My question is why would a North Carolina have an "interest" in this committee? Wouldn't a congressman on a committee that has nothing to do with a key issue of their constituency be less effective pursuing her/his agenda? With the exception of the "famous" committees you mention, I don't how money or clout can flow to a given congressman unless she/he directly benefits via her/his regional political base.
The end of the article mentions that part of the issue facing the Tech community is that we don't have financial contributors and lobby groups. What the article fails to realize is that many in the movement (at least here on/., anyway) oppose such activity as cheating and corruption.
Question: Which is more important, the end of such corruption in politics, or the assertion of digital rights?
I think it's strange how arbitrary it is that congressmen can end up on commitees that have little to do with their homestate. How would a North Carolina congressman get a copyright related chair in front of one from California, Texas, New York or Washington?
What ozone layer? (-: The atmosphere over Anarctica has a measurably thinner ozone layer (sometimes mistakenly called "a hole" by the press) than the rest of the globe. It wouldn't be as effective bouncing signals off of it.
I'll leave the "Did CFC's do it?" flame war to some other suspecting troll.
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Nuts, "5-7-6." Poetry was never my strong suit...
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Penny A Message
Charging Fee For Each E-Mail
Like Early CompuServe
Seriously, though, it going to come down to having to start charging "postage" for e-mail to deter freeloading abusers. While CS's old "dime-a-message" may be too draconian, most spammers will give up if they actually have to pay to send messages.
BTW, most of the poems here aren't haiku, since they don't invoke nature imagery. I forget the correct term for the generic "5-7-5" form, however.
I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned that Motorola's past relationship with Apple could be a factor in this... Moto makes phone chips and could be more willing to put R&D into improving PowerPC chips again if Apple makes phones with their other chips. (Or Apple could go elsewhere to "punish" Moto for failing to abide by Moore's Law.)
I've already discussed this on MacSlash, but the problem is that the G4 processors currently shipped with Macs don't support DDR memory via a direct connection.
The closest Moto has gotten is a 8xxx series "G5" processor that supports a RapidIO interconnect. However, this new processor, despite the existence of demo units dating back years, is still effectively vaporware. My understanding is that Apple is backing an interconnect technology called HyperTransport instead.
Any insiders willing to clarify or correct this? Motorola's current financial state is distressing, especially since I live near where they are based. All those layoffs...
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Why do we even need domain names anymore since it's clear there's too much vested interest in what organizations name themselves? The current namespace is too confused to have much underlying meaning for the companies and people who currently hold them. (Read: you can no longer guess the name of a website.) For years, companies were content to have numbers for faxes and phone calls, why not just use IP numbers for websites?
Hmmm, after reading the article and your comment, I'm starting to think the MS is actually doing something morally right for a change. They are "supporting" DRM in a manner that a knowledgeable user can bypass without violating the DMCA. They may not be doing it with management's knowledge, but allowing this functionality to be switched off or to allow "license transfer" below the **AA's radar strikes me as a sneaky way to continue to offer fair use access. Most users can still get access to their collection, but at the same time claim to the **AA that they are still "protecting" their content. Interesting...
It's not that they're evil; they're simply profoundly amoral.
While you are technically correctly, keep in mind that to most people amoral equals antimoral, and therefore evil. (Just as agnostic is frequently confused with atheist.)
What ever happened to that format, anyway? It was pushed by Sun and I worked with OpenGL-based creation tools on Indy and O2 systems. (I also did some markup by hand...)
Apple's 3DMF format worked similarly. What was wrong with them?
I'm assuming some of those more skeptical of Apple and more willing to be critical of their hardware decisions are reading this so I'll ask...
As a Mac user, what benefit will DDR bring to PowerPC based systems? My understanding is that the data bus from the CPUs to the bus controller is still SDR; what, then, can take advantage of the increased memory bandwidth? PCI and ATA are much slower than memory. The only subsystem I can see that can hook to the memory at full tilt is the graphics card, but I don't think AGP is at DDR memory speeds yet. Or is it?
It's not different, yet I wish the Japanese luck with blocking it. Here in the States, the SSN has mutated from being a government benefit ID to being used to track credit histories and employment. Logic may dictate that the Slippery Slope is not a valid concern, but history shows otherwise.
...so I'll ask. What is the advantage of transfering a 35mm source to a larger format? You wouldn't gain resolution or quality, you would just get interpolation or blurring. My understanding was that the only reason IMAX theaters traditionally have massive screens was to show off the increased detail of the film format. Is there a specific reason why transfering a film to IMAX format gains anything?
This was just a picture, not an animation. The width of the picture would have fit fine on a 1024 wide display, and 800 wide displays would the see the bulk of the image anyway...
An application should verify EVERYTHING before actually performing an action, even memory allocation.
In my case, that was impossible. The memory ran out before my code executed due to the code fragment loader not having room; the pre-OS X memory model truly sucked.
