That ARPA stuff is really cool, it's nice to hear that there at least was a time when common-sense beat out legal racketeering in cases like this.
Here's another interesting thing that I can't quite get my head around, art galleries let you take in cameras right? (seriously correct me if I'm wrong) so you take a picture of a work of art and decide to hang it in your hallway, maybe if it's particularly beautiful you make a copy for your mom and give it to her... How is this different from p2p downloading other than in scale, you didn't take the art off of the wall and to your house, a relatively famous southwestern artist that I have worked with, Buck McCain, loves to hear about people taking pictures of his work and he doesn't charge them for it either.
actually if they *don't* sue wikimedia for their write ups on the various HP books wouldn't that be selective litigation and if you don't sue everyone who you know is using your IP then doesn't that make your lawsuit moot? IANAL (I'm sure you all know that already) but I would be interested in a lawyers take on this, the reason I bring it up is that the Disney company had to sue a local children's hospital here for painting characters in the hallway, not because Disney is evil but because having knowledge of someone using their IP and not taking steps to have it removed or licensed would have meant that they couldn't litigate in the future. Or, possibly Disney just doesn't like having it's characters around sick kids but I don't think that's it.
That is a relatively safe assumption, since most computer forensics people actually work for private companies and aren't direct employees of the government. At least that is how it is where I live.
[sarcasm] While we're at it we need to block all internet video and picture viewing Pictures on the intarwebs = porn
Everyone else who tries to download jpegs is just trying to get porn. Oh yeah, and there's no possible way to use a web browser without being a criminal, you're making copies of copyrighted content on your own computer in RAM, on the Screen and in your cache and index therefore we should block every kind of internet transfer other than emails and IMs because copying stuff that you wouldn't buy anyway hurts artists! Everyone knows this. It would be in your best interest if you just weren't allowed to use the web or ssh or... because some people have done illegal things that way.[/sarcasm]
I know that I was kinda rambling there, but I'm so tired of people who think that P2P is about stealing. I download FREE music (as in speech and beer) over p2p, linux ISOs because I know that guys putting out distros have to PAY for their bandwidth and mine is pretty much unlimited, I'm sorry to all of the artists that I killed by downloading the latest openSuSE dvd. I hope that they're families will one day find it in their hearts to forgive me
will be able to factor out movies people think that they *should* rate highly from those that they actually like. You all know what I mean, your movie snob friend tells you to watch the latest film festival gay cowboys eating pudding movie and you feel like you have to give it at least 3 stars because otherwise netflix would know you just want to watch stuff get blown up.
First of I didn't RTFA, but does this study take into account that almost everyone with an iPhone is a new user and possibly hasn't acquired the same muscle memory that they have for regular cell phone keypads yet? If not then I would say you have to take two people who haven't used any kind of mobile phone keypad to type text and put them through a testing process. You would have to do this at least several thousand times with different people for an accurate measure of the different technologies.
This is almost the same thing as saying that windows is more user friendly than linux or mac os x, it's not, windows is more windows-user friendly.
um, maybe I'm just crazy or an idiot, (possibly both) but I remember seeing a $500.00, 10 lb machine that could disable any car, ANY car without a diesel engine that was directly over or under it, the delivery system was going to be a super fast remote control vehicle that would get it in range to fire some kind of EMP that screws up the ability of spark plugs / ignition coils to work properly.
again maybe I'm just imagining things, the voices sometimes lie to me.
The problem with this is that the spec-writers for government contracts don't know anything about the products they are trying to buy. Therefore we would end up with job specs at my old job that said stuff like, "1 piece tank with no seams that is 6' tall by 6' diameter, delivered and set in place." Which would normally be ok except the only doors on the facility are 30" wide.
So one could imagine that the spec for these systems had some kind of requirement for the vendor to remotely update many tanks/vehicles at a time but they have to be totally impervious to virii and/or malware. Something that most of us know is completely impossible but some purchasing guy for the Army doesn't give a rats ass about because it's not his problem and it's not his money, it's the vendor's problem and my money.
Every time I use the wrong postage (which has been about 10 times since the rate went to $.41 my post office doesn't cancel the stamp that I put on to begin with, so I put a $.02 stamp on next to it and stick it back in the box. That said, the hoorah was all about what someone wrote, he didn't mail anything so it's still only a semantic mistake valued at $.06.
