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And if that (and every other) company stops paying a decent living wage? People stop paying thier mortgage and the so called "Credit crunch" puts the entire country into a recession.
Now how much are they making when the average person has no money to spend?
There is seriously something wrong with the way that a small perportion of people have such a large portion of the wealth. There needs to be some sort of insentive to not hold on to that much money. Something like every year, all personal assets over 50 million will be taxed at 20% every year. Offshore accounts must be claimed or face deportation and seisure of domestic assets. Business must prove that all pruchases have a business need (so that the buisness doesn't buy a 50 million home for the CEO). I don't know, but I feel there needs to be a cap on the amount of wealth that one person can have.
I would argue that it's still cheaper to hire 3 attendants in order to cover 24/7 filling duties:
- One attendant can fuel several cars at the same time. All they have to do is turn the pump on, remove the gas cap and enable the gas handle clickey auto fill thingy.
- People don't break, and if they do, it's the govt's problem, not yours.
- If (Read: When) the robot breaks you will need some specialist to come fix it.
- Robot will require regular maintenance.
- Maintenance will not be cheap, as it will be a specialist doing the work.
"It's very frightening that IFPI can get through the courts with something like this. In Turkey and China its the state that decides what information the people can access and what should be censored. In Denmark its apparently the record industry,"
The Hydrogen economy is flawed. You can't just mine H2 out of the ground. You have to make it using insane amounts of electricity VIA electrolosys. The process is about 66% effecient, meaning for every watt going in, you get 2/3 of a watt coming out. This energy is further reduced when the H2 is converted to motion (or back to electricity). End result: a big waste of energy, and more coal going into the power plant.
Think of the cost of keeping a 100 mile cable cryogenically cooled. Firstly you would need a fridge that was 100 miles long, and then once it is built, you have to cool. It does not make sense. It would be way cheaper to build another coal plant and accept the losses.
I live in Alberta, Canada, and we spent 193 million on 10,000Km of fibre in order to being high speed Internet to rural schools, gov't offices, and that bandwith is also sold wholesale to ISPs who want to resell to customers. The supernet (aside from sounding really cool) provides alberta communities and businesses a reliable (99.9999+) backbone to move data across the provence. The real effect of this has been to the rural communities that are now more likely to have high speed internet. This has also increased competition as it is easier for ISPs to just lease bandwidth and start up. Worth every penny in my opionion as a taxpayer.
I think that the author is suggesting that each device will have it's own address (IPv6) and will be connected to the internet directly (possibly VIA shared modem, but with unique addresses). Sure you might only have one pipe coming into your house, but each device has a direct connection to the internet.
That being said, I completely disagree with the author. There is no way that companies want to put all thier servers (not to mention clients) directly on the Internet. Firewalls will always exist for security reasons, and thus so will LANs.
So your telling me that the developers of CoD4 didn't think to validate the client keys agianst a database of valid keys, and flagging accounts that have multiple logins from different IPs? I refuse to believe that.
I don't know what do suggest the mods rate you... hmm. Not troll, (There really should be a -1 wrong), maybe overrated...
I am not sure if they were successful or not (but given the plethora of chargers still on the market i'm guessing not). Another note, it is possible to get L+R stereo from a mini USB port (the motorola razr has a dongle that does just that. It should be entirely possible to make a dongle that does video out.
I get so tired of companies pushing thier proprietory solutions when an already established would do the job just fine. (Sony and Apple, I'm looking at YOU!)
What do you have to say about the xbox360? I look at that box as being VERY successful in thwarting priacy. The physical media can be copied with data dumps, sure, but that dump cannot be played (unless the DVD firmware is updated). The xbox is an example of a DRM system that actually works. By making only one device that can play the content, and having that device only play genuine, signed software, you have a very workable DRM model.
It doesn't matter if there is DRM or not. The music will be "freed" anyway. As has been said MANY MANY times on/. before, DRM cannot work unless both the player and the media are involved and the player is "unhackable" (I use unhackable in "'s because so far, every DRM has been cracked [except BD+] but if you take the xbox360, it is VERY close to being hackproof. Aside from the DVD firmware hack and the two vulnerable BIOSes, it has proved to be hack proof. I can see the next generation of games consoles having the dvd firmware signed too.)
The reason that DRM is breakable today is because computers are not owned by the content distributors (yet). If said content can be played on a computer, then it can be "freed" by that same computer. If you can play it, somewhere you have an uncompressed, unencrypted stream, that should be able to be exploited.
Computers, however are being "owned" more and more by "Big Content". Vista's DRM integration, Protected pathways is a prime example of this. How long before noone owns a comptuer anymore and all the computers are leased from a few companies that basically turn your computer into an overpriced [HD]DVD player that plays games and runs Word, in contrast to the current "open" nature of current computers.
