It also has an effect on TV, where either local stations or cable channels BUY the old Avenger/Hulk movies and air them for fun-and-profit. Most times I just watch the TV presentation rather than download.
I've seen IronMan & Captain America run about 5 times in the weeks leading to this Avengers premiere.
>>>I'd appreciate anybody's thoughts on how much the piracy cost.
I don't know why you say it asks the wrong questions? Assuming all 100000 downloaders bought tickets that would be just 0.6 million more on top of the 200 million actually earned. Not a big deal.
Cost? Very little because most of us either (a) don't want to actually PAY for the shit hollywood produces. I freely admit I've downloaded hundreds of movies this past year. If for some reason I was cutoff, I wouldn't run out and buy it. I'd just wait for a free version on TV. (b) Or they would like to pay but lack money to do so because they are kids, teens, college students.
ALSO: If the internet and downloading is so evil, why are RIAA and MPAA affiliated companies making money than ever before? They should be going broke but in reality they are getting rich. So rich, they are bribing politicians with election donations to pass CISPA and sign ACTA.
My XP install doesn't run on only half a gigabyte and no swapfile. I've tried it, and it refuses to open any programs (except tiny crap like notepad). Forget trying to browse the web or run Word.
>>>microware OS9 Level 2
Heh. Commodore Amiga OS multitasked in just 1/4 meg of RAM.
>>> It doesn't swap unless you're really out of RAM
That's not what I've heard. I've read that Seven, like Vista, precaches everything into RAM that it believes you will need and makes it full. This of course means if you access something new (or unexpected), it has to first swap out something from RAM to the HDD in order to make room for the new item. Slooooow.
PLUS you didn't really answer my question. Can Windows 7 run with the virtual memory/swapfile set to 0? How much Real RAM would I need to do that? I suspect my 16 gigabyte guess isn't far off.
And they weren't printouts. They were actual developed 35mm film. Why go with physical photos when you can have the permance of a digital photo that never fades?
What you should be asking is: "How do I save my photos & videos so they don't get lost?" Backup to a USB drive in a fireproof safe. Backup to an online place like google. Backup to another online place like amazon. And make sure google/amazon are not in the same building (in case it burns down). That's what I would recommend.
BTW someone talked about prescription drugs being patented (and therefore overpriced). You can always ask your doctor for over-the-counter versions, if you don't want the prescription version. It's a business transaction & just like any business transaction you negotiate the deal. You don't have to just blindly accept what the salesman (doctor) is handing you.
On the other hand, price for drugs drop when demand increases and I'm sure it would increase if people can just buy heart or bloodpressure meds OTC from the pharmacist. You won't need insurance..... you can just pay cash directly. Like I do. Like my parents do.
That's what happens when the government installs price-fixing and says doctors can't charge more than X amount for a procedure (oftentimes below actual cost). Young adults choose other careers that pay more money (or don't require 70 hour weeks or 10 years training). Price fixing creates shortages.
I thought about being a doctor but said "no way" to that idea when I learned I could make just as much money/hour doing engineering... and only needed 4 years training.
As a compromise, they could let more "routine" procedures like measuring temperature, handing out medicine, or even simple procedures like tonsil removal be handled by Nurses instead of doctors. It would be equivalent to how technicians do most of the routine easy work, rather than expensive engineers.
Like the car industry of the 1950s, the computer industry has now reached the point of incremental tiny improvements rather than revolutionary improvements (like jumping from 8 bit to 32 bit in one decade). I've had the same PC for 10 years and it still runs everything just fine (except the latest flash update). It would have been impossible to run a 1985 PC with Windows95 and the latest software.
>>>capable of executing 1,000 times more instructions per second than the original pc
Heh. More than that. The IBM PC was 4 megahertz? And now we have double-clocking where CPUs execute instruction on both rising & falling edges. And dual-core CPUs are now standard, so 3000*2*2/4 == 3000 times faster. And yet as you pointed-out we still have to deal with annoying "wait" states while the PC thinks or redraws a screen. Bloat.
Since we're talking about a LIFESPAN of a human being, not just one decade...... YES the number of Americans killed by falling meteorites over the last 80 years does exceed the 3000 killed on 9/11.