I'll teach this thread to be a dead horse
*beats*
AAh, yes that would be an indication of my lessening involvement with the workplace. After becoming a parent, you forget that you used to have time to do whatever you wanted, it's one of God's great mercies that you can't recall thinking things like "What should I do with the next two days that I have to myself", or "Maybe I should get out of bed since it's 11:00"
Sorry, I will try to keep weekends in my calculations from now on.
When I first read this I thought to myself "I wonder how much time people will waste to point out the current postal rate..." then I saw, there were already at least 5 corrections to your postage rate. We have to assume that each of those took at least 30 seconds to 1 minute to click "Reply to This" type in their response, post, wait for the preview, click ok. Anyway, I'm assuming that most/.ers have jobs and those all have to pay at least $14.00/hr on average which is about 23 cents/minute (gross) and we've already wasted at least 2.5 minutes here, (I don't have a job other than my son and he's sleeping right now) so that's about 57.5 cents in order to correct a 6 cent mistake. This is why they don't let IT guys do budgeting.
If you're going test success by lifestyle impact, then statistically you would be best to either not play the lottery and thus avoid becoming a gambling addict, or to play and win a small sum of money. The lifestyle impact of winning "the big one" is actually historically quite negative, unless having a pile of money for a few years is more important than your length of life, family relationships, relative privacy for being non-famous, the fact that hundreds of people every week just leave you alone instead of asking for money, knowing that your friends really like you, general happiness. These are all things that are generally taken away from the big money winners, leading in many cases to suicide a/o drug dependency.
Of course that would never happen to YOU...
ok, I didn't know about the treos and such, but it seems pretty sad that even though my cheap ass razr *technically* can support google maps, I would have to go back and spend a few hundred bucks on a treo to get a verizon phone that *actually* supports it. Basically this is a regressive punishment for not having a bucket of money to spend on a phone that I'll probably have to replace in a few years anyway.
So maybe verizon doesn't hate all their customers, just the poor ones,
My contention is that Google is simply incompatible with Verizon, protocols aside, verizon wireless has a long history of imposing ultimatums onto phone manufacturers and software publishers. Motorola is a great example, a verizon Razr only has about half the features as one that you buy from Motorola. Google maps mobile doesn't work on CDMA phones because none of the carriers (Verizon specifically) will let anyone make any kind of navigation software for a phone that the user doesn't have to pay a premium membership for.
The list goes on and on, can't put Java on a verizon phone because *gasp* the user may be able to play games for free on their own piece of hardware! Or worse yet, write some piece of software specifically for themselves.
did this happen in, get the name of the city on here and get your local newspaper/ tv station a link to this article. A focused attack on a single store (and it's manager) could have a bigger effect on the corporate decision making.
Think of it this way, 1000 customers lost from 1000 stores = not a big deal. 1000 customers lost from 1 store = that store could lose some money, causing corporate to take notice.
Of course I have no idea how Best Buy's decision making machinery works, but if one of my stores was losing a large amount of customers, vs. all of my stores losing a couple, I would take note and find the problem.
Just one small businessman's opinion
I don't know what you're talking about, The whole reason I use youtube is to steal music... Whenever I find a video with 15 seconds or more of a song that I want I blast it through my super hi tech sanyo speakers and record it with my phonograph. I once got a whole 2 1/2 minutes of the tv show 24 recorded off of some junior high girl's video. (I recorded that with my 8mm camera of course)
I used to post on/. on parchment but it got really annoying since it covered the computer screen.
is a f**king brake like some kind of machination you put on your nether regions? That'd be great for guys that have "timing" issues I think. "Wait honey quick hit the f**king brake I'm going too fast!" Further, I doubt someone will just give you one for free, something like that would be too valuable.
All you have to do is get a shock collar / invisible fence system that's meant to keep your dog within 100ft of you and modify it to pump out a lot more voltage, put the dog-unit into your laptop case and cover the case with wire mesh, alternatively you can just rig it up like one of those Deadlock collars from that terrible movie. (C-4 / other low explosive)
PROBLEM SOLVED!!
He over estimated somethings (credit card sized pocket PCs as powerful as a tower) ... Um.... Cell Phones!! You can't expect a credit card sized PC of TODAY to be as powerful as a tower TODAY, but they are WAAAAAY more powerful than any computer from 1989. What was there that could multitask, connect to a remote server and display graphics, store addresses, phone numbers, convey huge amounts of information simultaneously, continuously update it's own status... the list goes on and on, and you could get all this in a Cell Phone 10 years ago, now the only reason that cell phones aren't exactly the size of a credit card (width included) is we keep putting more usless functionality in them, well probably also that a phone that size would be a pain to use. Find a computer from 1989 that had the processing capability of an old monochrome qualcomm, much less a new Moto Razr or something like that.
