"Pay them enough" reasoning is BS: the fact that I could sleep with the entire Swedish bikini team at once if I "paid them enough" is immaterial if I just plain cannot afford the price, OK?
As a purely hypothetical question, what's the going rate for the Swedish bikini team?
Please - as a Vancouver resident who already thinks there are way too many people coming here, I beg you to allow outsiders to continue thinking of us as a backwater. Too bad the fracking 2010 Winter Olympics are gonna make it that much harder.
This looks really interesting. It's something who's time has come. The one obvious problem with this product, however, is the lack of additional outputs. Specifically, at a minimum, component and DVI are needed.
We have not just a Conservative government in place, but a small-'c' Conservative government. Such a government would most likely be only too happy to bring in DMCA-like legislation. Given this, what can we do *now* to at least try to prevent such legislation from happening? This issue is especially pressing as there is the possibility that the Conservatives will form a majority government in the not too distant future.
To reiterate: what can we do *now* to keep the abominable DMCA from reaching Canadian shores?
So they want Bush to blacklist Canada, their biggest trading partner (last I heard), their NATO ally, whose troops are now fighting in Afghanistan against the Taliban, possessor of the second largest petroleum reserves in the world, and whose government is one of the very few who are not overtly hostile to the Bush administration? Why, oh why, do I think that this blacklist wouldn't prevent the US from buying Canadian oil?
Likewise, there is no law in Canada that specifically bans mod chips and other piracy tools, as there is in the United States.
Making and distributing the chips has become so lucrative that the thriving business is now dominated by organized-crime rings, including the Hells Angels in Quebec and the Big Circle Boys in Ontario and British Columbia, according to the IIPA. This sounds like total BS; organized-crime rings deal in criminal activities (the hint is the "crime" part of "organized-crime rings"). If indeed mod chips are legal in Canada, then there would be no vacuum left by legitimate businesses that organized crime would rush in to fill - unlike the case with drugs, guns, etc.
The sad part is that the Harper government will probably sell us out on this one as the Conservatives are "pro-business". Having said that, it's not clear to me that the Liberals would act any different. I would suspect the NDP would be more sympathetic to "fair use" and all, but they're not going to form a government and I would not want them to form a government.
A Conservative government here in Canada turns us into a mere appendage of the US Government, compliant to their will most of the time. Hell, we just paid out 10 mil in damages to a Canadian Citizen we happily fingered for the US Dept of Homeland security so they could ship him to Syria to be tortured for a year or so even though there was no evidence he supported terrorism. Although I share the concern it should be pointed out that the Canadian in question was "fingered" under the tenure of the previous Liberal government. Additionally, the current Conservative government really hasn't done anything that smacks of blatant toadyism. Not to say that it won't happen in the future, but at present the Conservatives are quite mindful of their minority government status.
You folks do realize that there are more than a few Canadian nationalists who would cheer on anything that stops or even delays what is considered by them to be US cultural imperialism.
Bronfman is Canadian. In Canada it is legal to download (but not necessarily upload) music. If Bronfman's kids were doing their downloading in Canada, then they were committing no offense.
They did come into the videogame industry to become a sizeable player - and one that the competition now has to react to (where Microsoft was playing the follower role before). Xbox Live, for instance, is very innovative. I can't see the gamer scores of players on any other system. That is innovation. Is this the same thing as seeing other players' scores in bzflag, or is it something else?
Supposedly, HP sells some printers at a loss, thus justifying exorbitant prices for these printers' ink. I ask: is there any supporting evidence that HP does indeed sell these suckers at a loss, or is this just a line HP peddles (and most seem to accept) so that it can get people to feel good about paying big bucks for little cartridges of ink?
Is there anywhere we can look to see an authoritative breakdown of HP's profits and losses on individual printer lines? Or do we just nod and say OK when HP claims to sell at a loss.
I'm a former HP inkjet owner, who now is more than happy using a Brother b&w laser printer - not a solution for everyone, but works extremely well for me.
