Germany and Poland also doesn't have very remote locations either.
Pretty sure Poland has plenty of remote locations, I should know, I've lived and travelled there a lot. Being able to get a strong mobile signal in the middle of a deep forest always amazed me.
Europeans use their phones about 1/3 as much as Americans (in terms of airtime it's about 250 minutes/month vs about 750 minutes/month). So it takes far fewer network resources to meet peak capacities in Europe so more of a European telco's investment goes to improving speed/coverage.
I can't imagine people using phones more than they are already here. I am sceptical about your claims.
It's about time AT&T put some money into the network. The coverage and the dropped calls suck. I can't wait for the 2 year contract to be up. Seriously, it was only a few years ago that the US had the best networks around and was on the cutting edge with cell phones.
I honestly can't remember a time when the USA came even close to Poland's or Germany's mobile networks. I don't think the USA even came to close to a 90% coverage like many other countries either.
What sort of compression rate does YouTube use for audio?
I believe Youtube's latest HD support includes some high quality AAC audio along with video encoded at 1280x720 resolution using the H.264 video codec if the uploaded videos provided a high enough audio and video source to encode from.
I guess I was being a little flamebait in my post, but when I was in Krakow I did see at least one black person.
Again, tourist cities are quite different from the rest of Poland (as mentioned in my previous post). Although you will still find many prejudiced people there - but they aren't as vocal or forward.
But to an extent there was some technological backwardsness: while spending the night in my relative's apartment in Katowice, there was not one single wireless network in the entire apartment complex.
I don't think a single apartment complex is a good example for the majority of Poland. I've been in plenty of apartment complexes in Poland that had a overwhelming amount of 802.11a/b/g networks overlapping each other (causing signal degradation obviously).
Note: This is my opinion, but it is based off a substantial amount of real life experiences and knowledge.
I'm just guessing that since Poland is mostly just poor farmers and just poor people in general, they don't really have as many immigrants coming in compared to Western Europe.
This is not the case at all.
Having lived in Poland for over 12 years (I am a foreigner), I can tell you that Polish people tend to be quite prejudiced against anyone who is not Polish. They believe non-Polish people are stealing their jobs, their way of life and as such do everything in their power to discriminate against such people. I lived in Szczecin which is a major Polish border city to the German side, not too far away from Berlin.
In Berlin, you could see about 25-45% of people on the street were black, in Poland, over the course of 12 years, I only saw one and Berlin was only two hours away. I heard quite a few stories about people complaining to companies that employed foreigners and even boycotted them for that reason. I've also been the subject of much discrimination in the country (unlike any of the other countries I've lived in).
Poland it self is quite forward with technologies, mobile phone networks have the latest 3g technologies first, the Internet infrastructure has always been quite quickly deployed in Poland. Being one of the first countries to support nationwide dial up to having the first nation wide DSL systems in place.
To put it simply, Poland is not ready for foreigners outside of their tourist cities (Warszawa, Krakow) and likely won't be for a while. Many people fear foreigners as some kind of evil, people of a different skin make it even worse for people who haven't ever seen a person with different skin colour before. They are not technologically backwards nor do they have a lack of access to resources beyond money (although the economy problems don't seem to have hit Poland much like the rest of the world).
Don't get me wrong, Poland is integrating with the rest of Europe and learning to accept, but it is still very backwards in this regard (despite having had a "constitution" of their own before the USA acknowledging the rights of all individuals by law, no matter the race, gender, skin colour - not that it matters).
The people are just prejudiced and it will take some changes before a black person is considered socially acceptable by most.
HF has many reliability issues. Maybe not as many as the internet. And I am sure that there are good uses for it. But couldn't those be placed in a section of the spectrum is not interfered with by the powerline networking adapters?
Generally practically the entire HF spectrum has been reserved for a lot of different things. The RF those powerline networking adapters generate pretty much bleeds across many frequencies, including aviation, military and navigation frequencies. I don't think reallocation (if there is even HF frequencies it doesn't effect) would be enough to save all the services that use it, honestly.
If an emergency happens, that what what a cell phone is for
When there is a emergency (say natural diaster), one of the first things to go out is mobile phones due to the extra traffic they bring on traffic exchanges. Home phones are next. Street phones, emergency services are usually the only ones operating. Of course, if a central exchange (or any number resolver) is hit for the area, all phones go out, completely.
"government privacy protection" stemming from an institution that can't decide if an IP address can identify you - but I will never put this garbage on my phone.
Government can track you with cell-location systems anyway - But nice try.
The GPL is a very friendly license for the original developers releasing the code, since they control full rights to re-release a (possibly enhanced) version under a proprietary license and charge money for that. They can also add clauses (a la MySQL) to make it difficult for outside developers to incorporate the software into a packaged solution without negotiating additional licensing fees. So the source code might be free as in beer, but only for academic and private use.
