Oh, I forgot the reason your post prompted my post: even using my bluetooth mouse all the time, I only had to charge the mouse once every three weeks or so.
I bought a Microsoft-branded bluetooth mouse for use with my laptop 18 months ago, and it was great. Wireless mice, especially bluetooth ones, are fantastic if you move around a lot - e.g. home -> work -> school -> home - and you bring your laptop with you everywhere.
Fun side story: the bluetooth hardware in my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop pretends my mouse is a USB-connected two-button mouse in Linux even if (only if?) there's no bluetooth support in the kernel.
Now that I use a desktop most of the time, though, I use a wired mouse (Logitech G5).
All that said, I don't see how the mouse you use (on a desktop) affects programming very much. When I'm programming, the only things I use the mouse for are scrolling (when I don't just use Page Up and Page Down), selecting text (when I don't just use Ctrl+Shift+arrows), and switching editor tabs (for which I can rarely remember the keyboard shortcut).
Other than that, if I'm grabbing the mouse, it's to do something that isn't programming (e.g. solitaire, web surfing, etc).
Just a side note, Comcast's CD refused to run on Windows 7... and they provide no other method of self-registering your cable modem that doesn't involve a call to tech support.
Yeah, I never check mine; for all I know they could have sent me a notice about it. Not that I think they care about their customers enough to let us know. I think they send bill-related e-mails to that address.
Oh, look, I have three e-mails in that account: "Your bill is ready", "Come look at our new site", and "Tips on safer surfing". At least you can set it to forward to another address.
It was my intention to avoid Comcast when I moved to Washington, but it ended up being a choice between "Comcast in an affordable three bedroom apartment" or "Verizon FiOS in a neighborhood I can't afford". Seeing as how I can't afford something I can't afford, I chose the three bedroom apartment.
Technically I had another choice (Ygnition) but they provide a shared T1 and cap the shared line at 1.1 megabits per second... which doesn't matter much, since a T1's max speed is 1.544 Mbps. Oh, and it's more expensive than Comcast. I suppose I could have gone with dialup, but my anti-Comcast resolve isn't quite that strong. I want Verizon to bring FiOS to my area, but the chances of that happening anytime in the near future are slim.
Oh well. Comcast gave me their minimum cable TV service for free when I signed up for internet, which only gets local channels plus the shopping stations. Plugged in my new HDTV last week, and found that I get all of their normal base package channels. Yay for free TV! Maybe I shouldn't post this online...
I have a pair of Samsung 21.5" SyncMaster 2233SW monitors on my desk; their native resolution is 1920x1080. I know you said you don't really want bigger than 21", but 21.5" is close;)
I don't know:( I was just pointing out that any comparison of theft of tangible goods to theft of digital goods is inherently flawed, because copying a file doesn't remove the file from the owner's possession, while stealing a painting does.
Except she's not being accused by the RIAA of stealing the songs (or downloading them), she's being accused of distributing them.
NYCL has thoroughly disabused me of the notion that their claim has any legal merit, so I won't say more, except that it doesn't help that people keep thinking she's being fined for stealing or copying when she's actually being fined for distributing to other people (who themselves are stealing).
Based on 17 USC 106(3), it seems that if the RIAA wants copying via Kazaa and friends to count as distribution, they would need to get 106 amended in one of the following ways:
- change (3) to include "copying" or "providing digital copies" (or whatever the best legalese for that would be) in the list of distribution methods
- change (6) to read "in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission, or to provide public access to digital copies of the copyrighted work"
Assuming the RIAA got one of these changes to happen, would their case be less flimsy?
(I only bring this up because it looks like 17 US 106 doesn't take into account anything that is both digital and copyrighted, e.g. software.)
Nope. The RIAA was charging her with distributing them, not with downloading them. One of the key points of the RIAA's case was that Jammie "distributed" the files to MediaSentry, thereby proving that she was distributing the files.
I'm not amused by the RIAA's antics any more than the rest of you, but claiming "it's questionable whether she did it in the first place" is just willfully ignoring the evidence.
In other words, it's quite clear that she was intentionally making those songs available, despite her claims to the contrary. Her lies to the court certainly don't help her case any, and "oh noes my kid did it" is a stupid defense anyway. (Parents would be liable if their kid is selling pirated CDs on the street, for example.) She clearly is aware of how P2P works - she wrote a paper in college about how Napster-style filesharing should be legal!
I'm all for taking down the RIAA for the crap they're trying to pull, but Jammie Thomas is hardly blameless here.
I was under the impression that "distributing to MediaSentry" qualifies as distribution (as decided by the court), and therefore the RIAA did show evidence of distribution.
The problem with your "theft of a car" comparison is that when your car is stolen, you no longer have it - but when Jammie distributes copies of the songs, she still has them, and can repeatedly steal them. In other words, it's the whole "tangible" vs "intangible" issue.
To make your "theft of a car" comparison more accurate, let's imagine that you have a machine that instantly creates duplicates of your car at zero cost, but you don't have a license from Ford or whoever to make copies of their cars. Someone steals one of these duplicated cars, or perhaps you give them away for free. What are the damages? Are the damages simply the cost of the cars you distributed illegally, or are the damages the cost of what Ford would charge you to make and distribute their cars?
