Yes, but like dual SLI Voodoo2 cards, how freakishly long could you go with such a solution before being forced to say "ok, my freakishly powerful PC is finally too out of date to play the latest games"?
I wouldn't be suprised if a quad machine lasted a cool decade with the current rate of technological advances in PCs.
How is wanting to run a battle net server so your freinds can play blizzard games on your IP lan wrong?
How is it wrong to have a website which posts the prices of products at several stores?
How is wanting to re-use a toner cartridge wrong?
Because the laws bought by the people who want to stop theft are being used for things like the above.
Of course, oppression by the strong against the weak is completely different than downloading a song. After all, the companies could have actually made 20 dollars on the latter!
HEY! Who do you think you are? This is slashdot, where you're supposed to make a short, vague, insubstantiated claim about how the man is trying to keep you down, or company X is evil! How are we supposed to bicker amongst ourselves like the spoiled children we are, happily ignoring the sinister truths of this generation and it's overlords, while you deliver well thought-out and incisive jabs at a new culture which says only juggernaughts which can provide bland goods and services without any particular positive or negative aspects are the only businesses who deserve to continue to run because they make the most money with the least capital!
Next thing you know, you'll be telling us that the McDonaldization of jobs is detrimental to the economy, and the outsourcing of jobs added to it has and will continue to erode everything which makes our countries great, as everytone is either a burger flipper or a businessman telling chinese workers how to do their jobs over a video conference!
We have to know how to design any circuit we're working on, and do so on paper before we do anything in the real world.
Because we're professionals, and not weekend warriors, we have to jump through a few extra hoops to prove on paper that our designs are solid(this also helps because if you ever leave the company, people know how you designed something). If we try to do "faith based design and implementation" like the great-grandparent is proposing, there's no good reason for educated engineers and scientists to exist beyond having a fancy piece of paper. By doing the extra work on paper and proving that our designs work beforehand, we can have a design we know works before we implement it, whether that implementation is in CS at a computer, or in EE on a breadboard or circuitboard.
That said, while I design circuits like an engineer, I program like an amateur. Guess which of the two has the better batting average?
Writing the software side for that would be murder -- imagine having to continually check to see whether the processor you're working on still exists!!!
That's what scientists and engineers are supposed to do. That's why they're scientists and engineers, rather than "Frank from accounting who took a course and works in computers now".
Given that how much trade all the countries in the world are engaged in with China, isn't this a unfair trade move by the Chinese government?
This is CHINA we're talking about! You know, run people over with tanks China? Somehow I don't think they probably don't care if this is considered unfair!
It's not that I don't understand, it's that I don't care. Just like I don't care that when I buy only the specials at the supermarket I'm causing them to lose money, I don't really care how the shows I watch make money. That's their problem, not mine.
Isn't it a bitch that the corps own mindset can be used against them, that we're not all so happy to be willing cogs in their machines beyond the bill at the end of the month?
You can download MP3s of those albums you bought too! You can download E-books of the novels you own, and ISOs of the video games you own, and mpegs of the movies you own, all without being a pirate! Why? Because you've paid your way, and unlike the folks who want a free ride, you've got no moral obligation to care.
Because of the nature of electricity travelling through a wire broadcast to thousands or millions of households, it is not realistically possible to determine Television ratings by trying to discover if all the televisions are tuned into a certain channel(and the fact that there are a wide variety of cable recievers makes this task virtually impossible -- if they were all the same, one could concievably take the Zth at frequency wc to determine the number of band-pass filters being used to extract the particular channel from the cable connection, but the circuits are different on old Sony TVs from the 1970s, younger sets from the 80s, and modern sets from the 90's and today, making such an approach useless). Because of this, not watching a TV show on the comedy network won't get them a penny more than me watching it there. Your arguement falls apart immediately because nobody knows if my TV is set to channel 2 or 200. If someone calls and asks? Oh fuck, yeah, I'm watching the daily show on the comedy network! Right now! Yep! Sure! They won't though.
Your argument also is a bit weak. Cable companies, like ISPs, provide access not content. The fact that you pay the cable company and could watch the show means nothing to the cable channel producing the content.
Not my problem. I'm paying to watch the show. That makes me a paying customer, not a pirate. I modded my x-box too which I'm positive Microsoft is pissed off about, that doesn't make my x-box illegal(especially since I don't use it to run illegally pirated software, just good old fashioned Xebian).
