Not really.
If you are still using AT&T for home phone service, you deserve what you get.
I don't think the parent meant to address what the subscribers deserve, just what's likely to happen. I think the difference between what a customer deserves and what they actually get -- in ANY circumstance -- isn't always 0.
Engineer: I wonder if we can make a machine that creates stone replicas of stuff? DeForest Kelley: You're so caught up in whether or not you could, you never stopped to think if you should!!
Seriously, why?
There are fewer corps! why does this surprise?
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Now if you divide total individuals' dollars by the total number of individuals; and divided the corporations' dollars by the total number of corporations, who do you think pays more?
Assuming your numbers are correct, tax contributions would be EQUAL if there was 1 corporation of every ~5 people in the US.
Of course corporations contribute less, there are fewer of them.
OK, so the need for better network security with a bunch of 17-18 year olds around is obvious and they wanted to prove it. That's all fine and good. But why in the world did they put their names on the article?!
As an aside, my school (a university of california campus) uses different vLANs for each student computer lab, on a seperate subnet from anything else. Core campus systems are protected, student accessible ones using mainly Kerberos.
You can't just take a recording from the Front of House desk because it will sound crap! You see, it is obviously engineered to sound good for those at the concert. The sound you hear is not just the sound that comes through the venue's audio system, it also includes the drum-kit and the bands guitar amps. These are usually amplified a little by the venue but no where near as much as the vocals.
Your experience is simply not representative at the macro level.
Local bands especially love to crank their amps and then turn everything else up as loud as they need to get a balance. I imagine that's what you experienced at your student union, and that's why things were unbalanced.
The best strategy for small/medium venues (anything smaller than arena) is for amplified instruments to either a) face the amps away from the audience, but at the face of the performer, or b) place the amp off-stage completely (moving it far away and covering it with moving blankets works when another room offstage isn't available).
In the case of a), the volume of the amp is just loud enough for the (for example) guitarist to hear, and is mixed into his fellow bandmates' monitors.
In the case of b), the performer gets it in the monitor, too.
My point is, talk to a random sample, and you'll find a ton of people who have tried recording for their friend's band, for their band, at ther school, whatever. What you won't find is a ton of people who get paid huge sums of money to make ideas like in the article work. There are plenty of ways to make it easily doable.
Q: Stripped of all the jargon and market-speak, can you succinctly define what Adaptive Enterprise is supposed to be about?
A: I define AE as a business strategy vis-a-vis customers who concordantly want to respond in real time to changes affecting their business, ergo they buy...
...you know what, I have no idea what they hell I'm saying. I just thought it would make me sound cool.
$party_attorney: Ok, let's see those receipts and get the recount going.
Polling place worker: Sure, let me just get that lockbox out of my trunk.
*PPW returns with slightly warm lockbox. Opens the box, looks at strip after stip of black paper.
$party_attorney & PPW: WHAT THE FSCK!?
I like a fast connection as much as the next guy/girl, but is it REALLY nessecary to post what your max/min/final speeds were? Does anyone really care? Sure, it makes one feel important and powerful to snag something at 2mbps; but in all honesty, who gives a shit?
A few years back, I was getting chemo and radiation treatment for cancer. I remember seeing some of the really bad cases (you know, radiation burns on their faces, lost teeth from the radiation, et al) and thinking, "Medicine is so barbaric."
I imagine we'll be saying the same thing about space exploration in 10-20 years. While our technology today is immeasurably more advanced than it was a century ago, I think it will look nothing short of barbaric to us in the not-so-distant future.
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No no, you missed it. It's not the violation of a copyright that they're claiming is legal; it's the Altnet service which "delivers authorized, paid content".
"They are more focused in finding ways to recreate the sounds Led Zeppelin or B.B. King laid down in the '60s or '70s," said Thompson
And there's my big problem with digital amps. Jimmy Paige didn't need them, nor did B.B. or Eric Clapton. Why do you need a computer's help getting killer tone? Hint: It's because you don't know how to do it the 'real' way. It's expensive to get real good, real loud tone no matter what instrument you play, and this digital crap is just a shortcut -- a pretty lousy sounding facsimile of a shortcut for the most part.
