This is a great idea. One thing that I would really like to see is an AJAXy tree of categories where I can give a fixed budget to site categories. Eg News->$10, Software->FOSS $40
The Americans tax their citizens on their world-wide income, no matter where they live. The reverse isn't true. So why would a rich European want to hide in a high tax, high unemployment country with record gun crime and without a decent health care system? Though I may sound a little harsh on your system, you under-estimate your fellow Americans. My job is to sell luxury real estate to the wealthy, and I also arrange private banking in Monaco. Virtually none of my American clients are eager to avoid paying taxes.I won't name other nationalities, for fear of being accused of stereotyping, but I will say that in my experience Americans are in the very top percentile of honest tax payers. Though you may have problems with corporations, where every tax dodge is purely for the benefit of the shareholder, you should have more faith in your fellow citizens. Overall you can be proud of them.
It's not popular, it's a pointless place where bored people hang out. But out of chaos sometimes art occurs. As mentioned, it spawned lolcats, rick-rolling, anti-scientology, and many Internet memes. Much like the Danish cartoon artist who has European governments groveling and apologising on his behalf for fear of upsetting Islamic fundamentalists, Verizon would rather sanitize the Internet into something they can control. I'm not an artist, and I think a lot of contemporary art is crap, but I won't deny they have an important place in society... the most important being to challenge it.
It's not the first time we've had a power crazed nutjob like Mandelson. Though he is far more intelligent than most of them. This is why we have a strong civil service (watch "Yes Minister" if you have never seen it, very funny) and the House of Lords as a safety net. The shame is that if he actually worked for the people paying his salary (the tax payer) and not for his rich mates he wants to do favours for, he would actually be quite a good asset for the country.
I think you need to learn what those FM/AM/LW buttons actually mean. I doubt you get any foreign FM stations. This page will give you all the information you need.
You are correct. Mandelson has perverted the Digital Britain initiative, chaired by Lord Carter, into a vehicle to be used by his media mogul buddies to economically rape its citizens. The initial idea was to more effectively use radio bandwidth, transition us from the analogue to digital age, use new bandwidth as a carrot to push telecoms companies to provide decent bandwidth to uneconomical rural areas, reducing "internet inequality", and help the country be more economically competitive in the new information age. It was corrupted by a self-appointed dictator and the Bill should rightly be spanked.
Eh? I think you are confusing netbook and thin client. I have a netbook and the installed packages are practically identical to my PC except for games via wine. If it doesn't have a decent offline word-processor then you can pretty much kiss goodbye to anybody using it except smart PDA users.
Nokia will be forced to adopt Android shortly I think (year or two). There's only room for one other player I think, but I'm pretty sure it's Windows Mobile (though force of will) or PalmOS
On my Nokia E71 I have Nokia Maps and Google Maps, I have Gizmo SIP VoIP and Skype, I have virtual assistant call manager software, I have ssh and irc clients, I have msn/icq client, and I can turn it into a wifi hotspot. I can run any application anybody has written for the device. If the choice becomes Android, Windows, or iPhone, then I'm not upgrading until they turn off the last GSM base station.
That was Britain under the Conservative government. No way would we capitulate then to the terrorists. My father was late and just missed his train, which then blew up, and he never thought of changing his commute. My friend was showered in glass from the Docklands bomb, but he never thought of changing apartment. You knew that the chance of actually being killed by one of these bombs was just so infinitesimal that you didn't even think about it.
Today, New Labour with the help of the tabloids have scared the Brits witless. It started with Tony Blair rolling the tanks into Heathrow and it has been downhill ever since. Maybe the next government will help the nation regrow its backbone.
You are one of many. I would love to visit NY, but won't because of the same reasons. Many of my friends here have given up going to the States. Now Heathrow is off the list that now reduces substantially my number of destinations. Gatwick is still quite friendly with no scanners... for now.
The great thing about living in Europe is that there are more wonderful things than you can see in a lifetime, and all you have to do is jump in the car and drive there. No border controls, unless you live in the UK (where due to eBorders every single citizen needs permission to leave the country). Milan - Monaco: under 3 hrs drive. Barcelona - Bordeaux: around 5.5 hrs. Zurich - Munich: just over 3 hrs.
