Me personally, I dislike that I have been saddled by another tax in an already grim economic time. If it wasn't so hit and miss with basic survival right now, I might see it a bit differently.
You've got a computer, connected to the internet, posting on Slashdot.
If you're not sitting in a public Library, you're being a bit of a hypocrite claiming your basic survival is hit-or-miss.
What do they call the person who graduates last from Medical School?
Doctor.
As a patient, I'd like to know what sources my provider has consulted and based a diagnosis on. I don't want my health dependant on which PA or GP I get when I go to the doctors office or to the hospital. Doctors may catch the obvious things, but when its not obvious, your life literally depends on who you happen to get lucky enough to see. That's a pretty sad state of affairs, and its great if this helps.
One US publishing executive told The Wall Street Journal: “What it [the digital book rental service] would do is downgrade the value of the book business.”
In other news, libraries exist.
Digital ones don't -- at least as far as the majority of books people would want to read are concerned. Overdrive's selection, even for the largest library systems, is awful. Its a small spattering of books people may want to read, and thousands of books you can't give away.
There's still a big gap there. But it seems to me all Amazon is doing is opening their own digital library, just like Overdrive, only having your membership fee pay for it instead of the fees charged to your town or employer.
My latest work laptop is a convertible touch screen, and I honestly use the touch screen a lot more in laptop mode than tablet mode. (Largely, I don't use tablet mode for the reason you cite -- its just too heavy, although its handy on an airplane when you have a jackass kid using the seat back in front of you as a trampoline!)
But its gotten very natural to pick my hand up off the keyboard and tap a button or tray icon to dismiss windows or change apps -- its less effort than moving my finger down to the touchpad and swiping around. I suspect the same efficiency of gesture, even on a touch-based laptop, will be true in Windows 8.
As I said in the other reply, your opinion of how the law should work, and how the law works, have absolutely no relationship to each other.
This article is about someone who wants to (for whatever reason) follow the law. The *fact* of the law is that very few ROMs would be legal to copy and re-use in another system. If you're claiming the original poster should follow your opinion on the law, rather than the law, its a hell of a lot less effort to just grab the ROM images from Usenet. Because the *fact* of law is that those images are just as much in violation of the license agreements *and* copyright as ROMs he/she would format-shift.
Until the *government* declares that the specific re-use of the specific ROMs is legal as covered by fair use (which has happened with some types of media in limited cases), the *fact* is that it is *not* legal.
The basic point is simple -- as most of the other posters who actually understand this have said. The emulator industry *is* built in piracy because the fact is, the copying of the ROMs to the emulator violates the license the original purchaser of the machine agreed to -- and the resale of the machine (legal or not) does not break the chain of license to the new owner. So, the original poster should suck it up and do what everyone else does -- either refurbish the original machine, or just download the ROMs and not care. If he's not re-selling anything, no one will know but him, and as others have said, no one is getting hurt because there is no other way to get the ROMs legally.
I don't get the need to pretend to be following the law, instead of just being honest and admitting you're not.
In most cases with arcade ROMs, that is incorrect. The software on the ROMS was licensed with the hardware, which was licensed with the enclosure. In most cases, *any* modification (like the original add-on Ms Pacman games, as an example), including moving the ROMS or even the entire boards to new machines, was violation of the license agreements.
For the most part, the only way to legally run those ROMS is in the original cabinet they came in, with the original unmodified boards.
That is incorrect. You can't run OSX on hackintoshes because it violates the license. You can't run an OEM copy of Windows on another workstation, because it violates the license.
ROM licensing was far more restrictive -- in many cases you couldn't even move the existing boards to new cabinets legally!
Hubble's cost was a good bit of funny math, though... remember, its basically a Keyhole spy satellite turned around, with their development costs shared with it.
I'm not going to get into any details, but I travel a LOT and I've seen some nasty examples of humanity waiting to go through security.
I don't know anything about what may or may not have happened here, but I've definitely seen individuals go through security a few thousand Big Macs beyond what a normal human being should eat, sporting a body structure in which you couldn't do a pat down without the horrid risk of probing beyween the labia.
