The article doesn't seem to mention that soundfont capability is a good feature to have. I know soundfonts might be a proprietary thing, but for many musicians, they constitute a must-have.
Maybe it does not formally constitue proof of life, but have you thought how we could set up a base there that would burn hydrogen for energy?
It would give us a toe-hold, so we could then start terraforming that planet to be able to produce oxygen and water, maybe some small agriculture at first until we perfect the organisms we'll be wanting to seed that world with...
In fact, I'd RATHER it NOT already sustain life; that way I feel we could be much more free to develop it as we wish and not be destroying indiginous life.
Look, the whole POINT of patents expiring is that they then pass into the public domain, to enrich us ALL and NO ONE has to be made to pay. It is indeed a benevolent idea.
My company actually LEFT OUT.GIF support in our application, because we didn't want to force our clients to pay for the license.
And now, we are going to ADD it and NOT increase our price for that.
I bought a SuperBit edition of a movie I really like. SuperBit editions are encoded at a higher bit-rate and therefore have less compression artifacts and therefore take up much more room on a DVD. After watching the movie, I reflected that although the visual quality was great, I was a bit hungry for the additional materials that are usually on a movie's DVD, but SuperBit editions have none of those. So even if I were able to get the full-quality rip of the Matrix to watch, I'd probably want the rest of it too, so much the more reason to buy the official DVD...
>The fact that large-scale movie piracy >(and indeed, any piracy) is happening is >an indicator that people are largely >unsatisfied with the current prices >and/or distribution methods.
Is that really it?
Or is it that it is so easy, and when people are not afraid of being caught, they steal?
It just seems to be human nature that people take the easiest way out, even if they KNOW it's not the right thing to do...
The only way I can see piracy not happening is if people could obtain the items quicker and cheaper legally than by piracy...
"Correction- you will lose bad schemes like poorly implemented DRM. DRM itself is neither good nor bad, but Intuit's implementation was pretty bad."
You know, I disagree with that: Unless something comes along to change the trend, what ALWAYS seems to happen is that people find a way to circumvent DRM and you wind up right back where you started. People who have decided NOT to pay for a good or service can't be made to through DRM, it never works.
You wind up expending much more effort trying to prevent piracy than you actually reap profit from implementing it, it would seem.
No huge revelation here, it just seems to work out that way.
Maybe the only ones making any money from DRM are the ones licensing the DRM technology...
Younger coders still get snapped up quick because they work cheaper, yes.
But only short-term minded companies hire them these days.
These days, since there is hardly any venture capital out there anymore, companies have started realizing that they need to produce products that will really stand the test of time.
Younger coders lack the experience to pull this off.
Younger coders don't see far enough ahead and don't have all the experience to be able to judge what's best and end up making mistakes that cost MORE money. A lot of employers have gotten fed-up with that.
I've seen more and more companies get rid of their younger coders and hire seniors, because they are tired of their software systems always becoming an unmaintainable mess.
There is NO substitue for experience and discerning employers realize this.
I'd say the ONLY reason there is to hire a younger coder these days is money, or if the kid is a natural, which is less than 5% of the crowd.
The ISP that now needs to issue the challenges will simply issue the first one, find out the return address DOESN'T exist and drop the remaining challenges. Simple. No authorization floods need to happen.
spammers CAN'T make a response automatic; that would expose the ISP account they are using to send the spam, and said account would get closed pretty quickly. the spammers would have to create accounts incessantly, and wait for them to become active before using them. Even if they prepared them ahead of time, they'd still need to pay for the accounts. It makes a spammer's job MUCH more difficult.
Science promotes terrrorism. Open-source anthrax anyone? If MILITARY research into bacterial warfare hadn't given terrorists a handbook for growing and distributing anthrax, then terrorists wouldn't have the expertise to grow and distribute anthrax, would they? Let's outlaw military research FIRST, as that seems to be where most threats are coming from.
On the one side, I don't like the idea of time being shifted around like that because it could upset my schedule, what with a tenth of a microsecond popping up like that every year, but on the other hand, if we wait until there is a full second accumulated, it could be really hard to decide what to do with it... I mean, do I go on vacation, read a book, learn a new language? What to do with the extra time is just too huge a responsibility.
Most people using computers aren't even clued-in enough to understand what they are trying to do, let alone the software they are using to perform the work and you think shmoes like that will be able to explain with any great clarity what they want to an AI who will itself probably be none-too muddled?
Then the average computer tech will be an AI psychiatrist of a sort!
The plumbing may improve, but it'll only get gnarlier and easier to stop up...
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Most vinyl records today are pressed from digital masters, so the "analog is better" claim is bogus.
Sorry.
The article doesn't seem to mention that soundfont capability is a good feature to have.
I know soundfonts might be a proprietary thing, but for many musicians, they constitute a must-have.
Totally dangerous, completely unworkable and foolish to boot...
Stopping up the drain gets easier and easier as "scientists" invent more and more ways to complicate the plumbing.
I can't say that I like the idea...
How long will it be until such days of lawlessness bring us to "Hunt Down Minority X day"?
Maybe it does not formally constitue proof of life, but have you thought how we could set up a base there that would burn hydrogen for energy?
It would give us a toe-hold, so we could then start terraforming that planet to be able to produce oxygen and water, maybe some small agriculture at first until we perfect the organisms we'll be wanting to seed that world with...
