If we can find out who these people are and put them in contact with that groovy lawyer for the woman who made news last week re: fighting back, plus sent in the cost of a single CD to that lawyer to help offset expenses... why, shit, we might have a revolution at hand.
For a few bucks each, we can help make RIAA's life a living hell.
All of those features sound like weak versions of what OS X has.
Or, rather, what BSD has.
Which I suppose is the key difference: one is an industrial-strength Unix system that is reknown for its stability and security. The other is... well, Windows. A half-assed OS GUI hacked on top of a bizarre mix of DOS, NT, and patches.
Flamebait my hairy ass, jerkwad moderators. The difference in cost of hardware between Mac and PC boxes is on the order of a few hundred dollars when you start looking at near-equivalent systems. That couple hundred bucks is going to be entirely consumed the day the next big internet worm takes down your office systems.
It costs a freakin' fortune to maintain Windows systems. That's a fact, even if you fanboys hate to face it.
I contract out as a technical writer. For my primary client, I strongly encouraged and then delivered a plaintext solution that uses plaintext files stored repositoried in CVS, using the reStructured Text markup conventions processed through Docutils; and an XSL:FO template that is used by XEP to render the DocutilsXML to PDF. An autobuild system updates our documentation on a nightly basis.
This system has worked superlatively. In addition to creating a documentation solution that will forevermore be accessible without special software, our authors can focus entirely on content without concern for layout and visual appearance, our customers get a reasonably open file format (PDF) that looks as good on-screen as it does in print. It's win-win all around, by my reckoning.
Aside from use of this high-speed private network for its own internal database-communications use, and for its nifty new long-distance voice chat toy, Google needs this fiber for its media delivery platform: significant torrent master nodes archiving vast repositories, supplying fat-pipe seeds with data for torrent distribution.
These fat-pipe seeds will be commercial ventures, perhaps paid by Google for their service; just as we'll pay Google for access to their media banks.
We won't purchase DVDs of TV series seasons; we'll torrent them, paying a buck or two a viewing, and very likely simply erasing the episode after we're done -- it's cheap enough to get again, and how often does one *really* want to watch an specific episode? Too much new stuff to bother with the old!
Ditto for computer/console games: download them when you want them, delete them when you're done. Or not: games have good replayability, and the vid companies can make money off a user-pay multiplayer network.
And, importantly, ditto also for internet memes. Like the Coral cache or Akamai.
For any popular, largish-file sharing, torrenting is an excellent delivery mechanism for non-realtime use, and Google would stand a very good chance of becoming a dominant "Network Television/Network Radio/Network Bigfiles" company.
"When the cells reached their destinationswimming as much as 20 centimeters, or 20,000 of their own body lengths, from start to finishthe researchers flashed UV light to break the chemical bond that attached the beads. Visible light shining from the track's opposite end coaxed the organisms back to the start."
Disclaimer: I used Win2K until last week, and OpenOffice.
THE WAY IN HELL is this: *most* documents I receive I am not intended to edit. *Most* of those documents should, in fact, be in PDF with a password against changes and with a secure signature.
So that's what I ask to receive, and provide installation instructions for a free PDF generator and etc. I assure them this is in their best business interests, and ask them to consider the potential consequences were one of their suppliers or customers or competitors were to change what they'd written.
I mean, shit, it's *shocking* to think of the kind of business that's being conducted these days as if our text were as ephemeral as our voices.
Anyway, 'round about way to say that for most stuff that would require the kind of layout offered by Word, I should be receiving (and sending) PDFs instead of original source; and for most stuff that doesn't require that kind of ridiculous formality, an ugly import is of no consequence at all.
Want to eliminate Word? Have the FOSS community co-operate on having their applications default to printing to a secure PDF appropriate for business use. As PDF ascends, MS Doc naturally descends.
Eh? Of course it's low. I've been on the Internet since circa 1989.
You young pups have no idea. There's such a load of history out there that you'll never learn. Why, this whole WWW thing, it's just a flash in the pan! Gopher will rise again, I tell you!
And replaced it with a BSD-based operating system, ie. a Unix-like system. It's called "Darwin."
It comes with a kick-ass graphical interface, too. You might have heard of it: OS X.
I can't imagine encountering any need for anything microsoft again. Their office suite is more than replaced by NeoOffice/OpenOffice. Their browser has always been a joke, so I use Opera. And... well, I can't think of anything Microsoft might have that I would wish to use. I simply don't trust them at all for anything involving email or other internet use, I don't play games, and I wouldn't run their server if you paid me. What else is there?
