Moore's Law is just one small part of the greater Law of Accelerating Returns. All evolutionary progress is exponential - we build on the shoulders of progressively bigger giants.
But... but... Gordon Gecko is my idol. Greed is good. No matter what.
If we were to allow private intellectual property to fall into the public domain, just think about the tragedy of the commons that would ensue! No, all resources MUST be privately owned if there is to be an incentive to manage it responsibly. The idea that copyright is supposed to be time-limited is just an antiquated notion (like slavery!) put forth by our hippy forefathers. Get with the 21st century!
Trying to legally ban someone from using a device connected to the internet is just as futile as trying to ban him from using the phone network, or a vocal network, but that won't stop judges from trying anyway.
The only way to effectively ban someone from something as ubiquitous as the internet would be to either put him in a (faraday) prison, or track him every second of the day with police state measures.
When I was in highschool--back when BBS's were "in"--I wrote a harmless trojan (called hostage) in x86 Turbo assembler and brought the dotmatrix printout to school to show my nerdy friends. I gave the source to one of my friends early in the day so he could read it in class, but later that I day found out he was showing it off to everyone and telling them that HE wrote it!
A lesson in human nature learned. He's probably a pointy-haired manager today; still taking credit for everyone elses work.
And what are you? A proud yuppie asshole who feels secure when playing by "The Man's" status quo rules? "Yeah! I'm a part of the system! Don't hate the player!" you say? Get used & abused.
Their "backup plan" is even better: they've secretly hired a team of cheap russian hackers to A) keep up with the iPod compatibility arms race, and B) develop uninstallable bloat-spyware that redirects itunes.com to realmedia's store.
Firefox (or the OS) crashing wouldn't be such a big deal if it could save and restore sessions out-of-the-box. This is one of the big reasons I still use Opera: it's session management is perfect.
There is an extension for Firefox called Session Saver which was hacked to allow for better session restoration, but it's still too buggy to rely on. e.g. If you crash while a popup window with no chrome is active, you'll have a screwed up UI on restart; have to go digging through configfiles to fix it.
if I were Google, I'd be strongly considering just changing the name of my service.
and if I were Google, I'd put my "don't be evil" motto and my billions of dollars to work by defending my use of a generic word. Microsoft was so afraid of "Windows" being ruled generic that they paid-off Lindows $20mil to go away. Google would be being "evil" (for their shareholders) if they likewise bowed down.
It'd be nice if another newspaper could challenge the WSJ or the NYT for nationwide coverage.
Isn't that what the meta-newspaper has done? I haven't bought a deadtree-paper in years thanks to the Yahoo & Google News aggregators. I think it's clear that this is the way things are headed, but the old way still has a lot of intertia.
It's nice being able to get news from all over the world. Since ALL news is biased you have to be able to go to more than once source in order to triangulate the truth.
"rape" is hardly a word that's a readily acceptable alternative to 99 percent of the population
The problem is that you take yourself and language too seriously. I assume that you're probably over 30 now, and you consider being a P.C. conservative a mark of professionalism and adulthood.
The juvenile language used on gameservers is just colorful fun; It's not a serious insult. The funny thing is that I tend be way more "offensive" on servers that have automatic censorship filters in place. I consider censorship to enforce disneyesque worldviews like yours way fvcking more offensive than being called a gay nigger or a dumb cunt.
Your sad story of inefficiency and just-good-enough construction is too common. Maximum profit for the developers I guess.
If I ever buy/build a house, there's one thing I can guarantee: It'll be of a smart, autonomous design. Hopefully there will come a time when this type of thing won't be laughed at as a "hippy ideal" by the energy-wasteful conspicuous consumers.
it's really hard to imagine that anyone who's spent any amount of time using both would actually prefer Opera.
No it isn't.
I still use Opera in Win&Linux on fast&slow machines for three big reasons:
It's MUCH faster than FireFox, especially when using mouse rockers to go backwards and forwards through cached browser pages; with Opera it's instantaneous, but extremely sluggish in FireFox.
A session saver that always works. If Opera crashes, or my computer freezes and reboots, Opera NEVER fails to restore my previous session of open tabs, page positions, etc. The "Session Saver" extension for FireFox, on the other hand, doesn't work nearly as well, and it's buggy - if the last open window is a popup, and firefox crashes, you end up with an unusable UI when you relaunch.
The handy F12 Quickmenu for toggling my privoxy proxy on/off, user agent string, animated GIFs, etc.
Opera's faster.
The only thing I use FireFox for is web development and viewing flash and other embedded media (w/ the MPlayer plugin).
...is being suckered into accepting the neutral "Climate Change" euphemism, which downplays its significance. I wonder who started that trend?...Hmm...
