The show I saw pointed out that there were fewer and fewer fossils being found the closer they get to K-T event. The claim was that there are twice as many known fossils 5-6 million years before than there are 2-3 million years before. I don't know if your suggested statistical side effect explains that.
And they pointed out that lots of frog species seemed to survive pretty easily even though they are very sensitive to acid rain, forest fires and other such things that would have happened if the K-T impact was the primary explanation of extinction.
I'm pretty sure I will be viewed as having a calloused, black heart for saying this, but it's been nearly eight years already. Isn't it time to start dealing with the trauma already?
We're also a nation of under reactors too, such as when forest fires, hurricanes and such are coming our way, some of us would just stay put thinking nothing too serious will happen. The trouble is finding the appropriate reaction for the appropriate circumstances.
The real acid test would be to get one of these TDR units, buy 10 cables from each of two or three reputable companies and compare it to the results from 10 cables done in-house.
All this talk without an objective stress test is pretty pointless.
Personally, if one were to try to deprive the "beast" in anyway possible, I would suggest depriving the ??AAs of income and any possible moral standing by not having anything to do with their products, either by purchase or by copyright infringement. Non-??AA media does exist, and if you're of the notion that copyright infringement serves as advertising, then why would you try advertising ??AA products?
The "good" names have run slim, and I think the odd names are a confluence of at least two different things. One, is a catchy and memorable name, goofy naming seems to be the style, even baby names are spelled differently than before just to be different.
Another, is that it's easier to get and defend a trademark if it's not using words that was commonly used before.
I think it depends on what the other platforms cost in a given market. Market conditions vary by country. It seems like Brazil should be a sizeable enough of a market to justify low costs, but there may be taxes and import tarriffs involved.
I got a kick out of the article copy saying that it's not going to compete with the "more powerful" platforms, including the Wii. The Wii is a fine platform, but it's not really powerful, it's designed to be very low power to boot.
Strike "I don't the artist automatically get a huge cut from the performances. The house probably still takes a big cut."
Replace with: "I don't think the artist automatically get a huge cut from the performances. The house probably still takes the majority cut."
The general argument about live performances really doesn't ring true to me. I really can't justify going to live performances. I doubt the people that couldn't be bothered to buy an album would go to many live performances, if you think a CD is expensive, then I don't see why you're going to happily pay for a live concert.
I don't the artist automatically get a huge cut from the performances. The house probably still takes a big cut.
Your analogy about someone continually paying the mechanic for work done once falls apart because people might have bought a copy of a song and that will hold for a decade or two, as long as the format it's on is viable, and you can play that copy as much as you want at no extra cost.
Not that I agree with this move, life + 70 is way too long, basically that means it won't go to public domain until the last fan's children are dead and the work completely forgotten and long gone, well past the commercial viability and I think well past the commercial viability of preserving the work, so effectively nothing will pass into public domain unless the owner puts it there. Public domain won't mean much if there are no surviving copies.
The difference being that smoking does no good in itself. Vioxx for the few people that actually needed it probably wouldn't have been a major problem, instead, because of the marketing, we got everybody and their brother using it when they could have used an alternative.
Keep in mind that using Vioxx wasn't a death sentence. In fact, the increased risk of death was not found to be statistically significant in the one story that I found. The increased risk of a heart attack or stroke was about 2% combined:
When weighed against the debilitating illness that it was meant to treat (vs. what it was used "off label" to treat), living life with a slightly higher risk vs. being in constant, debilitating pain, that risk can be quite acceptable to the user.
A: It was never all-you-can-eat to begin with. As someone else pointed out above, "unlimited" originally meant unlimited connection time (aka always-on), not unlimited data. This is also technically wrong since your connection time is limited by the number of hours in a month, but it's not really misleading.
I think it was misleading because they weren't very clear by what they meant in their marketing, and in my opinion, that lack of clarity was probably intentional. If they're going to place caveats on what they mean by unlimited, they should have been up front about it. Letting them weasel out of it by telling us they really meant always-connected doesn't do us any good.
Another problem I have with the way it was done is that the ISPs in question have kicked people off for excessive use while avoiding telling their users what constitutes excessive use with an actual figure, it's usually been nebulously defined. I don't think most ISPs provide a way to know how much data has been used at a given time.
Overselling internet service is a staple of consumer internet services. I don't think there are many ISPs that don't oversell, most people don't max out their tubes for long periods of time.
I don't think we know what the results of a capitalist/competitive ISP market would really be like in the US, because we don't have one that I've heard. I don't know what it's called, it's not standard socialist, but but the current system involves government granted privately owned monopolies on certain types of services.
