This will have no affect on the massive amounts of Divx movies and warezd Software. After living "on campus" in the dorms for three years now, I'm pretty sure that movies and warez are a way bigger bandwith issue than mp3s. Albums are small and quick to download in 20 mins. Movies and software (games especially), on the otherhand, are often gigs and gigs of data to have to pull down and can take hours. This will help very little in the long run.
What is stopping you from going to Comp USA/Best Buy/Other HUGE Chain Store and buying 4 copies of Win2k off the shelf? Last I checked, those stores still had a few copies of Win2k Professional lying around.
If Creative even wants to have a chance, they have to beat the Archos high end model with an 80gb hardrive . Thjat leads me to a more general point that all these new "jukeboxes" have far to little storage space. If I have 100+ gigs of music alone, I want to buy a portable that allows me to take it all with me. Where is my 300gb Nomad Zen!!!
1 MILLION GIGS! BAH! That isn't news unless they convert it to some entirely inappropiate metric. How many Library of Congresses is this? How many 128kbps MP3s can you store on it. And most importantly, how many floppy disks is this equivalent too?!
Actually they don't go after the supply in the War on Drugs. They g after the consumers and small time pushers thinking (and it's the same thing the RIAA thinks) that it will deter people. This will not work for two reasons:
1). People aren't usally detered from gray-area moral things like taking drugs. The same goes for those selling them. It's just to EASY to get/sell drugs to make it a problem in most places. So when the cops catch people, they throw them in jail, and a whole new crew of folks is out there to continue the drug econonmy.
2). They don't go after the suppliers for one one very good rule: They are super dangerous. High level drug trade is bad news and if a poitician were to take a real hardline stance on it, he could very well end up dead. So why bother with the dangerous sharks when you can throw Joe Pusher in prison. It all looks the same on Cops.
Anyway, the point I"m trying to get across is that this is all about scaring normal people into buying CDs again. Geeks will from now on find better ways to grab tunes. THe RIAA wants to control the Layman market. That's were the big money really is.
Man, sometimes it just pays to be 12 and easisly manipulated to cry. I wonder if the RIAA would sue me if I said I had cancer or something that would make society care about me more than "normies".
LOGICALLY, I should have every right to share, without any finical gain, media in my pocession with whomever I wish. LOGICALLY , copyrights should only apply in a commercial venue, limiting the right to charge for the media to the artist or whoever the copyright is turned over to. LOGICALLY, copyright is broken in it's current form. The GPL would still function fine under this. In this case, the GPL would state that this material is copyrighted and in order to reproduce it with the intention to charge for it, you must release the source code. Please forgive my typos.
It's $2500 dollars now. I just downloaded the song off a p2p network to see what the big deal is. It's sure nothing special. I'm deleting it now so nobody come after me with a lawsuit.
No, it is not. No where in the constitution does it say that property is more important than free speech. The constitution DOES say that congress may make no law prohibiting free speech. The court is required to interperate laws within that guideline. Free speech will win out in this case because the information is already so widly avaible and ordering folks to stop distrubuting it would be an intrinsic limitation of free speech.
Speaking of founding fathers; they would abhore the state copyright law has fallen in to. Corporations have managed to extend the orginal copyright term and possible extensions to the most extreme lengths. Yes, our founding fathers saw IP as a vital part to a growing nation but only if it entered public domain after a few years.
Sounds like the folks in the Giant Black Marker Business stand to make a lot of money then. Ever tried to recover info from a page that's been "Blacked Out"? It's pretty mcuh impossible. It's not a good way to do things when you have 3 million pages of whatever to destroy, but surely technology will soon give us the More Giant Black Marker and privacy/corruption can continue.
Judging by the non-english main page for DreamHack, I'm gonna guess it's not in the US. This is a big deal for a U.S. LAN party. Burden (the head dude behind it all) completly admits they do it bigger in overseas, but that's far away. You think geeks hate hauling their gear 100 yards from parking lot to table? Imagine how much it pisses them off to move shit overseas. And do all those big name companies (AMD, ATI, ASUS, etc) sponsor Dreamhack? Tom's Hardware isn't concerned with how many people show; they care how much attention the big companies are paying to this.
Did I say that he should be so laize-faire about the assignments he gives that deadlines and responibilty aren't an issue? No, I'm only saying that he or she should realize he's dealing with kids who for the most part are fresh out of high school and maybe are still adjusting to college. My freshmen composition professor "went easy on us" 2 or 3 times during my first semester and it was a godsend. Did you go to college? Did you ever have trouble doing a comp paper? It can be challanging to for a new student to deal with "read this book, and write 5 pages by next friday". Just cutting people slack while they adjust is a good way to build up your rep as a professor and as a human being. People like compassion. Also, it should be noted that while I've had many good professor since then, none have bee as forgiving and I'm glad for that.
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Your math skills are broken:
.320 GBps which is 1/30 of of a 10GBps network.
.600GBps
1GBit = 1000Mbits
320MBps is
And 600MBps is
and I make myself look retarded by using the wrong affect/effect. Damn
This will have no affect on the massive amounts of Divx movies and warezd Software. After living "on campus" in the dorms for three years now, I'm pretty sure that movies and warez are a way bigger bandwith issue than mp3s. Albums are small and quick to download in 20 mins. Movies and software (games especially), on the otherhand, are often gigs and gigs of data to have to pull down and can take hours. This will help very little in the long run.
