Nah, you can have porn any time as long as your computer connects to the internet through a cable. Wifi porn is verboten, and messages must censor the famous "seven words".
So, what keeps me from getting a colo box in Canada and running a website from there? Or England, or Nigeria, or (nearly forgot) Poland.
Unlike Radio, it doesn't make a difference where I transmit from.
While we are on the subject, what constitutes using an IP. Do I need a "license" for a dial up account? Will I have to license every stinking moron in my building if I decide to do NAT translation? And what if someone hijacks my IP? Do I get fined?
The Internet is working very well as it is, thank you very much. If it's not suitable for some secure purpose, or it's not some idealic playground where we can set our kids loose and abdicate our responsibility as parents, then maybe we out to look at the wisdom of those 2 ideas. prima face they are stupid, and no amount of regulation is going to change that. Parents DO need to a) know what their kids are doing and b) prepare them to meet and overcome the temptations of this world.
As far as security goes, putting the FCC in charge is not so much to protect the integrity of messages sent, as to filter the content of what can't be. I refuse to live in a world where 7 words can't be sent over email.
The FCC has jurisdiction over RADIO transmissions. The purpose of their power is to prevent one company from shouting the other out by installer a bigger amp. The radio spectrum is finite, thus it needs to be managed accordingly.
WiFi aside, computer communication is more akin to telephones. It's point to point, so there is no way in which an individual node can crowd out everyone else... at least once it's plug being pulled.
This is a power grab. Pure and simple. Nevermind that the Supreme Court has ruled on this sort of thing before. (And not in the agency's favor mind you.)
I bought a house, and between my wife and I we pay about as much in loans as our mortgage.
In most of the rest of the civilized world, your higher education is free. Sure, you might be driving ambulances, or dodging bullets for a couple of years.
Then there is the issue of WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO LIVE. I can't find housing in the city that's less than $800/month. That is, of course, I move WAY out into the country (and spend more than that on gas and car repairs), share a place with 8 other people, or move into a slum.
For folks considering a slum, I spent more than my rent in utility bills and replaceing stolen and vandelized stuff than I saved. Don't bother to argue. I survived 4 years of living off campus in West Philadelphia. And "survived" is not sarcasm or exaduration.
I'm not worried about government meddling in the market.
I'm scared shitless about the manner in which the market meddles with government. Go ahead. Try to bid on a government project. Unless your company is a division of BLAH (Boeing, Lockhead, Accenture, or Haliburton), you are wasting your time.
You see, you aren't proven in the market place. While you provide excellent cost justifications, and your bid is a fraction of what these mega-corps are proposing, we would rather put up with cost overruns, delays, and mistakes from them.
Small businesses operate at a strategic disadvantage as compared to big business in both the market and regulatory environment. They will NEVER be able to pay you what a larger company could pay you, they can't muscle suppliers, manipulate markets, or finagle the legal process.
To work in small business you have to be content to operate in one of the niche scraps of the market that are not worth the effort of the big dogs. I spend months working on a business plan, developing technology, and hobnobbing with clients to start a business selling wireless internet access in small coffee shops.
All of that effort was flushed down the toilet by a single announcement that the city was contracting with some (nameless corp) to supply free or low cost wireless internet access throughout the city.
They have a grand total of 3 for-pay access points in a year. But no coffee shop owners, especially in the high volume shops in Center City, want to hear about setting up metered access. They fear sinking a couple of hundred buck only to have it ignored by folks surfing on a larger system.
It's tough to come up with a business plan that is a) profitable but b) not going to be eaten alive by a larger company as soon as it looks promising.
Especially when after wiping out you simpsons it gives Nelson's "Ha Ha", and when it gets to your Star Trek collection it emit's Bone's "He's dead Jim."
Object stay put until they are pushed. Once they get moving, they stay in motion, and in the absence of anything else, will stay at the same speed. There is a 1:1 relationship between how much "work" you do in pushing something, and how much "momentum" is stored up in the movement of the object.
Kinetic energy is proportional to 1/2 of that mass of an object times the square of the velocity (0.5*m*v^2).
For a one kilo mass to accellerate 10 m/s requires 500 joules of energy. For a one kilo mass to travel at 20 m/s requires 2000 joules. By the time you get up to orbital speed (>10000 m/s) you need 500,000,000 joules. A stick of dynamite is about 2 million joules, so the energy to kick a 1 kilo mass is equivilent to 250 sticks of dynamite.
In reality, 500 million joules per kg is the opening bid. For various reasons, simply blowing up 250 sticks of dynamite would obliterate most 1 kg masses. We have more luck stretching that energy over time by exploding fuel.