And of course your odds of death-by-terrorist go down dramatically if, like me, you rarely fly. Just as if you don't play baseball, you're less likely to get killed by a ball than if you are a professional player. Or if you live on a mountain, your odds of dying from tsunami are near-zero.
Let's face it: Most of us are going to die through bad blood circulation (heart, brain attack) or cancer or driving to work. THAT'S what we should be afraid of, not the near-zero risk of terrorists, and yet most of us stuff fat and sugar into our bodies as if we're trying to commit suicide. We are very good at fearing the wrong things.
And no $80,000 isn't a lot. It's 4 cars. Rather than trade-in for a new car every 3-4 years (and lose ~$10,000 when you do that), just keep driving the old car and save the cash. Modern cars can last 300,000 miles easily, so if you trade-in at 50,000 you're only getting ~1/6th of the use.
>>>So, you're saying everyone should just have parents who SACRIFICED their whole life (and had a good job) so kiddo can get a degree interest free?
Mowing grass and trimming bushes for a corporation is a "good" job? They sacrificed, not because of me, but because it's how they were taught. They grew-up during the depression and World War 2. They knew that they had to save their earnings, rather than waste them. Now that we're experiencing Great Depression #2, hopefully we'll learn the same lesson before the debt overwhelms us.
And to the person below: - You don't need parents to save money if you REALLY want to go to college. You can borrow it from the private bank, and then repay it after you get a job (just as I paidback the "bank" of mom and dad).
Well after I read an article about CFLs dying from heat, I started cracking open some dead bulbs. Sure enough, there was heat damage..... mostly in the caps which swelled-up and spilled their electrolyte.
I've also seen examples of CFLs literally catching fire from excess heat on the electronics. If a part is only designed for 50C and the enclosed/upside-down fixtures rise above that level, you're going to see failures..... or in my case, shortened life that is no longer than an incandescent.
>>>Yammering
F.U. I'm an electrical engineer sharing the data I have uncovered about this technology. That is not yammering..... it is doing what I am good at doing. You should go do your own research.
They didn't "make" 20 million. They collected 13 million in 2011, minus operating and labor costs, and earned about 2 million overall. So they were hit with a 5% fine.
A better way of dealing with Iran is to TALK to them. They are a democratic Republic you know..... just like us and all our other allies. Democracies are not supposed to be going to war with one another; in the entire history of mankind, it has never happened. Is the U.S. going to be the first to break that rule-of-thumb?
>>>mourn an ally, say Israel, that got annihilated in the meantime.
Since Iran's longest-range missile only goes 500 miles, Israel is quite safe. Furthermore Israel is VERY well armed. The moment that Iran dropped a nuke, Israel would launch its 1000 intercontinental missiles and turn Iran into molten slag. Iran knows this which is why, like Russia, they will never attack a superior foe.
You make it ound so innocent But too much borrowing is what brought down the economy in 2008 and 1929. Too easy credit led to an artificial boom and then a collapse when people could not pay back loans.
Even now we suffer too much credit where the EU and US owe forty times more money (debt and derivatives) than actually exists. That is why the central EU and US bank are printing money like mad.
According to the Non-proliferation which Iran has signed (and our supposed-ally Israel has not), they can enrich uranium upto 30%. Current capabilities show them at 20%, which is being used to fuel reactors.
Furthermore if you don't believe me, then believe our Secretary of Defense: "Are Iranians trying to create a nuclear weapon? No. They are trying to develop a nuclear capability for reactors."
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It also has an effect on TV, where either local stations or cable channels BUY the old Avenger/Hulk movies and air them for fun-and-profit. Most times I just watch the TV presentation rather than download.
I've seen IronMan & Captain America run about 5 times in the weeks leading to this Avengers premiere.
>>>I'd appreciate anybody's thoughts on how much the piracy cost.
I don't know why you say it asks the wrong questions? Assuming all 100000 downloaders bought tickets that would be just 0.6 million more on top of the 200 million actually earned. Not a big deal.
