No I don't think it is, unless you mean the geneology stuff. I believe that birth certificates and such are public information in the US and most other countries. I specifically remember talking to my parents and them indicating that they don't do any extraction (religious) work for people until after they have been dead for 50 years or family consent is given. The geneology stuff is just basic bookkeeping and is an advantage to anyone who is interested in who their ancestors were.
Maybe I should have pointed out that I grew up and live in Utah. I was baptised, went to church, and was ordained to the office of an elder in the preisthood. But I don't consider myself a LDS anymore.
Anyway, I do understand the principle and motivations behind the geneology work they do. In fact my parents are serving a mission at a family history center in SLC where they do extensive database work, cataloging various geneology books. Their methods seem fine, their motivations are their own.
You made a number of inaccurate statements. First they don't (or can't, not sure which) do the extraction work until you have been dead at least 50 years or if your family says it's ok. Second the principle is not that you are suddenly mormon after you have received the baptism for the dead work. You are just given the opportunity to accept the religion in the after life. Thirdly, the posthumous work is not the primary task of temples. That is actually rather a minor part. Fourth, all religions are just cult's that made it big.
Growing up as I did and living the life I led I obviously have a different outlook than a non-mormon. I feel that in general the modern church is typically a good thing. They generally teach good behavior and they do an amazing amount of social work for their members. If you come upon hard times and you are mormon, you won't ever have to worry about where your next meal is coming from if you are willing to accept the help. This is a much better situation than any government run welfare program, IMO.
Err, what do you mean the means are questionable? Are you saying they have bad technique? Or did you mean to say you don't like their motivation? Which is different than having questionable means.
Or even they've managed to find a sequence of mtDNA that all Europeans have. It's hard to see how they can figure that 150K years ago there were only 7 or so women in Europe who's children managed to survive. I'm betting they're finding characteristics that are shared in general among Caucasians rather than characteristics of a particular family line. But who knows.
There certainly are substantial reasons why the speed limits are the way they are. It's a measured statistic that fatalities increase dramatically over 75 MPH. Incidents of accident also increase at higher speeds. Sure 55 may be slow, 65 may be easily controllable, 75 may be just fine, but 85, 95 and higher start to be problematic. And I'm not saying you speed, I'm saying that people who speed are showing a distinct lact of "give a shit" about the rest of society.
Actually, 1.5 Mbps to 2.5Mbps is certainly not DVD quality. 1.5 Mbps is the rate that VCDs use for MPEG-1 and is considered only slight better than VHS quality. MPEG-2 isn't an improvement in compression technology, it's an expansion of various datarates and resolutions and options. A typical scene encoded under MPEG-2 will use a significantly higher bitrate. I know from personal experience that 60 minutes of 4:3 TV aspect ratio DVD takes in the area of 3 gigs. So no you will not fit 75 dvd quality movies into 75 gigs. It's just not going to happen.
Someone involved with that article seriously screwed up some of the numbers. A trivial example: Your average DVD movie takes 4.5 Gigs to 5 Gigs. Yet they say 75.6 Gigs = 75 DVD quality movies. Sorry. More like 12.
No, I'm not talking about duplicating a car, I'm talking about when someone steals the car you've lost the benefit you expected from putting in the hours to earn enough money to buy a car. Same concept as an artist losing the hours when they don't get paid for their work.
"...if i bought the tape, am I only entitled to a low-quality version of the song?"
Actually, yes, I think that is the case. You aren't entitled to a particular song at all. You are entitled to use the physical tape you have. If you bought the tape then that's what you bought. Would you argue that since you bought an album you are entitled to see the concert for free? Didn't you already pay for the music?
So what you are saying is that a band should put more effort into enticing and persuading you to obey the law rather than just expecting you to obey the law. Here's a translation for you "It's ok to rape this woman on Tuesday because she's not giving it away every day of the week." Sound reasonable? Similar logic if not similarly severe crimes.
Napster, as you probably already know, is a way to download files from another person's computer, and to allow others to download from yours. You can't imagine any legal use for this??
Nice straw man there. Napster is not just a way to transfer files from one computer to another. Most of the features that seperate napster from, say, ftp are almost specifically tuned to pirating music. Yes you can argue that they say they only want you to transfer legal files, yet they don't provide a good mechanism to prevent the distribution of such files.
Every album that I own (and I own a large number) is full of songs that I DO like. I just don't buy those that have one good song. I never did before mp3's existed either. So basically, it comes down to whether the artist is really an artist, or is in it for the money.