The ability to strip attachments from my old (IMAP) mail has been my #1 most wanted feature for a long time. I've do have space to spare on my mail server, but it's still really a drag to know that you have huge.PSD attachments wasting space because you want to keep the message but can't easily separate the two.
FYI: There is a Thunderbird extension called Attachment Tools that was made to solve this problem. It didn't work for me; it trashed any message I attempted to delete an attachment from, so I uninstalled it.
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Moore's Law is just one small part of the greater Law of Accelerating Returns. All evolutionary progress is exponential - we build on the shoulders of progressively bigger giants.
If we were to allow private intellectual property to fall into the public domain, just think about the tragedy of the commons that would ensue! No, all resources MUST be privately owned if there is to be an incentive to manage it responsibly. The idea that copyright is supposed to be time-limited is just an antiquated notion (like slavery!) put forth by our hippy forefathers. Get with the 21st century!
Because they think streaming lets them keep control of their precious content - apparently they've never heard of stream ripping.
Streaming should only be used for live stuff, or when you want people to be able to randomly seek large files...
P.S. > == > and < == < or use <ecode>
Preemptive post about how joking about getting assraped by BubbaAIDS in prison isn't funny. Bla bla bla.
I get the following error:
TCPA ERROR #12: Unsigned script execution blocked; Trusted Computing violation sent to MS-Patriot Log Authority.
Can anyone help?
The only way to effectively ban someone from something as ubiquitous as the internet would be to either put him in a (faraday) prison, or track him every second of the day with police state measures.
A lesson in human nature learned. He's probably a pointy-haired manager today; still taking credit for everyone elses work.
And what are you? A proud yuppie asshole who feels secure when playing by "The Man's" status quo rules? "Yeah! I'm a part of the system! Don't hate the player!" you say? Get used & abused.
Their "backup plan" is even better: they've secretly hired a team of cheap russian hackers to A) keep up with the iPod compatibility arms race, and B) develop uninstallable bloat-spyware that redirects itunes.com to realmedia's store.
Well, you don't have to reboot if the fsck is clean. Just 'init 3' or 5 to get up and running sooner.
There is an extension for Firefox called Session Saver which was hacked to allow for better session restoration, but it's still too buggy to rely on. e.g. If you crash while a popup window with no chrome is active, you'll have a screwed up UI on restart; have to go digging through configfiles to fix it.
Another one I use often, but just for finding filenames that I only remember parts of:
locate -i majorfoo | egrep -i 'minorfoo|minorfoo2'
I almost do that often enough that I should script it... but it hasn't crossed the lazy-threshold.
I thought you were joking... but you're not. A 'college' propagating the asinine fear mongering politics of the US govt? That's just depressing.
That's simply an example of the copyright social contract being mutually respected, rather than futily enforced.
and if I were Google, I'd put my "don't be evil" motto and my billions of dollars to work by defending my use of a generic word. Microsoft was so afraid of "Windows" being ruled generic that they paid-off Lindows $20mil to go away. Google would be being "evil" (for their shareholders) if they likewise bowed down.
Isn't that what the meta-newspaper has done? I haven't bought a deadtree-paper in years thanks to the Yahoo & Google News aggregators. I think it's clear that this is the way things are headed, but the old way still has a lot of intertia.
It's nice being able to get news from all over the world. Since ALL news is biased you have to be able to go to more than once source in order to triangulate the truth.
The sneaky monkey wins.
The problem is that you take yourself and language too seriously. I assume that you're probably over 30 now, and you consider being a P.C. conservative a mark of professionalism and adulthood.
The juvenile language used on gameservers is just colorful fun; It's not a serious insult. The funny thing is that I tend be way more "offensive" on servers that have automatic censorship filters in place. I consider censorship to enforce disneyesque worldviews like yours way fvcking more offensive than being called a gay nigger or a dumb cunt.
If I ever buy/build a house, there's one thing I can guarantee: It'll be of a smart, autonomous design. Hopefully there will come a time when this type of thing won't be laughed at as a "hippy ideal" by the energy-wasteful conspicuous consumers.
No it isn't.
I still use Opera in Win&Linux on fast&slow machines for three big reasons:
The only thing I use FireFox for is web development and viewing flash and other embedded media (w/ the MPlayer plugin).
...is being suckered into accepting the neutral "Climate Change" euphemism, which downplays its significance. I wonder who started that trend?...Hmm...
FYI: There is a Thunderbird extension called Attachment Tools that was made to solve this problem. It didn't work for me; it trashed any message I attempted to delete an attachment from, so I uninstalled it.
Your torrent isn't very descriptive. Windows or linux? Binary or source?