Cars that are idling don't make much noise typically, unless they're improperly maintained.
Exactly. There isn't that much difference between a modern ICE (internal combustion engine) car and a electric/hybrid car. Modern ICE cars can be really near silent. What you mainly hear is the tyres (if you can hear those at all), just like the electric cars.
So I don't see why the electric cars have to be made noisier when idling or cruising.
The main difference I see is if some idiot is accelerating really hard down a street. The ICE cars make a lot more noise when accelerating hard (which is often why those idiots are doing it in the first place;) ). So that helps in telling you that some potentially dangerous idiot is around.
So maybe you could make the electric cars noisier when they are being accelerated hard? The car enthusiasts might like that.
Yes I was complaining about DRM which was what the OP was complaining about.
You want my complaints about copyright, here you go: copyright does not need to be 120+ years. Just 7 years or so would do. AFAIK the good movies make profit within the 1st year (disregarding "Hollywood accounting").
So do we really want to encourage the making of movies, music that would take 120 years to make a profit? Think about that. If copyright terms were much shorter, Vista would have had to be much better than XP . The people who came up with "Happy Birthday" and other old songs are long dead and yet a bunch of rich people are still collecting rent off it, people who are just being rewarded for just having the idea and ability to buy the rights to it. Not because they great artists, not because they benefit the world or society as a whole. They are basically parasites.
Over here you could copy a movie easily but for many weeks there were still long queues of people wanting to watch stuff like Titanic, LoTR and Avatar at the cinemas. Make a suitable movie and people will queue to watch it "big screen". People pay for overpriced coffee all the time, go figure. The copying that would hurt the movie creators would be if the cinema operators copied the movies and didn't pay the creators. That'll be suicide in the long term, but I guess the operators would kill themselves if copyright laws didn't stop them:).
What was the last big name movie you saw that came out of China (that wasn't a US/EU movie that was copied there, lol)? Favorite Chinese band? Yeah, there might be some, but they pale in comparison and copyright is the reason.
The reason you haven't heard of the "big names" is most likely you don't know about Chinese movies. And what sells in the Chinese language market may not sell so well outside it.
Assuming a modern car, much of the car noise comes from the tyres. Having the stationary/near stationary cars being much quieter makes it easier to hear the fast moving cars - which "hurt more".
Between the low and very high speeds the tyre noise makes up much of the car noise. The hybrids often have low resistance tyres so maybe they make less tyre noise.
I'd like to see real proof that it is a problem before we have laws requiring that hybrid and electric cars be noisy.
In fact, if cars were quieter you'd be able to hear the faster vehicles and other stuff more easily.
to get an overview of everything I have running and switch to, if need be much like you would with a Mac.
With Windows I just have double height taskbars and ungrouped task buttons. Typically have 30+ taskbuttons on my taskbar at work. I can switch to any window with just one click, rather than: "swipe", wait for Expose's fancy animation then click on window.
Windows 7 allows you to do winkey+tab to show the windows. But that doesn't really work for 30+ windows, and I actually prefer Windows 7 in classic mode:). Windows 7 also puts task buttons of the same application next to each other, which can be helpful sometimes.
Avatar and Titanic were expensive, but even 3 years would have been fine for them. Heck even my mom and her friends went to watch Avatar, and liked it... None of us watched it for the storyline, but we got what we wanted and the movie makers got what they wanted.
I'm assuming non-Hollywood accounting. I get the impression that with Hollywood accounting no movies are profitable, but they still keep making movies and somehow finding the money to do so:).
No worries, just add a cheese burger, bacon or pizza, or all three. More than enough sodium to save you from the evils of "pure water";).
Seriously though, most people's stomachs and stomach linings can cope with a lot more hostile stuff than pure water. It's not going to kill you or blow up your cells - we're talking about _drinking_ pure water, not injecting it. Drinking distilled water will just cause you to pee more. That's assuming your kidneys work and you have enough salts and minerals in your diet. If your kidneys don't work, pure water is the least of your worries ( http://www.aakp.org/aakp-library/eat-chronic-kidney-disease/ ). Just don't force yourself to drink if you are not thirsty at all, and go pee when you feel the need to pee - don't hold it in unless you want to die or get damaged.
