I am always surprised that people associate the MPAA and RIAA together. To me, there are huge differences between them.
RIAA - Music
Music is a natural human activity.
Music existed many centuries before the RIAA, which may one day be seen as a small blip in the history of music.
Technology has become so cheap that great records can be made at very small costs.
Music belongs to the artist who wrote or played it.
MPAA - Movies
A movie is always the work of tens, hundreds or thousands of people.
Even a low budget movie costs millions.
A movie is nearly always the product of an industry (save for a few documentaries).
Movies could not exist without the movie industry, which is nearly as old as movies themselves.
A movie belongs to those who financed it.
I don't want to excuse all of what the MPAA is doing, but I understand that an industry defends itself against its ennemies. For the RIAA, however, "racket" is the only word that comes to my mind.
Maybe the paperless office has not arrived yet but at least in my domain (software engineering), there has been a huge change in the last 3-5 years : most of the documents are exchanged with customers/partners in electronic form and the reference version is somewhere on server (most of the times on a simple file server, sometimes in a document management system). Only a few documents remain in paper form (contracts, orders, etc...), but they are quickly scanned so that we only use the electronic version in day-to-day use (while the paper version is archived).
Yes, there is still a lot of paper around, but it is mostly used for personal usage, and can simply be thrown away once a project is over.
Remember back in the day when the OpenBSD guys said Enough Already and
pretty much dropped telnet, rsh, rcp, rlogin, etc. for the SSH suite of
tools? Yeah, a bit of growing pains at the time but no one would want to go
back.
I am looking forward for OpenBSD to drop IPv4 use only IPv6...
No, you pay for *8* kWh. How many ways do I have to phrase that you can only ever use up half of the pack, that the "40 mile range" is based on only using half of the pack?
Ok, so filling the battery for 40 miles costs in fact 1 USD, hence a saving of 1.7 USD for 40 miles, or 425 USD per year if you drive 10'000 miles per year.
Again, the saving is not very high for the US (given the very low (yes) oil price), but much better for Europe.
I think those 40 miles are travelled with a 16 KWh battery pack - so, you should compare the cost of 16 kWh of electricity against about a gallon of gas.
Ok, so it means roughly 2 USD (based on this) for what would cost 2.7 USD with gas (based on that), e.g. a saving of 70 cents per 40 miles, or 175 USD per year if you drive 10'000 miles per year.
At the current oil price, we are very far from breakeven for the US. But in Europe, where oil is 2 (if not 3) times more expensive, the annual savings are much impressive.
What is still not clear to me is what is cheaper : "filling" your battery through the gasoline engine or plugging to an electricity socket ? GM doesn't provide clear information about this. Of course it depends on oil and electricity prices, but does anybody have a rough idea ?
If it is cheaper to refill the battery with the gasoline engine, then I suspect that only hard core environmentalists will plug their Volt every night. But if the gasoline engine is more expensive, the Volt could become a hit for all those who normally drive less than 40 miles a day (and who would occasionally use the gasoline engine).
I'm pretty sure I will recognize the net in 2020. People always overestimate the rate of change in the future.
People usually overestimate the changes in the short time future, but underestimate the long term changes. In 1990, who would have predicted the Internet and its implications for nearly everybody ?
These kinds of browser stats are how we tracked the rise-and-fall of Netscape, the rise and stagnation of IE, and the rise of Firefox
If you really want to track this, you would rather use absolute numbers instead of percentages. Losing market share is not so tragic as long as long as you don't lose actual users.
Are you sure? You need to license ActiveSync to write software compatible with Exchange. I don't find any indication that the other push e-mail solutions require it.
The ActiveSync licensees use it only to implement clients. As far as I know, the only ActiveSync server is Microsoft Exchange.
At least with Microsoft, you don't have a single point of failure !
What about your server?
You can have a backup server (hot, warm, cold...). If you are really paranoid, you can have a spare Unix system ready to take on if your main Windows server fails.
If you use the Blackberry service however, you rely on them. Better check their SLA...