I think this makes sense, though that has to mean that the legitimate user has to find someone they know that is part of a community. I think this is going to keep out a lot of good users.
Anyways, I thought CAPTCHAS usually aren't solved by machines, so trying to deliver a Turing-like test isn't going to solve the problem.
In terms of actual performance, I have not had serious problems with USPS. I often ship anywhere between one and ten packages on a given business day by USPS for nearly four years and I don't recall a domestic package being lost in all that time. We can argue the merits or lack of in public vs. private ownership and operation, but it's actually very good performance, I've had worse troubles with UPS and FedEx.
UPS Ground and FedEx Ground are roughly equivalent in speed to First Class Mail, and they usually charge $4 or more per package than First Class Mail unless it's a heavy package. That can add up to a lot of money and possible lost sales.
Just about every technology company has people working on products designs more than one revision out. This is not new, anyone surprised by that fact is just being flagrantly naive.
I've never had to deal with Newegg customer service.
Every item I've bought from them shipped properly (correct item/size/model/variation) and it was shipped pretty quickly. Only once or twice have I needed fast shipping, and they did follow through.
I recall a story about it, someone in this thread linked to a Quirks and Quarks story where it turned out that comets have been shown to have a tendency to lean towards containing amino acids with a certain handedness. The thought is that life likely formed with that handedness because there were more amino acids to work from.
Unfortunately for the Blu-Ray wankers, I also find that an upconverted DVD looks fucking fantastic. If I were the kind of person who paused stills so that I could bitch about compression artifacting maybe I would feel differently
It sounds like you're trying to start a fight with the "wankers" bit. I'm not going to give you that particular pleasure any more than I have to to respond.
I watch Blu-Rays and I don't pause movies to tell a significant difference, not that DVDs are bad, but Blu-Ray is a lot nicer. Most DVDs of theatrical movies are pretty good, there usually isn't much for artifacting, some upscaler chips can clean that out without too much penalty. But on my screen, Blu-Rays are far and away nicer, and that's without any pausing.
What does violate the letter of the Constitution is that these extensions do not "promote the Progress" of science and arts, but rather retard them. Past a certain length, copyright terms don't create any additional encouragement to create; they just make it easier for huge corporations to monopolize our common culture.
I don't think this necessarily stacks up, there's no shortage of newly created copyrighted works, it's not as if the media industries got together in 1995 and said they're not going to make anything new because they already own it all and there's nothing new to be made.
Corporations monopolize our common culture because the masses let them create the common culture and then exalt it through various popularity contests such as Billboard.
Do you honestly think that non-tech people really care about YouTube h.264? Do you think that a lot of non-tech people even know what h.264 is? Any suggestion otherwise seems preposterous to me.
As for Spotlight, most people don't use Macs, so that's kind of moot. Most document previews look pretty similar, often it's a lot of the same template but with different information filled in, so it pays to spend a few seconds to name the file.
We already had icon previews for images forever, and that doesn't take much processor power to generate compared to the document itself.
I really don't know who you are talking about with respect to the "we". I think your examples are pretty overrated, there has to be better examples, because those are features that the tech enthusiasts want, not necessarily everyone else. I expect there will always be those that want certain features, but most other people don't necessarily need them. We needed another computer so we fired up an old dual 500MHz computer (about 11 years old now) and it works pretty well what is expected of it. It even does internet video pretty well. OpenOffice takes a while to open, but once it's opened, it stays in memory.
If that's the main complaint, the problem is that most comics are all caps that I've seen. The Far Side is the lone exception that I've found in my collection, and on my city's newspaper, The Family Circus plus a more obscure Ballard Street are the exceptions, everything else is all caps.
Not only that, the name of the font tells us it's a comic typeface. The designer should know what they're doing if they stray too far out of the stated intent of a design element, and as such, the problem is most likely a misuse of the typeface, and not the actual typeface itself.
This intent bit is something that escapes a lot of posters here. Tools can be used for good or bad purposes. When considering the legitimacy of a tool, its primary intended purpose is taken into consideration.
Even if Google didn't cooperate with the IFPI, they should get plenty of protection because the search engine wasn't built with aiding copyright infringement in mind. I think it would take a very convoluted argument to say that The Pirate Bay wasn't built and operated with aiding copyright infringement in mind.
This line of reasoning seems pretty specious though. Google and TPB aren't nearly so similar, it's like saying a kitchen knife is the same as a dagger, both will help you hurt people if you so choose, but only one of the two is designed with that use in mind, the other is not. Google isn't set up specifically with the idea of helping people infringe on copyright, TPB is.
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That's not the whole argument.
