I don't normally respond to such obvious flame attempts, but I have to ask one question. Assuming you were being honest about your feelings in the previous post.
1. Why do you believe that Adobe's rights have been violated?
2. What do you believe the average consumers rights concerning use of a companies IP is?
3a. Where is the line between you as a consumers rights, and Adobe and a companies rights?
3b. Which are more important?
You should summarize what 1 and 2 say otherwise the links won't be visited, hell I havn't even visited them yet, but looking at your letter hurts my sanity:)
Actually I wasn't quite telling you the whole story, while the size thing is true, also you can have a smaller container that "burns" much hotter, which will also produce a positive output, containing that is a different type of challenge, and that is the aim the MFC it appears. Sorry I really didn't get a chance to read the article as its highly slashdotted, and my brain much have been elsewhere:(
If you read the article, basically the cd is designed to be unreadable by a CD-ROM but readable by a regular cdplayer. Depending upon how they did it, one method recording errors, a bit by bit copy would be playable in a cdplayer but not a CD-ROM, another method mentioned by another poster, would be to have pits that are half-depth. Which would be read as a regular pit by a CD-ROM thinking they were burned by a CD-R, and not read by a cdplayer, these half pits would be reburned as being all the same depth, and then you have a completly errored disc that won't read on either type of player. Either way it will take reengenering of the CD-ROM to be able to rip these disk. Of course you can always line-in the disk.
Actually no the containment is fairly energy cheap, the real problem is the startup energy versus the energy it creates. Basically to start a fusion reaction you basically need a huge energy burst, essentially a nuke. But small fusion reactors do not give off even the amount of energy of a nuke, so you actually used more energy to start the reaction than you got out of it. Then you have very large reactors like the sun, which while its very energy expensive to start, it virtually last forever and the ratio of start energy to output is very good. But the problem is figuring out how to contain a large reactor, and this is a way that has been proposed of containing a reaction that is large enough to give a positive output versus input.
Yes, but the BIG point is that while it is legal for you to excersise your right to fair use, the makers have no legal obligations to allow you to exercise such right. Now if the government started getting directly involved with helping corporations invade your right THEN a law is broken. For example if the government created a law that said you cannot break a copy pertection, then that would go against the fair use law. OPPS they already did. Nevermind.
I didn't say indefinatly. Just that it should hold us till we can come out with something better. Seriously, who uses 80GB nowadays, now in 3 years 80GB will be nothing. but the 800GB will be huge, which should give us a few years to figure out how to break the barrier that we reach. No big deal really.
No, you just did an increase of 20 percent per year. its just like sales tax take 80+80*1.2 for the first year and you get 176 (which is a bit more than double.. its interesting that your figure is actually less than double 80, I don't quite see how something can increase by 120 percent per year and not double in 3 years.
Anyways and easier way to do that is 80*2.2*2.2*2.2 That way you have the 80*1.2 plus the original 80 which makes it 2.2. Anyways, easy example. Sales tax here is.07 if I have 2 dollars and I said that the amount of money I had to pay increased by 7% I would just say 2*1.07=2.14 seems right to me.
It is a bit sketchy, but seriously I could definatly imaging that MS's legal department has more money than most states have for fighting legal battles, 19 of them put together I don't know. But they definatly have alot more than NM and NM isn't THAT poor. Did a quick bit of reasearch the Federal Government has a total budget for 2001 of about 20 billion for litegation/judicial of course probably less than 100 million was spent on MS, but the states themselves probably could only afford to spend probably a couple million at MOST. What state in their right mind would throw their whole budget at MS, while MS can throw a good percent of their money at the problem if they can show the investors that it will help.
Well they have an unstable monopoly yes, which could be overturned if they didn't "innovate" but the big deal to me is not that they have a monopoly, (Remember its not illigal to have a monopoly) its what they are doing with the monopoly they have. XP in my opinion is very innovative, but it is also an attempt at monopolising almost every other type of internet buisness. They are going after licensing fees from photo making, (ok not a monopoly but definatly an abuse of their desktop monopoly). They are trying to monopolise Instant Messaging. And most importantly they are trying to become the single point of personal information sharing, for billing of internet purchases, once they get that they could become their own credit card company. Ok, so they now control the money flow of the internet, and your ability to buy anything from it. Once people get used to that, the amount of leverage they will have over our economy will be so huge its sickening.
