Actually, communication in most cities isn't as good as you assume. Most Telecoms run as close to the line as possible with telecommunications, so a sudden surge in traffic can cause havoc. Best system I ever saw was a hand operated exchange where the operator could connect all the phones to one line so the local cop could alert the whole island at once. This doesn't seem to be implemented in todays infrastructure (in NZ at least (I rang them up and asked them)).
Its not purely the drivers or the applications. Its the marketing of Linux and thats pretty much all. I think if Linux was marketed as a wonderful computer operating system for children at school, it would make massive inroads. Something like.....
"Are you worried about the amount of time your children spend playing games on the computer? Are you sick of having to buy expensive antivirus programs, firewalls and spyware removers? Does going on the web seem to be a risky proposition with your photos, records, and music constantly under threat from the latest worm?
Here at Novell, we felt this way to. So we decided to move to Suse Linux. No more constant virus threats. No more having to pay license fees just to surf the web or download your email's. If you just want a computer that works, a computer that allows you to write a letter, get your email, surf the web, play your music, and view your photos without the risk of losing it all to a Windows virus, then we have the system for you.
For $100NZ you can move your system to Suse Linux as well with a fully operational office suite, email, music and photo software, plus six months support included.
To much you say? Well, with OpenSuse Linux you can have almost the same functionality for free without all the proprietary software or the six months support. Call now and we will send you a Suse Linux Live CD so you can see just what an amazing offer this is."
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah..........
The Beatles don't own the copyright to their works. As far as I know, Michael Jackson does (Goggled it, but found no other owners).
At the moment you can't find pieces of music because they are under copyright but it's not worth printing more CD's. I would make the statement that huge amounts of music are disappearing off the face of society but I can't, because I don't know of something that isn't there. How many pre-1950 vinyl has been released on the P2P networks...a little. By the time the Beatles will be released onto the networks most of the uncopyrighted performances will have died (lost, damaged, etc....) and we will end up in the same situation as with classical music where the music isn't copyrighted but the performance by the blah, blah, blah orchestra is and thats the only one you can obtain.
Because you can write www.yourbank.com in your email and link it to www.yourbamk.com so when you click on the link it takes you to another site that is exactly the same as www.yourbank.com but is www.yourbamk.com. Unless you looked at the URL at the top of the page you would never know.
The cert can't be revoked (as far as I know) because it resides on your computer.
Already did. They said that asking health questions in an interview (where it is job unrelated (not eyesight for pilots)) is illegal but since I wasn't in an interview this wasn't. As I am able to simply refuse to sign the forms, or answer the questions, without pressure (someone sitting there asking me to) then there isn't a clear illegality.
In another unrelated event I was in a computer hardware shop "Super Cheap PC" (http://supercheappc.biz/site/) that refused to sell someone three hard drives because they wouldn't give their name, address, phone number and email. He walked out. Thats what started me thinking about how much information we give away.
The problem won't be maintaining employment. The problem is in ten years time when they want a new employee and they favor the employees that will have a chip to the point where it is an unwritten requirement.
For instance, I answered an employment ad in the newspaper a few weeks ago. They sent me a pack to fill out to see if I would be suitable for an interview. This pack contained three forms for me to sign so they could access my credit record, criminal record, and previous employment records. The pack also asked me in five separate instances to declare any health condition, past or present. I went to the privacy commission who pointed me towards the privacy officer of the company who explained that the access was required for work at the company as it involved money and the occasional lifting of heavy objects.
Thats all well and fine, but why do they need to have access to these things before the interview? Why do none of these forms have an end date? What do past health issues have to do with any employment I take?
Asking about health problems in an interview for employment is illegal in New Zealand but it appears that, in an interview for an interview, it is not. In the end, I said that I wouldn't be requesting an interview as I didn't want to work for a company that required access to all my supposedly private information (permanantley) to just get an interview.
I have no doubt that if I had returned the forms without signing them I would never have got to the interview stage to start with. I have no doubt that if I had received an interview but failed to get the job then those legally accessed records would have been kept.
This is the sort of under the radar dealing that can lead to all people having to wear RFID tags, just so they can be employed. And once enough people have them, we all get used to it and its all right, no harm done. New Zealand has already embarked on a spate of social engineering through the media that currently paints me as child molesting/killer, smelly, unattractive, drunk, bad driver, racist, culture killing, drug using, unintelligent, sexist, woman bashing, unfit to be a father, and a worthless burden on society (Due to being a white smoking male). I don't want them to be able to the stores I go to, etc....Our governments are supposed to serve us, not use social engineering to further their ends and why a business (an entity without morals) should be allowed to track me in any way whatsoever is beyond me. There has to be trust, without it we are less than we were.
OK, that was a little of topic. I must be in spiel mode.
Certainly. A better idea might have been to get the major search engines to drop the companies, their subsidiaries and owners, off the search results like Google did with BMW (albeit for a week).
