For a gentrified/. westerner maybe. For reasonable westerners who realize how much we own to China and how quickly Chinese way of life evolves toward the better, there's no doubt that there are many far worse countries in the world, and that US allies are half of them.
But wouldn't they prefer to live in great countries with no issues? why wouldn't Chinese woman live in that great US ally, Saudi Arabia? why wouldn't any Chinese exchange it's (relatively caring) government for the (terribly flawed) democracy of that other US ally, Pakistan? and isn't live sweet for homosexuals in that last great friend (it's what money tells), Egypt?
Oh, wait, it's China! how dare they be happy! and develop themselves! when they already were very nasty... yes... nasty.. all they did it divise by two the price of all tech related products! bad Chinese!
It's more a bunch of anti-Chinese whiners who never lose a moment to embarrass the rest of us. The China cares for its people more than US allies (ever heard of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia????) and that many 'democracies'. Chinese way of life is changing a lot more than many other countries such as democratic India./. is pathetic these days.
And I'm not Chinese, I'm French, and bothered by the San-Fransisco-Paris axis of hypocrisy and self righteousness.
Well obviously it isn't since there was already interesting posts on/., weeks ago, that mostly destroyed the idea that the Chinese state could monitor a sizable part of its population. Because the Chinese government is not as all powerful that the anti-Chinese occidental liberals (the kind that live in San Fransisco or Paris, I know quite a few of them here we call them "bo-bo", as "bohemian bourgois", young people who live comfortably who can buy Chinese and slam China over Tibet in the same breath.. in short, hypocrites.)
So yeah, if you're a bobo, of course you will like such articles a lot and find them great journalism. It's just that it actually isn't.
"High tech polic state ready for export," wow, not sensationalist at all.. and so true! exept it's mostly wrong, because a police state would have to... actually work. And China is nowhere as closed as the politically correct people would want us to believe.
I'm looking all of my videos in English with English subtitles (French speaking) and certainly doesn't have to complain about it. Works as intended. Never had any ugly subtitle or any unreadable one, but it's maybe because I have a rather large screen.
As a side note, I receive my HD-IPTV thanks to a VLC enabled set top box, and it's pretty much the most rocking IPTV service in the world at the moment (at least according to specialized sites like Lightreading.)
"(*) Given the popularity of using pedos to justify every ludicrous measure, if this isn't the reason being given in public, then it sure as hell isn't the true reason either."
They maybe don't want to see "pedos" and "brand-x amusement park" in the same sentence, for some reason.
Your solution is to keep the same system, to make governments and big companies happy because for '12 months' it's just the same shit as today, and then you remove the property from the author. Who will benefit of that, niche musicians? or the same big companies and government?
Eurabia will probably not happen, but Europe is in for a difficult ride, and I'm rather on the side of progressive Islam, and rather pro-Shariah like an high ranked English Church man also is (in the same amount that I'm ok when very Christian people obeying to their Church in matters of marriage or such which is just like Shariah, and i rather like Tarek Ramadan for example,) and against remnants of "colonialist humanism", this same "humanism" which still make "good" people go in Africa steal children to their parents because they will have a so much better lives in Europe... than with their parents who have been lied to (ie: your children are just going to school!) so their children could be sold 2500â ($4000) to French families. The same families that would gladly defend anti-Islam cartoons (I would defend those cartoons too, but the difference is that I would defend them without thinking that they are somehow right, and most people in Europe weren't very unsettled by those cartoons, and didn't defend them out of respect for free speech, but out of xenophobia.)
new brand of Islam theologists seems to me about the most interesting thinkers that Europe produces at the moment.
And I really despise the post colonialism that Danish cartoons or such display, it makes me plain sick.
Yeah, you're certainly wrong. China opened up reports on the event because they HAVE FINALLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOOSE BY DOING SO. They are not fucking Burma or Zimbabwe like Reporter Sans FrontiÃres, this CIA puppet, would like the liberal hippy tree hugging type in us to believe. They are actually more opened than we imagine, and their government has much less power than we imagine. And most of what we criticize the Chinese government for is more often than not what Chinese people would do anyway if they could vote for it.
I can't believe one second that you're German. As a French living in Arras, town that was on the frontline of both wars, I can tell you that you're disgusting me..