What the hell? Whether you like a song or not doesn't dictate whether it qualifies as art. Besides anyone who does anything and presents it to the public is in it for something. Either money or prestige or accolades. Hell even people who GPL their software are in it for the money (as in no money.) If they didn't care about money or others profitting more from their work then they can, then they would release their stuff as anonymous PD works.
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As much as I hate following up such a tongue in cheek sarcastic post, it is important to keep in mind that the reason record sales are up is because the economy is booming. If the industry was getting all the money that they are entitled to based upon the number of people who have their MP3's and such, they'd then have mega profits. What they get now is just normal profits.
Napster absolutely has a plan to make money from their service. It's just a matter of them getting into a position where they can do it. Right now they don't dare because then they'd get screwed big time in the courts. Without the profit factor they can argue that they aren't gaining by their service and thus a court is less likely to really put the smack down. If they profit and a court decides that Napster is abetting copyright violation then the fine goes from something like $10,000 per violation to $100,000 per violation and punative damages.
Napster Inc. (or Co. or LLC. or Ltd.) definitely has some kind of plan to make some dough. There just isn't any other reason to be running the service otherwise. Certainly not at the expense they are facing.
Metallica certainly makes more than $1 per retail album sold. Some bands may not but Metallica does. So 4 million records sold is a lot more than $3 million.
The problem with paying $.25 for a song is that nobody wants just one song. They want a bunch of songs. Perhaps from different artists, whatever. Once they start looking at it like "gosh, it's going to cost me X hundred dollars to get the music collection I want." They'll just go back to swapping MP3s.
My prediction is that they'd make $.25 for each song and then napster would be loaded up with songs that nobody had to rip.
It's not that bad of an analogy really. You're just looking at it from the wrong perspective. Look at it from the perspective of the person you took it from. He worked X number of hours to be able to afford that car. Now he can't get the benefit of those hours. A creative artist may work X number of hours with the expectation that if someone likes his product he'll be able to benefit from that work.
It's one thing for you to enjoy a higher performing computer who's only risk is that you might be expected to accomplish more in your 8 hour day. It's something entirely different to drive excessively fast. You are putting yourself and others in serious danger when you speed. There are no magic technological advances that make you a better driver, that improve the reliability of a vehicle as it flies uncontrollably into oncoming traffic. If you really want to be pissed off about something, think about the complete contempt a speeding driver has for your and your families lives.
Processor speed has little to do with your boot time. Look rather at your BIOS (does it do a goofy memory check? have you enabled LBA, 32-bit disk access, multi-block.) Look at what device drivers are being loaded. Do they have timeout probes on various cards? Look at the harddrive health. Is it heavily fragmented? Is it a 10,000 RPM drive? Does it use some kind of translation that leads to pathological seeking? Does it have bad sectors that are automatically remapped causing more cross-drive seeking? How much ram does each system have?
I mean let's get real here. My original Franklin ACE 1000 (Apple II+ clone) booted to Applesoft basic in less than 1 second. It would boot to DOS 3.3 (yeah the original DOS 3.3) in around 8 seconds. And it only had a 1.1-ish Mhz processor. Gosh your athlon must be really slow.:)
Err, it wouldn't be that tough for your ISP to carry out a man-in-the-middle attack. Since they effectively are already the man-in-the-middle. There are transparent proxies out there and it wouldn't be that major of a surprise to find that someone has done the work necessary to bluff an https connection.
Um is DeCSS and such illegal in Japan? If not then it's not an issue. You guys have to get a clue here, remember: jurisdiction. A japanese court can decide just about anything it wants and unless I'm in Japan it doesn't matter.
Yes. However in the gnutella case I would argue that there is something wrong. Where's the source? I doubt anyone could threaten, cajole, intimidate, sue, etc. Nullsoft into releasing the source if they wanted to. I'm thinking that gnutella being released under the GPL was more of the stated intent rather than the actual act. Until there source is out there I don't think anyone can reasonably argue that it was released under the GPL.
I don't want to piss on the pot here, but there are advantages to avoiding the release of the week syndrom. In terms of security, stability, and lost time. How much sense does it make to grab move onto a new feature set every day if yesterdays features did the job? Why spend that much time? There is a point to providing a bugfixed, security patched, 6 month old OS.
Not that I'm defending Caldera or anything, since I don't run Linux. I'm just pointing out that steaming features are always a reason to upgrade your machine.