Well that fuel has a mass as well, and that mass ALSO needs to be accelerated along with whatever you are trying to get into orbit. The more fuel, the more mass required to move the additional fuel, and the whole thing snowballs into several rather nasty differential equations. (Thus the term Rocket Science.)
The space shuttle burns about 20 kg of fuel for every kg it gets into orbit. And that's using cryogenic hydrogen and oxygen (the best fuel:mass ratio possible with modern tech.)
Ok. Tower Records, on South Street in Philadelphia. My choices for the Beatles was the "1" album (released in 2001), an outrageously priced box set, or a couple of decade after the fact "greatest hits" albums. That's the biggest music store, in the trendiest location, in a Metro area with 4 million people.
If it isn't there it isn't available retail. Granted, you can order the really odd stuff on Tower's website (even in Vinyl). But for the prices, I might as well hit the collector's market. ($40 for an album that was a #1 in 1966? It's not like John is seeing a dime of that.)
First off, this isn't "ideal two-body gravitation". And even IN ideal two-body gravitation there is no gaurentee that a body will pass over the same point twice. (At least if you are modeling the system as two particles in a discrete time simulation.)
You fire a ping pong ball off at an angle in a vacuum with enough velocity to sustain orbit. At first the ball travels in a straight line. Over the course of the flight, gravity bends the flight path, If you balance everything out right, the ball settles into a circular orbit. Too much momentum (escape velocity) and the ball flies off into space. Too little and it doesn't orbit. It falls back to Earth.
The "point of final impulse" is really the place in which we start traveling perpendicular to gravity vector. For rockets we control that with a final nudge of energy. With projectiles it's something you would build into your launch calculations. (Or equip the craft with an orbital maneuvering system.)
The fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire can be traced to Consuls who refused to disarm their legions before entering Rome.
Though as sharp as Karl Rove may think he is, at least Julius Caeser successfully conquered Egypt, Gaul and chunks of England before he went around flaunting the rules. We have our hands full occupying one minor country.
As for me, I'm an old fart at 30 when it comes to my musical tastes. I REALLY would like to give record stores my business. But even going to a Tower records, with thousands of square feet of inventory, I can't find the albums I'm looking for.
Even if I can find the artist I'm looking for, all they have is their "Greatest Hits" album. Now, If I'm looking for a (c)Rap album, I can find 8 different mixes of the same album. But trying to find Devo, The Beloved, or even The Beatles and the Doors is a futile effort.
(He writes with a track from Abba that was downloaded off of iTunes playing in the background. Wait, now it's Berlin...)
I'm pretty sure that if you talked to someone from the 1860's, and tried to explain to them that there was an industry that was based on people paying for a music recording they would laugh at you.
The whole concept of copyrighting a recording is very recent (1910's or so.) Before then, you would copyright the sheet music, which was published like any other printed work. The whole idea of controlling the playback of music was originally laughed out of court. (The early litigation centered around the mechanical playback of music by player pianos.) What came out of those legal cases was the concept that merely transposing the musical notation into another form (in this case from sheet music to the punch cards for the piano) was considered copyright infringement.
Not because you copied the music, per se. Because you were selling a copy of the music. After a bit of wrangling congress passed laws dealing with "mechanical recordings" which paved the way later for wave-form playback devices that captured sound directly and played it back.
Then came the radio.
With radio (and recorded playback at public events), we had a dilemma. Radio wasn't technically "selling" a recording of the music. They were selling a performance of the music. After a lot of wrangling the music industry and broadcasters came up with a compromise: compulsery licensing. You purchase a license to play back music in public. The proceeds from the license are redistributed back to the artists and publishers. (The RIAA doesn't make a dime off of Radio, that's ASCAP's bailywick.)
With the Internet we have elements of both case law. On one hand we are publishing "machine recordings" of music. On the other, the mechanism to transfer the files is essentially that of a radio broadcaster.
In the end, we should have to pay for the recording. But do we make the check out to the RIAA (ala record sales) or to ASCAP (ala performance licenses). The RIAA, of course, is hoping that the money comes back to them. In the end though, it will probably be an ASCAP type of organization that deals with distributing music over the internet.
I used to do this, but Used CDS are getting to be really really expensive. Like 10-12 Dollars. I don't quite get that at all. Anyone have some insite to why they are getting to be so much?
Simple, supply and demand. In may cases, the only place you are going to find a particular album is in a used record store. (At least retail.) What was a second hand market is starting to evolve into a collector's market.
It's like the surge in "upscale" thrift stores. It turns out there is a market for retro clothing that is apart from the market for inexpensive clothing.
