Sweden has a lot of trees too. What have we done to prevent outages you ask? We've cut down trees that are close enough to fall over powerlines and the last mile are in many cases buried to prevent damage from storms and lightning.
One would think they use p2p just as much in Japan, Korea, Europe and South America.
I know for a fact that p2p is used quite a lot in Europe and we aren't subject to these kinds of issues... So why is this even on the table? I believe the need to delivering record earning *every* single quarter is the problem.. Instead of building a network that doesn't saturate, you try to limit the networks overall use...
I wouldn't say that's true... Your coasts are densely populated, so you have the ability to give a huge portion of the population fiber, ethernet etc... Do even 10% of New York apartments have fiber-connection? Why not one might ask? My belief is that US companies do not invest in new technology in the same manner that some other countries do. The US (instead of competing) is using protectionism to keep industries competitive. Corn-syrup vs Sugar is an example... Heavy tariffs. Iron, Car-industry and Lumber are some of the industries that aren't doing so well (last time I checked) either...
And FYI, more than 50% of Sweden is not densely populated at all. Mostly pine forest... However, every time something is replaced, say new power lines, new sewage lines etc, fiber are also installed. The municipally, powercompany etc then rents them out. The extra cost is nearly null... Basically every small village now has fiber running to it's town's phone exchange, which in turn gives you the ability to at *least* have 8Mbpbs if not 24 Mbps ADSL2+... In Stockholm, when a apartment building is changing water pipes or putting in new electric wirings they also add ethernet in the house... The extra cost is small... You then call ISPs and say, "Hey, we are 50 apartments and we just need you to pull in a fiber to get us to sign upp...". Which is exactly what we did in our complex. I pay $41 for my 100/100 connection... You then have the ability to choose the ISP you want and change if they screw around... It works great!
Well... In a unregulated market (free market), there tends to be some consolidation... Which in turn turns into a monopoly. Which leads to Comcast, AT&T etc raping their customers. Choice is the best remedy. Having someone watching over the market and slapping them in the face when you try to either establish a monopoly or oligopoly. Actually I'd like the representatives of the people to actually stand up for us and not the corporations.
Well... Your wrong about natural resources in Africa...
The US and EU both want the aid they supply to be spent they way *they* see fit. The Chinese give the countries money and arms with no questions asked. And Africa seems to like "no questions asked" approach to "We will give you money only if you tell people to abstain from sex. Oh and condoms are bad." If I was a dictator in a corrupt country, I wonder which I would prefer...
"Granted, Final Cut Studio has become the standard when it comes to professional video editing, and Logic Studio is a great professional solution for editing audio"
Last time I checked Final Cut and Logic Studio hadn't become the standard. Avids products (and Digidesign owned by Avid) are the standard choice of the professionals. Why? Their product Unity for one, which allows for off site storage and just sitting down at any Avid at the office and grabbing your work. Final Cut is a very nice product, but it isn't ready for the prime time in a long shot.
Have similar situation in Sweden. I've got 100/100 from a switch in the basement (as do my neighbors). I have no problem with saturation and I pay 24 a month...
Of course there is a lot of truth in this... France did have a lot of presence in Iraq and made a bundle, but the *people* are pissed about something else. Saying that the world is pissed out of envy and money is just pure bs. There is the whole spectrum your carelessly choose to ignore. How about invading a sovereign country, killing thousands of civilians and generally destabilizing the middle east even more while doing some cowboy shit about terrorists are behind every stone and thus any measure is ok. Generally you have polarized the world as well, either your with us or your against us. Saddam was a dictator and we can't have that... All while supporting other countries who are run by dictatorship.
Of the top of my head:
Using capital punishment on your own citizens is a biggie.
Degrading taliban and terrorists to Enemy combatant and thus denying them the rights of the Geneva Convention. No trials either.
By doing this, imo you have let the terrorists destroy what you are trying to defend - freedom. And at the same time those who are whistleblowers get the sharp end of the stick for doing just that, ensuring that illegal stuff doesn't pass.
I'm from Sweden and there is a general resentment that just wasn't there during the Clinton era.
