Sending one unsolicited email to one person (say, fan mail) is generally considered OK, if impolite;
I wouldn't even go that far. Sending an unsolicited advertisement to one person may be impolite, but something like fan mail, something written by one person, for one person; how is sending that e-mail impolite? That's like suggesting that phoning someone 'unsolicited' is impolite, or saying hello to someone 'unsolicited' is impolite. It's not.
Ultimately, it would be better to go to Methanol fuel cells, and I have yet to understand why they're not getting more press. First, methanol's a renewable resourse - as close to solar energy as we're likely to get. Also, it would be a resource that every country could take care of on their own - just farming.
There are also engineering advantages to methanol over H2.
Is methanol as clean to use as H2? Can you generate electricity from it, creating only water as the waste product? That's a massive advantage that H2 has, as you can take end-users out of the pollution equation.
For one, won't it be far more efficient to produce the hydrogen from oil in a few big power plants than to produce energy from it in millions of cars, thereby negating the extra energy needed to create it?
Secondly, and maybe more importantly, won't having hydrogen established as the primary means of energy storage make it WAY easier to get everyone converted to renewable/environment friendly energy sources, when we get round to using more of them? If everyone's using hydrogen, they won't notice when the power plants start using solar/wind/whatever, instead of fossil fuels.
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Yes, very insightful.
Really, people should be pushed to think of hydrogen as a new form of extremely efficient battery, and more importantly, one that *never* needs to be replaced. This is because the 'battery' consists entirely of the fuel it contains, and can be broken down very cleanly.
Once you start thinking about it that way, moving to a hydrogen economy is basically moving to a 'battery economy', from a 'generation on-the-fly' economy.
We at the FCC are not interested in this 'innovation' that you speak of. My job description clearly states that I'm here to help businesses make more money! In fact, why you thought it purposeful to write this letter to me I don't quite know. Why would I go against my duties as chairman of the FCC, especially when this chip implant the MPAA gave me makes everything so much better. Yeesss... that's right... come to daddy, endorphins... ahhhh.
I see. so, enforcement will fix spam? how? what are these other problems that will magically go away when the cops start poking around?
Actually, I think enforcement against businesses that advertise through spam would work excellently. If only all (rich) countries were willing to do it...
LOL! I couldn't bring myself to stand on that glass. I know it's stable and everything, but some instinct inside of me was telling me that it might just break or something.... and the height is truly scary.
I'd be in favour of making it an offence to allow a minor unsupervised access to the Internet. We didn't have such things when I was a kid.
You've just debunked your argument for not allowing kids internet access. You didn't HAVE the net when you were a kid, and so you had zero NEED for it. Because the net exists now, and has all sorts of useful information on it, many kids do have a need for the internet - times have changed.
We live in an adult world. The Internet is an adult invention. Nobody ever intended it to be suitable for children.
Nearly every invention is an adult invention. As for the idea that it wasn't 'intended' to be suitable for children, nor were books or... well just about any media you care to mention. But society finds ways to satisfy itself that its children can use the media in safe ways, usually short of banning it outright (Ned Flanders' household notwithstanding;-)
Anybody complaining about adults smoking, drinking, gambling, having sex and watching certain kinds of films is rightly denounced.
Uh, no... unfortunately, that kind of complaining is getting a lot more acceptable in society.
Plenty of people complain about adults smoking, drinking, gambling, watching certain films and, yes, sometimes even having sex, without being 'denounced'. Ultra-conservatism.
How about OSS developers move to Europe. Over here, most countries require the plaintiff to pay the defendents costs (not to mention reperations) if the plaintiff loses, in ALL court cases, unlike the retarded US system.
Another problem I have with Mozilla (dunno about Opera) is that Shockwave doesn't seem to want to install in it. You try to install Shockwave but the next time Mozilla loads it just comes up with the 'you need Shockwave plugin' thing again.
Don't install Zone Alarm. It can cause your internet connection to stop working and is a pain to fix.
BS, FUD, untruth. I have ZoneAlarm installed now, and have had it for a long time. It prevents all unsolicited incoming connections (until you close the app), and removes itself properly when you uninstall it. I haven't had a problem with it. BTW I use version 3.1.395, before they screwed about with the interface.
But a modem is something I can plug into a serial port (and do). It's nice and easy to just use another brand if your default one sucks. The BIOS is altogether more fundamental, and you can't 'plug a new one in' unless the BIOS explicitly supports being flashable. This could result in new PCs being unchangeable to another OS, which is a bad, bad thing.
WHy couldn't Mozilla use the WMV codec? Windows users with Mozilla could still download and play the files just fine. You might have problems embedding it, but then again so might IE if that patent they're being sued for is successful.
