They way ads are created today... they are design to manipulate viewers... By principal do I not want to pay for anything infested with ads... But I am certainly willing to pay for content... If available outside the US, at the same prices as in the US and not twice as much as is the case with music...
By the way, why can't they just allow me to pay what I want... and fill in ads to cover the rest... I don't think a short ad shown to one viewer can't pay much...
Amazon does bring down EC2 instances that violate their terms of service... But they do try contact the administrator first... I once had an instance for testing, that is it was doing nothing, then suddenly it was port scanning...:)
And Amazon asked if they could shout it down... I think they gave me a 24 hour warning...
The area size really doesn't have anything to do with it. Population density does, but that also is almost half in the EU compared to US.
Okay, maybe I'm not understanding you correctly... But population density is higher in EU than it is in the US... Just, check wikipedia...
Sweden have better broadband, because their government have created most of the infrastructure (the backbone)... Thus the natural monopoly is handled by an entity that cannot discriminate...
Things are similar in Denmark, here major the larges telecommunication company have been forced to license it's lines to thirdparties at reasonable prices...
So it's probably due to subsidization and regulation... In words that will scare Americans, it's good old fashion socialism...:)
This is more likely to be usable for server admins, who don't like SSH...e.g. people who come from Windows Server and (thus) shouldn't be administrating servers:)
Same in Denmark, though the contract is only 6 months... (I think longer contracts a prohibited by law).
By the way, $529 for the Nexus One, unlocked and with no contract, is really cheap... Just, checked it out and I have to pay around 1000 USD in Denmark...
PHP is for lazy developers. I develop my webapps in C and I even wrote my own httpd to improve performance.
I've actually done that...a few years ago... With on a chip 1024 byte ram... And I wrote my own fairly hacked tcp/ip stack!!!:)
FYI, this was a web 2.0 app, the "index.htm" page included a javascript file from a server on the internet, that using document.write() printed html and included images... Apart from "index.htm" page the chip only served to AJAX requests:)
The LHC will destroy the world. Just as it is a well known fact that if we try to build a space elevator, workers will spontaneously begin speaking different languages...
</sarcasm>
I mean, is the west the only place where people can say "offensive" things without riots?
That's not unlikely... Many other places in the world the majority of people are poor and uneducated... and may very well have sort of a middle age mentality, where burning witches on the fire makes perfectly good sense...
This might be legal if you sell the product directly, but if you sell it through a reseller/shop or whatever... You can't specify how the reseller should charge his costumers, I believe that's illegal, at least in Denmark, and likely the entire EU... Am I wrong ?
Splitting with GNU over a discussion of what can be written on Planet GNOME, seems a little extreme IMO...:)
And really I believe it is relevant to discuss what should be on Planet GNOME... Promotion for products shouldn't be there... Unless these products are GNOME related, and even then I'd say that ads shouldn't be on a community blog aggregation... Noted that the line between, review and promo/ad isn't always clear... So breaking with GNU over a discussion about that seems a bit out of hand...
Matt is pleading guilty on the advice of his public defender in hopes of getting a three and a half year sentence.
In other words, he doesn't have the money to actually fight this.
or he is guilty of possession... And his biggest offense being that he was too embarrassed to report the incident... And just deleted it instead...
Nevertheless he's still guilty, but his offense is very small... I don't see why, any judge would give him 3,5 years for his offense... Unless of cause we don't see the entire picture here...
Sorry, despite freedom of speech and assembly, people don't have the right to set up giant panicky dangerous packed mob. You want to address a huge crowd, you put it somewhere a huge crowd can fit, with actual crowd control measures.
True, if you want to address a huge crowd, please do it a place with barriers, tear gas pipes and a huge barb wire fence...
Sorry, but it's fun to interpret like a paranoid conspiracy believing American:)
(Not that I'm either American or paranoid...)
In this case, the free market should do fine.
The free market only has problems when:
1) People are allowed to do unethical things
And you don't think DRM is unethical... From where I'm see it, consumers doesn't understand the concept of DRM... And selling DRM "protected" products to people who doesn't know that they are being scammed is unethical...
Accusing someone of sexism is a serious matter... And from where I'm standing most of the links you provide are just jokes, funny twists or figures of speech... And yeah, on a cloudy day someone might find them offensive...
But I don't see any major distros shipping with semi naked women on the wallpaper, such wallpapers isn't even dominating on sites like gnome-look etc... As opposed to non-FOSS related wallpaper sites...
Yes, it might be slightly political incorrect at times... but so is Microsoft bashing, nevertheless we all want to bash and call them evil at any opportunity that springs to mind:)
Note: Any parallel this post may draw between female humans and Microsoft is completely unintentional (I'm not a sexist).
I agree that de Icaza is "bridge builder", but unfortunately "the roads into Microsoft" are all one-way.
Well... As much as I hate to admit it... I think I took that road from Windows to Linux... Without Mono my developer skills would have been useless on Linux... And I probably wouldn't have switched... And today, I write a lot of other things than C#...
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They way ads are created today... they are design to manipulate viewers... By principal do I not want to pay for anything infested with ads... But I am certainly willing to pay for content... If available outside the US, at the same prices as in the US and not twice as much as is the case with music...
By the way, why can't they just allow me to pay what I want... and fill in ads to cover the rest... I don't think a short ad shown to one viewer can't pay much...
Amazon does bring down EC2 instances that violate their terms of service... But they do try contact the administrator first... I once had an instance for testing, that is it was doing nothing, then suddenly it was port scanning... :)
And Amazon asked if they could shout it down... I think they gave me a 24 hour warning...
