You'd think for the price of the electricity/space for running one of these, they could cobble together a programmable calculator or dedicated modern *nix computer that does the same thing and also "never crashes."
So, you have the right to whine because you built your country wrong??
DISCLAIMER: I live in Canada, which is arguably worse when it comes to "urban sprawl" and poorly designed cities, but I am one of the few that doesn't whine about fuel.
DRM generally works perfectly as intended. It causes the average paying customer to re-purchase media for each device they own and whenever they upgrade devices. It's no different than purchasing the White album on vinyl, then atrac, then cassette, then CD, etc. Of course you can dub from your record player to your tape deck, but most people just bought it again.
I doubt anyone really believes DRM can stop the commercial pirates, or the technically literate from going to the work of breaking it, but I guarantee you that plenty of people have repurchased music because it "stopped working."
Funny, I write graphics accelerated visuo-motor psychology experiments and collect data using Python, do data analysis in R, and write papers/presentations in LaTeX, all using less of a computer than those netbooks (when I don't feel like being chained to my workstation).
Maybe you are the one who needs to *grow up* and get over the *clickety clickety* toy software.
chances are it's interpolation, not extrapolation, because the model is probably based on data from businesses turning a range of profit including the rather modest $5000 profit. Additionally, this posterior estimate would be considered a maximum likelihood or the mode of a probability distribution, such that making estimates on the model will eventually work out when you invest in many businesses.
There are many (grey) demarcation criteria for indicating what is a science and what is not. Degree of precision is not one of them. Low precision simply indicates a less developed model, including many poorly understood variables (at the current state of knowledge). That is the demarcation of a "mature science," but not science in general.
Also, "hard science" is a term lay people use for "mature science" because they think the rules of hard science are fixed in stone. I doubt you would find a practicing researcher in physics or chemistry who thinks their theories are set in stone.
gp was referring to a "two minute google search" for cd burning/iso mounting software. You cannot determine a "trusted repository" in that time -you obviously trust the Daemon tools official site because you have more than "two minute google search" knowledge of cd burning/iso mounting software for windows.
911 works on VOIP -they call it e911. It works as long as your provider has your address. Many providers have it, including Acanac ( http://www.acanac.com/Phones.htm )
It's stupid to assume that the Chinese are "brainwashed" or "don't know better" OK...
Americans are brainwashed by the Bush media machine just as much as the Chinese are. So the Chinese are not brainwashed, or both Americans and the Chinese are brainwashed? I would err on the side that both populations are fed pretty heavy propaganda.
At least the Chinese citizens know exactly what they are getting from their state media. Who's more abused? I think you missed the nail - the Chinese don't know "what they are getting from their state" *because* they don't have free speech/press. The "Bush media machine" can only reach certain outlets, as exemplified by the fact that you know about it.
Sure, copyright should just deal with copying for distribution, not use. But that way, the music labels won't be able to force you to buy a separate copy of your favorite song for each of your computer, car cd player, mp3 player, cell phone, and your other computer. You, sir, just robbed the music industry billions... expect an invoice in the mail.
This could be done now, with current appliances. There are already two 110v lines coming into an average North American house. Set one line to be high priority/high cost, the other becomes a cheap, low priority line that gets switched off by the power company during peak hours. New houses could be wired so that the owner always has a choice of plugging an appliance into the cheap or expensive outlet.
Of course, appliances such as dryers and electric ovens use both lines to achieve 220v, so some retrofit would be needed.
I've got a Linksys SPA 2102 connected to a regular/crappy DSL line -it does traffic shaping on my home network, so it's much better than a soft phone. Calls are as clear or clearer than POTS calls, and I can get cheap or free SIP termination and DIDs in virtually any country (Acanac.com in Canada; combining them with voxalot.com). While a bit difficult to parse, there is a lot of information about providers on www.voip-info.org
I also try to use a soft phone over my school's wireless occasionally -and I can see why many people think voip is poor quality.
If that mail server is configured to accept mail from anywhere, via a published standard, then it is not "against the owner's will" to send mail to it. A botnet *is* against the equipment owner's will.
