It's a good point. If a standard is to be made, the most valuable would be a stair-step standard. One grade for "no guarantees" media, one for, say 25 years, and one for 50 years.
I'd imagine (me not being actually versed in the technology, mind you) that with just the chemical makeup of (DV|C)Ds, trying to push much further past that would end up being prohibitive enough to warrant a different, less dense but more durable media type.
So they turn it into a publicity stunt. Plaster some "UNRATED" and "BANNED IN xxxx" stickers all over it, market around it being the most badass game since Pong, and sell it for twice the price.
And, yes, Hell does occasionally freeze over here. They televised it once...
It's Michigan... everything freezes over. I'm just glad I don't live near Hell. After the thousandth or so dumb pun on the name of that town, they'd probably go and blame my dumb-tourist-stabbing spree on D&D.
Although, you would be paying some other sum to provide energy to the house through conventional means. Depending on whether this hypothetical house was new or existing, there may be a slight price consideration to the cost of conventional energizing (in most cases, the existing power grid would make that negligible, although if you were trying to power some remote site, running cable to an existing tap might weigh the scale toward an on-site production source).
Of course, any discussion along these lines, in a venue such as this, must take into account two important economic principles:
1.) I don't know much about economics beyond "conventional wisdom" as well. 2.) As such, I'm talking out of my ass on this one.
So, the reader of this post must factor in the cost of salt, and make the choice of paying a considerably higher rate for only the requisite single grain, or to buy in bulk and factor in the cost of extracting the single grain, then storing, using, reselling, or disposing of the excess.
Do you have any reason to believe that the power supply that comes with a $40 case is more likely to fail than a more expensive one?
Generally speaking, and in the reference of the author, the power supply coming with the $40 case is of a lower quality than a more expensive aftermarket model. Since the market for aftermarket power supplies consists mostly of technically-minded people, and there is little "glamour" or "brand" effect in the power-supply world, a more reliable power supply will tend to cost more, mostly on that basis.
If more expensive power supplies do fail less often, do you have any reason to believe the extra cost is justified by the failure rate difference?
Not to everyone, of course, just as "one size" rarely "fits all" in these arguments. But, for a person who values their data and hardware, the greater risk a catastrophic failure of an inadequate power supply would be disasterous (or at least inconvenient) enough to justify the greater initial investment.
Your statement reads like, "Automobile accidents are the leading cause of death among 18-24 year olds, so buy an expensive car.
I see it more as, "This car is cheap, but the engine starts on fire, totaling the car, if you work it too hard. Pay more for something more reliable."
There might be art in finding "the best way to do it", but there is just as much art in finding out a new "it" to do. When it comes down to it, you've still got something that wasn't there before, regardless of if from-scratch or building-block turns out to be the best way.
Although, think of things like false-fronts on ATMs and waiters who buy portable CC scanners to grab numbers. With the kind of payoff you could get, even on a small mailing, it might be an acceptable effort and risk.
A fair amount of technologies, especially those on the Web, are just new interesting methods using old technology. How many interesting, useful, and novel applications involve little more than a text file and some pattern-matching?
Although there is still a place for down-and-dirty development, the proliferation of easy-to-use, easy-to-implement technologies and growing masses of existing code-base means that people can dedicate more energy to thinking things up and making things happen.
Not necessarily. Netcraft confirmed that, in Korea, only old people's base are belong to some Indian math guy in Soviet Russia with hot grits down his pants. But the question must still be asked: Is it cool, or is it wack?
I'm going to throw out the proposition... call me crazy... that maybe this really isn't protest or civil disobediance... that illegal P2Pers might, dare I say, just want free music without the consent of the (C)-owner?
Protesting via civil disobedience (any form of protest, really) is akin to marketing against the status quo. Not only is it disobeying a law, but it involves doing it in order to get seen, to inform, and to attempt to change minds. Just watching some little status bar suck down an MP3 file coming from a pseudonymous "connection" is hardly informational, inspiring, or inciteful.
And calling it a monopoly is a weak argument as well. "Wal-mart has a monopoly on products sold at Wal-mart!" If you don't like it, there are other alternatives. EMusic, Magnatune, direct-from-artist sales, and a number of other pipelines I can't recall at the moment. Yeah, the big labels are bastards, but they aren't the only game in town anymore.
Although voting with your dollars might mean the decision between having your cake and eating it too, the route of wholesale uncompensated use is hardly defensable.
Just wondering, are there any decent steganographic encrypting proxies or client-proxy systems out there? Something where you could say "Send me this site, encrypted into this other image", then use some sort of decryptor or smart client app to "browse" the data?
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It's a good point. If a standard is to be made, the most valuable would be a stair-step standard. One grade for "no guarantees" media, one for, say 25 years, and one for 50 years.
I'd imagine (me not being actually versed in the technology, mind you) that with just the chemical makeup of (DV|C)Ds, trying to push much further past that would end up being prohibitive enough to warrant a different, less dense but more durable media type.
So it's a "tripe"?
