I can't remember the last time I used Safari on my Mac (if ever). As I also use Windows & Linux, I use Firefox & Thunderbird. They might not be the highest performing apps but they work the same on all the platforms I use whichj is for me, the highest priority. Plugins like Adblock+, NoScript are worth their weight in gold.
will they be FREE? Just like Drug dealers, entice them in with some free stuff then start charging. Sure, some will drop out but some will stay on board and cough up the ante.
perfectly. I agree with pretty well everything you said.
Remember how Microsoft setup 'Plays for Sure' and then when it failed, shut it down meaning that people who had bought stuff were no longer able to play it or made them incompatible with their new toy, the Zune. Any Service that stores your data on their servers is open to misuse. They have something you want so what is to stop them from holding you to ransom and charging you an arm and a leg to get it back. This is almost as good a business model as drug dealing.
it is far easier for the numpties in charge to ban ALL Photography as most of the other numpties behind the camera don't know how to disable the flash on their camera.
and can find some way to sell the company without the liabilities...
AFAIK, The Pirate Bay has very few assets so collecting the amount of damages awarded might be difficult. What is clear however that that has been sold is the 'Name'. This is usually counted in what is called 'goodwill' when you do du-diligence of a company during a merger/take-over. If the contract puts the monies from the sale into something like a Blind Trust then the MPAA/RIAA/Whoever will find it difficult to recover. Swedish law may not allow the operation of a blind trust though. If not there is always and account in the Caymans...
Yep, you can fly to london and see the originals. Just like I can fly to NYC or Washington DC or Barcelona or PAris or St Petersbug (Russia) and visit the Museums and other places of interest there. That is what 'tourism' is all about. Photography is banned in most museums not just the NPG. Flash photography can have a detrimental effect on works of art. I have photographed in Museums on special open days when you can bring your tripod in and as long as you don't use any artificial light, you can photograph anything you want.
The National Portrait Gallery in London (Where the original pictures reside) DOES NOT CHARGE for entrance. I have spent many a wet lunch hour wandering around the Gallery enjoying the artwork.
I sells high quality prints of the Artwork. This is a way of raising funds for the upkeep and towards the purchase of new work. As an Amateur photographer who has had their work pirated by someone from the USA and realises the futility of trying to stop them from claiming it as their own, I'm with the NPG on this one. Btw, I would have given the pirate a high quality copy of the picture if they had asked for it and agreed that the copyright was mine. Instead, he stole it.
The state I was describing is where the site you are trying to get the file from checks to see what browser you are using and what version of Silverlight you are using. As (AFAIK) Moonlight reports this differently the servers thinks it can't send the data for display and redirects you to Microsoft to download the latest version of Silverlight.
Ther are blogs that go into this quite clearly. However I have not heard much about this recently. This might be fore several reasong including, people giving up using moonlight, the sites being changed to accept moonlight as a valid display susbsystem as well as silverlight . I am sure that there are other. I don't know as I rarely visit sites (since I encountered the above situation) that use either (or heavy flash for that matter). I won't install Silverlight on my Mac either. I just don't need it.
Still, I don't call the above situation interoperable at all. As I say, it might not be a problem any longer.
Or else why do quite a few sites that you access with Moonlight refuse to play but direct you to download Silverlight. Duh! If I was accessing it using Moonlight I conld not install Silverlight on the same Operating System.
Ok, that is Microsoft's explanation of 'interoperability' so it is fine and dandy.
You must be pirating music. The MPAA/RIAA (or your local equivalent) will be knocking on your door shortly.
Seriously, some people out there (Music publishers are you listening) would like to make using bittorrent akin to proof that you are illegally downloading music. They can see no legal reason for this type of application. Then AFAIK, some ISP's throttle Bittorrent use as a sop to the Music/Movie biz for the above reasons.
Planet Rock (UK www.planetrock.com ) is certainly not 50% adverts and available over this funny thing called 'the internet' & DAB. Pity it is not available on Freeview.