Whereas believing in virgin births, wine literally changing into blood, hosts changing into flesh, angels, a guy with pointy horns and a pitchfork, etc, etc, etc can be demonstrated as scientifically sound?
I don't put a lot of faith (no pun intended) in Stockwell Day either, but I really don't see the point of bringing the man's religion into the discussion.
But writing and reading data at the same time from the same hard drive was neither new nor non-obvious, no? The fact that the data in question is video data seems like a logical extension. It's like putting the word "Internet" in a common business practice and getting a patent on it.
As for whether it was obviously possible - as long as the hard drive and other hardware were sufficiently spec'd, then why would that even be a question?
And as for whether it wasn't obvious that you'd want to do it - I don't believe that has anything to do with the patentability of an "invention"
ID claims that humans, the Earth, the universe, etc are much too complex to be the result of one or more accidents. Such complexity could only be the result of the intervention of a master architect or intelligent designer, if you will.
The problem with this is that it only pretends to solve the question by introducing an extra level of indirection. The logical followup question is never asked: how did a being as complex as the one that designed the universe come into existence?
If life, the universe, and everything are too complex to have come into existence by accident, then almost by definition, the designer, which is at least as complex and most likely even more complex than his/her/its creation, could not have come into existence by accident. And so by applying the principle of ID (complexity above a certain level requires an intelligent designer), we unavoidably come up with the notion that our designer has a designer of his/her/its own. Applying ID again, we see that our designer's designer has a designer of her/his/its own. And on and on we go ad nauseam, resulting in an infinite number of intelligent designers.
And don't forget - massive deficits are now good. It's now not only acceptable, but expected, perhaps even noble, that your kids and grandkids should pay for your inability to be fiscally responsible. Party on!
The one issue with this setup (I considered it myself) is that S.M.A.R.T. will not work on USB enclosed drives. Hence those nice little smartctl jobs that you should be running every night will not be able to warn you of impending drive failure.
And he/she/it/whatever is the equivalent of a 10 year old and the universe is the equivalent of the 10 year old's ant farm of a science project. Once he/she/it/whatever gets his/her/its/whatevers grade for his/her/its/whatevers project, the ant farm (i.e., what we fondly refer to as the universe) get flushed down the toilet (or whatever he/she/it/whatever uses to deal with his/her/its/whatevers waste).
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As a purely hypothetical question, what's the going rate for the Swedish bikini team?
Please - as a Vancouver resident who already thinks there are way too many people coming here, I beg you to allow outsiders to continue thinking of us as a backwater. Too bad the fracking 2010 Winter Olympics are gonna make it that much harder.
Well, as a Vancouver resident, I for one welcome our new wage suppressing overlords.
How well is the Avermedia A180 working for you? I was thinking of getting one for OTA HD, so any feedback you can provide would be appreciated.
FWIW, I run one front-end and 2 back-ends on Debian/Testing.
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Jim
How often does it go down to -20 or up to +35 degrees Celsius in Cornwall?
This looks really interesting. It's something who's time has come. The one obvious problem with this product, however, is the lack of additional outputs. Specifically, at a minimum, component and DVI are needed.
So what you see is a MythTV front-end.
We have not just a Conservative government in place, but a small-'c' Conservative government. Such a government would most likely be only too happy to bring in DMCA-like legislation. Given this, what can we do *now* to at least try to prevent such legislation from happening? This issue is especially pressing as there is the possibility that the Conservatives will form a majority government in the not too distant future.
To reiterate: what can we do *now* to keep the abominable DMCA from reaching Canadian shores?
Making and distributing the chips has become so lucrative that the thriving business is now dominated by organized-crime rings, including the Hells Angels in Quebec and the Big Circle Boys in Ontario and British Columbia, according to the IIPA. This sounds like total BS; organized-crime rings deal in criminal activities (the hint is the "crime" part of "organized-crime rings"). If indeed mod chips are legal in Canada, then there would be no vacuum left by legitimate businesses that organized crime would rush in to fill - unlike the case with drugs, guns, etc.
