Upon looking it up, Pacifier and NWLink went to US.Net, which then went to MDM.net. Transport Logic went to FirstWorld, which then changed its name to Verado.
Nono, DSL is "always on". Same as cable modems. The connection spin-up only happens when the line itself loses sight of the other end, either because one of the two ends went down, or because some point in the line (Verizon) was taken down.
The delay is just a matter of time it takes for the two devices to exchange handshakes, establish the connection, etc.
They seem to change the names of the service plans on a regular basis. When we signed up, it was the "Bronze Plus" plan, which is 768/128. That was when GTE was still GTE. I'm in Tualatin, so USWestNowQwest was never an option, no.
As for the line, it's just a bridge, no PPPoE or anything fancy. It can take around 10-30 seconds for the bridge to hook up with the ISP, but I cope. We also have a dialup account with the service to fall back on if Verizon craps out for an extended period of time.
Most of my DSL-using coworkers are North Portland residents or eastsiders, so they're all stuck with Qwest, but they're fairly content with their service.
You, too, are right. So if the Apache Group simply refrains from linking to or distributing mod_mp3, are they legally safe?
I would certainly hope that Apache isn't liable simply because their module API allowed for mod_mp3 to exist. If that case were to happen, would it not set the stage for suing Microsoft for every Windows application which does something illegal? After all, MS didn't try to stop the application from being developed..
I'm with Easystreet now. With the fall of Teleport to Earthlink and Pacifier and Transport Logic to whoever it was that bought those two, it seems Easystreet is the last of the "high profile" ISP's that Portland had.
We originally went to Easystreet for colo facilities when our prior colo place went under. They were pretty cool about it, we basically called them up within an hour of hearing we needed to evacuate our servers, and they gave us rackspace and IPs by the end of the day. Pretty good rush work. So, when it came time to get DSL service, it made sense to use them, since we already had a rapport with our account rep.
I agree about Hevanet. They're one of the nice comfortable sized local ISPs that we used to have a large number of. It's nice to see there are still some around. I'd say stick with them as long as they can serve you.
I'm afraid I don't see much hope for the good old days when there were two dozen ISPs available here in the Portland, Oregon area. Instead, the ISP market will be mostly the impersonal national companies.
It's already blindingly obvious that the cable modem market in the US will never allow a local ISP a share of the market, which is one reason I prefer DSL: I can get my service from a local ISP. Sure, the line still comes from Verizon, but it's better than nothing.
But the DSL market is going the way of the cable modem market. Companies like Earthlink, the ISP-eating monster, are rapidly buying up the small town ISP as they find themselves unable to compete with the budget of national companies, regardless of the quality of service.
So, that's my bleak outlook on things. Last year, there were no less than 7 ISPs in my area offering DSL service. Since then, two have gone out of business, two have been purchased by national companies, and a couple others are fledging. One remains in high standing, and that's the one I'm with.:) Hopefully they can hold off the soulless acquisition advance for a few years.
How hard would it be for a several multi-billion dollar record companies to sue apache out of existance?
Well, first they'd have to prove the Apache Group had anything, whatsoever, to do with the development of mod_mp3.
They didn't write it.
If the RIAA is going to go after somebody, they'll go after the guy that did write it.
To go after the Apache Group for mod_mp3 is very much the same idea as going after Microsoft because Napster uses the Win32 API.
And thank you for the knee-jerk generalization
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It's always nice to be jumped on for being in the US. I do appreciate your uninformed assumption, even if it is true. Please, continue to believe all Americans are completely unaware of the world beyond their borders. It really is a healty attitude.
As a side note, I'll mention the area I live on is powered exclusively by hydro power. Yes, we're fortunate to be able to do that, since much of the country is too entrenched in fossil fuels to adopt other means.
The problem with cleaner sources of power is that they just don't meet the demand. Solar is fine, but it swallows up massive quantities of land (Yes, I realize the irony in an American griping about using up land). Same with wind power. Hydro is a good option for areas that can employ it, and it's my favored source of energy. But what else is there? Well, there's global warming. At some point that reality is going to kick the US government in the ass and get them to actually act, and push industry to find better ways to generate power. In the mean time, politics prevents any progress from being made over here.
