Just don't get caught up in a common mistake: Believe and read what you WANT to hear, discount and flame what you DON'T want to hear. You liberals say it is stupid that the Bush administration critisizes others for not agreeing (supposedly calling it un-patriotic). Don't get caught in the same trap!!!
DUUUH-
The antenna out is for simple pass-through, just like VCR's and most TV's have so you can use several devices on the same antenna or cable without using a splitter. How long has this guy been doing A/V stuff??
OTOH, I have noticed MANY websites such as my ISP's web site, Charter.net, that cater ONLY towards IE. Perhaps the deveopers are stupid (more likely their managers are the dumb ones), but about 1 in 15 important websites I go to I have to use IE to use all the funtions.
Drunk driving is (and has been for a while) one the great problems of our society. Will this help the bars track the heavy drinkers, perhaps so they can call a cab for the drunk?
OTOH, what frickin' business is it of theirs to know where I've been? It's only someone else's business if I endanger someone else, dangit!
It is critical that taxpayers receive the best quality programs at the least cost.
Their other point is correct as well:
Under the state's proposed "Freeware Initiative," there would be no exceptions to the rule permitting only open source/Linux software.
While it's good to ALLOW or to PROMOTE open-source, I do not belive in the adoption of open-source by force. It's when we force people to do things that we run in to trouble. I believe in free-enterprise, the system that our nation is founded on. Massachusetts has in fact reverted to a state-sponsored monopoly on software. However, since it's LINUX, everyone on Slashdot seems to think it's ok. Why not just enact a law like Oregon, where they force the CONSIDERATION of linux. Thus, if Windoze happens to work better for a specific application, use it. If Linux or Novell or Irix work better, use them. That's true innovation and free-enterprise.
On the other hand, the article asserts that:
Maintenance, training and support are far more expensive with open source than proprietary software.
Without giving any reference to studies or data. This is evidence that the article is in part an OPINION piece and thus the entire article should be taken(read) with a grain of salt, so to speak.
First of all, I don't make 24/7 phone calls from my house, and I don't use 100% bandwidth all the time. If they were to truely charge for bandwidth, the more I used the DSL, the more expensive it would be, like making long-distance calls.
The only difference is that with my phone line I could make 24/7 LOCAL calls and not be charged squat. Perhaps that would apply to bandwidth used to connect to servers within the network?
"What will the success/failure of VoIP on this scale have on telecom?"
Um, doesn't the telecom industry own much of the data backbone as well? When they quit making money from local service, they start making money on bandwidth.
Some sort of universal agreement will have to be made with ISP's about badwidth usage so that 1) users can use VoIP all they want without bandwidth caps, and 2) Telecom companies have margin for profit.
Perhaps per GB unmetered home access at resonable per GB rates?
Um, yeah, that's a pretty messed up system! Imagine that, we reward the people who have been SUCESSFUL businessmen, instead of HANDING things to the loosers in our world, we reward hard work. Man, that sucks!
sheesh
I also use SpamBayes, filters like this are THE way to go. No extra traffic generated from all the notifications heading out, just a few weeks of learning and all works well. If EVERYONE used it, only the people who wanted a penis enlargement would actually recieve the email. hooray!
While I disagree with the RIAA's heavy-handed legal tactics of court orders and such, they are TECHNICALLY on the right side of the law here.
I love p2p, and thankfully it has been upheld to be legal (like tapes were at one time). I think it's BETTER to have the RIAA going after those who are stealing songs because it doesn't destroy the good uses of p2p in the process. However, I think that if we removed all the illigit users of p2p, there wouldn't be much left.
Anybody know some legitimate downloads I can search for on Kazaa?
I completely agree. We live in a world today where accountability is going down the drain. Everybody wants to blame everyone else for their problems. Parents blame their kids' violent streaks on video games, not on the fact that they never pay attention to their kids and they fight all the time. Parents blame the schools for kids' bad manners etc. etc. when that is really the parent's responsibility. It has been for the past, oh, 5000 years, why should it change now?
Anyway, back to Kazaa. While I don't like the RIAA for their bull-headedness and their refusal to be enlighted by what the statistics show them about file-sharing (namely that people want to be able to by songs individually) they are LEGALLY correct here. The kids are the PARENTS responsibily until they are 18. Period. If the kids are doing something illegal and the parents don't care enough about the kids to notice or to investigate such things, then they deserve what is coming.
I know a small percentage of musicians are pro-RIAA, we have seen their disgraceful support. How many of the other musicians really know what's happening? Do they agree, but don't want to risk the PR nightmare of saying it out loud, or are they completely unaware of the war that is being fought?
What we need is some prominent artist(s) to come out and openly defy the RIAA, someone with enough oomph in the industry that the RIAA couldn't squash them. Who might be willing?
Inudstry has used lab-created diamonds for years, they have been commercially produced since the sixties. Ever wonder where the diamonds for all those diamond cutting wheels come from?
Anyway, the new thing here is the research in to improving current manufacturing techniques so that a) the diamond can be produced cheaply and b) they can be created in a form that is usable for chips, like the silicon wafer.
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Just don't get caught up in a common mistake: Believe and read what you WANT to hear, discount and flame what you DON'T want to hear. You liberals say it is stupid that the Bush administration critisizes others for not agreeing (supposedly calling it un-patriotic). Don't get caught in the same trap!!!
