You could be right. Maybe the whole SCO thing has been a Microsoft-sponsored dry-run at some future patent campaign that will exhaust the time and funds of any and all competitors.
Look how long it has taken to prove SCOs claims as being baseless. If Microsoft can buy 3 years for each of 5,000 patents....then that is a LONG time they can frustrate competition.
NZ doesn't have a free trade agreement with the US because what NZ exports competes directly with several major vested interests in the US: dairy, meat, wood, fruit.
The stuff about not having an FTA because we refused to believe Bush's lies about Iraq and whore the lives of NZ service men and women for an FTA (like Australia did).....is crap.
The BBC is a state-owned broadcaster, operating under a charter that gives it a large amount of indepenedence. The BBC always has been more open about content access than commercial broadcasters.
For example, the BBC is putting all their old TV shows on the Internet for viewing or download, on the basis the citizens have paid forthem and own them.
You won't see such freedom of access from a commercial company.
Americans ridicule the BBC state-owned model...yet over and over it has proven to be MORE independent and generally better all round provided the resources are there to provide a good service.
Clearly, the US under G W Bush, by its actions, is becoming an enemy of the freedom he *talks* about all the time.
Development of P2P should leave the US and move to countries where freedom is still valued.
Same here. We have 9 PCs and they are al home-built systems. Seven of them run Linux. The other two run Win98SE - the last reasonably secure version of Windows.
Agreed.
NASA estimated a 10 year programme for a manned mission to Mars would cost about $50 billion.
Bush has spent almost 4 times that figure making a mess of Iraq - in only 16 months.
I suppose the good news is that Bush's massive expansion of the space program would have mostly been to militarise near-earth space and the Moon, using the long term goal of Mars as a channel to funnel vast sums into the pockets of his corporate masters for many years to come.
There should be no real surprise. In most programs where the President has announced bold, new initiatives the follow-up has been budget cuts.
An uncharitable person might conclude he lies about EVERYTHING....but I couldn't be that uncharitable.
I 've already downloaded and seen F-9/11. The movies doesn't open in my country for several more weeks....and the nearest theatre showing it is 150kms from my small, rural town.
I will buy the DVD when it comes out.
Agreed. The US has Right and Far-Right....when compared with just about any other democracy there is.
I put it down to most democracies (over 80%) using proportional voting systems....and the US frustrating real democracy by remaining with "winner take all" AND also cheating on the electoral district boundaries, too.
How many Americans know that in their House congressional elections 99% of the incumbents win? Thanks to this cheating.
No other major democracy has a system as corrupt as this. American voters have no real choice. No wonder they don't bother to vote.
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Another side to the Comcast throttling of techTV is they withdrawal of service from markets outside the US of Eh. In New Zealand, TechTV has been a popular element of the local cable TV service.....and customers were notified a couple of weeks ago that techTV was being removed from the service. Searches on the web indicate that the Comcast worls extends to the Lower 48 and maybe Alaska and Hawaii. This is a myopic world view that folks outside the US are all too used to.
The EU has learned that an eratic America besotted with dreams of global hegemony isn't to be trusted.
It's another lesson G W Bush has taught the world.
The US is flakey and a poor ally.
When i use Bit Torrent, I always leave the client open until it has uploaded the same amouint of data I downloaded....and YES, I do pay for data-volume tranferred.
You definitely CAN rely on altruism once you weed out the takers who never give. No one needs them anyway....but THEY need YOU.
The difference may not be so much between Canada and the US as it might be between large cities and small cities.
Corpoate culture also depends on the company concerned. Heavily sales-oriented companies who live today and die tomorrow are always pressure cookers and tend to burn people out as part of the business plan for constant renewal. The downside is they have limited institutional memory and are the corporate equivalent of the gibbering idiot who never learns from mistakes.
You probably really want to either start your own business or join a small company with people you like and get on well with.
Corporates suck. All of them.
I worked for several over the past 25 years and there is very little to redeem "corporate life". It comes close to being an oxymoron akin to "military intelligence".
I'm in New Zealand. I have 5 Linux systems running at the mo' (2 servers / 3 desktops) and one lonely WinME desktop system.
In other words.....over 80% Linux here at my house.
