The artists did choose to make those arrangements, sort of like how a prostitute chooses to work for a pimp.
The music industry has gotten into a state where a few big companies control the market. They don't need to control the artists, because they control the customers.
Distribution isn't the primary issue. It's easy enough to sell music over the internet, etc.
The problem is exposure. Most people don't really get a song into their head until they've heard it a couple times. Your average casual music buyer doesn't go through the trouble of searching for music they like, but just buys (or steals) music that they've heard somewhere, and enjoyed.
Because most of the channels of passive exposure are so controlled, the vast majority of customers are really only available to those who sign onto a big label.
This control of the market allows them to charge ridiculous prices, and pass on a very small amount to the artist.
All this doesn't make piracy right, but it does make it understandable.
How is a person even supposed to even find bands that they like? I haven't heard a song on the radio or television which interests me in years.
I still buy a lot of CDs, and go to a lot of live shows, but most of them I learned about by downloading from the internet.
The current system will fall at some point unless it adapts. The large record companies made some very smart moves which made them a lot of money. Now the world is changing, and instead of looking for new ways to make more money, they're trying to use their money/power to stop things from changing through fear of litigation.
Convince people that they have to play by your rules, or you'll sue them into the ground. The only problem is that a lot of them will just give you the finger.
On the Andy McKee thing: 8,676 thieves? I've never heard of the guy. I could go download his album, making the number 8,677. Maybe I'd like it, and go buy it. Maybe I'd listen once and decide I don't like it. In either case, Andy doesn't really know. Maybe a bunch of those people he's ranting to DID go and buy his CD legitimately. Maybe they hated it, and the download saved them from spending a bunch of money on something they don't like. The only ones who are stealing, at least morally, are the ones who like the music, keep it, and don't buy the CD.
Have it your way Andy. I won't download your album.
The proper way is not to lock it at all, but slow it down so that repeated attempts take long enough to make a brute force attack impractical.
Any kind of lockout leads to a very easy DoS.
If it merely increases it's response time to 10 seconds it's not a really big deal to wait for the slower login, and DoSing becomes at least a bit less obvious.
Better yet, don't put the grading software on a box accessible from any computer room in the school. A simple firewall could go a long way.
If a 200 KW electric motor can do 0-60 MPH in 4 seconds then that is equivalent to a 400 HP piston driven motor.
It's only equivalent in the situation where you're just going from 0-60, and don't care about distance traveled, etc.
take those same two "equivalent" motors, put them in the same body, and race them for top speed on the salt flats. The 400HP piston motor will win easily.
look instead at the 0-30 time, and the electric will probably kill the piston engine.
I think you're probably correct that that's what they're doing, but it's just plain wrong.
Yes, I think you're probably correct. They bought a pair of 100kW motors, and set them up with sufficient cooling to run them 49kW over spec.
Either that, or some one's pulling numbers out of their ass, and saying it's as fast as a 400hp engine due to electric motors wide torque curves. I really hate when people do that to things that aren't linear. To be fair, it's often journalists misquoting a tech who's making an off-hand estimate.
The thing about art is that you don't get it unless you get it.
While most games these days are far from what I'd consider "art", there is the occasional one that does things just right and has an unexpected emotional impact.
The whole problem with censorship is that not everyone's grabbed by the same things, and what you gloss over as "pop culture trash" might actually mean something to me.
Many of these controversial games are just trash, but who's to decide?
Well, back when I used windows I always turned this off anyways, but do the users who leave it on not notice that their.doc.exe file is the only one that shows a.doc extension on it?
Between North Vancouver, and Vancouver it's $3.75 each way, regardless of whether you take the ferry, (~3km trip), or take the bus (~$11km). A monthly pass is $99
We have crazy expensive raised track trains from Bombardier. They cost a lot, so we only have 2 (soon 3) lines.
unless you can box your entire life up into the downtown core. No friends/family outside walking distance, etc. There's no real way to get around cheaply.
Your choices are either to take transit for $100 a month and have another vehicle for when you want to go somewhere that transit isn't practical, or to just drive every day, and get screwed on parking.
Transit probably saves me about $100 a month. I could probably raise that to $200 if I stopped visiting my friends and family and ditched my vehicles completely.
$12k? How?
But that said, nobody tunes ethernet cables to length.
