If I might make a further suggestion... use http://www.newzbin.com/ which will give you NZB files that work with programs like http://ninan.sourceforge.net/ that make it easy to search and automatically download from NNTP.
I also use personally use http://www.giganews.com/ as my usenet provider since they have something like 70 days of binary retention.
But that's just it, supplies aren't fixed. Copper, iron, energy and food doesn't just pop into existance, it's produced by people. You need people to invent and find new resources too.
And not only do people produce resources, but they produce more than they consume. So the more the merrier.
Why are people even buying cars in the first place? If you city has good public transit, you could take the bus back and forth to work each day, and rent a car for the weekends for less then the price of owning a car.
Because almost every city in the US doesn't have a good public transit system. Owning a car is expensive, 100-200 a month in insurance, 300-400 a month in payments and worse health. But people pay that because they have little other choice.
In most cities in America the public transit system is barely surviving and is typically bailed out by the local city so people who can't afford cars have transportation at all. Bus schedules for those cities typically suck as they're trying to save as much money as possible. When I was without a car in Fort Wayne Indiana, taking the bus would turn what was normally a 20 min car trip into an hour plus bus ride. And that doesn't include the time spent waiting on the bus in freezing cold weather.
The emergency calling issue has pretty much been solved already.
And for power cuts, most people have cell phones these days and Vonage can detect outages and re-route your calls to any other number(like your cell phone).
You Americans are so blinded by your own hype you think the entire rest of the world is some 3rd world dictatorship. Grow up, actually LOOK at the rest of the world and realise it doesn't match your cardboard cutout preconceptions. The average US slashbot view of the rest of the world is laughably naive.
And you should probably understand the US more before bashing it. The US is very conservative when it comes to public airwaves in some respects(we have a taboo on sex, but show more violence than most countries). Getting upset about showing breasts on TV isn't a free speech issue. The word fuck getting bleeped out on radio isn't a free speech issue.
Freedom of religion and speech(and for many American's, the right to defend themselves) is very much at the core of the country. They're the first three, and most well known, items in our Bill of Rights and they're taken very seriously. Many take to the level of zealotry.
My 1998 Dodge Neon gets 33mpg and I drive like a madman.
I think the market just hasn't wanted better fuel economy so no one is bothering to produce it. I mean, everyone talks about gas prices but then everyone drives SUVs.
Yeah, but what happens in 10 years when the artist can cut a track in the studio, upload it directly to iTunes, iWhatever and pull in profits without a label ever seeing a dime?
That's what the labels are really afraid of and why they need music to stay on a physical medium that they can control. Indies can press their own CDs, but try getting Walmart to sell them without the backing of a label.
The first Supreme Court case tested wire taps in 1928 in fact found in favor of wire tapping, because... wait for it... the police were not entering the persons home so they were not invading the privacy of their home
I don't see how that deserves a "wait for it". I really don't see how a person owns the eletrons on a line once it leaves his or her property. And frankly, given today's access to encryption, that sort of ruling makes a lot more sense today than it did back then.
It's like communication on the internet. If you don't encrypt it, don't expect it to be private. Because once it leaves your network everyone pretty much owns it and can read it.
Now forcing backdoors in encryption is another matter entirely. It's my data and if I want to put CIA levels of encryption on it that's my right. If the FBI wants access to the data they can warrant me for the pass phrase or feel free to try and break it.
I was with a company that wanted to go with Coldfusion MX so we rolled it out on Linux. The system would constantly crash and the support forums for it was full of complaints... for the Linux version. It ran fine in Windows, but the company couldn't get it to work right under Linux. So we went back to PHP and never saw a crash again.
The problem wasn't Linux, it was that the product was written like crap.
But I imagine it's easier to get crap to run under Windows than Linux, because Windows has less variance.
Everyone knows what the point of selling software or digital media is, but the problem/issue is that consumers don't have a moral problem stealing it.
The reason they don't is because a large number of people that grab a copy of software are only taking it because it's free. They wouldn't bother buying it because it doesn't interest them that much. So they rationalize that they're not hurting the producer of the software because they're not really costing the producer any lost revenue.
