Better - show that they would be able to access other customers data and shout "Data Protection Act" as often as possible during demonstration. They'll understand...
You need to understand that you cannot rule countries like Syria in the same way as US. It's also pretty true about, for example, Russia.
If you don't have strong government there they will descend into anarchy and civil war. Look at Lebanon and you'll understand. Whole middle east is like that. Don't just watch what they show on CNN as quite a big part of transmission is just lost during editing.
My brother-in-law is Syrian (albeit Christian, not Muslim) and I met his family many times. Situation there is more normal that you'd ever dreamed of. It's just that politics needs to be done in this way.
I don't agree with jailing of the poor bastard, but that's how it works there. I'd prefer less restrictive government, but that will not happen anytime soon.
Question is why they dropped it in the first place? My personal bet is that they wanted to Office on Mac look less business like. That would stop Macs going to enterprises where (as everybody knows) MSFT has a nice profitable stronghold.
Interesting. I had no such problems. My Mythbuntu install went nice and smooth. I haven't tested it really well as I'm doing some contract away from home. But my wife hasn't mentioned any problems.
Oh, my one is Frontend and Backend on one machine + Samba shares on server mapped to folders through fstab. Also added noatime to fstab and got rid of swap whatsoever, just to save space on CF.
I did it with my Media Centre PC. Old Compaq Presario 900. I bought dirt cheap CompactFlash to IDE 44 converter and put it instead of HDD. Mythbuntu start in half of the time, even that throughput of CF is almost the same as HDD. Best of all that SSD cost me £15 for 4GB. Straight from eBay.
Running a pre-release of Fedora 9 on his wife's computer, Linus Torvalds was not able to view YouTube videos with Swfdec, leading him to send a comical error report in which he makes an ardent appeal for help to Fedora developers, "This is 'high' priority because the wife will kill me if she doesn't have her videos."
Actually as much as I don't like Msft, I think Silverlight is good. It makes Adobe to update Flash, it promotes competition and stops the stagnation that's been around for a long time. MPEG4 for Flash anybody? Why does it took so long to implement it? There was no need for Adobe to do it?
Offtopic: Anybody's curious when Msft is going to buy Novell and Suse with it? So much Msft cash is going into Mono and similar projects sponsored by Novell...
And that's the reason why instead of whining about p2p traffic they should finally invest in infrastructure.
Do you know how long it takes to download film in Sweden? 15-30min. Why? Because somebody invested in fiber to homes and fast switches. That's the reason they have ethernet straight to home. Yes, ethernet socket at home, 10/10Mb, upgradeable to 100/100.
And of course everybody knows that if your infrastructure is designed properly most of the traffic will stay local - p2p client usually prefer local fast nodes.
So you pay for your 'net connection - it gives you possibility to download whatever you want, everybody can. You can download newest Fedora, but your neighbour probably sits 12 hours a day watching youtube. Same IMHO.
My friend used to work as a courier for Home Office. Many times he lost passports and other documents because envelopes used to fall apart and other such moronic things. It's nothing unusual there, as he said.
Oh, did I mention he was illegally in UK and worked as a courier for Home Office transporting passports? Welcome in UK!;)
Lawyers. Who's going to pay for them? Cost of technical examiners is nothing comparing to what they charge. Do it as in Europe - losing side pays for everything, and they will stop pretty quick.
>However, as long as books read like web browsers or PDF readers, I won't be able to switch.
That's the reason that most ebook readers show the whole page. It feels more like a book and less like a pdf reader. But you're right, there's a still long way to go before we get a proper book-like experience. That's the reason I'm hoping that Apple will jump on a bandwagon and create some nice and, especially, usable GUI.
Actually it's much easier than physical books. You can set bookmarks, it automatically opens documents on pages where you finish and so on. Don't forget that everything is done in the software - as long as people want new features, they will be added pretty quick - like for example thumbnails to scan quickly for images.
But once again - not everything is for everybody - ebook readers will be a great supplement for books, hopefully they will even help some people start reading once again. Considering so many people who commute nowadays and their fluency of internet that's highly probable.
Anyway, all p2p is based on innovation. Just look at history: Kazaa, napster, eDonkey and thousands of others. Protocols tend to disappear and being replaced by better and more sophisticated ones. Or they just get extensions like eMules Kademlia.
I think we should be happy that somebody's thinking about something new instead just relaying on something that's good but not optimal. Especially now with current climate of litigations and general problems (traffic shaping, etc) with BitTorrent it's time for something more resilient and anonymous.
And at least EU have guts to stand against MicroSoft. Government of USofA hasn't. Plus consider it a landmark case - it's always easier to enforce any rulings if you have a precedent. Especially a precedent that prooves that a convict IS a monopolist who hasn't played fair.
I wonder what the next case is going to be. Maybe unfair pricing in OEM market? There was a case in France recently...
patriot does not apply to true american companies(tm) and bush's cronies(r), especially if it prevents them from making money and/or protecting the True American Dream(tm)
It's like with Radiohead. Although people could've downloaded their music for free from webpage they chose bittorent. Why? Simple - inertia. Same as with Windows, people hate it but they just got used to it. It's too hard to change the habits.
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Better - show that they would be able to access other customers data and shout "Data Protection Act" as often as possible during demonstration. They'll understand...
amanfrommars?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=amanfrommars+site%3Atheregister.co.uk&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
You need to understand that you cannot rule countries like Syria in the same way as US. It's also pretty true about, for example, Russia.
If you don't have strong government there they will descend into anarchy and civil war. Look at Lebanon and you'll understand. Whole middle east is like that. Don't just watch what they show on CNN as quite a big part of transmission is just lost during editing.
