Or imagine your wife's (or if not married, your accountant's) fear when she realizes you've spent $5000 to menace your boss with little bits of plastic.
BSD scratched Linus's itch just as well (and without great additional effort) so why didn't he just use that? Because he wanted to try a new approach. Same principle.
Whatever you may think of Sony's conduct in general, this particular product is entirely consistent with the open-source philosophy that we all cherish. From the article:
The company was faced with archiving some 300,000 pre-1960 analog recordings. Unlike fine wine, analog does not age well with time; after about thirty years, recording tape becomes brittle and disintegrates. Preserving these analog masters by creating digital copies is of paramount importance. But the limitations of digital sound proved a hindrance.
Sony had an itch (archiving their own recordings), scratched it, and produced a valuable product as a side-effect. We should support them for it.
The Nyquil theorem states that 72 minutes is as long as any individual can listen to a single cd before experiencing levels of boredom similar to the soporific effects of Nyquil (in the words of Dennis Leary, "Nyquil, Nyquil, Nyquil! We love you! You giant fucking 'Q'"). I fear Sony may have a tough road ahead on marketing extended cds; they're running up against a law of nature on this one.
So it's a troll, then, to point out the dire economic realities of reservations and the greater economic and political forces perpetuating this national shame? I suppose you'd think it a troll to recall the internment of Japanese Americans during the second World War as well, then. This is a land of liberty and promise of equality, but we systematically oppress entire swaths of it as a matter of course and on a daily basis. Criticising the victims, as the original poster did, is what is truly offensive. I am merely the voice of conscience and reason.
By connecting to AOL and not the gambling service, the user is so much dead weight. He must be kept online (meaning on the gambling service) as much as possible. You would seem to have him disconnect occasionally in order to get his callback.
Common sense would suggest that encouraging the rich to gamble while discouraging the poor from throwing away what little money they have might achieve a more equitable assessment of revenue-raising among the people. We already see this with vanity liscense plates, and an online lottery is the natural extension of the principle.
Lotteries don't tax people who are bad at math. Most people who play know the numbers aren't in their favor, but they play it anyway because they feel it's the only way they can escape their penury. It's a tax on hope, the chiefest of American ideals, and it shows how far our nation has fallen from its bygone years of visions of the "city on the hill". But we don't mind, of course, because it lowers our property taxes (since lotteries and property taxes are both chiefly aimed at paying for education), and we hate the poor. It's not that we hate them for being poor; it's that we treat their penury like a contagion that must be kept out of our sheltered white-bread gated-neighborhood lives at all cost, even lotto costs. By giving them the lotto to play, they will voluntarily keep to keno shops and convenience stores and stay the heck away. The Caesars gave the plebians their bread and circus, just as we have (except we go even further and coopt "Bread and Circus" as the trademarked name of a line of health/specialty food stores where we can buy our $5 bottles of organic mango juice and continue to let the poor go hungry.
Most people get online via a dialup phone connection. Most people have only one phone line. In order to complete a callback call, the person would have to get offline, thereby removing himself from "gambling mode" and entering "not gambling-profit generating mode". The gambling industry would have a fit.
Given their druthers, they'd just as soon keep everyone buying CDs from stores until there's ice-skating in hell.
That's what they used to say about vinyl, and then they realized they could charge twice as much and with lower over head for cds. (Same goes with DVDs and VHS). They'll do it eventually, but it certainly won't be cheaper.
Or imagine how well you'll be able to capture the fear and grief in the woman's eyes as she gets pounded and pounded, her lids fluttering and her pupils growing, dilating, her world coming down about her ears as she is converted into raw flesh, flesh made raw by friction, oh the friction, youth liquefied and sold to the highest or lowest bidder, exploding and fading, left to die inside but patted and reassured with a fist of twenties. Just imagine.
Shawn made Business Week's E-Biz 25, and he had some Q&A with ZDNET.au not too long ago. It's fun to watch his public discourse over only a couple months when he himself is only a handful of dozens of months old himself.
And why aren't there any female players? We must look to the underlying social conditions behind these empirical facts. Judging from my neighbors, there are millions of female MSWindows users, but you would assert that there isn't a single qualified and motivated female BSD user? It just doesn't add up.
