If you had a few hundred thousand dollars tied up in analogue equipment you would champion it's "superiority" too. That and resistance to change. Don't get me wrong the guy makes great sounding records. but I doubt if Steve or anyone else for that matter could pass a double blind test and identify analoge from high end digital.
You forgot to mention all the built in spyware. Using stealth coding techniques to prevent users from hacking the drivers and a remote disable feature? Vista is an example of what a monopoly thinks it can get away with. It is designed for the shareholders, of M$, not the users (And Aero is a joke.)
I know how our antiquated electoral system works. The cloud remains over Florida. I don't recall making any comment about 04. I will say that it is my opinion that Kerry would have won outright on paper ballots.
Bush was appointed in 2000 by the supreme court with after a contested ballot in a state his brother runs. He is the son of the former head of the cia. No-one disputes the fact that Gore got more vote in the country as a whole. So don't give me this "America voted Bush in" crap.
For your argument to work you have to assume that all the people who make copies of programs would actually buy them if they were prevented from copying, A dubious assumption. The previous poster pointed out the positive effect of copying as an advertising medium. I don't know about video games but with music, the p2p sharing only helps emerging artists and has a small negative effect on established artists. It thus hurts the rich and helps the new struggling artists. Or to put it another way, It improves the diversity of the art pool. Also, people who down load and like your music, generally become fans. They will generally find other ways of supporting the artists they like, by going to shows.
The way to reduce piracy is to reduce the price of CD's, improve the physical package to give the tangible product more value and eliminate the copy protection crap. By handicapping their products, the vendors are just insulting and impeding their own customers.
Record companies justify the ridiculous profit margins by complaining about the high cost of promotion. Well we have a new medium that offers very low cost promotion. It is called the internet. It is time for media companies to take a hard look at their business model.
Some one did not read the article. The hydrogen comes from electrolysis. This is powered by the alternator on the truck and results in some pure O2 as a byproduct. The energy ultimately come from the diesel fuel but the net result is improved efficiency.
Conservation is not profitable in the conventional sense. By convincing people to do more with less, you improve there lives and improve the common good. But it would not be successful using our current common method for measuring progress. It would not result in growth. In fact it could cause the GDP to shrink. I think this underscores the shortcomings of our economic score keeping. No I don't know what a good alternative would be.
Well the biggest problem is banking. We have very conservative people who have veto power over capital spending. This is generally a good thing but it makes it hard to use new technology. Take home heating, There are many systems, ground loop heat exchangers, co-generators, solar, and wind that would pay back and be cheaper in the long run. But the banks don't loan money to people for things like that. We need hard data on the payback period for some of these technologies so that banks can help home builder to take the long view and go for lower life cycle cost as opposed to lower initial cost.
Also the civilised democracy's in western Europe have huge taxes on fuel and people have no trouble conserving.
All nuclear power has been exempt from liability. They would not be built otherwise. A failure can destroy millions of live and hundreds of square miles for hundreds of years As to conservation. The rest of the civilized world seems to do OK. We just need to get our government back from the oil industry.
"You are assuming that our total cumulative energy consumption can be reduced through conservation. I don't see that happening"
Why not? You really think we all need to drive suv's and live in 50,000 sq/ft homes? People in Western Europe use way less energy than americans. The live longer, have lower infant death rates and all the same amenities we are used to.
Driving an SUV 50 miles to work and back is not nessesary for happiness.
The problem with nuclear power plants is scale. You need to build big plants and you need a security system around them to keep them safe from terrorists. Even the 'safe' power plants can make a big mess if attacked with conventional explosives. By the time you add up all the costs, including transporting the fuel and the waste securely, it is not a very good deal. We would have no nuclear plants at all if the government had not EXEMPTED THEM from liability. No insurance company in the world is that stupid. We need to take our government back for the oil companies and really work on fuel efficiency and conservation. We in the US have fought two wars in the middle east essentially for the right to drive SUV's around.
We already have a Nuclear power plant that has proven reliable, effective and stable. It is at a nice safe distance and very good service record. It's called the sun.
Medical software is one area where we should all agree that closed source code has no place. After all it is not like a life support system, it IS a life support system. Closed source code for medical applications is like selling drinking water in a life boat. It's wrong.
