Thanks for posting about the release of the new Ubuntu version. Too bad you chose to hijack the announcement to use it as a soapbox for stating your preference of Debian. Essentially this is just your spam.
Uh, as long as you are happy with no more USA power, this is a fine goal.
Just what exactly do you think the US has left? Industrial war machine complex Rich bastards
It was just this year that Chinese manufacturing surpassed that of the USA. Just HTF is that possible when EVERYTHING is made in China now? Think about the value of war goods and munitions.
802.11N is not a gigabit spec. 802.11N-2009 is the latest version of the 802.11 spec, It has a maximum raw data rate of 600 Mbit/s with the use of four spatial streams at a channel width of 40 MHz.
HP just unwittingly and probably unwillingly just handed the game to Android. While the sell off of $99 tablets is certainly going to hurt Samsung, etc in the pocketbooks in terms of lost sales, the fact is almost all the people who bought the Touchpads are going to install Android on them.
In a blink of an eye, the Android tablet market just grew by over a million units sold.
Because Google have demonstrated that they are VERY GOOD and COMPETENT at EMAIL. Get over it. Neither you, nor I , nor about anyone else has a chance of coming close. M$ tried. Look at that shit. IBM and Lotus Notes? We could go on for quite a while.
Gmail is the first , and dare I say it, the ONLY email service that does not suck.
When they charge money for the OS? Seriously, why should they? They are succeeding. Android is leading, Apple is #2, Nokia and Symbian are irrelevant, RIM and blackberry are toast. So M$ makes a few bucks from a protection racket. Who cares? Eventually it will bite M$ in the ass..
To get an accurate answer you really should say where you are going. "I'll be staying on an island accessible only by boat" does not mean a lot. Gulf Islands? Thousand Islands?
So, basically you are saying you are an Intel shill? Actually the ATI revenue is what kept AMD in business the past 3 years. Not to mention the 1.6 billion in settlement from Intel for copyright infringements.
I read all the comments, and, sadly enough, a lot of you are looking for reasons to politicize this. Stop it already! Go to your room~!
Seriously though, the changes in the Canadian Copyright Act was modifed to provide for personal copies of music with no criminal liability. A blank media levy was introduced in Canada in 1997, by the addition of Part VIII, "Private Copying". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy#Canada
This practice is in place in over a dozen countries.
It was a fairly rational approach to the fact that outlawing music copying is completely ineffective. The idea was that if they tax the media we keep the music on, they could use teh revenue to pay the rights-holders ( notice I did not say pay the musicians). This is no different than the "Legalise marijuana and tax it" argument. The biggest flaw is in the fact that they have no effective way to determine frequency of use by song, so no way to fairly compensate the rights-holders.
The best way to deflect the idea that it is only Windows that has the basic vulnerability is to ensure that Linux and OSX users are forced to run AV too. That way they can claim that the total cost of ownership on these platforms is ( artificially) higher.
It is also likely a case of the person working that factor then adding support to the lie by persuading his/her colleagues with the classic FUD: "What if you omit this, and a virus that attacks these other OS infect us? Do you want the blame?"
What is actually needed is some education to users about best practices, detection of infections and how to establish a safety and testing regimen.
We were discussing monitoring of Internet traffic in CANADA..
In USA we assumed that this was already in place. However, I have no doubt that monitoring all of it is possible Nothing that a lot of computing resources and money can not handle
The decision to intercept and monitor all internet traffic actually happened in the US and Canada shortly after 9/11. They had decided well before that to plan for it, and once they had the boogey-man of terrorism to pave the way, it was put it into place. This has nothing to do with "Harper", "The Conservatives" or any party. This is done by our military, our security establishment, and will not be disturbed by politics.
FYI the whole intercept technology was upgraded last year, and this is already in place and operational now.
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That was the case with NiCAD. NOT Lithium.
Thanks for posting about the release of the new Ubuntu version.
Too bad you chose to hijack the announcement to use it as a soapbox for stating your preference of Debian.
Essentially this is just your spam.
Come on mods, lets get this rubbish off the page!
Uh, as long as you are happy with no more USA power, this is a fine goal.
Just what exactly do you think the US has left?
Industrial war machine complex
Rich bastards
It was just this year that Chinese manufacturing surpassed that of the USA.
Just HTF is that possible when EVERYTHING is made in China now?
Think about the value of war goods and munitions.
How DID Mr. Nobel get so rich, anyway?
802.11N is not a gigabit spec.
802.11N-2009 is the latest version of the 802.11 spec,
It has a maximum raw data rate of 600 Mbit/s with the use of four spatial streams at a channel width of 40 MHz.
