It beats the previous holder of the record, a railroad in Peru that passes over 4843m, by only a couple of hundred meters, taking away a record it held since it was completed in 1912, almost a hundred years ago.
The fact is, not many places have much use for a railroad that high. Both the current and the former holders of the record would pass over the highest point in Europe or the lower 48 states.
I spend *a lot* of time on the web on my Treo 600. The only way to make it useable is to turn off image loading. The text (which is usually what I want anyway) comes up quickly, and is quite readable even on a 160x160 screen.
I was with for your first three sentences. The left often engages in hyperbole. No one rational here thinks Bush is in any substantial way like Hitler.
Then I get to sentence four. I am not giving my civil liberties up, even a little bit, not because of Al-Qaeda or for any other reason. I'm probably the nine-millionth person to quote Ben Franklin on this, but "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
And then I see sentence five: "The only thing we would gain from John Kerry is a government that's a slave to France." And your credibility is shot.
a) Do you honestly think that? b) If so, why? c) What the hell?
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I think that it is clear from this piece that Pournelle has conflated two different arguments in his head. One is the one that Doctorow has made against DRM, saying it is at its core unworkable and bad for all those involved. The other is the one made so often by P2P users that they should not have to pay for copyright works.
Somewhere Pournelle seems to have jumped to the conclusion that giving up on DRM means giving up on copyright altogether. That is not the case.
-snip-
So what we are really saying here is not do individual authors and composers have a moral right to dictate how their creations shall be distributed, but do they have rights in the legal sense that will be enforced by laws and both civil and criminal courts?
Doctorow and his group say "not really." He also chooses his examples carefully, most of them out at the extremes; but everyone knows that hard cases make bad law, and while the law has to deal with extreme cases, it isn't normally written with only those cases in mind. -snip-
Imagine, for example, that Apple talked the RIAA into allowing them to remove DRM from songs sold via the iTunes Music Store. What kind of effect would this have on music piracy? Not much, I would argue. All of those songs are already available as mp3s on the P2P networks. The cat is already out of the bag. Adding more (legit) copies of those mp3s will not contribute substantially, partially because people who use the legit services are less likely to use P2P networks.
There is a point that Steve Jobs made when he announced the iTunes music store. The core of it is this: if you make a legal option that is superior to the free options (easier to use, more convenient) most people will chose it. Current technology has made infringement much easier, and you will never be able to stamp it out entirely. What you can do is provide options that more people will want to use.
Well, what if I built an illegal free iTMS? I don't think there is a way to do this. Anything centralized can be busted, and anything distributed will most likely be less reliable.
It is still be the job of law enforcement to try to keep large-scale infringment from happening. Technology makes infringement that much easier, but DRM does not really make it much harder. This doesn't mean we should throw up our hands and give on copyright. But it doesn't mean DRM is the right answer either.
There are companies that make machines that record transactions very reliably and are quite difficult to hack. Actually, Diebold makes some of them, if I remember correctly. They are called ATMs.
The thing is, their customers are in the private sectors too, and they care a lot about their money. It is in their critical interest to make sure those machines aren't easy to hack. There is a huge amount of pushback to make sure those machines are secure.
There is also accountability if those machines get hacked. If Diebold ATMs start spitting money, you can be sure banks will call the lawyers and start howling for blood. For some reason, if a voting machine misrecords votes, no one seems to care much. Their customers, the federal and state governments, don't hold them accountable. The election is over, so what are we going to do?
The real solution is going involve letting Diebold and other e-voting companies know there will be real consequences if the screw up.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. In the late seventies and well into the eighties, the place to play games was the arcade. Sure there were (wildly popular) home systems, but many of the most popular games tried to be faithful copies of the arcade version. When you make your money from a machine you put quarters in, you want to make the game hard hard hard. You want to keep people losing and keep them putting quarters in.
When you are selling games that are to be played on the PC or console, you want people to play them, enjoy them, and then buy your next game. You don't make another dime if takes them 4 times as long to beat the game.
This one is the Shimano NX-30, and it will power a 6 watt front headlight.
Maybe not as bright as your old 10-Watt, and sure, there is a little drag, but it's not bad, and you get to stop charging your bike lights for good. And $60 for the functionality of a battery *and* a front hub is a good deal.
If you check out their brochure you'll note that they say "jog profile: constant motion," in other words it should continue to work even with constant motion. It was designed with this sort of application in mind, I'm sure.
I think that what people are missing in all of this is how monumental it was that apple managed to talk the big 5 into this at all. Considering that, the amount fair use allowed is pretty incredible. Look at the competition (pressplay) for comparison.
