I have a Kindle DX, and I very much like it. I also have not purchased any books for it, using many sites like Project Gutenburg which offer high-quality free public domain works.
I will never have a problem with DRM or revocation because I control the content. Amazon did not have the authority to sell 1984 due to different copyright status in different countries. While this highlights issues with global copyright, Amazon really didn't have much choice in that particular instance, since a sure-to-lose lawsuit was the likely only other outcome.
Please, separate the "eBooks" idea from the vendors of digital media. That's what this is really about, and Amazon in particular, not the medium itself. I've embraced eBooks, but I have not embraced "purchasing" or "licensing" or whatever it is you do for them in exchange for money.
The Kindle reads lots of different formats, not just Amazon's own, including the PDF in which he released his rant. I'm sure he'll be happy to know I read it on my Kindle, and it looked fine.
And as usual, the people who would listen to him already know, the people who won't truly don't care because they like being able to 1-click download and read a book, and don't feel a need to be anonymous, and if the book disappears they'll just move on to whatever Oprah is recommending next. And they will continue to get screwed by big businesses and like it.
He knows what is needed, but there are too many project managers and fiefdoms and it's not a single company working towards a single goal. No Fortune 100 company could possibly be run by a single person. He gives up some control to people, they are expected to focus on that aspect.
In my mind, I would rather have the CEO finding problems with a product and complaining about it.
But that's not the point. The point is, so many things surprised Bill, and Steve is still stuck playing catch-up in so many different markets. They have lost their focus and now want to be everywhere, like Google. Except Google knows how to stay ahead of trends. Neither MS CEO knew how to drive that. The best thing for Microsoft is to hire a young guy, make the guy use everything Microsoft, from phones to cars (yes some run Windows), and give him the authority to call out problems. Bill is not the solution, just like Steve isn't.
"You might", and apparently you're someone who "might not". It's the lead-in for its intended audience, which is non-linguists. And among non-linguists, it is possible that people might find it interesting but not useful. Perfectly accurate, audience specific.
You'd think the linguists complaianing about this would be able to parse out the "...and you might not" which is implied.
You can derive a set of sine waves that can reconstruct the original, but FFT will not break it down to the original sine waves. Only an orthogonal set. Two sine waves as you describe may be simple to pull apart reliably. Two sine waves is like factoring a prime.
The article even calls the data "orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) data streams". The authors are aware of this problem. That's why I pointed out this isn't a simple FFT solution.
Optical FFT means you don't have to decide which windowing function to use, or the size of the window. If you have any experience with FFT the implications will be obvious. If not, try any sound source and any FFT display software with different sizes and window functions, and you'll see you get different results depending on the settings. Then imagine not having to choose one.
I further speculated that selecting a specific set of input frequencies made it easier to separate. This part seems pretty obvious, but if you don't know FFT results are orthogonal, the reason won't make any sense.
ReadWriteWeb agrees with you. The comments are hilarious. Of course they are newest first so you have to load piles of spam before getting to the beginning.
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Lazy? I asked slashdot, and read up for a good two months, and the best advice was to compare performance using something like Tom's Hardware. Not knowing what the apps I wanted to use would actually use, the results were largely meaningless.
I was not about to look up the GPU for every card listed on every computer I might buy, along with the upgrades available for each, so I could look those up on a chart to see their performance. I did piles of research and still did not have enough to make an informed decision, short of making a huge database of everything I came across. I've done that before, but this amount of data quickly became ridiculous, and by the time I decided on one model it was no longer available. I gave up then.
I ultimately looked at the specs of something in my price range and since it had HDMI, Intel onboard video got my business. This part of the crowd does not care. for nearly everyone, my advice has been and will continue to be, buy the cheapest thing you can find, it will do what you want.
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Just wanted to add, the FFT is not a good way to separate frequencies. The result is orthogonal, not necessarily the original input. It's like factoring non-primes. You can't be sure if someone did 4 x 3 x 2 or 6 x 2 x 2.
