Gabber is a kind of techno/house music, i think its made by Dutch producers mostly. Anyway it is IMHO the most god awfull noise known to man-kind and should be avoided at all costs.
I think what he meant to say was "I'm going to super-bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to super-kill Google."... super!
OMG someone has to tell these people about the joys of the JPEG image format. A whole page of bitmaps?!?! Why don't they just take a bat to the webserver... same effect but more fun.
Ok I'm probably being stupid but... 30 hours play time with phone off, 15 hours when on. So playing music consumes as much power as simply being a phone. Soo if I don't listen to music ever and just use it as a phone then the battery will last me only 30 hours. Soooo if i don't want to recharge the bloody thing more than once every 24 hours, I may not listen to more than 6 hours of music - and that's based on the promotional figures of a brand spanking new battery.
This IMHO is one of the problems with convergence. If I had two devices then I could listen to music until the battery died but my phone would still work fine. With this device I could so easily end up with a very expensive, high-tech paperwieght come late afternoon.
This reminds me of the time I was working with Karen tribals in Northen Thailand. I was contacted by a representative of Sun Micro who (as part of their charity program) wanted to give schools in the region computers so they could communicate children from other parts of the world. A noble idea but rather short sighted since these villages did not have electricity or so much as a phone line.
If they really wanted to help the children then how about buying their land from the Forestry Commission so they didn't get moved every time more lumber was needed. And how about giving financial incentives to farmers up stream so they didn't pollute the river with pesticides. Oh and how about razing some awareness of the troubles in Myanmar so that the villages didn't get shot when walking to near the border.
But hey, I'm sure board-room people of Sun got a nice warm fuzzy feeling when they though of the whole computers for tribals idea.
There is something very fishy about all this. First we hear almost nothing in the press about N.Koria for years and years, who just sit there blowing raspberries at the rest the of the world. Then there are train wrecks and explosions and various evil plots to take over the world.
Now we have a series of articles built up on speculation. Everybody seems to believe them just because it seems like the kind of thing N.Koria would do if it could. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this whole episode was born when Civil Servant A says to Civil Servant B "My win95 box is broken, I bet its those pesky North Korian's trying to hack me...." A political big-wig overhears and thinks "Hey thats a good idea!"
Does anybody have the tiniest little bit of proof?
I guess my worry with all this is that our warmongering governments would just love an excuse to squash that annoying pimple on the face of capitalism. This all may just be a prelude campaign for your hearts and minds - fear and paranoia respectively.
According to previous articles I have read they will operate out of China since N. Koria has little or no network infastructure. So firewalling them may be rather pointless.
I seem to remember reading about this happening before, around the time that Soviet rule was ending in Russian. They took two volunteers and made them lie in a bed for months, simulating long term space travel. One of them gave up but the other went insane and eventually died of a genetic heart condition exacerbated by not getting any exercise.
I've been reading the comments on threshold 0 and I can believe the kind of things people have been writing. Using words like "anti-american" and "pro-terrorism" in all seriousness.
I think we need to institute an no politics rule on/. since this topic is making me feel queezy. I much prefered the days when we would all agree that MS is evil, linux rules, and have cute little arguments about which distro is better.
Nooooo! I am such a fool! After reading about this bug, I wondered to myself if I was vunerable. So I ran the Testcase HTML and clicked "Save." "
"/home/hamish/Downloads could not be saved due to unknown error"
I open up a terminal (feeling slightly queezy) and...
hamish@lilith:~$ cd ~/Downloads
bash: cd:/home/hamish/Downloads: Permission denied
Bugger bollocks damn damn damn. I am officially the stupidest person in the world - King of the noobs.
It's actually rather interesting... I do still have permissions to the Downloads directory, and it is flagged as a still a directory, but it is now of size 77824 bytes. Also its contents are still viewable but not accessible.
Anyway, note to self: Stop reading bugzilla! Stop reading slashdot! Sort life out.
Completed Doom 3 on a Radeon 9200, along with Farcry, Dawn of War and a bunch of other g-card munching games... unfortunately I play so much games that I don't have the money to buy a new graphics card.:'(
Although fueled by the version insanity of 0.83.1 which broke their old version system, this really is just a cosmetic change and perhaps a bit of a PR stunt. The proof of the pudding is a frontpage story on/. which should generate some new users and attract some old ones back. All power to them.
Doesn't effect me whatsoever because I compile CVS on a weekly basis - it's the only way to stay on top of MSN/Yahoo breaking their own networks.
