I highly doubt the submitter's genes would be alive today, if not for the hunting of "innocent" animals, whatever the hell that means.
I think the submitter understands the difference between hunting because its necessary for your survival and hunting because you think it's fun to track down and kill and animal and call it "sport".
No, just that he "took the initiative" in creating it. After it was already created.
He "took the initiative" in creating the Internet as we know it today. It being opened beyond the research community was the thing that caused its explosion (in a good way). So can rightly take credit for taking the initiative in creating 90+% of today's internet.
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Sure, but like I said, the original source (the FAQ) is conflicting. So I checked a couple other sources, and they all agree with the 36Mb/s number. The higher number mentioned is therefore more likely the "peak" transfer rate.
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The FAQ is conflicting, but I've found two other sources that confirm the 4.5MB/s rate, including the wikipedia. The 54Mb/s rate may be peak (outside-edge) rate.
(anyone else find people who reply with "Wrong." completely obnoxious?)
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The transfer rate for blu-ray is, accoriding to their FAQ, 36 Mb/s, not 36MB/s. Which means that 1x blu-ray (4.5MB/s) is considerably slower than today's 16x DVD drives, which are ~21MB/s.
Much of the dialog is really well done (particularly Seth's) and everyone on it is drop-dead gorgeous. It's not "good" TV, but it's certainly entertaining enough to enjoy.
It may be solvent, but it's not fair that everyone it forced to pay into a social security system that not everyone wants.
And it's not fair that I'm paying federal taxes to fund tax cuts for the rich, or to fund an ill-advised war that I opposed, or any number of other things. Nor is it fair that I was born into a stable family with enough money to provide a good education. Nor is it fair that I've been lucky in my career choices and have never been the victim of any kind of racial/sexual bias.
"Fairness" isn't the point of SS. The point of SS to provide a safety net so that a good chunk of our country's elderly don't end up destitute.
Exactly Correct, except that it's even more insideous.. they are currently collecting MORE than they need to pay for your grandpa's retirement and using nefarious accounting, count that as additional general revenue.
"Nefarious accounting"...also known as "purchasing US Treasury bonds". And wasn't it Gore, a Democrat, that was advocating insulating the Social Security Trust Fund from general revenue?
Whether government takes wealth out of the economy through taxes or inflation, that wealth is still removed from the economy
Isn't that money that is collected via taxes then spent on governmental programs, paying those in the public sector and aiding the private sector? It's not like it burns the dollars it collects. And wouldn't that mean that the huge defecit we're running indicates that the government is allowing far more "wealth" to exist than it should?
...where it almost by definition is being spent on things no one really wants--if they did, they wouldn't need to be forced to pay no?
No. Ever heard of the tragedy of the commons? Simply because there is no individual entity whose best interests coincide with a particular thing does not mean that the country isn't better off, as a whole, without said thing.
But show me one initiative by Democrats that makes people less dependent upon the government?
Off the top of my head...
Support of Euthanasia -- The government shouldn't be telling us when or how we can die. Opposition to "No Child Left Behind" -- Get the government out of mandating how our children are taught. Support for Abortion rights -- Get the government out of determining what we can do with our bodies.
...if you can't explain why while (*s++ = *t++); copies a string, or if that isn't the most natural thing in the world to you, well, you're programming based on superstition, as far as I'm concerned...
Yes, you should be able to decipher what that code does, but I'd seriously question anyone who saw that as second nature, and you'd get a talking-to if you were one of my programmers and actually checked in code that looked like that.
Probably the most talented debugger I've ever known is not coincidentally a somewhat poor programmer. His ability to understand complexity and obfuscation is second-to-none, but those same skills work against him when he writes his own code, because what he sees as "resonable complexity" ends up resulting in unmaintainable code for the rest of the programmers.
Knowing what happens under the hood is a good thing. Writing code like you're under the hood isn't.
If was superb it would not have been cancelled, and the studio would be only to happy to milk it for revenue. It was cancelled because the majority of people did not think it was superb.
That's assuming that everyone got to see it and then made their decision -- which clearly isn't the case. It's probably more accurate to say that the Fox marketing, scheduling, and promotion for it sucked.
Literally everyone I've forced my DVDs upon has absolutely loved it.
The RIAA can't touch me, now go talk to your legislators and get them to realize we did it right
As a professional software developer of products that are routinely pirated, I'm hardly going to "realize that [you] did it right".
The fact that/. has gone from "don't go after P2P authors, go after the pirates themselves" to "don't go after the pirates, copyright violation isn't really wrong" is very illuminating. Whatever argument still gets you your Free Stuff, I guess.
