Why would ISPs want to upgrade the links, I mean all that bandwidth is only get abused by torrenters and other ne'er-do-wells ( love that phrase ), to rip off the hard working people of the MPAA/RIAA.
Oh poo no, this was genuine?! Well knock me down with feather! Internet links are not fastest enough to carry a genuine, legal streamed video broadcast event to those entitled to see it? tut-tut-tut!
Too right!
This is the same government who thought that using chickens during the cold war to keep bombs warm before detonation!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3588465.stm
So what happens when some poor kids out in the middle of nowhere suddenly get a load of virus shit and spyware breaking the O/S? Will MS we flying out to with free copies or McAfee or Symantec? Also these kids have next to nothing to start with, some days they barely have enough to eat, so when they want some software that word of mouth has got around is pretty neat, are they going to be buying licenses from Adobe or MS etc? No, so local bloke will either hold them so ransom for the next 15 years over the software they got from him or someone will get some knocked off gear and next thing you know, the entire country is running on pirated software, of course M$ won't give a stuff so long as they are running pirated stuff on Windows, they have 'em hooked! At least if it's Linux the software will be free so no nasty, vile US mega-corp can go marching in and demanding these kids hand all the laptops back, that have dodgy software on them. M$ have to get their f**king snout in the trough, f**k you Gates and the dog you rode in on!!! I can tolerate M$ and Gates, even that loud-mouth, chair-chucking prat, Ballmer, but this just.....deep breaths.....
I'm only 35 and I absolutely hate advertising on TV, painting rosey pictures about how our lives should be lived! Feck orf!
As for younger viewers, ie over the age of 14 say, I can well believe the TV is on as simply a background noise, I used to do that many yonks ago.
...if and only IF I actually get something good from it. The net service is a service like my water, gas and electric. I expect when I pay for my utilities that the vast majority of it goes back into upgrading the system that provides it and a little profit for supplier. The telcos saw the internet as a gimmick, a bolt-on, "Who the hell wants constant access to a global comms network?". Stuff it we'll bang it out dirt cheap and for the few KB people will download, little email, little browsing, we can just about cover that and a little profit.
We'll you drove it down so cheap, cut of noses to spite faces and now your all crowing about not being to handle all the on-demand video, the P2P. Now surely you telco freaks knew that technology expands and adapts and keeps getting bigger, fatter, faster and more demanding? No, well more fool you! Put the price up, no problem, but you better damn well stop that capping my connection between 4pm and 9pm every evening crap that Virgin Media ISP do here in the UK. I don't see the gas supplier capping my supply when i turn up the heat in Winter, no they do that to old aged pensioners when they can't pay their bills after one missed month, anyway, the electric company don't cap my supply when I run my lawn mower, stereo and PC kit in the Summer when I'm outside on my patio!
No they do their best to provide the service I pay for, 'cos the UK watchdog OFWAT make 'em, but OFCOM are a bunch of gutless turds who will not go up against the might of the evil empire British Telecom or that beardy wierdy Dicky Branson and his Virgin c***s!
( deep breaths, calming thoughts, deep breaths, caliming thoughts....breath in the hate, breath out the love...)
You need a system that is extremely adaptable in all aspects and all apps, in addition you need good quality hardware like screens with good driver cards and quality cables. Our shop uses Eizo monitors of any size you request and always on DVI from Matrox cards. Personally I use dual 19" screen Kubuntu box, keeps your eyes moving and refocusing. My shells are always bright grey text on black backgrounds, sometimes transparent to see the changing backdrops, once again so I'm always moving and refocusing my eyes. The Windows box I have to have, company policy, has all the windows with black text on light grey backrounds in ALL the windows, never white background in any windows like my colleagues. I find the light grey tinting means I can stare at the Outlook and Word windows for a lot longer than many other people I work with.
Hmmm, rather ironic. Mr Dawkins denounces religion and preaching blind faith, but quite happily takes part in a very popular quasi-relgious TV show that has very serious devotees, he also enjoys standing in his scientific pulpit preaching the word of science to the point of becoming a lunatic-fanatic. Don't get me wrong, I despise religion and the awful things done in it's name and I do have a grudging admiration for Mr D, but find it all rather amusing!
I am so sick to death of ads, everywhere I go, no matter what i do. I am so utterly sick of the fact that some money-grabbing dirtbag feels the constant need to monitor my every move and try and sell me his latest supersonic hydromatic piece of shite. What's more annoying is having to set up so many different "systems" to fight them off.
