Be less expensive and less of a hassle than this current nonsense, anyway. And it could still be circumvented, with a bit of cleverness--consider, say, buying a single 'internet connection' for an apartment building, and setting up a network behind it, would share out this $5 fee over a large number of users.
Alternatively, a neighbourhood could set up a wifi grid with a similar arrangement. Might as well put those blasted HOAs that seem to be coming into so much vogue these days to some use, eh?
As usual, it's not a question of technology, but of cooperation and social networking. This requires that you speak to your neighbours and get out of the basement from time to time, o'course, but the sacrifice is worth it in the end.
Because it ships as non-bloated, and you have to add the bloat yourself, mostly.
I have to say that I've been fairly impressed with Ubuntu thus far. It seems fairly stable and reliable, and the little update widget is remarkably painless, and has only insisted on a reboot a couple of times (for things like kernel changes). Add to that the ability to get software to do just about everything I want to do with either apt-get, synaptic, or that add/remove programs thingy, and there's no more dependency hell. I wouldn't call myself a 'fanboy' exactly...but I -am- fond of it.
And no matter how hard they try to sue me, if I don't have anything of theirs on my computer, there's really not much they can do about it, now, is there?
I've been boycotting the RIAA for a while now. I mainly listen to foreign-language music, or instrumentals, or the old classics, or music from independent artists. I make a conscious effort to avoid anything that the RIAA might be involved in at all, specifically because of this nonsense.
The RIAA can blame the decline of a few sales per year directly on this boycott, which is specifically because of their asinine lawsuits. It's not much, I know, but it makes me immune from prosecution.
How often do you suppose they hear that? And has it -ever- worked?
Out of curiosity...I know that there's a principle where spouses cannot be forced to incriminate one another; does this sort of thing extend to children?
And uses the open standard that google's been pushing. Ideally, it'd be capable of swapping between relatively inexpensive cellular (maybe in that 900mhz range?) and wifi.
While I'm dreaming, I'd like it to support email and web, and include Eclipse or some other similar IDE, movies, music, and the ability to act as a guitar tuner.
And a camera, a radio, a GPS, an emergency aircraft beacon, an accellerometer in three dimensions for Wiimote emulation, and I'd like it to fit in the palm of my hand and hook to a glasses mounted display.
We know what happens with the 'natural' bases--they indicate which amino acids are selected to produce which proteins.
I'm curious as to whether this will result in new kinds of proteins, or whether new amino acids will be required to be built, or what other effects might crop up.
It's interesting, don't get me wrong--but how -practical- is it?
Just a case of necessitating identification information upon registering the account. Could do it with a trusted-registrar scheme, where the village elders vouch for the details of those under their jurisdiction.
Which is why you don't use ethernet cable--ethernet over ether, as it were. Provide many access points, and a bit of traffic management here and there, and, with sufficient nodes, you could have a fairly massive wifi network sharing any number of outgoing and incoming landlines. The tech exists--the problem is how to organize such a network.
I vaguely recall reading something a while back about using 802.11 routers in order to create a wireless internet, and routing traffic wirelessly from one to another to go from places where no broadband is available to places where it was.
Perhaps it's about time to get some real ethernet going over a large area.
Does this count as 'cyberwar'? I see great potential for making lots of money^W^W^W^Wpatriotically serving the country by grafting in a Bureau of Cyberdefence into the Department of Homeland Security...
Ok let's see Engineers are suspect to Terrorism because they view things as right and wrong.
Assuming that this is the truth, that then puts ANYBODY WITH ANY IQ in the sciences and math as potential terrorists! </I>
Not exactly. It's entirely possible to be intelligent without having a viewpoint that one way -must- be right (the optimal way, as noted by a post just above yours).
Intelligence != stubbornness and fundamentalism. My comment was merely to note that I could see how then engineering mindset--trying for precision and whatnot--could be similar.
I suppose I could see that. Engineers do tend to try to put things into precise terms--black and white, right and wrong, within tolerances and unacceptable. This is similar to fundamentalist views of the world, in a way...
Not to mention even further that if, indeed, the majority of these downloads were through these 'illegal' services (an incorrect term, but the one he used--P2P has more than enough legit uses) then the majority of the bandwidth and other distribution costs were not paid for by the band.
In other words, by taking advantage of this distribution method, the band is able to reach a wider audience for far less in advertising costs than anybody else.
More distribution for less money? That's a winner--for anyone who isn't a complete gibbering idiot, anyway.
True, it's a bit muddled, especially as (especially with this proclamation!) he's putting himself out as a sort of a public figure, and the standards as regards libel and slander are quite different.
Sorry 'bout that. I meant to indicate a slightly mocking tone of voice, along the lines of "Awww, wookit teh poor widdle troll" but forgot the appropriate emoticon.
But yeah, it's fairly obvious that the information's not what he's paying for--it's the publicity.
Perhaps I could email Mr. Troll Tracker and let 'im know that I could use the $10k, and could I have his contact information to pass onto this sad sack of a lawyer who apparently is unable to engage any of the numerous detective firms out there who could find his information for much less--or even to take the time to ask nicely?
Whaddaya think, would it work? I really could use the $10k...trying to save up for a wedding, and it's slow going.
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Cheaper just to buy the pony.
Oh, -only- that much. Right. Perfectly reasonable.
I knew that 'going gold' meant a lot to an artist, and I knew the price of gold was high, but $1.5 million sounds just a little high...
Or is this just for the ones that go platinum?
Fairly typical transference...accuse the other guy of what you've been doing.
So sad, that such a tiny little garage shop like Microsoft should be beaten up by the big bad IBM.
Anyone else think that this sounds like whining?
