I don't believe that sharing music indiscriminately is a good thing. I don't participate in P2P networks. I don't support piracy.
But there is a lot more to this than just piracy.
Independant artists looking for exposure. Individuals who already own albums but don't want to spend the time to digitize their own copies. Folks like me who own well over 300 CDs and just want to have a reasonably easy way to listen to all of their music.
I have made MP3s of all of my CDs. Why? Because I have a computer that then plays them, shuffling through my collection, with the ability to select songs based on whatever mood or situation that I choose. If I want to have people over and have a party then I can select upbeat, faster tempo music so that the party is lively. At night I have the system automatically pick more mellow, laid back, classical music so that I start to automatically wind down.
Much of what the RIAA is aiming to do is remove my right to do that. Sure, that isn't the overt goal, they are trying to make more money (or lose less money) and really, who can blame them. However, they are in the process going to turn myself and people like me, into criminals.
Its their money they are wasting. Just as long as they don't ruin other peoples experience they can do whatever they want. If they are a disruption then it is the professors job to either get the to stop or ask them to leave.
I used to get headaches in the morning from lack of caffeine and I decided that enough was enough. I didn't want to be addicted anymore.
So I stopped drinking regular caffeine about 5 years ago... had about a days worth of withdrawl, and haven't looked back. Every once in a while I drink Coke or Pepsi or some other caffeinated beverage and you know what... it tastes a whole lot better when you don't have it all the time.
I did not read the article. But here is why it won't happen.
Lets say that robots replace all fast food restraunts. 3.5 million people now need jobs and (this is important) no longer have money to buy the food sold at these fast food establishments.
Basically the economy falls down and nobody can eat except for the people who run the restraunts.
Ok... so those 3.5 million people find other jobs you say? Who's job do they take? They take the job of the overpriced folks who maintain and build the robots. Those people now have to find new jobs as well as sell their houses.
Hoover Dam (because its really cool) CN Tower (tallest observation point) St. Louis Arch (tallest free standing monument) The Smithsonian Museums (as many as you can)...especially the Air and Space Museum Any portion of the Great Lakes...especially Niagara Falls (both sides) Las Vegas (try to find all the security cameras) New York City (you try to fit that many people in that small a space) Golden Gate Bridge (and the Rock) Erie Canal (though the Panama Canal is even better)
I agree with you to an extent but I also have a different view of it... to an extent.
If the government didn't regulate marriages then who would? In the US we have a seperation of church and state and clearly we have more than one religion. Many religious organizations aren't so well organized as to be able to prevent polygamy.
Why would you want to prevent polygamy?
The main reason that I can see to avoid polygamy is for the pure and simple reason of simplicity. If you have children and you are married to 3 spouses (4 parents) then who takes care of the children LEGALLY? If the kid gets in trouble who is ultimately responible (until they are 18).
Then you get to the question of multiple multiple marriages. Imagine if you had 3 spouses and each of your spouses had 3 spouses. Then things get really unclear as to responsability for the children, property, vehicle ownership, etc...
So... by having governments regulate legal marriages it is easy for the court system to direct responsability.
As for special benefits... you don't get a tax break if you get married and both of you are working. In fact you get taxed more because your household income is treated as though a single person was earning that money with a slightly higher tax break by default. HOWEVER it isn't a double tax break.
Coverage under healthcare is also a good benefit. But that doesn't need to be regulated by the government either... that could be managed by the health care insurance system... they are that well organized.
I second the notion. I have a P2000 and I use it all the time. Real world benchmarks... with two batteries in it (extended main and bay battery) I played mp3s for 8 hours and was down to 50% charge (with the monitor off most of the day).
I can also play Civilization III - Play the world for two hours straight on battery and only be down to 50%.
Suspends and Hibernates great, (I never shut it down) and I carry it basically everwhere I go.