Again, no idea what happened here, but I legitimately feel bad for some of the creatures the TSA agents need to occasionally deal with.
Do an article search with "Patent", "Microsoft", "Linux", or basically just scroll down the page.
Every single article on Slashdot shows its radical bias. Its just most of the time the radical bias is the one the readers are here to see. Slashdot hasn't been a discussion forum for people with nerd tendencies since the whole VA Linux thing happened. Most of the readers on here weren't around back then, but the whole site went to shit when that happened. Ad revenue, driven by extremely biased coverage became the driving factor.
Now, mind you, its still one of the better sites out there (especially compared to garbage like Digg), but its not even close to its former glory. These days Slashdot is closer in journalistic integrity to Fox News.
...that this is the way science works. You try something, learn from the results, and then change your plans accordingly. Nothing to see here.
Except this isn't rocket science.
Its rocket engineering. Engineering is about ensuring things like this don't happen. Obviously they will, but it shouldn't be dismissed like that as being part of "science". As others have said, this sort of technology isn't new, and in 2011 you're generally *not* firing something and wondering what might happen. You aren't testing the science, you're testing your engineering and your digital models and simulations.
I am a physician and I work in africa sometimes. The real treat here is potentially using optics (confocal or OCT) to produce better contrast in a small package. Processing tissue for light microscopy requires a big lab; this device uses reflectance data, not transmission, making it ideal for a hunk of flesh
WTF, this website is not about people with actual experience in the subject matter.
I've always found Occam's Razor an interesting thing to invoke in cases like this. While I agree with the contention that the simplest explanation is likely the right one, that statement means nothing at all if you don't have a pretty good sense of the situation.
The assumption that its considerably more likely our theories of star formation are wrong is based on a couple presumptions that may be correct, but may not:
- life is uncommon - intelligent life is even more uncommon - intelligent life goes extinct before it can spread out
Particularly the last one -- if that isn't correct, then you can't really assume the liklihood that the simpler explanation is that our understanding of star formation is lacking. (Now, generally I agree with you -- that seems more likely, but science isn't about "seems" and we humans are pretty hard wired to draw conclusions like that.)
So, Occams Razor, IMO, is never a good argument to use when it comes to events involving assumptions we have no data on at all.
Windows has always worked that way, since day one.
Windows boots into NT mode, and starts win32. Win32 loads the display bits, and starts the various processes that manage winstations, and starts winlogon to manage your user sessions.
Go into the registry, and you can boot every version of windows to a text prompt with no graphics at all.
I find it funny on here when people talk about the things that Windows doesn't do or Linux does do, and 99% of the people talking about it have never pieced together a Linux system from scratch, or done the same with Windows. Having done both, I can tell you the two may be configured differently, but logically do a lot of the same things. And most of the guys I know (myself included) who are intimately familiar with both systems from the Kernel on out will tell you that Windows, at that level, is a lot more modern and sophisticated than Linux is.
The things people call out as being "bad" in Windows tend to be the things that the billion people who use Windows expect to have. That's the reality of having customers to support.
There is demand because of the discount, not because of the value.
At an 80%+ discount and $100, its in the impulse buy range for a lot of people, no matter if it ends up being a useful device or not. Hell, I've got a drawer full of discounted crap in that price range.
I wouldn't assume a tablet at $250 or $300 would sell even remotely like $100... and if it was always $100, it also wouldn't have sold like that.
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Me personally, I dislike that I have been saddled by another tax in an already grim economic time. If it wasn't so hit and miss with basic survival right now, I might see it a bit differently.
You've got a computer, connected to the internet, posting on Slashdot.
If you're not sitting in a public Library, you're being a bit of a hypocrite claiming your basic survival is hit-or-miss.
The good news, and some more truth, is that most of the people - even those with cancer - don't need to
The people dying of cancer right now probably disagree with you.
If their low latency is worth that much money, I doubt the prices they charge will make the cable usable for bandwidth or as a backup.
Here's a joke for you:
What do they call the person who graduates last from Medical School?
Doctor.