So they turn it into a publicity stunt. Plaster some "UNRATED" and "BANNED IN xxxx" stickers all over it, market around it being the most badass game since Pong, and sell it for twice the price.
So, something of a distributed web crawler then, right?
Of course, the wait on the access queue is terrible.
So, has anyone come out with a PotC RPG yet?
And, yes, Hell does occasionally freeze over here. They televised it once...
It's Michigan... everything freezes over. I'm just glad I don't live near Hell. After the thousandth or so dumb pun on the name of that town, they'd probably go and blame my dumb-tourist-stabbing spree on D&D.
Although, you would be paying some other sum to provide energy to the house through conventional means. Depending on whether this hypothetical house was new or existing, there may be a slight price consideration to the cost of conventional energizing (in most cases, the existing power grid would make that negligible, although if you were trying to power some remote site, running cable to an existing tap might weigh the scale toward an on-site production source).
Of course, any discussion along these lines, in a venue such as this, must take into account two important economic principles:
1.) I don't know much about economics beyond "conventional wisdom" as well.
2.) As such, I'm talking out of my ass on this one.
So, the reader of this post must factor in the cost of salt, and make the choice of paying a considerably higher rate for only the requisite single grain, or to buy in bulk and factor in the cost of extracting the single grain, then storing, using, reselling, or disposing of the excess.
Therefore...
Come on... At least poke 53280 around some.
Well, I'm not the OP, but...
Do you have any reason to believe that the power supply that comes with a $40 case is more likely to fail than a more expensive one?
Generally speaking, and in the reference of the author, the power supply coming with the $40 case is of a lower quality than a more expensive aftermarket model. Since the market for aftermarket power supplies consists mostly of technically-minded people, and there is little "glamour" or "brand" effect in the power-supply world, a more reliable power supply will tend to cost more, mostly on that basis.
If more expensive power supplies do fail less often, do you have any reason to believe the extra cost is justified by the failure rate difference?
Not to everyone, of course, just as "one size" rarely "fits all" in these arguments. But, for a person who values their data and hardware, the greater risk a catastrophic failure of an inadequate power supply would be disasterous (or at least inconvenient) enough to justify the greater initial investment.
Your statement reads like, "Automobile accidents are the leading cause of death among 18-24 year olds, so buy an expensive car.
I see it more as, "This car is cheap, but the engine starts on fire, totaling the car, if you work it too hard. Pay more for something more reliable."
The rhythm's a bit off...
How about:
"The TSA misled! Thousands of people are dead!"
You might want to adjust your sight. Nice grouping, but all you hit was the author. The issue's over thataway just a bit.
There might be art in finding "the best way to do it", but there is just as much art in finding out a new "it" to do. When it comes down to it, you've still got something that wasn't there before, regardless of if from-scratch or building-block turns out to be the best way.
Good point.
Although, think of things like false-fronts on ATMs and waiters who buy portable CC scanners to grab numbers. With the kind of payoff you could get, even on a small mailing, it might be an acceptable effort and risk.
You know, I was just listening to a Podcast about that very subject...
A fair amount of technologies, especially those on the Web, are just new interesting methods using old technology. How many interesting, useful, and novel applications involve little more than a text file and some pattern-matching?
Although there is still a place for down-and-dirty development, the proliferation of easy-to-use, easy-to-implement technologies and growing masses of existing code-base means that people can dedicate more energy to thinking things up and making things happen.
That still doesn't help, though, if someone's sent out a fake CD. The fake CD would just... well... fake it.
Right, but overarching generalizations aside...
Which label? At least let others benefit from your friend's misfortune by telling them who to stay away from.
Not necessarily. Netcraft confirmed that, in Korea, only old people's base are belong to some Indian math guy in Soviet Russia with hot grits down his pants. But the question must still be asked: Is it cool, or is it wack?
(someone kill me now)
Your point?
I'm going to throw out the proposition... call me crazy... that maybe this really isn't protest or civil disobediance... that illegal P2Pers might, dare I say, just want free music without the consent of the (C)-owner?
Protesting via civil disobedience (any form of protest, really) is akin to marketing against the status quo. Not only is it disobeying a law, but it involves doing it in order to get seen, to inform, and to attempt to change minds. Just watching some little status bar suck down an MP3 file coming from a pseudonymous "connection" is hardly informational, inspiring, or inciteful.
And calling it a monopoly is a weak argument as well. "Wal-mart has a monopoly on products sold at Wal-mart!" If you don't like it, there are other alternatives. EMusic, Magnatune, direct-from-artist sales, and a number of other pipelines I can't recall at the moment. Yeah, the big labels are bastards, but they aren't the only game in town anymore.
Although voting with your dollars might mean the decision between having your cake and eating it too, the route of wholesale uncompensated use is hardly defensable.
Self-gratification = abuse?
I don't know... I think that's going to throw another parse error.
Just wondering, are there any decent steganographic encrypting proxies or client-proxy systems out there? Something where you could say "Send me this site, encrypted into this other image", then use some sort of decryptor or smart client app to "browse" the data?
Your post contans errors:
You have to be willfully blind not to see that the abuse continues in the publication of the photographs.
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