Read GP again, if you're building a home cinema box and are using a small form factor mobo, and that mobo has (for example) two dimm slots, stick 1GB ram in one slot and a 50GB SSD drive in the other slot and you're done, no extra space/cooling and bulky aluminium mounting for a traditional HDD needed. Very cool (pun intended)
I'd be happy with a compromise (and I think this is what Google rolled out some weeks back). That you'd see advertised a "20Mb Broadband package with extras". Your open unfiltered, unrestricted internet bandwidth would be 20Mb, the extras, such as bundled IPTV and partner (payola) sites could use extra bandwidth on top of the 20MB - because the pipe they install in this example can technically go up to 50Mb - but that first 20Mb is untouchable, otherwise they're in breach of advertising/consumer standards law.
May sound like a joke but I guarantee you that the MPAA would love nothing less than being able to license HD-Ray movies on a per-viewer basis, and refuse to play if your doberman is in the room. I already stole revenue from them when I watched my brother's copies of the Spiderman trilogy on his HD TV (I guess technically I stole from Sony too, as it was a sony TV and a PS3 I was using...) without paying a cent
You don't even need to do that, the bill states that IPSs should (paraphrasing) "take steps to prevent the domain name from resolving to the ip address". All you have to do is go on any kind of chat/messaging/email/message board and ask "what was the IP of that tracker, again?", then paste it into your URL bar.
This leads me onto an interesting workaround. Internet gaming has moved away from peer to peer and towards centralised servers, specifically in the realm of consoles. So all the gaming traffic for a massive bunch of gamers is going to one set of adresses. All you have to do is make sure you and your terrorist buddies own an xbox and a copy of gears of war and you can hook up and chat.
Next up: Air, er, Cyber Game Marshals on every server!
Indeed, and like most people on slashdot who are old enough to remember 320x200 being a standard resolution I made my own 3x5 pixel font back then, is this "prof" a teenager or something?
And all the Twitter and Facebook basher here shall read it, then crawl back into their basements.
I grudgingly joined facebook this summer after I realised all my old (non nerd) friends used it as their means of keeping in touch rather than email. And I really enjoy the interaction there, getting to see each other's photos and hear about their everyday lives,which may be dull to everyone else here, but these are my real actual friends, who I don't see as often as I'd like due to geography.
All this anti-social-networking noise around here seems to be like a bunch of old farts moaning about everyone using email and SMS when the telephone is good enough.
That's exactly the point, though. The Internet as we know is should be left well alone and the cable co's etc can bundle and advertise as much "IP-TV" and "IP-Radio" bandwidth as they like, they can even use the same tubes and protocols to deliver it to your house but they should not call their bundled and partner content "internet", nor include them in the bandwidth advertisements.
Thus if they only want to sell you a walled garden where the only web sites you can access are partner sites then they can do that, no problem, SO LONG AS THEY DON'T CALL IT "INTERNET"
Agreed. My compromise solution is to allow but fast-track granting of software patents, and then limit the term to 4 years from filing. Long enough in the internet age to make a tidy profit from your monopoly, short enough to allow competition to emerge in a relevant time frame.
While we're here thinking how good this is that we will be able to post reviews of films,games and music on our blogs and not get takedown notices. But what this really means is that shitty british TV that does no original thinking (the news channels just report what they read on twitter) will just compile youtube videos and such without having to pay or ackowledge anyone. Which in a nice rounded world of share-alike licenses may seem all groovy, until you realize they're surrounded by adverts and on subscription channels. Heck, they'll probably even advertise it as a kind of internet summary show so that you don't have to go to the effort, risk viruses or bumping into paedos, etc. And the dumbass british public will probably lap it up.
Also if the law becomes "using less than one minute of footage" from any source but your hilarious slapstick youtube video is only 59 seconds long they'll be able to lift the whole thing. Again, in the world off CC this might not be too bad, but woe betide you if you accidentally use 1:01 of a clip from a commercial movie in your review because the law is clear and you'll go to jail. Of course if a big media company slips up in the same way they'll only get a letter from OfCom about it.
If you think you have to put up with the behaviour that you describe in order to live with a female - which can be borderline domestic abuse, do you think she'd tolerate it if you got angry about illogical crap and used tools like withholding of affection for financial gain? - then you are only encouraging them.
There are plenty of women who do not behave like that and are not divas in the slightest (to be fair the behaviour is self perpetuating through stereotyping and peer pressure, the same way us blokes aren't allowed to admit we appreciate ballet dancing, apparently). Some of these ab-normal women even like sci fi, or will given the chance to watch it. There are more of them than you think.
