This is exactly right, if they are making the choice of what I am allowed to see and do on the Internet, does it mean that I cannot be sued by the Canadian RIAA (CMAA whatever the acronym) because the ISP is essentially endorsing the downloading of music as legal by allowing access to it.
I would like to see the Canadian RIAA square off against the Telco's and ISP's... that would be fun.
Hey it sucks to have the levy on optical media (How in the world did this pass in the first place I don't know) but it has essentially legalized downloading of music. See, I bought these blank CD's with taxes on it specifically because they need to make up for the lost revenue of 'real' cd's not bought, now why in the world would I pay double the CPCC tax and buy the proper album.
If I want to support the artists directly I buy their stuff at a show.
This one is easy, Apple enters commodity hardware market by selling OS X alone, Microsoft says welcome to the block kid, sticks up it's middle finger and tells them, sorry kiddo, no Office for you.
Goodbye marketshare - yeah OS X sure is pretty but I can't even run word on it they'll say.
And sorry guys and galls, Open Office wouldn't be an acceptable replacement for most people. Even if, MS would just randomly patch Office to make sure things wouldn't be compatible.
And besides Apple prides itself on the whole computing experience - from opening up the box to OS X through to easily accesible USB ports etc, I think half of Apple would collapse in a heart-attack like spasm if they saw their beautiful OS running on Johny's $25 uggly-ass beige pc, with poor Johny bend over the computer, (jeans riding way too far down his ass) while he tries to plug in his USB camera into the back of the computer.
If a person has to a job - no matter if it's bagging groceries or running an IT department - should that person not be expected to make a viable career of it? Jobs that are more complex mentaly and physicaly should be more rewarding of course, but face it someone will have to man the local McDonalds for a few more decades, why shouldn't that be a viable career?
I have my problems with unions, but they seem to balance out pretty well with my problems with 'management'.
I would be curious, what field of work and position are you in?
While I agree with you that the website should not be up as it most likely will lead to violence of some form, Telus does not have the right to block this site on a whim.
If they have a case, they should get the police involved, explained their case, and have a cease & desist order with them, then they can block the site and demand it gets taken down. Telus blocking the site does not achieve anything, customers of other services can access the site, Telus customers can just use a proxy.
Does it make you feel better that your sister's risk of rape is reduced by 30-odd percent because telus is blocking the site. Hey 70 is better than 100% but it's still much highter than it should be , no?
If telus feels that I should not see this site, why are they allowing me to see unwanted advertisements, child pornography, animal abuse and cruelty, recruiting sites for neo-nazi's and islamic, christian, protestant, jewish, budhist, hindu extremists (sorry to leave other religions out, you're included in spirit) some old guy's asshole, etc. If they feel the need to take down this one thing, are they not now responsible for all the other crap that is online?
What if the CEO of Telus, or the union for that matter, was caught in a child & animal prostitution ring, should that info be sensored because it could lead to the CEO's harm. This is the precedent Telus is setting.
I believe Google is telling you the worst case time scenario (long weekend baby!) making it 30 minutes to drive out to the ferry terminal, 90 minutes for the crossing, another 30 minutes from the terminal to Victoria proper and of course the 9 and a half hours waiting for the ferry because everyone and their dog wants to get out of town.
Google is making sure someone doesn't punch in the info and expect to get there in two hours on a long weekend, blaming Google for the 'extra' ten hours.
Of course it will, 1,000,000 script kiddies hacking away on 1,000,000 beige boxes, how long before one hacks it? Perhaps as long as 1,000,000 monkeys writing hamlet, but it will happen. All those people focused on cracking windowzz, gamezzz, and programzzz will fight tooth and nail to get it up running first - what better way to give the mac users the middle finger.
Dual-booting windows and Os X, I never thought I'd see the day.
This is my recent experience through airport security:
Trip as from Vancouver (canada) to Toronto to New York. The tighest security was when I was leaving Vancouver, even the rivets in my Jeans set the metal detector off. Seeing this I got quite paranoid over the Toronto stop-over to get to New York, well it was all unfounded, I walked through the metal detector with my watch and wallet on me, and not a peep from the metal detector.
How can someone justify spending who know how much on these new machines when the current ones aren't even being used properly!
I have been wondering, CoreImage allows all those fancy new effects, like desaturating, sepia toning etc. Is there a way to use this in the regular UI?
I am thinking of this, you know when you have a window sitting in the background, now it just sort of greys out the text & buttons. Is is possible to just desaturate the whole window? buttons, frame, content, everything, it would be much more consistent, and very nice for the eyes.
My thought is that MS has a good dozen or so teams working on different parts of Longhorn (WinFS/Aero/Metro/etc) They just haven't put them all together, for example the WinFS team doesn't care about the UI, they're worried about their end. The released beta was about the new driver model or something (please correct me, I just skimmed the articles) so that team didn't give a damn about the UI, and unfortunately MS decided to release it without getting the new goodies from the UI team, so it looks like the same old windows. end of story.