What's important is not whether Geeks can or do revel in their small window for revenge on the general population. What's important is that they must, for they (we) are human too. We are human! There, I've said it. We suffer from the same pangs of conscience as the rest of you, and we suffer from the same base desires. Look no further than to the porn consumption among my brethren. We may stalk at night for fear of the light (and who can blame us, regarding our nocturnal occupations), but it is no less than the jocks and [l]users who helped mould us into what we are today.
How dare they not RTFM, indeed! We were the ones who wrote the FM.
I too have a dream of one day playing tetris. I lie awake at night, dreaming about it. If only I could escape the confines of this wretched, crippled body and SING! But alas, that must remain a dream, a dream, a dream...
I'm not arguing for affirmative action among opensource development teams. Far from it. But it still bugs me that here an entire new team has been elected and yet there remains not a single female team member among them. Sure, I could do my part and try to join, but I bear that burden enough here on slashdot and I have my priorities; isn't there some female programmer willing to join the "old BoySDevelopment network?.
Who else could take something as technologically innovative as underclocking and give it a name like "Speedstep Technology". Just look at the phrase. It screams progress, when in fact it's a step down!
What's important is not whether the canals were water.
We have plenty of evidence that water exists on Mars,
independent of whether the canals themselves were
caused by water (e.g. evidence from the polar ice-caps.
The presence of liquid CO2 on
Mars is almost as useful as We have plenty of water would be, since liquid evidence that water CO2 has so many industrial exists on Mars, uses. The presence of the independent of whether two together is good news to the canals themselves this reader, I assure you. were caused by water A planet with so much
geological activity in its history and potential for
terraforming won't be set back by a discovery such as
this.
Fair use can be waived by contractual agreements. If the person who gets a copy of the copyrighted work signs an NDA or some other contract not to reveal its contents, then fair use is not a valid recourse. The only tricky part is whether by posting the drafts on the web themselves, the authors have waived their rights by committing it to public circulation.
I thought we all agreed not to crack them, so they'd release the standard and we'd get lots of poorly protected audio floating around for us to grab. So which one of you did it?
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Or imagine your wife's (or if not married, your accountant's) fear when she realizes you've spent $5000 to menace your boss with little bits of plastic.
BSD scratched Linus's itch just as well (and without great additional effort) so why didn't he just use that? Because he wanted to try a new approach. Same principle.
Whatever you may think of Sony's conduct in general, this particular product is entirely consistent with the open-source philosophy that we all cherish. From the article:
The company was faced with archiving some 300,000 pre-1960 analog recordings. Unlike fine wine, analog does not age well with time; after about thirty years, recording tape becomes brittle and disintegrates. Preserving these analog masters by creating digital copies is of paramount importance. But the limitations of digital sound proved a hindrance.
Sony had an itch (archiving their own recordings), scratched it, and produced a valuable product as a side-effect. We should support them for it.
The Nyquil theorem states that 72 minutes is as long as any individual can listen to a single cd before experiencing levels of boredom similar to the soporific effects of Nyquil (in the words of Dennis Leary, "Nyquil, Nyquil, Nyquil! We love you! You giant fucking 'Q'"). I fear Sony may have a tough road ahead on marketing extended cds; they're running up against a law of nature on this one.
So it's a troll, then, to point out the dire economic realities of reservations and the greater economic and political forces perpetuating this national shame? I suppose you'd think it a troll to recall the internment of Japanese Americans during the second World War as well, then. This is a land of liberty and promise of equality, but we systematically oppress entire swaths of it as a matter of course and on a daily basis. Criticising the victims, as the original poster did, is what is truly offensive. I am merely the voice of conscience and reason.
By connecting to AOL and not the gambling service, the user is so much dead weight. He must be kept online (meaning on the gambling service) as much as possible. You would seem to have him disconnect occasionally in order to get his callback.
Common sense would suggest that encouraging the rich to gamble while discouraging the poor from throwing away what little money they have might achieve a more equitable assessment of revenue-raising among the people. We already see this with vanity liscense plates, and an online lottery is the natural extension of the principle.
Lotteries don't tax people who are bad at math. Most people who play know the numbers aren't in their favor, but they play it anyway because they feel it's the only way they can escape their penury. It's a tax on hope, the chiefest of American ideals, and it shows how far our nation has fallen from its bygone years of visions of the "city on the hill". But we don't mind, of course, because it lowers our property taxes (since lotteries and property taxes are both chiefly aimed at paying for education), and we hate the poor. It's not that we hate them for being poor; it's that we treat their penury like a contagion that must be kept out of our sheltered white-bread gated-neighborhood lives at all cost, even lotto costs. By giving them the lotto to play, they will voluntarily keep to keno shops and convenience stores and stay the heck away. The Caesars gave the plebians their bread and circus, just as we have (except we go even further and coopt "Bread and Circus" as the trademarked name of a line of health/specialty food stores where we can buy our $5 bottles of organic mango juice and continue to let the poor go hungry.
