I am mostly a buyer and I don't like this either. I understand the shitty sellers that don't leave feedback until the deal is done. If they are shitty and you leave negative feedback, you get the same in return regardless of the actual transaction.
It's an easy fix. Sellers must first leave feedback BEFORE the buyers have the abilty to.
What is this? Bullshit day on Slashdot?
First they took away our lan,
then the internet infrastructure stateside needs $100 million,
now they want to take away my computer.. shit. give it up already.
These guys can barely forecast seasons and they're going to tell us what's going to happen in 25 years?
As the tag says, "Where's my flying car?"
Since we're talking about lans and geeks, and it's blatantly obvious that they would have to pry the lans from our cold dead hands, how many machines do you have in your lan at home?
I have 14 most of the time. 4 for the kids, two for me, two as pvr, two laptops, a server and a dev server, one for my wife, one in a studio.
Of course they would, and why should they pay? I don't d/l music, so why should I get an extra $5 tacked on my bill so other people can? Most people don't d/l, despite the impressions you get online. What people don't "get" about this entire argument is that most "downloaders" that download 25 to 50 gigs a month aren't paying for their connection either.
You think $45 a month can pay for 50 gigs of transfer? No likely. It's the thousand grandmas checking their email that transfer 1 gig a month tops that subsidizes the heavy downloaders now.
I know this shit first hand. I worked for the local isp. 100 customers in town and 500 gigs transfer per month. I do 50 of that. The whole internet has always been a lot of people subsidizing the actions of a few.
It's exactly the same with this levy and it's totally in line with Canadian politics. Our health care, unemployment insurance and welfare all work exactly the same. The many pay for the few. Welcome to Canada.
You can't get cheap high-speed internet, reliable cellular service, or even reliable grounded electricity out in many smaller rural areas. Tech doesn't facilitate sprawl; sprawl facilitates tech.
Interesting. I live in a town of less than 300 people in Alberta. I have decent cell service, one power outage per year on average, and high speed internet through the SuperNet. 2.5 mbps down, 50 gigs a month.
Tech has helped people move here that work over the internet. They can bring their families to a much slower (arguably better) way of life with almost no regard for crime. There's no traffic, the air is clean, people are nice. Way different than the cities.
Become self employed! Every day job I've ever had sucked shit, and I've had over 40 of em. My first job I made a whopping $2.65 an hour as a welder.
You want freedom, money, control over your own life? Start your own business. Yes it's hard. Yes it's rewarding.. and once you've tasted success.. you'll never go back to a day job.
I can work half a year on my own, spend more time with my family, have most of the summer off and still have a higher quality of life than working for someone else.
If a customer is a prick.. I don't have to work for them anymore. No stress whatsoever.
At any rate, since computers started to become superfluous in the West I have NOT noticed that people became more educated, happy, employed, etc
Well.. I'm more educated, happier and self employed etc. since computers are superfluous in western Canada! I'm a self employed geek that can see the mountains everyday and live in a small safe community with my wife and four kids.
A bad day of computer geeking is better than a great day of welding!
And "Red Barchetta" is a great song.:-) I actually started as a bass player and it was mostly Geddy Lee who responsible for that. hehe Cool. Farewell to Kings... I HAD to learn drums after that album! I finally bought two of Neils DVD's so that I can finally learn how to solo.
I got to see Rush in concert when they were touring hemispheres. I saw them in a small arena in Geulph Ontario with about 500 other people. It was like our own private show.. Incredible. It was my second concert so I wasn't really aware of encores.. I waited patiently all night for 2112 and was pissed when they "ended" the show without playing anything of that. Silly me, they had an encore and played the entire 20 minute song for the encore... I was blown away!
I was the same, didn't buy my first kit until I was 25. Cost me about $400 then and pieced it together to get a double bass kit. I'm now 45 with an 8 pc pearl kit and I'm finally starting to learn Red Barchetta by Rush. (the musicians, not the fat tard;-) stolen from slashdot sig. )
I use big sticks so I've never broken a set, but man these drums are loud at times!