From memory, this is the routing the letter took. 1) Road Vehicle, Post Box to Airport 2) Helicopter - Scilly Isles to Mainland (Penzance) (Scheduled Service) 3) Road Vehicle to Airport (approx 80 miles) 4) Plane (1) to East Midlands (Mail Charter) 5) Plane (2) to Edinburgh(Mail Charter) 6) Plane (3) to Kinross (Mail Charter) 7) Road Vehicle to Inverness ( at least 30 miles) 8) Plane (4) to Kirkwall (Mail Charter) 9) Road Vehicle to Destination
All in less than 24 hours. Ok, the distnce (approx 850 miles) does not stack up against the distances in North America but for the number of steps the mail took I think it is pretty impressive.
When it works, Royal Mail does good work but all too often the 'posties' are out on Strike often over trivial things. When I was a student and worked delivering the Christmas poat, the locl sorting office went on strike for a day. The reason? The Canteen (works restaurant) had decided to limit the number of Tomato Sauce sachets that were given away free with a full breakfast to two instead of three. Total Stupidity if you ask me.
That said, the people who deliver the mail as opposed to those who sort it in the back office are far more in touch with the real world and often (like their USPS bretheren) got to extra ordinary length to deliver the post.
The same metrics will apply to RHEL 6. If this comes out in the same timefram as the next Ubuntu LTS then I would be willing to bet that they won't include Gnome 3.0 in release. RHEL 5 has a service/support life of 7 years so RedHat are in the same boat and manage quite well to keep support going. If Canonical are going to get into long term support on a serious basis then they need to adopt the same sort of conservatism in package selection as RedHat do. Perhaps getting burnt by Gnome 3 might be a lesson worth learning in the long term but I certainly would not want to be one of their paid for support customers.
Ok, this is very much crystal ball gazing but if you can't learn from your and others mistakes then don't even try. KDE 4.0 was released and picked up by various Distros with the consequences we all know about. All I'm saying is please Canonical, be careful about using Gnome 3.0 in the next LTS release.
I'm not a Ubuntu advocate (more of a Fedora/RHEL person really) but if the well documented problems with KDE 4 are anything to go by then including Gnome 3 in the next LTS release of Ubuntu would be IMHO a big mistake. An LTS release deserves to be of the highest quality from Day 1. To me it would be madness to base an LTS release on anything Gnome 3.0. IMHO an Ubuntu LTS release whould be the desktop equivalent to RHEL or SLED in terms of stability. If it is not then you have shot yourselves in the foot. If this means being conservative in package selection then so be it.
- Speak English - A lot places other than the USA speaks english - Dresses like an American - Agreed - Carry Cameras - Have you ever seen a Japanese Tour Group. They have more cameras than people
I'd add however - Have name tags attched to their clothes with names like 'Chip', 'Bud' & 'Hank'. - Only willing to eat Steak & French Fries unless it is a BigMac. (even in places where there are no Macdonalds...)
Seriously though, Americanes are about the easiest Nationality to pick out from a crowd and you don't need RFID to do it. I see them standing out clearly all the time in London. Other nations are a bit more discrete.
Just look at the legal tactics employed in the various cases. SCO (like the RIAA) needs to be put out of its misery but they refise to lie down & die. The RIAA tactics to delay & avoid giving real evidence especially about the real damages incurred is (IMHO) straight out of the SCO textbook.
I wish judges had the nerve to standup to this obvious bullshit & lies and tell them to stop wasting the courts time and get to the nitty gritty. But judges (in the USA) are AFAIK, elected and have to run campaigns so they risk cutting off the source of funding if they do. I prefer the totally independent judiciary we have here in the UK. I'm not saying it is without fault but judges can give the Government a real boody nose (read Lord Scarman's works) without fear of retaliation.
IMHO, the US civil legal system as shown to the world by the RIAA & SCO cases is horribly broken and it is far too obvious that the only people who benefit are the lawyers who created it in the first place (when they become law makers). Ok, Rant over, I can get back to breakfast.
I work on MQSeries and have been involved with message queueing systems since 1982.
WMQ is very reliable and has been since V5.1 came out. Pretty well every large financial organisation in the world uses it to move trillions of $$$, ££££, Yen, Euros around their companies & beteween them on a daily basis without error.
Please backup your statement with a list of 'Showstopping' bugs in WMQ. And no (before you ask), I don't work for IBM.
Hmmm,
The article I referenced was NOT one poll but three. They all showed the tories on 45% and NuLab on the mid to high 20% mark. Every other Poll I have seen recently gave similar results. My local MP is really scared about losing her place on the MP's gravy train.
