Given those points as a backdrop, your assertion that what you call "piracy" (and please do stop using industry-sponsored emotive buzzwords) caused the production of films in Hong Kong to fall of is certainly false.
It is no accident that cheap methods of reproducing DVDs coincided with the demise of the HK film industry.
The above articles describe economic slumps as a factor, however they point to piracy as the primary reason of the demise of the industry. Basically few will invest in making a new film because the returns are crippled by piracy.
Then you'd be wrong. Sun's biggest customers (and thus their bread and butter) are the Telecom companies. Sun makes no secret of this.
Yes, and I haven't seen any indication that this is about to change. Whenever I suggest doing a project based on an X86 cluster they look at me like I have 3 heads.
Please consult your nearest dictionary regarding the difference between slander and libel.
Please consult your dictionary for the difference between truth and lie.
Your searches and incident 'reports' are extremely one-sided and do not come from politically neutral sources.
Here is a fact. The ACLU has brought several lawsuits against the Secret Service as a result of these claims. On going to trial these suits have been universally dismissed (as far as I can tell) in court based on actual evidence rather than assertions made on the website of political activists.
Has the secret service overstepped their bounds to illegally suppress dissenting speech? Unquestionably.
In reality the evidence supporting this assertion is VERY questionable.
since there's no way to find out what our world would be like if IP protections hadn't existed.
There sure is. There are many nations that never enacted IP laws or don't enforce them. Look at the state of the film industry in Hong Kong for example. During the mid-90's Hong Kong produced over 300 features per year and had a yearly income of more than a bilion HK dollars. In 2004 the produced only 64 features because rampant piracy prevents studios from making money on film.
There are plenty of examples of this sort if you take the time to do the research.
The arrest of husband and wife Nicole and Jeff Rank for wearing T-Shirts that read "love America, hate Bush" (who were otherwise not disruptive)
Here are news articles describing some of these events: --------------------- CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Corpus Christi residents were arrested during President Bush's visit to the West Virginia Capitol to honor the country's veterans and gather support for invading Iraq.
Nicole and Jeffery Rank were taken out from among the crowd of about 6,500 packed into the Capitol's north courtyard in restraints by police. They were issued citations for trespassing and released, said Jay Smithers, acting director of the Capitol police force.
"We were told we couldn't be here because we were wearing these shirts that said we were against Bush," Nicole Rank shouted as police rushed her out.
Smithers said the pair had tickets to the event and wore clothing over their anti-Bush T-shirts. Once through the security checkpoint, they removed their outer layers and mingled in the crowd.
"We asked them to go out to the designated protest area but they refused," Smithers said. "They told our people they would not leave and sat down on their hands. We didn't have any choice." ------------- George W. Bush's T-shirt police got their family.
Campaign workers removed the Millers -- Marvin, Barbara and Theresa -- from Wendler Arena on Thursday minutes before the president's motorcade rolled up ----------
These incidents you describe were clearly not the work of the Secret Service but rather Bush campaign operations. So I would advise you to stop slandering the Secret Service and rather get your facts straight.
A very few things are explicitly excepted from free speach in the US - advocating violent overthrow of the government or threats against the person of the president. It is the job of the secret service to investigate these threats against the president, and it has been doing this for a long time without any history of abuse of power. I don't think this poster incident is at all outside the scope what they should be doing considering the history of presidential assassinations.
What concerns me much more is the fact that there is a history of abuse of power by the FBI and IRS against 'enemies' lists, and of course the Patriot Act is an affront to personal freedoms. The existance of this sort of capability is an invitation to abuse by organizations with a questionable track record.
The US (and it's corporations) has the resources to entice extremwely smart people from abroad to relocate to the US.
There is no question that this has been a big factor - especially during WWII when tremendous amounts of talent fled Europe to the US. However opportunities in India and China are improving so this source of talent is drying up. This means the US is going to need to rely on home-grown talent more than it is used to.
Been hearing how bad American students are at math and science for the past 20 years. I wonder why a disproportionate number of science Nobel Prizes still go to Americans?
