I've streamed video as low as Dialup speeds (50k). The sound is bad (20 kbit/s) and the video is only 6 frames per second, but it does work. No idea what youtube requires, but I'm betting there's no minimum just like now there's no minimum standard for uploaded vids.
Aside - cwtv.com streams video as low as 128k (ISDN speeds) - if only all TV sites offered that same flexibility instead of requiring 1 Mbit/s minimum.
Good thing we have TV, radio DJs, and friends to tell us what to watch. They spend the time searching, and I just look at whatever they recommend. That seems to work well for me.
That reminds me - Any such thing as radio stations that only stream public domain music?
Starship Troopers was a pile of crap. Was nothing like the actual book, except the title. Although I did enjoy the naked shower scene. There's just not enough toplessness in movies or television today.
I like that idea. Maybe it would stop police abuses if they knew you were streaming their public acts to your friends, or to your hard drive.
Of course police always ask you to turn-off the camera, because then they can beat the sdhit otu fo you. As they did to a Baptist pastor in southern Arizona. His crime? They accused him of having marijuana and he said "That's nuts," so they drug him out of his car and beat him into a bloody mess. Naturally they found NO marijuana or any other contraband, so they charged him with disorderly condust (apparently sitting behind a steering wheel is "disorderly").
Man am I bitter. But it pisses me off the way police act. Just look how they treated Professor Gates - arresting a man out of his own home and property even though he'd done nothing wrong.
>>>nothing sends a message [than] finding it completely wiped of everything.
Yep. Likewise we should sabotage people's tires so they go "pop" after they pass 55mph, and leave them stranded along the highway. Nothing teaches a person how to change his own tire (and remember to inflate the spare) faster than a broken down car.
/end sarcasm
Stop being a dick. WANTING people to have their computer wiped and precious data lost makes you no better than a grumpy old man ("get off my lawn you stupid brats!"). Besides most of them are running Microsoft antivirus software by default. If that fails, it's not the person's fault.
>>>1. Once out, damage is done & cannot ever be undone. >>>2. It's a vehicle, and if it works, others (with a different agenda) will ride that vehicle too.
3. Even if a virus is completely harmless, it can still cause unintended consequences. For example the early Commodore Amiga viruses were just simple things that said, "Hello I am Hacker XYZ." Unfortunately this friendly hacker forgot that his virus would overwrite boot sectors on copy-protected video games and commercial software, thereby making them unusable.
Rockwell also refused to pay me for my last day of work. They told me to come-in Monday to empty my desk which I did, then I met with my manager for about an hour, then sat doing nothing for an hour, then met security for 30 minutes, and finally left 4 hours after I had originally come-in. I submitted my hours via timecard (per usual) but the boss refused to sign it, and I never got paid.
They did it to me. I was signed to a 6-month contract, but the company suddenly decided to cut costs by getting rid of half the staff. Since I was only 1 month into the 6 month contract, they invented a bunch of lies: "You eat too much food at lunch time," and "You showed up late for the 11 o'clock meeting [even though I was there at 10:55]," and "You charged 45 hours when you were not given permission [even though just one week earlier the boss said we could go upto 50]."
They had to Lie to make it appear I had broken the terms. Otherwise my termination would have been a breach of contract. (BTW don't ever work for Rockwell Collins in Iowa; they treat you poorly.)
>>>The day they get cancer the insurance company finds some technicality in their original application and cancels
How often does this happen? 1/10th of a percent? Let's not make a big deal about a problem that is actually quite small, and now that the Pelosicare Law has passed insurance companies can no longer refuse to serve you (due to preexisting conditions), so that pretty much eliminates your complaint.
Yeah. I enjoy playing my piano while driving to work every morning. There's just no substitute for playing "Blue Danube" yourself, even if it is a little dangerous and distracting. But no way would I ever deign to turn on PBS radio! Dirty recordings.
..... a desire by the government to ensure only "approved" books could be printed, and not books or pamphlets that the Crown found objectionable. i.e. It was censorship of free expression of thought. Rightthought could be printed, but wrongthought was not allowed to be.
No wonder Thomas Paine left Britannia, because he was forbidden from printing his works. Ditto many Scottish authors who spoke eloquently in favor of natural rights, but were blocked from doing so after the English Parliament extended its reach into the north.
