PS3 launched (it seems obviously likely to launch soon, this will surely happen before any of the others) * PS3 tanks (it will surely either tank immediately or not at all, I'll bet on not at all, but if it does tank, it will surely be here in the ordering) Trusted Computing widely accepted (joe 6 pack sure to widely accept this, and available widely soon) Perl 6 released (this one also seems likely to happen... but possibly not before TC is widely available) Duke Nukem Forever released (this seems likely to happen in the next 4-5 years, even if it means that they spin it off to a sub company to blame when it tanks) IPv6 becomes more widely used than IPv4 (sure to happen, but probably 10ish years) HURD released (is it not already 'released'? perhaps hurd 1.0... probably these people will never give up, so it'll hit 1.0 eventually) * CowboyNeal elected President (not going to happen, too many skeletons and ponies in closet, and at a minimum enough time would have to pass for him to reach 40)
take them and give them to someone who can take care of them.
The foster child care system is already overloaded, and no one seems willing to pay higher taxes to support such a position. It's net cheaper to society to ban illegal gambling than to do what you're suggesting. If you can change that equation, I think you'd find your position getting more traction.
Actually, there are some pretty obvious differences:
a) in many games, you get practice targetting, which you don't get from any movie i've ever heard of. b) most movies actually demonstrate the wrong way to hold and fire a gun.
Unless of course the general purpose CPU covers 100% of the necessary functions to run every software algorithm fast. Then you just need a good compiler.
In fairness to Gillette, they're way ahead in the Intel Cores vs Gillette Blades technology race, and their rate of advance has so far been significantly faster.
So if intel has 80 cores in 5 years, then I expect Gillette to be selling a razor with thousands of blades (actually... that might work... it would be some sort of microtechnological razor surface).
You know you can write an 80 thread game today, it will run just fine on one core, and you can get the complexity 'benefits' immediately. Of course the performance won't be what you want, but that will come. By the time you finish your game the CPUs will most likely be ready.
Lots of home users like to do media editing tasks these days. There are plenty of video editing tasks that take minutes to run, and parallelize with nearly linear improvement per thread to arbitrary numbers of threads. (Many are scanline based, so you can at least expect to scale to 480 threads now, and probably 1080 threads for next generation media).
I'm sure you were joking, but in no way is a license required to broadcast on the FM frequencies. Pretty much all you need is a small batch of electronics, and I'm sure there are alternatives I don't know about there too.
Or perhaps you meant 'legally', but that would be the point of taking back something rightfully ours from an overly restrictive government that has sold out to big business interests, sort of like how this country got started in the first place.
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o Often attributed to Gates in 1981. Gates has repeatedly denied ever saying this:
I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time... I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again. "
Well, that was perhaps a slight abuse of the analogy on my part. More accurate might have been to suggest that you don't expect more than 4 of any one thing on a 4x4 truck, and that part of the analogy would hold up, since there are actually some significant differences between CPUs and GPUs (they really aren't quite the same thing).
If people respect the basic idea of copyright, then the knowledge and insight of such teachers can reach further, and the teachers are less dependent on a sparse resource (students close enough to visit) to make a living.
I think that respecting the basic idea of copyright is wise. I think people ought to give money to those whose instructional DVDs they find have value. But I don't think they should be forced to pay for the instructional DVDs they find useless, and that's what copyright really enforces: making sure you pay whether you get value or not.
And I think poor children should be able to get access to those DVDs if they cannot afford to pay. DRM will soon make that impossible unless we outlaw it.
I also think remix culture ought to be completely legal. Derivative works ought only to be asked to credit what they have built upon (and if they don't, the consequence should be shaming/social, not monetary/legal).
I think historic evidence completely discounts that point of view. Most of the great works of history were unprotected by copyright. Artists create because they love to create, and they share their works for the joy of having their works appreciated. With more free exchange, artists will go further than ever before. We'll have more, and better, art without copyright.