So you can break it down into parts, but not necessarily the original parts. If we could always get the original parts, we would have software that can take your favorite CD and spit out a pretty good version of sheet music, guitar tab, etc. Lots of things claim to, but so far we can only do monophonic sounds, and that still has problems.
I'm assuming the optical implementation of FFT bypasses the limitations of a purely mathematical model. Shine 300 lasers at a prism, and it doesn't have to think about it or crunch numbers - the prism slows the light at different speeds, and gets separated into its original components.
This apparently has fewer different "colors" involved, making it less likely that you'll break it into different parts. So, single laser source at one end, fewer frequencies, optical separation at the other end. Seems obvious in hindsight, but how to do it was the mystery to crack.
I bought a PS2 after it was out for about 7 years, bought about 30 games used for cheap, and a few $20 "classics". Without the used game market, I would have bought 0 PS2 systems and 0 new games.
I just got an XBOX 360 and constantly have to clarify - no, I'm looking for the ORIGINAL BioShock, don't want crackdown 2, and I won't be buying Portal 2 until the used price is less than the new price. So far, I bought 3 new games at $20, and several used ones. Again, without the used game market I would not buy a 360.
Someone was kind enough to buy Portal 2 for me, which would not have happened without the used game system in place.
I think this is the key. The people already in the game will trade coins for goods, and the rest of society will continue on the old fashioned way.
This is no different from the people who requested a passport solely in order to avoid the newer RFID enabled ones, or bought a TV before the V-Chip was supposed to be required, or bought a processor before Processor ID or TPM was built in. Or take a bus or train instead of being subject to TSA security.
They protest the system by refusing to participate, and it won't make any difference to anyone else. If someone wants in, they have to find someone with an old processor, or TV, or bitcoin, and trade something of value.
At some point, the bitcoin economy will consist entirely of bitcoin miners trading among each other of course, and also bartering coins for food, with people who want to be in on this underground, secret economy. Probably around the time we go cashless, which is around the time all 21 million bitcoins will be in existence.
Better to create a similar system which solves the actual problems of bitcoin, and get yourself on the ground floor of that.
You should have used non-sequitur as your example phrase, since I "attacked" your delivery, not the validity of your premise. I actually agreed with your concept, as did 4 other slashdot moderators.
Extra-awesome: You're modded a troll, and I got mod points. I heart you, idontgno, you just made my day.
Since you used italicized Latin and referred to the company by their stock ticker symbol, I award your opinion extra weight. That you used an asterisked footnote to avoid ordering your thoughts coherently implies you are exactly the sort of free-thinking individual the rest of us should strive to be.
I don't suppose you have a newsletter I could subscribe to?
I think that's the problem CDNow or whatever ran into. On the other hand, piles of people are using the same downloaded-from-p2p mp3 that google's de-duplication tech can intelligently discard terabytes of data on post-processing.
Especially with tools like properly calibrated EAC, and silence removal, each person's rip of their own physical disc will be nearly enough identical.
Given that they require flash, I assume the uploads will be translated to their WebM codec, and any bitwise differences will disappear.
I suspect this excuse will be extended to cover non-bitwise-identical rips that are identical within a certain threshhold. Magically, 2 billion people storing the latest britney spears song now only takes 50MB of storage.
No secret, the only way to get a decent raise is to jump ship. No one gets up the ladder at one company. Get experience, go to another job and get the raise you should have gotten, then get more experience, jump ship again.
I worked for two fortune 100 companies, and people would quit, and then they'd be back in 2-3 years. Earning 30% more.
Companies would rather hire an outsider with paper experience than give someone who knows the company a big enough raise to keep them. I even went for salary matching once and got a counter offer $8k less.
Pay me what I'm worth, and the certifications won't lead me away. Otherwise I'm skipping back and forth, chasing a decent raise.