Yes, but bigger could be vertical and not horizontal, meaning multiple platters, in the same drive. While yes it won't fit into the same size slot, but big deal. Or multiple drives in a RAID configuration could become very popular. While they didn't give a figure for the theoretical max drive size in the current standard case, they said that drives increase 120 percent per year. 80 Gb seems to be the max about nowadays. So in 3 years from now we should be at 851GB Fairly close to a TB which we will probably reach. So seriously do you expect more than a TB in a single drive of current dimentions. (Of course we will eventually come out with better technologoy to hold more, but U I think that 1TB should hold us for a while)
Yes, but if you think about it, at previous points in time a drive that was a year or two old would almost always be filled to the brim and while the newest drives seemed huge, you always were able to fill them up. With current drives you have to work hard to fill them up, and that trend will probably continue till once we reach that theoretical limit we should have atleast a couple of years breathing room before we catch back up with outselves.
Its called defamation, which is illigal. If you don't like it go somewhere else:)
And your daddy has a prothedic penis.
See now thats defamation. Though I doupt I harmed you any. But if I told he world that Bill Gates has sex with small children and meant it and convenced other people of this. Then its defamation *assuming of course I was lying, which I may have not been*
The Yahoo article in amazingly deceptive if you only read the first few paragraphs. The stone towers are actually natually formed volcanic vents. Its just that because they are so huge and are found in "Atlantis" the scientist thought it would be cute to call this formation of rocks the "Lost City". It is NOT Atlantis.
Well actually it doesn't appear they have changed any of their regulations about adding stuff, just that you can remove IE from start menu (and possibly desktop though I couldn't quite tell from the wording)
Ok it appears the nobody on slashdot today has any idea what the AIDS reference was about. Here is the story.
In many countries in Africa around 50% of the population has AIDS and its a horrible epidimic. These governments want to help their people (probably only so those people can stay there, if you don't have any people you don't have a government, but thats another discusion) by providing AIDS medications for them. But the medications are VERY expensive when bought from the people who created these medications so the countried have found suppliers who will supply generic versions of the medication even though its under patent. So these American drugs companies are litterly trying to drag these countries throught the mud with the UN's court system, declariing that they have violated International Patent laws. Anyways the point is there countries are too poor to afford the medicine and are finding it other way. And the US drug companies have no sympathy. This draws many parralles to the situation with MS and schools, though the MS situation is not nearly as serious.
Yes but the rental company has insurance and so do you, I believe when you wreck a rental both pay half or something like that. Anyways if you do wreck the loss gets paid for. Though it is possible that their insurance company is giving them a discount because they are reducing their chance of loss. But if they are making money from you and paying less insurance. How can they justify charging you more.
Technical question was how many new lines characters are in a file???? Maby they were expecting you to use an editor like vi which prints out the line count at the bottom. Btw thanks for teaching me something new, didn't know wc existed:)
I guess the difference is proof, and also a matter of loss. The phone company has a loss and they are billing you for that, (the loss is the use of their phone lines which they have to pay for, anyways its complicated, thats why its regulated), they may have made a mistake in the billing and generally allow you to contest, but they just expect you to pay the bill. The car company has no real loss, and suspects you commited a finable offense, so they bill you. As just in the case with the phone company, as they are both dealing with technology to record the infraction there is a possibility of a mistake. So we are left with billing without absolute proof, with loss or without loss. Lets look at an example, I have good reason to assumed you borrowed some of my property without telling me, even though you eventually returned in, in this case I like the phone company have suffered a loss, and I could bill you for rental time of the object you borrowed. Case number two, I have a reasonable suspiction without proof that you sneeked into a second movie in a theator I own found an empty seat and watched a movie. I suffered no real loss, and I don't have absolute proof that you commited such and infraction, and even though there is a basic agreement that you would only see one movie, I can't bill you for the second. Though I can charge you with trespassing a not allow you to use my services again. As the rental car company could potentially charge the driver with some offence, and ban the driver from renting there. But they want to make money, is the only real motive in this case.
By second derivative do you mean growth. Which is the derivative of GNP, but whats the GNP's antiderevative.?? Or did you mean second derivative of GNP, which would be change in growth. I really don't see how a constant changing in the growth rate would really help.
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Ok, that was 4 questions sorry, got carried away and forgot to preview :) Please answer all questions.
I don't normally respond to such obvious flame attempts, but I have to ask one question. Assuming you were being honest about your feelings in the previous post.