And there I was, proudly going to proclaim 384 as the largest amount of spyware I have found on a computer (Dell 4600) which was bought to me by a friend as it was running slow. Amazingly it had no virus's, no updates from later than the sale date and the antivirus had never been updated.
I tried to explain what had happened and simple steps to stop it and received an entirely blank look. Wrote step by step instructions on how to run AdAware and a virus update/scan. Received another blank look. Walked friend through the instructions. Saw the dawning of compre...no, just another blank look. So I got a beer, set up everything as automatically as I could, and told friend to come back next time the computer ran slow.
As my ISP's bandwidth currently sits at 40% bittorrent and 20% eDonkey traffic, I can see how they would want to get rid of these users. However, their solution has been to downgrade that traffic. A solution I am perfectly happy with.
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
The weakest link in this is useful and the reason the accessible information isn't useful is because either we don't know what we want to do or the information is not in our heads as experience.
I would predict Google moving into the areas of human psychology and learning. Psycology to find what we want to do (or to give us something to do that will keep us happy) and learning to help us do it. A Googleversity would be a good start using marketing techniques to embed the subject matter in our brains then moving to instant access to the database (via brain implant) and finally access to anothers experience directly.
The world in general will move to machine state. This has already started. If you think of glasses, then contacts, now we are starting to explore artificial sight. When that becomes better than normal sight people with no eye problems will start to move to them, etc, etc, etc...
Much of the problems we have with the world are caused by our bodies. The reason we cannot travel freely in space is because of our bodies.
We will evolve past this stage as soon as the pleasure we get from our bodies is outmoded by the pleasure we will get from being machines.
In reality there are no morals, nothing is right or wrong, no justice, no god. We are sitting on a small rock with a thin layer of atmosphere protecting us in the middle of a universe so large we cannot comprehend it and a reality we do not understand. We use these things to keep our version of sanity and to feel good about ourselves.
It will be interesting, however, to see how the government can justify saving embryos from abuse but allow the abortion of children.
Couldn't it be because as your body lacks in fluids it raises the sodium and potassium levels in your nervous system, thus raising their efficiency in transmitting?
(These are the sort of questions you get from people who went out with nursing students, lol)
Oh...having looked at your comment again I find thats almost exactly what you said...oops.
I'll second that. I just bought a 9600 pro and the drivers were a pain in the ass to configure even though Suse 10.0 is supported and doesn't seem to be fully performing on the graphics side of things. On my Xp partition the card is fine.
My last card used Nvidia drivers and that one just worked.
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And do the schools network admins really want all the students connecting to the network with their unsecured laptops?
Actually, communication in most cities isn't as good as you assume. Most Telecoms run as close to the line as possible with telecommunications, so a sudden surge in traffic can cause havoc. Best system I ever saw was a hand operated exchange where the operator could connect all the phones to one line so the local cop could alert the whole island at once. This doesn't seem to be implemented in todays infrastructure (in NZ at least (I rang them up and asked them)).
"Are you worried about the amount of time your children spend playing games on the computer? Are you sick of having to buy expensive antivirus programs, firewalls and spyware removers? Does going on the web seem to be a risky proposition with your photos, records, and music constantly under threat from the latest worm?
Here at Novell, we felt this way to. So we decided to move to Suse Linux. No more constant virus threats. No more having to pay license fees just to surf the web or download your email's. If you just want a computer that works, a computer that allows you to write a letter, get your email, surf the web, play your music, and view your photos without the risk of losing it all to a Windows virus, then we have the system for you.
For $100NZ you can move your system to Suse Linux as well with a fully operational office suite, email, music and photo software, plus six months support included.
To much you say? Well, with OpenSuse Linux you can have almost the same functionality for free without all the proprietary software or the six months support. Call now and we will send you a Suse Linux Live CD so you can see just what an amazing offer this is."
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah..........
Err....5MB X 500 = 2500MB? Thats one big CD!
Sorry, offtopic I know.
The Beatles don't own the copyright to their works. As far as I know, Michael Jackson does (Goggled it, but found no other owners).
At the moment you can't find pieces of music because they are under copyright but it's not worth printing more CD's. I would make the statement that huge amounts of music are disappearing off the face of society but I can't, because I don't know of something that isn't there. How many pre-1950 vinyl has been released on the P2P networks...a little. By the time the Beatles will be released onto the networks most of the uncopyrighted performances will have died (lost, damaged, etc....) and we will end up in the same situation as with classical music where the music isn't copyrighted but the performance by the blah, blah, blah orchestra is and thats the only one you can obtain.
Because you can write www.yourbank.com in your email and link it to www.yourbamk.com so when you click on the link it takes you to another site that is exactly the same as www.yourbank.com but is www.yourbamk.com. Unless you looked at the URL at the top of the page you would never know.
The cert can't be revoked (as far as I know) because it resides on your computer.
Or that computers were made by brains?
What! You mean I'll have to keep watching this crap!
d ex.html
http://www.vega.org.uk/series/lectures/feynman/in
http://www.msri.org/publications/video/
Can people add some more? I've heard theres some really good science programs out on the net and I want to see them all.