One of the few things I know of my grand-grand-father is that he had drank his pee while defending his country from (probably) your grand grand father? This war was terrible. Millions died, not least by the incompetency of the generals, and on both sides soldiers did their duty to the end in the most horrific conditions. No one could live the battlefront with any sanity left. Don't talk me about being taken over, because we didn't fail despite contrary odds, and thanks to the US and English and Canadian and Australian help.
When came the second world war, with the generals having made more or less the same errors as before ww1, I can understand that people only wanted to avoid a second tranch war. Actually, given that my small town of birth (Saint Laurent Blangy) was flattened (higher wall left after the war in the whole town: 1 meter) during ww1, my grand mother told me many times how women and children alike thrown themselves on the roads as soon as they knew ww2 was coming. This was an exodus to the south.
"The biggest enemy to free speech can sometimes simply be too much noise."
We've got a lot more noise today than 5 centuries ago, but I still believe that free speech is better exercised in our "noise ratio" invaded period than in feudal times. Am I wrong, in which case your sentence wouldn't be so Orwellian? or am I right and "too much noise" is a good reasoning for Talibans and the Chinese government, but doesn't make any GOOD sense here, where the blogs (and assimilated, because I don't read "blogs" per se, but it's a good term for the Internet information channels) are a factual economic enemy of traditional news outlet thanks to their reactivity and lack of affiliations with big industries?
"Broadband is too cheap, it's obvious that when you reduce ADSL to a low price comparable to dialup that the price becomes unsustainable if people are using lots of bandwidth."
- I know of a company which makes a lot of money, its called Iliad Free-telecom - the client pays 30â euros a month - gets uncapped connection up to around 20mbps (only limit is how far you are from the dslam,) free phone to 70 countries - dozen of gigabytes personally used a month up and down (musician here, exchanging large files, downloading US shows to improve my English, porn to improve my... woops, etc) -IPTV (to your tv or pc screen, tivo functionalities included for free with the adsl set top box hard drive, or thanks to software mods if tv is played on the pc,) around 2 to 8mbps stream depending on several factors (3.5mbps for normal connection and non high def channels) - 30â a month - 30â a month - 30â a month
Ok maybe i'm missing something. Maybe that in France we don't have as much broadband users as the average, but I can say you that I know plenty of people (family and friends) who use IPTV for its quality and convenience (it comes free with ADSL, why paying for anything else?)
Honestly, from my non specialist point of view, but looking at how much bandwidth me and my pals use on average (only 3,5mbps IPTV can amount to a lot if you're looking at the average 4 hours a day of TV [which I don't but I have other heavy uses]) I just can't see any serious problem surfacing before FTTH, and then, well...
All message boards happen in a void except Wikipedia.
Besides, not only Wikipedia but Internet, you're right, is a large message board.
Who's delusional enough to be surprised ?
Wikipedia is like other Encyclopedias a large message board, we got it. Now what, the Earth is just a large planet ? your brain is just a watery mass ?
Yeah, even from Europe 3mbps seems like a (bad) joke. I mean, here you pay 29 and have the maximum speed available for your line (until fiber arrives, soon.) My line is 17 mbps down, in a small town of 40,000. I'm watching hours of high quality IPTV a day on my widescreen while Utorrent brings me the daily show or other niceties at 500kbps.
And I can only think of the explanation that we don't have anything close to the world sized powerhouse that Hollywood is, and I think that's why Internet speeds and service have not been seriously throttled like they are in the US.
Also, spreading out the distribution costs on the users lessens/removes the need to actually have to charge the users for that same distribution.
I'm watching IPTV free of charge right now. Like several million other users here, with their set top boxes that have all TIVO functionalities and more, like having their own TV channels to broadcast whatever (really whatever) they want (thanks to a hard drive and quality encoding unit in the set top box.) If I missed my favorite program (let's be honest: few programs, mostly informative programs, are available for free in VOD, but those are my favorite so I'm happy,) I can have running it two clicks in my IPTV client, a user made VLC mod. My uncapped (speed and total used bandwidth) ADSL line costs 29 a month, unique price. TV and phone just go with it for free, thats triple play. No one ever heard of problems with bandwidth, actually my ISP has the most power users of all and makes a healthy profit, enough to invest billions of euros (which makes about some googlions of dollars?) in FTTH. This is not the future, this is two years ago.
In a few words: I'm pretty sure that countries that technically and financially could but don't have highly functional IPTV already are not in this situation because of 'bandwidth costs', but because of different Internet distribution schemes that are mainly aimed at pleasing the big content providers and the incompetent dinosaurs that are the telcos of the 20th century. Consumers there are simply being riped of. But well, given that the average American is certainly richer than the average Frenchman, we'll keep it our little secret.
