Move to China and see how much better you do there.
If you have not done so yourself, you are not qualified to make that suggestion to him. In fact, if you have not taken the time to spend some real time there with local people, you are not qualified to talk on the subject at all.
I suspect, like most people who talk about China, you are talking based on reports you've seen in the media based on agendas pushed by people who have chosen to not live there. Go ask ex-pat Americans living in cities around the world about their opinion of life in the US. It will be equally biased.
The reality of the situation is somewhere in the middle, but based on your response its clear you have no first hand experience with life in China.
You really need to read up on the history of that period where IP is concerned.
The battles were far bigger and far bloodier over pants in the 1800s than they are now. The innovations you mentioned were *obvious* to many people of the time. It was common that patent applications on a new product would beat a competitor by hours. Lawsuits were rampant, technologies crushed far more often than now.
Particularly read up on the development of the telegraph and electric systems in the US. Those were both especially bloody IP battles, although a lot of industrial developments were too.
I've got a 15mbit connection at home, and its rare I see a transfer get that high. Once in a while I'll get an average speed around 1.1mb/sec but to max out the connection I have to hit a very unused server that is very close to me.
Until the places you want to connect to can handle that sort of load, wired network is just fine. Considering my house is all gigabit without fiber, it'll be a LONG time before the connection out of my house outstrips the speed of the network inside.
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The beauty of that is they don't care. Not in the slightest.
The cable companies are not making these calls, its the media companies forcing it on them. If the cable companies lose 1% of people in order to be able to continue to provide content for the 99% who don't care, if you think they spent even a millisecond worrying about you as a customer, you're horribly mistaken.
If you want to see the mainstream media, you play by their rules. You can try going anywhere you want, but the same restrictions are coming for satellite. Via the broadcast flag, they will eventually come for OTA as well.
The point was, the show started off with a very specific style -- call it "dramatized realism" or something. Space scenes were nearly silent, drama came from that confined aural sensation, they focused on real-work physics that actually were significant (the ability to flip around backwards and shoot, etc).
This season the drama has really cranked up, but they've noticably moved away from the sense of realism. Thats a slippery slope. Character development could be next, or any of a dozen other things that make the show so powerful.
The problem is that I don't have the time to put out the energy (of all kinds) that weight loss requires. I work two jobs (one for God, and one for currency)
Tell God you'd really like a gym membership, time to go or maybe a snap of His fingers or wiggle of His nose to make it all go away as part of the benefits package for that job.
I mean it seems He, of all people, ought to be able to help you out.
Or tell Him what I tell my boss when he wants me to work so much it cuts into my time: no.
That was a shockingly good interview. Kudos Slashdot. Thats the kind of quality we had around here five years ago. Real solid questions, excellent answers. Keep up the good work.
(And they'll be just as good when posted again this afternoon, Zonk);-)
Admit it, you went to a highschool that had to teach creationism, didn't you?
Or you were stoned in class.
Tell me you didn't actually go to a real science class, actually pay attention, and you still just don't get it?
Global warming isn't a theory. Its an observed fact. There is ZERO question in ANY scientists mind about that. The entire argument is about the cause of the warming. Now, joe ignorant six pack things "global warming" means the whole planet ought to be warmer, and the eight inches of snow he just got proves its not, but joe six pack doesn't understand what adding thermal energy to a system does.
You hope the media stops ushering in the concept that the planet is in distress? Shit, I hope our lousy pathetic schools stop turning out people so void of critical thinking abilities and so lacking in even rudamentary knowledge about how science works.
Its efficient, very comfortable and with a generator to power the blower on the furnace, it stays nice and toasty even if I ended up with a bad storm and had no power for days.
Eh, there are good games for the 360, but I've played enough Geometry Wars, Hexic and Zuma to more than justify $400 just for the time I've spent on them alone.
