You must have some advanced users... most of the ones I know are completely lost if something is suddenly not where it used to be, or different colour, or different size, or the moon is full.
Well, there's exercising, and there's physical work. Digging ditches and what have you, is back breaking work. It's tough on your joints, it's tough on your back, by the time you're 40 you're gonna be hurting all over, and your face and skin will look like shit from being exposed to elements and UV all day. With a desk job, you have the option of getting outside after hours and on weekends. It's 'extra work', but you get to control how much of it you have to do, so you don't wear out and ruin your body.
Not only no legal basis, no logical one either. The CD is copy protected, so their copying excuse is now silly. No worries, they'll come up with something else.
In the original iTunes dialog box there was no mention of iTunes messing up your directory structures, filenames and ID3 tags. Just iTunes 'organizing your music library'. Heck if you're supposed to know what that means. Perhaps Apple users are used to applications moving their files around for them, so they knew the implied intent behind the question.
And now, even today, if you let iTunes normalize your tracks (ie detect track volume and adjust on playback so all songs play at roughtly the same volume), it will OVERWRITE, WITHOUT ASKING OR TELLING, the comment field of your ID3v2 tags with junk! Fuck, did that ever piss me off! you'd think it would do the smart thing and store that data in its playlist database, which it is apparently so 'famous' for.
Anyhow, offtopic, but this behavious is highly annoying. iTunes doesn't even give the user a choice, or notice, when it does something that irreparably modifies/destroys user data. You're saying that's a good thing? I'd rather have too many choices and too much information, than nothing.
Oh yeah, to follow up, you can easily find this out for yourself by playing a 2.35 movie on a standard 4:3 TV, letterboxed, and fiddling with the brightness/contrast controls. You'll see the encoded black areas right away. But at least you can used them to set your black level on the fly;) (adjust controls until the border disappears).
Anamorphic: Uses the entire height of the video stream (usually 480 pixels) with no encoded blackness.
This is not true. Take a look at any 2.35 widescreen anamorphic DVD. There most certainly ARE black bars encoded. There will be bars unless your picture is 16:9, 1.85 or whatever, and EVEN THEN, it probably does not fill the entire frame, there is usually a black border, or a partial border.
If the copyright holders are not willing to release a re-print, or release the work into public domain, then it may not be orphaned, but it's certainly not 'promot[ing] the Progress of Science and useful Arts" sitting in a vault somewhere locked up. If it can't be accessed by the public, and isn't making the copyright holders any money, what good is it?
But it did though. The US Govt is composed of the executive, legislative, and judicial branch.
The jury found OJ not guilty, not the government. The government brought the case against OJ, it wouldn't be very fair if they also got to hand down the verdict, hmm?
But you do have a point. If I was found not guilty of commiting some offense, how can I then be sued for damages from this offense, when just a week before everyone's saying I didn't do it?
Thinking further, it occurs to me that 'not guilty' does not mean 'did not do it'. It can mean any number of things, such as insufficient evidence, tainted evidence, untrustworthy witnesses, violation of rights, and other assorted miscarriges of justice. The jury can, in essence, throw out the state's case because they screwed up, and they can't just do that willy nilly because the stakes are too high.
This is not root DNS service that is down. It is Akamai's DNS servers, which provide DNS services for domains like yahoo.com and google.com. In the current configuration, should Akamai suffer a total failure or fault, all their DNS will go away, unless they have a backup service handy, and can repoint the 13 root servers to it in time.
Or may want to raise the value or appeal of the product.
I don't know if this qualifies, but look at the back catalogue of just about any music act that dates back to the beginnings of CDs. Soooo much stuff is out of print now, and you can't buy it at any price from anywhere. I mean, don't know if that's a 'burden', but it's certainly a pain in the ass to have to track down and download all the stuff I can't pay for anymore. You'd think if there's money to be made re-releasing ancient material the labels would be all over that in an instance (hey, money out of thin air!) but not so.
BTW, ATM is what DSL uses for the data transfer too, iirc.
That depends. Most ADSL is engineered with DSLAMs connected to some sort of aggregator (Nortel Shasta, Juniper ERX) over an ATM network. Newer tech coming in uses DSLAM equipment that can utilize GigE over fiber, so no ATM, it's all IP.
