and I know that it doesn't solve ALL of the problems but it has to eliminate enouogh problems to be a viable solution.
It's time to look at the Intel vPro tm. tech that enables this. Look for demo videos online. The level in the BIOS enables remote powering up machines to push OS updates, remote booting repairing crashed/unbootable Windows machines, etc. This protected level of stuff is beyond the OS and even the power switch. IF it can remote boot an unbootable corrupt Windows partition, write fixes to it and boot it up, there just isn't much that a Live CD can hide. You best bet is to use your own known hardware. Turn off the remote management stuff unless your employer is using it. If the employer is using it, their top level management should be able to detect alterations to the protected area.
that's just because mccain aint gonna win. why waste the money on him?
Favors and influence. With no campaign support (little) they will have very little pull.
"Hey McCain, we need you to not veto bill XXXXX"
"RIAA, take a flying leap. You gave 6X the money to Democratic competitors in the campaign"
They are not going to have much pull with this one, unless they dangle re-election money. If they do, they need to start early.
I'm with you, I think McCain is going to win. There are enough Democrats that either fully hate Clinton or Obama that there is no way they would vote for them in the primary. McCain is going to get all the Republican votes and maybe 1/3 of the Democratic votes from those who can't vote for which ever canidate that wins the Democratic primary. The mud is way too heavy and the lines of who you can't elect are being drawn. Enough know universal health care is simply health care everyone needs to buy regardless of whether they can afford it. (It's paid by higher taxes and is health care and a government administrative overhead reducing effeciency) so many can't vote for Clinton.
The anti-white and America preacher with the re-opening the race card issues that were settled long ago, and the Hussain name make Obama un-electable as those fearing reverse discrimination, a fear of a president enabling boldness in our terrorist enemies, and such produce another segment of Democrats that will never vote for Obama in the general election.
For these reasons, I think McCain will win. There are too many Anybody but Clinton and Anbody but McCain democrats to elect either in the general election. I may be wrong, but that's what I see. McCain may get really mud covered in the general election as he enters the spotlight after the primary, so things may change. McCain's weak point is the perception of Bush pollitics as usual and the war so he does have a segment that will never vote for him also.
Actually, at supersonic speeds you wouldn't hear it coming anyway because it would arrive before the sound anyway.
Having lived under a flight path before they banned supersonic flights in the US, I remember the double boom from military flights. It is true. You don't hear them comming. A loud sudden Boom Boom like a double thunderclap folowed by the jet roar is the norm. 3 years ago while hiking, I got to experiance it again as a low flying military jet flew over the backwoods. I don't think he was supposed to be supersonic, but it was definately a sonic boom that announced his arrival. I think some pilots just need to check out the craft in unpopulated areas, but often fail the know there are hikers in the area. From low flying aircraft, it's really loud. At least in the 1960's they limited supersonid overland flight to high altitude which softened the bang into a more muffled boom like distant thunder.
Interesting how the Republican announcement fails to mention RIAA.
Are you implying the Democrats had anything to say about it? Somehow, I don't think the Democrats and the Republicans are much different on the issue. If you want some indication, look at the PAC money from various lobby groups.
Here is a help with a direct link to the Lobby money from the recording industry.
See how your favorite canidate is doing and who supports them. http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.php Here is the good one. How is the canidates doing in regard to how the movie, TV, and Recording industry is supporting your canidate. It sure looks they don't care for McCain. http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.php?ind=B02 With over 3 million each to the Dem canidate and only just over half a million to McCain, you can tell who they want. Follow the money.
Back to the point, consumers buy what works. Sometimes they buy restricted stuff if the price is right and the restriction isn't too bad.
