I just trust the government(s) less (almost 100 million of its owncitizens killed in the last century). For example, I don't want the German or EU government demanding copies of Google's hard drives and peering through our private data. Who knows what they use it for? During WW2 data was used to imprison millions of Americans who had done nothing wrong.
>>>Google's data gathering isn't destroying the Earth.
Neither will an oil spill destroy the Earth. In fact about the only thing that would destroy the earth is the sun going supersized, or a black hole skimming by & tearing the planet apart. The earth is hard to destroy..... even when an asteroid hit the planet, the earth continued merrily on and life recovered. Nothing mankind could do would destroy the earth.
>>>most likely to have 10 firefox windows open, each with 20 or 30 tabs, possibly on multiple monitors. Unless you possess an inhuman ability to maintain state tables in your head, you could easily assume that "yourbank.scam.com" on browser window 5, tab 15, is the "yourbank.com" that you actually did open, on browser window 7, tab 19. That'd be totally understandable mistake >>>
I don't understand power users like that. Do you REALLY need to have ~50 different websites open? First off, my machine wouldn't even support it (just 1/2 gig of RAM), and second it's confusing. When I hit over 10 tabs, I start bookmarking and then closing the ones I don't really need. I can come back to them later.
Well for example I'm logged into facebook right now. As I'm jumping from site-to-site in Tab #2, one of them could hijack the Tab #1 and make it look like a legitimate facebook login screen. And I would probably fall for it when, in about an hour, I go back to see it. I'd type in my name and password without realizing a thief was watching.
On second thought, since government does sometimes convict innocent people, let's avoid the death penalty. Let's make these creeps lifelong indentured servant to whomever they have harmed. I wouldn't mind having the guy who stole my credit card and purchased $4000 at Walmart serve as my maid for a summer.
Sometimes works that "disappear" eventually come back, thanks to copyright expiration. Example: It's A Wonderful Life was a forgotten film, but then it fell into public domain, so various TV stations started playing it for free to fill-in time. It was rediscovered thanks to its cheapness.
Of course MGM then hired a gaggle of lawyers, who discovered a loophole, and re-copyrighted the work. That simply should not be allowed, because now the movie is becoming scarce again..... I know many younger people who've never seen it.
In the US it was originally 14 years. The author had the option of renewing it another 14 years. So in theory the copyright would extend beyond the author's death but in most cases the copyright expired several years prior. In any case killing the author did not gain anything for the murderer..... it would still expire at 14 years.
All this talk of "expensive" and "high quality" ink overlooks a few basic facts:
- The ink in my laser printer costs $100 and lasts 5000 pages. That's 2 cents per page. - HP ink apparently costs $35 for ~150 pages or 23 cents a page. - And yet the laser ink looks just as good.
Clearly HP is lying. The ink is no better, but they (and other inkjet makers) are engaged in price inflation such that it costs over 10 times more than it should. Simply stop buying their inkjet shit, and buy a laser printer instead so you can save money. ASIDE: Refill of my Commodore inkjet in the 80s only cost $5 - it should cost about the same today.
>>>...a government-run, tax-funded public service. Isn't their JOB to PROTECT people's constitutional freedoms (like the freedom to tell a joke?) as opposed to censoring people?
No not really. You must be new here. Welcome to planet earth.:-)
Human history shows that governments do the exact opposite (which is places like US have a constitution to chain the government & prevent abuses). Governments don't protect individual rights - they trample over them. The Supreme Law and a jury of the people is what protects you from government
Sounds reasonable to me. Smokers are basically killing themselves, so naturally their hospital costs will be higher. Let THEM pay for the increased costs, not me and other non-self-destructive persons.
>>>>>can produce FM quality sound as low as 28 kbit/s, and AM quality at only 12 kbit/s >> >>What the hell do modulation modes have to do with sound quality?
Ya know when I originally wrote my message I had "FM Radio quality" and "AM Radio quality" but then I thought that nobody could be so stupid as to not know what I was talking about if I just said "FM quality", so I removed the word radio. Then you came along.
"I like that extension of copyright life to the author's life and fifty years afterward. I think that would satisfy any reasonable author, because it would take care of his children."
Sorry Mr. Twain but I don't think your daughters should be able to live in luxury, without working, while they collect money off your books for another 50 years. If you want to pass your existing money to them, that's fine, but the copyright should end the moment you die. Let your daughters go-out and work for themselves if they want to continue collecting money.
Copyright is intended to benefit the original laborer, not to set up an eternal money-making machine for people who did not do the original labor.