Hehe, that's what you get for 'mis'quoting anonymous sources;) 65W, wow, wonder how the guy arrived at that measurement. But think about it though, 65W, yes, drives are a honkin huge chunk of steel, but they still have to dissipate it, and they don't get nearly the thermal treatment that CPUs or GPUs get by default. So an uncooled 65W drive probably wouldn't last very long.
No drive does 50W. The 74GB 10k Raptor uses less that 10W. The Maxtor 15k Atlas SCSI (150GB) comes in under 15W. Takes less that 5 minutes to look up, no need to pull out wild numbers out of your ass.
Wait? What's this waiting bullshit? You must have some shitty ass controller (or driver). With Adaptec, you create your RAID, and it's ready to use, RIGHT NOW. Create a 4-drive RAID5 volume? No problem, just keep booting and start using it. It'll be a little slow for the first couple of hours, but it is completely, 100% transparent to the user, and, most importantly, the system.
And this has *WHAT* to do with porn web sites exactly?
John@DoJ: Hey Bob, HIV rates in Brazil are going up.... what should we do? Bob: Uh, I dunno... look at porn web sites and get paid for it? John: Brilliant!
'Free as in beer' does not imply 'free as in speech'. You still have to adhere to the licence, and if the license says no source modification and distribution, it doesn't matter how much the software costs, or if the source is available, you can't do it.
I can't think of a single person who said man, that sucks, I'd rather watch standard definition.
Of course no one would say that, because HD is no worse than standard. But I bet not very many people said, man, this is some awesome fucking shit! Better than sliced bread! Better than an orgasm! In fact, I'm on my way to [electronics store] to blow $4k on a set for myself RIGHT NOW!
Look man, HD is nice, but not THAT nice, considering 99% of the content. (No, I don't want to be able to count the individual pores on Bush's ugly mug during those 2 hour 'speeches' he gives on a seemingly daily basis.) Yes, eventually people will switch over as they have to buy new TVs and have no choice, but by then prices will have fallen to today's standard format levels, and there will be lots of content, and the HD receiver will be standardized and built into the sets, without having to plug into an unsightly and cumbersome set top box or adapter.
Just because it's free doesn't mean you shouldn't complain or that you should be grateful. If you can't or don't want to use it, what good is it to you even free?
GPL software does too have a cost to companies wanting to modify it (the primary route to GPL violations). If you use GPL software, make changes to it, and distribute the result, you need to make the source available, and that usually has at least SOME value to companies.
OK, let me repeat this in place of the other poster.
It's a STREAM. Not a file. You can't seek through it. You connect to a URL, and the server starts sending you a stream. The source is completely irrelevant. You don't get to specify a start location.
The buffering that is usually done when you connect to a stream is there so that sound can keep playing even if a few packets get dropped and need to be re-fetched, or if the connection temporarily stalls or slows down too much.
Some radio stations will stream from files, others will re-encode. Re-encoding is CPU intensive, so some bigger stations will encode all their content to the streaming bitrate, and stream those files without re-encoding. Either way, you can't connect to a stream and say 'give me the previous 5 seconds', or 'skip ahead 30 seconds and give me a 10 second clip', especially when the streamer itself may not even know what the next track will be.
Webcast radio stations work exactly the same way real-world radio stations do in this respect. They're not file servers. You don't get to call in and say 'I know 1000s of people are getting the exact same stream playing some song, but I'm special, show me the future'.
If you, or the original poster, know of web stations that let you fast forward or seek through the stream, please, let me know, cause I'd LOVE to see!
in a nutshell if you make over $30k per year you ARE RICH in America!!!!
No, it just means that you are NOT POOR! Once you start getting into the 6 figures, most people would consider THAT rich, as pretty much any purchase, aside from vehicle or property, is easily within reach.
If you check regedit.com, there's a setting you can turn on in the registry that will make everything on the desktop, and I mean everything, hidden. Take a screenshot first, and set it as the background.
