Stephenson's idea, while fun and interesting, is not accurate.
Revolution gets its current (upheaval) meaning from Copernicus.
Prior to Copernicus, the dominant theory of planetary orbits was the earth-centric one. IE, the earth was in the middle, and everything else went around, in very complicated paths.
Copernicus proposed the solar orbits we are so familiar with now.
He did this in a book called "De Revolutionibis" (The Revolution) published in 1543, talking about how the earth revolves around the sun.
Later (1616) Galileo did some promoting of the book, and subsequently got arrested for heresy etc. He is commonly misattributed with coming up with the idea of the revolution.
Newton comes along even later (1687) and publishes Principa, which gives the math for why Copernicus was right.
The word gets its current meaning (upheaval, overthrow etc) from the fact that ideas were overthrown (earth centric, vs sun centric) and has nothing to do with the concept of "coming around again, old is new etc"
Stephonson's characters might have been right to term what was going on a revolution, but they did not coin the word, there were making allusions to Copernicus, who got there several centuries earlier.
I love CF, I have tons of cards for my camera (including some 2G CF cards)
But Sd is better for a phone. the CF card itself is big, and the hardware required to read CF is big. It would be the size of most phone's batteries at least.
But I do think have 7 different standards is stupid. 2 would do.
They batter suppliers to lower costs on old products, but suppliers can charge whatever they want for new products.
Walmart is single handedly responsabile for all the new doohickys on razors and toothbrushes etc.
Add a new blade, or color, or make it vibrate, or spin, or have different angled brushes, and it is a new product.
The price for the "old" razor is down to nothing. But the price for the "good" razor is the same as the price that the razor always was. But its a different razor!
The federal government is not a collection of people. It is a collection of states. That is why states get to vote and not people. It is federal, because it is a federation (collection) Just like Star Trek, The Federation of Planets.
If you don't like a federal system, that is fine, change it. But that means changing LOTS more than just the electoral college.
They don't need to limit the 5/2 pipe. The point is that people who are using that level are going to tend to not se it all the time. They are self limiting.
You will have the occasional bittorrent/kazza leech who uses up tons and tons, but then you also have granny who just checks her email once a week.
It averages out.
Also, if you read the fine print, they are only promising those rates from you to the central office. Past there there are no guarantees, and they can dilute the bandwidth all they want.
Because (just like every other service) they are over selling.
People who buy the 5/2 pipe will tend to not use it all the time. They can toss hundreds of people on and still get their speeds.
People who buy the 30/5 pipe WILL tend to use it, because they are hosting, or running some sort of service where they can afford the extra cash. Therefore they cannot get shared pipe, and they pay for the full thing.
It isn't a price inflation for the high-bandwidth option. It is a discount for the low bandwidth option.
Or alternitavely from the economic perspective:
Prices have nothing to do with actual costs. People who need the extra bandwitdh are likely willing to pay more, therefore they are charged more. The joy of elasticity of demand, and low competetion.
This is stupid. Google desktop is a user applicaiton, it is not intended for use on a public terminal.
Further, Google Desktop requires that it be installed as local admin, and further requires that the user be RUNNING as local admin.
Any library or cafe that is allowing walk by users to log in as local admin has much greater problems than google desktop to worry about.
Anyone that is NOT letting people log in as local admin can ignore google desktop all together (until they get smart and let it run with reduced privs)
Yes, taking information from popular entertainment or even pointed documentaries is clearly the way to get the most accurate information about a group of people.
More likely it would work he same way most word processors work in Japan. You type in romaji (Japanese spelled out phoenetically in english) (or katakana, which would only need 4-5 letters per key) and the program makes predictive guesses about which char you want. Much like phones work for typing ahead english words.
In a world where MS has manufactured all of the XBOXs that they are ever going to make, they would lose maximum money by nobody buying any more XBOXs.
In a world (much like the world we actually live in) where MS makes more new XBOXs every day, then they lose the most money by people buying an XBOX, and never buying a game, because it costs them more to make each box than they sell it for. This world allows for an infinite amount of money to be lost, as long as people keep buying boxes and not the games.
However, most people do tend to buy games, or buy live subscriptions, so they are not making out too badly.
The dont even care that they are losing money as a whole. It is their first generation box. They are hoping to become profitable in the future.
you mean like how they made spiderman shoot webbing from his wrists without machines, even though the comics clearly show him needing machines! (Except when he was in the alien suit)
Each iteration of a franchise gets to change the rules a bit. I only get mad when they change the rules within thier own kingdom.
