For years, taping fromthe radio and tv has been commonplace, and by most artists, producers, whatever, accepted. Even Lars admitted bootlegs were good for business. It's an issue of the quality of the recording. Tape quality is admittedly bad, and gets worse with additional copies. Mp3s are better, _but not lossless._ And, given the ability to rip at a varying number or quality/size tradeoff points, some mp3s sound downright terrible, while others get really close to cd quality. If tapes are good, mp3s (say 128, 44) are bad, I'm curious as to what the acceptable quality/size tradeoff would be for the RIAA and artists. Amusing thought though, "arrested for distributing unacceptably high quality recordings."
Clicking on a file? I'd expect that has exactly as much legal import as a click-wrap EULA, which apparently is still awaiting a useful precedent.
As far as downloading a fake, is "intent to pirate" a crime? If they are distributing the actual mp3, it's either analogous to a cop using an amount of cocaine in a sting, or they are not doing a good enough job of defending the copyright, so they lose it. IANAL, i don't know. But if they are only distributing a fake file, all zeros or whatever, is that against the law? If i find a web page with what is claimed to be the entire discography in mp3 format of a group, and start clicking away, am I guilty of intent, whether or not the links work?
I still think the best solution to all this is for someone to get a box on havenco.com and everyone can proxy through it, web, ip masq, anything. Since they won't divulge information, we'd be effectively anonymous. Granted it would be slow...
After PETA's pronouncement that drinking milk was bad, cruel, or whatever, and that the only viable alternative was beer, I couldn't stop laughing about it for a week. I called up my couple PETA friends, and informed them that they no longer could argue for PETA as providing a healthy alternative. Fine, don't drink milk, there are other ways to get the protien/calcium the body needs, but BEER?!? Gimme a break. Whether or not one enjoys downing alcohol as a means of entertainment, and whether or not alcohol in small doses can be healthy, beer in large quantities is not a healthy alternative to milk. Fruit drinks apparently didn't come to their drunken minds.
On the matter of interfering with a meat sale, I'd like to say they did wonders for business. A large number of students didn't hear abut the first one in time, but thanks to the well-announced SETA protests, everyone came to the second meat sale. Kind of like suing some niche group pirate software, and thus calling EVERYONE's attention to it. That, and listening to them read anti-meat poems while the folks selling the kabobs and burgers drew up and displayed large "EAT MOR MEET" signs was absolutely hilarious.
Some SETA/PETA enthusiasts may have a cause, the rest just feel some need to protest, rebel, and generally stir up trouble and make themselves look bad.
This frightens me. When they speak of a compromised run-time client, they mention a unique exe file and license keys, and the server binds that client to that computer. The really scary part though is their remedy for a compromised client. If I'm to believe the wording, it's not the server that remembers the broken client, it specifically says "[the client] can be disabled", indicating the client self-destructs based on a server response, probably planting registry keys or whatever else so it cannot be reinstalled. Whether or not this can be circumvented by reinstalling windows after a full format, and if no server-side memory is used it would work, the mere idea of a company reaching in and disabling my software frightens me. Granted, I'm sure it's in the EULA, and as only a license there is nothing owned, but I think it's a move in the wrong direction, and is one mroe puch for me to ignore the last ties I have to windows (games), and exist in the beautiful world of Linux forever. (If I just had printer drivers...)
Yes, they will likely silence Napster. The question I have, is "So what?" People will find other ways to distribute copyrighted media. One post to another story posted about what might be required to actually stop mp3 usage. It went something along the lines of all peer-to-peer sharing (RIAA was trying to ban all napster-like technology) as well as, say, port 80. Napster may indeed lose, but RIAA is fighting an uphill battle, and is only drawing more attention to Napster and similar software than they otherwise would have. They would do better to spend money figuring out how to make money from mp3s, instead of the futile attempt to rub them out entirely.
We are geeks, resistance is futile, you will be forced to change with the times.
