When.mp3 was first released the copyright owners had absolutely no idea what was coming.
Now they know.
eBooks are never going to make it because the copyright owners know what will happen if eBooks actually become big.
They'll lose money.
I've yet to see a distribution scheme out there that is sucsessful (read: profitable to the copyright owners an popular with the populace) though apple's iTunes Music store comes close.
Basically what I'm saying here is that copyright owners learned their leasson with mp3s and as a result they WILL prevent ebooks from ever truly taking off. Not intentionally, but since they refuse to lose money their actions will prevent it.
It's anime, but incredible, lots of great fighting (that's what you want to see right?) with very little filler material (DragonballZ is about 95% filler) and still has a decent plot, storyline and characters.
Pity they don't make them that solidly anymore.
They do. I've got a 4 year old Thinkpad
You just contradicted yourself completely. Before you moderate this flamebait hear me out.
I've been working at my college as a laptop service technician for 3 years and I've had incredibly intimate experience with 3 models of IBM thinkpads. The 390, the i1422 and the i1300.
All three have had serious design flaws that made them break in predictable particular ways due from normal use.
The 390's battery latches broke like popcorn, and the hinges would break the covers into smithereens.
The 1400's would get white dots on the LCD from the LCD bezels being so flimsily made that slight presure on the outside of the closed laptop would squash it down onto two upraised areas on the keyboard bezel.
The current model my college has is the i1300. The hinges. Oh dear god the left hinges....For some inexplicable reason they made the LEFT hinges in these things out of pot metal, while the right hinge is good material and breaks about 1/2000th as often (Yes we have ~1700 machines on campus). Normal use will cause the left hinge to give out well within a year (the lease is 3 years). And if the hinge starts loosening up (the metal splitting) without being seen to it will eventually break the hinge cap, the upper and lower covers, both LCD bezels AND the LCD itself ($800 that IBM gets to eat, becaues it's a warranty issue).
Oh and each new model we get has more and more of its components integrated into the motherboard. Currently if any one of the following parts becomes broken/inoperable the $700 motherboard has to be replaced:
power port (can't count the number of times a trip over the power cord has cost the student $100 deductable and the college $600 to replace it)
headphone jack
microphone jack
bios (corrupted etc)
CMOS battery holder
You ask why the college has to pay for what should be covered under insurance? Because these things are so fragile that our 2nd insurance carrier dropped us like a rabid hamster! So don't even begin to say they still make them solid! I know better, I have to fix the damn things. Not to mention the hd in the stupid things has a transfer rate of 2.0MB/s (1/3rd the speed of my ipod's drive!)
Ok, I worked as a CAD operator (Structural Detailer was my job title) and I agree with most of what you say. A foreman isn't going to use a palmpilot to try and look at A0 size drawings. Also what is the point of of trying to flaunt your knowledge with cryptic "A0 size paper" why not just say "A0 (48" x 36" or the newer 44" x 34")"? But I disagree with you completely when you say:
Computers are widely used as drafting tools, and they do this job reasonably well. But computer manipulation of drawings is not something that even an architect is good with. Most architects prefer pen and paper, and they all draw very well.
Reasonably well? More like unbelievably well. An architect in this day and age that isn't good with computer maniuplation of drawings had better start learning or be left without a job. Tell me where these architects work that prefer pen and paper, I'll go steal their job. You can do infinitely more with a computer rather than pen and paper. Granted quick sketches for the forman will still be done on paper, but this is not the preferred method for full size drawings.
Natural "disasters" are a part of nature. Only humans label them disasters. They're just another part of a good working system that we don't happen to like.
If anyone else had written Lord of the Rings it wouldn't be as good as it is. It may have been good but it wouldn't be Lord of the Rings.
This is just silly.
Go ahead and mark it flaimbait, but I just don't think this story is worthy of/. If they hadn't finally made LotR into good movies this certainly wouldn't make it to/. LotR had a more of a cult following before the movies, now everybody is down with the hobbits.
I'm not against cloning, in fact I'm all for it, so I'm not some anti-progress/science guy.
But ever heard the expression, "The flap of a butterfly's wing can affect the weather halfway around the world" (note that halfway is the farthest distance possible!)?
If we mess with the weather on a big scale we risk F@#king up the whole goddamn planet! We don't have even remotely enough knowledge of the weather to do such a thing. We're messing with a CLOSED system here, if you make more water in one place that means there is less somewhere else!
Actually vigilante justice has worked in nature for millions of years.