Sounds to me like it could have a
The point is it is lacking many basic features. I don't run Windows anything WGA. An iPod and Creative Zen Vision both connect to my Ubuntu box just fine. I have not checked recently, but last time I checked, there was no lib for the Zune. It doesn't connect as an external USB storrage drive where MP3s and videos can be dropped to play on the device. (Neither does the other two players mentioned but they have Linux support) My super cheap Coby player does support drag and drop as a USB storrage device, which is why I bought it. It does not support any DRM format. This is not a problem as I don't buy DRM. I can directly load the songs on the player's limited built in memory, or simply load up a SD flash card and plug it in. It includes a built in FM radio and directly records MP3's from the radio or built in mic. Not bad for a $40 player.
If you want to send me a Zune, fine, I'll see if it can record off the radio and if I can then copy the recordings off the unit to my Linux PC. I'll see if I can find any Zune lib support so I can copy my MP3's to the Zune. It may do some fantastic things, but if it is incompatible with what I would use it for, it's pretty much useless. I would have to borrow someone's Windows PC to load songs on it.
Go for Dell Vostro 1310 , more value for our bucks, 13" 1280x800 and 80 Gb hard disk, about the same price of the 8.9" EEE....
But instead of really long battery life, a drop proof solid state hard drive, you get a bigger heavier laptop with shorter battery life and maybe a 3 year hard drive life.
The small form factor, long battery life, and full features (Not a PDA) is the attraction for these machines. These features at this price point is nice.
Carbon sequestration is like burying a ticking bomb in your backyard. A much better solution is carbon mineral sequestration - turning the carbon into rocks of some kind. That way, unlike underground sequestration (which has the potential to leak straight back into the atmosphere), the carbon stays where it is put.
Who cares where the carbon comes from? Instead of trying to capture carbon, we should simply bury the same amount of almost pure carbon in easly obtained forms. In a gas, CO2 is common. As a solid, charcoal birquets is common. I know, who is going to give up the fuel for the BBQ and bury it instead of using it? That's the point people.. Carbon is fuel. Let me repeat, Carbon is fuel. If you want to keep the carbon out of the atmosphere, let's get rid of the internal combustion engine, one of the least effecient ways to burn a hydrocarbon.
iTunes songs that have had their Fairplay DRM stripped
When did iTunes provide a DRM stripper? You couldn't possibly be suggesting a DMCA volation here are you? I was speaking of legal activities.
Also, the iPod will play the 1 million+ DRM-free songs at the Zune Marketplace (320kbps MP3).
I had no idea Microsoft joined in the DRM free music business. I knew the Zune played DRM free AAC files, but the DRM free ones are higher priced. I'll have to check it out if it's not too much trouble. I heard it takes somekind of currancy other than dollars (Zune Points or something), some exchange account, Direct X,.net, and possibly some WGA certified client, and other stuff I don't have.
I heard you can't even browse the site and library without an account. Does it work with Firefox?
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However, The Gimp is not anything remotely close to a suitable substitute for Photoshop.
I have never used photoshop. It's not in my price range. I ran across The Gimp as part of my finaly getting a stable Linux version. I was using some software that came with a camera that was good for touch-ups, red eye removal and other consumer grade stuff. I ran into The Gimp when I connected a flatbed scanner and I started learning it the hard way. It blew my socks off. The learning curve was steep. Working layers was new and as a result very frustrating for a newbie (can't just grab the pencil and draw lines! WTF???!!). The more I learned the more I liked it. Over the years the improvements have grown in leaps and bounds. If you haven't tried it lately, you are in for a treat. For the $1000, I'll take the time to learn the competition and see if it will function for me. In short, The Gimp does what I need in a photo editor and has lots of neat toys I'll likely never use.
Photoshop is like Mac vs Window for many. Windows is cheaper and does the job. Windows is getting worse. The Gimp on the other hand is getting better.
I've been doing that for years on my SanDisk MP3 player
Consumers are good at finding what they want and the features they want. Some folks will be fine with the player and it's subscription service. The rest of us will find players that will play our content ripped from DVD's, shared, and downloaded from YouTube.
I often get asked "What computer should I buy?" I always tell them "Find the software you want to run and then buy the haredware that will run it.". With portable media players, this is still very true. If you want to play MP3's and.flv files, only buy a player that will play it.