If you want gigabit wireless speed, that is currently served by proprietary devices on the 60MHz band.
Example:
http://www.arcelect.com/Wireless_Gigabit_Ethernet.htm
Stop overclocking them, it is not necessary!
Specs:
http://www.asus.com/Networks/Wireless_Routers/RTN16/#specifications
It is a Gigabit router
( on wires)
It works very well, never needs to be reset.
Running DDWRT, of course!
Don't these numbskulls realize that books unread are just paper?
Not even as good as toilet paper. At least that stuff has a purpose.
Custom Android ports have become corporate now.
Look, for example, at Samsung , who hired the main proponent of Cyanogen.
HP just unwittingly and probably unwillingly just handed the game to Android.
While the sell off of $99 tablets is certainly going to hurt Samsung, etc in the pocketbooks in terms of lost sales, the fact is almost all the people who bought the Touchpads are going to install Android on them.
In a blink of an eye, the Android tablet market just grew by over a million units sold.
Because Google have demonstrated that they are VERY GOOD and COMPETENT at EMAIL.
Get over it. Neither you, nor I , nor about anyone else has a chance of coming close.
M$ tried. Look at that shit.
IBM and Lotus Notes?
We could go on for quite a while.
Gmail is the first , and dare I say it, the ONLY email service that does not suck.
I disagree.
The nvidia multihead drivers are also tricky on some monitors.
In general the biggest issue is poor EDID signals from certain monitors.
When they charge money for the OS?
Seriously, why should they?
They are succeeding. Android is leading, Apple is #2, Nokia and Symbian are irrelevant, RIM and blackberry are toast.
So M$ makes a few bucks from a protection racket. Who cares?
Eventually it will bite M$ in the ass..
To get an accurate answer you really should say where you are going.
"I'll be staying on an island accessible only by boat" does not mean a lot.
Gulf Islands?
Thousand Islands?
Location is everything..
So, basically you are saying you are an Intel shill?
Actually the ATI revenue is what kept AMD in business the past 3 years.
Not to mention the 1.6 billion in settlement from Intel for copyright infringements.
I read all the comments, and, sadly enough, a lot of you are looking for reasons to politicize this.
Stop it already! Go to your room~!
Seriously though, the changes in the Canadian Copyright Act was modifed to provide for personal copies of music with no criminal liability.
A blank media levy was introduced in Canada in 1997, by the addition of Part VIII, "Private Copying".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy#Canada
This practice is in place in over a dozen countries.
It was a fairly rational approach to the fact that outlawing music copying is completely ineffective.
The idea was that if they tax the media we keep the music on, they could use teh revenue to
pay the rights-holders ( notice I did not say pay the musicians).
This is no different than the "Legalise marijuana and tax it" argument.
The biggest flaw is in the fact that they have no effective way to determine frequency of use by song, so no way to fairly compensate the rights-holders.
In Canada this is the price we pay to prevent the criminalisation of our private music use.
Copying music for personal use is legal here and institutionalised.
I doubt that M$ have "a master plan" in this.
I suspect it is simply another reaction to the idea of Google ( and Facebook) eclipsing their dominance.
They are getting pretty desperate.
The best way to deflect the idea that it is only Windows that has the basic vulnerability is to ensure that Linux and OSX users are forced to run AV too.
That way they can claim that the total cost of ownership on these platforms is ( artificially) higher.
It is also likely a case of the person working that factor then adding support to the lie by persuading his/her colleagues with the classic FUD:
"What if you omit this, and a virus that attacks these other OS infect us? Do you want the blame?"
What is actually needed is some education to users about best practices, detection of infections and how to establish a safety and testing regimen.
You should volunteer your services to NSA, CSIS and DND Canada.
We were discussing monitoring of Internet traffic in CANADA..
In USA we assumed that this was already in place.
However, I have no doubt that monitoring all of it is possible
Nothing that a lot of computing resources and money can not handle
The decision to intercept and monitor all internet traffic actually happened in the US and Canada shortly after 9/11.
They had decided well before that to plan for it, and once they had the boogey-man of terrorism to pave the way,
it was put it into place.
This has nothing to do with "Harper", "The Conservatives" or any party.
This is done by our military, our security establishment, and will not be disturbed by politics.
FYI the whole intercept technology was upgraded last year, and this is already in place and operational now.
Mergers are inevitable.
Some companies/divisions win, some lose.
Samsung could not make money with HDDs, probably economy of scale.
Plus they tried ( and failed) to crack the enterprise space.
Seagate and Samsung HDD merge = Crap gets bigger
WD and Hitachi GST merge = Cream gets better.
I will tell you where this goes:
Seagate goes broke within 18 months