Well, since a lot of movies are being made in Aussieland, maybe wel'll get to see a lot of visiting MIAA and RIAA people being thrown in the slammer!
Go Aussies Go!!!
or maybe they'll blackmail the Australian government into passing similar legislation, on the threat that there won't be any more films made in their country (so: bye bye dollars...)
over here in Belgium adsl is 1024kb down 128kb up, and cable is 10Mb (yes -- TEN megabit!) downstream, and 128k up. my personal download speed record is 4 streams for a total of over 1100Kbytes/sec -- on cable of course;-)
and that all for a good 42 (or dollars) per month...
... we get to see an american who sees through all the propagandistic bullshit that the government has been shooting at the civilians of their country...
now we just neet to get rid of dubya's 'tips' plan...
-- h357 (yep, i'm from europe, and i ain't going to the us nog more until dubya's out of office and in jail for everything he's done! -- same for ashcroft, et al..)
while the story is positive on the entrepreneurship of the people there, I really do think that there are some seriously negative things in there too...
A large part of the story is about the data entry companies that are located in the capital. Isn't the way they work there called exploitation?
While the people are paid a bit more that the average salary in the country, you must take into account that the average salary there is a sum of all salarys, divided by the people that are in the 'working' age group. I think it shouldn't be said that the unemployment rate in Ghana is astronomic. They aren't paid that much after all.
And do you really think that the American companies that are employing those people wouldn't be get another company in a country where they would have to pay less? The only reasons why they're in Ghana is that the official language is English (unlike cheaper countries like the Phillipines or China) so that the people there can read the papers easily, and that it actually is a relatively stable third world country.
The whole method of working sounds just like the way companies like Nike and IBM work in the Phillipines: Pay your workers just a little more than the average salary ( so that they come in herds, and can be easily exploited, with a lot of potential replacement workers), pay them per piece of work done, make them work in shifts (6 or maybe even 7 days a week), and get some local supervisors who are just a bit ambitious (= no mercy) to supervise them.
I think that most of you will agree that this isn't the correct way to help the poor people of the world.
If we would get those people (not just Ghana, the whole 3rd world) enough food, water and (very important!!) good education, they will close the digital divide themselves after some time.
And maybe everyone will stop hating the West someday too?
The law over here in Belgium is this: (they should be the same all over the EU)
All ISP's must hold data on when a certain person used his account (date/time + ip address) for a period of 6 months. And tracing email is easy when you have this info of course.
BUT: The information is to be kept by the ISP's themselves, and the government (eg: the police and other judiciary services) can only access the records when they get a subpoena from a judge, and then only the only information has to be released must have something to do with the investigation.
I guess that this way of working isn't too bad, since it gets a lot of evil kiddiepr0n fans and credit card fraudeurs arrested;-).
I'm one of those users that uses quite a lot of different distro's, and who alway wants to be on the 'edge'. So one day I came across Gentoo and it's cousing Sorcerer.
Of course, I had to try them both...
And what do I think about them?
I'll say this: Sorcerer's still running mighty fine on my laptop, but I've thrown gentoo off of my desktop machine. I've never gotten Gentoo to run 100% ok as a desktop system with the Gnome desktop.
And I do think that gentoo's installation procedure should be simpler. It might be targeted at an experienced linux user, but I do like some automation. Also a nice menu system for the portage tree would be nice.
Too bad Sorcerer's going down because of politics... (prove me wrong, Kyle!)
game over then... almost...
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SSSCA Hearing
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Well, I guess it's going to be game over then for all the file sharing on the internet.
Until... the day that some smart 16-year old (probably from finland or something;-) will find a way to circumvent all the copy protection stuff.
All this SSSCA crap shows us a few things:
- congress members are all corrupt. so's thepresident. power corrupts.
- greedy people stay greedy forever, and will wipe their asses with the constitution if it could make them *more* money. money corrupts.
- groups of greedy people are dangerous (ag: the motion picture ass. of america and the recording ass. of america). the combination of money and power is just plain evil.
It's a well-known fact that a lot of bands really don't make any money from their record sales (as has been mentioned in this thread a few times).
What do they live off?
It's simple: touring their arses off...(and maybe a lesser amount from the t-shirts and self-released records they sell on the road)
The only way for a little-known band (let's say that this is just about every band that doesn't make the billboard charts) has to tour to keep their dream alive. There's a reason why a lot of bands hate touring. I hate commuting to work too. Waiting a long time for a train to come along, sitting on the damn thing for ages... you know...-- sorry, I got a little carried away there)
So if you really want to support a band, go see them live. Don't give any money to the people in between -- by the time everyone gets their share nothing'll be left over for the people that deserve our money!