Google turned up nothing. Did you just make this up? Oh and yes I agree that hiring a lawyer is the best thing to do. The problem with dealing with employers is they can invent the most flimsy excuses (or just flat-out lies) to remove an employee, and there's little you can do to self-defend yourself. You really need the full weight of government and a court of law if you expect to win an unjustified termination lawsuit.
I know I'll probably get modded troll or "get off my lawn old timer", but is it really necessary to have such complicated websites? I remember when most 90s-era sites were only 1-2 pages long worth of HTML (see the wayback archive). True they didn't have "ooo wow" animations or context-changing menus, but they still worked. They still got the job done (passing information to the viewer). Not only does a simple website load faster, but costs less to create and maintain.
>>>Every decision is made by a human being. I am tired of "corporations" getting a pass for immoral decisions because they are not people, but imaginary entities
Me too.
That's why I think every "incorporation license" within the US should be revoked, and therefore every company will be owned by a sole person (or partnership) who is directly responsible for the crimes of his company, including jail time. - Example: Ford makes Pintos that blow up? And they are aware of the problem but refuse to fix it, because it costs too much? Then Mr. Ford can spend 5-10 years in jail for the crime of 3rd degree manslaughter (times about 10,000 counts).
>>>cite a reasonable number of instances where random people in the West have been stopped and their laptops inspected.
Youtube has dozens of videos where people were asked to do exactly that. Frankly it amazes me that you (and many others) have never seen these vids. They are right there within easy access. There are also videos of cops dragging citizens out of their cars and beating them, even though said citizen had done nothing wrong (except refuse to consent to a search w/o warrant).
>>>Thankfully I've not been arrested yet, but so far I've never been stopped with my laptop in my possession. If they demanded to look at it I don't know how I could explain to them what's going on without them arresting me. That is what I'm getting a
Unfortunately the UK doesn't have a "Supreme Law" that protects its citizens. Parliament can overrule your individual rights anytime it feels like it. Perhaps you could invoke your EU Charter of Rights, since they are technically superior to English law?
Here in the US any cop demanding to see my laptop can be answered with a simple word: "no", or if you want to be more polite: "Do you have a search warrant?" "No." "Then no, you may not search at my private papers or personal effects."
>>>. This means that most of the core classical repertoire is already available in this form, often as very high quality recordings (they knew what they were doing by the 50s!) of great performances.
You answered my question. I thought there was already public domain performances, just as Ed Woods masterpieces (cough) are now public domain. As for the "point" of copyright, it is to give authors a temporary monopoly as incentive to create art that will eventually fall into the possession of all the People & enrich everybody.
It seems some in the US Congress and EU Parliament have forgotten that. Too busy getting bribed by megacorps I guess?
After peak oil happens, Natural gas will have the same flaw as oil (fixed inventory that is gradually dwindling to nothing). It is more logical to run our engines on brand-new fuels generated from solar power. i.e. Corn oil and soybean oil (ethanol and biodiesel).
Oh and convert cars to hybrids, so they can run on pure electric upto 40 miles per trip.
>>>Simple: The one who's had the most practice poking around inside people, ie. the low-paid tech.
QFT.
>>>the best mechanic I ever knew (I used to work as one) had only two years of official training. But that didn't stop our 4 year "expert" journeyman (who made twice as much) from frequently deferring to his judgment because, quite frankly, the man knew his shit better than anyone in the shop. >>>
QFT. I do the same thing. I may be an engineer but I'm smart enough to know, when it comes to actually building and prototyping boards, the technicians know more than I do. They do that job day after day. My expertise is design and documentation. Theirs is hands on work.
Yeah and she gets to keep about $40 of it. The rest goes towards paying assistants if she has any, paying the lease on the building, paying business tax, paying for electricity and office supplies. This is similar to how when I worked at Lockheed they listed my "rate" as $100 for the US Navy, but I only got to see $45 of it. The other $60 went toward office costs, health benefits, and general expenses.