I too have not heard of bandwidth issue with our ADSL infrastructure yet in France, despite being one of the prominent IPTV market with millions of users. Anyway, our main IPTV carrier is investing billions in FTTP in the next years.
cold hard cash into preventative measures to keep my own Microsoft OS's from being hijacked by any asshat on the Internet
I've a free version of Sygate + AVG free and yet to have my computer hijacked by anything. I am missing something ?
Why are Britons turning into a bunch of craven pussy chickenshits (for lack of a better word)?
Because that's what also happens to their cousins from the other side of the Atlantic ? patriot act ? Irak war ? border fence ?
Second I was involved in tv project in an EU country. They could have purchased out software for $8000 a copy so there total cost would have been under $100,000. Instead they spent six million dollars to write their own. It didn't work so they paid us to come over there and tell them what they did wrong. I think we made more money than if they had just bought the software to start with.
So I would put that down to "We will see."
The world's most successful IPTV carrier is European, and until now "has built its profitable business by developing its own technology (IPTV middleware, DSL equipment)".
At the same time the personality cult around Soviet or Chinese leaders seems closer to religious spirit than to any rationalist approach.
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"Micro-transactions aren't as popular here because they tend to give an advantage to people with more money."
Wouldn't be micro transactions the cheaper solution in the end ?
Right now, while writing, I'm watching a daily information TV show that I missed yesterday, which is a service provided by my ISP (and of course several important broadcasters). Free high quality IPTV and VOD (free as "included in the $45 up-to-20mbps ADSL line, free phone to 50 countries") are pretty much standard by now on usual ADSL2 lines, thanks mainly to a start up ISP (named Iliad-Free) which has an almost geeky understanding of technology, a talent for breakthrough innovations, a major use of open sources solutions (and which had a great start when the government decided that the major traditional operators had to lend lines at correct prices years ago.. by now the new ISP have developed their own . If that makes anyone think of some huge search engine business in the US, that's the feeling I wanted to convey. Also:
In a move that could be replicated elsewhere, French telecommunications operator Iliad will soon allow its subscribers to make free wireless VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) calls over their own and other people's phone lines. Iliad's broadband subsidiary, Free, introduced an upgraded modem, the Freebox HD, on Thursday, adding a high-speed Wi-Fi connection, support for HDTV (high-definition television) delivered over an IP connection and the ability to make Wi-Fi phone calls with an appropriate handset. http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/04/21/77650_HNfrenchroamingwifi_1.html
Well, all this to say: may Google be following a similar path ? which is one of integration of TV-Internet-Phone to the point of indiferentiation, with numerous downward and upward services, in the best way available... here through ADSL landlines, there maybe through.. a "4.6 billion open wireless Internet" ?
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"For a westerner that might be hard to fathom"
/. westerner maybe. For reasonable westerners who realize how much we own to China and how quickly Chinese way of life evolves toward the better, there's no doubt that there are many far worse countries in the world, and that US allies are half of them.
For a gentrified
But wouldn't they prefer to live in great countries with no issues? why wouldn't Chinese woman live in that great US ally, Saudi Arabia? why wouldn't any Chinese exchange it's (relatively caring) government for the (terribly flawed) democracy of that other US ally, Pakistan? and isn't live sweet for homosexuals in that last great friend (it's what money tells), Egypt?
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Oh, wait, it's China! how dare they be happy! and develop themselves! when they already were very nasty... yes... nasty.. all they did it divise by two the price of all tech related products! bad Chinese!
Fuck you
It's more a bunch of anti-Chinese whiners who never lose a moment to embarrass the rest of us. The China cares for its people more than US allies (ever heard of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia????) and that many 'democracies'. Chinese way of life is changing a lot more than many other countries such as democratic India. /. is pathetic these days.
And I'm not Chinese, I'm French, and bothered by the San-Fransisco-Paris axis of hypocrisy and self righteousness.
Well obviously it isn't since there was already interesting posts on /., weeks ago, that mostly destroyed the idea that the Chinese state could monitor a sizable part of its population. Because the Chinese government is not as all powerful that the anti-Chinese occidental liberals (the kind that live in San Fransisco or Paris, I know quite a few of them here we call them "bo-bo", as "bohemian bourgois", young people who live comfortably who can buy Chinese and slam China over Tibet in the same breath.. in short, hypocrites.)