Price has nothing to do with it, the context was the allegation that hydrogen cars aren't clean because of the electricy involved in creating hydrogen.
Please read the whole thread before responding to the middle of it.
Electricity is needed to extract oil too, y'know. And as many have already pointed out, hydrogen is no more dangerous in cars than gasoline. In fact, it could be argued that it's less dangerous.
It's a "clean energy" because the car itself isn't polluting much. Of course, this argument has the same flaw that electric-powered cars do, which you pointed out. No matter how egological the car itself is, the power it uses has to come from somewhere, and in most of the US, that means coal-burning plants.
And from what I understand of the CA situation, coal plants are the only new source of power being seriously considered down there, because they're simple and cheap to build. Sigh. As if we didn't have enough rampant pollution already.
Me, I want a fuel cell car. I won't drive an electric car, though, since so much of the electricity to charge it gets lost in transit over the power lines.
Know what else? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is in the public domain, yet publishers have the gall to sell for profit copies of the book! How dare they! It's available for free, so they're evil to sell it!!
This doesn't follow. Alice in Wonderland is still in the public domain. Publishers sell it, that's fine. Commercial distros sell Linux too, and that's also fine.
But CDDB isn't in the public domain anymore. For your Alice in Wonderland comparison to work, publishers would have had to remove Alice in Wonderland from the public domain, and make it illegal to acquire a copy of it without paying a publisher for it.
So I'm reading Dan Gillmor's comments on Nautilus, and this paragraph strikes me.
Let's focus on the positive side first. The Linux community has been touting the combination of the OS and Nautilus, a GUI plus Internet services, as a Microsoft killer. That seems presumptuous, to put it mildly.
Now, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm pretty sure the Linux community at large has never pushed Nautilus as anything more than a gmc replacement. So where did this guy's impression that Nautilus was this big, phenomonal thing come from?
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There may still be hope. Maybe they'll find a way to let WebTV users install it.
Funny, I know more European PHP users than US...
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Only Americans are stupid enough to use PHP, eh? That's funny, I know more European PHP users than American ones. Not to mention how many members of the PHP Group are European.
That's the beauty of it. They're not recouping losses, they're taking in income.
It goes something like this:
1. You buy a hard drive, and pay a tax to the recording industry.
2. You burn a CD onto it.
3. They nail you for it and fine you.
Ahh, that's justice for you. It's probably inevitable that in the US, we'll soon be paying a similar tax to the RIAA (And hell, probably one to the MPAA too) for every storage media concievable.
So the question is, is anybody actually going to stand up to this nonsense?
For all the lobbyists they employ, they may as well be. But in the context of the article, Hollywood == MPAA, which may as well be true. So yeah, Hollywood has a staggering influence on US policy.
Wouldn't you be desperate to replace it with something that doesn't suck quite so badly?:) It was inevitable that the industry would flee from their archaic desktops as soon as a viable replacement appeared. Hell, it's a safe bet that's the only reason Gnome and KDE are getting attention from big corporations anyway. They want a way out of Motif.:)
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Anyone else feeling nostalgic for the really old Freshmeat designs? Like the one with the screaming crowd in the freshmeat logo?
Yes, efm had transparent menus. I enjoy them a lot, since I've been using efm as my desktop for something like 8 months now. However they were deemed too slow to add to E17.
Unfortunately, I think the best way to fight this is to point out how POORLY the filtering works. Paint it as a huge waste of money.
I'm not sure what would be unfortunate about this idea working. Life would be so much easier if using reason and logic against bad legislation (among other things) worked.
What is unfortunate is that pointing out why the filtering software doesn't work simply won't change anybody's minds in government. They think their constituents want them to "do something about all that filth on the Internet!", so they assume that means use filters. Other options probably never even came up.
(Gee, I wonder if Mattel has some lobbyists working the child protection committees...)
The link which was mentioned in one of the first comments to this article is here.
As you can see from the datestamp of the status update, Freetype has known these issues exist for quite awhile. I don't know when this page was originally created.
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Upon looking it up, Pacifier and NWLink went to US.Net, which then went to MDM.net. Transport Logic went to FirstWorld, which then changed its name to Verado.
Nono, DSL is "always on". Same as cable modems. The connection spin-up only happens when the line itself loses sight of the other end, either because one of the two ends went down, or because some point in the line (Verizon) was taken down.