>>>there's a damn good reason you don't have people with a bachelor's degree doing surgery! (nurses make $25-$30/hour) there are so many things that can go wrong, so many complications, so many drug interactions and allergies... >>>
On those rare instances, THEN you call in a doctor for advice. But in most cases surgery is cookie-cutter. It's the same procedure again and again and again. Heck, we could probably have robots do it, if robots ever reached sufficient precision for that level of work.
It just doesn't seem logical to me to have a high paid person when you could have a cheaper one. You don't need an engineer to work an assembly line, or solder a part on board-after-board in the lab. You use techs. Likewise neither do you need a doctor in most of these "assembly line" style clinics that just keep doing the same surgery person-after-person.
>>>If it was your appendix, and you had a choice, which one would you choose?
The tech. After all, I have the equivalent of technicians (mechanics) fix my car not a high-paid engineer flown-in from Chrysler. They do a good job, and for half the cost. ALSO it's worth noting that Doctor Jonas Salk, the guy famous for curing blue baby syndrome and first to perform open heart surgery, didn't actually do the work himself. He let his black assistant/technician do it. Why? Because the tech was lower paid, but also more skilled.
In fact I think in most cases the techs are more skilled than the engineers (or doctors), at least when it comes to hands-on work. That's all they do day-after-day, and they become experts with their hands.
To me it just doesn't make logical sense to have a $50/hour doctor doing appendectomies when a $25/hour tech could do the job just as well.
If it was your appendix, and you had a choice, which one would you choose?
The tech. After all, I have the equivalent of technicians (mechanics) fix my car not a high-paid engineer flown-in from Chrysler. Also it's worth noting that Doctor Jonas Salk, the guy famous for curing blue baby syndrome and first to perform open heart surgery, didn't actually do the work himself. He let his black assistant/technician do it. Why? Because the tech was lower paid, but also more skilled.
In fact I think in most cases the techs are more skilled than the engineers (or doctors), at least when it comes to hands-on work. That's all they do day-after-day, and they become experts with their hands.
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I've streamed video as low as Dialup speeds (50k). The sound is bad (20 kbit/s) and the video is only 6 frames per second, but it does work. No idea what youtube requires, but I'm betting there's no minimum just like now there's no minimum standard for uploaded vids.
Aside - cwtv.com streams video as low as 128k (ISDN speeds) - if only all TV sites offered that same flexibility instead of requiring 1 Mbit/s minimum.
Good thing we have TV, radio DJs, and friends to tell us what to watch. They spend the time searching, and I just look at whatever they recommend. That seems to work well for me.
That reminds me - Any such thing as radio stations that only stream public domain music?
Starship Troopers was a pile of crap. Was nothing like the actual book, except the title. Although I did enjoy the naked shower scene. There's just not enough toplessness in movies or television today.
I like that idea. Maybe it would stop police abuses if they knew you were streaming their public acts to your friends, or to your hard drive.
Of course police always ask you to turn-off the camera, because then they can beat the sdhit otu fo you. As they did to a Baptist pastor in southern Arizona. His crime? They accused him of having marijuana and he said "That's nuts," so they drug him out of his car and beat him into a bloody mess. Naturally they found NO marijuana or any other contraband, so they charged him with disorderly condust (apparently sitting behind a steering wheel is "disorderly").
Man am I bitter. But it pisses me off the way police act. Just look how they treated Professor Gates - arresting a man out of his own home and property even though he'd done nothing wrong.
>>>nothing sends a message [than] finding it completely wiped of everything.
Yep. Likewise we should sabotage people's tires so they go "pop" after they pass 55mph, and leave them stranded along the highway. Nothing teaches a person how to change his own tire (and remember to inflate the spare) faster than a broken down car.
Stop being a dick. WANTING people to have their computer wiped and precious data lost makes you no better than a grumpy old man ("get off my lawn you stupid brats!"). Besides most of them are running Microsoft antivirus software by default. If that fails, it's not the person's fault.
>>>1. Once out, damage is done & cannot ever be undone.
>>>2. It's a vehicle, and if it works, others (with a different agenda) will ride that vehicle too.
3. Even if a virus is completely harmless, it can still cause unintended consequences. For example the early Commodore Amiga viruses were just simple things that said, "Hello I am Hacker XYZ." Unfortunately this friendly hacker forgot that his virus would overwrite boot sectors on copy-protected video games and commercial software, thereby making them unusable.