I guess that some people still believe the 'great myth of dsl'... how sad.
Let me explain:
(I work for a very large telecom operator somewhere in Europe, as a backbone engineer, so I know what I'm talking about here.)
The truth?: DSL is shared bandwidth as much as any cable connection!
This is how the dsl network works (ours, at least -- and everything in here counts only for the average 'residential' connection. no special cases like remote offices on dsl, etc..):
dsl modem --[copper pair]--> dsl access multiplexer --[atm]--> broadband access server --[atm]--> isp ----> 'the internet'
The dsl modem communicates at a speed of 1Mbit ( ok... i know that more is possible, but this is for accesses up to about 5km.) with the dsl multiplexer.
One multiplexer takes 144 dsl line connections. All these connections are piped into one atm virtual path (vp), who has a bandwidth of 4 to 6 Mbit (here bandwidth is shared in a ratio of 36/1)
Once the information arrives at the access server, authentification is done, and traffic is routed to the appropriate isp, over pvc's with a bandwidth of about 350Mbit/server for the largest isp. Without giving exact numbers, this amounts to about 23Kb/user.
What all this means is this: you connection to the access server is not shared. Your actually bandwidth is.
Slashdot Mirror
i guess that a moment of silence is best...
for the wtc victims
for the pentagon victims
for the future iraq victims
for everyone that has ever died through the hands of injustice, opression, agression and that old capitalist tool: imperialism.
no, it hasn't
why not get the people who have the book of the film?? those could be real spoilers!!
just too bad that the anouncement is only for the high-end versions of the redhat distro
we're stuck in 32-bit-hell for the rest of our days, and redhat turns into the new M$ -- evil and agressive...
oh... wait... it's linux... move along people... nothing to read here...
proprietary version of LINUX?
i didn't know they changed the license...
i'm gonna build my own proprietary version too!
Well, since a lot of movies are being made in Aussieland, maybe wel'll get to see a lot of visiting MIAA and RIAA people being thrown in the slammer!
Go Aussies Go!!!
or maybe they'll blackmail the Australian government into passing similar legislation, on the threat that there won't be any more films made in their country (so: bye bye dollars...)
well, actually this thing nvidia's doing is called 'promotion'.
opensourcing the Cg stuff is a great way to get lots of people using it, and it gets into the press well, since OSS is all the rave right now.
still, it's a nice thing...
how to user 1Gb/sec??
the joys of peer-to-peer of course!!
h357
ehm... well... not actually...
;-)
over here in Belgium adsl is 1024kb down 128kb up, and cable is 10Mb (yes -- TEN megabit!) downstream, and 128k up.
my personal download speed record is 4 streams for a total of over 1100Kbytes/sec -- on cable of course
and that all for a good 42 (or dollars) per month...
... we get to see an american who sees through all the propagandistic bullshit that the government has been shooting at the civilians of their country...
now we just neet to get rid of dubya's 'tips' plan...
-- h357
(yep, i'm from europe, and i ain't going to the us nog more until dubya's out of office and in jail for everything he's done! -- same for ashcroft, et al..)
while the story is positive on the entrepreneurship of the people there, I really do think that there are some seriously negative things in there too...
A large part of the story is about the data entry companies that are located in the capital. Isn't the way they work there called exploitation?
While the people are paid a bit more that the average salary in the country, you must take into account that the average salary there is a sum of all salarys, divided by the people that are in the 'working' age group. I think it shouldn't be said that the unemployment rate in Ghana is astronomic. They aren't paid that much after all.
And do you really think that the American companies that are employing those people wouldn't be get another company in a country where they would have to pay less? The only reasons why they're in Ghana is that the official language is English (unlike cheaper countries like the Phillipines or China) so that the people there can read the papers easily, and that it actually is a relatively stable third world country.
The whole method of working sounds just like the way companies like Nike and IBM work in the Phillipines:
Pay your workers just a little more than the average salary ( so that they come in herds, and can be easily exploited, with a lot of potential replacement workers), pay them per piece of work done, make them work in shifts (6 or maybe even 7 days a week), and get some local supervisors who are just a bit ambitious (= no mercy) to supervise them.
I think that most of you will agree that this isn't the correct way to help the poor people of the world.
If we would get those people (not just Ghana, the whole 3rd world) enough food, water and (very important!!) good education, they will close the digital divide themselves after some time.
And maybe everyone will stop hating the West someday too?
this is probably like all those other "new standards" ...
anyone remember the data minidisk ? dataplay ? dvd+r ? countless others?
let's hope this one gets cheap, medium fast, and marketed *very* quickly.
yeah right...
