Well i'm not saying they have to work in our interest, but at least respect us and maintain normal diplomatic relationships, not instigating coups, or openly funding radical non democratic groups.
As an US citizen, you would be very suprised at the amount of money the US administration spends in illegal activities in Venezuela.
In the links i provided you can read some of the details.
Regional integration is one of the long term goals, and one of the main foreign policies for Venezuela. It is a type of integration that goes beyond trade agreements, in fact it gives priority to social, political and cultural aspects as well.
Its not exactly that we are standing up to the states, its more like the US administration wants their rules imposed on us, without us having any chance to discuss anything. They pretend we go to Washington d.c. and sign without reading whatever they wish. Any objection, is good enough for Bush to declare us part of the "axis of evil, communists, etc".
For example, they would love to see PDVSA, the state oil company, sold to private interests. Well who do you think PDVSA is competing with in the international market? Exactly, the multinational oil companies, which the Bush administration is closely related with. Im sure they would love to buy it all, but our current constitution, discussed and approved by the majority of the people in the referendum of 1999, forbids this.
We ship daily 1500000 barrels of oil to the United States. of these, 660000 go to Citgo.
Here are some interesting oil facts:
- An oil tanker from Venezuela takes from 4 to 5 days to reach the south coast in USA. The same oil tanker coming from the middle east, takes about 40 days. - Venezuelan oil is heavier than average (requires more refining), and it has a lower international price (about 10US$ less per barrel). - Because its not so profitable and enviromentally friendly, there have been no new refineries built in the United States in the past 25 years. - Refining capacity in the States has peaked at 100% capacity for many years already, getting more oil to the market won't lower prices anymore, and the global demand of oil has already reached maximun production ("Peak Oil" levels). - Citgo owns 8 of those not so profitable refineries... - USA with 7% population of the world consumes 27% of total oil production. Please guys, support energy efficiency usage and alternative methods. - China and India are demanding more and more fuel, we have already established good relationships with them.
A couple of documentaries i recommend you to watch:
What williamyf conveniently ignored, was the fact that Chavez, in 1999 actually accepted USA aid, machinery and engineers; but USA also insisted in deploying US Marines, something unacceptable for us.
Our offer to the United States is sincere. I don't know what George W. Bush will do, or not, but its not an offer to the USA central government, its an offer for the people, the organizations helping people, local governments, religious groups, etc.
This type of aid has been offered to the countries in the Caribbean who had been suffering the past hurricanes. We have helped with supplies and rebuilding in Jamaica, Cuba, Grenada, Haiti, etc. We also sent people to Sri Lanka and India after the tsunami, along with monetary donations.
Let me return you the favor: if you ever come to Venezuela, look me up and i would gladly show you around, so you can see the truth by yourself.
Let me clarify that we in Venezuela have no problem with the people of the United States. What we have issues with, is with the current administration, because they have actively worked against our country. It is not a personal matter either, if Bush stopped attempting to force his vision of what a country should be, and started respecting our sovereignty, i'm sure normal relationships with the administration would be restored. As it is right now, they don't even accept talking with our ambassador in Washington D.C., despite permanent attempts and support from Democrats and Republicans in the US congress.
If you are interested in knowing more about Venezuela, let me suggest these links:
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Cookie management in Firefox is a little bothersome, thats why i installed Permit Cookies extension, so you can easily whitelist sites by pressing ctrl-c. Then you can choose: allow, session, block, or remove the cookie for the site you are currently viewing.
Permit Cookies would be a little more user friendly if it worked just like NoScript extension (which does the same, but for javascript).
In my opinion both tools should be integrated into Firefox.
You should really use VLC media player. I even use the win32 port on many windows machines because it doesn't need codecs or special format support. Its fast and light on resources.
The rest of your issues seem distro related. You should try Ubuntu (with Totem-xine, see the Ubuntu guide) or any other friendly distro. Just because something costs money, it doesn't mean its any better.
It does because you could also get free healthcare, free education, cheaper or free services (electricity, water, gas) more aids and funding for your projects many business oportunities with the state, lower interest rates, etc, in effect needing to use less of that money.
Lets pick a bad example: Cuba. The people might be poor, but they are not dying of hunger in the streets, even with the many decades US blockade, and more recently a severe drought affecting half the isle.
These countries can stand much better hardships than any other money oriented societies that would quickly run into anarchy and chaos from all the fightings for trying to keep the already scare resources (See Haiti).
dynebolic is not debian based, its not knoppix based, its an original project! Meant for multimedia 64mb ram machines, and the xbox.
While knoppix each day has less and less apps, this one is getting more and more. And the machines which typically hang with knoppix (or knoppix based), even using all the "no" options, dynebolic loads happily. Not to mention 64mb ram machines, thankfully window maker based desktop for us in poor countries where these kind of machines abund.
