Personally I find that only games that require a mouse are worth playing on a PC now anyway. And I dont include FPS's in that either. So really I only play RTS's on the PC, but I would happily play them on a console and then wouldnt have to worry about driver issues and bugs due to odd hardware conflicts.
As its been widely noted this study does not take into consideration as a variable those patients that talked about their depression with a psych or councilor and those that didn't.
Anti-dep medication allows you to handle your current situation enough so that you can go and talk to someone about your wider issues.
Its a band aid. The real fix is to find the thing making you depressed and fix that. And you need to talk to someone for that.
My experience... at lease here in Australia... is that Mobile broadband works very well (remember much of our country is unpopulated desert).
May lower class people use it to get broadband at the place they rent. They dont have to involve the landlord to get an cables installed and can take it with them when they move elsewhere.
The big killer is that here is Oz mobile broadband typically comes with transfer limits in the order of 1 - 4 GBs per month. After that it gets very pricey.
So assuming its the same in the US... I would only go mobile broadband if you dont plan on downloading movies/tv shows etc over the connection.
You still have to make a listing of the files available and searchable for each node/sharer.
Besides, if they do have a way for the files to be identified, at least to a reasonable degree of certainty, then why shouldnt we have a law like this? You can always contest it in court if you feel you have been wrongly accused.
Im serious. If we find a way to enforce copy right again, why shouldnt we? I know we like stuff to be free, but it really shouldnt be unless the person chooses to give it away.
Type google.com into you address bar. You get a nice simple page with a box you type you query into.
Now type yahoo.com. You get the kind of web pages that makes my eyes bleed with all the flashing stuff. Takes you a few seconds to fine the search box yeah?
This is, in its simplest form, why yahoo isnt going to come anywhere near google.
(and dont mention search.yahoo.com, cause my wife/grandmother/uncle/lowIQ friend is never going to figure that out)
I just want to repeat... I get 10 GB of downloads a month. Other plans are available (30, 40, 50, 100 GB etc).
Personally I have never gone over 10GB accept for P2P downloads of questionably legal stuff.
Not internet radio, not games, not skype... The legal stuff just doesnt use the bandwidth (as a CS major I hate using the word bandwidth in the wrong sense, but its the generally accepted way).
Im not going to cite the recent studies that say P2P and bittorrent is 60%+ of internet traffic as I know we can all find ways to attack it.. I will just appeal to your own internal judgment and say "you know its probably true".
We have had tiered pricing like this for a many years in Australia.
And its not about iTunes downloads.
My ISP (iinet.net.au) charges me $XX dollars for XX GB of usage per month on a 24Mbps ADSL2 connection. This is very common in Australia. My XX's are $49 for 10GB of usage but other higher and lower plans are available. After that I am "shaped" to a 64kbs connection.
Sounds bad right? But...
If I get me email off their POP server that doesnt count towards usage.
And they have some kind of agreement with Apple (mirror maybe?) that itunes downloads dont count. (NOTE: This partnership with Apple is highly visible and advertised on their website)
They also have a mirror for just about every linux distro (they are an official Ubuntu mirror) and for almost all game demos and patches. Not only does this not count towards my usage, but it means I can get these at the maximum speed of my connection as the download is only one short hop away (think linux iso in 3 to 4 minutes).
About the only thing that really counts towards your usage is web browsing - which even in a month of heavy use doesnt come close to the limit at about 2 to 3 GB - and BitTorrent/P2P which I have to admit I do use sometimes.
I hate to say it but if we all downloaded legal video content the ISPs wouldnt have to look at this. They would just setup legal local mirrors for large files.
Like you I have found the big bang, write it all down approach never works. Try this...
When something "happens" its an "incident". This is logged - drill it in that nothing gets done unless its logged in "the system". The incident in the system describes the problem or event or required change.
You use incident tracking software for this. Think bugzilla as an example if you are a development team, but it could just as easily track help desk style issues (the internet is down, my password isnt working etc).
Everything that happens to that incident is logged in the tracking software. Once a solution is found it is recorded in the tracking software and the problem is closed.