FTFA "Most of this information is incredibly transient: it is created, used and discarded in a few seconds without ever being seen by a person," said Bohn, a professor of technology management at UC San Diego.
XML overhead, HTTP headers, page reloads instead of AJAX/DOM updates. And much of it is identical, just served to different people, such as the dynamically generated static pages of slashdot.
There is no point to this number other than illustrating how much data goes over the pipes. And even then, it studied only servers, not p2p or darknet traffic.
The analysis relied heavily on data and estimates from researchers at IDC and Gartner, which compile regular reports on server sales.
So people buy servers, which translate into bytes served. Brilliant! the underlying data isn't even representative, just extrapolated. There is no content to this story other than back-of-the-envelope arse-originated SWAG.
The car rental employee may be driving the car, either road testing or refueling. So the agency would be a legitimate potential defendant. On top of other liability issues like renting to an unlicensed driver. Further, when I had Cable, the ISP owned the modem, much like the rental agency owns the car. It is not possible to rule this out prior to making a legal inquiry.
The lawyer would be able to see this, the mathematician maybe not. I skipped some points here.
IP addresses do not identify the downloader, in the same way identifying the car does not identify the driver. You can identify the owner, and have the owner identify who they let borrow the car. In some cases, the answer is I did not give permission to anyone.
-Few motions to quash are filed because the user is not identified, or given the opportunity. Most cases have been filed as john doe lawsuits to identify the user, then droppedso they can sue the identified party. Guilt is not a factor, actual abuse of the legal system is.
-Adding Does to a suit is pretty much the same, piling onto an existing suit rather than opening a new one. Sue the people you want to sue, don't use a moving target.
-The dismissal of 100 out of the 1000 defendants is not important on its own, but you insist in your mathematically trained way to insist it is.
-Expedited discovery results in identifying the user. They then present the choice: settle for a few thousand, or pay twice that or more and lose a case. In other words, combined with the previous sentences, he's saying that they file a suit, get identities, essentially blackmail them, and drop those who settle while adding more people. That is clear abuse of the process, and exactly the sort of thing people have been railing against. It's also what he's trying to stop.
Read the whole thing again and understand what he's tryiong to say, like an English major would, not parsing each word in context with the ones you have read, while ignoring the ones coming up. A sentence in a decision is not like a step by step mathematical proof.
I think you missed the stories where they killed themselves because their life was crap, and their family would be financially better off due to a nearly guaranteed lawsuit.
Maybe not thinking in their right mind, but if that's the reason behind the suicides, this will put an end to it quickly. The family is only allowed to demand the legal minimum, which I'm sure makes this a disincentive.
Normally I'd agree with you, but there's backstory here you failed to take into account. Maybe the stories are real, maybe not, but it's most likely the reason behind this agreement.
I got Bellsouth DSL, because cable was not laid on my side of the street. I got the modem and an installation disk. I called and said I was not running an installation disk, please tell me what I need to do special for your connection, if anything.
They said they understood, and I can do it at this web address. The website was basically blank. Are you using internet explorer? No of course I'm not. Well the site only runs in IE. I should have been suspicious, but figured they are idiots.
ActiveX did exactly what the install disk would have done as soon as I opened the page in IE. I'm still finding bits of things. Motive*, MCCI*, att-nap. Of course, bellsouth was bought by ATT, and I was not pleased about finding that out either.
Know how I know you did not read the article? This method is rearranging existing data so the FAT itself holds the data. This is not including the data at the end of a cluster, or putting it in empty clusters.
If you want to encode a 0, put the first block at an even numbered sector. If you want to encode a 1, put it at an odd numbered sector. There are other ways to do it, but that's just one example.
There is no data on the drive itself to analyze, it's all in the fragmentation of the FAT.
October 22, 2010 is the last date you can sell a PC with XP on it, from Microsoft. If someone is continuing to sell them, that's between the purchaser and the seller, and Microsoft would not be too happy about it.
