Gangs with nothing of any real value to fight over will be limited to petty crime and maybe small time violence against one another. These international gangs aren't the old turf war gangs everyone loves to watch Hollywood movies about, they're all about drugs and the money that follows.
You fast forward through the advertisements? By denying the producers of those products their opportunity to sell you a product, thereby transferring your money to them, you are stealing from those people, and if they don't sell products they won't advertise and the producers of the show have no sponsor so they can't make any money so you're stealing from them as well. You're just a damn thief, stealing from everybody, aren't you?
Nice speech, but be honest with yourself. Once this is implemented, how are you going to keep it in check and if it is abused how will you stop the abuse?
The answer? You won't. Governments and their agents never cede power they've already taken. Once a government program gets out of control it's already too late.
I've got news for you. Large corporations will take whatever they want from you and your small company. They have more money and more lawyers. You will lose. You can't beat them at their game. The only way to level the playing field is to change the game by slashing the protections on IP.
I use a pay as you go phone from TMobile. After years of paying $50/mo or more to Verizon I smacked myself in the head for being such a dolt. I reviewed my bills and found that I use less than 100 minutes a month. I fill my phone with the highest cost card ($100) which gives me 1000 minutes that last a year. At $0.10/mi, I spend ~$10/mo. for a cell phone. For light users pay as you go makes sense.
Perhaps you should go back to junior high history. The printed word was considered free speech. It has nothing to do with vocalizing words and everything to do with the right to criticize the government.
Light travels at a known speed, at least known to the best of human knowledge. If it takes time for light to reach Earth from a given point in the galaxy, then it stands to reason that said light source is constantly emitting that light even when not being observed by a human eye. If it wasn't, the light source would have to have a way of knowing to emit light a precise amount of time prior to a humans observation. So now that we've established that light is being emitted constantly, once light energy has left the source what's the difference whether it reflects off a rock or the back of a human retina?
There's no reason to think these no drives won't use perpendicular recording as well. That in combination with the lower speed will indeed be quieter and cooler.
Also, I wouldn't build an array of laptop drives. If I wanted to build a 1.5TB RAID5 array, that's four 500GB but seven 250GB laptop drives. You then start getting into adding additional controllers, etc. not to mention 500GB drives are $100 while 250GB 2.5inch drives are $150. $400 vs $1000, and you probably lose most of the power and noise advantage of the laptop drives by adding more of them. Sure, for a single drive setup where you want it silent and size isn't an issue, laptop drives are the way to go. Not for a server.
Exactly, the problem is that 5400rpm drives barely exist now. In addition to quieter, slower and less power also means cooler. I want to build a very quiet media server to house a slew of drives, so if I can avoid loud, hot drives which require a bevy of fans to keep them cool I'm all for it.
Wish I had mod points, I'd love to see the entire series of DVDs available at decent prices, or at all. My wife would do anything for me if I could get her the complete set. Did you hear that? ANYTHING. Help me out here Joel!
By condition, do you mean use most of the available resources?
And if a race was advanced enough to travel between stars, don't you think they could condition it themselves without fooling some unwitting animals to do it for them?
Ironically (or not?) to join the military at age 17 parents have to sign a release. Or at least that's the way it worked when I enlisted when I was 17, but things may have changed since the early 90s.
Hell, at home I'm still using Win2K. It does what I need it to, so I haven't seen the need to upgrade. I just installed XP on my wife's computer a couple weeks ago and that's only because I built her a new one and I figured it was a convenient time to upgrade.
Who's being the presumptuous asshole now? I didn't go to college, and sitting in an office is my cup of tea, which I discovered after several careers in varying fields. I've earned everything I have through hard work and experience.
Guess what, I didn't start my career as a Director of IT either, I started as a junior programmer. Just as anybody starting out in any job has to start at the bottom and work their way up, so too do musicians. They do local shows and promote their music directly. If they're good, they start playing shows further from their home town. Eventually they're touring around the country.
Why do musicians some how assume that because they're "artists" that they don't have to follow the same rules of life as everyone else?
People already decide what they're going to pay for music. They either buy it, in CD form or digital download from iTunes, or they just download it for free.
Why not pick up those customers who are somewhere between free and $15? That's the pinnacle of finding exactly what the market will bear. Those that would have bought the $15 CD will still do so, maybe they like having the physical object with the nicely printed cover, etc. There are a lot of people who only like the music $5 worth, isn't in the bands best interest to let them pay that $5 instead of denying that money, and just sending that person who doesn't value it at $15 to download it for free?
Wrong, asshole. Messy divorces are hard on children. Amicable divorces where the parents are candid and honest with the children are not.
I can tell you've never had children, never been married, and likely never had a girlfriend. I guess my dig on nerds playing video games in the basement really hit home, eh dork?
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Really? You think this is new since 9/11? Fear mongering has been happening for far longer than that. Go back to the Red Scare, or Reefer Madness.
Where the hell do you live that property taxes are 0.1%? Try ten times that amount or more.
If ever there were an appropriate story for the itsatrap tag, this is it.
Gangs with nothing of any real value to fight over will be limited to petty crime and maybe small time violence against one another. These international gangs aren't the old turf war gangs everyone loves to watch Hollywood movies about, they're all about drugs and the money that follows.
