The only problem I could see is keeping each broadcast node in sync, especially if you're all broadcasting on the same frequency.
Many low-powered senders on the same frequency wouldn't work very well with analog broadcast, as the waves would interfere with each other where the broadcast area overlaps, and you wouldn't receive anything useful.
You'd have to use different frequencies for neighbouring senders, and (somehow) announce the frequency to the listeners.
Personally, I'm gay and I don't think homosexuality is genetic.
German online news magazine Spiegel Online had an article recently about homosexuality and genetics (google translation). The gist is: Homosexuality partly seems to have a genetic reasons, and the relevant genes are inherited from the mother. The same genetic factors that are related to homosexuality seem to cause a higher fertility in females. So the same genetic factors that give gay men a evolutionary disadvantage (statistically fewer children) give their mothers and sisters an advantage (statistically more children).
Seriously, SBC cant get DSL right (PPPoE, WTF?)
Just FYI: In Germany, nearly all ISPs use PPPoE.
Deutsche Telekom started it when they introduced ADSL, supposedly because they wanted their customers to pay for every hour used. I know, that doesn't make any sense for a broadband line, but it worked (and still works) very well for them on POTS and ISDN lines.
Deutsche Telekom still holds some 80 percent of the ADSL market, and most other ISPs followed their technical lead, so in most cases, ADSL means PPPoE here. Not that it is a big problem, though.
A Boeing 747-400, which is a modern and fuel-efficient jumbo jet,
I'm no expert in this field, but I really don't think the 747 is a "modern" jumbo jet, with the basic design being several decades old. The Airbus A380, on the other hand, is of a more recent design, and its target mark is 81 person-miles per gallon.
Babies in airplanes often cry because of the pressure in their ears that is causing them pain. While you and I know that to do, babies don't, and can't be told under a certain age.
So, what's the parent to do? br>
Hm, maybe a little whiskey might help...:-)
People didn't use to think this was possible for OS'es or GUIs, but it turned out it was. They said open source wasn't reliable enough or secure enough or whatever, but they were wrong.
I think there is a difference between those two and the kind of software that Oracle, Peoplesoft etc. sell. The open source OSes, like Linux and the BSDs, and the open source desktop environments, like Gnome and KDE (which I assume you meant by "GUIs"), where made by programmers for their own use. People always try to improve those for their own good, because they use them themselves every day.
How many programmers out there will say "Huh, I don't like this PeopleSpft stuff, I will write my own ERP software!"?
Yeah, with a population of only 127 million people, making it the 3rd biggest market in the western industrialised world, it really is a small country...
You know, I also thought there is something fishy when I read this:
Another key trend identified by the study was the further establishment of the.net domain's role in the health and functioning of the Internet overall. While the domain accounts for only eight percent of domain names worldwide, it includes 58 percent of hosts and 30 percent of name servers.
ICANN is accepting proposals for the.net registry since end of November. Verisign will bid, and maybe they want say that it would be better to keep the current registrar by stressing the importance of the.net tld for "the health and functioning of the Internet overall".
On the other hand, one of the other bidders will be DENIC, the registrar for the.de ccTLD - the second biggest TLD (over 8 million entries) after.com (over 30 million entries). They should be capable of managing the ~5 million.net domains.
I've played my share of Dune, and there were no such things. Ornithopters could only be built by Atreides, and unless you built *really* serious numbers of them, they sucked, dropping only one bomb per flight which didn't even do much damage.
Anyhow, what's this "real life" you're talking about?
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I also download TV episodes from bittorrent, but I see it as an act of self-defence. Most US (or British) TV shows are dubbed so horribly for German TV, they make you want to puke.
Not only the voices (I could tolerate that - there are only so many good dubbing artists), but also the translation - it gives a whole new meaning to the term "lost in translation". I almost smashed my TV to pieces once when I watched a dubbed episode of Futurama, and they translated "Dungeons&Dragons" with "Drachen und Kerker", "Deep Blue" with "Tiefblau", "urban legend" with "Vorstadtlegende" and so on. All literal translations that don't make *any* sense in the context.
So, if I want to watch a bearable version of these series, I can either wait a few years (2-5) for the DVDs, or download them right after they are out in the US. Easy choice.
Sorry for the rant, but this is a pet peeve of mine.
Considering that the bill will be decided by politicians, how come they don't organise an email campaign, where you can find your relevant politician, and send him an email?