The delay is just a matter of time it takes for the two devices to exchange handshakes, establish the connection, etc.
They seem to change the names of the service plans on a regular basis. When we signed up, it was the "Bronze Plus" plan, which is 768/128. That was when GTE was still GTE. I'm in Tualatin, so USWestNowQwest was never an option, no.
As for the line, it's just a bridge, no PPPoE or anything fancy. It can take around 10-30 seconds for the bridge to hook up with the ISP, but I cope. We also have a dialup account with the service to fall back on if Verizon craps out for an extended period of time.
Most of my DSL-using coworkers are North Portland residents or eastsiders, so they're all stuck with Qwest, but they're fairly content with their service.
You, too, are right. So if the Apache Group simply refrains from linking to or distributing mod_mp3, are they legally safe?
I would certainly hope that Apache isn't liable simply because their module API allowed for mod_mp3 to exist. If that case were to happen, would it not set the stage for suing Microsoft for every Windows application which does something illegal? After all, MS didn't try to stop the application from being developed..
I'm with Easystreet now. With the fall of Teleport to Earthlink and Pacifier and Transport Logic to whoever it was that bought those two, it seems Easystreet is the last of the "high profile" ISP's that Portland had.
We originally went to Easystreet for colo facilities when our prior colo place went under. They were pretty cool about it, we basically called them up within an hour of hearing we needed to evacuate our servers, and they gave us rackspace and IPs by the end of the day. Pretty good rush work. So, when it came time to get DSL service, it made sense to use them, since we already had a rapport with our account rep.
I agree about Hevanet. They're one of the nice comfortable sized local ISPs that we used to have a large number of. It's nice to see there are still some around. I'd say stick with them as long as they can serve you.
I'm afraid I don't see much hope for the good old days when there were two dozen ISPs available here in the Portland, Oregon area. Instead, the ISP market will be mostly the impersonal national companies.
:) Hopefully they can hold off the soulless acquisition advance for a few years.
It's already blindingly obvious that the cable modem market in the US will never allow a local ISP a share of the market, which is one reason I prefer DSL: I can get my service from a local ISP. Sure, the line still comes from Verizon, but it's better than nothing.
But the DSL market is going the way of the cable modem market. Companies like Earthlink, the ISP-eating monster, are rapidly buying up the small town ISP as they find themselves unable to compete with the budget of national companies, regardless of the quality of service.
So, that's my bleak outlook on things. Last year, there were no less than 7 ISPs in my area offering DSL service. Since then, two have gone out of business, two have been purchased by national companies, and a couple others are fledging. One remains in high standing, and that's the one I'm with.
How hard would it be for a several multi-billion dollar record companies to sue apache out of existance?
Well, first they'd have to prove the Apache Group had anything, whatsoever, to do with the development of mod_mp3.
They didn't write it.
If the RIAA is going to go after somebody, they'll go after the guy that did write it.
To go after the Apache Group for mod_mp3 is very much the same idea as going after Microsoft because Napster uses the Win32 API.
It's always nice to be jumped on for being in the US. I do appreciate your uninformed assumption, even if it is true. Please, continue to believe all Americans are completely unaware of the world beyond their borders. It really is a healty attitude.
As a side note, I'll mention the area I live on is powered exclusively by hydro power. Yes, we're fortunate to be able to do that, since much of the country is too entrenched in fossil fuels to adopt other means.
The problem with cleaner sources of power is that they just don't meet the demand. Solar is fine, but it swallows up massive quantities of land (Yes, I realize the irony in an American griping about using up land). Same with wind power. Hydro is a good option for areas that can employ it, and it's my favored source of energy. But what else is there? Well, there's global warming. At some point that reality is going to kick the US government in the ass and get them to actually act, and push industry to find better ways to generate power. In the mean time, politics prevents any progress from being made over here.
Price has nothing to do with it, the context was the allegation that hydrogen cars aren't clean because of the electricy involved in creating hydrogen.
Please read the whole thread before responding to the middle of it.
I'm confused. You spent all that time explaining why hydrogen isn't really efficient, it just moves the pollution.
And the you say to use electric cars? Can you please go back and read your argument again, and tell me why electric cars are any better of a solution?
