I think what the French are getting at is that CR owners need to change the way that they protect their content.
I think at the root of the file sharing debate is an issue of access to information. Now that distribution methods have changed so much in 10 years, those that control the distribution are seeing their way of life disappear, and they are fighting tooth and nail to hold back innovation and progress to keep things pointed in their favor. I think this is why we see so many posts on/. about the RIAA "ripping us off". They are not ripping us off when we buy a CD from them, but they are trying to keep back what could be (is?) a great future step for distribution of media because they don't have the same kind of control over it.
The government should not be siding with big business and let them get away with this, but I think that's too late. P2P is going to stay in the relm of illegal for a long, long time.
Install your OS and Applications to the Flash Drive (in my world, that's more than enough space for the installed apps) and then store your larger files (music, movies) on the Platter-based drive. It will save a ton of power on a notebook, and i bet it speed up load times.
I never said that the internet grabbed me in a dark alley and forced me to become addicted to it. I know I played a part in the addiction. What I am saying is that there can, in some people, be a danger associated with information overload.
I personally think that recreational drugs should be leagal. People should understand what the drug can do to them and understand the potential consequences of them. I think we are learning that there can, in some people, be a side effect from using the Internet too much. It's ignorant to think that just because something does not effect you, it's not going to effect me.
I actually am starting to see a therapist, and taking steps towards getting better. It's a complicated issue.
Your anger at my post indicates that perhaps you have some issues that could be worked out as well?
Dude, I had a recent suicide attempt that I attribute, in small part, to my internet addiction and it's effects on my mental state. There's a lot more that goes along with it, but the way the internet makes my mind go into overdrive is a big part of it.
Don't forget gmail! The thing is still in "beta" and in the last year it's transformed the way free web-based email works. Hell, the google approach to email could change the ENTIRE way we use email... I know that when gmail offered free POP access the first thing I thought was "why get away from the great interface??"
Good point- look at it a little bigger: Steve Jobs said a few years ago, and I personally agree with this, that the Personal Computer had entered a dark age of sorts. While I agree that things are getting fast and better under the hood, nothing is really changing about the computer. Grab a computer from 5 year ago with one today. What's the difference? Wi-Fi. Everything else on a typical computer today is like something 5 years ago, just faster.
I still have a G3 FW Powerbook that is running Panther. It's not SUPER fast, but it gets the job done. No need to buy something new, because anything new is just faster, not better, per say.
The fight will extend to portable devices shortly, where everything stays the same, just gets faster. The Bells and whitles don't increase, they just get louder.
My guess: Apple is still working out the details of the dealings, but when they do, expect a firmware upgrade on the iPod Photo that will take advantage of video. I bet it has less to do with technical ability and more to do with business.
One of the great things about mp3 is that a lot of bands can get bigger attention without having the distribution network (I.E. CD stores) that they used to need. Apple is starting to control music the way the RIAA used to. If they wanted to go "all the way", they should make it easy for any band to open up shop and sell through the iTMS.
The current generation of music stars will stick with their labels (or be forced to), but new, unheard-of bands can gain popularity and make money off their music. They won't need a label, other than iTMS, and the RIAA will go down the tubes real quick.
Then Apple will have a stranglhold on the music industry. They will then force every song added to the iTMS to include a lyric about buying a Mac. Soon, Microsoft and Dell will crumble. Apple will be left standing along in a sea of dead computer companies, all because of a freaking music player.
If only they had a sensor that measured constant force exterted on a landing leg insted of the short impulse of landing.
I'm willing to bet the team wanted to disrupt the surrounding area around the craft as little as poissible. If you wait for a an extended force, that's time that the craft is on the group firing it's rockets into the ground doing nothing but churning up the landscape.
Why is there not a standard design mars landing vehicle, one that can be used to deploy any payload upto say 8^3m meters in volume, it would solve a lot of issues and reduce the overall mission costs, if designed well it could be used to land on other bodies (moon/IO/Europa) with only a slight modification to fuel levels/Paracute size/airbag preasure.
There's no standard design because we're still looking for the best solution! We've only landed a handful of times. Don't forget it's not just the landing to consider, but how we get the thing there. The systems used for the Rovers did pretty well for themselves, and I bet we see more of the Bouncy-Ball design in the future. However, landing location has a lot to do with landing type. The ice caps might in general have too delicate of a surface to ensure the bouncy-ball design work well there.
I'm sure that with continued missions, a more standard solution will come into effect.
but... what exactly is the demand going to be? Unlimited access to web pages? International Instant Messaging? access to torrents/files? Probably some combination of those, but I can imagine an informational black market doing very, very well for itself. I'd say it would be less about the "Demander" getting direct access to the internet, but rather paying a premium to a supplier for the information.
I remember with clarity at one point they did have an article on lightsabers explaining how they did the effects in the original trillogy. I remember it because the last line was something like "For Episode I, lightsabers were done with computers."
