I'm on Verizon DSL. But I've never had/. be so consistently intermittent (if that makes any sense) until recently. Other sites fine. Changing browsers makes no diff. Overpopulation? Mass unemployment? Puzzled.
"The worst thing in the world is a false sense of security." says Halderman in the article.
Hear, hear.
A flawed security device affects not only its immediate users (recording industry in this case) and their clients (artists), but everyone who might one day rely on it to prevent dissemination of personal, proprietary or otherwise sensitive or secret information, whether for themselves or their clients or dependents. I would think that the greater good of protecting the public from such a potential disaster far outweighs the short-term profits of a few, and exposing the defect is the only responsible thing to do. (I am not a lawyer).
weather, smoke, pollution, lost balloons, flocks of birds, other aircraft, flying toasters... could affect not just transmission, but tracking as well.
isn't there enough RF and solar energy flooding our atmosphere by now, if we could harness it, to power something this light and small?
PRAYER FOR RELIEF - This is the name of that part of the bill, which, as the phrase imports, prays for relief. This prayer is either general or special but the general course is for the plaintiff to make a special prayer for particular relief to which he thinks himself entitled, and then to conclude with a prayer of general relief at the discretion of the court.
It's got nothing to do with the press. This is not an article or an opinion piece, it's a press release, a bit of PR written by the company to reassure investors, scare competitors and influence journalists. That's a standard press release disclaimer: it pretty much covers their ass by saying all of the above could be BS.
That's not hypocritical. Nor is refusing to let your twelve-year-old drive the family car to go pick up a carton of cigarettes. A parent has a role to play, including guiding his/her child toward the best possible path as he/she understands it from experience. If you do that in an honest and reasonable manner, I can't call it hypocrisy.
pun! seriously, though, the simplest way i can think of is to hack a plotter mechanically by replacing the paper roller mechanism with a sturdy stationary frame, so that instead of the paper moving under the plotter heads, the whole plotter moves over the paper (or whatever surface). you could then just sit the frame on the surface and the plotter would move over it, drawing inside the frame.
media thickness or stiffness wouldn't matter because the device sits right on the surface (as long as the surface is flat). if the piece is bigger than the frame, plan it out and split the graphic into tiles (have the plotter draw some light hashmarks that you'd match with marks on the frame so that the tiles line up). it should be simple to program automatic segmenting.
if it makes the concept any clearer: you'd basically have a logos turtle (or a gang of colored turtles), running around on top of your medium. or is it a giant etch-a-sketch?
good luck. however you solve the problem, i hope you post the results!
they'd have to replace the white backings with transparent ones to stack them, but that doesn't sound so far-fetched, does it? you'd probably need backlighting, though.
you can also disable "Auto Insert Notification" in Control Panel/System/Device manager/CDROM/Properties/Settings (is that really any easier?), though that also disables autoplay of audio CD's.
My info might be outdated, but last time i researched the topic, the max speed on UK motorways was 70mph (112km/hr)
Other max speeds (from 90's data): France 81mph dry/68mph wet, Japan 62mph, Sweden: 68mph. Germany has stretches of road without maximum speed limits, but the maximum posted limit is 81mph. Germany posts minimum legal speeds in some places.
I was researching traffic fatalities. If you're interested, for year 2000, in deaths per 100million km vehicle 'milage': France 1.88, Japan 1.80, US 1.62, Sweden 1.04, UK 0.78, according to US Dept. of Transportation (www.dot.gov)
[please strike the "absolutely" from above--i'm not qualified to use that adverb]...Obviously, announcing this kind of concrete breakthrough is also good for PR, stock price, and future DARPA funding.
IANAEE either, but this made a little more sense to me after I read this Inforworld article, which talks about two other aspects of Sun's DARPA-funded project: clockless "asynchronous logic", and building processors with interchangeable and upgradable modules. They absolutely need these busless "proximity" interconnects for the processor modules to communicate at close to on-chip speeds, and the clockless architecture lets them get rid of the bus. Or vice versa... or something like that.
Working prototype computer about six years away, according to the article.
How about the number of new sharers who hadn't realized how easy and widespread file-sharing really is, until the RIAA provoked this new flurry of publicity, complete with links to all the popular clients conveniently and prominently displayed on mainstream news sites?
Sorry for the hurried blathering. The point is, that their dedication to supporting and disseminating quality music, no matter how obscure and unglamorous, brought them their success. Not media mogul success, but far more than the three Boston grad students who founded Rounder ever anticipated.