The sad part is that the Harper government will probably sell us out on this one as the Conservatives are "pro-business". Having said that, it's not clear to me that the Liberals would act any different. I would suspect the NDP would be more sympathetic to "fair use" and all, but they're not going to form a government and I would not want them to form a government.
Damn.
Gotta ask: will PS3 support in 2.6.20 allow me to turn a PS3 into a MythTV frontend?
You folks do realize that there are more than a few Canadian nationalists who would cheer on anything that stops or even delays what is considered by them to be US cultural imperialism.
Or the desires of a Conservative government intent on more closely aligning Canada with the US.
Bronfman is Canadian. In Canada it is legal to download (but not necessarily upload) music. If Bronfman's kids were doing their downloading in Canada, then they were committing no offense.
Supposedly, HP sells some printers at a loss, thus justifying exorbitant prices for these printers' ink. I ask: is there any supporting evidence that HP does indeed sell these suckers at a loss, or is this just a line HP peddles (and most seem to accept) so that it can get people to feel good about paying big bucks for little cartridges of ink?
Is there anywhere we can look to see an authoritative breakdown of HP's profits and losses on individual printer lines? Or do we just nod and say OK when HP claims to sell at a loss.
I'm a former HP inkjet owner, who now is more than happy using a Brother b&w laser printer - not a solution for everyone, but works extremely well for me.
Whereas believing in virgin births, wine literally changing into blood, hosts changing into flesh, angels, a guy with pointy horns and a pitchfork, etc, etc, etc can be demonstrated as scientifically sound?
I don't put a lot of faith (no pun intended) in Stockwell Day either, but I really don't see the point of bringing the man's religion into the discussion.
Or instead
- print out a bunch of paper sheets with a bunch of names on them
- have the voter mark an X next to the name that he likes
What the frell are you talking about?
But writing and reading data at the same time from the same hard drive was neither new nor non-obvious, no? The fact that the data in question is video data seems like a logical extension. It's like putting the word "Internet" in a common business practice and getting a patent on it.
As for whether it was obviously possible - as long as the hard drive and other hardware were sufficiently spec'd, then why would that even be a question?
And as for whether it wasn't obvious that you'd want to do it - I don't believe that has anything to do with the patentability of an "invention"
ID claims that humans, the Earth, the universe, etc are much too complex to be the result of one or more accidents. Such complexity could only be the result of the intervention of a master architect or intelligent designer, if you will.
The problem with this is that it only pretends to solve the question by introducing an extra level of indirection. The logical followup question is never asked: how did a being as complex as the one that designed the universe come into existence?
If life, the universe, and everything are too complex to have come into existence by accident, then almost by definition, the designer, which is at least as complex and most likely even more complex than his/her/its creation, could not have come into existence by accident. And so by applying the principle of ID (complexity above a certain level requires an intelligent designer), we unavoidably come up with the notion that our designer has a designer of his/her/its own. Applying ID again, we see that our designer's designer has a designer of her/his/its own. And on and on we go ad nauseam, resulting in an infinite number of intelligent designers.
Ain't ID fun?
And don't forget - massive deficits are now good. It's now not only acceptable, but expected, perhaps even noble, that your kids and grandkids should pay for your inability to be fiscally responsible. Party on!
The one issue with this setup (I considered it myself) is that S.M.A.R.T. will not work on USB enclosed drives. Hence those nice little smartctl jobs that you should be running every night will not be able to warn you of impending drive failure.
And he/she/it/whatever is the equivalent of a 10 year old and the universe is the equivalent of the 10 year old's ant farm of a science project. Once he/she/it/whatever gets his/her/its/whatevers grade for his/her/its/whatevers project, the ant farm (i.e., what we fondly refer to as the universe) get flushed down the toilet (or whatever he/she/it/whatever uses to deal with his/her/its/whatevers waste).
Refute it - I dare you.