Most people get online via a dialup phone connection. Most people have only one phone line. In order to complete a callback call, the person would have to get offline, thereby removing himself from "gambling mode" and entering "not gambling-profit generating mode". The gambling industry would have a fit.
Given their druthers, they'd just as soon keep everyone buying CDs from stores until there's ice-skating in hell.
That's what they used to say about vinyl, and then they realized they could charge twice as much and with lower over head for cds. (Same goes with DVDs and VHS). They'll do it eventually, but it certainly won't be cheaper.
Or imagine how well you'll be able to capture the fear and grief in the woman's eyes as she gets pounded and pounded, her lids fluttering and her pupils growing, dilating, her world coming down about her ears as she is converted into raw flesh, flesh made raw by friction, oh the friction, youth liquefied and sold to the highest or lowest bidder, exploding and fading, left to die inside but patted and reassured with a fist of twenties. Just imagine.
At 1G of ram, how long until someone slaps on an lcd screen and ports MAME to it? Digdug never had it so good.
Shawn made Business Week's E-Biz 25, and he had some Q&A with ZDNET.au not too long ago. It's fun to watch his public discourse over only a couple months when he himself is only a handful of dozens of months old himself.
As with everything they do, Comedy Central reruns Battlebots practically every night. Those of you who remember MST3K know the treatment.
And why aren't there any female players? We must look to the underlying social conditions behind these empirical facts. Judging from my neighbors, there are millions of female MSWindows users, but you would assert that there isn't a single qualified and motivated female BSD user? It just doesn't add up.
What's important is not whether Geeks can or do revel in their small window for revenge on the general population. What's important is that they must, for they (we) are human too. We are human! There, I've said it. We suffer from the same pangs of conscience as the rest of you, and we suffer from the same base desires. Look no further than to the porn consumption among my brethren. We may stalk at night for fear of the light (and who can blame us, regarding our nocturnal occupations), but it is no less than the jocks and [l]users who helped mould us into what we are today.
How dare they not RTFM, indeed! We were the ones who wrote the FM.
I too have a dream of one day playing tetris. I lie awake at night, dreaming about it. If only I could escape the confines of this wretched, crippled body and SING! But alas, that must remain a dream, a dream, a dream...
I'm not arguing for affirmative action among opensource development teams. Far from it. But it still bugs me that here an entire new team has been elected and yet there remains not a single female team member among them. Sure, I could do my part and try to join, but I bear that burden enough here on slashdot and I have my priorities; isn't there some female programmer willing to join the "old B oy S D evelopment network?.
Who else could take something as technologically innovative as underclocking and give it a name like "Speedstep Technology". Just look at the phrase. It screams progress, when in fact it's a step down!
"If we double the size, double the weight, and double the temperature, then we can double the price!"
Ooof. I just got a hernia. Must be a Pentium VIII.
What's important is not whether the canals were water.
We have plenty of evidence that water exists on Mars,
independent of whether the canals themselves were
caused by water (e.g. evidence from the polar ice-caps.
The presence of liquid CO2 on
Mars is almost as useful as We have plenty of
water would be, since liquid evidence that water
CO2 has so many industrial exists on Mars,
uses. The presence of the independent of whether
two together is good news to the canals themselves
this reader, I assure you. were caused by water
A planet with so much
geological activity in its history and potential for
terraforming won't be set back by a discovery such as
this.
Maybe you're the one who's been muching the catnip. ;-)
Fair use can be waived by contractual agreements. If the person who gets a copy of the copyrighted work signs an NDA or some other contract not to reveal its contents, then fair use is not a valid recourse. The only tricky part is whether by posting the drafts on the web themselves, the authors have waived their rights by committing it to public circulation.
I thought we all agreed not to crack them, so they'd release the standard and we'd get lots of poorly protected audio floating around for us to grab. So which one of you did it?
Adobe has an online tool for converting pdf files to html. Just put in the pdfs' URLs, and hurry before they get slashdotted.