Huh? The only way we can get TiVo in Sweden is with an all-inclusive package (DVR, EPG, DVB-C, and streaming) from $20/month (18 SD + 3 HD channels) to $44/month (57 SD + 29 HD channels). Netflix places somewhere inbetween content-wise, but is cheaper at just $10/month. To include some hardware, add a $250 HTPC (e.g. mITX Athlon 5350) and amortize it over 24 months, or a smart TV (e.g. LG 43LH570V) over 48 months.
We have a 7-day EPG over the air in DVB-T, and some TV models can record to USB hard disks and flash drives, so you could theoretically just watch the 8 free-to-air channels, and just pay the $20/month TV license (if that). Getting additional channels over DVB-T (or a competing cable network) would cost the same as TiVo.
If you actually want something to watch for cheap, Netflix wins. And if you skip the TV, no license is needed. Many Swedish millennials stream everything on their laptops (or smartphones).
Hmm, speaking of complexity, and the long hours associated with the IT work sector, couldn't it just be that the gals realise that law and medicine are just as complex and demanding professions, but they pay much better, and there is still prestige in them?
What says everyone should have to connect to the original source of a live webcast? Why can't the ISPs act as proxies for the webcasters, and those who want a 'cast after it's been sent live get it via p2p? If the authors want money for the bits, let 'em have it. OTOH, they should remember that IWTBF, and only charge reasonably for the content. If they can't they've got some serious problems with their business organization and methods, which they should rationalize if they desire to survive.
That would be nothing short of heinous: the state that is supposed to protect those kids destroys their lives. If the kids were convicted and declared as sex offenders, I hope that they would be granted a political asylum in some West European country. That would be, if they could come over with their kids, without first starting some civil rights revolution, in which case it would no longer be necessary to make the 10,000 km (6,200 mi) move to the east.
\begin{offtopic} You're kidding! As if most CS majors didn't have laptops, which are usually cheaper with Windows (new or used brand-name computers w/ MS tax paid) than without (custom-made in a local computer shop). Also, think about those who play games (such as CS, WoW and RoN) on their boxen, and those who are too lazy to install Linux, but just grab the essential programs (good luck finding a distro with all of 'em). \end{offtopic}
I also know CS majors (well, CSE, where the `E' means `Engineering') who don't give a d*mn about patching their WinBoxen or installing security software; they simply use cheap D(e)-Link routers and mind what they download.
Nah, don't compare Sweden and Russia. For example, the Russian elite schools would be major faux pas in Sweden, except those for athletes, artists, musicians etc. And even though we have national curricula, they are rather vague; deciding the exact contents and hence what the students know when leaving is completely up to the teachers. The textbooks and national exams do help, however, in some subjects. Having taught grades 7-9 as well as 10-12 or 10-12 as well as college 1-2 is of course the best, but those teachers are very rare.
As for school uniforms and competent teachers, there is a massive opposition against the former; gang and hip-hop dress styles are common (wearing reversed baseball caps in the classrooms included *shudder*); and some schools have been critizised for giving formally unqualified teachers permanent positions in preference to those holding teacher's degrees. The teachers' salaries aren't much to brag about either; they are much higher in our neighbour countries Finland and Germany. In those countries, teaching is still a high-status profession, and not a final resort for those who are unable to do anything else. Of course, not all teachers in Sweden are like that, but too many are. One failing group is one too much, if it could easily have been prevented.
Correction: I just found out that the EUR 0,45 levy is for DVD-R. For RW discs, it is an extortionate EUR 0,72. These levies apply to DVD media sold in Sweden (25 % VAT included).
No, it's more as if the reporter mailed a copy of the book to whomever asked for one (say the prosecution). Didn't you RTFJ and search for "link"?
<quote source="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCA FC/2006/187.html"> When an internet user clicked on a particular hyperlink, the music file in question was transmitted directly to his or her computer from a remote server. </quote>
<rant> That sounds like the definition of deep linking, which was declared illegal in Sweden by the Supreme Court in 2000 ("The mp3 case"). The background to this was in particular the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the EUCD, both of which have been bought by greedy mega-corpos through *bribery* of the People's representatives. It *is not* an Australian problem; it's a global one.