Add a couple Saturdays blown on Kameo, and its really a no brainer to me. These are good games. If you're a poor college student who games 50 hours a week, you'll run out of good stuff to play, but there are a LOT of people who play games who only pay an hour or two a day.
I can say one thing for certain, as someone who just moved from a house heated by forced air natural gas to oil -- its a LOT cheaper to use oil. My heating costs have been cut in half because of how expensive natural gas is in the northeast.
When it gets as cold as it does up here, you don't want your heat to rely on the gas company, regardless of cost, or the electric company, regardless of cost -- especially the latter. Electric isn't an option because the times you most need the heat are the times you're most likely to lose power.
It may sound low-tech but I've been using a tried and true mix of wood and oil to heat my house this winter. The wood stove runs in the evening and until it burns out overnight, and 24/7 over the weekend. That heats the two or three rooms I'm most frequently in to short-sleeve temperatures and the oil-fired baseboard heat takes care of the rest of the house. Its efficient, very comfortable and with a generator to power the blower on the furnace, it stays nice and toasty even if I ended up with a bad storm and had no power for days.
I'm a huge supporter of nuclear -- when it comes down to it, I don't realistically think there are any long-term alternatives, and its so much safer for the environment than coal and options like that. But even if we had 1 cent / kilowatt hour electricity and it was affordable to heat a house with electricity in the colder parts of the country, I'd still want oil or some secondary fuel source to provide heat because the odds are higher we'll get fusion working in the next twenty years than someone figures out how to keep the damn power from ever going out.
Crap. I was reading that thinking how silly all that point and click stuff seemed to me at the time. CompuServe, GEnie and services like that were far more useful for national networks, and local systems were better still. So that, and my birthday looming in a couple days, makes me really feel like a grandpa.
On a similar note, I'm racking my brain and can't remember what the name of the software in the late 80's that became trendy for doing graphics over a BBS was. It was sort of like the graphics language DEC used on the Gigi systems, but had the concept of clickable regions and stuff so you could make a graphical BBS like Prodigy or the early AOL.
Wow you just compared not being able to use something that someone else produced and can damn well provide to you under whatever restrictions they please because *they created it, and you didn't* to Jews in a concentration camp?
While anyone would argue at this point discussing this with someone as divorced from reality as you is a total waste of time, I'll just say this: if you want media to be available under different restrictions, create it yourself.
As I said, DRM sucks, but if a content owner tells you that you can only watch it while standing naked in your living room bouncing on one foot with half your nutsack shaved, thats their business. Don't buy it if you don't like it. Vote with your media money, don't complain because every DVD player has a touch sensor to verify your leftie is smooth as a baby's bottom, especially since you can make your own content and let 'em grow bushy if you like.
The good of it is that for 24 hours I at least have access to it on there.
You and the other reply to my post are the ones who don't get it -- you have the option of either having it their way or not having it. And some people *want* it.
Changing the laws to restrict that sort of thing is a different issue all together. I don't like DRM laws any more than any of the more radical left wing hippie techno-elites on here, but I can at least recognize that the current regulatory environment around DRM needs to be addressed directly, not by complaining about the work companies are doing to provide the services people want within that environment.
DRM hype aside, requiring signed drivers goes a long way towards securing the systems as well.
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Move to China and see how much better you do there.
If you have not done so yourself, you are not qualified to make that suggestion to him. In fact, if you have not taken the time to spend some real time there with local people, you are not qualified to talk on the subject at all.
I suspect, like most people who talk about China, you are talking based on reports you've seen in the media based on agendas pushed by people who have chosen to not live there. Go ask ex-pat Americans living in cities around the world about their opinion of life in the US. It will be equally biased.
The reality of the situation is somewhere in the middle, but based on your response its clear you have no first hand experience with life in China.
I'm no oncologist, but that little squishy thing I just sneezed out of my nose looks like a dislodged brain tumor.
Can any resident Slashdot oncologists solve this mystery?
You can re-download any purchased content on any 360 your profile is signed into. No need to worry about backups.
