I think this sort of integration takes a neutral position, actually. With encryption and private trading groups, the RIAA has to go a LOT further to stop it. They need to start doing more than connecting to a tracker and getting a list of IPs and send out an automated e-mail. Maybe then people will see how silly the RIAA has become.
There is no controversy. Technology is not illegal. Uses of it are. People like etree make such a mockery of the RIAA's claims that filesharing is only used for evil that it's not even funny. Perhaps the RIAA is pissed off that somanybands are content with giving their music away for absolutely free.
Coincidentally, as I was hiking through the woods yesterday, I was talking about Blue Gene with one of the guys who works on the project at IBM. Blue Gene is intended to go to 400 TFlops, and the 70 TFlops number is due to the second piece of the machine being put together. For a while Earth Simulator was running LINPACK fastest at like 36 TFlops. Then IBM came out with piece one of Blue Gene and ran it at 40 TFlops. Then NEC announced something running at like 46 TFlops. Looks like IBM is back on top. It should be a good race.
First they create "The Internet" and only researchers are using it. Then it gets flooded with non-research traffic, so they create "Internet2." Now that's "flooded" and they want lambda rail. It's a cycle that's tough to end. I thought it would be cool to get us on NLR, but the futility of it was noted by my Director. Our Internet2 link (OC-12) is far from saturated, so there's really no need for it.
This picture shows them rather well. If you look in the center area, there's a component with a "hot" logo. It has several heat pipes that run through it.
Inspired by the iMac? I suppose, if "inspired" means take an iMac and beat it with the ugly stick. I guess now that car manufacturers sell cars pre-"riced out," it was only a matter of time before computer manufacturers started doing the same.
WHY CAN'T YOU PEOPLE GET THIS? You're not a thief if you download music illegally (or do some similar act). It is not stealing! Therefore, someone who does it is not a thief. They are a copyright infringer. Oh and by the way, the concept of intent is not a new one in law. For example, manslaughter is not the same as murder.
Holy crap. The argument isn't difficult to understand. Stop making it so complicated. If you steal a physical CD, the store can no longer sell it. Therefore, there is a loss of money. With downloading, or making a copy, there is no loss if you would have never purchased it.
You're not depriving the copyright holder from money if you had no intent to purchase the item in the first place. There are plenty of movies I would watch for free but would never consider worth paying money to own. Therefore, if I were to download a copy of such a movie without paying for it, I'm not stealing anything. It is illegal, yes. But it's copyright infringement, NOT stealing. There is no money gain or loss on my part or the publisher's part. The same logic follows for anything that can be duplicated in a similar manner.
Ditto. I have The North Face Network (doesn't appear they make it anymore) and it's a good backpack that is a laptop bag (wording intentional). It doesn't have any complicated laptop protection method, it's just a special area of the backpack with a 1/2" or so foam pad all around it. It does the job well. My TiBook hasn't been harmed in it and it's been on multiple plane rides, tossed in and out of my car, etc. North Face still makes some laptop backpacks so check ebags.com; they're a good company.
Have you ever actually tried to make a non-networker a networker? It isn't easy stuff. The book would be twice its length if it touched on security in any meaningful way.
Security is going to go straight over the head of someone who doesn't know the basics of the basics. You can't run before you can walk and you certainly can't learn "gun safety" if you don't know what a "gun" is.
Not to be nit picky, but I know that at least in New York, Stern is not #1 rated. That title belongs to Curtis & Kuby who I would much rather listen to than Stern.
"In other news, it has been found that eating food can be addictive. Studies show that some humans who start eating food shortly after they are born are unable to stop until their death."
There's a reason they fixed your motherboard without question. They're legally obligated to (at least in the USA). From the Magnuson-Moss act 16 C.F.R. 700.10 section 102(c):
"No warrantor may condition the continued validity of a warranty on the use of only authorized repair service and/or authorized replacement parts for non-warranty service and maintenance. For example, provisions such as, 'This warranty is void if service is performed by anyone other than an authorized "ABC" dealer and all replacement parts must be genuine "ABC" parts,' and the like, are prohibited where the service or parts are not covered by the warranty. These provisions violate the Act in two ways. First, they violate the section 102 (c) ban against tying arrangements. Second, such provisions are deceptive under section 110 of the Act, because a warrantor cannot, as a matter of law, avoid liability under a written warranty where a defect is unrelated to the use by a consumer of "unauthorized" articles or service. This does not preclude a warrantor from expressly excluding liability for defects or damage caused by such "unauthorized" articles or service; nor does it preclude the warrantor from denying liability where the warrantor can demonstrate that the defect or damage was so caused."
