where is much more on offer then in the US it seems. Here in Santiago, Chile you can choose from around 2 differend Cable broadband providers and around 4 differend DSL providers. Granted that it's a bit more expensive then the USD25 that seems to be the norm in the US.. it's more around USD40 for a basic package and it's not available in the poor parts of the country. but there's no sight of anything dying here..
The US is just now paying the price for it's run-wild monopolies, companies get lazy, and fuckup, and leave people without any way to get broadband.
Go around the countryside on a windy day with a truck load of seeds with the top open. Come back a year later and start sending those letters. Reap the proffits, and you don't even need to sell ANYTHING! Now there's a marketing sceme!
How many farmers are going to just pay-up, instead of going to court with a Multinational company with the possilibly losing all there crop (and the rest in layer fees).
And Jezz... It's not like any farmer has a DNA splicer linked to a patent database in their barn.
Just like software projects, a content projects (like this one) could be funded from volentary micro payments. Maybe in combination with the "street performer protocol".
Volentary micropayments systems would be the real kicker for many free online services and software projects.
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Makes you wonder what the real reasons are there's no real workable systems around... Maybe the Banks with their CC intrests, major software houses and major content providers have made a deal not to allow this tech to happen.
</Paranoid>
Like it said in the artical, it's the combination of various INDEPENDENT inventions that made the difference after the turn of the last century.
The same will happen now. The digital revolution alone will not make big waves in our dayly lives. But combine it with new revolutions in bio (gene) tech and nano-tech and the start of the corperate republic and it will make at least as much waves as the last big revolution.
Seeing them seperate and then saying that they are insignificant compared the after effect of the all the inventions of the begining of the last century is shortsighted and typical of a person of a person being in the middle of it!.
Only looking back on it can we say if it was really a big deal or not.
IMHO this is the best way to improve the quality of Linux as a whole.
People inside the comunity making benchmarks. Open Benchmarks. Showing where the deficiencies and problems are to get mindshare/resources into getting it fixed/improved.
Remember how Samba got a performance boost when a MS-sponsered benchmark (of all things) showed some problems?
It's not just about language either. If on some website and someone writes "the government", "national tv" or "the east coast" it is automatically assumed that this persons means the US varities of these concepts. Ofcourse this is not a deal if your audience is indeed 95% USies.. But on an international site like/. getting some international perspective might be a good idea.
Ofcourse, we can't really blame the US people for taking this kind of perspective, since their educational system seems to view the world as consisting of only one country. Watch some TV series where they show a US high-school class room. They have some map on the wall.. what does it show ? The world ? America ? North-america ? Nop, just the US, like an island on it's own planet. Rather sad really. (ofcourse there will be exceptions to this, if you are it, be happy)
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Really simple, just use an encrypted file-system. Either in a partition or via loopback in a file (convinient for backuping).
Save, Simple, and you can use any email software you want.
where is much more on offer then in the US it seems. Here in Santiago, Chile you can choose from around 2 differend Cable broadband providers and around 4 differend DSL providers. Granted that it's a bit more expensive then the USD25 that seems to be the norm in the US.. it's more around USD40 for a basic package and it's not available in the poor parts of the country. but there's no sight of anything dying here..
The US is just now paying the price for it's run-wild monopolies, companies get lazy, and fuckup, and leave people without any way to get broadband.
Go around the countryside on a windy day with a truck load of seeds with the top open. Come back a year later and start sending those letters. Reap the proffits, and you don't even need to sell ANYTHING! Now there's a marketing sceme!
How many farmers are going to just pay-up, instead of going to court with a Multinational company with the possilibly losing all there crop (and the rest in layer fees).
And Jezz... It's not like any farmer has a DNA splicer linked to a patent database in their barn.
Volentary micropayments systems would be the real kicker for many free online services and software projects.
<Paranoid>
Makes you wonder what the real reasons are there's no real workable systems around... Maybe the Banks with their CC intrests, major software houses and major content providers have made a deal not to allow this tech to happen.
</Paranoid>
Like it said in the artical, it's the combination of various INDEPENDENT inventions that made the difference after the turn of the last century.
The same will happen now. The digital revolution alone will not make big waves in our dayly lives. But combine it with new revolutions in bio (gene) tech and nano-tech and the start of the corperate republic and it will make at least as much waves as the last big revolution.
Seeing them seperate and then saying that they are insignificant compared the after effect of the all the inventions of the begining of the last century is shortsighted and typical of a person of a person being in the middle of it!.
Only looking back on it can we say if it was really a big deal or not.
IMHO this is the best way to improve the quality of Linux as a whole.
People inside the comunity making benchmarks. Open Benchmarks. Showing where the deficiencies and problems are to get mindshare/resources into getting it fixed/improved.
Remember how Samba got a performance boost when a MS-sponsered benchmark (of all things) showed some problems?
These things are a good thing (tm) for Linux.
It's not just about language either. If on some website and someone writes "the government", "national tv" or "the east coast" it is automatically assumed that this persons means the US varities of these concepts. Ofcourse this is not a deal if your audience is indeed 95% USies.. But on an international site like /. getting some international perspective might be a good idea.
Ofcourse, we can't really blame the US people for taking this kind of perspective, since their educational system seems to view the world as consisting of only one country. Watch some TV series where they show a US high-school class room. They have some map on the wall.. what does it show ? The world ? America ? North-america ? Nop, just the US, like an island on it's own planet. Rather sad really. (ofcourse there will be exceptions to this, if you are it, be happy)
My 2 cents (in the currency of choice)