touch screen part isnt that difficult, it's been done on the eee.
I would think you could put an on screen keyboard or just transcribe handwriting on one screen while using the other as a monitor. actually theres quite a lot of configurations possible a couple of sd card slots and a usb or two and it becomes quite an interesting device,battery life is the killer thou. As a first world product and access to an electricity supply it could be popular.
maybe if one side had solar cells it could be self charging to an extent.
not quite sure its right for the olpc project thou.
from the article:
No such incident in India would be complete without a few administrative slip-ups. The computer with that IP address is using Airtel, India as the ISP to connect to the internet and Orkut. Airtel gives police the name of an innocent person using a different IP address. How two IP addresses could be mixed-up in a sensitive police case is anyoneâ(TM)s guess. airtel is the provider of the wrong ip address, not google. surely the parent is over-rated
This might sound a little strange but if the p2p networks are polluted with RIAA music then providing a list of tracks and artists would help prevent the accidental download of RIAA member music. Honestly how are you supposed to know whats legal and what isn't?
Riaa members don't produce all music and if they can provide lists for the investigators for automatic searches then the same list could be used to filter search results. I wouldn't want to accidentally infringe on their members copyrights would you?
There must be millions of unsigned bands or bands out of contract or recordings out of copyright I could download and listen too legally.
The EEE fits in the glovebox of your car, battery life is long enough 3-4 hours standard long enough to be able to sit down and do something. windows 2000 runs nicely in virtualbox taking up 2 gb on an sd card you can tether it to your mobile you can connect it to psp charge your mobile via usb its not bad in daylight outside it is not all your hand baggage on a flight. it plays films perfectly
the eee900 addresses some issues bigger screen and more ssd capacity
I'd like to see some internal usb ports for bluetooth or gps or an expansion bay that could clip underneath for hard drive and external dvd drive it gets a bit messy when you hook up extra drives. This could be done by a third party battery company the really big extended battery is quite huge and modding it so it could extend under the eee wouldnt be too hard. I carry a slim line dvd drive and a 2.5 drive in the bag i use for the eee.
http://www.eeeuser.com/ this should link to a review of the eee 900 and after reading it i'm not that impressed, the bigger screen seems to be lower quality, the wifi less range. better webcam and more ssd space the charger is now more standard but i like the wall wart and now the system fan is relatively noisy.
The price on ebay for eee 701's seems to have dropped as might be expected and to be honest I think I'd feel only the slightest twinge of initial jealousy if a friend got the eee 900 but thats only for the higher resolution screen.
you so nearly get it right, but miss the important thing if your going to hate anybody it should be because of who they are and not what they are.
it's reasonable to hate robert mugabe but not because he is black but for who he is and what he has done. Not even all convicted pedophiles deserve hatred remember that could be 2 seventeen year olds who had sex with each other, i don't have a problem with that and in my country its legal!
There is good and bad in most groupings of people, any intelligent individual should realize this, if you are intelligent and still push this generalized hatred, then really you deserve the consequences.
like belkin usb adapters with at least 4 versions each with the same vendor and product id you mean, that causes problems for windows as well.
Thats pretty much inexcusable and why i went off belkin.
Although they did and may still offer a lifetime warranty on routers, I used it once, and with a phone call got a replacement shipped to me in 3 or 4 days for free.
thanks belkin:)
Sometimes you do find a manufacturer who readily admits to linux compatibility and has a penguin on the box.
we tend to influence purchases for our not so savvy friends and family, I only recommend linux compatible hardware even to windows users, some manufacturers know this.
How much better would be lexmark sales without us for example
maybe not the best known brand but edimax use ralink chipset which has gpl driver code.
I've used edimax pci pcmcia and usb cards with no problems.
admittedly i just use mac address filtering, makes it easy for all my wireless devices and just put them on an allow list and static dhcp.
I use buffalo whr54s routers with tomato and dd-wrt firmwares
tomato has nice qos features and dd-wrt has a nice wireless network tool and the ability to set up a secondary wireless networks with wep wpa or open so i could allocate say 5% of my bandwidth to joe public without putting him on my lan
To Get broadcom cards working you need broadcom code, which they don't appear to want to ship with ubuntu. If you choose to use a card supported by the chip manufacturer under Linux you wouldn't have a problem.