A least that means lots of people who can contribute to JBoss now, in their free time.
*hangs head*
The battles were far bigger and far bloodier over pants in the 1800s than they are now.
Yes, mock me now. You all know what I meant, though.
You really need to read up on the history of that period where IP is concerned.
The battles were far bigger and far bloodier over pants in the 1800s than they are now. The innovations you mentioned were *obvious* to many people of the time. It was common that patent applications on a new product would beat a competitor by hours. Lawsuits were rampant, technologies crushed far more often than now.
Particularly read up on the development of the telegraph and electric systems in the US. Those were both especially bloody IP battles, although a lot of industrial developments were too.
Certainly in the US and Canada, thats how its priced.
There are very few places in the world that go for upwards of $400USD/sq ft for a lease.
I've got a 15mbit connection at home, and its rare I see a transfer get that high. Once in a while I'll get an average speed around 1.1mb/sec but to max out the connection I have to hit a very unused server that is very close to me.
Until the places you want to connect to can handle that sort of load, wired network is just fine. Considering my house is all gigabit without fiber, it'll be a LONG time before the connection out of my house outstrips the speed of the network inside.
The beauty of that is they don't care. Not in the slightest.
The cable companies are not making these calls, its the media companies forcing it on them. If the cable companies lose 1% of people in order to be able to continue to provide content for the 99% who don't care, if you think they spent even a millisecond worrying about you as a customer, you're horribly mistaken.
If you want to see the mainstream media, you play by their rules. You can try going anywhere you want, but the same restrictions are coming for satellite. Via the broadcast flag, they will eventually come for OTA as well.
Yup. In my old condo I saved about $600 a winter by doing that. Wish I'd done that the first winter I was there!
Wow you totally missed his point.
The point was, the show started off with a very specific style -- call it "dramatized realism" or something. Space scenes were nearly silent, drama came from that confined aural sensation, they focused on real-work physics that actually were significant (the ability to flip around backwards and shoot, etc).
This season the drama has really cranked up, but they've noticably moved away from the sense of realism. Thats a slippery slope. Character development could be next, or any of a dozen other things that make the show so powerful.
The problem is that I don't have the time to put out the energy (of all kinds) that weight loss requires. I work two jobs (one for God, and one for currency)
Tell God you'd really like a gym membership, time to go or maybe a snap of His fingers or wiggle of His nose to make it all go away as part of the benefits package for that job.
I mean it seems He, of all people, ought to be able to help you out.
Or tell Him what I tell my boss when he wants me to work so much it cuts into my time: no.
*looks at clock*
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and the Public are ignorant rubes who must be led to a greater future against their will
Okay, its 10:30a in the east, 9:30a in central time. I'd bet at least in those two parts of the country, Jerry Springer is on right now.
Go flip in on for a few minutes.
Its okay, we'll wait for you.
Okay, want to re-evaluate that?
I actually suspect a very large percentage of people on here were not even alive at the time, or were toddlers or younger.
Might be an interesting poll -- How many years have you graced the Earth with your presence?
1) 13-18
2) 18-25
3) 26-35
4) 35-45
5) Fathered Coyboy Neil
Hey, don't blame me for you being overworked! ;-)
You're joking, right?
That was a shockingly good interview. Kudos Slashdot. Thats the kind of quality we had around here five years ago. Real solid questions, excellent answers. Keep up the good work.
;-)
(And they'll be just as good when posted again this afternoon, Zonk)
Admit it, you went to a highschool that had to teach creationism, didn't you?
Or you were stoned in class.
Tell me you didn't actually go to a real science class, actually pay attention, and you still just don't get it?
Global warming isn't a theory. Its an observed fact. There is ZERO question in ANY scientists mind about that. The entire argument is about the cause of the warming. Now, joe ignorant six pack things "global warming" means the whole planet ought to be warmer, and the eight inches of snow he just got proves its not, but joe six pack doesn't understand what adding thermal energy to a system does.