As a patient, I'd like to know what sources my provider has consulted and based a diagnosis on. I don't want my health dependant on which PA or GP I get when I go to the doctors office or to the hospital. Doctors may catch the obvious things, but when its not obvious, your life literally depends on who you happen to get lucky enough to see. That's a pretty sad state of affairs, and its great if this helps.
I guess the idea of trying to make a BETTER product never occurred to him.
Innovation costs resources and money.
One US publishing executive told The Wall Street Journal: “What it [the digital book rental service] would do is downgrade the value of the book business.”
In other news, libraries exist.
Digital ones don't -- at least as far as the majority of books people would want to read are concerned. Overdrive's selection, even for the largest library systems, is awful. Its a small spattering of books people may want to read, and thousands of books you can't give away.
There's still a big gap there. But it seems to me all Amazon is doing is opening their own digital library, just like Overdrive, only having your membership fee pay for it instead of the fees charged to your town or employer.
My latest work laptop is a convertible touch screen, and I honestly use the touch screen a lot more in laptop mode than tablet mode. (Largely, I don't use tablet mode for the reason you cite -- its just too heavy, although its handy on an airplane when you have a jackass kid using the seat back in front of you as a trampoline!)
But its gotten very natural to pick my hand up off the keyboard and tap a button or tray icon to dismiss windows or change apps -- its less effort than moving my finger down to the touchpad and swiping around. I suspect the same efficiency of gesture, even on a touch-based laptop, will be true in Windows 8.
As I said in the other reply, your opinion of how the law should work, and how the law works, have absolutely no relationship to each other.
This article is about someone who wants to (for whatever reason) follow the law. The *fact* of the law is that very few ROMs would be legal to copy and re-use in another system. If you're claiming the original poster should follow your opinion on the law, rather than the law, its a hell of a lot less effort to just grab the ROM images from Usenet. Because the *fact* of law is that those images are just as much in violation of the license agreements *and* copyright as ROMs he/she would format-shift.
Until the *government* declares that the specific re-use of the specific ROMs is legal as covered by fair use (which has happened with some types of media in limited cases), the *fact* is that it is *not* legal.
The basic point is simple -- as most of the other posters who actually understand this have said. The emulator industry *is* built in piracy because the fact is, the copying of the ROMs to the emulator violates the license the original purchaser of the machine agreed to -- and the resale of the machine (legal or not) does not break the chain of license to the new owner. So, the original poster should suck it up and do what everyone else does -- either refurbish the original machine, or just download the ROMs and not care. If he's not re-selling anything, no one will know but him, and as others have said, no one is getting hurt because there is no other way to get the ROMs legally.
I don't get the need to pretend to be following the law, instead of just being honest and admitting you're not.
Unfortunately, because I agree with your sentiment, your opinion of the law, and the law, are two vastly different things.
The courts have repeatedly held up the difference between the licensing of IP and the sale of physical goods.
And, the fact is, thats how arcade cabinets and the hardware/software in them have always been sold/licensed.
it's not piracy if you own the chips.
In most cases with arcade ROMs, that is incorrect. The software on the ROMS was licensed with the hardware, which was licensed with the enclosure. In most cases, *any* modification (like the original add-on Ms Pacman games, as an example), including moving the ROMS or even the entire boards to new machines, was violation of the license agreements.
For the most part, the only way to legally run those ROMS is in the original cabinet they came in, with the original unmodified boards.
That is incorrect. You can't run OSX on hackintoshes because it violates the license. You can't run an OEM copy of Windows on another workstation, because it violates the license.
ROM licensing was far more restrictive -- in many cases you couldn't even move the existing boards to new cabinets legally!
Hubble's cost was a good bit of funny math, though ... remember, its basically a Keyhole spy satellite turned around, with their development costs shared with it.
Yeah, I have one of those, too.
For reminding me I'm old today.
(I think its great they're coming back... but gone for 20 years?! Ugh. I made a lot of them when I was young!)
They are, just not the SX-70.
There aren't many cameras today made as well as the SX-70. Its a work of art.
