The truth is that DRM is not for the benefit or protection of users, no matter what content owners or standards groups say.
Amen.
Now all you have to do is let the rest of the non "techy" consumers know that and DRM will most likely fail.
Although a difficult task to successfully complete, just remember to remind them that DRM will make their life more complicated and computers will become even more confusing to the average person... but then again, the RIAA, MS, etc etc will gain an extra buck at a large cost to the consumers, so that's an upside... right?
you think it a coincidence that the company chosen by Katherine Harris to purge the voter rolls of convicted fellons disqualified tens of thousands of legitimate qualified voters, most of whom just happened to be black?
Black fellons... a coincidence? Oh it must be...
I'm sorry... but you deserved that sarcasm. If you complain that the government discriminates against convicted fellons and the majority happen to be black, it's your own damn fault for being the fellon. Stop robing banks, shooting people, and making gangs and then you won't have anything to complain about. (No... that's not racist. Just think about it for a while and you'll see why it's not).
I bet ya if the majority was white you wouldn't say a word... But would the white folk? Nope... we have better things to do...
disqualified tens of thousands of legitimate qualified voters
Ya know you just contradicted yourself there? And you wonder why it was so easy it was to make an argument against you...
Quite alot of people have commented on the use of blatant sexual metaphors in egineering sciences
You mean quite a lot of feminists? The same ones that want to tear down buntly male skyscrapers and replace them with space-inefficient, "womanly organ" like designs?
I doubt calling an interface a trade center jack, because it contains 2 collapsable cicuits triggered, by a fast moving taliban controler, would receive the ambivilence that the master/slave connector does.
Hey, lets think up some more rediculous examples that are totally unrelated since your analogy has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ROOT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. We use the terms Master/Slave because of their very definition... not because all computer techs are white supremists. I could call the male/female ends of connectors the "giver and taker" respectively, but hey... I'm not a moron.
Just remember that for some people the connections are closer to home.
And some people go out of their way to find connections and complain about them.
Feminists can complain about skyscrapers, rockets, pens, hell... anything rod shaped because of its male overtone.
"Minority" groups can complain about anything that hints about their troubled past or even current discrimination... even the U.S. White House is racist.
White males.... hell... we really don't care. We could complain that the word "Woman" gives rise to a female superiority over male because of it's a larger word than "man"... thus the male gender lacks which the woman has (even with the male/female... opps.... female/male word comparison). But we have better things to do than worry about what word offends who and what shape ticks off what gender etc etc....
It's called priorities. If everyone ran around correcting everyone pseudo-racist or sexual-overtoned grammer because they're over-reacting to something that's not really there... and we didn't bother with the IMPORTANT issues, then just where would our society be? None of us could speak to, look at, or make any motion toward anyone else because it would offend them... is that a way to run things?
Looking at it in an negative light however, it might mean that your required to have anti-virus software installed in order to use the internet.
Ummm... no. YOU won't have to have any installed, your ROUTER will. And, of course, that is IF somehow they make it manditory for routers to contain some sort of an anti-virus protocol, which in my opinion and probably many others will never be manditory.
I'll laugh my ass off when this guy looses in court and is made to pay the defendents lawyer fees.
All over 20 bucks and a moronic idea that he "owns" property in space. But, I suppose, that's the price of stupidity.
Frankly, if he, or any governmental power that resognises that he has ownership over an area of land, can't keep people off his land, he really doesn't own it. If tomorrow I started up the "You're a Dumbass for Buying Land in Outer Space" orginization which sold land in outerspace to people (namely, I sell everything to myself for 1 dollar), then really I should be able to take him to court and sue him if he collects any money from his asteroid which by all rights belongs to me.
I doubt the comets made it anywhere near the surface of the sun to be concidered "crashing into it". Even from the videos they just seemes to dissappear far before they got close to the surface.
And that tiny little speck of rock, even IF it hit the surface, would not have caused a solar flare.