You hope the media stops ushering in the concept that the planet is in distress? Shit, I hope our lousy pathetic schools stop turning out people so void of critical thinking abilities and so lacking in even rudamentary knowledge about how science works.
Ummm...
Its efficient, very comfortable and with a generator to power the blower on the furnace, it stays nice and toasty even if I ended up with a bad storm and had no power for days.
Eh, there are good games for the 360, but I've played enough Geometry Wars, Hexic and Zuma to more than justify $400 just for the time I've spent on them alone.
Add a couple Saturdays blown on Kameo, and its really a no brainer to me. These are good games. If you're a poor college student who games 50 hours a week, you'll run out of good stuff to play, but there are a LOT of people who play games who only pay an hour or two a day.
I can say one thing for certain, as someone who just moved from a house heated by forced air natural gas to oil -- its a LOT cheaper to use oil. My heating costs have been cut in half because of how expensive natural gas is in the northeast.
When it gets as cold as it does up here, you don't want your heat to rely on the gas company, regardless of cost, or the electric company, regardless of cost -- especially the latter. Electric isn't an option because the times you most need the heat are the times you're most likely to lose power.
It may sound low-tech but I've been using a tried and true mix of wood and oil to heat my house this winter. The wood stove runs in the evening and until it burns out overnight, and 24/7 over the weekend. That heats the two or three rooms I'm most frequently in to short-sleeve temperatures and the oil-fired baseboard heat takes care of the rest of the house. Its efficient, very comfortable and with a generator to power the blower on the furnace, it stays nice and toasty even if I ended up with a bad storm and had no power for days.
I'm a huge supporter of nuclear -- when it comes down to it, I don't realistically think there are any long-term alternatives, and its so much safer for the environment than coal and options like that. But even if we had 1 cent / kilowatt hour electricity and it was affordable to heat a house with electricity in the colder parts of the country, I'd still want oil or some secondary fuel source to provide heat because the odds are higher we'll get fusion working in the next twenty years than someone figures out how to keep the damn power from ever going out.
You have just disclosed far too much about your fetishes to us, even with us being total strangers.
*shudder*
Crap. I was reading that thinking how silly all that point and click stuff seemed to me at the time. CompuServe, GEnie and services like that were far more useful for national networks, and local systems were better still. So that, and my birthday looming in a couple days, makes me really feel like a grandpa.
On a similar note, I'm racking my brain and can't remember what the name of the software in the late 80's that became trendy for doing graphics over a BBS was. It was sort of like the graphics language DEC used on the Gigi systems, but had the concept of clickable regions and stuff so you could make a graphical BBS like Prodigy or the early AOL.
Anyone remember what it was called?
Wow you just compared not being able to use something that someone else produced and can damn well provide to you under whatever restrictions they please because *they created it, and you didn't* to Jews in a concentration camp?
While anyone would argue at this point discussing this with someone as divorced from reality as you is a total waste of time, I'll just say this: if you want media to be available under different restrictions, create it yourself.
As I said, DRM sucks, but if a content owner tells you that you can only watch it while standing naked in your living room bouncing on one foot with half your nutsack shaved, thats their business. Don't buy it if you don't like it. Vote with your media money, don't complain because every DVD player has a touch sensor to verify your leftie is smooth as a baby's bottom, especially since you can make your own content and let 'em grow bushy if you like.
Thats a stupid question.
The good of it is that for 24 hours I at least have access to it on there.
You and the other reply to my post are the ones who don't get it -- you have the option of either having it their way or not having it. And some people *want* it.
Changing the laws to restrict that sort of thing is a different issue all together. I don't like DRM laws any more than any of the more radical left wing hippie techno-elites on here, but I can at least recognize that the current regulatory environment around DRM needs to be addressed directly, not by complaining about the work companies are doing to provide the services people want within that environment.
DRM hype aside, requiring signed drivers goes a long way towards securing the systems as well.