Then when ever a new incident happens new staff can then search through all previous incidents to find solutions. And certain incident solutions can be highlighted as common solutions or knowledge base articles if they were for a major change.
Also spot checks can be done by you or relevant leaders/management to confirm that the staff that solve problems are recording what they did (much more easy that checking they updated some large process file).
Over time your incident history and knowledge base will grow to be a reliable resource of your organisations IT knowledge.
(There is a couple of things that are missed in this process, such as "test in on test system" first and "only implement production changes in quiet times", put these can be written on a massive sign in the office. Then anyone who doesnt do these basic things can be fired for negligence).
My ISP(iinet.net.au) charges me $XX dollars for XX GB of usage per month on a 24Mbps ADSL2 connection.
But if I get me email off their POP server that doesnt count. And they have some kind of agreement with Apple (mirror maybe?) that itunes downloads dont count
They also have a mirror for just about every linux distro and for game demos and patches. Not only does this not count, but it means I can get these at the maximum speed of my connection.
About the only thing that really counts towards you usage is web browsing (which even in a month of heavy use doesnt come close to the limit) and BitTorrent/P2P.
If we all downloaded legal video content the ISPs wouldnt have to look at this. They would just setup legal mirrors for large files.
For the kind of dollars India has to spend to see a reasonable percentage of the OLPC they could do many different things. Assuming the OLPC really does cost the equivalent of 30% per capita income in India that means if they just buy 3 million of them thats the same as 1 million teachers salaries.
These numbers blow my mind.
Not to mention that India is now probably the largest growing IT country in the world.
The OLPC was meant to be "teach a man to fish and he will feed for a lifetime" , but instead it seems to be more "give a man a cheap JetSki and he will eventually learn to fish".
I'm surprised no body else has mentioned this, but if the person put songs on a file sharing network the RIAA could claim that on average the files were downloaded 750 times so its 750 x $1.
Worse still if this person ripped the CD and shared that on the internet, if the RIAA really thought about it, they could claim that ANYONE who downloaded the song illegally ultimately sourced it from this individual. This is even more true if they did it before the CD was even released (say by having a preview copy).
Its funny you should mention usenet, because I always found reading posts though a nice news client much more enjoyable that reading posts on a online web based forum.
Similarly I find Facebooks internal inbox system to be a poor substitute for email, but unfortunately several of my friends contact me that way.
So rather than Google adding social pages to gmail, how about facebook giving us POP access to its inbox and RSS access to our friends feed.
Firstly I would like to state I'm not an American citizen (I'm Australian).
I have always felt that freedom is better served by people hiding their truths.
No one... not even democracy.. has the right to ask someone to hand over their private thoughts. Not even if they are in a written letter. Not even if they are in an electronic email. Not even if that person is a President of a country.
So while I understand if people what to read George W's email to the Vice-Pres, I have to point out the GW's email to his daughters should be protected to the fullest extent of the law and... to the fullest extent of humanity.
Yeah, but what about us gamers. I still boot into windows everyday at home. Most of the time I'm browsing the web (Firefox), playing media (VLC) or using office software (OO), but every day or so I want to start a game (currently Supreme Commander and Company of Heroes). While the browser and the office stuff runs fine under Ubuntu, the games don't.
So while I can compile Kernels and grep across the OS in too many ways to remember... I still boot Windows.
I don't really have a solution. MS seems to have the games all locked up. WINE is making slow inroads but with the arrival of DirectX 10 they are another gen behind.
And why are games REALLY important? Because if I boot to windows then what am I gonna recommend to my family and friends?
We are talking about SAP/Peoplesoft?... surely this stuff if just off the shelf payroll software? Shouldn't cost more than the average family car yeah?
Oh hang on... theres "consulting costs" involved... Thats where SAP/PS "certified" consultants come in to "customise" the software... In that case its probably 100 family cars worth.
They probably should of gone with Microsoft Access HR database template and hired a couple of VBA programmers. And at this point, you think Im joking....