Being in a bank lineup, slowly progressing toward the front of the line during the lunch rush hour, you pass a bag of Mentos forward to share. While you (a photon) move slowly, the Mentos move (the information) moves quickly.
Or like a wave on the ocean: individual water molecules drift in the currents at a slow speed, while the wave moves quite rapidly across the water. Photons versus waveforms.
WTF, Canada? I'm beginning to quit dislike where we're headed in this country.
But screw it: they wanna monitor my email, I'll just start PGP encrypting *ALL* my email.
Think I'd best bitch to my representatives, though. Can't let this kind of stupidity go through unimpeded.
And wtf happened to our Privacy Commissionaire? A few years back he was saying "no effing way" to a government idea to combine all the government (health, licensing, tax, etc) databases into one. I find it hard to believe he'd be okay with this bit of Orwellian spying.
I want to say "oh noes!!1 we can't go wrecking another planet!"
However, given the choice between putting humans on Mars to live, versus leaving Mars as-is for whatever precious-snowflake bacterial organisms live there... I'm gonna have to vote for humans.
Sorry, Martian bugs, but disallowing ourselves use of an entire planet out of some wimpy "do no harm" philosophy is just silly. Terraform ho!
Isn't it time you started demanding that things change?
Come on, mobilize already!
Your religious right is going to completely fubar your society and culture if you don't start demanding better. You can't afford to sit on your fat asses pretending that this stuff doesn't hurt you.
You want corporations to dictate what you can and can not view on the internet, regardless the legality of that information.
It'll sure be fun when Telus partners with Dell and blocks all access to all computer retailers!
Me, I'm going to stick with having the law itself determine what I can and can not view, and will continue to expect my ISP to allow me access to everything that is legal.
Your hairy ass can choose which laws it wants to obey, the police wont care when they come for you when you choose poorly, The law is the law, shave your ass or braid the hair it makes no difference.
Uh-huh. Say, tell me again what law was being broken by Voices for Change?
Oh, that's right: NO LAWS WERE BROKEN.
How about I post a picture of you on the web, and tell the world about how much you love playing in the pants of little boys, and how you are prowling your neighbourhood looking for more little boys because we all know you just love those little boys?
Should you be so utterly foolish as to do that, I will immediately get a court order forcing you to remove the photographs, and follow it up with a lawsuit against you.
Just like Telus could have done, except they decided that as the 600lb gorilla, they could be judge, jury, and executioner, no need to involve the legal system at all.
You continue to think that it's okay for Telus to make up the law, instead of following the law.
"Al-Quaida stands for 'The Base.' It was a database of terrorist organizations, maintained by Bin Laden."
He's the only fucker with the database? It's not a free/open text?! WTF?
Nice business to be in, holding the one and only Who's Who of Terrorism. Valuable list of names, that. No wonder they were guarding the fucker.
What surprises me is that they don't kill him themselves. I sure as hell wouldn't trust the guy who's got me in his book under the "Terrorists Private Home Phone Numbers" section. Can't be having that information being given out willy-nilly.
Seems to be the new mantra. Stupid enough that you put up images of your insecure nuclear reactor? Why, harsh out all those people who link to it! Stupid enough you have a security hole that could bring down the entire backbone? Why, threaten the security experts with jail if they let anyone know about it! Don't like the photos some striking unionist has posted? Block his site instead of getting a C&D order!
Your grandstanding about the risk from those evil, evil unionists (my god, round them all up and throw away the key!) is also unacceptable bullshit.
AFAIK, Telus as an ISP does not inappropriately apply blacklists to prevent DDOS/spam, rendering another facet of your "argument" irrelevent.
In short, IMO Telus remains wholly in the wrong, has behaved absolutely inexcuseably, and I'll be the first in line if there is any lawsuit or other effort to bitchslap them into next Sunday.
Telus must not be allowed to operate as judge and jury of the web. In all cases it is absolutely unacceptable for them to prevent users from accessing any information that is on the web, and especially so when that information is legal.
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If we can find out who these people are and put them in contact with that groovy lawyer for the woman who made news last week re: fighting back, plus sent in the cost of a single CD to that lawyer to help offset expenses... why, shit, we might have a revolution at hand.
For a few bucks each, we can help make RIAA's life a living hell.
Good entertainment value there!
All of those features sound like weak versions of what OS X has.
Or, rather, what BSD has.
Which I suppose is the key difference: one is an industrial-strength Unix system that is reknown for its stability and security. The other is... well, Windows. A half-assed OS GUI hacked on top of a bizarre mix of DOS, NT, and patches.