I am just guessing on all of this, please feel free to correct me.
This is one of my 'problems' with open source. Generally it feels like everything is a copy of windows/os x. (yes, I know there are a ton of projects underway, but nothing too mainstream) It's great we're getting transparency, fancy window effects etc, but really we're just copying os x, and a bit what longhorn will bring to the table.
We can code, no question, but what we need is a vision of what the computer is that goes one step ahead of os x/windows for people to take notice. Right now we are just sreaming 'me too' os x has nice transparency, me too! longhorn will have bland animations, me too! We need to get one step ahead, so that we can say, yeah os XI stole that from us, that's right, longhorn xp 2013 did copy that from us.
Yes, please attach some chrome, neon strobes, and some super loud fans, I want my computer to feel just like my chainsaw! I am a real man! hear me (and my computer) roar!
They get tax breaks on the bigger trucks as they count as a business expense (I believe anything over 5000 lb is a commercial vehicle, so you get the tax break, but technically you aren't allowed on residencial streets) So you get the nice big truck for the same price as the nice medium sized truck.
More truck for the buck, how could you refuse! it's like super-sizing it:)
Uhmm, you do know that all this 'fast searching' was announced way back when WinFS was first announced, sorry no link for ya, but it was much much earlier than you ever heard about tigers, spotlights, or google desktop searching.
Yeah, they stole it from BeOS, but you don't hear anyone complaining about that do you. Mind you, how do you really call a 'logical next step' stealing. It's as if Henry Ford was complaining that some other car company decided to use round wheels instead of square slabs of rock.
Crap like this has been happening in the states for years, so it's not like the french are the first to do this. Who has the crazy patent law? takes it up the rear from big oil? and tobacco? and pharmaceuticals? France is not exactly at the peak of that list now is it.
I'm off to McD's for some freedom fries, I feel dirty now and have to repent my un-patriotic ways.
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I can see it now...
Hey bob, those guys from CompanyB are overdue on their invoice can you clear things up with them... Sure thing boss.
Bob comes back an hour later with blood on his shirt and a new corvette in the parking lot.
Another example: Couterstrike style.
boss: Bob, you've been really lagging behind the other employees, what's up? Bob: th053 hax0r5 ar3 u51ng B0t5!!! ch3at5!!
I have posted this before, but this perception that you need to upgrade your video card every six months so you can play the latest and greatest is just pure bullsh*t! Yes new games com e out that can make use of feature X on some yet unreleased video card, but the game also works perfectly fine on most hardware out there.
I have a Geforce2 GTS (32 megs) and have been able to all the recent games (Far Cry, Doom3, Half-Life2 etc). Yeah the games look like crap compared to what they would look like on a Geforce6, but hey games on the ps2 look like crap compared to games on the x-box as well. If the game is good, the graphics are secondary. FYI, the Geforce2 came out in the summer of 2000 if I remember correctly, so that is a 2 year head start on the PS2 and it's able to play games that the PS2 couldn't even dream of playing (doom3).
One thing that keeps pisisng me off abou this debate is the fact that the reason to do nothing is cost. 'It will cost too much to reduce emmisions, save the wales, use electric, shower every morning' anything.
Here's the thing, everything always costs too much, did people in the 1800's look at industrialization and say 'well golly imagine all the money it will take to build a factory and all that stuff' sure some did, but had we listened we would still be driving horse cariages. There have been quite a few stories that I have come across (sorry no links, I know I'm asking for trouble) that bring up the fact that when businesses/factories/individuals try to do something good for the environment (i.e. reduce greenhouse gasses, thereby using less energy) the efficience that is introduced pays for itself in a few years. i.e. re-using heat from one part of a factory in another part, introducing more efficient machinery etc.
Why do we put insulation in our homes, why do we have double and tripple-paned glass, to us it is to save money in the long run by not running the furnace 24/7. Guess what this means, drummroll, less energy wasted, and you guessed it less greenhouse gasses produced.
Why when this idea is applied to corporations it suddenly will cost too much?!? Yes, the scale is much larger, but so will be the savings.
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This is exactly right, if they are making the choice of what I am allowed to see and do on the Internet, does it mean that I cannot be sued by the Canadian RIAA (CMAA whatever the acronym) because the ISP is essentially endorsing the downloading of music as legal by allowing access to it.
I would like to see the Canadian RIAA square off against the Telco's and ISP's... that would be fun.
Im.
Hey it sucks to have the levy on optical media (How in the world did this pass in the first place I don't know) but it has essentially legalized downloading of music. See, I bought these blank CD's with taxes on it specifically because they need to make up for the lost revenue of 'real' cd's not bought, now why in the world would I pay double the CPCC tax and buy the proper album.