If you want a player that plays music purchased from the Zune site, you may wish to consider one, but remember, it won't play songs from iTunes. It looks like it also won't play YouTube rips.
You can vote for DRM with your wallet, or you can vote against it. Vote wisely.
And if I put it on top of a penny, it doesn't even go over the sides. In among the vast amount of assorted junk the average schoolboy carries about each day, what are your chances of finding it?
My point was the schoolyard inspections will never materialise due to manpower and equipment costs and very low returns. The chances of finding it on the first day are great as the number of obvious devices are rampant.
It's like shooting birds sitting on a telephone wire. It's an easy shot for the first one, after that, the rapidly scattering flock is much harder to get.
Now estimate the capacities of the equivalent devices in 2010. 2015. 2020...
Which was the point of my original quote modified to the bandwidth of a school child walking to school. It will only get worse for the RIAA and members. The next gen to hit the college campuses will be better trained in staying out of the RIAA gunsights. The RIAA is still in it's first shot and the flock is taking flight. They may have more lawsuits because they have better tools, but the counter-tools are on the way. Part of it is offline.
Half an album on each side of a tape, laboriously copied on dual-deck recorders, crappy quality, but in the mid-nineties it was how it was done.
I was in the military in the 1970's. We had a better budget and didn't use dual decks for that very reason. Top end hi-fi was the norm in dorm. It's where I picked up most of my gear. Too bad much of the stuff now is cheaper with lower specs. THD and S/N ratios should have improved over the years, but sadly have not for the most part. Cheaper high wattage is the norm now.
I'm guessing they're sending no CallerID, and your device is convert null values to int, making it 0 (by design).
I'm guessing they are sending the zeros to make it obvious they have no return (inbound) line and used it to make it plain they are not trying to defraud. I don't know of any caller ID unit that converts a null string to zeros. The calls were outgoing only canned messages. They were not looking for pledges, return calls and chit chat from the voters. I hope it ticked enough off to make a difference.
If I'm on the Do Not Call list, why do you still want to call me?
Because the access to the list costs $$$$ Notice, they did not pay to access the registery. I don't know how much it cost to access the list, but it is a non-zero number.
They were stupid in thinking there would be no repurcussions from calling a bunch of people on the list. This falls under the dumb crooks catagory. The more you call, the more your exposure.
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I find it much easier and more efficient to just steal the stuff.
I find it much easier and mor effecient to find software that meets my needs.
If the developer wants to make crippleware and then try to get me to buy it, that's his choice. I make it very clear that doing this will kill sales. It's then up to the developer to balance the anal retentive need to prevent any piracy with the need to meet market demands to make sales.
Some prime examples.. Microsoft Office. One license, one machine and maybe a laptop by the same owner. Open Office. One license, free to install on any and all machines in your house and free to give away copies (following license terms to distribute source and the license intact). Same for Photoshop and the Gimp.
I picked up a copy of Light Factory. The original version had no copy protection other than encoding your user name into the installed product with an email registration. Your PC could be installed on your upgraded PC without phoning home. They then upgraded and used your hardware as a dongle like MS does with the WGA stuff. I didn't upgrade with Light Factory. I now use Freestyler.
Then there is the choice of OS. Needless to say, I'm not running anything with WGA. (I'm not pirating it either)
Also, here in Canada, the music industry gets a few cents off of every blank CD purchase, to offset the cost of piracy.
In the USA, it is on music CDrs.
The fact is though, that these students have to "illegally" copy songs off of somebodies ipod
That's debatable. You paid the royalty for the blank media. Now you use the pre-paid royalty to legaly obtain the media covered by the royalty. Collecting a royalty and providing no licensed media is theft of real money, not simply a copyright violation.
If i'm not mistaken, in Canada, they don't bother you for the songs you have downloaded. They only try to stop people from putting the songs online for others. (distribution).
If they do the royalty here on stuff other than music CDR media, then having copies of music instead of the originals just changed legal status like it is in Canada.
