If they can cut your internet after 3 strikes, you should gain the right to pirate after 4 balls. Since you could play their game and send yourself 4 clearly fake strikes to cheat them out of their copyright, they'd have to limit the strike rule to something that cannot be faked. Yeah right, they'd make the rule as asymmetrical as possible...
How about once you get to 3 strikes, a Big Brother agency (payed by the MAFIAA) would force/help you secure your internet connection and keep scanning for any trace of illegal file sharing. If you're still pirating away but forensics shows that your computer is under bot control, gee that's too bad it's not your fault.
And as Apple's influence in the music market grows, what is going to happen is that now we're going to have 2 layers of middlemen between us and the artists, as opposed to one... which is necessarily going to cause a reduction in service and an increase in prices, with no benefit for anyone other than the middlemen.
This is weird, I thought that retail and distribution were middlemen.
Since we'd go from 3 to 2 layers, any reduction/increase cannot be explained by your theory but must be because this is what the market will bear. So, our hope goes for independent labels to do better than the majors and push the market down. And since you don't have to buy shelf space, the odds are in our favor.
I am a purist. In my mind Scheme is the purest language there is. The problem with C, Java and those languages are all the externalities you need to put in in order to get a working program. And I say this as an C++ old hat.
#includes, imports, types, macro, compile... All these are sources of confusion.
I'd also put Prolog as a nice one to use because it is different and may be a better match to how them kids are thinking. And it's hard to beat Logo for interactive drawing.
If I don't care, I'm not going to vote. If I care, I will vote "Neither". See, it didn't take me 5 seconds to think outside the nice Republicrat box. No way I'd play this game the Democan way.
If you don't vote, it's because you are too lazy to write in your own candidate. So stop whining, get off your lazy ass and go vote for "Neither".
I've been a WoW raider for years and always used 2-3 gig a month for 15-20 hours of raid with vent, plus a few more hours of solo play. That's patch and surfing included.
I know, because I'm using a cheap metered connection and I have to pay extra when I bust the 2 gig/month cap. I don't see why I should pay 50-80$ a month for bandwidth I won't use.
Put yourself in the shoes of one of those non-American, and see what happened from their POV:
The USA reply to a terrorist attack by invading Afghanistan, which is a violent retribution, but to each his view. Next, under false pretense, they started a new war and completely mess it up. Then, 4 years later, the American re-elect that same lunatic. And we can thanks His Noodly Appendage they have their hands full in Irak, otherwise they might have started a 3rd war just for the heck of it.
This train of thought is a little out of this world, but let me remind you that many American still believe there were WMD in Irak, that Saddam Hussein was feeding terrorist and that USA came to restore democracy.
So, seeing it as a non-American, which would you prefer? The people of America continue on the same path, basically stating that they like random wars, or they repudiate this path? Keep those hawkish republican in there with McCain, or switch to a more peaceful Obama?
Now, why do Amadinejad and Chavez push for Obama? Mostly to gain political capital. Do they have nefarious plans to destroy America? Nah, I think they mostly want to be left alone. Am I right? Who cares, it's a theory worth considering.
This is not correct. Let's assume in a case it takes the slow guy 20 seconds to get "up to speed" once a light turns green and the average driver 10 seconds to get up to speed. That slow driver has "eaten up" 10 seconds of the next green light. Had he not been in the way, 10 more seconds of cars could have made it through the next light before it turned red. That means 10 seconds of cars now idling at one more additional light.
OTOH, if I hit a light just as it turns green I don't have to slow down. Someone who ran to the light and had to stop will lose 10 seconds getting up to speed. You win some, you lose some.
Laminar flow is much faster than turbulent flow. I suggest you speak with people working at the department of transportation. Or maybe just look at how truckers behave in heavy traffic, see how they keep their speed constant. The car in front of you is a wall you cannot pass. Whether it takes you 1 seconds or 15 seconds to hit that wall doesn't make a difference at all.
