At least you got that far, in chrome on the mac it completely hard locked my machine. And again after a fresh restart. HTML5 demos, now fucking your machine harder than flash.
If the liberals/nationals coalition gets in, we are all kinds of fucked (they have become the religious extreme with their preferences going straight to the Christian Democratic Party and Family First after themselves) If labor gets in again - we get the only visionary policy any of the politicians have to offer - the National Broadband Network, but they saddle it with filtering, censorship and the lack of an R+18 classification for games. So the only decent vote left is the Australian Sex Party - which is a civil libertarian group who are anti-censorship, pro same sex marriage and also want to remove the tax exempt status for religious organisations.
Next election we will hopefully have the Australian Pirate party fully formed to be able to run a candidate.
This election is really a case of trying to pick a candidate that is the least awful. Ugh
Because all internet connections need a person at the other end ?
Those data centres with redundant suppliers going into the buildings (not to mention aggregated multiple connections for throughput) through to those remote security cameras and kiosks etc - they all use internet connections and have nothing to do with our population density.
Except that they aren't patent trolls - they are the Australian Government's science organisation - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), they have been in this battle for quite a while.
Lets see, anyone who was on the shady side of things now has a safe and secure way of knowing when all people have left a building that they might want to 'have a look through'. They also now have a way of assessing what might go in or out of a house (ahh tommo has a bmw parked in his garage today) and now have a way to monitor for police or other witnesses coming along that might interfer with what they are doing. They also know now exactly what is covered and not covered by the CCTV's and can assess many ways to disable them.
It's like handing the enemy the feeds from your spy sats - incredibly retarded.
Actually thats only part of it - read their 10k filings sometime:
The Company is committed to bringing the best personal computing and music experience to students,
educators, creative professionals, businesses, government agencies, and consumers through its innovative
hardware, software, peripherals, services, and Internet offerings.
To the OP - your choice to choose your own hardware and your own operating system invariably reduces the choices that are available to you. Apple does not give you that choice, just as someone who firmly chooses to only use free software also will not be able to choose a proprietary system.
So some of the biggest groups in OSS development seem to think that it might be a good idea to have an implementation of the CLI for other operating systems (Linux, OSX, Windows, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD) and architectures (x86, PowerPC, ARM, Sparc, PARISC, s390, Alpha, and IA-64 to name a few).
What you have to keep in mind is that the CLI (the virtual machine in a sense) is an ISO standard (Java still isnt). The API's such as the System.* namespaces are still in a murky area and they may still be controlled vigorously through MS legal. But that doesnt stop any developer from using API's developed independantly - ie gtk#/Wx.NET for cross platform gui across the above mentioned platforms (still in development.. but it will get there soon).
How about your political puppets going on national TV in AUSTRALIA to give support to howard (another puppet) during the run up to an election.
The double standards and hypocrisy and outright lieing is what makes even your ALLIES despise the american political system and its representatives.
STOP PISSING IN EVERYONE ELSES CEREAL AND THE WORLD WILL STOP TRYING TO BLOW YOUR SORRY ASSES UP
You take the resources of other nations, you harbour dictators and terrorists, you set the fucking terrorists up in the first place with guns and technology and money and you wonder why people are getting just a little FUCKING PISSED OFF with you guys.
Your damn right we want to vote - cause your stupidity and arrogance is not paid for by americans - its paid for by other people who you will never meet - and probably never can meet cause you killed them.
ahh right.. because having to code it once and have it run on all platforms wouldnt save them money ?? nor open it up to other previously inaccessable operating systems ??
Sorry.. but the idea of citizens owning guns in case of a corrupt or opressive state is amusing at best to us foreigners..
A $400 billion per year army against a couple of fruitcakes with some assault rifles... I mean really what are you going to do ?? stop a tank round with your kevlar vest ?? Flap your arms fast enough and you might just be able to keep up with the jet fighters...
I dont agree that guns cause violence but i honestly dont believe there is a single good reason to have guns lying around so that people with less than ideal levels of self control dont get too carried away.