The comparison to the current push for a War on Copying is that both unauthorized copying and drug use are widespread non-violent activities. They are both impossible to stop, but both Wars require gross invasions of privacy and civil liberties to continue their futile attempts at enforcement.
Murder is impossible to stop as well, would you suggest the government abandon all attempts to prevent it or prosecute it because it's hopeless?
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You must have some advanced users... most of the ones I know are completely lost if something is suddenly not where it used to be, or different colour, or different size, or the moon is full.
Well, there's exercising, and there's physical work. Digging ditches and what have you, is back breaking work. It's tough on your joints, it's tough on your back, by the time you're 40 you're gonna be hurting all over, and your face and skin will look like shit from being exposed to elements and UV all day. With a desk job, you have the option of getting outside after hours and on weekends. It's 'extra work', but you get to control how much of it you have to do, so you don't wear out and ruin your body.
Not only no legal basis, no logical one either. The CD is copy protected, so their copying excuse is now silly. No worries, they'll come up with something else.
In the original iTunes dialog box there was no mention of iTunes messing up your directory structures, filenames and ID3 tags. Just iTunes 'organizing your music library'. Heck if you're supposed to know what that means. Perhaps Apple users are used to applications moving their files around for them, so they knew the implied intent behind the question.
And now, even today, if you let iTunes normalize your tracks (ie detect track volume and adjust on playback so all songs play at roughtly the same volume), it will OVERWRITE, WITHOUT ASKING OR TELLING, the comment field of your ID3v2 tags with junk! Fuck, did that ever piss me off! you'd think it would do the smart thing and store that data in its playlist database, which it is apparently so 'famous' for.
Anyhow, offtopic, but this behavious is highly annoying. iTunes doesn't even give the user a choice, or notice, when it does something that irreparably modifies/destroys user data. You're saying that's a good thing? I'd rather have too many choices and too much information, than nothing.
Oh yeah, to follow up, you can easily find this out for yourself by playing a 2.35 movie on a standard 4:3 TV, letterboxed, and fiddling with the brightness/contrast controls. You'll see the encoded black areas right away. But at least you can used them to set your black level on the fly ;) (adjust controls until the border disappears).
This is not true. Take a look at any 2.35 widescreen anamorphic DVD. There most certainly ARE black bars encoded. There will be bars unless your picture is 16:9, 1.85 or whatever, and EVEN THEN, it probably does not fill the entire frame, there is usually a black border, or a partial border.
If the copyright holders are not willing to release a re-print, or release the work into public domain, then it may not be orphaned, but it's certainly not 'promot[ing] the Progress of Science and useful Arts" sitting in a vault somewhere locked up. If it can't be accessed by the public, and isn't making the copyright holders any money, what good is it?
The jury found OJ not guilty, not the government. The government brought the case against OJ, it wouldn't be very fair if they also got to hand down the verdict, hmm?
But you do have a point. If I was found not guilty of commiting some offense, how can I then be sued for damages from this offense, when just a week before everyone's saying I didn't do it?
Thinking further, it occurs to me that 'not guilty' does not mean 'did not do it'. It can mean any number of things, such as insufficient evidence, tainted evidence, untrustworthy witnesses, violation of rights, and other assorted miscarriges of justice. The jury can, in essence, throw out the state's case because they screwed up, and they can't just do that willy nilly because the stakes are too high.
This is not root DNS service that is down. It is Akamai's DNS servers, which provide DNS services for domains like yahoo.com and google.com. In the current configuration, should Akamai suffer a total failure or fault, all their DNS will go away, unless they have a backup service handy, and can repoint the 13 root servers to it in time.
Or may want to raise the value or appeal of the product.
I don't know if this qualifies, but look at the back catalogue of just about any music act that dates back to the beginnings of CDs. Soooo much stuff is out of print now, and you can't buy it at any price from anywhere. I mean, don't know if that's a 'burden', but it's certainly a pain in the ass to have to track down and download all the stuff I can't pay for anymore. You'd think if there's money to be made re-releasing ancient material the labels would be all over that in an instance (hey, money out of thin air!) but not so.