True, rounder is one of the bigger, higher profile indies now, been around for ages (remember George Thorogood?), and in fact has become one of the bigger players in the folk/bluegrass realm, and present-day Rounder is perhaps a not-so-representative example for the article to cite. But look back on their history. Started as an "anti-profit collective" serving neglected niche markets, they were blindsided by their own luck (Thorogood was the beginning, then Rounder found themselves sitting on a large zydeco/cajun catalog when it became a fad, same thing happened with blues and then more recently the bluegrass resurgence...) and have had their share of growing pains. Actually it's not luck, but taste and passion: they still support niche artists who sell only a few albums a year--they look for talent, not marketability--and I'm sure they are finding and nurturing more future gold mines. AND, along with the smaller indies, they are booming as much as the mainstream recording industry is sagging, if the article is accurate, in a poor economy.
btw, Allison Krauss has been on Rounder since she was 14 yrs. old! She's turned down numerous offers from major labels, so Rounder must have treated her pretty well these 12 years.
I think what's wrong is not so much the copyright system as the exploitative relationship between publishers and artists. Any system can be abused. Under the same laws, in the same economy and the same "piracy-crazy" environment that is supposedly responsible for the music industry slump, independent labels and artists are doing better than ever [Christian Science Monitor article from April 2003, in case you missed it]. Rounder Records' income was up 50% in 2002 compared to 2001.
This despite the fact that their artists retain copyright, share the profit from each and every CD, and can't get exposure on corporate FM radio and music TV.
Hope someone can help me with a site cite, but for years, the major labels have been releasing less new work and more repackagings of previously released material. They not only noticed this market, but are deep into it.
[wait, here's one link, George Zieman's analysis of RIAA accounting at azoz.com]
way before the operational stage, people would come from the corners of the globe just to get a look at a ribbon stretching up into space! you'd have to beat them back with a stick. expect ad-hoc floating cities surrounding the site, populated by geeks over here, pilgrims there, fanatics there, there, and there, tourists over that way, and terrorists, anyone?... the biggest problem after the engineering hurdles are gone will be security, not publicity.
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How about the opposite sex? Parents? Now those would be Nobel-prize-worthy accomplishments.
I'm on Verizon DSL. But I've never had /. be so consistently intermittent (if that makes any sense) until recently. Other sites fine. Changing browsers makes no diff. Overpopulation? Mass unemployment? Puzzled.
Has anyone else had a problem with /. being sluggish or unresponsive the past few days? Is Slashdot being slashdotted?
"The worst thing in the world is a false sense of security." says Halderman in the article.
Hear, hear.
A flawed security device affects not only its immediate users (recording industry in this case) and their clients (artists), but everyone who might one day rely on it to prevent dissemination of personal, proprietary or otherwise sensitive or secret information, whether for themselves or their clients or dependents. I would think that the greater good of protecting the public from such a potential disaster far outweighs the short-term profits of a few, and exposing the defect is the only responsible thing to do. (I am not a lawyer).
weather, smoke, pollution, lost balloons, flocks of birds, other aircraft, flying toasters... could affect not just transmission, but tracking as well.
isn't there enough RF and solar energy flooding our atmosphere by now, if we could harness it, to power something this light and small?
From Lectric Law Library:
It's got nothing to do with the press. This is not an article or an opinion piece, it's a press release, a bit of PR written by the company to reassure investors, scare competitors and influence journalists. That's a standard press release disclaimer: it pretty much covers their ass by saying all of the above could be BS.
That's not hypocritical. Nor is refusing to let your twelve-year-old drive the family car to go pick up a carton of cigarettes. A parent has a role to play, including guiding his/her child toward the best possible path as he/she understands it from experience. If you do that in an honest and reasonable manner, I can't call it hypocrisy.
pun! seriously, though, the simplest way i can think of is to hack a plotter mechanically by replacing the paper roller mechanism with a sturdy stationary frame, so that instead of the paper moving under the plotter heads, the whole plotter moves over the paper (or whatever surface). you could then just sit the frame on the surface and the plotter would move over it, drawing inside the frame.
media thickness or stiffness wouldn't matter because the device sits right on the surface (as long as the surface is flat). if the piece is bigger than the frame, plan it out and split the graphic into tiles (have the plotter draw some light hashmarks that you'd match with marks on the frame so that the tiles line up). it should be simple to program automatic segmenting.
if it makes the concept any clearer: you'd basically have a logos turtle (or a gang of colored turtles), running around on top of your medium. or is it a giant etch-a-sketch?
good luck. however you solve the problem, i hope you post the results!
they'd have to replace the white backings with transparent ones to stack them, but that doesn't sound so far-fetched, does it? you'd probably need backlighting, though.
you can also disable "Auto Insert Notification" in Control Panel/System/Device manager/CDROM/Properties/Settings (is that really any easier?), though that also disables autoplay of audio CD's.
