The other side of the pond (UK), i have 517kbps bitrate broadband with unlimited data transfer for £30 (about $40) per month. Well, I say unlimited, when I 'phoned tech support the other week about a logon problem, they were a bit concerned with the fact that I pushed 30Gb a month down my line, buy hey. Dude, you need to move over here - no laws regarding encryption, unlimited bandwidth, fit women.....
just out of interest, how do we compare on price?
I think that a lot of OEMs using AMD processors in the machines that they retail on the high street are making it fairly well known, through adverts and other bits of marketing, that AMDs give higher performance at lower clock speeds. I saw an ad in the local paper this morning explaining it as "using two hands to type quickly instead of using one hand very fast".
A lot of the simple - minded people that I talk to have some grasp of the idea that AMDs do more operations per clock cycle, if not totally understanding it. Either that or they are impressed by my new mobile XP2000+ box running RHL 8................. (sorry, had to brag about that one)
My school has recently installed a very interesting piece of censorware - not only does it block site containing certain banned words (eg pornography - so there goes ft.com (the financial timea website) when a few days ago they had the headline 'pornography is real business', but it also blocks any downloads of files that might contain viruses (so thats.xls,.doc and.zip), so there goes any hope I had of using the 'net as a research tool for my economics A-level! What makes this absolutely hilarious is that it's open source and can be countered by - now get this - double - clicking on the link that you are trying to access!!!
AutoPlay is more than a security hole, its more like an insecure cave where you could hide a whole army. But, for Mr J Average, who isn't concerned with such matters, being able to stick a CD or DVD in the drive and for it to run itself is very convenient, becuase it means he doesnt have to go anywhere near Windows Explorer or My Computer, where he has been told by the office geek that he can seriously screw over his PC.
Surely a biodegradable plastic that would be suitable for making DVD substrates out of wouldn't be that difficult, surely? I think starch - based biodegradable plastics are in use for carrier bags at the moment, and if the dye breaks down on contact with air, that only leaves the label to break down
I'm sure that Mr J Average wouldn't try to get round such a system, but would he be the type of person who would have either the equipment (DVD+R drives don't grow on trees, yet) or the attitude to attempt to copy it?
The other problem that it might run up against is office culture - very basic hacks, like turning off AutoPlay to get around copy - protect mechs, would become general knowledge fairly quickly, so negating the purpose of the.inf, and taking away the convenience of AutoPlay
As both a Windows and Linux user, i've always felt that there was no need to port software across the platforms. There is a way of doing things with windows (eg MSIE) and a way of doing it in Linux (eg Konqueror). I have never wanted MSIE for Linux or Konqueror for MSWin.
As the two OSs are aimed at different groups of users, porting is unlikely to ever work - and nor will it be necessary.
I expect that it will reach an equilibrium, and that it will be faster than current sychronous processors. It might not be as fast as people expect, but they should be good!
Actually, if they could function in a truly multi-tasking way, they could be very efficient. It should be interesting, whatever happens!
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I just use an office chair with a slightly larger back than normal. It can be tweaked a bit (gas-lift, back height) but its fairly comfortable, and I have spent many a happy day coding away in it. The best bit is - it only cost me £50!
Even though different cicuits can run at different speeds, surely some operations require other operations to be able to proceed. Won't the system run at the speed of the slowest part, to a certain extent?
Yes, freedom IS WalMart not buying controversial material, and freedom IS you choosing to shop there because of that. However, freedom IS also me being able to get hold of that controversial material if I want to, and you not stopping me.
Freedom IS also our right to say to WalMart that we want them to stock such material, and it IS also our right to feel that WalMart SHOULD stock such material because they are almost single-handedly killing our small music stores.
Surely it is up to the Chinese government to decide what it wants to let its people access, and for the Chinese people to decide what they want to access? The Internet by its very nature knows no bounds, and so cannot be controlled by any Prime Directive, so instead of investing in an expensive filter in an attempt to block access from China, why doesn't Yahoo put the money into projects that reinforce what the internet was designed to do - get information into the hands of anybody who wants it?
I have to disagree with one of your points - a)I would say that there are a lot more undesirable sites than there are desirable sites. Think of how many warez/pr0n/crack/capitalist sites there are compared to the number of communist/anti-capitalist sites there are.
And if the Chinese government comes up with an effective spam blocker, the world will jump with joy, and the chinese make a whole load of dosh selling it off at £10 copy. Wouldn't you like a decent spam blocker than can distinguish between spam and chopped pork?
