Re:The real reason the Euro is BAD NEWS
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We've had to save your butts from the Germans two times already WWI, and WWII.
Right. And what has been done to make this wouldn't be necessairy anymore in the future?
It started with the European cooperation on coal and steel, later became the European Economic Community, next the European Community and it is now called "the European Union".
The whole political reason the EU exists is to avoid a forth war between France and Germany (1870, WW-I and WW-II) by 'interlocking' the two countries economically.
The latest phase into this process (which now goes well into Eastern Europe, hopefully helping to avoid another civil war ala Bosnia, Cosovo, etc.) is called "the Euro".
Perhaps, in a couple of years, we can return you the favor and use the euro to save the pound the next time people like Sorros tries to speculate on the fall of the pound! (As he did when it was forced to leave the EMS).
Apart from the topic of using multicast or unicast to distribute files to 'mirror-files', a have noticed a large change in user-behavior when downloading stuff.
In the 'old days', netiquette said that if when you want to download a large file, first look for a mirror-site closer to you, so not to (unnecesairy) use trans-continental bandwith and bandwith towards the 'central server'.
People seam to do this less and less.
I used to work for a company which produced a multicast distribution system for large video feeds for cable companies. We handled the dropped packet situation by using forward error correction.
The streaming formats are actually MADE to work in a packet-loss environement, which is not the case for a regular file-transport.
The difference was that the networks our product ran on were private (mostly satellite) links
As a satellite-distribution system is 'one-way' there is a (large) cost with actually haveing a situation where a remote-node has to request a part of the file it is missing from the server is quit high. (usualy a phone-call from somewhere 'in the bushes').
This cost is much smaller on the internet, which is (in itself) bidirectional.
You are correct, but the question remains how you expect the 'developing countries' to create this long-term solution if the dont have the money NOW to start working on it. The internet was created using gouvernement money (it was a MILITARY PROJECY, remember?), my 5 years of high-school education was payed mainly via gouvernement money. Where does this money come from? TAX!
The next question will be, why do we have to pay for them? Perhaps,... the money for these 5 years of higher eduction I have had, actually came from the fact that my country has exploited the thirth world countries (mainly Congo, in this case) by extracting all the couper, cobalt,... I don't know what... at a price so low.
Well, I also DID gain from it. Paying my x. eurocent per megabyte internet-traffic seams like a small thing to 'give back', doesn't it.
And besides, creating an internet or internet-like structure in (e.g.) Africa will help the flow of knowledge of these countries to the rest of the world. (e.g. councerning the medical usage of certain plants in the african forests that could help the fight the illness you would otherwize have died from). KNOWLEDGE in the only good who's total value INCREASE by sharing it among more people!
1/ Just change my sentence from '...a economic enviroment...' into '...a economic and political enviroment....'.
2/ I also agree you may need some 'emergency aid' (be it soldiers or food) to cope with a tempory 'fire-storm', but this doesn't thange that there needs to be a longle-term solution too, and it is THERE where the internet taxt would come in.
I like to oppose the general tendency in this tread. I actually think this is a GOOD idea.
First of all, coming from Europe, I see the system of social security (read: 'the state', 'tax',...) as a way to implement the idea of 'social solidarity of goods', and not (as seams to be the american (US) way of thinking), as an evil demon that eats up all your money.
1/ What the thirth world need is NOT food, but a way to make sure they can produce their own food.
They don't need emergency medial aid, but need a way they can set up their own medical schools.
They don't need UN or NATO-soldiers to enforce some peace-deal between two clans, but need a economic enviroment in which in makes more sence to work together and not fight another (civil or inter-state) war.
Appart from economic, finacial,... aspects, they need EDUCTION and INFRASTRUCTOR. In these days of 'knowledge based' industry, this means telephone lines, sateline-links, PC's, free or cheap internet-access for schools, etc..
In a more practical way, to stop the mass of people fleeing mexico into the US, you don't need more barb wire and police-men, but you need to help mexico to help their own people help themselfs so they don't NEED to flee their own country (and family, friends,...)