Sad times if you live under an oppressive regime, like China, States, or UK. Or a corrupt Eastern European country. There are plenty of quite easy going countries out there still.
The last graph shows the number of deaths from the '40s until now have remained roughly constant, apart from the safest decade which was the '90s, prior to all the new security measures.
The Champions League football final is now the most watched annual sports even in the world (109M last year compared to 106M for the Super Bowl). Maybe this means you will soon be able watch something more exciting whilst waiting for those much hyped half-time adverts?
I suppose to used an electron microscope and scanned every fucking bit of your CPU and memory and such?
Judging by the reverse engineering of the PS3, it seems there are hobbyists prepared to do this (though there are alternative techniques to electron microscopes).
If you want to be fucking paranoid, be paranoid all the way.
This goes against the whole principle of security. It doesn't need to be perfect, just harder to get around than the contents are worth. If grandparent poster uses peer reviewed OS, the security services may be able to read his communications if they target him. If sexconker thinks it's impossible so may as well give up, every 2-bit hacker will be able to install trojans on his system and he'll suffer the consequences before anybody else.
Interestingly, that's one way the UK is notably *ahead* of other countries - the police aren't routinely armed
Except at airports. This is true and helps build more trust between police and the community. One of the few good things left, which New Labour are trying to spoil by arming the police with tasers.
In France, the government sets a rate it thinks it is reasonable medical professionals to charge. For instance a GP should cost x and a heart surgeon should cost y. Now you are allowed to see any medical professional you wish, and they are allowed to charge what-ever rate they like. However, the government will only reimburse you at the reasonable rate. Let us say, for example, you need a liver operation. You can choose a surgeon that charges the standard rate and have free health service. Or you may be well off and choose a famous surgeon that charges twice the normal rate, but in the knowledge you will only have half of it reimbursed. The rate the medical profession charges reflect the market, most charging around standard rate as the majority of people want free health care but a smaller percentage charging more for the wealthier as they "want the best".
This will fit in well with the attorney fee reimbursement model. The State decides that a copyright attorney is worth $x/hour. The EFF chooses attorneys that charge the standard rate. If they win then justice was done at no cost to themselves. If they lose, then their additional losses are limited to roughly what they had spent themselves. MegaCorp may decide money isn't an issue and wants to hire the best to make an example out of the EFF. If they lose, they reimburse all of the EFF attorney fees. If they win, they get back what they would have spend if they had used average lawyers. The difference they knew they knew in advance they were going to have to write off. The attorneys submit to the court their timesheets for reinbursement. A cursory glance by the judge will easily spot if there is any exaggerated excesses.
It won't solve the problem of dragging out a court case, but at least you know upon losing there will be a reasonable cap on the winner's attorney fees. IndyMedia's attorney also knows he can continue at standard rate in the knowledge we will get a summary judgement for payment without trying to haggle to get all of his fees paid at the end.
nomadic has a good point, and the moment this happens they cease caring about the result and start doing the minimum amount of shoddy work possible, making a mental note not to use you as a reference for next time. It's not just with white collar workers, the same dilemma is there when engaging plumbers or builders.
This is a great idea. If you know you have to leave for work at a certain hour, you can use an online calendar program that has the option to send you an alarm by sms. It sounds a really interesting project that many of us would like to read about. If you aren't good at putting together web pages, then get a free blog account such as Blogger or Livejournal. Make each aspect of the project into an article you post online.
There are already firefox plugins that rip the video stream from YouTube etc, shouldn't be too hard to transcode to Theora via cli and serve it up. You could also run a proxy server to do the same think. However this would be counter-productive and it reduces the incentive for producers to support Theora. Much like Wine doesn't encourage producers to write games native for Linux.
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This is a great idea. One thing that I would really like to see is an AJAXy tree of categories where I can give a fixed budget to site categories. Eg News->$10, Software->FOSS $40
Phillip.
The Americans tax their citizens on their world-wide income, no matter where they live. The reverse isn't true. So why would a rich European want to hide in a high tax, high unemployment country with record gun crime and without a decent health care system? Though I may sound a little harsh on your system, you under-estimate your fellow Americans. My job is to sell luxury real estate to the wealthy, and I also arrange private banking in Monaco. Virtually none of my American clients are eager to avoid paying taxes.I won't name other nationalities, for fear of being accused of stereotyping, but I will say that in my experience Americans are in the very top percentile of honest tax payers. Though you may have problems with corporations, where every tax dodge is purely for the benefit of the shareholder, you should have more faith in your fellow citizens. Overall you can be proud of them.
