I spend a lot of time on public transportation. A couple of years ago when cell phones were still new and people were learning how to use them, the problem of loud talkers was really annoying. However, I have noticd that the problem seems to be taking care of itself as people learn that they don't have to yell to be heard on their cell phones. They use of the phones has increased, but people are using them much more sensibly and keeping their voices down. Radical solutions like jamming the phones are becoming much less attractive.
I just bought one and I intend to use it every chance I get. I am sick of pervasive mindless TV garble everywhere I go. All you folks who believe you have a god given right to watch tv at every moment of your life please buy a nice little portable tv and carry it around with you. And don't forget the earphones.
Sure, Now try to explain that to a detective on the L. A. Sheriff's dept.
I'm sorry, but when I tried to raise this question to people at different offices where I saw the recorders being used, they didn't even know what a WAV file was. And cared less.
There is another problem for concern in this area. Law enforcement personnel are now relying almost entirely on digital recording for witness statements and suspect interviews. If you think digital photos are easily tampered with, think about how easy it is to tamper with a WAV file. "I did not do it," can become "I did do it" with the flip of wrist.
Thanks for the intelligent reply. Not to make too much of it, I didn't express myself as clearly as possible. My fear is of wrong thingking as in the commonplace but wrong idea that humans and their "intelligence" are the acme, the highest form,of life. But as Gould and so many others have pointed out, evolution is a bush, not a ladder. Our so called intelligence is nothing but a freaky little bud that popped up on one side of the bush and is in no way inevitable. There were a million and one contingencies along the way, which if they had gone otherwise, would have meant that we, and our "intelligence" would never have arisen and life would have gone on happily without us and our might "intelligence." It aint no big thing.
To put it another way, a group of elephants discussing life on other planets would probably assume that the presence of life on other plantes automatically means that the alien creatures must have tusks and trunks.
I'm always disturbed by the jump people make from the discussion of extra-terrestrial life to a discussion of extra-terrestrial "intelligence," as if one follows from the other. Look,no one even knows what "intelligence" is. Doesn't anyone read Steven J Gould anymore? He discussed this so well.
I fear that what most people mean when the say "intelligent" is "like us." Dolphins are intelligent (but not like us), cats are intelligent (bnlu), ant hills are intelligent, etc. etc.
Life on other planets? - almost certainly. "Intelligent" life on other planets? - dumb question.
It will be interesting to see how all this competition plays out in the "free" marketplace. Karl Marx discovered that, in a free market, the price of a commodity will fluctuate towards the value of the commodity, where value is determined by the amount of labor that goes into the production of the commodity. Music files that can be replicated to infinty by the touch of a button have no value under this definition. No labor = no (exchange) value.
Prediction: As more and more companies come online selling music files, there will be a race to the bottom as prices drop like a rock.
I'm sorry, but I cannot let that pass. This is total bullshit spread by the same Christian militia wingnuts who tell you the Chinese eat fetuses. Please don't believe the hype
Sorry to nit-pick, but why did you say this lawsuite died? It was just filed and hasn't even got srarted. We all (or most of us) hope it does not die and costs records companies zillions of dollars for stupidity.
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I spend a lot of time on public transportation. A couple of years ago when cell phones were still new and people were learning how to use them, the problem of loud talkers was really annoying. However, I have noticd that the problem seems to be taking care of itself as people learn that they don't have to yell to be heard on their cell phones. They use of the phones has increased, but people are using them much more sensibly and keeping their voices down. Radical solutions like jamming the phones are becoming much less attractive.
I just bought one and I intend to use it every chance I get. I am sick of pervasive mindless TV garble everywhere I go. All you folks who believe you have a god given right to watch tv at every moment of your life please buy a nice little portable tv and carry it around with you. And don't forget the earphones.
Sure, Now try to explain that to a detective on the L. A. Sheriff's dept.
I'm sorry, but when I tried to raise this question to people at different offices where I saw the recorders being used, they didn't even know what a WAV file was. And cared less.
You must be dreaming.
There is another problem for concern in this area. Law enforcement personnel are now relying almost entirely on digital recording for witness statements and suspect interviews. If you think digital photos are easily tampered with, think about how easy it is to tamper with a WAV file. "I did not do it," can become "I did do it" with the flip of wrist.
Thanks for the intelligent reply. Not to make too much of it, I didn't express myself as clearly as possible. My fear is of wrong thingking as in the commonplace but wrong idea that humans and their "intelligence" are the acme, the highest form,of life. But as Gould and so many others have pointed out, evolution is a bush, not a ladder. Our so called intelligence is nothing but a freaky little bud that popped up on one side of the bush and is in no way inevitable. There were a million and one contingencies along the way, which if they had gone otherwise, would have meant that we, and our "intelligence" would never have arisen and life would have gone on happily without us and our might "intelligence." It aint no big thing.
To put it another way, a group of elephants discussing life on other planets would probably assume that the presence of life on other plantes automatically means that the alien creatures must have tusks and trunks.
I'm always disturbed by the jump people make from the discussion of extra-terrestrial life to a discussion of extra-terrestrial "intelligence," as if one follows from the other. Look,no one even knows what "intelligence" is. Doesn't anyone read Steven J Gould anymore? He discussed this so well.
I fear that what most people mean when the say "intelligent" is "like us." Dolphins are intelligent (but not like us), cats are intelligent (bnlu), ant hills are intelligent, etc. etc.
Life on other planets? - almost certainly.
"Intelligent" life on other planets? - dumb question.
It will be interesting to see how all this competition plays out in the "free" marketplace. Karl Marx discovered that, in a free market, the price of a commodity will fluctuate towards the value of the commodity, where value is determined by the amount of labor that goes into the production of the commodity. Music files that can be replicated to infinty by the touch of a button have no value under this definition. No labor = no (exchange) value.
Prediction: As more and more companies come online selling music files, there will be a race to the bottom as prices drop like a rock.
Actually, they don't have to prove it (see Napster trial). They just have to convince a judge or a jury. Big difference.
30 seconds on google. In 1998 there were 187,097
gas stations in the U.S.
I'm sorry, but I cannot let that pass. This is total bullshit spread by the same Christian militia wingnuts who tell you the Chinese eat fetuses. Please don't believe the hype
Sorry to nit-pick, but why did you say this lawsuite died? It was just filed and hasn't even got srarted. We all (or most of us) hope it does not die and costs records companies zillions of dollars for stupidity.
Thank god at least somebody here had enoght sense to understand what the Morpheus defense is saying.