I believe it was the driver cd for my diamond viper v770 tnt2 card. While the license wasn't particularly interesting of itself, the packaging method was. The paper cd case had a sticker across the opening with something resembling the following: "By breaking this seal, you agree to the conditions of the enclosed license agreement" Thus it was (in theory) impossible to read the agreement before agreeing to it. Granted, i ripped through the side of the sleeve instead, but it's still a nuisance.
Alright, add cars and trains to the mix, even planes, but i dare say anyone who does much flying owns a computer, just becasue of what it says financially. The point is still that certain portions of certain populations, primarily the poor, are in most ways cut off from joining different cultures.
Also, I don't think subcultures are the issue here, though that could be one prediction. The original author spoke of becoming acultural, or at least forming more numerous niche cultures and severing one's connection, or at least self-identification with the original culture. Thus, I would cease to identify myself as my race, political preference, gender, or whatever had been my primary identity, and merely refer to myself as a geek, which isn't far from the truth anyway. The internet plays to this especially by the lack of multimedia. When all you see is a person's handle, unless it is unnaturally descriptive, you think of them only as that name, and not with the particular stigmas might accompany whatever appearance they may have.
While no one claims stereotypes fit everyone they represent, there is always some portion of truth in them. All the geek friends I have are avid gamers, though while we enjoy UT, we also play EQ, Baldur's Gate, and a number of games from other genres as well. Granted, we are part of the younger geek contingent, early professional years. Gaming is likely far less common among older geeks, as they weren't similarly raised on Nintendo, Sega, or even Coleco.
along the same lines, http://www.somedomain.org/completely_innocent.do c could actually be a directory, with it's own index.html inside, containing anything at all.
there is only one kind of link, and it completely client-side unverifiable without connecting to the server and d/ling the page.
anyone check out the grey day site?
they posit if we keep taking licensed software lightly,
the programmers will soon stop writing,
both software and web pages.
anyone here get paid for their website?
how about open source software,
free by nature.
i say if no one listens to licenses,
and for some reason companies stop creating,
all we'll have is open source, free software.
this sound bad to anyone?
i've been saying this for a while. effectively a wan, over our own hardware/fiber, and/or connected to the regular net, but all running encrypted traffic. a limited number of controlled interconnect points. cost is an issue on any hardware, as would be security on an open source option, since the decryption routines would be visible to all.
has anyone heard of any projects like this? i'd seen one a whiel ago, but i think it died.
honestly? no, it didn't scare me. though it did come about as close as any i've seen. what movies do scare me? none. ever. which is REALLY frustrating. i think i know why, too. in a book i'm reading now, there is an intro about predicting the outcome of the story. it says that any who try are either very wise, or very foolish, and either way, it spoils the story. i think it's right, roo.
...that no one can get this whole digits thing right. a HUGE stand of book sin bookstores, preparing you for the "millennium", all a year off. (or 3, but i'm going with our current numbering system). and now a misnamed roller coaster. won't stop me from riding it, even for a second, i just think SOMEONE needs to educate these people.
i guess you have to figure, some of them know, but know it wouldn't be accepted by the (m)asses, and the money is all that matters.
if they come in to our country legally, and through the front door, sure, why not. they'd be citizens, and i already said that was important. if they won't do that, they have no business here.
it is a government's responsibility to take care of it's citizens. i firmly believe this. i think that should be the goal towards which the government aspires in all things. i do NOT believe it is the government's responsibility to take care or illegal aliens within the country, or the citizens of other countries. if a valid global government were to be established , it would need to assure a minimum quality of life for ALL it's people. i don't see that happening, except that the US is attempting to do just that, and in my opinion is way out of line. so, no, i don't think we should help the underprivelaged children in other countries, just not for the reason you assumed. if a private organization wishes to, well, they can spend their money any way they see fit.
yes, i admit, i made a typo. you're not immune either: "more educated that anglos." and i'm still curious as to why every racial group you mentioned gets capitalized except anglos? "Asian" is not a proper noun.