FWIW, lots of RO or distilled water isn't actually that pure and has contaminants like acetone. Given that pure water is good at dissolving all sorts of crap, and many bottled water manufacturers are crap and poorly regulated, I wouldn't be surprised if much of the alleged problems with long term drinking of "pure water" is because of the contaminants in the "pure water".
I drink pure water regularly because I actually prefer the taste of it to tap water or mineral water (I don't drink it ice cold so it's easier to taste the diff). It may be harmful to my health, but hey many people drink Coca Cola, or diet soda regularly because they like them. I'd take my chances with pure water.
Yeah someone I know had the same problem: he bought legit DVDs that he couldn't use on his laptop due to region control bullshit. There are many DVDs which are released for ONLY one region.
And there was another guy who bought a Bluray player when he came round to visit just because they pulled the same sort of shit for Blurays and he can't watch his expensive legit import anime Blurays on the bluray players available in his country.
He is the sort who has collections of DVDs, wine, whisky, CDs, fancy expensive Japanese dolls, anime cels (yes the sort they used to draw on to make the movies). And they make it hard for him to give them his money. I told him he should just "give them the finger" keep his money and wait till there are bluray region-free players. He also had similar probs with DVDs before.
Yes Mr Collector downloads as well (coz the fansubs are faster and sometimes better), but he often buys the mucho expensive collector edition box sets when they _finally_ come out.
Yes he's the sort who will still jump through hoops to buy and use the DRM'ed stuff, and buy extra bluray players. But how many legit customers have they lost due to such crap? I don't think that many people would do what he does, buy extra bluray players etc. Once you "force" them to use downloads they might not even buy a single DRM player or media again.
As for me, yes I download, but I don't even have a pirate collection a hundredth as large as his legit collection. If they succeed in blocking those off completely they're not going to get $$$ from me, because I'd just play more _free_ computer games, read more free stuff, etc. I'm not really a customer, and hence not really a lost customer.
Basically if you suddenly have 5 windows you need to quickly switch amongst, just click/raise them in reverse order of precedence (window #5 to window #1), then press "winkey+0".
After that: winkey+1 = window #1 winkey+2 = window #2 and so on, till winkey+9 in most recently raised order.
Probably only a few people in the world would find it useful, but my turn to say "Works For Me":).
The last time I tried to use mac ports (last year?), it didn't work, the site was down or something. And I tried more than once over a period of time. Gave up.
FWIW at work I use Windows for desktop stuff, Linux and Windows for server stuff. And OS X for testing some OS X client stuff.
Many prefer OS X. That's fine with me. OS X doesn't suit the way I work. I typically have 30+ task buttons on my Windows taskbar. OS X's Expose would just be slower for me - would take more steps to switch from one window to a specific window. Yes it does it more stylishly, but no thanks;).
I'm not surprised if many OSS developers/users are using Macs. The "Desktop Linux" developers often seem like they're sabotaging "Desktop Linux" with PulseAudio and other crap. To those who will reply "It Works For Me", hey the rest of the world says Windows and OS X works for them, and OS X's market share has grown way more than Desktop Linux has in a shorter space of time.
I get the impression that Desktop Linux users are having to switch distros every few years just to have something that works not too crappily.
The smart people who steal are called investment bankers, and they do it legally.
They pass stuff to each other at overinflated prices and take a percentage of those prices for each transaction, and get a bonus. Then when someone finally "opens all the packages" there's actually nothing inside. Guess where the "real money" went?
They then go for a holiday somewhere nice, and later start all over again with an exboss/colleague/partner (hey, they helped make him rich too, so he's going to hire them).
That's how smart people steal.
In contrast when "stuff happens", the stupid ones don't go for a holiday somewhere nice...
But if an org only needs 25 or similar magnitude of drives you can go Dell (e.g. stuff like MD1000 or MD1220) for a many times the price/capacity. Most orgs with those needs can afford it.
If I were running my own company I'd go with Dell/etc and HDDs first, but if my required storage capacity curve goes up steeply, I'd do the backblaze thing.