That is all
What is stopping you from going to Comp USA/Best Buy/Other HUGE Chain Store and buying 4 copies of Win2k off the shelf? Last I checked, those stores still had a few copies of Win2k Professional lying around.
If Creative even wants to have a chance, they have to beat the Archos high end model with an 80gb hardrive . Thjat leads me to a more general point that all these new "jukeboxes" have far to little storage space. If I have 100+ gigs of music alone, I want to buy a portable that allows me to take it all with me. Where is my 300gb Nomad Zen!!!
1 MILLION GIGS! BAH! That isn't news unless they convert it to some entirely inappropiate metric. How many Library of Congresses is this? How many 128kbps MP3s can you store on it. And most importantly, how many floppy disks is this equivalent too?!
So where is my damn flying car?
No, I think I'd rather play Half-Life 2 at a nice, crisp framrate on my 9700 Pro.
I'd would just like to add that Matrox cards have by far the best image qaulity in 2d-land. Maybe 3d-land as well. They are slower, but still snazzy.
What a terrible article. It didn't even say what resolution all that was happening at.
Actually they don't go after the supply in the War on Drugs. They g after the consumers and small time pushers thinking (and it's the same thing the RIAA thinks) that it will deter people. This will not work for two reasons:
1). People aren't usally detered from gray-area moral things like taking drugs. The same goes for those selling them. It's just to EASY to get/sell drugs to make it a problem in most places. So when the cops catch people, they throw them in jail, and a whole new crew of folks is out there to continue the drug econonmy.
2). They don't go after the suppliers for one one very good rule: They are super dangerous. High level drug trade is bad news and if a poitician were to take a real hardline stance on it, he could very well end up dead. So why bother with the dangerous sharks when you can throw Joe Pusher in prison. It all looks the same on Cops.
Anyway, the point I"m trying to get across is that this is all about scaring normal people into buying CDs again. Geeks will from now on find better ways to grab tunes. THe RIAA wants to control the Layman market. That's were the big money really is.
Man, sometimes it just pays to be 12 and easisly manipulated to cry. I wonder if the RIAA would sue me if I said I had cancer or something that would make society care about me more than "normies".
Wow, SCO is fighting piracy in the music industry now too! Holy Crap! Why were there not 2 or 3 Slashdot stoires about this?
LOGICALLY, I should have every right to share, without any finical gain, media in my pocession with whomever I wish. LOGICALLY , copyrights should only apply in a commercial venue, limiting the right to charge for the media to the artist or whoever the copyright is turned over to. LOGICALLY, copyright is broken in it's current form. The GPL would still function fine under this. In this case, the GPL would state that this material is copyrighted and in order to reproduce it with the intention to charge for it, you must release the source code. Please forgive my typos.
It's $2500 dollars now. I just downloaded the song off a p2p network to see what the big deal is. It's sure nothing special. I'm deleting it now so nobody come after me with a lawsuit.
Yeah, and I like to believe the rumor that Charles Manson auditioned to be in the Monkees. Think about what he looks like now!
Cram as many videos as possible into TRL's time frame. This saves time for commerials It's about MONEY!! Not MUSIC!!!
No, it is not. No where in the constitution does it say that property is more important than free speech. The constitution DOES say that congress may make no law prohibiting free speech. The court is required to interperate laws within that guideline. Free speech will win out in this case because the information is already so widly avaible and ordering folks to stop distrubuting it would be an intrinsic limitation of free speech.
Speaking of founding fathers; they would abhore the state copyright law has fallen in to. Corporations have managed to extend the orginal copyright term and possible extensions to the most extreme lengths. Yes, our founding fathers saw IP as a vital part to a growing nation but only if it entered public domain after a few years.
Sounds like the folks in the Giant Black Marker Business stand to make a lot of money then. Ever tried to recover info from a page that's been "Blacked Out"? It's pretty mcuh impossible. It's not a good way to do things when you have 3 million pages of whatever to destroy, but surely technology will soon give us the More Giant Black Marker and privacy/corruption can continue.
I thought the game was too boring, bug-ridden, and repetative to take seriously. Isn't everyone gonna wait 2 or 3 years for it to shape up?
Judging by the non-english main page for DreamHack, I'm gonna guess it's not in the US. This is a big deal for a U.S. LAN party. Burden (the head dude behind it all) completly admits they do it bigger in overseas, but that's far away. You think geeks hate hauling their gear 100 yards from parking lot to table? Imagine how much it pisses them off to move shit overseas. And do all those big name companies (AMD, ATI, ASUS, etc) sponsor Dreamhack? Tom's Hardware isn't concerned with how many people show; they care how much attention the big companies are paying to this.
Is it as fast as the new Macs?
It's posible to BEAT duck hunt? I thought it just went on and on till you got tired and missed.
Did I say that he should be so laize-faire about the assignments he gives that deadlines and responibilty aren't an issue? No, I'm only saying that he or she should realize he's dealing with kids who for the most part are fresh out of high school and maybe are still adjusting to college. My freshmen composition professor "went easy on us" 2 or 3 times during my first semester and it was a godsend. Did you go to college? Did you ever have trouble doing a comp paper? It can be challanging to for a new student to deal with "read this book, and write 5 pages by next friday". Just cutting people slack while they adjust is a good way to build up your rep as a professor and as a human being. People like compassion. Also, it should be noted that while I've had many good professor since then, none have bee as forgiving and I'm glad for that.