"Most of the kinds of crap-hardware unsupported by Linux are the 'brite shiney' things we don't NEED support for"
Not all hardware that is not supported by linux is crap - things like Alcatel ADSL modems for example....
True, there are kernel-based solutions available, but not by Alcatel. My point is that a lot of decent hardware isnt supported by Linux, and you have to go search for ways to make it work. That is one factor that keeps it out of the mainstream markets. Whether that is good or not is another matter.
Actually, I happen to live in the EU as well - in a little-known country called England. I work in a garden centre, and at least half of the transactions that I carry out are on credit cards. People use them for buying everything from a can of Coke to a very expensive BBQ.
So, before you talk for the whole of the EU, think about England, and I also think that you are completely wrong about our attitudes to credit cards.
Debit cards (bankcards) are also common over here, in exactly the same way as credit cards.
I'm usually against copyright and patents, because I hate paying £15 for a CD, or not being able to get hold of some really great invention because the inventor can't afford to develop his ideas into a viable product.
But then I think about the band I manage - how would I feel if people didn't pay us at all for our music? Absolutely shit is the answer - we put in so much time and money it really hurts when someone doesnt pay us for the privelige of listening to our music.
I really wouldn't mind paying a few pence to aquire each track that I download using Kazaa, but I don't have the choice - I either have to download it or pay way to much for it. What am I supposed to do? I like what Bjorn Lynne (the Worms soundtrack guy) has done recently - he posted an album on , Javamusic.com and then asks that, if you like it, you pay him $5 for it via PayPal. I don't mind doing that - because its not compulsary, and it keeps the artist fed, clothed and housed. Even if it were compulsary, its a fair price for good music.
Overall, I guess copyright is a good idea, but it is open to the abuse that it suffers at the moment. The music industry can benefit from people trying before they buy (remeber how well Sony did when Napster became popular?) and I think that most people would be willing to pay for their music, but pay a lot less than they do.
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The other side of the pond (UK), i have 517kbps bitrate broadband with unlimited data transfer for £30 (about $40) per month. Well, I say unlimited, when I 'phoned tech support the other week about a logon problem, they were a bit concerned with the fact that I pushed 30Gb a month down my line, buy hey. Dude, you need to move over here - no laws regarding encryption, unlimited bandwidth, fit women..... just out of interest, how do we compare on price?
I think that a lot of OEMs using AMD processors in the machines that they retail on the high street are making it fairly well known, through adverts and other bits of marketing, that AMDs give higher performance at lower clock speeds. I saw an ad in the local paper this morning explaining it as "using two hands to type quickly instead of using one hand very fast". A lot of the simple - minded people that I talk to have some grasp of the idea that AMDs do more operations per clock cycle, if not totally understanding it. Either that or they are impressed by my new mobile XP2000+ box running RHL 8................. (sorry, had to brag about that one)
you could try putting win2k on that system, but given that it brought my Athlon 650 (t-bird II) to its knees, i doubt you would have much success
My school has recently installed a very interesting piece of censorware - not only does it block site containing certain banned words (eg pornography - so there goes ft.com (the financial timea website) when a few days ago they had the headline 'pornography is real business', but it also blocks any downloads of files that might contain viruses (so thats .xls, .doc and .zip), so there goes any hope I had of using the 'net as a research tool for my economics A-level! What makes this absolutely hilarious is that it's open source and can be countered by - now get this - double - clicking on the link that you are trying to access!!!
People realised that a long time ago, and so they created Techincal Support departments
AutoPlay is more than a security hole, its more like an insecure cave where you could hide a whole army. But, for Mr J Average, who isn't concerned with such matters, being able to stick a CD or DVD in the drive and for it to run itself is very convenient, becuase it means he doesnt have to go anywhere near Windows Explorer or My Computer, where he has been told by the office geek that he can seriously screw over his PC.
Not your average human, your stereotypical American.........
And how do we get a movie format that involves no physical matter? let me think for a bit........ Oh yes, P2P and an ADSL line.......