Sorry, but I can't go searching people's home even if I can prove they have my stuff. A middleman would have to do it. Same thing here. If they can prove I2 has their content. Then some appropriate agent can attempt to check for them.
I agree, which is why I said: "Personally, I think the MPAA/RIAA should get a court order for this, not unlike a search warrant."
They almost certainly can find enough information on publicly accessable resources to have probable cause.
As for the person who modded me down as flamebait, perhaps you should look up what that word means. I wasn't trolling, I was making a rational, if unpopular, argument. Have the balls to actually respond if you think I'm wrong, you pussy.
We all know that P2P networks violate copyright on Internet Classic. Internet2 currently offers better bandwidth and some element of privacy (due to membership being exclusive)...does anyone here really think that it's not contributing to copyright violation? There are apps like i2hub that are Internet2-specific P2P clients. We all know there are copyrighted works being traded on i2hub. And I'm sure all the folks doing file-sharing on Internet Classic would rather be doing so with the resources available on Internet2 if they only could.
The MPAA/RIAA (or the FBI/police/courts) should be able to investigate. If there was a university-only trucking company that we all knew was transporting stolen goods*, would we all be claiming they were unsearchable, simply because the stores being stolen from aren't a "member" of the trucking company?
Personally, I think the MPAA/RIAA should get a court order for this, not unlike a search warrant.
Lets not let our shared animosity toward the MPAA/RIAA cause us to actually endorse and defend piracy. I wouldn't be surprised if the software I develop for a living was being distributed on Internet2, and for me (or the company I work for) to be completley unable to stop that simply because we're not an "academic or research" company is absurd.
* Yes, I know, copyright violation isn't stealing, but that doesn't hurt the analogy.
With the spirit that Internet2 is designed for educational and research purposes
Does Internet2 actually enforce that their bandwidth is being used for "educational and research purposes"? Or was that simply the premise (not unlike Internet Classic)?
If Internet2 wants to police itself, that's great. But they don't appear to have any problems with things like i2hub, and the MPAA/RIAA want to make sure that there aren't illegal activities going on. As much as I despise the MPAA/RIAA in general, this seems like a valid concern.
That's like complaining that there are ads on cnn.com because you've already paid Time Warner for your cable modem. With cable TV I'm paying for a delivery mechanism, not the content itself.
Actually you're getting a 400MB SD downconvert of the original HD source. Still a nice pristine digital source, and it's well-encoded, but it's not HD. HD sources for a hour-long show, minus commercials, are in the 5-8GB range if they're the original mpeg2 stream or re-encoded with Xvid in the 2GB range.
That said, I love BitTorrent as well -- I no longer have to worry about two shows airing at the same time. Record one with with my ReplayTV and download the other. I'd be more than happy to do the same, for a fee, directly from the networks...but we're probably too fringe at the moment to be profitable.
Yes, please, "become rich." We know that is an easy thing that just magically happens to people. They don't work hard, educate themselves, nor rely on their skills to make this happen. They are just "lucky," and deserve to be taxed even heavier than they are already!
Well, yes, many of the rich got there based primarily on luck.
That's not to say that they don't work hard or educate themselves. But do they really work harder than a poor person working two jobs trying to make ends meet? Do the poor really intentionally not educate themselves?
I mean, I'm probably considered "rich", or at least upper-middle-class, and I've been extraordinarily lucky throughout my life. Lucky to be born into a middle-class family. Lucky that my parents didn't both have to work throughout my childhood. Lucky that they were loving and supportive, that they helped me make good friendships as a child, that they held me to high standards and spent the time making my education a priority. Lucky that they could afford to buy a C64 when I was ten. Lucky that I had an innate aptitude towards programming. Lucky that those initial breaks turned into a scholarship so I could go to college when my family hit some harder times. Lucky that I happened to get a job right out of college at a well-known company. Lucky that the timing worked out with a new employer when that first company went under.
Looking back on my life, there were all sorts of places where I could have had a bad break and wouldn't have ended up nearly as well-off as I currently am.
Given the undeniable unfairness based simply on the socioeconomic strata into which you're born, I don't understand how the rich aren't a bit more humble about their position in our socity.
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True, but how many animals are killed specifically to control population, and how many are killed for fun, as part of a "sport"?
Sure, but like I said, the original source (the FAQ) is conflicting. So I checked a couple other sources, and they all agree with the 36Mb/s number. The higher number mentioned is therefore more likely the "peak" transfer rate.