I'd like to see a Beowulf cluster of those!!
first post!!
Why can't it record off of cable? Does cable use different frequencies for the same channels or something? I thought they were the same...
DUUUH- The antenna out is for simple pass-through, just like VCR's and most TV's have so you can use several devices on the same antenna or cable without using a splitter. How long has this guy been doing A/V stuff??
I hate to be the one to break your bubble, but Firefox has a google search box built-in. Don't even need a plug-in!
OTOH, I have noticed MANY websites such as my ISP's web site, Charter.net, that cater ONLY towards IE. Perhaps the deveopers are stupid (more likely their managers are the dumb ones), but about 1 in 15 important websites I go to I have to use IE to use all the funtions.
Riiiight. We've been doin this how long in Mozilla now...?
We still use some OS/2 machines ar UPS, maily to control the scanners and for DIAD uploading/downloading. Sort of scared me the first time I saw it!
OTOH, what frickin' business is it of theirs to know where I've been? It's only someone else's business if I endanger someone else, dangit!
It is critical that taxpayers receive the best quality programs at the least cost.
Their other point is correct as well:
Under the state's proposed "Freeware Initiative," there would be no exceptions to the rule permitting only open source/Linux software.
While it's good to ALLOW or to PROMOTE open-source, I do not belive in the adoption of open-source by force. It's when we force people to do things that we run in to trouble. I believe in free-enterprise, the system that our nation is founded on. Massachusetts has in fact reverted to a state-sponsored monopoly on software. However, since it's LINUX, everyone on Slashdot seems to think it's ok. Why not just enact a law like Oregon, where they force the CONSIDERATION of linux. Thus, if Windoze happens to work better for a specific application, use it. If Linux or Novell or Irix work better, use them. That's true innovation and free-enterprise.
On the other hand, the article asserts that:
Maintenance, training and support are far more expensive with open source than proprietary software.
Without giving any reference to studies or data. This is evidence that the article is in part an OPINION piece and thus the entire article should be taken(read) with a grain of salt, so to speak.
The only difference is that with my phone line I could make 24/7 LOCAL calls and not be charged squat. Perhaps that would apply to bandwidth used to connect to servers within the network?
Um, doesn't the telecom industry own much of the data backbone as well? When they quit making money from local service, they start making money on bandwidth.
Some sort of universal agreement will have to be made with ISP's about badwidth usage so that 1) users can use VoIP all they want without bandwidth caps, and 2) Telecom companies have margin for profit.
Perhaps per GB unmetered home access at resonable per GB rates?
Just my $.02
Um, yeah, that's a pretty messed up system! Imagine that, we reward the people who have been SUCESSFUL businessmen, instead of HANDING things to the loosers in our world, we reward hard work. Man, that sucks! sheesh
I also use SpamBayes, filters like this are THE way to go. No extra traffic generated from all the notifications heading out, just a few weeks of learning and all works well. If EVERYONE used it, only the people who wanted a penis enlargement would actually recieve the email. hooray!
While I disagree with the RIAA's heavy-handed legal tactics of court orders and such, they are TECHNICALLY on the right side of the law here. I love p2p, and thankfully it has been upheld to be legal (like tapes were at one time). I think it's BETTER to have the RIAA going after those who are stealing songs because it doesn't destroy the good uses of p2p in the process. However, I think that if we removed all the illigit users of p2p, there wouldn't be much left. Anybody know some legitimate downloads I can search for on Kazaa?
I completely agree. We live in a world today where accountability is going down the drain. Everybody wants to blame everyone else for their problems. Parents blame their kids' violent streaks on video games, not on the fact that they never pay attention to their kids and they fight all the time. Parents blame the schools for kids' bad manners etc. etc. when that is really the parent's responsibility. It has been for the past, oh, 5000 years, why should it change now?
Anyway, back to Kazaa. While I don't like the RIAA for their bull-headedness and their refusal to be enlighted by what the statistics show them about file-sharing (namely that people want to be able to by songs individually) they are LEGALLY correct here. The kids are the PARENTS responsibily until they are 18. Period. If the kids are doing something illegal and the parents don't care enough about the kids to notice or to investigate such things, then they deserve what is coming.
Go ahead, mod me down, sometimes the truth hurts.
I know a small percentage of musicians are pro-RIAA, we have seen their disgraceful support. How many of the other musicians really know what's happening? Do they agree, but don't want to risk the PR nightmare of saying it out loud, or are they completely unaware of the war that is being fought? What we need is some prominent artist(s) to come out and openly defy the RIAA, someone with enough oomph in the industry that the RIAA couldn't squash them. Who might be willing?
Inudstry has used lab-created diamonds for years, they have been commercially produced since the sixties. Ever wonder where the diamonds for all those diamond cutting wheels come from? Anyway, the new thing here is the research in to improving current manufacturing techniques so that a) the diamond can be produced cheaply and b) they can be created in a form that is usable for chips, like the silicon wafer.
Earthlink's AUP actually says
"Earthlink may terminate this account, password, or use of services FOR ANY REASON, including but not limited to..."
Guess I better not piss off one of their 'tech support' people!!
What provider is that, DSL-Only?