Yes, and that's fine as long as the college has reasonable policies and exemptions where they are appropriate. Fortunately, he can apply some pressure (even if small) on them to ensure that they keep up their end of the bargain. I have sympathy for both sides (trying to keep a college network clean and functional has to be a trying job at times).
Nonetheless, the "well, we own the network, so we can burn your money and kick you in the balls while laughing" attitude does no-one good in the long run.
What the crap is your own sense of morality and ethics? What do you value? I'm willing to bet there's a point where you sit and fume. What spurs you to do so?
In my own experience, the most legalistic sounding people I've known have the most idiotic expectations of what they should be able to get away with and have done the dumbest, most immoral crap.
Technically, yes, but we're quickly moving toward a society where consent to monitoring and search is required for simply existing. Applicable law or constitutional protection is being slowly circumvented step by step like you'd cut a label off with a E-xacto knife. I have absolutely no idea what to do, and I'm not about to withdraw and become a hermit (Slashdot jokes aside) but it does concern me.
(Does that make me a concern troll?)
Eww. I'm not generally a huge bandwidth user but I chewed through quite a bit after buying left4dead and the orange box (5 games for $10).
Crap, just watching some of the nicer vids on Vimeo or Youtube HD (or some daily show) can eat 4 gigs (I'm usually playing a game or chatting, working, wtfever when I watch video).
I'm sure you're talking about Professor Nesson, right? After all, he's the only guy I can think of claiming that illegitimate, infringing wholesale use of copyrighted material (not archiving/etc) is fair use.
Conversely, very many people are pushing the claim that fair use is so restricted and opaque that only lawyers or the highly educated should use it. That's dumb and bad for society.
Ah, but does that actually work at near-native (or at least reasonable) performance levels? I ask is because common knowledge used to be (until at least recently) "virtualization doesn't/won't do that."
Virtual machines don't support hardware accelerated gaming. That said, most games (read: everything except Crysis) have very low requirements. MMOs are a step down below that.. the $70 2.5 ghz Wolfdales are overkill for this.
exactly. it's the really low mpg vehicles that use the majority of fuel. if you're only using a teaspoon of gas and you quarter that, it looks great on paper when measured in MPG.. not so useful in reality.
True to a certain extent. However, the social costs of their decisions are much higher than the personal costs.
Even so, MPG is a bad measurement (the amount of gas you save for each % increase in mpg goes rapidly down as your mpg increases due to the scale. you might save tens of thousands of dollars going from 1-2 mpg and only a few hundred going from 20 to 40.) We should be focusing on getting the really low mpg cars off the streets, maybe with big subsidies.
I think she's guilty in a moral sense and not liable in a civil law sense =)
Isn't the RIAA trying to push some law to make non-commercial copyright infringement criminal?
I think it's fairly obvious Jammie Thomas is guilty. That's why the jury voted her down in the first place - and, more importantly, that's why the RIAA chose to push this case to trial (rather than one of the ones they dropped). However, they are also using it to push the "making available" offense and gigantic statuatory damages which I find revolting. (I also point to the hilarious ineptitude of their expert witness..) I would have no problem with a legitimate prosecution of Thomas if it weren't for these factors, and I don't think Beckerman would either.
"Should"?
Why don't companies? What are the downsides? I'm guessing much more effort would be required and you'd have fewer chances to optimize for faster equipment (unless you wanted to duplicate even more effort). In other words, significantly more expensive software..
Ahwell; everyone's buying laptops now, and those will break long before they go obsolete..
What!? I'd agree with you if not for the little subject of Intel's worthless POS integrated chips - the ones 1/3 as powerful as everyone else's integrated graphics. I like seeing desktop compositing and media decoding passed off to my GPU, thankyou very much =)
I'm not sure it's "OS Bloat". With indexing turned off and no A/V I get 0% CPU use. I can't imagine Antivirus would up that all that much more.
I think it's mostly little application bloat - quicktime and java and flash and the 182492814 other things you have to install sludge it up over time. A new installation IS so much faster than an old, heavily used one - even if both have msconfig startup lists cleaned out.
I had to re-read your hypothesis. It didn't sync up with the test you included.
The camcorders being used to tape presentations in my classes fail pretty hard. They also look like they cost craploads of money; it's just that the resulting quality is bad. Ripping a DVD is SIGNIFICANTLY easier than messing with a camcorder setup.
The problem is that Microsoft has never been able to make sure someone is a pirate before they bring out the big guns. If you call someone dirty names they're more likely to respond in a hostile way than if you incorrectly suggest they may be a "victim" of software piracy.
I don't think companies are doing that. I think they're paying, say, 1.2 years worth of money. Maybe they're not paying anything extra. Hypothetically, this is based on their superior bargaining position as compared to the employee (he needs a job more than they need him, and most companies in his field want no-competes.)
I agree that text configuration is easier (unless you've got a remote desktop style app). You CAN use a GUI for Linux network configuration, but it's easier for me to email a bunch of text "paste this in.." than it is to..
"Click on this. What does it say? Ah.. it shouldn't say that.. did you click on? Oh, right.. no, you should have clicked on.."
(I'm usually giving advice to people using a different OS than what I'm running).
That you would try to control the flow of information once you've released it to the world speaks volumes about your own greed, moral depravity, and intolerance for the rights of others.
I buy my crap, I just don't buy it from worthless scumbags like you.
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You're not going to be able to put a third party graphics card into 99% of laptops.
Yeah, I noticed that. The really obvious ones (breast cancer, some others I tried) get through fine. It's still ridiculous to me, though.
sex discrimination and sex crimes are blocked (just tested).