That depends. Most ADSL is engineered with DSLAMs connected to some sort of aggregator (Nortel Shasta, Juniper ERX) over an ATM network. Newer tech coming in uses DSLAM equipment that can utilize GigE over fiber, so no ATM, it's all IP.
Hehe, that's what you get for 'mis'quoting anonymous sources ;) 65W, wow, wonder how the guy arrived at that measurement. But think about it though, 65W, yes, drives are a honkin huge chunk of steel, but they still have to dissipate it, and they don't get nearly the thermal treatment that CPUs or GPUs get by default. So an uncooled 65W drive probably wouldn't last very long.
No drive does 50W. The 74GB 10k Raptor uses less that 10W. The Maxtor 15k Atlas SCSI (150GB) comes in under 15W. Takes less that 5 minutes to look up, no need to pull out wild numbers out of your ass.
Wait? What's this waiting bullshit? You must have some shitty ass controller (or driver). With Adaptec, you create your RAID, and it's ready to use, RIGHT NOW. Create a 4-drive RAID5 volume? No problem, just keep booting and start using it. It'll be a little slow for the first couple of hours, but it is completely, 100% transparent to the user, and, most importantly, the system.
It does if its range is 300 feet.
And this has *WHAT* to do with porn web sites exactly?
John@DoJ: Hey Bob, HIV rates in Brazil are going up.... what should we do?
Bob: Uh, I dunno... look at porn web sites and get paid for it?
John: Brilliant!
'Free as in beer' does not imply 'free as in speech'. You still have to adhere to the licence, and if the license says no source modification and distribution, it doesn't matter how much the software costs, or if the source is available, you can't do it.
Of course no one would say that, because HD is no worse than standard. But I bet not very many people said, man, this is some awesome fucking shit! Better than sliced bread! Better than an orgasm! In fact, I'm on my way to [electronics store] to blow $4k on a set for myself RIGHT NOW!
Look man, HD is nice, but not THAT nice, considering 99% of the content. (No, I don't want to be able to count the individual pores on Bush's ugly mug during those 2 hour 'speeches' he gives on a seemingly daily basis.) Yes, eventually people will switch over as they have to buy new TVs and have no choice, but by then prices will have fallen to today's standard format levels, and there will be lots of content, and the HD receiver will be standardized and built into the sets, without having to plug into an unsightly and cumbersome set top box or adapter.
Just because it's free doesn't mean you shouldn't complain or that you should be grateful. If you can't or don't want to use it, what good is it to you even free?
GPL software does too have a cost to companies wanting to modify it (the primary route to GPL violations). If you use GPL software, make changes to it, and distribute the result, you need to make the source available, and that usually has at least SOME value to companies.
OK, let me repeat this in place of the other poster.
It's a STREAM. Not a file. You can't seek through it. You connect to a URL, and the server starts sending you a stream. The source is completely irrelevant. You don't get to specify a start location.
The buffering that is usually done when you connect to a stream is there so that sound can keep playing even if a few packets get dropped and need to be re-fetched, or if the connection temporarily stalls or slows down too much.
Some radio stations will stream from files, others will re-encode. Re-encoding is CPU intensive, so some bigger stations will encode all their content to the streaming bitrate, and stream those files without re-encoding. Either way, you can't connect to a stream and say 'give me the previous 5 seconds', or 'skip ahead 30 seconds and give me a 10 second clip', especially when the streamer itself may not even know what the next track will be.
Webcast radio stations work exactly the same way real-world radio stations do in this respect. They're not file servers. You don't get to call in and say 'I know 1000s of people are getting the exact same stream playing some song, but I'm special, show me the future'.
If you, or the original poster, know of web stations that let you fast forward or seek through the stream, please, let me know, cause I'd LOVE to see!
No, it just means that you are NOT POOR! Once you start getting into the 6 figures, most people would consider THAT rich, as pretty much any purchase, aside from vehicle or property, is easily within reach.
If you check regedit.com, there's a setting you can turn on in the registry that will make everything on the desktop, and I mean everything, hidden. Take a screenshot first, and set it as the background.
Murder is impossible to stop as well, would you suggest the government abandon all attempts to prevent it or prosecute it because it's hopeless?
Amazing the things you can read into a simple number.