For any other time or country this same audience would be applauding these particular rules being ignored especially the draconian music rule. It has become increasingly popular to side against the US no matter what the cause.
I've seen some of the same people applauding countries ignoring intellectual property rules. Specifically when it has to do with DVDs and pirating.
I really don't like the idea of the US being in the WTO anyway since I like the idea of having sovereign authority over our own actions and trade. Hate Bush and the government all you like, just do it over something more reasonable than this.
I agree 100%. Eventually all sprinters would have their legs surgically removed and replaced with high performance prosthetics. If we are going to allow this guy to race I say go ahead and let everyone have the option. They can put specs on the prosthetics that limit the materials or the mechanical design much like car racing.
At that point we would have lots of cyborg runners.
I agree they should have offered the laptop to the general public from day one. I don't agree that it's to late to do so now though. There is an untapped market of people that would like to use these as cheap ebook readers. Since they have low power usage and are usable in the sunlight, they could be used as a decent book readers.
I do wish they would offer them in a different color scheme, say basic black. I don't see a whole lot of non-geeks carrying around a white and lime green laptop that looks like a childs toy.
I agree, copyright was never intended to be for the benefit of authors it was to enrich the public domain.
Copyright for the lifetime of the author + 70 years makes many works obsolete before they enter the public domain. By extending copyright congress is stealing from the public. The public/government provides protection to authors in return after a limited amount of time the work enters public domain. By extending copyright to the life of the author + 70 years everyone that was alive during the release of a given piece will be dead before it gets put in public domain. That's like entering a contract job and then having them tell you they will be glad to pay your children after you are dead.
This is perfect. Soon the vegans will realize that plant lives have just as much value as their own. They will have to quit eating plants and die of starvation.
10 inches. Back in the old days the carpenters didn't document that a foot=12 inches and obviously since we have 10 fingers a foot must be equal to 10 inches.
Imagine what that means for car manufactures when we measure mpg for fuel efficiency on cars a mile should actually be 880ft shorter then it really is. That's about 16% shorter. Imagine if car companies could claim by the same logic that cars are 16% more fuel efficient then they really are.
Even the article states that you are losing 10% of the capacity you would expect. I think 10% is significant enough to complain about.
The author at one point in the article says that operating systems have historically not documented how size is counted. Like the engineers at a drive manufacturing company aren't smart enough to know that if you calculate a kilobyte in base 2 you are going to calculate a megabyte, or gigabyte in base 2.
Yes if you are smarter then your average computer user, which is to say smarter then a really dumb rock you should know that what's reported on a drive is not the actuall size.
It still hacks me off. It's like a soda manufacturer deciding it's ok to redefine an ounce so that they can claim that their drink is larger then it is or just use a smaller container and claim it's still the same size.
Does it matter, yes and it will matter more as storage capacity increases.
If you use a computer it does all calculations in binary, it only makes sense for the capacity of the drive to be calculated in binary.
I will agree that the Zaurus is not for everyone, but I don't think that anyone who could use one running microsoft's pocket PC, would really have any trouble with the zaurus.
I've never had to reset my for anything but I haven't had it that long so I already have the newest ROM.
Syncing with windows was easy, I will admit syncing with Linux was a bitch. But try to get an IPAQ to sync to linux without switching from Pocket pc to linux.
I don't use the zaurus for the same things you do. I mainly use it to read books, listen to music, keep track of contacts, and take short notes.
I agree great toy, but I would recommend it to most of the people I know.:)
>"I love my Zaurus but I can't imagine it being >useful for most people."
I really have to reply to this. I've used some of the microsoft pdas and they aren't bad, but I wouldn't trade my zaurus for any of them. Many, not all or even most, but many PDA users are technically adept.
Anyone that wants to have a really cool, very useful toy would love the zaurus.
I have one and I assure you that anyone could use it for the tasks that most people use pdas for. For the people with a little more technical skill they are great.
"The moment those bands become popular (even though if their music didn't change and/or become more mainstream), the fans reject them because they have "sold out to the mainstream" or some other crap like that."
Totally untrue. Most of the time these bands produce one record that fits their old style then fall to the hype from the record companies. The record companies will say, "hey, change this and you'll sell a couple hundred thousand more albums", or "Let's sound more like band X so that we can reach a wider audience."
