I never said it was a right. I don't get torrents of any shows I watch. I know that I am strange but really only use torrents for FOSS. What I am saying is simply this. I have bought shows on iTunes because it was easier then recording them myself and trans coding them for the iPod. I will probably just record them on my pc now instead of buying the. Others will end up using torrents to get them. If NBC really wants more DRM then that is frankly just stupid. It will not stop the torrents as long as it is available on broadcast or DVD. Making it cheap and easy to get online is the way to make money from TV show on the internet. If they think they should charge more money then I say that is stupid because they are loosing me as a customer and probably a lot of other people.
You really are putting the cart before the horse. I have probably read more science fiction the the average person. I am a big fan of Clarke, Asimov, Bear, Niven, and goodness knows who else. But when you are talking about the cost of putting in an 802.11b/g/n/ network vs the benefits today you can see use real science. Even WiMax is a bit of a waste. All wireless network connections are going to very limited compared to a fiber optic connection. Wireless is good for the last ten meter problem not the last mile problem except in very specific instances. WiMax for is good for about 2 kms at 10MPS but that 10 mps is shared by everyone in that 2 km radius. Science Fiction is a great way to think about new ideas and is frankly a lot of fun. But we didn't fly to the moon in a big cannon shell. I suggest that you start adding in a lot of real science to your reading list.
It could be that being connected 24/7 is not a good idea. Frankenstein was written because Mary Shelly was bored on a vacation. Einstein came up with the theory of Relativity while riding a bike a day dreaming about riding on a light beam. Today they might have been too busy reading Slashdot.
That level of performance will probably be restricted to the new GPU based accelerator cards coming from nVidia and ATI/AMD. You may see it come to mainstream cpus when Intel and AMD merge the CPU and GPU. Since those will probably be used in Notebooks first you should see them in blades pretty quickly as well. What else would you use a GPU core on a blade for but math?
1. What if you can get an NBC station with your Antenna. I know that I can not where I live. 2. I think your friends will get a little ticked off with the weekly vists. 3. HUH???? 4. So I need to wait until the end of the season.
I think NBC is makeing a huge mistake. 1. More DRM on iTunes? People you BROADCAST IT OVER THE AIR. I make DRM free recordings of your shows on my computer NOW! They Torrents are out NOW. They are not coming from iTunes. 2. Flexible pricing? You mean jack up the pricing. Oh well. As I said I can get it for free now. I guess I will start recording more shows with my computer and buy less with iTunes.
"Go read some science fiction, which you obviously have not, and you'll have a much better idea of the vast potential truly "universal" access will have."
Science Fiction is fiction. I still don't have my flying car.
What everybody forgets is someone has to pay for it. WiMax mobile will hopefully solve the need for mobile access for a much lower cost and fiber is a better solution for fixed locations.
Google and Microsoft both want to rule the internet search. If you can not store you can not search effectively. If you can not search you can not sell ads. Google wants people to upload junk to YouTube and for you to download it along with the ads they put it in.
I doubt that Microsoft will push the record companies to drop DRM.
You hit on another thing and that is fear and loathing of the military. In the US the military are often looked down on as dumb thugs. The members of the US military really are to steal a term from China the Peoples Army. I can not imagine them turning on the civilian population because they do not give their allegiance to any one leader. They really believe that they are here to serve the people on the whole. Individuals will vary of course. Intellectual arrogance, been their I find it often passes with age as person gains wisdom. As a helpful old saying I suggest you keep with you at all times.
I wise man learns from everyone. A fool learns from no one. Of course one should also keep an open mind but not so open that your brain falls out.
No the truth is vital. The problem is when people twist the truth because they feel that they have to convince people to believe like they do for the greater good. I do believe that terrorist attacks are a threat and we do need to do more to protect people in the US. I don't think wiretaps of calls without court orders is the way to do it. My weasel wording wasn't weasel wording. I am not fond of the Patriot Act. When I am don't like a law I try to change it. The truth is freedom of political speech in the US is still very free. Not perfect but the sky is far from falling. When people start screaming that we are heading to a police state when we are no where near one means that people will not listen to you. I simply put my statement in a way that I felt a reasonable person that didn't agree with me might think about and not take offense with. I could never convince an extremist that feels that we should round up all foreigner and Muslims that the Patriot Act was a bad thing. If anything they are sure it isn't going far enough. I can only hope that reasonable people will think about the reasons why I don't like it. The truth is vital but the bigger truth is that we all probably see it in a different way and each of us might be a little right and a little wrong. Listening and trying to understand is my way and frankly what I feel is lacking in today's society. Too many people are too worried about their freedom of speech and not worried enough about other peoples freedom to listen.