The US has a much wider spread in the distribution of these scores than most countries - the top 10% of the US students do just as well as the top 10% of the best countries in these tests. And there are where the engineer/science talent comes from anyway.
Another factor that studies like these gloss over is that the average American is a lot more likely to get post secondary education than is the norm in other countries. So perhaps the 8th grade numbers don't look that great, but by the time an American enters the work force he has 2-4 more years in school. This is why despite these standardized test result the productivity per hour worked in the US is as good as any place.
Piffle. The US had started mobilizing for war in 1939, and had declared a national emergency when Germany invaded Russia in June 1941. In 1938 the US military budget was 0.5 billion, at the end of 1940 Congress approved a $26 billion budget for the Army. A selective service act (draft) had been instituted in 1940.
By October 1941 the US standing Army had grown from a prewar 100,000 to 1.5 million, and supply facilities to support an army of 4 million were in place. At the same time a massive shipbuilding program was underway which is why the US was able to stop the Japanese advance in the Pacific so quickly.
Some historians believe that a part of the reason the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor was due to the obvious massive US military buildup that was in progress.
Anyone with any knowledge of history could see that war was inevitable - all that was needed was an incident to trigger it's declaration.
This is my point, in both world wars, the US did not get involved until their own interests were at risk
Your point is full of bullshit. The US interests were never really at stake in WWI. As far as WWII, the US was already supplying Britain with arms and support such Atlantic convoy escorts long before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. All Pearl Harbor did was fix the date when the US officially declared war.
Mod parent down. If you read the article, the prime backers of this new Internet authority are China, Russia, the Arab states etc. THESE ARE NOT OPEN SOCIETIES. The EU is being taken for a ride and will sorely regret the role they are playing in the politization and balkanization of the internet. The US is absolutely correct in refusing this new model.
It isn't political, it is economic. Other nations produce some absolutely first rate talent, but can offer meager opportunities. That talent moves to where the opportuniites exist resulting in a glut. This depresses the market for home grown capability because of the cheap foriegn talent.
Now wind forward 20 years, and Lo! there are now opportunities to use thse talents at home. And the local institutions are in shambles because their hasn't been a need to develop talent locally.
So where are we heading? Another Sputnik era where the US finds itself challenged by a foriegn power on the field of technology. We have been there and done that during the '50s. So there will be a shock, and then the gears will start churning again.
These things go in cycles. We have seen it before. Can the US meet the challenge again? Well, the track record of re-invention has been pretty good. We shall see if it continues.
This sort of model is not new, however there is a big twist as the range of forces in normal fluid mechanics is relatively much shorter (Lennard-Jones drops off at r^6) while gravity is a r^2 force. This makes the modelling a lot more complex.
CC Lin has been using this approach to model the evolution of the spiral structure of galaxies for some time (mid 70's or earlier).
The major source of security bugs in C and C++ is lazy programmers.
Given the state of development processes and what customers are willing to pay for software I'd say the more likely source is programmer burnout adn crappy design practices.
The fact is that the market has already decided the answer to this. People buy the least expensive software they can get away with. If the application is unreliable enough to regularly lose data it gets flushed out of the market. If it works well enough and is for the desktop it becomes popular. If it is used in critical applications where data loss is not tolerated they you have stuff like Oracle which people pay $50,000 per CPU for.
When I can run a Java app on an arbitrary JVM and not have it come to a grinding halt every once in a while as the garbage collector runs--or worse yet bring the machine to a grinding halt because the garbage collector never runs--only then will GC will be useful.
Considering that current JVMs support parallelizing garbage collectors I am unimpressed with the above assertion.
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Given those points as a backdrop, your assertion that what you call "piracy" (and please do stop using industry-sponsored emotive buzzwords) caused the production of films in Hong Kong to fall of is certainly false.
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It is no accident that cheap methods of reproducing DVDs coincided with the demise of the HK film industry.
http://cio-asia.com/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&arti
http://english.sina.com/taiwan_hk/1/2005/0430/296
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/8801/jcnop
http://www.pwchk.com/home/eng/e&m_article_apr2003
http://www.grayzone.com/hkmarch99.htm
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDP/i
The above articles describe economic slumps as a factor, however they point to piracy as the primary reason of the demise of the industry. Basically few will invest in making a new film because the returns are crippled by piracy.