Cost? Very little because most of us either (a) don't want to actually PAY for the shit hollywood produces. I freely admit I've downloaded hundreds of movies this past year. If for some reason I was cutoff, I wouldn't run out and buy it. I'd just wait for a free version on TV. (b) Or they would like to pay but lack money to do so because they are kids, teens, college students.
ALSO: If the internet and downloading is so evil, why are RIAA and MPAA affiliated companies making money than ever before? They should be going broke but in reality they are getting rich. So rich, they are bribing politicians with election donations to pass CISPA and sign ACTA.
My XP install doesn't run on only half a gigabyte and no swapfile. I've tried it, and it refuses to open any programs (except tiny crap like notepad). Forget trying to browse the web or run Word.
>>>microware OS9 Level 2
Heh. Commodore Amiga OS multitasked in just 1/4 meg of RAM.
>>> It doesn't swap unless you're really out of RAM
That's not what I've heard. I've read that Seven, like Vista, precaches everything into RAM that it believes you will need and makes it full. This of course means if you access something new (or unexpected), it has to first swap out something from RAM to the HDD in order to make room for the new item. Slooooow.
PLUS you didn't really answer my question. Can Windows 7 run with the virtual memory/swapfile set to 0? How much Real RAM would I need to do that? I suspect my 16 gigabyte guess isn't far off.
So I can turn-off the virtual memory in Win7 without any problems? I've always been told to avoid that with previous versions of windows.
And they weren't printouts. They were actual developed 35mm film. Why go with physical photos when you can have the permance of a digital photo that never fades?
What you should be asking is: "How do I save my photos & videos so they don't get lost?" Backup to a USB drive in a fireproof safe. Backup to an online place like google. Backup to another online place like amazon. And make sure google/amazon are not in the same building (in case it burns down). That's what I would recommend.
+1 informative
BTW someone talked about prescription drugs being patented (and therefore overpriced). You can always ask your doctor for over-the-counter versions, if you don't want the prescription version. It's a business transaction & just like any business transaction you negotiate the deal. You don't have to just blindly accept what the salesman (doctor) is handing you.
On the other hand, price for drugs drop when demand increases and I'm sure it would increase if people can just buy heart or bloodpressure meds OTC from the pharmacist. You won't need insurance..... you can just pay cash directly. Like I do. Like my parents do.
>>>We have a shortage of doctors in the USA
That's what happens when the government installs price-fixing and says doctors can't charge more than X amount for a procedure (oftentimes below actual cost). Young adults choose other careers that pay more money (or don't require 70 hour weeks or 10 years training). Price fixing creates shortages.
I thought about being a doctor but said "no way" to that idea when I learned I could make just as much money/hour doing engineering... and only needed 4 years training.
As a compromise, they could let more "routine" procedures like measuring temperature, handing out medicine, or even simple procedures like tonsil removal be handled by Nurses instead of doctors. It would be equivalent to how technicians do most of the routine easy work, rather than expensive engineers.
I wonder how much RAM I would need to run Windows 7 without hard drive swapping (virtual memory)??? Probably 16 gigs!
Here's thousands of documents about CFLs and their failure modes (including premature heat death, and bursting into flame or smoking)
http://www.bing.com/search?q=CFL+failures
Like the car industry of the 1950s, the computer industry has now reached the point of incremental tiny improvements rather than revolutionary improvements (like jumping from 8 bit to 32 bit in one decade). I've had the same PC for 10 years and it still runs everything just fine (except the latest flash update). It would have been impossible to run a 1985 PC with Windows95 and the latest software.
LXDE == Lubuntu Linux?
Good release.
>>>capable of executing 1,000 times more instructions per second than the original pc
Heh. More than that. The IBM PC was 4 megahertz? And now we have double-clocking where CPUs execute instruction on both rising & falling edges. And dual-core CPUs are now standard, so 3000*2*2/4 == 3000 times faster. And yet as you pointed-out we still have to deal with annoying "wait" states while the PC thinks or redraws a screen. Bloat.
>>>on a dimmer
That's probably why they still work. They're not running at full blast like mine which get so hot, I can't touch the fixture without burning myself.