Not tape. I don't trust tape, in my experience tapes fail way more than hard drives. Both the tapes and tape drives wear out quite fast - there is physical contact between the heads and the tape, and the drives make many passes per backup cycle. So you'll actually need a higher number of tapes compared to HDDs which are mostly fine spinning at thousands of rpms for years.
Maybe I've been unfortunate? So far the HDDs seem to do better for: total number of HDDs, number of failures per year vs total number of tapes (or tape drives) and failures per year.
Single disks may be slower, but with HDDs each disk comes with its own drive and IO interface. Each tape doesn't come with its own drive. You need an expensive drive.
When HDD technology improves, you just start buying the newer bigger HDDs and use the same old IO interface - the interface doesn't change that often.
When tape technology improves, to use them you have to buy more expensive tape drives, not just the tapes.
FWIW some antibiotics can cause hearing loss (but usually not when taken orally/topically at the normal doses) [1].
Doctors who prescribe antibiotics freely are being very irresponsible. Antibiotics are not sugar pills, sugar while being bad for health is not as toxic as most antibiotics.
Some humans can learn echo location[1], but just wondering if we could have an app that sends clicks and chirps and processes the echos and creates a picture or 3D model.
But it might need two or more "ears" to quickly build a 3D image of the environment.
There was also a short sci-fi story (can't remember the title) where the origin of the popular in-vitro meat turns out to be human (from one of the scientists/researchers). Can't remember the details though...
Why should I bother figuring out how to change the default GUI in your precious distro when I can just use something else (which may include OS X or Windows).
And even if I knew how to, if I'm installing a new machine from scratch it's often easier and faster to just use Distro A with the GUI I want than to install Distro B and change the GUI.
If a distro's defaults aren't satisfying most of their target users then the defaults suck and the distro is doing things wrong.
FWIW, for most of the linux installs I do, I don't install a GUI.
Nowadays you need to be famous. Great talent is optional[1] maybe even overrated. If you're too obscure, you could be the best and tour as much as you want, nobody is going to attend your tours.
And why should they care? With the population growth and increase in opportunities and technology, there are more talented musicians nowadays than there have ever been in history. But the average lifespan of each person has at most doubled.
So why should people even give a minute's attention to your particular bunch of musicians. And without that minute of their life how are you going to even get a dollar from them?
Are many people even pirating your band's music? If more people are pirating other band's music and not your band's perhaps you should think hard about why that is happening and fix it - They don't know of your band? They don't like the music? They don't like the people in the band? They don't like the look or image?
Or you can just keep cussing, whining and blaming the pirates. Doesn't matter that much to me. Plenty of other stuff to listen to, many movies to watch, many games to play, many restaurants to go to, etc.
p.s. I'm actually happy to hear there are empty floors at Sony's offices.
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Cars that are idling don't make much noise typically, unless they're improperly maintained.
;) ). So that helps in telling you that some potentially dangerous idiot is around.
Exactly. There isn't that much difference between a modern ICE (internal combustion engine) car and a electric/hybrid car. Modern ICE cars can be really near silent. What you mainly hear is the tyres (if you can hear those at all), just like the electric cars.
So I don't see why the electric cars have to be made noisier when idling or cruising.
The main difference I see is if some idiot is accelerating really hard down a street. The ICE cars make a lot more noise when accelerating hard (which is often why those idiots are doing it in the first place
So maybe you could make the electric cars noisier when they are being accelerated hard? The car enthusiasts might like that.
Yes I was complaining about DRM which was what the OP was complaining about.
You want my complaints about copyright, here you go: copyright does not need to be 120+ years. Just 7 years or so would do. AFAIK the good movies make profit within the 1st year (disregarding "Hollywood accounting").
So do we really want to encourage the making of movies, music that would take 120 years to make a profit? Think about that. If copyright terms were much shorter, Vista would have had to be much better than XP .
The people who came up with "Happy Birthday" and other old songs are long dead and yet a bunch of rich people are still collecting rent off it, people who are just being rewarded for just having the idea and ability to buy the rights to it. Not because they great artists, not because they benefit the world or society as a whole. They are basically parasites.