Gang problems could be largely solved by ending the stupid, wasteful, and unfruitful war on drugs.
Yes, he's against torture. What a great guy. Too bad he's not above spending the next 100 years killing Iraqis.
You fast forward through the advertisements? By denying the producers of those products their opportunity to sell you a product, thereby transferring your money to them, you are stealing from those people, and if they don't sell products they won't advertise and the producers of the show have no sponsor so they can't make any money so you're stealing from them as well. You're just a damn thief, stealing from everybody, aren't you?
Yes, but you can use that feature longer if you type in the cheat code 'Rudy'.
Nice speech, but be honest with yourself. Once this is implemented, how are you going to keep it in check and if it is abused how will you stop the abuse?
The answer? You won't. Governments and their agents never cede power they've already taken. Once a government program gets out of control it's already too late.
I've got news for you. Large corporations will take whatever they want from you and your small company. They have more money and more lawyers. You will lose. You can't beat them at their game. The only way to level the playing field is to change the game by slashing the protections on IP.
I use a pay as you go phone from TMobile. After years of paying $50/mo or more to Verizon I smacked myself in the head for being such a dolt. I reviewed my bills and found that I use less than 100 minutes a month. I fill my phone with the highest cost card ($100) which gives me 1000 minutes that last a year. At $0.10/mi, I spend ~$10/mo. for a cell phone. For light users pay as you go makes sense.
Well your personal feeling is wrong, and it's a good thing you and people like you had nothing to do with the founding of this country.
Perhaps you should go back to junior high history. The printed word was considered free speech. It has nothing to do with vocalizing words and everything to do with the right to criticize the government.
Light travels at a known speed, at least known to the best of human knowledge. If it takes time for light to reach Earth from a given point in the galaxy, then it stands to reason that said light source is constantly emitting that light even when not being observed by a human eye. If it wasn't, the light source would have to have a way of knowing to emit light a precise amount of time prior to a humans observation. So now that we've established that light is being emitted constantly, once light energy has left the source what's the difference whether it reflects off a rock or the back of a human retina?
There's no reason to think these no drives won't use perpendicular recording as well. That in combination with the lower speed will indeed be quieter and cooler.
Also, I wouldn't build an array of laptop drives. If I wanted to build a 1.5TB RAID5 array, that's four 500GB but seven 250GB laptop drives. You then start getting into adding additional controllers, etc. not to mention 500GB drives are $100 while 250GB 2.5inch drives are $150. $400 vs $1000, and you probably lose most of the power and noise advantage of the laptop drives by adding more of them. Sure, for a single drive setup where you want it silent and size isn't an issue, laptop drives are the way to go. Not for a server.
Exactly, the problem is that 5400rpm drives barely exist now. In addition to quieter, slower and less power also means cooler. I want to build a very quiet media server to house a slew of drives, so if I can avoid loud, hot drives which require a bevy of fans to keep them cool I'm all for it.
Wish I had mod points, I'd love to see the entire series of DVDs available at decent prices, or at all. My wife would do anything for me if I could get her the complete set. Did you hear that? ANYTHING. Help me out here Joel!
By condition, do you mean use most of the available resources?
And if a race was advanced enough to travel between stars, don't you think they could condition it themselves without fooling some unwitting animals to do it for them?
Ironically (or not?) to join the military at age 17 parents have to sign a release. Or at least that's the way it worked when I enlisted when I was 17, but things may have changed since the early 90s.
Hell, at home I'm still using Win2K. It does what I need it to, so I haven't seen the need to upgrade. I just installed XP on my wife's computer a couple weeks ago and that's only because I built her a new one and I figured it was a convenient time to upgrade.
Who's being the presumptuous asshole now? I didn't go to college, and sitting in an office is my cup of tea, which I discovered after several careers in varying fields. I've earned everything I have through hard work and experience.
Don't be mad at me because your band sucked.
If you believe that powerful government increases corporate power more than contains it...
you just might be a libertarian.</foxworthy>
Guess what, I didn't start my career as a Director of IT either, I started as a junior programmer. Just as anybody starting out in any job has to start at the bottom and work their way up, so too do musicians. They do local shows and promote their music directly. If they're good, they start playing shows further from their home town. Eventually they're touring around the country.
Why do musicians some how assume that because they're "artists" that they don't have to follow the same rules of life as everyone else?
People already decide what they're going to pay for music. They either buy it, in CD form or digital download from iTunes, or they just download it for free.
Why not pick up those customers who are somewhere between free and $15? That's the pinnacle of finding exactly what the market will bear. Those that would have bought the $15 CD will still do so, maybe they like having the physical object with the nicely printed cover, etc. There are a lot of people who only like the music $5 worth, isn't in the bands best interest to let them pay that $5 instead of denying that money, and just sending that person who doesn't value it at $15 to download it for free?
Wrong, asshole. Messy divorces are hard on children. Amicable divorces where the parents are candid and honest with the children are not.
I can tell you've never had children, never been married, and likely never had a girlfriend. I guess my dig on nerds playing video games in the basement really hit home, eh dork?