Should cable channels have other ways of paying for their content? I believe they would love to hear any ideas you have about alternatives to ratings that could be used to pay their production costs and produce a profit. If you figure that one out, you'd be this generation's equivalent of Ted Turner.
Again, you mistake me for someone who cares. When I pay to get into a concert, it's not my problem that they only make money on t-shirts. When I walk into a store and buy only the item that is on sale, it's not my problem that they're playing a loss-leader game and won't make any money unless I buy something else. When I buy a monthly bus pass and use it fifty times a day, again it's not my problem that they only break even if I only use it 3-4 times a day. When I watch a movie with product placement, and I don't even consider their product once, that's not my problem either.
Making the studios money *ISN'T* my job. That's theirs. If I'm paying for something -- and I am, in fact I'm paying a premium for the channels with my favourite shows, my end of the bargin is done with. The fact that they can't make any money the way I consume simply isn't my problem.
Well NRA, you see, by paying your cable bills but not watching the show, you're not stealing at all.
Wait -- oh shit.
I mean....um....You ARE stealing...because...you...paid...for...
it?
I've got nothing. I don't watch the ads regardless of where I watch it, so that's a bullshit claim. I pay extra to get the premium channels all my favourite TV shows are on(and I'm guessing sci-fi is a premium channel as well), so realistically the mpaa are just assholes.
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So that anime was pretty gay, hmm?
Students can't afford such luxuries. :)
*SJ Zero goes back to eating rice for the seventh week in a row
Help stop spectrum theft.
Wrap your house in tinfoil.
Technically, the public owns the airwaves.
Also, technically the people who pay money for stuff must "own" something, or getting it off the internet for free wouldn't be "stealing".
Yep, any minute now.
Any minute now.
(Hey, who turned out the lights? The mac revolution is coming just around the corner!)
Why do Americans think that only government can repress them? :P
Don't mess with me, or I'l CANONIZE YOUR ASS!
Yes, but like dual SLI Voodoo2 cards, how freakishly long could you go with such a solution before being forced to say "ok, my freakishly powerful PC is finally too out of date to play the latest games"?
I wouldn't be suprised if a quad machine lasted a cool decade with the current rate of technological advances in PCs.
How is wanting to run a battle net server so your freinds can play blizzard games on your IP lan wrong?
How is it wrong to have a website which posts the prices of products at several stores?
How is wanting to re-use a toner cartridge wrong?
Because the laws bought by the people who want to stop theft are being used for things like the above.
Of course, oppression by the strong against the weak is completely different than downloading a song. After all, the companies could have actually made 20 dollars on the latter!
Or "I'm an idiot so I'll believe any stereotype I come into contact with"
Of course, that would make the two largest trade partners of the United States either socialist or communist. I'm so glad you guys won the cold war!
HEY! Who do you think you are? This is slashdot, where you're supposed to make a short, vague, insubstantiated claim about how the man is trying to keep you down, or company X is evil! How are we supposed to bicker amongst ourselves like the spoiled children we are, happily ignoring the sinister truths of this generation and it's overlords, while you deliver well thought-out and incisive jabs at a new culture which says only juggernaughts which can provide bland goods and services without any particular positive or negative aspects are the only businesses who deserve to continue to run because they make the most money with the least capital!
Next thing you know, you'll be telling us that the McDonaldization of jobs is detrimental to the economy, and the outsourcing of jobs added to it has and will continue to erode everything which makes our countries great, as everytone is either a burger flipper or a businessman telling chinese workers how to do their jobs over a video conference!
The phrase "raping childhood memories" comes to mind...
but I'm boycotting the whole industry, meaning I haven't watched any movies, illegal or otherwise.
I'm studying EE.
We have to know how to design any circuit we're working on, and do so on paper before we do anything in the real world.
Because we're professionals, and not weekend warriors, we have to jump through a few extra hoops to prove on paper that our designs are solid(this also helps because if you ever leave the company, people know how you designed something). If we try to do "faith based design and implementation" like the great-grandparent is proposing, there's no good reason for educated engineers and scientists to exist beyond having a fancy piece of paper. By doing the extra work on paper and proving that our designs work beforehand, we can have a design we know works before we implement it, whether that implementation is in CS at a computer, or in EE on a breadboard or circuitboard.
That said, while I design circuits like an engineer, I program like an amateur. Guess which of the two has the better batting average?