The London tube system, used to be OK, a few wall posters, easy to ignore but now they have started fitting flat screens with moving ads, the buses have flat panels with ads.
Browsing obviously has ads everywhere, so you install ad blockers, flash blockers, just so you can save bandwidth and stop being targetted.
I very rarely watch TV these days as the TV ads just annoy me too much, I get my TV shows from torrents, because I know they will be ad free.
I don't bother with loyalty cards at supermarkets, so I don't get junk mail. I have to sign up to telephone and mail privacy services, so I don't get cold-called or bombarded with junk mail trying to sell me credit cards or some such shite.
In the end it's all just pure greed isn't it? I don't mind some selected ads, but only when I choose to find them, when I want a new PC, vacuum cleaner, washing machine, I will pick up a magazine and decide. I'm adult enough to be able to read reviews, ask friends and make my own decisions.
Please just let me be the judge of what, when and where, otherwise just leave me alone.
So not only are we in the UK the target of the insidious Phorm system which will gather all our surfing habits direct from the ISP whether we like it or not, they also might rape us for another $5/month for something I have no party in? FU with big hairy nobs on! I buy ALL my music in hard format direct from the metal labels and specialist metal shops, I never download movies or MP3s, ever.
I tell you what, would the government and large corporations just like to come round and bend me over then cart me off to clink, as it was obviously my fault that other people can't stop murdering and stealing, let's just get it over with shall we? We all obviously did some seriously bad shit in previous lives. 'cos everyone just seems to have it in for us in this one!
With all due repsect, what's all the fuss about? OK so they were the biggest thing ever when they first started out, they showed that a bunch of nobody's who practised hard, made the breaks themselves could become "bigger than Jebus", but other than another highlighted entry in rock's who's who, why all the fuss every time one of them farts, for cripes sake? No I'm not some 16 year old whipper snapper with no knowledge of where my music comes from, currently staring at the "underside" of 40 years old, even my old man at 68 can't see what the fuss is all about and he saw them in their heyday, bought their stuff first time around!
From what I have gathered Mr Wales is a bit of loony, doesn't he call himself the spirtual leader of Wiki or some such nonsense? Didn't Sanger leave Wikipedia because Wales was being such a nob-cheese about everything? I like Wiki, it's not that bad, but I only use it to look up trivial stuff like band info and the odd historical bit of info, silly stuff like dates of major events, but there is no way I would rely on it for a life saving thing or coursework for a qualification, too many people out there in user land, think the Wiki can be relied on for solid facts!
This time it's personal MF's!
Nice idea, but good luck convincing the ISP's to fork out the expense, they won't upgrade the kit they have at the moment here in the UK, they simply keeping capping slower and slower to delay the inevitable
To para-phrase Dr Johnson is Blackadder....
A peaceful, tolerant religion is like a dog that speaks. Very rare!
A peaceful, tolerant religion that practices what it preaches, is like a dog that that speaks Norwegian. Even rarer!
What annoys me most is that MS couldn't give two hoots about the project other than it's importance as a point scorer. It couldn't care less if generations to come have to go begging cap-in-hand for the dusty old source to unlock the data, they simply want to score points right now and prove that only MS can be trusted to look after the nation's history and heritage, not a bunch of "commie-hippies" and their free stuff!
Once again a prime example of those with the purse strings only having heard of MS and that's all their kids, wives, grannies, etc, use. "What you mean there are alternatives and they're free? Well if you have to give it away, can't very much good then can it! We'll stick with someone who can be trusted eh?"
I do feel a little sorry for MS devs, indeed any commerical product devs, only a little mind. "Marketing says customers want X, you developers make it happen, else there'll be hell to pay to the shareholders and with it any illusions of your work-related and stock-option bonuses!". So the poor souls have to make X happen, no matter what it takes, whether it's good for the product or not, even whether it's entirely feasible or not.
One reason why MoBlock and its Win equivalent, Peerguardian are compulsory in my house. I pay my subscription, I never lookup Pr0N, download movies, MP3s or software, except from the Ubuntu repo, so quite frankly, what I lookup online is no ****ing business of my ISP, DoubleShit, Ad-Shite or anyone else for that matter!