This is another case of where techies do not think about things from the customers point of view. Of course most slashdotters will want their ports open - the customers on the other hand dont know what a firewall is, what the implications of their ports are etc - quite frankly they shouldnt need to.
Filter by default - if you need your ports or you want to do your own firewalling then get the "advanced user" account that costs less but requires more responsibility from the user.
If anything this is just an opportunity for ISP's to make another value added service to sell.
Also there is plenty of proof that US and Australian naval forces are enforcing an illegal (according to the UN) blockade on iraq that prevents first aid supples getting through.
Net result of this blockade: - 6000 dead iraqi children EVERY MONTH. - nil affect on saddam. - makes certain large populations of people incredibly angry towards certain western countries.
Furthermore, the US (through the school of the americas - now called Fort Benning in georgia) has produced more 'terrorists' than any other nation on earth.
As an australian, i despise my government, i despise the american goverment, and i despise the utter lack of integrity in todays journalists.
But dont take my word for it:
http://pilger.carlton.com/
especially this article: http://pilger.carlton.com/print/111624
WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK ABOUT HOW MODULAR WINDOWS XP/NT IS !!!!!!
will it allow OEM's to include multiple OS's on the bootloader without fear of recrimination from MS ?? NO (rip BeOS)
will it allow third party developers to openly interact with MS systems/formats/protocols - without resorting to reverse engineering which is now illegal (DMCA) ?? NO
will it stop MS from embracing and extending open standards and protocols and hence locking out competitors ?? NO
MS is brilliant - they are kicking up a huge fuss over something that at the end of the day doesnt impede their monopolistic practices/status much at all. The choice at the end of the day will still be MS + XYZ modules or MS + ABC modules - ITS STILL WINDOWS!!!!!!
Im sorry, but i have been using macromedia products for well over 5 years (Since director 4 came out). Not once have i received unsolicited e-mail from them unless i was stupid enough to leave the 'Send me The Edge newsletter' checkbox checked when you register with macromedia - this is not uncommon to many software sites.
If people dont read what they are submitting then its PURELY their fault that they receive that mail.
Furthermore, the macromedia technotes are invaluable to developers. If i was ever blocked from the information that i needed to get my job done - i would be one EXTREMELY PISSED OFF dev. Especially in this case were i am highly suspicious of the reasons for the blocking (ie was it some dumbass user who didnt notice the checkbox, who then complained to the ISP that it was unwanted mail ??).
Governments, corporations or any other centrally controlled body really dont have any chance to control the content of the net, technically, politically etc.
Is there already a 'standard' for website classifications ?? If so why isnt it in the dev tools that we use ? Im quite sure that the majority of website developers would be quite happy to put a classification on their site. Even pr0n sites often have a cover page that states they are all for protecting access to their sites - im sure they would self-rate their sites appropriately. The browsers just have to read the classification of the site, check it against the allowed level and load or deny as appropriate.
The remaining problem if incorrect self-classifications is a LOT smaller than attempting to classify every site.
>>Not to us Americans! I think Americans would be surprised to hear what the rest of the world thinks about free speech.
When free speech devolves to the point where you can utter anything whether it is correct, thought out or not then it becomes meaningless. The true value of freedom of speech is probably lost on most people of western civilisation as they have never really had it truly threatened as in if you utter XYZ and are discovered, you will be killed - which does still happen in other countries.
>> "In Canada, we respect freedom of speech, but do not worship it"
This actually sounds intelligent: freedom of speech is not the right to mouth off any trash on the airwaves, it is the right to put forward a point of view without being persecuted for it.
>>I've been following the Canada for a while now because as a born-again Christian they are scaring the heck out of me.... Their government is trying to revoke the rights of Christian universities that teach beliefs which are against what they government wants people to believe.
The problem is people who force their beliefs on other people through the law.