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I'm from the UK so there could be differences, also I could have been speaking out of my arse (ass):)
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Its a good idea but I think that in reality it probably wouldn't work. The problem with arbitration is that there is NO guarantee of a solution. The parties involved must come to some agreement, and the arbitrators have no real power over them. While the arbitrators can try and help the parties to see sense, there is often a big difference between legal/moral/ethical sense and the economic sense that large companies have in mind. When things can't be resolved then the case just goes back to the court room. While it is clearly in the interest of the "little guys" to clear the whole thing up as cheaply and quickly as possible, this simply isn't the case for large companies. They have large legal teams and are quite happy to throw huge amounts of money at getting what they want.
Also, Having arbitrators with experience in the particular field is somewhat irrelevant. Eg. Whilst a small software company might send their head programmer to argue their case, Microsoft would send as many lawyers as could fit in the room to unflinchingly repeat their claims.
In my opinion the solution is: Tell the patent office to take all the time they need over each patent. Very soon a huge backlog would form and nobody would be able to patent anything for year and years. The more big companies patented stupid stuff the worse the situation would get. They would effectively hang themselves on their own greed.:-)
I think the first thing people have to remember is that the CCTV cameras in the UK are not some huge centralised network where Blair can press a button and see me sitting at my laptop in the park. It is decentralised, set up and run by shops, bars, clubs, councils, etc... Enemy Of The State is a cool film, it is also rather silly.
The Brittish government, while I wouldn't go so far as to say I trust them, are relatively benign when it comes to nation affairs. There are laws protectly us from the missuse of these cameras and if we can't relay on governments abiding by the (national) law then we are all screwed anyway.
I worked for some time in a small shop in a "difficult" area. Sometimes I would be working on my own late at night and my only friend was the CCTV. When trouble was bruing I would say "Smile for the cameras, I'm phoning the police now." Okay this doesn't tackle the route causes of crime but anything that prevents it being perpetrated on me right now is a very good thing.
"The result is quite fascinating."...
*click*
"Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible."
Hmm, it always facinates me when other peoples bank accounts are soon going to be in as much difficulty as mine is.
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In an ideal world layers would spend all day happily suing each other and leave the rest of us to get on with life.
Gabber is a kind of techno/house music, i think its made by Dutch producers mostly. Anyway it is IMHO the most god awfull noise known to man-kind and should be avoided at all costs.
I think what he meant to say was "I'm going to super-bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to super-kill Google." ... super!
OMG someone has to tell these people about the joys of the JPEG image format. A whole page of bitmaps?!?! Why don't they just take a bat to the webserver... same effect but more fun.
Ok I'm probably being stupid but... 30 hours play time with phone off, 15 hours when on. So playing music consumes as much power as simply being a phone. Soo if I don't listen to music ever and just use it as a phone then the battery will last me only 30 hours. Soooo if i don't want to recharge the bloody thing more than once every 24 hours, I may not listen to more than 6 hours of music - and that's based on the promotional figures of a brand spanking new battery.
This IMHO is one of the problems with convergence. If I had two devices then I could listen to music until the battery died but my phone would still work fine. With this device I could so easily end up with a very expensive, high-tech paperwieght come late afternoon.
This reminds me of the time I was working with Karen tribals in Northen Thailand. I was contacted by a representative of Sun Micro who (as part of their charity program) wanted to give schools in the region computers so they could communicate children from other parts of the world. A noble idea but rather short sighted since these villages did not have electricity or so much as a phone line.
If they really wanted to help the children then how about buying their land from the Forestry Commission so they didn't get moved every time more lumber was needed. And how about giving financial incentives to farmers up stream so they didn't pollute the river with pesticides. Oh and how about razing some awareness of the troubles in Myanmar so that the villages didn't get shot when walking to near the border.
But hey, I'm sure board-room people of Sun got a nice warm fuzzy feeling when they though of the whole computers for tribals idea.
I considered modding you down to help keep your message "low key"...
There is something very fishy about all this. First we hear almost nothing in the press about N.Koria for years and years, who just sit there blowing raspberries at the rest the of the world. Then there are train wrecks and explosions and various evil plots to take over the world.
Now we have a series of articles built up on speculation. Everybody seems to believe them just because it seems like the kind of thing N.Koria would do if it could. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this whole episode was born when Civil Servant A says to Civil Servant B "My win95 box is broken, I bet its those pesky North Korian's trying to hack me...." A political big-wig overhears and thinks "Hey thats a good idea!"