However the installation of the B43 driver is practically painless simply select hardware drivers from the administration menu and add a checkmark for the wireless driver, using the wired network cable, ubuntu hardy downloads the firmware and installs it. On reboot you should have wireless (if it was a clean install).
an upgrade install can be more difficult especially if you used ndiswrapper previously.
You will probably find wireless is improved. with the Bcm43xx driver I got 18dbm transmit power and with Ndiswrapper it was 25dbm with B43 its a little more at 27 dbm
If your really upset that the broadcom firmware isn't included by default then write to broadcom.
ahem the razr had one bit of functionality. you don't accidentally dial out on a razr. even keylocked phones had the ability to call the emergency services whilst locked.
forget any other feature, this one feature made it worth while.
from the summary
Elizabeth Martin demanded 400 Euros each from "hundreds of thousands of file-sharers," 'm no lawyer and I don't know anything about the French legal system --- but I think Elizabeth Martin is probably a woman
rather annoyingly firefox beta5 isn't compatible with the mainstream release of adblock however the development build here works fine.
All i need now is a method to remove the gray tramlines running down the page on slashdot. the nesting soon reduces me to 20% width comment 20% side bar 60% tram line. god knows what mobile users get.
Have you noticed Mcdonalds adds milk to your coffee before giving it to you, (I'm not sure about sugar I don't use it).
Strangely they don't do the same for tea.
I would think the Mcdonalds court case will have prevented many accidents due to the change in working practice by Mcdonalds. That is the value in that law suit, not the eventual cash award.
I don't know why everyone seems to think this has anything to do with getting permission from the owner of the access point or denying revenue to the ISP. It's not
It is far more simple than that, if you connect to an open domestic router your pretty much untraceable. If you use an internet cafe theres a pretty good chance you were on cctv or had to give some proof of who you are.
It's reasonable to assume that some web sites are monitored, and that your local government is interested in who's accessing these sites. maybe they play keyword bingo with our google searches too.
while you could make criminal penalties for violating an ISP's terms of service, why bother, it would only bring attention to the work of the security services. If you feel safe and anonymous on the internet, you will be careless. Not only that but what happens when you prosecute the District Attorney, the local sheriff, Your family Doctor, ect... Now criminals because they couldn't configure a wireless router.
I guess the surprise is due to a change in attitude, most of us between say 40 to 55 now had fairly extensive collections of c90's often we would buy an album along with a blank c90 with the intention of recording the album on the very first play. Go to someone older and they had reel to reel tapes.
no one got bankrupted for taping albums. As a further point whilst you say people making illegal copies are criminals, largely they sre not tried in criminal court and basically its a case of breach of contract(that wasn't signed read or agreed to by the purchaser).
At present the act of copying is more visible due to the internet, however consider most people have at least a few friends, and these friends will have further friends, this makes it trivial to share many thousands of songs without touching the internet. Good ole sneaker.net will replace the internet file sharing if the riaa continues to crack down.
In fact i can envisage an application to create an adhoc wireless network and automatically exchange songs without ever knowing who you share with and without touching the internet. can you imagine how popular that would be on college campus's
It's a futile fight the record companies are fighting, and its victims are probably it biggest customers.
Are you sure they printed a retraction? There's no citation for this at Wikipedia and never has been. Not that it means anything if they didn't but I'm just interested to know their stance. I guess we'll find out when they print their obituary. Try this from the guardian in 2000
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/sciencefiction/story/0,6000,374388,00.html
Rupert and Arthur are good friends. The author of 2001: A Space Odyssey faced his trickiest moment three years ago, when he was turned over by the Sunday Mirror. It was Murdoch who wrote him a "very nice" note promising him that the reporters responsible would never work in Fleet Street again. "He is a rather shy, modest person," Clarke says teasingly. "I find him very deferential."