When a band changes just to sell more records, forgetting the fans that got them to the point they are at is, when the band sells out. Sometimes the bands just change as the members get older. But any fan can tell the difference when a band starts "selling out".
I just wanted to ask what made you decide change the Xanth novels from "serious fantasy", to the way they are today. By serious fantasy I'm talking about fantasy with a semi-serious story line, like the first Xanth novel. The first book seemed fairly serious but the other books went downhill.
Now all the Xanth novels seem to be huge pun books with very little of interest to adult readers.
BTW thanks for all the good books. I loved the Incarnations and Bio of a space tyrant.
The DMCA only covers copyrighted material, not material which is in the public domain.
The DMCA can be used to prevent material from entering the public domain. If it is illegal to create a tool that can circumvent encryption or copy protection then how can that work ever become avaliable to the public.
I care more about this issue then most of the others. If the corporations would give in trust a single copy of each work, to be put in trust for when the copyright ends.
Not that I plan on living long enough to ever see anything created in the last 20-30 years go into the public domain. I would really like my great-great-great-great-grandchildren to be able to see Fight Club, when the government quits extending copyright and allows something to go back to the public domain.
You tell me something. I've seen this whole country get into some kind of patriotism fad. Why?
If you weren't patriotic before why would a terrorist being able to destroy two landmarks using a comercial airliner, killing thousands of people in the process make you patriotic.
Re:Reject it No kidding how many of you buy dvds?
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So, they are cool new toys, if the movie industry thought people would stop buying dvds they wouldn't back laws like these.
Do you just like to complain and do nothing? This christmass ask your friends not to buy you dvds, don't buy them as gifts for others, and let people know why you are doing it.
I doubt that will happen, though. The people who frequent this website like to flame and start arguments over programming languages, but they don't tend to ever do anything.
Oh, not everyone, but the vast majority here will sit on their couch and watch the latest dvd while pondering how corrupt our government is and how unfair the courts are.
Doesn't matter who handled the guns that got destroyed the point was the person who destroyed the box marked fragile probably got what he/she deserved.
I know people who work at UPS, some are hard working people who want to to a good job. Many are lazy or just bored and don't care. I know a couple of college students that work part time on the shipping docks for a local center, that are like that.
I can think of nothing funnier then them having to explain to their boss why they broke a box marked fragile, causing a shutdown at their dock.
Beyond this, all of the results are based on one programming problem. I'm quite sure that I could choose a programming problem that C would be faster for then Lisp, java, and even Fortran.
Lisp is faster then C/C++ for many tasks, however there are many tasks that Lisp is slower or completely unsuited for.
You can't base the decision to replace a language, on the languages ability to solve one problem. C is a very general purpose language, while lisp is much better at certain tasks and is less of a general purpose language.
The researcher was obviously looking for the result he got.
If the research were to be unbiased, they should choose several common computer algorithms, and have each implemented by a large number of programmers in the languages to be studied. If in the end lisp outperfomed java and C/C++ in a majority of cases that would be a good argument for doing more lisp programming.
If one could find a way to solidify these shapes after they have been created, maybe by using a melted solid to hold the particles in suspension, then allowing the material to cool to the point of solidification. One could create many solids of different shapes, with no machining using a computer to controll magnet placement.
Adobe didn't back down, they did the smart thing.
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Adobe knows, or maybe even arranged, that this guy will still be prosecuted. Adobe gets the best of both worlds. They don't look like bad guys and the guy that broke their content protection scheme is going to be prosecuted.
Adobe had nothing to lose by giving this statement.
"made computers usable by people without an IQ over 300. "
Computer programmers, before high level programming languages, were poorly paid and were not considered to be highly skilled valuable employees. No, one thought them to be geniuses
The computers of the time were mostly used to calculate scientific problems, the scientists were not the programmers.
BTW Fortran was not the first high level language, their were a few interpreted languages before it.
Shooting someone in the face is just not as satisfying as making them into a flamming, screaming disaster. Sorry to many video games. The original post is mostly humor, but their could be problems with carring flamable material around a battle field.
This does make a good target if your a sniper and believe that your target may be wearing body armor. It's already located at about the center of mass for the person so if you actually miss the fuel cell you'll still probably take out your target.
What happens if this thing gets punctured by something besides a sniper, say for instance a little shrapnel. If the soldier doesn't realize it the flash from his gun, or nearby flame, could ignite the vapor depending on what liquid fuel is used.
