the net is just a backbone
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VoIP Wiretapping
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if not VOIP then people will write somethingelse to replace it that is secure. VOIP is shit quality voice over a crappy network, I reject VoIP calls and make people use landlines.
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Apple Easter Egg
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it wasnt an easter egg, it appeared on the QT Developer release CD, IIRC QTv1.5
people that share music illegally are the ones that have stuffed it up for the rest of us. Big companies are not blameless, but to take your copy, and then pass a copy of it to anyone else is just theft, it breaks any reasonable definition of 'fair use'. so the way that we are being policed is DRM. Thanks Napster (and the others) for giving us the tool to shot ourselves in the foot.
Thearters survived Video tape, DVDs will survive broadband, in countries with wide access to broadband the actual take up rate is low, only getting higher where Gov. makes it cheaper.
I am a casual collector of DVD and their shelf life makes them 1000 x better than a VCR cassette.
the/. link finally gets you nowhere, the 'authors' site pushes CheryOs as a learning tool, not a replacement. and requires the usual data harvest before possible download, yawn, maybe next year.
what? it has two kernels? Mach was derived from BSD but it is developed by NeXT and now Apple, it is not directly a port of freeBSD. They have released the code under the darwin project, but the GUI belongs to Apple and they have to protect it, just as they have been sued by others in the past. They have just release the code for there lossless codec, so all of you people that have linux can have access to the music, which is also available on several other medias, like CD or whatever. Apple owes you nothing!.
The original legal problem stemed from including a credit of the original artists silent work, which meant he used it without permission. You could record a different silence, say in a freezer room, which would make your silence a different and original silence.
they don't move because all of the problems are seen as a 'normal' part of computer ownership. We have stable systems here because we are carefull and don't buy crap hardware or crap software, but lots of people buy stuff that is crap hopeing to save a dollar and end up with driver problems etc, not always MS-bugs, just bugs that you get because you have Windows. Same with virii, MS doesnt make them, it just attracts them, but good firewall, which Mac and Linux have as standard, and a lot of problems stop.
there are limits imposed on signal strength to prevent interference with the other services contained with the same cable sheath. I have seen these limits graphed and in the Australian case, limits will be imposed,not by Telstra but by the ACA.
8Mb is max based on distance, it drops to almost current ADSL speeds after a km or so. It has the same 4km reach as current ADSL, so for many people there is only a marginal speed gain, yawn, which still makes cable faster in most cases. Also at the mubpond was announced that Telstra was looking at equipment that will extend the reach of ADSL, potentialy to 12kms or more, and make ADSL viable in small towns etc.
...trying to guess what Apple is doing. It's a company prepare to step outside the mould, sometimes it works some times it dont, but things change because they try.
there may be some merit in shield a battery from RF, but I really cant see how an externally attached device can do ANYthing. Just changing some bad charging patterns will extend battery life.
with over 90% of the office products market, 95% of the OS market in MS hands, I don't see MS prices dropping by and real percentage. Which would be a benefit to consumers.
I was introduced to computers via my workplace, my kids have used computer from the earliest age. I advocate purpose built devices like speak and spell etc, with changes in OS it is silly to focus on the OS, as many schools do, and not on the documents. As a family, we wasted a lot of money on educational software for ages x to y, only to find that with a solid reading, writing and computer background, my kids were years ahead of the available software. That software was written by experts who were having to learn computers and adapt material to the new medium, my kids were better computer users and so the edicational software was a couple of levels too low for them. Kids need to write their our material, DON'T stop them reading books, and only teach programming if it of interest to the child, I mean you dont teach them plumbing, why force them to program.
I use my standard carrier. I have been caught out with shtty alternatives and we use a POTS for almost all calls, and each member of the family has a mobile phone as well.
I agree with what you are saying, but for the average joe computer user, the commandline is a dead end. UNIX as most people see it, is hard, ugly, secretive, un-helpful, etc. People do use UNIX when they get a front-end, any front end that gives some sort of hint as to how to do something. I started on UNIX,CP/M and DOS, and still use a commandline, but 99% of my computing is done through a GUI, because most of my work is graphics and visual items.
requires some real study before it's usefull, nothing is more anti-user friendly than a prompt and no hint about what to do next. All usefull UNIX,s have the UNIX hidden behind a user friendly mask.
my cable provider has business and home use plans, but if you provide free access then it shouldn't be a problem. My question is, does your provider have a 'fair use' policy? with a number of people leaching MP3s etc, are you going to draw a large amount of traffic through your connection? Our ISP allows about 10GB per months and may restrict bandwidth after that.