My brother-in-law is Syrian (albeit Christian, not Muslim) and I met his family many times. Situation there is more normal that you'd ever dreamed of. It's just that politics needs to be done in this way.
I don't agree with jailing of the poor bastard, but that's how it works there. I'd prefer less restrictive government, but that will not happen anytime soon.
Question is why they dropped it in the first place?
My personal bet is that they wanted to Office on Mac look less business like. That would stop Macs going to enterprises where (as everybody knows) MSFT has a nice profitable stronghold.
Interesting. I had no such problems. My Mythbuntu install went nice and smooth. I haven't tested it really well as I'm doing some contract away from home. But my wife hasn't mentioned any problems.
Oh, my one is Frontend and Backend on one machine + Samba shares on server mapped to folders through fstab. Also added noatime to fstab and got rid of swap whatsoever, just to save space on CF.
I thought 640kB... oh never mind.
I did it with my Media Centre PC. Old Compaq Presario 900. I bought dirt cheap CompactFlash to IDE 44 converter and put it instead of HDD. Mythbuntu start in half of the time, even that throughput of CF is almost the same as HDD. Best of all that SSD cost me £15 for 4GB. Straight from eBay.
Do it, it works brilliant.
Running a pre-release of Fedora 9 on his wife's computer, Linus Torvalds was not able to view YouTube videos with Swfdec, leading him to send a comical error report in which he makes an ardent appeal for help to Fedora developers, "This is 'high' priority because the wife will kill me if she doesn't have her videos."
;)
LOLZ
Without looking at pr0n? How?
Actually as much as I don't like Msft, I think Silverlight is good. It makes Adobe to update Flash, it promotes competition and stops the stagnation that's been around for a long time. MPEG4 for Flash anybody? Why does it took so long to implement it? There was no need for Adobe to do it?
Offtopic: Anybody's curious when Msft is going to buy Novell and Suse with it? So much Msft cash is going into Mono and similar projects sponsored by Novell...
No, but happily my CEO.
And that's the reason why instead of whining about p2p traffic they should finally invest in infrastructure.
Do you know how long it takes to download film in Sweden? 15-30min. Why? Because somebody invested in fiber to homes and fast switches. That's the reason they have ethernet straight to home. Yes, ethernet socket at home, 10/10Mb, upgradeable to 100/100.
And of course everybody knows that if your infrastructure is designed properly most of the traffic will stay local - p2p client usually prefer local fast nodes.
So you pay for your 'net connection - it gives you possibility to download whatever you want, everybody can. You can download newest Fedora, but your neighbour probably sits 12 hours a day watching youtube. Same IMHO.
My friend used to work as a courier for Home Office. Many times he lost passports and other documents because envelopes used to fall apart and other such moronic things. It's nothing unusual there, as he said.
;)
Oh, did I mention he was illegally in UK and worked as a courier for Home Office transporting passports?
Welcome in UK!
Lawyers. Who's going to pay for them? Cost of technical examiners is nothing comparing to what they charge.
Do it as in Europe - losing side pays for everything, and they will stop pretty quick.
>However, as long as books read like web browsers or PDF readers, I won't be able to switch.
That's the reason that most ebook readers show the whole page. It feels more like a book and less like a pdf reader. But you're right, there's a still long way to go before we get a proper book-like experience. That's the reason I'm hoping that Apple will jump on a bandwagon and create some nice and, especially, usable GUI.
My favoured saying: Time will tell.
Actually it's much easier than physical books. You can set bookmarks, it automatically opens documents on pages where you finish and so on. Don't forget that everything is done in the software - as long as people want new features, they will be added pretty quick - like for example thumbnails to scan quickly for images.
;)
But once again - not everything is for everybody - ebook readers will be a great supplement for books, hopefully they will even help some people start reading once again. Considering so many people who commute nowadays and their fluency of internet that's highly probable.
Just wait for some sexy ebook reader from Apple
Anyway, all p2p is based on innovation. Just look at history: Kazaa, napster, eDonkey and thousands of others. Protocols tend to disappear and being replaced by better and more sophisticated ones. Or they just get extensions like eMules Kademlia.
I think we should be happy that somebody's thinking about something new instead just relaying on something that's good but not optimal. Especially now with current climate of litigations and general problems (traffic shaping, etc) with BitTorrent it's time for something more resilient and anonymous.
Just my 2p.
And they will call it XP2.
You know, if you want to put a Ford engine in Chevy, then it's technically... and EULA... and like Microsoft... Linux Rullezz...
Happy now?
Or just some cash for a new one...
Or they don't know any geeks who would like to reinstall that hog with XP. Or Linux if it's a "Internet & Skype" PC.
And at least EU have guts to stand against MicroSoft. Government of USofA hasn't.
Plus consider it a landmark case - it's always easier to enforce any rulings if you have a precedent. Especially a precedent that prooves that a convict IS a monopolist who hasn't played fair.
I wonder what the next case is going to be. Maybe unfair pricing in OEM market? There was a case in France recently...
patriot does not apply to true american companies(tm) and bush's cronies(r), especially if it prevents them from making money and/or protecting the True American Dream(tm)
Fixed it for you!
Here's your answer. Shame it's still so expensive ;(
http://www.carver-worldwide.com/Home/Index.asp?nc=1
It's like with Radiohead. Although people could've downloaded their music for free from webpage they chose bittorent.
Why? Simple - inertia. Same as with Windows, people hate it but they just got used to it. It's too hard to change the habits.