I was watching Blue Thunder and saw a mishmash of things. The scene early in the movie of the nude woman stretched out was replaced with a woman clothed, stretching out.
Then there was at least 30 seconds of Murphy's wife making dinner(and a cat jumping around) that I haven't ever seen in my VHS copy of it. Strange.
And let's not forget that masterpiece of edited-for-TV work, the "Love Conquers All" version of Gilliam's Brazil. The entire plot of the movie was changed from the original concept of a man being tortured to insanity by a system that blames fictional "terrorists" for the failure of the system into a plot involving that same man falling in love with and becoming a terrorist.
Part of the problem is how users and managers define "bug." I once wrote a piece of shareware that broke when a new version of the Mac OS it ran on was released; the "bug" was mentioned in a review of the app in a UK magazine.
It turned out that there was no bug in my code at all; it was just that the new OS increased the memory requirement of ALL apps running on the system due to a change in how the UI was presented. The "fix" was to adjust the memory allocation by at least 23k, which could be done in a user-accessable configuration window. (Before you ask why there was no wiggle room, the entire app used 30k of a 48k memory partion. There appeared to be room, but the 23k change was relatively massive. And yes, users also blamed Apple for this "bug.")
People seem to think that computer software is unique in that it regularly ships with defects. Cars and children's toys are frequently subject to recall and require ".1" releases. Chicken and eggs are legally allowed to ship with small amounts of the "salmonella" bug. Perfection is just not possible in the real world. Even if it was, it would be more expensive that most people are willing to pay for... especially since any experienced software engineer will tell you that managers and customers will rarely know ahead of time exactly what they want feature-wise.
The point isn't that the fossil fuel energy is being converted directly to ethanol, but that the fuel being used doesn't dwarf the energy stored by the processed plants. If spending a unit of petrol will allow us to convert biologically stored solar energy into six units of alcohol as fuel, it's a win.
Did you read the whole article? You can leave a bottle outside when it rains; you can go to a bank, supermarket, etc. in the morning for free coffee.
True, the latter is an externalized cost, but so is P2P. People already pay ISPs for the bandwidth used. Also, if time is money, users of these networks pay with their configuration and download time. The point is that people will pay money for time-savings and/or convenience; an "official" server would be more likely to be reliable and faster to download from than an peer.
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My question is why would a North Carolina have an "interest" in this committee? Wouldn't a congressman on a committee that has nothing to do with a key issue of their constituency be less effective pursuing her/his agenda? With the exception of the "famous" committees you mention, I don't how money or clout can flow to a given congressman unless she/he directly benefits via her/his regional political base.
I thought Domino's Pizza added a small amount of Cheddar to their Mozzarella for their delieved pizza. Anyone?
The end of the article mentions that part of the issue facing the Tech community is that we don't have financial contributors and lobby groups. What the article fails to realize is that many in the movement (at least here on /., anyway) oppose such activity as cheating and corruption.
Question: Which is more important, the end of such corruption in politics, or the assertion of digital rights?
I think it's strange how arbitrary it is that congressmen can end up on commitees that have little to do with their homestate. How would a North Carolina congressman get a copyright related chair in front of one from California, Texas, New York or Washington?
What ozone layer? (-: The atmosphere over Anarctica has a measurably thinner ozone layer (sometimes mistakenly called "a hole" by the press) than the rest of the globe. It wouldn't be as effective bouncing signals off of it.
I'll leave the "Did CFC's do it?" flame war to some other suspecting troll.
Nuts, "5-7-6." Poetry was never my strong suit...
Penny A Message
Charging Fee For Each E-Mail
Like Early CompuServe
Seriously, though, it going to come down to having to start charging "postage" for e-mail to deter freeloading abusers. While CS's old "dime-a-message" may be too draconian, most spammers will give up if they actually have to pay to send messages.
BTW, most of the poems here aren't haiku, since they don't invoke nature imagery. I forget the correct term for the generic "5-7-5" form, however.
I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned that Motorola's past relationship with Apple could be a factor in this... Moto makes phone chips and could be more willing to put R&D into improving PowerPC chips again if Apple makes phones with their other chips. (Or Apple could go elsewhere to "punish" Moto for failing to abide by Moore's Law.)
I've already discussed this on MacSlash, but the problem is that the G4 processors currently shipped with Macs don't support DDR memory via a direct connection.
The closest Moto has gotten is a 8xxx series "G5" processor that supports a RapidIO interconnect. However, this new processor, despite the existence of demo units dating back years, is still effectively vaporware. My understanding is that Apple is backing an interconnect technology called HyperTransport instead.
Any insiders willing to clarify or correct this? Motorola's current financial state is distressing, especially since I live near where they are based. All those layoffs...