Vulcans and romulans are more than physically simmilar, they are the same race. There was a schism some time back. The TNG/DS9 episodes with spock in them touched on this.
My logic is not sloppy at all, you named musicians, and I noted that two of them got directly paid for their work, as work for hire, and the others got quite rich off of their music. There are other musicians that do their work for free (most likely because they cannot get paid for it) and are doing it for the joy.
The fact that those people exist has no impact on the rights of people that want to make music for pay. You have the choice to support (or leech) from whichever musicians you want. Because B does it for free does not mean you can take A's without compensation.
much of that money goes right back into the costs of making music
Oh, so there is a cost to making music. And the copyright allows the musician to get paid. And getting paid allows them to make more music? Amazing!
BTW, for the techies, you are mixing types of people. (As you did before with Newton and Einstein)
The motivations for science are often quite different than the motivations for music.
As for your specific example of you:
Yes you would code if the market dropped out. But how about if you worked for a year, and then your company just decided not to pay you? Would you just happily go out and get a day job without complaint? Thats what piracy is.
Um. Shakespeare and Mozart in fact did do it for the money, but in general they created works for hire.
The Beatles definately did it for money, as I didnt notice them giving away all of their profits and living in poverty. (Not that they didn't enjoy it, but if you go ask paul, I bet he would say Piracy is wrong...)
Michael Moore lives in a huge Manhattan apartment, worth several million dollars. He did it for the money (and because he hates his targets)
Einstein did it because he was a geek, and patriotic, and thought it was the right thing, but he wasn't making music was he.
Newton did it because he was a geek. To the point where people had to force feed him because he would pull all nighters for several days straight without eating. But again, he wasn't really a musician...
If you have a copy of the contract, without the addendum, then you have a fairly good court case against the bill.
Yes its a crime (and since they crossed state lines, and presumably sent you the bill via the mail) a federal crime.
The FBI won't investigate, so they won't go to jail. But you do not have to pay. Small claims will handle that for you nicely. (If you have your copy without that addendum. If you do not have a copy, you are screwed unles syou want to get into handwriting analysis)
Please detail how we will get lower gas prices out of this, when we are currently shipping gas TO Iraq at a loss to keep THEIR prices low.
The whole "No blood for oil" thing has been bunk the whole time through. This was was bad for American oil companies, and bad for American oil consumers. Therefore it seems very unlikely that oil was the motive at all.
this is a duplicate, I replied the same thing to the AC. but since he was an AC, the conversation stops!
I used the wrong terminology, but the game does have a competetive mode (see below):
In any case, my point is still valid, the game had a pre-existing live component that was being used.
Xbox Live compatible: Tecmo's revered development team, Team Ninja, has created a unique Xbox Live feature within Ninja Gaiden. The Master Ninja Tournament, developed specifically for the game, will allow players to participate in a nationwide competition. Here, players will put their honed ninja skills to the test to determine the top Ninja Gaiden player in the country. Participants will compete in downloadable trial missions made available only through Xbox Live. Top-ranked players will win special prizes and be included in the Ninja Gaiden Hall of Fame.
http://www.xbox.com/en-us/ninjagaiden/default.ht m
I used the wrong terminology, but the game does have a competetive mode (see below):
In any case, my point is still valid, the game had a pre-existing live component that was being used.
Xbox Live compatible: Tecmo's revered development team, Team Ninja, has created a unique Xbox Live feature within Ninja Gaiden. The Master Ninja Tournament, developed specifically for the game, will allow players to participate in a nationwide competition. Here, players will put their honed ninja skills to the test to determine the top Ninja Gaiden player in the country. Participants will compete in downloadable trial missions made available only through Xbox Live. Top-ranked players will win special prizes and be included in the Ninja Gaiden Hall of Fame.
http://www.xbox.com/en-us/ninjagaiden/default.ht m
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GPL is not an exception to copyright law, it is a licence which uses copyright law to enforce its terms.
Its terms in fact DO force you to do things that copyright does not (such as providing source to anyone who asks for it)
If you don't like the terms, don't use the software. (this follows for RIAA/MPAA disputes too, don't like DRM? Listen to free music!)
Can you explain how movies made in the last several years constitutes perpetuity?
revolve means to move around (not quite spin), revolt (as a noun) did not exist until this time.
Stephenson's idea, while fun and interesting, is not accurate.
