It is no longer necessary.
Artists should make art, not products.
Did Newton get a patent on his calculus??
Did Homer copyright his Iliad??
Are we better than them??
If we remove copyright, will it really take away the desire to create art and new things??
I don't think so.
So, as a seller of IP, you should deal with the inherent risk of having it copied with reasonable laws, rather than attempting to enslave us all so that you can sleep at night knowing nobody stole your fucking pennies.
Meanwhile, huge CD presses in China are churning out more of "your" works than all of us "copyright infringers" multiplied by 10.
Personally, I think MTV fucked it up for all of us.
MTV has a HUGE market of drooling drones, and as long as MTV portrays an "artist's" lifestyle as luxurious and glamorous and happy and shiny (whether it is true or not, witness the many bankrupt "artists" that once had a lot of playtime on MTV, and imagine the ones we do not hear about), there will be more among the masses that will STRIVE to BE the next artist, the next to be exploited.
If there are fewer sales, you can bet your ass these RIAA folks are NOT going to forfeit some of their cut to keep the "artist" fed. They'll say "fuck him, if he wants to eat he should sell more records and/or help us with legislature to make the serfs^H^H^H^H^Hpeople pay more money more often".
So you'll have these "celebrities" endorsing a huge media campaign (which MTV stands to win from) against "piracy".
I say we go back to the way things used to be, when artists did things because they LOVED to do them. Not so that they can rap about how many cars they drive and how many "bitches they fuck, that they give no dough to".
Van Gogh, a true artist the likes of which today's "artists" are unworthy of even licking his proverbial boot, was quite poor throughout his life. If we quit feeding fat cats and wannabe's we will advance further and faster.
These people are not special, they do not deserve the attention they get nor perhaps their compensations.
Art should be created for its beauty, from a burnign desire by the artist to bring what's inside of his mind to life.
If he makes a living, good.
If he lives confortably, better.
If he prostitutes himself and his work by making it unavailable to all but those who directly make him richer, then he is no artist, he's a fucking businessman filled with greed and perhaps a bit of talent.
If you ask me, I would prefer to see people do what makes them happy, and live modestly.
I think THAT should be the function of our government, to asure that is the case.
Not to allow people to grow immensely rich while selling our and their own freedoms.
Government supported artists, digital distribution (as it is far more efficient that shipping shiny little discs all around the world. For example, compare the weight of the electrons necessary to carry all of Shakespeare's works as opposed to the print)
A good modest life for ALL (even government officials and employees, being part of the government should not entitle you to more compensation - that's not fair)
I think that's called communism...
(not Leninism, or Castroism - real communism. The likes of which has not been seen since we lived in primitive tribes)
Not to mention Intel's "Jackson" tech.
It seems to me that SMT will greatly reduce the inefficiency of our current uProcessors.
If it is backed up by a properly powerful core, that is (one where there is almost always a free int/fp pipe doing nothing, as MUST be the case w/ the athlon, since it is 3 int and 3 fp and manages an IPC of less than 2)
Last December I helped a few people at my job get some decent HP printers for $20 bucks a pop.
The replacement ink cartridges (sp?) cost more thatn the printer, which came with a set of cartridges.
I guess if you have a $300 printer...
There is this thing called "shame" and "common sense".
All the libraries I've been to have the computers with internet access in pretty open places, and people walk around there.
I highly doubt your kid is going to open up web-pr0n sites while other people buzz around him/her.
What's the big deal with it anyhow??
Why is it SO incredibly terrible about them seeing these things??
The only thing that makes it bad is if they are not taught self-control and the difference between truth and fiction.
All you can do is teach them right and trust them to follow that, because you will not be there forever to hold their hand.
They WILL do wrong (being a semi-rebellious youth in my time), its the degree of it and the ability to stop and rejoin all the other bricks in the wall that matter in this society.
Of course, that's another discussion...
Come to think of it, what do you mean by "already has a 64 bit pipe"??
All modern x86 processors since the Pentium classic have a 64 bit "pipe" to the northbridge and memory etc...
Do you perhaps mean that the G4 is a "64 bit" processor??