I'm just gonna post the following each time someone says its the year of desktop Linux:
GAMES GAMES GAMES Most of the top 25 requested apps for wine are games - http://appdb.winehq.org/votestats.php (Also note these are games that seem to benefit the most from a mouse)
I know I can do everything else under a Linux based OS (e.g. Ubuntu), but the only reason I have windows OS on my PC is because I enjoy playing games.
And buying an MS or Sony console seems a bit "Meet the old boss same as the new boss".
If a judge asked you to hand over the keys to your house.. or your car.. or your safety deposit box.. you are legally required to follow that order....
Are we surprised that digital keys have the same requirement?
And as for all the other (physical) keys you can refuse and let the courts (and a jury) decide.
Sun and IBM should join forces and concentrate on "THE ONE" java IDE. I feel this is the only way they will beat MS Visual Studio (which is rapidly becoming the bigger MS monster than XP/Vista OS)
Sure SWT is quicker in some situations and Eclipse has some amazing plugins, but Netbeans has closed the gap on those things and is so far ahead on many more (profiler, handheld development, code completion, Matissee GUI builder..)
IBM needs to eat crow and realise that SUN is not worth eclipsing. There is large asteroid called "Microsoft" that needs to be diverted from its path.....
I'm just not sure what the outcome is... I do know that SJ has bet on the phone.. He could of attacked Vista right now (which is what the story is about) but instead Apple is looking at the non-PC market...
And given the MS moves with the Xbox and the Zune... well I'm just not sure what's coming next?;-P (that's a big tongue in cheek)
Steve Jobs has picked the iPhone as Apple's next platform. Maybe he should of focused on getting Leopard out this year to steal Vistas thunder. Only time will tell if he has made the right choice.
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Personally I find that only games that require a mouse are worth playing on a PC now anyway. And I dont include FPS's in that either. So really I only play RTS's on the PC, but I would happily play them on a console and then wouldnt have to worry about driver issues and bugs due to odd hardware conflicts.
As its been widely noted this study does not take into consideration as a variable those patients that talked about their depression with a psych or councilor and those that didn't.
Anti-dep medication allows you to handle your current situation enough so that you can go and talk to someone about your wider issues.
Its a band aid. The real fix is to find the thing making you depressed and fix that. And you need to talk to someone for that.
Geez my typing on a Friday evening sucks...
Please insert the missing T's Y's and N's into the above comment.
My experience... at lease here in Australia... is that Mobile broadband works very well (remember much of our country is unpopulated desert).
May lower class people use it to get broadband at the place they rent. They dont have to involve the landlord to get an cables installed and can take it with them when they move elsewhere.
The big killer is that here is Oz mobile broadband typically comes with transfer limits in the order of 1 - 4 GBs per month. After that it gets very pricey.
So assuming its the same in the US... I would only go mobile broadband if you dont plan on downloading movies/tv shows etc over the connection.
You still have to make a listing of the files available and searchable for each node/sharer.
Besides, if they do have a way for the files to be identified, at least to a reasonable degree of certainty, then why shouldnt we have a law like this? You can always contest it in court if you feel you have been wrongly accused.
Im serious. If we find a way to enforce copy right again, why shouldnt we? I know we like stuff to be free, but it really shouldnt be unless the person chooses to give it away.
No I think you're missing it.
Try this...
Type google.com into you address bar. You get a nice simple page with a box you type you query into.
Now type yahoo.com. You get the kind of web pages that makes my eyes bleed with all the flashing stuff. Takes you a few seconds to fine the search box yeah?
This is, in its simplest form, why yahoo isnt going to come anywhere near google.
(and dont mention search.yahoo.com, cause my wife/grandmother/uncle/lowIQ friend is never going to figure that out)
I just want to repeat... I get 10 GB of downloads a month. Other plans are available (30, 40, 50, 100 GB etc).
Personally I have never gone over 10GB accept for P2P downloads of questionably legal stuff.
Not internet radio, not games, not skype... The legal stuff just doesnt use the bandwidth (as a CS major I hate using the word bandwidth in the wrong sense, but its the generally accepted way).