Revolution gets its current (upheaval) meaning from Copernicus.
Prior to Copernicus, the dominant theory of planetary orbits was the earth-centric one. IE, the earth was in the middle, and everything else went around, in very complicated paths.
Copernicus proposed the solar orbits we are so familiar with now.
He did this in a book called "De Revolutionibis" (The Revolution) published in 1543, talking about how the earth revolves around the sun.
Later (1616) Galileo did some promoting of the book, and subsequently got arrested for heresy etc. He is commonly misattributed with coming up with the idea of the revolution.
Newton comes along even later (1687) and publishes Principa, which gives the math for why Copernicus was right.
The word gets its current meaning (upheaval, overthrow etc) from the fact that ideas were overthrown (earth centric, vs sun centric) and has nothing to do with the concept of "coming around again, old is new etc"
Stephonson's characters might have been right to term what was going on a revolution, but they did not coin the word, there were making allusions to Copernicus, who got there several centuries earlier.
Tivo will not do that for you. A season pass is tied to a specific channel.
If it did happen, you would get the show under "Tivo Suggestions" if it was rated high enough.
But suggestions seems to have gone downhill IMO. It fills up with crap I hate, and doesnt record the shows I like!
I love CF, I have tons of cards for my camera (including some 2G CF cards)
But Sd is better for a phone. the CF card itself is big, and the hardware required to read CF is big. It would be the size of most phone's batteries at least.
But I do think have 7 different standards is stupid. 2 would do.
They batter suppliers to lower costs on old products, but suppliers can charge whatever they want for new products.
Walmart is single handedly responsabile for all the new doohickys on razors and toothbrushes etc.
Add a new blade, or color, or make it vibrate, or spin, or have different angled brushes, and it is a new product.
The price for the "old" razor is down to nothing. But the price for the "good" razor is the same as the price that the razor always was. But its a different razor!
The federal government is not a collection of people. It is a collection of states. That is why states get to vote and not people. It is federal, because it is a federation (collection) Just like Star Trek, The Federation of Planets.
If you don't like a federal system, that is fine, change it. But that means changing LOTS more than just the electoral college.
They don't need to limit the 5/2 pipe. The point is that people who are using that level are going to tend to not se it all the time. They are self limiting.
You will have the occasional bittorrent/kazza leech who uses up tons and tons, but then you also have granny who just checks her email once a week.
It averages out.
Also, if you read the fine print, they are only promising those rates from you to the central office. Past there there are no guarantees, and they can dilute the bandwidth all they want.
From a technical perspective :
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Because (just like every other service) they are over selling.
People who buy the 5/2 pipe will tend to not use it all the time. They can toss hundreds of people on and still get their speeds.
People who buy the 30/5 pipe WILL tend to use it, because they are hosting, or running some sort of service where they can afford the extra cash. Therefore they cannot get shared pipe, and they pay for the full thing.
It isn't a price inflation for the high-bandwidth option. It is a discount for the low bandwidth option.
Or alternitavely from the economic perspective
Prices have nothing to do with actual costs. People who need the extra bandwitdh are likely willing to pay more, therefore they are charged more. The joy of elasticity of demand, and low competetion.
This is stupid. Google desktop is a user applicaiton, it is not intended for use on a public terminal.
Further, Google Desktop requires that it be installed as local admin, and further requires that the user be RUNNING as local admin.
Any library or cafe that is allowing walk by users to log in as local admin has much greater problems than google desktop to worry about.
Anyone that is NOT letting people log in as local admin can ignore google desktop all together (until they get smart and let it run with reduced privs)
Yes, taking information from popular entertainment or even pointed documentaries is clearly the way to get the most accurate information about a group of people.
More likely it would work he same way most word processors work in Japan. You type in romaji (Japanese spelled out phoenetically in english) (or katakana, which would only need 4-5 letters per key) and the program makes predictive guesses about which char you want. Much like phones work for typing ahead english words.
In most IT circles, SQL means MS SQL Server. Where is that database? SQL, or Oracle?
It depends.
In a world where MS has manufactured all of the XBOXs that they are ever going to make, they would lose maximum money by nobody buying any more XBOXs.
In a world (much like the world we actually live in) where MS makes more new XBOXs every day, then they lose the most money by people buying an XBOX, and never buying a game, because it costs them more to make each box than they sell it for. This world allows for an infinite amount of money to be lost, as long as people keep buying boxes and not the games.
However, most people do tend to buy games, or buy live subscriptions, so they are not making out too badly.