One more benchmark. On just the main extended battery I was able to play Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Rings from the DVD right up until Boromir's battle at the end before the battery cut out. I had not quite started with a full charge and I could have probably lowered the brightness a bit to extend the DVD playback time to handle the full 3+ hours required. Most standard length movies will be handled fine (and you'll still have 5 hours on your bay battery to play solitaire if your flight is a really long one).
As others have already posted, this is not a case of "we played this cool game and decided to kill some people." Rather it is likely a case of some unstable individuals (or one unstable 18 year old) who had access to guns but not the understanding that it is wrong to kill others. This same individual also played violent video games because they found them to be fun.
Lets ban parents because clearly they are the root of this evil.
Imagine what would have happened instead if the parent had had guns but had also instilled in the children that to use them on humans was wrong. And I'm not talking about a sex education video here. I'm talking about a life of growing up knowing deep down that to harm another was wrong.
In the US I heard of a case where this happened and of course the case was thrown out due to Illegal Search and Seizure.
Since the Police had no probable cause to look at the residence to see if it was producing an unusual amount of heat the reason for the arrest was illegal and the case thrown out.
When it comes to situations where the cars on the road do NOT fill the available space I totally agree with you and I DO move over to allow faster cars to pass. This has two benefits for me. 1) It allows the fast people to get pulled over by the cops and 2) it prevents them from having to pass me on the right possibly causing an accident.
BTW, speeding is illegal not because it is unsafe or because thats how the cops make money (though both are probably true) but because that is what we in the democracy wanted. Because those are the rules of the road and you should play by the rules in order to play fair. But if you want to break the law I'll gladly get out of your way so you can find the cops.
HOWEVER.... when the amount of cars increases to the point where the road is at capacity... individuals trying to go faster might get through faster... but they will ultimately slow down everyone else. Since enough people do this it causes more slowdowns, aggravating the people that need to go faster, causing more slowdowns.... ultimately it just clogs the system up.
It doesn't hurt to think of others once in a while. Let someone merge, don't tailgate, don't pass on the right, don't pretend to be the most important person on the road and we'll all get where we are going just fine.
On an open road, speed all you want, the local police will take your money and take you off the streets eventually, hopefully before you kill someone. But when the road get congested.... then you need to chill out and play nice like everyone else.
Interestingly enough I've done the exact same experiment and it works!
By putting the buffer space in front of you you actually speed up the traffic behind you by avoiding the wave effect that you mention. I'd wanted to model this in software to demonstrate my idea more clearly about the best methods to drive but I haven't gotten around to it.
It is very good to know that other people have thought of the same thing that I had and actually try to drive to improve road conditions for everyone and not just yourself!
And it's people like you that make traffic much worse than it needs to be. Cutting people off, tailgating, causing traffic accidents... all of these things cause more traffic than it solves.
Think about it like math. If the average speed of the cars on the road is finite number whose upper bound is controlled by several factors, traffic density being the primary factor, then if one person attempts to go significantly over the average speed that the road can handle under those conditions then necessarily every other car must slow down a little bit just to accomodate.
Since many people believe that their needs are more important than the needs of the whole (as you have so clearly stated in your post) then everyone who believes that tries to go faster than the average.
Ordinarily this would raise the average speed. But clearly that isn't the case. Because as speed increases, safety demands that the space between cars needs to increase... this artificially inflates the traffic density numbers (because cars are treated as being "bigger" than they actually are) and so the whole road slows down.
It is because of this "me first" philosophy that traffic is as bad as it is in the world.
Its like everyone on the whole road missed the lesson in kintergarden about sharing.
Stop being an ass on the road, leave yourself enough time to get where you need to go and you won't stress quite so bad when traffic does suck because of the other greedy people on the road that think the way you say you do.
My brother and I wrote a book store program on it that would keep track of inventory and allow you to ring up "sales". I think I was about 9 or 10 at the time.