I make no apology for using the terms NuLab & ElGordo. I was once a Labour Party member back in the days when Jack Straw (Justice Secretary) was head honcho at the NUS. This bunch of no hopers has betrayed the ideals of the Labour Party. I tore up my membership card then Tony Blair was elected leader and no, I don't read the Daily Mail.
I'll probably be voting UKIP in the forthcoming European Elections and ElGordo (Like Billy Liar) before him has renaged on their Manifesto promise to have a vote on the European Constitution (sorry treaty).
Most people I know who were NuLab supporters think ElGordo has totally lost the plot but can't think of anyone who can replace him in time for the election who has any chance of stopping the rot.
Some years ago I was working late one night. One of the team went out for food. When they returned, I was given a burger. I took one bite of it and spat it out. It was awful. I asked them where they got it from. They replied "Oh, the McDonalds just down the road". This was in the suburbs west of Boston just off I495.
I immediately vowed never to visit one of their establishment and never to eat what they call 'food'.
That said, I don't much like burgers in general. I much prefer to eat local fast food that is cooked in front of me. Ok, I'm in trouble if I visit parts of the US but there are plenty of other places to visit isn't there?
Quote What happens when McDonalds is staffed solely by robots. That would be pretty damn cool actually. They work for the price of electricity, maybe we can get the price of a cheeseburger back down to $0.25:D end Quote
The most important question is however.
Will a BIg Mac still taste like regurgidated cardboard?
Think I'm biased? Well maybe, I plan on going through life without EVER setting foot in a McD's (That includes drive through's). What they describe/offer as food does not interest me in the slightest and NO, I don't work for a competitor.
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I can't remember the last time I used Safari on my Mac (if ever). As I also use Windows & Linux, I use Firefox & Thunderbird. They might not be the highest performing apps but they work the same on all the platforms I use whichj is for me, the highest priority.
Plugins like Adblock+, NoScript are worth their weight in gold.
I worked on my first Fortran Prog in 1971 on a Honeywell DDP-124.
It was for controlling a Boeing 727 Flight Simulator.
I can still read fortran as can many people here. I'd bet many could read Cobol and Algol if pushed. Coral-66 baffles a lot of people though.
will they be FREE?
Just like Drug dealers, entice them in with some free stuff then start charging. Sure, some will drop out but some will stay on board and cough up the ante.
perfectly.
I agree with pretty well everything you said.
Remember how Microsoft setup 'Plays for Sure' and then when it failed, shut it down meaning that people who had bought stuff were no longer able to play it or made them incompatible with their new toy, the Zune.
Any Service that stores your data on their servers is open to misuse. They have something you want so what is to stop them from holding you to ransom and charging you an arm and a leg to get it back.
This is almost as good a business model as drug dealing.
it is far easier for the numpties in charge to ban ALL Photography as most of the other numpties behind the camera don't know how to disable the flash on their camera.
Simple really.
and can find some way to sell the company without the liabilities...
AFAIK, The Pirate Bay has very few assets so collecting the amount of damages awarded might be difficult.
What is clear however that that has been sold is the 'Name'. This is usually counted in what is called 'goodwill' when you do du-diligence of a company during a merger/take-over. If the contract puts the monies from the sale into something like a Blind Trust then the MPAA/RIAA/Whoever will find it difficult to recover. Swedish law may not allow the operation of a blind trust though.
If not there is always and account in the Caymans...
Yep, you can fly to london and see the originals. Just like I can fly to NYC or Washington DC or Barcelona or PAris or St Petersbug (Russia) and visit the Museums and other places of interest there. That is what 'tourism' is all about.
Photography is banned in most museums not just the NPG. Flash photography can have a detrimental effect on works of art.
I have photographed in Museums on special open days when you can bring your tripod in and as long as you don't use any artificial light, you can photograph anything you want.
The National Portrait Gallery in London (Where the original pictures reside) DOES NOT CHARGE for entrance. I have spent many a wet lunch hour wandering around the Gallery enjoying the artwork.
I sells high quality prints of the Artwork. This is a way of raising funds for the upkeep and towards the purchase of new work.