Excellent, this can only help alternative (eg free/open source) software. But is Microsoft that stupid? Everyone knows they love the drug dealer scheme. "Pirated" copies only helps more people get used to their products, and they know and love to allow this in "third world" countries. But those people have to work somewhere, and there is where they aim with their bribed cops.
I hope they do try to prevent "ilegit" downloads, but i doubt they will. They may try, to not look bad in public, but probably won't try very hard, so to maintain windows popularity.
If they really enforced their "IP", they probably know only them will lose. Thats one of the best incetives for whole governements and companies to make a serious consideration of free/open source software alternatives.
Most people here, coming from the countries that exploited the rest of the world, won't understand how their precious and intagible "intellectual property" can not be "protected".
But in the end, its a few rich ppl for whom the system "works", against the majority of people in opressed countries ordered to apply the worst of neo liberalism crap with an ever increasing and never ending "debt" with certain entities like the World Bank that simply makes us say, to hell with IP and "Copyrights".
What you see is a wealthy corporate minority trying like slaves the majority. And this minority control the power in certain key and wealthy countries.
In reality, it is more like 2 against 8, with 8 being the "pirates", "outcasts", or whatever you want to call people "not playing by the rules".
This "police state" system, can't survive for ever. At least, i'm very confident in my country we would politely show you the finger. We are officially against the WTO and the WIPO. In fact USA's current administration has already tried to incite coup'd etats using the CIA many times (yes, the media has hard proof evidence of this), and we are the 3rd OIL supplier (and one of the few remaining refining corporations) for the United States of America, go figure...
In the world the majority of the people is tired, and while they can keep their fantastic IP fiasco in the countries they do control, the time is going against them. Their whole model is ruined, it only works for the wealthy, yes, there are enough wealthy people to earn a living, but, suprise, suprise, for each wealthy boy eating McDonalds burgers 3 times a day, there are more than 8 that barely can eat once (if lucky) a ration of rice a day.
Also, it won't help the fools when they start to treat much worse a guy who infringed the copyrights of a bunch of foreign corporations than, say, your average raper/thief/murderer.
Do you think, in a world like this, that you can excert an maintain power with your armies forever? Yes, the Roman Empire falled, and so will the American one.
Humans are altruistic in nature. You will always feel the urge to share with your friends. The capitalist guys will tell you its the other way around, that we are greed and only "competition" drives the system. Oops, too bad this also mean violence, so lets have a BIG global army to "enforce" THE WORLDWIDE POLICY...
You can never prevent copies from happening. For a so called "pirate" arrested, 10 or 100 more will come. As long as the injustice in the system remains, so the rebels will rebel. If you ever get your step out of your police enforced lands into "the real world", you will see how we are _just fine_ with none of that stupid IP crap. Who knows, you might even understand how stupidly useless is to "combat piracy" once you start walking in one of our streets and see the floodings of cds and guys trying to sell you 1$ burned copies of crap that in the rich countries they sell for thousands of dollars. That bunch of zeros and ones this guy Gates in 1975 started crying and screaming we all should start treating like some "property" of sorts.
If you learned your way of earning your life using this model, too bad, so did the record labels, and scribes before the printer...
Sooner or later, you will realize you are the priviledged minority, and that you are living in a fiction.
As you can see, i am particulary fine with the vision of Richard Stallman, where a world without Copyrights would make the GPL obsolete.
I don't know what the current generation of "Artists, Actors and Programmers" who only learned the current model will do, but im sure they would have to develop some alternate way of doing business. Artists and Actors can pick live performances, Programmers can work to achieve projects, like building solutions or fixing existing ones, and not watch a stupid copier working. The world will keep going, its just and old dying model against a new one that is emerging. Besides, the consumist model that th
Heh, talking about clueless morons... I always prefered EOD for good reason ^_^
And besides, Lost Village gets tiresome;)
I always try to explain the people that BitTorrent is not a "program" or "network", just another method of transfering files.
I hope this PDTP thing gets going, but rest assured Bram and friends won't stand idle. Its nice to see people trying to work in BitTorrent or BitTorrent like projects. Bittorrent has changed the way of thinking of many people.
All you have to do is burn a DVD video disc with only audio or blackness/slideshow, etc. Compatible everywhere, no need for specific DVD-Audio players, just put and play, no need for visual cues either, but certainly available.
On top of that, manufacturers won't care. The average asian standalone DVD Video player will play mp3 and various mpeg1/2/4 formats from data discs. DVD-Audio is the failing attempt to produce a format with a better "protection" than the original DVD format, which already had decent audio capabilities.
