in response to (1):
censorship by popular opinion is no different than censorship by government.
in response to (2):
a threat is implicit in a government request.
in response to (3):
is this 'gentle suggestion' not a threat in and of itself?
this is censorship - imposing your own guideline on what constitutes free speech on another. whether it is the government that practices censorship or an ISP under coercion has nothing to do with the core issue.
Just 20+ years ago the United States government and CIA Director George Bush supported the heinous Taliban with weapons, money, and training to contain the "evil" USSR.
the watson research center does much more than *just* software research.
just the other day i was reading some publications on scheduling problems...ie operations research. they have a huge group doing business administration related research i believe, and their results are then directly applied to managing their global operations.
zero point interest *sounds* low, but its actually an artifact of foreign exchange rate movement.
if you borrwed yen at 0%, brought it to the states and left it there to accrue interest in dollars, the exchange rate change when you complete the deal would theoretically deny you of all monetary benefits. there's no room for arbitrage.
comparing inter-bank offering rates in different currencies can be misleading
The TI-89 has 'pretty print' or something similarly named.
It prints equations such as ((3+4)/(5*3) + 1/(2-5)) the way you would write them on paper...
So its much less confusing.
Do HP's support this?
Loss of revenue due to boycott is drastically less than loss of revenue due to Napster and related 'piracy', I'm sorry to say. Boycott's are doomed to failure.
Quote: "Yeah, but I could just set up private networks among my friends." Sure you could, and then the music industry wins. They don't care about you sharing with your friends, they care about mass, anonymous sharing. ---- We all win. It's back to the status quo of the bootleg tape years.
"But it's not surprising that an industry that consistently charges $15-20 for something that costs them $0.50 (a 3000-4000% markup) will sue anyone who tries to threaten it. "
You're only taking into account the physical costs of manufacturing a cd. (even less than fifty cents, actually) What about the songwriters, lyricists, studio technicians, and the other multitude of talent that goes into a song?
Even if you only take into account the cost of simply pressing a cd...How much do you think it takes to produce Coke syrup? Ever wonder why Coke has crazy high net margins? Yet nobody bitches bout Coke reaming anyone, eh?
"What they are telling us is that it's illegal to provide a service that shares information."
So I can start a database (tomorrow) that is essentially a catalog of the kids in each neighbor hood, their hair color eye color, characteristics, where pedophiles all over the world can share information used to stalk, rape, and kill kids if they so choose.
I see. So it's justified coz there's no digital distribution of music taking place... Have you ever wondered why that is so? SDMI is rejected by the Slashdot community at large. Windows Media Format is rejected by the Slashdot community at large. Liquid Audio is rejected. You sound like a bunch of whiney little kids. I want my music downloadable, and I want it downloadable in MP3 format, because only then can I share with whomever I want, whenever I want, however I want. And without paying, if I want. The 'secure' formats listed above didn't fail because of inherent limitations in their design. They failed because their very nature ('secure') conflicts with the interests of this community. And that is, free music on a mass scale. So you undermine efforts by record companies to embrace the Internet, and at the same time bitch that they're too slow to give you what you demand. Sounds justified to me.
And the US economy has been *hot* ever since Clinton and Lewinsky got it on. So? What's your point? Is Lewinsky really what keeps our economy going? Personally, I've bought a car since Napster came out. GM should reconsider its views towards Napster eh? Fuck that.
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And in the process of playing with the minds of others, his DEPRAVED study was successful in catalyzing federal regulation of research.
upon crashing, streambox vcr has a bug that overwrites the first few hundred bytes with html random data...maybe a buffer overflow or something
anyways, save the first 5k or so of each stream and recover the corrupted data after the crash.
works perfectly.
i'm having trouble figuring out what you consider to be difficult vocabulary in this post...
was i supposed to look up 'settling'? 'god'?
sorry, i'm confused.
colonize venus?!?
last time i checked, venus was *closer* to the ever expanding sun.
best tool?
i think you're forgetting the horrors of at&t syntax.
in response to (1):
censorship by popular opinion is no different than censorship by government.
in response to (2):
a threat is implicit in a government request.
in response to (3):
is this 'gentle suggestion' not a threat in and of itself?
this is censorship - imposing your own guideline on what constitutes free speech on another. whether it is the government that practices censorship or an ISP under coercion has nothing to do with the core issue.
Just 20+ years ago the United States government and CIA Director George Bush supported the heinous Taliban with weapons, money, and training to contain the "evil" USSR.
It's funny how perception changes so quickly.
the watson research center does much more than *just* software research.
just the other day i was reading some publications on scheduling problems...ie operations research. they have a huge group doing business administration related research i believe, and their results are then directly applied to managing their global operations.
zero point interest *sounds* low, but its actually an artifact of foreign exchange rate movement.
if you borrwed yen at 0%, brought it to the states and left it there to accrue interest in dollars, the exchange rate change when you complete the deal would theoretically deny you of all monetary benefits. there's no room for arbitrage.
comparing inter-bank offering rates in different currencies can be misleading
The TI-89 has 'pretty print' or something similarly named. It prints equations such as ((3+4)/(5*3) + 1/(2-5)) the way you would write them on paper... So its much less confusing. Do HP's support this?
Loss of revenue due to boycott is drastically less than loss of revenue due to Napster and related 'piracy', I'm sorry to say. Boycott's are doomed to failure.
Quote: "Yeah, but I could just set up private networks among my friends." Sure you could, and then the music industry wins. They don't care about you sharing with your friends, they care about mass, anonymous sharing. ---- We all win. It's back to the status quo of the bootleg tape years.
"But it's not surprising that an industry that consistently charges $15-20 for something that costs them $0.50 (a 3000-4000% markup) will sue anyone who tries to threaten it. "
You're only taking into account the physical costs of manufacturing a cd. (even less than fifty cents, actually) What about the songwriters, lyricists, studio technicians, and the other multitude of talent that goes into a song?
Even if you only take into account the cost of simply pressing a cd...How much do you think it takes to produce Coke syrup? Ever wonder why Coke has crazy high net margins? Yet nobody bitches bout Coke reaming anyone, eh?
Just a question out of curiosity: do you think you represent a significant portion of Napster's userbase?
Sure, coz DVD movies are a bit big to pirate right now...
"What they are telling us is that it's illegal to provide a service that shares information."
So I can start a database (tomorrow) that is essentially a catalog of the kids in each neighbor hood, their hair color eye color, characteristics, where pedophiles all over the world can share information used to stalk, rape, and kill kids if they so choose.
Hey, I'm only sharing information...
I see. So it's justified coz there's no digital distribution of music taking place... Have you ever wondered why that is so? SDMI is rejected by the Slashdot community at large. Windows Media Format is rejected by the Slashdot community at large. Liquid Audio is rejected. You sound like a bunch of whiney little kids. I want my music downloadable, and I want it downloadable in MP3 format, because only then can I share with whomever I want, whenever I want, however I want. And without paying, if I want. The 'secure' formats listed above didn't fail because of inherent limitations in their design. They failed because their very nature ('secure') conflicts with the interests of this community. And that is, free music on a mass scale. So you undermine efforts by record companies to embrace the Internet, and at the same time bitch that they're too slow to give you what you demand. Sounds justified to me.
And the US economy has been *hot* ever since Clinton and Lewinsky got it on. So? What's your point? Is Lewinsky really what keeps our economy going? Personally, I've bought a car since Napster came out. GM should reconsider its views towards Napster eh? Fuck that.