There is a HUGE difference between an 8-track/tape/CD and a file. There is no reason that your music collection shouldn't last the rest of your life - Digital files don't decay. (Hard drives and CDs do, but that's what backups are for)
Sure, quality will always get better - But we're already at the point where it's "good enough" for most people. If I buy a CD today, I don't have to worry about the CD decaying or breaking or getting scratched. I just rip it to my computer, and unless my computer explodes before the next backup, I can keep listening to it for decades. I'm not gonna buy the DVD-audio version, or whatever nifty new hardware format comes out next: I've got it, forever.
Unless you buy a format that has artificial restrictions. If DRM provides a "loophole" through which your songs can decay, hey... we can resell you the same album every twenty years again:)
Take a cup of water, and fill it half way. Put a bunch of ice on a surface next to the ice, and wait for it to melt.
Hey, the water level went up...
The ice isn't IN the water right now, it's on the land. When it melts, it'll run into the water. It's not a case of a bunch of frozen and liquid water turning into all liquid, it's two sets of water: Frozen (on land) and liquid (in the sea). When the ice melts, it'll join the sea (which'll then contain more water)
If it can be done, do it. No, really. Wikipedia's content (ALL OF IT) is under a license that lets you use it as long as you still retain the attribution to wikipedia. The software it runs on is free, the content is free, all you have to do it duplicate it and then apply whatever silly editing rules you think will fix the problems with wikipedia.
Hell, someone has even written a tutorial on setting up your own copy of wikipedia. Do that, and you can edit it however you want, with whatever rules you want. It'll be just like wikipedia, but you can change the rules! Oh, but you won't have wikipedia's legion of editors! Your copy won't really as good as wikipedia without that, will it? Oh, wait. Maybe that's why wikipedia is as big as it is... because of the editing rules! Many other rules have been tried. Wikipedia is as big as it is because THESE RULES WORK. But go ahead and set up a copy with your rules. If it's better than wikipedia, people will use it as much as they use wikipedia now.
But I rather doubt you'll be able to convince the wikipedia community to change the very things that make wikipedia wikipedia, but you're welcome to try. Anyone can edit, after all. For now, at least. We'll see if that's still true after you explain your amazing scheme to fix wikipedia.
Exactly. Too many people seem to misunderstand the GPL as some kind of anti-capitalism or anti-people-stallman-doesn't-like, but it really boils down to: You have complete freedom, except to take away other people's freedom.
Which is so obvious an idea it's a suprise that it took as long as it did for the GPL license to show up.
There really are no "marginal cost[s]" when it comes to space travel. (at the moment at least, or in the near future) The reasons why the US would never use the European system and the reasons the European system is going up are pretty much the same: We (America) wanna be able to turn it off, whenever we feel like it. You can't pilot planes on a system that might shut off if some nation across the ocean suddenly thinks "THERE BE TERRORISTS ABOUT!"
I, for one, think the PAT RIOT act is a great thing for america. Riots made of up people named Pat have taken a horrible toll on our nation, and it's about time someone did something to stop these horrible pat riots.
I've got cable TV in two places, and I wanted it in neither. My college dorm has cable because they include that in price for housing ("Can I get a discount on my tutition if I don't get TV?") My parents' house has cable because when we signed up for cable internet, we found out this was the pricing plan:
Internet for houses not getting cable TV: 65$ a month Internet for houses getting cable tv: 50$ a month The cheapest cable TV package is 7$ a month... Easy choice, eh?
You bring up The Hindenburg in a topic on SUPERSONIC jets? I don't think we could ever go back to Zeppelins after having modern airplanes, simply because of the speed. The Hindenburg took something like 3 days to cross the atlantic.
Amen. I'm still using PSP3, because the newer versions are trying to be photoshop. (And to use a geek cliche, If I want photoshop, I know where to find it)
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That's what this is. I think you mean "Open the protocol", not the API.
There is a HUGE difference between an 8-track/tape/CD and a file. There is no reason that your music collection shouldn't last the rest of your life - Digital files don't decay. (Hard drives and CDs do, but that's what backups are for)
:)
Sure, quality will always get better - But we're already at the point where it's "good enough" for most people. If I buy a CD today, I don't have to worry about the CD decaying or breaking or getting scratched. I just rip it to my computer, and unless my computer explodes before the next backup, I can keep listening to it for decades. I'm not gonna buy the DVD-audio version, or whatever nifty new hardware format comes out next: I've got it, forever.
Unless you buy a format that has artificial restrictions.
If DRM provides a "loophole" through which your songs can decay, hey... we can resell you the same album every twenty years again
Take a cup of water, and fill it half way.
Put a bunch of ice on a surface next to the ice, and wait for it to melt.
Hey, the water level went up...