I am very much looking forward to getting the extended edition of the TT on DVD. After the masterful job done in the extended edition of FotR, I can hardly watch the shorter version.
Of course, I'll have a problem when I get to the RotK extended edition. I only have a 5 disc DVD changer and so I'll have to get up from the couch after 12 hours to switch to the final disk!
1) Its free. 2) It is Object Oriented but you can ignore that if you just write things in a functional manner in one object. 3) With the available libraries you can do lots of things that a beginning programmer would like. Graphics, Sound, Text.
Sure, they aren't going to start off writing GUIs, but if they get interested they can figure stuff out pretty fast.
How very British of you to declare yourself the center of the (East-West) world.;-)
Besides, shouldn't it be that the UK is just trying to get to the next day ever that much faster? Are we going to adjust the clocks now to account for the fact that the sun rises in Greenwich a few microseconds earlier?
Its purely to stop people from being able to use the software without calling Microsoft!
Rob Enderle, a technology analyst with Forrester Research, added that while music and movies remain stand-alone products, software is increasingly packaged with technical support and regular updates. He said a pirated copy is sometimes worthless without those services.
Because when you call in they check to see if you have a registered copy!
Eventually, they'll have so many bugs that copying will be worthless and nobody will use their software at all!
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Scientists today showed that electrical conducting wires can fail when run through a bathtub and that your car won't run after going over a cliff.
The researchers were said to be "disappointed".
I don't believe that sharing music indiscriminately is a good thing. I don't participate in P2P networks. I don't support piracy.
But there is a lot more to this than just piracy.
Independant artists looking for exposure. Individuals who already own albums but don't want to spend the time to digitize their own copies. Folks like me who own well over 300 CDs and just want to have a reasonably easy way to listen to all of their music.
I have made MP3s of all of my CDs. Why? Because I have a computer that then plays them, shuffling through my collection, with the ability to select songs based on whatever mood or situation that I choose. If I want to have people over and have a party then I can select upbeat, faster tempo music so that the party is lively. At night I have the system automatically pick more mellow, laid back, classical music so that I start to automatically wind down.
Much of what the RIAA is aiming to do is remove my right to do that. Sure, that isn't the overt goal, they are trying to make more money (or lose less money) and really, who can blame them. However, they are in the process going to turn myself and people like me, into criminals.
They are alienating their own customers!
I already brew my own beer.
Good luck getting me to stop.
And yes... you can find recipes that are imitations of most beers that are out there.
Its their money they are wasting. Just as long as they don't ruin other peoples experience they can do whatever they want. If they are a disruption then it is the professors job to either get the to stop or ask them to leave.
I used to get headaches in the morning from lack of caffeine and I decided that enough was enough. I didn't want to be addicted anymore.
So I stopped drinking regular caffeine about 5 years ago... had about a days worth of withdrawl, and haven't looked back. Every once in a while I drink Coke or Pepsi or some other caffeinated beverage and you know what... it tastes a whole lot better when you don't have it all the time.
I did not read the article. But here is why it won't happen.
Lets say that robots replace all fast food restraunts. 3.5 million people now need jobs and (this is important) no longer have money to buy the food sold at these fast food establishments.
Basically the economy falls down and nobody can eat except for the people who run the restraunts.
Ok... so those 3.5 million people find other jobs you say? Who's job do they take? They take the job of the overpriced folks who maintain and build the robots. Those people now have to find new jobs as well as sell their houses.
Its a downward spiral.
Because geeks are just about computers....
...especially the Air and Space Museum ...especially Niagara Falls (both sides)
Hoover Dam (because its really cool)
CN Tower (tallest observation point)
St. Louis Arch (tallest free standing monument)
The Smithsonian Museums (as many as you can)
Any portion of the Great Lakes
Las Vegas (try to find all the security cameras)
New York City (you try to fit that many people in that small a space)
Golden Gate Bridge (and the Rock)
Erie Canal (though the Panama Canal is even better)
The exhibits for the Constitution and Bill of Rights are currently closed. Seriously, they are being renovated.
i en ce/index.html
http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_exper
But they will open up again soon! September 18th!