"So sensors in the dumpster can notify the Garbage Collection that it's full and let them optimize their routes to save gas, time and money.
The point is if you build the infrastructure people will find ways to use it. "
So you will have to spent the money and energy to build and run those sensor. I have a better idea. Just use a big dumpster and pick it up once a week as part of a route so that you don't waste fuel making a special trip! Simple is better.
Not really. Tibet was a religious dictatorship and not all that open or friendly. Proselytizing is no more evil than my vegan friends trying to get me to stop eating meat. Shinto and Hinduism have long violent histories as well. Extreme Atheist governments have killed more people in the 20th century than Hitler did should we hate all Atheists for their bloody legacy? You are just saying the same old false dogma.
It isn't propaganda it is called none inflammatory. Yes the Patriot Act should have never signed in to law IMHO. To preform a wiretap on phone calls in the US a court order should be required. What is so hard about that? I just don't think that over inflammatory statements help convince anyone. Free speech Zones don't offend me. I feel that people that shout down a public speaker are infringing on that speakers right to be heard and on those that want to hear what they have to say. I don't like it when it happens to any speaker. Too many people think that Free Speech means that they can force people to hear what they want to say and at the same time prevent others from disagreeing with them. I hate to say it but are part of the problem. You are exhibiting exactly the same type of behavior that the extreme people on the other side of the issue exhibit. For one thing what makes you think you have right to demand that I clarify my statement? Second you are right I did state my position in a way that people on the both sides could combine with their own bias. To people that think that they Patriot Act is wrong they can read into it that I think think that the Patriot Act is wrong which I do. Others can read into it that I don't find the Patriot Act terrible but that I do have some issues with it. Maybe they will think about those issues and maybe it will start bothering them a little as well. You on the other hand have decided that unless I state something EXACTLY the way you do and feel about it EXACTLY the way you do I am your enemy and must be attacked. How technically easy or hard it is to put in place a wire tap is just an issue of technology. As technology improves everything becomes easier and faster. How easy it is to do legally does concern me. It should always require a court order. The need of or the lack of the need of a Court Order is the only thing that I am concerned with and frankly the only thing that should concern anyone.
I am not saying that city wide networks are bad at all. Or that WiFi is bad. I am saying you don't need to blanket the entire city all the time with wifi. I am all for city and towns putting in their own fiber networks if the commercial vendors are not stepping up to the plate. I am also for ending CATV monopolies.
The only reason is because you are a westerner so the cultural mixture you picture seems odd. I am sure if you pictured a Buddist monk in traditional Tibet abusing his position you would fine the image less amusing. Sort of like how pictures of Nuns in full dress on skates or eating an ice cream sunday are amusing. It is the mixture of cultural signals that sticks with you.
"Where have you been the last 5 or so years? Bush can listen to your phone without a warrant." I love people that just rant on. I said that I didn't like the patriot act and that it should still require a warrant. Wire tapping without a warrant is a problem. This wiretap network isn't a problem.
No it isn't I just don't see the need for WiFi EVERYWHERE. If you want to compare it to water then fine. Are there public water fountains on every block? No. Is there a public water fountain even at every park? Probably not. Why have a city wide WiFi system? Hot Spots will get you 99% of the benefit for 1% of the cost. There was a Network admin for a college here on slashdot talking about this. His school was demanding that the entire campus have WiFi coverage. For the life of him he couldn't figure out why WiFi coverage out by the trash dumpsters was important. Why not just have it in the class rooms, Dorms, Student Unions, Library, and the Quad? Add in Sprint bringing WiMax and yea it just doesn't seem like a good idea.
I could see WiFi and WiFi Mesh networks as a great solution in rural areas of the Midwest. Lots of silos and grain elevators and very few hills. But City Wide WiFi nteworks? Why?
The FBI has been tapping phones since day one. In the US they must have a court order to do it. The fact that they use modern technology to do it just seems logical. This network shouldn't be a shock or frankly all that scary as long as they still require a court order to do it. As far as any restrictions on political speech? Not that I have seen. I am not fond of the patriot act but your rant is a little over the top.
