Dropbox takes a hash of the file that you're uploading/storing and if they find they have it already they don't do the transfer over the Internet, they just copy their local file to your account. Machines on local networks sync via LAN not Internet.
For Amazon mp3 purchases from them they copy the file to your account also, just one download for your local copy.
For mp3's ripped and/or bought elsewhere they will probably already have a matching copy, so no transfer will take place.
Certainly the more popular songs I store in my dropbox a/c don't upload. Same for movies.
Also. Please look up 'html line break's, they work in/. posts and would have made yours much more easily readable.
I was educated in the Christian myth as a child, it distinctly states in the bible ( Genesis 1, unsurprisingly ) that God created everything, including specifics on light, earth, animals and the stars.
If we ignore traditional definitions of God then I feel we're in the position of inventing new Gods, or of amending the supposedly inviolate idea of God to fit our current beliefs and knowledge, which to me would be evidence that God is a social phenomenon rather than an entity.
To create everything from scratch God would have to at least understand *everything* and so has to be more complex than everything else. Just the knowledge of how to create a universe adds more complexity than a universe which has occurred.
You now have the same problem but one stage worse than the one you started with. 'Where did life/the universe/everything come from vs. where did life/universe/everything/God come from.
Occam's razor for me says if you leave the God part out you're closer to a solution, we have a large & growing set of information for this.
Faith is one word for it. If you'd been randomly allocated birth on a different part of the planet your idea of God would be quite different. If you'd not been taught it at an impressionable age you probably wouldn't have developed the idea yourself, because there is zero evidence.
- Mac's aren't exploited because they don't have case fans.
- Windows is exploited because windows is cool.
- Linux & Windows machines are made of 'more awesome' components.
I'm more a believer that the tiny spinning noise coming from over there is a fan in a mac, Windows has never been cool, and most desktops are made of very similar components.
I think Google's OS plans are to replace the need for Windows on a lot of devices and for a lot of people completely.
A perfectly working Wine extends the life of Windows by (not) emulating it, and Microsofts biggest customers are still likely to buy the 'official' version, especially when the FUD starts ?
I'd rather spend my millions working towards my customers using my product than an approximation of a rivals.
Or, the only things which run well on small underpowered devices are things written natively for them. html/js has awful performance across mobile devices if you're doing anything more than laying out a simple page, and maxing the tiny processor drains the battery quickly whatever.
Flash is write once - deploy nearly anywhere, it doesn't match the speed or economy of a native app. html/js is not really production ready unless you can exclude anything but the latest browsers from requirements ( hard as some of them are still unreleased ). If you want multimedia deployable across mobile/internet/ie
html = 1 x development costs. Flash = 1x dev costs. iOS app = 1 x dev costs. Android app = at least 3 x dev costs ( major platforms ).
Flash developers are upset about Mr Jobs' statement as it confuses their clients and badly affects their businesses. iOS is minority platform that now drastically limits the approaches available for building websites. I don't enjoy telling my clients that they can have the shiny they now expect, or they can have it working on their iPad. The only option for 1xdev cost is html/js. The only reason for this is iOS.
Between this and WebM/h264 it's a very badly managed transition stage for web based development, most of the technology being used is unfinished, against an unratified standard, with all kinds of parties attempting to 'own' parts of it. I understand and agree with the need for standardisation, but currently html/js + WebM is a large step back ( about five years ) in tecniques I can use, and quality of product I can produce.
Thanks for the thought and understanding you've obviously put into this. I'll drop Flash happily as soon as there's a suitable replacement technology.
Pssst. Your live box is probably getting more use than the test server, so it's hardware is likely to fail first. Your duplicate is just software, whether it boots or not is very little indication of whether the live one will boot also.
I can
I've done quite a lot of professional video streaming via website for large well known companies. They don't know/care/understand open source, they don't know/care/understand patent liability.
They want max bang for buck, where bang is video quality and buck is filesize/lack of streaming problems on a shitty connection.
That's still h264. It's often *stunning* in it's ability to compress quality video. WebM becomes defacto standard when it's a better tool than the alternative.
To compare this to png/jpg. They both have good uses, but jpg does better compression of photographic images, which is why your porn collection doesn't have any png's in it.
Google: We'll need all your email. Oh, hang on, we already have it, I'm indexi... done. Now, about this trial, oh, to show that there's no hard feelings we've sent a bunch of flowers to your wife in the shape of your most common search terms.
It's quoted often to demonstrate the authors misunderstanding of 'I have an internal monologue and I can't hear yours' whilst simultaneously demonstrating their ability to follow exactly the others around them without thinking or doing any research.
How much is a perfect, non destructive digital copy of some sounds worth ?
A - The historical price, based on the manufactured scarcity of now obsolete physical media ?
B - A price based on work input. Time making the recording ? Learning the piano ?
C - ( Costs / potential audience ) + profit ?
D - A price associated with the personal value placed in the recording by the listener.
