That I put a quarter into my CD player everytime I want to hear it? And that I should be forced to close my windows so that nobody else can listen for free?
This is a strawman, and you know it.
A moral person who believes that music should be distributed freely will get together with other musicians and create music which they allow to be distributed. A greedy person takes the work of others and justifies it by saying that they don't believe in copyright. You are in category two.
Ah, yes. The old "record labels are greedy too!" argument. Maybe your parents taught you that sharing is good, but did they forget to teach you "two wrongs don't make a right?"
Nobody cheers about copyright infringement because "the RIAA sucks." They cheer about it because they like free music. The whole "RIAA sucks" is so that they can pretend that they're making a moral stand instead of being greedy.
So? Use metric for science-related stuff where it really matters. (Most in the US do anyway.) There's no good reason to go to the expense and trouble of switching from English to metric all at once. It's much more cost-effective to do it over the space of a couple generations rather than all at once.
The voice is recorded first, and the animation done afterwards to match it.
Actually, this isn't always true. Typically, American animation is done this way, in order to get the best match between the voices and the animation. However, anime is usually dubbed -- the animation is done first, and then the voices are done later. Interestingly, one of the people working on the English dub of Princess Mononoke mentioned that the timing of the English dubbing often matched the animation better than the original Japanese dubbing, because of this.
Interesting though, how a movie written for a 12-year old girl in another country can seem so mature, while movies written for 12-year-olds in the US seem vapid and utterly childish.
It's not the audience; it's the director. Try picking a few fansubbed anime at random and watching a few episodes. You'll find that what they pump out in Japan is every bit as worthless as American children's shows/movies. Spirited Away was a great movie because a brilliant man created it, not because it was released in Japan.
I don't know if there have been studies done on how to infect large groups of people with HIV.
HIV would be a very poor choice of diseases to use for terrorism purposes. It's difficult to become infected with, takes a long time to do any damage, and with current treatments is not nearly as lethal as many other diseases.
And your nonsense about "fundamentalist religious groups" is just FUD. There are crazy people in every segment of the population; religion has nothing to do with it.
It really sounds more like the "Google Groups 2" service is intended to replace the "Google Groups" service -- the new one will probably still have access to the usenet archives. Given how much time and money google has put into acquiring and making those archives available, it seems rather unlikely that they're going to dump them.
You have an extraordinary lack of imagination if you think that the worst a trojan would do is wipe your HD as soon as you try to install. Think time delay, backdoor, and so forth.
But the ones who aren't "vaccinated" are the only ones at risk. They're the same ones who are pirating Windows. Why should Microsoft be at all concerned about them?
What do you know; another idiot webmaster who restricts who can access their page based on the software you use to do it. (In my case, it refused to let me in because I'm using Opera.) Some people need to wake up and join us in the twenty-first century.
I don't know the specific details of bittorrent, but in general, that shouldn't be the way it works...
It's a simple matter of available bandwidth. If you have 100 people downloading from each other, there's going to be less bandwidth to spare for you than if you have 50 people serving out the file to only 5 downloaders.
And Gnutella fills a completely different role than Bittorrent. Unless things have changed dramatically in the last year or so, there's no way in hell that Gnutella can compete with Bittorrent for efficient distribution of large files.
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Not to mention much less effective.
This is a strawman, and you know it.
A moral person who believes that music should be distributed freely will get together with other musicians and create music which they allow to be distributed. A greedy person takes the work of others and justifies it by saying that they don't believe in copyright. You are in category two.
How convenient that your beliefs just happen to get you free music.
Ah, yes. The old "record labels are greedy too!" argument. Maybe your parents taught you that sharing is good, but did they forget to teach you "two wrongs don't make a right?"
I don't suppose you'd care to enlighten us on which of your rights is infringed by this?
Nobody cheers about copyright infringement because "the RIAA sucks." They cheer about it because they like free music. The whole "RIAA sucks" is so that they can pretend that they're making a moral stand instead of being greedy.
So? Use metric for science-related stuff where it really matters. (Most in the US do anyway.) There's no good reason to go to the expense and trouble of switching from English to metric all at once. It's much more cost-effective to do it over the space of a couple generations rather than all at once.
Actually, this isn't always true. Typically, American animation is done this way, in order to get the best match between the voices and the animation. However, anime is usually dubbed -- the animation is done first, and then the voices are done later. Interestingly, one of the people working on the English dub of Princess Mononoke mentioned that the timing of the English dubbing often matched the animation better than the original Japanese dubbing, because of this.
It's not the audience; it's the director. Try picking a few fansubbed anime at random and watching a few episodes. You'll find that what they pump out in Japan is every bit as worthless as American children's shows/movies. Spirited Away was a great movie because a brilliant man created it, not because it was released in Japan.
No worries; it's all downhill.
HIV would be a very poor choice of diseases to use for terrorism purposes. It's difficult to become infected with, takes a long time to do any damage, and with current treatments is not nearly as lethal as many other diseases.
And your nonsense about "fundamentalist religious groups" is just FUD. There are crazy people in every segment of the population; religion has nothing to do with it.
You know, you really don't have to retype your sig every time you write a message. Especially if you're going to misquote it.
It really sounds more like the "Google Groups 2" service is intended to replace the "Google Groups" service -- the new one will probably still have access to the usenet archives. Given how much time and money google has put into acquiring and making those archives available, it seems rather unlikely that they're going to dump them.
You have an extraordinary lack of imagination if you think that the worst a trojan would do is wipe your HD as soon as you try to install. Think time delay, backdoor, and so forth.
Apparently, somebody didn't learn much from the story posted earlier today.
Of course, anyone who downloads WinXP from an unofficial source deserves what they get.
But the ones who aren't "vaccinated" are the only ones at risk. They're the same ones who are pirating Windows. Why should Microsoft be at all concerned about them?
Obviously, the ones in charge realized that they were targeting the wrong audience.
Oh, great. Now the spelling nazis are replying to examples of good spelling too.
Although thinking about it, that might be a more efficient way to do things on slashdot.
Unfortunately, I don't think that the Vatican is researching it at the moment.
What do you know; another idiot webmaster who restricts who can access their page based on the software you use to do it. (In my case, it refused to let me in because I'm using Opera.) Some people need to wake up and join us in the twenty-first century.
Do you mean the people illegally distributing music or the people trying to kill P2P?
In either case, the answer is no.
The same people who don't teach students the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs?
Really? I followed the link and it looked just fine to me.
And in the same thread:
It's a simple matter of available bandwidth. If you have 100 people downloading from each other, there's going to be less bandwidth to spare for you than if you have 50 people serving out the file to only 5 downloaders.
And Gnutella fills a completely different role than Bittorrent. Unless things have changed dramatically in the last year or so, there's no way in hell that Gnutella can compete with Bittorrent for efficient distribution of large files.