what am i going to do about this? nothing. i don't have a problem with uneven spreads. i think getting computers into schools will help balance out what is seen as an unfair skew, but only if done properly. does anyone seriously think it would be the deep inner-city schools to get the computers first? nope. so the imbalance would be amplified.
might get attacked for this one, but who's to say that, given the societal and environmental influences prior to this "mixing bowl," as it were, every man, woman, and child, of every race, gender, and creed, are equal anyway? give everyone an iq test at the age of 8 or 9, before too many external pressures have warped them, and i think some trends would be very obvious, many of which could NOT be explained by the first 8-9 years of life, and would thus require another explanation.
yes, i admit, i made a typo. you're not immune either: "more educated that anglos." and i'm still curious as to why every racial group you mentioned gets capitalized except anglos? "Asian" is not a proper noun.
what am i going to do about this? nothing. i don't have a problem with uneven spreads. i think getting computers into schools will help balance out what is seen as an unfair skew, but only if done properly. does anyone seriously think it would be the deep inner-city schools to get the computers first? nope. so the imbalance would be amplified.
might get attacked for this one, but who's to say that, given the societal and environmental influences prior to this "mixing bowl," as it were, every man, woman, and child, of every race, gender, and creed, are equal anyway? give everyone an iq test at the age of 8 or 9, before too many external pressures have warped them, and i think some trends would be very obvious, many of which could NOT be explained by the first 8-9 years of life, and would thus require another explanation.
is anyone actually surprised about statistics relating computer ownership percentages to levels of education? honestly here, those who've received college educations are more likely to won a computer, be connected to the net, etc. despite the often worth attempts of mac, aol, and now m$ to bring computers/net to the (m)asses, (no offense to aol or mac users, some of which are very knowledgable, but you know the stereotypes, which _are_ based on fact), is still takes some level of logic, analytical thinking, or at least an iq over 3 to use a computer effectively. these are also the types who are more likely to attend college, and do well.
aside from that even, i'm GLAD the net is more occupied by those with a little more than average ticking up top. my greatest attractions to the net and web are the exchange of ideas, the ability to discuss with others of similar intellect, and the chance to learn. if every uneducated, useless member of society had a web page, an email, and a desire to forward every chain letter, and download every useless page on the web, the web would be simple hell. many of the backbones and major hubs are straining as it is, the big-name servers are saturated anyway. i like this being an elite society. not the social status it grants some, but the real knowledge involved. the web is nice and pretty, but the real power behind it, the unices and linux, are fine just in the hands of those that know what they're doing.
does it? is there a legal procedure for saying, "my bad, i take responsibility for what (he/she/it/they) did"? i'd suspect not, thus the aformentioned indemnity section would be meaningless. in addition, assuming they did claim ownership of the content, (which they don't, but just for the sake of argument) it would no longer be YOUR content that caused the "claim or demand". i wonder if the above would just apply to civil action, and not criminal. "claim or demand" is a ways from "infringement" or "infraction". and typically, "third party" isn't used to represent authoritative legal action.
any lawyers present, to set me/us straight on this one?
besides trying to cut their losses, as many have already left geocities, they may just be trying to cover a different problem. maybe i'm wrong here, but if you upload something illegal, and they claim to own it, doesn't that make them liable? i think they're just afraid people would use the space for warez or other illegal content, and since without their new statement, they would own it, they would be responsible for the content. there have been isues on web hosts being responsible for the content before, and they would have no chance of winning one, if they claimed to OWN the illicit material. this was an ass-covering masked by a bad PR move.
far too many posts thinking 25, 50, 100 cups a day isn't "that much". for my 80mg/kg, i get around 6.5 GRAMS of caffeine. do you have any idea what that would do to you? LD 50 (lethal dose for 50% of the group) for my weight class is around 10g. 65% of that is NOT HEALTHY. i've had as much as 1.5g in a 24 hour period, and that was really, really bad. amusing during, but a bit sick after. one last thing. caffeine is a diurhettic (i KNOW that's not spelled right). ever had a few too many cups of coffee, and spent the next couple (or more) back and forth to from the bathroom? you wouldn't be able to leave.