If you don't like your competitors/attackers you're free to kill/eat them. After a few million years you have a very workable, stable system, human societies with laws on the other hand simply get worse and worse every day.
I would love such a system, the very first thing I would do is blow up AOL (lol), then move on to Ralsky. If everyone could take the law into their own hands it would be utter chaos for a while and then it would settle down and be a MUCH better society, big companies etc would finally quit fucking with others and hiding behind laws.
This is why I'm a firm believer in anarchy. Not because I dislike my particular government so much or any particular government, but simply the fact that nature has had it figured out for eons and it works. Just think of all the wonderful things government has brought you, like war, thermonuclear weapons etc....
Kinda got sidetracked there but you get my point, vigilante justice is the most effective kind.
It seems like the vast majority of you are saying that you aren't tricked by these ads, but you moms are....guys, you should know better than to let you your mom use the intarweb unsupervised.
Nature doesn't acknowledge pleas or namecalling if you can't get your food to survive. The buisness world is just another part of nature, if your methods of survival don't work, then you don't get to survive.
Nobody likes banners, popups, or spam all they do is annoy users and steal OUR bandwidth, so when your buisness model based on popups, banners or spam fails, analagously speaking you die.
Google's advertisments work because they're TARGETED. You search for something and they slip in a couple of text based ads related to WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.
Here's a weird analogy: In Vietnam the U.S. dropped more blanketing bombs on North Vietnam than in all of WWII and it accomplished almost nothing. It was a stupid strategy because just like with mass spamming/popups the liklihood of any given bomb accomplishing something was nil just like the odds of any single ad generating a profit are nil, you're just wasting "bombs" that never make an impact just like your untargeted ads face a disinterested audience.
Google gets to survive because their method works, you don't because yours doesn't.
The recording industry are the ones that are stealing music.
Think about it, they did NOT make ANY music, the artists did, and they're getting the money that should go to the artists directly.
Blkdeath has almost exactly right, the technology isn't obsolete, but the industry is. The process of recording sounds made by the artists onto a physical media to be sold is no longer necessary for the consumers to get the music.
If the recording insdustry was smart they would create a subscription or otherwise fee based P2P network.
Just because we shouldn't weaken the immune system by giving it cruthes, neither should we try to defeat it by ignoring the dirt, bacteria, and viruses that our hands come into contact with. Doorknobs, phone receivers and generally anything else you touch with your hands are the dirtiest things TO come into conctact with.
While I'm not a fan of using those alcohol based hand sanitizers and the like, I DO believe in washing hands. Soap removes oils that dirt and other unpleasantness gets trapped in, and stuff on your hands has a nasty habit of finding its way into your mouth.
In addition to oils, bacterias and the like, just think of how much urine is on the handles of those urinal or toilet handles because you KNOW most people flush right after taking a leak and since you're often urinating directly onto a flat vertical surface there tends to be some splattering and...well you get the idea.
For example the Quantum Atlas 10k's were NOISY, they sound like a ratchet being wielded by an overzealous mechanic.
The 10k II's were considerably better.
Last but not least the 10K III's....I've got (4) four of them operating in a RAID 0 array and combined they're considerably quieter than my 7200RPM IDE drive. Virtually silent in fact.
I remember seeing a bit on a railgun on some show on the discovery channel that impressed me. I don't remember any of the specifics, but I remember them showing what a very oddly shaped projectile did to a block of steel that looked to be about 6" thick. Simply put the hole through it appeared to be roughly twice the diameter of the projectile. To me that's a very impressive display of kinetic energy.
Yes, they're increasing the cost of their service and decreasing it's value, but there is something you're misssing. The RIAA is driving force behind these changes and they would love to see Napster fade into obscurity. For that purpose this is an excellent buisness model.
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When .mp3 was first released the copyright owners had absolutely no idea what was coming.
Now they know.
eBooks are never going to make it because the copyright owners know what will happen if eBooks actually become big.
They'll lose money.
I've yet to see a distribution scheme out there that is sucsessful (read: profitable to the copyright owners an popular with the populace) though apple's iTunes Music store comes close.
Basically what I'm saying here is that copyright owners learned their leasson with mp3s and as a result they WILL prevent ebooks from ever truly taking off. Not intentionally, but since they refuse to lose money their actions will prevent it.
It's anime, but incredible, lots of great fighting (that's what you want to see right?) with very little filler material (DragonballZ is about 95% filler) and still has a decent plot, storyline and characters.