As an Amateur photographer who has had their work pirated by someone from the USA and realises the futility of trying to stop them from claiming it as their own, I'm with the NPG on this one. Btw, I would have given the pirate a high quality copy of the picture if they had asked for it and agreed that the copyright was mine. Instead, he stole it.
And pocket lots of dosh in the process
The state I was describing is where the site you are trying to get the file from checks to see what browser you are using and what version of Silverlight you are using. As (AFAIK) Moonlight reports this differently the servers thinks it can't send the data for display and redirects you to Microsoft to download the latest version of Silverlight.
Ther are blogs that go into this quite clearly. However I have not heard much about this recently. This might be fore several reasong including, people giving up using moonlight, the sites being changed to accept moonlight as a valid display susbsystem as well as silverlight . I am sure that there are other. I don't know as I rarely visit sites (since I encountered the above situation) that use either (or heavy flash for that matter). I won't install Silverlight on my Mac either. I just don't need it.
Still, I don't call the above situation interoperable at all. As I say, it might not be a problem any longer.
Or else why do quite a few sites that you access with Moonlight refuse to play but direct you to download Silverlight.
Duh! If I was accessing it using Moonlight I conld not install Silverlight on the same Operating System.
Ok, that is Microsoft's explanation of 'interoperability' so it is fine and dandy.
You must be pirating music. The MPAA/RIAA (or your local equivalent) will be knocking on your door shortly.
Seriously, some people out there (Music publishers are you listening) would like to make using bittorrent akin to proof that you are illegally downloading music. They can see no legal reason for this type of application.
Then AFAIK, some ISP's throttle Bittorrent use as a sop to the Music/Movie biz for the above reasons.
Planet Rock (UK www.planetrock.com ) is certainly not 50% adverts and available over this funny thing called 'the internet' & DAB. Pity it is not available on Freeview.
From memory, this is the routing the letter took.
1) Road Vehicle, Post Box to Airport
2) Helicopter - Scilly Isles to Mainland (Penzance) (Scheduled Service)
3) Road Vehicle to Airport (approx 80 miles)
4) Plane (1) to East Midlands (Mail Charter)
5) Plane (2) to Edinburgh(Mail Charter)
6) Plane (3) to Kinross (Mail Charter)
7) Road Vehicle to Inverness ( at least 30 miles)
8) Plane (4) to Kirkwall (Mail Charter)
9) Road Vehicle to Destination
All in less than 24 hours. Ok, the distnce (approx 850 miles) does not stack up against the distances in North America but for the number of steps the mail took I think it is pretty impressive.
When it works, Royal Mail does good work but all too often the 'posties' are out on Strike often over trivial things. When I was a student and worked delivering the Christmas poat, the locl sorting office went on strike for a day. The reason? The Canteen (works restaurant) had decided to limit the number of Tomato Sauce sachets that were given away free with a full breakfast to two instead of three. Total Stupidity if you ask me.
That said, the people who deliver the mail as opposed to those who sort it in the back office are far more in touch with the real world and often (like their USPS bretheren) got to extra ordinary length to deliver the post.
The same metrics will apply to RHEL 6. If this comes out in the same timefram as the next Ubuntu LTS then I would be willing to bet that they won't include Gnome 3.0 in release.
RHEL 5 has a service/support life of 7 years so RedHat are in the same boat and manage quite well to keep support going.
If Canonical are going to get into long term support on a serious basis then they need to adopt the same sort of conservatism in package selection as RedHat do. Perhaps getting burnt by Gnome 3 might be a lesson worth learning in the long term but I certainly would not want to be one of their paid for support customers.
Ok, this is very much crystal ball gazing but if you can't learn from your and others mistakes then don't even try. KDE 4.0 was released and picked up by various Distros with the consequences we all know about. All I'm saying is please Canonical, be careful about using Gnome 3.0 in the next LTS release.
I'm not a Ubuntu advocate (more of a Fedora/RHEL person really) but if the well documented problems with KDE 4 are anything to go by then including Gnome 3 in the next LTS release of Ubuntu would be IMHO a big mistake.
An LTS release deserves to be of the highest quality from Day 1. To me it would be madness to base an LTS release on anything Gnome 3.0.
