I think that's far too simplistic, though there sometimes is some truth to that.
Web sites do cost money to operate, bits do cost money, and it takes time to maintain them. I really don't hold anything against a person that's got ads on their page to recoup those costs if the site is good.
I really don't see what is useful about that that wouldn't be thought of as a nefarious as making it easier for other posters to harass this person, otherwise it's just academic information that's only tangential to the discussion.
The gravity is different in my example, but if I were to make a post that said "don't kill people" but then list off how to contact several arms merchants, then what am I really saying?
CD-TEXT was available later. I had a copy of Nero that automatically burned in the album name and the track names so my CD player can show them, so it was funny that commercial CDs mostly did not use it.
It seems to be another solution in search of a need. I expect that this will find a niche somewhere. I just don't see the value. I have a perfectly stable, fan/air cooled, four core, 3GHz computer and I really don't hear it unless I put my ear within a foot of it. There is no "looming threat" to advances in computing technology, at least in the personal computer realm. Not so much in much of the server realm either, because companies are starting to look at their power bills.
This article suggests thinner notebooks, but I just don't see that there either, notebooks run hot enough, and it's not as if heat sinks are a significant weight or size factor, the batteries are usually far heavier.
The people that did the recent revival of ancient bacteria said that their numbers prohibit interstellar panspermia because the half life of DNA travelling through the cosmos is very low, due to cosmic radiation. They found that DNA's halflife in the Antarctic was something like (IIRC) 800,000 years, and that's within earth's and the Sun's protective magnetic fields.
you have to talk about "is it cheaper than digging energy out of the ground"
That's not the only cost, though that's the only one people see. This cycle might be carbon-neutral, for those with greenhouse considerations. Then there's the cost of going to war once a decade or so over energy, the cost in lives and money for such activities, and this also might mean less money to those that would use it to fund terrorist activities.
Cell is a nice processor and the PS3 can function as a server, but that doesn't mean that the XBox 360 can't.
I wonder if the 3-core CPU in the X360 reflects the ideas represented in the 3-way AMD server story. I hadn't thought of the one-hop idea. I can't tell if the X360 has a Gig-E jack on it (PS3 has Gig-E), but otherwise it appears that the X360 can be used to do pretty much the same thing.
In accounting terms, it might actually be a sale, depending on the laws and how the company is set up. I don't know how Japanese accounting works, but in the US, I don't think one subsidiary can just "give" its products to another subsidiary, it has to count as a sale and the accounting must show that money was taken from the accounts of one subsidiary to another. It's still empty paper work in this case.
So far that I know, the AMD CPUs that have three external HT links are the 8xx series Opterons, which gives up to eight physical processors with a maximum of two hops. I haven't heard of one with four external HT links. The 8xx series Opterons are bloody expensive.
If one thinks about it a bit, it's not that bad of a proposition. PS3 has a powerful main processor and a GigE network link. If they make a version with a regular CD or DVD drive for clustering uses, then they can probably have an infrastructure of very compact, inexpensive, yet potent server systems.
I think you need to understand that you break the SI system when you do that, that's why the "i" started to be used because the original SI units were always intended to be used with powers of ten, not two. Your computer reports it in powers of two, which is why a drive that stores a trillion bytes only shows up as around 930 million bytes.
AFAIK such a thing does not exist, and if it does exist, it doesn't work on regular phone lines. The most you can get from regular phone lines is 8000baud, since that is the sample rate the digital phone central uses. I don't know how many baud a 56k modem runs at.
Digital phone was something like 64kbps, one line in an ISDN. 56k never worked at that speed because of power regulations. I think the max is about 50k. The best I've seen is 33k.
I think your point is valid. I used to love watching Voltron, but frankly, now that I've seen it twenty years later, it's basically cliché-ridden dreck. Nostalgia doesn't do me any good here. It's quite irritating and predictable.
I probably said the same thing of Transformers, but I think the recent movie was an improvement on the original. It's decent except that I wish the movie wasn't sponsored by GM.
That's the problem. If you do happen to have a population of twenty, I agree that it's not much. That may not be extinct now, but it's probably just borrowed time.