P.S.
Rockwell also refused to pay me for my last day of work. They told me to come-in Monday to empty my desk which I did, then I met with my manager for about an hour, then sat doing nothing for an hour, then met security for 30 minutes, and finally left 4 hours after I had originally come-in. I submitted my hours via timecard (per usual) but the boss refused to sign it, and I never got paid.
Bastards
Fucking, fucking bastards.
>>>Why should they invent an excuse or lie?
They did it to me. I was signed to a 6-month contract, but the company suddenly decided to cut costs by getting rid of half the staff. Since I was only 1 month into the 6 month contract, they invented a bunch of lies: "You eat too much food at lunch time," and "You showed up late for the 11 o'clock meeting [even though I was there at 10:55]," and "You charged 45 hours when you were not given permission [even though just one week earlier the boss said we could go upto 50]."
They had to Lie to make it appear I had broken the terms.
Otherwise my termination would have been a breach of contract.
(BTW don't ever work for Rockwell Collins in Iowa; they treat you poorly.)
Same difference. Like Windows 2000 and XP. Or 3.0 and 3.1 ;-)
>>>The day they get cancer the insurance company finds some technicality in their original application and cancels
How often does this happen? 1/10th of a percent? Let's not make a big deal about a problem that is actually quite small, and now that the Pelosicare Law has passed insurance companies can no longer refuse to serve you (due to preexisting conditions), so that pretty much eliminates your complaint.
>>>Recordings are crutches.
Yeah. I enjoy playing my piano while driving to work every morning. There's just no substitute for playing "Blue Danube" yourself, even if it is a little dangerous and distracting. But no way would I ever deign to turn on PBS radio! Dirty recordings.
..... a desire by the government to ensure only "approved" books could be printed, and not books or pamphlets that the Crown found objectionable. i.e. It was censorship of free expression of thought. Rightthought could be printed, but wrongthought was not allowed to be.
No wonder Thomas Paine left Britannia, because he was forbidden from printing his works. Ditto many Scottish authors who spoke eloquently in favor of natural rights, but were blocked from doing so after the English Parliament extended its reach into the north.
"effective and brutal libel"
Google turned up nothing. Did you just make this up? Oh and yes I agree that hiring a lawyer is the best thing to do. The problem with dealing with employers is they can invent the most flimsy excuses (or just flat-out lies) to remove an employee, and there's little you can do to self-defend yourself. You really need the full weight of government and a court of law if you expect to win an unjustified termination lawsuit.
I know I'll probably get modded troll or "get off my lawn old timer", but is it really necessary to have such complicated websites? I remember when most 90s-era sites were only 1-2 pages long worth of HTML (see the wayback archive). True they didn't have "ooo wow" animations or context-changing menus, but they still worked. They still got the job done (passing information to the viewer). Not only does a simple website load faster, but costs less to create and maintain.
"Simplify; simplify." - Thoreau
"It only takes one man with a vision. Just one man to say no." - Captain Kirk to evil universe Spock.
>>>Every decision is made by a human being. I am tired of "corporations" getting a pass for immoral decisions because they are not people, but imaginary entities
Me too.
That's why I think every "incorporation license" within the US should be revoked, and therefore every company will be owned by a sole person (or partnership) who is directly responsible for the crimes of his company, including jail time. - Example: Ford makes Pintos that blow up? And they are aware of the problem but refuse to fix it, because it costs too much? Then Mr. Ford can spend 5-10 years in jail for the crime of 3rd degree manslaughter (times about 10,000 counts).
>>>cite a reasonable number of instances where random people in the West have been stopped and their laptops inspected.
Youtube has dozens of videos where people were asked to do exactly that. Frankly it amazes me that you (and many others) have never seen these vids. They are right there within easy access. There are also videos of cops dragging citizens out of their cars and beating them, even though said citizen had done nothing wrong (except refuse to consent to a search w/o warrant).
>>>Thankfully I've not been arrested yet, but so far I've never been stopped with my laptop in my possession. If they demanded to look at it I don't know how I could explain to them what's going on without them arresting me. That is what I'm getting a
Unfortunately the UK doesn't have a "Supreme Law" that protects its citizens. Parliament can overrule your individual rights anytime it feels like it. Perhaps you could invoke your EU Charter of Rights, since they are technically superior to English law?