Having a collection of music on your hard drive in Canada is legal regardless of how it got there. In the US, having music on your hard drive has the requirement of a purchase someplace, from either iTunes, or a rip from a physical CD you own.
The record industry has recently suggested that they should get a cut of profits on all hard drive sales.
When they do, then they will have to face the fact that they sold licenses with the drives which severly damage their position in court.
I buy 2 types of CDR discs. Data CDs and Muscic CDs. I put copies of music on music CDs. The royalty has been paid. These are the MP3 CDs I use in the car and DVD player. I thank the industry for providing the low cost licenses.
That would be fine by them, because it doesn't have the same potential or speed as downloading.
Are you kidding? On Comcast, you are lucky to get a complete transfer. A CD full (Torrented the Haredy Heron distro as a test against FTP) takes about 10 hours and seeding dies completely when the transfer is complete. FTP took under 2 hours to get the ISO. Torrent took 9 hours. Backing up my kids 30 Gig Creative Zen took about 40 minutes before sending it off for headphone jack replacement. Meeting friends and sharing popular music is the quick way to fill a 30 Gig player. It's much faster than any other method.
Sneaker net ping times are terrible, and the search engine sucks, but once a transfer starts, the bandwidth can't be beat. In a school setting, it's not too hard to find someone with your music taste to combine resources with.
P-P simply provides a better catalog. It doesn't provide fast service. Try filling a 30 Gig player on Comcast using any P-P sometime. P-P is broken. As a bonus, my kids are way under the RIAA radar for low hanging fruit. They are out of sight. Until they get schoolyard DHS style check-in to examine all portable media arriving at school, the sneaker net will continue.
Instead of a dribble of songs from slow university connections, a few DVD's, loaded iPods, and USB external hard drives get lent outside of trackable channels.
For my middle school kids, it's the norm. They have Comcast and no P-P software. It's all sneaker net and iPods. I'm suprised the RIAA isn't bringing up the RIO lawsuit again and try to fight iPods and other external hard drives as massive tools of infringement. After all, in their book, tools for making availiable is a crime.
The Japenese government did not expect to catch the feet by suprise. They expected a full battle, but the storm they arrived in gave them an unexpected advantage of a suprise attack.
This is much like the $222,000 copyright violation award. The RIAA expected a fight an a settlement to set a precident of winning. They did not expect to win big and the fallout from such a damaging award. They had a poor defendant that gave them an unfair advantage producing in effect a Peral Harbor suprise attack on an individual with far greater damage than expected. The nation has noticed. They have awoken the sleeping giant and he is grumpy.
Wires carrying 10 times the current of a reference wire must be more than ten times the size. A conductor's current carrying capacity is not simply a function of its cross sectional area.
Correct, In DC circuits the smaller wire can carry more per circular mil as all of the conductor is near a heat radiating surface where larger wire has no short heat path for the center of the conductor. In AC circuits, the frequency limjits the depth of the 100% skin depth in addition to the other limitation., But for our simplified arguement, thse small factors at these frequencies (DC) is mostly trivial and including these factors in the calculations will complicate the basics. Let's finish the DC 101 ohm's law course first instead of starting in the deep end. Getting into maximum conduit fill and other NEC issues is beyound the starting theory.
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and I know that it doesn't solve ALL of the problems but it has to eliminate enouogh problems to be a viable solution.
It's time to look at the Intel vPro tm. tech that enables this. Look for demo videos online. The level in the BIOS enables remote powering up machines to push OS updates, remote booting repairing crashed/unbootable Windows machines, etc. This protected level of stuff is beyond the OS and even the power switch. IF it can remote boot an unbootable corrupt Windows partition, write fixes to it and boot it up, there just isn't much that a Live CD can hide. You best bet is to use your own known hardware. Turn off the remote management stuff unless your employer is using it. If the employer is using it, their top level management should be able to detect alterations to the protected area.
... but it was definately a sonic boom that announced his departure.
You haven't been arround sonic booms much have you?
that's just because mccain aint gonna win. why waste the money on him?