Google/YouTube hides under the fact that US copyright law puts the responsibility of reporting violation on the copyright holders.
That's their line. Their method is kind of a grey area, their interpretation hasn't been tested. I think Safe Harbor is the only sensible thing about the DMCA.
The problem that I see with your method is that it makes the site into babysitters. User generated media becomes irrelevant if it that much work to vet every piece that goes into it, so your argument would have the consequence of restraining distribution of user generated media. I mean, Viacom wants people to go to their own web sites, which are pretty crappy at best, and not very accessible.
I'm not convinced that technological means are accurate enough to do an acceptable level of errors.
How can Apple rip off LG's touch screen phone when both were announced at the same time? I'm sorry, but sometimes inspiration hits two places at close enough times.
I thought that MythTV basically zaps all the commercials, except sometimes at the beginning and the end, I was told that all the ads in the middle of the video are effectively gone.
Getting the timing of the commercials is not very likely, I don't see it as an acceptably foolproof means of blocking the ads.
I don't think it makes sense to boycott every company that's tangentially related to the one doing misdeeds. For example, Toshiba EMI was related to Toshiba Electronics, but it doesn't make any sense to boycott TOEMI because they might have made a defective TV model.
It's not just that though. It's really hard to get software for XP/2000 to work on a limited user account, so most people just run as a power user or administrator. It may in part be due to the fact that there wasn't a strong encouragement or requirement to set up a limited account when the user starts using a new computer. Apparently it is possible to enable administrator privileges to just the programs that require it, but it's not a trivial thing and it's still a problem waiting to happen.
What's more is that NPR's Science Friday had a guest that found that just being overweight isn't as bad as the PR campaigns suggest. It's only when you're grossly overweight that causes problems. Nova's ScienceNow had a story along similar lines, though a little tangential.
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I think that's far too simplistic, though there sometimes is some truth to that.
Web sites do cost money to operate, bits do cost money, and it takes time to maintain them. I really don't hold anything against a person that's got ads on their page to recoup those costs if the site is good.
I really don't see what is useful about that that wouldn't be thought of as a nefarious as making it easier for other posters to harass this person, otherwise it's just academic information that's only tangential to the discussion.
The gravity is different in my example, but if I were to make a post that said "don't kill people" but then list off how to contact several arms merchants, then what am I really saying?
CD-TEXT was available later. I had a copy of Nero that automatically burned in the album name and the track names so my CD player can show them, so it was funny that commercial CDs mostly did not use it.
It seems to be another solution in search of a need. I expect that this will find a niche somewhere. I just don't see the value. I have a perfectly stable, fan/air cooled, four core, 3GHz computer and I really don't hear it unless I put my ear within a foot of it. There is no "looming threat" to advances in computing technology, at least in the personal computer realm. Not so much in much of the server realm either, because companies are starting to look at their power bills.
This article suggests thinner notebooks, but I just don't see that there either, notebooks run hot enough, and it's not as if heat sinks are a significant weight or size factor, the batteries are usually far heavier.
The people that did the recent revival of ancient bacteria said that their numbers prohibit interstellar panspermia because the half life of DNA travelling through the cosmos is very low, due to cosmic radiation. They found that DNA's halflife in the Antarctic was something like (IIRC) 800,000 years, and that's within earth's and the Sun's protective magnetic fields.
you have to talk about "is it cheaper than digging energy out of the ground"
That's not the only cost, though that's the only one people see. This cycle might be carbon-neutral, for those with greenhouse considerations. Then there's the cost of going to war once a decade or so over energy, the cost in lives and money for such activities, and this also might mean less money to those that would use it to fund terrorist activities.
If it weren't for this story, I wouldn't have known that there was another Uwe Boll movie. Shame on you Slashdot editors!
Cell is a nice processor and the PS3 can function as a server, but that doesn't mean that the XBox 360 can't.
I wonder if the 3-core CPU in the X360 reflects the ideas represented in the 3-way AMD server story. I hadn't thought of the one-hop idea. I can't tell if the X360 has a Gig-E jack on it (PS3 has Gig-E), but otherwise it appears that the X360 can be used to do pretty much the same thing.