One of the arguments for Linux adoption is that upgrading isn't as necessary as in the Windows world. now here you are outlining hope that people will upgarde their computers. Saying the process is cyclic is as useful as pointing out that the sun burning out is part of a cyclic process. The inbetween will hurt a lot of people. And not the nice kind of hurt either.
Is this just a blip as some analysts believe, or is it the beginnings of a resurgence for the technology sector?
Yes, it's a blip. Anyone who's taken an econ class will know that investments is one of the most volitale aspects of a country's GDP. Why? Well because the good are durable so instead of a nice, smooth pattern of investment because computers are falling apart left and right, after a while people just upgrade EVERYTYING all at once (this applies to production machinery as well as computer, though computers must be upgraded more often).
So what does this mean? The survivors of the dot com boom are upgrading their computer equipment. Expect a dip within 1-1.5 years with layoffs until the number of job offerings / positions reaches a stable number (probably a little higher than it's been in the past few years, but it'll still dip). Then (probably in a nother 3 years) the same process will repeat.
Just like your shampoo bottle... wash, rinse, repeat.
Well... just build up some technology and blast a crew off to mars, Alpha Centauri, or wherever we can go in 100 years and let them build, reproduce, and thrive there in the next 400.
Don't forget we can keep sending people there too.
Or wait... would infecting another planet be a bad thing?
This just looks like a MiniDisk to me that i've been using for years for portable audio... I was wondering when they'd get around to actually putting data on them... They're so tiny and have such a nice case.
Perhaps MDs will make a comback if this technology gets more mainstream?
As you know Microsoft has just released a new patch MS03-040, which renders several IE vulns obsolete. We are presently testing the efficacy of the vulns reported to be fixed and we can report that MS03-040 is doing the job it was intended to.
So why was that left out? Reading the summary I just thought that these people were being nice guys to Microsoft, and not that Microsoft actually addressed and fixed many issues with IE.
...but if you think Chess is complex, you guys should try playing Go (wei`chi, igo, baduk... many names).
Basically, there's a million dollar prize out of someone can make a go playing computer program that can beat a weak professional. How are they doing? Well... if you've played Go for a couple months you can probably beat the strongest program to date. (And yes, I can)
No, but Windows runs on a certain type of computer system, made by a large number of companies. So saying that, they avoid having to name every last personal computer manufacturer on the planet...
Or, you could just say the x86 family of processors (since they are comparing processors), or just say PC's (although not really correct, it's more correct than saying "Windows computers").
Saying it's a Windows computer just ruins your knowledge credibility... you sound stupid and uninformed.
If this happened in the US, 1) they would at first blame it in terrorists, 2) It would be on CNN for days, 3) Yet another "amageddon" movie would be made about it, or at least a made-for-tv crappy movie, and 4) People would protest demanding more protectiong...
This technique is known to be very accurate because of the agreement between core samples from, e.g., arctic and antarctic pack ice.
I know the process, but how much actual C02 from the atmosphere does the ice actually gather? Furthermore, because it doesn't snow that much at the poles, the peaks and dips noticed over a period of time (say a thousand years, perhaps) aren't noticed, only an average.
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The truth is that DRM is not for the benefit or protection of users, no matter what content owners or standards groups say.
Amen.
Now all you have to do is let the rest of the non "techy" consumers know that and DRM will most likely fail.
Although a difficult task to successfully complete, just remember to remind them that DRM will make their life more complicated and computers will become even more confusing to the average person... but then again, the RIAA, MS, etc etc will gain an extra buck at a large cost to the consumers, so that's an upside... right?
you think it a coincidence that the company chosen by Katherine Harris to purge the voter rolls of convicted fellons disqualified tens of thousands of legitimate qualified voters, most of whom just happened to be black?
Black fellons... a coincidence? Oh it must be...
I'm sorry... but you deserved that sarcasm. If you complain that the government discriminates against convicted fellons and the majority happen to be black, it's your own damn fault for being the fellon. Stop robing banks, shooting people, and making gangs and then you won't have anything to complain about. (No... that's not racist. Just think about it for a while and you'll see why it's not).