In other words, this is for the script kiddies of the music world.
Besides, my cat5's connector inevitably snaps off after a decent amount of use. Could you imagine the number of connectors a gigging band would go through, plugging and unplugging those a hundred times a day?
As said before, it's a solution looking for a problem. Unless Gibson has something else up their sleeves we don't know about... Hmm...
So basically your saying your giving the moral highground to a service that is "better" for committing priacy and copyright infringement as opposed to one that fosters spyware?
No. He's saying that between two services which can both be used for "priacy", he prefers the one that does not include spyware as an additional feature.
If you consider the function of P2P and spyware equally evil, doesn't it make sense to choose the one that is 1x evil rather than 2x?
Remember when CD-R discs first came out, and everyone was like, "WTF is an 'audio CD-R'"?
Hint: it's the same thing, but more expensive.
I can't remember exactly how it worked, but it was a levy, sort of. IIRC, the manufacturers tacked on a few extra cents to the cost of the "audio" CD-R and (supposedly?) gives that money to ASCAP or whoever. Sorry, i'm too lazy (read: sick) to do any serious research. All I remember is from working at Staples.
I have an OLED display in my car's CD player. Pioneer has used these pretty widely in their in-dash players. I can definatley vouch for OLED's usefulness when it comes to wide-angle viewing. Check them out.
I don't game that much, so my local video store works fine for me. They'll give you 2 games for 7 days for $10. Taking into consideration the waiting time involved with RedOctane, the store in town's a better deal.
I imagine RedOctane's main draw will be for gamers who want to play imports or other hard-to-find titles. Their selection definately can't be beat.
The fact that they allow p2p at all - even giving up to 10mbps for it - is good news.
The UC system is funded (as I found out as a student) mostly by tax money, Federal grants, Private funding, etc. Student fees are just a drop in the bucket. This said, the cost of bandwidth comes straight from the limited, non-student-funded budget, leaving less money available for other IT programs, such as campus-wide wifi.
Personally, I'd take a wifi program over p2p anyday.
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Not really.
If you are still using AT&T for home phone service, you deserve what you get.
I don't think the parent meant to address what the subscribers deserve, just what's likely to happen. I think the difference between what a customer deserves and what they actually get -- in ANY circumstance -- isn't always 0.
Engineer: I wonder if we can make a machine that creates stone replicas of stuff?
DeForest Kelley: You're so caught up in whether or not you could, you never stopped to think if you should!!
Seriously, why?
Now if you divide total individuals' dollars by the total number of individuals; and divided the corporations' dollars by the total number of corporations, who do you think pays more?
Assuming your numbers are correct, tax contributions would be EQUAL if there was 1 corporation of every ~5 people in the US.
Of course corporations contribute less, there are fewer of them.
OK, so the need for better network security with a bunch of 17-18 year olds around is obvious and they wanted to prove it. That's all fine and good. But why in the world did they put their names on the article?!
As an aside, my school (a university of california campus) uses different vLANs for each student computer lab, on a seperate subnet from anything else. Core campus systems are protected, student accessible ones using mainly Kerberos.
Your experience is simply not representative at the macro level.
Local bands especially love to crank their amps and then turn everything else up as loud as they need to get a balance. I imagine that's what you experienced at your student union, and that's why things were unbalanced.
The best strategy for small/medium venues (anything smaller than arena) is for amplified instruments to either a) face the amps away from the audience, but at the face of the performer, or b) place the amp off-stage completely (moving it far away and covering it with moving blankets works when another room offstage isn't available).
In the case of a), the volume of the amp is just loud enough for the (for example) guitarist to hear, and is mixed into his fellow bandmates' monitors.
In the case of b), the performer gets it in the monitor, too.
My point is, talk to a random sample, and you'll find a ton of people who have tried recording for their friend's band, for their band, at ther school, whatever. What you won't find is a ton of people who get paid huge sums of money to make ideas like in the article work. There are plenty of ways to make it easily doable.
A Sound Blaster my computer has. A Smell Blaster it does not. Yet.
You spent valentine's day downloading source code?
any bets that he's single?
