The problem here is not that you do not understand what we are saying, its that you do not understand the internet, let alone The Pirate Bay.
Your comment about TPB's illegal 'encryption' is prime evidence of that. You need to do your homework before you come on/. and try to tell us right from wrong on a subject you know nothing about.
'Your' completely missing the point to complain about spelling... how strange of someone unopposed to the people controlling something that they themselves created.
Those words exist to be understood, unless you have a problem comprehending what he was trying to say then get over the lack of an 'e' and apostrophe. You are not a machine, you are a human being blessed with the ability to detect simple errors and correct them on the fly, use that ability and stop protesting because you cannot be lazy and ignore your natural ability.
And how many times have you used Google images to find a picture. I bet 9 out of 10 times that picture wasn't just for viewing.... and where was your permit to store local copies of said content? ohh... fair use?
Fair use of a picture is not the downloading of that picture unless that picture is a snapshot of a larger media (e.g movie) else photographers wouldn't have a job. Therefore you breached copyright, and Google helped you do it.
If you are a 'content creator' as they now lovingly refer to you, then even you must know that copyright is not designed for you, its designed for your publishers. If you are your own publisher, then it's designed to destroy you.
My handle is Gen_Music for a reason, I'm a producer that has worked with Mercury award winning artists and have done more than many people in my industry that are twice my age, and I will tell you now that nobody who makes the music makes the real money unless they have the initial capital and experience to front the business side themselves at the financial level of a company that has been churning out top 10s for nearly a century. After the publisher, label, PR and management company take their cut, an artist is lucky to be taking home 10% of gross and that's before they use that 10% to pay back they advance that they used as living costs during the making of their album.
So when iTunes arrived on the market and stated it would take 30% of the income on its store I realised quite simply that the paradigm of copyright in its current state has to die. When you think that Apple makes over 4 times the amount that the creators make per song sold on iTunes, and the industry itself is powerless to stop them because there is no alternative, then you hear about all the million $ studios in NY being shut down bar one due to the birth of 'the internet' and piracy you turn around and say to yourself, "Now it costs less to make, we can sell unlimited copies with no BOM, there are still archaic costs that labels charge for charging's sake (like 'damages' = projected damages to CDs etc) and yet distribution is free and the cost to do the same amount of promotion and distribution has fallen through the floor. Why the hell is the seller of this stuff making billions of $ whilst the makers are shutting down shop because they can't afford to stay open."
Piracy kills the industry, sure, but it doesn't kill the artist, the industry itself has been killing the artist for a long long time. It needs to in the pop arena so it can lower the public standard of what 'good' music represents and therefore make its workforce expendable. Believe me, I can take just about any cookie cutter singer and make them a hit, but that's just it; 'I... the producer' made the hit, not the singer, so she deserves near nothing.
And just to remind you, everyone in business follows the leader. The leader in music is obviously Pop, so music business will acutely try and make everyone replaceable to rid itself of prima donnas.
Your name is 'ProPropertyRights' yet you have no idea what you;re talking about.
The Pirate Party have not proxied TPB to help TPB, they proxied it because they are against the fact that the BPI lobbied the government to blanket ban TPB's URL across the country in the first place. If your ISP is British Telecom or any other major UK provider like Virgin, 'http://www.thepiratebay willl not work, yet 'http://tpb/' now will thanks to a mirror.
This was not about allowing people to pirate content, it was in protest to the bullying tactics that the BPI used on ISPs, which lets not forget are content providers so should not be liable to punishment for the data that goes down their 'tubes'.
Erm... have you ever head of Mr Bush? I think he made quite a few mistakes far worse than the children of today, and unlike them, it's completely impossible to understand where he got his idioms and mistakes from.
"THIS" is a briefer form of "This is what I mean/am talking about/is correct" It is not phrased in reply to the previous post, but more toward a third party; The Internet.
/the thing is that Slashdotters, let alone myself, represent a very small subset of the population.
And believe me, I don't vote, but a lot of other's do, and I suspect if nobody did it would be Bush @ Florida all over again just to propagate the machine.
Pixel density would kill off the market for very big HDTVs as the pixel density is unmaintainable at those kind of levels. When you factor in that HD was originally a buzzword for TV which was only ever going to be a primarily used to display a small number of formats it makes sense. What is annoying is that HD was such a great marketing buzzword that now they are applying it to things that it simply shouldn't apply to.
Enter Retina. Had Apple not patented/trademarked it, that might have been the buzzword for phones. At least it would have made sense then.
The latter. It's Linux at it's core remember.
Depending on the particular phone, your Android will either prompt you to choose whether you are charging or want to use it as a storage device (and possibly some vendor/model specific media center style options), or you go into the notification bar , select USB, and it will automatically detect the background processes with binaries or resources on the sdcard in question and quit them before remounting your SD for external use.
