In fact, many major ISPs are now offering VoIP as part of your Internet connection.
Quite a few actually give you an incentive to adopt it. E.g. My ISP, iiNet, literally doubled my already generous quota if I bundled VOIP with my connection. That was actually the only reason we got VOIP at first - it was only later that we realised how much cheaper it was.
Except we don't have infinte energy, or a closed system. We're limited by our resources, and even if we did manage to produce enough energy to cause Global Warming 2.0, we could always dump it into space, maybe onto Pluto or somewhere cold.
For that to work you have to have a source of water to begin with (e.g. the sea). Some the the drier countries in the middle of large continents don't have that kind of access.
I probably shouldn't expect this, but RTFA! They're not producing Al2O3, they're producing something similar to AL(OH)3. I say similar because they're using clusters of Al, not atoms/ions. It seems to me that simply adding a strong acid would revert these back to AL(H2O)3, resulting in the evolution of more H2, but I'm sure that's been considered already...
While it's great that you're shedding some light on this issue, there is one thing I take issue with:
Communication on the internet is not the "wild west"; it is subject to the same laws as the rest of the world. If someone libels someone, they are held liable under the same principals.
Which laws are you referring to? Those of the US, UK, Australia, etc? Or by some international body such as the UN? My point is that the internet transcends mere geographical and political boundaries, and consequently any laws on it can always be sidestepped by moving to a content/service provider outside of the country. While your argument holds up as long as the content/service provider, the defamer and the defamed are in the same country, taking legal action becomes difficult once you bring other countries into the equation. This is demonstrated by the Pirate Bay lawsuit.
It could simply be getting someone else to do the work for you. I've written a bunch of useful programs that I'm considering uploading to sourceforge. If I did that, others would be able to expand on my work, and it builds up my reputation, which could be beneficial when I'm looking for a job. Additionally, having others build on my work means I get some nice new features without having to do the work myself.
Not saying closed source libraries are more helpful, plentiful, or accessible, but open source is not the panacea that zealots on Slashdot would like it to be.
I think you must be referring to closed source libraries in general, because Microsoft recently made the source code for the.NET Framework publicly available:
The source code for the.NET framework base class library is available for reference purposes only under the Microsoft Reference License. [39] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.net_framework
but by profiting the alleged millions from other people's work, frankly they are just scum.
They don't profit from other's people work (at least not the content owners), they profit by providing a communications channel. You might as well argue that an ISP which sells a connection with an extremely large cap (or none at all) is profiting from copyright infringement, since that's what the majority of users will use it for.
N.B. I live in Australia, so 'extremely large cap' means 100+ GB.
It's interesting that Nokia is listed there... A friend of mine recently got a new Nokia mobile. What's interesting is that while it has a USB port for data, it won't charge via it! It's good to see that they're trying to standardize it now.
Now, let's just see if they can't do something similar for mp3 players and the like ('m looking at you, Apple)...
Not so much death as growth. We are not the same people as we were yesterday, but we continue to grow and evolve into better people with each day. If your memories were static, then there would be no potential for new insight, new interpretations or innovation of any kind.
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Now which religion was that? Your religion? My religion? Their religion?
If we can track down the hosters and owners of these websites why can't the feds?
Because they probably don't live in the US. Unless you're suggesting that they take the Australian route of setting up a national internet filter...
If you're making a law that punishes sinners...
...then you're back in Salem in the 1600s
That sounds exactly like what I've been doing with Chrome since it first came out...
Only Primus has a page on Wikipedia, and apparently they filed for bankruptcy on March 16th.
Only arcade games are limtied to 150 MB. Demos don't seem to have the same restriction, as they often run into the gigabytes.
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=QUJqWc6seYk
Slashdot, the only website where people actually put the port number in links...
In fact, many major ISPs are now offering VoIP as part of your Internet connection.
Quite a few actually give you an incentive to adopt it. E.g. My ISP, iiNet, literally doubled my already generous quota if I bundled VOIP with my connection. That was actually the only reason we got VOIP at first - it was only later that we realised how much cheaper it was.
Also, take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOIP#Legal_Issues.
Except we don't have infinte energy, or a closed system. We're limited by our resources, and even if we did manage to produce enough energy to cause Global Warming 2.0, we could always dump it into space, maybe onto Pluto or somewhere cold.
Couldn't you just use the energy to move the heat somewhere else, thereby creating coldness? It's the basic principle behind a refrigerator.
For that to work you have to have a source of water to begin with (e.g. the sea). Some the the drier countries in the middle of large continents don't have that kind of access.
Interestingly enough, those are the same codecs used by YouTube.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtube#Format_and_quality_comparison_table
traditional american values like being the "land of the free."
Land of the free? I thought it was the land of the guns!
Bye bye karma...
Not to mention having violated the Law of Conservation of Energy.
I probably shouldn't expect this, but RTFA!
They're not producing Al2O3, they're producing something similar to AL(OH)3. I say similar because they're using clusters of Al, not atoms/ions. It seems to me that simply adding a strong acid would revert these back to AL(H2O)3, resulting in the evolution of more H2, but I'm sure that's been considered already...
We wait until its too late to act.
While it's great that you're shedding some light on this issue, there is one thing I take issue with:
Communication on the internet is not the "wild west"; it is subject to the same laws as the rest of the world. If someone libels someone, they are held liable under the same principals.
Which laws are you referring to? Those of the US, UK, Australia, etc? Or by some international body such as the UN?
My point is that the internet transcends mere geographical and political boundaries, and consequently any laws on it can always be sidestepped by moving to a content/service provider outside of the country.
While your argument holds up as long as the content/service provider, the defamer and the defamed are in the same country, taking legal action becomes difficult once you bring other countries into the equation. This is demonstrated by the Pirate Bay lawsuit.
It could simply be getting someone else to do the work for you. I've written a bunch of useful programs that I'm considering uploading to sourceforge. If I did that, others would be able to expand on my work, and it builds up my reputation, which could be beneficial when I'm looking for a job. Additionally, having others build on my work means I get some nice new features without having to do the work myself.
Not saying closed source libraries are more helpful, plentiful, or accessible, but open source is not the panacea that zealots on Slashdot would like it to be.
I think you must be referring to closed source libraries in general, because Microsoft recently made the source code for the .NET Framework publicly available:
The source code for the .NET framework base class library is available for reference purposes only under the Microsoft Reference License. [39]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.net_framework
Who said, "never ascribe to evil what can be explained by stupidity"? They call bureaucracies "mindless" for a reason.
That would be Hanlon's razor.
Unless your country is America's bitch, and basically copied and pasted their DMCA.
but by profiting the alleged millions from other people's work, frankly they are just scum.
They don't profit from other's people work (at least not the content owners), they profit by providing a communications channel. You might as well argue that an ISP which sells a connection with an extremely large cap (or none at all) is profiting from copyright infringement, since that's what the majority of users will use it for.
N.B. I live in Australia, so 'extremely large cap' means 100+ GB.
It's interesting that Nokia is listed there...
A friend of mine recently got a new Nokia mobile. What's interesting is that while it has a USB port for data, it won't charge via it! It's good to see that they're trying to standardize it now.
Now, let's just see if they can't do something similar for mp3 players and the like ('m looking at you, Apple)...
Not so much death as growth.
We are not the same people as we were yesterday, but we continue to grow and evolve into better people with each day. If your memories were static, then there would be no potential for new insight, new interpretations or innovation of any kind.
Oops. Guess that info was a bit out of date.