The assumption is that language started somewhere, evolved into the prototype language, and then spread from there. If that's true, they are only concerned with what happened after the prototypical language. Essentially saying "If A happens then B happens, and B happened, then A probably happened."
What they are not saying is this is the only way it could have happened. This is support for a hypothesis, one which cannot be proven or disproven given our current level of information.
This is no different from someone finding support for ideas of string theory. They know what they are looking for, and are trying to bolster support for it. Eventually, one such hypothesis will have piles of evidence behind it and become adopted theory. Until then, it's one opinion after the next.
They specifically are not coming at this from a clean slate to determine what evolved from what, and have it point back to a single trunk language. As the article says, making a family tree for languages is difficult. That's why they are attacking this by forming ideas and trying to validate those ideas. Not prove, just validate.
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They started it in the form of radio, which was seen as essentially advertising, and then became payola (pay to play). They were paying stations to play things they wanted us to buy!
Free music has become a lifestyle, and they started it. I'm just playing along. What's the difference between turning on the radio and hearing a song, and having it on my hard drive on-demand? Nothing I say.
I don't think you can complain if you're not the copyright holder, so it wouldn't do much. OF course, I'm no expert in NZ law.
And the important part, she broke no part of this law that I can see. The law is about file sharing, not local copies. She was not file sharing. Her friend probably was, but she was not. She said she didn't know what p2p even was or how to use it.
Someone on NZ needs to alert her that most likely, her friend just got the first strike. Not 3 all at once, that's not the way it's intended to work. Maybe then she will understand. IF you focus on the hipocrisy angle, she will say she did nothing wrong and the point will be lost.
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I have a Kindle DX, and I very much like it. I also have not purchased any books for it, using many sites like Project Gutenburg which offer high-quality free public domain works.
I will never have a problem with DRM or revocation because I control the content. Amazon did not have the authority to sell 1984 due to different copyright status in different countries. While this highlights issues with global copyright, Amazon really didn't have much choice in that particular instance, since a sure-to-lose lawsuit was the likely only other outcome.
Please, separate the "eBooks" idea from the vendors of digital media. That's what this is really about, and Amazon in particular, not the medium itself. I've embraced eBooks, but I have not embraced "purchasing" or "licensing" or whatever it is you do for them in exchange for money.
The Kindle reads lots of different formats, not just Amazon's own, including the PDF in which he released his rant. I'm sure he'll be happy to know I read it on my Kindle, and it looked fine.
And as usual, the people who would listen to him already know, the people who won't truly don't care because they like being able to 1-click download and read a book, and don't feel a need to be anonymous, and if the book disappears they'll just move on to whatever Oprah is recommending next. And they will continue to get screwed by big businesses and like it.
Gates could not control every aspect of the company. Remember his usability rants?
He knows what is needed, but there are too many project managers and fiefdoms and it's not a single company working towards a single goal. No Fortune 100 company could possibly be run by a single person. He gives up some control to people, they are expected to focus on that aspect.
In my mind, I would rather have the CEO finding problems with a product and complaining about it.
But that's not the point. The point is, so many things surprised Bill, and Steve is still stuck playing catch-up in so many different markets. They have lost their focus and now want to be everywhere, like Google. Except Google knows how to stay ahead of trends. Neither MS CEO knew how to drive that. The best thing for Microsoft is to hire a young guy, make the guy use everything Microsoft, from phones to cars (yes some run Windows), and give him the authority to call out problems. Bill is not the solution, just like Steve isn't.
"You might", and apparently you're someone who "might not". It's the lead-in for its intended audience, which is non-linguists. And among non-linguists, it is possible that people might find it interesting but not useful. Perfectly accurate, audience specific.
You'd think the linguists complaianing about this would be able to parse out the "...and you might not" which is implied.
You can derive a set of sine waves that can reconstruct the original, but FFT will not break it down to the original sine waves. Only an orthogonal set. Two sine waves as you describe may be simple to pull apart reliably. Two sine waves is like factoring a prime.