Does anybody have the tiniest little bit of proof?
I guess my worry with all this is that our warmongering governments would just love an excuse to squash that annoying pimple on the face of capitalism. This all may just be a prelude campaign for your hearts and minds - fear and paranoia respectively.
According to previous articles I have read they will operate out of China since N. Koria has little or no network infastructure. So firewalling them may be rather pointless.
I seem to remember reading about this happening before, around the time that Soviet rule was ending in Russian. They took two volunteers and made them lie in a bed for months, simulating long term space travel. One of them gave up but the other went insane and eventually died of a genetic heart condition exacerbated by not getting any exercise.
I've been reading the comments on threshold 0 and I can believe the kind of things people have been writing. Using words like "anti-american" and "pro-terrorism" in all seriousness.
I think we need to institute an no politics rule on /. since this topic is making me feel queezy. I much prefered the days when we would all agree that MS is evil, linux rules, and have cute little arguments about which distro is better.
Nooooo! I am such a fool! After reading about this bug, I wondered to myself if I was vunerable. So I ran the Testcase HTML and clicked "Save."
" "/home/hamish/Downloads could not be saved due to unknown error" I open up a terminal (feeling slightly queezy) and...
Bugger bollocks damn damn damn. I am officially the stupidest person in the world - King of the noobs.
It's actually rather interesting... I do still have permissions to the Downloads directory, and it is flagged as a still a directory, but it is now of size 77824 bytes. Also its contents are still viewable but not accessible.
Anyway, note to self: Stop reading bugzilla! Stop reading slashdot! Sort life out.
Completed Doom 3 on a Radeon 9200, along with Farcry, Dawn of War and a bunch of other g-card munching games... unfortunately I play so much games that I don't have the money to buy a new graphics card. :'(
Evidence??...
...Not so much as warehouse full of high-tensile aluminium mouse mats.
Although fueled by the version insanity of 0.83.1 which broke their old version system, this really is just a cosmetic change and perhaps a bit of a PR stunt. The proof of the pudding is a frontpage story on /. which should generate some new users and attract some old ones back. All power to them.
Doesn't effect me whatsoever because I compile CVS on a weekly basis - it's the only way to stay on top of MSN/Yahoo breaking their own networks.
I'm from the UK so there could be differences, also I could have been speaking out of my arse (ass) :)
Its a good idea but I think that in reality it probably wouldn't work. The problem with arbitration is that there is NO guarantee of a solution. The parties involved must come to some agreement, and the arbitrators have no real power over them. While the arbitrators can try and help the parties to see sense, there is often a big difference between legal/moral/ethical sense and the economic sense that large companies have in mind. When things can't be resolved then the case just goes back to the court room. While it is clearly in the interest of the "little guys" to clear the whole thing up as cheaply and quickly as possible, this simply isn't the case for large companies. They have large legal teams and are quite happy to throw huge amounts of money at getting what they want.
Also, Having arbitrators with experience in the particular field is somewhat irrelevant. Eg. Whilst a small software company might send their head programmer to argue their case, Microsoft would send as many lawyers as could fit in the room to unflinchingly repeat their claims.
In my opinion the solution is: Tell the patent office to take all the time they need over each patent. Very soon a huge backlog would form and nobody would be able to patent anything for year and years. The more big companies patented stupid stuff the worse the situation would get. They would effectively hang themselves on their own greed. :-)
I think the first thing people have to remember is that the CCTV cameras in the UK are not some huge centralised network where Blair can press a button and see me sitting at my laptop in the park. It is decentralised, set up and run by shops, bars, clubs, councils, etc... Enemy Of The State is a cool film, it is also rather silly.
The Brittish government, while I wouldn't go so far as to say I trust them, are relatively benign when it comes to nation affairs. There are laws protectly us from the missuse of these cameras and if we can't relay on governments abiding by the (national) law then we are all screwed anyway.
I worked for some time in a small shop in a "difficult" area. Sometimes I would be working on my own late at night and my only friend was the CCTV. When trouble was bruing I would say "Smile for the cameras, I'm phoning the police now." Okay this doesn't tackle the route causes of crime but anything that prevents it being perpetrated on me right now is a very good thing.
"The result is quite fascinating."... *click* "Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible." Hmm, it always facinates me when other peoples bank accounts are soon going to be in as much difficulty as mine is.
Farang go to Pantip Plaza for software, and Patpong Plaza for their um 'hardware' needs :p ...