Slashdot has wasted innumerable hours of my life, and yet still somehow manages to deliver enough information back to be worthwhile. In my (not so recent) youth, Slashdot served as something of an affirmation; somewhere where hanging out reinforced my self-image as a geek. As I grew older, the need for affirmation decreased, but Slashdot retained its value as an amusing diversion and news aggregator.
Thanks, mr Malda, for all the entertainment your site has given me. May you live long and prosper.
Has it occurred to anyone else that DoD might not be out to reform the Internet in any way? They are out to build a network model to serve their own needs, but they have no need to reform the rest of the world.
Now, if they make this revolutionizing new network protocol/infrastructure public other people might want to adopt it because it's neat. But me being a hardened cynic, this will most likely only find use in privately owned networking ponds...Kinda like a certain version pf IP we all know of:)
Something to bear in mind is that Europe is far less homogenous than the US when it comes to adoption of new tech (and a great many other things as well, I might add). Generally speaking, northern Europe has been on par with the US in internet use since years back, whereas southern Europe is just picking up speed.
This, and the mere fact that the population base of Europe is larger than that of the US means that with time, as the market saturates, Europeans will certainly outnumber Americans (from the US anyway) on the net.
As I post this, I'm actually having fiber installed into my apartment for the humble price of...um...currency conversion in progress...$200. Monthly costs are about $20.
So my guess is that in the near future, even US companies will lower their prices considerably, both installation and montly rates.
BTW, for those interested, I live in Stockholm, Sweden, so my ISP is not really available to most of you:-)
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Slashdot has wasted innumerable hours of my life, and yet still somehow manages to deliver enough information back to be worthwhile. In my (not so recent) youth, Slashdot served as something of an affirmation; somewhere where hanging out reinforced my self-image as a geek. As I grew older, the need for affirmation decreased, but Slashdot retained its value as an amusing diversion and news aggregator.
Thanks, mr Malda, for all the entertainment your site has given me. May you live long and prosper.
I give you this not-hard-to-find-link: http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/english
I'd say that the third point of the program (respect for the right to privacy) is the primary point of interest for most of the members.
The article does not complain about CS4 not working - It complains about the fact that they can't break it and then unbreak it.
The article does not complain about the complexity of sound capturing - It complains about quality degradation.
Sure looks like a straw man to me. Or can you refute the actual claims made by the submitter?
But... If you have different OpenIDs for all sites you visit, what's the difference from not having an OpenID to begin with?
Distributed karma sounds like it might attract some people to the cross-site identification that OpenID is actually offering.
Oh, the moaning, oh, the bitching.
:)
Has it occurred to anyone else that DoD might not be out to reform the Internet in any way? They are out to build a network model to serve their own needs, but they have no need to reform the rest of the world.
Now, if they make this revolutionizing new network protocol/infrastructure public other people might want to adopt it because it's neat. But me being a hardened cynic, this will most likely only find use in privately owned networking ponds...Kinda like a certain version pf IP we all know of
Something to bear in mind is that Europe is far less homogenous than the US when it comes to adoption of new tech (and a great many other things as well, I might add). Generally speaking, northern Europe has been on par with the US in internet use since years back, whereas southern Europe is just picking up speed.
This, and the mere fact that the population base of Europe is larger than that of the US means that with time, as the market saturates, Europeans will certainly outnumber Americans (from the US anyway) on the net.
As I post this, I'm actually having fiber installed into my apartment for the humble price of...um...currency conversion in progress...$200. Monthly costs are about $20.
:-)
So my guess is that in the near future, even US companies will lower their prices considerably, both installation and montly rates.
BTW, for those interested, I live in Stockholm, Sweden, so my ISP is not really available to most of you