The article even calls the data "orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) data streams". The authors are aware of this problem. That's why I pointed out this isn't a simple FFT solution.
Optical FFT means you don't have to decide which windowing function to use, or the size of the window. If you have any experience with FFT the implications will be obvious. If not, try any sound source and any FFT display software with different sizes and window functions, and you'll see you get different results depending on the settings. Then imagine not having to choose one.
I further speculated that selecting a specific set of input frequencies made it easier to separate. This part seems pretty obvious, but if you don't know FFT results are orthogonal, the reason won't make any sense.
I specifically said I wanted 1080 output to HDTV, and to be able to play Oblivion. I thought I was very clear.
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/03/09/0134223/Making-Sense-of-CPU-and-GPU-Model-Numbers
ReadWriteWeb agrees with you. The comments are hilarious. Of course they are newest first so you have to load piles of spam before getting to the beginning.
The short version: http://www.lastpodcast.net/2010/02/10/facebook-login-is-hard-welcome-to-idiocracy/
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Lazy? I asked slashdot, and read up for a good two months, and the best advice was to compare performance using something like Tom's Hardware. Not knowing what the apps I wanted to use would actually use, the results were largely meaningless.
I was not about to look up the GPU for every card listed on every computer I might buy, along with the upgrades available for each, so I could look those up on a chart to see their performance. I did piles of research and still did not have enough to make an informed decision, short of making a huge database of everything I came across. I've done that before, but this amount of data quickly became ridiculous, and by the time I decided on one model it was no longer available. I gave up then.
I ultimately looked at the specs of something in my price range and since it had HDMI, Intel onboard video got my business. This part of the crowd does not care. for nearly everyone, my advice has been and will continue to be, buy the cheapest thing you can find, it will do what you want.
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FTFA, not sure if you read that far.
Just wanted to add, the FFT is not a good way to separate frequencies. The result is orthogonal, not necessarily the original input. It's like factoring non-primes. You can't be sure if someone did 4 x 3 x 2 or 6 x 2 x 2.
So you can break it down into parts, but not necessarily the original parts. If we could always get the original parts, we would have software that can take your favorite CD and spit out a pretty good version of sheet music, guitar tab, etc. Lots of things claim to, but so far we can only do monophonic sounds, and that still has problems.
I'm assuming the optical implementation of FFT bypasses the limitations of a purely mathematical model. Shine 300 lasers at a prism, and it doesn't have to think about it or crunch numbers - the prism slows the light at different speeds, and gets separated into its original components.
This apparently has fewer different "colors" involved, making it less likely that you'll break it into different parts. So, single laser source at one end, fewer frequencies, optical separation at the other end. Seems obvious in hindsight, but how to do it was the mystery to crack.
I bought a PS2 after it was out for about 7 years, bought about 30 games used for cheap, and a few $20 "classics". Without the used game market, I would have bought 0 PS2 systems and 0 new games.
I just got an XBOX 360 and constantly have to clarify - no, I'm looking for the ORIGINAL BioShock, don't want crackdown 2, and I won't be buying Portal 2 until the used price is less than the new price. So far, I bought 3 new games at $20, and several used ones. Again, without the used game market I would not buy a 360.
Someone was kind enough to buy Portal 2 for me, which would not have happened without the used game system in place.
I think this is the key. The people already in the game will trade coins for goods, and the rest of society will continue on the old fashioned way.
This is no different from the people who requested a passport solely in order to avoid the newer RFID enabled ones, or bought a TV before the V-Chip was supposed to be required, or bought a processor before Processor ID or TPM was built in. Or take a bus or train instead of being subject to TSA security.
They protest the system by refusing to participate, and it won't make any difference to anyone else. If someone wants in, they have to find someone with an old processor, or TV, or bitcoin, and trade something of value.
