I dunno, even the people that should know better have made mistakes. The contractor that made the solid rocket boosters, perhaps?
Don't you think that something that has developed a crack while sitting on the ground might potentially develop into something catastrophic when being rigorously shaken, with a full tank of explosive fuel, under several g's of acceleration?
I could have sworn that some equipment accept ASCII strings as WEP keys, it may not be standard for all equipment, but it's pretty common in my experience. I expect that to be a bit weaker than hex because that rules out quite a few keycodes.
How does one tell what voltage an AGP card is? What do you expect of the AGP card in terms of speed? Radeon 9200 cards seem to be available in fanless form. I have an ATI branded 9500 which has a fan that is practically inaudible, to me at least.
I do agree Shuttles are pretty noisy. They went to the trouble to using a heat pipe system and then attach a noisy fan to the exhaust end of the heat pipe and call it "quiet", while I can easily hear it ten feet away.
I think the Mac mini is pretty quiet, maybe not quiet enough for audio use though.
Maybe your next best bet is to assemble a hush box to put a computer into.
Even journalists don't have privileges and protections in this case (the newspaper didn't publish URLs), but of course, it only applies to Canadian bloggers and journalists. Most people outside Canada probably don't give a flying rat's arse about this case anyway.
A die is a term for a discrete piece of silicon. My understanding is that both cores are on the same piece of silicon, even if they don't share anything other than power and FSB connections. I would say that it is a single die module.
As someone mentioned, Seagate gives out 5 year warranties, on all but the "external" drives in Firewire or USB enclosures. Laptop, desktop and server drives are all covered by the same warranty length.
Proponents of P2P seem to like to imply that theft has to have a visible loss component. The way I see it, theft is a person taking something which that person not lawfully allowed to have, which unlicenced copies of movies, software and music easily fall under. The person or group being stolen from does not have to see a material loss.
Then again, making petty semantic arguments doesn't matter unless somehow geeks and file "sharers" get a higher reputation within society. Everyone else will simply see it as theft and that's it.
After all, you can't argue that you have the right to share something legally until you have crossed the very basic step of establishing that you have the right to do something with it besides listen to it on the original medium.
I'd like to know how someone can reasonably think they have the legal right to "share" works they don't own over the Internet? The difference between personal use of a legitimately paid-for product and letting anyone and everyone have a copy is pretty large.
I think both the *AAs and the "sharing" communities are in the wrong, both are trying to claim powers that they shouldn't have. There are no rights to redistribution of user-made copies, and I don't think the *AAs should be permitted to have the laws they have managed to get passed.
Communism as an economic system really hasn't worked out very often or very well on a national or global scale. China is now very capitalistic from an economic standpoint. China isn't refuting the arguments that communism's economics can't stand the test of time, I think they are proving that as they saw the need to shift.
Of course. They haven't been suing MP3 coders. Even Apple includes one with iTunes, and it fetches track IDs from Gracenote, which is pretty high profile. I doubt the RIAA would let that go if making files in the format from CDs wasn't legal.
MP3 as an audio format is legal, but distributing MP3s containing audio without the copyright holder's permission isn't.
MGM's comment of the legality of ripping an audio CD doesn't hurt their case one bit because they deal in video anyway.
I did read that the FTC required CompUSA to pay rebates on a company that went "bankrupt". I think that is one of the tricks of the rebate trade, the company supplying them goes out of business so the rebates don't have to be paid. Now that the FTC has apparently said that can't happen anymore, I can see fewer of these rebates being promoted.
First, OS X is distributed on DVD. The mini's 10.3 has 5+GB of stuff on it, iLife '05 is 4+ GB. Even the OS 9 disc is a DVD.
FWIW, it looks like iLife '05 is included as a full version on DVD. The older version of iLife is pre-installed on minis.
Having a full version CD of 10.4 is desirable to me, doesn't a full version it include the option to upgrade too?
I think I'd get an external hard drive to experiment with 10.4 before fully commiting to it, because it is effectively, 10.4.0, a.0 release may be buggy.
There are people that have been waiting for Tiger before ordering a mini. It seems that the Apple Store has caught up on the 1.25GHz mini orders (ships same business day), the 1.42GHz minis are still 5-7 days to shipping.
I really don't expect the quality to remain the same, better in some ways, but I think generally worse in most ways.
Except for the people that have signed away such rights, most people are already free to release what they want to the public domain or some form of copyleft. The thing is, the people that have the talents to produce quality material generally want to use those talents to make money. I don't know if anyone has made money releasing media direct to copyleft and public domain, it is anything but a proven moneymaking path. You say selfish, but I have questions about the ethics of trying to shame people that are trying to earn a living.
I do think the repeated copyright extensions are shameful though, as it does create the risk of some works being lost forever rather than the small hope of being restored by some fans and recirculated.
If that is true, that sucks. I've never heard of PC World as a computer seller, but rather a computer magazine. I have to wonder what sort of faults would have to exist to get ten bad pixels.
I'd be pretty quick to do a chargeback on crap like that.