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No I don't think it is, unless you mean the geneology stuff. I believe that birth certificates and such are public information in the US and most other countries. I specifically remember talking to my parents and them indicating that they don't do any extraction (religious) work for people until after they have been dead for 50 years or family consent is given. The geneology stuff is just basic bookkeeping and is an advantage to anyone who is interested in who their ancestors were.
Maybe I should have pointed out that I grew up and live in Utah. I was baptised, went to church, and was ordained to the office of an elder in the preisthood. But I don't consider myself a LDS anymore.
Anyway, I do understand the principle and motivations behind the geneology work they do. In fact my parents are serving a mission at a family history center in SLC where they do extensive database work, cataloging various geneology books. Their methods seem fine, their motivations are their own.
You made a number of inaccurate statements. First they don't (or can't, not sure which) do the extraction work until you have been dead at least 50 years or if your family says it's ok. Second the principle is not that you are suddenly mormon after you have received the baptism for the dead work. You are just given the opportunity to accept the religion in the after life. Thirdly, the posthumous work is not the primary task of temples. That is actually rather a minor part. Fourth, all religions are just cult's that made it big.
Growing up as I did and living the life I led I obviously have a different outlook than a non-mormon. I feel that in general the modern church is typically a good thing. They generally teach good behavior and they do an amazing amount of social work for their members. If you come upon hard times and you are mormon, you won't ever have to worry about where your next meal is coming from if you are willing to accept the help. This is a much better situation than any government run welfare program, IMO.
Err, what do you mean the means are questionable? Are you saying they have bad technique? Or did you mean to say you don't like their motivation? Which is different than having questionable means.
Or even they've managed to find a sequence of mtDNA that all Europeans have. It's hard to see how they can figure that 150K years ago there were only 7 or so women in Europe who's children managed to survive. I'm betting they're finding characteristics that are shared in general among Caucasians rather than characteristics of a particular family line. But who knows.
There certainly are substantial reasons why the speed limits are the way they are. It's a measured statistic that fatalities increase dramatically over 75 MPH. Incidents of accident also increase at higher speeds. Sure 55 may be slow, 65 may be easily controllable, 75 may be just fine, but 85, 95 and higher start to be problematic. And I'm not saying you speed, I'm saying that people who speed are showing a distinct lact of "give a shit" about the rest of society.
Actually, 1.5 Mbps to 2.5Mbps is certainly not DVD quality. 1.5 Mbps is the rate that VCDs use for MPEG-1 and is considered only slight better than VHS quality. MPEG-2 isn't an improvement in compression technology, it's an expansion of various datarates and resolutions and options. A typical scene encoded under MPEG-2 will use a significantly higher bitrate. I know from personal experience that 60 minutes of 4:3 TV aspect ratio DVD takes in the area of 3 gigs. So no you will not fit 75 dvd quality movies into 75 gigs. It's just not going to happen.
Someone involved with that article seriously screwed up some of the numbers. A trivial example: Your average DVD movie takes 4.5 Gigs to 5 Gigs. Yet they say 75.6 Gigs = 75 DVD quality movies. Sorry. More like 12.
No, I'm not talking about duplicating a car, I'm talking about when someone steals the car you've lost the benefit you expected from putting in the hours to earn enough money to buy a car. Same concept as an artist losing the hours when they don't get paid for their work.
"...if i bought the tape, am I only entitled to a low-quality version of the song?"
Actually, yes, I think that is the case. You aren't entitled to a particular song at all. You are entitled to use the physical tape you have. If you bought the tape then that's what you bought. Would you argue that since you bought an album you are entitled to see the concert for free? Didn't you already pay for the music?
So what you are saying is that a band should put more effort into enticing and persuading you to obey the law rather than just expecting you to obey the law. Here's a translation for you "It's ok to rape this woman on Tuesday because she's not giving it away every day of the week." Sound reasonable? Similar logic if not similarly severe crimes.
Napster, as you probably already know, is a way to download files from another person's computer, and to allow others to download from yours. You can't imagine any legal use for this??
Nice straw man there. Napster is not just a way to transfer files from one computer to another. Most of the features that seperate napster from, say, ftp are almost specifically tuned to pirating music. Yes you can argue that they say they only want you to transfer legal files, yet they don't provide a good mechanism to prevent the distribution of such files.
Every album that I own (and I own a large number) is full of songs that I DO like. I just don't buy those that have one good song. I never did before mp3's existed either. So basically, it comes down to whether the artist is really an artist, or is in it for the money.
What the hell? Whether you like a song or not doesn't dictate whether it qualifies as art. Besides anyone who does anything and presents it to the public is in it for something. Either money or prestige or accolades. Hell even people who GPL their software are in it for the money (as in no money.) If they didn't care about money or others profitting more from their work then they can, then they would release their stuff as anonymous PD works.