I don't understand your bit about slew rates though. Slew rate is limited by the system impedance and the driving electronics. You don't use high frequencies to ensure a slew rate. generally you would be controlling your slew rate to ensure you can transmit at the appropriate frequency without ringing. Right?
Yes, you'll get standing waves when you have an impedance mismatch on an improperly terminated transmission line. Unless your transceivers are absolute junk or you're not putting the ends on the cable correctly, this won't be a problem.
If it is a problem, the problem is with your NICs, not with the cable length.
And while it's aesthetic to have custom-fitted and dressed cables, it's not necessary. In fact, having a meter or two of extra cable can save you some major headaches down the line when you need to alter the installation somehow.
It's not necessary if you're wiring up a couple dozen PCs in an office.
If you're wiring a datacentre or something, you're not going to do it with premade cables and end up with anything but a gigantic mess.
They're a bit tougher to assemble for beginners, since the wires don't like to stay where you put them, but trivial if you're a pro.
Otoh, for $1 a piece it's hard to justify doing it yourself when you're setting up an office or something and a big box of 10' cables will do the trick.
It also only takes one bad factory made cable to eat up all the time you saved by not learning to make proper cables.
Once you're really good at it problems are really rare. I've run into a batch of defective connectors that didn't connect properly, but I've also run into batches of premade cables that had high failure rates.
When I'm wiring racks with ~40 cables of fairly short and consistent lengths, I'll order cables in 1' intervals and use the appropriate lengths. Making 40 cables to wire up a rack is just too much trouble.
If I'm running any longer cables like uplinks, or connections between racks, I make them myself, because you can't get them in specific lengths, and if you can, they'll be expensive and too much trouble to order when you need a 1 off length. Rolling up the extra 15 feet of a 50 foot cable that you used because you needed 35 feet is not a good solution.
As far as the quality thing goes, if you're actually good at making cables, they should be as good or better than the factory made ones. Of course, lots of people think they make good cables but don't, so YMMV
The problem goes even deeper. The bios is insecure. You can put bootable media in it and access your drives.
They really should start epoxy potting the whole machine with a harddrive with windows preinstalled and no longer allowing any other bootable media.
"Science" is a method, not a group of people. I personally believe that science is pretty perfect, and not necessarily opposed to religion.
It's all about critical thinking, and trying to understand things objectively.
1. Start with a theory. Just make something up, how you think something might work.
2. Find as much evidence as possible to test the theory.
3. Adjust the theory to fit the evidence.
Of course, that's an oversimplification, but pretty much the gist of it.
Where most of the conflicts occur between religion and science is where "religious" people ignore observed data because it doesn't agree with their religion, or when "scientific" people deny religious beliefs because they aren't proven.
Both sides are wrong when they take an all-or-nothing approach.
I see myself as a very scientific person and I'm open to all possibilities of the origins of the universe, however I haven't really seen any solid evidence suggesting any one religion over the others, or over the possibility they're all wrong and the truth is something completely different.
I see them all as I would any other poorly supported theory. If I see evidence which supports them, I'll accept it and refine the theory. If I see evidence that doesn't fit I can modify the theory to make it fit the other information that I know to be true.
Using Christianity/evolution as an example (since it's the subject of the article), there's fairly strong evidence that evolution is real. It's wrong to say that Christianity is wrong on the whole just because the bible isn't literally correct on one subject. It's also wrong to deny what you see because it doesn't agree with your religion.
Two things bother me about teaching creationism in schools.
1. is that we're favouring one specific creationist theory (the christian one).
2. We're putting a scientifically weak theory on even ground with a strong one.
Being scientific means you need to be open to ideas, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't favour studying the theories which are most likely to be correct.
Just because it doesn't immediately crap out doesn't mean that it's dealt with the issue in any way. It's still broken. You can map out the bad ram manually with kernel boot parameters if you must use bad ram, but it doesn't happen automatically.
Memtest is showing the error consistently after a couple hours.
Swap ram, run memtest overnight, if good, you're in the clear. If bad, you swapped the wrong piece, or your board just doesn't like the ram. (Not to brand bash, but this used to happen to me quite frequently with samsung ram)
No need to find out why it crashes in one and not the other.
Linux won't be mapping it out, so it's sitting around somewhere breaking things silently.
This is either a troll, or you asked your question in the worst possible way.
It's not a windows/linux question.
Bad ram is bad, period.