Why do we even need domain names anymore since it's clear there's too much vested interest in what organizations name themselves? The current namespace is too confused to have much underlying meaning for the companies and people who currently hold them. (Read: you can no longer guess the name of a website.) For years, companies were content to have numbers for faxes and phone calls, why not just use IP numbers for websites?
Hmmm, after reading the article and your comment, I'm starting to think the MS is actually doing something morally right for a change. They are "supporting" DRM in a manner that a knowledgeable user can bypass without violating the DMCA. They may not be doing it with management's knowledge, but allowing this functionality to be switched off or to allow "license transfer" below the **AA's radar strikes me as a sneaky way to continue to offer fair use access. Most users can still get access to their collection, but at the same time claim to the **AA that they are still "protecting" their content. Interesting...
It's not that they're evil; they're simply profoundly amoral.
While you are technically correctly, keep in mind that to most people amoral equals antimoral, and therefore evil. (Just as agnostic is frequently confused with atheist.)
What ever happened to that format, anyway? It was pushed by Sun and I worked with OpenGL-based creation tools on Indy and O2 systems. (I also did some markup by hand...)
Apple's 3DMF format worked similarly. What was wrong with them?
I'm assuming some of those more skeptical of Apple and more willing to be critical of their hardware decisions are reading this so I'll ask...
As a Mac user, what benefit will DDR bring to PowerPC based systems? My understanding is that the data bus from the CPUs to the bus controller is still SDR; what, then, can take advantage of the increased memory bandwidth? PCI and ATA are much slower than memory. The only subsystem I can see that can hook to the memory at full tilt is the graphics card, but I don't think AGP is at DDR memory speeds yet. Or is it?
It's not different, yet I wish the Japanese luck with blocking it. Here in the States, the SSN has mutated from being a government benefit ID to being used to track credit histories and employment. Logic may dictate that the Slippery Slope is not a valid concern, but history shows otherwise.
...so I'll ask. What is the advantage of transfering a 35mm source to a larger format? You wouldn't gain resolution or quality, you would just get interpolation or blurring. My understanding was that the only reason IMAX theaters traditionally have massive screens was to show off the increased detail of the film format. Is there a specific reason why transfering a film to IMAX format gains anything?
This was just a picture, not an animation. The width of the picture would have fit fine on a 1024 wide display, and 800 wide displays would the see the bulk of the image anyway...
An application should verify EVERYTHING before actually performing an action, even memory allocation.
In my case, that was impossible. The memory ran out before my code executed due to the code fragment loader not having room; the pre-OS X memory model truly sucked.
I was watching Blue Thunder and saw a mishmash of things. The scene early in the movie of the nude woman stretched out was replaced with a woman clothed, stretching out.
Then there was at least 30 seconds of Murphy's wife making dinner(and a cat jumping around) that I haven't ever seen in my VHS copy of it. Strange.
And let's not forget that masterpiece of edited-for-TV work, the "Love Conquers All" version of Gilliam's Brazil. The entire plot of the movie was changed from the original concept of a man being tortured to insanity by a system that blames fictional "terrorists" for the failure of the system into a plot involving that same man falling in love with and becoming a terrorist.
Part of the problem is how users and managers define "bug." I once wrote a piece of shareware that broke when a new version of the Mac OS it ran on was released; the "bug" was mentioned in a review of the app in a UK magazine.
It turned out that there was no bug in my code at all; it was just that the new OS increased the memory requirement of ALL apps running on the system due to a change in how the UI was presented. The "fix" was to adjust the memory allocation by at least 23k, which could be done in a user-accessable configuration window. (Before you ask why there was no wiggle room, the entire app used 30k of a 48k memory partion. There appeared to be room, but the 23k change was relatively massive. And yes, users also blamed Apple for this "bug.")
People seem to think that computer software is unique in that it regularly ships with defects. Cars and children's toys are frequently subject to recall and require ".1" releases. Chicken and eggs are legally allowed to ship with small amounts of the "salmonella" bug. Perfection is just not possible in the real world. Even if it was, it would be more expensive that most people are willing to pay for... especially since any experienced software engineer will tell you that managers and customers will rarely know ahead of time exactly what they want feature-wise.
The point isn't that the fossil fuel energy is being converted directly to ethanol, but that the fuel being used doesn't dwarf the energy stored by the processed plants. If spending a unit of petrol will allow us to convert biologically stored solar energy into six units of alcohol as fuel, it's a win.
Did you read the whole article? You can leave a bottle outside when it rains; you can go to a bank, supermarket, etc. in the morning for free coffee.
True, the latter is an externalized cost, but so is P2P. People already pay ISPs for the bandwidth used. Also, if time is money, users of these networks pay with their configuration and download time. The point is that people will pay money for time-savings and/or convenience; an "official" server would be more likely to be reliable and faster to download from than an peer.
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I can't sing, so Sosumi...
That's not the correct format for an instructions post on Slashdot...
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2. Post Hollywood movie gag
3. ???
4. PROFIT!
HTH. HAND.
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