It's "Clatu Verata Necktie"!!! (spelled phonetically)
You just contradicted yourself completely. Before you moderate this flamebait hear me out.
I've been working at my college as a laptop service technician for 3 years and I've had incredibly intimate experience with 3 models of IBM thinkpads. The 390, the i1422 and the i1300.
All three have had serious design flaws that made them break in predictable particular ways due from normal use.
- The 390's battery latches broke like popcorn, and the hinges would break the covers into smithereens.
-
The 1400's would get white dots on the LCD from the LCD bezels being so flimsily made that slight presure on the outside of the closed laptop would squash it down onto two upraised areas on the keyboard bezel.
- The current model my college has is the i1300. The hinges. Oh dear god the left hinges....For some inexplicable reason they made the LEFT hinges in these things out of pot metal, while the right hinge is good material and breaks about 1/2000th as often (Yes we have ~1700 machines on campus). Normal use will cause the left hinge to give out well within a year (the lease is 3 years). And if the hinge starts loosening up (the metal splitting) without being seen to it will eventually break the hinge cap, the upper and lower covers, both LCD bezels AND the LCD itself ($800 that IBM gets to eat, becaues it's a warranty issue).
Oh and each new model we get has more and more of its components integrated into the motherboard. Currently if any one of the following parts becomes broken/inoperable the $700 motherboard has to be replaced: power port (can't count the number of times a trip over the power cord has cost the student $100 deductable and the college $600 to replace it)- headphone jack
- microphone jack
- bios (corrupted etc)
- CMOS battery holder
You ask why the college has to pay for what should be covered under insurance? Because these things are so fragile that our 2nd insurance carrier dropped us like a rabid hamster! So don't even begin to say they still make them solid! I know better, I have to fix the damn things. Not to mention the hd in the stupid things has a transfer rate of 2.0MB/s (1/3rd the speed of my ipod's drive!)Ok, I worked as a CAD operator (Structural Detailer was my job title) and I agree with most of what you say. A foreman isn't going to use a palmpilot to try and look at A0 size drawings. Also what is the point of of trying to flaunt your knowledge with cryptic "A0 size paper" why not just say "A0 (48" x 36" or the newer 44" x 34")"? But I disagree with you completely when you say:
Computers are widely used as drafting tools, and they do this job reasonably well. But computer manipulation of drawings is not something that even an architect is good with. Most architects prefer pen and paper, and they all draw very well.
Reasonably well? More like unbelievably well. An architect in this day and age that isn't good with computer maniuplation of drawings had better start learning or be left without a job. Tell me where these architects work that prefer pen and paper, I'll go steal their job. You can do infinitely more with a computer rather than pen and paper. Granted quick sketches for the forman will still be done on paper, but this is not the preferred method for full size drawings.
Natural "disasters" are a part of nature. Only humans label them disasters. They're just another part of a good working system that we don't happen to like.
If anyone else had written Lord of the Rings it wouldn't be as good as it is. It may have been good but it wouldn't be Lord of the Rings.
/. If they hadn't finally made LotR into good movies this certainly wouldn't make it to /. LotR had a more of a cult following before the movies, now everybody is down with the hobbits.
This is just silly.
Go ahead and mark it flaimbait, but I just don't think this story is worthy of
I'm not against cloning, in fact I'm all for it, so I'm not some anti-progress/science guy.
But ever heard the expression, "The flap of a butterfly's wing can affect the weather halfway around the world" (note that halfway is the farthest distance possible!)?
If we mess with the weather on a big scale we risk F@#king up the whole goddamn planet! We don't have even remotely enough knowledge of the weather to do such a thing. We're messing with a CLOSED system here, if you make more water in one place that means there is less somewhere else!
PLEASE don't mess with the weather!
The Spanish American War
World War I
War on Poverty
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
War on Drugs
War on Iraq
War on Terror
(War on Iraq again?)
Sound familiar?
the pwnage of Microsoft!
Yay for linux!
Does anybody else find it "funny" that they waited until not only the Playstation was successful, but it's successor as well?
"I know guys, let's let Sony do all the work by making a system using this name that we own, then when it gets huge, sue them for it!"
Poor buisness ethics or cunning buisness strategy?
Actually vigilante justice has worked in nature for millions of years.
If you don't like your competitors/attackers you're free to kill/eat them. After a few million years you have a very workable, stable system, human societies with laws on the other hand simply get worse and worse every day.