I used to hate MS on principle, but I've no longer got anything against MS or their O/S's, they simply aren't my cup of tea anymore. Sorry MS but gimmicks like this just make them look silly and very, very desperate, maybe not to Johnny Saturday Shopper, who doesn't really care about what his PC does, but I've made a choice to join the Ubuntu/Linux crowd, the O/S just suits me better. I like the fact that it simply works and I can get my hands on oodles of great software for nothing, with no guilt and no silly nag-screens asking for payment. Ubuntu simply ask that I pass it along to all my friends. Above all I like the fact that the "company" who supplies my O/S has some integrity and care to try to make this world just a little bit easy to get along in.
Strangely I too am very suspicious of anything philanthropic, that dear old Bill gets involved in. I'm actually quite ashamed of being so jaded, but I suppose that's just old age for you!
I find almost all religions personally objectionable. They all codified "laws" and expected the faithful to follow to the letter, times have changed but still the fanatics still follow, more closely than ever before.
Personally my parents, hardly any interest in religion, brought me up to respect everyone, they taught me correctly that I must first listen, learn then I can discuss. They taught me to be tolerant of others opinions. I and many others don't need someone reading a ancient book of fairy-tales telling me that need to respect my fellow man or that I should respect their opinions and possessions, as if they were my own.
If you feel the faith in your religion helps you get through your day, defeat your demons, then great, I respect that you need that crutch to help you. Personally I find that if I'm not shitty to all around me, respect the planet and nature, we all tend to get a long a little better, that's simple ingrained care and respect, nothing to do with religious indoctrination.
I will teach my children honest simple to respect those around them and themselves, if they feel they need the crutch of a religion, then so be it, they are individuals. When they are older I hope I will have given them enough common sense to make choices based on consideration of facts, not blind obedience to an unseen force or idea. Unless of course they decide to become Jedi's, then they really will be in trouble!
I was technically "born a christian" and if I'm wrong, well I will certainly have a lot of company with all the other shitty people and other non-believers, if I do end-up down "there"!
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Why would ISPs want to upgrade the links, I mean all that bandwidth is only get abused by torrenters and other ne'er-do-wells ( love that phrase ), to rip off the hard working people of the MPAA/RIAA. Oh poo no, this was genuine?! Well knock me down with feather! Internet links are not fastest enough to carry a genuine, legal streamed video broadcast event to those entitled to see it? tut-tut-tut!
Well said brother! Here, here!
Too right! This is the same government who thought that using chickens during the cold war to keep bombs warm before detonation! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3588465.stm
Send 'em out to the third world, now the OLPC has XP on it, they are gonna need some beefier hardware to run all those XP licenses they bought.
So what happens when some poor kids out in the middle of nowhere suddenly get a load of virus shit and spyware breaking the O/S? Will MS we flying out to with free copies or McAfee or Symantec? Also these kids have next to nothing to start with, some days they barely have enough to eat, so when they want some software that word of mouth has got around is pretty neat, are they going to be buying licenses from Adobe or MS etc? No, so local bloke will either hold them so ransom for the next 15 years over the software they got from him or someone will get some knocked off gear and next thing you know, the entire country is running on pirated software, of course M$ won't give a stuff so long as they are running pirated stuff on Windows, they have 'em hooked! At least if it's Linux the software will be free so no nasty, vile US mega-corp can go marching in and demanding these kids hand all the laptops back, that have dodgy software on them. M$ have to get their f**king snout in the trough, f**k you Gates and the dog you rode in on!!! I can tolerate M$ and Gates, even that loud-mouth, chair-chucking prat, Ballmer, but this just.....deep breaths.....
I'm only 35 and I absolutely hate advertising on TV, painting rosey pictures about how our lives should be lived! Feck orf! As for younger viewers, ie over the age of 14 say, I can well believe the TV is on as simply a background noise, I used to do that many yonks ago.
...if and only IF I actually get something good from it. The net service is a service like my water, gas and electric. I expect when I pay for my utilities that the vast majority of it goes back into upgrading the system that provides it and a little profit for supplier. The telcos saw the internet as a gimmick, a bolt-on, "Who the hell wants constant access to a global comms network?". Stuff it we'll bang it out dirt cheap and for the few KB people will download, little email, little browsing, we can just about cover that and a little profit.
