So, for the most part only the USA is screwing itself out of technological lead in any area. Then so what, open source just moves 'abroad' and watch the fur fly if Americans are forbidden to 'import it'. I can see a reverse of the whole crypto mess that anyone, anywhere can easily circumvent. In the final analysis; BFD!
Patents aren't evil in their own right. I have a few, but they are for real inventions and not simply applied mathematical formulae, something a copyright could best take care of.
I found that the X method of installing just didn't offer what it takes to make a knowledagable install right off. I finally resorted to placing the RH6.1 cd in a drive on another computer, mounting it on the annon. ftp area and doing a 'ftp install' instead. It worked great right off and all that was needed was to build and compile a 'real' kernel to obtain a firstrate system.
I would be pleased to see a Linux that anyone can install, but to have a first rate system, you must be able to have manual control of the process, download the most recent kernel and build it properly. I would sincerely hope the next RH release would be easier to do a proper install and yet allow a 'newbie' to get an 'out of box experience'. The offering of the ISO image is a great move, unfortunately i still needed to to a 'ftp install'.
It is probably assumed that anyone who seriously wants Linux, *BSD or other Unix has some sort of a network connection. This being the case, there is virtually unlimited software to compile and use. I am also in agreement to having more CDs available in computer shops, at carefully controlled prices, for those that think the Internet has something to do with/dev/modem ! I would pay upto $10 for such a CD if i found myself in a pinch or 'happened to be' in a computer store.
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I quickly downloaded Opera while it was still possible. (/. effect 80k..40k...12k/s!) Anyway my primary Linux box is an Alpha and this is a binary, so either open the source (preferred) or get an Alpha binary compiled. I did try it on an Intel, a plain old P133 from yesteryear and it kinda worked.
It has allready been stated what most of the obvious bugs are, can't submit anything and it quickly hangs after trying a few things. Not mentioned yet as far as i can see is the fact that it has a rather outdated Windoze look to it. The BeOS version is sharp and it works quite well. Also, there was a small problem in rendering some types of images such as; "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It isn't ready for market yet, but i'm considering throwing some of my money their way in the belief that if several people do that it will provide the necessary motivation to finish the job! It is however rather fast and so far unbloated, and just maybe this can be the 'browser on the floppy'.
Ofcourse the business is supposed to collect the tax. However in my many trips to the US, one of the most ugly and offensive things is to think you've found a 'good deal' only to have the clerk say; "Plus tax". Ofcourse the civilised world requires that the tax be included in all consumer prices and requires a receipt on request that states what you are paying and what percentage is tax. Here in Holland it is presently 17,5%/6%/0%.
Likewise on the Internet, we must charge the tax here(17,5%, except books) anywhere in Europe. Due to the great inefficiency of mailorder/Internet, it is reasonable to charge the same to ship elsewhere. Despite that e-commerance is inefficient, it is still only fair taxes can be charged for an actual item based on where it is sold, as long as it is a particular jurisdiction. Ofcourse, all laws end at the borders of nations and that means taxes!
It should be carefully noted that printed matterial must carry a lower tax and 'pure information' carry none at all. Needless to say you cannot tax downloads, unless ofcourse you tax the bandwidth, not a very fair thought though.
GPS is a passive system, that is you don't talk to it but only receive the signal. It would take THOUSANDS of time more power just to receive the signal from the microwave sattelite. Even if GPS is just part of the localising part; What range could be expected from the petty microwatt or two available? With virtually no antenna, it would have to operate at higher frequencies, not possible on the tiny power available. There are presently devices (for cattle, pigs, dogs, etc) that operate at a few cm and are powered by induction. At the very best, such devices may have a range of a few metres.
Implants that communicate with low earth orbit sattelites appear to be strictly sci-fi. As for conventional implants, if you don't want it, destroy it with a relatively strong RF field. A GSM mobile phone may do but any university would have the equipment for a sure kill. I would prefer to look at this as a way to defraude suits with impressive language with no true technical content. Investment fraude - What's new?
I don't see how anybody can confuse cuba.xs4all.nl as actually being on the small island nation. The important point it that it is indeed in Europe and in Europe software patents are not legal and all software patents were accidently issued are to be phased out. There is nothing to legally stop me from using 'one click shopping' or any US software patent and not paying for it. Fraunhofer has a US patent and while they can extort US persons, they cannot do so at home! What a mess, i say it is time to permanently close the patent office concept. There is still some merrit in copyrights, but it too is finding itself on skakey ground today. Patents are for real things and copyrights are for the exact text of things. Concepts. software or other mathematical formulas are not patentable.
As to , we have not hacked the phone for years and almost none of us smoke pot, despite the fact it is quite legal to do so. We have probably played a major role in preventing smartcards that are very fraudeprone from making it, and have destroyed any and all attempts at any copyprotection of any sort. That is our political agenda today. "Invent" a copyprotection scheme and it will be broken before market! It has allways been this way and there is no evidence to show differently. In particular, there is a brief explanation why 'digital watermarks' are unworkable. A full technical analysis is also available and convinced Philips to not support any form of copyprotection.