So yeah, if you're a bobo, of course you will like such articles a lot and find them great journalism. It's just that it actually isn't.
"High tech polic state ready for export," wow, not sensationalist at all.. and so true! exept it's mostly wrong, because a police state would have to... actually work. And China is nowhere as closed as the politically correct people would want us to believe.
This article is so poor it hurts.
I'm looking all of my videos in English with English subtitles (French speaking) and certainly doesn't have to complain about it. Works as intended. Never had any ugly subtitle or any unreadable one, but it's maybe because I have a rather large screen.
As a side note, I receive my HD-IPTV thanks to a VLC enabled set top box, and it's pretty much the most rocking IPTV service in the world at the moment (at least according to specialized sites like Lightreading.)
"(*) Given the popularity of using pedos to justify every ludicrous measure, if this isn't the reason being given in public, then it sure as hell isn't the true reason either."
They maybe don't want to see "pedos" and "brand-x amusement park" in the same sentence, for some reason.
Your solution is to keep the same system, to make governments and big companies happy because for '12 months' it's just the same shit as today, and then you remove the property from the author. Who will benefit of that, niche musicians? or the same big companies and government?
I thought so, thanks for playing though.
I know that my opinion is unpopular:
Eurabia will probably not happen, but Europe is in for a difficult ride, and I'm rather on the side of progressive Islam, and rather pro-Shariah like an high ranked English Church man also is (in the same amount that I'm ok when very Christian people obeying to their Church in matters of marriage or such which is just like Shariah, and i rather like Tarek Ramadan for example,) and against remnants of "colonialist humanism", this same "humanism" which still make "good" people go in Africa steal children to their parents because they will have a so much better lives in Europe... than with their parents who have been lied to (ie: your children are just going to school!) so their children could be sold 2500â ($4000) to French families. The same families that would gladly defend anti-Islam cartoons (I would defend those cartoons too, but the difference is that I would defend them without thinking that they are somehow right, and most people in Europe weren't very unsettled by those cartoons, and didn't defend them out of respect for free speech, but out of xenophobia.)
new brand of Islam theologists seems to me about the most interesting thinkers that Europe produces at the moment.
And I really despise the post colonialism that Danish cartoons or such display, it makes me plain sick.
Yeah, you're certainly wrong. China opened up reports on the event because they HAVE FINALLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOOSE BY DOING SO. They are not fucking Burma or Zimbabwe like Reporter Sans FrontiÃres, this CIA puppet, would like the liberal hippy tree hugging type in us to believe. They are actually more opened than we imagine, and their government has much less power than we imagine. And most of what we criticize the Chinese government for is more often than not what Chinese people would do anyway if they could vote for it.
I can't believe one second that you're German. As a French living in Arras, town that was on the frontline of both wars, I can tell you that you're disgusting me..
One of the few things I know of my grand-grand-father is that he had drank his pee while defending his country from (probably) your grand grand father? This war was terrible. Millions died, not least by the incompetency of the generals, and on both sides soldiers did their duty to the end in the most horrific conditions. No one could live the battlefront with any sanity left. Don't talk me about being taken over, because we didn't fail despite contrary odds, and thanks to the US and English and Canadian and Australian help.
When came the second world war, with the generals having made more or less the same errors as before ww1, I can understand that people only wanted to avoid a second tranch war. Actually, given that my small town of birth (Saint Laurent Blangy) was flattened (higher wall left after the war in the whole town: 1 meter) during ww1, my grand mother told me many times how women and children alike thrown themselves on the roads as soon as they knew ww2 was coming. This was an exodus to the south.
http://images.google.com/images?q=arras%20ruines%20guerre&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enFR258FR258&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
ps: let's hope you don't keep other funny ideas in your "German psyche / German blood".
pps: yeah for Europe.
"The biggest enemy to free speech can sometimes simply be too much noise."
We've got a lot more noise today than 5 centuries ago, but I still believe that free speech is better exercised in our "noise ratio" invaded period than in feudal times. Am I wrong, in which case your sentence wouldn't be so Orwellian? or am I right and "too much noise" is a good reasoning for Talibans and the Chinese government, but doesn't make any GOOD sense here, where the blogs (and assimilated, because I don't read "blogs" per se, but it's a good term for the Internet information channels) are a factual economic enemy of traditional news outlet thanks to their reactivity and lack of affiliations with big industries?
anonymous French coward
Related reading: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=142594
"Broadband is too cheap, it's obvious that when you reduce ADSL to a low price comparable to dialup that the price becomes unsustainable if people are using lots of bandwidth."