What difference would that make besides perhaps allowing it to address more than 4 Gigs of system memory??
64 bit != fast like an Alpha (which is 64 bit)
There are many 64 bit processors which are INFERIOR to contemporary 32 bit processors.
AFAIK the G4 is 32 bit, BTW.
Wait...
First you are talking about clock for clock performance, and then go on to say that the P4 is FASTER than the P3??
Where have you been for the last few months??
P4's are faster than P3's on account of sheer clockspeed and FSB bandwidth.
Please check your facts before posting, thanks.
It was made more difficult than necessary.
Picture this, what if you COULDN'T get the documents from your local library or wherever, but could still get it mailed to you if you sent a self-addressed envelope to the local offices and had to wait 10-12 weeks for processing, and when you were done, you'd have to ship it back (2 weeks max, of course).
We are not in the 19th century, we have before us new technology which permits fast and efficient exchange of information. Why should that be ignored?? Because somebody wants to sell their copy of the law??
You keep dodging that arguement and only maintain that the library has a copy. Fuck that, it is a law I'm expected to abide by, it is a public law and thus should be nothing but public.
The US is traveling down a slippery slope, and I only hope YOU realize what you are subjecting your children and perhaps yourself to.
You are selling your soul to fucking capitalism.
Your arguements are transparent and worthless, they are like houses made from thin paper, thin green paper.
The utter materialism of this age rivals those Roman times mentioned in an earlier post.
It seems as though society as we know it will never rest until it succeeds in trampling and exploiting its own freedoms while its people attempt to create a new way to reach the upper class.
The falseness drips from your post, a brew of your lies and some truth which you use to lend it some credibility.
Damn, I feel poetic, I should write some haikus or something.
I do not mean to flame BUT...
What in the FUCK (tm) is THAT supposed to mean??
Which Final Fantasy game??
There is over 10 of them.
It is VERY MUCH Final Fantasy, where the next game has "no relation" to the previous one.
It is like a new Final Fantasy, except on film rather than as a game. It would be interesting to see FFIV acted out, though... (Although it would get butchered in the process, nevermind).
NO!
Increasing pipeline depth does NOT just allow for faster clock speeds in the way that you describe.
If the processor is pipelined (as most modern ones are), it will have a higher LATENCY to finish the instruction, but will have higher THROUGHPUT.
Instruction A might take 10 clocks on an athlon as opposed to 5 on a G4, but instruction B will be finished only 1 clock cycle after that, and so on.
Only a branch misprediction will cause the WHOLE pipeline to be emptied, and avoiding that is the function of the branch prediction unit on a modern x86 processor.
IT DOES NOT HAPPEN EVERY CLOCK CYCLE, most of the time it will guess correctly. Your example assumes that the x86 cpu is really screwing up the branch prediction.
Some of the advantages of the G4 are Altivec, no complex decoding logic like x86, cooler, no x87 stack funkyness, etc...
Shorter pipeline is NOT an advantage.
A K6 has a short pipeline, does that mean it is better than an Athlon??
No, even at similar speeds.
May be SLIGHTLY better at equal speeds, but it took a HUGE effort to get the K6 to 500 MHz on a.25u process while the athlon got right up to 700MHz (probably could have gone faster, too).
Even at.18u most K6(2+,3+) won't make it past 600 MHz, and if they do it's at 2.0v or higher!!
People have been running.18 AXIA TBirds at 1500 MHz or more without using 2.0v.
Shorter pipeline is not (necessarily) an advantage, there are a lot of other variables in the chip design process.
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It is no longer necessary.
Artists should make art, not products.
Did Newton get a patent on his calculus??
Did Homer copyright his Iliad??
Are we better than them??
If we remove copyright, will it really take away the desire to create art and new things??
I don't think so.
That is what many of us fear.
So, as a seller of IP, you should deal with the inherent risk of having it copied with reasonable laws, rather than attempting to enslave us all so that you can sleep at night knowing nobody stole your fucking pennies.
Meanwhile, huge CD presses in China are churning out more of "your" works than all of us "copyright infringers" multiplied by 10.