Over here you could copy a movie easily but for many weeks there were still long queues of people wanting to watch stuff like Titanic, LoTR and Avatar at the cinemas. Make a suitable movie and people will queue to watch it "big screen". People pay for overpriced coffee all the time, go figure. The copying that would hurt the movie creators would be if the cinema operators copied the movies and didn't pay the creators. That'll be suicide in the long term, but I guess the operators would kill themselves if copyright laws didn't stop them :).
What was the last big name movie you saw that came out of China (that wasn't a US/EU movie that was copied there, lol)? Favorite Chinese band? Yeah, there might be some, but they pale in comparison and copyright is the reason.
The reason you haven't heard of the "big names" is most likely you don't know about Chinese movies. And what sells in the Chinese language market may not sell so well outside it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cliff_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_Man_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Assassins
Maybe the blind should learn to "see" better?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYWpxmcHTOc
http://video.worldaccessfortheblind.org/superhumans.html
Assuming a modern car, much of the car noise comes from the tyres. Having the stationary/near stationary cars being much quieter makes it easier to hear the fast moving cars - which "hurt more".
It may even make it easier for the blind to hear echoes from their echolocation clicks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBv79LKfMt4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYWpxmcHTOc
Modern ICE cars are also pretty quiet.
Between the low and very high speeds the tyre noise makes up much of the car noise. The hybrids often have low resistance tyres so maybe they make less tyre noise.
I'd like to see real proof that it is a problem before we have laws requiring that hybrid and electric cars be noisy.
In fact, if cars were quieter you'd be able to hear the faster vehicles and other stuff more easily.
to get an overview of everything I have running and switch to, if need be much like you would with a Mac.
With Windows I just have double height taskbars and ungrouped task buttons. Typically have 30+ taskbuttons on my taskbar at work. I can switch to any window with just one click, rather than: "swipe", wait for Expose's fancy animation then click on window.
Windows 7 allows you to do winkey+tab to show the windows. But that doesn't really work for 30+ windows, and I actually prefer Windows 7 in classic mode :). Windows 7 also puts task buttons of the same application next to each other, which can be helpful sometimes.
If you're a keyboard kinda guy and ever use windows you could try my utility called LinkKey: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linkkey/
Not sure if you'd find that sort of thing useful though. I'm a bit surprised it even got one recommendation (wasn't me ;) ).
Avatar and Titanic were expensive, but even 3 years would have been fine for them. Heck even my mom and her friends went to watch Avatar, and liked it... None of us watched it for the storyline, but we got what we wanted and the movie makers got what they wanted.
:).
I'm assuming non-Hollywood accounting. I get the impression that with Hollywood accounting no movies are profitable, but they still keep making movies and somehow finding the money to do so
No worries, just add a cheese burger, bacon or pizza, or all three. More than enough sodium to save you from the evils of "pure water" ;).
Seriously though, most people's stomachs and stomach linings can cope with a lot more hostile stuff than pure water. It's not going to kill you or blow up your cells - we're talking about _drinking_ pure water, not injecting it. Drinking distilled water will just cause you to pee more. That's assuming your kidneys work and you have enough salts and minerals in your diet. If your kidneys don't work, pure water is the least of your worries ( http://www.aakp.org/aakp-library/eat-chronic-kidney-disease/ ). Just don't force yourself to drink if you are not thirsty at all, and go pee when you feel the need to pee - don't hold it in unless you want to die or get damaged.
FWIW, lots of RO or distilled water isn't actually that pure and has contaminants like acetone. Given that pure water is good at dissolving all sorts of crap, and many bottled water manufacturers are crap and poorly regulated, I wouldn't be surprised if much of the alleged problems with long term drinking of "pure water" is because of the contaminants in the "pure water".
I drink pure water regularly because I actually prefer the taste of it to tap water or mineral water (I don't drink it ice cold so it's easier to taste the diff). It may be harmful to my health, but hey many people drink Coca Cola, or diet soda regularly because they like them. I'd take my chances with pure water.