Favors and influence. With no campaign support (little) they will have very little pull.
"Hey McCain, we need you to not veto bill XXXXX"
"RIAA, take a flying leap. You gave 6X the money to Democratic competitors in the campaign"
They are not going to have much pull with this one, unless they dangle re-election money. If they do, they need to start early.
I'm with you, I think McCain is going to win. There are enough Democrats that either fully hate Clinton or Obama that there is no way they would vote for them in the primary. McCain is going to get all the Republican votes and maybe 1/3 of the Democratic votes from those who can't vote for which ever canidate that wins the Democratic primary. The mud is way too heavy and the lines of who you can't elect are being drawn. Enough know universal health care is simply health care everyone needs to buy regardless of whether they can afford it. (It's paid by higher taxes and is health care and a government administrative overhead reducing effeciency) so many can't vote for Clinton.
The anti-white and America preacher with the re-opening the race card issues that were settled long ago, and the Hussain name make Obama un-electable as those fearing reverse discrimination, a fear of a president enabling boldness in our terrorist enemies, and such produce another segment of Democrats that will never vote for Obama in the general election.
For these reasons, I think McCain will win. There are too many Anybody but Clinton and Anbody but McCain democrats to elect either in the general election. I may be wrong, but that's what I see. McCain may get really mud covered in the general election as he enters the spotlight after the primary, so things may change. McCain's weak point is the perception of Bush pollitics as usual and the war so he does have a segment that will never vote for him also.
Actually, at supersonic speeds you wouldn't hear it coming anyway because it would arrive before the sound anyway.
Having lived under a flight path before they banned supersonic flights in the US, I remember the double boom from military flights. It is true. You don't hear them comming. A loud sudden Boom Boom like a double thunderclap folowed by the jet roar is the norm. 3 years ago while hiking, I got to experiance it again as a low flying military jet flew over the backwoods. I don't think he was supposed to be supersonic, but it was definately a sonic boom that announced his arrival. I think some pilots just need to check out the craft in unpopulated areas, but often fail the know there are hikers in the area. From low flying aircraft, it's really loud. At least in the 1960's they limited supersonid overland flight to high altitude which softened the bang into a more muffled boom like distant thunder.
Interesting how the Republican announcement fails to mention RIAA.
Are you implying the Democrats had anything to say about it? Somehow, I don't think the Democrats and the Republicans are much different on the issue. If you want some indication, look at the PAC money from various lobby groups.
Here is a help with a direct link to the Lobby money from the recording industry.
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=C2600
When you see a Republican in this mess, it makes news. When you see a Democrat, it's buisiness as usual. Be sure to look behind the curtain. Bookmark the homepage.
http://www.opensecrets.org/
and the Alphabetical listing;
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/alphalist.php
See how your favorite canidate is doing and who supports them.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.php
Here is the good one. How is the canidates doing in regard to how the movie, TV, and Recording industry is supporting your canidate. It sure looks they don't care for McCain.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.php?ind=B02
With over 3 million each to the Dem canidate and only just over half a million to McCain, you can tell who they want. Follow the money.
I know, don't feed the trolls, but...
Back to the point, consumers buy what works. Sometimes they buy restricted stuff if the price is right and the restriction isn't too bad.
Sounds to me like it could have a
The point is it is lacking many basic features. I don't run Windows anything WGA. An iPod and Creative Zen Vision both connect to my Ubuntu box just fine. I have not checked recently, but last time I checked, there was no lib for the Zune. It doesn't connect as an external USB storrage drive where MP3s and videos can be dropped to play on the device. (Neither does the other two players mentioned but they have Linux support) My super cheap Coby player does support drag and drop as a USB storrage device, which is why I bought it. It does not support any DRM format. This is not a problem as I don't buy DRM. I can directly load the songs on the player's limited built in memory, or simply load up a SD flash card and plug it in. It includes a built in FM radio and directly records MP3's from the radio or built in mic. Not bad for a $40 player.