The Mirror claimed that Clarke had paid young boys for sex. It produced affidavits from the boys in question. Sri Lankan police later disproved them, he says. The story ran two weeks before Prince Charles flew to Sri Lanka to confer a knighthood on the grand old man of science fiction. The saga was the lowest point in his career. At a banquet in his honour Clarke, who has post polio syndrome, found himself hobbling away from the press, pursued by an unctuous reporter from the Daily Telegraph. The episode still upsets him. "I take an extremely dim view of people mucking about with boys," Clarke says. "The whole thing was distressing to me. It was vindictive and very unpleasant. I can only assume it was a plot to embarrass Prince Charles." The novelist finally got his gong this May, at a low-key ceremony at the British high commission in Colombo.
Clarke's private life remains a mystery. He was married briefly to an American, Marilyn Mayfield, now dead, whom he met while diving in Florida in the 50s. Asked whether he is gay, Clarke always gives the same puckish pro forma answer: "No, merely cheerful." The answer, presumably, lies in the "Clarkives" - a vast collection of his manuscripts and private writings, to be published 50 years after his death. A further quote ""I had an operation for prostate cancer 10 years ago," Clarke says. "I haven't the slightest interest in sex."
He deserves respect, not anonymous sniping , for his remarkable influence and contributions to humanity.
It would be illegal to burn a copy for your friend depending on what the content was. not all content is under such terms. It wouldn't be illegal to lend your friend the CD or sell it to him either.
Now lets pretend we all stay completely within the law, how does a band get exposure radio well here is the playlist for radio1 a national station http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/playlist/ its a total of 58 tracks. to be played over the course of a week. not much exposure for bands not on the playlist. By restricting our exposure to legal sources we don't get to hear even 1% of the music available. On the other hand, the way the world really works is that people do share their musical tastes with their friends. Realistically most of us get introduced to a particular artists music through our friends and if we like it we tend to buy at least a percentage of it. A well put together mix Cd could contain many different artists and tracks. (rarely do record labels do a good job of this, they always add filler). Your illegal Cd can be key to many legal sales, due to the exposure of the artists on the mix cd.
So while illegal copying can be seen as a negative, it largely isn't. It's building a fan base. The actions of the RIAA far from raising legal sales, positively discourages the dissemination of an artists music , limiting an artists exposure and reducing the potential fan base of an artist.
"The record companies can sell their products for whatever price they want to. Just like any other company. They make outrageous profit selling CDs for $15 each, but that's not illegal, and as long as people keep buying them for that price, they'll keep doing it."
Isn't the RIAA saying that people are not buying CD's at $15 at least not enough of them, hence the crack down on individual piracy. The real damage to music sales is counterfeit CD's and I have never seen any argument posted here that counterfeiters deserve any sympathy.
while ping is a measure of latency, and not bandwidth low latency would tend to indicate a packet has a shorter route and less congestion than a high latency packet. It's a simple measurement being abused to help rate a peer, however the most important rating is the transfer speeds being achieved.
A semi-intelligent method of choosing peers might be a combination of low ping time, coupled with a related rule for speed of download.
say if the median transfer speed was 5kb/s then a peer offering 10kbs or higher would be used in preference to a local peer offering 5 kb/s.
kind of an attractiveness rating.
If this was in place what would it mean for an ISP?
Suppose an ISP had two upload caps a higher one for intranet transfers and a lower one for internet traffic that needs to leave their intranet. This would increase the attractiveness of local connections since they would be faster.
What are the consequences of a dual upload rate? presumably the larger ISP's will have more peers than smaller peers. This will make a larger Isp's services more attractive for people interested in p2p
However smaller Isp's would tend to lose their least profitable customers, while needing much less bandwidth for the remaining light users.
It might even keep an ISP's customers away from Media Sentry's IP ranges.
TFA actually states that no full answers were given, and each student had individual questions.
It sounds like the students were tutoring themselves, which can be acceptable.
Perhaps it would be better if moderated forums were provided for the students so discussions could take place without endangering learning.
Officially sanctioned forums are a good way to go, and possibly better than the traditional gathering at the library or student union. At least then the teachers can see whats going on and in fact help and guide if they wish.
Enthusiastic students driving each other to excellence, what could be better, who could be more receptive.
The sad thing is students are now afraid to discuss their course material, they will learn less because of this.
"The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 establishes a statutory right of responsible access to almost all land and water, so long as you behave responsibly."