Hmm... Just, looked at their about page... and TurboHercules SAS appears to have an address in France... So how is U.S. patents relevant to them?
The area size really doesn't have anything to do with it. Population density does, but that also is almost half in the EU compared to US.
Okay, maybe I'm not understanding you correctly... But population density is higher in EU than it is in the US... Just, check wikipedia... :)
Sweden have better broadband, because their government have created most of the infrastructure (the backbone)... Thus the natural monopoly is handled by an entity that cannot discriminate...
Things are similar in Denmark, here major the larges telecommunication company have been forced to license it's lines to thirdparties at reasonable prices...
So it's probably due to subsidization and regulation... In words that will scare Americans, it's good old fashion socialism...
This is more likely to be usable for server admins, who don't like SSH...e.g. people who come from Windows Server and (thus) shouldn't be administrating servers :)
And here we thought Google had a strong backbone to stand up to china. Apparently not.
As much as I despise censorship... I respect the fact the cooperations cannot dictate politics in China...
Google shouldn't have to stand up to the Chinese government, the Chinese people should... And probably will... My guess is they're not ready yet...
Same in Denmark, though the contract is only 6 months... (I think longer contracts a prohibited by law).
By the way, $529 for the Nexus One, unlocked and with no contract, is really cheap... Just, checked it out and I have to pay around 1000 USD in Denmark...
(As an aside, can somebody explain to me how I ended up with 15 mod points? I've never seen this before)
You probably deserve them for being as kind as to point out that the apache HTTP server isn't finished... :)
PHP is for lazy developers. I develop my webapps in C and I even wrote my own httpd to improve performance.
I've actually done that...a few years ago... With on a chip 1024 byte ram... And I wrote my own fairly hacked tcp/ip stack!!! :) :)
FYI, this was a web 2.0 app, the "index.htm" page included a javascript file from a server on the internet, that using document.write() printed html and included images... Apart from "index.htm" page the chip only served to AJAX requests
5) goto 1 6) profit!
You're probably going to want to keep the profit within the scope of the loop...
Nope... The loop is correct crime never pays off... :)
Because it may not be true... :)
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The LHC will destroy the world. Just as it is a well known fact that if we try to build a space elevator, workers will spontaneously begin speaking different languages...
</sarcasm>
I mean, is the west the only place where people can say "offensive" things without riots?
That's not unlikely... Many other places in the world the majority of people are poor and uneducated... and may very well have sort of a middle age mentality, where burning witches on the fire makes perfectly good sense...
This might be legal if you sell the product directly, but if you sell it through a reseller/shop or whatever... You can't specify how the reseller should charge his costumers, I believe that's illegal, at least in Denmark, and likely the entire EU...
Am I wrong ?
Splitting with GNU over a discussion of what can be written on Planet GNOME, seems a little extreme IMO... :)
And really I believe it is relevant to discuss what should be on Planet GNOME... Promotion for products shouldn't be there... Unless these products are GNOME related, and even then I'd say that ads shouldn't be on a community blog aggregation... Noted that the line between, review and promo/ad isn't always clear... So breaking with GNU over a discussion about that seems a bit out of hand...
Matt is pleading guilty on the advice of his public defender in hopes of getting a three and a half year sentence.
In other words, he doesn't have the money to actually fight this.
or he is guilty of possession...
And his biggest offense being that he was too embarrassed to report the incident... And just deleted it instead...
Nevertheless he's still guilty, but his offense is very small... I don't see why, any judge would give him 3,5 years for his offense... Unless of cause we don't see the entire picture here...
Sorry, despite freedom of speech and assembly, people don't have the right to set up giant panicky dangerous packed mob. You want to address a huge crowd, you put it somewhere a huge crowd can fit, with actual crowd control measures.
True, if you want to address a huge crowd, please do it a place with barriers, tear gas pipes and a huge barb wire fence...
:)
Sorry, but it's fun to interpret like a paranoid conspiracy believing American
(Not that I'm either American or paranoid...)
If I remember correctly laws about personal data directories are VERY strict in the EU... http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31995L0046:EN:HTML
No offense, but where I live such logic would be great material for a comedy show... :)
On topic: nobody is talking about letting murderers go free, we're talking about not killing them...
Germany is in EU, we don't execute people here... Personally I would find that sort of behavior rude... :)
In this case, the free market should do fine. The free market only has problems when: 1) People are allowed to do unethical things
And you don't think DRM is unethical... From where I'm see it, consumers doesn't understand the concept of DRM... And selling DRM "protected" products to people who doesn't know that they are being scammed is unethical...
Accusing someone of sexism is a serious matter... And from where I'm standing most of the links you provide are just jokes, funny twists or figures of speech... And yeah, on a cloudy day someone might find them offensive...
:)
But I don't see any major distros shipping with semi naked women on the wallpaper, such wallpapers isn't even dominating on sites like gnome-look etc... As opposed to non-FOSS related wallpaper sites...
Yes, it might be slightly political incorrect at times... but so is Microsoft bashing, nevertheless we all want to bash and call them evil at any opportunity that springs to mind
Note: Any parallel this post may draw between female humans and Microsoft is completely unintentional (I'm not a sexist).
Surely a study like this is not funded by the organic food industry?
Not that I've read TFA, but do you have any evidence to back that statement ?
I agree that de Icaza is "bridge builder", but unfortunately "the roads into Microsoft" are all one-way.
Well... As much as I hate to admit it... I think I took that road from Windows to Linux... Without Mono my developer skills would have been useless on Linux... And I probably wouldn't have switched...
And today, I write a lot of other things than C#...
(Sorry, "does" not "those", I'm tired...)