In Stockholm it's far more efficient in some cases to take the public transports (subway or busses), even ministers take the subway to work... There are a lot of gridlocks in Stockholm which don't face the buses who are on their own lane... There are a couple of "core" buss routes where a bus comes along every 2-4 minutes during peak hours and 5-6 of peak ours and 6-10 minutes during night.
The result? Taking the bus is far faster and you can work, read, etc while doing it...
Puh-lease!
Newly upgraded network?
At this point the US has a tendency to not continuously upgrade your infrastructure (from what I've seen this especially applies to industries. Steel and comes to mind aswell as environmental upgrades of industry).
Do they have backbones with at least 10Gbit? Or multi 10Gbit wavelengths? There are also a buckload of black fiber just sitting in the ground (which Google is buying from what I've heard).
Swedish universities are continuously upgraded to cope with demands... It just rolled out a new network which is actually *cheaper* than the old one... It isn't the usage, it's the "not upgrading" that is the problem for you. The technology is there... Your just not using it!
Our apartment block just bought Internet collectively which offers 100/100Mbit for each apartment and it's costing about 130SEK a month ($20). We are 118 apartments and have a fiber running to the operator. Healthy and working competition is a big part of it. The state putting fibers in ground.
As far as I'm concerned, having a limit is bad for business in the long run. It's very easy to upgrade networks, and the cost isn't prohibitive. If you were to buy a DSL-connection in Sweden it wouldn't be capped, unless you choose a connection that something like 128Kbit and inherently slow.. But not capped... Capped just wouldn't fly.
Actually the grand-parent is right. TPB is basically being prosecuted for aiding copyright infringement and what keeps an ordinary person from being charged for copyright infringement is that the police can't get the logs who tell them who the offender is - for the reason the grand-parent wrote...
Every time you talk rights with a US citizen they bash the Europeans for having no constitution which protects them... Well how does that do any good when the US government simply circumvents the constitution? Isn't it illegal, with the DMCA and all, to circumvent stuff?:-)
There is a difference between user friendly and being newbie friendly. Your point of windows is probably on target, however: Windows has a lot of good features, which are not implemented to x11. For one thing, what's up with automatically copying something you mark with the mouse? Maybe I wanted to remove that text, not copy it? "Sorry, that's X11 - the window manager can't do diddle squat about that", is the response I've gotten so far. Oh, and ctrl+c/v, which is supported in some applications don't share the clipboard with the mouse... This alone made me jump ship from linux desktop. Being driven mad when trying to mark a url and remove it from the bar and then paste my new url, just to print the url I just removed from the bar makes me an unhappy being.
There are of course a lot of smaller things which make no sense, but this proves my point that while windows and osx are driven from a user-perspective, linux is driven by programmers who have no bloody idea how to make something user friendly.
(I do however like mouse-copying when I'm in a terminal)
I'm pretty amazed about your description of the movies. I've heard it told before, but the closest thing I've been to it was when Stockholm Film Festival (I live in Sweden) had screenings during the day and classes would show up. You'd need to tell them to be quiet once and that was the end of it. Other than that, I've never been to a screening where the driks and popcorn costs $20 (about $5) either. I however share the sentiment that your getting ripped of for the drinks and popcorn - luckily they sell drinks right beside the cinema, so just pop of over there and your set!
I think we've got a bit less ads on the cinema as well... However, the new movies that are to be released take forever.
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Sweden has a lot of trees too. What have we done to prevent outages you ask? We've cut down trees that are close enough to fall over powerlines and the last mile are in many cases buried to prevent damage from storms and lightning.
One would think they use p2p just as much in Japan, Korea, Europe and South America. I know for a fact that p2p is used quite a lot in Europe and we aren't subject to these kinds of issues... So why is this even on the table? I believe the need to delivering record earning *every* single quarter is the problem.. Instead of building a network that doesn't saturate, you try to limit the networks overall use...