At some point, the bitcoin economy will consist entirely of bitcoin miners trading among each other of course, and also bartering coins for food, with people who want to be in on this underground, secret economy. Probably around the time we go cashless, which is around the time all 21 million bitcoins will be in existence.
Better to create a similar system which solves the actual problems of bitcoin, and get yourself on the ground floor of that.
So the decision to watch one channel over the other has moved to cyberspace? Color me shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Next, you'll tell me people are self-selecting their tv channels, or friends. Lord help us if people can select their friends.
Or religions, that would be bad.
You should have used non-sequitur as your example phrase, since I "attacked" your delivery, not the validity of your premise. I actually agreed with your concept, as did 4 other slashdot moderators.
Extra-awesome: You're modded a troll, and I got mod points. I heart you, idontgno, you just made my day.
Since you used italicized Latin and referred to the company by their stock ticker symbol, I award your opinion extra weight. That you used an asterisked footnote to avoid ordering your thoughts coherently implies you are exactly the sort of free-thinking individual the rest of us should strive to be.
I don't suppose you have a newsletter I could subscribe to?
I think that's the problem CDNow or whatever ran into. On the other hand, piles of people are using the same downloaded-from-p2p mp3 that google's de-duplication tech can intelligently discard terabytes of data on post-processing.
Especially with tools like properly calibrated EAC, and silence removal, each person's rip of their own physical disc will be nearly enough identical.
Given that they require flash, I assume the uploads will be translated to their WebM codec, and any bitwise differences will disappear.
I suspect this excuse will be extended to cover non-bitwise-identical rips that are identical within a certain threshhold. Magically, 2 billion people storing the latest britney spears song now only takes 50MB of storage.
No secret, the only way to get a decent raise is to jump ship. No one gets up the ladder at one company. Get experience, go to another job and get the raise you should have gotten, then get more experience, jump ship again.
I worked for two fortune 100 companies, and people would quit, and then they'd be back in 2-3 years. Earning 30% more.
Companies would rather hire an outsider with paper experience than give someone who knows the company a big enough raise to keep them. I even went for salary matching once and got a counter offer $8k less.
Pay me what I'm worth, and the certifications won't lead me away. Otherwise I'm skipping back and forth, chasing a decent raise.
FTFA "Most of this information is incredibly transient: it is created, used and discarded in a few seconds without ever being seen by a person," said Bohn, a professor of technology management at UC San Diego.
XML overhead, HTTP headers, page reloads instead of AJAX/DOM updates. And much of it is identical, just served to different people, such as the dynamically generated static pages of slashdot.
There is no point to this number other than illustrating how much data goes over the pipes. And even then, it studied only servers, not p2p or darknet traffic.
The analysis relied heavily on data and estimates from researchers at IDC and Gartner, which compile regular reports on server sales.
So people buy servers, which translate into bytes served. Brilliant! the underlying data isn't even representative, just extrapolated. There is no content to this story other than back-of-the-envelope arse-originated SWAG.
The car rental employee may be driving the car, either road testing or refueling. So the agency would be a legitimate potential defendant. On top of other liability issues like renting to an unlicensed driver. Further, when I had Cable, the ISP owned the modem, much like the rental agency owns the car. It is not possible to rule this out prior to making a legal inquiry.
The lawyer would be able to see this, the mathematician maybe not. I skipped some points here.
IP addresses do not identify the downloader, in the same way identifying the car does not identify the driver. You can identify the owner, and have the owner identify who they let borrow the car. In some cases, the answer is I did not give permission to anyone.
-Few motions to quash are filed because the user is not identified, or given the opportunity. Most cases have been filed as john doe lawsuits to identify the user, then droppedso they can sue the identified party. Guilt is not a factor, actual abuse of the legal system is.
-Adding Does to a suit is pretty much the same, piling onto an existing suit rather than opening a new one. Sue the people you want to sue, don't use a moving target.
-The dismissal of 100 out of the 1000 defendants is not important on its own, but you insist in your mathematically trained way to insist it is.