The show I saw pointed out that there were fewer and fewer fossils being found the closer they get to K-T event. The claim was that there are twice as many known fossils 5-6 million years before than there are 2-3 million years before. I don't know if your suggested statistical side effect explains that.
And they pointed out that lots of frog species seemed to survive pretty easily even though they are very sensitive to acid rain, forest fires and other such things that would have happened if the K-T impact was the primary explanation of extinction.
I'm pretty sure I will be viewed as having a calloused, black heart for saying this, but it's been nearly eight years already. Isn't it time to start dealing with the trauma already?
We're also a nation of under reactors too, such as when forest fires, hurricanes and such are coming our way, some of us would just stay put thinking nothing too serious will happen. The trouble is finding the appropriate reaction for the appropriate circumstances.
The real acid test would be to get one of these TDR units, buy 10 cables from each of two or three reputable companies and compare it to the results from 10 cables done in-house.
All this talk without an objective stress test is pretty pointless.
Personally, if one were to try to deprive the "beast" in anyway possible, I would suggest depriving the ??AAs of income and any possible moral standing by not having anything to do with their products, either by purchase or by copyright infringement. Non-??AA media does exist, and if you're of the notion that copyright infringement serves as advertising, then why would you try advertising ??AA products?
The "good" names have run slim, and I think the odd names are a confluence of at least two different things. One, is a catchy and memorable name, goofy naming seems to be the style, even baby names are spelled differently than before just to be different.
Another, is that it's easier to get and defend a trademark if it's not using words that was commonly used before.
I think it depends on what the other platforms cost in a given market. Market conditions vary by country. It seems like Brazil should be a sizeable enough of a market to justify low costs, but there may be taxes and import tarriffs involved.
I got a kick out of the article copy saying that it's not going to compete with the "more powerful" platforms, including the Wii. The Wii is a fine platform, but it's not really powerful, it's designed to be very low power to boot.
Strike "I don't the artist automatically get a huge cut from the performances. The house probably still takes a big cut."
Replace with: "I don't think the artist automatically get a huge cut from the performances. The house probably still takes the majority cut."
The general argument about live performances really doesn't ring true to me. I really can't justify going to live performances. I doubt the people that couldn't be bothered to buy an album would go to many live performances, if you think a CD is expensive, then I don't see why you're going to happily pay for a live concert.
I don't the artist automatically get a huge cut from the performances. The house probably still takes a big cut.
Your analogy about someone continually paying the mechanic for work done once falls apart because people might have bought a copy of a song and that will hold for a decade or two, as long as the format it's on is viable, and you can play that copy as much as you want at no extra cost.
Not that I agree with this move, life + 70 is way too long, basically that means it won't go to public domain until the last fan's children are dead and the work completely forgotten and long gone, well past the commercial viability and I think well past the commercial viability of preserving the work, so effectively nothing will pass into public domain unless the owner puts it there. Public domain won't mean much if there are no surviving copies.
The difference being that smoking does no good in itself. Vioxx for the few people that actually needed it probably wouldn't have been a major problem, instead, because of the marketing, we got everybody and their brother using it when they could have used an alternative.
Keep in mind that using Vioxx wasn't a death sentence. In fact, the increased risk of death was not found to be statistically significant in the one story that I found. The increased risk of a heart attack or stroke was about 2% combined:
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2008/10October/Pages/Vioxxriskconfirmed.aspx
When weighed against the debilitating illness that it was meant to treat (vs. what it was used "off label" to treat), living life with a slightly higher risk vs. being in constant, debilitating pain, that risk can be quite acceptable to the user.
A: It was never all-you-can-eat to begin with. As someone else pointed out above, "unlimited" originally meant unlimited connection time (aka always-on), not unlimited data. This is also technically wrong since your connection time is limited by the number of hours in a month, but it's not really misleading.
I think it was misleading because they weren't very clear by what they meant in their marketing, and in my opinion, that lack of clarity was probably intentional. If they're going to place caveats on what they mean by unlimited, they should have been up front about it. Letting them weasel out of it by telling us they really meant always-connected doesn't do us any good.
Another problem I have with the way it was done is that the ISPs in question have kicked people off for excessive use while avoiding telling their users what constitutes excessive use with an actual figure, it's usually been nebulously defined. I don't think most ISPs provide a way to know how much data has been used at a given time.
Overselling internet service is a staple of consumer internet services. I don't think there are many ISPs that don't oversell, most people don't max out their tubes for long periods of time.
I don't think we know what the results of a capitalist/competitive ISP market would really be like in the US, because we don't have one that I've heard. I don't know what it's called, it's not standard socialist, but but the current system involves government granted privately owned monopolies on certain types of services.