And while we are on the subject, can anyone explain why we let the government mandate via hippa the use of diagnostic codes that are not in the public domain. Thats right the AMA owns the diagnostic codes that the government mandates. And we all know the AMA needs all that money from licensing.
If you had ever read Micheal Moore instead of listening to Fox talk about him you would know I was paraphrasing him.
Clinton balanced the budget and over saw 8 years of strong broad-based economic growth. Clinton also won the popular vote. After millions spent digging into his past the best they could come up with was a blow job. Do you thing GW could withstand that kind of scrutiny? Cocaine (not denied) Drunk Driving, questionable millitary records. Bush and Chenney have both been arrested. The first president ever to come into office with a record.
If you thing Al Gore got a fair deal in Florida, where Bush's brother was Governor and his father was the former head of the CIA, then you have been listening to way too much Fox news. Even the republican thugs that went down there to stop the recount thought that Gore would have won. That is why they were against a recount. Do you think that if that kind of crap went on in a third world country, we would consider the election free and fair?
It is well know that our good friends the Saudi's were the hijackers. A billionare Saudi was behind it. Funny they call them Arab terriorists, or Muslim Terriorists but never billionare terriosts.
You need to read more carefully. No one said "ordered". The poll indicated that people thought there was a connection between the Iraq and Osama. It was an impression that our un-elected president was more than happy to make to try and justify his war.
I know you think that liberals eat their young. But if you think the right wing spew that comes from Rupert Murdoch's media empire is "Fair and Balanced" you need to get out more. Did you ever wonder what motivated them to adopt that slogan? If it was Fair and balanced, why would they need to hype that?
So typical of the right wing where personnel attacks take the place of intelligent discourse.
A poll by the University of Maryland Found that 80 percent of people who relied on Fox as their primary new source believed that Suddam was supporting Al Qaeda (He was not.) compared with 55 percent who listen to CNN and only 23 percent of NPR listeners. So much for "fair and balanced".
I read a number of different news sources ranging from the Wall Street Journal on the right to Mother Jones and The Progressive on the Left. The New York Times, the Washington Post, along with the LA Times and the Boston Globe seem to be in the middle.
I consider Fox to be more entertainment. Kind of like E or MTV, No real content, just fluff.
The New York Times is the best news paper in the country, perhaps in the world. The fact that when there was a problem, it was so publicly and completely exposed and expained, by the Times itself, only increases their credibility.
It is pathetic what passes for news in this country with Fox and MSNBC in a race to the bottom. Thank god for the the NYtimes.
In advanced countries like those in Europe and Japan, the trains are fast, clean and on time. They are used by the vast majority of the population and they are a much better system then the grid lock of single person SUV's that clog our pathetic highways. If Amtrack got the money our government pours in to aviation, we could have good trains too. And cleaner air and less crowded roads.
It is unfortunate that the first introduction to your publication for the ten's of thousands of slashdot.org readers is Howard Strauss' ignorant rant about open source software. Mr. Strauss has attempted to portray the open source community as disorganized, dishonest and disreputable. This could not be farther from the truth. A quick visit to netcraft.com would show that the open source web browser, apache, hosts the vast majority of the web sites in the world and it's share is increasing. If Mr. Strauss had any hands on experience with Linux or BSD Unix, he would know that they have proven much more reliable than their commercial counterparts. It might interest Mr. Strauss to learn that the IBM corporation has invested millions in Linux and runs Linux on it's flagship mainframe systems. Linux is also used in mission critical systems by companies like Google and Akamai. (not to mention Princeton Univ.)
The biggest problem with Mr. Strauss' rant is that not one example or shred of evidence is offered to support his argument. It is unfortunate that such unsubstantiated conjecture passes for journalism on your web site.
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I was not talking about synths at all. I was comparing using microphones with digital vs analogue recording equiptment
If you had a few hundred thousand dollars tied up in analogue equipment you would champion it's "superiority" too. That and resistance to change. Don't get me wrong the guy makes great sounding records. but I doubt if Steve or anyone else for that matter could pass a double blind test and identify analoge from high end digital.
You forgot to mention all the built in spyware. Using stealth coding techniques to prevent users from hacking the drivers and a remote disable feature? Vista is an example of what a monopoly thinks it can get away with. It is designed for the shareholders, of M$, not the users (And Aero is a joke.)