In Scotland at least, the Public has free access to privately held land, despite the wishes of the owner. Even outside of Scotland, what property owners are allowed to do is limited, Think planning permission, excessive noise, length of grass in some cases with housing associations.
Even if you argue intellectual property having the same status as physical property, ownership of property doesn't actually mean you can do what you will with it, and certainly in the case of Scotland landowners are pretty much forced to give the public free access, even though you might wish to be paid for the access or deny it altogether.
If IP owners were to accept the similar rights as property owners then most of us would respect the limited rights granted to the owners. Downloading a song wouldnt be an issue, downloading and selling that song would be.
Non commercial use of property has been and still is fair, commercial exploitation isn't.
Even with physical property your rights pertaining to that property are granted by society and can be taken away. perhaps the only exclusive right is the right to sell.
sorry I can not agree, in an ideal world kids would respect their teachers, however in practice, some they do, some they don't.
thing is the kids are the same the teachers are different. It would seem that the variable is the teacher and how they relate to the kids.
As adults we can at the very least be civil, we don't necessarily respect the other party.
I work with some very behavourial and emotional damaged kids, most of them are ok provided you relate to them with mutial respect and don't go pressing their buttons.
if teachers are not gaining the respect of their students it's largely down to the teacher.
not quite true there is an alternative method of verification nus extra card or isic card last 12 digits of either
I find I qualify being an open university student I can get the Nus extra card for £10 and online at that. It also gets me a 5% discount at amazon as well and other discounts. So it might be worth applying. As the Nus extra card is also an isic card there could be a few other benefits including cheaper flights.
Pity I don't really have much need of Microsoft software.
Nano Tech will require bright minds and very highend industrial technology. Currently, the US leads China in both fields. Surely the vast difference in numbers mean china is almost certain to have more bright minds than the usa.
China is in a better position to ensure the brightest minds get developed to their full potential, they will be state funded and they will go to the best universities, even if they happen to be american universities.
As for highend industrial technology, where is this technology being manufactured... yes china pretty much along with korea and other Asian country's.
Some of america's brightest minds may be in ghetto's and trailer parks, are they going to get the access they need to be brought to their full potential?
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touch screen part isnt that difficult, it's been done on the eee.
I would think you could put an on screen keyboard or just transcribe handwriting on one screen while using the other as a monitor. actually theres quite a lot of configurations possible a couple of sd card slots and a usb or two and it becomes quite an interesting device,battery life is the killer thou. As a first world product and access to an electricity supply it could be popular.
maybe if one side had solar cells it could be self charging to an extent.
not quite sure its right for the olpc project thou.
This might sound a little strange but if the p2p networks are polluted with RIAA music then providing a list of tracks and artists would help prevent the accidental download of RIAA member music. Honestly how are you supposed to know whats legal and what isn't?
Riaa members don't produce all music and if they can provide lists for the investigators for automatic searches then the same list could be used to filter search results. I wouldn't want to accidentally infringe on their members copyrights would you?
There must be millions of unsigned bands or bands out of contract or recordings out of copyright I could download and listen too legally.
The EEE fits in the glovebox of your car,
battery life is long enough 3-4 hours standard long enough to be able to sit down and do something.
windows 2000 runs nicely in virtualbox taking up 2 gb on an sd card
you can tether it to your mobile
you can connect it to psp
charge your mobile via usb
its not bad in daylight outside
it is not all your hand baggage on a flight.
it plays films perfectly
the eee900 addresses some issues bigger screen and more ssd capacity
I'd like to see some internal usb ports for bluetooth or gps or an expansion bay
that could clip underneath for hard drive and external dvd drive it gets a bit messy when you hook up extra drives. This could be done by a third party battery company the really big extended battery is quite huge and modding it so it could extend under the eee wouldnt be too hard. I carry a slim line dvd drive and a 2.5 drive in the bag i use for the eee.
http://www.eeeuser.com/ this should link to a review of the eee 900
and after reading it i'm not that impressed, the bigger screen seems to be lower quality, the wifi less range. better webcam and more ssd space the charger is now more standard but i like the wall wart and now the system fan is relatively noisy.