I think we're closest to D now, people pay if the recording has sufficient personal value.
Personally, I'd rather be without billionaire pop *stars*, it's a recent bubble in the history of people making music and seems to tend towards bland conformity.
An enormous library of free to listen music, with opportunity to reward financially those musicians who make your hair stand on end sounds ideal.
My grandmother 'rose up' from the traditional kitchen and marched to London for equal rights for women, in her drifting final days she revisited this often, it was still very vivid for her and she felt she'd done something important. I agree.
The large battles for equality have been won. There's still a discrepancy in pay, there's still a shortage of women in power, but no clear way to balance this. Sweden has stipulated a gender split for company boards and the like, and it often results in inappropriate appointments entirely to conform to this rule. It results in people being promoted based on their gender, not their skills, which is bad for business, and bad for the person who just got ignored because they have the wrong genitals.
'Too anti men' implies that some 'anti men' is ok for feminists.
Basing any judgement on gender is the problem we're trying to solve, right ?
"All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws and their codes."
It's a soundbite which is deliberately offensive, which takes the worst aspects of a very small minority of a large group of people ( men ) and extrapolates it to create some kind of modern original sin, of which I am seen as potentially guilty of a horrible crime based sorely on my gender.
It's pure sexism, whether it's aimed at the society which encompasses me, or me directly ( Both in the full quote above ).
Were I to start a movement of radical menism, which included the idea that all women were whores, and only whores ( not you personally, of course, I just mean the society which includes you, your mother and your sister ) then I'd expect condemnation for it, I'd expect anger, and I'd expect people not to really research it because it's not reason, it's a baseless attack.
That feminism in general would be in any way associated with such bigotry is unfortunate, it does nothing for equality, it affects real rapists not at all and so very badly insults most men.
Marilyn French was an angry woman who was married to an abusive man for seventeen years. She possibly had a right to be angry.
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Dropbox takes a hash of the file that you're uploading/storing and if they find they have it already they don't do the transfer over the Internet, they just copy their local file to your account. Machines on local networks sync via LAN not Internet.
/. posts and would have made yours much more easily readable.
For Amazon mp3 purchases from them they copy the file to your account also, just one download for your local copy.
For mp3's ripped and/or bought elsewhere they will probably already have a matching copy, so no transfer will take place.
Certainly the more popular songs I store in my dropbox a/c don't upload. Same for movies.
Also. Please look up 'html line break's, they work in
You're forgetting that we'd then have the option of an American free Internet *
* The sound a car alarm blaring outside your bedroom window at 4am makes when it finally stops.
I was educated in the Christian myth as a child, it distinctly states in the bible ( Genesis 1, unsurprisingly ) that God created everything, including specifics on light, earth, animals and the stars.
If we ignore traditional definitions of God then I feel we're in the position of inventing new Gods, or of amending the supposedly inviolate idea of God to fit our current beliefs and knowledge, which to me would be evidence that God is a social phenomenon rather than an entity.
Never again.
War isn't a flashy news item with patriotic missiles gleaming off into the sunset, it's friends and relatives dying horrible, horrible deaths.
To create everything from scratch God would have to at least understand *everything* and so has to be more complex than everything else. Just the knowledge of how to create a universe adds more complexity than a universe which has occurred.
You now have the same problem but one stage worse than the one you started with. 'Where did life/the universe/everything come from vs. where did life/universe/everything/God come from.
Occam's razor for me says if you leave the God part out you're closer to a solution, we have a large & growing set of information for this.
Faith is one word for it. If you'd been randomly allocated birth on a different part of the planet your idea of God would be quite different. If you'd not been taught it at an impressionable age you probably wouldn't have developed the idea yourself, because there is zero evidence.
You seem to have accidentally posted generic flamebait rather than citations ?
Cool. Thanks, seems it might have been the second generation iMac, about 2003 ?
So far your input to this topic has been:
- Mac's aren't exploited because they don't have case fans.
- Windows is exploited because windows is cool.
- Linux & Windows machines are made of 'more awesome' components.
I'm more a believer that the tiny spinning noise coming from over there is a fan in a mac, Windows has never been cool, and most desktops are made of very similar components.
Citations please, mr troll.
Afaik the only mac without a fan was the cube, in 2001. Your troll is ten years out of date.
I think Google's OS plans are to replace the need for Windows on a lot of devices and for a lot of people completely.
A perfectly working Wine extends the life of Windows by (not) emulating it, and Microsofts biggest customers are still likely to buy the 'official' version, especially when the FUD starts ?
I'd rather spend my millions working towards my customers using my product than an approximation of a rivals.
Lack of mouseover/out is a touchscreen thing. You touched it, you clicked.
Or, the only things which run well on small underpowered devices are things written natively for them. html/js has awful performance across mobile devices if you're doing anything more than laying out a simple page, and maxing the tiny processor drains the battery quickly whatever.