Someone will always be able to get around it, but not everyone, which is the main issue. Your typical chineese computer nerd can probably still get that info (and find a way to profit from the access) but your typical, day to day internet user (and that's a lot of people) is not going to be able to access the whole internet.
The other issue there is risk- if the punishment for accessing censored data is a $5 fine, people will do it. If the fine suddenly becomes imprisonment, well then, even those people that could get away with it might think twice.
Kind of... NASA is raising funds by producing space porn. You'd be amazed what silicon implants look like in zero grav. (Actually, they look just the same).
I saw what I was missing on a friend's PC. Personally, I play games for the story/gameplay, and I think I got 98% of that. I'm not someone with a lot of disposable income, and what I was missing was not didn't justify spending more money on a video card.
Why can't more people think like the parent?? I really, really don't get it. While I like my games to look good, I am really fine with my system as it is. Are you ready for this, everyone? It's a 1.4 Ghz AMD, 512 MB DDR and a (gasp) GeForce 4 MMX 440! It ran Doom3 and HL2 quite well. Sure, I didn't get the full effects of the games, but I still played them quite nicely performance-wise.
On a side note, my office computer is a Dual 2.8 Ghz P4 machine, and I don't see a difference in normal day-today office stuff. Hell, my olf 400 Mhz. G3 laptop is just as capable as my Office machine for 95% of the work that I do.
All those guys out there dropping $500 every 6 months on new cards are not showing their muscle under the hood, but rather their lack of brains. Or their large quantity of spending cash, due to the fact that they still live at home. (I'm totally getting flamed for that last comment, but that's cool)
This is a good point, and I really, truely hope will be the future of news- an open participation between the paper and the reader. And including a moderation system like Slashdot does (which I personally love, and frankly think could be incorporated into a system of government) makes it even more helpful. I would love to see what would happen if CNN.com started using a Slashdot-esque comment system. I bet there would be some really, really interesting discussions, as you have a wider reader bases politically (let's face is, Slashdot is a pretty left-leaning site).
I knew a girl that died in a car accident. someone in the backseat put their hands over the eyes of the driver and he went off the road. the daughter of my dad's misstriss died because of it. The late Erin Dunham and I used to play Dr, Mario together.
May she rest in peace, whiule my family rests in pieces. fuck life. fuck ou ficu me hur the paid of it all I wwant to die.
Slashdot Mirror
The first thing you do when you wake up is check games.slashdot.org?
I think what the French are getting at is that CR owners need to change the way that they protect their content.
/. about the RIAA "ripping us off". They are not ripping us off when we buy a CD from them, but they are trying to keep back what could be (is?) a great future step for distribution of media because they don't have the same kind of control over it.
I think at the root of the file sharing debate is an issue of access to information. Now that distribution methods have changed so much in 10 years, those that control the distribution are seeing their way of life disappear, and they are fighting tooth and nail to hold back innovation and progress to keep things pointed in their favor. I think this is why we see so many posts on
The government should not be siding with big business and let them get away with this, but I think that's too late. P2P is going to stay in the relm of illegal for a long, long time.
Install your OS and Applications to the Flash Drive (in my world, that's more than enough space for the installed apps) and then store your larger files (music, movies) on the Platter-based drive. It will save a ton of power on a notebook, and i bet it speed up load times.
He's not just the president, he's also a member.
Does it come out as a trannie?
Do you mean "comes out" as in born or "comes out" as in closet?
You give people too much credit.
oh, I been there...
I never said that the internet grabbed me in a dark alley and forced me to become addicted to it. I know I played a part in the addiction. What I am saying is that there can, in some people, be a danger associated with information overload.
I personally think that recreational drugs should be leagal. People should understand what the drug can do to them and understand the potential consequences of them. I think we are learning that there can, in some people, be a side effect from using the Internet too much. It's ignorant to think that just because something does not effect you, it's not going to effect me.
I actually am starting to see a therapist, and taking steps towards getting better. It's a complicated issue.
Your anger at my post indicates that perhaps you have some issues that could be worked out as well?
You don't get that kind of experience from a computer
Of course, the entire film itself was made on a computer. (OK, two computers)
Dude, I had a recent suicide attempt that I attribute, in small part, to my internet addiction and it's effects on my mental state. There's a lot more that goes along with it, but the way the internet makes my mind go into overdrive is a big part of it.
Don't forget gmail! The thing is still in "beta" and in the last year it's transformed the way free web-based email works. Hell, the google approach to email could change the ENTIRE way we use email... I know that when gmail offered free POP access the first thing I thought was "why get away from the great interface??"
Good point- look at it a little bigger: Steve Jobs said a few years ago, and I personally agree with this, that the Personal Computer had entered a dark age of sorts. While I agree that things are getting fast and better under the hood, nothing is really changing about the computer. Grab a computer from 5 year ago with one today. What's the difference? Wi-Fi. Everything else on a typical computer today is like something 5 years ago, just faster.
I still have a G3 FW Powerbook that is running Panther. It's not SUPER fast, but it gets the job done. No need to buy something new, because anything new is just faster, not better, per say.