A little background on EU institutions for the non-European reader:
The EU Council represents the member states, and its meetings are attended by one minister from each of the EU's national governments.
Which ministers attend which meeting depends on what subjects are on the agenda. If, for example, the Council is to discuss environmental issues, the meeting will be attended by the Environment Minister from each EU country and it will be known as the "Environment Council". (Quoted from here)
So, someone from each EU member countries' current administration will attend the meeting. To get back to your argument: To reach the relevant politican, you only have to send mail to administration@yourcountry.cc. You can imagine how very effective this would be.
Besides: The members of both the Dutch and the German parliament are against software patents, but the respective administrations don't seem to care. Which you would know if you had read the appeal linked in the OP.
30 years ago, computers were only accessible for those with the money to buy the required parts, and the time, tools and knowledge to assemble them.
Today, everybody can simply go to the next shop around the corner and buy a PC. Granted, it might still be too expensive for some, but nowhere near the prices 30 years ago.
Computer technology is now widely available to everyone. Like it or not, this is progress. Not technical, but social.
Can't you in the US buy your cellphones anywhere else than your mobile service provider? Because here in Germany, I can get my phone together with a new contract from my provider, but if I don't like the phones they offer, I can also get a few bucks from them and buy my phone elsewhere.
So tell me, why not buy your uncrippled bluetooth phone somewhere else and give a shit about Verizon's bluetooth policy?
But the security updates are already available in Sarge, maybe even faster.
I think you are wrong in this case. IIRC, security updates are first done for stable, by the Debian Security Team, either backporting a patch from upstream or writing one themselves.
The upstream patch gets into unstable with the normal update cycle, so this might take something between a few hours and a few weeks.
The patched packet will then transition into testing after the grace period/whenever the maintainer thinks it is ready.
Again, IIRC, there are no testing-specific security updates. Of course, if anybody knows more than I do on this subject, I will stand corrected.
If Apple sold OS X for x86, they would step from a small variety of hardware to the literaly unlimited number of CPU/chipset/GPU/etc. combinations in Intel/AMD-land.
Microsoft has avoided this by practically denying the users of their OS any support and "outsourcing" it to their OEM partners (which will deny any support if you changed a single component in the system they sold you).
What would Apple gain by porting OS X? A few users that treat it as another Unix variant with a nice GUI, and most probably bad hardware drivers, like Windows had (and still has), responsible for most crashes of the OS.
But they could lose their reputation as a first class hardware and software vendor, and end up like other companies that tried to sell a alternative commercial OS on x86 (think BeOS).
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The only problem I could see is keeping each broadcast node in sync, especially if you're all broadcasting on the same frequency.
Many low-powered senders on the same frequency wouldn't work very well with analog broadcast, as the waves would interfere with each other where the broadcast area overlaps, and you wouldn't receive anything useful.
You'd have to use different frequencies for neighbouring senders, and (somehow) announce the frequency to the listeners.
Personally, I'm gay and I don't think homosexuality is genetic.
German online news magazine Spiegel Online had an article recently about homosexuality and genetics (google translation). The gist is: Homosexuality partly seems to have a genetic reasons, and the relevant genes are inherited from the mother. The same genetic factors that are related to homosexuality seem to cause a higher fertility in females.
So the same genetic factors that give gay men a evolutionary disadvantage (statistically fewer children) give their mothers and sisters an advantage (statistically more children).
Seriously, SBC cant get DSL right (PPPoE, WTF?)
Just FYI: In Germany, nearly all ISPs use PPPoE.
Deutsche Telekom started it when they introduced ADSL, supposedly because they wanted their customers to pay for every hour used. I know, that doesn't make any sense for a broadband line, but it worked (and still works) very well for them on POTS and ISDN lines.
Deutsche Telekom still holds some 80 percent of the ADSL market, and most other ISPs followed their technical lead, so in most cases, ADSL means PPPoE here. Not that it is a big problem, though.
The Airbus A380, on the other hand, is of a more recent design, and its target mark is 81 person-miles per gallon.
Canned coffee? Nobody wants that, even if it's self-heated.
Now, a self-cooling beer keg, that's useful...
Babies in airplanes often cry because of the pressure in their ears that is causing them pain.
:-)
While you and I know that to do, babies don't, and can't be told under a certain age.
So, what's the parent to do?
br> Hm, maybe a little whiskey might help...
How many programmers out there will say "Huh, I don't like this PeopleSpft stuff, I will write my own ERP software!"?