Writing the software side for that would be murder -- imagine having to continually check to see whether the processor you're working on still exists!!!
That's what scientists and engineers are supposed to do. That's why they're scientists and engineers, rather than "Frank from accounting who took a course and works in computers now".
Are you sure they wouldn't be scared away by his hideous face?
At least the last race wasn't done on literal superficiality. Otherwise nobody would have shown up!
Yeah! I'm going to go work in a meatpacking plant now! Ow! I've been Kenny Dobbinsed!
In other words, don't ignore the lessons of the past. Unions didn't arise out of the ether.
Mel Gibson.
:P
I want to see Mark Hamill getting the crap kicked out of him for 2 hours!
I've got nothing against the Hamill, it's just that Star Wars 7: The Passion of the Jedi would be too cool to pass up.
Given that how much trade all the countries in the world are engaged in with China, isn't this a unfair trade move by the Chinese government?
This is CHINA we're talking about! You know, run people over with tanks China? Somehow I don't think they probably don't care if this is considered unfair!
It's not that I don't understand, it's that I don't care. Just like I don't care that when I buy only the specials at the supermarket I'm causing them to lose money, I don't really care how the shows I watch make money. That's their problem, not mine.
Isn't it a bitch that the corps own mindset can be used against them, that we're not all so happy to be willing cogs in their machines beyond the bill at the end of the month?
You can download MP3s of those albums you bought too! You can download E-books of the novels you own, and ISOs of the video games you own, and mpegs of the movies you own, all without being a pirate! Why? Because you've paid your way, and unlike the folks who want a free ride, you've got no moral obligation to care.
Ain't life swell?
Because of the nature of electricity travelling through a wire broadcast to thousands or millions of households, it is not realistically possible to determine Television ratings by trying to discover if all the televisions are tuned into a certain channel(and the fact that there are a wide variety of cable recievers makes this task virtually impossible -- if they were all the same, one could concievably take the Zth at frequency wc to determine the number of band-pass filters being used to extract the particular channel from the cable connection, but the circuits are different on old Sony TVs from the 1970s, younger sets from the 80s, and modern sets from the 90's and today, making such an approach useless). Because of this, not watching a TV show on the comedy network won't get them a penny more than me watching it there. Your arguement falls apart immediately because nobody knows if my TV is set to channel 2 or 200. If someone calls and asks? Oh fuck, yeah, I'm watching the daily show on the comedy network! Right now! Yep! Sure! They won't though.
Your argument also is a bit weak. Cable companies, like ISPs, provide access not content. The fact that you pay the cable company and could watch the show means nothing to the cable channel producing the content.
Not my problem. I'm paying to watch the show. That makes me a paying customer, not a pirate. I modded my x-box too which I'm positive Microsoft is pissed off about, that doesn't make my x-box illegal(especially since I don't use it to run illegally pirated software, just good old fashioned Xebian).
Should cable channels have other ways of paying for their content? I believe they would love to hear any ideas you have about alternatives to ratings that could be used to pay their production costs and produce a profit. If you figure that one out, you'd be this generation's equivalent of Ted Turner.
Again, you mistake me for someone who cares. When I pay to get into a concert, it's not my problem that they only make money on t-shirts. When I walk into a store and buy only the item that is on sale, it's not my problem that they're playing a loss-leader game and won't make any money unless I buy something else. When I buy a monthly bus pass and use it fifty times a day, again it's not my problem that they only break even if I only use it 3-4 times a day. When I watch a movie with product placement, and I don't even consider their product once, that's not my problem either.
Making the studios money *ISN'T* my job. That's theirs. If I'm paying for something -- and I am, in fact I'm paying a premium for the channels with my favourite shows, my end of the bargin is done with. The fact that they can't make any money the way I consume simply isn't my problem.
My heart bleeds for them.
Oh good, so my Cable won't be shut off if I decide to stop paying the $1000+/yr on cable?
Well NRA, you see, by paying your cable bills but not watching the show, you're not stealing at all.
Wait -- oh shit.
I mean....um....You ARE stealing...because...you...paid...for...
it?
I've got nothing. I don't watch the ads regardless of where I watch it, so that's a bullshit claim. I pay extra to get the premium channels all my favourite TV shows are on(and I'm guessing sci-fi is a premium channel as well), so realistically the mpaa are just assholes.