Well, as I said, these are just my interpretation of other people opinions. Nice to know they made an impact
or (2) Since I'm being punished along with the pirates, I may as well actually set out and pirate
Yes, I came up with the same conclusion. The other problem being that independent artists get no compensation at all, and they're a) the ones that would benefit most and b) more likely to have their CD's pirated because of the difficulty of finding them in the shops.
But fucking 50 year old movies are coming out today on DVD with region locks?!
I think in this case, the region locks are just a reflex. Nobody suggested making it region 0.
This logic is so flawed, I'll leave its dubunking as an excercise for the reader.
Of course I did. Since you don't seem to be the only person to make this mistake I guess I should have made myself clearer My point was this seems to be the argument from the MPAA. The whole post was meant to be a satire. I also don't really think that it shuld be a criminal offence to hum a tune youi don't own.
As another wiser poster (root) pointed out: "This logic is so flawed I'll leave its dubunking as an excercise for the reader"
None of the following are my opinion, just my biased interpretation of other peoples opinion, although I don't think piracy can be considered theft since you aren't actually removing anything from somebody else. It should still be prevented.
(1) According to the RIAA - because they didn't get any money from the sale of your computer, and as far as they're concerned if you have the ability to play a fraction of a second of any of their intelectual property on 2 machines at the same time, you're depriving them of money, and the purchase only allows one person to listen to it at the same time. (It should also be a criminal offence to hum the tune if you don't own it)
(2) The movie companies feel that you should not be able to see a film before its released on the cinema in your country because that is stealing the claim to first showing from the cinemas.
(3) You COULD use this to produce pirate videos. It doesn't matter that you wouldn't. The fact that you merely have the knowledge to do so means that they should lock you up and throw away the key.
You're probably right. My half-hearted research didn't support this, but as I mentioned at the time, it isn't very accurate, and I didn't take account of the increased resolution and colour depth.
Do you have any figures for actual fill rates and triangle drawing rates with release dates for the hardware?
and no there hasn't been any reduction in competition
There were a lot of graphics chip makers about 4 years ago. Most of them died very quickly. I'm not suggesting the reduction in competitors has reduced the strength of competition - in fact quite the opposite. Natural selection means that only strong aggresive companies have survived.
Best results for a Banshee -which I believe was a really fast card 18 months ago- was 168.5.
The fastest result for a modern card was 462.1, but that could have been overclocked. There are several results that are over 300. This isn't a totally accurate way of comparing, given the effect of the processor, but it does suggest that graphics cards are matching Moore's law pretty closely.
Well, this would require very fast networking, so that you could send all the texture information and vectors to the card, then get a high resolution rendered scene back, but it could be done. I don't think that the origional poster was being totally serious although Similar systems have been used for incredibly processor intensive ray tracing work where scenes take more than a few hours to render.
I use SuSE, so I'm probably not so biased. I agree that Slackware is a very good system, and rumours of it being difficult to set up are greatly exagerated.
Slackware was the first version of Linux that I managed to install, and it caused no problems at all.
The only reason I don't use it is that SuSE 6.3 was available off the shelf at the local computer shop and Slackware wasn't.
So if I buy a tape recorder, I have to pay a surcharge to the record industry because somebody else is allegedly breaking the law.
Why do we still need a record industry anyway? It only exists because producing records and CD's costs money. MP3 means that artists can produce an unlimited quantity of copies of their music at virtually no cost.
But if 10% of Unix admns are women, and 93% od NT admins have thick bushy beards, then that means at minimum, 30% of Female Unix admins have thich bushy beards.
Writing online....means relinquishing reprint, royalty and subsidiary rights that used to provide revenue to writers and artists. The work of me and other writers here and elsewhere on the Web is widely distributed, linked and even printed in paper form without permission or payment.
My understanding of the law was that although writing online implicitely gives people the right to download, read and store in a browsers cache, the copyright still belongs to the origional author. As a result, I could prevent someone from putting my own work on a publicly accesible website, or printing it and selling it, yet still print it in a paper form and sell it as a copyrighted work.
This is what will happen: Public outcry prevents the law from getting through. The Bill fails a second time. A horrible crime is commited that disgusts the entire country. By luck alone, someone manages to decrypt message that allows us to catch the perpetrator. This is used to demonstrate that this law is a good idea. The law is forced through the commons again because of public pressure
But there are going to be occasional cases where this is useful. Even if you don't want to do anything with the BIOS (I haven't since I installed my last motherboard) it could still be useful for remote admin without having to use a network, which would be useful for fixing network problems, or even for using MS-DOS remotely.
Still, definitely a product with a very small niche.
Well, when I think about it it is amusing that I've been duped. Before amusement becomes irritation. Not with the origional Troll, but with oneself. I couldn't believe I could be so stupid as to respond to it.
I don't think that Trolls should be ignored. If there is a good Troll, I like to respond in a humourous way. This time I failed.