If it seems like I am contradicting myself, I can tell you that in most of Europe you pay a levy on each recordable CD and DVD you buy, regardless of what you will use it for. I have to pay ca. EUR 0,45 to the obnoxiously rich media mega-corpos of the 20th century to support their persecution of their customers and the utter junk they release much too often for each DVD-RW I use for testing Linux distros and transporting/archiving freeware tools or my own photos. They are levied as if they were 180-minute video cassettes. And I have no DVD recorder connected to my TV, but just a VCR. Some of you will think: "Germany charges reasonable levies, so why not buy from wesellcd.com?" I do not use very many discs, but I strongly oppose the idea that CD- and DVD-R(W)s are mostly music and video storage media. Too many people believe that the V in DVD means "video", whereas it really means "versatile". No, the corpos must decide if they want media levies and free private copying or no levies and fair-use copying only. Today's absurd media levies encourage P2P file sharing and the downloading of mp3z and moviez.
There are no media levies in Oz, are there? </rant>
Yeah, my (family's) IBM PS/1 box fom *1993* had a hibernation-like feature called RapidResume, but my present box still doesn't auto-reconnect everything after waking up.
Wow, have you got IV league universities? I thought they only existed in THX 1138! If Europe and North America are becoming like the world in that film, it is really scary.
try this webstore if your media levies are too expensive (and you live in the right country): www.wesellcd.com Their prices are about half of those in the cheapest local computer stores in Sweden (residents of other countries: Your savings may vary.), shipping costs not included. Hint: co-order with your friends and split the shipping costs if you find them steep.
...for those of you who live in English-speaking countries. During my ten years online, I have got the impression that 95 percent of the phishing targets the Anglosphere, especially the US. Till now, we Swedes have been safe from hazardous domestic phishing attemps. The only one that I know about is a totally unbelievable upgrade offer from the bank Nordea, spammed out last fall. Bad machine translations (à la Systran) from English seem JUST like what a Swedish bank would use, right? Imagine an American bank using not-so-American English.
BTW, I wonder what the other 12 scam sites in Dhamija's experiment looked like. vv and w *are* *so* *similar* (glance-safe URL)! And login information is *often* being asked for in non-encrypted pages (no padlock/yellow URL).
ShieldWolf wrote: ----- But if you ask them "Do you think it's appropriate behavior for people to borrow their friends CD and make themselves a copy", you find a very different response. -----
It actually IS appropriate in most of the EU, since we pay a levy on recordable CDs, DVDs and cassettes, regardless of whether we will use them for backing up our own digicam photos/homemade music/downloaded freeware or for copying borrowed films and music. That levy makes me feel OBLIGED to sometimes download films via BT (which you are not supposed to, even though recording a TV broadcast is OK), since I have no friends who buy films.
In that case, so is choosing a free alternative (e.g. DIY/freeware/FOSS) or choosing a competing commercial product.
The software houses should be bloody happy that not everyone shows them the cold shoulder. Imagine a world where nobody pirates MS Office and Adobe Photoshop, but instead uses OpenOffice and Gimp. How'd MS and Adobe like THAT? Hadn't they rather kids learn those expensive professional programs, so that they will use them at their employers' expense, when they've grown up? I suppose that's why they don't hunt down freeloading home users, at least not in Sweden.
Selling and trading warez and gamez to the public for profit is IMHO a completely different matter, and I find it completely fair that those who try to make a living from illegally distributing other people's work are brought to justice.
Sun won't release the source code for their JVM and Java compiler, but they allow development of an open-source compiler and VM or a Java-to-C[++] translator which can be used for future-proofing today's Java applications. Therefore, programming- and CS-savvy amateurs and professionals should undertake such a project to improve their skills and make the world a better place in which to live.