Im not going to cite the recent studies that say P2P and bittorrent is 60%+ of internet traffic as I know we can all find ways to attack it.. I will just appeal to your own internal judgment and say "you know its probably true".
We have had tiered pricing like this for a many years in Australia.
And its not about iTunes downloads.
My ISP (iinet.net.au) charges me $XX dollars for XX GB of usage per month on a 24Mbps ADSL2 connection. This is very common in Australia. My XX's are $49 for 10GB of usage but other higher and lower plans are available. After that I am "shaped" to a 64kbs connection.
Sounds bad right? But...
If I get me email off their POP server that doesnt count towards usage.
And they have some kind of agreement with Apple (mirror maybe?) that itunes downloads dont count. (NOTE: This partnership with Apple is highly visible and advertised on their website)
They also have a mirror for just about every linux distro (they are an official Ubuntu mirror) and for almost all game demos and patches. Not only does this not count towards my usage, but it means I can get these at the maximum speed of my connection as the download is only one short hop away (think linux iso in 3 to 4 minutes).
About the only thing that really counts towards your usage is web browsing - which even in a month of heavy use doesnt come close to the limit at about 2 to 3 GB - and BitTorrent/P2P which I have to admit I do use sometimes.
I hate to say it but if we all downloaded legal video content the ISPs wouldnt have to look at this. They would just setup legal local mirrors for large files.
Come on... using "High quality" and "Microsoft products" in the same sentence?
;-)
So they were responsible for 9 out the 10 pirate copies of Microsoft Flight simulator then?
Like you I have found the big bang, write it all down approach never works. Try this...
When something "happens" its an "incident". This is logged - drill it in that nothing gets done unless its logged in "the system". The incident in the system describes the problem or event or required change.
You use incident tracking software for this. Think bugzilla as an example if you are a development team, but it could just as easily track help desk style issues (the internet is down, my password isnt working etc).
Everything that happens to that incident is logged in the tracking software. Once a solution is found it is recorded in the tracking software and the problem is closed.
Then when ever a new incident happens new staff can then search through all previous incidents to find solutions. And certain incident solutions can be highlighted as common solutions or knowledge base articles if they were for a major change.
Also spot checks can be done by you or relevant leaders/management to confirm that the staff that solve problems are recording what they did (much more easy that checking they updated some large process file).
Over time your incident history and knowledge base will grow to be a reliable resource of your organisations IT knowledge.
(There is a couple of things that are missed in this process, such as "test in on test system" first and "only implement production changes in quiet times", put these can be written on a massive sign in the office. Then anyone who doesnt do these basic things can be fired for negligence).
Its been like this for a few years in Australia.
My ISP(iinet.net.au) charges me $XX dollars for XX GB of usage per month on a 24Mbps ADSL2 connection.
But if I get me email off their POP server that doesnt count.
And they have some kind of agreement with Apple (mirror maybe?) that itunes downloads dont count
They also have a mirror for just about every linux distro and for game demos and patches. Not only does this not count, but it means I can get these at the maximum speed of my connection.
About the only thing that really counts towards you usage is web browsing (which even in a month of heavy use doesnt come close to the limit) and BitTorrent/P2P.
If we all downloaded legal video content the ISPs wouldnt have to look at this. They would just setup legal mirrors for large files.
Those numbers from India are really eye opening.
For the kind of dollars India has to spend to see a reasonable percentage of the OLPC they could do many different things. Assuming the OLPC really does cost the equivalent of 30% per capita income in India that means if they just buy 3 million of them thats the same as 1 million teachers salaries.
These numbers blow my mind.
Not to mention that India is now probably the largest growing IT country in the world.
The OLPC was meant to be "teach a man to fish and he will feed for a lifetime" , but instead it seems to be more "give a man a cheap JetSki and he will eventually learn to fish".
No.. there's no secret mailing list - I checked Wikipedia and it said so. Said it was not "not notable" or something.
I'm surprised no body else has mentioned this, but if the person put songs on a file sharing network the RIAA could claim that on average the files were downloaded 750 times so its 750 x $1.
