Why do people keep talking about 'buying' something from Netflix? It's a rental agency. Now, normally the DRM might be a real issue for me, but if I don't own it, I don't have much right to complain.
If you want freedom, pay full price. Or pirate, whatever. Or get blockbuster instead, at least the the DRM on a DVD is predictable.
They still use cocaine for eye surgery, and I'm not sure if anybody developed an alternative. I just hope the government is smart about this and restricts its usage to only people already addicted. I can see my mother having forced this on our family all too easily, without any regards for the consequences.
It'd be nice to offer addicts an easy way out though.
If the estimation of 1 to 4 hostile dreams per night (average) is true for humans, then that would put those dreams in the minority. If I remember correctly, you can have hundreds of dreams in one night.
This wouldn't really give a evolutionary reason for dreaming, just show a way that dreams have been adapted for something useful.
But storage isn't a linear cost. It doesn't cost me substantially more to store 10 GB versus 400 GB. All of the time, labor, and other associated issues with backing up are fairly linear. The only difference between storing everything I need, and everything I have, is the cost of a 500 GB hard drive, less the cost of a 80 GB hard drive.
I'm in the process of putting together backup functions for my home network right now. Almost all of my backup costs are incurred getting networking and servers (And power, though green computing tech is helping there). Now, all of this is going to average me less than a dollar a gig, though I'm not incurring the labor costs or redundancy of a business network, so this isn't quite the same as corporate backup. But if I made a bare minimum system that could only backup the things I need instead of want (or maybe just isn't trying to hold my FLAC collection) I'd only save maybe 80 dollars. If I was buying high reliability and redundant drives, that extra 400 GB (Which is what a post mentioned as the size of the email archives for his company) might run as high as 400 dollars.
No, because it's still orders of magnitude above what I get when I'm sleeping. (Unless I completely misinterpret and the experiment involves exposure to cellphone level putput and then sleep, rather than output during sleep).
Now, the headaches are less pleasant, and much more likely to actually happen, I'd probably get a headset if I actually used mine that often.
So... of those cards with full 3D support, will *any* of them fit in an x16 slot? The only one I can find is the 7000, and using it for anything practical seems futile, even if they made it to fit my system board.
What about support for onboard ATI graphics as well?
Access to the source code may not be available in a significant way. (The Microsoft shared source deal seems a good example of this, since they don't allow you to modify the code).
Actually, the biggest thing with OSS to me, as far as the DoD is concerned anyway, is that you can change contractors if you have too. You have everything, if for any reason the people who maintain the software now have a problem, or just aren't getting things done, you can hire somebody else to maintain the code instead (okay, so that's nowhere near as easy as it sounds).
Certainly better than getting stuck running windows 98 because the company that made the database software you use went under, and the only way to get the information in them is with obsolete software. (And yes, this happened to my grandparents company).
My understanding is that Bell/Gray's telephone was far from the first working voice link, it was simply the first practical one. Both Meucci and another man (I think out of Germany), had working telephones. However, the one Bell patented used an entirely different method. The claim goes more torwards the first *practical* telephone.
Given that Meucci's phone was developed 40 years before Bell's, and completely failed to catch on, I'd assume there must have been something horribly wrong with it.
(that is, 78% of all ads served to the Web pages of publishers who do not have proprietary ad-serving toolstoday, only MSN and Yahoo! have such tools
The claim the MSN and Yahoo are the only 2 companies with their own advertising tech is laughable. To start with, *anybody* can create a system of barter over email and Paypal. And I visit websites whose owners actively make a living that way. As far as private Doubleclick style software goes, the Keencorp pages seem to be littered with ads served off of something called 'gavsad', which seems a good example of 'publishers with proprietary ad-serving tools' to me.
The complaints also seem to ignore the rich plethora of small, hardly heard of ad networks/tools that various websites use. (Indieclick and Project Wonderful both come to mind). These ad companies seem to manage to exist without any real threat from monopolies.
Internet advertising seems to be a bad place to hope to squeeze the life out of all the competition simply by being bigger. It's not like traditional businesses. Overhead costs are largely linear, there are no suppliers to fight with simply because the small guy is beneath their notice. And refusing to use one product will never prevent you from using a different one.