The fight will extend to portable devices shortly, where everything stays the same, just gets faster. The Bells and whitles don't increase, they just get louder.
My guess: Apple is still working out the details of the dealings, but when they do, expect a firmware upgrade on the iPod Photo that will take advantage of video. I bet it has less to do with technical ability and more to do with business.
It would be interesting to see the history of the gulf stream. Could it be a fluke of recent development?
One of the great things about mp3 is that a lot of bands can get bigger attention without having the distribution network (I.E. CD stores) that they used to need. Apple is starting to control music the way the RIAA used to. If they wanted to go "all the way", they should make it easy for any band to open up shop and sell through the iTMS.
The current generation of music stars will stick with their labels (or be forced to), but new, unheard-of bands can gain popularity and make money off their music. They won't need a label, other than iTMS, and the RIAA will go down the tubes real quick.
Then Apple will have a stranglhold on the music industry. They will then force every song added to the iTMS to include a lyric about buying a Mac. Soon, Microsoft and Dell will crumble. Apple will be left standing along in a sea of dead computer companies, all because of a freaking music player.
-or a combination. NASA loves (as they should) redundant systems.
If only they had a sensor that measured constant force exterted on a landing leg insted of the short impulse of landing.
I'm willing to bet the team wanted to disrupt the surrounding area around the craft as little as poissible. If you wait for a an extended force, that's time that the craft is on the group firing it's rockets into the ground doing nothing but churning up the landscape.
Why is there not a standard design mars landing vehicle, one that can be used to deploy any payload upto say 8^3m meters in volume, it would solve a lot of issues and reduce the overall mission costs, if designed well it could be used to land on other bodies (moon/IO/Europa) with only a slight modification to fuel levels/Paracute size/airbag preasure.
There's no standard design because we're still looking for the best solution! We've only landed a handful of times. Don't forget it's not just the landing to consider, but how we get the thing there. The systems used for the Rovers did pretty well for themselves, and I bet we see more of the Bouncy-Ball design in the future. However, landing location has a lot to do with landing type. The ice caps might in general have too delicate of a surface to ensure the bouncy-ball design work well there.
I'm sure that with continued missions, a more standard solution will come into effect.
but... what exactly is the demand going to be? Unlimited access to web pages? International Instant Messaging? access to torrents/files? Probably some combination of those, but I can imagine an informational black market doing very, very well for itself. I'd say it would be less about the "Demander" getting direct access to the internet, but rather paying a premium to a supplier for the information.
I remember with clarity at one point they did have an article on lightsabers explaining how they did the effects in the original trillogy. I remember it because the last line was something like "For Episode I, lightsabers were done with computers."
Someone will always be able to get around it, but not everyone, which is the main issue. Your typical chineese computer nerd can probably still get that info (and find a way to profit from the access) but your typical, day to day internet user (and that's a lot of people) is not going to be able to access the whole internet.
The other issue there is risk- if the punishment for accessing censored data is a $5 fine, people will do it. If the fine suddenly becomes imprisonment, well then, even those people that could get away with it might think twice.
Kind of... NASA is raising funds by producing space porn. You'd be amazed what silicon implants look like in zero grav. (Actually, they look just the same).
I saw what I was missing on a friend's PC. Personally, I play games for the story/gameplay, and I think I got 98% of that. I'm not someone with a lot of disposable income, and what I was missing was not didn't justify spending more money on a video card.
Why can't more people think like the parent?? I really, really don't get it. While I like my games to look good, I am really fine with my system as it is. Are you ready for this, everyone? It's a 1.4 Ghz AMD, 512 MB DDR and a (gasp) GeForce 4 MMX 440! It ran Doom3 and HL2 quite well. Sure, I didn't get the full effects of the games, but I still played them quite nicely performance-wise.
On a side note, my office computer is a Dual 2.8 Ghz P4 machine, and I don't see a difference in normal day-today office stuff. Hell, my olf 400 Mhz. G3 laptop is just as capable as my Office machine for 95% of the work that I do. All those guys out there dropping $500 every 6 months on new cards are not showing their muscle under the hood, but rather their lack of brains. Or their large quantity of spending cash, due to the fact that they still live at home. (I'm totally getting flamed for that last comment, but that's cool)
This is a good point, and I really, truely hope will be the future of news- an open participation between the paper and the reader. And including a moderation system like Slashdot does (which I personally love, and frankly think could be incorporated into a system of government) makes it even more helpful. I would love to see what would happen if CNN.com started using a Slashdot-esque comment system. I bet there would be some really, really interesting discussions, as you have a wider reader bases politically (let's face is, Slashdot is a pretty left-leaning site).
I knew a girl that died in a car accident. someone in the backseat put their hands over the eyes of the driver and he went off the road. the daughter of my dad's misstriss died because of it. The late Erin Dunham and I used to play Dr, Mario together.
May she rest in peace, whiule my family rests in pieces. fuck life. fuck ou ficu me hur the paid of it all I wwant to die.