You're obviously an "anti-property rights" hippy. Hollywood bought and paid for the property rights to film-making, and your little hippy indy films cause a direct loss of revenue on their part. Stay where you are, you are surrounded.
Because humanity as a whole has a say in just what property rights should be allowed. Obviously, some property rights are a good thing, others would be bad. And it just so happens that IP is a controversial property right at the moment, in no small part because *humanity as a whole DID NOT* had a say in it. Our politicians are corrupt, and that right was purchased with bribes financed with the proceeds of a century of corrupt monopolized entertainment industry.
If literally anything can be property, why not sell off the atmosphere, the air we breathe? The federal government could make a fuckton of revenue, auctioning that off, for our own benefit of course. Pay down the debt. We'd have to pay a fee to breath, and wouldn't it be wonderful? I mean, now that someone owns it, they'd have reason to take care of it. They could charge hefty fees to polluters. Whole air industry bureaucracies would spring up, so that people with asthma or emphysema would get discounts. Heck, the "stop smoking" movement would really pick up steam, forgive the pun. Mind you, I'm not talking barbarianism here, if someone doesn't pay their air tax, we don't strangle them, they're just thrown in jail, on a work release program, wages garnished until they're paid up.
Or how about the oceans? Come to think of it, there are plenty of things that could become property, if we only tried. But only these greedy fucks, want to claim property rights on something that in the same fucking breath they turn around and try to *sell* it to me. If you write a poem for your sweetheart, then yeh, that might as well be property. Stealing it might not be such a bad way to put it, no one else is meant to have it (ironically, the only people who might be the slightest bit interested in stealing it, are the same ones crying thief when I download an MP3). Selling me a cd, and then claiming I stole it because I disabled lame-ass DRM, that's kinda dumb, isn't it? Mind you, I'm not against giving them the sole right to sell it, especially if it's for a limited time (which it isn't anymore). Catch someone selling warez CDs on the street corner, then lock them up. But then again, those aren't the ones they're interested in...
No, the problem is that 45% (I was going to say 95% just so I could directly contradict your statement, but 45% is more accurate) of the people out there buy cobbled together piece-of-shit computers from ghetto shops that still install win98 on them. Coincidentally, these are the same people are the least likely to understand that it's not a problem with their DSL but rather with their computer, and I take 35-55 phone calls a night from them.
For these people, getting the minimac is ideal. No longer can they claim price is what's keeping them from getting a computer that won't screw up on them.
And no, buying a new Dell with XP isn't the answer either... why?
Because the other 50%, those that do buy new Dells, they have the same troubles, though not nearly to the same degree. If you have to pay $500, do you chuck the old win98 box that craps out twice a day for A) A new XP Dell that craps out twice a month or B) the Mini, that won't ever give you problems until the HD dies?
Of either of these two categories of people, do you believe that the answer is putting together their own graybox machine?
Off-topic: Speaking of firewire, does anyone know if the Toshiba Satellite A75-s209 can be firewire upgraded? I'm not opening it up while under warranty, but it's got a cutout for the stuff, in an area not near the mainlogic board. Was wondering if it was a seperate module..
Come on guys, 3 more replies (excluding this one since it's my own) and it'll be a personal record. It will also be 13 replies, a cool number in and of itself. Well, not really, but let's face it, I don't have a chance in hell of 666 replies...
That said, who here doesn't think that his "biggest scope ever" Star Trek movie will be the cinematic equivalent of a 20th year reunion special for some sappy sitcom?
Warf will be captaining Deep Space 9, Picard will be an admiral, Shatner will somehow show up, perhaps as his evil universe twin, while Janeway comes blasting out of the Epsilon quadrant to save the day. And of course the quantum leaper will time travel to the future to see it all with the help of his friend from the "Queer Eye for the Time-traveling Guy" department of a futuristic Federation. Then, at the last minute, Henry Winkler will show up on his motorocycle, and they'll shout "Fonz!".
Well, maybe Wheaton will get a chance to be onscreen, at least.