Google also fails to engage in ani anti competitive tactics. Nobody is ever asked to sign contracts that prevent them from using a Google competitor as well (Something Microsoft continues in to this day). Nobody is refused search results or advertisement because they're competitors. (Given the dominance of Windows Live junk ads out there, Microsoft knows this damned well). And frankly, simply because Google *might* commit a crime at some point in the future, is no reason for them to be punished now.
Google is a monopo;y true (in that they have a majority of the online ads market). I fail to see what Google has done to damage competition though, aside from having name recognition/good products.
I wonder if it's occurred t you that when you pirate the music that the RIAA 'owns', that you help to cement their monopoly and keep the independent bands from accessing the distribution methods the corporations have locked in.
If you want to hurt the big IP holders, the answer isn't to refuse to pay, but to go elsewhere entirely.
1790 through about the mid 1800s... So they'd have been using a Vigenere cypher. (Invented in the 1500s, not cracked till the second half of the 18th century). One time pads may have been available at the time as well, though since the Vigenere was supposedly unbreakable (except by stealing the key of course), I doubt many would have gone to that kind of time and expense.
Not really true, yes, man could travel faster than information for short distances, but setups like the pony express and the Aztec runner network (a network of sprinters, who would run a mile or so, then hand the message off to the next runner and rest).meant that over large distances, information would overtake an individual. And that's discounting more advanced technologies like smoke signals and carrier pigeons.
Semaphore towers were probably a lot cheaper though.
Um, not to rain on your parade, but none of the players are kids in the legal sense, so giving them protections due to minors wouldn't make much sense.
As mentioned elsewhere, the case in question had nothing to do with the forums.
Yes, they had IP addresses of forum visits, in fact, there's nothing to suggest that they don't still have them. (Though new records are not being kept).
Yes, they removed public access to posts talking about piracy on the forums. However, posts talking about piracy do not have anything to do with the case at hand, which was a request for IP addresses for a different service. Again, most of these posts would still be available if a second lawsuit requested it.
If the MPAA actually filed a case that had anything to do with the forums, then yes, the destruction of evidence claim might have some merit. It would depend on how much the Torrentspy people kept of the originals. However, as the evidence in question does not relate in any way shape or form to any active case, destruction of evidence is a rather dumb charge.
This will work, sortof, but Vista only turns off Aero if *Vista* thinks your hardware isn't strong enough. And Vista thinks that 1 gig of memory, a 20 GHz single core processor, and a 128 meg graphics card is 'strong enough'. (Incidentally, be careful of vendors, they'll try to sell you an 'upgrade' from onboard memory with 128 of video memory, the things do *not* work right with Aero).
I've been there actually, though from sleep deprivation rather than cannibas. Watching a movie frame by frame is an interesting experience. (And no, it was not a malfunction, nobody else in the room saw it).
Trying to game them into giving me the copy of Ultimate. I very much want to sit there and let them watch all their usual spyware get ripped out of the registry.
Or possibly just complain that it won't run on my 256 meg PIII that 'runs Debian just fine'.
The sad thing is, I think the RIAA may be really hurting itself by driving people to torrents. Back when I used Kazaa (some time ago), a download session would be a song or two. While I could try to get large sets of music (IE, an album) completing a set was an extreme amount of work, and frequently impossible. Getting quality encode rates was just as hard too. Which meant I was left with plenty of music to buy, and both I and my brother frequently bought music from bands we also pirated from.
This gives you the 'not much if any loss' model people use to defend* P2P sharing. Thing is, when I cam back, briefly, to the piracy of music, the model had changed, and to get what I wanted the only truly effective means was bittorrent. So despite that I only needed 3 or so songs (I was taking a history of rock class at the time, and the service we were *supposed* to get for listening to the songs the textbook referred to had been shut down), I ended up with the complete works of 3 different bands.
However much I've grown to love the bands in question, there is very very little incentive for me to buy the musuc now. (Except for pretentious use of FLAC, if anybody knows were I can get a decent price on a box set of Velvet Underground, let me know).