- I know of a company which makes a lot of money, its called Iliad Free-telecom
- the client pays 30â euros a month
- gets uncapped connection up to around 20mbps (only limit is how far you are from the dslam,) free phone to 70 countries
- dozen of gigabytes personally used a month up and down (musician here, exchanging large files, downloading US shows to improve my English, porn to improve my... woops, etc)
-IPTV (to your tv or pc screen, tivo functionalities included for free with the adsl set top box hard drive, or thanks to software mods if tv is played on the pc,) around 2 to 8mbps stream depending on several factors (3.5mbps for normal connection and non high def channels)
- 30â a month
- 30â a month
- 30â a month
Ok maybe i'm missing something. Maybe that in France we don't have as much broadband users as the average, but I can say you that I know plenty of people (family and friends) who use IPTV for its quality and convenience (it comes free with ADSL, why paying for anything else?)
Honestly, from my non specialist point of view, but looking at how much bandwidth me and my pals use on average (only 3,5mbps IPTV can amount to a lot if you're looking at the average 4 hours a day of TV [which I don't but I have other heavy uses]) I just can't see any serious problem surfacing before FTTH, and then, well...
All message boards happen in a void except Wikipedia.
Besides, not only Wikipedia but Internet, you're right, is a large message board.
Who's delusional enough to be surprised ?
Wikipedia is like other Encyclopedias a large message board, we got it. Now what, the Earth is just a large planet ? your brain is just a watery mass ?
Yeah, even from Europe 3mbps seems like a (bad) joke. I mean, here you pay 29 and have the maximum speed available for your line (until fiber arrives, soon.) My line is 17 mbps down, in a small town of 40,000. I'm watching hours of high quality IPTV a day on my widescreen while Utorrent brings me the daily show or other niceties at 500kbps.
And I can only think of the explanation that we don't have anything close to the world sized powerhouse that Hollywood is, and I think that's why Internet speeds and service have not been seriously throttled like they are in the US.
I'm watching IPTV free of charge right now. Like several million other users here, with their set top boxes that have all TIVO functionalities and more, like having their own TV channels to broadcast whatever (really whatever) they want (thanks to a hard drive and quality encoding unit in the set top box.) If I missed my favorite program (let's be honest: few programs, mostly informative programs, are available for free in VOD, but those are my favorite so I'm happy,) I can have running it two clicks in my IPTV client, a user made VLC mod. My uncapped (speed and total used bandwidth) ADSL line costs 29 a month, unique price. TV and phone just go with it for free, thats triple play. No one ever heard of problems with bandwidth, actually my ISP has the most power users of all and makes a healthy profit, enough to invest billions of euros (which makes about some googlions of dollars?) in FTTH. This is not the future, this is two years ago.
In a few words: I'm pretty sure that countries that technically and financially could but don't have highly functional IPTV already are not in this situation because of 'bandwidth costs', but because of different Internet distribution schemes that are mainly aimed at pleasing the big content providers and the incompetent dinosaurs that are the telcos of the 20th century. Consumers there are simply being riped of. But well, given that the average American is certainly richer than the average Frenchman, we'll keep it our little secret.
I too have not heard of bandwidth issue with our ADSL infrastructure yet in France, despite being one of the prominent IPTV market with millions of users. Anyway, our main IPTV carrier is investing billions in FTTP in the next years.
I've a free version of Sygate + AVG free and yet to have my computer hijacked by anything. I am missing something ?
Because that's what also happens to their cousins from the other side of the Atlantic ? patriot act ? Irak war ? border fence ?
I heard the Cuban exiles had one of the most powerful lobby in the US. But when was the last vote you had against the embargo ?
The world's most successful IPTV carrier is European, and until now "has built its profitable business by developing its own technology (IPTV middleware, DSL equipment)".
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=142594&page_number=11
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2006/prod_120306f.html
At the same time the personality cult around Soviet or Chinese leaders seems closer to religious spirit than to any rationalist approach.
"Micro-transactions aren't as popular here because they tend to give an advantage to people with more money." Wouldn't be micro transactions the cheaper solution in the end ?
"It also results in religious laws like Sharia and the Inquisition"
You don't have to go back in time to find religious courts having real power in western countries.