I think we should come up with an engineering specification for packet recovery, utilizing freshly-washed cars. My car recovers damn near 100% of lost pigeon packets whenever I park it outside, so the proof-of-concept is valid.
Nuclear fission in a launch vehicle is pretty bold, considering the history behind non-proliferation. I sure hope this one doesn't blow up on the launch pad.
Since I bought my 3.3 mp digital camera 2 years ago, I have taken ~2500 pictures with it. At 36 exposures per roll, and figuring as a rough estimate $10 per roll for the film and to develop them, that's ~$700 worth of film and developing I never had to spend money on. Which pretty much means that by now, the camera has paid for itself and then some. I know when I was snapping photos to celuoid, I would wait forever between devleoping a roll of film, just because I knew what it cost and didn't want to waste pictures. Now that I have a digital camera, I take pictures all the time and it's no big deal.
Why microphones? Why not a decibel meter? Surely that's the proper tool. Ubiquitous microphones sounds like the seed of yet another Orwellian nightmare.
Dude, did you watch King Kong all the way to the end? The monkey dies, man. It's like, the Final Solution right there in front of you, laid bare for all to see. Hitler probably went apeshit when he saw that.
Obviously, using the law to combat piracy hasn't worked. So now we're on to economic solutions.
The idea behind economic solutions to piracy is to make the technical challenge of pirating the games so difficult that it is both easier/cheaper to buy the game from the legitimate manufacturer. This can be done via copy protection and product activation, but these anti-piracy measures have technical countermeasures which, once discovered, return the advantage to the pirates once more.
However, if the cost of the pirated game is not a great deal cheaper than the cost of the legit copy, then it makes sense to just buy the game and forget about pirating it. This kills piracy as a business model.
Of course, if the anti-piracy technologies hamper the legitimate purchaser's ability to, for example, play the game or make backup copies of the media, then from a consumer standpoint it may still make sense to make use of piracy.
So the pirate's tools may yet have some legitimate uses even for players who bought legit copies. Ironically, it's for the very techniques the manufacturers use to deter piracy!
So, if you know you can't possibly do a good job in evaluating that volume of patents, why not slow things down to a crawl, and do stuff the right way? Sure, we'd still be looking at the merits of the application for the patent for the transistor, but isn't that better than no-look rubber stamping of bullshit like one-click shopping?
Well, maybe that's not obvious to some people. But to any sysadmin who's had to deal with choked networks in the wake of the latest Outlook exploit, it should bloody well be.
Hell, the recent blackout pretty much means that the electrical grid isn't ready to be critical infrastructure, either.
Updating firmware isn't as scary as you make it out to be. I've updated firmware on a large number of devices on the PCs I've owned or serviced, and never have I been screwed by it. Just read the instructions and follow them carefully, and make sure you understand what they are telling you to do so that you can be sure you're really doing it properly. It's really not that bad.
My question is, are these going to be REALLY original? No Greedo shooting first, no stupid Jabba the Hutt scene in ANH, no ring around the death star explosion? Those, I _WOULD_ pay for.
If by revenue, then HOLY SHIT. Because downloads are a whole lot cheaper than CDs, they'd have to be FAR more popular. Woo hoo!
If by volume, then BIG DEAL. Because an album on CD has like 15-20 songs on it, whereas a single song download has only 1 song on it. So to really eclipse CD sales, you'd have to see downloads at 15-20x the volume of album sales.
Of course, there's a lot of crappy songs on most of those albums, which we'd all be better off without. So there's probably some room for skew in the statistics, however you wanna interpret them.
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Is .85" how big it is when it's hard or when it's floppy?
I think we should come up with an engineering specification for packet recovery, utilizing freshly-washed cars. My car recovers damn near 100% of lost pigeon packets whenever I park it outside, so the proof-of-concept is valid.
Probably not, but maybe Xerox Palo Alto Research Center could sue this "Xerox Park" you mentioned...
Will Greedo be in Episode III? And will he ever get the drop on anyone?
Nuclear fission in a launch vehicle is pretty bold, considering the history behind non-proliferation. I sure hope this one doesn't blow up on the launch pad.