Tab-completion means you type only enough of the name to get a unique hit, or barring that, you keep tabbing through til you get it. Maybe I've got twitchy fingers, but I can keep up with a GUI in all but the most contrived tests.
With the correct tab-completion, and someone that doesn't rely entirely on "hunt and peck", a CLI can easily keep up in that situation. There are still a few tasks GUIs excel at, but this isn't one of them.
Hmm, a better example, might be sorting those jpgs out to several different heavily nested directories.
And even everything everyone in this thread says is true to one extent or another, it only goes to prove that people need GUIs with decent CLI interfaces. OSX has this (at least as an option, don't know how many use it). I've yet to see a X screenshot that didn't have 3 xterms open. No one says it, for fear of being labeled a troll, but the only OS that has abandoned CLI completely, is Windows.
Yes, tell the millions of sports fans that. You know, the ones who drive East German Trebants because the stadium owners only allow Trebant owners to attend sports events.
I'd rather give up the superbowl and drive my Ferrari, thank you. Besides, sooner or later, all the Trebant owners will die when their engine block explodes, and the stadium owners will be forced to accept me as a customer...
Of course centralization is more efficient on several points. Decentralization was the fool's answer to legal attacks. Now the lawyer's are busy chasing down this individual or that individual. Decentralization offers no legal safety, no political safety. They should have been working on anonymity.
No one can sue you, if they can't figure out who you are.
They should also have been working on deniability. Freenet may offer anonymity, but when freenet is outlawed, it will be pretty obvious what IP addresses are participating in freenet. If the only software you run seems to be legitimate, and if everyone doesn't have to use the same software as everyone else to participate...
Duh, that's no different. The RIAA sues people who live next to music pirates on the theory that they may have heard it illegally through thin apartment walls. Get with the program, you hippie.
1) Isn't the greatest benefit of XML that it can be opened in a text editor, and made sense of?
2) Can't webservers and browsers (well, maybe not IE, but then it's not a browser... it's an OS component, haha) transparently compress XML with gzip or some other?
3) Making it binary won't compress it all that much, using a proper compression algo will.
4) Doesn't something like XML, that makes use of latin characters and a few punctuation marks, compress with insane ratios even in lame compression algo's?
5) In a world moving ever closer to ubiquitous broadband, is a difference between a 10kb html file and a 17kb XML file all that fatal? Surely bittorrent and spam does more to suck up all available bandwidth than XML does (what little is out there).
What truth? That because we didn't use antibiotics wisely, we now have strains of infectious pathogens that are all but immune to most/all of these drugs?
I suppose they didn't involve, rather God stepped in and created new superior bacteria as a punishment for heathen textbooks.
It's also quite normal to pick some absurd per-copy fine, and then figure that the person distributed as many copies as is theoretically possible, given their time/bandwidth, and then multiply it 110%.
Well. Even ignoring the fact that there might sometimes be a story that doesn't fit perfect in a category (but is still/.-worthy), you seem to be forgetting how flexible english grammar can be at times. It could mean "your rights" (online). After all, you're reading it online. Assuming that it's your "rights online" is kinda dumb.
In October of 1989, the screenwriter's guild sent out a secret memo stating that the last new movie idea had been written and used in a low budget action comedy starring Rick James and Abe Vigoda. Once the internet craze took off in the mid-90s, a scanned copy of it was posted on usenet, and from there, the world read about it. I suppose they could be wrong, but even so, they're the ones writing our movies, and if they believe it's true, well, then it is.
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You're obviously an "anti-property rights" hippy. Hollywood bought and paid for the property rights to film-making, and your little hippy indy films cause a direct loss of revenue on their part. Stay where you are, you are surrounded.
You're only in danger if unincorporated.
Because humanity as a whole has a say in just what property rights should be allowed. Obviously, some property rights are a good thing, others would be bad. And it just so happens that IP is a controversial property right at the moment, in no small part because *humanity as a whole DID NOT* had a say in it. Our politicians are corrupt, and that right was purchased with bribes financed with the proceeds of a century of corrupt monopolized entertainment industry.