My info might be outdated, but last time i researched the topic, the max speed on UK motorways was 70mph (112km/hr)
Other max speeds (from 90's data):
France 81mph dry/68mph wet, Japan 62mph, Sweden: 68mph. Germany has stretches of road without maximum speed limits, but the maximum posted limit is 81mph. Germany posts minimum legal speeds in
some places.
I was researching traffic fatalities. If you're interested, for year 2000, in deaths per 100million km vehicle 'milage': France 1.88, Japan 1.80, US 1.62, Sweden 1.04, UK 0.78, according to US Dept. of Transportation (www.dot.gov)
That would never work here in America--we don't even obey fixed speed limits.
Wow #1: MR hard drives already use spintronics?!
Wow #2: MRAM = nonvolatile memory 50 times faster than DRAM?! AND 10 times denser?!
Wow #3: MRAM in production by 2005?!
Does this spell the end for our Dynamic(RAM) Duo? Tune in tomorrow, because it sounds like everything's going to change overnight!
Wowsers!
Ah, the fallacy of the plural.
Did you mean: "Is that several small single-purpose devices in your pocket, or..."?
[please strike the "absolutely" from above--i'm not qualified to use that adverb] ...Obviously, announcing this kind of concrete breakthrough is also good for PR, stock price, and future DARPA funding.
IANAEE either, but this made a little more sense to me after I read this Inforworld article, which talks about two other aspects of Sun's DARPA-funded project: clockless "asynchronous logic", and building processors with interchangeable and upgradable modules. They absolutely need these busless "proximity" interconnects for the processor modules to communicate at close to on-chip speeds, and the clockless architecture lets them get rid of the bus. Or vice versa... or something like that.
Working prototype computer about six years away, according to the article.
How about the number of new sharers who hadn't realized how easy and widespread file-sharing really is, until the RIAA provoked this new flurry of publicity, complete with links to all the popular clients conveniently and prominently displayed on mainstream news sites?
HUD monitor + virtual keyboard and mouse pad + a small brick/carrying case (or even a palmtop) for the guts and ports
= no external moving parts
= desktop, laptop, bellytop, grasstop, beach-towel-top, anywhere-top?
make the HUD wireless and it'd be my dream portable
Sorry for the hurried blathering. The point is, that their dedication to supporting and disseminating quality music, no matter how obscure and unglamorous, brought them their success. Not media mogul success, but far more than the three Boston grad students who founded Rounder ever anticipated.
True, rounder is one of the bigger, higher profile indies now, been around for ages (remember George Thorogood?), and in fact has become one of the bigger players in the folk/bluegrass realm, and present-day Rounder is perhaps a not-so-representative example for the article to cite. But look back on their history. Started as an "anti-profit collective" serving neglected niche markets, they were blindsided by their own luck (Thorogood was the beginning, then Rounder found themselves sitting on a large zydeco/cajun catalog when it became a fad, same thing happened with blues and then more recently the bluegrass resurgence...) and have had their share of growing pains. Actually it's not luck, but taste and passion: they still support niche artists who sell only a few albums a year--they look for talent, not marketability--and I'm sure they are finding and nurturing more future gold mines. AND, along with the smaller indies, they are booming as much as the mainstream recording industry is sagging, if the article is accurate, in a poor economy.
btw, Allison Krauss has been on Rounder since she was 14 yrs. old! She's turned down numerous offers from major labels, so Rounder must have treated her pretty well these 12 years.
Sorry the link didn't come through, here it is. Note that there are several follow-up articles to this December 2002 piece.
I think what's wrong is not so much the copyright system as the exploitative relationship between publishers and artists. Any system can be abused. Under the same laws, in the same economy and the same "piracy-crazy" environment that is supposedly responsible for the music industry slump, independent labels and artists are doing better than ever [Christian Science Monitor article from April 2003, in case you missed it]. Rounder Records' income was up 50% in 2002 compared to 2001.
This despite the fact that their artists retain copyright, share the profit from each and every CD, and can't get exposure on corporate FM radio and music TV.
Hope someone can help me with a site cite, but for years, the major labels have been releasing less new work and more repackagings of previously released material. They not only noticed this market, but are deep into it.
[wait, here's one link, George Zieman's analysis of RIAA accounting at azoz.com]
way before the operational stage, people would come from the corners of the globe just to get a look at a ribbon stretching up into space! you'd have to beat them back with a stick. expect ad-hoc floating cities surrounding the site, populated by geeks over here, pilgrims there, fanatics there, there, and there, tourists over that way, and terrorists, anyone?... the biggest problem after the engineering hurdles are gone will be security, not publicity.