In accounting terms, it might actually be a sale, depending on the laws and how the company is set up. I don't know how Japanese accounting works, but in the US, I don't think one subsidiary can just "give" its products to another subsidiary, it has to count as a sale and the accounting must show that money was taken from the accounts of one subsidiary to another. It's still empty paper work in this case.
So far that I know, the AMD CPUs that have three external HT links are the 8xx series Opterons, which gives up to eight physical processors with a maximum of two hops. I haven't heard of one with four external HT links. The 8xx series Opterons are bloody expensive.
If one thinks about it a bit, it's not that bad of a proposition. PS3 has a powerful main processor and a GigE network link. If they make a version with a regular CD or DVD drive for clustering uses, then they can probably have an infrastructure of very compact, inexpensive, yet potent server systems.
Oops, I meant to say 930 billion, not 930 million.
I think you need to understand that you break the SI system when you do that, that's why the "i" started to be used because the original SI units were always intended to be used with powers of ten, not two. Your computer reports it in powers of two, which is why a drive that stores a trillion bytes only shows up as around 930 million bytes.
AFAIK such a thing does not exist, and if it does exist, it doesn't work on regular phone lines. The most you can get from regular phone lines is 8000baud, since that is the sample rate the digital phone central uses. I don't know how many baud a 56k modem runs at.
Digital phone was something like 64kbps, one line in an ISDN. 56k never worked at that speed because of power regulations. I think the max is about 50k. The best I've seen is 33k.
I think your point is valid. I used to love watching Voltron, but frankly, now that I've seen it twenty years later, it's basically cliché-ridden dreck. Nostalgia doesn't do me any good here. It's quite irritating and predictable.
I probably said the same thing of Transformers, but I think the recent movie was an improvement on the original. It's decent except that I wish the movie wasn't sponsored by GM.
That's the problem. If you do happen to have a population of twenty, I agree that it's not much. That may not be extinct now, but it's probably just borrowed time.
Google/YouTube hides under the fact that US copyright law puts the responsibility of reporting violation on the copyright holders.
That's their line. Their method is kind of a grey area, their interpretation hasn't been tested. I think Safe Harbor is the only sensible thing about the DMCA.
The problem that I see with your method is that it makes the site into babysitters. User generated media becomes irrelevant if it that much work to vet every piece that goes into it, so your argument would have the consequence of restraining distribution of user generated media. I mean, Viacom wants people to go to their own web sites, which are pretty crappy at best, and not very accessible.
I'm not convinced that technological means are accurate enough to do an acceptable level of errors.
How can Apple rip off LG's touch screen phone when both were announced at the same time? I'm sorry, but sometimes inspiration hits two places at close enough times.
I thought that MythTV basically zaps all the commercials, except sometimes at the beginning and the end, I was told that all the ads in the middle of the video are effectively gone.
Getting the timing of the commercials is not very likely, I don't see it as an acceptably foolproof means of blocking the ads.
It's stupid slang. May as well call them fabos for fatherboards.
I don't think it makes sense to boycott every company that's tangentially related to the one doing misdeeds. For example, Toshiba EMI was related to Toshiba Electronics, but it doesn't make any sense to boycott TOEMI because they might have made a defective TV model.
They probably didn't account for the Birkenstock radiation, one of a family of shoe-based radiations.
Installing Windows makes airport security look efficient. The TSA makes Microsoft look thoughroughly efficient and competent.
It's not just that though. It's really hard to get software for XP/2000 to work on a limited user account, so most people just run as a power user or administrator. It may in part be due to the fact that there wasn't a strong encouragement or requirement to set up a limited account when the user starts using a new computer. Apparently it is possible to enable administrator privileges to just the programs that require it, but it's not a trivial thing and it's still a problem waiting to happen.
What's more is that NPR's Science Friday had a guest that found that just being overweight isn't as bad as the PR campaigns suggest. It's only when you're grossly overweight that causes problems. Nova's ScienceNow had a story along similar lines, though a little tangential.