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For any other time or country this same audience would be applauding these particular rules being ignored especially the draconian music rule. It has become increasingly popular to side against the US no matter what the cause.
I've seen some of the same people applauding countries ignoring intellectual property rules. Specifically when it has to do with DVDs and pirating.
I really don't like the idea of the US being in the WTO anyway since I like the idea of having sovereign authority over our own actions and trade. Hate Bush and the government all you like, just do it over something more reasonable than this.
I agree 100%. Eventually all sprinters would have their legs surgically removed and replaced with high performance prosthetics. If we are going to allow this guy to race I say go ahead and let everyone have the option. They can put specs on the prosthetics that limit the materials or the mechanical design much like car racing.
At that point we would have lots of cyborg runners.
Sony just doesn't know when to quit. I personally think they are masochists, they like to lose so in that sense blu-ray was a fluke for them.
I agree they should have offered the laptop to the general public from day one. I don't agree that it's to late to do so now though. There is an untapped market of people that would like to use these as cheap ebook readers. Since they have low power usage and are usable in the sunlight, they could be used as a decent book readers.
I do wish they would offer them in a different color scheme, say basic black. I don't see a whole lot of non-geeks carrying around a white and lime green laptop that looks like a childs toy.
They could also quit writing budgets that require 3,000 pages.
I'll give the government this, they have more imagination than me, I couldn't come up with 3000 pages of new ways to spend other people's money.
Copyright for the lifetime of the author + 70 years makes many works obsolete before they enter the public domain. By extending copyright congress is stealing from the public. The public/government provides protection to authors in return after a limited amount of time the work enters public domain. By extending copyright to the life of the author + 70 years everyone that was alive during the release of a given piece will be dead before it gets put in public domain. That's like entering a contract job and then having them tell you they will be glad to pay your children after you are dead.
Here's an opinion piece I wrote about this if anyone is interested.
Why copyright violation is not theft.
This is perfect. Soon the vegans will realize that plant lives have just as much value as their own. They will have to quit eating plants and die of starvation.
10 inches. Back in the old days the carpenters didn't document that a foot=12 inches and obviously since we have 10 fingers a foot must be equal to 10 inches.
Imagine what that means for car manufactures when we measure mpg for fuel efficiency on cars a mile should actually be 880ft shorter then it really is. That's about 16% shorter. Imagine if car companies could claim by the same logic that cars are 16% more fuel efficient then they really are.
The author at one point in the article says that operating systems have historically not documented how size is counted. Like the engineers at a drive manufacturing company aren't smart enough to know that if you calculate a kilobyte in base 2 you are going to calculate a megabyte, or gigabyte in base 2.
Yes if you are smarter then your average computer user, which is to say smarter then a really dumb rock you should know that what's reported on a drive is not the actuall size.
It still hacks me off. It's like a soda manufacturer deciding it's ok to redefine an ounce so that they can claim that their drink is larger then it is or just use a smaller container and claim it's still the same size.
Does it matter, yes and it will matter more as storage capacity increases.
If you use a computer it does all calculations in binary, it only makes sense for the capacity of the drive to be calculated in binary.
I will agree that the Zaurus is not for everyone, but I don't think that anyone who could use one running microsoft's pocket PC, would really have any trouble with the zaurus.
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I've never had to reset my for anything but I haven't had it that long so I already have the newest ROM.
Syncing with windows was easy, I will admit syncing with Linux was a bitch. But try to get an IPAQ to sync to linux without switching from Pocket pc to linux.
I don't use the zaurus for the same things you do. I mainly use it to read books, listen to music, keep track of contacts, and take short notes.
I agree great toy, but I would recommend it to most of the people I know.
>"I love my Zaurus but I can't imagine it being >useful for most people."
I really have to reply to this. I've used some of the microsoft pdas and they aren't bad, but I wouldn't trade my zaurus for any of them. Many, not all or even most, but many PDA users are technically adept.
Anyone that wants to have a really cool, very useful toy would love the zaurus.
I have one and I assure you that anyone could use it for the tasks that most people use pdas for. For the people with a little more technical skill they are great.
That's just my opinion I could be wrong.
"The moment those bands become popular (even though if their music didn't change and/or become more mainstream), the fans reject them because they have "sold out to the mainstream" or some other crap like that."
