Maybe if some of these states (including my own) were actually more business-friendly, they wouldn't have to worry about taxing online venues. As it is, these states seem hell-bent on chasing jobs out and have to go looking for "free money" to funnel into their pockets.
Lawyer: I'll give you something else to do then. Bring out all records since the second you were born, package them up, and come all the way out to me so that I can verbally harass you. That should keep you so busy that you don't have time to say stuff I find inconvenient. It should also keep you so busy that you can't actually do anything else with your life (like work, take care of your kids, etc) either.
It's not about denying someone their rights.
It's about exerting social influence on them to distract/prevent them from exercising those rights.
And, failing that, it's about creating pain points when one decides to exercise those rights. Like electroshock therapy. Sure, nothing's STOPPING you from doing "Activity A", but if you get a painful jolt every time you do "Activity A", you'll soon find that you either reduce or completely stop doing "Activity A".
If (big IF), the units eat drives (as in kill them in a non-repairable way), yeah, it's a bold and stupid move.
If (another big IF) the unit keeps soft-failed drives (which weren't really bad to begin with) in play longer because it can recover them from *burps* in the system, then it's entirely possible that the unit could potentially be a money-saver.
Yep. The problem is, what do you do if they compromise multiple sections of your biometric profile?
Bob: DAN! What the fuck happened to you? You have no arms and not legs. Dan: And no testicles either. They took those too. Bob: No tes..what happened? Dan: Somebody got a copy of my biometric profile. So we had to make changes... Bob: But you have no arms and no legs! Dan: They even changed my name... Bob: They did? What's your name now? Dan: Matt
This has been getting bandied about every time someone comes up with a new, spiff-tastic technology/material to build an IC out of.
"THIS COULD REPLACE SILICON! WOOT!"
Yet it keeps NOT happening. Again, and again (and again).
The trailblazers keep forgetting, the silicon infrastructure has a LOT more money to play with than a given exotic materials research project. And, in many cases, what's being worked on in exotics can be at least partially translated back to silicon, yielding further improvements that keep silicon ahead of the curve in the price/performance ratio. Additionally, we keep getting better at manufacturing exotic forms of silicon too.
So, until silicon comes to a real deal-breaker problem that nobody can work their way around, I SERIOUSLY doubt that silicon IC is going anywhere. Especially not for a technology that has taken several years, and recockulous amounts of money simply to get a single flawless chip in a lab.
Meraki holds all the cards. They control the firmware, and they've acted in a fairly predatory manner here.
They'll ask "why should we let you?" And they'll be (from their POV) right. Why SHOULD they let them. They're not making money off it. They don't give a shit.
If you want to use their hardware at all, you have to give (and keep giving) them money. Either directly in payments, or indirectly by serving adds on their free tier.
Only apply SP1 to a VERY fresh (preferrably newly installed) Vista install. It's sounding like SP1 is HIGHLY intolerant of "crufty" installs (see: installs that have actually been used for more than 5 seconds by a real end-user).
See "outside a lab and in a mass-production environment"?
Also see "at what price point"?
It's like these "network speed records". A highly rarefied network setup gets umpty-zillion zettabytes of data per picosecond. GREAT! When am *I* going to see the benefits of this? Maybe 15-20 years down the road. Maybe never. And how many billions do I have to spend to get such a setup built for me RIGHT NOW? And what are maintenance costs like?
Simply because the tech "exists now" doesn't mean it's mass-produceable or economical.
Simply setting up an argument and knocking it down doesn't help when all the issues involved are so tightly interrelated.
"Are you illiterate or just being deliberately obtuse?"
Are you actually looking to discuss this or just ad-hominem me? If you're looking to discuss this, fine. If not, I don't have time for you.
"I don't see how you could have actually read that without catching these things."
That's because you've never been taught a very basic skill.
It's about "how can I code in the ones I know BETTER?"
There are scads of people out there who pick up a language in a short time, but don't really learn how to utilize it well. So, you get these "wonders" that know half a dozen languages, and suck a coding in ALL of them.
Charge time (paraphrased): "Well people are working on this right now, and in some cases, there are systems where you can rapid charge. But these systems either don't work with current technology, or require extensive cooling to prevent it from burning up."
Range: "With fast charge times, range is no longer a fundamental issue" WHOOPS!
Also, I'd like to know where they get their "tank to wheel" efficiency numbers for gasoline cars.
1: EA buys 2: EA institutes a new work model 3: Shit falls INCREDIBLY far behind 4: EA shepherds it along at the pace of a stunned snail, making promises left and right. 5: Shit falls IMPOSSIBLY far behind (to the point where there's NEGATIVE development on a project) 6: EA plays major catchup and gets the product into a semi-usable beta which it'll release 7: EA finally just closes the project down, stating that it can no longer work on it.
This has been EA's pattern for EVERYTHING but their stupid sports sims from DAY NUMBER ONE!
They've killed dozens of companies and projects this way.
An incorrectly headlined article about a service that doesn't matter to me and which I'll never use. Filled full of irrelevant angst and meaningless conflict.
