I doubt anyone really wants to deprive law enforcement of any tools used to truly catch criminals, but we want to make sure the there is judicial oversight involved. If you don't have enough probable cause to get a warrant, then all you are doing is fishing. Once you invest the human time and effort into obtaining probable cause and a warrant, then use GPS to your heart's content!
Oh, I forget to mention, there are only 2 ways for a government to "create" jobs:
1. Spend money and expand existing programs.
2. Spend money and create new government programs.
They can also encourage the private sector to create new jobs by using incentives, but those aren't guaranteed to work. We saw how a lot of those programs have worked over the years.
Gov: hey, you get a break on your taxes if you promise to hire people.
CEO: Thanks, we'll sure try to! We really really promise to try!
Gov: Pinky swear??
CEO: Sure!!...time passes....
Gov: Umm, you didn't hire anyone....
CEO: I said I'd try, not that I would actually do it!!! BTW, have you seen the size of my bonus this year? Coincidentally enough, it's the same amount that you gave us last year to hire people!
Yeah, I've thought the same thing for a long while. From 1995 to 2007 we had an Republican majority in both houses of Congress, a largely Republican SCOTUS, and for 6 of those years a Republican President. They set us up for failure with deregulation of the banking and housing industries and they went to war with no plan at all to pay for it (Every other war in US history was paid for by raising taxes and every war was followed by a recession).
Why would people trust them to get us out of this mess? Why are they worried about fiscal policy when
Am I the only one who is still relatively happy with Netflix? When I can't watch a show or movie on streaming, I just watch one of the other hundreds of items in my queue. I find myself not caring if something is "recent" or not. I pretty much only watch 2-3 movies a year in the theater, rent about 1 or 2 every couple of months on Redbox, and wait for the rest to hit Netflix DVD or Streaming.
Really, no movie or TV show is so mind blowing that I can't wait a while to watch it....
They probably mean simpler in that the sheer volume of data makes a rat model easier to work with than a human model, even for a supercomputer. I worked on a project about 15 years ago where the scientists who were studying the effects of certain types of microwave radiation used a low resolution (5mm) rat model for their daily test runs, a higher resolution (1mm) rat model for more complex runs (2-3 days), and a low-res human model for certain runs. The low-res human runs took weeks on a seriously-beefy-for-the-time system, but would usually crash at some point, and the high-res model would have taken months to finish.
We set them up with a 12-node beowulf cluster and helped them parallelize their computations, and then they were able to finally complete their runs without them crashing and within acceptable amounts of time.
You realize that Google Voice uses actual phone minutes, right? There is a data connection as well, but your voice traffic goes over the regular voice stream. GV is a free service, but it doesn't replace the voice dialer on the phone, it replaces the carrier's voicemail and text messaging features.
Wrong, this is exact same music locker that Amazon created. I upload music that I have (presumably) purchased to a shared bit of storage that is (virtually) dedicated to me, and then I listen to *my* copy of the song using the webapp or the mobile apps provided, just like Amazon. If I and 10,000 other people upload the same song, then there will be 10,000 other copies of that song (probably with different bit rates, encoding, etc), each licensed to one user.
MP3.com ripped thousands of CD's, asked users "what CD's do you have?" and if the song that the user had matched the one they had, then they played that user copy a copy of the song that MP3.com was licensed. That's why the RIAA slammed them, since they didn't have the rights to re-distribute their copy of the song to their customers.
The one thing that Google doesn't have that Amazon (or the ephemeral iCloud) has is the ability to buy a song and transfer it straight into the cloud. I imagine the iCloud service would work the same way that Amazon's service does. I've bought about 10 CD's since the Amazon Cloud Player came out and I love that feature.
They don't finance the campaigns, the fans of that project do. It's that simple. They provide the framework, the artist themselves try to drum up support for their own project, and if the campaign isn't fully funded by the end date of the campaign, no one gets charged any money at all.
A friend financed his latest album via Kickstarter, set a target for $2500 and ended up with over $4000!! He was able to record the album, get proper artwork, distribution, etc... and in return everyone who donated received prizes in addition to the pre-ordered album.
I wonder if Kickstarter went with Amazon because Paypal may not have the concept of a delayed payment. Essentially what you do with Kickstarter is escrow a contribution until the "critical mass" of contributions is reached within the time frame of the campaign, and only then is everyone's credit card actually charged. Kickstarter could do that themselves (charge at donation time, refund if critical mass is never reached), but then they get into a gray area of accounting for that escrowed money themselves, dealing with returns (which incur fees), etc..