Drums on these games kill me, I mean, you hit the damn things... If you can get the chops to play the game, you can play the real things.
Guitar is WAY different, you're not going to learn to play guitar with those colored buttons.
This ipv6 is all bullshit. They can nat until the cows come home or also free up the unused space. My fridge does NOT need to go on the damn internet! And if it did, it could go through the router.
I still don't see this shit happening for a long time. What I don't like about it is that your mac addy is embedded in the ipv6 address. I don't like the idea of being that easily identified. (Watches too many tin-foil hat shows)
I don't know if they still do, but at the time I think Adobe (macromedia for sure) would let you un-register so that you could sell the product to someone else. It will be interesting to see if they do in fact stop these options. I thought this fell under rights of first sale. (I'm in Canada so things are different here)
To summarize: GIMP competes primarily with *illegitimate* Photoshop users. I agree.. for different reasons:
I've been known to use open source programs. I always had an older version of Paint Shop Pro around and have tried out GIMP ( I $%#$$ hate that interface!)
When required to use Adobe ImageReady to build websites using the companies existing templates, I gladly bought and registered Photoshop 6. I thought it only fair that if I was going to make money from a program, the least I could do was pay for it. I looked at it also as karma. I did know a guy that pirated it and tried to do websites... but he didn't do very much. I spent $300. for Photoshop 6 (ebay). In three years I figure I did about $12,000 for this company that I could not have even tried to do with anything else.
Bonus is, I still use the same version and really don't need anything else.
Still using 7.2
Version 6 was a piece of shit. I was using 4.08 at that time. That was the last one I found to be stable until 7.1. I like the email and browser together... but I guess I'm gonna have to go the Firefox - Thunderbird route soon.
It's been 10 years for me. Sad to see Netscape get so screwed up. Oh well, 10 years is eternity in Internet time.
You're missing the point here. WHS actually is a very nice product (except from the buggy file storage part which, no doubt, will be fixed). The remote desktop thing for example, means you can connect to any machine in your network thru your WHS. So no, that's not the same as having to configure your Inet access router to point to different machines to access all of them.
I can do this right now with my main computer. I have one machine accessible through the router (xp pro) and once logged into this one, can log into any on my network.( through remote desktop or vnc)
The backup thing may be easy, but I use cobian backup. Free, pretty simple to use. I put it on the server, map the drives I want to backup and let it run overnight. I don't need a client program. Server also functions as a webserver for testing php stuff and previewing stuff for clients.
All in all, while the WHS looks kinda neat, there's already enough software to do the same things for considerably less money.
I live in Alberta. My family lives in Brooks. I see this first hand as well. Out on hwy 36, when I moved to the area in 1981, there were pumpjacks as far as the eye could see. Now, maybe ten and half aren't running.
I guess I should have said that we can only PROVE it (to the population) after the fact. Like you said, everyone in the industry knows it's coming. When we used to have 3-400 rigs running and now we have maybe 100, that tells a story itself.
The fallout is not going to be pretty. Ignorance is bliss.
I know a guy that used to play guitar for Helix. He was working as a carpenter. He asked me one time if I wanted to see his gold records... buried in the closet full of his old junk. He wasn't very happy. He said he got a royalty cheque from Spain one day.. he was laughing cause it was for about $35.
He said he was pissed that he never got a cheque from socan.. "I hear my stuff on the radio all the time, but do I see any money from them? Nooo."
Record companies are screwing artists and have been since the beginning. I will love to see this backfire on them.
You already gave the answer to this. The oil price is so high, and expected to remain high, that even tricky oil deposits like tar sands are worth extracting.
The crappy thing is, the environmental impact from the tar sands is incredibly high. We are using all our fresh water and natural gas to get this stuff out of the ground. There's talk of nuclear reactors up there now so they can generate the heat with electricity. Not to mention the catastrophe that is Ft. McMurray. The place is worse than a glod rush town and has many many problems due to the rapid growth.
All in all, it's a very shitty situation that doesn't look to get much better any time soon.