The FAQ is conflicting, but I've found two other sources that confirm the 4.5MB/s rate, including the wikipedia. The 54Mb/s rate may be peak (outside-edge) rate.
(anyone else find people who reply with "Wrong." completely obnoxious?)
The transfer rate for blu-ray is, accoriding to their FAQ, 36 Mb/s, not 36MB/s. Which means that 1x blu-ray (4.5MB/s) is considerably slower than today's 16x DVD drives, which are ~21MB/s.
Ah, whatever, it's guilty pleasure at its finest.
Much of the dialog is really well done (particularly Seth's) and everyone on it is drop-dead gorgeous. It's not "good" TV, but it's certainly entertaining enough to enjoy.
"Fairness" isn't the point of SS. The point of SS to provide a safety net so that a good chunk of our country's elderly don't end up destitute.
Support of Euthanasia -- The government shouldn't be telling us when or how we can die.
Opposition to "No Child Left Behind" -- Get the government out of mandating how our children are taught.
Support for Abortion rights -- Get the government out of determining what we can do with our bodies.
Probably the most talented debugger I've ever known is not coincidentally a somewhat poor programmer. His ability to understand complexity and obfuscation is second-to-none, but those same skills work against him when he writes his own code, because what he sees as "resonable complexity" ends up resulting in unmaintainable code for the rest of the programmers.
Knowing what happens under the hood is a good thing. Writing code like you're under the hood isn't.
Huh, I dunno, all my icons stay where they're supposed to. And I like the increased resolution over the large version, personally.
Is here.
Literally everyone I've forced my DVDs upon has absolutely loved it.
The fact that
They almost certainly can find enough information on publicly accessable resources to have probable cause.
As for the person who modded me down as flamebait, perhaps you should look up what that word means. I wasn't trolling, I was making a rational, if unpopular, argument. Have the balls to actually respond if you think I'm wrong, you pussy.
We all know that P2P networks violate copyright on Internet Classic. Internet2 currently offers better bandwidth and some element of privacy (due to membership being exclusive)...does anyone here really think that it's not contributing to copyright violation? There are apps like i2hub that are Internet2-specific P2P clients. We all know there are copyrighted works being traded on i2hub. And I'm sure all the folks doing file-sharing on Internet Classic would rather be doing so with the resources available on Internet2 if they only could.
The MPAA/RIAA (or the FBI/police/courts) should be able to investigate. If there was a university-only trucking company that we all knew was transporting stolen goods*, would we all be claiming they were unsearchable, simply because the stores being stolen from aren't a "member" of the trucking company?
Personally, I think the MPAA/RIAA should get a court order for this, not unlike a search warrant.
Lets not let our shared animosity toward the MPAA/RIAA cause us to actually endorse and defend piracy. I wouldn't be surprised if the software I develop for a living was being distributed on Internet2, and for me (or the company I work for) to be completley unable to stop that simply because we're not an "academic or research" company is absurd.
* Yes, I know, copyright violation isn't stealing, but that doesn't hurt the analogy.
If Internet2 wants to police itself, that's great. But they don't appear to have any problems with things like i2hub, and the MPAA/RIAA want to make sure that there aren't illegal activities going on. As much as I despise the MPAA/RIAA in general, this seems like a valid concern.
That said, I love BitTorrent as well -- I no longer have to worry about two shows airing at the same time. Record one with with my ReplayTV and download the other. I'd be more than happy to do the same, for a fee, directly from the networks...but we're probably too fringe at the moment to be profitable.
That's not to say that they don't work hard or educate themselves. But do they really work harder than a poor person working two jobs trying to make ends meet? Do the poor really intentionally not educate themselves?
I mean, I'm probably considered "rich", or at least upper-middle-class, and I've been extraordinarily lucky throughout my life. Lucky to be born into a middle-class family. Lucky that my parents didn't both have to work throughout my childhood. Lucky that they were loving and supportive, that they helped me make good friendships as a child, that they held me to high standards and spent the time making my education a priority. Lucky that they could afford to buy a C64 when I was ten. Lucky that I had an innate aptitude towards programming. Lucky that those initial breaks turned into a scholarship so I could go to college when my family hit some harder times. Lucky that I happened to get a job right out of college at a well-known company. Lucky that the timing worked out with a new employer when that first company went under.
Looking back on my life, there were all sorts of places where I could have had a bad break and wouldn't have ended up nearly as well-off as I currently am.
Given the undeniable unfairness based simply on the socioeconomic strata into which you're born, I don't understand how the rich aren't a bit more humble about their position in our socity.