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Huh? The only way we can get TiVo in Sweden is with an all-inclusive package (DVR, EPG, DVB-C, and streaming) from $20/month (18 SD + 3 HD channels) to $44/month (57 SD + 29 HD channels). Netflix places somewhere inbetween content-wise, but is cheaper at just $10/month. To include some hardware, add a $250 HTPC (e.g. mITX Athlon 5350) and amortize it over 24 months, or a smart TV (e.g. LG 43LH570V) over 48 months.
We have a 7-day EPG over the air in DVB-T, and some TV models can record to USB hard disks and flash drives, so you could theoretically just watch the 8 free-to-air channels, and just pay the $20/month TV license (if that). Getting additional channels over DVB-T (or a competing cable network) would cost the same as TiVo.
If you actually want something to watch for cheap, Netflix wins. And if you skip the TV, no license is needed. Many Swedish millennials stream everything on their laptops (or smartphones).
Hmm, speaking of complexity, and the long hours associated with the IT work sector, couldn't it just be that the gals realise that law and medicine are just as complex and demanding professions, but they pay much better, and there is still prestige in them?
What says everyone should have to connect to the original source of a live webcast? Why can't the ISPs act as proxies for the webcasters, and those who want a 'cast after it's been sent live get it via p2p? If the authors want money for the bits, let 'em have it. OTOH, they should remember that IWTBF, and only charge reasonably for the content. If they can't they've got some serious problems with their business organization and methods, which they should rationalize if they desire to survive.
That would be nothing short of heinous: the state that is supposed to protect those kids destroys their lives. If the kids were convicted and declared as sex offenders, I hope that they would be granted a political asylum in some West European country. That would be, if they could come over with their kids, without first starting some civil rights revolution, in which case it would no longer be necessary to make the 10,000 km (6,200 mi) move to the east.
\begin{offtopic}
You're kidding! As if most CS majors didn't have laptops, which are usually cheaper with Windows (new or used brand-name computers w/ MS tax paid) than without (custom-made in a local computer shop). Also, think about those who play games (such as CS, WoW and RoN) on their boxen, and those who are too lazy to install Linux, but just grab the essential programs (good luck finding a distro with all of 'em).
\end{offtopic}
I also know CS majors (well, CSE, where the `E' means `Engineering') who don't give a d*mn about patching their WinBoxen or installing security software; they simply use cheap D(e)-Link routers and mind what they download.
Nah, don't compare Sweden and Russia. For example, the Russian elite schools would be major faux pas in Sweden, except those for athletes, artists, musicians etc. And even though we have national curricula, they are rather vague; deciding the exact contents and hence what the students know when leaving is completely up to the teachers. The textbooks and national exams do help, however, in some subjects. Having taught grades 7-9 as well as 10-12 or 10-12 as well as college 1-2 is of course the best, but those teachers are very rare.
As for school uniforms and competent teachers, there is a massive opposition against the former; gang and hip-hop dress styles are common (wearing reversed baseball caps in the classrooms included *shudder*); and some schools have been critizised for giving formally unqualified teachers permanent positions in preference to those holding teacher's degrees. The teachers' salaries aren't much to brag about either; they are much higher in our neighbour countries Finland and Germany. In those countries, teaching is still a high-status profession, and not a final resort for those who are unable to do anything else. Of course, not all teachers in Sweden are like that, but too many are. One failing group is one too much, if it could easily have been prevented.
Correction: I just found out that the EUR 0,45 levy is for DVD-R. For RW discs, it is an extortionate EUR 0,72. These levies apply to DVD media sold in Sweden (25 % VAT included).
No, it's more as if the reporter mailed a copy of the book to whomever asked for one (say the prosecution). Didn't you RTFJ and search for "link"?
A FC/2006/187.html">
<quote source="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FC
When an internet user clicked on a particular hyperlink, the music file in question was transmitted directly to his or her computer from a remote server.
</quote>
<rant>
That sounds like the definition of deep linking, which was declared illegal in Sweden by the Supreme Court in 2000 ("The mp3 case"). The background to this was in particular the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the EUCD, both of which have been bought by greedy mega-corpos through *bribery* of the People's representatives. It *is not* an Australian problem; it's a global one.
