I'd say it's all of the above, or some combination - at least from what I've read and the people I've talked with inside and out. I get tired of seeing things couched in terms of either-or, since, so far as I can figure, it often clouds the issue and makes clear analysis more difficult.
As for the judge, I'd have preferred if he'd offered the lad a method for earning his toy back, perhaps through some community service or some such.
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....often done with more thought and better execution.
De gustibus, I suppose. What's not to like about donating spare CPU time to protein folding, finding candidate drugs for treating diseases, genome comparison, etc.? This by you is "insignificant?" Have you delved into some of the projects at, for example, World Community Grid?
What problems would you suggest be addressed? Maybe you could help spark new lines of inquiry - perhaps even something exciting.
What the hell are these people smoking? You want to profit from re-packaging public domain? Feel free. You want rights with that? In your dreams.
Laws and proposed laws such as this strike me as beyond absurd, preposterous, and, essentially, crimes against humanity.
Years ago, with the first extension, I could maybe go along with it solely for the "widows and children" aspect - but for no other.
Copyright and patent were never intended to advantage anyone but the creator; that another party might also profit was understood as a consequence, never as the right itself. These rights were never meant to be a welfare program for anyone, and certainly not for the purveyors, middlemen, and those of the legal persuasion.
[I've been paid to write and have had several items or portions thereof quoted and used in other publications, with permission. I'm fine with that - it was my copy_right_, and any thought of remuneration never entered my mind. I was simply amazed and flattered that I'd managed to say something found worthwhile by another.]
There's not enough Guinness in the world to get the stench of this out of my mind. Finding humor in the absurdity is going to take a while.
Agreed, but good luck getting the toothpaste back in the tube.
Communities had difficulty getting enough volunteers to count and to monitor, companies pitched speed and avoidance of human error, and their was pressure from news organizations wanting results instanter.
Um... seems to me it's part and participle of the hubris/sanctimony/arrogance/hypocrisy, etc. that, especially for those of weak mind and morals, is taken on in proportion to the power they're given or allowed to take.
Why burn to CD? Why not install/preview directly from the iso off a thumb drive, for instance? I've found several that do just that; one lets you select from multiple iso images.... and sorry, I can't find the bloddy thing just now.
I may be one of few who in the main likes synaptic; it's made for some amusing browsing and helped me find stuff I may not have found readily elsewhere.
My hassle is with "cosmetic" changes to basic GUI controls. I've been using a windowing GUI since '89 (Atari ST) and got used to having the close window button separate from the min/max and all of them visually distinct from the title bar background. With my aging eyes, finding close tab and signout buttons on browsers and websites gets annoying. When I was a lad, design dictated that controls be readily identifiable, whether an interface, automobile, light airplane, or low-pressure steam plant. Much of the university research sponsored largely by DoD was put into use at Xerox PARC a long time ago. Seems like today's interface designers don't know or don't care - or both. Rant off.
I've been using Net10 since summer '06. Ten cents per minute, no roaming charge, no long-distance charge. So long as you keep your account active, minutes roll over forever. Phones are available from around $20 on up. I got my first one at Walgreen's. I suggest checking at net10.com for phones available in your Zip-code.
They now have two types of plans - for your usage, avoid the per month plans, get straight minutes. For $60 you get 900 minutes - a nice bonus. From time to time they have various web specials as well. Or you can buy minutes at prepaidonline.com or various drug and department stores and phone stores.
I've never had a dropped call and cannot remember having a bad connection (in south-east Wisconsin.) YMMV.
"People easily become so identified with these labels and engineered perspectives that losing them would feel like a type of death. That's what drives the denial. It's the barrier to entry to waking up and realizing how much you're lied to and manipulated every day by people who smile as they deceive because that's what the cue card told them to do."
Nicely put.
Beyond the bleak vista of wading through this external crap daily is the added depressing annoyance from slogging through what I manufacture on my own. One wonders, on the hope of waking through layers of anesthesia, if one will ever make it out of the recovery room. It's tempting to roll over and go back to sleep.
To the original topic - a while back I happened across a report of an interview with the guy whose study, through a roundabout fashion, became the basis for the RIAA's original claims of economic losses. [I apologize for being unable to find the link] He basically said that, when pressed by the study's sponsor, he pulled a number out of.... thin air just to get them off his back. In sum, _all_ the mediacorp numbers are crap, based on a crap starting number that fueled their assumptions.
I'm gonna have to start watching what FF does - I haven't noticed any problems since I put 8GB RAM in.
This is one of the larger interesting threads I've read here in a while. I hope I might even be learning something, but the last time I did much coding and had to consider malloc() and such was with GFA Basic 3.5u about ten years ago. Memory use and management has long been of interest, tho, going back to writing stuff on an Atari 800 with 48k.
I just looked at my memory use. Opera with seven tabs is taking the most, ~275MB, followed by Steam just sitting idle at 149, and compiz at 128. Apart from BOINC (65MB) using three of six cores, that's all of my stuff running - the rest is OS (Ubuntu 11.94 x64) and total RAM used is around 1.6GB. No swap used.
That said, I have had problems with FF and a few other programs on earlier machines with half- to one GB RAM, so I'll definitely be interested to see what the MemShrink team puts together.
[and I really have to learn how to get paragraphs in posts here]
Thanks for the info. Still sounds a bargain to me.
I had the chance to spend a few days there, mostly in Amsterdam, with my parents circa '53, and the warmth of my memories from that visit have stayed with me. I don't suppose I'd mind making some new ones.:)
Let's see, a fifth of my income for all the goodies versus the same amount for....
I make it no contest. Do The Netherlands accept old burnt-out ex-hippies?
