"Even go a stage further and insist every household has to have someone with a PC use accreditation to be able to connect to the Internet."
Naff off mate...;) the ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) is already heavily biased (ie 100%) to doing tasks on MS only computers with purely MS software. I'd only welcome that if the ECDL was revised to generic computing tasks that didn't refer to exclusively MS software.
Think about it... if they charge you a "copyright tax" of 40 Euros per computer, then you can download stuff via p2p to your heart's content... I'd willingly pay a one off levy on purchase to tell the minions of the **AA to P off... and gladly make sure my receipt for this levy was kept very, very safe...
I do believe that Canadians pay a levy per blank media item.
For viewing a "television" stream over the Internet, then they can easily levy a duty on the broadband connection to cover the lost License Fees or just extend the existing license fee coverage to include a broadband connection to be part of the definition for a "television" receiver.
"In parallel, clusters of document servers contain copies of Web pages that Google has cached. Hoelzle said that the refresh rate is from one to seven days, with an average of two days. That's mostly dependent on the needs of the Web publishers.
"One surprising limitation is we can't crawl as fast as we would like, because [smaller] webmasters complain," he said. "
well, we could introduce a setting into robots.txt where we can tell google how often they can spider your site...
there'll be a mass exodus of website owners to hosting nations wil less onerous requirements... Third world nations will make millions from doing the offshore hosting. Then you'll get the ridiculous prospect of it being illegal to transmit data across the border without a permit... so people will resort to stealthy methods to get their content out onto the websites...
Yes... just google for it... it comes up top with just a simple search... deity... kids these days want everything served up for them... too darn lazy, that's what it is... grrr... when I were a lad... we had to build our own clusters from scratch... none of these new fangled magic tools like ClusterKnoppix... aye... right tough we were...
The old South African Government would never allow any statements to be made that would imply there had been advanced technology/civilisation prior to the arrival of the white man...
I don't want a f*****g registry... I hate single points of failure and weird cryptic files which cannot be easily worked on in desperation with a text mode editor... I've had far too many nightmares with the windows registries to want to go down that road again...
of course you don't see a BSOD these days... Microsoft changed the way of handling those so that the machine just spontaneously reboots instead... you never get to see the machine hung with the BSSOD... (Big Scary Screen Of Death)
it's a distribution issue Dylan...with a modern Distro... and I don't mean weird wacky fundamentalist stuff like Slackware... plugging the USB item in and turning it on results in an icon appearing on the desktop and a Konqueror filemanager window opening up ready for you already pointed at the device... Gnome and Nautilus is just as easy as an icon appears on the desktop and just requires you to click on it to open it up in nautilus.
No one edits fstab anymore... unless they're running a really old-fashioned fundamentalist type distro... Even Debian Sarge is "with the program" now... and Ubuntu just works and keeps on working.
A patent isn't "private property"... it's a government sanctioned short term monopoly on something, not a physical item of property. What the patent covers belongs to the commons after expiry. What should happen is that the state revokes the patent in that state and says whoopey de doo to the holder of the patent. The grounds for revoking the patent would be abuse of the monopoly.
deity knows why this was modded redundant... it's the ONLY reply to the OP that actually mentions that you won't have licensing issues when using Linux... or for that matter BSD... the only people suffering with licensing issues will be those using proprietary apps.
Is this a patent on the method of doing it or the idea??? cos if you can do the same with an entirely different method then their patent can't touch you.
bollox... Van Halen were just a bunch of pretentious assholes... who's to say they didn't put the brown ones back in to avoid having to do the gig... take a look at the facilities, decide they don't like it and pull the stunt to get out of it...
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One man alone cannot conspire... think about it.
give us a link to it then... fancy just mentioning this app and then leaving us all dangling... ;)
I do believe that Canadians pay a levy per blank media item.
For viewing a "television" stream over the Internet, then they can easily levy a duty on the broadband connection to cover the lost License Fees or just extend the existing license fee coverage to include a broadband connection to be part of the definition for a "television" receiver.
well, we could introduce a setting into robots.txt where we can tell google how often they can spider your site...
contented Linux user... who gets to enjoy all his CPU cycles... :)
there'll be a mass exodus of website owners to hosting nations wil less onerous requirements... Third world nations will make millions from doing the offshore hosting. Then you'll get the ridiculous prospect of it being illegal to transmit data across the border without a permit... so people will resort to stealthy methods to get their content out onto the websites...
you've got the source... fix it then... don't just sit there whinging about it...
Yes... just google for it... it comes up top with just a simple search... deity... kids these days want everything served up for them... too darn lazy, that's what it is... grrr... when I were a lad... we had to build our own clusters from scratch... none of these new fangled magic tools like ClusterKnoppix... aye... right tough we were...
there's nothing like the smell of flamebait in the air to start the day off right...
The old South African Government would never allow any statements to be made that would imply there had been advanced technology/civilisation prior to the arrival of the white man...
I don't want a f*****g registry... I hate single points of failure and weird cryptic files which cannot be easily worked on in desperation with a text mode editor... I've had far too many nightmares with the windows registries to want to go down that road again...
a torrent, a torrent, my coffee for a torrent!!!
fancy posting a link to an iso and there not being a torrent available...
just what you need when driving around town with your new RFID enabled passport... amazing how things just pop up when the topics are appropriate...
of course you don't see a BSOD these days... Microsoft changed the way of handling those so that the machine just spontaneously reboots instead... you never get to see the machine hung with the BSSOD... (Big Scary Screen Of Death)
No one edits fstab anymore... unless they're running a really old-fashioned fundamentalist type distro... Even Debian Sarge is "with the program" now... and Ubuntu just works and keeps on working.
and what's yours is ours too...
A patent isn't "private property"... it's a government sanctioned short term monopoly on something, not a physical item of property. What the patent covers belongs to the commons after expiry. What should happen is that the state revokes the patent in that state and says whoopey de doo to the holder of the patent. The grounds for revoking the patent would be abuse of the monopoly.
I've got their latest running at the moment... "From Detroit to JA", very smooth subtle mix mash. Nice chillin' music.
just one thing... Disney are doing their level best to suppress hosting of "A Night at the Hip Hopera"...
So get hold of it while you can...
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deity knows why this was modded redundant... it's the ONLY reply to the OP that actually mentions that you won't have licensing issues when using Linux... or for that matter BSD... the only people suffering with licensing issues will be those using proprietary apps.
Is this a patent on the method of doing it or the idea??? cos if you can do the same with an entirely different method then their patent can't touch you.
bollox... Van Halen were just a bunch of pretentious assholes... who's to say they didn't put the brown ones back in to avoid having to do the gig... take a look at the facilities, decide they don't like it and pull the stunt to get out of it...