I think this makes sense, though that has to mean that the legitimate user has to find someone they know that is part of a community. I think this is going to keep out a lot of good users.
Anyways, I thought CAPTCHAS usually aren't solved by machines, so trying to deliver a Turing-like test isn't going to solve the problem.
In terms of actual performance, I have not had serious problems with USPS. I often ship anywhere between one and ten packages on a given business day by USPS for nearly four years and I don't recall a domestic package being lost in all that time. We can argue the merits or lack of in public vs. private ownership and operation, but it's actually very good performance, I've had worse troubles with UPS and FedEx.
UPS Ground and FedEx Ground are roughly equivalent in speed to First Class Mail, and they usually charge $4 or more per package than First Class Mail unless it's a heavy package. That can add up to a lot of money and possible lost sales.
Just about every technology company has people working on products designs more than one revision out. This is not new, anyone surprised by that fact is just being flagrantly naive.
I suppose your mileage may vary.
I've never had to deal with Newegg customer service.
Every item I've bought from them shipped properly (correct item/size/model/variation) and it was shipped pretty quickly. Only once or twice have I needed fast shipping, and they did follow through.
I recall a story about it, someone in this thread linked to a Quirks and Quarks story where it turned out that comets have been shown to have a tendency to lean towards containing amino acids with a certain handedness. The thought is that life likely formed with that handedness because there were more amino acids to work from.
Unfortunately for the Blu-Ray wankers, I also find that an upconverted DVD looks fucking fantastic. If I were the kind of person who paused stills so that I could bitch about compression artifacting maybe I would feel differently
It sounds like you're trying to start a fight with the "wankers" bit. I'm not going to give you that particular pleasure any more than I have to to respond.
I watch Blu-Rays and I don't pause movies to tell a significant difference, not that DVDs are bad, but Blu-Ray is a lot nicer. Most DVDs of theatrical movies are pretty good, there usually isn't much for artifacting, some upscaler chips can clean that out without too much penalty. But on my screen, Blu-Rays are far and away nicer, and that's without any pausing.
This looks more like bias than conflict of interest. A conflict of interest is when someone benefits by dealing a decision in a particular way.
What does violate the letter of the Constitution is that these extensions do not "promote the Progress" of science and arts, but rather retard them. Past a certain length, copyright terms don't create any additional encouragement to create; they just make it easier for huge corporations to monopolize our common culture.
I don't think this necessarily stacks up, there's no shortage of newly created copyrighted works, it's not as if the media industries got together in 1995 and said they're not going to make anything new because they already own it all and there's nothing new to be made.
Corporations monopolize our common culture because the masses let them create the common culture and then exalt it through various popularity contests such as Billboard.
Do you honestly think that non-tech people really care about YouTube h.264? Do you think that a lot of non-tech people even know what h.264 is? Any suggestion otherwise seems preposterous to me.
As for Spotlight, most people don't use Macs, so that's kind of moot. Most document previews look pretty similar, often it's a lot of the same template but with different information filled in, so it pays to spend a few seconds to name the file.
We already had icon previews for images forever, and that doesn't take much processor power to generate compared to the document itself.
I really don't know who you are talking about with respect to the "we". I think your examples are pretty overrated, there has to be better examples, because those are features that the tech enthusiasts want, not necessarily everyone else. I expect there will always be those that want certain features, but most other people don't necessarily need them. We needed another computer so we fired up an old dual 500MHz computer (about 11 years old now) and it works pretty well what is expected of it. It even does internet video pretty well. OpenOffice takes a while to open, but once it's opened, it stays in memory.
If that's the main complaint, the problem is that most comics are all caps that I've seen. The Far Side is the lone exception that I've found in my collection, and on my city's newspaper, The Family Circus plus a more obscure Ballard Street are the exceptions, everything else is all caps.
Not only that, the name of the font tells us it's a comic typeface. The designer should know what they're doing if they stray too far out of the stated intent of a design element, and as such, the problem is most likely a misuse of the typeface, and not the actual typeface itself.
This intent bit is something that escapes a lot of posters here. Tools can be used for good or bad purposes. When considering the legitimacy of a tool, its primary intended purpose is taken into consideration.
Even if Google didn't cooperate with the IFPI, they should get plenty of protection because the search engine wasn't built with aiding copyright infringement in mind. I think it would take a very convoluted argument to say that The Pirate Bay wasn't built and operated with aiding copyright infringement in mind.
This line of reasoning seems pretty specious though. Google and TPB aren't nearly so similar, it's like saying a kitchen knife is the same as a dagger, both will help you hurt people if you so choose, but only one of the two is designed with that use in mind, the other is not. Google isn't set up specifically with the idea of helping people infringe on copyright, TPB is.