Heck, lobster used to be a low-cost offering for sea food. (There was once a prison riot in Maine over being served lobster.) Over time it grew into a luxury item.
When I was a boy, (back when computers lacked hard drives and we had to write our own games in BASIC) we had this music swapping system called casette tape. If that wasn't enough, rogue elements of the music industry were simply broadcasting these songs over the radio for free.
Heck, I remember that some of the stuff was so good that I actually went to the music store to buy the album. (Which was subsequently copied and distributed to friends...)
Is this article news, or merely that is covered by the Economist? Studies pointing out the drop in music sales are mostly due to a lack of stuff people want to buy are legion.
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She can't even understand the guys we talk to from Dell tech support.
No, it's the Scots that are cheap. The Swiss are just perfectionists.
Very good. What if it shot my weekend and buggered my hard drive? (Mounting a disk takes on a whole new meaning...)
Nah, you can have porn any time as long as your computer connects to the internet through a cable. Wifi porn is verboten, and messages must censor the famous "seven words".
Unlike Radio, it doesn't make a difference where I transmit from.
While we are on the subject, what constitutes using an IP. Do I need a "license" for a dial up account? Will I have to license every stinking moron in my building if I decide to do NAT translation? And what if someone hijacks my IP? Do I get fined?
The Internet is working very well as it is, thank you very much. If it's not suitable for some secure purpose, or it's not some idealic playground where we can set our kids loose and abdicate our responsibility as parents, then maybe we out to look at the wisdom of those 2 ideas. prima face they are stupid, and no amount of regulation is going to change that. Parents DO need to a) know what their kids are doing and b) prepare them to meet and overcome the temptations of this world.
As far as security goes, putting the FCC in charge is not so much to protect the integrity of messages sent, as to filter the content of what can't be. I refuse to live in a world where 7 words can't be sent over email.
WiFi aside, computer communication is more akin to telephones. It's point to point, so there is no way in which an individual node can crowd out everyone else... at least once it's plug being pulled.
This is a power grab. Pure and simple. Nevermind that the Supreme Court has ruled on this sort of thing before. (And not in the agency's favor mind you.)
I bought a house, and between my wife and I we pay about as much in loans as our mortgage.
In most of the rest of the civilized world, your higher education is free. Sure, you might be driving ambulances, or dodging bullets for a couple of years.
Then there is the issue of WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO LIVE. I can't find housing in the city that's less than $800/month. That is, of course, I move WAY out into the country (and spend more than that on gas and car repairs), share a place with 8 other people, or move into a slum.
For folks considering a slum, I spent more than my rent in utility bills and replaceing stolen and vandelized stuff than I saved. Don't bother to argue. I survived 4 years of living off campus in West Philadelphia. And "survived" is not sarcasm or exaduration.
I'm scared shitless about the manner in which the market meddles with government. Go ahead. Try to bid on a government project. Unless your company is a division of BLAH (Boeing, Lockhead, Accenture, or Haliburton), you are wasting your time.
You see, you aren't proven in the market place. While you provide excellent cost justifications, and your bid is a fraction of what these mega-corps are proposing, we would rather put up with cost overruns, delays, and mistakes from them.
To work in small business you have to be content to operate in one of the niche scraps of the market that are not worth the effort of the big dogs. I spend months working on a business plan, developing technology, and hobnobbing with clients to start a business selling wireless internet access in small coffee shops.
All of that effort was flushed down the toilet by a single announcement that the city was contracting with some (nameless corp) to supply free or low cost wireless internet access throughout the city.
They have a grand total of 3 for-pay access points in a year. But no coffee shop owners, especially in the high volume shops in Center City, want to hear about setting up metered access. They fear sinking a couple of hundred buck only to have it ignored by folks surfing on a larger system.
It's tough to come up with a business plan that is a) profitable but b) not going to be eaten alive by a larger company as soon as it looks promising.
I can count on one hand the number of executive level people I've seen fired. What is your point?
So if it's just me, can I spire to join one?
Well at least there aren't any commercials...
Especially when after wiping out you simpsons it gives Nelson's "Ha Ha", and when it gets to your Star Trek collection it emit's Bone's "He's dead Jim."
I'm hoping they do something creative, like sub in the "Indian Head" screen test.
Kinetic energy is proportional to 1/2 of that mass of an object times the square of the velocity (0.5*m*v^2).
For a one kilo mass to accellerate 10 m/s requires 500 joules of energy. For a one kilo mass to travel at 20 m/s requires 2000 joules. By the time you get up to orbital speed (>10000 m/s) you need 500,000,000 joules. A stick of dynamite is about 2 million joules, so the energy to kick a 1 kilo mass is equivilent to 250 sticks of dynamite.