I know how our antiquated electoral system works. The cloud remains over Florida. I don't recall making any comment about 04. I will say that it is my opinion that Kerry would have won outright on paper ballots.
Bush was appointed in 2000 by the supreme court with after a contested ballot in a state his brother runs. He is the son of the former head of the cia. No-one disputes the fact that Gore got more vote in the country as a whole. So don't give me this "America voted Bush in" crap.
For your argument to work you have to assume that all the people who make copies of programs would actually buy them if they were prevented from copying, A dubious assumption. The previous poster pointed out the positive effect of copying as an advertising medium. I don't know about video games but with music, the p2p sharing only helps emerging artists and has a small negative effect on established artists. It thus hurts the rich and helps the new struggling artists. Or to put it another way, It improves the diversity of the art pool. Also, people who down load and like your music, generally become fans. They will generally find other ways of supporting the artists they like, by going to shows.
The way to reduce piracy is to reduce the price of CD's, improve the physical package to give the tangible product more value and eliminate the copy protection crap. By handicapping their products, the vendors are just insulting and impeding their own customers.
Record companies justify the ridiculous profit margins by complaining about the high cost of promotion. Well we have a new medium that offers very low cost promotion. It is called the internet. It is time for media companies to take a hard look at their business model.
If you are doing well enough for trading to hurt... You're doing well enough.
Why should 90 percent of the revenue go to ten percent of the artists.
Here's to the musical middle class
It always seemed that copyright lengths should be getting shorter, not longer. After all the pace of commerce has increased.
Some one did not read the article. The hydrogen comes from electrolysis. This is powered by the alternator on the truck and results in some pure O2 as a byproduct. The energy ultimately come from the diesel fuel but the net result is improved efficiency.
Conservation is not profitable in the conventional sense. By convincing people to do more with less, you improve there lives and improve the common good. But it would not be successful using our current common method for measuring progress. It would not result in growth. In fact it could cause the GDP to shrink. I think this underscores the shortcomings of our economic score keeping. No I don't know what a good alternative would be.
Well the biggest problem is banking. We have very conservative people who have veto power over capital spending. This is generally a good thing but it makes it hard to use new technology. Take home heating, There are many systems, ground loop heat exchangers, co-generators, solar, and wind that would pay back and be cheaper in the long run. But the banks don't loan money to people for things like that. We need hard data on the payback period for some of these technologies so that banks can help home builder to take the long view and go for lower life cycle cost as opposed to lower initial cost.
Also the civilised democracy's in western Europe have huge taxes on fuel and people have no trouble conserving.
All nuclear power has been exempt from liability. They would not be built otherwise. A failure can destroy millions of live and hundreds of square miles for hundreds of years As to conservation. The rest of the civilized world seems to do OK. We just need to get our government back from the oil industry.
"You are assuming that our total cumulative energy consumption can be reduced through conservation. I don't see that happening"
Why not? You really think we all need to drive suv's and live in 50,000 sq/ft homes? People in Western Europe use way less energy than americans. The live longer, have lower infant death rates and all the same amenities we are used to.
Driving an SUV 50 miles to work and back is not nessesary for happiness.
It is called energy storage. There are houses built im Cambridge MA with no active heating. It stays at 70 degrees +-2 degrees year round.
It is not hard to heat and cool with a fraction of the energy we now consume.
You forgot insurance. The real cost of insurance is astronomical. If the government did not intervine no plants would ever be built.
The problem with nuclear power plants is scale. You need to build big plants and you need a security system around them to keep them safe from terrorists. Even the 'safe' power plants can make a big mess if attacked with conventional explosives. By the time you add up all the costs, including transporting the fuel and the waste securely, it is not a very good deal. We would have no nuclear plants at all if the government had not EXEMPTED THEM from liability. No insurance company in the world is that stupid. We need to take our government back for the oil companies and really work on fuel efficiency and conservation. We in the US have fought two wars in the middle east essentially for the right to drive SUV's around.
We already have a Nuclear power plant that has proven reliable, effective and stable. It is at a nice safe distance and very good service record. It's called the sun.
http://www.linuxmednews.com/
Medical software is one area where we should all agree that closed source code has no place. After all it is not like a life support system, it IS a life support system. Closed source code for medical applications is like selling drinking water in a life boat. It's wrong.