As much as I hate following up such a tongue in cheek sarcastic post, it is important to keep in mind that the reason record sales are up is because the economy is booming. If the industry was getting all the money that they are entitled to based upon the number of people who have their MP3's and such, they'd then have mega profits. What they get now is just normal profits.
Napster absolutely has a plan to make money from their service. It's just a matter of them getting into a position where they can do it. Right now they don't dare because then they'd get screwed big time in the courts. Without the profit factor they can argue that they aren't gaining by their service and thus a court is less likely to really put the smack down. If they profit and a court decides that Napster is abetting copyright violation then the fine goes from something like $10,000 per violation to $100,000 per violation and punative damages.
Napster Inc. (or Co. or LLC. or Ltd.) definitely has some kind of plan to make some dough. There just isn't any other reason to be running the service otherwise. Certainly not at the expense they are facing.
Metallica certainly makes more than $1 per retail album sold. Some bands may not but Metallica does. So 4 million records sold is a lot more than $3 million.
The problem with paying $.25 for a song is that nobody wants just one song. They want a bunch of songs. Perhaps from different artists, whatever. Once they start looking at it like "gosh, it's going to cost me X hundred dollars to get the music collection I want." They'll just go back to swapping MP3s.
My prediction is that they'd make $.25 for each song and then napster would be loaded up with songs that nobody had to rip.
It's not that bad of an analogy really. You're just looking at it from the wrong perspective. Look at it from the perspective of the person you took it from. He worked X number of hours to be able to afford that car. Now he can't get the benefit of those hours. A creative artist may work X number of hours with the expectation that if someone likes his product he'll be able to benefit from that work.
This is seriously off topic.
It's one thing for you to enjoy a higher performing computer who's only risk is that you might be expected to accomplish more in your 8 hour day. It's something entirely different to drive excessively fast. You are putting yourself and others in serious danger when you speed. There are no magic technological advances that make you a better driver, that improve the reliability of a vehicle as it flies uncontrollably into oncoming traffic. If you really want to be pissed off about something, think about the complete contempt a speeding driver has for your and your families lives.
Processor speed has little to do with your boot time. Look rather at your BIOS (does it do a goofy memory check? have you enabled LBA, 32-bit disk access, multi-block.) Look at what device drivers are being loaded. Do they have timeout probes on various cards? Look at the harddrive health. Is it heavily fragmented? Is it a 10,000 RPM drive? Does it use some kind of translation that leads to pathological seeking? Does it have bad sectors that are automatically remapped causing more cross-drive seeking? How much ram does each system have?
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I mean let's get real here. My original Franklin ACE 1000 (Apple II+ clone) booted to Applesoft basic in less than 1 second. It would boot to DOS 3.3 (yeah the original DOS 3.3) in around 8 seconds. And it only had a 1.1-ish Mhz processor. Gosh your athlon must be really slow.
Err, it wouldn't be that tough for your ISP to carry out a man-in-the-middle attack. Since they effectively are already the man-in-the-middle. There are transparent proxies out there and it wouldn't be that major of a surprise to find that someone has done the work necessary to bluff an https connection.
Um is DeCSS and such illegal in Japan? If not then it's not an issue. You guys have to get a clue here, remember: jurisdiction. A japanese court can decide just about anything it wants and unless I'm in Japan it doesn't matter.
Yes it has a name. It's named "A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET." and it's IP is 198.41.0.4. Which you would know if you looked at your named configuration. :)
Just out of curiousity, what threshold do you read at? -1? Your own stance seems to indicate that that is sufficient for you.
Of course. That's what was meant. I figured everybody understood that.
Yes. However in the gnutella case I would argue that there is something wrong. Where's the source? I doubt anyone could threaten, cajole, intimidate, sue, etc. Nullsoft into releasing the source if they wanted to. I'm thinking that gnutella being released under the GPL was more of the stated intent rather than the actual act. Until there source is out there I don't think anyone can reasonably argue that it was released under the GPL.
I don't want to piss on the pot here, but there are advantages to avoiding the release of the week syndrom. In terms of security, stability, and lost time. How much sense does it make to grab move onto a new feature set every day if yesterdays features did the job? Why spend that much time? There is a point to providing a bugfixed, security patched, 6 month old OS.
Not that I'm defending Caldera or anything, since I don't run Linux. I'm just pointing out that steaming features are always a reason to upgrade your machine.