Yeah someone I know had the same problem: he bought legit DVDs that he couldn't use on his laptop due to region control bullshit. There are many DVDs which are released for ONLY one region.
And there was another guy who bought a Bluray player when he came round to visit just because they pulled the same sort of shit for Blurays and he can't watch his expensive legit import anime Blurays on the bluray players available in his country.
He is the sort who has collections of DVDs, wine, whisky, CDs, fancy expensive Japanese dolls, anime cels (yes the sort they used to draw on to make the movies). And they make it hard for him to give them his money. I told him he should just "give them the finger" keep his money and wait till there are bluray region-free players. He also had similar probs with DVDs before.
Yes Mr Collector downloads as well (coz the fansubs are faster and sometimes better), but he often buys the mucho expensive collector edition box sets when they _finally_ come out.
Yes he's the sort who will still jump through hoops to buy and use the DRM'ed stuff, and buy extra bluray players. But how many legit customers have they lost due to such crap? I don't think that many people would do what he does, buy extra bluray players etc. Once you "force" them to use downloads they might not even buy a single DRM player or media again.
As for me, yes I download, but I don't even have a pirate collection a hundredth as large as his legit collection. If they succeed in blocking those off completely they're not going to get $$$ from me, because I'd just play more _free_ computer games, read more free stuff, etc. I'm not really a customer, and hence not really a lost customer.
Oops it should be:
quickly assign alt/winkey+[number] to windows.
I wrote a program that runs on MS Windows that allows you to quickly assign alt/winkey+ to windows.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linkkey/
Basically if you suddenly have 5 windows you need to quickly switch amongst, just click/raise them in reverse order of precedence (window #5 to window #1), then press "winkey+0".
After that:
winkey+1 = window #1
winkey+2 = window #2
and so on, till winkey+9 in most recently raised order.
Probably only a few people in the world would find it useful, but my turn to say "Works For Me" :).
FWIW I actually suggested it to the OSS GUI bunch:
lists.kde.org/?l=kwin&m=114068120330057
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/DesignersPlayground/KeyboardShortcuts
The last time I tried to use mac ports (last year?), it didn't work, the site was down or something. And I tried more than once over a period of time. Gave up.
;).
FWIW at work I use Windows for desktop stuff, Linux and Windows for server stuff. And OS X for testing some OS X client stuff.
Many prefer OS X. That's fine with me. OS X doesn't suit the way I work. I typically have 30+ task buttons on my Windows taskbar. OS X's Expose would just be slower for me - would take more steps to switch from one window to a specific window. Yes it does it more stylishly, but no thanks
I'm not surprised if many OSS developers/users are using Macs. The "Desktop Linux" developers often seem like they're sabotaging "Desktop Linux" with PulseAudio and other crap. To those who will reply "It Works For Me", hey the rest of the world says Windows and OS X works for them, and OS X's market share has grown way more than Desktop Linux has in a shorter space of time.
I get the impression that Desktop Linux users are having to switch distros every few years just to have something that works not too crappily.
At least one site claims that Toyota Camrys are the most "american" cars :).
2011
http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=top&subject=ami&story=amMade0611&referer=&aff=national
2010
http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=top&subject=ami&story=amMade0710
2009
http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=top&subject=ami&story=amMade0709
The smart people who steal are called investment bankers, and they do it legally.
They pass stuff to each other at overinflated prices and take a percentage of those prices for each transaction, and get a bonus. Then when someone finally "opens all the packages" there's actually nothing inside. Guess where the "real money" went?
They then go for a holiday somewhere nice, and later start all over again with an exboss/colleague/partner (hey, they helped make him rich too, so he's going to hire them).
That's how smart people steal.
In contrast when "stuff happens", the stupid ones don't go for a holiday somewhere nice...
There's no need for a robot when all the "tapes" (aka HDDs) are all accessible while stored: http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/
(IIRC this was on Slashdot before).
But if an org only needs 25 or similar magnitude of drives you can go Dell (e.g. stuff like MD1000 or MD1220) for a many times the price/capacity. Most orgs with those needs can afford it.