And while we are on the subject, can anyone explain why we let the government mandate via hippa the use of diagnostic codes that are not in the public domain. Thats right the AMA owns the diagnostic codes that the government mandates. And we all know the AMA needs all that money from licensing.
I can't get Fox, at all, and I'm not real hopeful about being able to get it over DirecTV, even when they start offering it.
Are you kidding? that's a feature
If you had ever read Micheal Moore instead of listening to Fox talk about him you would know I was paraphrasing him.
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Clinton balanced the budget and over saw 8 years of strong broad-based economic growth. Clinton also won the popular vote. After millions spent digging into his past the best they could come up with was a blow job. Do you thing GW could withstand that kind of scrutiny? Cocaine (not denied) Drunk Driving, questionable millitary records. Bush and Chenney have both been arrested. The first president ever to come into office with a record.
If you thing Al Gore got a fair deal in Florida, where Bush's brother was Governor and his father was the former head of the CIA, then you have been listening to way too much Fox news. Even the republican thugs that went down there to stop the recount thought that Gore would have won. That is why they were against a recount. Do you think that if that kind of crap went on in a third world country, we would consider the election free and fair?
http://www.fair.org/extra/0108/fox-main.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/0
"There ought to be limits to freedom."
George Bush-- Texas State House
May 21, 1999
It is well know that our good friends the Saudi's were the hijackers. A billionare Saudi was behind it. Funny they call them Arab terriorists, or Muslim Terriorists but never billionare terriosts.
You need to read more carefully. No one said "ordered". The poll indicated that people thought there was a connection between the Iraq and Osama. It was an impression that our un-elected president was more than happy to make to try and justify his war.
I know you think that liberals eat their young. But if you think the right wing spew that comes from Rupert Murdoch's media empire is "Fair and Balanced" you need to get out more. Did you ever wonder what motivated them to adopt that slogan? If it was Fair and balanced, why would they need to hype that?
So typical of the right wing where personnel attacks take the place of intelligent discourse.
A poll by the University of Maryland Found that 80 percent of people who relied on Fox as their primary new source believed that Suddam was supporting Al Qaeda (He was not.) compared with 55 percent who listen to CNN and only 23 percent of NPR listeners. So much for "fair and balanced".
I read a number of different news sources ranging from the Wall Street Journal on the right to Mother Jones and The Progressive on the Left. The New York Times, the Washington Post, along with the LA Times and the Boston Globe seem to be in the middle.
I consider Fox to be more entertainment. Kind of like E or MTV, No real content, just fluff.
I suppose that's why the vast majority of fox viewers thought that Sadam was involved in 911.
(he wasn't)
It is clear that all you know about the NY times comes from Fox.
It does takes a certian amount of intelligence to read the times.
The New York Times is the best news paper in the country, perhaps in the world. The fact that when there was a problem, it was so publicly and completely exposed and expained, by the Times itself, only increases their credibility.
It is pathetic what passes for news in this country with Fox and MSNBC in a race to the bottom. Thank god for the the NYtimes.
In advanced countries like those in Europe and Japan, the trains are fast, clean and on time. They are used by the vast majority of the population and they are a much better system then the grid lock of single person SUV's that clog our pathetic highways.
If Amtrack got the money our government pours in to aviation, we could have good trains too. And cleaner air and less crowded roads.
It is unfortunate that the first introduction to your publication for the ten's of thousands of slashdot.org readers is Howard Strauss' ignorant rant about open source software. Mr. Strauss has attempted to portray the open source community as disorganized, dishonest and disreputable. This could not be farther from the truth. A quick visit to netcraft.com would show that the open source web browser, apache, hosts the vast majority of the web sites in the world and it's share is increasing. If Mr. Strauss had any hands on experience with Linux or BSD Unix, he would know that they have proven much more reliable than their commercial counterparts. It might interest Mr. Strauss to learn that the IBM corporation has invested millions in Linux and runs Linux on it's flagship mainframe systems. Linux is also used in mission critical systems by companies like Google and Akamai. (not to mention Princeton Univ.)
The biggest problem with Mr. Strauss' rant is that not one example or shred of evidence is offered to support his argument. It is unfortunate that such unsubstantiated conjecture passes for journalism on your web site.