Be less expensive and less of a hassle than this current nonsense, anyway. And it could still be circumvented, with a bit of cleverness--consider, say, buying a single 'internet connection' for an apartment building, and setting up a network behind it, would share out this $5 fee over a large number of users.
Alternatively, a neighbourhood could set up a wifi grid with a similar arrangement. Might as well put those blasted HOAs that seem to be coming into so much vogue these days to some use, eh?
As usual, it's not a question of technology, but of cooperation and social networking. This requires that you speak to your neighbours and get out of the basement from time to time, o'course, but the sacrifice is worth it in the end.
Because it ships as non-bloated, and you have to add the bloat yourself, mostly.
I have to say that I've been fairly impressed with Ubuntu thus far. It seems fairly stable and reliable, and the little update widget is remarkably painless, and has only insisted on a reboot a couple of times (for things like kernel changes). Add to that the ability to get software to do just about everything I want to do with either apt-get, synaptic, or that add/remove programs thingy, and there's no more dependency hell. I wouldn't call myself a 'fanboy' exactly...but I -am- fond of it.
I would recommend, by the way, http://www.riaaradar.com for your music selection needs. Very useful to find out who's RIAA and who isn't.
And no matter how hard they try to sue me, if I don't have anything of theirs on my computer, there's really not much they can do about it, now, is there?
I've been boycotting the RIAA for a while now. I mainly listen to foreign-language music, or instrumentals, or the old classics, or music from independent artists. I make a conscious effort to avoid anything that the RIAA might be involved in at all, specifically because of this nonsense.
The RIAA can blame the decline of a few sales per year directly on this boycott, which is specifically because of their asinine lawsuits. It's not much, I know, but it makes me immune from prosecution.
"It wasn't me! It was her!"
How often do you suppose they hear that? And has it -ever- worked?
Out of curiosity...I know that there's a principle where spouses cannot be forced to incriminate one another; does this sort of thing extend to children?
And uses the open standard that google's been pushing. Ideally, it'd be capable of swapping between relatively inexpensive cellular (maybe in that 900mhz range?) and wifi.
While I'm dreaming, I'd like it to support email and web, and include Eclipse or some other similar IDE, movies, music, and the ability to act as a guitar tuner.
And a camera, a radio, a GPS, an emergency aircraft beacon, an accellerometer in three dimensions for Wiimote emulation, and I'd like it to fit in the palm of my hand and hook to a glasses mounted display.
We know what happens with the 'natural' bases--they indicate which amino acids are selected to produce which proteins.
I'm curious as to whether this will result in new kinds of proteins, or whether new amino acids will be required to be built, or what other effects might crop up.
It's interesting, don't get me wrong--but how -practical- is it?
I think it's meant to be more an amusing, tongue-in-cheek observation than anything else.
Or, in other words--lighten up, man. Not everything's serious.
Sounds like the 'net at large could use these profiles--I mean, sure, goatse isn't -that- bad, but do you really want to see it again?
Just a case of necessitating identification information upon registering the account. Could do it with a trusted-registrar scheme, where the village elders vouch for the details of those under their jurisdiction.
Which is why you don't use ethernet cable--ethernet over ether, as it were. Provide many access points, and a bit of traffic management here and there, and, with sufficient nodes, you could have a fairly massive wifi network sharing any number of outgoing and incoming landlines. The tech exists--the problem is how to organize such a network.
I vaguely recall reading something a while back about using 802.11 routers in order to create a wireless internet, and routing traffic wirelessly from one to another to go from places where no broadband is available to places where it was.
Perhaps it's about time to get some real ethernet going over a large area.
Does this count as 'cyberwar'? I see great potential for making lots of money^W^W^W^Wpatriotically serving the country by grafting in a Bureau of Cyberdefence into the Department of Homeland Security...
Ok let's see Engineers are suspect to Terrorism because they view things as right and wrong.
Assuming that this is the truth, that then puts ANYBODY WITH ANY IQ in the sciences and math as potential terrorists! </I>
Not exactly. It's entirely possible to be intelligent without having a viewpoint that one way -must- be right (the optimal way, as noted by a post just above yours).
Intelligence != stubbornness and fundamentalism. My comment was merely to note that I could see how then engineering mindset--trying for precision and whatnot--could be similar.
I suppose I could see that. Engineers do tend to try to put things into precise terms--black and white, right and wrong, within tolerances and unacceptable. This is similar to fundamentalist views of the world, in a way...
Not to mention even further that if, indeed, the majority of these downloads were through these 'illegal' services (an incorrect term, but the one he used--P2P has more than enough legit uses) then the majority of the bandwidth and other distribution costs were not paid for by the band.
In other words, by taking advantage of this distribution method, the band is able to reach a wider audience for far less in advertising costs than anybody else.
More distribution for less money? That's a winner--for anyone who isn't a complete gibbering idiot, anyway.
No! I'm Spartacus!
True, it's a bit muddled, especially as (especially with this proclamation!) he's putting himself out as a sort of a public figure, and the standards as regards libel and slander are quite different.
Sorry 'bout that. I meant to indicate a slightly mocking tone of voice, along the lines of "Awww, wookit teh poor widdle troll" but forgot the appropriate emoticon.
But yeah, it's fairly obvious that the information's not what he's paying for--it's the publicity.
Perhaps I could email Mr. Troll Tracker and let 'im know that I could use the $10k, and could I have his contact information to pass onto this sad sack of a lawyer who apparently is unable to engage any of the numerous detective firms out there who could find his information for much less--or even to take the time to ask nicely?
Whaddaya think, would it work? I really could use the $10k...trying to save up for a wedding, and it's slow going.