1. Why do you believe that Adobe's rights have been violated?
2. What do you believe the average consumers rights concerning use of a companies IP is?
3a. Where is the line between you as a consumers rights, and Adobe and a companies rights?
3b. Which are more important?
You should summarize what 1 and 2 say otherwise the links won't be visited, hell I havn't even visited them yet, but looking at your letter hurts my sanity :)
That looks more like a RedHat Package Manager message than an MS message :)
Actually I wasn't quite telling you the whole story, while the size thing is true, also you can have a smaller container that "burns" much hotter, which will also produce a positive output, containing that is a different type of challenge, and that is the aim the MFC it appears. Sorry I really didn't get a chance to read the article as its highly slashdotted, and my brain much have been elsewhere :(
If you read the article, basically the cd is designed to be unreadable by a CD-ROM but readable by a regular cdplayer. Depending upon how they did it, one method recording errors, a bit by bit copy would be playable in a cdplayer but not a CD-ROM, another method mentioned by another poster, would be to have pits that are half-depth. Which would be read as a regular pit by a CD-ROM thinking they were burned by a CD-R, and not read by a cdplayer, these half pits would be reburned as being all the same depth, and then you have a completly errored disc that won't read on either type of player. Either way it will take reengenering of the CD-ROM to be able to rip these disk. Of course you can always line-in the disk.
Actually no the containment is fairly energy cheap, the real problem is the startup energy versus the energy it creates. Basically to start a fusion reaction you basically need a huge energy burst, essentially a nuke. But small fusion reactors do not give off even the amount of energy of a nuke, so you actually used more energy to start the reaction than you got out of it. Then you have very large reactors like the sun, which while its very energy expensive to start, it virtually last forever and the ratio of start energy to output is very good. But the problem is figuring out how to contain a large reactor, and this is a way that has been proposed of containing a reaction that is large enough to give a positive output versus input.
Yes, but the BIG point is that while it is legal for you to excersise your right to fair use, the makers have no legal obligations to allow you to exercise such right. Now if the government started getting directly involved with helping corporations invade your right THEN a law is broken. For example if the government created a law that said you cannot break a copy pertection, then that would go against the fair use law. OPPS they already did. Nevermind.
/me slaps yabtah in the funny bone and tell him to read the previous article about isp content payments.
I didn't say indefinatly. Just that it should hold us till we can come out with something better. Seriously, who uses 80GB nowadays, now in 3 years 80GB will be nothing. but the 800GB will be huge, which should give us a few years to figure out how to break the barrier that we reach. No big deal really.
No, you just did an increase of 20 percent per year. its just like sales tax take 80+80*1.2 for the first year and you get 176 (which is a bit more than double.. its interesting that your figure is actually less than double 80, I don't quite see how something can increase by 120 percent per year and not double in 3 years. .07 if I have 2 dollars and I said that the amount of money I had to pay increased by 7% I would just say 2*1.07=2.14 seems right to me.
Anyways and easier way to do that is 80*2.2*2.2*2.2 That way you have the 80*1.2 plus the original 80 which makes it 2.2. Anyways, easy example. Sales tax here is
No actually their idea of cost cutting is giving out more stock options as opposed to pay. Remove that, MS doesn't make much money.
It is a bit sketchy, but seriously I could definatly imaging that MS's legal department has more money than most states have for fighting legal battles, 19 of them put together I don't know. But they definatly have alot more than NM and NM isn't THAT poor. Did a quick bit of reasearch the Federal Government has a total budget for 2001 of about 20 billion for litegation/judicial of course probably less than 100 million was spent on MS, but the states themselves probably could only afford to spend probably a couple million at MOST. What state in their right mind would throw their whole budget at MS, while MS can throw a good percent of their money at the problem if they can show the investors that it will help.
Well they have an unstable monopoly yes, which could be overturned if they didn't "innovate" but the big deal to me is not that they have a monopoly, (Remember its not illigal to have a monopoly) its what they are doing with the monopoly they have. XP in my opinion is very innovative, but it is also an attempt at monopolising almost every other type of internet buisness. They are going after licensing fees from photo making, (ok not a monopoly but definatly an abuse of their desktop monopoly). They are trying to monopolise Instant Messaging. And most importantly they are trying to become the single point of personal information sharing, for billing of internet purchases, once they get that they could become their own credit card company. Ok, so they now control the money flow of the internet, and your ability to buy anything from it. Once people get used to that, the amount of leverage they will have over our economy will be so huge its sickening.