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these just go on and on and on....
if not VOIP then people will write somethingelse to replace it that is secure. VOIP is shit quality voice over a crappy network, I reject VoIP calls and make people use landlines.
it wasnt an easter egg, it appeared on the QT Developer release CD, IIRC QTv1.5
people that share music illegally are the ones that have stuffed it up for the rest of us. Big companies are not blameless, but to take your copy, and then pass a copy of it to anyone else is just theft, it breaks any reasonable definition of 'fair use'. so the way that we are being policed is DRM. Thanks Napster (and the others) for giving us the tool to shot ourselves in the foot.
oh dear, what a shame, you are going to have to pay for something instead of stealing it.
off topic my arse, the same laws that govern the question of mods apply to DVD zoning, dickheads
ah, the downhill slide to stupidity.
Thearters survived Video tape,
DVDs will survive broadband, in countries with wide access to broadband the actual take up rate is low, only getting higher where Gov. makes it cheaper.
I am a casual collector of DVD and their shelf life makes them 1000 x better than a VCR cassette.
the /. link finally gets you nowhere, the 'authors' site pushes CheryOs as a learning tool, not a replacement. and requires the usual data harvest before possible download, yawn, maybe next year.
what? it has two kernels? Mach was derived from BSD but it is developed by NeXT and now Apple, it is not directly a port of freeBSD. They have released the code under the darwin project, but the GUI belongs to Apple and they have to protect it, just as they have been sued by others in the past. They have just release the code for there lossless codec, so all of you people that have linux can have access to the music, which is also available on several other medias, like CD or whatever. Apple owes you nothing!.
The original legal problem stemed from including a credit of the original artists silent work, which meant he used it without permission. You could record a different silence, say in a freezer room, which would make your silence a different and original silence.
The reports on other news channels say they must report it, IF they know about it. Not police it. Sounds good to me, unless you support child porn.
trailing, again. Linux and Mac already offer this sort of thing, Linux can do it better.
they don't move because all of the problems are seen as a 'normal' part of computer ownership. We have stable systems here because we are carefull and don't buy crap hardware or crap software, but lots of people buy stuff that is crap hopeing to save a dollar and end up with driver problems etc, not always MS-bugs, just bugs that you get because you have Windows. Same with virii, MS doesnt make them, it just attracts them, but good firewall, which Mac and Linux have as standard, and a lot of problems stop.
there are limits imposed on signal strength to prevent interference with the other services contained with the same cable sheath. I have seen these limits graphed and in the Australian case, limits will be imposed,not by Telstra but by the ACA.
8Mb is max based on distance, it drops to almost current ADSL speeds after a km or so. It has the same 4km reach as current ADSL, so for many people there is only a marginal speed gain, yawn, which still makes cable faster in most cases. Also at the mubpond was announced that Telstra was looking at equipment that will extend the reach of ADSL, potentialy to 12kms or more, and make ADSL viable in small towns etc.
...trying to guess what Apple is doing. It's a company prepare to step outside the mould, sometimes it works some times it dont, but things change because they try.
there may be some merit in shield a battery from RF, but I really cant see how an externally attached device can do ANYthing. Just changing some bad charging patterns will extend battery life.
with over 90% of the office products market, 95% of the OS market in MS hands, I don't see MS prices dropping by and real percentage. Which would be a benefit to consumers.
I was introduced to computers via my workplace, my kids have used computer from the earliest age. I advocate purpose built devices like speak and spell etc, with changes in OS it is silly to focus on the OS, as many schools do, and not on the documents. As a family, we wasted a lot of money on educational software for ages x to y, only to find that with a solid reading, writing and computer background, my kids were years ahead of the available software. That software was written by experts who were having to learn computers and adapt material to the new medium, my kids were better computer users and so the edicational software was a couple of levels too low for them. Kids need to write their our material, DON'T stop them reading books, and only teach programming if it of interest to the child, I mean you dont teach them plumbing, why force them to program.
I use my standard carrier. I have been caught out with shtty alternatives and we use a POTS for almost all calls, and each member of the family has a mobile phone as well.
I agree with what you are saying, but for the average joe computer user, the commandline is a dead end. UNIX as most people see it, is hard, ugly, secretive, un-helpful, etc. People do use UNIX when they get a front-end, any front end that gives some sort of hint as to how to do something. I started on UNIX,CP/M and DOS, and still use a commandline, but 99% of my computing is done through a GUI, because most of my work is graphics and visual items.
requires some real study before it's usefull, nothing is more anti-user friendly than a prompt and no hint about what to do next. All usefull UNIX,s have the UNIX hidden behind a user friendly mask.
the 100MPH barrier was first broken by a steam car. Why show early steam cars as 'clunkers' they were fast and powerfull, but not 'fashionable'
my cable provider has business and home use plans, but if you provide free access then it shouldn't be a problem. My question is, does your provider have a 'fair use' policy? with a number of people leaching MP3s etc, are you going to draw a large amount of traffic through your connection? Our ISP allows about 10GB per months and may restrict bandwidth after that.