On a small scale they could assign an officer to follow you around and make sure you don't borrow someone's cell phone or use a public kiosk to check your mail, but keeping track of everyone who's downloaded more than three mp3s or unlicensed videos would require some sort of national ID system... perhaps they could put all of Canada on a proxy server?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it illegal to resell or redistribute IP? From what I've read several famous organizations that end in, "AA" seem to think so.
Well, $1,173.15 US dollars. Perhaps GP poster is converting to euro dollars? In AUD, CAD, HKD, and pretty much every other dollar I could find it's closer to the US figure than the GP's.
Somehow this strikes me as more of a, "brown acid" than, "scooby snack" kind of thing. If I was at a party and saw some guy standing on the toilet brandishing a plunger while trying to bite the liberal monkeys gerrymandering his aura off his back to restore the curvature of the earth I, personally, would much rather have what the four guys sitting on the couch discovering new subtleties of a cult movie or drawing up plans for a time machine were smoking.
I own a Treo 680 and while I can use a Web Browser, SSH, Telnet, TinyVNC, and even read Acrobat or Word files on it... You must have very small fingers.
Actually, I was seriously thinking that a huge pile of inexpensive, efficient, low-power systems might be useful for something. If I were to link 500 of these things together It might be useful for something... weather forecasting, maybe?
I disagree. Most users only need a laptop to play mp3s, chat, shop, and do light web stuff. The heavy stuff is why you have a first computer. If a contingency comes up where you need to create a multimedia presentation or write a thesis before you can get to your main box you can always borrow the local geek's portable gaming rig or use the desktop in the library or the back room. If you need massive screen real estate or processing power on a regular basis from your secondary computer, chances are you're not an, "average user". It's like saying a SMART fourtwo doesn't make a good second car because the situation might arise where it snows 2 feet files you're at work and you won't be comfortable driving it home or you might take it out to the pub and be unable to ferry three drunk chicks you picked up home. Those aren't likely. If you have kids you might have to pick up from school and ferry to extra curricular activities on a regular basis or live an area where freak blizzards are a common occurrence the fourtwo's not for you, but that doesn't mean it's not a good second car for someone who just needs something to putter around in.
It used to happen to me all the time way back when I had the patience to use p2p. I really don't know how it took 256+ hops to find someone with the same musical tastes as I had, but an mp3 could take months to complete, if it completed at all, because the one other guy in the state who liked, say, Wumpscut hand an HD meltdown.
Every one of those watts that goes into your computer comes out as heat though. Imagine a future where frying an egg on your cpu, gpu, or any other major hardware component is hyperbole again.
How about a can for each recipient they have spammed? Spam's like twinkies. It doesn't go bad until after you open it, but if you had to eat 400 or so cans of the stuff you'd probably die, or at least puke a lot.
Runs on 100 octane leaded fuel that goes for around $10 a gallon where spending $4 a gallon for the automotive stuff is front-page news.
Requires 40-60 hours of training just to be eligible for a license in a country where anyone off the street who can parallel park, recognize road signs, and answer a couple questions about local regulations can drive a car.
Has a ground-roll of about a quarter-mile (400m) if you're planning on clearing the trees at the end of the runway.
Requires ground transportation for not only the, "last mile", but also the, "first mile".
Requires maintenance well beyond the standard automobile's oil change every three to five thousand miles in both price and complexity.
That is far from what I'd call convenient or cost effective. Not that there aren't good reasons for these additional complexities, but it's by no means a, " flying car". What I, and I believe most people, think of when they hear the term, " flying car" is something that will fit in a garage, be airborne by the end of the driveway, land in a regular parking spot, run on pump regular, and a reasonably responsible sane parent could buy for his or her high-schooler bringing home a good report card without having to spend $30K on lessons.
Maybe there are things that could be considered, " Flying cars", but, certainly nothing as cost effective, convenient, or safe as to be accessible to the common man. Let's face it: The flying cars are fail. Right now I'd be happy with a car that was cheaper than taking a commercial airline on a mile for mile basis.
From the terminology in TFA it sounds like eBay is suing Craigslist for not being good enough competition. They're suing on the grounds that Craigslist did something that reduced the value of eBay's investment in Craigslist.
The purchase of Gracenote puts SONY in an excellent position to squeeze online mp3 vendors. They also now have the power to introduce their own, "standard," for which they charge ludicrous licensing fees and kill the CDDB standard. If you look at SONY's past behavior this does seem likely, and even though there are several benign reasons they'd make a move like this one has to consider all the likely options.
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Most of the laws of physics haven't changed in about a dozen billion years, give or take... at least, 6,000 if you're a creationist.
On a small scale they could assign an officer to follow you around and make sure you don't borrow someone's cell phone or use a public kiosk to check your mail, but keeping track of everyone who's downloaded more than three mp3s or unlicensed videos would require some sort of national ID system... perhaps they could put all of Canada on a proxy server?