He is referring to Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync protocol, which runs over https and provides push mail, calendaring, contacts, and has more management features than using IMAP(S) alone. There's no need to use any Microsoft software at all to use the protocol: it's implemented by open source products and by Google.
No need to use any Microsoft software ? Yes. But you need to first licence ActiveSync, see here the companies who did it (and probably paid a lot of money to Microsoft). No open source software there.
Using a (proprietary) protocol such as ActiveSync is better than relying on a single point of failure, but using a standards-based protocol would be better.
so how do you get your email on your phone without opening up the POP and IMAP ports on your firewall? there are only 2 ways for this and that's RIM or Microsoft.
Or you can establish a VPN from your phone.
At least with Microsoft, you don't have a single point of failure !
It's a market that in a few years will be 5-10 times larger than the US market
China's GDP is 2-3 times smaller than the USA's (depending on how you count it). Though it is growing faster, some argue that China will never catch the USA.
Not even mentioning the widespread piracy. Not even mentioning the Chinese people's reluctance to pay money to foreign companies...
Buy them a Mac and don't give them administrator privileges. That's what I did for my parents and my mother-in-law. The only downside : once in a while they will need you to install something which requires admin privileges.
I guess the same would work for Ubuntu, but OS X is still more user friendly and more common.
so the first officer could tutor the captain in a new scheduling system put in place by Delta Air Lines
If this is really the case (which is still to be confirmed), then they were at least working for their company, making the best use of what they (incorrectly) thought was "available" time.
Keep this in mind, all of you reading slashdot at work !
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Movies are a more convenient form of theatre which has existed for a very long time too.
Have you seen Avatar ?
RIAA - Music
MPAA - Movies
I don't want to excuse all of what the MPAA is doing, but I understand that an industry defends itself against its ennemies. For the RIAA, however, "racket" is the only word that comes to my mind.
With the Kindle DX you get (...) free included 3G in perpetuity
Can we talk about this in 5 years ?
Maybe the paperless office has not arrived yet but at least in my domain (software engineering), there has been a huge change in the last 3-5 years : most of the documents are exchanged with customers/partners in electronic form and the reference version is somewhere on server (most of the times on a simple file server, sometimes in a document management system). Only a few documents remain in paper form (contracts, orders, etc...), but they are quickly scanned so that we only use the electronic version in day-to-day use (while the paper version is archived).
Yes, there is still a lot of paper around, but it is mostly used for personal usage, and can simply be thrown away once a project is over.
There are a lot of old G3 macs around that can run only Tiger and are perfect as a browsing machine (if you don't want to watch flash videos).
Ubuntu (or KUbuntu for less powerful machines) is a better solution for pure browsing machines.
The country would drop into a total chaos if the government falls, and it would probably be bloody - history shows this.
It didn't happen in USSR, Eastern Germany, Poland, etc. The only case of "total chaos" that comes to my mind is Irak...
I think the citizens also understand that and think its better to live than let the bloody internal wars start again.
You have no idea of what they think. I don't have either. The only sure way to know this is called "elections".
Remember back in the day when the OpenBSD guys said Enough Already and pretty much dropped telnet, rsh, rcp, rlogin, etc. for the SSH suite of tools? Yeah, a bit of growing pains at the time but no one would want to go back.
I am looking forward for OpenBSD to drop IPv4 use only IPv6...
No, you pay for *8* kWh. How many ways do I have to phrase that you can only ever use up half of the pack, that the "40 mile range" is based on only using half of the pack?
Ok, so filling the battery for 40 miles costs in fact 1 USD, hence a saving of 1.7 USD for 40 miles, or 425 USD per year if you drive 10'000 miles per year.
Again, the saving is not very high for the US (given the very low (yes) oil price), but much better for Europe.
No, the GP is wrong. It has a 16kWh pack, but a 50% DoD (Depth of Discharge). I.e., only half that capacity is actually used (8kWh).
This doesn't change the computation : you pay for 16 KWh and then you drive 40 miles.
I think those 40 miles are travelled with a 16 KWh battery pack - so, you should compare the cost of 16 kWh of electricity against about a gallon of gas.