1: I paid for the right to view the content. 2: I don't use Apple products. It was an example. 3: I in no way confused backups with a format shift. 4: As I said, which you obviously missed, I'm not talking about public exhibition (which is what a broadcast is). 5: I covered live concerts, the attendance of which are paid for with your ticket, and are essentially single-instances and unique to the event. If I want to watch said event over and over again, I'd buy a recording of the event. Not bootleg it myself. 6: I'm aware I never own the content. I own the right to view the content. 7: As such, I was in no way incorrect. You merely misread (or didn't read) what was actually said.
He/she already puts up with a lot as it is. Living with you. Allowing you to feed him/her. And generally having to go to the trouble of marking everything in his/her home as his/her territory. If you croak, they've just wasted lots of hard work.
If I buy content to consume (because that's what I'm buying, the packaging, including the disk, drive, whatever it's on is only a means to an end, nobody buys an optical disk to moon over...well, unless they're very VERY disturbed), I want to be able to consume it any damn way I please.
And NO, consumption does NOT mean "redistribution". I want to be able to make fair backups (which I won't be giving to people), or shift it off to a computer, digital video player, iPod, whatever.
Recorded media is NOT the same as a live show (as every live show is different, even if an identical set is performed). Thus there's no justification for what is, essentially, pay-per-play.
Additionally, we're not talking about public exhibition of the material either. We're talking about viewing in the privacy in the privacy of my own home, or on the street watching a screen small enough that it's only meant for me to view it anyhow.
I can, and DO, pay for the content I consume. I also comprehend the fact that the media on which this content comes is not indestructible. Thus, in addition to media shifting, I will make backups.
I refuse to be sold the same content, over and over again. And I refuse to be labeled a pirate or grouped in with pirates simply because I take care of my investment in my own entertainment.
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Jesus. The thing chain-loads flash applets! How fricking pointless!
Now if they can scale it up to a factor of a few billion/trillion, and mass produce it, they'll replace silicon.... *Holds breath* . .. ... *THUD!*
But this is going to seriously piss off those who've been relying on these features.
Maybe if some of these states (including my own) were actually more business-friendly, they wouldn't have to worry about taxing online venues. As it is, these states seem hell-bent on chasing jobs out and have to go looking for "free money" to funnel into their pockets.
Her right to free speech is not being interfered with
The hell it isn't.
It's not about denying someone their rights.
It's about exerting social influence on them to distract/prevent them from exercising those rights.
And, failing that, it's about creating pain points when one decides to exercise those rights. Like electroshock therapy. Sure, nothing's STOPPING you from doing "Activity A", but if you get a painful jolt every time you do "Activity A", you'll soon find that you either reduce or completely stop doing "Activity A".
Wow. Never had a class in economics have you?
Should the content owners, who make the profits pay for the extra infrastructure or should the consumer pay?
The consumer will pay. PERIOD. Even if the content owners pay, the costs STILL get passed down to the consumer.
If (big IF), the units eat drives (as in kill them in a non-repairable way), yeah, it's a bold and stupid move.
If (another big IF) the unit keeps soft-failed drives (which weren't really bad to begin with) in play longer because it can recover them from *burps* in the system, then it's entirely possible that the unit could potentially be a money-saver.
Actually, Vista's also the best thing that's happened to XP in quite a while too. Even SP2 didn't drive XP adoption the way Vista has...
And while yes, that's funny on the surface, it's no joke.
Yep. The problem is, what do you do if they compromise multiple sections of your biometric profile?
Bob: DAN! What the fuck happened to you? You have no arms and not legs.
Dan: And no testicles either. They took those too.
Bob: No tes..what happened?
Dan: Somebody got a copy of my biometric profile. So we had to make changes...
Bob: But you have no arms and no legs!
Dan: They even changed my name...
Bob: They did? What's your name now?
Dan: Matt
This has been getting bandied about every time someone comes up with a new, spiff-tastic technology/material to build an IC out of.
"THIS COULD REPLACE SILICON! WOOT!"
Yet it keeps NOT happening. Again, and again (and again).
The trailblazers keep forgetting, the silicon infrastructure has a LOT more money to play with than a given exotic materials research project. And, in many cases, what's being worked on in exotics can be at least partially translated back to silicon, yielding further improvements that keep silicon ahead of the curve in the price/performance ratio. Additionally, we keep getting better at manufacturing exotic forms of silicon too.
So, until silicon comes to a real deal-breaker problem that nobody can work their way around, I SERIOUSLY doubt that silicon IC is going anywhere. Especially not for a technology that has taken several years, and recockulous amounts of money simply to get a single flawless chip in a lab.
Meraki holds all the cards. They control the firmware, and they've acted in a fairly predatory manner here.
They'll ask "why should we let you?" And they'll be (from their POV) right. Why SHOULD they let them. They're not making money off it. They don't give a shit.
If you want to use their hardware at all, you have to give (and keep giving) them money. Either directly in payments, or indirectly by serving adds on their free tier.
Fuck that noise.