Really the concept of make it, print it, sell it doesn't really translate well into software or digital media. But it's the system we know, so it's what we use.
Other models do work, but you won't see the established businesses pursuing them because you don't buck the system when you're on top. That's why Linux, which is at the core of a huge number of businesses, came from left field.
When I installed both Windows and Ubuntu onto my new AMD64 3500 the installs went like:
Ubunutu: put in the 64bit Ubuntu CD, answer some questions about my time zone, etc and everything worked on the first boot.
Windows: Install from the CD, watch it hang once doing that, try again(worked that time). Install drivers for my sound, video card, PCI bridges, etc. Have zero clue why my games were running extremely slow, then figured out(poking around at stuff) that I needed to install AGP drivers too....
The last PC upgrade I did was also much easier under Linux. I went from a AMD 1.4 T-Bird to a Athlon XP 2200. Swaped out the hardware, put in my drive and rebooted. Windows died, horribly, because the hardware was different(had to reinstall the OS). Linux just booted up and ran fine.
Linux is MUCH easier to install if it properly supports your hardware, but Windows supports more hardware because the vendors write drivers for it.
No one is really "at the helm" for Linux, except maybe Linus who's a pretty level headed guy. Linux has influences which can be people or projects and ESR was an influence in the late 90's(he wrote an article that was pretty much responsible for Mozilla going open source).
But the influences on Linux change from year to year.
We're not only pushing the envelope in terms of population, we're also pushing the food chain that sustains us.
People have been saying this since the 1800's. It's about as true now as it was back then. When it comes to resources you have to keep in mind two things:
1> Humans produce more than they consume(if this wasn't true, we'd all still be hunters and gatherers). 2> As a natural resource that's not easily reproduced becomes scarce, the value on it will go up and people will seek cheaper alternatives.
Year after year they get smacked with hurricanes, sometimes on multiple occasions, yet the common sense to get the hell outta there eludes them. Never once do they think, "Gee, maybe we shouldn't live here since there are HURRICANES EVERY SINGLE YEAR."
Actually, I live in Fort Lauderdale that got smacked by Katrina and as long as
1> You realize that any property you own can be destroyed at any time. 2> You're prepared to live without outside access to food, water or power for at least a week or longer.
It's not really all that bad living in a hurricane zone. The problem is with people who have expectations above the reality of their situation.
I'm not going to blame the victims. Their lives suck right now. But I don't think any of them have the right to be surprised.
I live in Fort Lauderdale and we took Katrina as it passed through Florida. I wouldn't be surprised if a big one hit where I live and frankly I've even prepared for it.
But I don't think people up in Indiana or Ohio should be paying for people to live down here either. If you want to live in a distaster zone, the cost of living there should be all on you. But most people in these areas don't expect to get wiped out, and if they do they know they'll be covered. The population in this area is growing at an insane rate, house prices practically double every few years, and at some point there's gonna be a monster bail out bill when the next big one hits SE Florida.
Wine is a lot more hit or miss than Cedega is. The two products came from the same source a few years back, but then split off and diverged.
I never really tried using wine for games because Cedega has full time developers who's job it is to get new games working and keep existing games working through patches that come out. Also, Cedega is much easier to install and tweak games under. It has a GUI app called Point2Play that makes setting up your games easy.
But if you're a hard core gamer and switched fully to Linux expecting to be able to use wine or cedega to play your games, you're going to be very disappointed. It doesn't support a lot of titles.
Cedega is good if you only have a couple of games you like to play and it happens to support them. Or if you just want to not have to boot into Windows to play some of your games.
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If I might make a further suggestion... use http://www.newzbin.com/ which will give you NZB files that work with programs like http://ninan.sourceforge.net/ that make it easy to search and automatically download from NNTP.
I also use personally use http://www.giganews.com/ as my usenet provider since they have something like 70 days of binary retention.
If supply is fixed, let'd adjust demand.
But that's just it, supplies aren't fixed. Copper, iron, energy and food doesn't just pop into existance, it's produced by people. You need people to invent and find new resources too.
And not only do people produce resources, but they produce more than they consume. So the more the merrier.
If Vonage can't reach your phone, it has the option of directing to a backup number. So if my power goes out all my calls go to my cell phone.