1. You should pick new leaders. The vast majority of religious leaders don't behave as you describe. 2. I am glad that you think that the Dali Lama is a pretty good dude. I doubt that he would approve of your little rant.
Tibet wasn't some prefect little place before the Chinese invaded. It was a theology ruled by a religious upper class with a large under class that where pretty much surfs. That being said the current Dali Lama was kicked out at a young age. I have no idea what Tibet under him might have been like. He seems to be a kind, gentle, and enlightened man. I don't know if this is because of his exile or in spite of it.
What I find so interesting is how the "open minded" "liberal" people I see are so accepting of none Christian faiths but so hostile towards Christian faiths. If you had tried to build a Christian church in Tibet before the Chinese invaded I doubt that you would have stayed out of jail long enough to finish it. Yet in predominantly Christian Countries Buddhist Temples exists with little interference. I am sure there is a Buddhist monk that has committed some crime yet you wouldn't hold it as an example of why Buddhists are evil.
I do think that the Dali Lama seems like a good person. Too bad you had to fill the rest of your post with venom and hate.
Exactly and both are doomed to fail or will become so convoluted that it just will make the software useless. Just like Microsoft trying to outlaw mod chips. The only difference is a lot of people on Slashdot want the GPLv3 to work.
Linux is free of cost but not all GPL software is free of cost. There is Nothing that says you can not sell GPL software. You just can not prevent others from selling the same software.
"Nokia should really just stop with the N-Gage and look at improving the controls on regular phones instead. Cell phone gaming is absolutely horrendous at the moment, yet no one in the market seems to be doing anything to fix it."
The thing is Cell phones are already expected to check your email, surf the web, show video, and be a good phone! I think it all about priorities.
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"and back in college I used to watch TV shows with friends **all** the time,"
Enough said right there. Do yo do it now?
Jobs, kids, spouses....
I think it could glide. It would just glide worse then the space shuttle.
Igor Sikorsky? This guy isn't even Jim Bede.
I never said it was a right. I don't get torrents of any shows I watch. I know that I am strange but really only use torrents for FOSS.
What I am saying is simply this. I have bought shows on iTunes because it was easier then recording them myself and trans coding them for the iPod.
I will probably just record them on my pc now instead of buying the. Others will end up using torrents to get them.
If NBC really wants more DRM then that is frankly just stupid. It will not stop the torrents as long as it is available on broadcast or DVD. Making it cheap and easy to get online is the way to make money from TV show on the internet.
If they think they should charge more money then I say that is stupid because they are loosing me as a customer and probably a lot of other people.
You really are putting the cart before the horse. I have probably read more science fiction the the average person. I am a big fan of Clarke, Asimov, Bear, Niven, and goodness knows who else. But when you are talking about the cost of putting in an 802.11b/g/n/ network vs the benefits today you can see use real science. Even WiMax is a bit of a waste. All wireless network connections are going to very limited compared to a fiber optic connection. Wireless is good for the last ten meter problem not the last mile problem except in very specific instances. WiMax for is good for about 2 kms at 10MPS but that 10 mps is shared by everyone in that 2 km radius.
Science Fiction is a great way to think about new ideas and is frankly a lot of fun. But we didn't fly to the moon in a big cannon shell. I suggest that you start adding in a lot of real science to your reading list.
It could be that being connected 24/7 is not a good idea. Frankenstein was written because Mary Shelly was bored on a vacation. Einstein came up with the theory of Relativity while riding a bike a day dreaming about riding on a light beam. Today they might have been too busy reading Slashdot.
That level of performance will probably be restricted to the new GPU based accelerator cards coming from nVidia and ATI/AMD. You may see it come to mainstream cpus when Intel and AMD merge the CPU and GPU. Since those will probably be used in Notebooks first you should see them in blades pretty quickly as well. What else would you use a GPU core on a blade for but math?
1. What if you can get an NBC station with your Antenna. I know that I can not where I live.
2. I think your friends will get a little ticked off with the weekly vists.
3. HUH????
4. So I need to wait until the end of the season.
I think NBC is makeing a huge mistake.
1. More DRM on iTunes? People you BROADCAST IT OVER THE AIR. I make DRM free recordings of your shows on my computer NOW! They Torrents are out NOW. They are not coming from iTunes.