The law over here in Belgium is this:
;-).
(they should be the same all over the EU)
All ISP's must hold data on when a certain person used his account (date/time + ip address) for a period of 6 months. And tracing email is easy when you have this info of course.
BUT:
The information is to be kept by the ISP's themselves, and the government (eg: the police and other judiciary services) can only access the records when they get a subpoena from a judge, and then only the only information has to be released must have something to do with the investigation.
I guess that this way of working isn't too bad, since it gets a lot of evil kiddiepr0n fans and credit card fraudeurs arrested
Sen. Burns is ... a Socialist???
who should the crew be??
ME!!
(and my girlfriend of course!!)
and half a square inch of the coolchip gives me a nice beercan cooler!!
too bad that the machine doesn't sell very well over here in Europe ;-)
we deserve those price cuts a lot more!!
'attack of the clones'??
yeah right...
'attack of the license to print more free money' is more like it.
Well,
I'm one of those users that uses quite a lot of different distro's, and who alway wants to be on the 'edge'. So one day I came across Gentoo and it's cousing Sorcerer.
Of course, I had to try them both...
And what do I think about them?
I'll say this: Sorcerer's still running mighty fine on my laptop, but I've thrown gentoo off of my desktop machine. I've never gotten Gentoo to run 100% ok as a desktop system with the Gnome desktop.
And I do think that gentoo's installation procedure should be simpler. It might be targeted at an experienced linux user, but I do like some automation. Also a nice menu system for the portage tree would be nice.
Too bad Sorcerer's going down because of politics... (prove me wrong, Kyle!)
Well, I guess it's going to be game over then for all the file sharing on the internet.
;-) will find a way to circumvent all the copy protection stuff.
Until... the day that some smart 16-year old (probably from finland or something
All this SSSCA crap shows us a few things:
- congress members are all corrupt. so's thepresident. power corrupts.
- greedy people stay greedy forever, and will wipe their asses with the constitution if it could make them *more* money. money corrupts.
- groups of greedy people are dangerous (ag: the motion picture ass. of america and the recording ass. of america). the combination of money and power is just plain evil.
don't let them get away with this!!
H357
ahem... yeah right...
stop windows from being stable...
tsss...
Sadly, this got rejected as a news story last week.
The SignumData FutureClient!
It's German, It has no fans, It's expensive (so I've heard), It takes a P4, But It makes no noise!
H357
What about this:
;-)
It seems that a Russian company, called Elbrus, is trying to make a fast & cool x86-compatible processor/computer.
Check it out here.
And remember, children, open source **is** some form of communism/socialism... guess the circle goes round, doesn't it?
bye,
Hummer357
It's a well-known fact that a lot of bands really don't make any money from their record sales (as has been mentioned in this thread a few times).
What do they live off?
It's simple: touring their arses off...(and maybe a lesser amount from the t-shirts and self-released records they sell on the road)
The only way for a little-known band (let's say that this is just about every band that doesn't make the billboard charts) has to tour to keep their dream alive. There's a reason why a lot of bands hate touring. I hate commuting to work too. Waiting a long time for a train to come along, sitting on the damn thing for ages... you know...-- sorry, I got a little carried away there)
So if you really want to support a band, go see them live. Don't give any money to the people in between -- by the time everyone gets their share nothing'll be left over for the people that deserve our money!
Fileshare on!! Kick the riaa where it hurts!!
-- h u m m e r 3 5 7 --
I guess that some people still believe the 'great myth of dsl'... how sad.
Let me explain:
(I work for a very large telecom operator somewhere in Europe, as a backbone engineer, so I know what I'm talking about here.)
The truth?: DSL is shared bandwidth as much as any cable connection!
This is how the dsl network works (ours, at least -- and everything in here counts only for the average 'residential' connection. no special cases like remote offices on dsl, etc..):
dsl modem --[copper pair]--> dsl access multiplexer --[atm]--> broadband access server --[atm]--> isp ----> 'the internet'
The dsl modem communicates at a speed of 1Mbit ( ok... i know that more is possible, but this is for accesses up to about 5km.) with the dsl multiplexer.
One multiplexer takes 144 dsl line connections. All these connections are piped into one atm virtual path (vp), who has a bandwidth of 4 to 6 Mbit (here bandwidth is shared in a ratio of 36/1)
Once the information arrives at the access server, authentification is done, and traffic is routed to the appropriate isp, over pvc's with a bandwidth of about 350Mbit/server for the largest isp. Without giving exact numbers, this amounts to about 23Kb/user.
What all this means is this: you connection to the access server is not shared. Your actually bandwidth is.