I'd prefer to legislate against any kind of auto remote kill and force the companies to have to show you a prompt that allows you to choose one of four options:
1 - Remove App
2 - Don't remove - Quit out
3 - Don't remove - Let me run it
4 - Don't remove - Let me run it - Don't ever bug me again
My preferred approach would be akin to forcing a UAC-like prompt when you try to run the app instead. That way the people can make an informed choice between "Go ahead and uninstall it", "Ask me again next time" and "Shut up and don't bug me again"
I bet you also hate it when people use "Text" as a verb instead of saying "Compose a short electronic note and send it to a friend via the Short Message Service". or "Email" instead of "Electronic Mail". Chased any kids of your lawn lately?
I use Buzz differently, I don't follow anyone and at the same time keep adding auto-aggregate links so that all my tweets, blog posts (i have 3 blogs and counting...), youtube uploads, picasa photos etc get posted to Buzz. Then I just point people at my Buzz page, it summarises (most of) my public internet activity in one place. Handy for new friends and stalkers alike
The broad point is a valid one, that a large part of the purpose of the great firewall is keeping the rest-of-world from being able to see what's going on IN china, blocking their citizens uploading pictures to sites like twitpic prevents the rest-of-world from seeing mobile phone photos of things that make the chinese gov't look bad, for example
I may be wrong on this but I think Google's implimentation is a derviative of Harmony, which itself is an Apache licenced clean room implimentation of the Java spec, not on the original Java code. But even so, if all Google have to do to settle is relicense it to GPL it's hardly a big deal.
Just wait, in another 100 years time people will think that we needed help from aliens to dig the Channel Tunnel (and others like it) because navigating underground over such a long distance whilst our GPS tech at the time could not penetrate the earth's crust must mean it was otherwise IMPOSSIBLE!
Actually windows' built in file copy/move has sucked forever, especially aborting the entire operation because file 6 of one thousand was locked. Google for TeraCopy. Works on Win7 too and replaces the built in operations, I install it on every Win box i can now (disclaimer: just a happy teracopy user, not affiliated!)
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Read GP again, if you're building a home cinema box and are using a small form factor mobo, and that mobo has (for example) two dimm slots, stick 1GB ram in one slot and a 50GB SSD drive in the other slot and you're done, no extra space/cooling and bulky aluminium mounting for a traditional HDD needed. Very cool (pun intended)
I'd be happy with a compromise (and I think this is what Google rolled out some weeks back). That you'd see advertised a "20Mb Broadband package with extras". Your open unfiltered, unrestricted internet bandwidth would be 20Mb, the extras, such as bundled IPTV and partner (payola) sites could use extra bandwidth on top of the 20MB - because the pipe they install in this example can technically go up to 50Mb - but that first 20Mb is untouchable, otherwise they're in breach of advertising/consumer standards law.
May sound like a joke but I guarantee you that the MPAA would love nothing less than being able to license HD-Ray movies on a per-viewer basis, and refuse to play if your doberman is in the room. I already stole revenue from them when I watched my brother's copies of the Spiderman trilogy on his HD TV (I guess technically I stole from Sony too, as it was a sony TV and a PS3 I was using...) without paying a cent
It's de Palma, who does gets a mention as being the long take master in there somewhere
You don't even need to do that, the bill states that IPSs should (paraphrasing) "take steps to prevent the domain name from resolving to the ip address". All you have to do is go on any kind of chat/messaging/email/message board and ask "what was the IP of that tracker, again?", then paste it into your URL bar.
This leads me onto an interesting workaround. Internet gaming has moved away from peer to peer and towards centralised servers, specifically in the realm of consoles. So all the gaming traffic for a massive bunch of gamers is going to one set of adresses. All you have to do is make sure you and your terrorist buddies own an xbox and a copy of gears of war and you can hook up and chat.
Next up: Air, er, Cyber Game Marshals on every server!
Indeed, and like most people on slashdot who are old enough to remember 320x200 being a standard resolution I made my own 3x5 pixel font back then, is this "prof" a teenager or something?
And all the Twitter and Facebook basher here shall read it, then crawl back into their basements.
I grudgingly joined facebook this summer after I realised all my old (non nerd) friends used it as their means of keeping in touch rather than email. And I really enjoy the interaction there, getting to see each other's photos and hear about their everyday lives,which may be dull to everyone else here, but these are my real actual friends, who I don't see as often as I'd like due to geography.
All this anti-social-networking noise around here seems to be like a bunch of old farts moaning about everyone using email and SMS when the telephone is good enough.
I think I must be the only person who actually likes BioDome.
Making a filter. Making a filter. Making a filter....