The price on ebay for eee 701's seems to have dropped as might be expected and to be honest I think I'd feel only the slightest twinge of initial jealousy if a friend got the eee 900 but thats only for the higher resolution screen.
you so nearly get it right, but miss the important thing if your going to hate anybody it should be because of who they are and not what they are.
it's reasonable to hate robert mugabe but not because he is black but for who he is and what he has done. Not even all convicted pedophiles deserve hatred remember that could be 2 seventeen year olds who had sex with each other, i don't have a problem with that and in my country its legal!
There is good and bad in most groupings of people, any intelligent individual should realize this, if you are intelligent and still push this generalized hatred, then really you deserve the consequences.
like belkin usb adapters with at least 4 versions each with the same vendor and product id you mean, that causes problems for windows as well.
:)
Thats pretty much inexcusable and why i went off belkin.
Although they did and may still offer a lifetime warranty on routers, I used it once, and with a phone call got a replacement shipped to me in 3 or 4 days for free.
thanks belkin
Sometimes you do find a manufacturer who readily admits to linux compatibility
and has a penguin on the box.
we tend to influence purchases for our not so savvy friends and family, I only recommend linux compatible hardware even to windows users, some manufacturers know this.
How much better would be lexmark sales without us for example
maybe not the best known brand but edimax use ralink chipset which has gpl driver code.
I've used edimax pci pcmcia and usb cards with no problems.
admittedly i just use mac address filtering, makes it easy for all my wireless devices and just put them on an allow list and static dhcp.
I use buffalo whr54s routers with tomato and dd-wrt firmwares
tomato has nice qos features and dd-wrt has a nice wireless network tool and the ability to set up a secondary wireless networks with wep wpa or open so i could allocate say 5% of my bandwidth to joe public without putting him on my lan
To Get broadcom cards working you need broadcom code, which they don't appear to want to ship with ubuntu. If you choose to use a card supported by the chip manufacturer under Linux you wouldn't have a problem.
However the installation of the B43 driver is practically painless simply select hardware drivers from the administration menu and add a checkmark for the wireless driver, using the wired network cable, ubuntu hardy downloads the firmware and installs it. On reboot you should have wireless (if it was a clean install).
an upgrade install can be more difficult especially if you used ndiswrapper previously.
You will probably find wireless is improved.
with the Bcm43xx driver I got 18dbm transmit power and with Ndiswrapper it was 25dbm
with B43 its a little more at 27 dbm
If your really upset that the broadcom firmware isn't included by default then write to broadcom.
ahem the razr had one bit of functionality. you don't accidentally dial out on a razr. even keylocked phones had the ability to call the emergency services whilst locked.
forget any other feature, this one feature made it worth while.
http://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/
rather annoyingly firefox beta5 isn't compatible with the mainstream release of adblock however the development build here works fine.
All i need now is a method to remove the gray tramlines running down the page on slashdot. the nesting soon reduces me to 20% width comment 20% side bar 60% tram line. god knows what mobile users get.
Have you noticed Mcdonalds adds milk to your coffee before giving it to you, (I'm not sure about sugar I don't use it).
Strangely they don't do the same for tea.
I would think the Mcdonalds court case will have prevented many accidents due to the change in working practice by Mcdonalds. That is the value in that law suit, not the eventual cash award.
I don't know why everyone seems to think this has anything to do with getting permission from the owner of the access point or denying revenue to the ISP. It's not
It is far more simple than that, if you connect to an open domestic router your pretty much untraceable. If you use an internet cafe theres a pretty good chance you were on cctv or had to give some proof of who you are.
It's reasonable to assume that some web sites are monitored, and that your local government is interested in who's accessing these sites. maybe they play keyword bingo with our google searches too.
while you could make criminal penalties for violating an ISP's terms of service, why bother, it would only bring attention to the work of the security services. If you feel safe and anonymous on the internet, you will be careless. Not only that but what happens when you prosecute the District Attorney, the local sheriff, Your family Doctor, ect... Now criminals because they couldn't configure a wireless router.
makes sense doesn't it?
I had a problem with printing crashing Open office seems it was down to the desktop theme i was using 'Crux'
without that theme its been very stable.
