As I see it, the problem is that the CD or the MP3 is what is being defined as the product. I have said it before, and I will say it again, the music is the product, and not the media used to distribute it. If the artists want to be musicians, then they need to be making music, not CDs. The goal should not be a platinum-selling album, but a 250,000 attendee concert series. I should be able to go out on any night of the week, with ten dollars in my hand, and have my choice of any style of live music by bands that aren't local, regardless of where I live. So I say to the musician, "Don't be a recording artist, just be an artist." Will there be tons of money to be made? In the case of the Grateful Dead, you betcha. But you better have the staying power. Is there decent money to be made? Absolutely. You won't be buying a Ferrari any time soon, but then, if you are in it for the money, most people probably don't want to hear you anyway.
...absolutely unequivocally undeniably ILLEGAL. You can put whatever money is disbursed after the school takes the money it is owed for your education and put it in a basic savings account, thereby acruing some interest, but to purposely invest the loan money is against the law.
What should you do? Give the money back, or figure out some way to spend it legitimately. When you file your taxes - and student loan recipients do get looked at - they will say "How did you have this much investment capital and still get loans? You either lied on your application, or you actually invested your loan money." Either way, you are going to have to 1. pay back the loan, 2. pay additional fines, 3. pay lawyers fees, and 4. hopefully dodge jail time, depending on how your investments do.
My MMO playing has reduced a large amount of entertainment spending across the board, not just stand-alone games. I have been playing DAoC since only a couple months since it went live. I prefer playing the MMO at $15/month and using TeamSpeak to talk to the people I have been playing with for years now, than shell out the money for a movie that lasts 2 hours or pay $50 for a game that may last eight to ten. Basically, for my entertainment dollars, the MMO gives the biggest bang for the buck. So they get the bucks...
The problem is, it doesn't get "rolled out fully" as you describe. It is only rolled out to protect the financial interests of the corporations, but not the artists - hence the CMCC in Canada as a response. As for crypto, well, it is actively encouraged by the same folks who are performing this protest, so I don't get that statement from you.
But believe me, you don't own your information when you change phone companies. Customer databases are just more product to be sold and/or licensed to others as an income stream. That belongs to the company and stays with them. And it will always be that way. People are not citizens, but consumers anymore.
I agree it should be used rightly. But who defines "rightly" is definitely not you and I.
Mine was the Timex Sinclair 1000, as well. I remember going down to the local K-Mart and seeing what tapes were available. I eventually programmed a bunch of print X+1 and Y-1 statements to draw a plane flying overhead and a boat sailing the opposite direction and dropping bombs or launching missiles. The replay value wasn't there, but it was a start...
There are a lot of options in a lot of games that let you do the solo thing. Each one has classes or traits or skills or what-have-you that would allow both solo and team play, when you like. I play Dark Age of Camelot in the Albion realm, and a deathsight necro will let you do either solo or team play. There isn't a class in the Albion realm that can compete with the Necromancer for PvE play. With the newer instanced dungeons and easily solo'd quests you can level yourself pretty easily in half-hour and 45-minute increments.
But really, I would say that any of the games out there have some class or toon that can provide a decent solo experience.
The town used to be named "Hot Springs" but they changed it for the game show in the 50s. The host of the show said he would host it from the first town willing to rename itself.
Given the latest bits, it may not be the best in references, but:
The problem with the current manner of these things, particularly when the the magic words "National Security" are used, there is truly trustworthy oversight. The only trustworthy oversight is public oversight.
Thats what freedom of the press is all about.
Of course, it has always been my personal opinion that no matter what it is, crime prevention runs entirely counter to civil liberties. Until a criminal act is actually committed, any police activity to prevent that act violates at the very least the freedom of speech and freedom of association. There are probably a few others in there, depending on the situation.
"The real reason for moving from IPv4 to IPv6 should be the technical aspect and when people commit to moving over completely to this it will be because of the technological gains, not because we run out of IPs because someone had a baby."
Oh, well, when you put it that way, you are probably right.
