I know plenty of 30 year olds who aren't able to make said intelligent, rational decisions... and plenty of 12 year olds who are.
If you think you know a 12 year old that is capable of understanding the consequences and is willing to consent to having sex with you, then you are mistaken. Finding some country that tolerates slavery does not make slavery okay.
This statement is true: Al Gore took the initiative in creating the Internet
This statement is false: Al Gore invented the internet
If you do not understand the distinction, then the problem is yours. What Gore did had nothing to do with inventing and implementing the protocols or the hardware involved... and everything to do with legislation that created the Internet from the previous DARPANet and funded it for use by universities.
Read Al Franken's book, "Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them" for a full essay on what Gore really said, why it's perfectly true, how and who twisted Gore's words into a lie, and how they pushed the lie to paint Gore as an exaggerator and liar for political gain.
You're as bad as the people you're arguing with! Gore said it that way with the intent of misleading people. That's no better than the spin from the other side. It's all a bunch of BS politics that no one should be paying any attention to.
And furthermore... since when is it whoever ships first wins? What about quality? Cost? Yes AMD beats Intel on both of those now, but that is what I mean when I say that changes at Intel could make them far more competative, far more agile.
Wars aren't won or lost on the first shot. Wars go on for a long time.
I would agree that the low end Powermac is abit... MMhhh weak, but then the advantage of it is that you can expand it more, another HDD, GFX, more memory.
Well, you can always add an external drive, and the iMac supports 2GB of RAM. If you need more than 2GB, you'd probably benefit from more CPU than the PM has anyway. Sure, you can't upgrade the video card, but you just bought the cheapest PM available, what are the odds you're going to fork out for an X800?
Those two machines are just poorly matched, and I'm surprised Apple did it.
At best torrents help the internet , at worst they potentialy infringe some copyright.
Why do conversations about BitTorrent always have to include discussing the downloading of copyrighted materials? Every time Slashdot has an article about BitTorrent, we have to hear about Suprnova and other various things from people who apparently don't mind violating copyright law. It's difficult for me to listen to people complain about others assuming BitTorrent has something to do with copyrighted materials - their problem should be with the immature fools who continually cause the association to be made.
You could save yourself a lot of time by simply going to Hardee's and getting the Double Monster burger (1300 calories, 90 grams of fat). Eat two if you're feeling hungry. Of course, if you eat two, you might pass out. Don't forget fries and a drink.
Good code doesn't require comments - the variable names should tell you everything you need to know about the program.
You must be the guy that made the database at the last place I worked! The column names were complete sentences, including spaces and punctuation (it had never occurred to me that you could even do that). It was a real bitch to work with. Find the middle ground.
Computers had a brief glory period where you could set them up and let them work. Now, the average user is going to see their computer get abused like it's in a prison shower. They hate it, and they hate the fact that you can't make it stop for them without significant trade offs. Now, you are just a guy that can solve some of their problems instead of the guy who can make anything happen.
So... How hard do they need to abuse the next victim for you to stop downloading? Prison? Ass rape? Work camps? Sheesh.
You never really made a point or gave any reasoning for why you feel the person should not be imprisoned. Do you feel that it is no big deal? It is a violation of the law, and apparently it is punishable by imprisonment in Sweden. Were you on the side of Michael Fay when he went to Singapore and vandalized the country? I'm personally glad that they caned his ass. People can't just keep running around breaking laws they don't like and then expecting to not be punished because they don't like the law. What if I think it should be okay to kill or rape anyone I please? Would you think it was reasonable that I kept raping people and then railing agains the authorities who attempted to punish me?
If you really think that you should be able to download copyrighted material freely, then you should start to develop a sound argument for doing so and then begin persuading the country/world that you are correct. Continuing down the path of breakign the law and complaining about the consequences doesn't convince anyone that you have a better idea.
Would a news article covering a gay pride march be inappropriate? What about a gay-culture magazine?
We already have guidelines about the sale of materials to minors, don't we? I never could purchase a Playboy when I was 13. I tried, but it wouldn't happen. Wouldn't the same guidelines apply here, and if so, isn't the precedent for this already set by the fact that you can't sell a Playboy to a 13 year old?