I would love such a system, the very first thing I would do is blow up AOL (lol), then move on to Ralsky. If everyone could take the law into their own hands it would be utter chaos for a while and then it would settle down and be a MUCH better society, big companies etc would finally quit fucking with others and hiding behind laws.
This is why I'm a firm believer in anarchy. Not because I dislike my particular government so much or any particular government, but simply the fact that nature has had it figured out for eons and it works. Just think of all the wonderful things government has brought you, like war, thermonuclear weapons etc....
Kinda got sidetracked there but you get my point, vigilante justice is the most effective kind.
It's got water, that would make future colonization that much easier/more feasible.
It seems like the vast majority of you are saying that you aren't tricked by these ads, but you moms are....guys, you should know better than to let you your mom use the intarweb unsupervised.
I wanna know how long it takes you to park you car in a space 6" (15 cm) longer than your car.
I get a distinct picture of the austin powers scene...
Nature doesn't acknowledge pleas or namecalling if you can't get your food to survive. The buisness world is just another part of nature, if your methods of survival don't work, then you don't get to survive.
Nobody likes banners, popups, or spam all they do is annoy users and steal OUR bandwidth, so when your buisness model based on popups, banners or spam fails, analagously speaking you die.
Google's advertisments work because they're TARGETED. You search for something and they slip in a couple of text based ads related to WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.
Here's a weird analogy: In Vietnam the U.S. dropped more blanketing bombs on North Vietnam than in all of WWII and it accomplished almost nothing. It was a stupid strategy because just like with mass spamming/popups the liklihood of any given bomb accomplishing something was nil just like the odds of any single ad generating a profit are nil, you're just wasting "bombs" that never make an impact just like your untargeted ads face a disinterested audience.
Google gets to survive because their method works, you don't because yours doesn't.
No hurry up and croak, we're tired of your bs.
Sacremento?
Ummm....how is it free if it costs money to get it?
I don't mean to flame, but how is this any different from regular old capitalism? You get the source code....if you pay for it...
But wait, it's released 10 years down the road....when no one cares anymore...
But wait, you can get windows 95 for nothing from anybody who still has it because they're not using it and have no use for it...hence free...
See the parallels?
The recording industry are the ones that are stealing music.
Think about it, they did NOT make ANY music, the artists did, and they're getting the money that should go to the artists directly.
Blkdeath has almost exactly right, the technology isn't obsolete, but the industry is. The process of recording sounds made by the artists onto a physical media to be sold is no longer necessary for the consumers to get the music.
If the recording insdustry was smart they would create a subscription or otherwise fee based P2P network.
Just because we shouldn't weaken the immune system by giving it cruthes, neither should we try to defeat it by ignoring the dirt, bacteria, and viruses that our hands come into contact with. Doorknobs, phone receivers and generally anything else you touch with your hands are the dirtiest things TO come into conctact with.
While I'm not a fan of using those alcohol based hand sanitizers and the like, I DO believe in washing hands. Soap removes oils that dirt and other unpleasantness gets trapped in, and stuff on your hands has a nasty habit of finding its way into your mouth.
In addition to oils, bacterias and the like, just think of how much urine is on the handles of those urinal or toilet handles because you KNOW most people flush right after taking a leak and since you're often urinating directly onto a flat vertical surface there tends to be some splattering and...well you get the idea.
Wash your hands you filthy animal.
It depends on the drive.
For example the Quantum Atlas 10k's were NOISY, they sound like a ratchet being wielded by an overzealous mechanic.
The 10k II's were considerably better.
Last but not least the 10K III's....I've got (4) four of them operating in a RAID 0 array and combined they're considerably quieter than my 7200RPM IDE drive. Virtually silent in fact.
Of course they're reliable, they have no moving parts; about the only thing that would corrupt one is a strong magnetic field or a freakin' EMP pulse.
If you've got the money, I say get one, I would.
My fav quote has got to be the most simple one: That's life. Feel free to Moderate this one down to troll.
I remember seeing a bit on a railgun on some show on the discovery channel that impressed me. I don't remember any of the specifics, but I remember them showing what a very oddly shaped projectile did to a block of steel that looked to be about 6" thick. Simply put the hole through it appeared to be roughly twice the diameter of the projectile. To me that's a very impressive display of kinetic energy.
Yes, they're increasing the cost of their service and decreasing it's value, but there is something you're misssing. The RIAA is driving force behind these changes and they would love to see Napster fade into obscurity. For that purpose this is an excellent buisness model.