2. Flexible pricing? You mean jack up the pricing. Oh well. As I said I can get it for free now. I guess I will start recording more shows with my computer and buy less with iTunes.
Dumb...
"Go read some science fiction, which you obviously have not, and you'll have a much better idea of the vast potential truly "universal" access will have."
Science Fiction is fiction. I still don't have my flying car.
What everybody forgets is someone has to pay for it. WiMax mobile will hopefully solve the need for mobile access for a much lower cost and fiber is a better solution for fixed locations.
Being a religion based directorship that didn't offer freedom of religion which Tibet was before the Chinese invaded doesn't count?
The current Dali Lama seems like a good man but Tibet was ruled by the Dali Lama for generations. In Tibet there was no freedom of speech or religion.
So how was this side stepping?
Only if make money counts as not being evil.
Google and Microsoft both want to rule the internet search. If you can not store you can not search effectively. If you can not search you can not sell ads.
Google wants people to upload junk to YouTube and for you to download it along with the ads they put it in.
I doubt that Microsoft will push the record companies to drop DRM.
This is just enlightened self interest.
You hit on another thing and that is fear and loathing of the military. In the US the military are often looked down on as dumb thugs. The members of the US military really are to steal a term from China the Peoples Army. I can not imagine them turning on the civilian population because they do not give their allegiance to any one leader. They really believe that they are here to serve the people on the whole. Individuals will vary of course.
Intellectual arrogance, been their I find it often passes with age as person gains wisdom. As a helpful old saying I suggest you keep with you at all times.
I wise man learns from everyone. A fool learns from no one.
Of course one should also keep an open mind but not so open that your brain falls out.
No the truth is vital. The problem is when people twist the truth because they feel that they have to convince people to believe like they do for the greater good.
I do believe that terrorist attacks are a threat and we do need to do more to protect people in the US. I don't think wiretaps of calls without court orders is the way to do it. My weasel wording wasn't weasel wording. I am not fond of the Patriot Act. When I am don't like a law I try to change it. The truth is freedom of political speech in the US is still very free. Not perfect but the sky is far from falling. When people start screaming that we are heading to a police state when we are no where near one means that people will not listen to you. I simply put my statement in a way that I felt a reasonable person that didn't agree with me might think about and not take offense with. I could never convince an extremist that feels that we should round up all foreigner and Muslims that the Patriot Act was a bad thing. If anything they are sure it isn't going far enough. I can only hope that reasonable people will think about the reasons why I don't like it. The truth is vital but the bigger truth is that we all probably see it in a different way and each of us might be a little right and a little wrong. Listening and trying to understand is my way and frankly what I feel is lacking in today's society. Too many people are too worried about their freedom of speech and not worried enough about other peoples freedom to listen.
"So sensors in the dumpster can notify the Garbage Collection that it's full and let them optimize their routes to save gas, time and money.
The point is if you build the infrastructure people will find ways to use it. "
So you will have to spent the money and energy to build and run those sensor. I have a better idea. Just use a big dumpster and pick it up once a week as part of a route so that you don't waste fuel making a special trip!
Simple is better.
Not really. Tibet was a religious dictatorship and not all that open or friendly. Proselytizing is no more evil than my vegan friends trying to get me to stop eating meat. Shinto and Hinduism have long violent histories as well. Extreme Atheist governments have killed more people in the 20th century than Hitler did should we hate all Atheists for their bloody legacy?
You are just saying the same old false dogma.
It isn't propaganda it is called none inflammatory.
Yes the Patriot Act should have never signed in to law IMHO. To preform a wiretap on phone calls in the US a court order should be required.
What is so hard about that?
I just don't think that over inflammatory statements help convince anyone.
Free speech Zones don't offend me. I feel that people that shout down a public speaker are infringing on that speakers right to be heard and on those that want to hear what they have to say. I don't like it when it happens to any speaker. Too many people think that Free Speech means that they can force people to hear what they want to say and at the same time prevent others from disagreeing with them.
I hate to say it but are part of the problem. You are exhibiting exactly the same type of behavior that the extreme people on the other side of the issue exhibit.
For one thing what makes you think you have right to demand that I clarify my statement? Second you are right I did state my position in a way that people on the both sides could combine with their own bias. To people that think that they Patriot Act is wrong they can read into it that I think think that the Patriot Act is wrong which I do. Others can read into it that I don't find the Patriot Act terrible but that I do have some issues with it. Maybe they will think about those issues and maybe it will start bothering them a little as well.