DTS is just another lossy format, that uses more bitrate than AC-3. Certainly it sounds better, but never as good as 24/96 lpcm (raw).
As for Ogg Vorbis, sorry, current spec seems to require too much hardware and power for standalones. There seems to be a v2 planning to address that and produce a more hardware friendly format; but only Xiph knows...
The ideal player is a regular DVD-ROM drive attached to something, that lets it read data discs filled with audio in different formats; including lossless, not just lossy. Add a bit more hardware and have it handle the various video formats (and containers) as well.
Or at least there is a demand in the community for this. Everyone will soon have dvd burners, just as everyone seems to have cd burners these days. Who cares what the powers that be dictate, the people will always rip it somehow and put it in their favorite non DRMed physical format.
Here in Caracas a 256kbps/128kbps aDSL costs aprox 40US$ and there is only 1 company to choose from, which is also the telco (a private company).
At least it is a flat rate. Some people can use cable with basically simillar prices, but some companies charge when exceeding certain amount of data transfered. Penetration here is at 20% at best, i think its much lower.
I have a friend in Slovenia who is basically paying US$170, no other choices. It is also their telco, but they force users to have ISDN, so its basically dsl over isdn (i think thats 112~128kbps at most), and they pay for phone + isdn + dsl + internet access and it ends being those 170US$.
I would love to have this map too, someone please dig all the replies and put up a nice site with the results ^^
Could something like IceT help with the situation in the future?:
IceShare is library that distributes Ogg streams on a pseudo-P2P network. It is heavily based on BitTorrent, but works on the Ogg page level, and unlike PeerCast it works with files as well as continuous streams.
It's designed to allow musicians, video producers, radio and television stations, or anyone looking to inexpensivly distribute audio/video on the web. It's intended to be initiated from websites, with links to icet:// URLs. It is not designed for P2P searching, such as Gnutella, Kazaa, and Mule provide, however websites may be setup to easily search content on one or more IceTracker servers.
It has become really stupid. Some few individuals are declaring millions and millions of people rogue pirates, just so they can continue their business?
Has God given them special rights so they can remain profitable forever? Nonsense. With advances of technology, certain things won't be profitable anymore. And one of these things, is earning money with copies of software. That is, the video, or audio content which is simply a form of data.
Absurd patents granted for 2 centuries are also halting progress to the point of stagnation in a sea of patents. Have you seen recently the Knoppix page? How and when, the people of europe was consulted to make such a decision? Why the so called "representatives" are making decisions while turning their back to the people who put them in there? This must come to a stop.
Either they win and instate a police state world where everyone must be a subject of corporations (Fascism) and then a major portion will be forced into outlaws, or we, the people, get our voice heard and declare them with their stupid laws obsolete. I am sure not all the countries of the world will accept Washington's views, even with all their strong influence.
In my country IP concerning medicine is officialy ignored. National health has priority over the greed of foreign industries. I think Brazil and some country in Africa also proceeded like this.
Of course, many foreigners also come to our tropical jungle to steal the knowledge of our natives regarding healing properties of herbs or other plants and they go back to their home countries and then patent their drugs as it was their property. Its an absurd pillage of the wealthy against the poor, and our people is not tolerating this any longer.
In practice, no one respects any copyright here either. 80% of the software used here is not "legit". Who cares? You can't enforce property laws on "fictional objects". You can not equate stealing (as RIAA loves to) with copyright infrigment. When you steal, a physical object is removed. When you copy, the source remains unaltered. How then, can you call people making copies "Thieves, Pirates, etc" when there is not any murdering, violence or lost of REAL property involved? Its a NONSENSE invented by THOSE WITH POWER so they can maintain their BUSINESS.
Well, i say, THEY HAVE TO GO, NOT US. They can eat their IP and copyrights and patents and scream bloody murder pirates till they exhaust in desperation, WE DON'T CARE. "Copyright infrigment" will NOT STOP, EVER.
Unless they realize this and adapt to the new era, they don't deserve any consideration.
There should be an option to make this standard, not only for flash, also for java, and any other plug-in. Maybe even pics could have "click to show" as well, could make for some blazing speed web surfing and help people get "to the point".
You don't need something like Kazaa to distribute your content, all you need is BitTorrent to distribute your product freely. Then you could sell the serial/account/subscription fee so that users can enter the online servers. This is very good for yourself, because you can get rid of physical media, shipping costs, defects, limited prints, etc. Also gamers can get their game really fast, and there is nothing better than BitTorrent out there (please try it, its an open protocol).
I am playing Battlefield 1942, and i think EA Games should simply sell the serial numbers. Where i live, its impossible for me to get an original box, but there are plenty of copies on the street. But when going online to play, the server checks if a key is valid. But why do i need to pay for media and box and very expensive shipping when i only need is a serial? Your model will surely work.