The little guy who makes a DVD that is a great teaching resource will draw students in more than sufficient numbers to make a good income. Artists don't need to get rich, nor do they need to make art full time, in order to make great art.
I would expect upmods, I don't think there are many slashdotters with a great deal of respect for linguists. I don't think there are a whole lot of anybody with burgeoning respect for linguists, aside from other linguists.
It is unrealistic to believe that there is no damage caused by the copyright infringement.
I have to disagree with that premise. I think most people feel like the flowering of free expression that is resulting is a benefit to everyone, including those who currently think they are being harmed.
It is also unrealistic to believe that there would be no damage if the infrastructure was completely shut down (even if this was technically possible, which is doubtful).
Same thing... we'd all be much better off. Even those who currently rely on copyright for their livelyhood. Because our culture would be so much more wealthy, everyone would benefit. It's like the old horse manure shoveler's union fighting the coming of the automobile because they were afraid of losing their crap shoveling jobs. The auto was a boon to everyone, and those people didn't have to spend their lives shoveling crap anymore (instead, they at least have road laying jobs, if not automobile manufacturing jobs).
You're incorrectly assuming they are pricing it the same in both markets. They don't have to precisely because it's a PITA to ship internationally, plus think what about what you go through when you need to return a defective one.
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... but did it chug your x2-3800+, or your 7800gtx?
I'd guess it was the 3800+ that was pegged.
Why not just order them, it's straightforward:
... but possibly not before TC is widely available) ... probably these people will never give up, so it'll hit 1.0 eventually)
PS3 launched (it seems obviously likely to launch soon, this will surely happen before any of the others)
* PS3 tanks (it will surely either tank immediately or not at all, I'll bet on not at all, but if it does tank, it will surely be here in the ordering)
Trusted Computing widely accepted (joe 6 pack sure to widely accept this, and available widely soon)
Perl 6 released (this one also seems likely to happen
Duke Nukem Forever released (this seems likely to happen in the next 4-5 years, even if it means that they spin it off to a sub company to blame when it tanks)
IPv6 becomes more widely used than IPv4 (sure to happen, but probably 10ish years)
HURD released (is it not already 'released'? perhaps hurd 1.0
* CowboyNeal elected President (not going to happen, too many skeletons and ponies in closet, and at a minimum enough time would have to pass for him to reach 40)
* = won't happen
Why couldn't our nation have been started by someone cool instead of a bunch of lame Protestants.
It wasn't. Polio really took hold years later. Nearly all of the founders of this country could walk just fine.
take them and give them to someone who can take care of them.
The foster child care system is already overloaded, and no one seems willing to pay higher taxes to support such a position. It's net cheaper to society to ban illegal gambling than to do what you're suggesting. If you can change that equation, I think you'd find your position getting more traction.
Indeed, and no doubt it will be extended again before then to protect the mouse indefinitely.
Copyright laws have completely failed the people in their intended purpose to both reward creators AND bring new material into the public domain.
Actually, there are some pretty obvious differences:
a) in many games, you get practice targetting, which you don't get from any movie i've ever heard of.
b) most movies actually demonstrate the wrong way to hold and fire a gun.
Unless of course the general purpose CPU covers 100% of the necessary functions to run every software algorithm fast. Then you just need a good compiler.
In fairness to Gillette, they're way ahead in the Intel Cores vs Gillette Blades technology race, and their rate of advance has so far been significantly faster.
... that might work ... it would be some sort of microtechnological razor surface).
So if intel has 80 cores in 5 years, then I expect Gillette to be selling a razor with thousands of blades (actually
You know you can write an 80 thread game today, it will run just fine on one core, and you can get the complexity 'benefits' immediately. Of course the performance won't be what you want, but that will come. By the time you finish your game the CPUs will most likely be ready.
Lots of home users like to do media editing tasks these days. There are plenty of video editing tasks that take minutes to run, and parallelize with nearly linear improvement per thread to arbitrary numbers of threads. (Many are scanline based, so you can at least expect to scale to 480 threads now, and probably 1080 threads for next generation media).