No, because that would be TWO full cirles. Jesus... what is so hard to understand about angles. Go buy an xbox360 and Amped 3 JUST to learn your angles.
When I am sitting at my xbox the only turning I do is to turn my head ~80* to the right and yell for another beer!
I think that your comment really hits the nail on the head. Bioshock is creepysauce. I remember one part i'm looking down at a desk, collecting a tape recorder I think. Lightning momentarily lights up the room and throws a shadow on the wall directly in front of me. I look at the shadow for the moment that it is there, but something about my shadow looks a little... off. At that point I turn around and there is someone standing like a foot behind me. I almost browned my pants.
Bioshock was one of those rare games that can really creep you out. If you did not play this game in HD with a good sound system, you completely missed out on this game. Hearing screams, but not seeing things...
I don't know if you have noticed or not, but many CDs that are distributed today do not contain the "Compact Disk" logo. Back when DRM started, manufacturers started putting blank sectors and other stuff to try to thwart copying. Poeople started complaining about this as those disks no longer conformed to the "Compact Disk" Specification.
The companies that were producing these disks just dropped the logo, going under the assumtion that if is was the same size as a CD and had a shiny bottom, that people would put it in thier CD players, and people did just that.
To most people a CD is defined as "something that is about 5 inches across and has a shiny bottom. If I put it in my computer something happens."
You don't see many auto manufactures making their cars dependent on having at least one of the tires made by the auto company.
They would if they reasonably could. I wonder how many 3rd parties make replacement wheels for the Hummers that can self-inflate?
More on topic... I think that if MS removed the IE component from windows, it would basically just be reverting to IE6, removing the shortcut, and removing acess to nonlocal resources(ie web browsing, FTP).
What good does that do? I'd rather have the option to use IE if most of the pieces will still be in the system anyways. Someone said it earlier, that the real issue should be MS's insistance in having thier browser as the default (Truthfully, I don't even know if that is true and if it's not true ignore this).
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And if that (and every other) company stops paying a decent living wage? People stop paying thier mortgage and the so called "Credit crunch" puts the entire country into a recession.
Now how much are they making when the average person has no money to spend?
There is seriously something wrong with the way that a small perportion of people have such a large portion of the wealth. There needs to be some sort of insentive to not hold on to that much money. Something like every year, all personal assets over 50 million will be taxed at 20% every year. Offshore accounts must be claimed or face deportation and seisure of domestic assets. Business must prove that all pruchases have a business need (so that the buisness doesn't buy a 50 million home for the CEO). I don't know, but I feel there needs to be a cap on the amount of wealth that one person can have.
I would argue that it's still cheaper to hire 3 attendants in order to cover 24/7 filling duties:
- One attendant can fuel several cars at the same time. All they have to do is turn the pump on, remove the gas cap and enable the gas handle clickey auto fill thingy.
- People don't break, and if they do, it's the govt's problem, not yours.
- If (Read: When) the robot breaks you will need some specialist to come fix it.
- Robot will require regular maintenance.
- Maintenance will not be cheap, as it will be a specialist doing the work.
This thing is a waste of money.
I know it as "You can't polish a turd", so in this case a turd with a service pack is still just a turd.
"It's very frightening that IFPI can get through the courts with something like this. In Turkey and China its the state that decides what information the people can access and what should be censored. In Denmark its apparently the record industry,"
I think that sums it up quite nicely.
The Hydrogen economy is flawed. You can't just mine H2 out of the ground. You have to make it using insane amounts of electricity VIA electrolosys. The process is about 66% effecient, meaning for every watt going in, you get 2/3 of a watt coming out. This energy is further reduced when the H2 is converted to motion (or back to electricity). End result: a big waste of energy, and more coal going into the power plant.
Think of the cost of keeping a 100 mile cable cryogenically cooled. Firstly you would need a fridge that was 100 miles long, and then once it is built, you have to cool. It does not make sense. It would be way cheaper to build another coal plant and accept the losses.
I live in Alberta, Canada, and we spent 193 million on 10,000Km of fibre in order to being high speed Internet to rural schools, gov't offices, and that bandwith is also sold wholesale to ISPs who want to resell to customers. The supernet (aside from sounding really cool) provides alberta communities and businesses a reliable (99.9999+) backbone to move data across the provence. The real effect of this has been to the rural communities that are now more likely to have high speed internet. This has also increased competition as it is easier for ISPs to just lease bandwidth and start up. Worth every penny in my opionion as a taxpayer.
I think that the author is suggesting that each device will have it's own address (IPv6) and will be connected to the internet directly (possibly VIA shared modem, but with unique addresses). Sure you might only have one pipe coming into your house, but each device has a direct connection to the internet.
That being said, I completely disagree with the author. There is no way that companies want to put all thier servers (not to mention clients) directly on the Internet. Firewalls will always exist for security reasons, and thus so will LANs.