A few vendors have a more complicated dual access system, ranging from a delayed write system where data is sent to android's OS and the OS writes it (at a considerable performance hit), much like creative did with its MP3 players to a web server style system that allows you to download and upload stuff to your phone via your wifi buy browsing through HTML pages served by your phone.
I think he's referring to the potential damage of your data whilst transferring files, not the the security risk that FAT poses. Anything built to be secure in an Access Control sense must not be portable anyway, as moving a drive to another operating system quickly changes the Administrators of the drive in question, allowing anyone to take ownership unless encryption is employed.
Most LTE carriers around the word have their LTE on a different band to the rest of the world, so either there are no radio manufacturers that have an LTE radio for Google to use that support all carriers, or there's an LTE agreement with the carriers and manufacturers/each other to disallow it's use until a certain date.
Consider something like a ZTE blade. For $50 you can do all that and a lot more on a reasonable second gen smartphone. Unlocked from the get go, HDSPA, wi-fi, multi-touch, and most of the the apps from the Play Store.
The screen is about iPhone 3G-era, which is great for the bucks. And its sold around the world at a low price, wherever you are. Sometimes under the name Orange San Francisco, but its the same thing just carrier locked (£18 unlock for non-customers in the UK).
Which makes it pretty useless of a company "in the (government-funded) business of taking old computers and buffing them up for use in the school system".
Being current means that a company like this would much rather sell them and buy DDR2/SDRAM for the umpteen million P4s and P3s in this world that are just lying around. The cost of each pair of these units could easily match the relative worth of the systems that they distribute, if you consider there are Dual Harpertown Xeon servers for sale these days at $300.
Erm, that dead horse you're trying to beat disagrees with you. Atheism is not a religion. It is the absence of one.
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling a black a color. Lots of people like to do so for practical means and in certain places it's appropriate to do so (like in printing for color and in government forms for Atheism). but in reality it's just a substitute word for none.
Even the dictionary definition states that Religion is: The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.
In other new where are all my line breaks going??
i hate replying to myself but I'll just add, move away from capital cities and you'll see, even in relatively rich African countries like Nigeria, tribes and paramilitaries rule.
Well apologies for stating the obvious, the ethos of my point was that in Africa there is no dictatorship because regardless of actual office, most countries in Africa do not have the resources and power in government to control their country. There is too much war, paramilitary groups and major military and governmental obstacles like corruption to allow a country to actually create a police state environment because the country usually has a lot more to worry about than the actions of its civilians. In all of the states mentioned except Africa (assuming you're using it as a blanket term) there was actual monopoly power coming from the state. In Africa, there a many, many mercenary groups and paramilitaries that have more control over a country and it's people than the dictators do.
Maybe you were just referring to South Africa, if that was the case I see your point, but South Africa is one of the richest African countries and therefore doesn't really typify Africa as a continent.
Lol Africa is about the furthest thing from a police state in existence. It's not even a country for starters, also the majority of it's constituent countries enact martial law because they are wrapped in small scale tribal civil wars that have existed for decades if not hundreds of years.
Sheep or cows, it doesn't matter, they were still subservient. That was the point. Wilful subservience. Cows are still dumb animals that get milked and slaughtered.
Jesus Christ, are there really this many Slashdotters that have never heard of Economies of Scale?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale
Put simply, if you will be ordering more, then the price per item is cheaper. At the start of the Pi's manufacturing, nobody know how much it would sell so every single part in the Pi cost more as they couldn't order in bulk. As more sold and they realised they could, the prices of every single part came down as they were able to buy in bigger batches, that is why 512MB is all of a sudden affordable, because not only is the RAM itself cheaper in bigger batches, so is every other part in the Pi and that contributes greatly to fitting 512MB into the $30 BOM area. (Assuming $5 for execs, admin and profits, which would be very little)
Did you miss the part where he said chips? Or did you just not know that SSD's are completely, absolutely, intrinsically different technologies to mechanical disks and the technology inside an SSD is far more akin to a Intel Processor or the the Unified Shaders in a Graphics card than they are like mechanical disks. WD's chips (for SATA busses attached to their drives and such) are made by third parties, so WD themselves don't make any chips. Whereas whether SLC or MLC all SSD's are just arrays upon arrays of chips.
You undervalue the importance of the counter attack. This gave Sony the time needed to alter their hardware to be superior to MSFT's. Xbox did the same last gen.
The reason their ahead of Sony has a lot more to do with the PS3s introductory price.
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The problem here is not that you do not understand what we are saying, its that you do not understand the internet, let alone The Pirate Bay.
