Simple question, would you rather be metered or capped?
Coming from someone who had cable modem 384/128, I'd much rathered they metered the warez sucking assholes, instead of forcing everyone to go slower, even during offpeak times.
Assuming you are right, the public loses either way. If the bookstore wins, the taxpayers have to pay for their own oppression, if the government wins, it's an obvious loss. Things like this remind me why I am a Libertarian.
It's called "a chilling effect" on free speech, and it's something courts have tried to avoid causing through their decisions. What would be the point of freedom of speech, if everyone was afraid to listen? This is a 1st amendment issue, the fourth amendment is pretty well taken care of, since they had a properly issued warrant.
Sure, there may be a set of problems that are usually called AI, but what that set of problems includes, evolves constanly.
So, don't be surprised you don't see "practical applications of AI", most of the stuff we use today would have been considered AI technology at some point in history.
I think all those are interesting theories, but really, in the end they are just speculation. The Big Bang isn't something we can recreate under controlled circumstances, neither is a black hole (yet). As far as science goes, they are pretty weak. Maybe astrophysicists have looser standards for acceptance of a theory, since they have so much less to work with, but in my mind, those types of theories are very subject to change as we learn more and more.
I don't think my argument relies on the universe being zero-sum anyway, my point was, things can be created, without anything basic being created. I can create a pencil from wood and graphite, and a pencil was "created", even though there is no net gain or loss of mass or energy or anything basic.
If life can be viewed as an assembly of matter, which I think it can, then really the ultimate creation of the universe is irrelevant to the creation of anything of a higher order, like life, or pencils, or cakes.
Did you expect anything else?
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These are the people that bring you the unlimited submachinegun clips, bullets that must not hurt *too* much, and bad guys who never seem to practice at the target range.
It's an action movie, they are all like that.
Oh, ObSlashdotBash: I guess the MPAA is worth supporting today?
I agree, Sylpheed is a supeorior client, pretty much like what balsa would be like if balsa wasn't buggy as hell, and wasn't trying to be a eudora clone and failing.
I havn't tried the Claws add on for Sylpheed yet, but I hear it's good if you like that sort of thing.
The one thing Sylpheed is missing is return reciept. Return reciept may not be something geeks often use, but users at work like to use it a lot, and it's not complicated to implement.
I have an idea, why don't you all let it drop. No one is forcing you to hang out on Slashdot. I'm sick of hearing about this whole Michael/Seth/Censorware thing. It's over, get over it. I think it's just sour grapes because Slashdot hired Michael, otherwise you all would let it drop.
Yes, it sucked, but it's over. Quit wasting your time and your lives.
The web page above says they are Ultra320 but the drive I have is labeled Ultra160. No matter, really, I don't think one drive can sustain a 320 MB/sec transfer rate -
If you are using a 32 bit PCI bus, it will saturate well below 160MB/sec. It's all pretty much a waste of money except for certain applications, especially when I can max out the PCI bus with IDE drives.
My Bonzai Buddy had a fight with my Bonzai Kitty. The outcome was messy. Luckly it was the Klein Bottle Kitty, so it just phased into the next dimension to get away.
I think Mann is a nutcase too, but would you feel uncomfortable sitting next to a hard of hearing person with a heart disorder? Would you ask them to turn off their electronics?
What about Stephen Hawking? "Mr. Hawking, please turn off all your gadgets, freak".
Yes, yes. Those things are making up for a disability compared to "normal" people. But it's all relative, now isn't it?
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Simple question, would you rather be metered or capped?
Coming from someone who had cable modem 384/128, I'd much rathered they metered the warez sucking assholes, instead of forcing everyone to go slower, even during offpeak times.
Not as many days of MP3s as this.
Since I built it, I did the math on the MP3s first thing. What else does one do when presented with an incomprehensible amount of space.
Lets assume 2MB per minute, a little high for 128kbps, but lets assume you have 160s in there too.
Server 1: 1.6TiB
Server 2: 1.8TiB (I think the 1.9 on the page is a typo)
That's 3.4 TiB, 3481GB, 3.5Mln MB rounded.
divide by 2, 2mb per minute.
divide by 60 minutes in an hour
12 hours in a day
365 days in a year.
6.7 Years of Mp3s without a single repeat. For less than $17,000.
If you assume 1MB/minute of MP3, which is closer to reality, it's over 13 years of MP3s.
Read speed is 128MBytes/sec, write speed is 42MBytes/sec.
