Actually the whole situation reminds me of the movie Enemy of the State which was released in 1998. It had a far too insightful quote: "... and freedom have always existed in a very percurious balance. And when buildings stop blowing up, people's priorities tend to change...".
At least we have been shown how to change peoples' apparent priorities by blowing up buildings.
Yes, ask Russians instead of Russia. The human rights situation is a diplomatic tool for Russia to use when negotiating. It is always good to point out a "human rights" situation when discussing any treaty.
It might be hard to understand but Estonia just cannot afford a third of citizens who don't speak the language. There is a million of Estonians and it is a dying nation unless some protection is maintained for its language.
Having a third of citizens not to speak Estonian and considering that they are also being influenced by Russian media would be quite a blow to our government.
The non-citizen Russians in Estonia are much better of here than in Russia when it comes down to living standards anyway.
As of Internet being a human right -- it is a a good thing to say from a marketing perspective of a country.
The popularity of broadband is due to telephone rates being exceptionally high and broadband being reletively cheap. For example, we have a LAN shared 8Mbit/s gateway for our house with about 40 computers connected to it, it costs around 6$ a month.
The Estonian connection is only because Kazaa was written here. There's nothing left to enforce, deed's been done, the catch is the central server, I think.
US courts demanded some papers from Bluemoon who made Kazaa, but local court did not allow this because the demand was not reasoned well.
I am currently on Windows 98SE (IMO the best Windows so far) and I am on the edge of switching to Linux (Running from a bootloader already), so I could summarize my thoughts on the matter.
First and foremost, Windows is sucky, but one can learn to live with it. I have been very responsible with my Windows and have been running the same installation for about two years now. I heave learnt to tweak the registry to my liking and some handy hotkeys. The operating system has become transparent already.
Then there's a practical issue of migrating my mail into Linux, I have extensice archive of mail in mu NS4 and occasionally it is interesting to go back in time. Perhaps it's possible, I have not investigated the issue yet.
With apps a long running problem with Linux was the lack of a Browser. Luckily this problem was solved with Mozilla -- a project I keep an eye on and consider one of the most important Open Source projects since Linux.
There are some things that also annoy me in Linux, first of all the lack of decent teaching material. All the information for beginners seems to be scattered across the Internet and the ones who already can "do" Linux don't need more than 'man' and occasional IRC question. Also I would like to have a decent desktop on Linux, this is a work in progress, but the interface does not feel "solid" enough as of (some flickers, drawing issues etc).
But there are things I don't like in Windows -- for example the lack of control over my settings. Windows tries to be smarter than me and tries to guess what I want to do instead of obeying me. Simple example: I wanted to remove some fonts. Went into fonts folder, deleted some. Restarted. nohting happens. It took me half an hour to discover to my horror that the fonts were just linked into the Recycle bin. After emptying the bin all was fine. This is just ridiculous thing, but one of many of its kind.
Interestingly enough I don't experience crashes on Windows. There's one in about a week, quite reasonable. I suspect it has to do with very responsible and careful system adimistration on my part.
I have yet to speak of things I like in Linux.
First there are ideological goodies -- GPL. I feel that something as powerful as open source movement is the way of the future. It is communism, but in the way it should have been done in the first place:)
Also I like the notion of true multiuser system and the nice possibilities of running programs with different owners.
Command line configurability is, when mastered, absolutely marvellous because of the speed. GUIs are essentially slow, but they are pretty and sometimes irreplacable.
So why am I still running Windows? 1. Windows has yet to make me snap and get angry. 2. Linux has a tiny bit of proving itself to do. A really tiny one.
I in Europe see this as a strange thing. Media in USA just whips and whips up old dust. It's almost a year and the people still are constantly reminded of the thing that happened. Somewhy the people are kept frightened, someone likes it. Perhaps to justify military budget and raise the ratings of certain politicians. Is the threat really so imminent? Has there been a real open investigation? Sometimes I feel the US government is the real terror to the people, not the zeal-driven desperate madmen of Middle-East.
Actually this got me to think about the huge amount of spam they must filter before getting to the really crunchy bits... So I guess there's a bright side to the spam too.
As a part of my holy mission of battling ignorance let me point out that you "go to their" site in the eyes of your browser every time you load some advertisment from their server. Meaning that you probably visited it right now.
Slashdot Mirror
Come on, it's just a hair that flew in the wind near the camera so i's a bit out of focus...
they lie.
applies to every PR touched document you read
I have seen a GPF error message on a bank ATM. Luckily the last time I saw the same bank's ATM booting, it was some other operating system.
Oh, and one of my favourites was a mouse cursor over TV station's screen. Moving randomly, doing its own business on some unseen screen.
.. or sense offence?