Take your nice little to the proposal to the RIAA and see how hard they laugh at you as security escorts you out the back.
Oh, wait, no, you're just going to get artists the aren't on a major, you say? Well, I'll sign up. And maybe 5 or 6 of my indy-rock pals. But good luck getting your favorite artist out of their soul-crusing major label deal so they can get in on this....
I'm thinking of the one on Van Ness that's part of the UDC campus. It's just west of the main quad, and south of a football field. The mapquest photo make it look like it's still there...
To be honest, though, I haven't been back there in years.
When I was young, my preferred place to set off model rockets was in a field across the street from the Isreali embassy in DC. In retrospect, probably not such a good idea, and definately not such a good idea now...
I don't think he really has to worry about the MPAA goon squads showing up and taking him out. He is in Bolivia, for christ sake. In South America they take a, let's say, more liberal view on copywrite enforcement than they do here. Hardware cost is the big issue.
Slightly OT, but I spent some time in Peru and used the interent cafes there a fair amount. I could never figure out how they made any money. Like this guy, they cost about a dollar an hour. Some had several sattelite dishes. The machines were not brand new, but certainly useable. What's going on?
--snip-- According to the Basel Action Network, a pile of 500 computers contains 717kg of lead, 1.36kg of cadmium, 863 grams of chromium and 287 grams of mercury - all poisonous metals. --snip--
Something is up with these numbers. The last time I checked, my computer didn't have a 3 pound lead weight in it. What should these figures really be?
Dual booting with one of the fine stable linux ppc ports, like yellow dog, for your linux needs? Or running xdarwin and the many X apps that have been ported? I found that this satisfied most of my linuxy needs...
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It beats the previous holder of the record, a railroad in Peru that passes over 4843m, by only a couple of hundred meters, taking away a record it held since it was completed in 1912, almost a hundred years ago.
The fact is, not many places have much use for a railroad that high. Both the current and the former holders of the record would pass over the highest point in Europe or the lower 48 states.
Step 1: Buy plastic screen guard (12 for $4)
Step 2: Cut to size
Step 3: Quit bitching about this solved problem
I spend *a lot* of time on the web on my Treo 600. The only way to make it useable is to turn off image loading. The text (which is usually what I want anyway) comes up quickly, and is quite readable even on a 160x160 screen.
Except he never used the word "invented". Look it up.
I was with for your first three sentences. The left often engages in hyperbole. No one rational here thinks Bush is in any substantial way like Hitler.
Then I get to sentence four. I am not giving my civil liberties up, even a little bit, not because of Al-Qaeda or for any other reason. I'm probably the nine-millionth person to quote Ben Franklin on this, but "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
And then I see sentence five: "The only thing we would gain from John Kerry is a government that's a slave to France." And your credibility is shot.
a) Do you honestly think that?
b) If so, why?
c) What the hell?
spreer
I think that it is clear from this piece that Pournelle has conflated two different arguments in his head. One is the one that Doctorow has made against DRM, saying it is at its core unworkable and bad for all those involved. The other is the one made so often by P2P users that they should not have to pay for copyright works.
Somewhere Pournelle seems to have jumped to the conclusion that giving up on DRM means giving up on copyright altogether. That is not the case.
-snip-
So what we are really saying here is not do individual authors and composers have a moral right to dictate how their creations shall be distributed, but do they have rights in the legal sense that will be enforced by laws and both civil and criminal courts?
Doctorow and his group say "not really." He also chooses his examples carefully, most of them out at the extremes; but everyone knows that hard cases make bad law, and while the law has to deal with extreme cases, it isn't normally written with only those cases in mind.
-snip-
Imagine, for example, that Apple talked the RIAA into allowing them to remove DRM from songs sold via the iTunes Music Store. What kind of effect would this have on music piracy? Not much, I would argue. All of those songs are already available as mp3s on the P2P networks. The cat is already out of the bag. Adding more (legit) copies of those mp3s will not contribute substantially, partially because people who use the legit services are less likely to use P2P networks.
There is a point that Steve Jobs made when he announced the iTunes music store. The core of it is this: if you make a legal option that is superior to the free options (easier to use, more convenient) most people will chose it. Current technology has made infringement much easier, and you will never be able to stamp it out entirely. What you can do is provide options that more people will want to use.
Well, what if I built an illegal free iTMS? I don't think there is a way to do this. Anything centralized can be busted, and anything distributed will most likely be less reliable.
It is still be the job of law enforcement to try to keep large-scale infringment from happening. Technology makes infringement that much easier, but DRM does not really make it much harder. This doesn't mean we should throw up our hands and give on copyright. But it doesn't mean DRM is the right answer either.