I for once would prefer a single license for a game than a limited by time subscription. In theory, the license should cost less than a physical catridge or cd. You may even provide demo accounts/serials for limited evaluation of the game.
But Kazaa (the fasttrack network) doesn't really give any advantages, in fact, i find it severely annoying. After you try BitTorrent, you will understand what good it can do for you or anyone needing to distribute content to lots of users simultaneously in a very small amount of time.
The term is "file swarming" (i think). A file (or group of files) get separated in small blocks, these blocks are sent to users, out of order (not sequencially). The system is smart enough to give priority to the rarest blocks. If you are the source, suppose your file has 1000 pieces. Well, suppose that 1000 users connect to you and each one download 1 different piece, after this is done, they complete each other on their own!! SO in the same amount of time your server takes to transfer a single game to a single user using a traditional method, using BitTorrent 1000 would have got it by the time a second user would complete using a traditional method. (i used 1000 as an example, it could be even more). By the time any user finishes a download, that user has contributed the same amount of data to other users. The protocol was designed like that, so the concept of "leeching" can't be aplied here anymore.
I suggest that you contact the BitTorrent author, he may use your support (and give you a better explanation):)
You hate Chavez, say it aloud, but that doesn't give you any right to spread BULLSHIT, just because you don't know any better.
It is a FACT WRITTEN IN THE CONSTITUTION that the PRESIDENT does NOT have the FACULTY to advance elections. If there is something to blame him for, is his advocacy for following the constitution we approved in referendum in 1999, and the respect for the law.
And he is also not trying to shutdown any damn TV station!. But boy they deserve it, and God knows enough chances for them to redeem have been granted. There is enough evidence of their involvement in the failed coup of the past April 11, and their open calls to the military to rise up in arms against the democratically elected government. However, unlike the dictator you want him to be, Chavez is not the LAW, and the courts will decide.
Hello? Did he order the arrest of the terrorists you call "political prisoners"? No. It was a Judge, following a petition from a public prosecutor, because there is plenty of proven evidence that these people commited ACTS OF TREASON AND TERRORISM against the country.
Don't spread that mockade about "strike to defend our democracy", when the first thing these terrorists did in April 11, was to abolish the constitution, the Parliament, the Supreme Court, all the Governors and Mayors, the very same people that instigared the recent acts of SABOTAGE AGAINST OUR OIL COMPANY and endangered MILLIONS OF LIVES by blocking by force the suply of fuel to our local market and all of our international clients, like the United United States of America.
They are also so mad in their hatred against the Chavez, they even dare order us to not celebrate Christmas! Who are they to speak about democracy when they can't even accept somebody thinking different? And Caracas has suffered enough acts of FASCISM only reminisent of Germany and Italy of the 30ies.
Sure, so easy to say "we went on strike" but why don't you tell them what they do to those "daring" disobey the "strike"? Why don't you tell them about the Brigades of black weared people going on motorcycles everywhere to mark and close by force the industries and shops wanting to open their doors during December and January? How about the attacks to the people that don't openly express hate against Chavez? The workers locked out by force? The big MALLs locking out the doors to sop the shop owners wanting to open their doors, and the brigades of black weared people harassing them just because they wanted to work?
How about your beloved TV stations chained together broadcasting political anti Chavez propaganda 24 hours a day the whole month of December, not only instigating people to go out and cause violence, but also calling the military and foreign countries alike to rise in arms against the democratically elected government?
There is plenty of everyday evidence of everything happening here, and there is no amount of lies that you people so insanely out of your own minds can spread in the world for them outside to be confused anymore. When those of you attacked the foreign media, who dared not speak against Chavez, you, yourselves showed the world your true face.
For those of you knowing spanish, i have a very slow page with some videos about what happened the last months in Venezuela. If you are interested, come and see the facts, then decide by yourselves.
Bah, my old Sony clock near the bed, whose original purpose was to act as a "timer" for an old piano key VCR has been slowing down for almost a year, and it is just now you notice? How is this news for/.?!? I don't get it, considering it wasn't much of a news for me living here either!
They reduced the cycles to save power a bit. Maybe we should adopt Japan's standards for power distro.
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Well i'm not saying they have to work in our interest, but at least respect us and maintain normal diplomatic relationships, not instigating coups, or openly funding radical non democratic groups.
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As an US citizen, you would be very suprised at the amount of money the US administration spends in illegal activities in Venezuela.
In the links i provided you can read some of the details.
Regional integration is one of the long term goals, and one of the main foreign policies for Venezuela. It is a type of integration that goes beyond trade agreements, in fact it gives priority to social, political and cultural aspects as well.