Electricity is needed to extract oil too, y'know. And as many have already pointed out, hydrogen is no more dangerous in cars than gasoline. In fact, it could be argued that it's less dangerous.
It's a "clean energy" because the car itself isn't polluting much. Of course, this argument has the same flaw that electric-powered cars do, which you pointed out. No matter how egological the car itself is, the power it uses has to come from somewhere, and in most of the US, that means coal-burning plants.
And from what I understand of the CA situation, coal plants are the only new source of power being seriously considered down there, because they're simple and cheap to build. Sigh. As if we didn't have enough rampant pollution already.
Me, I want a fuel cell car. I won't drive an electric car, though, since so much of the electricity to charge it gets lost in transit over the power lines.
Know what else? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is in the public domain, yet publishers have the gall to sell for profit copies of the book! How dare they! It's available for free, so they're evil to sell it!!
This doesn't follow. Alice in Wonderland is still in the public domain. Publishers sell it, that's fine. Commercial distros sell Linux too, and that's also fine.
But CDDB isn't in the public domain anymore. For your Alice in Wonderland comparison to work, publishers would have had to remove Alice in Wonderland from the public domain, and make it illegal to acquire a copy of it without paying a publisher for it.
So I'm reading Dan Gillmor's comments on Nautilus, and this paragraph strikes me.
Let's focus on the positive side first. The Linux community has been touting the combination of the OS and Nautilus, a GUI plus Internet services, as a Microsoft killer. That seems presumptuous, to put it mildly.
Now, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm pretty sure the Linux community at large has never pushed Nautilus as anything more than a gmc replacement. So where did this guy's impression that Nautilus was this big, phenomonal thing come from?
That's a great plan. Yeah.
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(***) Note: Service not available in all areas
There may still be hope. Maybe they'll find a way to let WebTV users install it.
Only Americans are stupid enough to use PHP, eh? That's funny, I know more European PHP users than American ones. Not to mention how many members of the PHP Group are European.
And then of course, there's the proliferation of PHP sites in Europe.
Konquerer can be any browser you tell it to be. Opera has a similar feature.
That's the beauty of it. They're not recouping losses, they're taking in income.
It goes something like this:
1. You buy a hard drive, and pay a tax to the recording industry.
2. You burn a CD onto it.
3. They nail you for it and fine you.
Ahh, that's justice for you. It's probably inevitable that in the US, we'll soon be paying a similar tax to the RIAA (And hell, probably one to the MPAA too) for every storage media concievable.
So the question is, is anybody actually going to stand up to this nonsense?
For all the lobbyists they employ, they may as well be. But in the context of the article, Hollywood == MPAA, which may as well be true. So yeah, Hollywood has a staggering influence on US policy.
Wouldn't you be desperate to replace it with something that doesn't suck quite so badly? :) It was inevitable that the industry would flee from their archaic desktops as soon as a viable replacement appeared. Hell, it's a safe bet that's the only reason Gnome and KDE are getting attention from big corporations anyway. They want a way out of Motif. :)
Anyone else feeling nostalgic for the really old Freshmeat designs? Like the one with the screaming crowd in the freshmeat logo?
Ah, for the good old days.
Yes, efm had transparent menus. I enjoy them a lot, since I've been using efm as my desktop for something like 8 months now. However they were deemed too slow to add to E17.
Unfortunately, I think the best way to fight this is to point out how POORLY the filtering works. Paint it as a huge waste of money.
I'm not sure what would be unfortunate about this idea working. Life would be so much easier if using reason and logic against bad legislation (among other things) worked.
What is unfortunate is that pointing out why the filtering software doesn't work simply won't change anybody's minds in government. They think their constituents want them to "do something about all that filth on the Internet!", so they assume that means use filters. Other options probably never even came up.
(Gee, I wonder if Mattel has some lobbyists working the child protection committees...)
When we discover that a massive asteroid is heading towards us, so that we can shoot it down with three laser beams.
Like in that super-cheesy TV movie, Asteroid.
The link which was mentioned in one of the first comments to this article is here.
As you can see from the datestamp of the status update, Freetype has known these issues exist for quite awhile. I don't know when this page was originally created.
Not plagarizing. Though I suppose if you want to be legalese about it he should've included credits.
Or he could've simply posted a link to here