YOU ARE STEALING OUR FREEDOM.
This is true.
They may very well be speeding up disobedience, and thus a return to rationality.
Greedy bastards, serves them right.
Fuck legal. Tell me, what is right?? Would you rather be legal or right??
Personally, I think MTV fucked it up for all of us.
MTV has a HUGE market of drooling drones, and as long as MTV portrays an "artist's" lifestyle as luxurious and glamorous and happy and shiny (whether it is true or not, witness the many bankrupt "artists" that once had a lot of playtime on MTV, and imagine the ones we do not hear about), there will be more among the masses that will STRIVE to BE the next artist, the next to be exploited.
If there are fewer sales, you can bet your ass these RIAA folks are NOT going to forfeit some of their cut to keep the "artist" fed. They'll say "fuck him, if he wants to eat he should sell more records and/or help us with legislature to make the serfs^H^H^H^H^Hpeople pay more money more often".
So you'll have these "celebrities" endorsing a huge media campaign (which MTV stands to win from) against "piracy".
I say we go back to the way things used to be, when artists did things because they LOVED to do them. Not so that they can rap about how many cars they drive and how many "bitches they fuck, that they give no dough to".
Van Gogh, a true artist the likes of which today's "artists" are unworthy of even licking his proverbial boot, was quite poor throughout his life. If we quit feeding fat cats and wannabe's we will advance further and faster.
These people are not special, they do not deserve the attention they get nor perhaps their compensations.
Art should be created for its beauty, from a burnign desire by the artist to bring what's inside of his mind to life.
If he makes a living, good.
If he lives confortably, better.
If he prostitutes himself and his work by making it unavailable to all but those who directly make him richer, then he is no artist, he's a fucking businessman filled with greed and perhaps a bit of talent.
If you ask me, I would prefer to see people do what makes them happy, and live modestly.
I think THAT should be the function of our government, to asure that is the case.
Not to allow people to grow immensely rich while selling our and their own freedoms.
Government supported artists, digital distribution (as it is far more efficient that shipping shiny little discs all around the world. For example, compare the weight of the electrons necessary to carry all of Shakespeare's works as opposed to the print)
A good modest life for ALL (even government officials and employees, being part of the government should not entitle you to more compensation - that's not fair)
I think that's called communism...
(not Leninism, or Castroism - real communism. The likes of which has not been seen since we lived in primitive tribes)
Not to mention Intel's "Jackson" tech. It seems to me that SMT will greatly reduce the inefficiency of our current uProcessors. If it is backed up by a properly powerful core, that is (one where there is almost always a free int/fp pipe doing nothing, as MUST be the case w/ the athlon, since it is 3 int and 3 fp and manages an IPC of less than 2)
I thought the spelling was "Aluminium". Then again, what the hell do those people in England know about the english language.
Last December I helped a few people at my job get some decent HP printers for $20 bucks a pop. The replacement ink cartridges (sp?) cost more thatn the printer, which came with a set of cartridges. I guess if you have a $300 printer...
This is a joke, right??
There is this thing called "shame" and "common sense". All the libraries I've been to have the computers with internet access in pretty open places, and people walk around there. I highly doubt your kid is going to open up web-pr0n sites while other people buzz around him/her. What's the big deal with it anyhow?? Why is it SO incredibly terrible about them seeing these things?? The only thing that makes it bad is if they are not taught self-control and the difference between truth and fiction. All you can do is teach them right and trust them to follow that, because you will not be there forever to hold their hand. They WILL do wrong (being a semi-rebellious youth in my time), its the degree of it and the ability to stop and rejoin all the other bricks in the wall that matter in this society. Of course, that's another discussion...
Come to think of it, what do you mean by "already has a 64 bit pipe"?? All modern x86 processors since the Pentium classic have a 64 bit "pipe" to the northbridge and memory etc... Do you perhaps mean that the G4 is a "64 bit" processor?? What difference would that make besides perhaps allowing it to address more than 4 Gigs of system memory?? 64 bit != fast like an Alpha (which is 64 bit) There are many 64 bit processors which are INFERIOR to contemporary 32 bit processors. AFAIK the G4 is 32 bit, BTW.