I'm not going to get into any details, but I travel a LOT and I've seen some nasty examples of humanity waiting to go through security.
I don't know anything about what may or may not have happened here, but I've definitely seen individuals go through security a few thousand Big Macs beyond what a normal human being should eat, sporting a body structure in which you couldn't do a pat down without the horrid risk of probing beyween the labia.
Again, no idea what happened here, but I legitimately feel bad for some of the creatures the TSA agents need to occasionally deal with.
Do an article search with "Patent", "Microsoft", "Linux", or basically just scroll down the page.
Every single article on Slashdot shows its radical bias. Its just most of the time the radical bias is the one the readers are here to see. Slashdot hasn't been a discussion forum for people with nerd tendencies since the whole VA Linux thing happened. Most of the readers on here weren't around back then, but the whole site went to shit when that happened. Ad revenue, driven by extremely biased coverage became the driving factor.
Now, mind you, its still one of the better sites out there (especially compared to garbage like Digg), but its not even close to its former glory. These days Slashdot is closer in journalistic integrity to Fox News.
Except this isn't rocket science.
Its rocket engineering. Engineering is about ensuring things like this don't happen. Obviously they will, but it shouldn't be dismissed like that as being part of "science". As others have said, this sort of technology isn't new, and in 2011 you're generally *not* firing something and wondering what might happen. You aren't testing the science, you're testing your engineering and your digital models and simulations.
Starz' content was poor quality, and old movies that you'll find on TBS or some other cable channel if you really cared.
Good riddance. It sucked having to page over their junk, and if it frees up money for places with real content, more power to Netflix.
The funniest thing is that Starz seems to think their "brand" has any value.
I am a physician and I work in africa sometimes. The real treat here is potentially using optics (confocal or OCT) to produce better contrast in a small package. Processing tissue for light microscopy requires a big lab; this device uses reflectance data, not transmission, making it ideal for a hunk of flesh
WTF, this website is not about people with actual experience in the subject matter.
I've always found Occam's Razor an interesting thing to invoke in cases like this. While I agree with the contention that the simplest explanation is likely the right one, that statement means nothing at all if you don't have a pretty good sense of the situation.
The assumption that its considerably more likely our theories of star formation are wrong is based on a couple presumptions that may be correct, but may not:
- life is uncommon
- intelligent life is even more uncommon
- intelligent life goes extinct before it can spread out
Particularly the last one -- if that isn't correct, then you can't really assume the liklihood that the simpler explanation is that our understanding of star formation is lacking. (Now, generally I agree with you -- that seems more likely, but science isn't about "seems" and we humans are pretty hard wired to draw conclusions like that.)
So, Occams Razor, IMO, is never a good argument to use when it comes to events involving assumptions we have no data on at all.
Windows has always worked that way, since day one.
Windows boots into NT mode, and starts win32. Win32 loads the display bits, and starts the various processes that manage winstations, and starts winlogon to manage your user sessions.
Go into the registry, and you can boot every version of windows to a text prompt with no graphics at all.
I find it funny on here when people talk about the things that Windows doesn't do or Linux does do, and 99% of the people talking about it have never pieced together a Linux system from scratch, or done the same with Windows. Having done both, I can tell you the two may be configured differently, but logically do a lot of the same things. And most of the guys I know (myself included) who are intimately familiar with both systems from the Kernel on out will tell you that Windows, at that level, is a lot more modern and sophisticated than Linux is.
The things people call out as being "bad" in Windows tend to be the things that the billion people who use Windows expect to have. That's the reality of having customers to support.
There is demand because of the discount, not because of the value.
At an 80%+ discount and $100, its in the impulse buy range for a lot of people, no matter if it ends up being a useful device or not. Hell, I've got a drawer full of discounted crap in that price range.
I wouldn't assume a tablet at $250 or $300 would sell even remotely like $100... and if it was always $100, it also wouldn't have sold like that.
Better off bringing a quart of bleach and a quart of ammonia.
TSA regulations are about security theater, not reality.
Thats because he a) didn't read it and b) doesn't know what he's talking about.
Both points are obvious to those who a) did and b) do.