You on the other hand have decided that unless I state something EXACTLY the way you do and feel about it EXACTLY the way you do I am your enemy and must be attacked.
How technically easy or hard it is to put in place a wire tap is just an issue of technology. As technology improves everything becomes easier and faster. How easy it is to do legally does concern me. It should always require a court order. The need of or the lack of the need of a Court Order is the only thing that I am concerned with and frankly the only thing that should concern anyone.
I am not saying that city wide networks are bad at all. Or that WiFi is bad. I am saying you don't need to blanket the entire city all the time with wifi.
I am all for city and towns putting in their own fiber networks if the commercial vendors are not stepping up to the plate. I am also for ending CATV monopolies.
No your post shows that freedom of speech hasn't been limited. If it was then none of that info would be available.
The only reason is because you are a westerner so the cultural mixture you picture seems odd. I am sure if you pictured a Buddist monk in traditional Tibet abusing his position you would fine the image less amusing. Sort of like how pictures of Nuns in full dress on skates or eating an ice cream sunday are amusing. It is the mixture of cultural signals that sticks with you.
But thanks for the complement.
"Where have you been the last 5 or so years? Bush can listen to your phone without a warrant."
I love people that just rant on.
I said that I didn't like the patriot act and that it should still require a warrant.
Wire tapping without a warrant is a problem. This wiretap network isn't a problem.
No it isn't
I just don't see the need for WiFi EVERYWHERE. If you want to compare it to water then fine. Are there public water fountains on every block? No. Is there a public water fountain even at every park? Probably not. Why have a city wide WiFi system? Hot Spots will get you 99% of the benefit for 1% of the cost. There was a Network admin for a college here on slashdot talking about this. His school was demanding that the entire campus have WiFi coverage. For the life of him he couldn't figure out why WiFi coverage out by the trash dumpsters was important. Why not just have it in the class rooms, Dorms, Student Unions, Library, and the Quad?
Add in Sprint bringing WiMax and yea it just doesn't seem like a good idea.
I could see WiFi and WiFi Mesh networks as a great solution in rural areas of the Midwest. Lots of silos and grain elevators and very few hills. But City Wide WiFi nteworks? Why?
The FBI has been tapping phones since day one. In the US they must have a court order to do it. The fact that they use modern technology to do it just seems logical. This network shouldn't be a shock or frankly all that scary as long as they still require a court order to do it.
As far as any restrictions on political speech? Not that I have seen. I am not fond of the patriot act but your rant is a little over the top.
1. You should pick new leaders. The vast majority of religious leaders don't behave as you describe.
2. I am glad that you think that the Dali Lama is a pretty good dude. I doubt that he would approve of your little rant.
Tibet wasn't some prefect little place before the Chinese invaded. It was a theology ruled by a religious upper class with a large under class that where pretty much surfs. That being said the current Dali Lama was kicked out at a young age. I have no idea what Tibet under him might have been like. He seems to be a kind, gentle, and enlightened man. I don't know if this is because of his exile or in spite of it.
What I find so interesting is how the "open minded" "liberal" people I see are so accepting of none Christian faiths but so hostile towards Christian faiths. If you had tried to build a Christian church in Tibet before the Chinese invaded I doubt that you would have stayed out of jail long enough to finish it. Yet in predominantly Christian Countries Buddhist Temples exists with little interference. I am sure there is a Buddhist monk that has committed some crime yet you wouldn't hold it as an example of why Buddhists are evil.
I do think that the Dali Lama seems like a good person. Too bad you had to fill the rest of your post with venom and hate.
Exactly and both are doomed to fail or will become so convoluted that it just will make the software useless.
Just like Microsoft trying to outlaw mod chips.
The only difference is a lot of people on Slashdot want the GPLv3 to work.
Not exactly that VM since it doesn't need to be GPLV3 can be locked in. Trust me just as with DRM trying to legislate technology just will not work.
Linux is free of cost but not all GPL software is free of cost. There is Nothing that says you can not sell GPL software. You just can not prevent others from selling the same software.
"Nokia should really just stop with the N-Gage and look at improving the controls on regular phones instead. Cell phone gaming is absolutely horrendous at the moment, yet no one in the market seems to be doing anything to fix it."
The thing is Cell phones are already expected to check your email, surf the web, show video, and be a good phone!
I think it all about priorities.