It sounds like your ram is bad. Probably the way linux is allocating that chunk of ram just happens to be non-crucial and not crashing your box. It's probably using it for cache and trashing your files or something.;)
If it's taking a couple hours, it may be heat related, or it might just be a borderline chip.
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The music industry has gotten into a state where a few big companies control the market. They don't need to control the artists, because they control the customers.
Distribution isn't the primary issue. It's easy enough to sell music over the internet, etc.
The problem is exposure. Most people don't really get a song into their head until they've heard it a couple times. Your average casual music buyer doesn't go through the trouble of searching for music they like, but just buys (or steals) music that they've heard somewhere, and enjoyed.
Because most of the channels of passive exposure are so controlled, the vast majority of customers are really only available to those who sign onto a big label.
This control of the market allows them to charge ridiculous prices, and pass on a very small amount to the artist.
All this doesn't make piracy right, but it does make it understandable.
How is a person even supposed to even find bands that they like? I haven't heard a song on the radio or television which interests me in years.
I still buy a lot of CDs, and go to a lot of live shows, but most of them I learned about by downloading from the internet.
The current system will fall at some point unless it adapts. The large record companies made some very smart moves which made them a lot of money. Now the world is changing, and instead of looking for new ways to make more money, they're trying to use their money/power to stop things from changing through fear of litigation.
Convince people that they have to play by your rules, or you'll sue them into the ground. The only problem is that a lot of them will just give you the finger.
On the Andy McKee thing: 8,676 thieves? I've never heard of the guy. I could go download his album, making the number 8,677. Maybe I'd like it, and go buy it. Maybe I'd listen once and decide I don't like it. In either case, Andy doesn't really know. Maybe a bunch of those people he's ranting to DID go and buy his CD legitimately. Maybe they hated it, and the download saved them from spending a bunch of money on something they don't like. The only ones who are stealing, at least morally, are the ones who like the music, keep it, and don't buy the CD.
Have it your way Andy. I won't download your album.
psst.. You might have just lost some sales.
Perhaps it measures 10kW while the plate is moving.
it may generate far less on average, when you include the dead space between vehicles.
The proper way is not to lock it at all, but slow it down so that repeated attempts take long enough to make a brute force attack impractical. Any kind of lockout leads to a very easy DoS. If it merely increases it's response time to 10 seconds it's not a really big deal to wait for the slower login, and DoSing becomes at least a bit less obvious. Better yet, don't put the grading software on a box accessible from any computer room in the school. A simple firewall could go a long way.
If a 200 KW electric motor can do 0-60 MPH in 4 seconds then that is equivalent to a 400 HP piston driven motor.
It's only equivalent in the situation where you're just going from 0-60, and don't care about distance traveled, etc.
take those same two "equivalent" motors, put them in the same body, and race them for top speed on the salt flats. The 400HP piston motor will win easily.
look instead at the 0-30 time, and the electric will probably kill the piston engine.
I think you're probably correct that that's what they're doing, but it's just plain wrong.
Either that, or some one's pulling numbers out of their ass, and saying it's as fast as a 400hp engine due to electric motors wide torque curves. I really hate when people do that to things that aren't linear. To be fair, it's often journalists misquoting a tech who's making an off-hand estimate.
they're simply different units to display the same thing.
It's no different than saying I way 220lbs, or 100kg but there's no direct conversion because it depends how much I eat.
They're both units of power, so if you were to tweak that engine to 150hp it would be a 112kW motor.
Screw censorship, and just let them stand on their own merit.
While most games these days are far from what I'd consider "art", there is the occasional one that does things just right and has an unexpected emotional impact.
The whole problem with censorship is that not everyone's grabbed by the same things, and what you gloss over as "pop culture trash" might actually mean something to me.
Many of these controversial games are just trash, but who's to decide?
Well, back when I used windows I always turned this off anyways, but do the users who leave it on not notice that their .doc.exe file is the only one that shows a .doc extension on it?
We have crazy expensive raised track trains from Bombardier. They cost a lot, so we only have 2 (soon 3) lines.
unless you can box your entire life up into the downtown core. No friends/family outside walking distance, etc. There's no real way to get around cheaply.
Your choices are either to take transit for $100 a month and have another vehicle for when you want to go somewhere that transit isn't practical, or to just drive every day, and get screwed on parking.