I imagine if that were the case, massive numbers of readers would boycott Davinci Code. Although, is that really any different from how series like Babylon 5, Lost, and Stargate SG1 operate? You don't get the whole story at once... it's stretched out over 5-8 years.
Also: I think you misinterpreted Twain's point. He didn't "hold back" anything in his stories. He was simply planning to add more material, as a bonus. Since he died, that never happened.
Also it's not a console (i.e. sits in your entertainment center under your TV). It's a handheld. So when are we going to see the Phantom Console roll out?;-)
>>>You telling me that in a decade "billions of customers" will still be using crappy slow internet connections?
Probably. If you search the world, you'll notice there's still a lot of it with only 56k or 28k connections. Even if they upgrade their phones to DSL lines during the next decade, they'll still have limited speeds.
They weren't. The standard UPC was adopted in the 70s, but it took many years before it became ubiquitous. I still remember working at JCPenney in the 90s and either wanding JPC's self-created tag or manually typing in the numbers by hand. The UPC was completely ignored because the store simply didn't have the necessary equipment.
So it took about a quarter-century between adoption of the UPC and the ability for all stores to read them.
Those VMs held complete control of the CPU. The OS had no way to interrupt (preempt) their execution, so it was NOT preemptive tasking. It also meant the if the VM or one of its internal programs crashed, the entire OS froze, because the CPU would never be released.
To me the word "preemptive" applies to the noun "Executive" or "OS". It means the OS Executive has the ability to freeze (preempt) a program's execution, and hand CPU control over to another program. The Commodore AmigaOS has this ability. The Classic MacOS did not. Neither did Windows 1, 2, 3.
In cooperative tasking, the program is in charge, and only releases the CPU whenever it feels like releasing the CPU. If the program never releases the CPU, then all other programs sit idle forever. That's why a crash of one program can freeze the entire OS.
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I don't trust EITHER of them.
I just trust the government(s) less (almost 100 million of its owncitizens killed in the last century). For example, I don't want the German or EU government demanding copies of Google's hard drives and peering through our private data. Who knows what they use it for? During WW2 data was used to imprison millions of Americans who had done nothing wrong.
>>>Google's data gathering isn't destroying the Earth.
Neither will an oil spill destroy the Earth. In fact about the only thing that would destroy the earth is the sun going supersized, or a black hole skimming by & tearing the planet apart. The earth is hard to destroy..... even when an asteroid hit the planet, the earth continued merrily on and life recovered. Nothing mankind could do would destroy the earth.
>>>most likely to have 10 firefox windows open, each with 20 or 30 tabs, possibly on multiple monitors. Unless you possess an inhuman ability to maintain state tables in your head, you could easily assume that "yourbank.scam.com" on browser window 5, tab 15, is the "yourbank.com" that you actually did open, on browser window 7, tab 19. That'd be totally understandable mistake
>>>
I don't understand power users like that. Do you REALLY need to have ~50 different websites open? First off, my machine wouldn't even support it (just 1/2 gig of RAM), and second it's confusing. When I hit over 10 tabs, I start bookmarking and then closing the ones I don't really need. I can come back to them later.
Well for example I'm logged into facebook right now. As I'm jumping from site-to-site in Tab #2, one of them could hijack the Tab #1 and make it look like a legitimate facebook login screen. And I would probably fall for it when, in about an hour, I go back to see it. I'd type in my name and password without realizing a thief was watching.
On second thought, since government does sometimes convict innocent people, let's avoid the death penalty. Let's make these creeps lifelong indentured servant to whomever they have harmed. I wouldn't mind having the guy who stole my credit card and purchased $4000 at Walmart serve as my maid for a summer.
People who do this crap of stealing people's accounts or identities should be shot.
See my Sig for why I think cable sucks. The switch from analog-to-digital drove up my cost to $82.
Sometimes works that "disappear" eventually come back, thanks to copyright expiration. Example: It's A Wonderful Life was a forgotten film, but then it fell into public domain, so various TV stations started playing it for free to fill-in time. It was rediscovered thanks to its cheapness.
Of course MGM then hired a gaggle of lawyers, who discovered a loophole, and re-copyrighted the work. That simply should not be allowed, because now the movie is becoming scarce again..... I know many younger people who've never seen it.
In the US it was originally 14 years. The author had the option of renewing it another 14 years. So in theory the copyright would extend beyond the author's death but in most cases the copyright expired several years prior. In any case killing the author did not gain anything for the murderer..... it would still expire at 14 years.