Did you actually read his post? He said *IF* the first mod you ever ran across was for Fallout 3, *THEN* you missed out on a lot, UT, Quake, Doom, etc...
Aternatively, Netflix could use some of their billions to pay MS to create a mini-port of Silverlight to Android sufficient to play the videos. Porting their existing video player seems to have worked fine for Adobe with Flash. That would be pretty easy and would include the DRM bits that the content providers want.
And Perry is just continuing the bad practices that Bush started. 16 years of Bush + Perry is way too long. I really hope we can elect a governor next time with the ability to fix all the crap that these two have created, especially in the education area. I love how he was acting all smug about how well Texas was handling the recession a year ago, and now he's cutting education at an even more alarming rate than ever. School districts all over the state are cutting hundreds of jobs in order to overcome multi-billion dollar shortfalls each.
Oh, and he used $11 million in TARP money (i.e. your taxes) to repair the Governor's Mansion after the fire in 2009. If we were doing so well, why did Texas use Federal money to repair the state Governor's Mansion?? And why is he STILL living in a "rental mansion" that costs taxpayers $10,000 a month and as of a year ago had cost $600,000 in taxpayer money? In 2000 as governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee lived in a triple wide trailer while his home was being renovated and he had nothing close to the the budget problems in that state: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=123041&page=2
My thoughts exactly. While there are no simple solutions for complex problems, the only way that we will get out of this is a combination of cuts and taxes. Get serious and roll back the tax cuts to pre-Bush levels as well as an across the board 10% reduction on ALL programs from the smallest to the largest (SS, Military, etc) and I might have some respect for the "TEA Partiers".
Small-time player in digital music? They're about the biggest that there is, with the exception of Apple's iTunes store.
I agree with the Kindle thing. The problem is the e-books are like crack. It's way too easy to finish a book and say, "well, I could go to Half-Price Books tomorrow and get the next one in the series, or I could just get it instantly from the Kindle Store".
Neilsen gets the raw data from the cable companies on when shows are watched and even when you DVR something to watch it later. Neilsen isn't the "send out the TV diary to Neilsen families and collate the results" anymore.
Umm, you realize that NAFTA was signed by George Bush 1 month prior to Clinton taking office, right? And that Clinton was just honoring the agreements and treaties already signed, right?
Don't let facts get in the way of your delusions, now.
For the (hopefully) last time, THEY ARE NOT KEEPING ANYTHING SECRET. They are just providing the backports and bug fixes to their kernel as one big patched tarball instead of as a vanilla kernel with a series of possibly dozens of small patches that have to be applied in a certain order. That's it! Nothing will change for anyone except Oracle. Redhat is still within their rights to do this, Oracle is still within their rights to piggyback their "Unbreakable Linux" off of Redhat, they just have to work a tiny bit harder on it if they want to back out any of the changes that Redhat made to the kernel.
The Linux kernel doesn't belong to you or me or "the community", it belongs to the copyright holders, with Linus as the arbiter of their rights. Redhat isn't closing the source or keeping anything secret, you've misunderstood both how Redhat works and also how the GPL works.
Nothing in the GPL says that you can't make money directly from GPL'ed software. You're free to take any GPL'ed software, compile it, put it on a CD, and sell it as-is. In fact, that is how Redhat and a lot of others got started. What you can't do is take credit yourself for all of this software (you must attribute the copyright holders) and you can't provide binaries without providing the source as well, including your changes. You also pass along the same rights you have when selling GPL'ed software, which is why CentOS and Scientific Linux can download the source RPM's for RHEL from Redhat and run them through a build script that changes the Redhat logo to something else, builds all of the free bits (about 99% of the distro).
Actually, Redhat could go one step further, and instead of providing the source RPM's to everyone, they could just put them on the DVD with the OS and not make them freely downloadable. They only have to provide source to their customers, not the general public. They know the anyone could buy a DVD and repost the source RPM's, so they just go ahead and make them available to everyone.
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I doubt anyone really wants to deprive law enforcement of any tools used to truly catch criminals, but we want to make sure the there is judicial oversight involved. If you don't have enough probable cause to get a warrant, then all you are doing is fishing. Once you invest the human time and effort into obtaining probable cause and a warrant, then use GPS to your heart's content!
I watched it on streaming just last week....