I wouldn't say that's true... Your coasts are densely populated, so you have the ability to give a huge portion of the population fiber, ethernet etc... Do even 10% of New York apartments have fiber-connection? Why not one might ask? My belief is that US companies do not invest in new technology in the same manner that some other countries do. The US (instead of competing) is using protectionism to keep industries competitive. Corn-syrup vs Sugar is an example... Heavy tariffs. Iron, Car-industry and Lumber are some of the industries that aren't doing so well (last time I checked) either... And FYI, more than 50% of Sweden is not densely populated at all. Mostly pine forest... However, every time something is replaced, say new power lines, new sewage lines etc, fiber are also installed. The municipally, powercompany etc then rents them out. The extra cost is nearly null... Basically every small village now has fiber running to it's town's phone exchange, which in turn gives you the ability to at *least* have 8Mbpbs if not 24 Mbps ADSL2+... In Stockholm, when a apartment building is changing water pipes or putting in new electric wirings they also add ethernet in the house... The extra cost is small... You then call ISPs and say, "Hey, we are 50 apartments and we just need you to pull in a fiber to get us to sign upp...". Which is exactly what we did in our complex. I pay $41 for my 100/100 connection... You then have the ability to choose the ISP you want and change if they screw around... It works great!
But then you have a very strong case when you come after the person doing so and passing of your work as his...
Well... In a unregulated market (free market), there tends to be some consolidation... Which in turn turns into a monopoly. Which leads to Comcast, AT&T etc raping their customers. Choice is the best remedy. Having someone watching over the market and slapping them in the face when you try to either establish a monopoly or oligopoly. Actually I'd like the representatives of the people to actually stand up for us and not the corporations.
Well... Your wrong about natural resources in Africa... The US and EU both want the aid they supply to be spent they way *they* see fit. The Chinese give the countries money and arms with no questions asked. And Africa seems to like "no questions asked" approach to "We will give you money only if you tell people to abstain from sex. Oh and condoms are bad." If I was a dictator in a corrupt country, I wonder which I would prefer...
"Granted, Final Cut Studio has become the standard when it comes to professional video editing, and Logic Studio is a great professional solution for editing audio"
Last time I checked Final Cut and Logic Studio hadn't become the standard. Avids products (and Digidesign owned by Avid) are the standard choice of the professionals. Why? Their product Unity for one, which allows for off site storage and just sitting down at any Avid at the office and grabbing your work. Final Cut is a very nice product, but it isn't ready for the prime time in a long shot.
Have similar situation in Sweden. I've got 100/100 from a switch in the basement (as do my neighbors). I have no problem with saturation and I pay 24 a month...
Sounds like your proud of having a shitty network there... Way to go!
Of course there is a lot of truth in this... France did have a lot of presence in Iraq and made a bundle, but the *people* are pissed about something else. Saying that the world is pissed out of envy and money is just pure bs. There is the whole spectrum your carelessly choose to ignore. How about invading a sovereign country, killing thousands of civilians and generally destabilizing the middle east even more while doing some cowboy shit about terrorists are behind every stone and thus any measure is ok. Generally you have polarized the world as well, either your with us or your against us. Saddam was a dictator and we can't have that... All while supporting other countries who are run by dictatorship. Of the top of my head: Using capital punishment on your own citizens is a biggie. Degrading taliban and terrorists to Enemy combatant and thus denying them the rights of the Geneva Convention. No trials either. By doing this, imo you have let the terrorists destroy what you are trying to defend - freedom. And at the same time those who are whistleblowers get the sharp end of the stick for doing just that, ensuring that illegal stuff doesn't pass. I'm from Sweden and there is a general resentment that just wasn't there during the Clinton era.
You forgot that everything is patented, Manufacturer Alpha will be sued to death.
In Stockholm it's far more efficient in some cases to take the public transports (subway or busses), even ministers take the subway to work... There are a lot of gridlocks in Stockholm which don't face the buses who are on their own lane... There are a couple of "core" buss routes where a bus comes along every 2-4 minutes during peak hours and 5-6 of peak ours and 6-10 minutes during night. The result? Taking the bus is far faster and you can work, read, etc while doing it...
Better to use 0.0.0.0, since if you have a webserver running it would make alot of requests...