Its not exactly that we are standing up to the states, its more like the US administration wants their rules imposed on us, without us having any chance to discuss anything. They pretend we go to Washington d.c. and sign without reading whatever they wish. Any objection, is good enough for Bush to declare us part of the "axis of evil, communists, etc".
For example, they would love to see PDVSA, the state oil company, sold to private interests. Well who do you think PDVSA is competing with in the international market? Exactly, the multinational oil companies, which the Bush administration is closely related with. Im sure they would love to buy it all, but our current constitution, discussed and approved by the majority of the people in the referendum of 1999, forbids this.
Here are some more links:
http://www.embavenez-us.org/constitution/intro.ht
http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/
http://www.veninfo.org/
http://www.embavenez-us.org/
http://www.vicuk.org/
Richard Stallman has many comments about Venezuela (he has been here many times) http://www.stallman.org/
In fact, he is calling to "Protest Bush by buying gas from Citgo." by citing an article made by Jeff Cohen: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-25.htm
Citgo belongs to PDVSA, which means us:
http://www.citgo.com/
We ship daily 1500000 barrels of oil to the United States. of these, 660000 go to Citgo.
Here are some interesting oil facts:
- An oil tanker from Venezuela takes from 4 to 5 days to reach the south coast in USA. The same oil tanker coming from the middle east, takes about 40 days.
- Venezuelan oil is heavier than average (requires more refining), and it has a lower international price (about 10US$ less per barrel).
- Because its not so profitable and enviromentally friendly, there have been no new refineries built in the United States in the past 25 years.
- Refining capacity in the States has peaked at 100% capacity for many years already, getting more oil to the market won't lower prices anymore, and the global demand of oil has already reached maximun production ("Peak Oil" levels).
- Citgo owns 8 of those not so profitable refineries...
- USA with 7% population of the world consumes 27% of total oil production. Please guys, support energy efficiency usage and alternative methods.
- China and India are demanding more and more fuel, we have already established good relationships with them.
A couple of documentaries i recommend you to watch:
http://endofsuburbia.com/
http://www.chavezthefilm.com/
What williamyf conveniently ignored, was the fact that Chavez, in 1999 actually accepted USA aid, machinery and engineers; but USA also insisted in deploying US Marines, something unacceptable for us.
Our offer to the United States is sincere. I don't know what George W. Bush will do, or not, but its not an offer to the USA central government, its an offer for the people, the organizations helping people, local governments, religious groups, etc.
This type of aid has been offered to the countries in the Caribbean who had been suffering the past hurricanes. We have helped with supplies and rebuilding in Jamaica, Cuba, Grenada, Haiti, etc. We also sent people to Sri Lanka and India after the tsunami, along with monetary donations.
Let me return you the favor: if you ever come to Venezuela, look me up and i would gladly show you around, so you can see the truth by yourself.
Let me clarify that we in Venezuela have no problem with the people of the United States. What we have issues with, is with the current administration, because they have actively worked against our country. It is not a personal matter either, if Bush stopped attempting to force his vision of what a country should be, and started respecting our sovereignty, i'm sure normal relationships with the administration would be restored. As it is right now, they don't even accept talking with our ambassador in Washington D.C., despite permanent attempts and support from Democrats and Republicans in the US congress.
If you are interested in knowing more about Venezuela, let me suggest these links:
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/
http://www.vheadline.com/
Oi, thats at least 287kbps for each which is more than my current 256kbps at 40US$ month you insnsitive clod! :)
Cookie management in Firefox is a little bothersome, thats why i installed Permit Cookies extension, so you can easily whitelist sites by pressing ctrl-c. Then you can choose: allow, session, block, or remove the cookie for the site you are currently viewing.
Permit Cookies would be a little more user friendly if it worked just like NoScript extension (which does the same, but for javascript).
In my opinion both tools should be integrated into Firefox.
The rest of your issues seem distro related. You should try Ubuntu (with Totem-xine, see the Ubuntu guide) or any other friendly distro. Just because something costs money, it doesn't mean its any better.
OpenOffice2 seems to open files with passwords...
ICQ used to be the main instant messenger system...
And Netscape the main browser.
They have been doing that in Peru for centuries...
It does because you could also get free healthcare, free education, cheaper or free services (electricity, water, gas) more aids and funding for your projects many business oportunities with the state, lower interest rates, etc, in effect needing to use less of that money.
Lets pick a bad example: Cuba. The people might be poor, but they are not dying of hunger in the streets, even with the many decades US blockade, and more recently a severe drought affecting half the isle.
These countries can stand much better hardships than any other money oriented societies that would quickly run into anarchy and chaos from all the fightings for trying to keep the already scare resources (See Haiti).
Things are not so black & white.