The only case where you are right, where nervous driving is useful, is when you start at a red light. If everybody accelerate as a group, you get more cars through the intersection. But all this gain is lost if you have to stop at the next light because you didn't time it right.
It isn't so much desperation, but rather the annoyance that the longer this game goes on, the more you are pigeon-holed into your first character choice.
Lets say you want to try a new character now, you better hope that you have the support of your guildmates/friends because it will take a good player 5-6 days to level that character to 70. And that is if you do nothing but grind the character up.
I don't understand why people want to race to 70. Once you get there, there's no challenge left other than learning 25-man instances. Any Kara-geared toon can do any solo quest in your sleep.
No, the real fun is in the 30-50 bracket. I had fun all summer long AoE grinding a pally to 55, and now I'm idling away on a lock. It is a challenge to push your toon to the limit, and once you're done you know how to play that class. Something you cannot claim gliding to 70.
Your firewire cable is a 1-lane street, perfect for the wee hour traffic. But because of rush hour, you still need a 4-lane highway.
Or you can service a bus line with a single bus most of the day. But commuters will kill you if you try to pull that at rush hour.
Or... you won't put 10 hard drive in a single firewire chain because throughput will suck. You'll prolly put them in parallel, and might even buy a second FW controller.
Or, you know, that table at the cafeteria costs the same whether it's in use or not. Why aren't students allowed to use them to do their homework during lunch?
ChuckSchwab here, karma limits me from using my name again for some reason.
Just like gravity
Uh, sorry dude, gravity isn't a "theory". Gravity is a FACT, and I'm appalled that in this day an age there are still people like you who dismiss it as just another theory.
Erm, sorry dude. Gravity is a theory. Mercury's precession is a FACT. And that fact is not supported by the theory.
Except she's not charged with stealing songs, but with distributing them. Since zillions of copies might have been distributed, she should pay a few zillion dollars. Notwithstanding some so-called facts that totally oppose truthiness, like her upload bandwidth cap.
BTW, moderators: insightful does not mean "I wish it was true". I have points, and I would have moderated the parent post as interesting, but it shows such a total lack of understanding of the case that it can in no way be construed insightful.
im a turk living in a tourism resort in mediterranean coast. my english far exceeds what should i know. therefore im in no way obliged to fulfill your linguistic expectations in regard to english
That's ok, your English far exceed my expectation of the average USian.
If those numbers are true, we can calculate how full each vehicle has to be to match an 100% full aircraft:
car = 25% full bus = 30% full train = 10% full
OTOH, those numbers are not that useful, since what consumes a lot of fuel is take-off. That'd mean that a NY-LA flight will not consume 10x fuel, while NY-Boston will easily.
The problem is, nobody knows how many people downloaded from Ms. Thomas. Nobody. Not even Ms. Thomas. Could be nobody. Could be the entire Internet-using population of the world. Nobody can find out. According to some, this means her liability should be... nothing. I'm not sure that makes sense either.
Well, that's not technically true. You can at least put an upper bound to this value since you know how many bits were uploaded. If it comes to, say, 30 TB, then maybe the penalty wasn't so harsh after all. My guess is it is quite a few order of magnitude below that.
Having terrorist hijack your plane also makes your trip less enjoyable.
Yes, I know. Terrible analogy.
This is the good old safety vs liberty argument. No matter how happy we are Blizzard offers us safety by eliminating bots, it is not worth the global loss of liberty this precedent would bring.
Slashdot Mirror
Balance of terror.
If they can cut your internet after 3 strikes, you should gain the right to pirate after 4 balls. Since you could play their game and send yourself 4 clearly fake strikes to cheat them out of their copyright, they'd have to limit the strike rule to something that cannot be faked. Yeah right, they'd make the rule as asymmetrical as possible...
How about once you get to 3 strikes, a Big Brother agency (payed by the MAFIAA) would force/help you secure your internet connection and keep scanning for any trace of illegal file sharing. If you're still pirating away but forensics shows that your computer is under bot control, gee that's too bad it's not your fault.
to weight a few weeks
Scary!