all that aside, and our chance of sustaining lethal doses of radiation anyway, the caffeine might help with the monitor radiation we all enjoy. (and that healthy green glow). just remember this article, for any nuclear fallout we may have to deal with at some point.
the first method is completely unfounded, frivolous, and not even explained. it is not nearly so easily judged how much info we can take in simultaneously, knowing that we can't judge how it's represented. i can store the the number 5555555 as merely 7 5's, or as about 24 bits (+-). and other amounts and methods still for other methods of input. 100bps is a miraculous over-simplification.
as for the second method, are you attempting to insenuate that all things that can be categorized by this game can be done so in 19 bits? you said yourself that was the average, which means that many things cannot. this attempt at assessing address space (which isn't even remotely close to the actual implementation) is as foolhardy as the first. buy a different book next time. neural networks, as mis- or non-understood as they are, are the closest we cna come to how our brains do store data, and even then the method of rememebring a particular datum is unclear.
you oversimplify to the point of humor. besides that, the fact that you arrived at the number 2 billion (2g bits) via two methods means just as little. with all the (mis)estimates and varying calculations done, we've guessed dozens of numbers. hey, 11tb and 13tb aren't too far off. they must be right.
sorry for the ranting, but the writing was erroneous and poorly defended.
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For years, taping fromthe radio and tv has been commonplace, and by most artists, producers, whatever, accepted. Even Lars admitted bootlegs were good for business. It's an issue of the quality of the recording. Tape quality is admittedly bad, and gets worse with additional copies. Mp3s are better, _but not lossless._ And, given the ability to rip at a varying number or quality/size tradeoff points, some mp3s sound downright terrible, while others get really close to cd quality. If tapes are good, mp3s (say 128, 44) are bad, I'm curious as to what the acceptable quality/size tradeoff would be for the RIAA and artists.
Amusing thought though, "arrested for distributing unacceptably high quality recordings."
Clicking on a file?
I'd expect that has exactly as much legal import as a click-wrap EULA, which apparently is still awaiting a useful precedent.
As far as downloading a fake, is "intent to pirate" a crime? If they are distributing the actual mp3, it's either analogous to a cop using an amount of cocaine in a sting, or they are not doing a good enough job of defending the copyright, so they lose it. IANAL, i don't know. But if they are only distributing a fake file, all zeros or whatever, is that against the law? If i find a web page with what is claimed to be the entire discography in mp3 format of a group, and start clicking away, am I guilty of intent, whether or not the links work?
I still think the best solution to all this is for someone to get a box on havenco.com and everyone can proxy through it, web, ip masq, anything. Since they won't divulge information, we'd be effectively anonymous. Granted it would be slow...
just my 2cp
Respect, easy to lose, hard to regain.
After PETA's pronouncement that drinking milk was bad, cruel, or whatever, and that the only viable alternative was beer, I couldn't stop laughing about it for a week. I called up my couple PETA friends, and informed them that they no longer could argue for PETA as providing a healthy alternative. Fine, don't drink milk, there are other ways to get the protien/calcium the body needs, but BEER?!? Gimme a break. Whether or not one enjoys downing alcohol as a means of entertainment, and whether or not alcohol in small doses can be healthy, beer in large quantities is not a healthy alternative to milk. Fruit drinks apparently didn't come to their drunken minds.
On the matter of interfering with a meat sale, I'd like to say they did wonders for business. A large number of students didn't hear abut the first one in time, but thanks to the well-announced SETA protests, everyone came to the second meat sale. Kind of like suing some niche group pirate software, and thus calling EVERYONE's attention to it. That, and listening to them read anti-meat poems while the folks selling the kabobs and burgers drew up and displayed large "EAT MOR MEET" signs was absolutely hilarious.