Why would they change platforms?
Cost.
Then you'd be wrong. Sun's biggest customers (and thus their bread and butter) are the Telecom companies. Sun makes no secret of this.
Yes, and I haven't seen any indication that this is about to change. Whenever I suggest doing a project based on an X86 cluster they look at me like I have 3 heads.
Please consult your nearest dictionary regarding the difference between slander and libel.
Please consult your dictionary for the difference between truth and lie.
Your searches and incident 'reports' are extremely one-sided and do not come from politically neutral sources.
Here is a fact. The ACLU has brought several lawsuits against the Secret Service as a result of these claims. On going to trial these suits have been universally dismissed (as far as I can tell) in court based on actual evidence rather than assertions made on the website of political activists.
Has the secret service overstepped their bounds to illegally suppress dissenting speech? Unquestionably.
In reality the evidence supporting this assertion is VERY questionable.
since there's no way to find out what our world would be like if IP protections hadn't existed.
There sure is. There are many nations that never enacted IP laws or don't enforce them. Look at the state of the film industry in Hong Kong for example. During the mid-90's Hong Kong produced over 300 features per year and had a yearly income of more than a bilion HK dollars. In 2004 the produced only 64 features because rampant piracy prevents studios from making money on film.
There are plenty of examples of this sort if you take the time to do the research.
The arrest of husband and wife Nicole and Jeff Rank for wearing T-Shirts that read "love America, hate Bush" (who were otherwise not disruptive)
Here are news articles describing some of these events:
---------------------
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Corpus Christi residents were arrested during President Bush's visit to the West Virginia Capitol to honor the country's veterans and gather support for invading Iraq.
Nicole and Jeffery Rank were taken out from among the crowd of about 6,500 packed into the Capitol's north courtyard in restraints by police. They were issued citations for trespassing and released, said Jay Smithers, acting director of the Capitol police force.
"We were told we couldn't be here because we were wearing these shirts that said we were against Bush," Nicole Rank shouted as police rushed her out.
Smithers said the pair had tickets to the event and wore clothing over their anti-Bush T-shirts. Once through the security checkpoint, they removed their outer layers and mingled in the crowd.
"We asked them to go out to the designated protest area but they refused," Smithers said. "They told our people they would not leave and sat down on their hands. We didn't have any choice."
-------------
George W. Bush's T-shirt police got their family.
Campaign workers removed the Millers -- Marvin, Barbara and Theresa -- from Wendler Arena on Thursday minutes before the president's motorcade rolled up
----------
These incidents you describe were clearly not the work of the Secret Service but rather Bush campaign operations. So I would advise you to stop slandering the Secret Service and rather get your facts straight.
I think anyone's correct to be asking questions
A very few things are explicitly excepted from free speach in the US - advocating violent overthrow of the government or threats against the person of the president. It is the job of the secret service to investigate these threats against the president, and it has been doing this for a long time without any history of abuse of power. I don't think this poster incident is at all outside the scope what they should be doing considering the history of presidential assassinations.
What concerns me much more is the fact that there is a history of abuse of power by the FBI and IRS against 'enemies' lists, and of course the Patriot Act is an affront to personal freedoms. The existance of this sort of capability is an invitation to abuse by organizations with a questionable track record.
And what if there had been no incident?
One would have been manufactured per tradition. Gulf of Tonkin, sinking of the Maine, Lusitania.
The US (and it's corporations) has the resources to entice extremwely smart people from abroad to relocate to the US.
There is no question that this has been a big factor - especially during WWII when tremendous amounts of talent fled Europe to the US. However opportunities in India and China are improving so this source of talent is drying up. This means the US is going to need to rely on home-grown talent more than it is used to.
Been hearing how bad American students are at math and science for the past 20 years. I wonder why a disproportionate number of science Nobel Prizes still go to Americans?
The US has a much wider spread in the distribution of these scores than most countries - the top 10% of the US students do just as well as the top 10% of the best countries in these tests. And there are where the engineer/science talent comes from anyway.