Hmm. And why should I trust you? How do I know that you're not the REAL conspirator and that really the CIA is in with all the tinfoil makers around the world and by virtue of that any homemade tinfoil hats are pre-compromised? I think my only solution is to mine and produce tinfoil myself. Only then will I be safe!
*Sigh* I'm not mad at you, but rather mad at the industry that has degraded the reputation of live performances to something to be NOT wanted. It's a shame really. There are so many bands that are so much better live than they are in the studio. That being said, recordings of live music come in three main varieties.
Soundboard recordings (directly recorded from house mix of the show).
Audience recordings (recorded using microphones from the audience).
A mix of the above two, often known as a "matrix" mix.
While you may scoff at the idea of using microphones to record a live show, I would rather listen to an audience recorded version of a show than its soundboard counterpart. Why? It has the feeling of being there. Soundboard recordings are just that, recordings off the venue's soundboard. These do not sound ideal because the mix is specific to the venue and will contain equalization and other processing to make it sound ideal if it were played back in that venue. Now, when you think of microphones you may think of the cheap $20 variety you can buy for a Karaoke machine. Bands that allow recording (Gov't Mule, Phish, The Dead, moe., etc.) have sections in the venue set up specifically for tapers. Some of these tapers will not hesitate to bring gear to a show worth more than the average car. Such a recording rig consists of microphones, shock absorbing mounts for those microphones, a pre-amp, an analog to digital converter, and a digital recorder in the form of a DAT deck, hard disk based recorder, or laptop. Such equipment produces incredible recordings, recordings which constitute the majority of the music I listen to on a daily basis. Just as a bit of trivia, when you purchase a "live" album in a record store, often times that album will be of the third variety mentioned above, as many sound engineers will have a set of microphones running to record the mix from the audience.
If you're interested in breaking free from slavery to the RIAA, please visit http://www.etree.org or http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php where you will find hundreds of artists who not only allow recording of their performances, but who encourage the free distribution thereof.
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I think this sort of integration takes a neutral position, actually. With encryption and private trading groups, the RIAA has to go a LOT further to stop it. They need to start doing more than connecting to a tracker and getting a list of IPs and send out an automated e-mail. Maybe then people will see how silly the RIAA has become.
There is no controversy. Technology is not illegal. Uses of it are. People like etree make such a mockery of the RIAA's claims that filesharing is only used for evil that it's not even funny. Perhaps the RIAA is pissed off that so many bands are content with giving their music away for absolutely free.
Um, those programs use BSD licensed code, not GPL'd code, so your claim is not valid.
Why don't you go back and read how routing works. Your statement is completely inane.
Coincidentally, as I was hiking through the woods yesterday, I was talking about Blue Gene with one of the guys who works on the project at IBM. Blue Gene is intended to go to 400 TFlops, and the 70 TFlops number is due to the second piece of the machine being put together. For a while Earth Simulator was running LINPACK fastest at like 36 TFlops. Then IBM came out with piece one of Blue Gene and ran it at 40 TFlops. Then NEC announced something running at like 46 TFlops. Looks like IBM is back on top. It should be a good race.
Use Desktop Manager.
First they create "The Internet" and only researchers are using it. Then it gets flooded with non-research traffic, so they create "Internet2." Now that's "flooded" and they want lambda rail. It's a cycle that's tough to end. I thought it would be cool to get us on NLR, but the futility of it was noted by my Director. Our Internet2 link (OC-12) is far from saturated, so there's really no need for it.
This picture shows them rather well. If you look in the center area, there's a component with a "hot" logo. It has several heat pipes that run through it.
You seem to have left out a couple. Let me enlighten you!
SRP (Spatial Reuse Protocol)
DPT (Dynamic Packet Transport)
which of course have gone on to inspire the IEEE 802.17 standard RPR (Resilient Packet Ring).
Powerbooks (at least my TiBook) already have boiling liquid in them. How do you think heat pipes work?
Inspired by the iMac? I suppose, if "inspired" means take an iMac and beat it with the ugly stick. I guess now that car manufacturers sell cars pre-"riced out," it was only a matter of time before computer manufacturers started doing the same.
WHY CAN'T YOU PEOPLE GET THIS? You're not a thief if you download music illegally (or do some similar act). It is not stealing! Therefore, someone who does it is not a thief. They are a copyright infringer. Oh and by the way, the concept of intent is not a new one in law. For example, manslaughter is not the same as murder.