Some SETA/PETA enthusiasts may have a cause, the rest just feel some need to protest, rebel, and generally stir up trouble and make themselves look bad.
Linux powered Furbies?
3 times as efficient, never crashes, and can interpret IR Perl!!!
This frightens me.
When they speak of a compromised run-time client, they mention a unique exe file and license keys, and the server binds that client to that computer.
The really scary part though is their remedy for a compromised client. If I'm to believe the wording, it's not the server that remembers the broken client, it specifically says "[the client] can be disabled", indicating the client self-destructs based on a server response, probably planting registry keys or whatever else so it cannot be reinstalled.
Whether or not this can be circumvented by reinstalling windows after a full format, and if no server-side memory is used it would work, the mere idea of a company reaching in and disabling my software frightens me. Granted, I'm sure it's in the EULA, and as only a license there is nothing owned, but I think it's a move in the wrong direction, and is one mroe puch for me to ignore the last ties I have to windows (games), and exist in the beautiful world of Linux forever. (If I just had printer drivers...)
Sorry, microsoft needs to maintain backward-compatability with some form of dos browser.
so it becomes www.micros~1 and www.micros~2
Yes, they will likely silence Napster.
The question I have, is "So what?"
People will find other ways to distribute copyrighted media. One post to another story posted about what might be required to actually stop mp3 usage. It went something along the lines of all peer-to-peer sharing (RIAA was trying to ban all napster-like technology) as well as, say, port 80.
Napster may indeed lose, but RIAA is fighting an uphill battle, and is only drawing more attention to Napster and similar software than they otherwise would have. They would do better to spend money figuring out how to make money from mp3s, instead of the futile attempt to rub them out entirely.
We are geeks, resistance is futile, you will be forced to change with the times.
I believe it was the driver cd for my diamond viper v770 tnt2 card. While the license wasn't particularly interesting of itself, the packaging method was. The paper cd case had a sticker across the opening with something resembling the following:
"By breaking this seal, you agree to the conditions of the enclosed license agreement"
Thus it was (in theory) impossible to read the agreement before agreeing to it. Granted, i ripped through the side of the sleeve instead, but it's still a nuisance.
Also, I don't think subcultures are the issue here, though that could be one prediction. The original author spoke of becoming acultural, or at least forming more numerous niche cultures and severing one's connection, or at least self-identification with the original culture. Thus, I would cease to identify myself as my race, political preference, gender, or whatever had been my primary identity, and merely refer to myself as a geek, which isn't far from the truth anyway. The internet plays to this especially by the lack of multimedia. When all you see is a person's handle, unless it is unnaturally descriptive, you think of them only as that name, and not with the particular stigmas might accompany whatever appearance they may have.
While no one claims stereotypes fit everyone they represent, there is always some portion of truth in them. All the geek friends I have are avid gamers, though while we enjoy UT, we also play EQ, Baldur's Gate, and a number of games from other genres as well. Granted, we are part of the younger geek contingent, early professional years. Gaming is likely far less common among older geeks, as they weren't similarly raised on Nintendo, Sega, or even Coleco.
i'm glad someone posted this, or i was going to.
o c
along the same lines,
http://www.somedomain.org/completely_innocent.d
could actually be a directory,
with it's own index.html inside,
containing anything at all.
there is only one kind of link,
and it completely client-side unverifiable
without connecting to the server and d/ling the page.
anyone check out the grey day site?
they posit if we keep taking licensed software lightly,
the programmers will soon stop writing,
both software and web pages.
anyone here get paid for their website?
how about open source software,
free by nature.
i say if no one listens to licenses,
and for some reason companies stop creating,
all we'll have is open source, free software.
this sound bad to anyone?