If you want to send me a Zune, fine, I'll see if it can record off the radio and if I can then copy the recordings off the unit to my Linux PC. I'll see if I can find any Zune lib support so I can copy my MP3's to the Zune. It may do some fantastic things, but if it is incompatible with what I would use it for, it's pretty much useless. I would have to borrow someone's Windows PC to load songs on it.
Go for Dell Vostro 1310 , more value for our bucks, 13" 1280x800 and 80 Gb hard disk, about
the same price of the 8.9" EEE....
But instead of really long battery life, a drop proof solid state hard drive, you get a bigger heavier laptop with shorter battery life and maybe a 3 year hard drive life.
The small form factor, long battery life, and full features (Not a PDA) is the attraction for these machines. These features at this price point is nice.
Carbon sequestration is like burying a ticking bomb in your backyard. A much better solution is carbon mineral sequestration - turning the carbon into rocks of some kind. That way, unlike underground sequestration (which has the potential to leak straight back into the atmosphere), the carbon stays where it is put.
Who cares where the carbon comes from? Instead of trying to capture carbon, we should simply bury the same amount of almost pure carbon in easly obtained forms. In a gas, CO2 is common. As a solid, charcoal birquets is common. I know, who is going to give up the fuel for the BBQ and bury it instead of using it? That's the point people.. Carbon is fuel. Let me repeat, Carbon is fuel. If you want to keep the carbon out of the atmosphere, let's get rid of the internal combustion engine, one of the least effecient ways to burn a hydrocarbon.
So where do I pick up my EV? A good part of my state is already wind farms.
http://www.crpud.net/residential/choiceenergy
and hydro
http://www.cbr.washington.edu/crisp/hydro/
If they didn't want me to burn carbon, they would have made it possible to use alternatives, or a more effecient way to use limited carbon.
FYI, I already drive a Prius. I'm waiting for an EV to move from reduced to none.
iTunes songs that have had their Fairplay DRM stripped
.net, and possibly some WGA certified client, and other stuff I don't have.
When did iTunes provide a DRM stripper? You couldn't possibly be suggesting a DMCA volation here are you? I was speaking of legal activities.
Also, the iPod will play the 1 million+ DRM-free songs at the Zune Marketplace (320kbps MP3).
I had no idea Microsoft joined in the DRM free music business. I knew the Zune played DRM free AAC files, but the DRM free ones are higher priced. I'll have to check it out if it's not too much trouble. I heard it takes somekind of currancy other than dollars (Zune Points or something), some exchange account, Direct X,
I heard you can't even browse the site and library without an account. Does it work with Firefox?
However, The Gimp is not anything remotely close to a suitable substitute for Photoshop.
I have never used photoshop. It's not in my price range. I ran across The Gimp as part of my finaly getting a stable Linux version. I was using some software that came with a camera that was good for touch-ups, red eye removal and other consumer grade stuff. I ran into The Gimp when I connected a flatbed scanner and I started learning it the hard way. It blew my socks off. The learning curve was steep. Working layers was new and as a result very frustrating for a newbie (can't just grab the pencil and draw lines! WTF???!!). The more I learned the more I liked it. Over the years the improvements have grown in leaps and bounds. If you haven't tried it lately, you are in for a treat. For the $1000, I'll take the time to learn the competition and see if it will function for me. In short, The Gimp does what I need in a photo editor and has lots of neat toys I'll likely never use.
Photoshop is like Mac vs Window for many. Windows is cheaper and does the job. Windows is getting worse. The Gimp on the other hand is getting better.
I've been doing that for years on my SanDisk MP3 player
.flv files, only buy a player that will play it.
Consumers are good at finding what they want and the features they want. Some folks will be fine with the player and it's subscription service. The rest of us will find players that will play our content ripped from DVD's, shared, and downloaded from YouTube.
I often get asked "What computer should I buy?" I always tell them "Find the software you want to run and then buy the haredware that will run it.". With portable media players, this is still very true. If you want to play MP3's and
If you want a player that plays music purchased from the Zune site, you may wish to consider one, but remember, it won't play songs from iTunes. It looks like it also won't play YouTube rips.