Isn't it illegal to show intent to distribute, though? It's illegal to distribute photocopied (copyrighted) books, even if you're giving them away for free. So, if a policeman walks by your front lawn and sees a sign ("Free, take one") above a stack of photocopies of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn, the policeman should arrest you for illegally distributing that work - even though he didn't see you actually distribute it. (I don't know that an actual arrest is appropriate in this case, however that's not really relevant.)
This comparison is even more apt, because there would be no way of knowing how many copies had already been distributed before you were arrested. Now obviously there's a limit to how many copies would fit on your lawn, and all that paper would be expensive, so they could maybe guesstimate based on how many boxes of copy paper you bought from OfficeMax last week - but they can't do that in Jammie's case.
I'm not amused by the court's decision to fine Jammie $1.92 million; there is no real possibility that the actual damages even approach that figure. However, I think the fact that distribution was enabled is enough for a legitimate conviction in this case.
I've always defined them the opposite way, with "intelligence" pertaining to how much information you've got stuffed in your head, while "wisdom" being how well you can apply that knowledge.
Yeah, I guess that's true. I bought my games before Blizzard offered them online, and I don't play WoW, so I haven't really had anything tied to my Battle.net account...
Though, are store-bought CD keys tied to a Battle.net account once you create the account?
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If I were doing what you're describing I'd load the data into a temporary table, clean it up as appropriate, and then load *that* data into the main table.
My former employer uses PostgreSQL because it's about a bazillion times better at handling large (read: several hundred GB) tables... and even then we made pg run out of internal row OIDs and we had to tinker with pg's innards.
Yay for large data sets!
That said, I use MySQL for small projects because I can't be bothered to set up Postgres on my server.
What does it matter how many players are active? The fact is, StarCraft tournaments are best done via LAN. If you have a hundred computers in a single building all playing with eachother, the last thing you want to do is pour that traffic in Blizzard's direction.
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Oh, I forgot the reason your post prompted my post: even using my bluetooth mouse all the time, I only had to charge the mouse once every three weeks or so.
I bought a Microsoft-branded bluetooth mouse for use with my laptop 18 months ago, and it was great. Wireless mice, especially bluetooth ones, are fantastic if you move around a lot - e.g. home -> work -> school -> home - and you bring your laptop with you everywhere.
Fun side story: the bluetooth hardware in my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop pretends my mouse is a USB-connected two-button mouse in Linux even if (only if?) there's no bluetooth support in the kernel.
Now that I use a desktop most of the time, though, I use a wired mouse (Logitech G5).
All that said, I don't see how the mouse you use (on a desktop) affects programming very much. When I'm programming, the only things I use the mouse for are scrolling (when I don't just use Page Up and Page Down), selecting text (when I don't just use Ctrl+Shift+arrows), and switching editor tabs (for which I can rarely remember the keyboard shortcut).
Other than that, if I'm grabbing the mouse, it's to do something that isn't programming (e.g. solitaire, web surfing, etc).
The domain resolves, but the server doesn't respond. There's a difference.
Just a side note, Comcast's CD refused to run on Windows 7... and they provide no other method of self-registering your cable modem that doesn't involve a call to tech support.
As others have mentioned, OpenDNS does the same redirection trick too.
Yeah, I never check mine; for all I know they could have sent me a notice about it. Not that I think they care about their customers enough to let us know. I think they send bill-related e-mails to that address.
Oh, look, I have three e-mails in that account: "Your bill is ready", "Come look at our new site", and "Tips on safer surfing". At least you can set it to forward to another address.
You call them and threaten to cancel your service unless they stop doing it. Oh, and you have to follow through.
That's why it doesn't really work. Most people won't follow through, even if they bother with the threat.
It was my intention to avoid Comcast when I moved to Washington, but it ended up being a choice between "Comcast in an affordable three bedroom apartment" or "Verizon FiOS in a neighborhood I can't afford". Seeing as how I can't afford something I can't afford, I chose the three bedroom apartment.
Technically I had another choice (Ygnition) but they provide a shared T1 and cap the shared line at 1.1 megabits per second... which doesn't matter much, since a T1's max speed is 1.544 Mbps. Oh, and it's more expensive than Comcast. I suppose I could have gone with dialup, but my anti-Comcast resolve isn't quite that strong. I want Verizon to bring FiOS to my area, but the chances of that happening anytime in the near future are slim.
Oh well. Comcast gave me their minimum cable TV service for free when I signed up for internet, which only gets local channels plus the shopping stations. Plugged in my new HDTV last week, and found that I get all of their normal base package channels. Yay for free TV! Maybe I shouldn't post this online...
Also, you won't hit HD until 22" with 1900x1080 res.
Samsung has a 21.5" LCD at 1920x1080. $180 after rebate at newegg. A pair of these decorates my desk.
Other than that, though, I think you're right; they just don't make HD-resolution standalone monitors any smaller.