-tk
i've been saying this for a while.
effectively a wan,
over our own hardware/fiber,
and/or connected to the regular net,
but all running encrypted traffic.
a limited number of controlled interconnect points.
cost is an issue on any hardware,
as would be security on an open source option,
since the decryption routines would be visible to all.
has anyone heard of any projects like this?
i'd seen one a whiel ago, but i think it died.
-tk
we've been over this before.
there is no such thing as expresso.
it's espresso,
and any true coffee addict^H^H^H^H^H^Hdrinker should know that.
honestly?
no, it didn't scare me.
though it did come about as close as any i've seen.
what movies do scare me?
none.
ever.
which is REALLY frustrating.
i think i know why, too.
in a book i'm reading now,
there is an intro about predicting the outcome of the story.
it says that any who try are either very wise,
or very foolish,
and either way,
it spoils the story.
i think it's right, roo.
...that no one can get this whole digits thing right.
a HUGE stand of book sin bookstores,
preparing you for the "millennium",
all a year off. (or 3, but i'm going with our current numbering system).
and now a misnamed roller coaster.
won't stop me from riding it, even for a second,
i just think SOMEONE needs to educate these people.
i guess you have to figure,
some of them know,
but know it wouldn't be accepted by the (m)asses,
and the money is all that matters.
*sigh*
if they come in to our country legally,
and through the front door,
sure, why not.
they'd be citizens,
and i already said that was important.
if they won't do that,
they have no business here.
it is a government's responsibility to take care of it's citizens.
i firmly believe this.
i think that should be the goal towards which the government aspires in all things.
i do NOT believe it is the government's responsibility to take care or illegal aliens within the country,
or the citizens of other countries.
if a valid global government were to be established ,
it would need to assure a minimum quality of life for ALL it's people.
i don't see that happening,
except that the US is attempting to do just that,
and in my opinion is way out of line.
so, no, i don't think we should help the underprivelaged children in other countries,
just not for the reason you assumed.
if a private organization wishes to,
well,
they can spend their money any way they see fit.
-tk
yes, i admit, i made a typo.
you're not immune either: "more educated that anglos."
and i'm still curious as to why every racial group you mentioned gets capitalized except anglos? "Asian" is not a proper noun.
what am i going to do about this?
nothing.
i don't have a problem with uneven spreads.
i think getting computers into schools will help balance out what is seen as an unfair skew, but only if done properly. does anyone seriously think it would be the deep inner-city schools to get the computers first? nope. so the imbalance would be amplified.
might get attacked for this one,
but who's to say that,
given the societal and environmental influences prior to this "mixing bowl," as it were, every man, woman, and child, of every race, gender, and creed, are equal anyway?
give everyone an iq test at the age of 8 or 9,
before too many external pressures have warped them, and i think some trends would be very obvious,
many of which could NOT be explained by the first 8-9 years of life, and would thus require another explanation.
would be fascinating to see those results.
yes, i admit, i made a typo.
you're not immune either: "more educated that anglos."
and i'm still curious as to why every racial group you mentioned gets capitalized except anglos? "Asian" is not a proper noun.
what am i going to do about this?
nothing.
i don't have a problem with uneven spreads.
i think getting computers into schools will help balance out what is seen as an unfair skew, but only if done properly. does anyone seriously think it would be the deep inner-city schools to get the computers first? nope. so the imbalance would be amplified.
might get attacked for this one,
but who's to say that,
given the societal and environmental influences prior to this "mixing bowl," as it were, every man, woman, and child, of every race, gender, and creed, are equal anyway?
give everyone an iq test at the age of 8 or 9,
before too many external pressures have warped them, and i think some trends would be very obvious,
many of which could NOT be explained by the first 8-9 years of life, and would thus require another explanation.
would be fun results to see.
is anyone actually surprised about statistics relating computer ownership percentages to levels of education?
honestly here, those who've received college educations are more likely to won a computer, be connected to the net, etc.