Most people don't want to or care to vote. Lets not transition to democracy.
I am only being a little fecetious here. Its about the technological innovation and its about the philosophy of the Net. The internet was designed and intended to be with the philosophy that all devices on the Net are equal in its end-to-end architecture. Your desktop PC is no less or more a valid member of the Net than the big web servers at IBM. Just because the majority of people on the Net don't know about or don't care about having an IP doesn't make this philosophy any less valid or important to maintain.
And the technological advantage is that it allows the kind of innovation people are looking for. Potentially the greatest communication revolution since the development of the Internet itself - VoIP - would be dramatically easier without the short-term patch of NAT.
This is sort of related to how I see Bill Gates' recent tour of American colleges to promote CS degrees. He sees a shortage of CS workers and that we need more. How I see it, and it may be cynical but seems more realistic, is that he is trying to get IT workers who have American educations, American productivity levels, but at imported worker salary.
...what your management was thinking. I mean, I can't imagine a storage requirement that large that you can build in a distributed model that would beat on price per GB an EMC or Hitachi or IBM or whomever SAN solution. The administration and DR costs alone for something like this would be astronomical. There just isn't really a way to do something this big on the cheap. I mean, this is what SANs were developed for in the first place. Its cheaper per GB than distributed local storage ever could be.
Actually, the vast majority of research - particularly in potential drug therapies - is done with public (NIH grants) and not-for-profit funds (think March of Dimes, Juvenile Diabetes, Jerry Lewis, William Gates Foundation, etc.) by universities and such. The drug companies then license the new potential product from the schools to manufacture and sell. Admittedly, the drug companies also share a good chunk of change to help in the research, but the majority of their money comes in later, funding FDA trials and reviews, and then, of course, the advertising blitz. You know what I mean, to sell the drug that, if taken as directed, will guarantee you the ability to throw a football accurately.
Where I live in Wyandotte, Michigan, we've had municipal broadband for years. Its not free, but "competitively priced" as if a company provided the service. I pay ~$50 for 4Mb/512k cable service. The city contracted a Canadian provider, ParaSun Technologies, to be the ISP. The city owns the cable network, so they can provide whatever services they want. Of course, the city also owns their own power plant and water treatment facilities. The only services provided by public utility companies is natural gas and telephone.
Having read through the draft of this standard given to me a vendor in preparation for a major infrastructure overhaul, I have to say that this document was a godsend in getting what needed to be done made possible.
This standard isn't for the SMB or small colo facilities. This is more for the big corporate datacenters (my workplace is approx. 100,000 sq ft, and a 2000+ port SAN). These kind of places don't blink an eye at $250 for a book. Of course, in places like this, a vendor would most likely give a freebie copy of it anyway.
This standard doesn't just say "Have raised floors" or "Don't have windows, but have X number of egresses." It says "For X wattage of computing capacity in a given area, you need Y BTUs of cooling capacity with the ability to move Z cubic feet of air per minute." Things of that nature. Its actually a pretty detailed document.
Of course, no standard fits all situations. Probably the only data center that could actually meet these standards to the letter is one that is only just breaking ground. A thirty or forty year old data center that has had its permanent infrastructure (plumbing, etc) worked and reworked and patched and reassembled can be pretty expensive for anyone to rearrange to meet these.
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Actually, its quite smart. If you look at the suggested pricing for the components to upgrade the core system to the premium, the price goes way above the premium package pricing. Since most consoles are purchased by parents for their whining kids, they will get the cheaper version to make the holiday nice, and then their kids start whining about how useless the box is without the add-ons (backwards compatibility requires HDD, for example), suddenly MS has the revenue from buying all the addons separately. Its sort of a delayed "bait and switch". Come in and buy the core, but six months later, you have purchased the premium for a lot more money...
The problem with this is that in most cases, unless you pay the much higher fees for "business" or some other classification, sharing your residential connection with other households is a violation of the terms of service and you can lose it, with no hesitation. I had a friend in college who did something even more basic, sharing his wireless connection with the people in the apartment across the hall, splitting the cost of the DSL. One way or another he was found out, and the ISP quickly cut him off. No warnings or anything. When he called tech support about why his connection wasn't working, they told him what they did and why.