We'll you drove it down so cheap, cut of noses to spite faces and now your all crowing about not being to handle all the on-demand video, the P2P. Now surely you telco freaks knew that technology expands and adapts and keeps getting bigger, fatter, faster and more demanding? No, well more fool you! Put the price up, no problem, but you better damn well stop that capping my connection between 4pm and 9pm every evening crap that Virgin Media ISP do here in the UK. I don't see the gas supplier capping my supply when i turn up the heat in Winter, no they do that to old aged pensioners when they can't pay their bills after one missed month, anyway, the electric company don't cap my supply when I run my lawn mower, stereo and PC kit in the Summer when I'm outside on my patio!
No they do their best to provide the service I pay for, 'cos the UK watchdog OFWAT make 'em, but OFCOM are a bunch of gutless turds who will not go up against the might of the evil empire British Telecom or that beardy wierdy Dicky Branson and his Virgin c***s!
( deep breaths, calming thoughts, deep breaths, caliming thoughts....breath in the hate, breath out the love...)
You need a system that is extremely adaptable in all aspects and all apps, in addition you need good quality hardware like screens with good driver cards and quality cables. Our shop uses Eizo monitors of any size you request and always on DVI from Matrox cards. Personally I use dual 19" screen Kubuntu box, keeps your eyes moving and refocusing. My shells are always bright grey text on black backgrounds, sometimes transparent to see the changing backdrops, once again so I'm always moving and refocusing my eyes. The Windows box I have to have, company policy, has all the windows with black text on light grey backrounds in ALL the windows, never white background in any windows like my colleagues. I find the light grey tinting means I can stare at the Outlook and Word windows for a lot longer than many other people I work with.
Hmmm, rather ironic. Mr Dawkins denounces religion and preaching blind faith, but quite happily takes part in a very popular quasi-relgious TV show that has very serious devotees, he also enjoys standing in his scientific pulpit preaching the word of science to the point of becoming a lunatic-fanatic. Don't get me wrong, I despise religion and the awful things done in it's name and I do have a grudging admiration for Mr D, but find it all rather amusing!
I am so sick to death of ads, everywhere I go, no matter what i do. I am so utterly sick of the fact that some money-grabbing dirtbag feels the constant need to monitor my every move and try and sell me his latest supersonic hydromatic piece of shite. What's more annoying is having to set up so many different "systems" to fight them off. The London tube system, used to be OK, a few wall posters, easy to ignore but now they have started fitting flat screens with moving ads, the buses have flat panels with ads. Browsing obviously has ads everywhere, so you install ad blockers, flash blockers, just so you can save bandwidth and stop being targetted. I very rarely watch TV these days as the TV ads just annoy me too much, I get my TV shows from torrents, because I know they will be ad free. I don't bother with loyalty cards at supermarkets, so I don't get junk mail. I have to sign up to telephone and mail privacy services, so I don't get cold-called or bombarded with junk mail trying to sell me credit cards or some such shite. In the end it's all just pure greed isn't it? I don't mind some selected ads, but only when I choose to find them, when I want a new PC, vacuum cleaner, washing machine, I will pick up a magazine and decide. I'm adult enough to be able to read reviews, ask friends and make my own decisions. Please just let me be the judge of what, when and where, otherwise just leave me alone.
So not only are we in the UK the target of the insidious Phorm system which will gather all our surfing habits direct from the ISP whether we like it or not, they also might rape us for another $5/month for something I have no party in? FU with big hairy nobs on! I buy ALL my music in hard format direct from the metal labels and specialist metal shops, I never download movies or MP3s, ever. I tell you what, would the government and large corporations just like to come round and bend me over then cart me off to clink, as it was obviously my fault that other people can't stop murdering and stealing, let's just get it over with shall we? We all obviously did some seriously bad shit in previous lives. 'cos everyone just seems to have it in for us in this one!
With all due repsect, what's all the fuss about? OK so they were the biggest thing ever when they first started out, they showed that a bunch of nobody's who practised hard, made the breaks themselves could become "bigger than Jebus", but other than another highlighted entry in rock's who's who, why all the fuss every time one of them farts, for cripes sake? No I'm not some 16 year old whipper snapper with no knowledge of where my music comes from, currently staring at the "underside" of 40 years old, even my old man at 68 can't see what the fuss is all about and he saw them in their heyday, bought their stuff first time around!