Phillip.
I've heard OpenShot being described as "iMovie for Linux", it would be nice to hear some objective comparisons on here.
Phillipo.
Eh? I have been using muti-monitors under Linux for over a decade. Are you going for a retro 80's ad?
Phillip.
It's not popular, it's a pointless place where bored people hang out. But out of chaos sometimes art occurs. As mentioned, it spawned lolcats, rick-rolling, anti-scientology, and many Internet memes. Much like the Danish cartoon artist who has European governments groveling and apologising on his behalf for fear of upsetting Islamic fundamentalists, Verizon would rather sanitize the Internet into something they can control. I'm not an artist, and I think a lot of contemporary art is crap, but I won't deny they have an important place in society... the most important being to challenge it.
Phillip.
Though not necessarily to be tax resident in.
Phillip.
If you use an ISP that hijacks unregistered domains, such as Virgin, to land you on their search page then that statistic goes up to 99.99%
Phillip.
It's not the first time we've had a power crazed nutjob like Mandelson. Though he is far more intelligent than most of them. This is why we have a strong civil service (watch "Yes Minister" if you have never seen it, very funny) and the House of Lords as a safety net. The shame is that if he actually worked for the people paying his salary (the tax payer) and not for his rich mates he wants to do favours for, he would actually be quite a good asset for the country.
Phillip.
I think you need to learn what those FM/AM/LW buttons actually mean. I doubt you get any foreign FM stations. This page will give you all the information you need.
Phillip.
You are correct. Mandelson has perverted the Digital Britain initiative, chaired by Lord Carter, into a vehicle to be used by his media mogul buddies to economically rape its citizens. The initial idea was to more effectively use radio bandwidth, transition us from the analogue to digital age, use new bandwidth as a carrot to push telecoms companies to provide decent bandwidth to uneconomical rural areas, reducing "internet inequality", and help the country be more economically competitive in the new information age. It was corrupted by a self-appointed dictator and the Bill should rightly be spanked.
Phillip.
Eh? I think you are confusing netbook and thin client. I have a netbook and the installed packages are practically identical to my PC except for games via wine. If it doesn't have a decent offline word-processor then you can pretty much kiss goodbye to anybody using it except smart PDA users.
Phillip.
Nokia will be forced to adopt Android shortly I think (year or two). There's only room for one other player I think, but I'm pretty sure it's Windows Mobile (though force of will) or PalmOS
On my Nokia E71 I have Nokia Maps and Google Maps, I have Gizmo SIP VoIP and Skype, I have virtual assistant call manager software, I have ssh and irc clients, I have msn/icq client, and I can turn it into a wifi hotspot. I can run any application anybody has written for the device. If the choice becomes Android, Windows, or iPhone, then I'm not upgrading until they turn off the last GSM base station.
Phillip.
It makes sense. I am having a professional burglar come around tomorrow to check my locks. I told him not to come around tonight as I won't be in.
Phillip.
That was Britain under the Conservative government. No way would we capitulate then to the terrorists. My father was late and just missed his train, which then blew up, and he never thought of changing his commute. My friend was showered in glass from the Docklands bomb, but he never thought of changing apartment. You knew that the chance of actually being killed by one of these bombs was just so infinitesimal that you didn't even think about it.
Today, New Labour with the help of the tabloids have scared the Brits witless. It started with Tony Blair rolling the tanks into Heathrow and it has been downhill ever since. Maybe the next government will help the nation regrow its backbone.
Phillip.
You are one of many. I would love to visit NY, but won't because of the same reasons. Many of my friends here have given up going to the States. Now Heathrow is off the list that now reduces substantially my number of destinations. Gatwick is still quite friendly with no scanners... for now.
The great thing about living in Europe is that there are more wonderful things than you can see in a lifetime, and all you have to do is jump in the car and drive there. No border controls, unless you live in the UK (where due to eBorders every single citizen needs permission to leave the country). Milan - Monaco: under 3 hrs drive. Barcelona - Bordeaux: around 5.5 hrs. Zurich - Munich: just over 3 hrs.
