I really doubt that things are going to roll out according to their timeline. I mean, how often do you have to replace a TV? I guarantee that not even 50% of the households in the country will be able to accept the digital signals by 2006. Let them try and switch the signal off on 50% of the public. The politicians will have epileptic fits from the consumer backlash!
Check out the site he links to. In a blind listening test of 300 audiophiles, mp3 recordings at 256k were indistingusihable from the original when played on the same equipment. Generally, I think 'audiophiles' are big into self-deception.:)
By your logic, I could go loot your house, because I've never heard you tell me not to, and I certainly never made an agreement with you, or your government for that matter (I'm assuming you're American; I'm Canadian) that I wouldn't
By my logic, you could do whatever you want to my house *after* I sold it or gave it away. What do I care what you do with something that is no longer mine?
I find that rather hard to believe, since Napstar is not a particularly good medium for finding new music
Yes, it was. All you had to do was join one of the lesser travelled chatrooms, right click on someone's name and browse their mp3s to find tons of music you may have never heard.
Don't they have radio where you live? MTV? VH1? How about internet radio? These are much more effective than Napster in exposing one to new music one might like.
Actually, they lost that right the moment that someone else had a copy of their music. If they didn't want it distributed, they shouldn't have given it to anyone.
I never heard them say anything like that, and I certainly never made any sort of agreement with anyone who creates music. If they want music to be treeated as property, they have to live with the fact that once you sell (or give away) your property, you no longer have control over it. It's that simple.
No, *you* are playing with words. Stealing implies depriving someone the use of their property without their consent. When I make a copy of a song, the creator hasn't lost any of the use of that song. It is every bit as usable after I copied it as it was before. I have taken nothing.
With music as with anything else, if someone creates something, it is only theirs for as long as they don't give it to anyone else.
I agree. What needs to be concentrated on is not the client end of.NET. Microsoft can only be grateful for everyone picking up the slack and doing their development for them. We need to work on emulating the *server* portion of.NET. If we can make it so that nobody needs their infrastructure, there will be no reason for anyone to use their servers for anything.
The client identifies itself to the gnutella network by ip address. If the client is able to connect at all, it means that it is able to make some path through the firewall. Normally, the address supplied is used for connecting and downloading directly. However, if the ip is in a reserved range, a push request is sent back along the path the response came from, and a connection is initiated from within the private network.
The pentium II processor has a built-in source of random numbers. I believe it uses a heat sensor attached to the processor. You could also take the input from a microphone that isn't attached to any external source of sound. Or, if you had the resources, you could set up some sort of geiger counter to generate your random numbers. If that's the only obstacle you can come up with, it's not really much of a problem...
Well, 1 is a big 'may', so that is an argument right there.
While computers are deterministic, it is entirely possible to write programs that are not. I've been playing around with genetic algorithms and neural nets for a while, and I couldn't begin to tell you why these things wind up wired the ways they are.
LSD has more urban legens associated with it than Richard Gere. There is no test in the world that can tell if you've taken LSD if you wait 4 or 5 days after ingestion. It is water soluble (unlike THC), so it isn't stored in your body fat. It is also not stored in your spinal fluid or anywhere else in your body. Flashbacks, if they exist at all, are a purely psychological phenomena.
Of course murder is wrong no matter what age you are. The whole reason that laws were set up differently for children is because we recognize that they don't have the ability to weigh the consequences of their actions with the same capacity as an adult. If we are not prepared to give them the benefits of having responsibility, we should not hold them to the same standards that those responsibilities entail. Either treat them like adults, or don't.
Oh. You don't quite understand. We are *THE* culture. Coming to a town near you! Money back Guarantee. Resistance is futile. We'll suck you up and spit you out in a nice little bite-sized McPackage. There is no escape.
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I really doubt that things are going to roll out according to their timeline. I mean, how often do you have to replace a TV? I guarantee that not even 50% of the households in the country will be able to accept the digital signals by 2006. Let them try and switch the signal off on 50% of the public. The politicians will have epileptic fits from the consumer backlash!
Maybe you should just try making copies of his money instead. For personal use only, of course.
Maroon.
Check out the site he links to. In a blind listening test of 300 audiophiles, mp3 recordings at 256k were indistingusihable from the original when played on the same equipment. Generally, I think 'audiophiles' are big into self-deception. :)
Actually, they lost that right the moment that someone else had a copy of their music. If they didn't want it distributed, they shouldn't have given it to anyone.
I never heard them say anything like that, and I certainly never made any sort of agreement with anyone who creates music. If they want music to be treeated as property, they have to live with the fact that once you sell (or give away) your property, you no longer have control over it. It's that simple.
In Napsters sorry carcass!
No, *you* are playing with words. Stealing implies depriving someone the use of their property without their consent. When I make a copy of a song, the creator hasn't lost any of the use of that song. It is every bit as usable after I copied it as it was before. I have taken nothing.
With music as with anything else, if someone creates something, it is only theirs for as long as they don't give it to anyone else.
You *can't* steal music. You might be able to steal cds or albums, but the music itself is far too immaterial to walk off with.
Besides, gnutella is much, much better now with all the napster refugees.
I agree. What needs to be concentrated on is not the client end of .NET. Microsoft can only be grateful for everyone picking up the slack and doing their development for them. We need to work on emulating the *server* portion of .NET. If we can make it so that nobody needs their infrastructure, there will be no reason for anyone to use their servers for anything.
The client identifies itself to the gnutella network by ip address. If the client is able to connect at all, it means that it is able to make some path through the firewall. Normally, the address supplied is used for connecting and downloading directly. However, if the ip is in a reserved range, a push request is sent back along the path the response came from, and a connection is initiated from within the private network.
The pentium II processor has a built-in source of random numbers. I believe it uses a heat sensor attached to the processor. You could also take the input from a microphone that isn't attached to any external source of sound. Or, if you had the resources, you could set up some sort of geiger counter to generate your random numbers. If that's the only obstacle you can come up with, it's not really much of a problem...
Is a program that can alter itself in an unpredictable way deterministic or not? How do you know?
Well, 1 is a big 'may', so that is an argument right there.
While computers are deterministic, it is entirely possible to write programs that are not. I've been playing around with genetic algorithms and neural nets for a while, and I couldn't begin to tell you why these things wind up wired the ways they are.
If the GPL is viral, Microsoft's license is just plain poison. Try 'improving' some windows code and distributing it and see how long you last.
No idea. EULAs are not legally binding. They can say whatever they like in them, and you are free to ignore all of it.
Personally, I stopped using winamp and switched over to freeamp when winamp disallowed the saving of streamed music...
So your friend decided that saving a few bucks on insurance was worth losing some of his best employees. Doesn't sound like a good decision to me...
LSD has more urban legens associated with it than Richard Gere. There is no test in the world that can tell if you've taken LSD if you wait 4 or 5 days after ingestion. It is water soluble (unlike THC), so it isn't stored in your body fat. It is also not stored in your spinal fluid or anywhere else in your body. Flashbacks, if they exist at all, are a purely psychological phenomena.
Check out the FAQ for more info.
Of course murder is wrong no matter what age you are. The whole reason that laws were set up differently for children is because we recognize that they don't have the ability to weigh the consequences of their actions with the same capacity as an adult. If we are not prepared to give them the benefits of having responsibility, we should not hold them to the same standards that those responsibilities entail. Either treat them like adults, or don't.
Surrender to the Lowest Common Denominator.