film and Literature Classification, the body responsible in Australia for ratings) have refused classification in the past for some titles - most notably, Grand Theft Auto titles and recently the new Leisure Suit Larry game. These titles had problems ONLY because of the sexual aspect (in particular with GTA the combination of sex and violence - specifically, the fact that you can nail a hooker, and then.. uh.. nail her).
It is _hugely_ unlikely that Half-Life 2 will suffer any classification problems unless it contains heaps of sexually explicit content (or messages of racial hatred, etc, etc) - which one can almost certainly safely assume is not going to happen.
...where can I download it?!
More importantly, when will Six of Nine's uniform be updated to take advantage of this new technology?
We have them in Australia as well.
I was just in Japan and went to the Sony Centre in Tokyo - basically exactly the same thing, a big Sony showroom.
I saw a lot of Japanese people with minidiscs, but Sony had just launched their hard-drive based player (that I assume doesn't play mp3s, only ATRAC-encoded stuff).
It was very gratifying, however, to see a lot of Japanese people with Ipods - the Ipon mini was launched while I was over there and according to a newspaper I read just after the launch, people lined up for ages to get them and they sold out quickly.
For those (like me) that have no idea what this would actually look like, here's the DomainKey header from an email I just sent myself from GMail:
c t:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encod ing; b=ONG9HfGg74ZbrOOI8IwjwhGUX+PlGp1+clGIyvWriiltDmXE xdmdDWoblELIrVMw3yex7xRyib6m4Q5pInSfi2mr1IQRZINzf2 qTI/9QtFMkpwJUcWJeBt8VPzdxpNCdItxyNnALLIXjrsBAcYsY 8Gv7C6HJR0E6OFZCM0qWrCo
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subje
As far as I know, you can't stream via BitTorrent period - it doesn't download the content sequentially (ie, from the first byte to the last) - it downloads the least available chunks on the network first. So you'd have to make pretty major changes to the BitTorrent client to get it to work, which of course would completely defeat how BT works. All your peers would be competiting for the first chunks of data so they could start streaming.
(Note: I haven't RTFA'd so I don't know how releveant streaming is to the proposal, but I thought I'd point it out in response to parent.)
Weird, Slashdot is displaying 'Troll' as 'Insightful' at my end for some reason.
I'd love to see the BitTorrent stats that show number of downloads of Ye Olde Goode Edition vs New Bad Edition of Death
Step 1) Find established technology which is working more or less happily as-is
Step 2) Add the word 'p2p' in front of it.
Step 3) ???
Step 4) Profit
I assume Step 3) is now as simple as "show name of new product with 'p2p' in the subject and explain how its NOT related to pirating movies or music" (to increase investor confidence they're not going to get taken to town by the RIAA/MPAA), then its just sit back and watch the fat investment/grant dollars roll in!
There was a post above asking why gun deaths in Canada are so much lower than that of the US, and now finally I understand why - rampant garden gnome theft in Texas.
This is to do with 'content', but is still an interesting bit of law - I don't know how relevant it is to this case though.
I'm not trying to accuse you personally of speeding, but I know lots of 21 yo males that don't drive as responsibly as they should, thinking that they know better than the people who made the speeding laws and placed the speed limits.
I don't use WMA for my audio compression though, and honestly, don't know anyone that does either. My computer-literate friends and family use MP3; those that don't have now mostly switched to iTunes! I guess there must be a heap of people that just use WMP for everything though.
Next for the RIAA: aural implants so the music gets streamed directly into your BRAIN!
Surely if anything though, Apple would suffer from lower Microsoft prices, not high prices!
Uh oh:
n lo ad/1/6/5/165b076b-aaa9-443d-84f0-73cf11fdcdf8/Wind owsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe
http://download.microsoft.com.nyud.net:8090/dow
Here's something I've often wondered - what's the go here? Microsoft don't want anyone mirroring Windows XP Service Pack 2 (despite lots of places still having it mirrored), but what about proxies?