The dont even care that they are losing money as a whole. It is their first generation box. They are hoping to become profitable in the future.
you mean like how they made spiderman shoot webbing from his wrists without machines, even though the comics clearly show him needing machines! (Except when he was in the alien suit)
Each iteration of a franchise gets to change the rules a bit. I only get mad when they change the rules within thier own kingdom.
Vulcans and romulans are more than physically simmilar, they are the same race. There was a schism some time back. The TNG/DS9 episodes with spock in them touched on this.
My logic is not sloppy at all, you named musicians, and I noted that two of them got directly paid for their work, as work for hire, and the others got quite rich off of their music. There are other musicians that do their work for free (most likely because they cannot get paid for it) and are doing it for the joy.
:
The fact that those people exist has no impact on the rights of people that want to make music for pay. You have the choice to support (or leech) from whichever musicians you want. Because B does it for free does not mean you can take A's without compensation.
much of that money goes right back into the costs of making music
Oh, so there is a cost to making music. And the copyright allows the musician to get paid. And getting paid allows them to make more music? Amazing!
BTW, for the techies, you are mixing types of people. (As you did before with Newton and Einstein)
The motivations for science are often quite different than the motivations for music.
As for your specific example of you
Yes you would code if the market dropped out. But how about if you worked for a year, and then your company just decided not to pay you? Would you just happily go out and get a day job without complaint? Thats what piracy is.
Um. Shakespeare and Mozart in fact did do it for the money, but in general they created works for hire.
The Beatles definately did it for money, as I didnt notice them giving away all of their profits and living in poverty. (Not that they didn't enjoy it, but if you go ask paul, I bet he would say Piracy is wrong...)
Michael Moore lives in a huge Manhattan apartment, worth several million dollars. He did it for the money (and because he hates his targets)
Einstein did it because he was a geek, and patriotic, and thought it was the right thing, but he wasn't making music was he.
Newton did it because he was a geek. To the point where people had to force feed him because he would pull all nighters for several days straight without eating. But again, he wasn't really a musician...
You just invalidated the business model for almost everyone producing a J2EE app. They are making millions. The model must work.
And it takes MONTHS of configuration and customization for some of those apps.
If you have a copy of the contract, without the addendum, then you have a fairly good court case against the bill.
Yes its a crime (and since they crossed state lines, and presumably sent you the bill via the mail) a federal crime.
The FBI won't investigate, so they won't go to jail. But you do not have to pay. Small claims will handle that for you nicely. (If you have your copy without that addendum. If you do not have a copy, you are screwed unles syou want to get into handwriting analysis)
actually, you do get to take the area code too. I have a friend using his NYC home phone number on his new LA cell phone.
Please detail how we will get lower gas prices out of this, when we are currently shipping gas TO Iraq at a loss to keep THEIR prices low.
The whole "No blood for oil" thing has been bunk the whole time through. This was was bad for American oil companies, and bad for American oil consumers. Therefore it seems very unlikely that oil was the motive at all.
this is a duplicate, I replied the same thing to the AC. but since he was an AC, the conversation stops!
t m
I used the wrong terminology, but the game does have a competetive mode (see below):
In any case, my point is still valid, the game had a pre-existing live component that was being used.
Xbox Live compatible: Tecmo's revered development team, Team Ninja, has created a unique Xbox Live feature within Ninja Gaiden. The Master Ninja Tournament, developed specifically for the game, will allow players to participate in a nationwide competition. Here, players will put their honed ninja skills to the test to determine the top Ninja Gaiden player in the country. Participants will compete in downloadable trial missions made available only through Xbox Live. Top-ranked players will win special prizes and be included in the Ninja Gaiden Hall of Fame.
http://www.xbox.com/en-us/ninjagaiden/default.h
I used the wrong terminology, but the game does have a competetive mode (see below):
t m
In any case, my point is still valid, the game had a pre-existing live component that was being used.
Xbox Live compatible: Tecmo's revered development team, Team Ninja, has created a unique Xbox Live feature within Ninja Gaiden. The Master Ninja Tournament, developed specifically for the game, will allow players to participate in a nationwide competition. Here, players will put their honed ninja skills to the test to determine the top Ninja Gaiden player in the country. Participants will compete in downloadable trial missions made available only through Xbox Live. Top-ranked players will win special prizes and be included in the Ninja Gaiden Hall of Fame.
http://www.xbox.com/en-us/ninjagaiden/default.h