For that reason, the idea of taxing the "have's" for helping the "have-nots" looks a very nobble idea, and makes a lot of sence economic-wize.
2/ From a practical point of view, taxing email-only is a bit difficult to implement. So why not tax the bandwith one uses, and use the system, like the VAT tax-system.
The states tax the internet backbone providers (x eurocent per Gigabyte). They -in turn- taxt their client ISPs, who -in turn- tax their users.
This money goes into a fund organisations like inmarsat, the UNDP, universities in thirth world countries, etc.
A lot of people seam to have problems with their RealAudio player.
On my (redhat 4.0!!! , kernel 2.0.36) box, It works just fine.
I'm currently on another system (that does not have a RV-player), so this is 'of the top of my head', but what does help is that you change the 'transport' from 'let the system choice best' to 'manual choice' and only enable TCP-streaming. Otherwise, you get a lot of 'server disconnects'
Knowing the russion sence for 'community service', perhaps can we persuade them to GPL the chip-design. It would be a great way to expande the 'open source' idea into other field!
Why should this bo so difficult
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I don't get it... In Belgium (and most European countries) it is even illegal to even GIVE THE IMPRESSION you need to buy one product if you want purchase something else)! (Last week, there was a complained of people who didn't like somebody else GAVE AWAY a news-paper in a backery-shop, as you could get the idea that you needed by a breat if you wanted the newspaper for free).
This is something {some smart lawer, some consumer protection organisation, mr. Van Miert -European Commisioner for fair-trade-) I guess whould just die for to get their hands on!
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Right. And what has been done to make this wouldn't be necessairy anymore in the future?
It started with the European cooperation on coal and steel, later became the European Economic Community, next the European Community and it is now called "the European Union".
The whole political reason the EU exists is to avoid a forth war between France and Germany (1870, WW-I and WW-II) by 'interlocking' the two countries economically.
The latest phase into this process (which now goes well into Eastern Europe, hopefully helping to avoid another civil war ala Bosnia, Cosovo, etc.) is called "the Euro".
Perhaps, in a couple of years, we can return you the favor and use the euro to save the pound the next time people like Sorros tries to speculate on the fall of the pound! (As he did when it was forced to leave the EMS).
Cheerio! Kr. Bonne?
Greetings,
Don't worry. The euro will be accepted in large parts of Denmark and as will be the case in the major UK cities.
Euros coins and notes and a good credit-card will get you most places you want to go.
Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.
IPv6 already works on linux, {free,net,open}BSD, solaris 8 and some other systems. (among others, cisco-routers, from as-low as 1600, 25xx, ...)
Just give it a try:
End-users: http://www.freenet6.net/
ISPs: http://www.6bone.net
Cheerio! Kr. Bonne
Apart from the topic of using multicast or unicast to distribute files to 'mirror-files', a have noticed a large change in user-behavior when downloading stuff.
In the 'old days', netiquette said that if when you want to download a large file, first look for a mirror-site closer to you, so not to (unnecesairy) use trans-continental bandwith and bandwith towards the 'central server'.
People seam to do this less and less.
Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.
I used to work for a company which produced a multicast distribution system for large video feeds for cable companies. We handled the dropped packet situation by using forward error correction.
The streaming formats are actually MADE to work in a packet-loss environement, which is not the case for a regular file-transport.
The difference was that the networks our product ran on were private (mostly satellite) links
As a satellite-distribution system is 'one-way' there is a (large) cost with actually haveing a situation where a remote-node has to request a part of the file it is missing from the server is quit high. (usualy a phone-call from somewhere 'in the bushes'). This cost is much smaller on the internet, which is (in itself) bidirectional.
Cheerio! Kr. Bonne
You are correct, but the question remains how you expect the 'developing countries' to create this long-term solution if the dont have the money NOW to start working on it.