Anyone who thinks we are a bunch of potsmokers and oldtime foonphreaks hasn't looked. As a group, we support the legalisation of all drugs and are against about all US Federal policy, particulary the most injust justice system that imprisons a higher percentage of its people than any government that has ever ruled on this planet.
It is shameful that any government allows 'software patents' on the otherhand, it is a free source of ideas for the rest of the world to profit on. As long as i can use any software patent to benefit me, why not?
As to being first, those that see status in that are fortunately too stupid to write scripts that do that.:) This is very common in the 'wannabe world'. A check of IRC will reveal alot of similar offtrack people, where simple programmes would simply do better, if they actually learned their shell!
Having personally been to South America and seeing what a mess a major commercial outfit in the US has made of SA, I see this and the Argentine approach as valid answers to a pressing problem. Argentina simply decided to legalise all 'pirated' software. This makes it very fair on the part of all, unless you work at a monopoly software house.
Back to Brasil, (Brazil is NOT the proper spelling) it is surely wonderful to see something that will enrich their ecconomy as to not require them to pay anyone with any Unix experience atleast $200/hr. Brasil (and the rest of SA) got into computing late, and therefore suffer at the hands of a US company. They want *any* way out of this US caused mess.
I personally chose not to make $250/hr while children beg and get killed in the streets to the benefit of the class I would be part of there. Brasil: teach your children Unix and be ahead. It is high time people everywhere realise what a computer does and that is does so much more than allowing you to click a mouse and be force fed advertisements! Shall the horror of the ninties end in 2000? Can we stop Windoze2000? If you buy into this trap, are you aware of what harm you are doing to the whole of humanity? Even if you only use pirated Micro$oft warez, you are still a pon of the marketeting efforts of an illegal US enterprise.
I want to make a few points very clear. It is legal to import strong crypto in all of the free world. One of the best crypto repositories is on this network. (It is replay.com now changed to some god-awful name like zedz.nl which rhymes with 'feds' - How could you Alex!) What is it that makes America feel superior in a field long dominated by Europe? Finally it should be very advantageous for any American company to develop crypto outside the USA and get the MUCH bigger world market in addition to the (isolationist) US market. This is really silly and i laugh at the US like anyone else.
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So, for the most part only the USA is screwing itself out of technological lead in any area. Then so what, open source just moves 'abroad' and watch the fur fly if Americans are forbidden to 'import it'. I can see a reverse of the whole crypto mess that anyone, anywhere can easily circumvent. In the final analysis; BFD!
Patents aren't evil in their own right. I have a few, but they are for real inventions and not simply applied mathematical formulae, something a copyright could best take care of.
I found that the X method of installing just didn't offer what it takes to make a knowledagable install right off. I finally resorted to placing the RH6.1 cd in a drive on another computer, mounting it on the annon. ftp area and doing a 'ftp install' instead. It worked great right off and all that was needed was to build and compile a 'real' kernel to obtain a firstrate system.
/dev/modem ! I would pay upto $10 for such a CD if i found myself in a pinch or 'happened to be' in a computer store.
I would be pleased to see a Linux that anyone can install, but to have a first rate system, you must be able to have manual control of the process, download the most recent kernel and build it properly. I would sincerely hope the next RH release would be easier to do a proper install and yet allow a 'newbie' to get an 'out of box experience'. The offering of the ISO image is a great move, unfortunately i still needed to to a 'ftp install'.
It is probably assumed that anyone who seriously wants Linux, *BSD or other Unix has some sort of a network connection. This being the case, there is virtually unlimited software to compile and use. I am also in agreement to having more CDs available in computer shops, at carefully controlled prices, for those that think the Internet has something to do with
I quickly downloaded Opera while it was still possible. (/. effect 80k..40k...12k/s!) Anyway my primary Linux box is an Alpha and this is a binary, so either open the source (preferred) or get an Alpha binary compiled. I did try it on an Intel, a plain old P133 from yesteryear and it kinda worked.
It has allready been stated what most of the obvious bugs are, can't submit anything and it quickly hangs after trying a few things. Not mentioned yet as far as i can see is the fact that it has a rather outdated Windoze look to it. The BeOS version is sharp and it works quite well. Also, there was a small problem in rendering some types of images such as; "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It isn't ready for market yet, but i'm considering throwing some of my money their way in the belief that if several people do that it will provide the necessary motivation to finish the job! It is however rather fast and so far unbloated, and just maybe this can be the 'browser on the floppy'.
Ofcourse the business is supposed to collect the tax. However in my many trips to the US, one of the most ugly and offensive things is to think you've found a 'good deal' only to have the clerk say; "Plus tax". Ofcourse the civilised world requires that the tax be included in all consumer prices and requires a receipt on request that states what you are paying and what percentage is tax. Here in Holland it is presently 17,5%/6%/0%.