Your comment about TPB's illegal 'encryption' is prime evidence of that. You need to do your homework before you come on /. and try to tell us right from wrong on a subject you know nothing about.
'Your' completely missing the point to complain about spelling... how strange of someone unopposed to the people controlling something that they themselves created.
Those words exist to be understood, unless you have a problem comprehending what he was trying to say then get over the lack of an 'e' and apostrophe. You are not a machine, you are a human being blessed with the ability to detect simple errors and correct them on the fly, use that ability and stop protesting because you cannot be lazy and ignore your natural ability.
And how many times have you used Google images to find a picture. I bet 9 out of 10 times that picture wasn't just for viewing.... and where was your permit to store local copies of said content? ohh... fair use?
Fair use of a picture is not the downloading of that picture unless that picture is a snapshot of a larger media (e.g movie) else photographers wouldn't have a job. Therefore you breached copyright, and Google helped you do it.
If you are a 'content creator' as they now lovingly refer to you, then even you must know that copyright is not designed for you, its designed for your publishers. If you are your own publisher, then it's designed to destroy you.
My handle is Gen_Music for a reason, I'm a producer that has worked with Mercury award winning artists and have done more than many people in my industry that are twice my age, and I will tell you now that nobody who makes the music makes the real money unless they have the initial capital and experience to front the business side themselves at the financial level of a company that has been churning out top 10s for nearly a century. After the publisher, label, PR and management company take their cut, an artist is lucky to be taking home 10% of gross and that's before they use that 10% to pay back they advance that they used as living costs during the making of their album.
So when iTunes arrived on the market and stated it would take 30% of the income on its store I realised quite simply that the paradigm of copyright in its current state has to die. When you think that Apple makes over 4 times the amount that the creators make per song sold on iTunes, and the industry itself is powerless to stop them because there is no alternative, then you hear about all the million $ studios in NY being shut down bar one due to the birth of 'the internet' and piracy you turn around and say to yourself, "Now it costs less to make, we can sell unlimited copies with no BOM, there are still archaic costs that labels charge for charging's sake (like 'damages' = projected damages to CDs etc) and yet distribution is free and the cost to do the same amount of promotion and distribution has fallen through the floor. Why the hell is the seller of this stuff making billions of $ whilst the makers are shutting down shop because they can't afford to stay open."
Piracy kills the industry, sure, but it doesn't kill the artist, the industry itself has been killing the artist for a long long time. It needs to in the pop arena so it can lower the public standard of what 'good' music represents and therefore make its workforce expendable. Believe me, I can take just about any cookie cutter singer and make them a hit, but that's just it; 'I... the producer' made the hit, not the singer, so she deserves near nothing.
And just to remind you, everyone in business follows the leader. The leader in music is obviously Pop, so music business will acutely try and make everyone replaceable to rid itself of prima donnas.
Your name is 'ProPropertyRights' yet you have no idea what you;re talking about.
The Pirate Party have not proxied TPB to help TPB, they proxied it because they are against the fact that the BPI lobbied the government to blanket ban TPB's URL across the country in the first place. If your ISP is British Telecom or any other major UK provider like Virgin, 'http://www.thepiratebay willl not work, yet 'http://tpb/' now will thanks to a mirror.
This was not about allowing people to pirate content, it was in protest to the bullying tactics that the BPI used on ISPs, which lets not forget are content providers so should not be liable to punishment for the data that goes down their 'tubes'.
Erm... have you ever head of Mr Bush? I think he made quite a few mistakes far worse than the children of today, and unlike them, it's completely impossible to understand where he got his idioms and mistakes from.
"THIS" is a briefer form of "This is what I mean/am talking about/is correct" It is not phrased in reply to the previous post, but more toward a third party; The Internet.
"who are in the (government-funded) business of taking old computers and buffing them up for use in the school system." But you raise a good point.
/the thing is that Slashdotters, let alone myself, represent a very small subset of the population. And believe me, I don't vote, but a lot of other's do, and I suspect if nobody did it would be Bush @ Florida all over again just to propagate the machine.
Reported, Reason: Needs to be done.
Pixel density would kill off the market for very big HDTVs as the pixel density is unmaintainable at those kind of levels. When you factor in that HD was originally a buzzword for TV which was only ever going to be a primarily used to display a small number of formats it makes sense. What is annoying is that HD was such a great marketing buzzword that now they are applying it to things that it simply shouldn't apply to. Enter Retina. Had Apple not patented/trademarked it, that might have been the buzzword for phones. At least it would have made sense then.