IMHO an Ubuntu LTS release whould be the desktop equivalent to RHEL or SLED in terms of stability. If it is not then you have shot yourselves in the foot. If this means being conservative in package selection then so be it.
Your No 3 is not quite correct
- Speak English - A lot places other than the USA speaks english
- Dresses like an American - Agreed
- Carry Cameras - Have you ever seen a Japanese Tour Group. They have more cameras than people
I'd add however
- Have name tags attched to their clothes with names like 'Chip', 'Bud' & 'Hank'.
- Only willing to eat Steak & French Fries unless it is a BigMac. (even in places where there are no Macdonalds...)
Seriously though, Americanes are about the easiest Nationality to pick out from a crowd and you don't need RFID to do it. I see them standing out clearly all the time in London. Other nations are a bit more discrete.
As they are designed to stop Electomagnetic Radiation coming in then I would guess that they could ork to stop the RFID responses from getting out.
Just look at the legal tactics employed in the various cases.
SCO (like the RIAA) needs to be put out of its misery but they refise to lie down & die.
The RIAA tactics to delay & avoid giving real evidence especially about the real damages incurred is (IMHO) straight out of the SCO textbook.
I wish judges had the nerve to standup to this obvious bullshit & lies and tell them to stop wasting the courts time and get to the nitty gritty. But judges (in the USA) are AFAIK, elected and have to run campaigns so they risk cutting off the source of funding if they do.
I prefer the totally independent judiciary we have here in the UK. I'm not saying it is without fault but judges can give the Government a real boody nose (read Lord Scarman's works) without fear of retaliation.
IMHO, the US civil legal system as shown to the world by the RIAA & SCO cases is horribly broken and it is far too obvious that the only people who benefit are the lawyers who created it in the first place (when they become law makers).
Ok, Rant over, I can get back to breakfast.
Lawyers and especially that of Politicians who are also Lawyers.
I work on MQSeries and have been involved with message queueing systems since 1982.
WMQ is very reliable and has been since V5.1 came out. Pretty well every large financial organisation in the world uses it to move trillions of $$$, ££££, Yen, Euros around their companies & beteween them on a daily basis without error.
Please backup your statement with a list of 'Showstopping' bugs in WMQ.
And no (before you ask), I don't work for IBM.
Hmmm,
The article I referenced was NOT one poll but three. They all showed the tories on 45% and NuLab on the mid to high 20% mark. Every other Poll I have seen recently gave similar results. My local MP is really scared about losing her place on the MP's gravy train.
I make no apology for using the terms NuLab & ElGordo. I was once a Labour Party member back in the days when Jack Straw (Justice Secretary) was head honcho at the NUS. This bunch of no hopers has betrayed the ideals of the Labour Party. I tore up my membership card then Tony Blair was elected leader and no, I don't read the Daily Mail.
I'll probably be voting UKIP in the forthcoming European Elections and ElGordo (Like Billy Liar) before him has renaged on their Manifesto promise to have a vote on the European Constitution (sorry treaty).
This article in the Guardian (Hardly a Tory paper) puts the Tories firmly on course for a landslide victory. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/apr/28/tories-on-course-for-landslide/
Most people I know who were NuLab supporters think ElGordo has totally lost the plot but can't think of anyone who can replace him in time for the election who has any chance of stopping the rot.
How do I know how they taste?
Some years ago I was working late one night. One of the team went out for food. When they returned, I was given a burger. I took one bite of it and spat it out. It was awful. I asked them where they got it from. They replied "Oh, the McDonalds just down the road".
This was in the suburbs west of Boston just off I495.
I immediately vowed never to visit one of their establishment and never to eat what they call 'food'.
That said, I don't much like burgers in general. I much prefer to eat local fast food that is cooked in front of me.
Ok, I'm in trouble if I visit parts of the US but there are plenty of other places to visit isn't there?
Quote :D
What happens when McDonalds is staffed solely by robots. That would be pretty damn cool actually. They work for the price of electricity, maybe we can get the price of a cheeseburger back down to $0.25
end Quote
The most important question is however.
Will a BIg Mac still taste like regurgidated cardboard?
Think I'm biased? Well maybe, I plan on going through life without EVER setting foot in a McD's (That includes drive through's). What they describe/offer as food does not interest me in the slightest and NO, I don't work for a competitor.