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I'd say it's all of the above, or some combination - at least from what I've read and the people I've talked with inside and out. I get tired of seeing things couched in terms of either-or, since, so far as I can figure, it often clouds the issue and makes clear analysis more difficult.
As for the judge, I'd have preferred if he'd offered the lad a method for earning his toy back, perhaps through some community service or some such.
....often done with more thought and better execution.
re 723, tnx
Like the sig; I had to be careful when reading rec.humor.funny.
"....there is very little exciting."
De gustibus, I suppose. What's not to like about donating spare CPU time to protein folding, finding candidate drugs for treating diseases, genome comparison, etc.? This by you is "insignificant?" Have you delved into some of the projects at, for example, World Community Grid?
What problems would you suggest be addressed? Maybe you could help spark new lines of inquiry - perhaps even something exciting.
What the hell are these people smoking? You want to profit from re-packaging public domain? Feel free. You want rights with that? In your dreams.
Laws and proposed laws such as this strike me as beyond absurd, preposterous, and, essentially, crimes against humanity.
Years ago, with the first extension, I could maybe go along with it solely for the "widows and children" aspect - but for no other.
Copyright and patent were never intended to advantage anyone but the creator; that another party might also profit was understood as a consequence, never as the right itself. These rights were never meant to be a welfare program for anyone, and certainly not for the purveyors, middlemen, and those of the legal persuasion.
[I've been paid to write and have had several items or portions thereof quoted and used in other publications, with permission. I'm fine with that - it was my copy_right_, and any thought of remuneration never entered my mind. I was simply amazed and flattered that I'd managed to say something found worthwhile by another.]
There's not enough Guinness in the world to get the stench of this out of my mind. Finding humor in the absurdity is going to take a while.
Agreed, but good luck getting the toothpaste back in the tube.
Communities had difficulty getting enough volunteers to count and to monitor, companies pitched speed and avoidance of human error, and their was pressure from news organizations wanting results instanter.
Um... seems to me it's part and participle of the hubris/sanctimony/arrogance/hypocrisy, etc. that, especially for those of weak mind and morals, is taken on in proportion to the power they're given or allowed to take.
Why burn to CD? Why not install/preview directly from the iso off a thumb drive, for instance? I've found several that do just that; one lets you select from multiple iso images.... and sorry, I can't find the bloddy thing just now.
I may be one of few who in the main likes synaptic; it's made for some amusing browsing and helped me find stuff I may not have found readily elsewhere.
My hassle is with "cosmetic" changes to basic GUI controls. I've been using a windowing GUI since '89 (Atari ST) and got used to having the close window button separate from the min/max and all of them visually distinct from the title bar background. With my aging eyes, finding close tab and signout buttons on browsers and websites gets annoying. When I was a lad, design dictated that controls be readily identifiable, whether an interface, automobile, light airplane, or low-pressure steam plant. Much of the university research sponsored largely by DoD was put into use at Xerox PARC a long time ago. Seems like today's interface designers don't know or don't care - or both. Rant off.
I've been using Net10 since summer '06. Ten cents per minute, no roaming charge, no long-distance charge. So long as you keep your account active, minutes roll over forever. Phones are available from around $20 on up. I got my first one at Walgreen's. I suggest checking at net10.com for phones available in your Zip-code.
They now have two types of plans - for your usage, avoid the per month plans, get straight minutes. For $60 you get 900 minutes - a nice bonus. From time to time they have various web specials as well. Or you can buy minutes at prepaidonline.com or various drug and department stores and phone stores.
I've never had a dropped call and cannot remember having a bad connection (in south-east Wisconsin.) YMMV.
"People easily become so identified with these labels and engineered perspectives that losing them would feel like a type of death. That's what drives the denial. It's the barrier to entry to waking up and realizing how much you're lied to and manipulated every day by people who smile as they deceive because that's what the cue card told them to do."
Nicely put.
Beyond the bleak vista of wading through this external crap daily is the added depressing annoyance from slogging through what I manufacture on my own. One wonders, on the hope of waking through layers of anesthesia, if one will ever make it out of the recovery room. It's tempting to roll over and go back to sleep.
To the original topic - a while back I happened across a report of an interview with the guy whose study, through a roundabout fashion, became the basis for the RIAA's original claims of economic losses. [I apologize for being unable to find the link] He basically said that, when pressed by the study's sponsor, he pulled a number out of.... thin air just to get them off his back. In sum, _all_ the mediacorp numbers are crap, based on a crap starting number that fueled their assumptions.
I'm gonna have to start watching what FF does - I haven't noticed any problems since I put 8GB RAM in. This is one of the larger interesting threads I've read here in a while. I hope I might even be learning something, but the last time I did much coding and had to consider malloc() and such was with GFA Basic 3.5u about ten years ago. Memory use and management has long been of interest, tho, going back to writing stuff on an Atari 800 with 48k. I just looked at my memory use. Opera with seven tabs is taking the most, ~275MB, followed by Steam just sitting idle at 149, and compiz at 128. Apart from BOINC (65MB) using three of six cores, that's all of my stuff running - the rest is OS (Ubuntu 11.94 x64) and total RAM used is around 1.6GB. No swap used. That said, I have had problems with FF and a few other programs on earlier machines with half- to one GB RAM, so I'll definitely be interested to see what the MemShrink team puts together. [and I really have to learn how to get paragraphs in posts here]
Thanks for the info. Still sounds a bargain to me. I had the chance to spend a few days there, mostly in Amsterdam, with my parents circa '53, and the warmth of my memories from that visit have stayed with me. I don't suppose I'd mind making some new ones. :)
Let's see, a fifth of my income for all the goodies versus the same amount for.... I make it no contest. Do The Netherlands accept old burnt-out ex-hippies?