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uh, if you're studying those things without a grant then you're pretty screwed anyway.
That ARPA stuff is really cool, it's nice to hear that there at least was a time when common-sense beat out legal racketeering in cases like this.
Here's another interesting thing that I can't quite get my head around, art galleries let you take in cameras right? (seriously correct me if I'm wrong) so you take a picture of a work of art and decide to hang it in your hallway, maybe if it's particularly beautiful you make a copy for your mom and give it to her... How is this different from p2p downloading other than in scale, you didn't take the art off of the wall and to your house, a relatively famous southwestern artist that I have worked with, Buck McCain, loves to hear about people taking pictures of his work and he doesn't charge them for it either.
someone let me know if I'm way off base here
actually if they *don't* sue wikimedia for their write ups on the various HP books wouldn't that be selective litigation and if you don't sue everyone who you know is using your IP then doesn't that make your lawsuit moot? IANAL (I'm sure you all know that already) but I would be interested in a lawyers take on this, the reason I bring it up is that the Disney company had to sue a local children's hospital here for painting characters in the hallway, not because Disney is evil but because having knowledge of someone using their IP and not taking steps to have it removed or licensed would have meant that they couldn't litigate in the future. Or, possibly Disney just doesn't like having it's characters around sick kids but I don't think that's it.
That is a relatively safe assumption, since most computer forensics people actually work for private companies and aren't direct employees of the government. At least that is how it is where I live.
[sarcasm]
... because some people have done illegal things that way.[/sarcasm]
While we're at it we need to block all internet video and picture viewing
Pictures on the intarwebs = porn
Everyone else who tries to download jpegs is just trying to get porn. Oh yeah, and there's no possible way to use a web browser without being a criminal, you're making copies of copyrighted content on your own computer in RAM, on the Screen and in your cache and index therefore we should block every kind of internet transfer other than emails and IMs because copying stuff that you wouldn't buy anyway hurts artists! Everyone knows this. It would be in your best interest if you just weren't allowed to use the web or ssh or
I know that I was kinda rambling there, but I'm so tired of people who think that P2P is about stealing. I download FREE music (as in speech and beer) over p2p, linux ISOs because I know that guys putting out distros have to PAY for their bandwidth and mine is pretty much unlimited, I'm sorry to all of the artists that I killed by downloading the latest openSuSE dvd. I hope that they're families will one day find it in their hearts to forgive me
will be able to factor out movies people think that they *should* rate highly from those that they actually like. You all know what I mean, your movie snob friend tells you to watch the latest film festival gay cowboys eating pudding movie and you feel like you have to give it at least 3 stars because otherwise netflix would know you just want to watch stuff get blown up.
You know who you are netflix fakies!
First of I didn't RTFA, but does this study take into account that almost everyone with an iPhone is a new user and possibly hasn't acquired the same muscle memory that they have for regular cell phone keypads yet? If not then I would say you have to take two people who haven't used any kind of mobile phone keypad to type text and put them through a testing process. You would have to do this at least several thousand times with different people for an accurate measure of the different technologies. This is almost the same thing as saying that windows is more user friendly than linux or mac os x, it's not, windows is more windows-user friendly.
um, maybe I'm just crazy or an idiot, (possibly both) but I remember seeing a $500.00, 10 lb machine that could disable any car, ANY car without a diesel engine that was directly over or under it, the delivery system was going to be a super fast remote control vehicle that would get it in range to fire some kind of EMP that screws up the ability of spark plugs / ignition coils to work properly. again maybe I'm just imagining things, the voices sometimes lie to me.
The problem with this is that the spec-writers for government contracts don't know anything about the products they are trying to buy. Therefore we would end up with job specs at my old job that said stuff like, "1 piece tank with no seams that is 6' tall by 6' diameter, delivered and set in place." Which would normally be ok except the only doors on the facility are 30" wide. So one could imagine that the spec for these systems had some kind of requirement for the vendor to remotely update many tanks/vehicles at a time but they have to be totally impervious to virii and/or malware. Something that most of us know is completely impossible but some purchasing guy for the Army doesn't give a rats ass about because it's not his problem and it's not his money, it's the vendor's problem and my money.