It is definitely a must see!
But I guess thats why the government always burns sensitive papers.
Although... I remembering hearing about a set of government instructions that once said:
1) Destroy all copies of this document once you have read it.
2) But make a copy first for your records.
I agree with you to an extent but I also have a different view of it... to an extent.
If the government didn't regulate marriages then who would? In the US we have a seperation of church and state and clearly we have more than one religion. Many religious organizations aren't so well organized as to be able to prevent polygamy.
Why would you want to prevent polygamy?
The main reason that I can see to avoid polygamy is for the pure and simple reason of simplicity. If you have children and you are married to 3 spouses (4 parents) then who takes care of the children LEGALLY? If the kid gets in trouble who is ultimately responible (until they are 18).
Then you get to the question of multiple multiple marriages. Imagine if you had 3 spouses and each of your spouses had 3 spouses. Then things get really unclear as to responsability for the children, property, vehicle ownership, etc...
So... by having governments regulate legal marriages it is easy for the court system to direct responsability.
As for special benefits... you don't get a tax break if you get married and both of you are working. In fact you get taxed more because your household income is treated as though a single person was earning that money with a slightly higher tax break by default. HOWEVER it isn't a double tax break.
Coverage under healthcare is also a good benefit. But that doesn't need to be regulated by the government either... that could be managed by the health care insurance system... they are that well organized.
I second the notion. I have a P2000 and I use it all the time. Real world benchmarks... with two batteries in it (extended main and bay battery) I played mp3s for 8 hours and was down to 50% charge (with the monitor off most of the day).
I can also play Civilization III - Play the world for two hours straight on battery and only be down to 50%.
Suspends and Hibernates great, (I never shut it down) and I carry it basically everwhere I go.
One more benchmark. On just the main extended battery I was able to play Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Rings from the DVD right up until Boromir's battle at the end before the battery cut out. I had not quite started with a full charge and I could have probably lowered the brightness a bit to extend the DVD playback time to handle the full 3+ hours required. Most standard length movies will be handled fine (and you'll still have 5 hours on your bay battery to play solitaire if your flight is a really long one).
As others have already posted, this is not a case of "we played this cool game and decided to kill some people." Rather it is likely a case of some unstable individuals (or one unstable 18 year old) who had access to guns but not the understanding that it is wrong to kill others. This same individual also played violent video games because they found them to be fun.
Lets ban parents because clearly they are the root of this evil.
Imagine what would have happened instead if the parent had had guns but had also instilled in the children that to use them on humans was wrong. And I'm not talking about a sex education video here. I'm talking about a life of growing up knowing deep down that to harm another was wrong.
Have you taken the Geek Purity Test lately?
http://www.armory.com/tests/geek.html
Its a bit out of date. Anyone know if there's been an update?
Ever heard of magic?
Mithril is a magic metal (in Tolkiens FICTIONAL world)
So... like... get a life.
In the US I heard of a case where this happened and of course the case was thrown out due to Illegal Search and Seizure.
Since the Police had no probable cause to look at the residence to see if it was producing an unusual amount of heat the reason for the arrest was illegal and the case thrown out.
They use an email address so that someone else cannot request to un-block your phone number.
How useless would this be if any telemarketer could just log in, drop your phone numbers out of the DB, then call you.
Besides, if the government wanted to get your phone number and email address together, I'm sure they could.
When it comes to situations where the cars on the road do NOT fill the available space I totally agree with you and I DO move over to allow faster cars to pass. This has two benefits for me. 1) It allows the fast people to get pulled over by the cops and 2) it prevents them from having to pass me on the right possibly causing an accident.