By breaking the ability to use iTunes music fairly (for example, in a device other than an iPid), Apple essentially forced the authors of Hymn to make their software more suitable to piracy.
Do you only listen to things you want to hear? You can burn your iTMS music to CD, and then you can do whatever the hell you want with it, including play it on something other than an iPod.
Besides that, it's not your "right" to violate the terms of service, violate the DMCA, and do what you want with the file. If you don't like the file, don't buy it. Maybe if enough people don't buy it, they will change the way it works because it's not working out for them. If you really want change, there are better ways to go about it than to break the law. Breaking the law will cause most people to think that your point is not valid, and you will not be heard.
You would think that they would learn not to mess with the free speech rights of adults and children here.
These laws require that the ISP do it if the subscriber asks for it. How the hell does that mess with the person's free speech rights? They asked for it. Just because you don't like the idea doesn't immediately make it unconstitutional.
There may be other grounds here for getting rid of this law. I'm sure there is something somewhere that puts restrictions on what the government can tell businesses they must do and what they can't. Something along the lines of having a "compelling interest".
I downloaded MIT's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
(SICP) lectures from here,
and converted the audio portion to MP3 so I could play it on my iPod.
Outside of that suggestion, I have the same question as you. I recently cancelled an Audible subscription because I had run out of books I was interested in hearing. The local library seems to have mostly fiction in audiobook.
This is illegal. It isn't cool or important. RIAA music isn't free, and it isn't anyone's right or obligation to make it free. There is plenty of free music out there if you want it. Google for the South by SouthWest music festival. They put out a couple of gigs worth of free music in a torrent file. It's right up Slashdot's alley.
I have a very busy work schedule with a lot of travel. There are 2 or 3 broadcast TV shows that I like so I download episodes when I miss them. Is there any real difference between that and just programming my VCR to do the same?
Yes, with P2P, you have access to content that you didn't pay for. You have access to HBO/Showtime/Spice/etc. Not all things are broadcast in all areas. Sporting events get blacked out in areas. Local advertisers lose out when you download a show because you probably didn't download it from someone living in your area, using your cable provider (there are local ads through the station that broadcast the show as well as through the cable provider).
You may not care about advertisers, but if the effectiveness of TV ads diminishes, then the quantity and/or quality of TV content will also diminish.
See, they want small companies to be able to get good patents. Then, they can just buy the company. They have probably just found that it is cheaper to buy good tech rather than invent it.
When a large percentage of the population think a law is no good that law should be rescinded.
You and all your GPL loving friends are not a "large percentage". Ask some random, average people. They don't have any objection to it. That's why it won't change.
Dear Baskin Robbins,
Since I am too fat and lazy from eating your product to go get some down at the local store and my friend malus doesn't have one where he lives, could you drop a few free scoops into envelopes and mail them to us please? Thanks.
Shows what you know! Ice cream is too big for an envelope. You'd need a box.
I've got to say, it seems like 75% of my daughter's phrasing choices and cultural interests come from what she's heard people other than us say. Grandparents, teachers and friends at pre-school, Arthur, all seem to have rubbed off on her (granted, she's only three, but the pattern is already VERY noticeable.)
Grandparents, teachers and friends at pre-school, and Arthur are all things that are within your control. If your child's grandparents are vulgar, talk to them about being vulgar around your child. If your kid is picking up bad things from preschool - work with the teachers, or find another preschool. TV shows are up to you to turn on and off.
These years before regular school (where you have less of a choice about where they go) are very important. Your child is still fully attached to you and your spouse and wants to please you. You are laying the groundwork for how school and the world will affect your child. It starts very, very early, and I think that's what most people don't realize.
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I know plenty of 30 year olds who aren't able to make said intelligent, rational decisions... and plenty of 12 year olds who are.
If you think you know a 12 year old that is capable of understanding the consequences and is willing to consent to having sex with you, then you are mistaken. Finding some country that tolerates slavery does not make slavery okay.