I have a pair of Samsung 21.5" SyncMaster 2233SW monitors on my desk; their native resolution is 1920x1080. I know you said you don't really want bigger than 21", but 21.5" is close ;)
I got them for $180 after rebate on newegg, but no free shipping. Shop around, YMMV.
I don't know :( I was just pointing out that any comparison of theft of tangible goods to theft of digital goods is inherently flawed, because copying a file doesn't remove the file from the owner's possession, while stealing a painting does.
Except she's not being accused by the RIAA of stealing the songs (or downloading them), she's being accused of distributing them.
NYCL has thoroughly disabused me of the notion that their claim has any legal merit, so I won't say more, except that it doesn't help that people keep thinking she's being fined for stealing or copying when she's actually being fined for distributing to other people (who themselves are stealing).
Very interesting.
Based on 17 USC 106(3), it seems that if the RIAA wants copying via Kazaa and friends to count as distribution, they would need to get 106 amended in one of the following ways:
- change (3) to include "copying" or "providing digital copies" (or whatever the best legalese for that would be) in the list of distribution methods
- change (6) to read "in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission, or to provide public access to digital copies of the copyrighted work"
Assuming the RIAA got one of these changes to happen, would their case be less flimsy?
(I only bring this up because it looks like 17 US 106 doesn't take into account anything that is both digital and copyrighted, e.g. software.)
Nope. The RIAA was charging her with distributing them, not with downloading them. One of the key points of the RIAA's case was that Jammie "distributed" the files to MediaSentry, thereby proving that she was distributing the files.
I'm not amused by the RIAA's antics any more than the rest of you, but claiming "it's questionable whether she did it in the first place" is just willfully ignoring the evidence.
In other words, it's quite clear that she was intentionally making those songs available, despite her claims to the contrary. Her lies to the court certainly don't help her case any, and "oh noes my kid did it" is a stupid defense anyway. (Parents would be liable if their kid is selling pirated CDs on the street, for example.) She clearly is aware of how P2P works - she wrote a paper in college about how Napster-style filesharing should be legal!
I'm all for taking down the RIAA for the crap they're trying to pull, but Jammie Thomas is hardly blameless here.
I was under the impression that "distributing to MediaSentry" qualifies as distribution (as decided by the court), and therefore the RIAA did show evidence of distribution.
The problem with your "theft of a car" comparison is that when your car is stolen, you no longer have it - but when Jammie distributes copies of the songs, she still has them, and can repeatedly steal them. In other words, it's the whole "tangible" vs "intangible" issue.
To make your "theft of a car" comparison more accurate, let's imagine that you have a machine that instantly creates duplicates of your car at zero cost, but you don't have a license from Ford or whoever to make copies of their cars. Someone steals one of these duplicated cars, or perhaps you give them away for free. What are the damages? Are the damages simply the cost of the cars you distributed illegally, or are the damages the cost of what Ford would charge you to make and distribute their cars?
Isn't it illegal to show intent to distribute, though? It's illegal to distribute photocopied (copyrighted) books, even if you're giving them away for free. So, if a policeman walks by your front lawn and sees a sign ("Free, take one") above a stack of photocopies of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn, the policeman should arrest you for illegally distributing that work - even though he didn't see you actually distribute it. (I don't know that an actual arrest is appropriate in this case, however that's not really relevant.)
This comparison is even more apt, because there would be no way of knowing how many copies had already been distributed before you were arrested. Now obviously there's a limit to how many copies would fit on your lawn, and all that paper would be expensive, so they could maybe guesstimate based on how many boxes of copy paper you bought from OfficeMax last week - but they can't do that in Jammie's case.
I'm not amused by the court's decision to fine Jammie $1.92 million; there is no real possibility that the actual damages even approach that figure. However, I think the fact that distribution was enabled is enough for a legitimate conviction in this case.
IANAL, YMMV.
I've always defined them the opposite way, with "intelligence" pertaining to how much information you've got stuffed in your head, while "wisdom" being how well you can apply that knowledge.
"Piracy" != "Copyright Infringement" and "Copyright Infringement" doesn't necessary mean lost sales.
This is the one truth that the gaming industry will probably never admit.
There are other ways to get social interaction that don't involve computers.
But if you're going to a LAN party, you're going to a LAN party so that you can socialize with people while playing games.
Put another way, a LAN party is not very fun if your game keeps lagging, even if the guys you're playing with are an arm's reach away.
Yeah, I guess that's true. I bought my games before Blizzard offered them online, and I don't play WoW, so I haven't really had anything tied to my Battle.net account...
Though, are store-bought CD keys tied to a Battle.net account once you create the account?
If I were doing what you're describing I'd load the data into a temporary table, clean it up as appropriate, and then load *that* data into the main table.
My former employer uses PostgreSQL because it's about a bazillion times better at handling large (read: several hundred GB) tables... and even then we made pg run out of internal row OIDs and we had to tinker with pg's innards.
Yay for large data sets!
That said, I use MySQL for small projects because I can't be bothered to set up Postgres on my server.
What does it matter how many players are active? The fact is, StarCraft tournaments are best done via LAN. If you have a hundred computers in a single building all playing with eachother, the last thing you want to do is pour that traffic in Blizzard's direction.