What sort of amperage would that be on a typical battery? The articles aren't specific. For laptops, I can see that the limitation would be what can be drawn by wall power.
It may have a smaller market, but it's easy to see where people might have time to watch something but don't want to carry a laptop or portable DVD player. Plane flights, subways, busses, trains and group trips are all nice places to watch a little video. That said, I would try a Palm or PSP for that instead because of the screen size.
I think the iPod photo should have enough power to decode video, especially if it can decode JPGs with a high enough frame rate to be watchable as was demonstrated a few months ago.
There are limits to even constitutional protections. For example, freedom of assembly doesn't protect violent mobs. The right to own and bear arms doesn't mean just anyone is allowed to own and operate an M1A1. Freedom of the press doesn't mean they should be allowed to publish lies.
I'm not saying "blogging" constitutes any of these, but I think those that are paid by an election committee should be required to say so. Unforunately, it looks like these requirements are worse.
The Betamax shield doesn't necessarily fit the circumstances. With the analog VCR tech, there are generational losses and the machines aren't conducive to easy affordable mass-distribution because of their 1x record rates. One reason SCOTUS gave Betamax their blessings was that people at the time weren't trying to build libraries of videos, but rather watch TV shows at a more convenient time, but my impression of P2P users is that they are trying to build libraries, and of material that wasn't necessarily licenced for broadcast anyway. Even when the material was licenced for broadcast, the ads are often removed.
With P2P, there are no generational losses and it doesn't require any money other than a working computer and an internet connection to distribute as many infringing copies as the user likes.
Part of the problem is the bundling, without the bundle of stuff not everyone needs (headphone, MS Duo, remote control and other stuff), the PSP would sell for $200, closer to the Japanese price for the unbundled PSP.
Some nifty apps are showing up for the PSP, so it could really outsell the DS like it is in Japan.
Two issues concerned me, one was the rampant stuck pixel issue, and the other was one of the buttons occasionally not working properly in the Japanese version. Sony doesn't think either are a problem, well, that's fine, I try not to buy products with such obvious flaws.
The top poster may have meant that it doesn't play something like OGG files. But some detractors do get confused into thinking they have to buy tracks from iTMS in order to get music onto an iPod device, which only proves they've never really tried an iPod of any kind.
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I dunno, even the people that should know better have made mistakes. The contractor that made the solid rocket boosters, perhaps?
Don't you think that something that has developed a crack while sitting on the ground might potentially develop into something catastrophic when being rigorously shaken, with a full tank of explosive fuel, under several g's of acceleration?
I could have sworn that some equipment accept ASCII strings as WEP keys, it may not be standard for all equipment, but it's pretty common in my experience. I expect that to be a bit weaker than hex because that rules out quite a few keycodes.
How does one tell what voltage an AGP card is? What do you expect of the AGP card in terms of speed? Radeon 9200 cards seem to be available in fanless form. I have an ATI branded 9500 which has a fan that is practically inaudible, to me at least.
I do agree Shuttles are pretty noisy. They went to the trouble to using a heat pipe system and then attach a noisy fan to the exhaust end of the heat pipe and call it "quiet", while I can easily hear it ten feet away.
I think the Mac mini is pretty quiet, maybe not quiet enough for audio use though.
Maybe your next best bet is to assemble a hush box to put a computer into.
Even journalists don't have privileges and protections in this case (the newspaper didn't publish URLs), but of course, it only applies to Canadian bloggers and journalists. Most people outside Canada probably don't give a flying rat's arse about this case anyway.
A die is a term for a discrete piece of silicon. My understanding is that both cores are on the same piece of silicon, even if they don't share anything other than power and FSB connections. I would say that it is a single die module.
As someone mentioned, Seagate gives out 5 year warranties, on all but the "external" drives in Firewire or USB enclosures. Laptop, desktop and server drives are all covered by the same warranty length.
Proponents of P2P seem to like to imply that theft has to have a visible loss component. The way I see it, theft is a person taking something which that person not lawfully allowed to have, which unlicenced copies of movies, software and music easily fall under. The person or group being stolen from does not have to see a material loss.
Then again, making petty semantic arguments doesn't matter unless somehow geeks and file "sharers" get a higher reputation within society. Everyone else will simply see it as theft and that's it.
After all, you can't argue that you have the right to share something legally until you have crossed the very basic step of establishing that you have the right to do something with it besides listen to it on the original medium.
I'd like to know how someone can reasonably think they have the legal right to "share" works they don't own over the Internet? The difference between personal use of a legitimately paid-for product and letting anyone and everyone have a copy is pretty large.
I think both the *AAs and the "sharing" communities are in the wrong, both are trying to claim powers that they shouldn't have. There are no rights to redistribution of user-made copies, and I don't think the *AAs should be permitted to have the laws they have managed to get passed.
Communism as an economic system or political?
Communism as an economic system really hasn't worked out very often or very well on a national or global scale. China is now very capitalistic from an economic standpoint. China isn't refuting the arguments that communism's economics can't stand the test of time, I think they are proving that as they saw the need to shift.