Please tell me you are a few pounds short of being American.
Stop verbing nouns. Or nouning verbs in this case.
And as Apple's influence in the music market grows, what is going to happen is that now we're going to have 2 layers of middlemen between us and the artists, as opposed to one... which is necessarily going to cause a reduction in service and an increase in prices, with no benefit for anyone other than the middlemen.
This is weird, I thought that retail and distribution were middlemen.
Since we'd go from 3 to 2 layers, any reduction/increase cannot be explained by your theory but must be because this is what the market will bear. So, our hope goes for independent labels to do better than the majors and push the market down. And since you don't have to buy shelf space, the odds are in our favor.
Well, the RIAA doesn't have to invent a new definition. They just have to use the "con artist" one.
I am a purist. In my mind Scheme is the purest language there is. The problem with C, Java and those languages are all the externalities you need to put in in order to get a working program. And I say this as an C++ old hat.
#includes, imports, types, macro, compile... All these are sources of confusion.
I'd also put Prolog as a nice one to use because it is different and may be a better match to how them kids are thinking. And it's hard to beat Logo for interactive drawing.
If I don't care, I'm not going to vote. If I care, I will vote "Neither". See, it didn't take me 5 seconds to think outside the nice Republicrat box. No way I'd play this game the Democan way.
If you don't vote, it's because you are too lazy to write in your own candidate. So stop whining, get off your lazy ass and go vote for "Neither".
I've been a WoW raider for years and always used 2-3 gig a month for 15-20 hours of raid with vent, plus a few more hours of solo play. That's patch and surfing included.
I know, because I'm using a cheap metered connection and I have to pay extra when I bust the 2 gig/month cap. I don't see why I should pay 50-80$ a month for bandwidth I won't use.
Put yourself in the shoes of one of those non-American, and see what happened from their POV:
The USA reply to a terrorist attack by invading Afghanistan, which is a violent retribution, but to each his view. Next, under false pretense, they started a new war and completely mess it up. Then, 4 years later, the American re-elect that same lunatic. And we can thanks His Noodly Appendage they have their hands full in Irak, otherwise they might have started a 3rd war just for the heck of it.
This train of thought is a little out of this world, but let me remind you that many American still believe there were WMD in Irak, that Saddam Hussein was feeding terrorist and that USA came to restore democracy.
So, seeing it as a non-American, which would you prefer? The people of America continue on the same path, basically stating that they like random wars, or they repudiate this path? Keep those hawkish republican in there with McCain, or switch to a more peaceful Obama?
Now, why do Amadinejad and Chavez push for Obama? Mostly to gain political capital. Do they have nefarious plans to destroy America? Nah, I think they mostly want to be left alone. Am I right? Who cares, it's a theory worth considering.
This is not correct. Let's assume in a case it takes the slow guy 20 seconds to get "up to speed" once a light turns green and the average driver 10 seconds to get up to speed. That slow driver has "eaten up" 10 seconds of the next green light. Had he not been in the way, 10 more seconds of cars could have made it through the next light before it turned red. That means 10 seconds of cars now idling at one more additional light.
OTOH, if I hit a light just as it turns green I don't have to slow down. Someone who ran to the light and had to stop will lose 10 seconds getting up to speed. You win some, you lose some.
Laminar flow is much faster than turbulent flow. I suggest you speak with people working at the department of transportation. Or maybe just look at how truckers behave in heavy traffic, see how they keep their speed constant. The car in front of you is a wall you cannot pass. Whether it takes you 1 seconds or 15 seconds to hit that wall doesn't make a difference at all.
The only case where you are right, where nervous driving is useful, is when you start at a red light. If everybody accelerate as a group, you get more cars through the intersection. But all this gain is lost if you have to stop at the next light because you didn't time it right.