<<
No thats not the scariest problem. The scariest problem is when kids are educated into a way of thinking without them having a choice. Before the kids have had a chance to develop a critical mind, they have been effectively forced to believe something that isnt necessarily true - purely because they dont know any better. Christianity, and most other religions arent bad themselves - its when a religion tries to impose itself on others, thats when it becomes wrong: Why is it that religions feel the need to go around preaching to others to get them to join ?? If your religion was so "right" and "great" wouldnt people be interested in joining of their own volition ?? How many other religions did you check out before becoming a christian again ??
Its a case of using the right tools for the right job.
Groove - excellent collaboration tool for students to work together and for workshops (but still in beta) http://www.groove.net
Rotor - interactive video streaming, good for quizzes, questionairres and presenting. The next version will support flash media as the presentation material (instead of jpegs)http://www.realnet.net.au
Oracle iLearning - course administration replacement - it allows the students to select which courses they take and at what pace, while still enforcing requisites etc. http://ilearning.oracle.com/
All of these technologies (and others) have their place in online learning. Quite frankly, the places that JUST video tape a lecturer talking and then stream it to the web have got it completely wrong. It really doesnt add much to the learning experience and still has problems of people understanding the lecturer (either due to quality of audio/video, or of language barriers, or hearing impairments.) Lecturers should be there for guiding students in the right direction and perhaps fielding questions and making clarifications.
Why have the input devices coupled with the CPU ?? With bluetooth coming around it would seem to be perfect for having a blackbox CPU say the size of a walkman, and let the mic, speakers, keyboards, use bluetooth to communicate to it.
Walkmans didnt require you to put the tape playback mechanism near your head to hear the music. This would make it possible to do more convergence (MP3, mobile computing, mobile telephony) without the cumbersome CPU being tied to the input devices.
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Right, better watch out for that zOMG expensive gold plated Apple cable - retailing for a whole fucking arm and leg price of $4.04
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=108&cp_id=10831&cs_id=1083101&p_id=7863&seq=1&format=2
At least you got that far, in chrome on the mac it completely hard locked my machine. And again after a fresh restart. HTML5 demos, now fucking your machine harder than flash.
Basically:
If the liberals/nationals coalition gets in, we are all kinds of fucked (they have become the religious extreme with their preferences going straight to the Christian Democratic Party and Family First after themselves)
If labor gets in again - we get the only visionary policy any of the politicians have to offer - the National Broadband Network, but they saddle it with filtering, censorship and the lack of an R+18 classification for games.
So the only decent vote left is the Australian Sex Party - which is a civil libertarian group who are anti-censorship, pro same sex marriage and also want to remove the tax exempt status for religious organisations.
Next election we will hopefully have the Australian Pirate party fully formed to be able to run a candidate.
This election is really a case of trying to pick a candidate that is the least awful.
Ugh
I guess startcom are part of the 22 million mismatched SSL servers.... https://www.startcom.com/?app=12
Not exactly confidence inspiring now is it ?
Because all internet connections need a person at the other end ?
Those data centres with redundant suppliers going into the buildings (not to mention aggregated multiple connections for throughput) through to those remote security cameras and kiosks etc - they all use internet connections and have nothing to do with our population density.
Except that they aren't patent trolls - they are the Australian Government's science organisation - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), they have been in this battle for quite a while.
Read up on the WLAN stuff here http://www.csiro.gov.au/science/wireless-LANs.html
Then get back to us when you think that inventing wireless networking technology is easy and doesn't warrant the possibility of being patented.
their CEO, Messrs Steve Ballmer
Lets see, anyone who was on the shady side of things now has a safe and secure way of knowing when all people have left a building that they might want to 'have a look through'. They also now have a way of assessing what might go in or out of a house (ahh tommo has a bmw parked in his garage today) and now have a way to monitor for police or other witnesses coming along that might interfer with what they are doing. They also know now exactly what is covered and not covered by the CCTV's and can assess many ways to disable them.
It's like handing the enemy the feeds from your spy sats - incredibly retarded.
... or maybe not:
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Microsoft dont need to port it.