The latter. It's Linux at it's core remember. Depending on the particular phone, your Android will either prompt you to choose whether you are charging or want to use it as a storage device (and possibly some vendor/model specific media center style options), or you go into the notification bar , select USB, and it will automatically detect the background processes with binaries or resources on the sdcard in question and quit them before remounting your SD for external use. A few vendors have a more complicated dual access system, ranging from a delayed write system where data is sent to android's OS and the OS writes it (at a considerable performance hit), much like creative did with its MP3 players to a web server style system that allows you to download and upload stuff to your phone via your wifi buy browsing through HTML pages served by your phone.
I think he's referring to the potential damage of your data whilst transferring files, not the the security risk that FAT poses. Anything built to be secure in an Access Control sense must not be portable anyway, as moving a drive to another operating system quickly changes the Administrators of the drive in question, allowing anyone to take ownership unless encryption is employed.
Most LTE carriers around the word have their LTE on a different band to the rest of the world, so either there are no radio manufacturers that have an LTE radio for Google to use that support all carriers, or there's an LTE agreement with the carriers and manufacturers/each other to disallow it's use until a certain date.
Consider something like a ZTE blade. For $50 you can do all that and a lot more on a reasonable second gen smartphone. Unlocked from the get go, HDSPA, wi-fi, multi-touch, and most of the the apps from the Play Store. The screen is about iPhone 3G-era, which is great for the bucks. And its sold around the world at a low price, wherever you are. Sometimes under the name Orange San Francisco, but its the same thing just carrier locked (£18 unlock for non-customers in the UK).
Which makes it pretty useless of a company "in the (government-funded) business of taking old computers and buffing them up for use in the school system". Being current means that a company like this would much rather sell them and buy DDR2/SDRAM for the umpteen million P4s and P3s in this world that are just lying around. The cost of each pair of these units could easily match the relative worth of the systems that they distribute, if you consider there are Dual Harpertown Xeon servers for sale these days at $300.
Erm, that dead horse you're trying to beat disagrees with you. Atheism is not a religion. It is the absence of one. Calling Atheism a religion is like calling a black a color. Lots of people like to do so for practical means and in certain places it's appropriate to do so (like in printing for color and in government forms for Atheism). but in reality it's just a substitute word for none. Even the dictionary definition states that Religion is: The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods. In other new where are all my line breaks going??
Good idea, but the thought of trying to find a old mobo that takes DDR3 pretty much kills that idea in my mind.
i hate replying to myself but I'll just add, move away from capital cities and you'll see, even in relatively rich African countries like Nigeria, tribes and paramilitaries rule.
Well apologies for stating the obvious, the ethos of my point was that in Africa there is no dictatorship because regardless of actual office, most countries in Africa do not have the resources and power in government to control their country. There is too much war, paramilitary groups and major military and governmental obstacles like corruption to allow a country to actually create a police state environment because the country usually has a lot more to worry about than the actions of its civilians. In all of the states mentioned except Africa (assuming you're using it as a blanket term) there was actual monopoly power coming from the state. In Africa, there a many, many mercenary groups and paramilitaries that have more control over a country and it's people than the dictators do. Maybe you were just referring to South Africa, if that was the case I see your point, but South Africa is one of the richest African countries and therefore doesn't really typify Africa as a continent.
Lol Africa is about the furthest thing from a police state in existence. It's not even a country for starters, also the majority of it's constituent countries enact martial law because they are wrapped in small scale tribal civil wars that have existed for decades if not hundreds of years.
Sheep or cows, it doesn't matter, they were still subservient. That was the point. Wilful subservience. Cows are still dumb animals that get milked and slaughtered.
Jesus Christ, are there really this many Slashdotters that have never heard of Economies of Scale? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale Put simply, if you will be ordering more, then the price per item is cheaper. At the start of the Pi's manufacturing, nobody know how much it would sell so every single part in the Pi cost more as they couldn't order in bulk. As more sold and they realised they could, the prices of every single part came down as they were able to buy in bigger batches, that is why 512MB is all of a sudden affordable, because not only is the RAM itself cheaper in bigger batches, so is every other part in the Pi and that contributes greatly to fitting 512MB into the $30 BOM area. (Assuming $5 for execs, admin and profits, which would be very little)
Did you miss the part where he said chips? Or did you just not know that SSD's are completely, absolutely, intrinsically different technologies to mechanical disks and the technology inside an SSD is far more akin to a Intel Processor or the the Unified Shaders in a Graphics card than they are like mechanical disks. WD's chips (for SATA busses attached to their drives and such) are made by third parties, so WD themselves don't make any chips. Whereas whether SLC or MLC all SSD's are just arrays upon arrays of chips.
I'd much prefer a substantially improved feature set to a low price. MSFT releases with far far more added features per OS upgrade compared to Apple.
You undervalue the importance of the counter attack. This gave Sony the time needed to alter their hardware to be superior to MSFT's. Xbox did the same last gen. The reason their ahead of Sony has a lot more to do with the PS3s introductory price.