Totally untrue. Most of the time these bands produce one record that fits their old style then fall to the hype from the record companies. The record companies will say, "hey, change this and you'll sell a couple hundred thousand more albums", or "Let's sound more like band X so that we can reach a wider audience."
When a band changes just to sell more records, forgetting the fans that got them to the point they are at is, when the band sells out. Sometimes the bands just change as the members get older. But any fan can tell the difference when a band starts "selling out".
I just wanted to ask what made you decide change the Xanth novels from "serious fantasy", to the way they are today. By serious fantasy I'm talking about fantasy with a semi-serious story line, like the first Xanth novel. The first book seemed fairly serious but the other books went downhill.
Now all the Xanth novels seem to be huge pun books with very little of interest to adult readers.
BTW thanks for all the good books. I loved the Incarnations and Bio of a space tyrant.
The DMCA only covers copyrighted material, not material which is in the public domain.
The DMCA can be used to prevent material from entering the public domain. If it is illegal to create a tool that can circumvent encryption or copy protection then how can that work ever become avaliable to the public.
I care more about this issue then most of the others. If the corporations would give in trust a single copy of each work, to be put in trust for when the copyright ends.
Not that I plan on living long enough to ever see anything created in the last 20-30 years go into the public domain. I would really like my great-great-great-great-grandchildren to be able to see Fight Club, when the government quits extending copyright and allows something to go back to the public domain.
You tell me something. I've seen this whole country get into some kind of patriotism fad. Why?
If you weren't patriotic before why would a terrorist being able to destroy two landmarks using a comercial airliner, killing thousands of people in the process make you patriotic.
So, they are cool new toys, if the movie industry thought people would stop buying dvds they wouldn't back laws like these.
Do you just like to complain and do nothing? This christmass ask your friends not to buy you dvds, don't buy them as gifts for others, and let people know why you are doing it.
I doubt that will happen, though. The people who frequent this website like to flame and start arguments over programming languages, but they don't tend to ever do anything.
Oh, not everyone, but the vast majority here will sit on their couch and watch the latest dvd while pondering how corrupt our government is and how unfair the courts are.
And they taste better.
Dodo birds and mamoths. Tasty treats.
Doesn't matter who handled the guns that got destroyed the point was the person who destroyed the box marked fragile probably got what he/she deserved.
I know people who work at UPS, some are hard working people who want to to a good job. Many are lazy or just bored and don't care. I know a couple of college students that work part time on the shipping docks for a local center, that are like that.
I can think of nothing funnier then them having to explain to their boss why they broke a box marked fragile, causing a shutdown at their dock.
If your going to be a dickhead at least attach your name asshole.
Beyond this, all of the results are based on one programming problem. I'm quite sure that I could choose a programming problem that C would be faster for then Lisp, java, and even Fortran.
Lisp is faster then C/C++ for many tasks, however there are many tasks that Lisp is slower or completely unsuited for.
You can't base the decision to replace a language, on the languages ability to solve one problem. C is a very general purpose language, while lisp is much better at certain tasks and is less of a general purpose language.
The researcher was obviously looking for the result he got.
If the research were to be unbiased, they should choose several common computer algorithms, and have each implemented by a large number of programmers in the languages to be studied. If in the end lisp outperfomed java and C/C++ in a majority of cases that would be a good argument for doing more lisp programming.
If one could find a way to solidify these shapes after they have been created, maybe by using a melted solid to hold the particles in suspension, then allowing the material to cool to the point of solidification. One could create many solids of different shapes, with no machining using a computer to controll magnet placement.
Adobe knows, or maybe even arranged, that this guy will still be prosecuted. Adobe gets the best of both worlds. They don't look like bad guys and the guy that broke their content protection scheme is going to be prosecuted.
Adobe had nothing to lose by giving this statement.
Computer programmers, before high level programming languages, were poorly paid and were not considered to be highly skilled valuable employees. No, one thought them to be geniuses
The computers of the time were mostly used to calculate scientific problems, the scientists were not the programmers.
BTW Fortran was not the first high level language, their were a few interpreted languages before it.
This does make a good target if your a sniper and believe that your target may be wearing body armor. It's already located at about the center of mass for the person so if you actually miss the fuel cell you'll still probably take out your target.
What happens if this thing gets punctured by something besides a sniper, say for instance a little shrapnel. If the soldier doesn't realize it the flash from his gun, or nearby flame, could ignite the vapor depending on what liquid fuel is used.