You can vote for DRM with your wallet, or you can vote against it. Vote wisely.
And if I put it on top of a penny, it doesn't even go over the sides. In among the vast amount of assorted junk the average schoolboy carries about each day, what are your chances of finding it?
My point was the schoolyard inspections will never materialise due to manpower and equipment costs and very low returns. The chances of finding it on the first day are great as the number of obvious devices are rampant.
It's like shooting birds sitting on a telephone wire. It's an easy shot for the first one, after that, the rapidly scattering flock is much harder to get.
Now estimate the capacities of the equivalent devices in 2010. 2015. 2020...
Which was the point of my original quote modified to the bandwidth of a school child walking to school. It will only get worse for the RIAA and members. The next gen to hit the college campuses will be better trained in staying out of the RIAA gunsights. The RIAA is still in it's first shot and the flock is taking flight. They may have more lawsuits because they have better tools, but the counter-tools are on the way. Part of it is offline.
Half an album on each side of a tape, laboriously copied on dual-deck recorders, crappy quality, but in the mid-nineties it was how it was done.
I was in the military in the 1970's. We had a better budget and didn't use dual decks for that very reason. Top end hi-fi was the norm in dorm. It's where I picked up most of my gear. Too bad much of the stuff now is cheaper with lower specs. THD and S/N ratios should have improved over the years, but sadly have not for the most part. Cheaper high wattage is the norm now.
I'm guessing they're sending no CallerID, and your device is convert null values to int, making it 0 (by design).
I'm guessing they are sending the zeros to make it obvious they have no return (inbound) line and used it to make it plain they are not trying to defraud. I don't know of any caller ID unit that converts a null string to zeros. The calls were outgoing only canned messages. They were not looking for pledges, return calls and chit chat from the voters. I hope it ticked enough off to make a difference.
If I'm on the Do Not Call list, why do you still want to call me?
Because the access to the list costs $$$$ Notice, they did not pay to access the registery. I don't know how much it cost to access the list, but it is a non-zero number.
They were stupid in thinking there would be no repurcussions from calling a bunch of people on the list. This falls under the dumb crooks catagory. The more you call, the more your exposure.
I find it much easier and more efficient to just steal the stuff.
I find it much easier and mor effecient to find software that meets my needs.
If the developer wants to make crippleware and then try to get me to buy it, that's his choice. I make it very clear that doing this will kill sales. It's then up to the developer to balance the anal retentive need to prevent any piracy with the need to meet market demands to make sales.
Some prime examples.. Microsoft Office. One license, one machine and maybe a laptop by the same owner. Open Office. One license, free to install on any and all machines in your house and free to give away copies (following license terms to distribute source and the license intact). Same for Photoshop and the Gimp.
I picked up a copy of Light Factory. The original version had no copy protection other than encoding your user name into the installed product with an email registration. Your PC could be installed on your upgraded PC without phoning home. They then upgraded and used your hardware as a dongle like MS does with the WGA stuff. I didn't upgrade with Light Factory. I now use Freestyler.
Then there is the choice of OS. Needless to say, I'm not running anything with WGA. (I'm not pirating it either)
But they have to prove that you didn't buy that music. An affirmative defense is that your music CD's were stolen.
Wrong. They don't sell music. They license it. Read the license terms that state something for private home use only.
I buy licenses in the 100 pack. I don't own music.
I believe the relevant quote is:
That old quote is out dated from the days of CDR and Floppy transfer.
It should be updated to the times.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of middle school children on foot armed with 30 or 60 Gig iPods. - Technician Slashdot (2008)
Also, here in Canada, the music industry gets a few cents off of every blank CD purchase, to offset the cost of piracy.
In the USA, it is on music CDrs.
The fact is though, that these students have to "illegally" copy songs off of somebodies ipod
That's debatable. You paid the royalty for the blank media. Now you use the pre-paid royalty to legaly obtain the media covered by the royalty. Collecting a royalty and providing no licensed media is theft of real money, not simply a copyright violation.