... the money for these 5 years of higher eduction I have had, actually came from the fact that my country has exploited the thirth world countries (mainly Congo, in this case) by extracting all the couper, cobalt, ... I don't know what ... at a price so low.
The internet was created using gouvernement money (it was a MILITARY PROJECY, remember?), my 5 years of high-school education was payed mainly via gouvernement money.
Where does this money come from? TAX!
The next question will be, why do we have to pay for them?
Perhaps,
Well, I also DID gain from it. Paying my x. eurocent per megabyte internet-traffic seams like a small thing to 'give back', doesn't it.
And besides, creating an internet or internet-like structure in (e.g.) Africa will help the flow of knowledge of these countries to the rest of the world. (e.g. councerning the medical usage of certain plants in the african forests that could help the fight the illness you would otherwize have died from).
KNOWLEDGE in the only good who's total value INCREASE by sharing it among more people!
Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.
I agree with you.
...' into '...a economic and political enviroment ....'.
1/ Just change my sentence from '...a economic enviroment
2/ I also agree you may need some 'emergency aid' (be it soldiers or food) to cope with a tempory 'fire-storm', but this doesn't thange that there needs to be a longle-term solution too, and it is THERE where the internet taxt would come in.
Cheerio! kr. Bonne.
I like to oppose the general tendency in this tread. I actually think this is a GOOD idea.
...) as a way to implement the idea of 'social solidarity of goods', and not (as seams to be the american (US) way of thinking), as an evil demon that eats up all your money.
... aspects, they need EDUCTION and INFRASTRUCTOR.
...)
First of all, coming from Europe, I see the system of social security (read: 'the state', 'tax',
1/ What the thirth world need is NOT food, but a way to make sure they can produce their own food.
They don't need emergency medial aid, but need a way they can set up their own medical schools.
They don't need UN or NATO-soldiers to enforce some peace-deal between two clans, but need a economic enviroment in which in makes more sence to work together and not fight another (civil or inter-state) war.
Appart from economic, finacial,
In these days of 'knowledge based' industry, this means telephone lines, sateline-links, PC's, free or cheap internet-access for schools, etc..
In a more practical way, to stop the mass of people fleeing mexico into the US, you don't need more barb wire and police-men, but you need to help mexico to help their own people help themselfs so they don't NEED to flee their own country (and family, friends,
For that reason, the idea of taxing the "have's" for helping the "have-nots" looks a very nobble idea, and makes a lot of sence economic-wize.
2/ From a practical point of view, taxing email-only is a bit difficult to implement. So why not tax the bandwith one uses, and use the system, like the VAT tax-system.
The states tax the internet backbone providers (x eurocent per Gigabyte). They -in turn- taxt their client ISPs, who -in turn- tax their users.
This money goes into a fund organisations like inmarsat, the UNDP, universities in thirth world countries, etc.
Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.
At the end of linus' speech, he seams to show a slide with 'funny remarks'. (Well, we do hear everybody laughing).
Does anybody present at the conference care to send us these remarks so we can enjoy them too?
A lot of people seam to have problems with their RealAudio player.
On my (redhat 4.0!!! , kernel 2.0.36) box, It works just fine.
I'm currently on another system (that does not have a RV-player), so this is 'of the top of my head',
but what does help is that you change the 'transport' from 'let the system choice best' to 'manual choice' and only enable TCP-streaming.
Otherwise, you get a lot of 'server disconnects'
Knowing the russion sence for 'community service', perhaps can we persuade them to GPL the chip-design.
It would be a great way to expande the 'open source' idea into other field!
I don't get it...
In Belgium (and most European countries) it is even illegal to even GIVE THE IMPRESSION you need to buy one product if you want purchase something else)!
(Last week, there was a complained of people who didn't like somebody else GAVE AWAY a news-paper in a backery-shop, as you could get the idea that you needed by a breat if you wanted the newspaper for free).
This is something {some smart lawer, some consumer protection organisation, mr. Van Miert -European Commisioner for fair-trade-) I guess whould just die for to get their hands on!
Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.