Upgrade to XP.
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Only apply SP1 to a VERY fresh (preferrably newly installed) Vista install. It's sounding like SP1 is HIGHLY intolerant of "crufty" installs (see: installs that have actually been used for more than 5 seconds by a real end-user).
"No, it exists *right now*"
See "outside a lab and in a mass-production environment"?
Also see "at what price point"?
It's like these "network speed records". A highly rarefied network setup gets umpty-zillion zettabytes of data per picosecond. GREAT! When am *I* going to see the benefits of this? Maybe 15-20 years down the road. Maybe never. And how many billions do I have to spend to get such a setup built for me RIGHT NOW? And what are maintenance costs like?
Simply because the tech "exists now" doesn't mean it's mass-produceable or economical.
Simply setting up an argument and knocking it down doesn't help when all the issues involved are so tightly interrelated.
"Are you illiterate or just being deliberately obtuse?"
Are you actually looking to discuss this or just ad-hominem me? If you're looking to discuss this, fine. If not, I don't have time for you.
"I don't see how you could have actually read that without catching these things."
That's because you've never been taught a very basic skill.
Critical thinking. Enjoy your pie in the sky.
It's about "how can I code in the ones I know BETTER?"
There are scads of people out there who pick up a language in a short time, but don't really learn how to utilize it well. So, you get these "wonders" that know half a dozen languages, and suck a coding in ALL of them.
Yeah. They dance around it.
Charge time (paraphrased): "Well people are working on this right now, and in some cases, there are systems where you can rapid charge. But these systems either don't work with current technology, or require extensive cooling to prevent it from burning up."
Range: "With fast charge times, range is no longer a fundamental issue" WHOOPS!
Also, I'd like to know where they get their "tank to wheel" efficiency numbers for gasoline cars.
I can give you a timeline here.
1: EA buys
2: EA institutes a new work model
3: Shit falls INCREDIBLY far behind
4: EA shepherds it along at the pace of a stunned snail, making promises left and right.
5: Shit falls IMPOSSIBLY far behind (to the point where there's NEGATIVE development on a project)
6: EA plays major catchup and gets the product into a semi-usable beta which it'll release
7: EA finally just closes the project down, stating that it can no longer work on it.
This has been EA's pattern for EVERYTHING but their stupid sports sims from DAY NUMBER ONE!
They've killed dozens of companies and projects this way.
*POOT!*
Now! Cringe in horror as the unholy stench of my "biological agent" sears its way into your nostrils!
HMBOOWAHAHAHAHA!
Too over the top? Yeah. But, then again, so is more of the erstwhile "War on Terror".
An incorrectly headlined article about a service that doesn't matter to me and which I'll never use. Filled full of irrelevant angst and meaningless conflict.
Glad I'm paying Slashdot to report on this!
Oh wait...I'm not...WHEW!
1: I paid for the right to view the content.
2: I don't use Apple products. It was an example.
3: I in no way confused backups with a format shift.
4: As I said, which you obviously missed, I'm not talking about public exhibition (which is what a broadcast is).
5: I covered live concerts, the attendance of which are paid for with your ticket, and are essentially single-instances and unique to the event. If I want to watch said event over and over again, I'd buy a recording of the event. Not bootleg it myself.
6: I'm aware I never own the content. I own the right to view the content.
7: As such, I was in no way incorrect. You merely misread (or didn't read) what was actually said.
He/she already puts up with a lot as it is. Living with you. Allowing you to feed him/her. And generally having to go to the trouble of marking everything in his/her home as his/her territory. If you croak, they've just wasted lots of hard work.
God help you then!
No. Nobody's twisting the issue.
If I buy content to consume (because that's what I'm buying, the packaging, including the disk, drive, whatever it's on is only a means to an end, nobody buys an optical disk to moon over...well, unless they're very VERY disturbed), I want to be able to consume it any damn way I please.
And NO, consumption does NOT mean "redistribution". I want to be able to make fair backups (which I won't be giving to people), or shift it off to a computer, digital video player, iPod, whatever.
Recorded media is NOT the same as a live show (as every live show is different, even if an identical set is performed). Thus there's no justification for what is, essentially, pay-per-play.
Additionally, we're not talking about public exhibition of the material either. We're talking about viewing in the privacy in the privacy of my own home, or on the street watching a screen small enough that it's only meant for me to view it anyhow.
I can, and DO, pay for the content I consume. I also comprehend the fact that the media on which this content comes is not indestructible. Thus, in addition to media shifting, I will make backups.
I refuse to be sold the same content, over and over again. And I refuse to be labeled a pirate or grouped in with pirates simply because I take care of my investment in my own entertainment.
Not before.
The Yankee Group? The "We have our tongues firmly lodged in Microsoft's nether-oriface" Yankee Group?
And I actually AGREE what what was said and find it sensible?
OMG! The end times have come!
Ah. Why the personal attacks?
Confusing great passion with a great argument again?
And, for the umpteenth time, your analogy sucks. The girl in question has the right to shut you down and not listen to your "sales pitch".