Oh, I forget to mention, there are only 2 ways for a government to "create" jobs:
1. Spend money and expand existing programs.
2. Spend money and create new government programs.
They can also encourage the private sector to create new jobs by using incentives, but those aren't guaranteed to work. We saw how a lot of those programs have worked over the years.
Gov: hey, you get a break on your taxes if you promise to hire people.
CEO: Thanks, we'll sure try to! We really really promise to try!
Gov: Pinky swear??
CEO: Sure!! ...time passes....
Gov: Umm, you didn't hire anyone....
CEO: I said I'd try, not that I would actually do it!!! BTW, have you seen the size of my bonus this year? Coincidentally enough, it's the same amount that you gave us last year to hire people!
Yeah, I've thought the same thing for a long while. From 1995 to 2007 we had an Republican majority in both houses of Congress, a largely Republican SCOTUS, and for 6 of those years a Republican President. They set us up for failure with deregulation of the banking and housing industries and they went to war with no plan at all to pay for it (Every other war in US history was paid for by raising taxes and every war was followed by a recession).
Why would people trust them to get us out of this mess? Why are they worried about fiscal policy when
Am I the only one who is still relatively happy with Netflix? When I can't watch a show or movie on streaming, I just watch one of the other hundreds of items in my queue. I find myself not caring if something is "recent" or not. I pretty much only watch 2-3 movies a year in the theater, rent about 1 or 2 every couple of months on Redbox, and wait for the rest to hit Netflix DVD or Streaming.
Really, no movie or TV show is so mind blowing that I can't wait a while to watch it....
They probably mean simpler in that the sheer volume of data makes a rat model easier to work with than a human model, even for a supercomputer. I worked on a project about 15 years ago where the scientists who were studying the effects of certain types of microwave radiation used a low resolution (5mm) rat model for their daily test runs, a higher resolution (1mm) rat model for more complex runs (2-3 days), and a low-res human model for certain runs. The low-res human runs took weeks on a seriously-beefy-for-the-time system, but would usually crash at some point, and the high-res model would have taken months to finish.
We set them up with a 12-node beowulf cluster and helped them parallelize their computations, and then they were able to finally complete their runs without them crashing and within acceptable amounts of time.
Torchlight isn't open source but it is a damn fine dungeon crawl.
I joined in 1999 so assuming UIDs were given out sequential order...
It's definitely the right era though.
I guess I was an old fart already in 1999.
Git off my lawn!!
You realize that Google Voice uses actual phone minutes, right? There is a data connection as well, but your voice traffic goes over the regular voice stream. GV is a free service, but it doesn't replace the voice dialer on the phone, it replaces the carrier's voicemail and text messaging features.
Wrong, this is exact same music locker that Amazon created. I upload music that I have (presumably) purchased to a shared bit of storage that is (virtually) dedicated to me, and then I listen to *my* copy of the song using the webapp or the mobile apps provided, just like Amazon. If I and 10,000 other people upload the same song, then there will be 10,000 other copies of that song (probably with different bit rates, encoding, etc), each licensed to one user.
MP3.com ripped thousands of CD's, asked users "what CD's do you have?" and if the song that the user had matched the one they had, then they played that user copy a copy of the song that MP3.com was licensed. That's why the RIAA slammed them, since they didn't have the rights to re-distribute their copy of the song to their customers.
The one thing that Google doesn't have that Amazon (or the ephemeral iCloud) has is the ability to buy a song and transfer it straight into the cloud. I imagine the iCloud service would work the same way that Amazon's service does. I've bought about 10 CD's since the Amazon Cloud Player came out and I love that feature.
They don't finance the campaigns, the fans of that project do. It's that simple. They provide the framework, the artist themselves try to drum up support for their own project, and if the campaign isn't fully funded by the end date of the campaign, no one gets charged any money at all.
A friend financed his latest album via Kickstarter, set a target for $2500 and ended up with over $4000!! He was able to record the album, get proper artwork, distribution, etc... and in return everyone who donated received prizes in addition to the pre-ordered album.
I wonder if Kickstarter went with Amazon because Paypal may not have the concept of a delayed payment. Essentially what you do with Kickstarter is escrow a contribution until the "critical mass" of contributions is reached within the time frame of the campaign, and only then is everyone's credit card actually charged. Kickstarter could do that themselves (charge at donation time, refund if critical mass is never reached), but then they get into a gray area of accounting for that escrowed money themselves, dealing with returns (which incur fees), etc..