despite the often worth attempts of mac, aol, and now m$ to bring computers/net to the (m)asses,
(no offense to aol or mac users, some of which are very knowledgable, but you know the stereotypes, which _are_ based on fact),
is still takes some level of logic, analytical thinking, or at least an iq over 3 to use a computer effectively.
these are also the types who are more likely to attend college, and do well.
aside from that even,
i'm GLAD the net is more occupied by those with a little more than average ticking up top.
my greatest attractions to the net and web are the exchange of ideas, the ability to discuss with others of similar intellect, and the chance to learn.
if every uneducated, useless member of society had a web page, an email, and a desire to forward every chain letter, and download every useless page on the web, the web would be simple hell.
many of the backbones and major hubs are straining as it is, the big-name servers are saturated anyway. i like this being an elite society. not the social status it grants some, but the real knowledge involved.
the web is nice and pretty, but the real power behind it, the unices and linux, are fine just in the hands of those that know what they're doing.
spread the web to the world?
why bother?
does it?
is there a legal procedure for saying,
"my bad, i take responsibility for what (he/she/it/they) did"?
i'd suspect not,
thus the aformentioned indemnity section would be meaningless.
in addition,
assuming they did claim ownership of the content,
(which they don't, but just for the sake of argument)
it would no longer be YOUR content that caused the "claim or demand".
i wonder if the above would just apply to civil action,
and not criminal.
"claim or demand" is a ways from "infringement" or "infraction".
and typically, "third party" isn't used to represent authoritative legal action.
any lawyers present, to set me/us straight on this one?
besides trying to cut their losses,
as many have already left geocities,
they may just be trying to cover a different problem.
maybe i'm wrong here,
but if you upload something illegal,
and they claim to own it,
doesn't that make them liable?
i think they're just afraid people would use the space for warez or other illegal content,
and since without their new statement,
they would own it,
they would be responsible for the content.
there have been isues on web hosts being responsible for the content before,
and they would have no chance of winning one,
if they claimed to OWN the illicit material.
this was an ass-covering masked by a bad PR move.
far too many posts thinking 25, 50, 100 cups a day isn't "that much".
for my 80mg/kg, i get around 6.5 GRAMS of caffeine.
do you have any idea what that would do to you?
LD 50 (lethal dose for 50% of the group) for my weight class is around 10g.
65% of that is NOT HEALTHY.
i've had as much as 1.5g in a 24 hour period,
and that was really, really bad.
amusing during,
but a bit sick after.
one last thing.
caffeine is a diurhettic (i KNOW that's not spelled right).
ever had a few too many cups of coffee,
and spent the next couple (or more) back and forth to from the bathroom?
you wouldn't be able to leave.
all that aside,
and our chance of sustaining lethal doses of radiation anyway,
the caffeine might help with the monitor radiation we all enjoy.
(and that healthy green glow).
just remember this article,
for any nuclear fallout we may have to deal with at some point.
-tk
the first method is completely unfounded, frivolous, and not even explained.
it is not nearly so easily judged how much info we can take in simultaneously, knowing that we can't judge how it's represented.
i can store the the number 5555555 as merely 7 5's, or as about 24 bits (+-).
and other amounts and methods still for other methods of input.
100bps is a miraculous over-simplification.
as for the second method,
are you attempting to insenuate that all things that can be categorized by this game can be done so in 19 bits?
you said yourself that was the average, which means that many things cannot.
this attempt at assessing address space (which isn't even remotely close to the actual implementation) is as foolhardy as the first.
buy a different book next time.
neural networks,
as mis- or non-understood as they are,
are the closest we cna come to how our brains do store data,
and even then the method of rememebring a particular datum is unclear.
you oversimplify to the point of humor.
besides that,
the fact that you arrived at the number 2 billion (2g bits) via two methods means just as little.
with all the (mis)estimates and varying calculations done, we've guessed dozens of numbers.
hey, 11tb and 13tb aren't too far off.
they must be right.
sorry for the ranting,
but the writing was erroneous and poorly defended.