None, I believe.
On the other hand, one of the other bidders will be DENIC, the registrar for the
In Korea, only old people remember rigged gameshows!
What are you talking about?
Mana? Artifact? WTF?
I've played my share of Dune, and there were no such things. Ornithopters could only be built by Atreides, and unless you built *really* serious numbers of them, they sucked, dropping only one bomb per flight which didn't even do much damage.
Anyhow, what's this "real life" you're talking about?
I also download TV episodes from bittorrent, but I see it as an act of self-defence. Most US (or British) TV shows are dubbed so horribly for German TV, they make you want to puke.
Not only the voices (I could tolerate that - there are only so many good dubbing artists), but also the translation - it gives a whole new meaning to the term "lost in translation". I almost smashed my TV to pieces once when I watched a dubbed episode of Futurama, and they translated "Dungeons&Dragons" with "Drachen und Kerker", "Deep Blue" with "Tiefblau", "urban legend" with "Vorstadtlegende" and so on. All literal translations that don't make *any* sense in the context.
So, if I want to watch a bearable version of these series, I can either wait a few years (2-5) for the DVDs, or download them right after they are out in the US. Easy choice.
Sorry for the rant, but this is a pet peeve of mine.
Is there a tool like EnCSS somewhere out there, for making watching your own videos a pain in the ass or what?
Apropos, take a look at this. It even has a PortalPlayer DSP (just like the iPod). 20GB, SD/MMC-slot, and it's black without any U2 songs on it.
199 Euros.
Already sold out (according to the article).
The EU Council represents the member states, and its meetings are attended by one minister from each of the EU's national governments. Which ministers attend which meeting depends on what subjects are on the agenda. If, for example, the Council is to discuss environmental issues, the meeting will be attended by the Environment Minister from each EU country and it will be known as the "Environment Council". (Quoted from here)
So, someone from each EU member countries' current administration will attend the meeting. To get back to your argument: To reach the relevant politican, you only have to send mail to administration@yourcountry.cc. You can imagine how very effective this would be.
Besides: The members of both the Dutch and the German parliament are against software patents, but the respective administrations don't seem to care. Which you would know if you had read the appeal linked in the OP.
... November 9 1989 was the day the Berlin Wall fell.
Just FYI.
And, to not omit anything, November 9 1938 was the day of the Reichskristallnacht.
Hey, is it just me, or are the download links at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ not updated yet? Still pointing to the 1.0PR...
Anyway, it's great that 1.0 is out.
We just got used to FC2 and now FC3's out! :-)
:-)
You know, you can always change to Debian.
You would have a looooong time to get used to a release
BTW, does anyone have recent news about when sarge will be released? It has been some time since DWN cited a concrete release date.
30 years ago, computers were only accessible for those with the money to buy the required parts, and the time, tools and knowledge to assemble them.
Today, everybody can simply go to the next shop around the corner and buy a PC. Granted, it might still be too expensive for some, but nowhere near the prices 30 years ago.
Computer technology is now widely available to everyone. Like it or not, this is progress. Not technical, but social.
Someone, please educate me:
Can't you in the US buy your cellphones anywhere else than your mobile service provider? Because here in Germany, I can get my phone together with a new contract from my provider, but if I don't like the phones they offer, I can also get a few bucks from them and buy my phone elsewhere.
So tell me, why not buy your uncrippled bluetooth phone somewhere else and give a shit about Verizon's bluetooth policy?
The upstream patch gets into unstable with the normal update cycle, so this might take something between a few hours and a few weeks.
The patched packet will then transition into testing after the grace period/whenever the maintainer thinks it is ready.
Again, IIRC, there are no testing-specific security updates. Of course, if anybody knows more than I do on this subject, I will stand corrected.
One word:
Support.
If Apple sold OS X for x86, they would step from a small variety of hardware to the literaly unlimited number of CPU/chipset/GPU/etc. combinations in Intel/AMD-land.
Microsoft has avoided this by practically denying the users of their OS any support and "outsourcing" it to their OEM partners (which will deny any support if you changed a single component in the system they sold you).
What would Apple gain by porting OS X? A few users that treat it as another Unix variant with a nice GUI, and most probably bad hardware drivers, like Windows had (and still has), responsible for most crashes of the OS.
But they could lose their reputation as a first class hardware and software vendor, and end up like other companies that tried to sell a alternative commercial OS on x86 (think BeOS).