This is just another on-the-paper law, made to conform to western trends in (media focused) law. This is clearly a consequence of all the controversy around the current norwegian copyright laws.
However, the enforcement of it will be marginal, if existent at all. My guess is ISP's will continue to forward threat mail from MPAA/RIAA to their customers as they are recieved, and do nothing more about it, just like before.
Hehe, it's good enough for wikipedia/mediawiki allright, but look how slow it [wikipedia] is. I use mediawiki on a website of mine as well, and it lags the entire system.
No need to flame people who use MySQL on win32. This has been briefly mentioned already, but here's a slightly better explanation.
One of MySQL's major advantages over other free medium-to-lightweight (such as pgsql) is that MySQL has been available for the win32 platform for a very long period of time (if you are about to mention firebird, take a look here). This enabled developers to install their webserver of choice (apache) with some cool script mod (php) alongside a database well suited for small to medium web projects (mysql).
So if you are a supporter of (F)OSS, then you better not flame people who use MySQL on win32, because that is one of the reasons why MySQL is so popular today.
The Kyoto agreement was signed to minimalize the output of climate gases from the countries who signs it. "Pollution shares" is just another name for the fines your country get when you screw up. At the moment, it looks like Norway will end up at 15-20% increased output compared to 1984 or whatever, opposed to 1% as it says in the agreement. This means that we will have to pay a shitload of money for not reaching our goal. This is fair, and to avoid this we will surely try to cut down on the output to the best of our effort. Did you know we have the most expensive petrol in the world, even though we drill and sell it ourselves?
As for the Kyoto agreement "increasing the barriers to entry for the fossel fuel industries", you are indeed correct. However, this won't "drive down the competition", at least that is not by far the intention. The effect should and will be distributed equally to the existing industry in the form of goverment-imposed regulations. Otherwise the goverment would prove imbecilic beyond my scope of comprehension.
However, you are partly right in one thing: alot of the countries did indeed sign it because it will screw the worst polluter in the world more than any (of the other countries combined).
That's one of IE's major advantages over other browsers on Windows. This happens because of IE's tight integration into the desktop shell, which is already loaded, making for very fast startup times. However, seeing as Opera starts (and exits) much faster/with less latency than Firefox, it is obvious that the Firefox team still has a long way to go. Latency is one of the the worst things you can expose a user to, ok!
There are several other things about firefox that needs improvement as well, such as the download manager (aka "resource hog of the millenium") and the configuration (what's the deal with about:config, anyway?)
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At the time of posting, there was a lack of informative post about this, however this has changed, and I can understand your train of thought, and how you jumped to conclusions.
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Is this a vaccine or a medicine? There is a difference, isn't it? A vaccine is meant to build immune defence, while medicine fixes the body when the damage has already been done. So which one is it? I see contradicting comments, so it would be nice to have this cleared up.
That is correct, however Norway is a member of EØS, think of it as a quasi-EU for those who didn't want to join EU but still wants a part of the fun.
Basically most of what applies to EU countries applies to EØS countries as well. But not everything.
For the interested norwegian, Odin provides a good read on this.
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This is just another on-the-paper law, made to conform to western trends in (media focused) law. This is clearly a consequence of all the controversy around the current norwegian copyright laws.
However, the enforcement of it will be marginal, if existent at all. My guess is ISP's will continue to forward threat mail from MPAA/RIAA to their customers as they are recieved, and do nothing more about it, just like before.
Hehe, it's good enough for wikipedia/mediawiki allright, but look how slow it [wikipedia] is. I use mediawiki on a website of mine as well, and it lags the entire system.
Hey pointy-haired guy, you're a useless loudmouth!
No need to flame people who use MySQL on win32. This has been briefly mentioned already, but here's a slightly better explanation. One of MySQL's major advantages over other free medium-to-lightweight (such as pgsql) is that MySQL has been available for the win32 platform for a very long period of time (if you are about to mention firebird, take a look here). This enabled developers to install their webserver of choice (apache) with some cool script mod (php) alongside a database well suited for small to medium web projects (mysql). So if you are a supporter of (F)OSS, then you better not flame people who use MySQL on win32, because that is one of the reasons why MySQL is so popular today.
The Kyoto agreement was signed to minimalize the output of climate gases from the countries who signs it. "Pollution shares" is just another name for the fines your country get when you screw up. At the moment, it looks like Norway will end up at 15-20% increased output compared to 1984 or whatever, opposed to 1% as it says in the agreement. This means that we will have to pay a shitload of money for not reaching our goal. This is fair, and to avoid this we will surely try to cut down on the output to the best of our effort. Did you know we have the most expensive petrol in the world, even though we drill and sell it ourselves?
As for the Kyoto agreement "increasing the barriers to entry for the fossel fuel industries", you are indeed correct. However, this won't "drive down the competition", at least that is not by far the intention. The effect should and will be distributed equally to the existing industry in the form of goverment-imposed regulations. Otherwise the goverment would prove imbecilic beyond my scope of comprehension.
However, you are partly right in one thing: alot of the countries did indeed sign it because it will screw the worst polluter in the world more than any (of the other countries combined).
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That's one of IE's major advantages over other browsers on Windows. This happens because of IE's tight integration into the desktop shell, which is already loaded, making for very fast startup times. However, seeing as Opera starts (and exits) much faster/with less latency than Firefox, it is obvious that the Firefox team still has a long way to go. Latency is one of the the worst things you can expose a user to, ok! There are several other things about firefox that needs improvement as well, such as the download manager (aka "resource hog of the millenium") and the configuration (what's the deal with about:config, anyway?)
At the time of posting, there was a lack of informative post about this, however this has changed, and I can understand your train of thought, and how you jumped to conclusions.
Is this a vaccine or a medicine? There is a difference, isn't it? A vaccine is meant to build immune defence, while medicine fixes the body when the damage has already been done. So which one is it? I see contradicting comments, so it would be nice to have this cleared up.
That is correct, however Norway is a member of EØS, think of it as a quasi-EU for those who didn't want to join EU but still wants a part of the fun. Basically most of what applies to EU countries applies to EØS countries as well. But not everything. For the interested norwegian, Odin provides a good read on this.