-Expedited discovery results in identifying the user. They then present the choice: settle for a few thousand, or pay twice that or more and lose a case. In other words, combined with the previous sentences, he's saying that they file a suit, get identities, essentially blackmail them, and drop those who settle while adding more people. That is clear abuse of the process, and exactly the sort of thing people have been railing against. It's also what he's trying to stop.
Read the whole thing again and understand what he's tryiong to say, like an English major would, not parsing each word in context with the ones you have read, while ignoring the ones coming up. A sentence in a decision is not like a step by step mathematical proof.
I think you missed the stories where they killed themselves because their life was crap, and their family would be financially better off due to a nearly guaranteed lawsuit.
Maybe not thinking in their right mind, but if that's the reason behind the suicides, this will put an end to it quickly. The family is only allowed to demand the legal minimum, which I'm sure makes this a disincentive.
Normally I'd agree with you, but there's backstory here you failed to take into account. Maybe the stories are real, maybe not, but it's most likely the reason behind this agreement.
I got Bellsouth DSL, because cable was not laid on my side of the street. I got the modem and an installation disk. I called and said I was not running an installation disk, please tell me what I need to do special for your connection, if anything.
They said they understood, and I can do it at this web address. The website was basically blank. Are you using internet explorer? No of course I'm not. Well the site only runs in IE. I should have been suspicious, but figured they are idiots.
ActiveX did exactly what the install disk would have done as soon as I opened the page in IE. I'm still finding bits of things. Motive*, MCCI*, att-nap. Of course, bellsouth was bought by ATT, and I was not pleased about finding that out either.
Know how I know you did not read the article? This method is rearranging existing data so the FAT itself holds the data. This is not including the data at the end of a cluster, or putting it in empty clusters.
If you want to encode a 0, put the first block at an even numbered sector. If you want to encode a 1, put it at an odd numbered sector. There are other ways to do it, but that's just one example.
There is no data on the drive itself to analyze, it's all in the fragmentation of the FAT.
October 22, 2010 is the last date you can sell a PC with XP on it, from Microsoft. If someone is continuing to sell them, that's between the purchaser and the seller, and Microsoft would not be too happy about it.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/lifecycle
Microsoft is not selling XP, resellers are. And Microsoft would prefer you chose Windows 7, not XP.
The assumption is that language started somewhere, evolved into the prototype language, and then spread from there. If that's true, they are only concerned with what happened after the prototypical language. Essentially saying "If A happens then B happens, and B happened, then A probably happened."
What they are not saying is this is the only way it could have happened. This is support for a hypothesis, one which cannot be proven or disproven given our current level of information.
This is no different from someone finding support for ideas of string theory. They know what they are looking for, and are trying to bolster support for it. Eventually, one such hypothesis will have piles of evidence behind it and become adopted theory. Until then, it's one opinion after the next.
They specifically are not coming at this from a clean slate to determine what evolved from what, and have it point back to a single trunk language. As the article says, making a family tree for languages is difficult. That's why they are attacking this by forming ideas and trying to validate those ideas. Not prove, just validate.
They started it in the form of radio, which was seen as essentially advertising, and then became payola (pay to play). They were paying stations to play things they wanted us to buy!
Free music has become a lifestyle, and they started it. I'm just playing along. What's the difference between turning on the radio and hearing a song, and having it on my hard drive on-demand? Nothing I say.
I don't think you can complain if you're not the copyright holder, so it wouldn't do much. OF course, I'm no expert in NZ law.
And the important part, she broke no part of this law that I can see. The law is about file sharing, not local copies. She was not file sharing. Her friend probably was, but she was not. She said she didn't know what p2p even was or how to use it.
Someone on NZ needs to alert her that most likely, her friend just got the first strike. Not 3 all at once, that's not the way it's intended to work. Maybe then she will understand. IF you focus on the hipocrisy angle, she will say she did nothing wrong and the point will be lost.