On another note, it would be much easier to filter spam from legitimate sources.
Wouldn't the a simple heat-sensing camera on a satellite or other distant object be able to detect when a reactor is shut down? It's probably pretty difficult to fake all that heat output.
Between habitat destruction, energy usage, and pollution, "farming" is probably one of the most environmentally damaging industries out there. Since it's the only way to feed cities, yes, it's good to farm food. But farming non-food products is absolutely not automatically environmentally friendly by any stretch -and doesn't mean more trees in the world.
There's a reason the same book freely downloaded from archive.org costs at least ten bucks to buy in dead tree form. It costs way more in terms of energy, resources and man power to distribute books rather than electrons. When you're talking about periodicals or news, which is generally turfed after a day, the waste is even greater.
My ISP (acanac) said they are considering setting up encrypted VPN's if they start running into this. At that point, all bell will see is a single encrypted connection type - so yes, very quickly, everything will become encrypted if they keep doing this.
They already have 200Gb of online storage and are setting up "online desktops" which are RDP connections to a fedora VM with a 16Mb connection as free services -so I wouldn't put it past them setting up free VPN connections for everyone.
Obviously from my clarification, I do understand "them." If anything, I didn't spend much time evaluating the gp because it just reaks of a very common "snake oil" pitch (just with gasoline added to the mixture) - and didn't critically think of a catalyst effect.
I don't know about you, but I would define "completely amoral and dispassionate entity who seeks to maximize his profits" as evil -or a sociopath.
Also, if it weren't for a company trying to "circumvent" monopoly regulations, there would never have been a "Berkley Standard Distribution." So I suppose sometimes good can come from their "evil" ways.
GP was basically referring to a slightly more complicated version of the basic "dude.. my car runs on water" nutjob trying to convince people that by splitting water, and burning the hydrogen, they can actually get somewhere. Now, I suppose hydrogen may work as a catalyst to improve the combustion efficiency somewhat, so I guess it's not purely a "free energy" claim, but it's still pretty suspicious.
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You'd think for the price of the electricity/space for running one of these, they could cobble together a programmable calculator or dedicated modern *nix computer that does the same thing and also "never crashes."
Would be interesting to see running though.
One year later, OpenOffice has both an option to save ODF, and an option to save "ODF -with hacks to make it look right in Office"
And we know Office will render/produce ODF just as well as IE 6 renders standards compliant HTML.
The ODF version of this comment is best opened with Microsoft Office 2007 or higher.
So, you have the right to whine because you built your country wrong??
DISCLAIMER: I live in Canada, which is arguably worse when it comes to "urban sprawl" and poorly designed cities, but I am one of the few that doesn't whine about fuel.
I believe they use a capitol C (Calorie) when refering to kilocalorie.
DRM generally works perfectly as intended. It causes the average paying customer to re-purchase media for each device they own and whenever they upgrade devices. It's no different than purchasing the White album on vinyl, then atrac, then cassette, then CD, etc. Of course you can dub from your record player to your tape deck, but most people just bought it again.
I doubt anyone really believes DRM can stop the commercial pirates, or the technically literate from going to the work of breaking it, but I guarantee you that plenty of people have repurchased music because it "stopped working."
Funny, I write graphics accelerated visuo-motor psychology experiments and collect data using Python, do data analysis in R, and write papers/presentations in LaTeX, all using less of a computer than those netbooks (when I don't feel like being chained to my workstation).
Maybe you are the one who needs to *grow up* and get over the *clickety clickety* toy software.
see how fun pointless insults are?
Oh yeah, get off my lawn!
chances are it's interpolation, not extrapolation, because the model is probably based on data from businesses turning a range of profit including the rather modest $5000 profit. Additionally, this posterior estimate would be considered a maximum likelihood or the mode of a probability distribution, such that making estimates on the model will eventually work out when you invest in many businesses.
There are many (grey) demarcation criteria for indicating what is a science and what is not. Degree of precision is not one of them. Low precision simply indicates a less developed model, including many poorly understood variables (at the current state of knowledge). That is the demarcation of a "mature science," but not science in general.