*I'm not seeking to defend piracy here, just pointing out that gnutella style P2P is a fairly minor threat to the bottom line. There are lots of other reasons to avoid piracy.
Extending the car analogy... no, you don't need to know how to take apart and rebuild an engine in order to drive, It helps if you know enough to be able to tell if the mechanic is feeding you a line. But other than that, you do need to know that maitenance needs to be done. Not paying for antivirus updates is kinda like not ever getting your oil changed.
Scarier than people without antiviruses though, are the people who think that just having an antivirus (any antivirus) protects them. Partly you have people who just don't understand that the antivirus vendors are lousy at catching spyware, and partly it's people who just don't get that McAfee/Trendmicro/AVG just aren't that good. (Yes, Norton is a Virus, but out of the AVs with name recognition, it's the only one I'd trust to shine my shoes, let alone protect my family's computers, so it tends to be best with people who insist on a brand they recognize).
I can't really blame people for not understanding there's a difference in quality of AVs either. A couple of years ago, before I started dealing with machines that use inferior tools on a day to day basis, I would have told you to just get AVG.
- Start reading to them VERY YOUNG. Studies show that this (on average) has no effect on the child in later life. So that advice, on it's own, would seem to be useless.
More interestingly, studies show that growing up in a home with a variety of books *does* seem to lead to greater intelligence (probably not directly of course). So the idea of reading yourself and setting an example are probably a good idea.
More importantly, try reading *different things* to your children. Reciting the same book to them every night isn't going to provide much stimulation.
Biggest thing though, has got to be not trusting the public schools to do their job. I was told I was reading at a sixth grade level at a time when I would consider myself to have been illiterate, the fact that schools are churning out people who can't even accomplish that is truly frightening. I have to deal with the aftermath of all this on a daily basis too, adult semi-literacy seems to be rampant.
Given that the biggest figure I can find outside of that on the net is an 8th the size of what the lancet report claims (noting that the ~85000 figure discounts non civilian deaths, I don't think the military/terrorist death reach anywhere near 580 thousand though), I'd say the Lancet Report is likely pretty damned inaccurate.
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Why do people keep talking about 'buying' something from Netflix? It's a rental agency. Now, normally the DRM might be a real issue for me, but if I don't own it, I don't have much right to complain.
If you want freedom, pay full price. Or pirate, whatever. Or get blockbuster instead, at least the the DRM on a DVD is predictable.
They still use cocaine for eye surgery, and I'm not sure if anybody developed an alternative. I just hope the government is smart about this and restricts its usage to only people already addicted. I can see my mother having forced this on our family all too easily, without any regards for the consequences.
It'd be nice to offer addicts an easy way out though.
How is it going to be multiplatform if the content creators use .NET?
If the estimation of 1 to 4 hostile dreams per night (average) is true for humans, then that would put those dreams in the minority. If I remember correctly, you can have hundreds of dreams in one night.
This wouldn't really give a evolutionary reason for dreaming, just show a way that dreams have been adapted for something useful.
But storage isn't a linear cost. It doesn't cost me substantially more to store 10 GB versus 400 GB. All of the time, labor, and other associated issues with backing up are fairly linear. The only difference between storing everything I need, and everything I have, is the cost of a 500 GB hard drive, less the cost of a 80 GB hard drive.
I'm in the process of putting together backup functions for my home network right now. Almost all of my backup costs are incurred getting networking and servers (And power, though green computing tech is helping there). Now, all of this is going to average me less than a dollar a gig, though I'm not incurring the labor costs or redundancy of a business network, so this isn't quite the same as corporate backup. But if I made a bare minimum system that could only backup the things I need instead of want (or maybe just isn't trying to hold my FLAC collection) I'd only save maybe 80 dollars. If I was buying high reliability and redundant drives, that extra 400 GB (Which is what a post mentioned as the size of the email archives for his company) might run as high as 400 dollars.
No, because it's still orders of magnitude above what I get when I'm sleeping. (Unless I completely misinterpret and the experiment involves exposure to cellphone level putput and then sleep, rather than output during sleep).
Now, the headaches are less pleasant, and much more likely to actually happen, I'd probably get a headset if I actually used mine that often.