Since I bought my 3.3 mp digital camera 2 years ago, I have taken ~2500 pictures with it. At 36 exposures per roll, and figuring as a rough estimate $10 per roll for the film and to develop them, that's ~$700 worth of film and developing I never had to spend money on. Which pretty much means that by now, the camera has paid for itself and then some. I know when I was snapping photos to celuoid, I would wait forever between devleoping a roll of film, just because I knew what it cost and didn't want to waste pictures. Now that I have a digital camera, I take pictures all the time and it's no big deal.
Why microphones? Why not a decibel meter? Surely that's the proper tool. Ubiquitous microphones sounds like the seed of yet another Orwellian nightmare.
Finally... micropayments!
Dude, did you watch King Kong all the way to the end? The monkey dies, man. It's like, the Final Solution right there in front of you, laid bare for all to see. Hitler probably went apeshit when he saw that.
And Greedo will choke on a martini olive, thus sparing the need for Han Solo to shoot back.
Where the hell is my Half-Life 2?
It seems someone wants to celebrate the Death of UNIX at least once a year, why not make it a national holiday? Let all the SysAdmins take a day off.
Remember how Windows 95 died, and then suddenly there were no Windows users left in the world? Yeah, I thought it might be something like that...
Obviously, using the law to combat piracy hasn't worked. So now we're on to economic solutions.
The idea behind economic solutions to piracy is to make the technical challenge of pirating the games so difficult that it is both easier/cheaper to buy the game from the legitimate manufacturer. This can be done via copy protection and product activation, but these anti-piracy measures have technical countermeasures which, once discovered, return the advantage to the pirates once more.
However, if the cost of the pirated game is not a great deal cheaper than the cost of the legit copy, then it makes sense to just buy the game and forget about pirating it. This kills piracy as a business model.
Of course, if the anti-piracy technologies hamper the legitimate purchaser's ability to, for example, play the game or make backup copies of the media, then from a consumer standpoint it may still make sense to make use of piracy.
So the pirate's tools may yet have some legitimate uses even for players who bought legit copies. Ironically, it's for the very techniques the manufacturers use to deter piracy!
So, if you know you can't possibly do a good job in evaluating that volume of patents, why not slow things down to a crawl, and do stuff the right way? Sure, we'd still be looking at the merits of the application for the patent for the transistor, but isn't that better than no-look rubber stamping of bullshit like one-click shopping?
Well, maybe that's not obvious to some people. But to any sysadmin who's had to deal with choked networks in the wake of the latest Outlook exploit, it should bloody well be.
Hell, the recent blackout pretty much means that the electrical grid isn't ready to be critical infrastructure, either.
Perhaps they should use Lynx. No problems with popup ads and pornographic images there!
Some IT dept. if they can't figure that out.
Sadly, Proxomitron is no longer being supported or developed. I wish it weren't so, I liked it a lot. But, there's always privoxy.
Updating firmware isn't as scary as you make it out to be. I've updated firmware on a large number of devices on the PCs I've owned or serviced, and never have I been screwed by it. Just read the instructions and follow them carefully, and make sure you understand what they are telling you to do so that you can be sure you're really doing it properly. It's really not that bad.
UN controlling the internet? No problem... Who do I bribe to get the good pr0n back?
My question is, are these going to be REALLY original? No Greedo shooting first, no stupid Jabba the Hutt scene in ANH, no ring around the death star explosion? Those, I _WOULD_ pay for.
The special edition crap, forget it.
My guess would be "no", since there's absolutely nothing we can do about it if the sun blows up or something.
Because I'd like Canada to be tropical so I can wear shorts year round when I move there.
By volume? Or by revenue?
If by revenue, then HOLY SHIT. Because downloads are a whole lot cheaper than CDs, they'd have to be FAR more popular. Woo hoo!
If by volume, then BIG DEAL. Because an album on CD has like 15-20 songs on it, whereas a single song download has only 1 song on it. So to really eclipse CD sales, you'd have to see downloads at 15-20x the volume of album sales.
Of course, there's a lot of crappy songs on most of those albums, which we'd all be better off without. So there's probably some room for skew in the statistics, however you wanna interpret them.
D'oh, make that New Hampshire.
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