BTW, speeding is illegal not because it is unsafe or because thats how the cops make money (though both are probably true) but because that is what we in the democracy wanted. Because those are the rules of the road and you should play by the rules in order to play fair. But if you want to break the law I'll gladly get out of your way so you can find the cops.
HOWEVER.... when the amount of cars increases to the point where the road is at capacity... individuals trying to go faster might get through faster... but they will ultimately slow down everyone else. Since enough people do this it causes more slowdowns, aggravating the people that need to go faster, causing more slowdowns.... ultimately it just clogs the system up.
It doesn't hurt to think of others once in a while. Let someone merge, don't tailgate, don't pass on the right, don't pretend to be the most important person on the road and we'll all get where we are going just fine.
On an open road, speed all you want, the local police will take your money and take you off the streets eventually, hopefully before you kill someone. But when the road get congested.... then you need to chill out and play nice like everyone else.
Interestingly enough I've done the exact same experiment and it works!
By putting the buffer space in front of you you actually speed up the traffic behind you by avoiding the wave effect that you mention. I'd wanted to model this in software to demonstrate my idea more clearly about the best methods to drive but I haven't gotten around to it.
It is very good to know that other people have thought of the same thing that I had and actually try to drive to improve road conditions for everyone and not just yourself!
Keep it up!
And it's people like you that make traffic much worse than it needs to be. Cutting people off, tailgating, causing traffic accidents... all of these things cause more traffic than it solves.
Think about it like math. If the average speed of the cars on the road is finite number whose upper bound is controlled by several factors, traffic density being the primary factor, then if one person attempts to go significantly over the average speed that the road can handle under those conditions then necessarily every other car must slow down a little bit just to accomodate.
Since many people believe that their needs are more important than the needs of the whole (as you have so clearly stated in your post) then everyone who believes that tries to go faster than the average.
Ordinarily this would raise the average speed. But clearly that isn't the case. Because as speed increases, safety demands that the space between cars needs to increase... this artificially inflates the traffic density numbers (because cars are treated as being "bigger" than they actually are) and so the whole road slows down.
It is because of this "me first" philosophy that traffic is as bad as it is in the world.
Its like everyone on the whole road missed the lesson in kintergarden about sharing.
Stop being an ass on the road, leave yourself enough time to get where you need to go and you won't stress quite so bad when traffic does suck because of the other greedy people on the road that think the way you say you do.
Timex Sinclair 1000
Here is a link to one man's page about the computer
My brother and I wrote a book store program on it that would keep track of inventory and allow you to ring up "sales". I think I was about 9 or 10 at the time.
I am very much looking forward to getting the extended edition of the TT on DVD. After the masterful job done in the extended edition of FotR, I can hardly watch the shorter version.
Of course, I'll have a problem when I get to the RotK extended edition. I only have a 5 disc DVD changer and so I'll have to get up from the couch after 12 hours to switch to the final disk!
I would give them Java.
1) Its free.
2) It is Object Oriented but you can ignore that if you just write things in a functional manner in one object.
3) With the available libraries you can do lots of things that a beginning programmer would like. Graphics, Sound, Text.
Sure, they aren't going to start off writing GUIs, but if they get interested they can figure stuff out pretty fast.
How very British of you to declare yourself the center of the (East-West) world. ;-)
Besides, shouldn't it be that the UK is just trying to get to the next day ever that much faster? Are we going to adjust the clocks now to account for the fact that the sun rises in Greenwich a few microseconds earlier?
Ok... you got me to laugh out loud in my office... someone with moderator points bump this up a bit!
Its purely to stop people from being able to use the software without calling Microsoft!
Rob Enderle, a technology analyst with Forrester Research, added that while music and movies remain stand-alone products, software is increasingly packaged with technical support and regular updates. He said a pirated copy is sometimes worthless without those services.
Because when you call in they check to see if you have a registered copy!
Eventually, they'll have so many bugs that copying will be worthless and nobody will use their software at all!
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Sorry, it had to be done.