So... of those cards with full 3D support, will *any* of them fit in an x16 slot? The only one I can find is the 7000, and using it for anything practical seems futile, even if they made it to fit my system board.
What about support for onboard ATI graphics as well?
Access to the source code may not be available in a significant way. (The Microsoft shared source deal seems a good example of this, since they don't allow you to modify the code).
Actually, the biggest thing with OSS to me, as far as the DoD is concerned anyway, is that you can change contractors if you have too. You have everything, if for any reason the people who maintain the software now have a problem, or just aren't getting things done, you can hire somebody else to maintain the code instead (okay, so that's nowhere near as easy as it sounds).
Certainly better than getting stuck running windows 98 because the company that made the database software you use went under, and the only way to get the information in them is with obsolete software. (And yes, this happened to my grandparents company).
My understanding is that Bell/Gray's telephone was far from the first working voice link, it was simply the first practical one. Both Meucci and another man (I think out of Germany), had working telephones. However, the one Bell patented used an entirely different method. The claim goes more torwards the first *practical* telephone.
Given that Meucci's phone was developed 40 years before Bell's, and completely failed to catch on, I'd assume there must have been something horribly wrong with it.
The claim the MSN and Yahoo are the only 2 companies with their own advertising tech is laughable. To start with, *anybody* can create a system of barter over email and Paypal. And I visit websites whose owners actively make a living that way. As far as private Doubleclick style software goes, the Keencorp pages seem to be littered with ads served off of something called 'gavsad', which seems a good example of 'publishers with proprietary ad-serving tools' to me.
The complaints also seem to ignore the rich plethora of small, hardly heard of ad networks/tools that various websites use. (Indieclick and Project Wonderful both come to mind). These ad companies seem to manage to exist without any real threat from monopolies.
Internet advertising seems to be a bad place to hope to squeeze the life out of all the competition simply by being bigger. It's not like traditional businesses. Overhead costs are largely linear, there are no suppliers to fight with simply because the small guy is beneath their notice. And refusing to use one product will never prevent you from using a different one.
Google also fails to engage in ani anti competitive tactics. Nobody is ever asked to sign contracts that prevent them from using a Google competitor as well (Something Microsoft continues in to this day). Nobody is refused search results or advertisement because they're competitors. (Given the dominance of Windows Live junk ads out there, Microsoft knows this damned well). And frankly, simply because Google *might* commit a crime at some point in the future, is no reason for them to be punished now.
Google is a monopo;y true (in that they have a majority of the online ads market). I fail to see what Google has done to damage competition though, aside from having name recognition/good products.
I wonder if it's occurred t you that when you pirate the music that the RIAA 'owns', that you help to cement their monopoly and keep the independent bands from accessing the distribution methods the corporations have locked in.
If you want to hurt the big IP holders, the answer isn't to refuse to pay, but to go elsewhere entirely.
1790 through about the mid 1800s... So they'd have been using a Vigenere cypher. (Invented in the 1500s, not cracked till the second half of the 18th century). One time pads may have been available at the time as well, though since the Vigenere was supposedly unbreakable (except by stealing the key of course), I doubt many would have gone to that kind of time and expense.
Not really true, yes, man could travel faster than information for short distances, but setups like the pony express and the Aztec runner network (a network of sprinters, who would run a mile or so, then hand the message off to the next runner and rest) .meant that over large distances, information would overtake an individual. And that's discounting more advanced technologies like smoke signals and carrier pigeons.
Semaphore towers were probably a lot cheaper though.
Um, not to rain on your parade, but none of the players are kids in the legal sense, so giving them protections due to minors wouldn't make much sense.
As mentioned elsewhere, the case in question had nothing to do with the forums.
Yes, they had IP addresses of forum visits, in fact, there's nothing to suggest that they don't still have them. (Though new records are not being kept).
Yes, they removed public access to posts talking about piracy on the forums. However, posts talking about piracy do not have anything to do with the case at hand, which was a request for IP addresses for a different service. Again, most of these posts would still be available if a second lawsuit requested it.
If the MPAA actually filed a case that had anything to do with the forums, then yes, the destruction of evidence claim might have some merit. It would depend on how much the Torrentspy people kept of the originals. However, as the evidence in question does not relate in any way shape or form to any active case, destruction of evidence is a rather dumb charge.
er... 2.0 GHz, sorry.