If I want to support the artists directly I buy their stuff at a show.
Sort of interesting, what the Russians are using is more or less from the 1950's, seems to work pretty well for them.
This one is easy, Apple enters commodity hardware market by selling OS X alone, Microsoft says welcome to the block kid, sticks up it's middle finger and tells them, sorry kiddo, no Office for you.
Goodbye marketshare - yeah OS X sure is pretty but I can't even run word on it they'll say.
And sorry guys and galls, Open Office wouldn't be an acceptable replacement for most people. Even if, MS would just randomly patch Office to make sure things wouldn't be compatible.
And besides Apple prides itself on the whole computing experience - from opening up the box to OS X through to easily accesible USB ports etc, I think half of Apple would collapse in a heart-attack like spasm if they saw their beautiful OS running on Johny's $25 uggly-ass beige pc, with poor Johny bend over the computer, (jeans riding way too far down his ass) while he tries to plug in his USB camera into the back of the computer.
If a person has to a job - no matter if it's bagging groceries or running an IT department - should that person not be expected to make a viable career of it? Jobs that are more complex mentaly and physicaly should be more rewarding of course, but face it someone will have to man the local McDonalds for a few more decades, why shouldn't that be a viable career? I have my problems with unions, but they seem to balance out pretty well with my problems with 'management'. I would be curious, what field of work and position are you in?
While I agree with you that the website should not be up as it most likely will lead to violence of some form, Telus does not have the right to block this site on a whim.
If they have a case, they should get the police involved, explained their case, and have a cease & desist order with them, then they can block the site and demand it gets taken down. Telus blocking the site does not achieve anything, customers of other services can access the site, Telus customers can just use a proxy.
Does it make you feel better that your sister's risk of rape is reduced by 30-odd percent because telus is blocking the site. Hey 70 is better than 100% but it's still much highter than it should be , no?
If telus feels that I should not see this site, why are they allowing me to see unwanted advertisements, child pornography, animal abuse and cruelty, recruiting sites for neo-nazi's and islamic, christian, protestant, jewish, budhist, hindu extremists (sorry to leave other religions out, you're included in spirit) some old guy's asshole, etc. If they feel the need to take down this one thing, are they not now responsible for all the other crap that is online?
What if the CEO of Telus, or the union for that matter, was caught in a child & animal prostitution ring, should that info be sensored because it could lead to the CEO's harm. This is the precedent Telus is setting.
Sadly, that time estimate is accurate.
I believe Google is telling you the worst case time scenario (long weekend baby!) making it 30 minutes to drive out to the ferry terminal, 90 minutes for the crossing, another 30 minutes from the terminal to Victoria proper and of course the 9 and a half hours waiting for the ferry because everyone and their dog wants to get out of town.
Google is making sure someone doesn't punch in the info and expect to get there in two hours on a long weekend, blaming Google for the 'extra' ten hours.
Im.
'Whistler north of Redmond' is like saying that New York is east of the Pacific, or that Mexico is south of the North Pole.
Of course it will, 1,000,000 script kiddies hacking away on 1,000,000 beige boxes, how long before one hacks it? Perhaps as long as 1,000,000 monkeys writing hamlet, but it will happen. All those people focused on cracking windowzz, gamezzz, and programzzz will fight tooth and nail to get it up running first - what better way to give the mac users the middle finger.
Dual-booting windows and Os X, I never thought I'd see the day.
This is my recent experience through airport security:
Trip as from Vancouver (canada) to Toronto to New York. The tighest security was when I was leaving Vancouver, even the rivets in my Jeans set the metal detector off. Seeing this I got quite paranoid over the Toronto stop-over to get to New York, well it was all unfounded, I walked through the metal detector with my watch and wallet on me, and not a peep from the metal detector.
How can someone justify spending who know how much on these new machines when the current ones aren't even being used properly!
I have been wondering, CoreImage allows all those fancy new effects, like desaturating, sepia toning etc. Is there a way to use this in the regular UI?
I am thinking of this, you know when you have a window sitting in the background, now it just sort of greys out the text & buttons. Is is possible to just desaturate the whole window? buttons, frame, content, everything, it would be much more consistent, and very nice for the eyes.
just curious,
Im.
My thought is that MS has a good dozen or so teams working on different parts of Longhorn (WinFS/Aero/Metro/etc) They just haven't put them all together, for example the WinFS team doesn't care about the UI, they're worried about their end. The released beta was about the new driver model or something (please correct me, I just skimmed the articles) so that team didn't give a damn about the UI, and unfortunately MS decided to release it without getting the new goodies from the UI team, so it looks like the same old windows. end of story.
I am just guessing on all of this, please feel free to correct me.