Also, "hard science" is a term lay people use for "mature science" because they think the rules of hard science are fixed in stone. I doubt you would find a practicing researcher in physics or chemistry who thinks their theories are set in stone.
gp was referring to a "two minute google search" for cd burning/iso mounting software. You cannot determine a "trusted repository" in that time -you obviously trust the Daemon tools official site because you have more than "two minute google search" knowledge of cd burning/iso mounting software for windows.
911 works on VOIP -they call it e911. It works as long as your provider has your address. Many providers have it, including Acanac ( http://www.acanac.com/Phones.htm )
Sure, copyright should just deal with copying for distribution, not use. But that way, the music labels won't be able to force you to buy a separate copy of your favorite song for each of your computer, car cd player, mp3 player, cell phone, and your other computer. You, sir, just robbed the music industry billions... expect an invoice in the mail.
This could be done now, with current appliances. There are already two 110v lines coming into an average North American house. Set one line to be high priority/high cost, the other becomes a cheap, low priority line that gets switched off by the power company during peak hours. New houses could be wired so that the owner always has a choice of plugging an appliance into the cheap or expensive outlet.
Of course, appliances such as dryers and electric ovens use both lines to achieve 220v, so some retrofit would be needed.
Hydrogen makes a pretty good storage mechanism for large amounts of energy.
I've got a Linksys SPA 2102 connected to a regular/crappy DSL line -it does traffic shaping on my home network, so it's much better than a soft phone. Calls are as clear or clearer than POTS calls, and I can get cheap or free SIP termination and DIDs in virtually any country (Acanac.com in Canada; combining them with voxalot.com). While a bit difficult to parse, there is a lot of information about providers on www.voip-info.org
I also try to use a soft phone over my school's wireless occasionally -and I can see why many people think voip is poor quality.
If that mail server is configured to accept mail from anywhere, via a published standard, then it is not "against the owner's will" to send mail to it. A botnet *is* against the equipment owner's will.
On another note, it would be much easier to filter spam from legitimate sources.
Wouldn't the a simple heat-sensing camera on a satellite or other distant object be able to detect when a reactor is shut down? It's probably pretty difficult to fake all that heat output.
I'm pretty sure "videophobes" would prefer a zero-bit black screen.
Between habitat destruction, energy usage, and pollution, "farming" is probably one of the most environmentally damaging industries out there. Since it's the only way to feed cities, yes, it's good to farm food. But farming non-food products is absolutely not automatically environmentally friendly by any stretch -and doesn't mean more trees in the world.
There's a reason the same book freely downloaded from archive.org costs at least ten bucks to buy in dead tree form. It costs way more in terms of energy, resources and man power to distribute books rather than electrons. When you're talking about periodicals or news, which is generally turfed after a day, the waste is even greater.
My ISP (acanac) said they are considering setting up encrypted VPN's if they start running into this. At that point, all bell will see is a single encrypted connection type - so yes, very quickly, everything will become encrypted if they keep doing this.
They already have 200Gb of online storage and are setting up "online desktops" which are RDP connections to a fedora VM with a 16Mb connection as free services -so I wouldn't put it past them setting up free VPN connections for everyone.
Obviously from my clarification, I do understand "them." If anything, I didn't spend much time evaluating the gp because it just reaks of a very common "snake oil" pitch (just with gasoline added to the mixture) - and didn't critically think of a catalyst effect.
The audio spectrum? How about 440Hz? The "middle C" key on every piano becomes a "pirate device."
I don't know about you, but I would define "completely amoral and dispassionate entity who seeks to maximize his profits" as evil -or a sociopath.
Also, if it weren't for a company trying to "circumvent" monopoly regulations, there would never have been a "Berkley Standard Distribution." So I suppose sometimes good can come from their "evil" ways.
GP was basically referring to a slightly more complicated version of the basic "dude.. my car runs on water" nutjob trying to convince people that by splitting water, and burning the hydrogen, they can actually get somewhere. Now, I suppose hydrogen may work as a catalyst to improve the combustion efficiency somewhat, so I guess it's not purely a "free energy" claim, but it's still pretty suspicious.