From what I have gathered Mr Wales is a bit of loony, doesn't he call himself the spirtual leader of Wiki or some such nonsense? Didn't Sanger leave Wikipedia because Wales was being such a nob-cheese about everything? I like Wiki, it's not that bad, but I only use it to look up trivial stuff like band info and the odd historical bit of info, silly stuff like dates of major events, but there is no way I would rely on it for a life saving thing or coursework for a qualification, too many people out there in user land, think the Wiki can be relied on for solid facts!
Just a bunch of vultures picking over the carcass of what's left of the record industry.
Spooky irony,my captcha: "record"!
This time it's personal MF's! Nice idea, but good luck convincing the ISP's to fork out the expense, they won't upgrade the kit they have at the moment here in the UK, they simply keeping capping slower and slower to delay the inevitable
To para-phrase Dr Johnson is Blackadder.... A peaceful, tolerant religion is like a dog that speaks. Very rare! A peaceful, tolerant religion that practices what it preaches, is like a dog that that speaks Norwegian. Even rarer!
What annoys me most is that MS couldn't give two hoots about the project other than it's importance as a point scorer. It couldn't care less if generations to come have to go begging cap-in-hand for the dusty old source to unlock the data, they simply want to score points right now and prove that only MS can be trusted to look after the nation's history and heritage, not a bunch of "commie-hippies" and their free stuff! Once again a prime example of those with the purse strings only having heard of MS and that's all their kids, wives, grannies, etc, use. "What you mean there are alternatives and they're free? Well if you have to give it away, can't very much good then can it! We'll stick with someone who can be trusted eh?"
I do feel a little sorry for MS devs, indeed any commerical product devs, only a little mind. "Marketing says customers want X, you developers make it happen, else there'll be hell to pay to the shareholders and with it any illusions of your work-related and stock-option bonuses!". So the poor souls have to make X happen, no matter what it takes, whether it's good for the product or not, even whether it's entirely feasible or not.
One reason why MoBlock and its Win equivalent, Peerguardian are compulsory in my house. I pay my subscription, I never lookup Pr0N, download movies, MP3s or software, except from the Ubuntu repo, so quite frankly, what I lookup online is no ****ing business of my ISP, DoubleShit, Ad-Shite or anyone else for that matter!
I used to hate MS on principle, but I've no longer got anything against MS or their O/S's, they simply aren't my cup of tea anymore. Sorry MS but gimmicks like this just make them look silly and very, very desperate, maybe not to Johnny Saturday Shopper, who doesn't really care about what his PC does, but I've made a choice to join the Ubuntu/Linux crowd, the O/S just suits me better. I like the fact that it simply works and I can get my hands on oodles of great software for nothing, with no guilt and no silly nag-screens asking for payment. Ubuntu simply ask that I pass it along to all my friends. Above all I like the fact that the "company" who supplies my O/S has some integrity and care to try to make this world just a little bit easy to get along in.
Strangely I too am very suspicious of anything philanthropic, that dear old Bill gets involved in. I'm actually quite ashamed of being so jaded, but I suppose that's just old age for you!
Making the software world a more friendly place to work and play! Here's to many more years!
I find almost all religions personally objectionable. They all codified "laws" and expected the faithful to follow to the letter, times have changed but still the fanatics still follow, more closely than ever before. Personally my parents, hardly any interest in religion, brought me up to respect everyone, they taught me correctly that I must first listen, learn then I can discuss. They taught me to be tolerant of others opinions. I and many others don't need someone reading a ancient book of fairy-tales telling me that need to respect my fellow man or that I should respect their opinions and possessions, as if they were my own. If you feel the faith in your religion helps you get through your day, defeat your demons, then great, I respect that you need that crutch to help you. Personally I find that if I'm not shitty to all around me, respect the planet and nature, we all tend to get a long a little better, that's simple ingrained care and respect, nothing to do with religious indoctrination. I will teach my children honest simple to respect those around them and themselves, if they feel they need the crutch of a religion, then so be it, they are individuals. When they are older I hope I will have given them enough common sense to make choices based on consideration of facts, not blind obedience to an unseen force or idea. Unless of course they decide to become Jedi's, then they really will be in trouble! I was technically "born a christian" and if I'm wrong, well I will certainly have a lot of company with all the other shitty people and other non-believers, if I do end-up down "there"!
LOL! Sadly, 'cos other, more clueless fucks, think they're making sense!
Imagine the bill for building Disaster Recovery site version of this "globally shared resource"!