"not (bad) counting sex, or hemorrhoids, and other unpleasant things...) "
WTF!?! Sex... Hemorrhoids....... Unplesasent things... I don't want to know...
Weak... How about "Honey I lost the keys, grab me my scalpel and skull drill, `couse were goin' in!"
So your telling me that the developers of CoD4 didn't think to validate the client keys agianst a database of valid keys, and flagging accounts that have multiple logins from different IPs? I refuse to believe that.
I don't know what do suggest the mods rate you... hmm. Not troll, (There really should be a -1 wrong), maybe overrated...
In 2006 China was looking at standardising the phone charger market.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061219/092747.shtml
I am not sure if they were successful or not (but given the plethora of chargers still on the market i'm guessing not). Another note, it is possible to get L+R stereo from a mini USB port (the motorola razr has a dongle that does just that. It should be entirely possible to make a dongle that does video out.
I get so tired of companies pushing thier proprietory solutions when an already established would do the job just fine. (Sony and Apple, I'm looking at YOU!)
Awwe, how cute! Would you like an apple shaped cookie?
Maybe. All I know is that when he heats up his lunch in the microwave he starts dancing.
What do you have to say about the xbox360? I look at that box as being VERY successful in thwarting priacy. The physical media can be copied with data dumps, sure, but that dump cannot be played (unless the DVD firmware is updated). The xbox is an example of a DRM system that actually works. By making only one device that can play the content, and having that device only play genuine, signed software, you have a very workable DRM model.
It doesn't matter if there is DRM or not. The music will be "freed" anyway. As has been said MANY MANY times on /. before, DRM cannot work unless both the player and the media are involved and the player is "unhackable" (I use unhackable in "'s because so far, every DRM has been cracked [except BD+] but if you take the xbox360, it is VERY close to being hackproof. Aside from the DVD firmware hack and the two vulnerable BIOSes, it has proved to be hack proof. I can see the next generation of games consoles having the dvd firmware signed too.)
The reason that DRM is breakable today is because computers are not owned by the content distributors (yet). If said content can be played on a computer, then it can be "freed" by that same computer. If you can play it, somewhere you have an uncompressed, unencrypted stream, that should be able to be exploited.
Computers, however are being "owned" more and more by "Big Content". Vista's DRM integration, Protected pathways is a prime example of this. How long before noone owns a comptuer anymore and all the computers are leased from a few companies that basically turn your computer into an overpriced [HD]DVD player that plays games and runs Word, in contrast to the current "open" nature of current computers.
Lamest joke EVER!
My mom brings it all the way down. She even picks up the peanut shells from the floor.
No, because that would be TWO full cirles. Jesus... what is so hard to understand about angles. Go buy an xbox360 and Amped 3 JUST to learn your angles. When I am sitting at my xbox the only turning I do is to turn my head ~80* to the right and yell for another beer!
A 360* turn is a full cirle. You would still be facing the xbox.
I think that your comment really hits the nail on the head. Bioshock is creepysauce. I remember one part i'm looking down at a desk, collecting a tape recorder I think. Lightning momentarily lights up the room and throws a shadow on the wall directly in front of me. I look at the shadow for the moment that it is there, but something about my shadow looks a little... off. At that point I turn around and there is someone standing like a foot behind me. I almost browned my pants.
Bioshock was one of those rare games that can really creep you out. If you did not play this game in HD with a good sound system, you completely missed out on this game. Hearing screams, but not seeing things...
Does you mom know about that Sony rootkit? How about your sister? Just because everyone on /. knows about does not mean that it is common knowledge.
I don't know if you have noticed or not, but many CDs that are distributed today do not contain the "Compact Disk" logo. Back when DRM started, manufacturers started putting blank sectors and other stuff to try to thwart copying. Poeople started complaining about this as those disks no longer conformed to the "Compact Disk" Specification.
The companies that were producing these disks just dropped the logo, going under the assumtion that if is was the same size as a CD and had a shiny bottom, that people would put it in thier CD players, and people did just that.
To most people a CD is defined as "something that is about 5 inches across and has a shiny bottom. If I put it in my computer something happens."
We in the industry call that a "feature".
The Canadarm is no longer Canadian. We sold it to the U.S.
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/01/08/mdasale.html?ref=rss
They would if they reasonably could. I wonder how many 3rd parties make replacement wheels for the Hummers that can self-inflate?
More on topic... I think that if MS removed the IE component from windows, it would basically just be reverting to IE6, removing the shortcut, and removing acess to nonlocal resources(ie web browsing, FTP).
What good does that do? I'd rather have the option to use IE if most of the pieces will still be in the system anyways. Someone said it earlier, that the real issue should be MS's insistance in having thier browser as the default (Truthfully, I don't even know if that is true and if it's not true ignore this).