Holy crap. The argument isn't difficult to understand. Stop making it so complicated. If you steal a physical CD, the store can no longer sell it. Therefore, there is a loss of money. With downloading, or making a copy, there is no loss if you would have never purchased it.
You're not depriving the copyright holder from money if you had no intent to purchase the item in the first place. There are plenty of movies I would watch for free but would never consider worth paying money to own. Therefore, if I were to download a copy of such a movie without paying for it, I'm not stealing anything. It is illegal, yes. But it's copyright infringement, NOT stealing. There is no money gain or loss on my part or the publisher's part. The same logic follows for anything that can be duplicated in a similar manner.
Ditto. I have The North Face Network (doesn't appear they make it anymore) and it's a good backpack that is a laptop bag (wording intentional). It doesn't have any complicated laptop protection method, it's just a special area of the backpack with a 1/2" or so foam pad all around it. It does the job well. My TiBook hasn't been harmed in it and it's been on multiple plane rides, tossed in and out of my car, etc. North Face still makes some laptop backpacks so check ebags.com; they're a good company.
No. Wrong. It ends up being Girls = (Evil^1/2)^2.
Have you ever actually tried to make a non-networker a networker? It isn't easy stuff. The book would be twice its length if it touched on security in any meaningful way.
Security is going to go straight over the head of someone who doesn't know the basics of the basics. You can't run before you can walk and you certainly can't learn "gun safety" if you don't know what a "gun" is.
Not to be nit picky, but I know that at least in New York, Stern is not #1 rated. That title belongs to Curtis & Kuby who I would much rather listen to than Stern.
"In other news, it has been found that eating food can be addictive. Studies show that some humans who start eating food shortly after they are born are unable to stop until their death."
There's a reason they fixed your motherboard without question. They're legally obligated to (at least in the USA). From the Magnuson-Moss act 16 C.F.R. 700.10 section 102(c):
"No warrantor may condition the continued validity of a warranty on the use of only authorized repair service and/or authorized replacement parts for non-warranty service and maintenance. For example, provisions such as, 'This warranty is void if service is performed by anyone other than an authorized "ABC" dealer and all replacement parts must be genuine "ABC" parts,' and the like, are prohibited where the service or parts are not covered by the warranty. These provisions violate the Act in two ways. First, they violate the section 102 (c) ban against tying arrangements. Second, such provisions are deceptive under section 110 of the Act, because a warrantor cannot, as a matter of law, avoid liability under a written warranty where a defect is unrelated to the use by a consumer of "unauthorized" articles or service. This does not preclude a warrantor from expressly excluding liability for defects or damage caused by such "unauthorized" articles or service; nor does it preclude the warrantor from denying liability where the warrantor can demonstrate that the defect or damage was so caused."
Trust no one!
Hmm. And why should I trust you? How do I know that you're not the REAL conspirator and that really the CIA is in with all the tinfoil makers around the world and by virtue of that any homemade tinfoil hats are pre-compromised? I think my only solution is to mine and produce tinfoil myself. Only then will I be safe!
Holy crap. Read the posts DIRECTLY above yours.
- Soundboard recordings (directly recorded from house mix of the show).
- Audience recordings (recorded using microphones from the audience).
- A mix of the above two, often known as a "matrix" mix.
While you may scoff at the idea of using microphones to record a live show, I would rather listen to an audience recorded version of a show than its soundboard counterpart. Why? It has the feeling of being there. Soundboard recordings are just that, recordings off the venue's soundboard. These do not sound ideal because the mix is specific to the venue and will contain equalization and other processing to make it sound ideal if it were played back in that venue. Now, when you think of microphones you may think of the cheap $20 variety you can buy for a Karaoke machine. Bands that allow recording (Gov't Mule, Phish, The Dead, moe., etc.) have sections in the venue set up specifically for tapers. Some of these tapers will not hesitate to bring gear to a show worth more than the average car. Such a recording rig consists of microphones, shock absorbing mounts for those microphones, a pre-amp, an analog to digital converter, and a digital recorder in the form of a DAT deck, hard disk based recorder, or laptop. Such equipment produces incredible recordings, recordings which constitute the majority of the music I listen to on a daily basis. Just as a bit of trivia, when you purchase a "live" album in a record store, often times that album will be of the third variety mentioned above, as many sound engineers will have a set of microphones running to record the mix from the audience.If you're interested in breaking free from slavery to the RIAA, please visit http://www.etree.org or http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php where you will find hundreds of artists who not only allow recording of their performances, but who encourage the free distribution thereof.