Genesis actually was the first time around, the bible kinda got screwed up with various old versions of the world.
In fact, most religions seem to have been old versions of the universe that have linked into the minds of deranged prophets.
Just for reference, the universe we're (or at least, I'm) in, is version 5.1b
This will work, sortof, but Vista only turns off Aero if *Vista* thinks your hardware isn't strong enough. And Vista thinks that 1 gig of memory, a 20 GHz single core processor, and a 128 meg graphics card is 'strong enough'. (Incidentally, be careful of vendors, they'll try to sell you an 'upgrade' from onboard memory with 128 of video memory, the things do *not* work right with Aero).
I've been there actually, though from sleep deprivation rather than cannibas. Watching a movie frame by frame is an interesting experience. (And no, it was not a malfunction, nobody else in the room saw it).
Trying to game them into giving me the copy of Ultimate. I very much want to sit there and let them watch all their usual spyware get ripped out of the registry.
Or possibly just complain that it won't run on my 256 meg PIII that 'runs Debian just fine'.
Or... well, the list is endless.
The sad thing is, I think the RIAA may be really hurting itself by driving people to torrents. Back when I used Kazaa (some time ago), a download session would be a song or two. While I could try to get large sets of music (IE, an album) completing a set was an extreme amount of work, and frequently impossible. Getting quality encode rates was just as hard too. Which meant I was left with plenty of music to buy, and both I and my brother frequently bought music from bands we also pirated from.
This gives you the 'not much if any loss' model people use to defend* P2P sharing. Thing is, when I cam back, briefly, to the piracy of music, the model had changed, and to get what I wanted the only truly effective means was bittorrent. So despite that I only needed 3 or so songs (I was taking a history of rock class at the time, and the service we were *supposed* to get for listening to the songs the textbook referred to had been shut down), I ended up with the complete works of 3 different bands.
However much I've grown to love the bands in question, there is very very little incentive for me to buy the musuc now. (Except for pretentious use of FLAC, if anybody knows were I can get a decent price on a box set of Velvet Underground, let me know).
*I'm not seeking to defend piracy here, just pointing out that gnutella style P2P is a fairly minor threat to the bottom line. There are lots of other reasons to avoid piracy.
Extending the car analogy... no, you don't need to know how to take apart and rebuild an engine in order to drive, It helps if you know enough to be able to tell if the mechanic is feeding you a line. But other than that, you do need to know that maitenance needs to be done. Not paying for antivirus updates is kinda like not ever getting your oil changed.
Scarier than people without antiviruses though, are the people who think that just having an antivirus (any antivirus) protects them. Partly you have people who just don't understand that the antivirus vendors are lousy at catching spyware, and partly it's people who just don't get that McAfee/Trendmicro/AVG just aren't that good. (Yes, Norton is a Virus, but out of the AVs with name recognition, it's the only one I'd trust to shine my shoes, let alone protect my family's computers, so it tends to be best with people who insist on a brand they recognize).
I can't really blame people for not understanding there's a difference in quality of AVs either. A couple of years ago, before I started dealing with machines that use inferior tools on a day to day basis, I would have told you to just get AVG.
More interestingly, studies show that growing up in a home with a variety of books *does* seem to lead to greater intelligence (probably not directly of course). So the idea of reading yourself and setting an example are probably a good idea.
More importantly, try reading *different things* to your children. Reciting the same book to them every night isn't going to provide much stimulation.
Biggest thing though, has got to be not trusting the public schools to do their job. I was told I was reading at a sixth grade level at a time when I would consider myself to have been illiterate, the fact that schools are churning out people who can't even accomplish that is truly frightening. I have to deal with the aftermath of all this on a daily basis too, adult semi-literacy seems to be rampant.
Given that the biggest figure I can find outside of that on the net is an 8th the size of what the lancet report claims (noting that the ~85000 figure discounts non civilian deaths, I don't think the military/terrorist death reach anywhere near 580 thousand though), I'd say the Lancet Report is likely pretty damned inaccurate.