If literally anything can be property, why not sell off the atmosphere, the air we breathe? The federal government could make a fuckton of revenue, auctioning that off, for our own benefit of course. Pay down the debt. We'd have to pay a fee to breath, and wouldn't it be wonderful? I mean, now that someone owns it, they'd have reason to take care of it. They could charge hefty fees to polluters. Whole air industry bureaucracies would spring up, so that people with asthma or emphysema would get discounts. Heck, the "stop smoking" movement would really pick up steam, forgive the pun. Mind you, I'm not talking barbarianism here, if someone doesn't pay their air tax, we don't strangle them, they're just thrown in jail, on a work release program, wages garnished until they're paid up.
Or how about the oceans? Come to think of it, there are plenty of things that could become property, if we only tried. But only these greedy fucks, want to claim property rights on something that in the same fucking breath they turn around and try to *sell* it to me. If you write a poem for your sweetheart, then yeh, that might as well be property. Stealing it might not be such a bad way to put it, no one else is meant to have it (ironically, the only people who might be the slightest bit interested in stealing it, are the same ones crying thief when I download an MP3). Selling me a cd, and then claiming I stole it because I disabled lame-ass DRM, that's kinda dumb, isn't it? Mind you, I'm not against giving them the sole right to sell it, especially if it's for a limited time (which it isn't anymore). Catch someone selling warez CDs on the street corner, then lock them up. But then again, those aren't the ones they're interested in...
No, the problem is that 45% (I was going to say 95% just so I could directly contradict your statement, but 45% is more accurate) of the people out there buy cobbled together piece-of-shit computers from ghetto shops that still install win98 on them. Coincidentally, these are the same people are the least likely to understand that it's not a problem with their DSL but rather with their computer, and I take 35-55 phone calls a night from them.
For these people, getting the minimac is ideal. No longer can they claim price is what's keeping them from getting a computer that won't screw up on them.
And no, buying a new Dell with XP isn't the answer either... why?
Because the other 50%, those that do buy new Dells, they have the same troubles, though not nearly to the same degree. If you have to pay $500, do you chuck the old win98 box that craps out twice a day for A) A new XP Dell that craps out twice a month or B) the Mini, that won't ever give you problems until the HD dies?
Of either of these two categories of people, do you believe that the answer is putting together their own graybox machine?
Off-topic: Speaking of firewire, does anyone know if the Toshiba Satellite A75-s209 can be firewire upgraded? I'm not opening it up while under warranty, but it's got a cutout for the stuff, in an area not near the mainlogic board. Was wondering if it was a seperate module..
Come on guys, 3 more replies (excluding this one since it's my own) and it'll be a personal record. It will also be 13 replies, a cool number in and of itself. Well, not really, but let's face it, I don't have a chance in hell of 666 replies...
So he's the asswipe that stole the last good nick!
Goddammit!
That said, who here doesn't think that his "biggest scope ever" Star Trek movie will be the cinematic equivalent of a 20th year reunion special for some sappy sitcom?
Warf will be captaining Deep Space 9, Picard will be an admiral, Shatner will somehow show up, perhaps as his evil universe twin, while Janeway comes blasting out of the Epsilon quadrant to save the day. And of course the quantum leaper will time travel to the future to see it all with the help of his friend from the "Queer Eye for the Time-traveling Guy" department of a futuristic Federation. Then, at the last minute, Henry Winkler will show up on his motorocycle, and they'll shout "Fonz!".
Well, maybe Wheaton will get a chance to be onscreen, at least.
Tab-completion means you type only enough of the name to get a unique hit, or barring that, you keep tabbing through til you get it. Maybe I've got twitchy fingers, but I can keep up with a GUI in all but the most contrived tests.
As long as the tattoo clearly indicates which paragraph it is, and is written in a large, easily read font...
With the correct tab-completion, and someone that doesn't rely entirely on "hunt and peck", a CLI can easily keep up in that situation. There are still a few tasks GUIs excel at, but this isn't one of them.