It's also fairly important (to most people) to specify whether you want male or female virgins.
Otherwise, hilarity ensues.
I'm sure you were joking, but in no way is a license required to broadcast on the FM frequencies. Pretty much all you need is a small batch of electronics, and I'm sure there are alternatives I don't know about there too.
Or perhaps you meant 'legally', but that would be the point of taking back something rightfully ours from an overly restrictive government that has sold out to big business interests, sort of like how this country got started in the first place.
You could clone a neutered cat in the future when all of our cloning techniques don't require either sperm or ova.
Of course bill doesn't mind being beat up over it, as it's an urban legend.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
" *
o Often attributed to Gates in 1981. Gates has repeatedly denied ever saying this:
I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time... I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.
"
Well, that was perhaps a slight abuse of the analogy on my part. More accurate might have been to suggest that you don't expect more than 4 of any one thing on a 4x4 truck, and that part of the analogy would hold up, since there are actually some significant differences between CPUs and GPUs (they really aren't quite the same thing).
4x4 is AMD's marketing platform for dual-processor, dual-core (4 CPU) systems with dual-board, dual-processor graphics (4 GPU).
Hence 4x4. But it's 8 processor cores, not 16. But heck, when you buy a 4x4 truck do you expect 16 wheels?
They can be had for under $1200 now, and that's only about 4x the price of the xbox (and you can keep and use it longer).
Anyone who buys a non-1080p or better display at this point is being foolish.
If people respect the basic idea of copyright, then the knowledge and insight of such teachers can reach further, and the teachers are less dependent on a sparse resource (students close enough to visit) to make a living.
I think that respecting the basic idea of copyright is wise. I think people ought to give money to those whose instructional DVDs they find have value. But I don't think they should be forced to pay for the instructional DVDs they find useless, and that's what copyright really enforces: making sure you pay whether you get value or not.
And I think poor children should be able to get access to those DVDs if they cannot afford to pay. DRM will soon make that impossible unless we outlaw it.
I also think remix culture ought to be completely legal. Derivative works ought only to be asked to credit what they have built upon (and if they don't, the consequence should be shaming/social, not monetary/legal).
Tsk tsk mods, overrated on one moderation for something that bothered your sensibilities, eh?
I think historic evidence completely discounts that point of view. Most of the great works of history were unprotected by copyright. Artists create because they love to create, and they share their works for the joy of having their works appreciated. With more free exchange, artists will go further than ever before. We'll have more, and better, art without copyright.
The little guy who makes a DVD that is a great teaching resource will draw students in more than sufficient numbers to make a good income. Artists don't need to get rich, nor do they need to make art full time, in order to make great art.
I would expect upmods, I don't think there are many slashdotters with a great deal of respect for linguists. I don't think there are a whole lot of anybody with burgeoning respect for linguists, aside from other linguists.
All of the other posters want to know what the other 2 agencies are, but I want to know what good you think the FCC does?
It is unrealistic to believe that there is no damage caused by the copyright infringement.
... we'd all be much better off. Even those who currently rely on copyright for their livelyhood. Because our culture would be so much more wealthy, everyone would benefit. It's like the old horse manure shoveler's union fighting the coming of the automobile because they were afraid of losing their crap shoveling jobs. The auto was a boon to everyone, and those people didn't have to spend their lives shoveling crap anymore (instead, they at least have road laying jobs, if not automobile manufacturing jobs).
I have to disagree with that premise. I think most people feel like the flowering of free expression that is resulting is a benefit to everyone, including those who currently think they are being harmed.
It is also unrealistic to believe that there would be no damage if the infrastructure was completely shut down (even if this was technically possible, which is doubtful).
Same thing
You're incorrectly assuming they are pricing it the same in both markets. They don't have to precisely because it's a PITA to ship internationally, plus think what about what you go through when you need to return a defective one.
So it only really works for you if they're selling a US product.