Flash is write once - deploy nearly anywhere, it doesn't match the speed or economy of a native app. html/js is not really production ready unless you can exclude anything but the latest browsers from requirements ( hard as some of them are still unreleased ). If you want multimedia deployable across mobile/internet/ie
html = 1 x development costs. Flash = 1x dev costs. iOS app = 1 x dev costs. Android app = at least 3 x dev costs ( major platforms ).
Flash developers are upset about Mr Jobs' statement as it confuses their clients and badly affects their businesses. iOS is minority platform that now drastically limits the approaches available for building websites. I don't enjoy telling my clients that they can have the shiny they now expect, or they can have it working on their iPad. The only option for 1xdev cost is html/js. The only reason for this is iOS.
Between this and WebM/h264 it's a very badly managed transition stage for web based development, most of the technology being used is unfinished, against an unratified standard, with all kinds of parties attempting to 'own' parts of it. I understand and agree with the need for standardisation, but currently html/js + WebM is a large step back ( about five years ) in tecniques I can use, and quality of product I can produce.
Thanks for the thought and understanding you've obviously put into this. I'll drop Flash happily as soon as there's a suitable replacement technology.
IIRC, Flash has been able to handle scroll wheels since player 6. ( About 2002 )
Pssst. Your live box is probably getting more use than the test server, so it's hardware is likely to fail first. Your duplicate is just software, whether it boots or not is very little indication of whether the live one will boot also. I can
I've done quite a lot of professional video streaming via website for large well known companies. They don't know/care/understand open source, they don't know/care/understand patent liability.
They want max bang for buck, where bang is video quality and buck is filesize/lack of streaming problems on a shitty connection.
That's still h264. It's often *stunning* in it's ability to compress quality video. WebM becomes defacto standard when it's a better tool than the alternative.
To compare this to png/jpg. They both have good uses, but jpg does better compression of photographic images, which is why your porn collection doesn't have any png's in it.
Google: We'll need all your email. Oh, hang on, we already have it, I'm indexi... done. Now, about this trial, oh, to show that there's no hard feelings we've sent a bunch of flowers to your wife in the shape of your most common search terms.
It's not an analogy, it's a meme after 'sheeple'.
It's quoted often to demonstrate the authors misunderstanding of 'I have an internal monologue and I can't hear yours' whilst simultaneously demonstrating their ability to follow exactly the others around them without thinking or doing any research.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Or for Henry Ford
How much is a perfect, non destructive digital copy of some sounds worth ?
A - The historical price, based on the manufactured scarcity of now obsolete physical media ?
B - A price based on work input. Time making the recording ? Learning the piano ?
C - ( Costs / potential audience ) + profit ?
D - A price associated with the personal value placed in the recording by the listener.
I think we're closest to D now, people pay if the recording has sufficient personal value.
Personally, I'd rather be without billionaire pop *stars*, it's a recent bubble in the history of people making music and seems to tend towards bland conformity.
An enormous library of free to listen music, with opportunity to reward financially those musicians who make your hair stand on end sounds ideal.
Or, I got the entire point of your post, agreed with most of it and was attempting a little humour.
Whoosh back at ya.
I don't need an app to do beer/fart, nature has provided me a body with that exact functionality.
I enjoyed this on the subject: Where Wizards Stay Up Late
My grandmother 'rose up' from the traditional kitchen and marched to London for equal rights for women, in her drifting final days she revisited this often, it was still very vivid for her and she felt she'd done something important. I agree.
The large battles for equality have been won. There's still a discrepancy in pay, there's still a shortage of women in power, but no clear way to balance this. Sweden has stipulated a gender split for company boards and the like, and it often results in inappropriate appointments entirely to conform to this rule. It results in people being promoted based on their gender, not their skills, which is bad for business, and bad for the person who just got ignored because they have the wrong genitals.
'Too anti men' implies that some 'anti men' is ok for feminists.
Basing any judgement on gender is the problem we're trying to solve, right ?
They were written by French as fiction, and taken by radical feminism as truth. It doesn't change my argument.
"All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws and their codes."
It's a soundbite which is deliberately offensive, which takes the worst aspects of a very small minority of a large group of people ( men ) and extrapolates it to create some kind of modern original sin, of which I am seen as potentially guilty of a horrible crime based sorely on my gender.
It's pure sexism, whether it's aimed at the society which encompasses me, or me directly ( Both in the full quote above ).
Were I to start a movement of radical menism, which included the idea that all women were whores, and only whores ( not you personally, of course, I just mean the society which includes you, your mother and your sister ) then I'd expect condemnation for it, I'd expect anger, and I'd expect people not to really research it because it's not reason, it's a baseless attack.
That feminism in general would be in any way associated with such bigotry is unfortunate, it does nothing for equality, it affects real rapists not at all and so very badly insults most men.
Marilyn French was an angry woman who was married to an abusive man for seventeen years. She possibly had a right to be angry.
At him.