I'd love to cash in on futures account... but though I may be right about price.. I'm always early;-) I bet a guy last year that oil would hit $100 a barrel. He thought I was nuts... I was just a year early.
I also don't have a lot of faith in the money markets right now. Due to the great sub-prime fiasco in america.. and the major dollar slide.. I think we're going to see 1939 times 5 or 10 next year. ( I really hope I'm wrong on this one) Manufacturing has been outsourced, people are in debt up to their eyeballs, the freaking car manufacturers are in trouble! housing is starting to tank and America has spend billions + in Iraq with no end in sight and no way to really pay for that debt. Once the creditors wise up, the shit WILL hit the fan.
World production of crude oil maxed out at 85 million barrels per day this year.
(yes they have a slight hiccup for October at 86 million, probably due to rounding)
We will only know when the peak is AFTER the peak. If we cannot reach 85 or 86 mbpd next year, then we've gone past peak. This information is so obvious and yet there are lots of people in denial. Oil hit $100 a barrel this year. Next year look for $200 a barrel. The entire world economy is about to self destruct and we have millions of people taking the blue pill.
Why in hell would we be trying to get oil out of the tar sands if there was lots of sweet crude in the 1000 meter holes typically found in Alberta? We've used most of it up and nobody wants to say so because of the panic that would ensue.
BOTH!!!
I remember that line during the DOJ trials.
"Ya we umm ahh can't remove it from the os. it will break things and it won't work anymore."
Bullshit. Best proof was windows 95 C. If you've ever seen it, it installed IE and worked EXACTLY like windows 98. It changed the file manager, control panel.. everything... but you could UNINSTALL it. I did. Computer worked fine and went back to normal win95b state.
So, in conclusion: This makes Windows the stupidest operating system ever AND MS the biggest bunch of lying asshats ever.
I agree. Harper is turning out to be quite a prick. I think he's out of touch and getting a wee bit arrogant. I've been supporting conservative gov'ts for years but Harper and this Stelmach character have to go. In Alberta, we need a new party. Canada, well, we're pretty fucked but I would do the unthinkable and vote lieberal (not a spelling mistake) next time just to show these arrogant bastards that they work for us!
Not only will they lose, but they will never get back into power again. Remember what we did to Mulroneys tories? They got 2 seats in the next election after the Gouge and Screw Tax.
Maybe. I bought about 10 pentium 3 1U servers for about $500. They get warm.. in fact, they almost heat my lab. (I have 3 running) One for domain controller, one for backups and one for web server. (the 1u's have tons of fans inside) I'm running win2k server and using Cobian backup. Cheap, automatic and has been working fool proof for about a year now. I have two drives, cobian mirrors the first drive and only writes over changed files.
I was using SME server for a while, but I'm not quite good enough with linux yet...
I wish I had mod points. This is THE most insightful thing I've read in the years that this crap has been going on.
Copyright is a special privilege granted for a limited time to encourage people to produce product. With literally thousands of bands, hundreds of tv shows, thousands of movies, tens of thousands of books, I do not see why they need such encouragement. I certainly do not see how John Lennon is going to be encouraged to produce more music by extending the copyright after he was dead.
This IS the problem.
It's self induced.
The RIAA can go fuck themselves, their life of living off other peoples labour is hopefully soon coming to an end.
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It's an easy fix. Sellers must first leave feedback BEFORE the buyers have the abilty to.
First they took away our lan,
then the internet infrastructure stateside needs $100 million,
now they want to take away my computer.. shit. give it up already.
These guys can barely forecast seasons and they're going to tell us what's going to happen in 25 years? As the tag says, "Where's my flying car?"
I have 14 most of the time. 4 for the kids, two for me, two as pvr, two laptops, a server and a dev server, one for my wife, one in a studio.
I know this shit first hand. I worked for the local isp. 100 customers in town and 500 gigs transfer per month. I do 50 of that. The whole internet has always been a lot of people subsidizing the actions of a few.