I guess the surprise is due to a change in attitude, most of us between say 40 to 55 now had fairly extensive collections of c90's often we would buy an album along with a blank c90 with the intention of recording the album on the very first play. Go to someone older and they had reel to reel tapes.
no one got bankrupted for taping albums. As a further point whilst you say people making illegal copies are criminals, largely they sre not tried in criminal court and basically its a case of breach of contract(that wasn't signed read or agreed to by the purchaser).
At present the act of copying is more visible due to the internet, however consider most people have at least a few friends, and these friends will have further friends, this makes it trivial to share many thousands of songs without touching the internet. Good ole sneaker.net will replace the internet file sharing if the riaa continues to crack down.
In fact i can envisage an application to create an adhoc wireless network and automatically exchange songs without ever knowing who you share with and without touching the internet. can you imagine how popular that would be on college campus's
It's a futile fight the record companies are fighting, and its victims are probably it biggest customers.
Not that it means anything if they didn't but I'm just interested to know their stance. I guess we'll find out when they print their obituary. Try this from the guardian in 2000
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/sciencefiction/story/0,6000,374388,00.html Rupert and Arthur are good friends. The author of 2001: A Space Odyssey faced his trickiest moment three years ago, when he was turned over by the Sunday Mirror. It was Murdoch who wrote him a "very nice" note promising him that the reporters responsible would never work in Fleet Street again. "He is a rather shy, modest person," Clarke says teasingly. "I find him very deferential."
The Mirror claimed that Clarke had paid young boys for sex. It produced affidavits from the boys in question. Sri Lankan police later disproved them, he says. The story ran two weeks before Prince Charles flew to Sri Lanka to confer a knighthood on the grand old man of science fiction. The saga was the lowest point in his career. At a banquet in his honour Clarke, who has post polio syndrome, found himself hobbling away from the press, pursued by an unctuous reporter from the Daily Telegraph. The episode still upsets him. "I take an extremely dim view of people mucking about with boys," Clarke says. "The whole thing was distressing to me. It was vindictive and very unpleasant. I can only assume it was a plot to embarrass Prince Charles." The novelist finally got his gong this May, at a low-key ceremony at the British high commission in Colombo.
Clarke's private life remains a mystery. He was married briefly to an American, Marilyn Mayfield, now dead, whom he met while diving in Florida in the 50s. Asked whether he is gay, Clarke always gives the same puckish pro forma answer: "No, merely cheerful." The answer, presumably, lies in the "Clarkives" - a vast collection of his manuscripts and private writings, to be published 50 years after his death. A further quote
""I had an operation for prostate cancer 10 years ago," Clarke says. "I haven't the slightest interest in sex."
He deserves respect, not anonymous sniping , for his remarkable influence and contributions to humanity.
Rest in Peace Sir Arthur.
It would be illegal to burn a copy for your friend depending on what the content was. not all content is under such terms. It wouldn't be illegal to lend your friend the CD or sell it to him either.
Now lets pretend we all stay completely within the law, how does a band get exposure radio
well here is the playlist for radio1 a national station http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/playlist/ its a total of 58 tracks. to be played over the course of a week. not much exposure for bands not on the playlist. By restricting our exposure to legal sources we don't get to hear even 1% of the music available. On the other hand, the way the world really works is that people do share their musical tastes with their friends. Realistically most of us get introduced to a particular artists music through our friends and if we like it we tend to buy at least a percentage of it. A well put together mix Cd could contain many different artists and tracks. (rarely do record labels do a good job of this, they always add filler). Your illegal Cd can be key to many legal sales, due to the exposure of the artists on the mix cd.
So while illegal copying can be seen as a negative, it largely isn't. It's building a fan base. The actions of the RIAA far from raising legal sales, positively discourages the dissemination of an artists music , limiting an artists exposure and reducing the potential fan base of an artist.
"The record companies can sell their products for whatever price they want to. Just like any other company. They make outrageous profit selling CDs for $15 each, but that's not illegal, and as long as people keep buying them for that price, they'll keep doing it."