When discussing this very thing in my political science and philosophy classes, the readings almost always indicated that when a society achieves a certain level of economic and social stability, the civil liberties enjoyed become a lot less important than maintaining that social and economic stability. People will generally choose strict security over personal freedom at this level. That is, until things become too oppressive, and then they hold a revolution and reset the clock...
Wow, maybe I should do that. Being in Michigan, and my employer's HQ in Colorado, I can sue in California and get allowed to move to another employer without the six months of non-compete grocery bagging. Of course, I shouldn't complain too much, as six months is really not very long for a non-compete window, as I understand...
I guess someone should tell automakers that they should reinvent a mode of transportation from scratch. That four wheels, an engine, and brake and throttle thing is so passé nowadays.
I don't think the four wheels, brake and throttle thing is what he is talking about, but I will agree that the internal combustion engine is completely obsolete and should be rebuilt from the ground up. We can add detergents and continually refine the fuels, we can add computers and all sorts of doo-dads to the engine, and its still basically the same technology as a hundred years ago. There hasn't really been any real innovation in powering personal transport in a century, unless you bought into the Segway hype.
When I read things like how China is watching us miss this opportunity, I get kind of angry. Basically, his concern is not for the state of the US industry, but of course, for Microsoft. Bill and co. want to see more CS majors not so that the US can stay on top, but so that they can get American worker productivity while having a market so glutted that they can get the labor willing to work at much lower wages.
It supports current video through a unified graphics driver coded by SciTech Software. This replaced the GRADD drivers IBM was coding "back in the day." Its basically an OS/2 version of their SNAP graphics.
As for the other stuff, I am not entirely sure. I am pretty confident, though, that it has some wireless support provided through the more recent service paks.
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As I see it, the problem is that the CD or the MP3 is what is being defined as the product. I have said it before, and I will say it again, the music is the product, and not the media used to distribute it. If the artists want to be musicians, then they need to be making music, not CDs. The goal should not be a platinum-selling album, but a 250,000 attendee concert series. I should be able to go out on any night of the week, with ten dollars in my hand, and have my choice of any style of live music by bands that aren't local, regardless of where I live. So I say to the musician, "Don't be a recording artist, just be an artist." Will there be tons of money to be made? In the case of the Grateful Dead, you betcha. But you better have the staying power. Is there decent money to be made? Absolutely. You won't be buying a Ferrari any time soon, but then, if you are in it for the money, most people probably don't want to hear you anyway.
...absolutely unequivocally undeniably ILLEGAL. You can put whatever money is disbursed after the school takes the money it is owed for your education and put it in a basic savings account, thereby acruing some interest, but to purposely invest the loan money is against the law.
What should you do? Give the money back, or figure out some way to spend it legitimately. When you file your taxes - and student loan recipients do get looked at - they will say "How did you have this much investment capital and still get loans? You either lied on your application, or you actually invested your loan money." Either way, you are going to have to 1. pay back the loan, 2. pay additional fines, 3. pay lawyers fees, and 4. hopefully dodge jail time, depending on how your investments do.
My MMO playing has reduced a large amount of entertainment spending across the board, not just stand-alone games. I have been playing DAoC since only a couple months since it went live. I prefer playing the MMO at $15/month and using TeamSpeak to talk to the people I have been playing with for years now, than shell out the money for a movie that lasts 2 hours or pay $50 for a game that may last eight to ten. Basically, for my entertainment dollars, the MMO gives the biggest bang for the buck. So they get the bucks...
Reminds me less of Star Wars and more of the SeaQuest submarine, since they plan on releasing them outside the station at some point.
The problem is, it doesn't get "rolled out fully" as you describe. It is only rolled out to protect the financial interests of the corporations, but not the artists - hence the CMCC in Canada as a response. As for crypto, well, it is actively encouraged by the same folks who are performing this protest, so I don't get that statement from you.