"Serious Cell Phone Manafacturer" Sagem is not. My current model is a Sagem, therefore I feel qualified to speak on this matter
That's exactly the point, though. The Internet as we know is should be left well alone and the cable co's etc can bundle and advertise as much "IP-TV" and "IP-Radio" bandwidth as they like, they can even use the same tubes and protocols to deliver it to your house but they should not call their bundled and partner content "internet", nor include them in the bandwidth advertisements.
Thus if they only want to sell you a walled garden where the only web sites you can access are partner sites then they can do that, no problem, SO LONG AS THEY DON'T CALL IT "INTERNET"
Agreed. My compromise solution is to allow but fast-track granting of software patents, and then limit the term to 4 years from filing. Long enough in the internet age to make a tidy profit from your monopoly, short enough to allow competition to emerge in a relevant time frame.
It doesn't matter if most people haven't heard of them. They might be happy not being globally famous so long as the turnover pays the bills.
While we're here thinking how good this is that we will be able to post reviews of films,games and music on our blogs and not get takedown notices. But what this really means is that shitty british TV that does no original thinking (the news channels just report what they read on twitter) will just compile youtube videos and such without having to pay or ackowledge anyone. Which in a nice rounded world of share-alike licenses may seem all groovy, until you realize they're surrounded by adverts and on subscription channels. Heck, they'll probably even advertise it as a kind of internet summary show so that you don't have to go to the effort, risk viruses or bumping into paedos, etc. And the dumbass british public will probably lap it up.
Also if the law becomes "using less than one minute of footage" from any source but your hilarious slapstick youtube video is only 59 seconds long they'll be able to lift the whole thing. Again, in the world off CC this might not be too bad, but woe betide you if you accidentally use 1:01 of a clip from a commercial movie in your review because the law is clear and you'll go to jail. Of course if a big media company slips up in the same way they'll only get a letter from OfCom about it.
If you think you have to put up with the behaviour that you describe in order to live with a female - which can be borderline domestic abuse, do you think she'd tolerate it if you got angry about illogical crap and used tools like withholding of affection for financial gain? - then you are only encouraging them.
There are plenty of women who do not behave like that and are not divas in the slightest (to be fair the behaviour is self perpetuating through stereotyping and peer pressure, the same way us blokes aren't allowed to admit we appreciate ballet dancing, apparently). Some of these ab-normal women even like sci fi, or will given the chance to watch it. There are more of them than you think.
I'd prefer to legislate against any kind of auto remote kill and force the companies to have to show you a prompt that allows you to choose one of four options:
1 - Remove App
2 - Don't remove - Quit out
3 - Don't remove - Let me run it
4 - Don't remove - Let me run it - Don't ever bug me again
My preferred approach would be akin to forcing a UAC-like prompt when you try to run the app instead. That way the people can make an informed choice between "Go ahead and uninstall it", "Ask me again next time" and "Shut up and don't bug me again"
I bet you also hate it when people use "Text" as a verb instead of saying "Compose a short electronic note and send it to a friend via the Short Message Service". or "Email" instead of "Electronic Mail". Chased any kids of your lawn lately?
(subj). That is all I need to know
I use Buzz differently, I don't follow anyone and at the same time keep adding auto-aggregate links so that all my tweets, blog posts (i have 3 blogs and counting...), youtube uploads, picasa photos etc get posted to Buzz. Then I just point people at my Buzz page, it summarises (most of) my public internet activity in one place. Handy for new friends and stalkers alike
The broad point is a valid one, that a large part of the purpose of the great firewall is keeping the rest-of-world from being able to see what's going on IN china, blocking their citizens uploading pictures to sites like twitpic prevents the rest-of-world from seeing mobile phone photos of things that make the chinese gov't look bad, for example
Hook it up to your hot water tank, or heat your greenhouse with it
I may be wrong on this but I think Google's implimentation is a derviative of Harmony, which itself is an Apache licenced clean room implimentation of the Java spec, not on the original Java code. But even so, if all Google have to do to settle is relicense it to GPL it's hardly a big deal.
Just wait, in another 100 years time people will think that we needed help from aliens to dig the Channel Tunnel (and others like it) because navigating underground over such a long distance whilst our GPS tech at the time could not penetrate the earth's crust must mean it was otherwise IMPOSSIBLE!
(see also: Roman Roads, Pyramids, etc)
Actually windows' built in file copy/move has sucked forever, especially aborting the entire operation because file 6 of one thousand was locked. Google for TeraCopy. Works on Win7 too and replaces the built in operations, I install it on every Win box i can now (disclaimer: just a happy teracopy user, not affiliated!)