Flamebait my hairy ass, jerkwad moderators. The difference in cost of hardware between Mac and PC boxes is on the order of a few hundred dollars when you start looking at near-equivalent systems. That couple hundred bucks is going to be entirely consumed the day the next big internet worm takes down your office systems.
It costs a freakin' fortune to maintain Windows systems. That's a fact, even if you fanboys hate to face it.
OTOH, switching to OSX will gain you so much in productivity, stability, lack of viruses, etc., that the hardware costs are piddle.
I contract out as a technical writer. For my primary client, I strongly encouraged and then delivered a plaintext solution that uses plaintext files stored repositoried in CVS, using the reStructured Text markup conventions processed through Docutils; and an XSL:FO template that is used by XEP to render the DocutilsXML to PDF. An autobuild system updates our documentation on a nightly basis.
This system has worked superlatively. In addition to creating a documentation solution that will forevermore be accessible without special software, our authors can focus entirely on content without concern for layout and visual appearance, our customers get a reasonably open file format (PDF) that looks as good on-screen as it does in print. It's win-win all around, by my reckoning.
Aside from use of this high-speed private network for its own internal database-communications use, and for its nifty new long-distance voice chat toy, Google needs this fiber for its media delivery platform: significant torrent master nodes archiving vast repositories, supplying fat-pipe seeds with data for torrent distribution.
These fat-pipe seeds will be commercial ventures, perhaps paid by Google for their service; just as we'll pay Google for access to their media banks.
We won't purchase DVDs of TV series seasons; we'll torrent them, paying a buck or two a viewing, and very likely simply erasing the episode after we're done -- it's cheap enough to get again, and how often does one *really* want to watch an specific episode? Too much new stuff to bother with the old!
Ditto for computer/console games: download them when you want them, delete them when you're done. Or not: games have good replayability, and the vid companies can make money off a user-pay multiplayer network.
And, importantly, ditto also for internet memes. Like the Coral cache or Akamai.
For any popular, largish-file sharing, torrenting is an excellent delivery mechanism for non-realtime use, and Google would stand a very good chance of becoming a dominant "Network Television/Network Radio/Network Bigfiles" company.
"When the cells reached their destinationswimming as much as 20 centimeters, or 20,000 of their own body lengths, from start to finishthe researchers flashed UV light to break the chemical bond that attached the beads. Visible light shining from the track's opposite end coaxed the organisms back to the start."
Disclaimer: I used Win2K until last week, and OpenOffice.
THE WAY IN HELL is this: *most* documents I receive I am not intended to edit. *Most* of those documents should, in fact, be in PDF with a password against changes and with a secure signature.
So that's what I ask to receive, and provide installation instructions for a free PDF generator and etc. I assure them this is in their best business interests, and ask them to consider the potential consequences were one of their suppliers or customers or competitors were to change what they'd written.
I mean, shit, it's *shocking* to think of the kind of business that's being conducted these days as if our text were as ephemeral as our voices.
Anyway, 'round about way to say that for most stuff that would require the kind of layout offered by Word, I should be receiving (and sending) PDFs instead of original source; and for most stuff that doesn't require that kind of ridiculous formality, an ugly import is of no consequence at all.
Want to eliminate Word? Have the FOSS community co-operate on having their applications default to printing to a secure PDF appropriate for business use. As PDF ascends, MS Doc naturally descends.
Eh? Of course it's low. I've been on the Internet since circa 1989.
You young pups have no idea. There's such a load of history out there that you'll never learn. Why, this whole WWW thing, it's just a flash in the pan! Gopher will rise again, I tell you!
And replaced it with a BSD-based operating system, ie. a Unix-like system. It's called "Darwin."
It comes with a kick-ass graphical interface, too. You might have heard of it: OS X.
I can't imagine encountering any need for anything microsoft again. Their office suite is more than replaced by NeoOffice/OpenOffice. Their browser has always been a joke, so I use Opera. And... well, I can't think of anything Microsoft might have that I would wish to use. I simply don't trust them at all for anything involving email or other internet use, I don't play games, and I wouldn't run their server if you paid me. What else is there?
Microsoft: Offering Nothing For A Lot.
...if there were virtual veterans.
War is, on the whole, stupid. The current US war is particularly so.
Or... correct me if I'm wrong! ...
Being in a bank lineup, slowly progressing toward the front of the line during the lunch rush hour, you pass a bag of Mentos forward to share. While you (a photon) move slowly, the Mentos move (the information) moves quickly.
Or like a wave on the ocean: individual water molecules drift in the currents at a slow speed, while the wave moves quite rapidly across the water. Photons versus waveforms.