South Korean portals like Daum.net and hundreds of others are designed almost exculusivelly for IE. There will have to be huge changes made to site infastrcture-design and even business models for web companies if a signifigant minority of the population starts using Mozilla.
Site design, perhaps. If it's a badly designed site, it may need to be slightly redesigned to be compatible with more than just one browser. But business model? Could you explain what you mean by that? Why would a portal need to change its business model based on what browser you were using?? It's like saying that out of town retail parks would have to change their business model because some people change from Ford cars to GMs.... they wouldn't.
Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, Dr. Who, Absolutly Fabulous, Monty Python etc
All of which come from the BBC, which has bugger all to do with Canada, it was all funded by us Brits and you're basically stealing our content, ya bastard;-)
Anyway, guess what? The BBC (over here) is now back to showing reruns of that same old stuff. Any new stuff it creates is utter, utter crap. I can't tell you how pathetic the BBC has become, and how past its peak of usefulness it is. An example: '3 non-blondes' is one of the recent pieces of 'entertainment' to come out of the BBC. It's basically 3.... non-blonde black women, being very loud, very annoying, and very un-funny.
There may have been a reason for government funded broadcasting 40 years ago. That reason has gone with the coming of far more independent TV production.
Hahaha, 'high subscription charges'. The subscription charges are quite reasonable. I think you may be confusing high charges from Sky with a mandatory 116 licence fee.
Hrm, it seems to me that such a system would only work for 'normal/average' snail mails. Letters, etc. I wouldn't want stuff like bank PIN codes, important work information, etc going there. Or mails where they actually provide you with something physically useful in the letter, such as a return envelope.
One idea that's been floated is for Congress to levy a tax on high-speed Internet connections, with the proceeds split between the RIAA and peer-to-peer companies.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?? Seriously, how utterly stupid an idea can you come up with? If there's one thing more retarded than assuming every P2P user is a criminal, it's assuming every *high-speed internet* user is one! Your politicians really WANT to hurt internet growth in the US, don't they?
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Sending one unsolicited email to one person (say, fan mail) is generally considered OK, if impolite;
I wouldn't even go that far. Sending an unsolicited advertisement to one person may be impolite, but something like fan mail, something written by one person, for one person; how is sending that e-mail impolite? That's like suggesting that phoning someone 'unsolicited' is impolite, or saying hello to someone 'unsolicited' is impolite. It's not.
All that BS about fuels cells and hydrogen sounds nice, but where is the energy source? Coal?
Um... yep. And natural gas, solar, wind, etc...
Nobody? You haven't met my mother/grandmother :-)
Ultimately, it would be better to go to Methanol fuel cells, and I have yet to understand why they're not getting more press. First, methanol's a renewable resourse - as close to solar energy as we're likely to get. Also, it would be a resource that every country could take care of on their own - just farming.
There are also engineering advantages to methanol over H2.
Is methanol as clean to use as H2? Can you generate electricity from it, creating only water as the waste product? That's a massive advantage that H2 has, as you can take end-users out of the pollution equation.
Well now that's debatable.
For one, won't it be far more efficient to produce the hydrogen from oil in a few big power plants than to produce energy from it in millions of cars, thereby negating the extra energy needed to create it?
Secondly, and maybe more importantly, won't having hydrogen established as the primary means of energy storage make it WAY easier to get everyone converted to renewable/environment friendly energy sources, when we get round to using more of them? If everyone's using hydrogen, they won't notice when the power plants start using solar/wind/whatever, instead of fossil fuels.
Yes, very insightful.
Really, people should be pushed to think of hydrogen as a new form of extremely efficient battery, and more importantly, one that *never* needs to be replaced. This is because the 'battery' consists entirely of the fuel it contains, and can be broken down very cleanly.
Once you start thinking about it that way, moving to a hydrogen economy is basically moving to a 'battery economy', from a 'generation on-the-fly' economy.
Or something.
Dear Mr. Hanashi,
We at the FCC are not interested in this 'innovation' that you speak of. My job description clearly states that I'm here to help businesses make more money! In fact, why you thought it purposeful to write this letter to me I don't quite know. Why would I go against my duties as chairman of the FCC, especially when this chip implant the MPAA gave me makes everything so much better. Yeesss... that's right... come to daddy, endorphins... ahhhh.
Yours sincerely,
Michael Powell
I see. so, enforcement will fix spam? how? what are these other problems that will magically go away when the cops start poking around?
Actually, I think enforcement against businesses that advertise through spam would work excellently. If only all (rich) countries were willing to do it...
LOL! I couldn't bring myself to stand on that glass. I know it's stable and everything, but some instinct inside of me was telling me that it might just break or something.... and the height is truly scary.
I'd be in favour of making it an offence to allow a minor unsupervised access to the Internet. We didn't have such things when I was a kid.