There are companies that make machines that record transactions very reliably and are quite difficult to hack. Actually, Diebold makes some of them, if I remember correctly. They are called ATMs.
The thing is, their customers are in the private sectors too, and they care a lot about their money. It is in their critical interest to make sure those machines aren't easy to hack. There is a huge amount of pushback to make sure those machines are secure.
There is also accountability if those machines get hacked. If Diebold ATMs start spitting money, you can be sure banks will call the lawyers and start howling for blood. For some reason, if a voting machine misrecords votes, no one seems to care much. Their customers, the federal and state governments, don't hold them accountable. The election is over, so what are we going to do?
The real solution is going involve letting Diebold and other e-voting companies know there will be real consequences if the screw up.
spreer
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. In the late seventies and well into the eighties, the place to play games was the arcade. Sure there were (wildly popular) home systems, but many of the most popular games tried to be faithful copies of the arcade version. When you make your money from a machine you put quarters in, you want to make the game hard hard hard. You want to keep people losing and keep them putting quarters in.
When you are selling games that are to be played on the PC or console, you want people to play them, enjoy them, and then buy your next game. You don't make another dime if takes them 4 times as long to beat the game.
spreer
>No one ever said that hand drawn transparencies made you dumb.
That would have to be Al Gore saying he "invented the internet."
Because the mini-itx form factor systems fit the bill technically and pricewise.
And at 17cm x 17cm, they aren't as tiny as some SBC solutions, but they are a fair sight smaller than an ATX motherboard.
spreer
Ah crap.
It'll only do a 3-Watt light, which is more of a "be seen" light than a "see" light.
This one is the Shimano NX-30, and it will power a 6 watt front headlight.
Maybe not as bright as your old 10-Watt, and sure, there is a little drag, but it's not bad, and you get to stop charging your bike lights for good. And $60 for the functionality of a battery *and* a front hub is a good deal.
spreer
If you check out their brochure you'll note that they say "jog profile: constant motion," in other words it should continue to work even with constant motion. It was designed with this sort of application in mind, I'm sure.
--spreer
Yup
I recently picked up a petzl tikka led headlamp. It is small, takes 3 triple-a batteries and is damn bright. It uses 3 white LEDs.
Highly recommended.
spreer
I think that what people are missing in all of this is how monumental it was that apple managed to talk the big 5 into this at all. Considering that, the amount fair use allowed is pretty incredible. Look at the competition (pressplay) for comparison.
Take your nice little to the proposal to the RIAA and see how hard they laugh at you as security escorts you out the back.
Oh, wait, no, you're just going to get artists the aren't on a major, you say? Well, I'll sign up. And maybe 5 or 6 of my indy-rock pals. But good luck getting your favorite artist out of their soul-crusing major label deal so they can get in on this....
spreer
I'm thinking of the one on Van Ness that's part of the UDC campus. It's just west of the main quad, and south of a football field. The mapquest photo make it look like it's still there...
To be honest, though, I haven't been back there in years.
spreer
When I was young, my preferred place to set off model rockets was in a field across the street from the Isreali embassy in DC. In retrospect, probably not such a good idea, and definately not such a good idea now...
spreer
I've only got 196 (64 orginal + 128 added) in my 450MHz cube, and Jag seems to run just fine. I don't do anything real high-test, though.
Now that I think about it, it really is time to upgrade, isn't it.
spreer
I don't think he really has to worry about the MPAA goon squads showing up and taking him out. He is in Bolivia, for christ sake. In South America they take a, let's say, more liberal view on copywrite enforcement than they do here. Hardware cost is the big issue.
Slightly OT, but I spent some time in Peru and used the interent cafes there a fair amount. I could never figure out how they made any money. Like this guy, they cost about a dollar an hour. Some had several sattelite dishes. The machines were not brand new, but certainly useable. What's going on?
spreer
Just picturing a Marine Research/ Rollins Band collaboration. Scary.
Some pictures of Cathy, with Marine Research.
Dig the long hair.
spreer
--snip--
According to the Basel Action Network, a pile of 500 computers contains 717kg of lead, 1.36kg of cadmium, 863 grams of chromium and 287 grams of mercury - all poisonous metals.
--snip--
Something is up with these numbers. The last time I checked, my computer didn't have a 3 pound lead weight in it. What should these figures really be?
Dual booting with one of the fine stable linux ppc ports, like yellow dog, for your linux needs? Or running xdarwin and the many X apps that have been ported? I found that this satisfied most of my linuxy needs...
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