If i'm not mistaken, in Canada, they don't bother you for the songs you have downloaded. They only try to stop people from putting the songs online for others. (distribution).
If they do the royalty here on stuff other than music CDR media, then having copies of music instead of the originals just changed legal status like it is in Canada.
Having a collection of music on your hard drive in Canada is legal regardless of how it got there. In the US, having music on your hard drive has the requirement of a purchase someplace, from either iTunes, or a rip from a physical CD you own.
The record industry has recently suggested that they should get a cut of profits on all hard drive sales.
When they do, then they will have to face the fact that they sold licenses with the drives which severly damage their position in court.
I buy 2 types of CDR discs. Data CDs and Muscic CDs. I put copies of music on music CDs. The royalty has been paid. These are the MP3 CDs I use in the car and DVD player. I thank the industry for providing the low cost licenses.
That would be fine by them, because it doesn't have the same potential or speed as downloading.
Are you kidding? On Comcast, you are lucky to get a complete transfer. A CD full (Torrented the Haredy Heron distro as a test against FTP) takes about 10 hours and seeding dies completely when the transfer is complete. FTP took under 2 hours to get the ISO. Torrent took 9 hours. Backing up my kids 30 Gig Creative Zen took about 40 minutes before sending it off for headphone jack replacement. Meeting friends and sharing popular music is the quick way to fill a 30 Gig player. It's much faster than any other method.
Sneaker net ping times are terrible, and the search engine sucks, but once a transfer starts, the bandwidth can't be beat. In a school setting, it's not too hard to find someone with your music taste to combine resources with.
P-P simply provides a better catalog. It doesn't provide fast service. Try filling a 30 Gig player on Comcast using any P-P sometime. P-P is broken. As a bonus, my kids are way under the RIAA radar for low hanging fruit. They are out of sight. Until they get schoolyard DHS style check-in to examine all portable media arriving at school, the sneaker net will continue.
Really, the RIAA is just casting a wider net. By putting out more notices:
E) Students move from a visable P-P application back to secure sneaker-net trading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
Instead of a dribble of songs from slow university connections, a few DVD's, loaded iPods, and USB external hard drives get lent outside of trackable channels.
For my middle school kids, it's the norm. They have Comcast and no P-P software. It's all sneaker net and iPods. I'm suprised the RIAA isn't bringing up the RIO lawsuit again and try to fight iPods and other external hard drives as massive tools of infringement. After all, in their book, tools for making availiable is a crime.
They knew this well enough beforehand.
The Japenese government did not expect to catch the feet by suprise. They expected a full battle, but the storm they arrived in gave them an unexpected advantage of a suprise attack.
This is much like the $222,000 copyright violation award. The RIAA expected a fight an a settlement to set a precident of winning. They did not expect to win big and the fallout from such a damaging award. They had a poor defendant that gave them an unfair advantage producing in effect a Peral Harbor suprise attack on an individual with far greater damage than expected. The nation has noticed. They have awoken the sleeping giant and he is grumpy.
Wires carrying 10 times the current of a reference wire must be more than ten times the size. A conductor's current carrying capacity is not simply a function of its cross sectional area.
Correct, In DC circuits the smaller wire can carry more per circular mil as all of the conductor is near a heat radiating surface where larger wire has no short heat path for the center of the conductor. In AC circuits, the frequency limjits the depth of the 100% skin depth in addition to the other limitation., But for our simplified arguement, thse small factors at these frequencies (DC) is mostly trivial and including these factors in the calculations will complicate the basics. Let's finish the DC 101 ohm's law course first instead of starting in the deep end. Getting into maximum conduit fill and other NEC issues is beyound the starting theory.
10X diameter is just ridiculous,
I wasn't specific enough to avoid confusion. 10X the wire is the cross section of wire. Going 10 X the diamater is a lot bigger.
I should have specified 10 X the cross sectional area.
Circ-mils = Cross sectional Area in Circular Mils.