Worse still if this person ripped the CD and shared that on the internet, if the RIAA really thought about it, they could claim that ANYONE who downloaded the song illegally ultimately sourced it from this individual. This is even more true if they did it before the CD was even released (say by having a preview copy).
Its funny you should mention usenet, because I always found reading posts though a nice news client much more enjoyable that reading posts on a online web based forum.
Similarly I find Facebooks internal inbox system to be a poor substitute for email, but unfortunately several of my friends contact me that way.
So rather than Google adding social pages to gmail, how about facebook giving us POP access to its inbox and RSS access to our friends feed.
Firstly I would like to state I'm not an American citizen (I'm Australian).
... to the fullest extent of humanity.
I have always felt that freedom is better served by people hiding their truths.
No one... not even democracy.. has the right to ask someone to hand over their private thoughts. Not even if they are in a written letter. Not even if they are in an electronic email. Not even if that person is a President of a country.
So while I understand if people what to read George W's email to the Vice-Pres, I have to point out the GW's email to his daughters should be protected to the fullest extent of the law and
Yeah, but what about us gamers. I still boot into windows everyday at home. Most of the time I'm browsing the web (Firefox), playing media (VLC) or using office software (OO), but every day or so I want to start a game (currently Supreme Commander and Company of Heroes). While the browser and the office stuff runs fine under Ubuntu, the games don't.
So while I can compile Kernels and grep across the OS in too many ways to remember... I still boot Windows.
I don't really have a solution. MS seems to have the games all locked up. WINE is making slow inroads but with the arrival of DirectX 10 they are another gen behind.
And why are games REALLY important? Because if I boot to windows then what am I gonna recommend to my family and friends?
You just told me to by an xbox instead of a windows OS .... you heard of "wont get fooled again" ?
We are talking about SAP/Peoplesoft? ... surely this stuff if just off the shelf payroll software? Shouldn't cost more than the average family car yeah?
Oh hang on... theres "consulting costs" involved... Thats where SAP/PS "certified" consultants come in to "customise" the software... In that case its probably 100 family cars worth.
They probably should of gone with Microsoft Access HR database template and hired a couple of VBA programmers. And at this point, you think Im joking....
mmm... almost every day at current slash rates? ;-)
I'm just gonna post the following each time someone says its the year of desktop Linux:
GAMES GAMES GAMES
Most of the top 25 requested apps for wine are games - http://appdb.winehq.org/votestats.php
(Also note these are games that seem to benefit the most from a mouse)
I know I can do everything else under a Linux based OS (e.g. Ubuntu), but the only reason I have windows OS on my PC is because I enjoy playing games.
And buying an MS or Sony console seems a bit "Meet the old boss same as the new boss".
If a judge asked you to hand over the keys to your house.. or your car.. or your safety deposit box.. you are legally required to follow that order....
Are we surprised that digital keys have the same requirement?
And as for all the other (physical) keys you can refuse and let the courts (and a jury) decide.
Eclipse vs NetBeans...
Sun and IBM should join forces and concentrate on "THE ONE" java IDE. I feel this is the only way they will beat MS Visual Studio (which is rapidly becoming the bigger MS monster than XP/Vista OS)
Sure SWT is quicker in some situations and Eclipse has some amazing plugins, but Netbeans has closed the gap on those things and is so far ahead on many more (profiler, handheld development, code completion, Matissee GUI builder..)
IBM needs to eat crow and realise that SUN is not worth eclipsing. There is large asteroid called "Microsoft" that needs to be diverted from its path.....
I don't doubt the point ;-)
;-P
I'm just not sure what the outcome is... I do know that SJ has bet on the phone.. He could of attacked Vista right now (which is what the story is about) but instead Apple is looking at the non-PC market...
And given the MS moves with the Xbox and the Zune... well I'm just not sure what's coming next?
(that's a big tongue in cheek)
Steve Jobs has picked the iPhone as Apple's next platform. Maybe he should of focused on getting Leopard out this year to steal Vistas thunder. Only time will tell if he has made the right choice.