While knoppix each day has less and less apps, this one is getting more and more. And the machines which typically hang with knoppix (or knoppix based), even using all the "no" options, dynebolic loads happily. Not to mention 64mb ram machines, thankfully window maker based desktop for us in poor countries where these kind of machines abund.
Excellent, this can only help alternative (eg free/open source) software. But is Microsoft that stupid? Everyone knows they love the drug dealer scheme. "Pirated" copies only helps more people get used to their products, and they know and love to allow this in "third world" countries. But those people have to work somewhere, and there is where they aim with their bribed cops.
I hope they do try to prevent "ilegit" downloads, but i doubt they will. They may try, to not look bad in public, but probably won't try very hard, so to maintain windows popularity.
If they really enforced their "IP", they probably know only them will lose. Thats one of the best incetives for whole governements and companies to make a serious consideration of free/open source software alternatives.
Most people here, coming from the countries that exploited the rest of the world, won't understand how their precious and intagible "intellectual property" can not be "protected".
But in the end, its a few rich ppl for whom the system "works", against the majority of people in opressed countries ordered to apply the worst of neo liberalism crap with an ever increasing and never ending "debt" with certain entities like the World Bank that simply makes us say, to hell with IP and "Copyrights".
What you see is a wealthy corporate minority trying like slaves the majority. And this minority control the power in certain key and wealthy countries.
In reality, it is more like 2 against 8, with 8 being the "pirates", "outcasts", or whatever you want to call people "not playing by the rules".
This "police state" system, can't survive for ever. At least, i'm very confident in my country we would politely show you the finger. We are officially against the WTO and the WIPO. In fact USA's current administration has already tried to incite coup'd etats using the CIA many times (yes, the media has hard proof evidence of this), and we are the 3rd OIL supplier (and one of the few remaining refining corporations) for the United States of America, go figure...
In the world the majority of the people is tired, and while they can keep their fantastic IP fiasco in the countries they do control, the time is going against them. Their whole model is ruined, it only works for the wealthy, yes, there are enough wealthy people to earn a living, but, suprise, suprise, for each wealthy boy eating McDonalds burgers 3 times a day, there are more than 8 that barely can eat once (if lucky) a ration of rice a day.
Also, it won't help the fools when they start to treat much worse a guy who infringed the copyrights of a bunch of foreign corporations than, say, your average raper/thief/murderer.
Do you think, in a world like this, that you can excert an maintain power with your armies forever? Yes, the Roman Empire falled, and so will the American one.
Humans are altruistic in nature. You will always feel the urge to share with your friends. The capitalist guys will tell you its the other way around, that we are greed and only "competition" drives the system. Oops, too bad this also mean violence, so lets have a BIG global army to "enforce" THE WORLDWIDE POLICY...
You can never prevent copies from happening. For a so called "pirate" arrested, 10 or 100 more will come. As long as the injustice in the system remains, so the rebels will rebel. If you ever get your step out of your police enforced lands into "the real world", you will see how we are _just fine_ with none of that stupid IP crap. Who knows, you might even understand how stupidly useless is to "combat piracy" once you start walking in one of our streets and see the floodings of cds and guys trying to sell you 1$ burned copies of crap that in the rich countries they sell for thousands of dollars. That bunch of zeros and ones this guy Gates in 1975 started crying and screaming we all should start treating like some "property" of sorts.
If you learned your way of earning your life using this model, too bad, so did the record labels, and scribes before the printer...
Sooner or later, you will realize you are the priviledged minority, and that you are living in a fiction.
As you can see, i am particulary fine with the vision of Richard Stallman, where a world without Copyrights would make the GPL obsolete.
I don't know what the current generation of "Artists, Actors and Programmers" who only learned the current model will do, but im sure they would have to develop some alternate way of doing business. Artists and Actors can pick live performances, Programmers can work to achieve projects, like building solutions or fixing existing ones, and not watch a stupid copier working. The world will keep going, its just and old dying model against a new one that is emerging. Besides, the consumist model that th
Here in Venezuela i don't know anyone using it either. The prefered ones seem to be:
:)
Mandrake, Debian, Suse, Slackware, Gentoo, and Knoppix.
And i personally love FreeBSD
Heh, talking about clueless morons... I always prefered EOD for good reason ^_^
;)
And besides, Lost Village gets tiresome
I always try to explain the people that BitTorrent is not a "program" or "network", just another method of transfering files.
I hope this PDTP thing gets going, but rest assured Bram and friends won't stand idle. Its nice to see people trying to work in BitTorrent or BitTorrent like projects. Bittorrent has changed the way of thinking of many people.