Hmm, a better example, might be sorting those jpgs out to several different heavily nested directories.
And even everything everyone in this thread says is true to one extent or another, it only goes to prove that people need GUIs with decent CLI interfaces. OSX has this (at least as an option, don't know how many use it). I've yet to see a X screenshot that didn't have 3 xterms open. No one says it, for fear of being labeled a troll, but the only OS that has abandoned CLI completely, is Windows.
Yes, tell the millions of sports fans that. You know, the ones who drive East German Trebants because the stadium owners only allow Trebant owners to attend sports events.
I'd rather give up the superbowl and drive my Ferrari, thank you. Besides, sooner or later, all the Trebant owners will die when their engine block explodes, and the stadium owners will be forced to accept me as a customer...
This is hilarious, coming from a guy whose sig is a ponzi scheme link. Asshat.
Of course centralization is more efficient on several points. Decentralization was the fool's answer to legal attacks. Now the lawyer's are busy chasing down this individual or that individual. Decentralization offers no legal safety, no political safety. They should have been working on anonymity.
No one can sue you, if they can't figure out who you are.
They should also have been working on deniability. Freenet may offer anonymity, but when freenet is outlawed, it will be pretty obvious what IP addresses are participating in freenet. If the only software you run seems to be legitimate, and if everyone doesn't have to use the same software as everyone else to participate...
b) working with interested parties to include anti-piracy code in P2P clients
Also, I should have to pay with time, money, and effort to have anti-stolen-cash technology installed in my wallet.
Stop the Roland Piquepaille assfest now!
Duh, that's no different. The RIAA sues people who live next to music pirates on the theory that they may have heard it illegally through thin apartment walls. Get with the program, you hippie.
1) Isn't the greatest benefit of XML that it can be opened in a text editor, and made sense of?
2) Can't webservers and browsers (well, maybe not IE, but then it's not a browser... it's an OS component, haha) transparently compress XML with gzip or some other?
3) Making it binary won't compress it all that much, using a proper compression algo will.
4) Doesn't something like XML, that makes use of latin characters and a few punctuation marks, compress with insane ratios even in lame compression algo's?
5) In a world moving ever closer to ubiquitous broadband, is a difference between a 10kb html file and a 17kb XML file all that fatal? Surely bittorrent and spam does more to suck up all available bandwidth than XML does (what little is out there).
What truth? That because we didn't use antibiotics wisely, we now have strains of infectious pathogens that are all but immune to most/all of these drugs?
I suppose they didn't involve, rather God stepped in and created new superior bacteria as a punishment for heathen textbooks.
It's also quite normal to pick some absurd per-copy fine, and then figure that the person distributed as many copies as is theoretically possible, given their time/bandwidth, and then multiply it 110%.
They never get around to putting a light bulb in, they're too busy trying to fuck it.
Well. Even ignoring the fact that there might sometimes be a story that doesn't fit perfect in a category (but is still /.-worthy), you seem to be forgetting how flexible english grammar can be at times. It could mean "your rights" (online). After all, you're reading it online. Assuming that it's your "rights online" is kinda dumb.
In October of 1989, the screenwriter's guild sent out a secret memo stating that the last new movie idea had been written and used in a low budget action comedy starring Rick James and Abe Vigoda. Once the internet craze took off in the mid-90s, a scanned copy of it was posted on usenet, and from there, the world read about it. I suppose they could be wrong, but even so, they're the ones writing our movies, and if they believe it's true, well, then it is.
I waited for the PowerNewton. It never appeared.
I waited for the iNewton. It never appeared.
I waiting for the Mini Newton. It won't happen, either.
Jobs hates anything that the other, unmentionable CEO might be able to get credit for.
And I'd search for one on ebay, but they'll all be bid up to $5200. You can bet a paycheck on that.
I have one, but just Turbo Sub with it. It's got an amazing screen for the era, sharp colors. Hope Turbo Sub isn't the best game it has, though.