WTF, Canada? I'm beginning to quit dislike where we're headed in this country.
But screw it: they wanna monitor my email, I'll just start PGP encrypting *ALL* my email.
Think I'd best bitch to my representatives, though. Can't let this kind of stupidity go through unimpeded.
And wtf happened to our Privacy Commissionaire? A few years back he was saying "no effing way" to a government idea to combine all the government (health, licensing, tax, etc) databases into one. I find it hard to believe he'd be okay with this bit of Orwellian spying.
I want to say "oh noes!!1 we can't go wrecking another planet!"
However, given the choice between putting humans on Mars to live, versus leaving Mars as-is for whatever precious-snowflake bacterial organisms live there... I'm gonna have to vote for humans.
Sorry, Martian bugs, but disallowing ourselves use of an entire planet out of some wimpy "do no harm" philosophy is just silly. Terraform ho!
Why do you citizens put up with this shit?
Isn't it time you started demanding that things change?
Come on, mobilize already!
Your religious right is going to completely fubar your society and culture if you don't start demanding better. You can't afford to sit on your fat asses pretending that this stuff doesn't hurt you.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
You want corporations to dictate what you can and can not view on the internet, regardless the legality of that information.
It'll sure be fun when Telus partners with Dell and blocks all access to all computer retailers!
Me, I'm going to stick with having the law itself determine what I can and can not view, and will continue to expect my ISP to allow me access to everything that is legal.
Does this mean I should have bought a nice little Toshiba Satellite (they're damn near giving them away these days!) and installed DesktopBSD?
Grr.
Mind, the interest might barely cover the costs of processing the tax both coming in and, now, going back out.
Your hairy ass can choose which laws it wants to obey, the police wont care when they come for you when you choose poorly, The law is the law, shave your ass or braid the hair it makes no difference.
Uh-huh. Say, tell me again what law was being broken by Voices for Change?
Oh, that's right: NO LAWS WERE BROKEN.
How about I post a picture of you on the web, and tell the world about how much you love playing in the pants of little boys, and how you are prowling your neighbourhood looking for more little boys because we all know you just love those little boys?
Should you be so utterly foolish as to do that, I will immediately get a court order forcing you to remove the photographs, and follow it up with a lawsuit against you.
Just like Telus could have done, except they decided that as the 600lb gorilla, they could be judge, jury, and executioner, no need to involve the legal system at all.
You continue to think that it's okay for Telus to make up the law, instead of following the law.
From what I understand, there are too many little pieces of terrorist meaty bits to allow for arrests in the 7/7 bombings.
It's difficult to handcuff a spleen, especially once it's been splashed across the inside of a bus.
Waaaaiiiitasec.
"Al-Quaida stands for 'The Base.' It was a database of terrorist organizations, maintained by Bin Laden."
He's the only fucker with the database? It's not a free/open text?! WTF?
Nice business to be in, holding the one and only Who's Who of Terrorism. Valuable list of names, that. No wonder they were guarding the fucker.
What surprises me is that they don't kill him themselves. I sure as hell wouldn't trust the guy who's got me in his book under the "Terrorists Private Home Phone Numbers" section. Can't be having that information being given out willy-nilly.
Scary Boo! Ooga-Booga!
Confirmed: Terrorists Use Internet!
Confirmed: Terrorists Using Telephones!
Confirmed: Terrorists Highly Secretive "Triple ROT13" code Can Not Be Broken!
Confirmed: Terrorists Enjoy A Good Ice Cream!
Quick! Everyone hide! The Terrorists Are Everywhar! Oooga-Booga!
Well then I guess they should put a big tinfoil hat over their reactor!
Seems to be the new mantra. Stupid enough that you put up images of your insecure nuclear reactor? Why, harsh out all those people who link to it! Stupid enough you have a security hole that could bring down the entire backbone? Why, threaten the security experts with jail if they let anyone know about it! Don't like the photos some striking unionist has posted? Block his site instead of getting a C&D order!
Gahd.
Legally acceptable my hairy ass.
Your grandstanding about the risk from those evil, evil unionists (my god, round them all up and throw away the key!) is also unacceptable bullshit.
AFAIK, Telus as an ISP does not inappropriately apply blacklists to prevent DDOS/spam, rendering another facet of your "argument" irrelevent.
In short, IMO Telus remains wholly in the wrong, has behaved absolutely inexcuseably, and I'll be the first in line if there is any lawsuit or other effort to bitchslap them into next Sunday.
Telus must not be allowed to operate as judge and jury of the web. In all cases it is absolutely unacceptable for them to prevent users from accessing any information that is on the web, and especially so when that information is legal.