Why are people even buying cars in the first place? If you city has good public transit, you could take the bus back and forth to work each day, and rent a car for the weekends for less then the price of owning a car.
Because almost every city in the US doesn't have a good public transit system. Owning a car is expensive, 100-200 a month in insurance, 300-400 a month in payments and worse health. But people pay that because they have little other choice.
In most cities in America the public transit system is barely surviving and is typically bailed out by the local city so people who can't afford cars have transportation at all. Bus schedules for those cities typically suck as they're trying to save as much money as possible. When I was without a car in Fort Wayne Indiana, taking the bus would turn what was normally a 20 min car trip into an hour plus bus ride. And that doesn't include the time spent waiting on the bus in freezing cold weather.
The emergency calling issue has pretty much been solved already.
And for power cuts, most people have cell phones these days and Vonage can detect outages and re-route your calls to any other number(like your cell phone).
If they buy an HD-DVD or BluRay player, it's not really going to look any better unless they buy a new HD TV. And they're still pretty expensive.
HDTVs are coming down in price a lot each year and will become the norm before long. I bought a brand new 52 inch HDTV for under $1000.
I mean, it probably would've been a success if they had called it the iMP3 Player.
then the Americans accidentally blew up
Hey. It's what we do.
IPv6 worldwide will require all old routers that don't support it to be replaced. Cisco sells routers.
You Americans are so blinded by your own hype you think the entire rest of the world is some 3rd world dictatorship. Grow up, actually LOOK at the rest of the world and realise it doesn't match your cardboard cutout preconceptions. The average US slashbot view of the rest of the world is laughably naive.
And you should probably understand the US more before bashing it. The US is very conservative when it comes to public airwaves in some respects(we have a taboo on sex, but show more violence than most countries). Getting upset about showing breasts on TV isn't a free speech issue. The word fuck getting bleeped out on radio isn't a free speech issue.
Freedom of religion and speech(and for many American's, the right to defend themselves) is very much at the core of the country. They're the first three, and most well known, items in our Bill of Rights and they're taken very seriously. Many take to the level of zealotry.
My 1998 Dodge Neon gets 33mpg and I drive like a madman.
I think the market just hasn't wanted better fuel economy so no one is bothering to produce it. I mean, everyone talks about gas prices but then everyone drives SUVs.
Yeah, but what happens in 10 years when the artist can cut a track in the studio, upload it directly to iTunes, iWhatever and pull in profits without a label ever seeing a dime?
That's what the labels are really afraid of and why they need music to stay on a physical medium that they can control. Indies can press their own CDs, but try getting Walmart to sell them without the backing of a label.
7> Paint a laser on the office window of the person you want to bug, and listen to their voice before it ever hits the hardware.
:)
Of course you're still screwed if the people involved are talking Klingon or Tolkenese or something
The first Supreme Court case tested wire taps in 1928 in fact found in favor of wire tapping, because ... wait for it ... the police were not entering the persons home so they were not invading the privacy of their home
I don't see how that deserves a "wait for it". I really don't see how a person owns the eletrons on a line once it leaves his or her property. And frankly, given today's access to encryption, that sort of ruling makes a lot more sense today than it did back then.
It's like communication on the internet. If you don't encrypt it, don't expect it to be private. Because once it leaves your network everyone pretty much owns it and can read it.
Now forcing backdoors in encryption is another matter entirely. It's my data and if I want to put CIA levels of encryption on it that's my right. If the FBI wants access to the data they can warrant me for the pass phrase or feel free to try and break it.
I was with a company that wanted to go with Coldfusion MX so we rolled it out on Linux. The system would constantly crash and the support forums for it was full of complaints... for the Linux version. It ran fine in Windows, but the company couldn't get it to work right under Linux. So we went back to PHP and never saw a crash again.
The problem wasn't Linux, it was that the product was written like crap.
But I imagine it's easier to get crap to run under Windows than Linux, because Windows has less variance.
A radio could be quite useful, but not nearly as useful as a couple of cases of bottled water.
Radios are very importing, not just useful. There are often alerts you need to know about and frankly it's mind numbingly boring without one.