Surely a biodegradable plastic that would be suitable for making DVD substrates out of wouldn't be that difficult, surely? I think starch - based biodegradable plastics are in use for carrier bags at the moment, and if the dye breaks down on contact with air, that only leaves the label to break down
I'm sure that Mr J Average wouldn't try to get round such a system, but would he be the type of person who would have either the equipment (DVD+R drives don't grow on trees, yet) or the attitude to attempt to copy it? The other problem that it might run up against is office culture - very basic hacks, like turning off AutoPlay to get around copy - protect mechs, would become general knowledge fairly quickly, so negating the purpose of the .inf, and taking away the convenience of AutoPlay
now that is ironic! a post about crap moderation being modded to 0, OT
As both a Windows and Linux user, i've always felt that there was no need to port software across the platforms. There is a way of doing things with windows (eg MSIE) and a way of doing it in Linux (eg Konqueror). I have never wanted MSIE for Linux or Konqueror for MSWin. As the two OSs are aimed at different groups of users, porting is unlikely to ever work - and nor will it be necessary.
I expect that it will reach an equilibrium, and that it will be faster than current sychronous processors. It might not be as fast as people expect, but they should be good! Actually, if they could function in a truly multi-tasking way, they could be very efficient. It should be interesting, whatever happens!
I just use an office chair with a slightly larger back than normal. It can be tweaked a bit (gas-lift, back height) but its fairly comfortable, and I have spent many a happy day coding away in it. The best bit is - it only cost me £50!
Even though different cicuits can run at different speeds, surely some operations require other operations to be able to proceed. Won't the system run at the speed of the slowest part, to a certain extent?
Yes, freedom IS WalMart not buying controversial material, and freedom IS you choosing to shop there because of that. However, freedom IS also me being able to get hold of that controversial material if I want to, and you not stopping me. Freedom IS also our right to say to WalMart that we want them to stock such material, and it IS also our right to feel that WalMart SHOULD stock such material because they are almost single-handedly killing our small music stores.
Surely it is up to the Chinese government to decide what it wants to let its people access, and for the Chinese people to decide what they want to access? The Internet by its very nature knows no bounds, and so cannot be controlled by any Prime Directive, so instead of investing in an expensive filter in an attempt to block access from China, why doesn't Yahoo put the money into projects that reinforce what the internet was designed to do - get information into the hands of anybody who wants it?
If America is so great, why is it targetted so often by terrorists?
I have to disagree with one of your points - a)I would say that there are a lot more undesirable sites than there are desirable sites. Think of how many warez/pr0n/crack/capitalist sites there are compared to the number of communist/anti-capitalist sites there are.
And if the Chinese government comes up with an effective spam blocker, the world will jump with joy, and the chinese make a whole load of dosh selling it off at £10 copy. Wouldn't you like a decent spam blocker than can distinguish between spam and chopped pork?
Yeah, I think most people presume that anyone who uses Linux is a technical genius. I finally found a kernel-based solution for my USB modem.
"Most of the kinds of crap-hardware unsupported by Linux are the 'brite shiney' things we don't NEED support for" Not all hardware that is not supported by linux is crap - things like Alcatel ADSL modems for example.... True, there are kernel-based solutions available, but not by Alcatel. My point is that a lot of decent hardware isnt supported by Linux, and you have to go search for ways to make it work. That is one factor that keeps it out of the mainstream markets. Whether that is good or not is another matter.
Actually, I happen to live in the EU as well - in a little-known country called England. I work in a garden centre, and at least half of the transactions that I carry out are on credit cards. People use them for buying everything from a can of Coke to a very expensive BBQ. So, before you talk for the whole of the EU, think about England, and I also think that you are completely wrong about our attitudes to credit cards. Debit cards (bankcards) are also common over here, in exactly the same way as credit cards.
I'm usually against copyright and patents, because I hate paying £15 for a CD, or not being able to get hold of some really great invention because the inventor can't afford to develop his ideas into a viable product. But then I think about the band I manage - how would I feel if people didn't pay us at all for our music? Absolutely shit is the answer - we put in so much time and money it really hurts when someone doesnt pay us for the privelige of listening to our music. I really wouldn't mind paying a few pence to aquire each track that I download using Kazaa, but I don't have the choice - I either have to download it or pay way to much for it. What am I supposed to do? I like what Bjorn Lynne (the Worms soundtrack guy) has done recently - he posted an album on , Javamusic.com and then asks that, if you like it, you pay him $5 for it via PayPal. I don't mind doing that - because its not compulsary, and it keeps the artist fed, clothed and housed. Even if it were compulsary, its a fair price for good music. Overall, I guess copyright is a good idea, but it is open to the abuse that it suffers at the moment. The music industry can benefit from people trying before they buy (remeber how well Sony did when Napster became popular?) and I think that most people would be willing to pay for their music, but pay a lot less than they do.
How exactly do you mathematically prove that something is unbreakable? Surely something is unbreakable until a method is found to break it?