But believe me, you don't own your information when you change phone companies. Customer databases are just more product to be sold and/or licensed to others as an income stream. That belongs to the company and stays with them. And it will always be that way. People are not citizens, but consumers anymore.
I agree it should be used rightly. But who defines "rightly" is definitely not you and I.
Mine was the Timex Sinclair 1000, as well. I remember going down to the local K-Mart and seeing what tapes were available. I eventually programmed a bunch of print X+1 and Y-1 statements to draw a plane flying overhead and a boat sailing the opposite direction and dropping bombs or launching missiles. The replay value wasn't there, but it was a start...
There are a lot of options in a lot of games that let you do the solo thing. Each one has classes or traits or skills or what-have-you that would allow both solo and team play, when you like. I play Dark Age of Camelot in the Albion realm, and a deathsight necro will let you do either solo or team play. There isn't a class in the Albion realm that can compete with the Necromancer for PvE play. With the newer instanced dungeons and easily solo'd quests you can level yourself pretty easily in half-hour and 45-minute increments.
But really, I would say that any of the games out there have some class or toon that can provide a decent solo experience.
The town used to be named "Hot Springs" but they changed it for the game show in the 50s. The host of the show said he would host it from the first town willing to rename itself.
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Given the latest bits, it may not be the best in references, but:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_consequence
The problem with the current manner of these things, particularly when the the magic words "National Security" are used, there is truly trustworthy oversight. The only trustworthy oversight is public oversight.
Thats what freedom of the press is all about.
Of course, it has always been my personal opinion that no matter what it is, crime prevention runs entirely counter to civil liberties. Until a criminal act is actually committed, any police activity to prevent that act violates at the very least the freedom of speech and freedom of association. There are probably a few others in there, depending on the situation.
"The real reason for moving from IPv4 to IPv6 should be the technical aspect and when people commit to moving over completely to this it will be because of the technological gains, not because we run out of IPs because someone had a baby."
Oh, well, when you put it that way, you are probably right.
Most people don't want to or care to vote. Lets not transition to democracy.
I am only being a little fecetious here. Its about the technological innovation and its about the philosophy of the Net. The internet was designed and intended to be with the philosophy that all devices on the Net are equal in its end-to-end architecture. Your desktop PC is no less or more a valid member of the Net than the big web servers at IBM. Just because the majority of people on the Net don't know about or don't care about having an IP doesn't make this philosophy any less valid or important to maintain.
And the technological advantage is that it allows the kind of innovation people are looking for. Potentially the greatest communication revolution since the development of the Internet itself - VoIP - would be dramatically easier without the short-term patch of NAT.
This is sort of related to how I see Bill Gates' recent tour of American colleges to promote CS degrees. He sees a shortage of CS workers and that we need more. How I see it, and it may be cynical but seems more realistic, is that he is trying to get IT workers who have American educations, American productivity levels, but at imported worker salary.
...what your management was thinking. I mean, I can't imagine a storage requirement that large that you can build in a distributed model that would beat on price per GB an EMC or Hitachi or IBM or whomever SAN solution. The administration and DR costs alone for something like this would be astronomical. There just isn't really a way to do something this big on the cheap. I mean, this is what SANs were developed for in the first place. Its cheaper per GB than distributed local storage ever could be.
Actually, the vast majority of research - particularly in potential drug therapies - is done with public (NIH grants) and not-for-profit funds (think March of Dimes, Juvenile Diabetes, Jerry Lewis, William Gates Foundation, etc.) by universities and such. The drug companies then license the new potential product from the schools to manufacture and sell. Admittedly, the drug companies also share a good chunk of change to help in the research, but the majority of their money comes in later, funding FDA trials and reviews, and then, of course, the advertising blitz. You know what I mean, to sell the drug that, if taken as directed, will guarantee you the ability to throw a football accurately.