Another factor that studies like these gloss over is that the average American is a lot more likely to get post secondary education than is the norm in other countries. So perhaps the 8th grade numbers don't look that great, but by the time an American enters the work force he has 2-4 more years in school. This is why despite these standardized test result the productivity per hour worked in the US is as good as any place.
Piffle. The US had started mobilizing for war in 1939, and had declared a national emergency when Germany invaded Russia in June 1941. In 1938 the US military budget was 0.5 billion, at the end of 1940 Congress approved a $26 billion budget for the Army. A selective service act (draft) had been instituted in 1940.
By October 1941 the US standing Army had grown from a prewar 100,000 to 1.5 million, and supply facilities to support an army of 4 million were in place. At the same time a massive shipbuilding program was underway which is why the US was able to stop the Japanese advance in the Pacific so quickly.
Some historians believe that a part of the reason the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor was due to the obvious massive US military buildup that was in progress.
Anyone with any knowledge of history could see that war was inevitable - all that was needed was an incident to trigger it's declaration.
I wish it were that simple. This is going to make things great for phishers cause they will be able to own their own root name servers now.
This is my point, in both world wars, the US did not get involved until their own interests were at risk
Your point is full of bullshit. The US interests were never really at stake in WWI. As far as WWII, the US was already supplying Britain with arms and support such Atlantic convoy escorts long before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. All Pearl Harbor did was fix the date when the US officially declared war.
Mod parent down. If you read the article, the prime backers of this new Internet authority are China, Russia, the Arab states etc. THESE ARE NOT OPEN SOCIETIES. The EU is being taken for a ride and will sorely regret the role they are playing in the politization and balkanization of the internet. The US is absolutely correct in refusing this new model.
It isn't political, it is economic. Other nations produce some absolutely first rate talent, but can offer meager opportunities. That talent moves to where the opportuniites exist resulting in a glut. This depresses the market for home grown capability because of the cheap foriegn talent.
Now wind forward 20 years, and Lo! there are now opportunities to use thse talents at home. And the local institutions are in shambles because their hasn't been a need to develop talent locally.
So where are we heading? Another Sputnik era where the US finds itself challenged by a foriegn power on the field of technology. We have been there and done that during the '50s. So there will be a shock, and then the gears will start churning again.
These things go in cycles. We have seen it before. Can the US meet the challenge again? Well, the track record of re-invention has been pretty good. We shall see if it continues.
Call AOL customer service and tell them they should send out re-writable CDs.
This CD distribution system on AOL isn't half bad.
http://music.aol.com/songs/new_releases_full_cds
Myabe that's what the article meant?
link between relativity and gaffer tape
Gravity is the physics word for gaffer tape. General relativity establishes the relationship you seek.
This sort of model is not new, however there is a big twist as the range of forces in normal fluid mechanics is relatively much shorter (Lennard-Jones drops off at r^6) while gravity is a r^2 force. This makes the modelling a lot more complex.
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CC Lin has been using this approach to model the evolution of the spiral structure of galaxies for some time (mid 70's or earlier).
http://www.worldscibooks.com/mathematics/0412.htm
The major source of security bugs in C and C++ is lazy programmers.
Given the state of development processes and what customers are willing to pay for software I'd say the more likely source is programmer burnout adn crappy design practices.
The fact is that the market has already decided the answer to this. People buy the least expensive software they can get away with. If the application is unreliable enough to regularly lose data it gets flushed out of the market. If it works well enough and is for the desktop it becomes popular. If it is used in critical applications where data loss is not tolerated they you have stuff like Oracle which people pay $50,000 per CPU for.
Until a JVM implemented in pure Java
Unless you have CPUs that handle Java byte codes natively this sort of implementation is going to be very unlikely.
When I can run a Java app on an arbitrary JVM and not have it come to a grinding halt every once in a while as the garbage collector runs--or worse yet bring the machine to a grinding halt because the garbage collector never runs--only then will GC will be useful.
Considering that current JVMs support parallelizing garbage collectors I am unimpressed with the above assertion.
Name one that isn't
I'll give you two. Ebay and Amazon.