In fact, I'd RATHER it NOT already sustain life; that way I feel we could be much more free to develop it as we wish and not be destroying indiginous life.
Look, the whole POINT of patents expiring is that they then pass into the public domain, to enrich us ALL and NO ONE has to be made to pay. It is indeed a benevolent idea.
.GIF support in our application, because we didn't want to force our clients to pay for the license.
My company actually LEFT OUT
And now, we are going to ADD it and NOT increase our price for that.
That's fair use of an expired patent.
It's not that simple; you lose all the training that the person you fire had, and you have to invest MORE to bring his/her replacement up to speed.
Any company that loses a good percentage of its workforce is crippled. Sometimes permanently. Simple.
The old "you can be replaced" scare-tactic only applies to jobs that can be done by a (dumb) robot, and how many I.T. jobs are like that?
None.
We can only hope that the aliens signals AREN'T saying things like -
"Mighty your Penis"
"Viagra available at low cost"
"I am president Mbeke, help me transfer a million dollars"
Visit THIS site
http://fusionanomaly.net/matrix.html
The lawyers laugh their way to the bank! :-)
I bought a SuperBit edition of a movie I really like. SuperBit editions are encoded at a higher bit-rate and therefore have less compression artifacts and therefore take up much more room on a DVD.
After watching the movie, I reflected that although the visual quality was great, I was a bit hungry for the additional materials that are usually on a movie's DVD, but SuperBit editions have none of those.
So even if I were able to get the full-quality rip of the Matrix to watch, I'd probably want the rest of it too, so much the more reason to buy the official DVD...
>The fact that large-scale movie piracy
>(and indeed, any piracy) is happening is
>an indicator that people are largely
>unsatisfied with the current prices
>and/or distribution methods.
Is that really it?
Or is it that it is so easy, and when people are not afraid of being caught, they steal?
It just seems to be human nature that people take the easiest way out, even if they KNOW it's not the right thing to do...
The only way I can see piracy not happening is if people could obtain the items quicker and cheaper legally than by piracy...
That would be tough to accomplish.
An attacker could probably sue you for using one of these on him, I bet...
"Correction- you will lose bad schemes like poorly implemented DRM. DRM itself is neither good nor bad, but Intuit's implementation was pretty bad."
You know, I disagree with that:
Unless something comes along to change the trend, what ALWAYS seems to happen is that people find a way to circumvent DRM and you wind up right back where you started.
People who have decided NOT to pay for a good or service can't be made to through DRM, it never works.
You wind up expending much more effort trying to prevent piracy than you actually reap profit from implementing it, it would seem.
No huge revelation here, it just seems to work out that way.
Maybe the only ones making any money from DRM are the ones licensing the DRM technology...
If your customers threaten you enough, you'll eventually lose bad schemes like DRM.
Younger coders still get snapped up quick because they work cheaper, yes.
But only short-term minded companies hire them these days.
These days, since there is hardly any venture capital out there anymore, companies have started realizing that they need to produce products that will really stand the test of time.
Younger coders lack the experience to pull this off.
Younger coders don't see far enough ahead and don't have all the experience to be able to judge what's best and end up making mistakes that cost MORE money. A lot of employers have gotten fed-up with that.
I've seen more and more companies get rid of their younger coders and hire seniors, because they are tired of their software systems always becoming an unmaintainable mess.
There is NO substitue for experience and discerning employers realize this.
I'd say the ONLY reason there is to hire a younger coder these days is money, or if the kid is a natural, which is less than 5% of the crowd.
The address exists, but did the user answer yes to the challenge?
If he answered no, the pending e-mails get discarded.
The ISP that now needs to issue the challenges will simply issue the first one, find out the return address DOESN'T exist and drop the remaining challenges.
Simple.
No authorization floods need to happen.
spammers CAN'T make a response automatic; that would expose the ISP account they are using to send the spam, and said account would get closed pretty quickly.
the spammers would have to create accounts incessantly, and wait for them to become active before using them.
Even if they prepared them ahead of time, they'd still need to pay for the accounts.
It makes a spammer's job MUCH more difficult.
Look how far Windows will have to come before it is as good as Linux!
So, because Windows is starting from so much further back, it actually *has* improved more than Linux, which was already improved.
Just semantics really.
Science promotes terrrorism.
Open-source anthrax anyone?
If MILITARY research into bacterial warfare hadn't given terrorists a handbook for growing and distributing anthrax, then terrorists wouldn't have the expertise to grow and distribute anthrax, would they?
Let's outlaw military research FIRST, as that seems to be where most threats are coming from.
On the one side, I don't like the idea of time being shifted around like that because it could upset my schedule, what with a tenth of a microsecond popping up like that every year, but on the other hand, if we wait until there is a full second accumulated, it could be really hard to decide what to do with it...
I mean, do I go on vacation, read a book, learn a new language? What to do with the extra time is just too huge a responsibility.
I'd travel ahead in time two weeks and THEN Slashdot's news stories would be current.
Yeah right,
Most people using computers aren't even clued-in enough to understand what they are trying to do, let alone the software they are using to perform the work and you think shmoes like that will be able to explain with any great clarity what they want to an AI who will itself probably be none-too muddled?
Then the average computer tech will be an AI psychiatrist of a sort!
The plumbing may improve, but it'll only get gnarlier and easier to stop up...
I am sure Id will make it available for other platforms.