That seems more like Don Sideshow's proposed ultimatum to OPEC.
Did you actually read his post? He said *IF* the first mod you ever ran across was for Fallout 3, *THEN* you missed out on a lot, UT, Quake, Doom, etc...
Aternatively, Netflix could use some of their billions to pay MS to create a mini-port of Silverlight to Android sufficient to play the videos. Porting their existing video player seems to have worked fine for Adobe with Flash. That would be pretty easy and would include the DRM bits that the content providers want.
And Perry is just continuing the bad practices that Bush started. 16 years of Bush + Perry is way too long. I really hope we can elect a governor next time with the ability to fix all the crap that these two have created, especially in the education area. I love how he was acting all smug about how well Texas was handling the recession a year ago, and now he's cutting education at an even more alarming rate than ever. School districts all over the state are cutting hundreds of jobs in order to overcome multi-billion dollar shortfalls each.
Oh, and he used $11 million in TARP money (i.e. your taxes) to repair the Governor's Mansion after the fire in 2009. If we were doing so well, why did Texas use Federal money to repair the state Governor's Mansion?? And why is he STILL living in a "rental mansion" that costs taxpayers $10,000 a month and as of a year ago had cost $600,000 in taxpayer money? In 2000 as governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee lived in a triple wide trailer while his home was being renovated and he had nothing close to the the budget problems in that state: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=123041&page=2
My thoughts exactly. While there are no simple solutions for complex problems, the only way that we will get out of this is a combination of cuts and taxes. Get serious and roll back the tax cuts to pre-Bush levels as well as an across the board 10% reduction on ALL programs from the smallest to the largest (SS, Military, etc) and I might have some respect for the "TEA Partiers".
Common sense. I wish it were more common.
Small-time player in digital music? They're about the biggest that there is, with the exception of Apple's iTunes store.
I agree with the Kindle thing. The problem is the e-books are like crack. It's way too easy to finish a book and say, "well, I could go to Half-Price Books tomorrow and get the next one in the series, or I could just get it instantly from the Kindle Store".
Two things I've learned working at a University:
1) Students will complain about anything.
2) Faculty will complain more than students.
Time Warner is *not* providing the shows via the Internet, but through the same infrastructure that their customers already are watching the shows.
In the real world:
TW Cable -> TW DVR
is the same to me as:
TW Cable -> TW modem -> TW iPad app
Neilsen gets the raw data from the cable companies on when shows are watched and even when you DVR something to watch it later. Neilsen isn't the "send out the TV diary to Neilsen families and collate the results" anymore.
Umm, you realize that NAFTA was signed by George Bush 1 month prior to Clinton taking office, right? And that Clinton was just honoring the agreements and treaties already signed, right?
Don't let facts get in the way of your delusions, now.
For the (hopefully) last time, THEY ARE NOT KEEPING ANYTHING SECRET. They are just providing the backports and bug fixes to their kernel as one big patched tarball instead of as a vanilla kernel with a series of possibly dozens of small patches that have to be applied in a certain order. That's it! Nothing will change for anyone except Oracle. Redhat is still within their rights to do this, Oracle is still within their rights to piggyback their "Unbreakable Linux" off of Redhat, they just have to work a tiny bit harder on it if they want to back out any of the changes that Redhat made to the kernel.
Mine's smaller, heh heh heh.
The Linux kernel doesn't belong to you or me or "the community", it belongs to the copyright holders, with Linus as the arbiter of their rights. Redhat isn't closing the source or keeping anything secret, you've misunderstood both how Redhat works and also how the GPL works.
Nothing in the GPL says that you can't make money directly from GPL'ed software. You're free to take any GPL'ed software, compile it, put it on a CD, and sell it as-is. In fact, that is how Redhat and a lot of others got started. What you can't do is take credit yourself for all of this software (you must attribute the copyright holders) and you can't provide binaries without providing the source as well, including your changes. You also pass along the same rights you have when selling GPL'ed software, which is why CentOS and Scientific Linux can download the source RPM's for RHEL from Redhat and run them through a build script that changes the Redhat logo to something else, builds all of the free bits (about 99% of the distro).
Actually, Redhat could go one step further, and instead of providing the source RPM's to everyone, they could just put them on the DVD with the OS and not make them freely downloadable. They only have to provide source to their customers, not the general public. They know the anyone could buy a DVD and repost the source RPM's, so they just go ahead and make them available to everyone.