I agree, but not just because of the Lossy AC3 format. The DVD Video disc standard supports regular uncompressed lPCM audio at 24/20/16bits at 96/48khz, and you can use 1 to 8 discrete channels as well. (just don't exceed 6.144 Mbps)
All you have to do is burn a DVD video disc with only audio or blackness/slideshow, etc. Compatible everywhere, no need for specific DVD-Audio players, just put and play, no need for visual cues either, but certainly available.
On top of that, manufacturers won't care. The average asian standalone DVD Video player will play mp3 and various mpeg1/2/4 formats from data discs. DVD-Audio is the failing attempt to produce a format with a better "protection" than the original DVD format, which already had decent audio capabilities.
DTS is just another lossy format, that uses more bitrate than AC-3. Certainly it sounds better, but never as good as 24/96 lpcm (raw).
As for Ogg Vorbis, sorry, current spec seems to require too much hardware and power for standalones. There seems to be a v2 planning to address that and produce a more hardware friendly format; but only Xiph knows...
The ideal player is a regular DVD-ROM drive attached to something, that lets it read data discs filled with audio in different formats; including lossless, not just lossy. Add a bit more hardware and have it handle the various video formats (and containers) as well.
Or at least there is a demand in the community for this. Everyone will soon have dvd burners, just as everyone seems to have cd burners these days. Who cares what the powers that be dictate, the people will always rip it somehow and put it in their favorite non DRMed physical format.
Here in Caracas a 256kbps/128kbps aDSL costs aprox 40US$ and there is only 1 company to choose from, which is also the telco (a private company).
At least it is a flat rate. Some people can use cable with basically simillar prices, but some companies charge when exceeding certain amount of data transfered. Penetration here is at 20% at best, i think its much lower.
I have a friend in Slovenia who is basically paying US$170, no other choices. It is also their telco, but they force users to have ISDN, so its basically dsl over isdn (i think thats 112~128kbps at most), and they pay for phone + isdn + dsl + internet access and it ends being those 170US$.
I would love to have this map too, someone please dig all the replies and put up a nice site with the results ^^
Could something like IceT help with the situation in the future?:
IceShare is library that distributes Ogg streams on a pseudo-P2P network. It is heavily based on BitTorrent, but works on the Ogg page level, and unlike PeerCast it works with files as well as continuous streams.
It's designed to allow musicians, video producers, radio and television stations, or anyone looking to inexpensivly distribute audio/video on the web. It's intended to be initiated from websites, with links to icet:// URLs. It is not designed for P2P searching, such as Gnutella, Kazaa, and Mule provide, however websites may be setup to easily search content on one or more IceTracker servers.
Has God given them special rights so they can remain profitable forever? Nonsense. With advances of technology, certain things won't be profitable anymore. And one of these things, is earning money with copies of software. That is, the video, or audio content which is simply a form of data.
Absurd patents granted for 2 centuries are also halting progress to the point of stagnation in a sea of patents. Have you seen recently the Knoppix page? How and when, the people of europe was consulted to make such a decision? Why the so called "representatives" are making decisions while turning their back to the people who put them in there? This must come to a stop.
Either they win and instate a police state world where everyone must be a subject of corporations (Fascism) and then a major portion will be forced into outlaws, or we, the people, get our voice heard and declare them with their stupid laws obsolete. I am sure not all the countries of the world will accept Washington's views, even with all their strong influence.
In my country IP concerning medicine is officialy ignored. National health has priority over the greed of foreign industries. I think Brazil and some country in Africa also proceeded like this. Of course, many foreigners also come to our tropical jungle to steal the knowledge of our natives regarding healing properties of herbs or other plants and they go back to their home countries and then patent their drugs as it was their property. Its an absurd pillage of the wealthy against the poor, and our people is not tolerating this any longer.
In practice, no one respects any copyright here either. 80% of the software used here is not "legit". Who cares? You can't enforce property laws on "fictional objects". You can not equate stealing (as RIAA loves to) with copyright infrigment. When you steal, a physical object is removed. When you copy, the source remains unaltered. How then, can you call people making copies "Thieves, Pirates, etc" when there is not any murdering, violence or lost of REAL property involved? Its a NONSENSE invented by THOSE WITH POWER so they can maintain their BUSINESS.
Well, i say, THEY HAVE TO GO, NOT US. They can eat their IP and copyrights and patents and scream bloody murder pirates till they exhaust in desperation, WE DON'T CARE. "Copyright infrigment" will NOT STOP, EVER.
Unless they realize this and adapt to the new era, they don't deserve any consideration.
There should be an option to make this standard, not only for flash, also for java, and any other plug-in. Maybe even pics could have "click to show" as well, could make for some blazing speed web surfing and help people get "to the point".