Already did. They said that asking health questions in an interview (where it is job unrelated (not eyesight for pilots)) is illegal but since I wasn't in an interview this wasn't. As I am able to simply refuse to sign the forms, or answer the questions, without pressure (someone sitting there asking me to) then there isn't a clear illegality.
In another unrelated event I was in a computer hardware shop "Super Cheap PC" (http://supercheappc.biz/site/) that refused to sell someone three hard drives because they wouldn't give their name, address, phone number and email. He walked out. Thats what started me thinking about how much information we give away.
The problem won't be maintaining employment. The problem is in ten years time when they want a new employee and they favor the employees that will have a chip to the point where it is an unwritten requirement.
For instance, I answered an employment ad in the newspaper a few weeks ago. They sent me a pack to fill out to see if I would be suitable for an interview. This pack contained three forms for me to sign so they could access my credit record, criminal record, and previous employment records. The pack also asked me in five separate instances to declare any health condition, past or present. I went to the privacy commission who pointed me towards the privacy officer of the company who explained that the access was required for work at the company as it involved money and the occasional lifting of heavy objects.
Thats all well and fine, but why do they need to have access to these things before the interview? Why do none of these forms have an end date? What do past health issues have to do with any employment I take?
Asking about health problems in an interview for employment is illegal in New Zealand but it appears that, in an interview for an interview, it is not. In the end, I said that I wouldn't be requesting an interview as I didn't want to work for a company that required access to all my supposedly private information (permanantley) to just get an interview.
I have no doubt that if I had returned the forms without signing them I would never have got to the interview stage to start with. I have no doubt that if I had received an interview but failed to get the job then those legally accessed records would have been kept.
This is the sort of under the radar dealing that can lead to all people having to wear RFID tags, just so they can be employed. And once enough people have them, we all get used to it and its all right, no harm done. New Zealand has already embarked on a spate of social engineering through the media that currently paints me as child molesting/killer, smelly, unattractive, drunk, bad driver, racist, culture killing, drug using, unintelligent, sexist, woman bashing, unfit to be a father, and a worthless burden on society (Due to being a white smoking male). I don't want them to be able to the stores I go to, etc....Our governments are supposed to serve us, not use social engineering to further their ends and why a business (an entity without morals) should be allowed to track me in any way whatsoever is beyond me. There has to be trust, without it we are less than we were.
OK, that was a little of topic. I must be in spiel mode.
More likely Intel.
"Interred Inside"
Certainly. A better idea might have been to get the major search engines to drop the companies, their subsidiaries and owners, off the search results like Google did with BMW (albeit for a week).
And there I was, proudly going to proclaim 384 as the largest amount of spyware I have found on a computer (Dell 4600) which was bought to me by a friend as it was running slow. Amazingly it had no virus's, no updates from later than the sale date and the antivirus had never been updated.
I tried to explain what had happened and simple steps to stop it and received an entirely blank look. Wrote step by step instructions on how to run AdAware and a virus update/scan. Received another blank look. Walked friend through the instructions. Saw the dawning of compre...no, just another blank look. So I got a beer, set up everything as automatically as I could, and told friend to come back next time the computer ran slow.
"The bells, the bells!".
Or, possibly a cartoon of God with a bomb strapped round his waist.
Mercury?
As my ISP's bandwidth currently sits at 40% bittorrent and 20% eDonkey traffic, I can see how they would want to get rid of these users. However, their solution has been to downgrade that traffic. A solution I am perfectly happy with.
No, of course not. Imagine the, "Save your country from the weather" insurance.
For fifty billion you could probably build quite a big mirror in space though.
"And this morning Bird Flu rolled across America...Arrrrrgghhhh!"
The weakest link in this is useful and the reason the accessible information isn't useful is because either we don't know what we want to do or the information is not in our heads as experience.
I would predict Google moving into the areas of human psychology and learning. Psycology to find what we want to do (or to give us something to do that will keep us happy) and learning to help us do it. A Googleversity would be a good start using marketing techniques to embed the subject matter in our brains then moving to instant access to the database (via brain implant) and finally access to anothers experience directly.
The world in general will move to machine state. This has already started. If you think of glasses, then contacts, now we are starting to explore artificial sight. When that becomes better than normal sight people with no eye problems will start to move to them, etc, etc, etc...
Much of the problems we have with the world are caused by our bodies. The reason we cannot travel freely in space is because of our bodies. We will evolve past this stage as soon as the pleasure we get from our bodies is outmoded by the pleasure we will get from being machines.
It will be interesting, however, to see how the government can justify saving embryos from abuse but allow the abortion of children.
(These are the sort of questions you get from people who went out with nursing students, lol)
Oh...having looked at your comment again I find thats almost exactly what you said...oops.
I'll second that. I just bought a 9600 pro and the drivers were a pain in the ass to configure even though Suse 10.0 is supported and doesn't seem to be fully performing on the graphics side of things. On my Xp partition the card is fine.
My last card used Nvidia drivers and that one just worked.
Goggle would be better.