Sad times if you live under an oppressive regime, like China, States, or UK. Or a corrupt Eastern European country. There are plenty of quite easy going countries out there still.
Phillip.
The last graph shows the number of deaths from the '40s until now have remained roughly constant, apart from the safest decade which was the '90s, prior to all the new security measures.
Phillip.
The Champions League football final is now the most watched annual sports even in the world (109M last year compared to 106M for the Super Bowl). Maybe this means you will soon be able watch something more exciting whilst waiting for those much hyped half-time adverts?
Phillip.
Or maybe you aren't special, BitZtream, and nobody cares about you? Just because you are a loser, don't judge the rest of us.
Phillip.
Why is parent insightful?
I suppose you wrote the compiler too?
There are plenty of open source compilers.
I suppose to used an electron microscope and scanned every fucking bit of your CPU and memory and such?
Judging by the reverse engineering of the PS3, it seems there are hobbyists prepared to do this (though there are alternative techniques to electron microscopes).
If you want to be fucking paranoid, be paranoid all the way.
This goes against the whole principle of security. It doesn't need to be perfect, just harder to get around than the contents are worth. If grandparent poster uses peer reviewed OS, the security services may be able to read his communications if they target him. If sexconker thinks it's impossible so may as well give up, every 2-bit hacker will be able to install trojans on his system and he'll suffer the consequences before anybody else.
Phillip.
Interestingly, that's one way the UK is notably *ahead* of other countries - the police aren't routinely armed
Except at airports. This is true and helps build more trust between police and the community. One of the few good things left, which New Labour are trying to spoil by arming the police with tasers.
Phillip.
In France, the government sets a rate it thinks it is reasonable medical professionals to charge. For instance a GP should cost x and a heart surgeon should cost y. Now you are allowed to see any medical professional you wish, and they are allowed to charge what-ever rate they like. However, the government will only reimburse you at the reasonable rate. Let us say, for example, you need a liver operation. You can choose a surgeon that charges the standard rate and have free health service. Or you may be well off and choose a famous surgeon that charges twice the normal rate, but in the knowledge you will only have half of it reimbursed. The rate the medical profession charges reflect the market, most charging around standard rate as the majority of people want free health care but a smaller percentage charging more for the wealthier as they "want the best".
This will fit in well with the attorney fee reimbursement model. The State decides that a copyright attorney is worth $x/hour. The EFF chooses attorneys that charge the standard rate. If they win then justice was done at no cost to themselves. If they lose, then their additional losses are limited to roughly what they had spent themselves. MegaCorp may decide money isn't an issue and wants to hire the best to make an example out of the EFF. If they lose, they reimburse all of the EFF attorney fees. If they win, they get back what they would have spend if they had used average lawyers. The difference they knew they knew in advance they were going to have to write off. The attorneys submit to the court their timesheets for reinbursement. A cursory glance by the judge will easily spot if there is any exaggerated excesses.
It won't solve the problem of dragging out a court case, but at least you know upon losing there will be a reasonable cap on the winner's attorney fees. IndyMedia's attorney also knows he can continue at standard rate in the knowledge we will get a summary judgement for payment without trying to haggle to get all of his fees paid at the end.
Phillip.
nomadic has a good point, and the moment this happens they cease caring about the result and start doing the minimum amount of shoddy work possible, making a mental note not to use you as a reference for next time. It's not just with white collar workers, the same dilemma is there when engaging plumbers or builders.
Phillip.
I wish they'd plant trees in parking lots.
Car wash operators have been wishing for exactly the same thing...
Phillip.
This is a great idea. If you know you have to leave for work at a certain hour, you can use an online calendar program that has the option to send you an alarm by sms. It sounds a really interesting project that many of us would like to read about. If you aren't good at putting together web pages, then get a free blog account such as Blogger or Livejournal. Make each aspect of the project into an article you post online.
Phillip.
There are already firefox plugins that rip the video stream from YouTube etc, shouldn't be too hard to transcode to Theora via cli and serve it up. You could also run a proxy server to do the same think. However this would be counter-productive and it reduces the incentive for producers to support Theora. Much like Wine doesn't encourage producers to write games native for Linux.
Phillip.