Im.
Alright, now I can rip my music and movies at the same time! take that!
Im.
This is one of my 'problems' with open source. Generally it feels like everything is a copy of windows/os x. (yes, I know there are a ton of projects underway, but nothing too mainstream) It's great we're getting transparency, fancy window effects etc, but really we're just copying os x, and a bit what longhorn will bring to the table.
We can code, no question, but what we need is a vision of what the computer is that goes one step ahead of os x/windows for people to take notice. Right now we are just sreaming 'me too' os x has nice transparency, me too! longhorn will have bland animations, me too! We need to get one step ahead, so that we can say, yeah os XI stole that from us, that's right, longhorn xp 2013 did copy that from us.
Im.
Yes, please attach some chrome, neon strobes, and some super loud fans, I want my computer to feel just like my chainsaw! I am a real man! hear me (and my computer) roar!
They get tax breaks on the bigger trucks as they count as a business expense (I believe anything over 5000 lb is a commercial vehicle, so you get the tax break, but technically you aren't allowed on residencial streets) So you get the nice big truck for the same price as the nice medium sized truck.
:)
More truck for the buck, how could you refuse! it's like super-sizing it
Uhmm, you do know that all this 'fast searching' was announced way back when WinFS was first announced, sorry no link for ya, but it was much much earlier than you ever heard about tigers, spotlights, or google desktop searching.
Yeah, they stole it from BeOS, but you don't hear anyone complaining about that do you. Mind you, how do you really call a 'logical next step' stealing. It's as if Henry Ford was complaining that some other car company decided to use round wheels instead of square slabs of rock.
Im.
Yeah you're a troll, but I'll bite.
Crap like this has been happening in the states for years, so it's not like the french are the first to do this. Who has the crazy patent law? takes it up the rear from big oil? and tobacco? and pharmaceuticals? France is not exactly at the peak of that list now is it.
I'm off to McD's for some freedom fries, I feel dirty now and have to repent my un-patriotic ways.
I can see it now...
Hey bob, those guys from CompanyB are overdue on their invoice can you clear things up with them... Sure thing boss.
Bob comes back an hour later with blood on his shirt and a new corvette in the parking lot.
Another example: Couterstrike style.
boss: Bob, you've been really lagging behind the other employees, what's up?
Bob: th053 hax0r5 ar3 u51ng B0t5!!! ch3at5!!
Why would you trust volunteers to produce an operating system?
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Why would you trust volunteers to produce a safe web-browser?
Why would you trust volunteers to distribute food to the homeless?
Why would you trust volunteers to collect donations on your behalf?
Why would you trust volunteers to... you get the idea
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I have posted this before, but this perception that you need to upgrade your video card every six months so you can play the latest and greatest is just pure bullsh*t! Yes new games com e out that can make use of feature X on some yet unreleased video card, but the game also works perfectly fine on most hardware out there.
I have a Geforce2 GTS (32 megs) and have been able to all the recent games (Far Cry, Doom3, Half-Life2 etc). Yeah the games look like crap compared to what they would look like on a Geforce6, but hey games on the ps2 look like crap compared to games on the x-box as well. If the game is good, the graphics are secondary. FYI, the Geforce2 came out in the summer of 2000 if I remember correctly, so that is a 2 year head start on the PS2 and it's able to play games that the PS2 couldn't even dream of playing (doom3).
I think it goes something like this...
ep. 2: I was just raped by George Lucas!?!?
ep. 1: I was just raped by George Lucas while Jar Jar gave me a blow-job?!?!
Hopefully for ep. 3 George will be only giving out reach-arounds.
One thing that keeps pisisng me off abou this debate is the fact that the reason to do nothing is cost. 'It will cost too much to reduce emmisions, save the wales, use electric, shower every morning' anything. Here's the thing, everything always costs too much, did people in the 1800's look at industrialization and say 'well golly imagine all the money it will take to build a factory and all that stuff' sure some did, but had we listened we would still be driving horse cariages. There have been quite a few stories that I have come across (sorry no links, I know I'm asking for trouble) that bring up the fact that when businesses/factories/individuals try to do something good for the environment (i.e. reduce greenhouse gasses, thereby using less energy) the efficience that is introduced pays for itself in a few years. i.e. re-using heat from one part of a factory in another part, introducing more efficient machinery etc. Why do we put insulation in our homes, why do we have double and tripple-paned glass, to us it is to save money in the long run by not running the furnace 24/7. Guess what this means, drummroll, less energy wasted, and you guessed it less greenhouse gasses produced. Why when this idea is applied to corporations it suddenly will cost too much?!? Yes, the scale is much larger, but so will be the savings.
for a second there I read that as Trump-power, and thought wow! that must be the best power supply... anywhere!
perhaps you have never heard of HDTV?