Well, "If There's One Thing an Englishman Knows, It's How to Queue."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it illegal to resell or redistribute IP? From what I've read several famous organizations that end in, "AA" seem to think so.
Well, $1,173.15 US dollars. Perhaps GP poster is converting to euro dollars? In AUD, CAD, HKD, and pretty much every other dollar I could find it's closer to the US figure than the GP's.
To imagine a beowolf cluster of these?
Somehow this strikes me as more of a, "brown acid" than, "scooby snack" kind of thing. If I was at a party and saw some guy standing on the toilet brandishing a plunger while trying to bite the liberal monkeys gerrymandering his aura off his back to restore the curvature of the earth I, personally, would much rather have what the four guys sitting on the couch discovering new subtleties of a cult movie or drawing up plans for a time machine were smoking.
I've always wondered about that question: Why would one want to smoke something that's only apparent effect is to turn you into a raving kook?
Wasn't that a duplication machine that The Great Danton modified to operate as such?
There's an obligatory, "you must be new here" to tack on to that, but it seems the hackneyed old memes are finally growing annoying.
It really never ceases to amaze me how much silicon wants to form into neat geometric shapes. Please don't tell the creationists about this one.
Actually, I was seriously thinking that a huge pile of inexpensive, efficient, low-power systems might be useful for something. If I were to link 500 of these things together It might be useful for something... weather forecasting, maybe?
I disagree. Most users only need a laptop to play mp3s, chat, shop, and do light web stuff. The heavy stuff is why you have a first computer. If a contingency comes up where you need to create a multimedia presentation or write a thesis before you can get to your main box you can always borrow the local geek's portable gaming rig or use the desktop in the library or the back room. If you need massive screen real estate or processing power on a regular basis from your secondary computer, chances are you're not an, "average user". It's like saying a SMART fourtwo doesn't make a good second car because the situation might arise where it snows 2 feet files you're at work and you won't be comfortable driving it home or you might take it out to the pub and be unable to ferry three drunk chicks you picked up home. Those aren't likely. If you have kids you might have to pick up from school and ferry to extra curricular activities on a regular basis or live an area where freak blizzards are a common occurrence the fourtwo's not for you, but that doesn't mean it's not a good second car for someone who just needs something to putter around in.
It used to happen to me all the time way back when I had the patience to use p2p. I really don't know how it took 256+ hops to find someone with the same musical tastes as I had, but an mp3 could take months to complete, if it completed at all, because the one other guy in the state who liked, say, Wumpscut hand an HD meltdown.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.
Don't computers in remote locations already get the shaft? If there're no peers within your ttl, then you're sol.
It's just a bunch of noise rasterbation.
Every one of those watts that goes into your computer comes out as heat though. Imagine a future where frying an egg on your cpu, gpu, or any other major hardware component is hyperbole again.
How about a can for each recipient they have spammed? Spam's like twinkies. It doesn't go bad until after you open it, but if you had to eat 400 or so cans of the stuff you'd probably die, or at least puke a lot.
- Gets 20mpg or less.
- Runs on 100 octane leaded fuel that goes for around $10 a gallon where spending $4 a gallon for the automotive stuff is front-page news.
- Requires 40-60 hours of training just to be eligible for a license in a country where anyone off the street who can parallel park, recognize road signs, and answer a couple questions about local regulations can drive a car.
- Has a ground-roll of about a quarter-mile (400m) if you're planning on clearing the trees at the end of the runway.
- Requires ground transportation for not only the, "last mile", but also the, "first mile".
- Requires maintenance well beyond the standard automobile's oil change every three to five thousand miles in both price and complexity.
That is far from what I'd call convenient or cost effective. Not that there aren't good reasons for these additional complexities, but it's by no means a, " flying car". What I, and I believe most people, think of when they hear the term, " flying car" is something that will fit in a garage, be airborne by the end of the driveway, land in a regular parking spot, run on pump regular, and a reasonably responsible sane parent could buy for his or her high-schooler bringing home a good report card without having to spend $30K on lessons.Yeah, real retards. Take a look at their paychecks, why don'tcha?
Maybe there are things that could be considered, " Flying cars", but, certainly nothing as cost effective, convenient, or safe as to be accessible to the common man. Let's face it: The flying cars are fail. Right now I'd be happy with a car that was cheaper than taking a commercial airline on a mile for mile basis.
From the terminology in TFA it sounds like eBay is suing Craigslist for not being good enough competition. They're suing on the grounds that Craigslist did something that reduced the value of eBay's investment in Craigslist.
The purchase of Gracenote puts SONY in an excellent position to squeeze online mp3 vendors. They also now have the power to introduce their own, "standard," for which they charge ludicrous licensing fees and kill the CDDB standard. If you look at SONY's past behavior this does seem likely, and even though there are several benign reasons they'd make a move like this one has to consider all the likely options.