Mono
Portable.NET
DotGnu
So some of the biggest groups in OSS development seem to think that it might be a good idea to have an implementation of the CLI for other operating systems (Linux, OSX, Windows, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD) and architectures (x86, PowerPC, ARM, Sparc, PARISC, s390, Alpha, and IA-64 to name a few).
What you have to keep in mind is that the CLI (the virtual machine in a sense) is an ISO standard (Java still isnt). The API's such as the System.* namespaces are still in a murky area and they may still be controlled vigorously through MS legal. But that doesnt stop any developer from using API's developed independantly - ie gtk#/Wx.NET for cross platform gui across the above mentioned platforms (still in development.. but it will get there soon).
UGH
How about your political puppets going on national TV in AUSTRALIA to give support to howard (another puppet) during the run up to an election.
The double standards and hypocrisy and outright lieing is what makes even your ALLIES despise the american political system and its representatives.
STOP PISSING IN EVERYONE ELSES CEREAL AND THE WORLD WILL STOP TRYING TO BLOW YOUR SORRY ASSES UP
You take the resources of other nations, you harbour dictators and terrorists, you set the fucking terrorists up in the first place with guns and technology and money and you wonder why people are getting just a little FUCKING PISSED OFF with you guys.
Your damn right we want to vote - cause your stupidity and arrogance is not paid for by americans - its paid for by other people who you will never meet - and probably never can meet cause you killed them.
ahh right.. because having to code it once and have it run on all platforms wouldnt save them money ?? nor open it up to other previously inaccessable operating systems ??
Sorry.. but the idea of citizens owning guns in case of a corrupt or opressive state is amusing at best to us foreigners..
A $400 billion per year army against a couple of fruitcakes with some assault rifles... I mean really what are you going to do ?? stop a tank round with your kevlar vest ?? Flap your arms fast enough and you might just be able to keep up with the jet fighters...
I dont agree that guns cause violence but i honestly dont believe there is a single good reason to have guns lying around so that people with less than ideal levels of self control dont get too carried away.
Safety does also include making it easy and intuitive for people to use it so that they can operate it safely..
This is another case of where techies do not think about things from the customers point of view. Of course most slashdotters will want their ports open - the customers on the other hand dont know what a firewall is, what the implications of their ports are etc - quite frankly they shouldnt need to.
Filter by default - if you need your ports or you want to do your own firewalling then get the "advanced user" account that costs less but requires more responsibility from the user.
If anything this is just an opportunity for ISP's to make another value added service to sell.
ergh - i keep hearing this argument about people will always want to OWN the cd, they MUST have a physical copy of it - WTF!?!
CD's scratch.
CD's get lost.
CD's are really useless when your in one city and your CD is in another city.
give me net connected storage space any day.
Actually its not 800, try about 5000...
Also there is plenty of proof that US and Australian naval forces are enforcing an illegal (according to the UN) blockade on iraq that prevents first aid supples getting through.
Net result of this blockade:
- 6000 dead iraqi children EVERY MONTH.
- nil affect on saddam.
- makes certain large populations of people incredibly angry towards certain western countries.
Furthermore, the US (through the school of the americas - now called Fort Benning in georgia) has produced more 'terrorists' than any other nation on earth.
As an australian, i despise my government, i despise the american goverment, and i despise the utter lack of integrity in todays journalists.
But dont take my word for it:
http://pilger.carlton.com/
especially this article:
http://pilger.carlton.com/print/111624
WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK ABOUT HOW MODULAR WINDOWS XP/NT IS !!!!!!
will it allow OEM's to include multiple OS's on the bootloader without fear of recrimination from MS ?? NO (rip BeOS)
will it allow third party developers to openly interact with MS systems/formats/protocols - without resorting to reverse engineering which is now illegal (DMCA) ?? NO
will it stop MS from embracing and extending open standards and protocols and hence locking out competitors ?? NO
MS is brilliant - they are kicking up a huge fuss over something that at the end of the day doesnt impede their monopolistic practices/status much at all. The choice at the end of the day will still be MS + XYZ modules or MS + ABC modules - ITS STILL WINDOWS!!!!!!