Actually the whole situation reminds me of the movie Enemy of the State which was released in 1998. It had a far too insightful quote: "... and freedom have always existed in a very percurious balance. And when buildings stop blowing up, people's priorities tend to change...".
At least we have been shown how to change peoples' apparent priorities by blowing up buildings.
Yes, ask Russians instead of Russia. The human rights situation is a diplomatic tool for Russia to use when negotiating. It is always good to point out a "human rights" situation when discussing any treaty.
It might be hard to understand but Estonia just cannot afford a third of citizens who don't speak the language. There is a million of Estonians and it is a dying nation unless some protection is maintained for its language.
Having a third of citizens not to speak Estonian and considering that they are also being influenced by Russian media would be quite a blow to our government.
The non-citizen Russians in Estonia are much better of here than in Russia when it comes down to living standards anyway.
As of Internet being a human right -- it is a a good thing to say from a marketing perspective of a country.
The popularity of broadband is due to telephone rates being exceptionally high and broadband being reletively cheap. For example, we have a LAN shared 8Mbit/s gateway for our house with about 40 computers connected to it, it costs around 6$ a month.
The Estonian connection is only because Kazaa was written here. There's nothing left to enforce, deed's been done, the catch is the central server, I think.
US courts demanded some papers from Bluemoon who made Kazaa, but local court did not allow this because the demand was not reasoned well.
I am currently on Windows 98SE (IMO the best Windows so far) and I am on the edge of switching to Linux (Running from a bootloader already), so I could summarize my thoughts on the matter.
:)
First and foremost, Windows is sucky, but one can learn to live with it. I have been very responsible with my Windows and have been running the same installation for about two years now. I heave learnt to tweak the registry to my liking and some handy hotkeys. The operating system has become transparent already.
Then there's a practical issue of migrating my mail into Linux, I have extensice archive of mail in mu NS4 and occasionally it is interesting to go back in time. Perhaps it's possible, I have not investigated the issue yet.
With apps a long running problem with Linux was the lack of a Browser. Luckily this problem was solved with Mozilla -- a project I keep an eye on and consider one of the most important Open Source projects since Linux.
There are some things that also annoy me in Linux, first of all the lack of decent teaching material. All the information for beginners seems to be scattered across the Internet and the ones who already can "do" Linux don't need more than 'man' and occasional IRC question. Also I would like to have a decent desktop on Linux, this is a work in progress, but the interface does not feel "solid"
enough as of (some flickers, drawing issues etc).
But there are things I don't like in Windows -- for example the lack of control over my settings. Windows tries to be smarter than me and tries to guess what I want to do instead of obeying me. Simple example: I wanted to remove some fonts. Went into fonts folder, deleted some. Restarted. nohting happens. It took me half an hour to discover to my horror that the fonts were just linked into the Recycle bin. After emptying the bin all was fine. This is just ridiculous thing, but one of many of its kind.
Interestingly enough I don't experience crashes on Windows. There's one in about a week, quite reasonable. I suspect it has to do with very responsible and careful system adimistration on my part.
I have yet to speak of things I like in Linux.
First there are ideological goodies -- GPL. I feel that something as powerful as open source movement is the way of the future. It is communism, but in the way it should have been done in the first place
Also I like the notion of true multiuser system and the nice possibilities of running programs with different owners.
Command line configurability is, when mastered, absolutely marvellous because of the speed. GUIs are essentially slow, but they are pretty and sometimes irreplacable.
So why am I still running Windows?
1. Windows has yet to make me snap and get angry.
2. Linux has a tiny bit of proving itself to do. A really tiny one.
Next year this time I will be running Linux.
1. Open Mozilla
2. Open page with DOM Inspector in sidebar
3. Find the textarea with the text (VERY deep)
4. Right-click and delete it.
5. Accept
One coudl also use the venkman eval to make the text editable and then write your own EULA.
As in "I have never worked with Dreamweaver"?
I in Europe see this as a strange thing. Media in USA just whips and whips up old dust. It's almost a year and the people still are constantly reminded of the thing that happened. Somewhy the people are kept frightened, someone likes it. Perhaps to justify military budget and raise the ratings of certain politicians. Is the threat really so imminent? Has there been a real open investigation? Sometimes I feel the US government is the real terror to the people, not the zeal-driven desperate madmen of Middle-East.
I can already imagine angry MS emergency support people waving EULAs and demanding access to your system to install the latest security patch....
this is really bad news to the TV people, I think, for betamax is vastly superior in quality compared to VHS.
Actually this got me to think about the huge amount of spam they must filter before getting to the really crunchy bits... So I guess there's a bright side to the spam too.
As a part of my holy mission of battling ignorance let me point out that you "go to their" site in the eyes of your browser every time you load some advertisment from their server. Meaning that you probably visited it right now.
Now that's something to recieve extraterrestial talk-shows with.