Well, my Sony TV is nearing age of ten and shows no signs of wearout or aging whatsoever. Sure, it was high end back in the day (not cheap at all), and it's still very nice right now. I do not think plasma TVs are good enough to replace my TV yet because that technology is not mature.
It's really quite sad that so many people are reading a statement by a lawyer handling a case -- and thus whose motivation should be clear -- and are just swallowing it like it's gospel truth. Slashdotters are usually smarter than this.
Which clearly shows that letters RIAA for sloashdotters are like red rag for bull or short skirt for men - smarts and intelligence goes out the window instantly. Just why is it this way is completely another question.
Note to grandparent: resource drain is created by uncontrolled growth of human greed, not by growth of human race. With today's technologies it is possible to feed all humans on earth. Resources are not enough however for everyone to own SUV and a house.
More importantly, life expansion these days almost entirely revolves around "solving" old age.
It had always been that way, not just these days. Yogis are doing just that for many thousand years. And without any technology whatsoever. It's all in one's mind.
In a society where people become older and older, you have people building up vast reservoirs of experience and knowledge.
Well, it should be like this - in theory. Now imagine a slashdotter 50 years from now. He's been reading slashdot since teen years, his main source of information is TV, of which he prefers simpsons (or something like this), and from national geographic channel he finds out, that leaves of tree in autumn are supposed to be yellow. [It is known fact that many people who live their whole lives in big cities (New York, etc.) have never seen stars - smog covers sky at all times.] Now tell me - just how much wisdom and what kind of experience you could get from such person? Pop-culture is named like this because it is popular, not because it brings wisdom.
So my statement is - people are misusing their lives and wasting time for nonsense. As long as this is true, letting them do it for longer will only make matters worse. And yes - wisdom is more important than knowledge.
Just a side note: I recompress all taken.jpg pictures to 50% quality. Distortion is acceptable for me (difference is only notable in at least 200% zoom) and size goes down about 5 to 10 times. Really saves quite a lot disk space. I even wrote program to automate this compression process. As for mp3's - my collection grows slower and slower and by now takes about 40G. Only video data can (over-)fill 160+G hdd for average user.
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Well, my Sony TV is nearing age of ten and shows no signs of wearout or aging whatsoever. Sure, it was high end back in the day (not cheap at all), and it's still very nice right now. I do not think plasma TVs are good enough to replace my TV yet because that technology is not mature.
Not unless you are a bull (as in bos taurus). Assuming you are male, see the short skirt part - it does work, does it not?
Which clearly shows that letters RIAA for sloashdotters are like red rag for bull or short skirt for men - smarts and intelligence goes out the window instantly. Just why is it this way is completely another question.
Yeah, in USA {Sony|DMCA|your CD|...} sues you!
More importantly, life expansion these days almost entirely revolves around "solving" old age.
It had always been that way, not just these days. Yogis are doing just that for many thousand years. And without any technology whatsoever. It's all in one's mind.
In a society where people become older and older, you have people building up vast reservoirs of experience and knowledge.
Well, it should be like this - in theory. Now imagine a slashdotter 50 years from now. He's been reading slashdot since teen years, his main source of information is TV, of which he prefers simpsons (or something like this), and from national geographic channel he finds out, that leaves of tree in autumn are supposed to be yellow. [It is known fact that many people who live their whole lives in big cities (New York, etc.) have never seen stars - smog covers sky at all times.] Now tell me - just how much wisdom and what kind of experience you could get from such person? Pop-culture is named like this because it is popular, not because it brings wisdom.
So my statement is - people are misusing their lives and wasting time for nonsense. As long as this is true, letting them do it for longer will only make matters worse. And yes - wisdom is more important than knowledge.
Just a side note: I recompress all taken .jpg pictures to 50% quality. Distortion is acceptable for me (difference is only notable in at least 200% zoom) and size goes down about 5 to 10 times. Really saves quite a lot disk space. I even wrote program to automate this compression process.
As for mp3's - my collection grows slower and slower and by now takes about 40G. Only video data can (over-)fill 160+G hdd for average user.
Now, if he had keyboard like this, he would never need monitor again!
...but 'carving by hand' does not include the use of a dremel rotary tool.
Which leaves us with only nails available for carving by hand. "By knife" is not by hand as well, right?