Im sorry, but i have been using macromedia products for well over 5 years (Since director 4 came out). Not once have i received unsolicited e-mail from them unless i was stupid enough to leave the 'Send me The Edge newsletter' checkbox checked when you register with macromedia - this is not uncommon to many software sites.
If people dont read what they are submitting then its PURELY their fault that they receive that mail.
Furthermore, the macromedia technotes are invaluable to developers. If i was ever blocked from the information that i needed to get my job done - i would be one EXTREMELY PISSED OFF dev. Especially in this case were i am highly suspicious of the reasons for the blocking (ie was it some dumbass user who didnt notice the checkbox, who then complained to the ISP that it was unwanted mail ??).
Governments, corporations or any other centrally controlled body really dont have any chance to control the content of the net, technically, politically etc.
Is there already a 'standard' for website classifications ?? If so why isnt it in the dev tools that we use ? Im quite sure that the majority of website developers would be quite happy to put a classification on their site. Even pr0n sites often have a cover page that states they are all for protecting access to their sites - im sure they would self-rate their sites appropriately. The browsers just have to read the classification of the site, check it against the allowed level and load or deny as appropriate.
The remaining problem if incorrect self-classifications is a LOT smaller than attempting to classify every site.
>>Not to us Americans! I think Americans would be surprised to hear what the rest of the world thinks about free speech.
When free speech devolves to the point where you can utter anything whether it is correct, thought out or not then it becomes meaningless. The true value of freedom of speech is probably lost on most people of western civilisation as they have never really had it truly threatened as in if you utter XYZ and are discovered, you will be killed - which does still happen in other countries.
>> "In Canada, we respect freedom of speech, but do not worship it"
This actually sounds intelligent: freedom of speech is not the right to mouth off any trash on the airwaves, it is the right to put forward a point of view without being persecuted for it.
>>I've been following the Canada for a while now because as a born-again Christian they are scaring the heck out of me.... Their government is trying to revoke the rights of Christian universities that teach beliefs which are against what they government wants people to believe.
The problem is people who force their beliefs on other people through the law.
<<
No thats not the scariest problem. The scariest problem is when kids are educated into a way of thinking without them having a choice. Before the kids have had a chance to develop a critical mind, they have been effectively forced to believe something that isnt necessarily true - purely because they dont know any better. Christianity, and most other religions arent bad themselves - its when a religion tries to impose itself on others, thats when it becomes wrong: Why is it that religions feel the need to go around preaching to others to get them to join ?? If your religion was so "right" and "great" wouldnt people be interested in joining of their own volition ?? How many other religions did you check out before becoming a christian again ??
Its a case of using the right tools for the right job.
Groove - excellent collaboration tool for students to work together and for workshops (but still in beta) http://www.groove.net
Rotor - interactive video streaming, good for quizzes, questionairres and presenting. The next version will support flash media as the presentation material (instead of jpegs)http://www.realnet.net.au
Oracle iLearning - course administration replacement - it allows the students to select which courses they take and at what pace, while still enforcing requisites etc. http://ilearning.oracle.com/
All of these technologies (and others) have their place in online learning. Quite frankly, the places that JUST video tape a lecturer talking and then stream it to the web have got it completely wrong. It really doesnt add much to the learning experience and still has problems of people understanding the lecturer (either due to quality of audio/video, or of language barriers, or hearing impairments.) Lecturers should be there for guiding students in the right direction and perhaps fielding questions and making clarifications.
my 2 cents
Why have the input devices coupled with the CPU ?? With bluetooth coming around it would seem to be perfect for having a blackbox CPU say the size of a walkman, and let the mic, speakers, keyboards, use bluetooth to communicate to it.
Walkmans didnt require you to put the tape playback mechanism near your head to hear the music. This would make it possible to do more convergence (MP3, mobile computing, mobile telephony) without the cumbersome CPU being tied to the input devices.