I've never really understood this need to take a tiny clip of a track and use it as a "ring" tone. I've always figured it to be a novelty at best. There is an element of personalization, but I question that because they end up sounding very bad through a ringer.
In the case of someone installing it themselves, that takes a lot of work, because GPL is a lot more about distributors than users. A user installing it on their own computer isn't likely to be doing that. You can even make your own custom distro and not give out the source if you don't give out the distro outside your organization.
Another problem is that launching a lot of solar mass like that consumes a lot of energy. It wasn't that long ago that solar cells took about as much energy in their manufacture as they can hope to generate over their lifetime. And now we're going to *launch* these suckers into orbit? The whole idea isn't green at all.
I think the Pentagon would be right in thinking that most people don't understand how much energy it takes to put something into orbit.
I don't think it would matter for the NYT in particular, they only happen to cover some tech stuff. Pogue's advantage is mainly that he can make the technology relatable to a lot more people, not that he can scoop others or be more tech-y than a dedicated tech rag. It wouldn't matter if they got "scooped" by a tech-only rag, I'm certain that the NYT has a different demographic to cater to. Heck, even Apple gives him some pre-release products for him to play with, I'd consider any company unwilling to give Pogue an advance trial of actual products and services to be highly suspect to the point as to not even be worth covering.
Isn't the best solution to not write about it until it can at least be tested? Why does Pogue, or for that matter, any reviewer, have to beat the release date so badly on such an obscure product? So nobody knows about a product when it's actually released, that's not such a bad thing for everyone, except maybe for the company in question if they have predatory intent.
I think it's important to wait and not rush. I'm happy to let the early adopters try stuff out first for a few months.
I suppose, but I'm not silly enough to confuse the people with the government. I doubt most US citizens had anything directly to do with the setup of the visa system, most probably haven't even heard of the injustices behind it. I doubt there's that much more of a direct link in Nigeria, though maybe the US customs system may have pissed off just the one wrong person that sets particular visa policies.
I had had a library of specific types of math operations that I posted somewhere, I think on FreshMeat, where I did get some feedback from at least two people that used it in their own projects, although I was never able to finish the project for which I made the the library.
I don't think it is just about businesses and organizations. Possibly everyone does it. It's all part of social networking, we all get and grant favors to people we know that we wouldn't grant to people we don't know, even if it's for favors that shouldn't be granted.
I would imagine that Intel's memory controllers do support ECC. I don't know if it compares, but the Alpha version of Linux put out console warnings. I know that the workstation and server chipsets do, I've seen screen shots of Mac's System Profiler on the Mac Pro do show a count of ECC errors if they use FB-DIMMs with inadequate heat sinks.
Are "die hard" gamers really going to want such a small drive though? I see this being useful in notebooks, but even the, I'd still want to wait until 128GB is affordable in the notebook form factor. Either way, I see it not being that viable for either market for a year until capacity doubles.
Permanent is a bit much. Sending new missions from time to time would be a good idea. Permanent is kind of like saying that the computer you buy today is the one you will use indefinitely. After a while, you don't get the returns as you used to.
Science instruments improve at a rapid pace, and I think this is why New Horizons found things that Galileo did not.
I think there is something going there in the 2010s that will replace the Galileo mission. It's going to have 10x the scientific payload, 10x the power, 10x the bandwidth and will be able to move between the moons, orbit one for a while, then another.
Many court cases, including some from notable power courts such as the Supreme Court of California have held that...
California? Isn't the judicial system there pretty heavy on judicial activism? It would seem pretty hypocritical for them to allow judicial activism and disallow jury nullification. Personally, I'm for both in most cases, but I'm noting an imbalance of application or selective application of historical precedent here, neither is codified in any law in the US that I've heard.
You awarded money that was originally meant for people who were *SELLING* copyrighted songs, not "sharing" for free.
The problem with your argument is that laws are changeable. What was meant in the original iteration of a law isn't meant to be the final say. Frankly, wholesale distribution of entire works, even "just" for free, really doesn't hold up to a legitimate application of fair use, as you seem to suggest in a later post.
That doesn't mean that I think the verdict amount is remotely fair. The amount is basically extortionate.
Research and vanity are pretty much the only reason to go at the moment. Even then, robotic missions can do a lot of the same things for a lot cheaper and much less risk.
The Nobel committee gives prizes not based on whether it benefits the average prole, but whether it advanced the knowledge of physics, chemistry and so on.