That is not GPL then. GPL does not put additional requirements on the type of business usage the license is being used for.
If Linux could run DirectX programs legally and with the api fully documented, it would still have a hard time if it ran them 10 times slower, due to some clever piece of internal code that some engineer at Microsoft invented, for instance much faster antialiasing. This is fair competition. I think some engineers at Microsoft are interested in this as well, I would be, it is insulting that any actual talent is invisible because it is totally impossible for anybody to make a competing implementation.
And yet the Wine project is not having a problem doing this.
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Pretty sure Poland has plenty of remote locations, I should know, I've lived and travelled there a lot. Being able to get a strong mobile signal in the middle of a deep forest always amazed me.
I can't imagine people using phones more than they are already here. I am sceptical about your claims.
I honestly can't remember a time when the USA came even close to Poland's or Germany's mobile networks. I don't think the USA even came to close to a 90% coverage like many other countries either.
It is when you need to trust the other person to pay you. Or the other person needs to trust you as they're paying you before you credit them etc.
I can't think of anyone who would trade $10 unreliably from someone, when they can get it brand new.
Or what? You'll send death threats?
I believe Youtube's latest HD support includes some high quality AAC audio along with video encoded at 1280x720 resolution using the H.264 video codec if the uploaded videos provided a high enough audio and video source to encode from.
Again, tourist cities are quite different from the rest of Poland (as mentioned in my previous post). Although you will still find many prejudiced people there - but they aren't as vocal or forward.
I don't think a single apartment complex is a good example for the majority of Poland. I've been in plenty of apartment complexes in Poland that had a overwhelming amount of 802.11a/b/g networks overlapping each other (causing signal degradation obviously).
Note: This is my opinion, but it is based off a substantial amount of real life experiences and knowledge.
This is not the case at all.
Having lived in Poland for over 12 years (I am a foreigner), I can tell you that Polish people tend to be quite prejudiced against anyone who is not Polish. They believe non-Polish people are stealing their jobs, their way of life and as such do everything in their power to discriminate against such people. I lived in Szczecin which is a major Polish border city to the German side, not too far away from Berlin.
In Berlin, you could see about 25-45% of people on the street were black, in Poland, over the course of 12 years, I only saw one and Berlin was only two hours away. I heard quite a few stories about people complaining to companies that employed foreigners and even boycotted them for that reason. I've also been the subject of much discrimination in the country (unlike any of the other countries I've lived in).
Poland it self is quite forward with technologies, mobile phone networks have the latest 3g technologies first, the Internet infrastructure has always been quite quickly deployed in Poland. Being one of the first countries to support nationwide dial up to having the first nation wide DSL systems in place.
To put it simply, Poland is not ready for foreigners outside of their tourist cities (Warszawa, Krakow) and likely won't be for a while. Many people fear foreigners as some kind of evil, people of a different skin make it even worse for people who haven't ever seen a person with different skin colour before. They are not technologically backwards nor do they have a lack of access to resources beyond money (although the economy problems don't seem to have hit Poland much like the rest of the world).
Don't get me wrong, Poland is integrating with the rest of Europe and learning to accept, but it is still very backwards in this regard (despite having had a "constitution" of their own before the USA acknowledging the rights of all individuals by law, no matter the race, gender, skin colour - not that it matters).
The people are just prejudiced and it will take some changes before a black person is considered socially acceptable by most.
It's pretty much impossible.
Generally practically the entire HF spectrum has been reserved for a lot of different things. The RF those powerline networking adapters generate pretty much bleeds across many frequencies, including aviation, military and navigation frequencies. I don't think reallocation (if there is even HF frequencies it doesn't effect) would be enough to save all the services that use it, honestly.
When there is a emergency (say natural diaster), one of the first things to go out is mobile phones due to the extra traffic they bring on traffic exchanges. Home phones are next. Street phones, emergency services are usually the only ones operating. Of course, if a central exchange (or any number resolver) is hit for the area, all phones go out, completely.
No, it was mentioned that it was mandated by a court, I recall that quite clearly from "Cops".
So, I take it we're copying the yanks now?
I've seen a few Cops episodes where they had actually installed cameras in people's houses to stop domestic violence, and potential child abuse.
Freenet is better at protecting your anonymity and content you access.
I think "clever" is what you say to "special children".
So.. What you're suggesting is that they use FIMP (Free Image Manipulation Program) instead?
Government can track you with cell-location systems anyway - But nice try.
Heuristics can be fooled easily too.
Last I checked, AVG doesn't officially support any win7 build to begin with.
That is not GPL then. GPL does not put additional requirements on the type of business usage the license is being used for.
And yet the Wine project is not having a problem doing this.
The question is, did they leave the 'upgrade' part of the license in, thus allowing it to be used with GPLv3 code too.
I personally quite enjoyed the Super Mario Brothers movie.
I on the other hand, really enjoyed the Doom movie.