For some of us it also "cost" us a job, due to dickhead bosses that don't understand that playing Pac-Man while eating our lunch is acceptable.
Not that I'm speaking from personal experience.
Nope.
All this talk of "expensive" and "high quality" ink overlooks a few basic facts:
- The ink in my laser printer costs $100 and lasts 5000 pages. That's 2 cents per page.
- HP ink apparently costs $35 for ~150 pages or 23 cents a page.
- And yet the laser ink looks just as good.
Clearly HP is lying. The ink is no better, but they (and other inkjet makers) are engaged in price inflation such that it costs over 10 times more than it should. Simply stop buying their inkjet shit, and buy a laser printer instead so you can save money. ASIDE: Refill of my Commodore inkjet in the 80s only cost $5 - it should cost about the same today.
>>>...a government-run, tax-funded public service. Isn't their JOB to PROTECT people's constitutional freedoms (like the freedom to tell a joke?) as opposed to censoring people?
No not really. :-)
You must be new here.
Welcome to planet earth.
Human history shows that governments do the exact opposite (which is places like US have a constitution to chain the government & prevent abuses). Governments don't protect individual rights - they trample over them. The Supreme Law and a jury of the people is what protects you from government
Sounds reasonable to me. Smokers are basically killing themselves, so naturally their hospital costs will be higher. Let THEM pay for the increased costs, not me and other non-self-destructive persons.
>>>>>can produce FM quality sound as low as 28 kbit/s, and AM quality at only 12 kbit/s
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>>What the hell do modulation modes have to do with sound quality?
Ya know when I originally wrote my message I had "FM Radio quality" and "AM Radio quality" but then I thought that nobody could be so stupid as to not know what I was talking about if I just said "FM quality", so I removed the word radio. Then you came along.
"I like that extension of copyright life to the author's life and fifty years afterward. I think that would satisfy any reasonable author, because it would take care of his children."
Sorry Mr. Twain but I don't think your daughters should be able to live in luxury, without working, while they collect money off your books for another 50 years. If you want to pass your existing money to them, that's fine, but the copyright should end the moment you die. Let your daughters go-out and work for themselves if they want to continue collecting money.
Copyright is intended to benefit the original laborer, not to set up an eternal money-making machine for people who did not do the original labor.
I imagine if that were the case, massive numbers of readers would boycott Davinci Code. Although, is that really any different from how series like Babylon 5, Lost, and Stargate SG1 operate? You don't get the whole story at once... it's stretched out over 5-8 years.
Also: I think you misinterpreted Twain's point. He didn't "hold back" anything in his stories. He was simply planning to add more material, as a bonus. Since he died, that never happened.
Good point! I doubt my standing-up would have done anything but result in my self getting hurt.
Also it's not a console (i.e. sits in your entertainment center under your TV). It's a handheld. So when are we going to see the Phantom Console roll out? ;-)
That was the logical argument of a teenager (i.e. insult the speaker). Very impressive. You ought to go back to school.
>>>You telling me that in a decade "billions of customers" will still be using crappy slow internet connections?
Probably. If you search the world, you'll notice there's still a lot of it with only 56k or 28k connections. Even if they upgrade their phones to DSL lines during the next decade, they'll still have limited speeds.
Hard to believe, but you're right. The EU is #1, the US is #2, and China is #3 in manufacturing
They weren't. The standard UPC was adopted in the 70s, but it took many years before it became ubiquitous. I still remember working at JCPenney in the 90s and either wanding JPC's self-created tag or manually typing in the numbers by hand. The UPC was completely ignored because the store simply didn't have the necessary equipment.
So it took about a quarter-century between adoption of the UPC and the ability for all stores to read them.
Yes. Some employers give-away old hardware to their staff. I also got a free 15" monitor, which I take with me on long-term travel.
>>>Preemptive is correct.
Those VMs held complete control of the CPU. The OS had no way to interrupt (preempt) their execution, so it was NOT preemptive tasking. It also meant the if the VM or one of its internal programs crashed, the entire OS froze, because the CPU would never be released.
To me the word "preemptive" applies to the noun "Executive" or "OS". It means the OS Executive has the ability to freeze (preempt) a program's execution, and hand CPU control over to another program. The Commodore AmigaOS has this ability. The Classic MacOS did not. Neither did Windows 1, 2, 3.
In cooperative tasking, the program is in charge, and only releases the CPU whenever it feels like releasing the CPU. If the program never releases the CPU, then all other programs sit idle forever. That's why a crash of one program can freeze the entire OS.