I know what you mean about the moderators not understanding insightful. I've posted about one insightful comment, and had dozens moderated up as insightful. What I don't quite follow is why you're so angry about it. Ordinary people get to moderate. People are fallable. Not everyone does know what insightful means. Hell, most people even get the meaning of the word "instantaneously" (to choose a random example) wrong too. This is because nobody knows everything. This does not give you just cause to correct minor errors with pedantry. It is no reason for swearing. And if you think good trolls shuld be encouraged, then GREAT! respond to them with anger. That's what they're there for.
And as you can see, I (Neil Sluman) have responded with my name. Happy now?
All I can say is that this is a common attitude. I'm not going to excuse it or justify it because if they're intelligent then they should be able to explain things to people who aren't an expert in your field, rather than saying "You wouldn't understand".
Although I can't beleive that you're earning "a pittance" as an accountant but I think I know what you mean. Seems strange though. I would have thought it was a lot harder to find a decently experienced bean counter than some people with a generally good UNIX understanding. Peoples value is just subjective.
(Flamebait on) Anyway, IT techs are just jealous because they couldn't get a job that requires a REAL understanding of computers. (Flamebait off)
as for the Unix guys, they seem to think they are above talking to a mere "bean counter" or "suit" as they often call me.
You'll probably find that the Unix guys have an inverted sense of the corporate social structure. This means that people like you who don't directly affect them are considered worthless, whereas the guys who take the trash out are treated with great respect, because they know they don't want to do that job.
Anyway, it could be that the NT machines are being used for a totally different purpose. They could even be costing more. If there's a problem with an NT machine then the person who uses it could probably fix it, but how long does that take?
Of course, the wool could be being pulled over your eyes. It all depends. What are these machines being used for?
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Well, as I said, these are just my interpretation of other people opinions. Nice to know they made an impact
or (2) Since I'm being punished along with the pirates, I may as well actually set out and pirate
Yes, I came up with the same conclusion. The other problem being that independent artists get no compensation at all, and they're
a) the ones that would benefit most and
b) more likely to have their CD's pirated because of the difficulty of finding them in the shops.
But fucking 50 year old movies are coming out today on DVD with region locks?!
I think in this case, the region locks are just a reflex. Nobody suggested making it region 0.
This logic is so flawed, I'll leave its dubunking as an excercise for the reader.
Sorry, best I could come up with.
I hope you mean that sarcastically
Of course I did. Since you don't seem to be the only person to make this mistake I guess I should have made myself clearer My point was this seems to be the argument from the MPAA. The whole post was meant to be a satire. I also don't really think that it shuld be a criminal offence to hum a tune youi don't own.
As another wiser poster (root) pointed out: "This logic is so flawed I'll leave its dubunking as an excercise for the reader"
None of the following are my opinion, just my biased interpretation of other peoples opinion, although I don't think piracy can be considered theft since you aren't actually removing anything from somebody else. It should still be prevented.
(1) According to the RIAA - because they didn't get any money from the sale of your computer, and as far as they're concerned if you have the ability to play a fraction of a second of any of their intelectual property on 2 machines at the same time, you're depriving them of money, and the purchase only allows one person to listen to it at the same time. (It should also be a criminal offence to hum the tune if you don't own it)
(2) The movie companies feel that you should not be able to see a film before its released on the cinema in your country because that is stealing the claim to first showing from the cinemas.
(3) You COULD use this to produce pirate videos. It doesn't matter that you wouldn't. The fact that you merely have the knowledge to do so means that they should lock you up and throw away the key.
Couldn't the tendency to overheat be used to thaw out the frozen games?
You're probably right. My half-hearted research didn't support this, but as I mentioned at the time, it isn't very accurate, and I didn't take account of the increased resolution and colour depth.
Do you have any figures for actual fill rates and triangle drawing rates with release dates for the hardware?
and no there hasn't been any reduction in competition
There were a lot of graphics chip makers about 4 years ago. Most of them died very quickly. I'm not suggesting the reduction in competitors has reduced the strength of competition - in fact quite the opposite. Natural selection means that only strong aggresive companies have survived.
There's a speed comparison site here.
Best results for a Banshee -which I believe was a really fast card 18 months ago- was 168.5.
The fastest result for a modern card was 462.1, but that could have been overclocked. There are several results that are over 300. This isn't a totally accurate way of comparing, given the effect of the processor, but it does suggest that graphics cards are matching Moore's law pretty closely.
Well, this would require very fast networking, so that you could send all the texture information and vectors to the card, then get a high resolution rendered scene back, but it could be done. I don't think that the origional poster was being totally serious although Similar systems have been used for incredibly processor intensive ray tracing work where scenes take more than a few hours to render.
The 3d card market seems to have an alternative version of Moore's law:
Every 18 months, the number of people making 3D graphics cards halves. There's only about 6 companies making 3D chips now.
I use SuSE, so I'm probably not so biased. I agree that Slackware is a very good system, and rumours of it being difficult to set up are greatly exagerated.
Slackware was the first version of Linux that I managed to install, and it caused no problems at all.