You don't need a cray, you can build this at home, scaled down.
Fine, email me everytime you make a purchase from now on.
Assuming you are right, the public loses either way. If the bookstore wins, the taxpayers have to pay for their own oppression, if the government wins, it's an obvious loss. Things like this remind me why I am a Libertarian.
It's called "a chilling effect" on free speech, and it's something courts have tried to avoid causing through their decisions. What would be the point of freedom of speech, if everyone was afraid to listen? This is a 1st amendment issue, the fourth amendment is pretty well taken care of, since they had a properly issued warrant.
German is doubleplusgood!
That's only for nuclear explosions that take place in the vaccuum of space! Don't you watch movies?
AI doesn't exist.
Sure, there may be a set of problems that are usually called AI, but what that set of problems includes, evolves constanly.
So, don't be surprised you don't see "practical applications of AI", most of the stuff we use today would have been considered AI technology at some point in history.
Yeah, generally you would fire an automatic weapon in bursts of 2-5 rounds.
I think all those are interesting theories, but really, in the end they are just speculation. The Big Bang isn't something we can recreate under controlled circumstances, neither is a black hole (yet). As far as science goes, they are pretty weak. Maybe astrophysicists have looser standards for acceptance of a theory, since they have so much less to work with, but in my mind, those types of theories are very subject to change as we learn more and more.
I don't think my argument relies on the universe being zero-sum anyway, my point was, things can be created, without anything basic being created. I can create a pencil from wood and graphite, and a pencil was "created", even though there is no net gain or loss of mass or energy or anything basic.
If life can be viewed as an assembly of matter, which I think it can, then really the ultimate creation of the universe is irrelevant to the creation of anything of a higher order, like life, or pencils, or cakes.
These are the people that bring you the unlimited submachinegun clips, bullets that must not hurt *too* much, and bad guys who never seem to practice at the target range.
It's an action movie, they are all like that.
Oh, ObSlashdotBash: I guess the MPAA is worth supporting today?
I agree, Sylpheed is a supeorior client, pretty much like what balsa would be like if balsa wasn't buggy as hell, and wasn't trying to be a eudora clone and failing.
I havn't tried the Claws add on for Sylpheed yet, but I hear it's good if you like that sort of thing.
The one thing Sylpheed is missing is return reciept. Return reciept may not be something geeks often use, but users at work like to use it a lot, and it's not complicated to implement.
Man, You don't understand American culture very well.
1) You don't tell your kids Santa isn't real until they are at least 7 or 8.
2) Same with tooth fariy.
3) You generally don't tell them what's up with sex, until after they are 12 or 13 and already figure it out.
4) You also generally don't tell them that God isn't real either, but most people figure that one out too.
I have an idea, why don't you all let it drop. No one is forcing you to hang out on Slashdot. I'm sick of hearing about this whole Michael/Seth/Censorware thing. It's over, get over it. I think it's just sour grapes because Slashdot hired Michael, otherwise you all would let it drop.
Yes, it sucked, but it's over. Quit wasting your time and your lives.
Because it's "fscking" funny, not offtopic.
It's very bad form to cite Steve Mann as some sort of modern hero. He is a whack job with way too much money.
Which one is that, the "War on Terrorism", or the "War on Drugs"?
The web page above says they are Ultra320 but the drive I have is labeled Ultra160. No matter, really, I don't think one drive can sustain a 320 MB/sec transfer rate -
If you are using a 32 bit PCI bus, it will saturate well below 160MB/sec. It's all pretty much a waste of money except for certain applications, especially when I can max out the PCI bus with IDE drives.
I think it's only extremely low frequency, high amplitude waves that are uncomfortable.
Grassroots campaigns run by idiots.
My Bonzai Buddy had a fight with my Bonzai Kitty. The outcome was messy. Luckly it was the Klein Bottle Kitty, so it just phased into the next dimension to get away.
so he's perfectly capable of operating normally without them
My point was, what is "normal", and who dictates it? Some airport security guard? There are some deeper things at issue here.
Really, how is this any different?
I think Mann is a nutcase too, but would you feel uncomfortable sitting next to a hard of hearing person with a heart disorder? Would you ask them to turn off their electronics?
What about Stephen Hawking? "Mr. Hawking, please turn off all your gadgets, freak".
Yes, yes. Those things are making up for a disability compared to "normal" people. But it's all relative, now isn't it?
I mean even then it's not a huge improvement. You will see maybe 300Mbit/s or so, depending on how the applications you are running were written.