Every time I use the wrong postage (which has been about 10 times since the rate went to $.41 my post office doesn't cancel the stamp that I put on to begin with, so I put a $.02 stamp on next to it and stick it back in the box. That said, the hoorah was all about what someone wrote, he didn't mail anything so it's still only a semantic mistake valued at $.06. I'll teach this thread to be a dead horse *beats*
AAh, yes that would be an indication of my lessening involvement with the workplace. After becoming a parent, you forget that you used to have time to do whatever you wanted, it's one of God's great mercies that you can't recall thinking things like "What should I do with the next two days that I have to myself", or "Maybe I should get out of bed since it's 11:00" Sorry, I will try to keep weekends in my calculations from now on.
When I first read this I thought to myself "I wonder how much time people will waste to point out the current postal rate..." then I saw, there were already at least 5 corrections to your postage rate. We have to assume that each of those took at least 30 seconds to 1 minute to click "Reply to This" type in their response, post, wait for the preview, click ok. Anyway, I'm assuming that most /.ers have jobs and those all have to pay at least $14.00/hr on average which is about 23 cents/minute (gross) and we've already wasted at least 2.5 minutes here, (I don't have a job other than my son and he's sleeping right now) so that's about 57.5 cents in order to correct a 6 cent mistake. This is why they don't let IT guys do budgeting.
If you're going test success by lifestyle impact, then statistically you would be best to either not play the lottery and thus avoid becoming a gambling addict, or to play and win a small sum of money. The lifestyle impact of winning "the big one" is actually historically quite negative, unless having a pile of money for a few years is more important than your length of life, family relationships, relative privacy for being non-famous, the fact that hundreds of people every week just leave you alone instead of asking for money, knowing that your friends really like you, general happiness. These are all things that are generally taken away from the big money winners, leading in many cases to suicide a/o drug dependency. Of course that would never happen to YOU...
ok, I didn't know about the treos and such, but it seems pretty sad that even though my cheap ass razr *technically* can support google maps, I would have to go back and spend a few hundred bucks on a treo to get a verizon phone that *actually* supports it. Basically this is a regressive punishment for not having a bucket of money to spend on a phone that I'll probably have to replace in a few years anyway. So maybe verizon doesn't hate all their customers, just the poor ones,
My contention is that Google is simply incompatible with Verizon, protocols aside, verizon wireless has a long history of imposing ultimatums onto phone manufacturers and software publishers. Motorola is a great example, a verizon Razr only has about half the features as one that you buy from Motorola. Google maps mobile doesn't work on CDMA phones because none of the carriers (Verizon specifically) will let anyone make any kind of navigation software for a phone that the user doesn't have to pay a premium membership for. The list goes on and on, can't put Java on a verizon phone because *gasp* the user may be able to play games for free on their own piece of hardware! Or worse yet, write some piece of software specifically for themselves.
did this happen in, get the name of the city on here and get your local newspaper/ tv station a link to this article. A focused attack on a single store (and it's manager) could have a bigger effect on the corporate decision making. Think of it this way, 1000 customers lost from 1000 stores = not a big deal. 1000 customers lost from 1 store = that store could lose some money, causing corporate to take notice. Of course I have no idea how Best Buy's decision making machinery works, but if one of my stores was losing a large amount of customers, vs. all of my stores losing a couple, I would take note and find the problem. Just one small businessman's opinion
I don't know what you're talking about, The whole reason I use youtube is to steal music... Whenever I find a video with 15 seconds or more of a song that I want I blast it through my super hi tech sanyo speakers and record it with my phonograph. I once got a whole 2 1/2 minutes of the tv show 24 recorded off of some junior high girl's video. (I recorded that with my 8mm camera of course) I used to post on /. on parchment but it got really annoying since it covered the computer screen.
is a f**king brake like some kind of machination you put on your nether regions? That'd be great for guys that have "timing" issues I think. "Wait honey quick hit the f**king brake I'm going too fast!" Further, I doubt someone will just give you one for free, something like that would be too valuable.
Everyone knows that 100 is written as uh-huhdrit.
so what are you doing? Besides bitching and moaning.... I just finished my letter to my congressman. How bout you?
All you have to do is get a shock collar / invisible fence system that's meant to keep your dog within 100ft of you and modify it to pump out a lot more voltage, put the dog-unit into your laptop case and cover the case with wire mesh, alternatively you can just rig it up like one of those Deadlock collars from that terrible movie. (C-4 / other low explosive) PROBLEM SOLVED!!
Uh sorry but Wikipedia doesn't decide what a certain branch of the government is authorized to do, you best look at the Homeland Security charter
yes of course we do. you suck for wanting us to be reasonable!