Yes, but bigger could be vertical and not horizontal, meaning multiple platters, in the same drive. While yes it won't fit into the same size slot, but big deal. Or multiple drives in a RAID configuration could become very popular. While they didn't give a figure for the theoretical max drive size in the current standard case, they said that drives increase 120 percent per year. 80 Gb seems to be the max about nowadays. So in 3 years from now we should be at 851GB Fairly close to a TB which we will probably reach. So seriously do you expect more than a TB in a single drive of current dimentions. (Of course we will eventually come out with better technologoy to hold more, but U I think that 1TB should hold us for a while)
Yes, but if you think about it, at previous points in time a drive that was a year or two old would almost always be filled to the brim and while the newest drives seemed huge, you always were able to fill them up. With current drives you have to work hard to fill them up, and that trend will probably continue till once we reach that theoretical limit we should have atleast a couple of years breathing room before we catch back up with outselves.
Its called defamation, which is illigal. If you don't like it go somewhere else :)
And your daddy has a prothedic penis.
See now thats defamation. Though I doupt I harmed you any. But if I told he world that Bill Gates has sex with small children and meant it and convenced other people of this. Then its defamation *assuming of course I was lying, which I may have not been*
The Yahoo article in amazingly deceptive if you only read the first few paragraphs. The stone towers are actually natually formed volcanic vents. Its just that because they are so huge and are found in "Atlantis" the scientist thought it would be cute to call this formation of rocks the "Lost City". It is NOT Atlantis.
Hold on! Are you saying the AOL and MS finalized their deal? I thought they called the whole thing off, or are you just pulling my chain? News links?
Well actually it doesn't appear they have changed any of their regulations about adding stuff, just that you can remove IE from start menu (and possibly desktop though I couldn't quite tell from the wording)
In many countries in Africa around 50% of the population has AIDS and its a horrible epidimic. These governments want to help their people (probably only so those people can stay there, if you don't have any people you don't have a government, but thats another discusion) by providing AIDS medications for them. But the medications are VERY expensive when bought from the people who created these medications so the countried have found suppliers who will supply generic versions of the medication even though its under patent. So these American drugs companies are litterly trying to drag these countries throught the mud with the UN's court system, declariing that they have violated International Patent laws. Anyways the point is there countries are too poor to afford the medicine and are finding it other way. And the US drug companies have no sympathy. This draws many parralles to the situation with MS and schools, though the MS situation is not nearly as serious.
Yes but the rental company has insurance and so do you, I believe when you wreck a rental both pay half or something like that. Anyways if you do wreck the loss gets paid for. Though it is possible that their insurance company is giving them a discount because they are reducing their chance of loss. But if they are making money from you and paying less insurance. How can they justify charging you more.
Technical question was how many new lines characters are in a file???? Maby they were expecting you to use an editor like vi which prints out the line count at the bottom. Btw thanks for teaching me something new, didn't know wc existed :)
I guess the difference is proof, and also a matter of loss. The phone company has a loss and they are billing you for that, (the loss is the use of their phone lines which they have to pay for, anyways its complicated, thats why its regulated), they may have made a mistake in the billing and generally allow you to contest, but they just expect you to pay the bill. The car company has no real loss, and suspects you commited a finable offense, so they bill you. As just in the case with the phone company, as they are both dealing with technology to record the infraction there is a possibility of a mistake. So we are left with billing without absolute proof, with loss or without loss. Lets look at an example, I have good reason to assumed you borrowed some of my property without telling me, even though you eventually returned in, in this case I like the phone company have suffered a loss, and I could bill you for rental time of the object you borrowed. Case number two, I have a reasonable suspiction without proof that you sneeked into a second movie in a theator I own found an empty seat and watched a movie. I suffered no real loss, and I don't have absolute proof that you commited such and infraction, and even though there is a basic agreement that you would only see one movie, I can't bill you for the second. Though I can charge you with trespassing a not allow you to use my services again. As the rental car company could potentially charge the driver with some offence, and ban the driver from renting there. But they want to make money, is the only real motive in this case.
By second derivative do you mean growth. Which is the derivative of GNP, but whats the GNP's antiderevative.?? Or did you mean second derivative of GNP, which would be change in growth. I really don't see how a constant changing in the growth rate would really help.