If I were running my own company I'd go with Dell/etc and HDDs first, but if my required storage capacity curve goes up steeply, I'd do the backblaze thing.
Not tape. I don't trust tape, in my experience tapes fail way more than hard drives. Both the tapes and tape drives wear out quite fast - there is physical contact between the heads and the tape, and the drives make many passes per backup cycle. So you'll actually need a higher number of tapes compared to HDDs which are mostly fine spinning at thousands of rpms for years.
Maybe I've been unfortunate? So far the HDDs seem to do better for: total number of HDDs, number of failures per year vs total number of tapes (or tape drives) and failures per year.
50TB is only 25 disks.
Single disks may be slower, but with HDDs each disk comes with its own drive and IO interface. Each tape doesn't come with its own drive. You need an expensive drive.
When HDD technology improves, you just start buying the newer bigger HDDs and use the same old IO interface - the interface doesn't change that often.
When tape technology improves, to use them you have to buy more expensive tape drives, not just the tapes.
FWIW some antibiotics can cause hearing loss (but usually not when taken orally/topically at the normal doses) [1].
Doctors who prescribe antibiotics freely are being very irresponsible. Antibiotics are not sugar pills, sugar while being bad for health is not as toxic as most antibiotics.
[1] http://www.ifhoh.org/papers/epstein.htm
http://www.chchearing.org/sites/default/files/Ototoxic_Brochure.pdf
They aren't so stupid if they keep ending up in congress and do reasonably well for themselves and those they care about.
If the voters like to vote for people who seem stupid, the even the smart ones will pretend to be stupid if they want to keep getting elected.
So far from my observation if a private individual hacks, the private individual risks going to prison.
Whereas if a corporation does it there's no prison time involved for any of the people involved.
I think prison time would discourage both private individuals and individuals acting on behalf of corporations.
Some humans can learn echo location[1], but just wondering if we could have an app that sends clicks and chirps and processes the echos and creates a picture or 3D model.
But it might need two or more "ears" to quickly build a 3D image of the environment.
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLziFMF4DHA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYWpxmcHTOc
How's that off-topic?
There was also a short sci-fi story (can't remember the title) where the origin of the popular in-vitro meat turns out to be human (from one of the scientists/researchers). Can't remember the details though...
Well my point was talent or skill on its own doesn't really count for much in the real world (at least in the "music industry"). Fame counts for more.
Maybe they should repeat the experiment with Justin Bieber singing his stuff in the subway for a day (just like what Joshua Bell did).
Would many people recognize Bieber?
Why should I bother figuring out how to change the default GUI in your precious distro when I can just use something else (which may include OS X or Windows).
And even if I knew how to, if I'm installing a new machine from scratch it's often easier and faster to just use Distro A with the GUI I want than to install Distro B and change the GUI.
If a distro's defaults aren't satisfying most of their target users then the defaults suck and the distro is doing things wrong.
FWIW, for most of the linux installs I do, I don't install a GUI.
And what's your band's name?
Nowadays you need to be famous. Great talent is optional[1] maybe even overrated. If you're too obscure, you could be the best and tour as much as you want, nobody is going to attend your tours.
[1] There are many thousands of very talented musicians. Fact is you could be one of the best violinists in the world, but hardly anyone will care, unless you're gift wrapped in marketing and presented appropriately: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html
And why should they care? With the population growth and increase in opportunities and technology, there are more talented musicians nowadays than there have ever been in history. But the average lifespan of each person has at most doubled.
So why should people even give a minute's attention to your particular bunch of musicians. And without that minute of their life how are you going to even get a dollar from them?
Are many people even pirating your band's music? If more people are pirating other band's music and not your band's perhaps you should think hard about why that is happening and fix it - They don't know of your band? They don't like the music? They don't like the people in the band? They don't like the look or image?
Or you can just keep cussing, whining and blaming the pirates. Doesn't matter that much to me. Plenty of other stuff to listen to, many movies to watch, many games to play, many restaurants to go to, etc.
p.s. I'm actually happy to hear there are empty floors at Sony's offices.
No company will hire you after they find out you sued your former employer.
Not true. Likely even more so if former employer is Zynga ;).