I bet ya if the majority was white you wouldn't say a word... But would the white folk? Nope... we have better things to do...
disqualified tens of thousands of legitimate qualified voters
Ya know you just contradicted yourself there? And you wonder why it was so easy it was to make an argument against you...
Quite alot of people have commented on the use of blatant sexual metaphors in egineering sciences
You mean quite a lot of feminists? The same ones that want to tear down buntly male skyscrapers and replace them with space-inefficient, "womanly organ" like designs?
I doubt calling an interface a trade center jack, because it contains 2 collapsable cicuits triggered, by a fast moving taliban controler, would receive the ambivilence that the master/slave connector does.
Hey, lets think up some more rediculous examples that are totally unrelated since your analogy has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ROOT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. We use the terms Master/Slave because of their very definition... not because all computer techs are white supremists. I could call the male/female ends of connectors the "giver and taker" respectively, but hey... I'm not a moron.
Just remember that for some people the connections are closer to home.
And some people go out of their way to find connections and complain about them.
Feminists can complain about skyscrapers, rockets, pens, hell... anything rod shaped because of its male overtone.
"Minority" groups can complain about anything that hints about their troubled past or even current discrimination... even the U.S. White House is racist.
White males.... hell... we really don't care. We could complain that the word "Woman" gives rise to a female superiority over male because of it's a larger word than "man"... thus the male gender lacks which the woman has (even with the male/female... opps.... female/male word comparison). But we have better things to do than worry about what word offends who and what shape ticks off what gender etc etc....
It's called priorities. If everyone ran around correcting everyone pseudo-racist or sexual-overtoned grammer because they're over-reacting to something that's not really there... and we didn't bother with the IMPORTANT issues, then just where would our society be? None of us could speak to, look at, or make any motion toward anyone else because it would offend them... is that a way to run things?
Speaking of which... anyone else getting nice bizzar results when trying to go to the RIAA website?
Looking at it in an negative light however, it might mean that your required to have anti-virus software installed in order to use the internet.
Ummm... no. YOU won't have to have any installed, your ROUTER will. And, of course, that is IF somehow they make it manditory for routers to contain some sort of an anti-virus protocol, which in my opinion and probably many others will never be manditory.
...I really care about database app benchmarks...
I'll laugh my ass off when this guy looses in court and is made to pay the defendents lawyer fees.
All over 20 bucks and a moronic idea that he "owns" property in space. But, I suppose, that's the price of stupidity.
Frankly, if he, or any governmental power that resognises that he has ownership over an area of land, can't keep people off his land, he really doesn't own it. If tomorrow I started up the "You're a Dumbass for Buying Land in Outer Space" orginization which sold land in outerspace to people (namely, I sell everything to myself for 1 dollar), then really I should be able to take him to court and sue him if he collects any money from his asteroid which by all rights belongs to me.
Or wait... no... that would just be stupid.
I doubt the comets made it anywhere near the surface of the sun to be concidered "crashing into it". Even from the videos they just seemes to dissappear far before they got close to the surface.
And that tiny little speck of rock, even IF it hit the surface, would not have caused a solar flare.
Something you might want to think about.
One of the arguments for Linux adoption is that upgrading isn't as necessary as in the Windows world. now here you are outlining hope that people will upgarde their computers. Saying the process is cyclic is as useful as pointing out that the sun burning out is part of a cyclic process. The inbetween will hurt a lot of people. And not the nice kind of hurt either.
So what the hell is your point?
Is this just a blip as some analysts believe, or is it the beginnings of a resurgence for the technology sector?
Yes, it's a blip. Anyone who's taken an econ class will know that investments is one of the most volitale aspects of a country's GDP. Why? Well because the good are durable so instead of a nice, smooth pattern of investment because computers are falling apart left and right, after a while people just upgrade EVERYTYING all at once (this applies to production machinery as well as computer, though computers must be upgraded more often).