Here in the US any cop demanding to see my laptop can be answered with a simple word: "no", or if you want to be more polite: "Do you have a search warrant?" "No." "Then no, you may not search at my private papers or personal effects."
>>>. This means that most of the core classical repertoire is already available in this form, often as very high quality recordings (they knew what they were doing by the 50s!) of great performances.
You answered my question. I thought there was already public domain performances, just as Ed Woods masterpieces (cough) are now public domain. As for the "point" of copyright, it is to give authors a temporary monopoly as incentive to create art that will eventually fall into the possession of all the People & enrich everybody.
It seems some in the US Congress and EU Parliament have forgotten that. Too busy getting bribed by megacorps I guess?
After peak oil happens, Natural gas will have the same flaw as oil (fixed inventory that is gradually dwindling to nothing). It is more logical to run our engines on brand-new fuels generated from solar power. i.e. Corn oil and soybean oil (ethanol and biodiesel).
Oh and convert cars to hybrids, so they can run on pure electric upto 40 miles per trip.
>>>Simple: The one who's had the most practice poking around inside people, ie. the low-paid tech.
QFT.
>>>the best mechanic I ever knew (I used to work as one) had only two years of official training. But that didn't stop our 4 year "expert" journeyman (who made twice as much) from frequently deferring to his judgment because, quite frankly, the man knew his shit better than anyone in the shop.
>>>
QFT. I do the same thing. I may be an engineer but I'm smart enough to know, when it comes to actually building and prototyping boards, the technicians know more than I do. They do that job day after day. My expertise is design and documentation. Theirs is hands on work.
>>>I pay my masseuse $90/hr
Yeah and she gets to keep about $40 of it. The rest goes towards paying assistants if she has any, paying the lease on the building, paying business tax, paying for electricity and office supplies. This is similar to how when I worked at Lockheed they listed my "rate" as $100 for the US Navy, but I only got to see $45 of it. The other $60 went toward office costs, health benefits, and general expenses.
>>>there's a damn good reason you don't have people with a bachelor's degree doing surgery! (nurses make $25-$30/hour) there are so many things that can go wrong, so many complications, so many drug interactions and allergies...
>>>
On those rare instances, THEN you call in a doctor for advice. But in most cases surgery is cookie-cutter. It's the same procedure again and again and again. Heck, we could probably have robots do it, if robots ever reached sufficient precision for that level of work.
It just doesn't seem logical to me to have a high paid person when you could have a cheaper one. You don't need an engineer to work an assembly line, or solder a part on board-after-board in the lab. You use techs. Likewise neither do you need a doctor in most of these "assembly line" style clinics that just keep doing the same surgery person-after-person.
Ooops. Messed up my last post. Here it is again:
>>>If it was your appendix, and you had a choice, which one would you choose?
The tech. After all, I have the equivalent of technicians (mechanics) fix my car not a high-paid engineer flown-in from Chrysler. They do a good job, and for half the cost. ALSO it's worth noting that Doctor Jonas Salk, the guy famous for curing blue baby syndrome and first to perform open heart surgery, didn't actually do the work himself. He let his black assistant/technician do it. Why? Because the tech was lower paid, but also more skilled.
In fact I think in most cases the techs are more skilled than the engineers (or doctors), at least when it comes to hands-on work. That's all they do day-after-day, and they become experts with their hands.
>>>
To me it just doesn't make logical sense to have a $50/hour doctor doing appendectomies when a $25/hour tech could do the job just as well.
If it was your appendix, and you had a choice, which one would you choose?
The tech. After all, I have the equivalent of technicians (mechanics) fix my car not a high-paid engineer flown-in from Chrysler. Also it's worth noting that Doctor Jonas Salk, the guy famous for curing blue baby syndrome and first to perform open heart surgery, didn't actually do the work himself. He let his black assistant/technician do it. Why? Because the tech was lower paid, but also more skilled.
In fact I think in most cases the techs are more skilled than the engineers (or doctors), at least when it comes to hands-on work. That's all they do day-after-day, and they become experts with their hands.