It isn't so much desperation, but rather the annoyance that the longer this game goes on, the more you are pigeon-holed into your first character choice.
Lets say you want to try a new character now, you better hope that you have the support of your guildmates/friends because it will take a good player 5-6 days to level that character to 70. And that is if you do nothing but grind the character up.
I don't understand why people want to race to 70. Once you get there, there's no challenge left other than learning 25-man instances. Any Kara-geared toon can do any solo quest in your sleep.
No, the real fun is in the 30-50 bracket. I had fun all summer long AoE grinding a pally to 55, and now I'm idling away on a lock. It is a challenge to push your toon to the limit, and once you're done you know how to play that class. Something you cannot claim gliding to 70.
Your firewire cable is a 1-lane street, perfect for the wee hour traffic. But because of rush hour, you still need a 4-lane highway.
Or you can service a bus line with a single bus most of the day. But commuters will kill you if you try to pull that at rush hour.
Or... you won't put 10 hard drive in a single firewire chain because throughput will suck. You'll prolly put them in parallel, and might even buy a second FW controller.
Or, you know, that table at the cafeteria costs the same whether it's in use or not. Why aren't students allowed to use them to do their homework during lunch?
Simple things, like not tab-stopping commit/cancel buttons, make the process significantly harder for usability programmers and users alike.
What's wrong with Enter / Cancel and cmd-D?
And yes, I am a mouse hater that is too lazy to fix the missing shortcuts.
ChuckSchwab here, karma limits me from using my name again for some reason.
Just like gravity
Uh, sorry dude, gravity isn't a "theory". Gravity is a FACT, and I'm appalled that in this day an age there are still people like you who dismiss it as just another theory.
Erm, sorry dude. Gravity is a theory. Mercury's precession is a FACT. And that fact is not supported by the theory.
Except she's not charged with stealing songs, but with distributing them. Since zillions of copies might have been distributed, she should pay a few zillion dollars. Notwithstanding some so-called facts that totally oppose truthiness, like her upload bandwidth cap.
BTW, moderators: insightful does not mean "I wish it was true".
I have points, and I would have moderated the parent post as interesting, but it shows such a total lack of understanding of the case that it can in no way be construed insightful.
im a turk living in a tourism resort in mediterranean coast. my english far exceeds what should i know. therefore im in no way obliged to fulfill your linguistic expectations in regard to english
That's ok, your English far exceed my expectation of the average USian.
On the contrary, raw numbers are the best.
If those numbers are true, we can calculate how full each vehicle has to be to match an 100% full aircraft:
car = 25% full
bus = 30% full
train = 10% full
OTOH, those numbers are not that useful, since what consumes a lot of fuel is take-off. That'd mean that a NY-LA flight will not consume 10x fuel, while NY-Boston will easily.
Spirou & Fantasio
New MMO startup is completely full of itself, wants to sell you overpriced hardware.
As opposed to /. pundits so full of themselves. Well, we know the drill.
Mondae, Tuesdae, Wednesdae...
Sheesh, l2spell.
The problem is, nobody knows how many people downloaded from Ms. Thomas. Nobody. Not even Ms. Thomas. Could be nobody. Could be the entire Internet-using population of the world. Nobody can find out. According to some, this means her liability should be ... nothing. I'm not sure that makes sense either.
Well, that's not technically true. You can at least put an upper bound to this value since you know how many bits were uploaded. If it comes to, say, 30 TB, then maybe the penalty wasn't so harsh after all. My guess is it is quite a few order of magnitude below that.
Having terrorist hijack your plane also makes your trip less enjoyable.
Yes, I know. Terrible analogy.
This is the good old safety vs liberty argument. No matter how happy we are Blizzard offers us safety by eliminating bots, it is not worth the global loss of liberty this precedent would bring.
"Beware of the Greek-baring .gifs"
Well, it worked for jfk...
Heck, I'm not stupid.
It looked like you were driving too fast, so I AK-47'd your car until it stopped.
Har har har!