You mean, you stayed up "too" late last night? What is this you were saying about literacy? ;)
Though a freeze-dried desert today, it was once warm and wet
*sigh* Sounds like my wife.
Q: Stripped of all the jargon and market-speak, can you succinctly define what Adaptive Enterprise is supposed to be about?
A: I define AE as a business strategy vis-a-vis customers who concordantly want to respond in real time to changes affecting their business, ergo they buy...
$party_attorney: Ok, let's see those receipts and get the recount going. Polling place worker: Sure, let me just get that lockbox out of my trunk. *PPW returns with slightly warm lockbox. Opens the box, looks at strip after stip of black paper. $party_attorney & PPW: WHAT THE FSCK!?
Remember when movies were good?
I like a fast connection as much as the next guy/girl, but is it REALLY nessecary to post what your max/min/final speeds were? Does anyone really care? Sure, it makes one feel important and powerful to snag something at 2mbps; but in all honesty, who gives a shit?
A few years back, I was getting chemo and radiation treatment for cancer. I remember seeing some of the really bad cases (you know, radiation burns on their faces, lost teeth from the radiation, et al) and thinking, "Medicine is so barbaric."
I imagine we'll be saying the same thing about space exploration in 10-20 years. While our technology today is immeasurably more advanced than it was a century ago, I think it will look nothing short of barbaric to us in the not-so-distant future.
No no, you missed it. It's not the violation of a copyright that they're claiming is legal; it's the Altnet service which "delivers authorized, paid content".
You speak as if being signed to a major label is a good thing...
"They are more focused in finding ways to recreate the sounds Led Zeppelin or B.B. King laid down in the '60s or '70s," said Thompson
And there's my big problem with digital amps. Jimmy Paige didn't need them, nor did B.B. or Eric Clapton. Why do you need a computer's help getting killer tone? Hint: It's because you don't know how to do it the 'real' way. It's expensive to get real good, real loud tone no matter what instrument you play, and this digital crap is just a shortcut -- a pretty lousy sounding facsimile of a shortcut for the most part.
In other words, this is for the script kiddies of the music world.
Besides, my cat5's connector inevitably snaps off after a decent amount of use. Could you imagine the number of connectors a gigging band would go through, plugging and unplugging those a hundred times a day? As said before, it's a solution looking for a problem. Unless Gibson has something else up their sleeves we don't know about... Hmm...
Decent post, except for the off-topic last sentance.
So basically your saying your giving the moral highground to a service that is "better" for committing priacy and copyright infringement as opposed to one that fosters spyware?
No. He's saying that between two services which can both be used for "priacy", he prefers the one that does not include spyware as an additional feature.
If you consider the function of P2P and spyware equally evil, doesn't it make sense to choose the one that is 1x evil rather than 2x?
Remember when CD-R discs first came out, and everyone was like, "WTF is an 'audio CD-R'"?
Hint: it's the same thing, but more expensive.
I can't remember exactly how it worked, but it was a levy, sort of. IIRC, the manufacturers tacked on a few extra cents to the cost of the "audio" CD-R and (supposedly?) gives that money to ASCAP or whoever. Sorry, i'm too lazy (read: sick) to do any serious research. All I remember is from working at Staples.
...for 10-hour battery schematics.
Incredible! I've never heard of such a technological breakthrough I care so little about!
I have an OLED display in my car's CD player. Pioneer has used these pretty widely in their in-dash players. I can definatley vouch for OLED's usefulness when it comes to wide-angle viewing. Check them out.
I don't game that much, so my local video store works fine for me. They'll give you 2 games for 7 days for $10. Taking into consideration the waiting time involved with RedOctane, the store in town's a better deal.
I imagine RedOctane's main draw will be for gamers who want to play imports or other hard-to-find titles. Their selection definately can't be beat.
The fact that they allow p2p at all - even giving up to 10mbps for it - is good news.
The UC system is funded (as I found out as a student) mostly by tax money, Federal grants, Private funding, etc. Student fees are just a drop in the bucket. This said, the cost of bandwidth comes straight from the limited, non-student-funded budget, leaving less money available for other IT programs, such as campus-wide wifi.
Personally, I'd take a wifi program over p2p anyday.