Yes, and that's fine as long as the college has reasonable policies and exemptions where they are appropriate. Fortunately, he can apply some pressure (even if small) on them to ensure that they keep up their end of the bargain. I have sympathy for both sides (trying to keep a college network clean and functional has to be a trying job at times). Nonetheless, the "well, we own the network, so we can burn your money and kick you in the balls while laughing" attitude does no-one good in the long run.
What the crap is your own sense of morality and ethics? What do you value? I'm willing to bet there's a point where you sit and fume. What spurs you to do so? In my own experience, the most legalistic sounding people I've known have the most idiotic expectations of what they should be able to get away with and have done the dumbest, most immoral crap.
Technically, yes, but we're quickly moving toward a society where consent to monitoring and search is required for simply existing. Applicable law or constitutional protection is being slowly circumvented step by step like you'd cut a label off with a E-xacto knife. I have absolutely no idea what to do, and I'm not about to withdraw and become a hermit (Slashdot jokes aside) but it does concern me. (Does that make me a concern troll?)
Eww. I'm not generally a huge bandwidth user but I chewed through quite a bit after buying left4dead and the orange box (5 games for $10). Crap, just watching some of the nicer vids on Vimeo or Youtube HD (or some daily show) can eat 4 gigs (I'm usually playing a game or chatting, working, wtfever when I watch video).
I'm sure you're talking about Professor Nesson, right? After all, he's the only guy I can think of claiming that illegitimate, infringing wholesale use of copyrighted material (not archiving/etc) is fair use. Conversely, very many people are pushing the claim that fair use is so restricted and opaque that only lawyers or the highly educated should use it. That's dumb and bad for society.
Ah, but does that actually work at near-native (or at least reasonable) performance levels? I ask is because common knowledge used to be (until at least recently) "virtualization doesn't/won't do that."
Virtual machines don't support hardware accelerated gaming. That said, most games (read: everything except Crysis) have very low requirements. MMOs are a step down below that.. the $70 2.5 ghz Wolfdales are overkill for this.
exactly. it's the really low mpg vehicles that use the majority of fuel. if you're only using a teaspoon of gas and you quarter that, it looks great on paper when measured in MPG.. not so useful in reality.
True to a certain extent. However, the social costs of their decisions are much higher than the personal costs. Even so, MPG is a bad measurement (the amount of gas you save for each % increase in mpg goes rapidly down as your mpg increases due to the scale. you might save tens of thousands of dollars going from 1-2 mpg and only a few hundred going from 20 to 40.) We should be focusing on getting the really low mpg cars off the streets, maybe with big subsidies.
I think she's guilty in a moral sense and not liable in a civil law sense =) Isn't the RIAA trying to push some law to make non-commercial copyright infringement criminal?
Excellent taste. What do you think of Coroner?
I think it's fairly obvious Jammie Thomas is guilty. That's why the jury voted her down in the first place - and, more importantly, that's why the RIAA chose to push this case to trial (rather than one of the ones they dropped). However, they are also using it to push the "making available" offense and gigantic statuatory damages which I find revolting. (I also point to the hilarious ineptitude of their expert witness..) I would have no problem with a legitimate prosecution of Thomas if it weren't for these factors, and I don't think Beckerman would either.
"Should"? Why don't companies? What are the downsides? I'm guessing much more effort would be required and you'd have fewer chances to optimize for faster equipment (unless you wanted to duplicate even more effort). In other words, significantly more expensive software.. Ahwell; everyone's buying laptops now, and those will break long before they go obsolete..
What!? I'd agree with you if not for the little subject of Intel's worthless POS integrated chips - the ones 1/3 as powerful as everyone else's integrated graphics. I like seeing desktop compositing and media decoding passed off to my GPU, thankyou very much =)
I'm not sure it's "OS Bloat". With indexing turned off and no A/V I get 0% CPU use. I can't imagine Antivirus would up that all that much more. I think it's mostly little application bloat - quicktime and java and flash and the 182492814 other things you have to install sludge it up over time. A new installation IS so much faster than an old, heavily used one - even if both have msconfig startup lists cleaned out.
I had to re-read your hypothesis. It didn't sync up with the test you included. The camcorders being used to tape presentations in my classes fail pretty hard. They also look like they cost craploads of money; it's just that the resulting quality is bad. Ripping a DVD is SIGNIFICANTLY easier than messing with a camcorder setup.
The problem is that Microsoft has never been able to make sure someone is a pirate before they bring out the big guns. If you call someone dirty names they're more likely to respond in a hostile way than if you incorrectly suggest they may be a "victim" of software piracy.
I don't think companies are doing that. I think they're paying, say, 1.2 years worth of money. Maybe they're not paying anything extra. Hypothetically, this is based on their superior bargaining position as compared to the employee (he needs a job more than they need him, and most companies in his field want no-competes.)
I agree that text configuration is easier (unless you've got a remote desktop style app). You CAN use a GUI for Linux network configuration, but it's easier for me to email a bunch of text "paste this in.." than it is to.. "Click on this. What does it say? Ah.. it shouldn't say that.. did you click on? Oh, right.. no, you should have clicked on.." (I'm usually giving advice to people using a different OS than what I'm running).
Let's take that argument to.. A. the governments debating which "open standard" they should use; B. Neelie Kroes.
I see this as a "risk" to the public of locked down devices. Yeah, it doesn't seem like a big deal, but it still pisses me off.
That you would try to control the flow of information once you've released it to the world speaks volumes about your own greed, moral depravity, and intolerance for the rights of others. I buy my crap, I just don't buy it from worthless scumbags like you.