Likewise on the Internet, we must charge the tax here(17,5%, except books) anywhere in Europe. Due to the great inefficiency of mailorder/Internet, it is reasonable to charge the same to ship elsewhere. Despite that e-commerance is inefficient, it is still only fair taxes can be charged for an actual item based on where it is sold, as long as it is a particular jurisdiction. Ofcourse, all laws end at the borders of nations and that means taxes!
It should be carefully noted that printed matterial must carry a lower tax and 'pure information' carry none at all. Needless to say you cannot tax downloads, unless ofcourse you tax the bandwidth, not a very fair thought though.
GPS is a passive system, that is you don't talk to it but only receive the signal. It would take THOUSANDS of time more power just to receive the signal from the microwave sattelite. Even if GPS is just part of the localising part; What range could be expected from the petty microwatt or two available? With virtually no antenna, it would have to operate at higher frequencies, not possible on the tiny power available. There are presently devices (for cattle, pigs, dogs, etc) that operate at a few cm and are powered by induction. At the very best, such devices may have
a range of a few metres.
Implants that communicate with low earth orbit sattelites appear to be strictly sci-fi. As for conventional implants, if you don't want it, destroy it with a relatively strong RF field. A GSM mobile phone may do but any university would have the equipment for a sure kill. I would prefer to look at this as a way to defraude suits with impressive language with no true technical content. Investment fraude - What's new?
I don't see how anybody can confuse cuba.xs4all.nl as actually being on the small island nation. The important point it that it is indeed in Europe and in Europe software patents are not legal and all software patents were accidently issued are to be phased out. There is nothing to legally stop me from using 'one click shopping' or any US software patent and not paying for it. Fraunhofer has a US patent and while they can extort US persons, they cannot do so at home! What a mess, i say it is time to permanently close the patent office concept. There is still some merrit in copyrights, but it too is finding itself on skakey ground today. Patents are for real things and copyrights are for the exact text of things. Concepts. software or other mathematical formulas are not patentable.
As to , we have not hacked the phone for years and almost none of us smoke pot, despite the fact it is quite legal to do so. We have probably played a major role in preventing smartcards that are very fraudeprone from making it, and have destroyed any and all attempts at any copyprotection of any sort. That is our political agenda today. "Invent" a copyprotection scheme and it will be broken before market! It has allways been this way and there is no evidence to show differently. In particular, there is a brief explanation why 'digital watermarks' are unworkable. A full technical analysis is also available and convinced Philips to not support any form of copyprotection.
Anyone who thinks we are a bunch of potsmokers and oldtime foonphreaks hasn't looked. As a group, we support the legalisation of all drugs and are against about all US Federal policy, particulary the most injust justice system that imprisons a higher percentage of its people than any government that has ever ruled on this planet.
I think Unix manuals are better toilet matterial. Haven't tried, but the glossy paper does not seem well fit in he case of an emergency.
It is shameful that any government allows 'software patents' on the otherhand, it is a free source of ideas for the rest of the world to profit on. As long as i can use any software patent to benefit me, why not?
:) This is very common in the 'wannabe world'. A check of IRC will reveal alot of similar offtrack people, where simple programmes would simply do better, if they actually learned their shell!
As to being first, those that see status in that are fortunately too stupid to write scripts that do that.
Having personally been to South America and seeing what a mess a major commercial outfit in the US has made of SA, I see this and the Argentine approach as valid answers to a pressing problem. Argentina simply decided to legalise all 'pirated' software. This makes it very fair on the part of all, unless you work at a monopoly software house.
Back to Brasil, (Brazil is NOT the proper spelling) it is surely wonderful to see something that will enrich their ecconomy as to not require them to pay anyone with any Unix experience atleast $200/hr. Brasil (and the rest of SA) got into computing late, and therefore suffer at the hands of a US company. They want *any* way out of this US caused mess.
I personally chose not to make $250/hr while children beg and get killed in the streets to the benefit of the class I would be part of there. Brasil: teach your children Unix and be ahead. It is high time people everywhere realise what a computer does and that is does so much more than allowing you to click a mouse and be force fed advertisements! Shall the horror of the ninties end in 2000? Can we stop Windoze2000? If you buy into this trap, are you aware of what harm you are doing to the whole of humanity? Even if you only use pirated Micro$oft warez, you are still a pon of the marketeting efforts of an illegal US enterprise.
I want to make a few points very clear. It is legal to import strong crypto in all of the free world. One of the best crypto repositories is on
this network. (It is replay.com now changed to
some god-awful name like zedz.nl which rhymes with
'feds' - How could you Alex!) What is it that makes
America feel superior in a field long dominated by
Europe? Finally it should be very advantageous for
any American company to develop crypto outside the USA and get the MUCH bigger world market in addition to the (isolationist) US market. This is
really silly and i laugh at the US like anyone else.