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You could be right. Maybe the whole SCO thing has been a Microsoft-sponsored dry-run at some future patent campaign that will exhaust the time and funds of any and all competitors. Look how long it has taken to prove SCOs claims as being baseless. If Microsoft can buy 3 years for each of 5,000 patents....then that is a LONG time they can frustrate competition.
NZ doesn't have a free trade agreement with the US because what NZ exports competes directly with several major vested interests in the US: dairy, meat, wood, fruit. The stuff about not having an FTA because we refused to believe Bush's lies about Iraq and whore the lives of NZ service men and women for an FTA (like Australia did).....is crap.
The BBC is a state-owned broadcaster, operating under a charter that gives it a large amount of indepenedence. The BBC always has been more open about content access than commercial broadcasters. For example, the BBC is putting all their old TV shows on the Internet for viewing or download, on the basis the citizens have paid forthem and own them. You won't see such freedom of access from a commercial company. Americans ridicule the BBC state-owned model...yet over and over it has proven to be MORE independent and generally better all round provided the resources are there to provide a good service.
Clearly, the US under G W Bush, by its actions, is becoming an enemy of the freedom he *talks* about all the time. Development of P2P should leave the US and move to countries where freedom is still valued.
Same here. We have 9 PCs and they are al home-built systems. Seven of them run Linux. The other two run Win98SE - the last reasonably secure version of Windows.
Couldn't be any worse than the incumbent.......
Agreed. NASA estimated a 10 year programme for a manned mission to Mars would cost about $50 billion. Bush has spent almost 4 times that figure making a mess of Iraq - in only 16 months. I suppose the good news is that Bush's massive expansion of the space program would have mostly been to militarise near-earth space and the Moon, using the long term goal of Mars as a channel to funnel vast sums into the pockets of his corporate masters for many years to come.
There should be no real surprise. In most programs where the President has announced bold, new initiatives the follow-up has been budget cuts. An uncharitable person might conclude he lies about EVERYTHING....but I couldn't be that uncharitable.
I 've already downloaded and seen F-9/11. The movies doesn't open in my country for several more weeks....and the nearest theatre showing it is 150kms from my small, rural town. I will buy the DVD when it comes out.
Agreed. The US has Right and Far-Right....when compared with just about any other democracy there is. I put it down to most democracies (over 80%) using proportional voting systems....and the US frustrating real democracy by remaining with "winner take all" AND also cheating on the electoral district boundaries, too. How many Americans know that in their House congressional elections 99% of the incumbents win? Thanks to this cheating. No other major democracy has a system as corrupt as this. American voters have no real choice. No wonder they don't bother to vote.
Another side to the Comcast throttling of techTV is they withdrawal of service from markets outside the US of Eh. In New Zealand, TechTV has been a popular element of the local cable TV service.....and customers were notified a couple of weeks ago that techTV was being removed from the service. Searches on the web indicate that the Comcast worls extends to the Lower 48 and maybe Alaska and Hawaii. This is a myopic world view that folks outside the US are all too used to.
The EU has learned that an eratic America besotted with dreams of global hegemony isn't to be trusted. It's another lesson G W Bush has taught the world. The US is flakey and a poor ally.
When i use Bit Torrent, I always leave the client open until it has uploaded the same amouint of data I downloaded....and YES, I do pay for data-volume tranferred. You definitely CAN rely on altruism once you weed out the takers who never give. No one needs them anyway....but THEY need YOU.
The difference may not be so much between Canada and the US as it might be between large cities and small cities. Corpoate culture also depends on the company concerned. Heavily sales-oriented companies who live today and die tomorrow are always pressure cookers and tend to burn people out as part of the business plan for constant renewal. The downside is they have limited institutional memory and are the corporate equivalent of the gibbering idiot who never learns from mistakes. You probably really want to either start your own business or join a small company with people you like and get on well with. Corporates suck. All of them. I worked for several over the past 25 years and there is very little to redeem "corporate life". It comes close to being an oxymoron akin to "military intelligence".
I'm in New Zealand. I have 5 Linux systems running at the mo' (2 servers / 3 desktops) and one lonely WinME desktop system. In other words.....over 80% Linux here at my house.