The only reason I don't use it is that SuSE 6.3 was available off the shelf at the local computer shop and Slackware wasn't.
Its not like we get much chance to actually get experienced with Women. And my computer works just as well upside down.
Except the CD's are kind of hard to get in.
So if I buy a tape recorder, I have to pay a surcharge to the record industry because somebody else is allegedly breaking the law.
Why do we still need a record industry anyway? It only exists because producing records and CD's costs money. MP3 means that artists can produce an unlimited quantity of copies of their music at virtually no cost.
So does this mean we'll be getting 100% optical CPU's soon?
But if 10% of Unix admns are women, and 93% od NT admins have thick bushy beards, then that means at minimum, 30% of Female Unix admins have thich bushy beards.
It is possible - however unlikely - that they would release a Linux version of Office for every architecture apart from Intel.
That would be..... interesting.
Small Environment eXtension
If criminals know that they're going to be traceable, they will just use an untraceable means of communication. Just go to the nearest internet cafe.
Writing online....means relinquishing reprint, royalty and subsidiary rights that used to provide revenue to writers and artists. The work of me and other writers here and elsewhere on the Web is widely distributed, linked and even printed in paper form without permission or payment.
My understanding of the law was that although writing online implicitely gives people the right to download, read and store in a browsers cache, the copyright still belongs to the origional author.
As a result, I could prevent someone from putting my own work on a publicly accesible website, or printing it and selling it, yet still print it in a paper form and sell it as a copyrighted work.
Would Mr. Blair dive in front of me to stop a bullet?
Yes. This would push his approval rating up
Would Mr. Blair jump into a knifefight to save me if I was losing?
Depends on whether the increase in approval rating was worth having to admit that we need to spend more on the police
Would Mr. Blair give me his kidney if I needed it?
Of course not! That would mean having to find a doctor, and a hospital bed thus increasing NHS waiting lists.
Now what if nobody was around to boost his approval rating?
Then "no" to parts 1 and 2
This is what will happen:
Public outcry prevents the law from getting through.
The Bill fails a second time.
A horrible crime is commited that disgusts the entire country.
By luck alone, someone manages to decrypt message that allows us to catch the perpetrator.
This is used to demonstrate that this law is a good idea.
The law is forced through the commons again because of public pressure
But there are going to be occasional cases where this is useful. Even if you don't want to do anything with the BIOS (I haven't since I installed my last motherboard) it could still be useful for remote admin without having to use a network, which would be useful for fixing network problems, or even for using MS-DOS remotely.
Still, definitely a product with a very small niche.
I thought slashdot was open-minded enough to no produce such FUD but it appears I am wrong.
The curse of the open minded is that they must also tolerate the bigoted.
Well, when I think about it it is amusing that I've been duped. Before amusement becomes irritation. Not with the origional Troll, but with oneself. I couldn't believe I could be so stupid as to respond to it.
I don't think that Trolls should be ignored. If there is a good Troll, I like to respond in a humourous way. This time I failed.
I know what you mean about the moderators not understanding insightful. I've posted about one insightful comment, and had dozens moderated up as insightful. What I don't quite follow is why you're so angry about it. Ordinary people get to moderate. People are fallable. Not everyone does know what insightful means. Hell, most people even get the meaning of the word "instantaneously" (to choose a random example) wrong too. This is because nobody knows everything. This does not give you just cause to correct minor errors with pedantry. It is no reason for swearing. And if you think good trolls shuld be encouraged, then GREAT! respond to them with anger. That's what they're there for.
And as you can see, I (Neil Sluman) have responded with my name. Happy now?
All I can say is that this is a common attitude. I'm not going to excuse it or justify it because if they're intelligent then they should be able to explain things to people who aren't an expert in your field, rather than saying "You wouldn't understand".
Although I can't beleive that you're earning "a pittance" as an accountant but I think I know what you mean. Seems strange though. I would have thought it was a lot harder to find a decently experienced bean counter than some people with a generally good UNIX understanding. Peoples value is just subjective.
(Flamebait on) Anyway, IT techs are just jealous because they couldn't get a job that requires a REAL understanding of computers.
(Flamebait off)
Q. How far away is the sun?
A. 92 million miles
Q. How far away is the pacific?
A. A maximum of 24 000 miles away
Nice to know that nuclear war is so safe. I'll set off an H bomb in my garden! It won't kill me, or destroy anything because the sun doesn't.
Anybody know how to set off an H-Bomb without using a conventional atomic bomb?
as for the Unix guys, they seem to think they are above talking to a mere "bean counter" or "suit" as they often call me.
You'll probably find that the Unix guys have an inverted sense of the corporate social structure. This means that people like you who don't directly affect them are considered worthless, whereas the guys who take the trash out are treated with great respect, because they know they don't want to do that job.
Anyway, it could be that the NT machines are being used for a totally different purpose. They could even be costing more. If there's a problem with an NT machine then the person who uses it could probably fix it, but how long does that take?
Of course, the wool could be being pulled over your eyes. It all depends. What are these machines being used for?