In reality, 500 million joules per kg is the opening bid. For various reasons, simply blowing up 250 sticks of dynamite would obliterate most 1 kg masses. We have more luck stretching that energy over time by exploding fuel.
Well that fuel has a mass as well, and that mass ALSO needs to be accelerated along with whatever you are trying to get into orbit. The more fuel, the more mass required to move the additional fuel, and the whole thing snowballs into several rather nasty differential equations. (Thus the term Rocket Science.)
The space shuttle burns about 20 kg of fuel for every kg it gets into orbit. And that's using cryogenic hydrogen and oxygen (the best fuel:mass ratio possible with modern tech.)
You take your shoes off before you jump on a trampoline.
If it isn't there it isn't available retail. Granted, you can order the really odd stuff on Tower's website (even in Vinyl). But for the prices, I might as well hit the collector's market. ($40 for an album that was a #1 in 1966? It's not like John is seeing a dime of that.)
First off, this isn't "ideal two-body gravitation". And even IN ideal two-body gravitation there is no gaurentee that a body will pass over the same point twice. (At least if you are modeling the system as two particles in a discrete time simulation.)
You fire a ping pong ball off at an angle in a vacuum with enough velocity to sustain orbit. At first the ball travels in a straight line. Over the course of the flight, gravity bends the flight path, If you balance everything out right, the ball settles into a circular orbit. Too much momentum (escape velocity) and the ball flies off into space. Too little and it doesn't orbit. It falls back to Earth.
The "point of final impulse" is really the place in which we start traveling perpendicular to gravity vector. For rockets we control that with a final nudge of energy. With projectiles it's something you would build into your launch calculations. (Or equip the craft with an orbital maneuvering system.)
Though as sharp as Karl Rove may think he is, at least Julius Caeser successfully conquered Egypt, Gaul and chunks of England before he went around flaunting the rules. We have our hands full occupying one minor country.
The Bushies are too inept to take seriously.
(Pan and zoom to a cow with a crazed look.) MOO-OOO
Even if I can find the artist I'm looking for, all they have is their "Greatest Hits" album. Now, If I'm looking for a (c)Rap album, I can find 8 different mixes of the same album. But trying to find Devo, The Beloved, or even The Beatles and the Doors is a futile effort.
(He writes with a track from Abba that was downloaded off of iTunes playing in the background. Wait, now it's Berlin...)
The whole concept of copyrighting a recording is very recent (1910's or so.) Before then, you would copyright the sheet music, which was published like any other printed work. The whole idea of controlling the playback of music was originally laughed out of court. (The early litigation centered around the mechanical playback of music by player pianos.) What came out of those legal cases was the concept that merely transposing the musical notation into another form (in this case from sheet music to the punch cards for the piano) was considered copyright infringement.
Not because you copied the music, per se. Because you were selling a copy of the music. After a bit of wrangling congress passed laws dealing with "mechanical recordings" which paved the way later for wave-form playback devices that captured sound directly and played it back.
Then came the radio.
With radio (and recorded playback at public events), we had a dilemma. Radio wasn't technically "selling" a recording of the music. They were selling a performance of the music. After a lot of wrangling the music industry and broadcasters came up with a compromise: compulsery licensing. You purchase a license to play back music in public. The proceeds from the license are redistributed back to the artists and publishers. (The RIAA doesn't make a dime off of Radio, that's ASCAP's bailywick.)
With the Internet we have elements of both case law. On one hand we are publishing "machine recordings" of music. On the other, the mechanism to transfer the files is essentially that of a radio broadcaster.
In the end, we should have to pay for the recording. But do we make the check out to the RIAA (ala record sales) or to ASCAP (ala performance licenses). The RIAA, of course, is hoping that the money comes back to them. In the end though, it will probably be an ASCAP type of organization that deals with distributing music over the internet.
Simple, supply and demand. In may cases, the only place you are going to find a particular album is in a used record store. (At least retail.) What was a second hand market is starting to evolve into a collector's market.
It's like the surge in "upscale" thrift stores. It turns out there is a market for retro clothing that is apart from the market for inexpensive clothing.
Heck, lobster used to be a low-cost offering for sea food. (There was once a prison riot in Maine over being served lobster.) Over time it grew into a luxury item.
Heck, I remember that some of the stuff was so good that I actually went to the music store to buy the album. (Which was subsequently copied and distributed to friends...)
Is this article news, or merely that is covered by the Economist? Studies pointing out the drop in music sales are mostly due to a lack of stuff people want to buy are legion.