So what does this mean? The survivors of the dot com boom are upgrading their computer equipment. Expect a dip within 1-1.5 years with layoffs until the number of job offerings / positions reaches a stable number (probably a little higher than it's been in the past few years, but it'll still dip). Then (probably in a nother 3 years) the same process will repeat.
Just like your shampoo bottle... wash, rinse, repeat.
Considering that the GPL and the GNU project rely on and affirm the protections of copyright, this seems like a strange argument to pursue.
Concidering SCO is trying to get money off their "copyrighted" code, this is a strange argument for them to persue.
Well... just build up some technology and blast a crew off to mars, Alpha Centauri, or wherever we can go in 100 years and let them build, reproduce, and thrive there in the next 400.
Don't forget we can keep sending people there too.
Or wait... would infecting another planet be a bad thing?
near-instantaneous, gravity-free
Someone forgot to go over their notes from physics class? Last time I checked light still had a speed limit and could be affected by gravity.
Anyway... new hulls for tanks and such will, i guess, feature a layer of highly, highly reflective material...
No. But keep in mind that that is a yearly increase and that it's only 9% of the total.
And please, please keep in mind that this kind of thing happens naturally.
People forget that we are still technically in an ice age.
This just looks like a MiniDisk to me that i've been using for years for portable audio... I was wondering when they'd get around to actually putting data on them... They're so tiny and have such a nice case.
Perhaps MDs will make a comback if this technology gets more mainstream?
Storage Tank has the potential to become to an organization's data what the Dewey Decimal system is to a library.
Shh!!! Don't mention Dewey Decimal or you might get sued!!
What the summary DIDN'T include...
As you know Microsoft has just released a new patch MS03-040, which renders several IE vulns obsolete. We are presently testing the efficacy of the vulns reported to be fixed and we can report that MS03-040 is doing the job it was intended to.
So why was that left out? Reading the summary I just thought that these people were being nice guys to Microsoft, and not that Microsoft actually addressed and fixed many issues with IE.
One sided journalism?
If they can get all those tiny needles.... wouldn't the surface be smoother WITHOUT the needles, and therfore have less friction?
...but if you think Chess is complex, you guys should try playing Go (wei`chi, igo, baduk... many names).
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Basically, there's a million dollar prize out of someone can make a go playing computer program that can beat a weak professional. How are they doing? Well... if you've played Go for a couple months you can probably beat the strongest program to date. (And yes, I can)
What's go like? Try:
http://www.usgo.org (many links there)
http://www.kiseido.com
http://www.goprob
No, but Windows runs on a certain type of computer system, made by a large number of companies. So saying that, they avoid having to name every last personal computer manufacturer on the planet...
Or, you could just say the x86 family of processors (since they are comparing processors), or just say PC's (although not really correct, it's more correct than saying "Windows computers").
Saying it's a Windows computer just ruins your knowledge credibility... you sound stupid and uninformed.
it certainly appears poised to meet or beat anything now out on the Windows side.
Uhh, Windows doesn't make computers, nor does Microsoft...
Coca-cola will feature a promotion in which winners will be located by satellites tracking GPS devices implanted in the winning cans....
You'll never look at the guy picking pop cans out of the trash the same way ever again...
If this happened in the US, 1) they would at first blame it in terrorists, 2) It would be on CNN for days, 3) Yet another "amageddon" movie would be made about it, or at least a made-for-tv crappy movie, and 4) People would protest demanding more protectiong...
But... this happened in india, so nobody cared...
And I just bought a $10,000 HD Plasma TV!!! Now it's obsolete!!! ::crys:: I can never win with technology!
This technique is known to be very accurate because of the agreement between core samples from, e.g., arctic and antarctic pack ice.
I know the process, but how much actual C02 from the atmosphere does the ice actually gather? Furthermore, because it doesn't snow that much at the poles, the peaks and dips noticed over a period of time (say a thousand years, perhaps) aren't noticed, only an average.