It's exactly the same with this levy and it's totally in line with Canadian politics. Our health care, unemployment insurance and welfare all work exactly the same. The many pay for the few. Welcome to Canada.
If they could do that then take a pic of the damn space junk on the moon to end the tinfoil hat theories!
Interesting. I live in a town of less than 300 people in Alberta. I have decent cell service, one power outage per year on average, and high speed internet through the SuperNet. 2.5 mbps down, 50 gigs a month.
Tech has helped people move here that work over the internet. They can bring their families to a much slower (arguably better) way of life with almost no regard for crime. There's no traffic, the air is clean, people are nice. Way different than the cities.
But this is Alberta, home of the $193,000,000 router. http://albertasupernet.ca/
You want freedom, money, control over your own life? Start your own business. Yes it's hard. Yes it's rewarding.. and once you've tasted success.. you'll never go back to a day job.
I can work half a year on my own, spend more time with my family, have most of the summer off and still have a higher quality of life than working for someone else.
If a customer is a prick.. I don't have to work for them anymore. No stress whatsoever.
Well.. I'm more educated, happier and self employed etc. since computers are superfluous in western Canada! I'm a self employed geek that can see the mountains everyday and live in a small safe community with my wife and four kids.
A bad day of computer geeking is better than a great day of welding!
I got to see Rush in concert when they were touring hemispheres. I saw them in a small arena in Geulph Ontario with about 500 other people. It was like our own private show.. Incredible. It was my second concert so I wasn't really aware of encores.. I waited patiently all night for 2112 and was pissed when they "ended" the show without playing anything of that. Silly me, they had an encore and played the entire 20 minute song for the encore... I was blown away!
I was the same, didn't buy my first kit until I was 25. Cost me about $400 then and pieced it together to get a double bass kit. I'm now 45 with an 8 pc pearl kit and I'm finally starting to learn Red Barchetta by Rush. (the musicians, not the fat tard ;-) stolen from slashdot sig. )
I use big sticks so I've never broken a set, but man these drums are loud at times!
Drums on these games kill me, I mean, you hit the damn things... If you can get the chops to play the game, you can play the real things.
Guitar is WAY different, you're not going to learn to play guitar with those colored buttons.
Address problem solved.
This ipv6 is all bullshit. They can nat until the cows come home or also free up the unused space. My fridge does NOT need to go on the damn internet! And if it did, it could go through the router.
I still don't see this shit happening for a long time. What I don't like about it is that your mac addy is embedded in the ipv6 address. I don't like the idea of being that easily identified. (Watches too many tin-foil hat shows)
I don't know if they still do, but at the time I think Adobe (macromedia for sure) would let you un-register so that you could sell the product to someone else. It will be interesting to see if they do in fact stop these options. I thought this fell under rights of first sale. (I'm in Canada so things are different here)
I agree.. for different reasons:
I've been known to use open source programs. I always had an older version of Paint Shop Pro around and have tried out GIMP ( I $%#$$ hate that interface!)
When required to use Adobe ImageReady to build websites using the companies existing templates, I gladly bought and registered Photoshop 6. I thought it only fair that if I was going to make money from a program, the least I could do was pay for it. I looked at it also as karma. I did know a guy that pirated it and tried to do websites... but he didn't do very much. I spent $300. for Photoshop 6 (ebay). In three years I figure I did about $12,000 for this company that I could not have even tried to do with anything else.
Bonus is, I still use the same version and really don't need anything else.
Version 6 was a piece of shit. I was using 4.08 at that time. That was the last one I found to be stable until 7.1. I like the email and browser together... but I guess I'm gonna have to go the Firefox - Thunderbird route soon.
It's been 10 years for me. Sad to see Netscape get so screwed up. Oh well, 10 years is eternity in Internet time.
First rule of usenet? Nobody talks about usenet!
I can do this right now with my main computer. I have one machine accessible through the router (xp pro) and once logged into this one, can log into any on my network.( through remote desktop or vnc)
The backup thing may be easy, but I use cobian backup. Free, pretty simple to use. I put it on the server, map the drives I want to backup and let it run overnight. I don't need a client program. Server also functions as a webserver for testing php stuff and previewing stuff for clients.