I am playing Battlefield 1942, and i think EA Games should simply sell the serial numbers. Where i live, its impossible for me to get an original box, but there are plenty of copies on the street. But when going online to play, the server checks if a key is valid. But why do i need to pay for media and box and very expensive shipping when i only need is a serial? Your model will surely work.
I for once would prefer a single license for a game than a limited by time subscription. In theory, the license should cost less than a physical catridge or cd. You may even provide demo accounts/serials for limited evaluation of the game.
But Kazaa (the fasttrack network) doesn't really give any advantages, in fact, i find it severely annoying. After you try BitTorrent, you will understand what good it can do for you or anyone needing to distribute content to lots of users simultaneously in a very small amount of time.
The term is "file swarming" (i think). A file (or group of files) get separated in small blocks, these blocks are sent to users, out of order (not sequencially). The system is smart enough to give priority to the rarest blocks. If you are the source, suppose your file has 1000 pieces. Well, suppose that 1000 users connect to you and each one download 1 different piece, after this is done, they complete each other on their own!! SO in the same amount of time your server takes to transfer a single game to a single user using a traditional method, using BitTorrent 1000 would have got it by the time a second user would complete using a traditional method. (i used 1000 as an example, it could be even more). By the time any user finishes a download, that user has contributed the same amount of data to other users. The protocol was designed like that, so the concept of "leeching" can't be aplied here anymore.
I suggest that you contact the BitTorrent author, he may use your support (and give you a better explanation) :)
You hate Chavez, say it aloud, but that doesn't give you any right to spread BULLSHIT, just because you don't know any better.
It is a FACT WRITTEN IN THE CONSTITUTION that the PRESIDENT does NOT have the FACULTY to advance elections. If there is something to blame him for, is his advocacy for following the constitution we approved in referendum in 1999, and the respect for the law.
And he is also not trying to shutdown any damn TV station!. But boy they deserve it, and God knows enough chances for them to redeem have been granted. There is enough evidence of their involvement in the failed coup of the past April 11, and their open calls to the military to rise up in arms against the democratically elected government. However, unlike the dictator you want him to be, Chavez is not the LAW, and the courts will decide.
Hello? Did he order the arrest of the terrorists you call "political prisoners"? No. It was a Judge, following a petition from a public prosecutor, because there is plenty of proven evidence that these people commited ACTS OF TREASON AND TERRORISM against the country.
Don't spread that mockade about "strike to defend our democracy", when the first thing these terrorists did in April 11, was to abolish the constitution, the Parliament, the Supreme Court, all the Governors and Mayors, the very same people that instigared the recent acts of SABOTAGE AGAINST OUR OIL COMPANY and endangered MILLIONS OF LIVES by blocking by force the suply of fuel to our local market and all of our international clients, like the United United States of America.
They are also so mad in their hatred against the Chavez, they even dare order us to not celebrate Christmas! Who are they to speak about democracy when they can't even accept somebody thinking different? And Caracas has suffered enough acts of FASCISM only reminisent of Germany and Italy of the 30ies.
Sure, so easy to say "we went on strike" but why don't you tell them what they do to those "daring" disobey the "strike"? Why don't you tell them about the Brigades of black weared people going on motorcycles everywhere to mark and close by force the industries and shops wanting to open their doors during December and January? How about the attacks to the people that don't openly express hate against Chavez? The workers locked out by force? The big MALLs locking out the doors to sop the shop owners wanting to open their doors, and the brigades of black weared people harassing them just because they wanted to work?
How about your beloved TV stations chained together broadcasting political anti Chavez propaganda 24 hours a day the whole month of December, not only instigating people to go out and cause violence, but also calling the military and foreign countries alike to rise in arms against the democratically elected government?
There is plenty of everyday evidence of everything happening here, and there is no amount of lies that you people so insanely out of your own minds can spread in the world for them outside to be confused anymore. When those of you attacked the foreign media, who dared not speak against Chavez, you, yourselves showed the world your true face.
For those of you knowing spanish, i have a very slow page with some videos about what happened the last months in Venezuela. If you are interested, come and see the facts, then decide by yourselves.
http://artemis3.no-ip.org:10100/ve.html
Meaning?
You live under a rock or what? Venezuela's current constitution was recently approved in 1999 and new authorities were elected for the current period.
No amendments have been made to date.
FYI: there is an Atomic Clock in Venezuela http://diexismo.8m.com/dix00006.htm and people are expected to keep their clocks in sync.
Bah, my old Sony clock near the bed, whose original purpose was to act as a "timer" for an old piano key VCR has been slowing down for almost a year, and it is just now you notice? How is this news for /.?!? I don't get it, considering it wasn't much of a news for me living here either!
They reduced the cycles to save power a bit. Maybe we should adopt Japan's standards for power distro.
They really have to catch up :) Go GNUWin team go!