;-)
You've just debunked your argument for not allowing kids internet access. You didn't HAVE the net when you were a kid, and so you had zero NEED for it. Because the net exists now, and has all sorts of useful information on it, many kids do have a need for the internet - times have changed.
We live in an adult world. The Internet is an adult invention. Nobody ever intended it to be suitable for children.
Nearly every invention is an adult invention. As for the idea that it wasn't 'intended' to be suitable for children, nor were books or... well just about any media you care to mention. But society finds ways to satisfy itself that its children can use the media in safe ways, usually short of banning it outright (Ned Flanders' household notwithstanding
Anybody complaining about adults smoking, drinking, gambling, having sex and watching certain kinds of films is rightly denounced.
Uh, no... unfortunately, that kind of complaining is getting a lot more acceptable in society.
Plenty of people complain about adults smoking, drinking, gambling, watching certain films and, yes, sometimes even having sex, without being 'denounced'. Ultra-conservatism.
Summary of parent:
- Microsoft suck.
- Therefore Microsoft should have to pay BIGTIME for this patent infringement.
- However Mozilla and everyone else shouldn't.
How about OSS developers move to Europe. Over here, most countries require the plaintiff to pay the defendents costs (not to mention reperations) if the plaintiff loses, in ALL court cases, unlike the retarded US system.
Another problem I have with Mozilla (dunno about Opera) is that Shockwave doesn't seem to want to install in it. You try to install Shockwave but the next time Mozilla loads it just comes up with the 'you need Shockwave plugin' thing again.
Don't install Zone Alarm. It can cause your internet connection to stop working and is a pain to fix.
BS, FUD, untruth. I have ZoneAlarm installed now, and have had it for a long time. It prevents all unsolicited incoming connections (until you close the app), and removes itself properly when you uninstall it. I haven't had a problem with it. BTW I use version 3.1.395, before they screwed about with the interface.
I remember when 1.44mb was enough for anyone...
But a modem is something I can plug into a serial port (and do). It's nice and easy to just use another brand if your default one sucks. The BIOS is altogether more fundamental, and you can't 'plug a new one in' unless the BIOS explicitly supports being flashable. This could result in new PCs being unchangeable to another OS, which is a bad, bad thing.
WHy couldn't Mozilla use the WMV codec? Windows users with Mozilla could still download and play the files just fine. You might have problems embedding it, but then again so might IE if that patent they're being sued for is successful.
They hate our freedoms: our freedom of beer
WHERE?? Why didn't anybody tell me that Slashdotters got free beer??
South Korean portals like Daum.net and hundreds of others are designed almost exculusivelly for IE. There will have to be huge changes made to site infastrcture-design and even business models for web companies if a signifigant minority of the population starts using Mozilla.
Site design, perhaps. If it's a badly designed site, it may need to be slightly redesigned to be compatible with more than just one browser. But business model? Could you explain what you mean by that? Why would a portal need to change its business model based on what browser you were using?? It's like saying that out of town retail parks would have to change their business model because some people change from Ford cars to GMs.... they wouldn't.
Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, Dr. Who, Absolutly Fabulous, Monty Python etc
;-)
All of which come from the BBC, which has bugger all to do with Canada, it was all funded by us Brits and you're basically stealing our content, ya bastard
Anyway, guess what? The BBC (over here) is now back to showing reruns of that same old stuff. Any new stuff it creates is utter, utter crap. I can't tell you how pathetic the BBC has become, and how past its peak of usefulness it is. An example: '3 non-blondes' is one of the recent pieces of 'entertainment' to come out of the BBC. It's basically 3.... non-blonde black women, being very loud, very annoying, and very un-funny.
There may have been a reason for government funded broadcasting 40 years ago. That reason has gone with the coming of far more independent TV production.
(UK) Taxation isn't that high
No, taxation here's really quite reasonable.
Hahaha, 'high subscription charges'. The subscription charges are quite reasonable. I think you may be confusing high charges from Sky with a mandatory 116 licence fee.
How was that his point? Japan and (South) Korea are amongst the most economically well-off nations on the planet.
Hrm, it seems to me that such a system would only work for 'normal/average' snail mails. Letters, etc. I wouldn't want stuff like bank PIN codes, important work information, etc going there. Or mails where they actually provide you with something physically useful in the letter, such as a return envelope.
One idea that's been floated is for Congress to levy a tax on high-speed Internet connections, with the proceeds split between the RIAA and peer-to-peer companies.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?? Seriously, how utterly stupid an idea can you come up with? If there's one thing more retarded than assuming every P2P user is a criminal, it's assuming every *high-speed internet* user is one! Your politicians really WANT to hurt internet growth in the US, don't they?