BTW: it does benefit you, unless you don't use a sizeable hard drive. The huge hard drives that are available lately are because of this discovery.
I really don't understand why anyone would tilt the console while in operation. I'm not even convinced that it's the primary cause of disk damage. If it's causing a lot of problems, then why aren't there a lot of Wii and PS3 owners complaining about the same thing? Those systems have a horizontal and vertical position too. When that explanation was given, I assumed it was the maker trying to blame the user.
Consumer electronics generally have gotten cheaper over time though. A basic B&W TV used to cost about as much as a car did. I remember predictions when computers would cost less than $1000 new, and I laughed at that.
XBox360 is actually quite a high performance machine, I think to get the similar performance in a PC, you would be out several times the price.
I am much more likely to pay a band's direct ticketing agent than TicketMaster.
What? Generally, it is the facility that handles that sort of thing, not the act. Unfortunately, many facilities have decided to hand that sort of thing over to TicketMaster. In my area, there was a competing, smaller organization that handled that sort of thing, but they fell into disfavor when their employees were abusing their ticketing authority by handing out the best tickets to their friends and such, so the biggest arena switched their contracts to Ticketmaster instead. I would think an organization that big should be able to handle their own home-grown ticketing system. That would cut down on the incentive to create a botnet for just one arena's ticketing.
I think that's the problem. I don't think it's a good idea to have your competitor's consumer connection be the backhaul, that's kind of predatory anyway. Not only that, the competitor can knock you out of service once they crack down on people that are "sharing" connections to a competitor's mesh.
I'm not sure HOW the labels are marketing their wares except by puting them on the radio and puting them in their distribution catalogs.
A lot of teens now just surf around MySpace and the like for new music. I really don't see why the label is of a benefit, definitely not one where the label takes an 80% cut.
I pretty much agree. I think as a first offense for excessive dawdiling, it would only make sense to ban people that have been shown to waste a lot of company time on non-work related activities. A company wide or department wide ban is definitely overboard.
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I've never really understood this need to take a tiny clip of a track and use it as a "ring" tone. I've always figured it to be a novelty at best. There is an element of personalization, but I question that because they end up sounding very bad through a ringer.
In the case of someone installing it themselves, that takes a lot of work, because GPL is a lot more about distributors than users. A user installing it on their own computer isn't likely to be doing that. You can even make your own custom distro and not give out the source if you don't give out the distro outside your organization.
Another problem is that launching a lot of solar mass like that consumes a lot of energy. It wasn't that long ago that solar cells took about as much energy in their manufacture as they can hope to generate over their lifetime. And now we're going to *launch* these suckers into orbit? The whole idea isn't green at all.
I think the Pentagon would be right in thinking that most people don't understand how much energy it takes to put something into orbit.
I don't think it would matter for the NYT in particular, they only happen to cover some tech stuff. Pogue's advantage is mainly that he can make the technology relatable to a lot more people, not that he can scoop others or be more tech-y than a dedicated tech rag. It wouldn't matter if they got "scooped" by a tech-only rag, I'm certain that the NYT has a different demographic to cater to. Heck, even Apple gives him some pre-release products for him to play with, I'd consider any company unwilling to give Pogue an advance trial of actual products and services to be highly suspect to the point as to not even be worth covering.
Isn't the best solution to not write about it until it can at least be tested? Why does Pogue, or for that matter, any reviewer, have to beat the release date so badly on such an obscure product? So nobody knows about a product when it's actually released, that's not such a bad thing for everyone, except maybe for the company in question if they have predatory intent.
I think it's important to wait and not rush. I'm happy to let the early adopters try stuff out first for a few months.
I suppose, but I'm not silly enough to confuse the people with the government. I doubt most US citizens had anything directly to do with the setup of the visa system, most probably haven't even heard of the injustices behind it. I doubt there's that much more of a direct link in Nigeria, though maybe the US customs system may have pissed off just the one wrong person that sets particular visa policies.
I had had a library of specific types of math operations that I posted somewhere, I think on FreshMeat, where I did get some feedback from at least two people that used it in their own projects, although I was never able to finish the project for which I made the the library.
I don't think it is just about businesses and organizations. Possibly everyone does it. It's all part of social networking, we all get and grant favors to people we know that we wouldn't grant to people we don't know, even if it's for favors that shouldn't be granted.
I would imagine that Intel's memory controllers do support ECC. I don't know if it compares, but the Alpha version of Linux put out console warnings. I know that the workstation and server chipsets do, I've seen screen shots of Mac's System Profiler on the Mac Pro do show a count of ECC errors if they use FB-DIMMs with inadequate heat sinks.