The ice isn't IN the water right now, it's on the land. When it melts, it'll run into the water. It's not a case of a bunch of frozen and liquid water turning into all liquid, it's two sets of water: Frozen (on land) and liquid (in the sea). When the ice melts, it'll join the sea (which'll then contain more water)
8 bits? Are you mad? If only we had that much ram to waste!
Black on white. Two colors: ONE BIT DISPLAYS!
If it can be done, do it. No, really. Wikipedia's content (ALL OF IT) is under a license that lets you use it as long as you still retain the attribution to wikipedia.
The software it runs on is free, the content is free, all you have to do it duplicate it and then apply whatever silly editing rules you think will fix the problems with wikipedia.
Hell, someone has even written a tutorial on setting up your own copy of wikipedia.
Do that, and you can edit it however you want, with whatever rules you want. It'll be just like wikipedia, but you can change the rules!
Oh, but you won't have wikipedia's legion of editors! Your copy won't really as good as wikipedia without that, will it?
Oh, wait. Maybe that's why wikipedia is as big as it is... because of the editing rules! Many other rules have been tried. Wikipedia is as big as it is because THESE RULES WORK. But go ahead and set up a copy with your rules. If it's better than wikipedia, people will use it as much as they use wikipedia now.
But I rather doubt you'll be able to convince the wikipedia community to change the very things that make wikipedia wikipedia, but you're welcome to try. Anyone can edit, after all.
For now, at least. We'll see if that's still true after you explain your amazing scheme to fix wikipedia.
Which explains why:
GIS in AU
GIS in CA
GIS in FR
GIS in UK
GIS in RU
GIS in PL
GIS in IT
GIS in ES
GIS in JP
Are all so different, right?
That's not "cultural differences", mate. That's censorship.
Yeah, support the "BROKEN, WONTFIX" ones, ignore the "STILL WORKING ON GETTING IT RIGHT" ones.
Exactly. Too many people seem to misunderstand the GPL as some kind of anti-capitalism or anti-people-stallman-doesn't-like, but it really boils down to:
You have complete freedom, except to take away other people's freedom.
Which is so obvious an idea it's a suprise that it took as long as it did for the GPL license to show up.
There really are no "marginal cost[s]" when it comes to space travel. (at the moment at least, or in the near future)
The reasons why the US would never use the European system and the reasons the European system is going up are pretty much the same: We (America) wanna be able to turn it off, whenever we feel like it.
You can't pilot planes on a system that might shut off if some nation across the ocean suddenly thinks "THERE BE TERRORISTS ABOUT!"
They ported it to a new system. Methinks that requires a bit more than a recompile...
I suspect on the Xbox 360 the key will be secret.
How, exactly?
Signing the games works because they sign it THERE and we decode it HERE, so they don't have to let anyone see the private keys.
What signs the game saves? And what reads them?
If the game saves are signed, the signing key is ON THE XBOX. It has to be!
I, for one, think the PAT RIOT act is a great thing for america. Riots made of up people named Pat have taken a horrible toll on our nation, and it's about time someone did something to stop these horrible pat riots.
It is when no one will show the "sex and, like, stuff" movies.
This Just In: Censorship the fault of the censored!
"Well if you hadn't said that I wouldn't have had to censor it."
Thanks, slashdot!
That's it, I'm giving up on the web.
Get any calls for the Man from Mars?
I want to live until I die. No more, no less - Eddie Izzard
This is the future, mate. We have the internet now...
:)
Let them put the prices on TVPORN right through the roof. Then they'll be happy that they can't watch it, and I'll be happy with my internet.
Besides, the increased number of people forced to internet porn will really help my torrents go faster
How'd they know it smelled like gunpowder?
See! I knew those pictures were fake! There is air on the moon!
And then we'd never be able to find out if there is life on mars, cause our mold is now growing all over it.
(NASA is VERY careful with their probes to prevent exactly this from happening)
Try turning off the search-field in firefox, then doing something like "g foo" in the address bar.
Yep, the search bar is useless. The address bar does everything it can do.
I've got cable TV in two places, and I wanted it in neither.
My college dorm has cable because they include that in price for housing ("Can I get a discount on my tutition if I don't get TV?")
My parents' house has cable because when we signed up for cable internet, we found out this was the pricing plan:
Internet for houses not getting cable TV: 65$ a month
Internet for houses getting cable tv: 50$ a month
The cheapest cable TV package is 7$ a month... Easy choice, eh?
You bring up The Hindenburg in a topic on SUPERSONIC jets?
I don't think we could ever go back to Zeppelins after having modern airplanes, simply because of the speed. The Hindenburg took something like 3 days to cross the atlantic.
Cheap and safe maybe, but fast; no.
Amen. I'm still using PSP3, because the newer versions are trying to be photoshop.
(And to use a geek cliche, If I want photoshop, I know where to find it)
I think you mean "under"