BTW I tried one of those so-called "dimmable" CFLs. It lasted about 5 minutes. Good thing Sears has a good return policy; I've never tried it again.
Since we're talking about a LIFESPAN of a human being, not just one decade...... YES the number of Americans killed by falling meteorites over the last 80 years does exceed the 3000 killed on 9/11.
And of course your odds of death-by-terrorist go down dramatically if, like me, you rarely fly. Just as if you don't play baseball, you're less likely to get killed by a ball than if you are a professional player. Or if you live on a mountain, your odds of dying from tsunami are near-zero.
Let's face it: Most of us are going to die through bad blood circulation (heart, brain attack) or cancer or driving to work. THAT'S what we should be afraid of, not the near-zero risk of terrorists, and yet most of us stuff fat and sugar into our bodies as if we're trying to commit suicide. We are very good at fearing the wrong things.
I'm not sure.... I'll estimate $30,000 a year.
And no $80,000 isn't a lot. It's 4 cars. Rather than trade-in for a new car every 3-4 years (and lose ~$10,000 when you do that), just keep driving the old car and save the cash. Modern cars can last 300,000 miles easily, so if you trade-in at 50,000 you're only getting ~1/6th of the use.
>>>So, you're saying everyone should just have parents who SACRIFICED their whole life (and had a good job) so kiddo can get a degree interest free?
Mowing grass and trimming bushes for a corporation is a "good" job?
They sacrificed, not because of me, but because it's how they were taught. They grew-up during the depression and World War 2. They knew that they had to save their earnings, rather than waste them. Now that we're experiencing Great Depression #2, hopefully we'll learn the same lesson before the debt overwhelms us.
And to the person below:
- You don't need parents to save money if you REALLY want to go to college. You can borrow it from the private bank, and then repay it after you get a job (just as I paidback the "bank" of mom and dad).
Well after I read an article about CFLs dying from heat, I started cracking open some dead bulbs. Sure enough, there was heat damage..... mostly in the caps which swelled-up and spilled their electrolyte.
I've also seen examples of CFLs literally catching fire from excess heat on the electronics. If a part is only designed for 50C and the enclosed/upside-down fixtures rise above that level, you're going to see failures..... or in my case, shortened life that is no longer than an incandescent.
>>>Yammering
F.U. I'm an electrical engineer sharing the data I have uncovered about this technology. That is not yammering..... it is doing what I am good at doing. You should go do your own research.
Government debt is nearing $190,000 per household. Plus another $110,000 in mortgage and credit card debt.
- So every U.S. home owes ~$300,000.
They didn't "make" 20 million. They collected 13 million in 2011, minus operating and labor costs, and earned about 2 million overall. So they were hit with a 5% fine.
A better way of dealing with Iran is to TALK to them. They are a democratic Republic you know..... just like us and all our other allies. Democracies are not supposed to be going to war with one another; in the entire history of mankind, it has never happened. Is the U.S. going to be the first to break that rule-of-thumb?
>>>mourn an ally, say Israel, that got annihilated in the meantime.
Since Iran's longest-range missile only goes 500 miles, Israel is quite safe. Furthermore Israel is VERY well armed. The moment that Iran dropped a nuke, Israel would launch its 1000 intercontinental missiles and turn Iran into molten slag. Iran knows this which is why, like Russia, they will never attack a superior foe.
You make it ound so innocent But too much borrowing is what brought down the economy in 2008 and 1929. Too easy credit led to an artificial boom and then a collapse when people could not pay back loans.
Even now we suffer too much credit where the EU and US owe forty times more money (debt and derivatives) than actually exists. That is why the central EU and US bank are printing money like mad.
According to the Non-proliferation which Iran has signed (and our supposed-ally Israel has not), they can enrich uranium upto 30%. Current capabilities show them at 20%, which is being used to fuel reactors.
Furthermore if you don't believe me, then believe our Secretary of Defense: "Are Iranians trying to create a nuclear weapon? No. They are trying to develop a nuclear capability for reactors."
He knows better than you.
So no worries then?
I find it hard to believe Ubuntu Linux PCs have the same penetration as Apple Mac PCs. I'm doubting the accuracy of this "5%" claim.