Are "die hard" gamers really going to want such a small drive though? I see this being useful in notebooks, but even the, I'd still want to wait until 128GB is affordable in the notebook form factor. Either way, I see it not being that viable for either market for a year until capacity doubles.
Most flash controllers remap the sectors on the fly to ensure that the memory is not worn down prematurely.
Do you have a source for that? Preferably a white paper from a manufacturer of one of these "drives"?
When I tried to look for such information, I couldn't find it. I've seen other Slashdotters say that it's the OS that does the remapping.
Permanent is a bit much. Sending new missions from time to time would be a good idea. Permanent is kind of like saying that the computer you buy today is the one you will use indefinitely. After a while, you don't get the returns as you used to.
Science instruments improve at a rapid pace, and I think this is why New Horizons found things that Galileo did not.
I think there is something going there in the 2010s that will replace the Galileo mission. It's going to have 10x the scientific payload, 10x the power, 10x the bandwidth and will be able to move between the moons, orbit one for a while, then another.
I know, I considered that and that's why I put in the "vanity" part. Maybe there was a better way to word it, but that's what I meant.
Many court cases, including some from notable power courts such as the Supreme Court of California have held that...
California? Isn't the judicial system there pretty heavy on judicial activism? It would seem pretty hypocritical for them to allow judicial activism and disallow jury nullification. Personally, I'm for both in most cases, but I'm noting an imbalance of application or selective application of historical precedent here, neither is codified in any law in the US that I've heard.
You awarded money that was originally meant for people who were *SELLING* copyrighted songs, not "sharing" for free.
The problem with your argument is that laws are changeable. What was meant in the original iteration of a law isn't meant to be the final say. Frankly, wholesale distribution of entire works, even "just" for free, really doesn't hold up to a legitimate application of fair use, as you seem to suggest in a later post.
That doesn't mean that I think the verdict amount is remotely fair. The amount is basically extortionate.
Research and vanity are pretty much the only reason to go at the moment. Even then, robotic missions can do a lot of the same things for a lot cheaper and much less risk.
As you say, you really don't understand.
The Nobel committee gives prizes not based on whether it benefits the average prole, but whether it advanced the knowledge of physics, chemistry and so on.
BTW: it does benefit you, unless you don't use a sizeable hard drive. The huge hard drives that are available lately are because of this discovery.
I really don't understand why anyone would tilt the console while in operation. I'm not even convinced that it's the primary cause of disk damage. If it's causing a lot of problems, then why aren't there a lot of Wii and PS3 owners complaining about the same thing? Those systems have a horizontal and vertical position too. When that explanation was given, I assumed it was the maker trying to blame the user.
How do you know that those drives weren't tested like that, and somehow got excessive shock while in transit?
Consumer electronics generally have gotten cheaper over time though. A basic B&W TV used to cost about as much as a car did. I remember predictions when computers would cost less than $1000 new, and I laughed at that.
XBox360 is actually quite a high performance machine, I think to get the similar performance in a PC, you would be out several times the price.
I am much more likely to pay a band's direct ticketing agent than TicketMaster.
What? Generally, it is the facility that handles that sort of thing, not the act. Unfortunately, many facilities have decided to hand that sort of thing over to TicketMaster. In my area, there was a competing, smaller organization that handled that sort of thing, but they fell into disfavor when their employees were abusing their ticketing authority by handing out the best tickets to their friends and such, so the biggest arena switched their contracts to Ticketmaster instead. I would think an organization that big should be able to handle their own home-grown ticketing system. That would cut down on the incentive to create a botnet for just one arena's ticketing.
I think that's the problem. I don't think it's a good idea to have your competitor's consumer connection be the backhaul, that's kind of predatory anyway. Not only that, the competitor can knock you out of service once they crack down on people that are "sharing" connections to a competitor's mesh.
I'm not sure HOW the labels are marketing their wares except by puting them on the radio and puting them in their distribution catalogs.
A lot of teens now just surf around MySpace and the like for new music. I really don't see why the label is of a benefit, definitely not one where the label takes an 80% cut.
I don't think so. I'm not sure if such small numbers even approach the margin of error. Going to two decimal points doesn't make sense.
I pretty much agree. I think as a first offense for excessive dawdiling, it would only make sense to ban people that have been shown to waste a lot of company time on non-work related activities. A company wide or department wide ban is definitely overboard.