This statement is true: Al Gore took the initiative in creating the Internet This statement is false: Al Gore invented the internet If you do not understand the distinction, then the problem is yours. What Gore did had nothing to do with inventing and implementing the protocols or the hardware involved... and everything to do with legislation that created the Internet from the previous DARPANet and funded it for use by universities. Read Al Franken's book, "Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them" for a full essay on what Gore really said, why it's perfectly true, how and who twisted Gore's words into a lie, and how they pushed the lie to paint Gore as an exaggerator and liar for political gain.
You're as bad as the people you're arguing with! Gore said it that way with the intent of misleading people. That's no better than the spin from the other side. It's all a bunch of BS politics that no one should be paying any attention to.
And furthermore... since when is it whoever ships first wins? What about quality? Cost? Yes AMD beats Intel on both of those now, but that is what I mean when I say that changes at Intel could make them far more competative, far more agile.
Wars aren't won or lost on the first shot. Wars go on for a long time.
I would agree that the low end Powermac is abit... MMhhh weak, but then the advantage of it is that you can expand it more, another HDD, GFX, more memory.
Well, you can always add an external drive, and the iMac supports 2GB of RAM. If you need more than 2GB, you'd probably benefit from more CPU than the PM has anyway. Sure, you can't upgrade the video card, but you just bought the cheapest PM available, what are the odds you're going to fork out for an X800? Those two machines are just poorly matched, and I'm surprised Apple did it.
At best torrents help the internet , at worst they potentialy infringe some copyright.
Why do conversations about BitTorrent always have to include discussing the downloading of copyrighted materials? Every time Slashdot has an article about BitTorrent, we have to hear about Suprnova and other various things from people who apparently don't mind violating copyright law. It's difficult for me to listen to people complain about others assuming BitTorrent has something to do with copyrighted materials - their problem should be with the immature fools who continually cause the association to be made.
You could save yourself a lot of time by simply going to Hardee's and getting the Double Monster burger (1300 calories, 90 grams of fat). Eat two if you're feeling hungry. Of course, if you eat two, you might pass out. Don't forget fries and a drink.
management science
Man, my head is killing me trying to figure that one out!
Good code doesn't require comments - the variable names should tell you everything you need to know about the program.
You must be the guy that made the database at the last place I worked! The column names were complete sentences, including spaces and punctuation (it had never occurred to me that you could even do that). It was a real bitch to work with. Find the middle ground.
I look forward to a salesman knocking on my door and selling me a 6 foot wide stack of Wikipedia volumes to fill my shelves
Well, all I've got is $50, so I'll just take the letter 'V'.
Computers had a brief glory period where you could set them up and let them work. Now, the average user is going to see their computer get abused like it's in a prison shower. They hate it, and they hate the fact that you can't make it stop for them without significant trade offs. Now, you are just a guy that can solve some of their problems instead of the guy who can make anything happen.
At 63724 bytes, it's less than a third of the binary size of mwm that you quote
Actually, he said the binary size ws 1985399, so wm2 appears to be 1/31 the size.
what should a person get for a rape?
Death. Do you have a daughter? I have two, and if anyone rapes one of them, then God help him, because I'm going to kill him myself.
So... How hard do they need to abuse the next victim for you to stop downloading? Prison? Ass rape? Work camps? Sheesh.
You never really made a point or gave any reasoning for why you feel the person should not be imprisoned. Do you feel that it is no big deal? It is a violation of the law, and apparently it is punishable by imprisonment in Sweden. Were you on the side of Michael Fay when he went to Singapore and vandalized the country? I'm personally glad that they caned his ass. People can't just keep running around breaking laws they don't like and then expecting to not be punished because they don't like the law. What if I think it should be okay to kill or rape anyone I please? Would you think it was reasonable that I kept raping people and then railing agains the authorities who attempted to punish me?
If you really think that you should be able to download copyrighted material freely, then you should start to develop a sound argument for doing so and then begin persuading the country/world that you are correct. Continuing down the path of breakign the law and complaining about the consequences doesn't convince anyone that you have a better idea.
Wonder how those people feel now.
They are probably in a lot of pain after the guy kicked their asses. But, if they were decent people, they'd help pay his settlement amount.
Would a news article covering a gay pride march be inappropriate? What about a gay-culture magazine?