Where I live in Wyandotte, Michigan, we've had municipal broadband for years. Its not free, but "competitively priced" as if a company provided the service. I pay ~$50 for 4Mb/512k cable service. The city contracted a Canadian provider, ParaSun Technologies, to be the ISP. The city owns the cable network, so they can provide whatever services they want. Of course, the city also owns their own power plant and water treatment facilities. The only services provided by public utility companies is natural gas and telephone.
Having read through the draft of this standard given to me a vendor in preparation for a major infrastructure overhaul, I have to say that this document was a godsend in getting what needed to be done made possible.
This standard isn't for the SMB or small colo facilities. This is more for the big corporate datacenters (my workplace is approx. 100,000 sq ft, and a 2000+ port SAN). These kind of places don't blink an eye at $250 for a book. Of course, in places like this, a vendor would most likely give a freebie copy of it anyway.
This standard doesn't just say "Have raised floors" or "Don't have windows, but have X number of egresses." It says "For X wattage of computing capacity in a given area, you need Y BTUs of cooling capacity with the ability to move Z cubic feet of air per minute." Things of that nature. Its actually a pretty detailed document.
Of course, no standard fits all situations. Probably the only data center that could actually meet these standards to the letter is one that is only just breaking ground. A thirty or forty year old data center that has had its permanent infrastructure (plumbing, etc) worked and reworked and patched and reassembled can be pretty expensive for anyone to rearrange to meet these.
Actually, its quite smart. If you look at the suggested pricing for the components to upgrade the core system to the premium, the price goes way above the premium package pricing. Since most consoles are purchased by parents for their whining kids, they will get the cheaper version to make the holiday nice, and then their kids start whining about how useless the box is without the add-ons (backwards compatibility requires HDD, for example), suddenly MS has the revenue from buying all the addons separately. Its sort of a delayed "bait and switch". Come in and buy the core, but six months later, you have purchased the premium for a lot more money...
The problem with this is that in most cases, unless you pay the much higher fees for "business" or some other classification, sharing your residential connection with other households is a violation of the terms of service and you can lose it, with no hesitation. I had a friend in college who did something even more basic, sharing his wireless connection with the people in the apartment across the hall, splitting the cost of the DSL. One way or another he was found out, and the ISP quickly cut him off. No warnings or anything. When he called tech support about why his connection wasn't working, they told him what they did and why.
When discussing this very thing in my political science and philosophy classes, the readings almost always indicated that when a society achieves a certain level of economic and social stability, the civil liberties enjoyed become a lot less important than maintaining that social and economic stability. People will generally choose strict security over personal freedom at this level. That is, until things become too oppressive, and then they hold a revolution and reset the clock...
Wow, maybe I should do that. Being in Michigan, and my employer's HQ in Colorado, I can sue in California and get allowed to move to another employer without the six months of non-compete grocery bagging. Of course, I shouldn't complain too much, as six months is really not very long for a non-compete window, as I understand...
What obsoletes it?
Thats my point. In over a hundred years, no one can come up with something?
I don't think the four wheels, brake and throttle thing is what he is talking about, but I will agree that the internal combustion engine is completely obsolete and should be rebuilt from the ground up. We can add detergents and continually refine the fuels, we can add computers and all sorts of doo-dads to the engine, and its still basically the same technology as a hundred years ago. There hasn't really been any real innovation in powering personal transport in a century, unless you bought into the Segway hype.
When I read things like how China is watching us miss this opportunity, I get kind of angry. Basically, his concern is not for the state of the US industry, but of course, for Microsoft. Bill and co. want to see more CS majors not so that the US can stay on top, but so that they can get American worker productivity while having a market so glutted that they can get the labor willing to work at much lower wages.
USB is definitely supported.
It supports current video through a unified graphics driver coded by SciTech Software. This replaced the GRADD drivers IBM was coding "back in the day." Its basically an OS/2 version of their SNAP graphics.
As for the other stuff, I am not entirely sure. I am pretty confident, though, that it has some wireless support provided through the more recent service paks.
I was just playing devil's advocate, but here would be an interesting read, perhaps...
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http://ejap.louisiana.edu/EJAP/1995.spring/callic