All in all, while the WHS looks kinda neat, there's already enough software to do the same things for considerably less money.
I live in Alberta. My family lives in Brooks. I see this first hand as well. Out on hwy 36, when I moved to the area in 1981, there were pumpjacks as far as the eye could see. Now, maybe ten and half aren't running.
I guess I should have said that we can only PROVE it (to the population) after the fact. Like you said, everyone in the industry knows it's coming. When we used to have 3-400 rigs running and now we have maybe 100, that tells a story itself.
The fallout is not going to be pretty. Ignorance is bliss.
He said he was pissed that he never got a cheque from socan.. "I hear my stuff on the radio all the time, but do I see any money from them? Nooo."
Record companies are screwing artists and have been since the beginning. I will love to see this backfire on them.
The crappy thing is, the environmental impact from the tar sands is incredibly high. We are using all our fresh water and natural gas to get this stuff out of the ground. There's talk of nuclear reactors up there now so they can generate the heat with electricity. Not to mention the catastrophe that is Ft. McMurray. The place is worse than a glod rush town and has many many problems due to the rapid growth.
All in all, it's a very shitty situation that doesn't look to get much better any time soon.
I'd love to cash in on futures account... but though I may be right about price.. I'm always early ;-) I bet a guy last year that oil would hit $100 a barrel. He thought I was nuts... I was just a year early.
I also don't have a lot of faith in the money markets right now. Due to the great sub-prime fiasco in america.. and the major dollar slide.. I think we're going to see 1939 times 5 or 10 next year. ( I really hope I'm wrong on this one) Manufacturing has been outsourced, people are in debt up to their eyeballs, the freaking car manufacturers are in trouble! housing is starting to tank and America has spend billions + in Iraq with no end in sight and no way to really pay for that debt. Once the creditors wise up, the shit WILL hit the fan.
/rant
//glad I live in the boonies with no debt!
World production of crude oil maxed out at 85 million barrels per day this year. (yes they have a slight hiccup for October at 86 million, probably due to rounding)
http://www.worldoil.com/INFOCENTER/STATISTICS_DETAIL.asp?Statfile=_worldoilproduction
We will only know when the peak is AFTER the peak. If we cannot reach 85 or 86 mbpd next year, then we've gone past peak. This information is so obvious and yet there are lots of people in denial. Oil hit $100 a barrel this year. Next year look for $200 a barrel. The entire world economy is about to self destruct and we have millions of people taking the blue pill.
Why in hell would we be trying to get oil out of the tar sands if there was lots of sweet crude in the 1000 meter holes typically found in Alberta? We've used most of it up and nobody wants to say so because of the panic that would ensue.
If you want to take the red pill and find out how bad it really is, read kunstler. http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/
"Ya we umm ahh can't remove it from the os. it will break things and it won't work anymore."
Bullshit. Best proof was windows 95 C. If you've ever seen it, it installed IE and worked EXACTLY like windows 98. It changed the file manager, control panel.. everything... but you could UNINSTALL it. I did. Computer worked fine and went back to normal win95b state.
So, in conclusion: This makes Windows the stupidest operating system ever AND MS the biggest bunch of lying asshats ever.
Not only will they lose, but they will never get back into power again. Remember what we did to Mulroneys tories? They got 2 seats in the next election after the Gouge and Screw Tax.
I was using SME server for a while, but I'm not quite good enough with linux yet...
Copyright is a special privilege granted for a limited time to encourage people to produce product. With literally thousands of bands, hundreds of tv shows, thousands of movies, tens of thousands of books, I do not see why they need such encouragement. I certainly do not see how John Lennon is going to be encouraged to produce more music by extending the copyright after he was dead.
This IS the problem.
It's self induced.
The RIAA can go fuck themselves, their life of living off other peoples labour is hopefully soon coming to an end.
hehe, you have to keep deconstructing and putting it back together until you have enough spare parts to form another revolution!