If it seems like I am contradicting myself, I can tell you that in most of Europe you pay a levy on each recordable CD and DVD you buy, regardless of what you will use it for. I have to pay ca. EUR 0,45 to the obnoxiously rich media mega-corpos of the 20th century to support their persecution of their customers and the utter junk they release much too often for each DVD-RW I use for testing Linux distros and transporting/archiving freeware tools or my own photos. They are levied as if they were 180-minute video cassettes. And I have no DVD recorder connected to my TV, but just a VCR. Some of you will think: "Germany charges reasonable levies, so why not buy from wesellcd.com?" I do not use very many discs, but I strongly oppose the idea that CD- and DVD-R(W)s are mostly music and video storage media. Too many people believe that the V in DVD means "video", whereas it really means "versatile". No, the corpos must decide if they want media levies and free private copying or no levies and fair-use copying only. Today's absurd media levies encourage P2P file sharing and the downloading of mp3z and moviez.
There are no media levies in Oz, are there?
</rant>
In Europe is freedom after press.
Sorry, I couldn't help writing this, but I fear it's turned true.
Yeah, my (family's) IBM PS/1 box fom *1993* had a hibernation-like feature called RapidResume, but my present box still doesn't auto-reconnect everything after waking up.
Wow, have you got IV league universities? I thought they only existed in THX 1138! If Europe and North America are becoming like the world in that film, it is really scary.
try this webstore if your media levies are too expensive (and you live in the right country):
www.wesellcd.com
Their prices are about half of those in the cheapest local computer stores in Sweden (residents of other countries: Your savings may vary.), shipping costs not included. Hint: co-order with your friends and split the shipping costs if you find them steep.
...for those of you who live in English-speaking countries. During my ten years online, I have got the impression that 95 percent of the phishing targets the Anglosphere, especially the US. Till now, we Swedes have been safe from hazardous domestic phishing attemps. The only one that I know about is a totally unbelievable upgrade offer from the bank Nordea, spammed out last fall. Bad machine translations (à la Systran) from English seem JUST like what a Swedish bank would use, right? Imagine an American bank using not-so-American English.
BTW, I wonder what the other 12 scam sites in Dhamija's experiment looked like. vv and w *are* *so* *similar* (glance-safe URL)! And login information is *often* being asked for in non-encrypted pages (no padlock/yellow URL).
Well, I'd rather say it's so 1996. My old home-built box from '97 supports ATX soft power off in Win95B (and more modern OSs).
ShieldWolf wrote:
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But if you ask them "Do you think it's appropriate behavior for people to borrow their friends CD and make themselves a copy", you find a very different response.
-----
It actually IS appropriate in most of the EU, since we pay a levy on recordable CDs, DVDs and cassettes, regardless of whether we will use them for backing up our own digicam photos/homemade music/downloaded freeware or for copying borrowed films and music. That levy makes me feel OBLIGED to sometimes download films via BT (which you are not supposed to, even though recording a TV broadcast is OK), since I have no friends who buy films.
In that case, so is choosing a free alternative (e.g. DIY/freeware/FOSS) or choosing a competing commercial product.
The software houses should be bloody happy that not everyone shows them the cold shoulder. Imagine a world where nobody pirates MS Office and Adobe Photoshop, but instead uses OpenOffice and Gimp. How'd MS and Adobe like THAT? Hadn't they rather kids learn those expensive professional programs, so that they will use them at their employers' expense, when they've grown up? I suppose that's why they don't hunt down freeloading home users, at least not in Sweden.
Selling and trading warez and gamez to the public for profit is IMHO a completely different matter, and I find it completely fair that those who try to make a living from illegally distributing other people's work are brought to justice.
Does anyone know if there will be a new improved version of it, capable of firing plasma? Or hope so? *):oD
That's heavy!
What's the point in wearing one unless it's grounded?
Which they? The Wintel camp??? I don't see Apple or Sun on that list.
Sun won't release the source code for their JVM and Java compiler, but they allow development of an open-source compiler and VM or a Java-to-C[++] translator which can be used for future-proofing today's Java applications. Therefore, programming- and CS-savvy amateurs and professionals should undertake such a project to improve their skills and make the world a better place in which to live.