Ok, so it means roughly 2 USD (based on this) for what would cost 2.7 USD with gas (based on that), e.g. a saving of 70 cents per 40 miles, or 175 USD per year if you drive 10'000 miles per year.
At the current oil price, we are very far from breakeven for the US. But in Europe, where oil is 2 (if not 3) times more expensive, the annual savings are much impressive.
What is still not clear to me is what is cheaper : "filling" your battery through the gasoline engine or plugging to an electricity socket ? GM doesn't provide clear information about this. Of course it depends on oil and electricity prices, but does anybody have a rough idea ?
If it is cheaper to refill the battery with the gasoline engine, then I suspect that only hard core environmentalists will plug their Volt every night. But if the gasoline engine is more expensive, the Volt could become a hit for all those who normally drive less than 40 miles a day (and who would occasionally use the gasoline engine).
I'm pretty sure I will recognize the net in 2020. People always overestimate the rate of change in the future.
People usually overestimate the changes in the short time future, but underestimate the long term changes. In 1990, who would have predicted the Internet and its implications for nearly everybody ?
These kinds of browser stats are how we tracked the rise-and-fall of Netscape, the rise and stagnation of IE, and the rise of Firefox
If you really want to track this, you would rather use absolute numbers instead of percentages. Losing market share is not so tragic as long as long as you don't lose actual users.
Are you sure? You need to license ActiveSync to write software compatible with Exchange. I don't find any indication that the other push e-mail solutions require it.
The ActiveSync licensees use it only to implement clients. As far as I know, the only ActiveSync server is Microsoft Exchange.
At least with Microsoft, you don't have a single point of failure !
What about your server?
You can have a backup server (hot, warm, cold...). If you are really paranoid, you can have a spare Unix system ready to take on if your main Windows server fails.
If you use the Blackberry service however, you rely on them. Better check their SLA...
He is referring to Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync protocol, which runs over https and provides push mail, calendaring, contacts, and has more management features than using IMAP(S) alone. There's no need to use any Microsoft software at all to use the protocol: it's implemented by open source products and by Google.
No need to use any Microsoft software ? Yes. But you need to first licence ActiveSync, see here the companies who did it (and probably paid a lot of money to Microsoft). No open source software there.
Using a (proprietary) protocol such as ActiveSync is better than relying on a single point of failure, but using a standards-based protocol would be better.
Yeah, there are probably dozens of points where the Microsoft stuff can fuck up and cause you grief! That's way better!
I prefer to operate Microsoft software under my control than to rely on a single company such as RIM for the software and its operation.
And I prefer to operate open source software than Microsoft software.
so how do you get your email on your phone without opening up the POP and IMAP ports on your firewall? there are only 2 ways for this and that's RIM or Microsoft.
Or you can establish a VPN from your phone.
At least with Microsoft, you don't have a single point of failure !
In the meantime, the worldwide SMTP / POP / IMAP still works fine and serves millions (if not billions) of users with standards-based protocols.
It's a market that in a few years will be 5-10 times larger than the US market
China's GDP is 2-3 times smaller than the USA's (depending on how you count it). Though it is growing faster, some argue that China will never catch the USA.
Not even mentioning the widespread piracy. Not even mentioning the Chinese people's reluctance to pay money to foreign companies...
I guess the same would work for Ubuntu, but OS X is still more user friendly and more common.
Which piece of bloat would you remove first?
I am sure that many will say "the awesome bar". I don't. In fact, I use it so much that I think that I could now live without bookmarks.
YMMV, of course.
The group lost an average of a little more than seven pounds, and many lost barely half that
In other words, all of them lost weight. So why did slashdot put such a summary ?
Either the password is crap and you crack is easily, or it's helluva complex and scaling it up 100x won't do a damn thing
Or maybe the password is apparently complex to the average user, but actually not so much. How would you classify "Hello123" or "Hottie69" ?
I am sure that there is plenty of money to be made with people who think that they are safe...
so the first officer could tutor the captain in a new scheduling system put in place by Delta Air Lines
If this is really the case (which is still to be confirmed), then they were at least working for their company, making the best use of what they (incorrectly) thought was "available" time.
Keep this in mind, all of you reading slashdot at work !