Of course. They haven't been suing MP3 coders. Even Apple includes one with iTunes, and it fetches track IDs from Gracenote, which is pretty high profile. I doubt the RIAA would let that go if making files in the format from CDs wasn't legal.
MP3 as an audio format is legal, but distributing MP3s containing audio without the copyright holder's permission isn't.
MGM's comment of the legality of ripping an audio CD doesn't hurt their case one bit because they deal in video anyway.
employing Linus and striving to hamstring Linux...
They don't employ Linus anymore. He's moved to OSDL.
I did read that the FTC required CompUSA to pay rebates on a company that went "bankrupt". I think that is one of the tricks of the rebate trade, the company supplying them goes out of business so the rebates don't have to be paid. Now that the FTC has apparently said that can't happen anymore, I can see fewer of these rebates being promoted.
First, OS X is distributed on DVD. The mini's 10.3 has 5+GB of stuff on it, iLife '05 is 4+ GB. Even the OS 9 disc is a DVD.
.0 release may be buggy.
FWIW, it looks like iLife '05 is included as a full version on DVD. The older version of iLife is pre-installed on minis.
Having a full version CD of 10.4 is desirable to me, doesn't a full version it include the option to upgrade too?
I think I'd get an external hard drive to experiment with 10.4 before fully commiting to it, because it is effectively, 10.4.0, a
There are people that have been waiting for Tiger before ordering a mini. It seems that the Apple Store has caught up on the 1.25GHz mini orders (ships same business day), the 1.42GHz minis are still 5-7 days to shipping.
I really don't expect the quality to remain the same, better in some ways, but I think generally worse in most ways.
Except for the people that have signed away such rights, most people are already free to release what they want to the public domain or some form of copyleft. The thing is, the people that have the talents to produce quality material generally want to use those talents to make money. I don't know if anyone has made money releasing media direct to copyleft and public domain, it is anything but a proven moneymaking path. You say selfish, but I have questions about the ethics of trying to shame people that are trying to earn a living.
I do think the repeated copyright extensions are shameful though, as it does create the risk of some works being lost forever rather than the small hope of being restored by some fans and recirculated.
If that is true, that sucks. I've never heard of PC World as a computer seller, but rather a computer magazine. I have to wonder what sort of faults would have to exist to get ten bad pixels.
I'd be pretty quick to do a chargeback on crap like that.
My laptop's LCDs do not have any stuck "on" pixels, nor any dead pixels.
Don't say I simply haven't noticed any, because I can easily tell with standard low res (100dpi) desktop displays.
What sort of amperage would that be on a typical battery? The articles aren't specific. For laptops, I can see that the limitation would be what can be drawn by wall power.
spam is nocensorship nor frea speach ...
a matter of frea speach
I'm surprised you consistently mispelled "free". It isn't a hard word to spell correctly.
I am sticking to the belief that spam is something that should be handled by local groups not government authorities.
How are these "local groups" not government?
The slippery slope starts like this remember.
"Slippery slope" is a logical fallacy.
It may have a smaller market, but it's easy to see where people might have time to watch something but don't want to carry a laptop or portable DVD player. Plane flights, subways, busses, trains and group trips are all nice places to watch a little video. That said, I would try a Palm or PSP for that instead because of the screen size.
I think the iPod photo should have enough power to decode video, especially if it can decode JPGs with a high enough frame rate to be watchable as was demonstrated a few months ago.
There are limits to even constitutional protections. For example, freedom of assembly doesn't protect violent mobs. The right to own and bear arms doesn't mean just anyone is allowed to own and operate an M1A1. Freedom of the press doesn't mean they should be allowed to publish lies.
I'm not saying "blogging" constitutes any of these, but I think those that are paid by an election committee should be required to say so. Unforunately, it looks like these requirements are worse.
The Betamax shield doesn't necessarily fit the circumstances. With the analog VCR tech, there are generational losses and the machines aren't conducive to easy affordable mass-distribution because of their 1x record rates. One reason SCOTUS gave Betamax their blessings was that people at the time weren't trying to build libraries of videos, but rather watch TV shows at a more convenient time, but my impression of P2P users is that they are trying to build libraries, and of material that wasn't necessarily licenced for broadcast anyway. Even when the material was licenced for broadcast, the ads are often removed.
With P2P, there are no generational losses and it doesn't require any money other than a working computer and an internet connection to distribute as many infringing copies as the user likes.
Part of the problem is the bundling, without the bundle of stuff not everyone needs (headphone, MS Duo, remote control and other stuff), the PSP would sell for $200, closer to the Japanese price for the unbundled PSP.
Some nifty apps are showing up for the PSP, so it could really outsell the DS like it is in Japan.
Two issues concerned me, one was the rampant stuck pixel issue, and the other was one of the buttons occasionally not working properly in the Japanese version. Sony doesn't think either are a problem, well, that's fine, I try not to buy products with such obvious flaws.
The top poster may have meant that it doesn't play something like OGG files. But some detractors do get confused into thinking they have to buy tracks from iTMS in order to get music onto an iPod device, which only proves they've never really tried an iPod of any kind.