A 10% drop is the reason the music industry is citing for pushing forward their broken copy protection schemes...
I want to see the same formulas used to come up with 2001's 10% applied to the last decade. Is it a trend? Is it within the normal fluctuations in the market?
And I also want to see how other entertainment industries faired in 2001. Did movie rentals and purchases go down by 10% too, or did they go up? Was consumer spending down, over-all, by 10%? More?
You can't just throw out a random statistic to cover your panic and justify any action you then care to take.
We have a little blue box to get our data into the electrical outlets, but how do we get the data back out again? Buy another $$$ blue box? I doubt just plugging my laptop's power cord into the wall is going to let me check up on the latest News For Nerds here at SlashDot.
I've been using X-10 for lighting and temperature control in my home since long before X-10 started making "Security & Fun - Wireless Video Cameras!" and popping up ads under Yahoo search results. And I'm glad that this new technology doesn't choke the old one bit per AC cycle bus... But cost is the big issue here, at least for me, and perhaps for you as well.
My current (low-cost) home networking solution is a 100 foot ethernet cable that can reach any point in the house. With that, I can sit on the can and type up this response on my laptop. It's not flashy, it's not all that safe (at least where it runs up the stairs), but it works well enough that I haven't bought $300 of Airport equipment (or even Linksys' 802.11 equivalent).
Will Linksys put it's money where it's extension cord is? Or is this home networking for the masses only for people with massive moneybelts?
...Apple's license agreement, which you accepted upon purchasing a copy of the Software, specifically prohibits you from copying, decompiling, reverse engineering, disassembling, modifying or creating derivative works of the Software.
And looking at the instructions to make a 10.1 install CD from a 10.1 updater:
1. Using instructions posted on this page, create a disk image of the Update CD.
2. Delete the CheckforOSX file from the Essentials.pkg file in System/Installation/Packages folder of the image file. [You need to use the Open Package Contents contextual menu item to access this file.]
3. Burn the image to a CD using Disk Copy.
One might come to the conclusion that burning the modified files onto a new CD is copying the "Software" and therefore in violation of the EULA. Arguing that making a personal backup copy is permitted might get into some grey area if that backup is altered. But unless you give or sell your modified CD to someone else, I can't see that as being a violation.
This holographic sonar communications system relies on the interference patterns of pressure waves in water (sound). Internet packets do not behave like waves, they behave like particles. There is no interference between them, nor are multiple packets ever combined into one packet.
Quantum effects allow the merging of particle and wave features, but we don't have that sort of technology in place in the internet at this time.
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I want to see the same formulas used to come up with 2001's 10% applied to the last decade. Is it a trend? Is it within the normal fluctuations in the market?
And I also want to see how other entertainment industries faired in 2001. Did movie rentals and purchases go down by 10% too, or did they go up? Was consumer spending down, over-all, by 10%? More?
You can't just throw out a random statistic to cover your panic and justify any action you then care to take.
Convince me!
~ Nonsanity
Please don't sue me.
Why should Comcast babble be any different?
"Slashdot - Making the world safe to read Slashdot." "...and porn"
We have a little blue box to get our data into the electrical outlets, but how do we get the data back out again? Buy another $$$ blue box? I doubt just plugging my laptop's power cord into the wall is going to let me check up on the latest News For Nerds here at SlashDot.
I've been using X-10 for lighting and temperature control in my home since long before X-10 started making "Security & Fun - Wireless Video Cameras!" and popping up ads under Yahoo search results. And I'm glad that this new technology doesn't choke the old one bit per AC cycle bus... But cost is the big issue here, at least for me, and perhaps for you as well.
My current (low-cost) home networking solution is a 100 foot ethernet cable that can reach any point in the house. With that, I can sit on the can and type up this response on my laptop. It's not flashy, it's not all that safe (at least where it runs up the stairs), but it works well enough that I haven't bought $300 of Airport equipment (or even Linksys' 802.11 equivalent).
Will Linksys put it's money where it's extension cord is? Or is this home networking for the masses only for people with massive moneybelts?
We Shall See.
~ Chris
And looking at the instructions to make a 10.1 install CD from a 10.1 updater:
One might come to the conclusion that burning the modified files onto a new CD is copying the "Software" and therefore in violation of the EULA. Arguing that making a personal backup copy is permitted might get into some grey area if that backup is altered. But unless you give or sell your modified CD to someone else, I can't see that as being a violation.
Chris Innanen
(Son of Bill Innanen)
Don't confuse waves and particles.
This holographic sonar communications system relies on the interference patterns of pressure waves in water (sound). Internet packets do not behave like waves, they behave like particles. There is no interference between them, nor are multiple packets ever combined into one packet.
Quantum effects allow the merging of particle and wave features, but we don't have that sort of technology in place in the internet at this time.
(Though such things ARE being researched.)
~ Chris