Transit probably saves me about $100 a month. I could probably raise that to $200 if I stopped visiting my friends and family and ditched my vehicles completely. $12k? How?
"It" seems to refer to ethernet signaling, which has high frequencies, and needs a fast slew rate to work.
The slew rate is the requirement, the high frequencies are the goal.
Your wording suggests the opposite.
But that said, nobody tunes ethernet cables to length.
I don't understand your bit about slew rates though. Slew rate is limited by the system impedance and the driving electronics. You don't use high frequencies to ensure a slew rate. generally you would be controlling your slew rate to ensure you can transmit at the appropriate frequency without ringing. Right?
If it is a problem, the problem is with your NICs, not with the cable length.
They're a bit tougher to assemble for beginners, since the wires don't like to stay where you put them, but trivial if you're a pro.
Otoh, for $1 a piece it's hard to justify doing it yourself when you're setting up an office or something and a big box of 10' cables will do the trick.
Once you're really good at it problems are really rare. I've run into a batch of defective connectors that didn't connect properly, but I've also run into batches of premade cables that had high failure rates.
When I'm wiring racks with ~40 cables of fairly short and consistent lengths, I'll order cables in 1' intervals and use the appropriate lengths. Making 40 cables to wire up a rack is just too much trouble.
If I'm running any longer cables like uplinks, or connections between racks, I make them myself, because you can't get them in specific lengths, and if you can, they'll be expensive and too much trouble to order when you need a 1 off length. Rolling up the extra 15 feet of a 50 foot cable that you used because you needed 35 feet is not a good solution.
As far as the quality thing goes, if you're actually good at making cables, they should be as good or better than the factory made ones. Of course, lots of people think they make good cables but don't, so YMMV
Umm, that order is 568B. It does seem more common these days.
The problem goes even deeper. The bios is insecure. You can put bootable media in it and access your drives. They really should start epoxy potting the whole machine with a harddrive with windows preinstalled and no longer allowing any other bootable media.
It's all about critical thinking, and trying to understand things objectively.
1. Start with a theory. Just make something up, how you think something might work.
2. Find as much evidence as possible to test the theory.
3. Adjust the theory to fit the evidence.
Of course, that's an oversimplification, but pretty much the gist of it.
Where most of the conflicts occur between religion and science is where "religious" people ignore observed data because it doesn't agree with their religion, or when "scientific" people deny religious beliefs because they aren't proven.
Both sides are wrong when they take an all-or-nothing approach.
I see myself as a very scientific person and I'm open to all possibilities of the origins of the universe, however I haven't really seen any solid evidence suggesting any one religion over the others, or over the possibility they're all wrong and the truth is something completely different.
I see them all as I would any other poorly supported theory. If I see evidence which supports them, I'll accept it and refine the theory. If I see evidence that doesn't fit I can modify the theory to make it fit the other information that I know to be true.
Using Christianity/evolution as an example (since it's the subject of the article), there's fairly strong evidence that evolution is real. It's wrong to say that Christianity is wrong on the whole just because the bible isn't literally correct on one subject. It's also wrong to deny what you see because it doesn't agree with your religion.
Two things bother me about teaching creationism in schools.
1. is that we're favouring one specific creationist theory (the christian one).
2. We're putting a scientifically weak theory on even ground with a strong one.
Being scientific means you need to be open to ideas, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't favour studying the theories which are most likely to be correct.
Just because it doesn't immediately crap out doesn't mean that it's dealt with the issue in any way. It's still broken. You can map out the bad ram manually with kernel boot parameters if you must use bad ram, but it doesn't happen automatically.
Swap ram, run memtest overnight, if good, you're in the clear. If bad, you swapped the wrong piece, or your board just doesn't like the ram. (Not to brand bash, but this used to happen to me quite frequently with samsung ram)
No need to find out why it crashes in one and not the other.
Linux won't be mapping it out, so it's sitting around somewhere breaking things silently.
This is either a troll, or you asked your question in the worst possible way. It's not a windows/linux question. Bad ram is bad, period. It sounds like your ram is bad. Probably the way linux is allocating that chunk of ram just happens to be non-crucial and not crashing your box. It's probably using it for cache and trashing your files or something. ;)
If it's taking a couple hours, it may be heat related, or it might just be a borderline chip.
That was my assumption as well. Of course, that's not accounting for any redundancy.
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