Sign existing bands with sweet percentage deals on itune sales and outsource the physical media sales and tour management.
Everyone knows what the point of selling software or digital media is, but the problem/issue is that consumers don't have a moral problem stealing it.
The reason they don't is because a large number of people that grab a copy of software are only taking it because it's free. They wouldn't bother buying it because it doesn't interest them that much. So they rationalize that they're not hurting the producer of the software because they're not really costing the producer any lost revenue.
Really the concept of make it, print it, sell it doesn't really translate well into software or digital media. But it's the system we know, so it's what we use.
Other models do work, but you won't see the established businesses pursuing them because you don't buck the system when you're on top. That's why Linux, which is at the core of a huge number of businesses, came from left field.
DEC Alpha's in the mid 90's were 64bit and Linux went through a fairly large push to clean everything up to work with them.
I think that's one of the reasons why everything works so well with AMD64 today under Linux.
When I installed both Windows and Ubuntu onto my new AMD64 3500 the installs went like:
Ubunutu: put in the 64bit Ubuntu CD, answer some questions about my time zone, etc and everything worked on the first boot.
Windows: Install from the CD, watch it hang once doing that, try again(worked that time). Install drivers for my sound, video card, PCI bridges, etc. Have zero clue why my games were running extremely slow, then figured out(poking around at stuff) that I needed to install AGP drivers too....
The last PC upgrade I did was also much easier under Linux. I went from a AMD 1.4 T-Bird to a Athlon XP 2200. Swaped out the hardware, put in my drive and rebooted. Windows died, horribly, because the hardware was different(had to reinstall the OS). Linux just booted up and ran fine.
Linux is MUCH easier to install if it properly supports your hardware, but Windows supports more hardware because the vendors write drivers for it.
No one is really "at the helm" for Linux, except maybe Linus who's a pretty level headed guy. Linux has influences which can be people or projects and ESR was an influence in the late 90's(he wrote an article that was pretty much responsible for Mozilla going open source).
But the influences on Linux change from year to year.
We're not only pushing the envelope in terms of population, we're also pushing the food chain that sustains us.
People have been saying this since the 1800's. It's about as true now as it was back then. When it comes to resources you have to keep in mind two things:
1> Humans produce more than they consume(if this wasn't true, we'd all still be hunters and gatherers).
2> As a natural resource that's not easily reproduced becomes scarce, the value on it will go up and people will seek cheaper alternatives.
Year after year they get smacked with hurricanes, sometimes on multiple occasions, yet the common sense to get the hell outta there eludes them. Never once do they think, "Gee, maybe we shouldn't live here since there are HURRICANES EVERY SINGLE YEAR."
Actually, I live in Fort Lauderdale that got smacked by Katrina and as long as
1> You realize that any property you own can be destroyed at any time.
2> You're prepared to live without outside access to food, water or power for at least a week or longer.
It's not really all that bad living in a hurricane zone. The problem is with people who have expectations above the reality of their situation.
I'm not going to blame the victims. Their lives suck right now. But I don't think any of them have the right to be surprised.
I live in Fort Lauderdale and we took Katrina as it passed through Florida. I wouldn't be surprised if a big one hit where I live and frankly I've even prepared for it.
But I don't think people up in Indiana or Ohio should be paying for people to live down here either. If you want to live in a distaster zone, the cost of living there should be all on you. But most people in these areas don't expect to get wiped out, and if they do they know they'll be covered. The population in this area is growing at an insane rate, house prices practically double every few years, and at some point there's gonna be a monster bail out bill when the next big one hits SE Florida.
Wine is a lot more hit or miss than Cedega is. The two products came from the same source a few years back, but then split off and diverged.
I never really tried using wine for games because Cedega has full time developers who's job it is to get new games working and keep existing games working through patches that come out. Also, Cedega is much easier to install and tweak games under. It has a GUI app called Point2Play that makes setting up your games easy.
But if you're a hard core gamer and switched fully to Linux expecting to be able to use wine or cedega to play your games, you're going to be very disappointed. It doesn't support a lot of titles.
Cedega is good if you only have a couple of games you like to play and it happens to support them. Or if you just want to not have to boot into Windows to play some of your games.