Isn't the RIAA saying that people are not buying CD's at $15 at least not enough of them, hence the crack down on individual piracy. The real damage to music sales is counterfeit CD's and I have never seen any argument posted here that counterfeiters deserve any sympathy.
while ping is a measure of latency, and not bandwidth low latency would tend to indicate a packet has a shorter route and less congestion than a high latency packet. It's a simple measurement being abused to help rate a peer, however the most important rating is the transfer speeds being achieved.
http://www.superjason.com/archive/2007/08/14/local-peer-discovery-best-new-utorrent-feature.aspx
It looks like utorrent already has a "local" feature also azureus
http://torrentfreak.com/speed-up-your-torrents-with-ono-070921/
What isps do is largely up to them, net neutrality is a nasty can of worms, we can do little about.
A semi-intelligent method of choosing peers might be a combination of low ping time, coupled with a related rule for speed of download.
say if the median transfer speed was 5kb/s then a peer offering 10kbs or higher would be used in preference to a local peer offering 5 kb/s.
kind of an attractiveness rating.
If this was in place what would it mean for an ISP?
Suppose an ISP had two upload caps a higher one for intranet transfers and a lower one for internet traffic that needs to leave their intranet. This would increase the attractiveness of local connections since they would be faster.
What are the consequences of a dual upload rate?
presumably the larger ISP's will have more peers than smaller peers. This will make a larger Isp's services more attractive for people interested in p2p
However smaller Isp's would tend to lose their least profitable customers, while needing much less bandwidth for the remaining light users.
It might even keep an ISP's customers away from Media Sentry's IP ranges.
TFA actually states that no full answers were given, and each student had individual questions.
It sounds like the students were tutoring themselves, which can be acceptable.
Perhaps it would be better if moderated forums were provided for the students so discussions could take place without endangering learning.
Officially sanctioned forums are a good way to go, and possibly better than the traditional gathering at the library or student union. At least then the teachers can see whats going on and in fact help and guide if they wish.
Enthusiastic students driving each other to excellence, what could be better, who could be more receptive.
The sad thing is students are now afraid to discuss their course material, they will learn less because of this.
The access to the public to private land next to a golf course, brings to mind the right to roam in scotland,
http://www.ramblers.org.uk/scotland/accessN/index.html
"The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 establishes a statutory right of responsible access to almost all land and water, so long as you behave responsibly."
In Scotland at least, the Public has free access to privately held land, despite the wishes of the owner.
Even outside of Scotland, what property owners are allowed to do is limited, Think planning permission, excessive noise, length of grass in some cases with housing associations.
Even if you argue intellectual property having the same status as physical property, ownership of property doesn't actually mean you can do what you will with it, and certainly in the case of Scotland landowners are pretty much forced to give the public free access, even though you might wish to be paid for the access or deny it altogether.
If IP owners were to accept the similar rights as property owners then most of us would respect the limited rights granted to the owners. Downloading a song wouldnt be an issue, downloading and selling that song would be.
Non commercial use of property has been and still is fair, commercial exploitation isn't.
Even with physical property your rights pertaining to that property are granted by society and can be taken away.
perhaps the only exclusive right is the right to sell.
sorry I can not agree, in an ideal world kids would respect their teachers, however in practice, some they do, some they don't.
thing is the kids are the same the teachers are different. It would seem that the variable is the teacher and how they relate to the kids.
As adults we can at the very least be civil, we don't necessarily respect the other party.
I work with some very behavourial and emotional damaged kids, most of them are ok provided you relate to them with mutial respect and don't go pressing their buttons.
if teachers are not gaining the respect of their students it's largely down to the teacher.
He might find this quite inspirational
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/make_your_own_vaccum_tube.html
He might not want to go this far, but skills like this are rare.
not quite true there is an alternative method of verification nus extra card or isic card last 12 digits of either
I find I qualify being an open university student I can get the Nus extra card for £10 and online at that. It also gets me a 5% discount at amazon as well and other discounts. So it might be worth applying. As the Nus extra card is also an isic card there could be a few other benefits including cheaper flights.
Pity I don't really have much need of Microsoft software.
China is in a better position to ensure the brightest minds get developed to their full potential, they will be state funded and they will go to the best universities, even if they happen to be american universities.
As for highend industrial technology, where is this technology being manufactured
Some of america's brightest minds may be in ghetto's and trailer parks, are they going to get the access they need to be brought to their full potential?