We already have guidelines about the sale of materials to minors, don't we? I never could purchase a Playboy when I was 13. I tried, but it wouldn't happen. Wouldn't the same guidelines apply here, and if so, isn't the precedent for this already set by the fact that you can't sell a Playboy to a 13 year old?
By breaking the ability to use iTunes music fairly (for example, in a device other than an iPid), Apple essentially forced the authors of Hymn to make their software more suitable to piracy.
Do you only listen to things you want to hear? You can burn your iTMS music to CD, and then you can do whatever the hell you want with it, including play it on something other than an iPod.
Besides that, it's not your "right" to violate the terms of service, violate the DMCA, and do what you want with the file. If you don't like the file, don't buy it. Maybe if enough people don't buy it, they will change the way it works because it's not working out for them. If you really want change, there are better ways to go about it than to break the law. Breaking the law will cause most people to think that your point is not valid, and you will not be heard.
You would think that they would learn not to mess with the free speech rights of adults and children here.
These laws require that the ISP do it if the subscriber asks for it. How the hell does that mess with the person's free speech rights? They asked for it. Just because you don't like the idea doesn't immediately make it unconstitutional.
There may be other grounds here for getting rid of this law. I'm sure there is something somewhere that puts restrictions on what the government can tell businesses they must do and what they can't. Something along the lines of having a "compelling interest".
I downloaded MIT's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) lectures from here, and converted the audio portion to MP3 so I could play it on my iPod. Outside of that suggestion, I have the same question as you. I recently cancelled an Audible subscription because I had run out of books I was interested in hearing. The local library seems to have mostly fiction in audiobook.
This is illegal. It isn't cool or important. RIAA music isn't free, and it isn't anyone's right or obligation to make it free. There is plenty of free music out there if you want it. Google for the South by SouthWest music festival. They put out a couple of gigs worth of free music in a torrent file. It's right up Slashdot's alley.
I have a very busy work schedule with a lot of travel. There are 2 or 3 broadcast TV shows that I like so I download episodes when I miss them. Is there any real difference between that and just programming my VCR to do the same?
Yes, with P2P, you have access to content that you didn't pay for. You have access to HBO/Showtime/Spice/etc. Not all things are broadcast in all areas. Sporting events get blacked out in areas. Local advertisers lose out when you download a show because you probably didn't download it from someone living in your area, using your cable provider (there are local ads through the station that broadcast the show as well as through the cable provider).
You may not care about advertisers, but if the effectiveness of TV ads diminishes, then the quantity and/or quality of TV content will also diminish.
Why do people mention forking as a problem? If a new version forks off and you don't like it, just don't use it! Why is this a bad thing?
Because 70 versions of something that work 70 different ways mean that it is more difficult to support for network staff and software vendors.
See, they want small companies to be able to get good patents. Then, they can just buy the company. They have probably just found that it is cheaper to buy good tech rather than invent it.
When a large percentage of the population think a law is no good that law should be rescinded.
You and all your GPL loving friends are not a "large percentage". Ask some random, average people. They don't have any objection to it. That's why it won't change.
Dear Baskin Robbins, Since I am too fat and lazy from eating your product to go get some down at the local store and my friend malus doesn't have one where he lives, could you drop a few free scoops into envelopes and mail them to us please? Thanks.
Shows what you know! Ice cream is too big for an envelope. You'd need a box.
I've got to say, it seems like 75% of my daughter's phrasing choices and cultural interests come from what she's heard people other than us say. Grandparents, teachers and friends at pre-school, Arthur, all seem to have rubbed off on her (granted, she's only three, but the pattern is already VERY noticeable.)
Grandparents, teachers and friends at pre-school, and Arthur are all things that are within your control. If your child's grandparents are vulgar, talk to them about being vulgar around your child. If your kid is picking up bad things from preschool - work with the teachers, or find another preschool. TV shows are up to you to turn on and off.
These years before regular school (where you have less of a choice about where they go) are very important. Your child is still fully attached to you and your spouse and wants to please you. You are laying the groundwork for how school and the world will affect your child. It starts very, very early, and I think that's what most people don't realize.