Puh-lease! Newly upgraded network? At this point the US has a tendency to not continuously upgrade your infrastructure (from what I've seen this especially applies to industries. Steel and comes to mind aswell as environmental upgrades of industry). Do they have backbones with at least 10Gbit? Or multi 10Gbit wavelengths? There are also a buckload of black fiber just sitting in the ground (which Google is buying from what I've heard). Swedish universities are continuously upgraded to cope with demands... It just rolled out a new network which is actually *cheaper* than the old one... It isn't the usage, it's the "not upgrading" that is the problem for you. The technology is there... Your just not using it! Our apartment block just bought Internet collectively which offers 100/100Mbit for each apartment and it's costing about 130SEK a month ($20). We are 118 apartments and have a fiber running to the operator. Healthy and working competition is a big part of it. The state putting fibers in ground.
As far as I'm concerned, having a limit is bad for business in the long run. It's very easy to upgrade networks, and the cost isn't prohibitive. If you were to buy a DSL-connection in Sweden it wouldn't be capped, unless you choose a connection that something like 128Kbit and inherently slow.. But not capped... Capped just wouldn't fly.
Actually the grand-parent is right. TPB is basically being prosecuted for aiding copyright infringement and what keeps an ordinary person from being charged for copyright infringement is that the police can't get the logs who tell them who the offender is - for the reason the grand-parent wrote...
When you look up an adress in the core of Stockholm, you get a picture of the house... Pretty nifty, although it hasn't spread to the suburbs yet... Linky: http://www.hitta.se/SearchCombi.aspx?__VIEWSTATE=% 2FwEPDwUKMTg4NDI3NTMzNWRk&UCSB%3AWflWhite=1a1b&UCS B%3AWflPink=4a&SearchType=4&UCSB%3ABBX1=&UCSB%3ABB Y1=&UCSB%3ABBX2=&UCSB%3ABBY2=&UCSB%3ATextBoxWho=&U CSB%3ATextBoxWhere=sveav%E4gen+50+stockholm&UCSB%3 AButtonSearch=%A0%A0hitta!%A0%A0&CombiResults%3AUs erControlMapControl%3Acx=1452661&CombiResults%3AUs erControlMapControl%3Acy=6704833&CombiResults%3AUs erControlMapControl%3ApointsHidden=&CombiResults%3 AUserControlMapControl%3Az=9
Every time you talk rights with a US citizen they bash the Europeans for having no constitution which protects them... Well how does that do any good when the US government simply circumvents the constitution? Isn't it illegal, with the DMCA and all, to circumvent stuff? :-)
There is a difference between user friendly and being newbie friendly. Your point of windows is probably on target, however: Windows has a lot of good features, which are not implemented to x11. For one thing, what's up with automatically copying something you mark with the mouse? Maybe I wanted to remove that text, not copy it? "Sorry, that's X11 - the window manager can't do diddle squat about that", is the response I've gotten so far. Oh, and ctrl+c/v, which is supported in some applications don't share the clipboard with the mouse... This alone made me jump ship from linux desktop. Being driven mad when trying to mark a url and remove it from the bar and then paste my new url, just to print the url I just removed from the bar makes me an unhappy being. There are of course a lot of smaller things which make no sense, but this proves my point that while windows and osx are driven from a user-perspective, linux is driven by programmers who have no bloody idea how to make something user friendly. (I do however like mouse-copying when I'm in a terminal)
I thought the same. However, tweaking light and color correction isn't really the special effects department :)
You aren't forced to use iTunes with atleast Windows. I use Winamp... It rocks your socks of!
I'm pretty amazed about your description of the movies. I've heard it told before, but the closest thing I've been to it was when Stockholm Film Festival (I live in Sweden) had screenings during the day and classes would show up. You'd need to tell them to be quiet once and that was the end of it. Other than that, I've never been to a screening where the driks and popcorn costs $20 (about $5) either. I however share the sentiment that your getting ripped of for the drinks and popcorn - luckily they sell drinks right beside the cinema, so just pop of over there and your set! I think we've got a bit less ads on the cinema as well... However, the new movies that are to be released take forever.
Fry the fuckers!
Lik-Sang also ships from within Europe, to get rid of the import tax...
One would think that the state would require the sourcecode for due diligence...