Wait... First you are talking about clock for clock performance, and then go on to say that the P4 is FASTER than the P3?? Where have you been for the last few months?? P4's are faster than P3's on account of sheer clockspeed and FSB bandwidth. Please check your facts before posting, thanks.
It was made more difficult than necessary. Picture this, what if you COULDN'T get the documents from your local library or wherever, but could still get it mailed to you if you sent a self-addressed envelope to the local offices and had to wait 10-12 weeks for processing, and when you were done, you'd have to ship it back (2 weeks max, of course). We are not in the 19th century, we have before us new technology which permits fast and efficient exchange of information. Why should that be ignored?? Because somebody wants to sell their copy of the law?? You keep dodging that arguement and only maintain that the library has a copy. Fuck that, it is a law I'm expected to abide by, it is a public law and thus should be nothing but public. The US is traveling down a slippery slope, and I only hope YOU realize what you are subjecting your children and perhaps yourself to. You are selling your soul to fucking capitalism. Your arguements are transparent and worthless, they are like houses made from thin paper, thin green paper. The utter materialism of this age rivals those Roman times mentioned in an earlier post. It seems as though society as we know it will never rest until it succeeds in trampling and exploiting its own freedoms while its people attempt to create a new way to reach the upper class. The falseness drips from your post, a brew of your lies and some truth which you use to lend it some credibility. Damn, I feel poetic, I should write some haikus or something.
I do not mean to flame BUT... What in the FUCK (tm) is THAT supposed to mean?? Which Final Fantasy game?? There is over 10 of them. It is VERY MUCH Final Fantasy, where the next game has "no relation" to the previous one. It is like a new Final Fantasy, except on film rather than as a game. It would be interesting to see FFIV acted out, though... (Although it would get butchered in the process, nevermind).
NO! Increasing pipeline depth does NOT just allow for faster clock speeds in the way that you describe. If the processor is pipelined (as most modern ones are), it will have a higher LATENCY to finish the instruction, but will have higher THROUGHPUT. Instruction A might take 10 clocks on an athlon as opposed to 5 on a G4, but instruction B will be finished only 1 clock cycle after that, and so on. Only a branch misprediction will cause the WHOLE pipeline to be emptied, and avoiding that is the function of the branch prediction unit on a modern x86 processor. IT DOES NOT HAPPEN EVERY CLOCK CYCLE, most of the time it will guess correctly. Your example assumes that the x86 cpu is really screwing up the branch prediction. Some of the advantages of the G4 are Altivec, no complex decoding logic like x86, cooler, no x87 stack funkyness, etc... Shorter pipeline is NOT an advantage. A K6 has a short pipeline, does that mean it is better than an Athlon?? No, even at similar speeds. May be SLIGHTLY better at equal speeds, but it took a HUGE effort to get the K6 to 500 MHz on a .25u process while the athlon got right up to 700MHz (probably could have gone faster, too).
Even at .18u most K6(2+,3+) won't make it past 600 MHz, and if they do it's at 2.0v or higher!!
People have been running .18 AXIA TBirds at 1500 MHz or more without using 2.0v.
Shorter pipeline is not (necessarily) an advantage, there are a lot of other variables in the chip design process.
Sorry, I believe I fucked up there somewhere, hopefully this will release you from my accidental mismoderation.
Hate to be a c*ck, but I'm sure you mean his descendants, not his ancestors.
And instead obesity is running rampant in America.
(no spandex for you)
So much for inventing the future.
Civ 2. I ALWAYS build the Great Library, it lets me focus on building an army while not falling behind in research. You can then mop up nearby cities.
Whooooaaa!! No need for men?? You've got yourself a recruit - down with cloning! (Because as a man, I KNOW there will always be need for women)
None of it worse than 3.11 -> 95 (Windows) There's a hell of a jump. Or maybe 4 -> 2000 (Windows NT).
http://www.badsoftware.com/oppose.htm
I was a bit surprised that both the MPAA AND RIAA are opposed to UCITA.
Afraid of competition??